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30-11-2018
Too Perfect To Be Nature: Strange Earthquake Waves Rippled Around The World
Too Perfect To Be Nature: Strange Earthquake Waves Rippled Around The World
The world was struck with abnormal waves and nobody has an explanation.
Scientificinstruments picked up seismic waves more than 10,000 miles away, but strangely nobody could actually feel them.
On November 11th, at around 9.30am UTC, there was a very strange occurrence. An unexplainable rumble rolled across the globe. These seismic waves began roughly 15 miles off the shores of Mayotte, a French island which is situated between Africa and the northern tip of Madagascar. The seismic waves then rippled across Africa, alarming many sensors along the way in Zambia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. From there, they crossed the oceans - reaching Chile, New Zealand, and Canada - almost 11,000 miles away from the origin point.
The strangest part is that the seismic waves didn't just pass by, they caused a disturbance for almost 20 minutes. Despite this, no humans felt their effect. One person did notice the strange phenomenon. An earthquake enthusiast who goes by the name "Matarikipax" saw the zigzags from the U.S Geological Survey's real-time displays. He then posted the images to Twitter. This post then caused researches across the globe to find out the source of these mysterious waves.
Jamie Gurney@UKEQ_Bulletin
This is the recording of the ~09:30 UTC Southern Indian Ocean event from Kilima Mbogo, Kenya. The signal has had a highpass filter applied to it at 0.01 Hz, 0.05 Hz, 0.1 Hz & 0.2 Hz respectively. As can be seen the signal is very low frequency @stevenjgibbons@ALomaxNet
Göran Ekström, a seismologist at Columbia University stated: "I don't think I've seen anything like it".
Many features of these seismic waves are just extremely strange. The fact that they had a monotone, low-frequency "ring" and the fact that they spanned the whole world. Researchers are still trying to figure out what happened. Helen Robinson, a Ph.D. candidate in applied volcanology at the University of Glasgow joked: "They're too nice; they're too perfect to be nature."
What makes low-frequency waves so weird?
In a normal earthquake, the built-up tensions in Earth's crust release with a jolt in mere seconds. This sends out a series of waves known as a "wave train" that radiates from the point of the rupture. The fastest type of signals are Primary Waves. These are compression waves that move in groups. After this comes the secondary waves, these have a side-side motion. Both of these wave types have a high frequency. After these two come the slowest of the three, long-period surface waves. These are similar to the strange waves that emanated from Mayotte.
These are usually found when intense earthquakes occur. However, there were no big earthquakes to create these slow waves. To make things even more strange, the waves are what scientists refer to monochromatic. Most earthquakes send out waves with a slew of different frequencies. The Mayotte signal was a clean zigzag.
Digging deeper
So far, scientists have managed to find a possible cause of these waves. They seem to be related to seismic swarm that overcame Mayotte last May. Hundreds of quakes have rattled the small nation since then - the majority of which have been coming from around 31 miles offshore. Most of these were minor trembles, but the largest was recorded to be magnitude 5.8 on May 15th, which is the largest in the recorded history for the island. The frequency has however declined in recent months, and there were no traditional quakes when the mystery waves came out on November 11th. According to the French Geological Survey (BRGM), it would seem that a new center of volcanic activity could be developing off the coast.
Currently, there is a lack of data, so it's tough to find out more about this strange activity. BRGM plans to do ocean bottom surveys to try and get more detailed information about the region and the cause. In the meantime, scientists will continue to slog through the data that is currently available. Soon we will know whether the cause is ordinary or extraordinary.
A mysterious seismic wave rolled around the world for more than 20 minutes… And yet, it seems, no human felt them
A mysterious seismic wave rolled around the world for more than 20 minutes… And yet, it seems, no human felt them
On the morning of November 11, just before 9:30 UT, a mysterious rumble rolled around the world. The seismic waves began roughly 15 miles off the shores of Mayotte, a French island sandwiched between Africa and the northern tip of Madagascar. The waves buzzed across Africa, ringing sensors in Zambia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. They traversed vast oceans, humming across Chile, New Zealand, Canada, and even Hawaii nearly 11,000 miles away. These waves didn’t just zip by; they rang for more than 20 minutes. And yet, it seems, no human felt them.
Strange seismic waves were picked up circling the globe on November 11. Now seismologists are trying to figure out why.
via Twitter
Only one person noticed the odd signal on the U.S. Geological Survey’s real-time seismogram displays. An earthquake enthusiast who uses the handle @matarikipax saw the curious zigzags and posted images of them to Twitter. That small action kicked off another ripple of sorts, as researchers around the world attempted to suss out the source of the waves. Was it a meteor strike? A submarine volcano eruption? An ancient sea monster rising from the deep?
“I don’t think I’ve seen anything like it,” says Göran Ekström, a seismologist at Columbia University who specializes in unusual earthquakes.
“It doesn’t mean that, in the end, the cause of them is that exotic,” he notes. Yet many features of the waves are remarkably weird—from their surprisingly monotone, low-frequency “ring” to their global spread. And researchers are still chasing down the geologic conundrum.
In a normal earthquake, the built-up tensions in Earth’s crust release with a jolt in mere seconds. This sends out a series of waves known as a “wave train” that radiates from the point of the rupture, explains Stephen Hicks, a seismologist at the University of Southampton.
The fastest-traveling signals are Primary waves, or P-waves, which are compression waves that move in bunches, like what happens to an extended slinky that gets suddenly pushedat one end. Next come the secondary waves, or S-waves, which have more of a side-to-side motion. Both of these so-called body waves have relatively high frequencies, Hicks says, “a sort of ping rather than a rumbling.”
Finally, chugging along at the end come slow, long-period surface waves, which are similar to the strange signals that rolled out from Mayotte. For intense earthquakes, these surface waves can zip around the planet multiple times, ringing Earth like a bell, Hicks says.
However, there was no big earthquake kicking off the recent slow waves. Adding to the weirdness, Mayotte’s mystery waves are what scientists call monochromatic. Most earthquakes send out waves with a slew of different frequencies, but Mayotte’s signal was a clean zigzag dominated by one type of wave that took a steady 17 seconds to repeat.
“It’s like you have colored glasses and [are] just seeing red or something,” says Anthony Lomax, an independent seismology consultant.
Jamie Gurney@UKEQ_Bulletin
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This is the recording of the ~09:30 UTC Southern Indian Ocean event from Kilima Mbogo, Kenya. The signal has had a highpass filter applied to it at 0.01 Hz, 0.05 Hz, 0.1 Hz & 0.2 Hz respectively. As can be seen the signal is very low frequency @stevenjgibbons@ALomaxNet
Jamie Gurney@UKEQ_Bulletin
Narrowing the location down the origin area appears to be in the region of the Comoros/Mayotte. A news article today suggests that the Mayotte swarm which began earlier this year may indeed be magmatic-related. Was this event a submarine volcanic eruption?
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A l’appui de notre interview de Frédéric Tronel, le directeur du Bureau de Recherches géologiques et Minières (BRGM), une note de Saïd Hachim intitulée, “Peut-être un volcan !”. Comme nous l’avons...
Based on the scientific sleuthing done so far, the tremors seem to be related to a seismic swarm that’s gripped Mayotte since last May. Hundreds of quakes have rattled the small nation during that time, most radiating from around 31 miles offshore, just east of the odd ringing. The majority were minor trembles, but the largest clocked in at magnitude 5.8 on May 15, the mightiest in the island’s recorded history. Yet the frequency of these shakes has declined in recent months—and no traditional quakes rumbled there when the mystery waves began on November 11.
The French Geological Survey (BRGM) is closely monitoring the recent shaking, and it suggests that a new center of volcanic activity may be developing off the coast. Mayotte was formed from volcanism, but its geologic beasts haven’t erupted in over 4,000 years. Instead, BRGM’s analysis suggests that this new activity may point to magmatic movement offshore—miles from the coast under thousands of feet of water. Though this is good news for the island inhabitants, it’s irksome for geologists, since it’s an area that hasn’t been studied in detail.
“The location of the swarm is on the edge of the [geological] maps we have,” says Nicolas Taillefer, head of the seismic and volcanic risk unit at BRGM. “There are a lot things we don’t know.” And as for the November 11 mystery wave, he says, “it’s something quite new in the signals on our stations.”
The early period of rumbling was also overprinted with what seemed to be the P- and S- waves of tiny tremors, explains Lomax, who spotted the faint pings by filtering out the low-frequency signals. Such pings are commonly associated with magma moving and fracturing rock as it squirts through the crust. But even those signals were a little strange, says Helen Robinson, a Ph.D. candidate in applied volcanology at the University of Glasgow.
“They’re too nice; they’re too perfect to be nature,” she jokes, although she quickly adds that an industrial source is impossible, since no wind farms or drilling are taking place in the deep waters off Mayotte’s shores.
Ekström thinks that the events on the morning of November 11 actually did begin with an earthquake of sorts equivalent to a magnitude 5 temblor. It passed by largely unnoticed, he suggests, because it was what’s known as a slow earthquake. These quakes are quieter than their speedy cousins since they come from a gradual release of stress that can stretch over minutes, hours, or even days.
“The same deformation happens, but it doesn’t happen as a jolt,” Ekström says.
These slow types of quakes are often associated with volcanic activity. At the Mount Nyiragongo volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a similar slow earthquake and low-frequency waves were linked with a magma chamber collapsing. Slow quakes were also stunningly frequent during the most recent fiery run of Kilauea in Hawaii, which produced nearly 60 of these events between May and the end of July, sending seismic waves around the world.
Assembling the geologic puzzle
So what is actually causing the super-slow vibrations at Mayotte? A submarine eruption could produce these low rumblings, but evidence for such an event has yet to materialize.
Most current guesses revolve around resonance in a magma chamber, triggered by some type of subsurface shift or chamber collapse. The resonance itself can be any type of rhythmic motion, like sloshing of the molten rock, or a pressure wave ricocheting through the magma body, Ekström explains. Studying the intricate features of the seismic waves could yield clues to the size and shape of the molten material lurking below.
It is very difficult, really, to say what the cause is and whether anyone’s theories are correct.
“It’s like a music instrument,” says Jean-Paul Ampuero, a seismologist at the Université Côte d’Azur in France. “The notes of a music instrument—whether it’s grave or very pitchy—depends on the size of the instrument.”
The signal’s odd uniformity could be due, in part, to the surrounding rocks and sediments, Lomax adds. Perhaps the local geology is filtering the sounds and only letting this single 17-second wave period escape.
Robinson agrees with this idea, noting that the geology here is extremely complex. Mayotte sits in a region crisscrossed by ancient faults—including fracture zones from the final breakup of the southern supercontinent Gondwana. What’s more, the underlying crust is somewhat transitional, shifting between the thick continental crusts and the thinner oceanic crusts. Perhaps this complexity drives the simplicity of the escaping waves, Robinson says.
Secrets of the sea
For now, though, the lack of data makes it tough to say more about the wiggly forms. Hicks’ preliminary models hinted that the waves emanated from subsurface inflation, rather than a magma chamber draining or collapsing. But with a little additional data, the model flipped and pointed to chamber deflation instead.
It also could be a bit of both, notes Robinson: “Some collapse mechanisms, you can get inflation and deflation occurring at the same time,” she says. Or sometimes they can alternate, pumping up and down like Earth’s fiery lungs.
“It is very difficult, really, to say what the cause is and whether anyone’s theories are correct—whether even what I’m saying has any relevance to the outcome of what’s going on,” Robinson says.
BRGM plans to do ocean bottom surveys to get more detailed information about the region and investigate the possibility of a submarine eruption. In the meantime, the seismic sleuthing continues with the data that’s available. Whether the cause is ordinary or extraordinary remains to be seen, Lomax says, but the science—and the fun—is in the chase.
“Depending on what field and what time in history, 99.9 percent of the time, it’s ordinary, or noise, or a mistake, and 0.1 percent, it’s something” he says. “But that’s just the way it goes. That’s the way it should go. That’s scientific advance.”
The European Space Agency has named Oxia Planum on Mars as the landing site for its ExoMars rover, due to set down in 2021.
Map of Mars showing the 2 finalist landing sites on Mars, Mawrth Vallis and Oxia Planum. Now Oxia Planum has been given the nod for ESA’s ExoMars mission.
Image via NASA/JPL/USGS.
Mars will continue to be a busy place in the near future, with NASA’s InSight spacecraft landingjust a few days agoon November 26, and the Mars 2020 rover landingin 2021. But NASA is not the only one going back to the red planet – theEuropean Space Agency (ESA)is getting ready for its own rover mission –ExoMars– which will also land in 2021. The landing site for ExoMars wasannouncedthis month (November 2018), and the winner isOxia Planum.
The ExoMars rover mission is designed specifically to look for evidence of life on Mars, most likely underground if it exists. According to Graham Turnock, Chief Executive at the U.K. Space Agency (UKSA):
After the Earth, Mars is the most habitable planet in the solar system, so it’s a perfect destination to explore the possibility of life on other planets, as well as the history of our own.
The U.K. Space Agency is the second-largest European contributor to the ExoMars mission, with €287 million invested in the overall mission and £14 million in the instruments. UKSA also negotiated key mission contracts with ESA.
Artist’s concept of the ExoMars rover, which will land in Oxia Planum in 2021.
Image via ESA.
Oxia Planum was finally chosen over Mawrth Vallis, the other of the two finalist candidate landing sites, both of which used to be water-rich in the distant past. John Bridges, from the Space Research Centre, University of Leicester, and a member of the Landing Site Selection Working Group, explained how Oxia Planum was chosen over other candidate landing sites:
After over four years of careful study of HiRISE and more recently CaSSIS images, Oxia Planum was chosen because scientists were convinced that its fine-grained sediments, deposited during the ancient Noachian epoch were ideally suited for the Exobiology rover.
With an enormous catchment area the sediments will have captured organics from a wide variety of environments over a long period of time, including areas where life may have existed. The fine sediments should also be ideal for the ExoMars drill – it aims to get to 2 metres depth.
A large group of scientists have been working on proposing, characterising and down selecting the sites, all of which had fascinating aspects, but Oxia Planum is the clear winner on both science and engineering constraints.
A texture map of Oxia Planum, created from data taken by NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter.
Image via IRSPS/TAS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University.
As Sue Horne, Head of Space Exploration at UKSA, also noted:
I have been working on ExoMars for over ten years and am amazed at the ingenuity and dedication of UK engineers and scientists in building the rover and instruments that will work in the extreme environment of Mars.
Our end goal is in sight and it is getting very exciting.
ExoMars will be the second Mars mission, after only Mars 2020 and the Viking landers in the late 1970s/early 1980s to search directly for evidence of life instead of only focusing on past habitability. According to ExoMars 2020 project scientist Jorge Vago:
With ExoMars we are on a quest to find biosignatures. While both sites offer valuable scientific opportunities to explore ancient water-rich environments that could have been colonized by microorganisms, Oxia Planum received the majority of votes.
An impressive amount of work has gone into characterizing the proposed sites, demonstrating that they meet the scientific requirements for the goals of the ExoMars mission. Mawrth Vallis is a scientifically unique site, but Oxia Planum offers an additional safety margin for entry, descent and landing, and for traversing the terrain to reach the scientifically interesting sites that have been identified from orbit.
A portion of Oxia Planum, as seen by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.
Oxia Planum is just north of the Martian equator, in a region with many channels – carved by ancient rivers – cutting through from the southern highlands to the northern lowlands. Such previously water-rich areas are prime targets for rovers and landers when searching for evidence of not only past habitability, but even life itself. Oxia Planum is at a boundary where many channels emptied into the lower plains, and those plains exhibit layers of clay-rich minerals that were formed in water-rich conditions about four billion years ago. The channels cover a large area, about 131,000 square miles (212,000 square km).
The rover will drill down into the Martian surface – up to 6.5 feet (two meters) deep – to look for organic material that could be evidence for life. It is designed to take a minimum of 17 samples to be analyzed by the Analytical Laboratory Drawer.
Comparison of different components of the ExoMars mission to the Big Ben tower in London. Right half of the image not to the same scale.
Image via ESA.
Landing on Mars is never easy, but Francois Spoto, ExoMars Programme team leader, is confident:
Our ExoMars mission combines extreme performance with the novel design features of the rover, and we are looking forward to operating the first European mission on the surface of Mars. Landing on Mars has a long chain of risks, but thanks to the combined skills and expertise of European and Russian industries working with reliable technologies, we are focused on a safe landing.
The other part of the ExoMars mission, the Trace Gas Orbiter, has already been orbiting Mars for several months now, and is analyzing the atmosphere, including looking for trace gases such as methane – detected previously by other telescopes, orbiters and the Curiosity rover – that could indicate possible current life or geologic activity.
Bottom line: The next phase of the ExoMars mission – the 2021 rover – will be an exciting one, as it explores Oxia Planum searching for signs of life beneath the once wet but now dry and sandy surface.
Mars moon got its grooves from rolling stones, study suggests
Groovy PhobosMuch of Phobos' surface is covered with strange linear grooves. New research bolsters that idea the boulders blasted free from Stickney crater (the large depression on the right) carved those iconic grooves.
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Mars moon got its grooves from rolling stones, study suggests
Computer models developed by Brown University researchers shine a light on the origin of the Mars moon Phobos’ distinctive grooves.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new study bolsters the idea that strange grooves crisscrossing the surface of the Martian moon Phobos were made by rolling boulders blasted free from an ancient asteroid impact.
The research, published in Planetary and Space Science, uses computer models to simulate the movement of debris from Stickney crater, a huge gash on one end of Phobos’ oblong body. The models show that boulders rolling across the surface in the aftermath of the Stickney impact could have created the puzzling patterns of grooves seen on Phobos today.
“These grooves are a distinctive feature of Phobos, and how they formed has been debated by planetary scientists for 40 years,” said Ken Ramsley, a planetary science researcher at Brown University who led the work. “We think this study is another step toward zeroing in on an explanation.”
Phobos’ grooves, which are visible across most of the moon’s surface, were first glimpsed in the 1970s by NASA’s Mariner and Viking missions. Over the years, there has been no shortage of explanations put forward for how they formed. Some scientists have posited that large impacts on Mars have showered the nearby moon with groove-carving debris. Others think that Mars’ gravity is slowly tearing Phobos apart, and the grooves are signs of structural failure.
Still other researchers have made the case that there’s a connection between the grooves and the Stickney impact. In the late 1970s, planetary scientists Lionel Wilson and Jim Head proposed the idea that ejecta — bouncing, sliding and rolling boulders — from Stickney may have carved the grooves. Head, a professor in Brown’s department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, was also a coauthor of this new paper.
For a moon the size of the diminutive Phobos (27 kilometers across at its widest point), Stickney is a huge crater at 9 kilometers across. The impact that formed it would have blown free tons of giant rocks, making the rolling boulder idea entirely plausible, Ramsley says. But there are also some problems with the idea.
For example, not all of the grooves are aligned radially from Stickney as one might intuitively expect if Stickney ejecta did the carving. And some grooves are superposed on top of each other, which suggests some must have already been there when superposed ones were created. How could there be grooves created at two different times from one single event? What’s more, a few grooves run through Stickney itself, suggesting that the crater must already have been there when the grooves formed. There’s also a conspicuous dead spot on Phobos where there are no grooves at all. Why would all those rolling boulders just skip one particular area?
Computer models traced the possible paths of Stickney ejecta.
To explore those questions, Ramsley designed computer models to see if there was any chance that the “rolling boulder model” could recreate these confounding patterns. The models simulate the paths of the boulders ejected from Stickney, taking into account Phobos’ shape and topography, as well as its gravitational environment, rotation and orbit around Mars.
Ramsley said he had no expectations for what the models might show. He wound up being surprised at how well the model recreated the groove patterns seen on Phobos.
“The model is really just an experiment we run on a laptop,” Ramsley said. “We put all the basic ingredients in, then we press the button and we see what happens.”
The models showed that the boulders tended to align themselves in sets of parallel paths, which jibes with the sets of parallel grooves seen on Phobos. The models also provide a potential explanation for some of the other more puzzling groove patterns.
The simulations show that because of Phobos’ small size and relatively weak gravity, Stickney stones just keep on rolling, rather than stopping after a kilometer or so like they might on a larger body. In fact, some boulders would have rolled and bounded their way all the way around the tiny moon. That circumnavigation could explain why some grooves aren’t radially aligned to the crater. Boulders that start out rolling across the eastern hemisphere of Phobos produce grooves that appear to be misaligned from the crater when they reach the western hemisphere.
That round-the-globe rolling also explains how some grooves are superposed on top of others. The models show that grooves laid down right after the impact were crossed minutes to hours later by boulders completing their global journeys. In some cases, those globetrotting boulders rolled all the back to where they started — Stickney crater. That explains why Stickney itself has grooves.
Then there’s the dead spot where there are no grooves at all. That area turns out to be a fairly low-elevation area on Phobos surrounded by a higher-elevation lip, Ramsley says. The simulations showed that boulders hit that lip and take a flying leap over the dead spot, before coming down again on the other side.
The simulations show how boulders take a flying leap over one particular area of Phobos, explaining why it's devoid of grooves.
“It’s like a ski jump,” Ramsley said. “The boulders keep going but suddenly there’s no ground under them. They end up doing this suborbital flight over this zone.”
All told, Ramsley says, the models answer some key questions about how ejecta from Stickney could have been responsible for Phobos’ complicated groove patterns.
“We think this makes a pretty strong case that it was this rolling boulder model accounts for most if not all the grooves on Phobos,” Ramsley said.
SOLVED: Strange Seismic Waves Rocked The Globe Nov. 11, Here’s What Happened
SOLVED: Strange Seismic Waves Rocked The Globe Nov. 11, Here’s What Happened
On November 11, mysterious seismic waves caused a rumble in the Indian Ocean that reverberated around the globe. Low-frequency waves shook the entire Earth for about 20 minutes that day, but scientists now believe they know what caused that strange phenomenon.
Researches have declared that they don’t think any large earthquake was responsible for the worldwide rumblings. Instead, they feel that an eruption of an underwater volcano was to blame. Well, according to scientists, it was “almost certainly” an underwater volcano, anyway…
The rumble, which was described as a monotone ring, was picked up by seismographs almost 11,000 miles (18,000 km) from Mayotte and were spotted by happenstance. A New Zealand based Earthquake enthusiast who goes by the handle @matarikipax noticed unusual seismology readings from the United States Geological Survey. The agency publishes all of its recordings for free online, allowing anyone across the globe to trawl through its data. “This is a most odd and unusual seismic signal. Recorded at Kilima Mbogo, Kenya,” @matarikipax wrote on Twitter on November 11. “The signal can be seen all around the world.”
According to The Daily Mail, a low-rumbling that could not be felt above ground was detected on November 11 and narrowed down the origin to a region just off the coast of the island of Mayotte. One scientist who has studied the charts told MailOnline that the trembling was almost certainly caused by a low-level underwater volcanic eruption off the northeast of Mayotte.
Anthony Lomax, an independent seismology consultant, said that “There has been ongoing low-level seismic activity there since May,” he told MailOnline.“‘Inflation/deflation and collapse of volcano calderas and movement of magma under a volcano can produce a wide variety of seismic signals, including long period and repetitive waves like those observed November 11.”
University of Plymouth Geology Graduate and founder of the United Kingdom Earthquake Bulletin, Jamie Gurney, said he had “no idea if a similar global signal of this nature has ever been observed.”
Scientists are working to understand what spurred the mysterious waves on that day. So far, many suspect they’re related to an ongoing seismic swarm in the region that began last May.
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Worldwide Mystery "Event" Just Happened... We Never Felt It (Video)
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Tyler. Hello. My belief is that a massive geological shift in the Earth’s tectonic plates is beginning to happen. To me that would possibly explain the other events that you have talked about. It’s happening on a global scale. And if the United States and the other governments around the world are detecting it they need to openly say something about it. Robert Marx
Earthquake hit San Francisco 3 hrs ago my time apparently and is affecting BC Canada, I’ve felt 2 rumbles in Northern BC, the vibes are so strange around here right now. Vinesse Bro
Scientists are giving us 8 years before our ELE. Suns dying slowly expanding, she’s burning hotter and whiter, helium hydrogen ratio is off , poles are melting as we wobble thru a magnetic and physical pole shift, earths unbalanced. Get ready. The chemtrailing program is in place to try to reflect the suns ferocity, its only buying time. John Shanks
My personal opinion is with all the oil pumped out of the earth those empty chambers left behind all around the world are starting to force the planet into survival mode . so either the chambers are filling in or the planet’s physical appearance is changing. MomoIam
Mysterious ‘extraterrestrial artefacts’ could be lurking in our solar system, Harvard astronomers claim
Mysterious ‘extraterrestrial artefacts’ could be lurking in our solar system, Harvard astronomers claim
Jasper Hamill
Evidence which proves the existence of extraterrestrial life could be hidden near Earth waiting to be discovered.
Top astronomers have called for an urgent study of ‘interstellar objects’ which arrive here from deep space, suggesting some of them could be mysterious alien ‘artefacts’.
Although scientists said it was probably a comet and blamed its trajectory on a natural process, we have been unable to unequivocally prove that it wasn’t an alien spacecraft or some other piece of extraterrestrial technology.
A view of humanity’s beautiful home
(Picture: Nasa)
Now Harvard University’s Abraham Loeb, one of the astronomers who suggested ‘Oumuamua was alien in origin, and his colleague Amir Siraj have published a paper which suggests evidence which proves the existence of other lifeforms could be lurking right under our species’ nose.
The paper claims there could be ‘tens’ of interstellar visitors like ‘Oumuamua floating through the solar system.
‘Observing or visiting such objects could allow searching for signs of extraterrestrial life locally, without the need to send interstellar probes,’ the pair wrote.
‘Exploration of trapped interstellar objects could potentially help reveal the prospects of life in other star systems as well as extraterrestrial artefacts,’ they added.
It’s important to remember that Loeb and his partner are not saying that interstellar visitors are definitely alien artefacts. The objects could also have formed naturally in other star systems, before being expelled to begin their lonely journey through the void of space.
Could this be an alien space probe? Asteroid ‘Oumuamua is still provoking debate about its origins
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‘Photographing or visiting these trapped objects would allow for learning about the conditions in other planetary systems, saving the need to send interstellar probes,’ the astronomers added.
In a previous paper, Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb suggested the elongated asteroid ‘Oumuamua might have an ‘artificial origin’.
‘‘Oumuamua may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilisation,’ they wrote.
Initially, the fact ‘Oumuamua appeared to speed up led astronomers to suggest it was a comet. These icy objects accelerate due to a process called outgassing, in which the sun heats up a comet and causes it to release gases.
But in their paper, the Harvard stargazers ruled out the possibility it was an active comet.
They proposed that it was powered along by ‘solar radiation pressure’ produced by the sun, but went on to make more ‘exotic’ suggestions to explain its acceleration.
This Nasa graphic shows the distinctive tumbling motion of ‘Oumuamua
The pair suggested it may have been a type of spaceship called a ‘light sail’ featuring a large and very thin sheet that is blown along through space by the light produced by stars.
When it travelled through the solar system, it was tumbling end-over-end, which could also mean it was a piece of space wreckage left behind by aliens.
‘Considering an artificial origin, one possibility is that ‘Oumuamua is a lightsail, floating in interstellar space as a debris from an advanced technological equipment,’ the astronomers continued.
‘Lightsails with similar dimensions have been designed and constructed by our own civilization, including the IKAROS project and the Starshot Initiative
‘The lightsail technology might be abundantly used for transportation of cargos between planets or between stars.’
They said alien civilisations may jettison used cargo ships, resulting in space debris that looks a lot like Asteroid ‘Oumuamua.
Er zwerven mogelijk honderden buitenaardse objecten door ons zonnestelsel. Dit kunnen ze ons vertellen
Er zwerven mogelijk honderden buitenaardse objecten door ons zonnestelsel. Dit kunnen ze ons vertellen
Astronoom Abraham Loeb van de Harvard-universiteit, die eerder suggereerde dat Oumuamua een buitenaardse sonde is, heeft samen met zijn collega Amir Siraj een paper geschreven waarin hij stelt dat er mogelijk andere levensvormen zijn die zich recht onder onze neus bevinden.
In het onderzoek zeggen de astronomen dat er mogelijk honderden interstellaire bezoekers zoals Oumuamua zijn die door het zonnestelsel zwerven.
“Door dergelijke objecten te bestuderen of te bezoeken kunnen we speuren naar tekenen van buitenaards leven, zonder dat we interstellaire sondes hoeven te sturen,” schreef het tweetal.
Natuurlijke wijze
“Gevangen interstellaire objecten kunnen ons op deze manier iets vertellen over leven in andere zonnestelsels en andere buitenaardse objecten,” voegden ze toe.
Loeb en zijn collega zeggen niet dat interstellaire bezoekers per definitie buitenaardse objecten zijn. Het is ook mogelijk dat deze objecten op natuurlijke wijze zijn gevormd.
“Door deze gevangen objecten te fotograferen of te bezoeken kunnen we meer te weten komen over de omstandigheden in andere zonnestelsels,” aldus de astronomen.
Buitenaards schip
In een eerdere paper suggereerden Loeb en zijn collega Shmuel Bialy dat het interstellaire object Oumuamua mogelijk een buitenaards schip is.
“Oumuamua is mogelijk een werkende sonde die doelbewust naar de omgeving van de aarde is gestuurd door een buitenaardse beschaving,” schreven ze.
Lichtzeil
In hun paper schreven de Havard-astronomen dat het uitgesloten is dat het gaat om een actieve komeet.
Ze suggereerden dat het lichtzeil is, een ruimteschip dat bestaat uit grote spiegelende zeilen.
Er zwerven mogelijk honderden buitenaardse objecten door ons zonnestelsel. Dit kunnen ze ons vertellen
Er zwerven mogelijk honderden buitenaardse objecten door ons zonnestelsel. Dit kunnen ze ons vertellen
Astronoom Abraham Loeb van de Harvard-universiteit, die eerder suggereerde dat Oumuamua een buitenaardse sonde is, heeft samen met zijn collega Amir Siraj een paper geschreven waarin hij stelt dat er mogelijk andere levensvormen zijn die zich recht onder onze neus bevinden.
In het onderzoek zeggen de astronomen dat er mogelijk honderden interstellaire bezoekers zoals Oumuamua zijn die door het zonnestelsel zwerven.
“Door dergelijke objecten te bestuderen of te bezoeken kunnen we speuren naar tekenen van buitenaards leven, zonder dat we interstellaire sondes hoeven te sturen,” schreef het tweetal.
Natuurlijke wijze
“Gevangen interstellaire objecten kunnen ons op deze manier iets vertellen over leven in andere zonnestelsels en andere buitenaardse objecten,” voegden ze toe.
Loeb en zijn collega zeggen niet dat interstellaire bezoekers per definitie buitenaardse objecten zijn. Het is ook mogelijk dat deze objecten op natuurlijke wijze zijn gevormd.
“Door deze gevangen objecten te fotograferen of te bezoeken kunnen we meer te weten komen over de omstandigheden in andere zonnestelsels,” aldus de astronomen.
Buitenaards schip
In een eerdere paper suggereerden Loeb en zijn collega Shmuel Bialy dat het interstellaire object Oumuamua mogelijk een buitenaards schip is.
“Oumuamua is mogelijk een werkende sonde die doelbewust naar de omgeving van de aarde is gestuurd door een buitenaardse beschaving,” schreven ze.
Lichtzeil
In hun paper schreven de Havard-astronomen dat het uitgesloten is dat het gaat om een actieve komeet.
Ze suggereerden dat het lichtzeil is, een ruimteschip dat bestaat uit grote spiegelende zeilen.
A Christchurch resident has been left befuddled by a mysterious sea creature washed up on a Canterbury beach.
Her first thought was that it was an alien.
Photos of the bizarre creature show a skeleton with claws on its wings, two long claspers, a long tail, a long head and sharp fangs in its mouth.
Last Saturday, Hanna Mary and her mother were walking along Rakaia Huts collecting rubbish on the beach after a big storm had passed. It was then she came across the bizarre-looking creature.
The mysterious creature has a long weird looking head.
Photo / Hanna Mary
"First I thought it was a plastic sheeting. I pulled it out from underneath the sticks and it was a bit more than just a piece of plastic."
Her mother, who was further down the beach at the time Mary found the strange creature, came rushing over when she heard her daughter scream.
"She [her mother] found an interesting piece of wood, she picked it up and at the time she yelled out 'omg' and I picked up the critter and I screamed louder than she did.
"She dropped whatever she was holding and came running to me."
Is it an alien?
Photo / Hanna Mary
"My first thought was that it was something alien, but I was more fascinated than anything."
Initially, they didn't want to touch it in case it was poisonous, but Mary's curiosity gave her enough courage to take it home.
"I took it all the way home and gave it to a taxidermist next door to see if he knew what it was but he wasn't too sure either.
"That why I thought I should reach out and see if anyone else knew what it is."
When the taxidermist had know idea what it was, she turned to her family on Facebook.
"I uploaded the photos on Facebook and we were all taking guesses, most people said skate.
Don't eat me!
Photo / Hanna Mary
"A few of the guesses were a wee bit absurd because it looks so bizarre."
"Every time we tried to match it with the guesses it just didn't line up."
"My guess it that it's some sort of deep-sea skate, maybe a Bathyraja abyssicola, that might have been picked up by a trawler.
Are those claws?
Photo / Hanna Mary
"I'm hoping that I have the winning guess."
Mary explained it was bizarre that it showed up at Rakaia Huts as the beach is very rocky and has quite a big drop off to the shore, making it impossible to swim there.
Dr Malcolm Francis at Niwa has identified the creature as a male Dipturus nasutus, aka a New Zealand rough skate.
"They are called rough skate because they are very prickly ... it's quite common in Canterbury," he said.
"It's like flat shark, it has a skeleton made out of cartilage.
"They spend much of their time on the bottom."
Francis also explained that they are occasionally caught by commercial fisherman, who sell the wings, which can be eaten.
"You might see them in the fish shops in the South Island," he said.
"It might have been one that had been caught by a fisherman, thrown overboard and washed ashore.
He says you can tell it's a male because the things that looks like legs, which are actually claspers, are used for mating with a female.
"They look like a legs, but they're not," he said.
Francis said the claws on the wings are called alar spines, which only male skates have to use for mating.
"They are used to help the male hang onto the female when they are mating," he said.
Mysterieus zeewezen spoelt aan op strand Nieuw-Zeeland. Wat is dit in vredesnaam?
Mysterieus zeewezen spoelt aan op strand Nieuw-Zeeland. Wat is dit in vredesnaam?
Een inwoner van Christchurch was verbijsterd toen ze op het strand op een mysterieus zeewezen stuitte. Ze dacht in eerste instantie dat het een alien was.
Foto’s van het bizarre wezen tonen een skelet met klauwen, een lange staart, een lange kop en scherpe tanden, melden Nieuw-Zeelandse media.
Afgelopen weekend liepen Hanna Mary en haar moeder over het strand om rommel op te ruimen na een zware storm. Toen zagen ze ineens het bizarre wezen liggen.
Fascinerend
“Ik dacht eerst dat het een stuk plastic was,” zei Hanna. “Maar het bleek meer dan een stuk plastic te zijn.”
Haar moeder kwam aangerend toen ze begon te schreeuwen.
“Mijn eerste gedachte was dat het een soort alien was,” aldus Hanna. “Het was vooral fascinerend om te zien.”
Giftig
Moeder en dochter wilden het skelet niet aanraken omdat ze niet wisten of het giftig zou zijn. Uiteindelijk besloot Hanna het toch mee te nemen.
Ze liet het aan een lokale dierenopzetter zien, maar die had ook geen idee wat het was. Hanna plaatste de foto’s vervolgens op Facebook.
Diepzeerog
Ze denkt dat het misschien een diepzeerog is, mogelijk een Bathyraja abyssicola, die is opgevist door een trawler.
Volgens dr. Malcolm Francis van het Nieuw-Zeelandse National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) gaat het om een Dipturus nasutus, een rogsoort.
The trouble with so manyUFO sightingsand footage is that they all look like something a human would make. We’ve gone andanthropomorphizeda species without knowing for sure if they’re even there. It’s like stuffing a bulldog in an embarrassing Christmas sweater, but on a cosmic scale. Dogs don’t need sweaters, and aliens don’t watch sci-fi movies. If we ever get concrete, accepted, no foolin’ proof of alien life and the ships they bop around the universe in, it’s going to be weird. Really weird.
Case in point: this video (linked to the stabilized GIF version in consideration for the reader’s tolerance for frustration). That’s the real good, real weird stuff. Neon colored, oscillating space-spider strangeness.
The was allegedly taken on Thanksgiving morning, around 3-4 am, and posted to Reddit by user u/Need2believe. He says he was streaming the International Space Station feed on his TV, which is exactly what someone who goes by Need2believe would be doing at 3 am on Thanksgiving. Here’s what the poster said about it in the Reddit thread:
I wish I could give y’all more info on this thing, lol. Its definitely weird. I tuned into the ISS live stream and the object slowly moved into view after about 10 minutes, so I grabbed my phone and recorded.
The starfish thing hung around for maybe 10 minutes, the whole time flashes off white light would blink at random all over, possibly stars but the lights never flashed in the same spot. The starfish eventually rotated I’d say 180° then headed left and away from the ISS.
I also snapped pics of a white orb that seemed to have a long tail thing that was dipping into the top of Earths atmosphere then retracting away.
Also snapped these very faint green shapes that were barely visible above the Earth, the were just barely in viewing range.
All this happened for about 30 minutes before the live feed was cut. The screen showed the same image it normally does after signal loss for maybe 2 minutes then cut to a solid gray screen. The live feed came back around 30 hours.-
If anyone wants to see the other stuff just let me know y’all. Has anyone else ever seen one that is similar to this starfish UFO?
To which another predictably sarcastic user replied “he will definitely get back to you.” It’s fair. In cases like this, the witness of the alleged UFO usually never produces the other pictures. Amazingly, u/Need2believe did produce the other pictures (you can see them here: 1, 2, and 3.) They’re not great, but what do you expect? He opened with the cool stuff.
UFOs need to be weird again.
Many users seemed incredulous that the video was filmed on a cell phone, in portrait mode no less, but not everyone can immediately engage video recording software on their computer at a moment’s notice. It would certainly be nice if it wasn’t a cell phone recording of a screen, but you have to work with the tools at your disposal.
As to the ISS video feed being cut: other users pointed out that the ISS does periodically switch between its four cameras, so there isn’t anything inherently nefarious about that. The timing’s a little funny, but it’s impossible to say for certain that it was intentional.
We need less flying saucers and more impossible geometry in our skies.
Whether the video is fake or not is hard to say. Not being an expert on video production, I can’t make an educated judgement. It could obviously be another piece of footage overlaid on top of empty space, but it seems like anyone with the capability to do that wouldn’t have used a cell phone to record the video.
Without proof of its veracity, it’s once again impossible to say if this is real or not. It’s cool and it’s creepy, that’s for certain. Even if it’s fake, it’s still a lot better than another drone flying over someone’s yard.
Abraham Loeb and Shmuel Bialy, the new go-to guys for all things ‘Oumuamua – the cigar-shaped, interstellar comet/asteroid/spacecraft/noneoftheabove which zipped past us last year and that this pair thinks is some sort of extraterrestrial solar sail, have issued a new report warning that they will be issuing a lot of new reports because ‘Oumuamua is far from the only interstellar object traveling in, around or through our solar system. Not only that, the life forms – if there are any – on the objects may be frustrated and upset because their vehicle/sail/rock/paper/scissors is stuck in the solar system. Do we really need anything more to worry about?
“We find that there should be hundreds of `Oumuamua-size interstellar objects identifiable by Centaur-like orbits in polar or retrograde motion.”
These two Harvard (Loeb is a professor and Bialy a graduate student) astronomers don’t waste any time getting to the point in the opening of their new paper, “Identifying Interstellar Objects Trapped in the Solar System through Their Orbital Parameters,” which is being reviewed for publication by the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Centaurs are minor space objects orbiting the sun between Jupiter and Neptune who earn their Greek mythological half-human/half-horse name by sharing characteristics with asteroids, comets, small planets, planet fragments and now, according to Loeb and Bialy, unidentifiable stuff that may be from another star system.
Centaur
One odd characteristic of Centaurs is their retrograde orbit of the sun, putting them in opposite rotation with all planets and most other space objects. Astronomers have recently concluded that one such Centaur — 2015 BZ509 — has been in retrograde orbit since the formation of the Solar System some 4.5 billion years ago, which makes it highly likely to have been captured from another solar system. For their study, Loeb and Bialy simulated these objects, then compared the models with data from the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan STARRS) survey which watches moving or variable sky objects.
“This yields roughly one such object (of a hundred meter size) per the volume defined by the Earth’s motion around the Sun. In total, each planetary system needs to eject about 10^{15} such objects during its lifetime… Out of those a small fraction is trapped by the Solar System, as objects pass close to Jupiter and lose energy through their gravitational interaction with it. The Sun-Jupiter system acts as a fishing net that hosts a few thousand captured objects at any time. The objects eventually get kicked out of the system, but new ones get captured, and so there is a steady population.”
The model predicted thousands of ‘Oumuamua-like objects with hundreds easily identifiable by their orbits. In fact, Siraj and Loeb identified four possible ‘Oumuamuas that have already been found — 2011 SP25, 2017 RR2, 2017 SV13, and 2018 TL6. Loeb thinks these are perfect candidates for a space mission.
Centaurs?
“Since these objects are trapped, we can fly by them, take a photograph or land on their surface. This will allow us to learn about their structure, composition and origins. It will also allow us to infer better the conditions at their nurseries outside the Solar System. And finally, it may allow us to identify objects of artificial origin, like finding plastic bottles on an otherwise pristine beach.”
Artificial origin! There he goes again. Could one of these be the wreck of an alien probe, as Loeb stated in a previous paperabout ‘Oumuamua?
“This will be revolutionary, as it will demonstrate that we are not alone and will shed light on advanced technologies beyond our own. It holds the potential for being the most important result in science and technology for centuries to come.”
The ancients never cease to baffle us with the mysterious structures and puzzles they have often left in their wake. Bizarre artifacts, strange relics, and confounding buildings or structures litter the landscape of history, often challenging us on what we think we know of ages gone by. One very mysterious such structure can be found in the country of Lebanon, where a temple and its vast monoliths have been baffling engineers and archeologists for years.
Nestled within the foothills of Lebanon’s fertile Beqaa Valley is an ancient city called Baalbek. Considering the valley itself has been continuously inhabited for approximately the past 9,000 years the city is absolutely ancient, with a long history spanning back to the dawn of civilization, and it has over the eons been passed from the Egyptians and Assyrians on to the Greeks, the Roman Empire, and beyond, and throughout it all this has long been considered a mystical and holy place by all who set foot here. The large number of ancient temples and religious ruins here are testament to this long history as a sacred place, and one of the first that was erected here was an altar built by the Canaanites in 2,000 BC for the purpose of trying to appease and harness the powers of their god Baal, who controlled rain, thunder, fertility and agriculture. When Alexander the Great swept in in 334 BC, the temple area was expanded and enlarged, and changes and additions continued on with the coming of subsequent conquerors such as the Ptolemies of Egypt and the Greeks, who called it the called Heliopolis, or “City of the Sun,” but perhaps the biggest changes were made by the Roman Empire.
Baalbek
The then ruler of the Empire, Julius Caesar himself, launched a massive campaign to erect an enormous temple complex that was envisioned as encompassing three main gigantic temples dedicated to Jupiter, god of sky and thunder, the god of agriculture and wine, Bacchus, and the goddess of love and beauty, Venus, and additionally another temple would be built in honor of the god Mercury on a nearby hill. It was an ambitious project to say the least, and indeed Julius Caesar would never see it completed as it would take around 3 centuries before the immense temples were completed. The Roman Empire was certainly the heyday of Baalbek, but although the Romans left behind many breathtaking ruins here from the era, they also left behind some perplexing unsolved mysteries.
While all of the temples of the complex are impressive, the mystery lies within the one dedicated to Jupiter, which measures 47.7 m × 87.75 m (156.5 ft × 287.9 ft), and sits elevated above the land around it, once decked out with 54 giant columns, of which only a few remain. What really makes it stand out are the three colossal megalithic blocks squatting on one side of its podium, each measuring 22 meters in length and weighing over a hundred tons, and all of them carefully and tightly linked together upon a foundation of 6 massive blocks of granite. These gargantuan stones are collectively known as the Trilithon, and they are so incredibly heavy that no one is quite sure how they were put into such a precise position there, as not only are they raised a considerable distance above the ground, but the nearest quarry for these rocks lies around 1 km away.
Massive stones at the Temple of Jupiter
The stones themselves are far too heavy for any known method the Romans had at their disposal to move them such distances or place them as they are. Even the sophisticated cranes the Romans were known to have used were not believed to be sufficient to lift such massive mighty weight, and it doesn’t look like any one even tried, as the Romans usually drilled holes into heavy rocks to help them be moved by crane, called “Lewis holes,” but the Trilithon have no such holes. So how did they do it? There have been theories that they could have been sort of rolled into place along earthen banks, or that they used some system of capstans, pulleys, or other tools to inch the rocks along with the help of hundreds of men, but no one has really been able to adequately explain it or show how it would have actually been possible with the tools available to the people of the era, and indeed moving and precisely placing such massive rocks would be quite difficult to do even with the technology we have now. At the moment no one can really figure out how they not only moved these rocks from the quarry, but also raised them and put them into such a perfectly aligned position.
Adding to the mystery is another rock of even larger dimensions lying partially buried and discarded nearby called the Stone of the South, which is 19.6 meters (64 feet) in length, 6 meters (19.6 feet) in width, and about 5.5 meters (18 feet) in height, and claimed to weigh over 1,000 tons, and within the quarry itself is yet another enigma called the “Stone of the Pregnant Woman.” This rock is 69 x 16 x 13 feet in dimension, also weighs around 1,000 tons, and in this case is still attached to the quarry, only partially unearthed as if it was abandoned in mid-construction. Both of these enigmatic giant stones are some of the oldest human hewn megalithic rocks known to man, and seem to suggest that there was still construction going on that was abandoned for reasons unknown. Indeed, no one is really even sure of why the Trilithon was built in the first place or even how old it is. Some ideas are that it was used as a retaining wall, that they were meant to be eventual foundation stones for something even larger, or that it was merely an impressive show of religious devotion, but no one really knows why it was made or why construction was seemingly halted.
Of course as with many other mysterious megalithic sites around the world there are more far out theories. Some have suggested that the Trilithon actually not only predates the Romans and the Greeks, but also was not even built by humans at all, and Baalbek is often mentioned in the same breath as ancient aliens. Why aliens would want to build it is anyone’s guess, but it remains a popular theory among ancient alien theorists, who claim that it is not just improbable that humans moved these stones, but that it is downright impossible without some incredible technology that we don’t even possess now. Other equally fringe theories are that this was the anomalous work of some lost civilization from beneath the earth that had access to antigravity technology, or that the giant blocks were actually moved by a lost race of ancient literal giants.
Making the pursuit of answers more frustrating is that there seem to be no Roman written records on the construction of this marvel of engineering, making its creators, methods, and purpose lost to the mists of time and open to debate and conspiracy theories. In the end we are left to wonder who built the Trilithon of the Temple of Jupiter and why? Indeed, how did they do it and why is there no record of it? Was this the work of some unknown Roman method of using applied physics, some previously known technology they had that was well ahead of its time? Was it the work of some lost civilization or even aliens? Why did they stop? There is no real way to know the answers to any of these questions, and Baalbek remains an enigmatic place full of great wonder, historical significance, and inscrutable mysteries.
One of the most disquieting news trends over the last few years has been the seemingly rapid proliferation of mysterious booms being heard and felt around the world. While these anomalous airborne explosions have been well-documented throughout North America and have even been under FBI scrutiny, most remained unexplained.
At least one high-profile case of mystery booms has been solved – although the explanation is somewhat more terrifying than alien spacecraft or Chinese spy planes breaking the sound barrier over residential neighborhoods. In one case, a New Jersey man was arrested for testing out homemade bombs in a would-be terrorist plot.
While those booms in New Jersey were eventually explained, dozens of more cases remained unsolved. The latest string of anomalous booms to make the news cycle happened this week in Arizona where residents report a “string of mysterious explosions” in a neighborhood in North Phoenix. Rattled residents say the booms have been happening for a few months now, but police have yet to identify a source.
This week, however, a security camera caught what appears to be an explosion occurring on a residential street. A loud blast can be heard on the footage, and a wisp of smoke and shower of small rocks can just barely be seen at the uppermost edge of the frame. Some neighbors believe “something bomb-related” is happening, while others of course think something stranger could be going on.
I still stand by my gut feeling that most of these booms are caused by secret aircraft activity.
Just last week, an extremely bright explosion was seen in the skies above California and the next day a few drivers in Arizona had their cars damaged by falling rocks. Could all of these be related? What exactly is going on out in the desert?
A huge breakthrough has been discovered in the search for alien life as astronomers have detected water in the atmosphere of a distant planet. The large gas planet, called HR 8799c, is located 179 light years away from us.
A team of researchers at Keck Observatory in Maunakea, Hawaii discovered the planet. After a picture was taken of the planet, astronomers picked apart the planet’s light by using equipment called spectrometers. The spectrometer on the Keck 2 telescope, which is called the Near-Infrared Cryogenic Echelle Spectrograph (NIRSPEC), showed the chemicals that were in the planet’s atmosphere. When experts used spectroscopy with adaptive optics to study the planet, that’s when they discovered that there is water in the atmosphere, and an absence of methane.
The planet, one of four which orbit the star HR 8799, was found 179 light years away in the constellation Pegasus
Dimitri Mawet, who is an associate professor of astronomy at Caltech, explained, “This type of technology is exactly what we want to use in the future to look for signs of life on an Earth-like planet.” He added, “We aren’t there yet but we are marching ahead.”
The planet is one of four that are orbiting the star named HR 8799 which is located in the Pegasus constellation. Astronomers have previously taken pictures of over a dozen exoplanets, but HR 8799 is currently the only multi-planet solar system that has been photographed. Scientists hope to perform the same process with other small planets that are situated close to their own stars.
Scientists at the Keck Observatory wrote that their goal is to search for chemicals such as water, methane, and oxygen which point to a habitable atmosphere on Earth-like planets. They hope to do this with a new impending instrument called the Thirty Meter Telescope which they plan to do in upcoming years – late in the 2020s.
Ji Wang is the lead author of an Astronomical Journal paper written on the new findings. He said “Right now, with Keck, we can already learn about the physics and dynamics of these giant exotic planets, which are nothing like our own solar system planets.” He also explained, “We are now more certain about the lack of methane in this planet. This may be due to mixing in the planet’s atmosphere.”
The huge gas planet HR 8799c is seven times bigger than Jupiter which is the biggest planet in our solar system. In fact, Jupiter is so massive that over 1,300 Earths could fit inside of the gas planet. And with this new HR 8799c planet being seven times larger than Jupiter, well, that’s what you call extremely massive.
This video was sent to ApexTV by a man who works as a security guard for a law office in Alaska. He was able to catch something extremely strange on a security camera in the main lobby.
What you’re about to see is immensely bizarre. Watch this and decide for yourself. Due to the appearance of the strange man, many people online have come to the conclusion that this is an actual sighting of the infamous men in black, who are said to be the ones who keep witnesses of strange events quiet about what they have seen.
Following the mysterious men in black footage Apex TV was recently able to get in contact with Nicole, who claims to be the woman from the video who appeared to have been taken by the men in black.
In a live interview with Nicole, Apex TV attempt to sort out exactly what happened in the strange piece of security camera footage.
According to Collective-Evolution it turns out that the reason for the encounter, as stated by Nicole, was simply to inquire about her pictures and her experience she had with some friends.
While she and her friends were hiking, she came across a cave and decided to check it out on her own in the morning. The cave, as she describes, was lined with crystals, but nothing out of the ordinary happened.
The Men in Black, seemed to be very curious if she saw anything while she was in the cave. After the encounter, she said she was given a vaccine. She wasn’t supposed to remember anything when she woke up as she was told, but she does. There also seems to have been telepathic communication.
Regardless of whether or not we know that this encounter is genuine, it is certainly worth considering given how much it aligns with other well documented Men in Black encounters.
UFO With Red And Green Lights Flying Low Along Road In Argentina, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 25, 2018
Location of sighting: Argentina
This video was shot by a driver over last weekend at National Route 9, on the way to La Cienaga Resevoir. The woman was traveling at night with her family when they spotted the glowing UFO lights along the road. The full video lasts 47 seconds. The woman states that the UFO, "has no wheels, legs or anything, and is in the air."
Argentina is a hotspot for UFO sightings. A lot of UFO researchers like myself believe that aliens have base entrances in the Andes Mountains which is on Argentinas western boarder. The Andes has over a dozen volcanos in which aliens could be using as entrances. Remember how the police in Denver, Colorado recorded glowing white balls of light buzzing around the Colorado Rockies? Same thing...alien chose those bases long ago to avoid human contact, but modern civilization has made most those locations accessible.
Black Triangle UFO Causes Lightning Storm On Video, Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Black Triangle UFO Causes Lightning Storm On Video, Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 2018
Location of sighting: unknown
This UFO was recorded during a lightning storm by a kid. The triangle UFO didn't fly into the storm, I believe its the cause of the storm. UFOs are frequently the cause of strange weather phenomenon like lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes and even earthquakes. Not all are caused by UFOs, but some are.
UFO Seen Falling From The Sky During Sunset, Nov 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Seen Falling From The Sky During Sunset, Nov 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 2018
Location of sighting: unknown A person recorded this falling object during sunrise this week. The object appears to fall very slowly, too slowly to be a meteor and too slow to be space garbage. It looks like a UFO that is about to land far away. During sunset when the sun is at a 90 degree angle, UFOs do become visible for a few minutes. Its the #1 time to catch a UFO if you just sit and watch the sunset. Watch a few, and you will see one in a week or less. Scott C. Waring
De aarde werd op 11 november opgeschud door vreemde seismische golven en niemand weet waarom
De aarde werd op 11 november opgeschud door vreemde seismische golven en niemand weet waarom
Mysterieuze seismische golven die drie weken geleden zijn opgepikt van Madagaskar tot Canada, stellen wetenschappers voor een raadsel.
Onderzoekers die de signalen hebben geregistreerd zeggen dat ze afkomstig waren uit een gebied voor de kust van het eiland Mayotte (foto).
De golven werden op 11 november gedetecteerd en waren meer dan 20 minuten meetbaar. De meesten hebben er niets van gemerkt.
Nog nooit
Ze lijken op golven die na zware aardbevingen worden waargenomen en die zich over enorme afstanden kunnen verplaatsen. In het gebied was op die dag echter geen zware aardbeving.
Mogelijke verklaringen voor de mysterieuze golven lopen uiteen van een meteorietinslag tot een onderzeese uitbarsting.
“Volgens mij heb ik nog nooit zoiets gezien,” zei seismoloog Goran Ekstrom van de Columbia University tegen National Geographic.
Heel vreemd
“Dat betekent nog niet dat iets heel exotisch er verantwoordelijk voor is,” aldus Ekstrom, die gespecialiseerd is in ongewone aardbevingen.
Op Twitter werd op de bewuste 11 november druk gediscussieerd over het vreemde fenomeen.
“Dit is een heel vreemd en ongewoon seismisch signaal,” schreef gebruiker matarikipax op Twitter bij een plaatje van een seismogram afkomstig uit Kenia.
Zigzagpatroon
In de loop van de dag lieten anderen weten dat de golven ook in Chili, Nieuw-Zeeland, Canada en Hawaï waren gedetecteerd.
De signalen vertoonden een zigzagpatroon en herhaalden zich elke 17 seconden, meldt National Geographic.
HET ZIET ER UIT ALS EEN ONWEERSWOLK , MAAR DAT IS HET NIET ( VIDEO )
HET ZIET ER UIT ALS EEN ONWEERSWOLK , MAAR DAT IS HET NIET ( VIDEO )
Buitenaardsen maken onder onze neus gebruik van dimensieportalen en wij mensen staan erbij, kijken ernaar en begrijpen niet wat er gebeurt.
Wanneer er een lichtflits te zien is in een wolk, dan is het voor mensen simpel: dat is een onweerswolk. Echter, schijn bedriegt.
Voor zover ons bekend is er op aarde nog nooit echt onderzoek gedaan naar een vreemd fenomeen dat ons als her ware in het gezicht staart, maar dat we niet zien. Als wij een donkere lucht zien met daarin een aantal lichtflitsen, dan denken wij op dat moment niet verder dan: dat is een onweersbui.
Dat is waarschijnlijk ook de reden dat er heel veel interessante waarnemingen worden gemist. Want, vaak komt eigenlijk per ongeluk naar buiten dat het toch iets anders is dan een onweerswolk.
Zo hebben we nu een geval van iemand die een korte video opname heeft ingediend bij Mufon. Dit gebeurde enkele dagen geleden, hoewel de opname zelf al in 2014 is gemaakt. Het is een ongeveer 20 seconden durende opname van een wolk in Columbus in de Amerikaanse staat Ohio. Vanuit die wolk zie je op een gegeven moment een object tevoorschijn schieten dat met een enorme snelheid in de lucht verdwijnt. Of meer rechts in de wolk die direct daarna ook oplicht.
Het object dat tevoorschijn komt uit de "onweerswolk" is dan ook niet de reden dat de maker van het filmpje deze heeft ingeleverd bij Mufon. Hij deed dit, omdat hij nog nooit zo'n vreemde onweerswolk had meegemaakt.
Hij vond het vreemd dat de bliksemflitsen alleen te zien zijn binnen de "wolk" en dat er absoluut geen geluid van onweer te horen was die dag. Waarmee de man in kwestie in feite een dimensieportaal beschrijft wat we regelmatig tegenkomen op aarde.
De video opname ziet er als volgt uit:
Officieel bestaan er natuurlijk geen dimensieportalen, net zomin als er officieel ufo's en buitenaardsen bestaan. Dat betekent dan weer dat er ook nooit (formeel) onderzoek gedaan zal worden naar het soort verschijnselen zoals die hierboven worden beschreven.
Het is ook geen incident dat ooit een keertje voor komt. Gedurende de afgelopen jaren zijn er meerdere voorbeelden gezien van vergelijkbare wolken waar onbekende objecten of in of uit schoten.
Dit alles gebeurt met een fenomenale snelheid. Zoals een ufo die met een enorme snelheid in een wolk verdwijnt zoals hierboven omschreven en er dan vervolgens niet meer uit tevoorschijn komt. Het lijkt dan ook dat ze een dergelijk wolk/portaal met een enorme snelheid binnen vliegen, om vandaar terecht te komen in een andere dimensie waardoor ze misschien in enkele seconden of minuten zich kunnen verplaatsen naar andere delen van het zonnestelsel of zelfs andere zonnestelsels om daar vervolgens via een dergelijk portaal weer tevoorschijn te komen.
Het is een theorie en als er iemand is die een andere of betere theorie heeft voor dit bijzondere verschijnsel, dan horen we dat graag.
Om aan te tonen dat bovenstaande absoluut geen op zich staand incident is, hierna een deel uit een eerder artikel met nog veel meer voorbeelden van die dimensieportalen.
Soms kom je juweeltjes van opnames tegen en de volgende valt absoluut in die categorie. Het is een filmpje van een halve minuut en daarin zie je de meest fantastische dingen.
De opname is enkele dagen geleden gemaakt bij de Zárate-Brazo Largo brug die aan de rand van de Argentijnse stad Buenos Aires ligt.
Al jaren schrijven wij nu over vreemde wolken die niet thuis horen in een bepaald landschap. Onderstaand een dergelijke wolk. Wat ook iedere keer weer kenmerkend is, zijn de bliksemflitsen in de wolk. Alsof je een grote onweerswolk hebt, maar dat eigenlijk niet is.
In de korte video zie je diverse UFO’s ronddartelen waarvan er een aantal met enorme snelheid verdwijnen in de wolk.
Na ongeveer zes seconden zie je er zo één linksboven in beeld verschijnen zoals ook te zien is op de volgende afbeelding.
En wanneer zo’n UFO de wolk in vliegt, ontstaat er op diezelfde plek een bliksemschicht. Wanneer je goed kijkt, dan zie je dat diverse keren gebeuren in die korte video.
De volgende opname is uniek, omdat het ook een bevestiging is van wat verschillende getuigen hebben gezien en van eerder gemaakte en vergelijkbare beelden.
Hierna een voorbeeld van hetzelfde fenomeen door de ogen van een getuige en eveneens een bijzondere opname uit Mexico.
Als eerste een getuigenis van een dame die wij ontvingen in november 2014:
"Het is dinsdagavond 7 oktober en om 20.30 stap ik op de fiets vanuit Lytse Geast,(een dorpje een kleine tien kilometer ten zuid-oosten van Leeuwarden).
Mijn weg voert door de weilanden over een afgelegen pad en als het even kan zorg ik er voor dat ik niet in mijn eentje in het donker nog op pad ben. Vandaag ben ik al te laat en de laatste schemering gaat al over in duister.
Ik ben nog maar net buiten, of het begint te regenen en hard te waaien. Schuin voor me zie ik een paar flitsen, en het rommelt in de verte, precies tussen mij en Leeuwarden, waar ik naar op weg ben. Onweer dus, ook dat nog.
Voor me is een brede, langgerekte, vrij laag hangende wolk. Dat is waar ik de hemel op zie lichten. Er komen witte bollen uit de wolk. Twee gaan naar links en twee gaan naar rechts. De afstand van de ene bol tot de andere blijft steeds gelijk, alsof ze met een touwtje aan elkaar vast zitten. Ze bewegen langzaam.
Ik weet niet, wat het is, dat ik zie... zijn dit vliegtuigen? van de basis? En waarom zijn die geïnteresseerd in een onweerswolk? Ja, het zijn vast vliegtuigen. Het licht pulseert ook, zoals bij een vliegtuig. Flits aan, flits uit. Ja maar, bij een vliegtuig zie je dan altijd ook een rood licht aan en uit flitsen. dat is hier niet. Alleen wit. Melkwit.
De twee bollen rechts zijn verdwenen, die van links zijn opeens weer terug boven de wolk. Verbeeld ik me nu dat ze sneller pulseren dan zo net? Nee, dat verbeeld ik me niet. Het lijken wel sterren en het licht is niet meer zozeer wit, als wel koud. Zoals bij sterretjes voor kleine kinderen. Het zijn nu dus geen witte bollen meer, maar steeds sneller aan- en uit flitsende 'sterren'.
Dan zijn ze weg. Een paar minuten is er niks meer te zien en dan opeens zijn er wel twintig. Allemaal onder, boven, naast of uit de wolk. En allemaal flitsen ze aan en uit, nu in een heel hoog tempo. In een ijzig wit licht dat zo fel is dat het mij verblindt. Je zou zeggen dat ze er plezier aan beleven, zoals ze om en door de wolk heen duiken. Er in, er uit, om de wolk heen, achter elkaar aan... Net zo plotseling als ze verschenen zijn ze nu weer weg.
En komen niet meer terug. En ik ben bijna bij de eerste huizen van de stad. Het regent niet meer en de wind gaat ook liggen. Hoe lang dit al met al geduurd heeft? Twintig minuten à hooguit een half uur. Ik kan me niet voorstellen, dat er niet meer mensen geweest zijn die dit gezien hebben. Er was echt een hele lichtshow in de lucht.
Wat me achteraf ook nog wel frappeert, is dat er eigenlijk alleen die ene enorm grote wolk was, verder was er vrijwel geen bewolking.
“Now first of all we must recall the fact that 9000 is the sum of years since the war occurred, as is recorded, between the dwellers beyond the pillars of Heracles and all that dwelt within them; which war we have now to relate in detail. It was stated that this city of ours was in command of the one side and fought through the whole of the war, and in command of the other side were the kings of the island of Atlantis, which we said was an island larger than Libya and Asia once upon a time, but now lies sunk by earthquakes and has created a barrier of impassable mud which prevents those who are sailing out from here to the ocean beyond from proceeding further.”
One must wonder whether Plato could have ever known the controversy he would evoke–having lasted close to 2400 years by now–when he penned these words in Critias, one of his most curious philosophical treatises.
Taken by most scholars to have merely been a dialogue (as were his other writings, aimed at producing deeper truths with the aid of allegory), there have nonetheless been countless thinkers who have questioned whether the Atlantis Plato mentioned in the aforementioned text, along with the similarly-themed Timaeus, had not been a literal retelling of events from long ago, dating to a time far earlier than written history has survived to tell of.
Due to its lasting intrigue, every few years or so (and at times, every few months, it seems), someone else manages to “discover” what they believe to be the “real” Atlantis. The latest of the bunch, as reported recently, was a group of UK-based researchers (around whom a new documentary has been made, and is thus being promoted) who have claimed that Atlantis actually existed off the coast of Spain.
There have been countless similar theories that have arisen over the years, placing Atlantis in a variety of hypothetical locations: since Ignatius Donnelly wrote his landmark Atlantis: The Antediluvian World in 1882, popular theories have included the Azores, a series of mid-Atlantic islands occupied by the Portugese since their “discovery” in the early 14o0s (these islands were apparently known even prior to the 15th century, and in recent years have come to the attention of archaeologists for interesting features which could lend credence to the idea of settlement dating back as much as 2000 years, although this remains unproven).
São Jorge, part of the Azores as they appear today.
Other theories involve Santorini (known as Thera in ancient times), which was partially destroyed by a massive volcanic eruption between 1642–1540 BCE. Recent proponents of this theory include Gavin Menzies, whose fanciful theories of early circumnavigations by various cultures have received a fair amount of criticism, despite the popularity of his writings.
It is not entirely illogical to consider the historicity of the Atlantis theme in Plato’s writing. Not only does the story of Atlantis bear similarity to historical events like that of the eruption of Thera, but Plato also mentions numerous historical characters in his telling of the legend; namely Solon, the Athenian statesman who Critias cites as having been the first to share the story with his grandfather (who was also named Critias, a minor point that has led to some confusion over the centuries). However, other individuals Plato speaks of are less easily proven to have been real, historical figures. Sonchis, the elderly Egyptian priest to whom Solon attributed the Atlantis story, has never been confirmed to have existed through separate mention in other known historical texts (as was the case with Solon, for instance).
Much like enigmatic Egyptian elder Sonchis of Sais, separate mention of Atlantis in other ancient texts has remained curiously absent from the historical record. It remains possible that Solon’s exposure to Egyptian mythology could very well have been the real inspiration for something Plato later chose to expand upon in one of his dialogues; however, the fact that an element to history so seemingly important as the existence of an entire inhabited continent–let alone one renowned for a level of advancement that was mythic in proportion–makes its absence in other ancient writing particularly suspect.
Perhaps what is more fascinating about the Atlantis myth than the theories that have sought to explain or incorporate it into literal history are the similar notions of “lost” continents or ancient homelands that emerge in various world mythologies. Some appear in legends, like those of the Aztecs and their Aztlán, an ancient mythical home from which their culture derived (although it was not always depicted in their mythology as an island, per se). Others do appear in historical writings, like the fabled Hyperborea, land “beyond the north wind,” as mentioned by Herodotus and others in ancient times. Other examples include Mu, a hypothetical lost land similar to the Atlantis idea, which was “discovered” by French scholar Abbé Charles-Éttienne Brassuer from his misreading of Mayan symbols written of by Diego de Landa in his 1566 Relación de las cosas de Yucatán.
An early artistic depiction of Aztland featured in the 16th century Codex Boturini.
Countless other versions of the “lost continent” motif have come and gone over time, procured for reasons ranging from the spiritual, to the pseudo-historical, and stemming from an array of ideologies both well-intended and ill-conceived. “Thus,” noted L. Sprague de Camp in his highly entertaining Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme, “the Atlantis theme has been tied to communism, socialism, anti-socialism, Spiritualism, Theosophy, racialism, pacificism, romanticism, diffusionism, Roussellian primitivism, and Hörbigerism. When these tales are taken as a whole, I think the best entertainment is still provided by those which, like (Charles John Cutcliffe Wright) Hyne’s Lost Continent, have no ideological axes to grind but simply tell a lively story in competent, professional style.”
In truth, Plato’s own telling of the story had probably been something akin to this: while allegorical, it hadn’t been concocted for use as a pseudo-historic “origin story” for whatever occult doctrine was popular at the time. Equally true is that whether or not it had truly been borrowed from whispers of earlier Egyptian mythology, passed down to the likes of Solon and other “tourists” to the region, who may have been shown such things on the columns and temple walls by elders the likes of Sonchis and other Saisians, is beside the point. Allegorical though Plato may have intended it to be, the Atlantis theme has lasted for this long because it makes for damned good storytelling, and humankind is always in search of things that push our calendars back, bespeaking earlier origins for our myths and histories.
The Atlantis story in its various forms still fascinates us for all these reasons. With little doubt (and whether or not anything akin to Atlantis truly existed), others will continue to search for this long-lost, fabled continent of human myth, history, and the imagination.
“When you have a human that’s born on Mars, the environment will change the structure of the human body. In a few generations, what you are going to see is humans that are taller and skinnier, because the gravity on Mars is less than that of Earth.”
A Mars One(remember that?) astronaut is interviewed for a TV show and speculates on what may happen to her body and those of her fellow settlers and their descendants after just a few generations on Mars. An author appearing on the same show elaborated.
“If humans evolve long enough on the planet Mars, they could grow to be taller, they’d have the bigger heads, they’d have the spindly limbs. They might actually grow slightly larger eyes that were equipped to see better in the dark because you simply have less sunlight on Mars than you do on the Earth because it’s farther away from the Sun.”
Hmm. Tall, thin, big heads, big eyes. Sound like any humans you know? Sound like any ALIENS you know? Mars One astronaut and actress Sue Ann Pien and Mike Bara, author of Ancient Aliens on Mars and similar books, were being interviewed for the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens series when they made these statements and more. Pien’s seem to make sense despite the fact that she’s an actress, not a space scientist, and her Mars One selection is probably due to more to her environmental activism and speaking ability than her knowledge ofMars. Mike Bara spent over 25 years as an engineering designer/consultant for major aerospace companies before becoming an author on conspiracy theories, space science, NASA, physics, UFOs and other topics and a regular on Ancient Aliensand other similar programs.
Why are my pants suddenly too short?
Together, Pien and Bara seem to be describing Nordic or Tall White Aliens, the alleged humanoid extraterrestrials said to have come from the Pleiades. Contactees say they’re tall and thin with big blue eyes, although they’re not often described as having big heads, just long blond hair. Nonetheless, they seem to resemble odd elongated humans. Could humans have at one time traveled to Mars, spent enough time there to become tall, thin and big-eyed, and then come back to be misidentified as Pleiadeans? Rather than pursuing that line, Bara and the next interviewee on Ancient Aliens suddenly take a religious turn.
“The fallen angels were giants – they were at least 10 feet tall, very striking to look at, [with] enormous eyes and no wings. They could also end up looking like representations of angels and various other God-like beings that we’ve read about in the Bible and other ancient documents.”
That’s Jonathan Young, a colleague of the late mythologist Joseph Campbell and a regular on Ancient Aliens, who adds fuel to Bara’s comment that these humans altered by Martian life could look like “representation of angels and other godlike beings that we’ve read about in the Bible and other ancient documents.” Really? This is the kind of U-turn that drives many UFOlogists and scientists researching alien life possibilities crazy … bringing religion into what could have been an enlightening scientific discussion on evolution, gravity, the future of Martian settlements, etc.
We still have a long way to go.
It’s sad when the most scientific member of a discussion about possible explanations for alien contact is an actress, yet Sue Ann Pien comes across the best of these three. She should make a good observer on the Mars One team and we’ll look forward to her missives from the Red Planet. Let’s hope Bara and Young are listening.
Are “superbugs” aboard the International Space Station (ISS) posing a risk to astronauts? While that sounds like a question asked in a dystopian sci-fi novel, it is legitimately being pondered by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who published a study in BMC Microbiology regarding bacteria samples swabbed from surfaces within the ISS in 2015. Within those swabs dwelt the sort of genes bacteria developed to make themselves impervious to the effects of modern antibiotics – more than 100 in fact.
Enterobacter bugandensis, a species of bacteria responsible for several sorts of infections in humans was found aboard the ISS with a resistance to all nine antibiotics tested on it. By comparing these samples to samples of the same bacteria from Earth, researchers determined the strains were up to 79 percent likely to be pathogenic – or able to cause diseases.
But, if they did become infected by one of the superbugs dwelling around them, astronauts already have a compromised immune system through just living. Some evidence is accumulating that these bacteria colonies may actually grow faster in space. In fact, one of the Space-X launches, conducted by Elon Musk’s space travel company, actually sent the superbug MRSA into space to test a hypothesis the lack of gravity will cause more rapid growth.
So what are superbugs, and how did they earn such an ominous name? Superbugs are evolved forms of everyday bacteria species known to cause illnesses in humans. With the dawn of antibiotics, humanity believed they were safe from several varieties of these infections because of a panacea of sorts, starting with the first growth of penicillin from simple bread mold.
MRSA was sent to the ISS aboard a Space-X rocket in order to test how the antibiotic-resistant bacteria would behave in space.
Unfortunately as Charles Darwin discovered through his writings on natural selection, and as Jeff Goldblum so eloquently stated in the first Jurassic Park film, “Life finds a way.” People who do not finish their entire regimen of antibiotics as well as bacteria not killed by them, which live on and reproduce, create superbugs. Usually it is a combination of both.
When an infection is treated with antibiotics, most of the bacteria causing said infection perish. The same can be said when hands are cleaned by sanitizers. Many people are familiar with advertisements promising products kill nearly 100 percent of germs. Superbugs are part of what remains. What remains can reproduce, and what reproduces can then spread its genes, which, through mutation, have evolved to resist most ways people have developed for killing them.
A MYSTERIOUS RADIOACTIVE HEAT SOURCE IS MELTING ANTARCTICA FROM BELOW
A MYSTERIOUS RADIOACTIVE HEAT SOURCE IS MELTING ANTARCTICA FROM BELOW
Antarctica might as well be another planet. There is still much left to explore on the frozen continent on the bottom of the Earth, and it seems like each week there’s a new discovery which adds to the growing mystery of what might lie beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Strange lost continents? Unknown, bizarre organisms? Secret Nazi bases? How about all of the above, that do anything for ya?
This week, the latest bizarre Antarctica news concerns a mysterious, radioactive heat source melting the Antarctic ice sheet from below. Is this one of those crashed alien spacecraft the Google Earth people keep warning us about, or just some unknown geothermal process?
Of course it’s gonna be some boring rock phenomenon. It’s never aliens. Until it is. Scientists with the the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) found areas of the Antarctic Ice Sheet were melting unexpectedly quickly and used radar to peer through three kilometers of ice to determine what might be causing the melting. What the researchers discovered is an area twice the size of London which appears to be melting from the bottom up.
The researchers found that unusually radioactive rocks and hot water bubbling up from deep within the Earth were causing the melt, and the source of the radioactivity remains unknown. Thus, while the usual boogeyman of climate change can’t be cited as the cause, Dr. Tom Jordan from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) says this new phenomenon could speed up the melting caused by global warming:
The process of melting we observe has probably been going on for thousands or maybe even millions of years and isn’t directly contributing to ice sheet change. However, in the future the extra water at the ice sheet bed may make this region more sensitive to external factors such as climate change.
The discovery of this phenomenon was completely unexpected and shows how much more we have to learn about Antarctica. In many ways, the icy continent is one of the last great frontiers here on Earth – at least above the ocean. What secrets will it reveal in the future?
Het nieuws uit China over de geboorte van een ‘genetisch verbeterde’ meisjestweeling, slaat in als een bom. Terwijl de straffe claim van geneticus He Jiankui – die inmiddels op slag beroemd is – nog moet worden gecontroleerd, reageren wetenschappers met afkeuring.
Eerst de feiten.
Gisteren vertelde de Chinese geneticus He Jiankui tijdens een persbabbel dat er enkele weken geleden ‘ergens in China’ een meisjestweeling is geboren met een doelbewust aangebrachte genmutatie. De genetische ingreep zou de meisjes minder vatbaar maken voor hiv, het virus dat aids veroorzaakt. Jiankui was tot begin dit jaar verbonden aan de Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, maar opmerkelijk genoeg is hij sindsdien op ‘onbetaald verlof’, zo meldt de universiteit. Jiankui deed zijn aankondiging in Hong Kong. Uitgerekend vandaag begint daar een belangrijke internationale conferentie rond genoombewerking bij mensen.
De universiteit in Shenzhen distantieerde zich al, omdat Jiankui de genbewerking niet in hun labs heeft uitgevoerd
De tweeling werd geboren uit een ouderpaar dat bij Jiankui een ivf-behandeling onderging. De wetenschapper zou met de genetische knip-en-plaktechniek crispr, die sinds enkele jaren volop in de schijnwerpers staat, een welbepaald gen hebben uitgeschakeld dat een rol speelt in de hechting van het hiv-virus aan onze witte bloedcellen. Dat gen, ccr5 genaamd, is al langer bekend bij virologen die onderzoek doen naar (gedeeltelijke of volledige) aidsimmuniteit. Zo zijn er mensen met een gemuteerd ccr5 gen op wie het aidsvirus geen vat lijkt te hebben. De vaststelling dat deze mutatie voornamelijk voorkomt bij Europeanen (of mensen met een Europese afkomst), voedt de hypothese dat de genvariant vroeger ook bescherming bood tegen middeleeuwse ziekten zoals de builenpest.
Jiankui sleutelde (naar eigen zeggen) al tijdens de vroegste embryonale fase aan de genen van de twee meisjes, vlak na de bevruchting van de eicellen. Na de ingreep met de crispr-technologie plantte hij de eicellen weer in bij de moeder, maar niet voordat hij had gecontroleerd dat de ingreep geen andere wijzigingen had veroorzaakt, buiten de gewenste ccr5-mutatie.
He Jankui vertelde dat hij het experiment uitvoerde om de tweelingzussen levenslang te beschermen tegen HIV-infectie.
René Custers, responsible research manager bij het Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, houdt desgevraagd nog een slag om de arm, vooraleer hij het nieuws van gisteren als historisch wil bestempelen. ‘We wachten nog op wetenschappelijke bevestiging. Bovendien heeft de universiteit in Shenzhen zich al gedistantieerd van het verhaal, ook al omdat Jiankui de ivf-behandeling en de genbewerking niet in de labs en gebouwen van de universiteit heeft uitgevoerd.’
Maar als het verhaal klopt, dat is het ongetwijfeld dé wetenschappelijke gebeurtenis van het jaar. Niet omdat het om een grote technologische doorbraak gaat, maar omdat er ethische en morele grenzen zijn overschreden. ‘De oppuntstelling van de crispr-techniek enkele jaren geleden, dát was een grote doorbraak’, zegt Custers. ‘Vandaag wordt die techniek heel breed toegepast in het wetenschappelijk onderzoek.’
"Niet het technologische, maar het controversiële aspect maakt het nieuws van de crispr-tweeling breaking"
Het is dus het controversiële aspect dat het nieuws van de crispr-tweeling breaking maakt. Custers: ‘In het veld wordt er al jaren gesproken over de wetenschappelijke, ethische en beleidsmatige aspecten van menselijke genoombewerking. Bijvoorbeeld over wat er in fundamenteel onderzoek verantwoord is, en wat niet. En welke toepassingen er mogen worden ontwikkeld. Ook over de veiligheid van toepassing bij de mens wordt nog volop gediscussieerd.’
Een gezaghebbend Amerikaans rapport uit 2017, opgesteld door de National Academy of Science en de National Academy of Health, vermeldt een reeks strikte voorwaarden waaraan genetische experimenten die als doel hebben zware ziekten te voorkomen of te genezen, moeten voldoen, willen ze ethisch verantwoord zijn. Voor de casus van Jiankui is dat zeker niet het geval. Bovendien beschouwen de auteurs van het rapport experimenten met het doel de mens te ‘verbeteren’, duidelijk als een stap te ver.
Tot nu beperkte het (gepubliceerde) wetenschappelijke crispr-onderzoek op mensen zich tot klinische tests waarbij verschillende types menselijke lichaamscellen in het lab worden gewijzigd, en daarna teruggeplaatst. Daarbij worden de geslachtscellen niet gewijzigd, zodat de veranderingen niet kunnen doorgegeven worden aan het nageslacht (dat is bij de Chinese tweeling dus wel het geval). Daarnaast zijn er ook menselijke embryo’s ‘behandeld’ met crispr, maar steeds zonder de intentie om ze te laten uitgroeien tot mens. Dat laatste is dan ook in heel wat landen bij wet verboden.
CRISPR-Cas maakt het mogelijk met ongekende precisie DNA te wijzigen en genen uit te schakelen. De genbewerkingstechniek ontketent een ware revolutie in de biologie: niet alleen biomedici, maar ook neurowetenschappers en plantbiologen gaan ermee aan de slag.
Het DNA is een soort uitgebreide catalogus waarin alle instructies te vinden zijn die de eigenschappen van een organisme bepalen. Of het nu gaat om de kleur van ogen bij een mens, de vorm van de bladeren bij een plant of het soort antibioticum waartegen een bacterie resistent is, het zijn allemaal kenmerken die vast liggen in de code van het DNA.
Deze code bestaat uit een opeenvolging van 4 bouwstenen of basen, die aangeduid worden met de letters A, T, G en C. In het geval van Escherichiacoli, een darmbacterie bij mens en dier die vaak als modelorganisme in het labo bestudeerd wordt, omvat de genetische code meer dan 4,6 miljoen posities of baseparen, terwijl het menselijk genoom opgebouwd is uit ongeveer 6 miljard baseparen. Een fout op slechts één van deze posities, ook wel een mutatie genoemd, kan zorgen voor een ingrijpende verandering in het organisme.
Zo zijn verschillende menselijke ziektes een gevolg van mutaties, zoals taaislijmziekte of de ziekte van Huntington. Niet alleen om deze fouten te corrigeren, maar ook om de informatie die in het DNA opgeslagen zit beter te begrijpen, zijn wetenschappers op zoek naar manieren om de genetische code aan te passen. De technieken die tot voor kort beschikbaar waren, bleken vaak zeer tijdrovend en arbeidsintensief. Zo kon het wel enkele maanden tot een half jaar duren om slechts één verandering aan te brengen in het DNA. Tot in 2012 CRISPR op de wereld werd losgelaten...
Wat is dat nu, CRISPR?
Bacteriën kunnen aangevallen worden door virussen. Ze vallen de bacteriën namelijk aan om zich voort te planten. Hierbij injecteert het virus een stukje DNA in de bacterie dat dan alle informatie bevat die nodig is om nieuwe virussen op te bouwen. Om zich te beschermen zal de bacterie dit stuk DNA dus moeten vernietigen nog voor de nieuwe virusdeeltjes gevormd worden. Een tijdje geleden werd ontdekt dat bacteriën zich tegen deze virussen konden beschermen door middel van het CRISPR/Cas systeem. Het CRISPR/Cas systeem is dus eigenlijk niet meer dan het immuunsysteem van bacteriën, zoals ook mensen een immuunsysteem hebben om zich tegen ziekteverwekkers te beschermen.
Het CRISPR systeem zal eerst en vooral stukjes uit het vreemde virus-DNA halen en inplakken in het eigen DNA. Deze stukjes worden telkens in dezelfde regio in het DNA van de bacterie ingeplakt, ook wel de CRISPR regio genoemd. Deze regio bevat dus een verzameling van stukjes van alle vreemd DNA waar de bacterie al mee in contact is gekomen en kan aangewend worden om later infectie met diezelfde virussen snel te herkennen en onschadelijk te maken.
Het stukje DNA dat opgeslagen wordt doet vervolgens dienst als een soort gids voor het Cas9 eiwit, een moleculaire schaar. Cas9 is in staat om het DNA te knippen en wel op een zeer specifieke plaats die volledig bepaald wordt door het stukje dat eerder uit het vreemd DNA werd gehaald. Dus bij een aanval van een virus zal het Cas9 gegidst worden door het reeds opgeslagen stukje DNA van dat virus in zijn CRISPR regio en heel specifiek het geïnjecteerde DNA van dat virus kunnen knippen. De enorm hoge nauwkeurigheid van dit systeem en de mogelijkheid om heel specifiek op een bepaald stuk DNA te knippen bracht onderzoekers een paar jaar geleden op het idee om CRISPR/Cas te gebruiken voor genmodificatie in andere organismen.
Knippen in het DNA voor genmodificatie?
Inderdaad, dat klinkt op het eerste zicht een beetje vreemd. Het oorspronkelijke CRISPR/Cas systeem in bacteriën is namelijk bedoeld om DNA weg te knippen. Toch kunnen we dit gebruiken voor genmodificatie. Wanneer het DNA van een organisme geknipt wordt, zal het er alles aan doen om deze breuk te herstellen, zoniet zal het organisme sterven. Dit herstel kan gebeuren door het terug aan elkaar plakken van de twee losse eindjes. Daar treden echter heel wat fouten bij op wat niet gewenst is als je een specifieke verandering wil aanbrengen.
Gelukkig kan de cel de breuk in het DNA nog op een andere manier herstellen. Zo kan de cel een voorbeeldstukje DNA gebruiken om de plaats waar geknipt is terug te herstellen. Dit voorbeeldstukje DNA heeft identieke stukken met het oorspronkelijke DNA voor en achter de knipplaats. Daardoor kan het herkend worden en gebruikt worden voor herstel. We kunnen daar als onderzoeker nu zelf gebruik van maken door in dit stukje DNA onze gewenste veranderingen aan te brengen. Op die manier kunnen we één basepaar veranderen, extra stukjes invoegen, stukjes verwijderen of zelfs stukjes van richting veranderen. Zo opent CRISPR/Cas oneindig veel mogelijkheden voor het aanpassen van DNA.
De CRISPR-revolutie
Uitvinders Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna en Feng Zhang kwamen op het idee om de CRISPR/Cas moleculaire schaar van de bacteriën te gebruiken om DNA te knippen in andere organismen zoals planten, dieren en mensen. In 2012 kwamen de eerste berichten binnen dat CRISPR/Cas gebruikt kon worden voor het aanpassen van genetisch materiaal in menselijke cellen. Dit was het beginpunt voor de CRISPR-revolutie in de biologie.
Onderzoek naar het CRISPR systeem explodeerde in de daaropvolgende jaren en het gebruik van de techniek werd aangetoond in steeds meer verschillende organismen. Vele bedrijven werden opgericht om de techniek te commercialiseren. CRISPR/Cas wordt ook wel de 'Wetenschappelijke ontdekking van de eeuw' genoemd. De impact van CRISPR is zo enorm groot dat zijn uitvinders de afgelopen twee jaar kans maakten op de Nobelprijs, ware het niet dat er ondertussen ook een verwoede patentoorlog tussen hen aan de gang is die moet beslissen aan wie de CRISPR-rechten toebehoren.
Waarvoor kan CRISPR gebruikt worden?
Vele menselijke ziektes worden veroorzaakt door mutaties. Met CRISPR zouden deze fouten in het DNA gecorrigeerd kunnen worden. Ook voor verschillende soorten kanker zou CRISPR een oplossing kunnen bieden. Uiteraard staan nog heel wat ethische kwesties het effectief toepassen van CRISPR voor genetische manipulatie van mensen in de weg. Gezien de enorme kracht van CRISPR is het van groot belang dat de techniek enkel kan ingezet worden voor ethisch verantwoorde doeleinden.
CRISPR werd wel reeds ingezet voor het aanmaken van gewassen die meer bestand zijn tegen droogte of ziekteverwekkers. Ook algen werden reeds gemanipuleerd voor het optimaliseren van de productie van bio-brandstoffen. Door de brede toepasbaarheid zullen doorbraken in verschillende andere domeinen volgen in de nabije toekomst.
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Toon Swings en Jan Michiels ontwikkelden een vereenvoudigde CRISPR-methode. Lees er HIER meer over.
Bedenkster Emmanuelle Charpentier vertelt waarom de technologie zo snel door de wetenschappelijke wereld werd omarmd.
Remember when astronomers found Tabby’s Star and said they’d never seen anything like it? Now there’s another one … maybe.
Artist’s concept of Tabby’s Star. It’s possible that dust causes its mysterious dips in brightness, which are similar to those in a newly found star, called VVV-WIT-07.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Remember Tabby’s Star? It periodically dims in a sporadic and mysterious way. For a while, astronomers thought it might have an alien-built Dyson spherearound it, but nowthey think not. Astronomers have now found another mysteriously dimming star, perhaps similar to Tabby’s Star!
Tabby’s Star – aka Boyajian’s Star – created a lot of public interest last year and earlier this year when it started to “act up” again, periodically dimming in brightness in ways that astronomers still haven’t fully explained. It even brightened significantly more than usual sometimes. Although astronomers now know that fine dust near Tabby’s Star is at least part of the answer, they don’t yet know where this dust might come from, or why it is behaving the way it does. So the mystery of Tabby’s Star continues.
This month (November 2018), astronomers have been hashing over what may be a newly discovered second star similar to Tabby’s Star. At least, the new-found star displays some similar characteristics. The star – called VVV-WIT-07 (for “What is this?”) – was found by astronomers in Chile using the VISTA telescope in the Atacama Desert. Roberto Saito of the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianópolis, Brazil, and his colleagues first reported the star’s odd flickering November 6, 2018, in a peer-reviewed paper on arXiv.org. The findings were then reported in Science News on November 16. As Saito simply put it:
We don’t know what the object is, and that’s interesting.
Artist’s concept of VVV-WIT-07, which has been observed dipping in brightness in a manner similar to Tabby’s Star.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech.
The team wasn’t actually looking for something like VVV-WIT-07, rather they were searching for supernovas – exploding stars – part of a larger survey of the center of the galaxy called the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea, or VVV.
But this star, like Tabby’s Star, suddenly dimmed. The star had been observed to periodically dim and brighten again before, between 2010 and 2018, with no set pattern, similar to Tabby’s Star. But while Tabby’s Star has been seen dimming as much as about 22 percent, this star was observed to suddenly dim as much as 80 percent! According to astronomer Tabetha Boyajian of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, who Tabby’s Star is named after:
If this phenomenon is the same as what’s happening with Tabby’s star, then we can’t invoke an elaborate explanation for what’s happening in both systems. If you’re starting to see stars similar to this all over the place, then it’s got to be a really common thing that happens in nature. That’s really cool.
Light curve of VVV-WIT-007 from 2010-2018. The star dipped in brightness an incredible 80 percent in 2012 (shown in more detail in inset).
Image via R. K. Saito et al.
If other stars could be found which dim in a similar manner, then they may be fairly common.
Astronomers are still not even exactly sure what type of star VVV-WIT-07 is. It lies in the plane of the galaxy from our viewpoint, so there is a lot of dust that partially obscures it. If it’s a young variable star, then the dimming might simply be internal to the star itself. But if it’s not, then it is still a largely open question. As Boyajian noted:
Pretty much everything’s on the table for it right now. We need more data.
There is also another star – J1407 – that may be an even closer match to Tabby’s Star. that star has been observed to periodically dim by up to a whopping 95 percent. Astronomer Eric Mamajek of the University of Rochester in New York and his colleagues reported the discovery in 2012. Astronomers think that J1407 hosts an orbiting young giant planet or brown dwarf with an enormous ring system – much larger and heavier than Saturn’s – that periodically eclipses the star.
False-color image of VVV-WIT-007.
Image via R. K. Saito et al.
According to Mamajek:
This planet is much larger than Jupiter or Saturn, and its ring system is roughly 200 times larger than Saturn’s rings are today. You could think of it as kind of a super Saturn.
The details that we see in the light curve are incredible. The eclipse lasted for several weeks, but you see rapid changes on time scales of tens of minutes as a result of fine structures in the rings. The star is much too far away to observe the rings directly, but we could make a detailed model based on the rapid brightness variations in the star light passing through the ring system. If we could replace Saturn’s rings with the rings around J1407b, they would be easily visible at night and be many times larger than the full moon.
VVV-WIT-07 may also turn out to be more similar to J1407, where a giant young planet or brown dwarf with a gigantic ring system orbits the star.
Image via Ron Miller.
Figuring out what is causing the weird dimming of VVV-WIT-07 – as with Tabby’s Star – will require further observations. Saito and his colleagues are hoping to be able to follow up using bigger telescopes, like the twin 8.1-meter Gemini telescopes or the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, both in Chile. Until then, astronomers can mostly just make educated guesses and come up with theories to explain the star’s behavior.
Bottom line:The mystery of Tabby’s Star still hasn’t been solved yet, and now there is another star that seems to be behaving in a similar manner – VVV-WIT-07. The findings made about one of them may help to solve the enigma of both – or it may turn out that there are two different exotic explanations for why these stars suddenly dip in brightness so much. Either way, what we learn about them should be very interesting.
Why aliens might turn to star collecting to save themselves
Why aliens might turn to star collecting to save themselves
As galaxies spread apart, extraterrestrials might want to assemble a nuclear "nest egg."
Aliens could build huge swarms of solar panels around stars to move them.
Kevin Gill
By Seth Shostak
It’s often said that thesearch for aliensis too parochial — that our continuing efforts to locate cosmic radio broadcasts or laser beams are really just quests for analogs of ourselves.
Why so? Well, these efforts presume that extraterrestrials have enough curiosity to reach out to others in the galaxy, or at least send messages skyward for their own purposes (perhaps as a galaxy-wide newscast). These are motives we can understand because our descendants might do something similar.
But what about truly advanced beings? What would a higher-than-high-tech society do that others in the galaxy might notice? This is worth thinking about because broadcasting might not be their thing.
One possibility is that they would build or rearrange big stuff — in other words, engage in civil engineering on the scale of planets or larger. That would produce the kind of artifacts that astronomers might hope to see with their telescopes. Such undertakings would be a burden on Klingon taxpayers, so whatever they did would have to be worth the money.
THE ULTIMATE BUMMER
Can we imagine a super-sized infrastructure project that would be a justifiable expense for the galaxy’s truly superior societies? Dan Hooper, a physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Lab near Chicago, believes he’s thought of one.
He notes that if you’re a long-lived culture, planning to hang around for semi-eternity, then the expansion of the universe is the ultimate bummer. The star-filled galaxies are now known to be moving away from one another (although the stars within a galaxy won’t do this). Worse, the speed of their sprawl is increasing. Even a Hubble-like space telescope will someday be a bad investment for our distant descendants, as very few galaxies will be close enough for it to observe.
That would frustrate future astronomers, of course. But an alien populace might see the thinning of the cosmos as an existential threat. Stars are useful energy sources, and each galaxy contains a few hundred billion of them. But every day, these fuel reserves retreat to greater and greater distances.
NUCLEAR NEST EGG
Hooper suggests that aliens would have the foresight to grab these stars while the grabbing’s good. They would snag them from surrounding galaxies and park them in their backyards for future use — a kind of nuclear nest egg that would provide sustenance during a dark and lonely future.
Hooper doesn’t offer a detailed description of how aliens might accomplish this stellar roundup. But he notes that the energy for transportation could be harvested from the cargo itself — by building huge swarms of solar panels (so-called Dyson spheres) around the stars to be moved, and then using the collected energy to power some sort of rocket engine.
In other words, the stars’ own glow could be used to carry them off to someone else’s galaxy.
From the standpoint of discovering extraterrestrials, Hooper’s scenario has an interesting consequence: If any extraterrestrials have been collecting stars, we might be able to find their stockpiles simply by making detailed photos of galaxies — a routine activity for astronomers. If we see extended patches of light with the brightness of, say, thousands of stars — or a galactic region where stars seem to be missing — then we’ll know that someone (or something) was thinking long term: preparing for the inevitable cosmic winter by stocking up on necessities while they can.
There are problems with Hooper’s idea. If there are many super societies out there, taking stars might be equivalent to cattle rustling on the final frontier. After all, you might be depriving someone of their future livelihood, and who knows if they’d fight back?
And as a matter of physics, you’d have to transport the stars quickly. You can’t spend more than a few billion years hauling them home because stars are perishable goods — they burn out.
The need for speed complicates the problem, because a high velocity requires lots of energy. As an example, suppose someone lugs a star from 10 million light-years away to our galaxy at one percent the speed of light, or nearly 7 million miles per hour. That’s a long ride, and even at this formidable speed, it would take a billion years. That might be OK, as most stars won’t expire in that time. But the fuel’s the rub, because rather few bright stars radiate enough energy in a billion years to accelerate themselves to one percent of light speed.
So paying for the haulage with starshine is dicey. It’s roughly equivalent to buying something by mail order and having to pay many times the item’s cost for shipping. That’s clearly unattractive, but you can always say it’s a technicality to be left to the aliens to figure out.
Hooper’s idea is imaginative, even if its practicality is uncertain. But at least it doesn’t assume that the extraterrestrials are like us. In the movies, the gray guys spend their time filching our resources, leveling our cities or assaulting our bodies. They’re no more than hairless hooligans. But for a society that’s millions or billions of years beyond us, there might be more important things to do.
Cattle Mutilations: The History and Mystery Behind Them
Cattle Mutilations: The History and Mystery Behind Them
Freya Kuka
Cattle mutilations have been plaguing the farmers that suffer from them since the early 1600s, and an end to these unexplained incidents does not seem to be in sight.
In case you are reading this and are unaware of cattle mutilations, these are incidents that have been reported regarding dead animals mostly in farms with certain organs missing and no proof of anyone coming or going.
Investigators in the 1960’s started taking it as a strong indication of alien involvement, and stories spread far and wide about extraterrestrial beings lifting creatures up into their spaceships to conduct gruesome experiments on them before sending back the mutilated carcasses.
First Cattle Mutilations
The first occurrences in the 1600s were said to be of similar nature to what happens today, where the sheep that were found had very specific organs missing. People who spoke about the cattle mutilations at the time said it was a satanic force that was causing it or something that was of an unearthly nature.
The first reported incident was witnessed by Alexandra Hamilton who on April 21, 1897, said that he heard humming noises that he followed only to witness what he describes as an airship hovering over his cattle.
He described it as a cigar-shaped craft that carried six of the strangest creatures he has ever seen. This is a snippet of some of the exact words Alexandra used to describe the incident that later spread like wildfire:
It seemed to pause and hover directly over a two-year old heifer, which was bawling and jumping, apparently fast in the fence. Going to her, we found a cable about a half-inch in thickness made of some red material, fastened in a slip knot around her neck, one end passing up to the vessel, and the heifer tangled in the wire fence. We tried to get it off but could not, so we cut the wire loose and stood in amazement to see the ship, heifer and all, rise, slowly, disappearing in the northwest.
Unfortunately, this incident was later admitted to being fake, and only spread because of the time period that it happened in. The only reason people continue to talk about it today is because it so closely matches the facts that surround mutilations seen now.
The first modern incident was seen in 1967 with the infamous “Lady mutilation”, wherein press really seemed to focus on the possibility that it was extraterrestrials behind the occurrences.
Agnes King and her son found there horse, Lady, mutilated with certain organs missing, which led to subsequent press involvement.
The articles during that time focused on the fact that there were unearthly reasons behind the death of the horse and that the cuts were far too precise for it to be an animal.
There were also no footsteps leading to or away from the horse, which gave more attention to the possibility that aliens and UFOs are conducting gruesome experiments in the name of science.
The FBI and their role in what we believe in today
Like many aspects of modern society, when people become too paranoid, officials are forced to step whether they deem it worthy or not.
This is precisely what happened in the 1970s when the FBI had to begin investigations regarding cattle mutilations, because there were simply too many people complaining. The conclusions that the FBI came to gave absolutely no credence to the conspiracy theories that were being talked about.
The FBI came to the conclusion that foxes were responsible for the attacks where genitals, lips, ears and other soft body parts went missing in particular.
The final 32-page report explained the smooth, precise cuts as being the work of the smooth teeth that worked like scissors for foxes because they were small and swift creatures.
The FBI ended the investigation a little half-heartedly as well, due to the fact that at the time there was no law against cattle mutilation, which made the investigation low on the priority list.
Even though the FBI narrowed the incidents down to natural death and scavengers, conspiracies still persisted, insisting that these organs were taken in specific because soft tissue is more easily attracted to natural inorganic substances in the environment which makes them great test subjects for, you guessed it, extraterrestrials.
The conclusion is that there are far too many incidents with unexplainable factors surrounding them for all of the incidents to be because of foxes and scavengers. This leaves room for other guesses to be made.
Cattle mutilations today and what has changed
Fast forward to 2018. The idea of a cow floating up into the sky with a mysterious light surrounding it, and its tongue gaping out is still believable for a lot of people around the world.
In Argentina, history seemed to be repeating itself in August of 2018 when farmers were convinced that aliens were making cuts and marks over the bodies of mutilated animals, far too precise for any other explanation.
Farmers in the area were blaming a South American mythical creature or aliens for the mutilations which shows that the way the incidents are perceived has not changed all that much.
These samples were then sent for further research and no proof of the cow being shot and poisoned seemed to further convince the farmers that it was an unearthly cause.
Experts on the subject did end the argument by saying that a hocicudo, which is an animal native to the region, is the most logical cause since these ‘natural scavengers’ seem to target the softer parts of the body for food.
In regard to the cause of death, experts said exposure to the changing weather and lack of food is probably what caused the deaths.
This answer is also extremely similar to the one given by the FBI during the investigations in the 70s.
Although this explanation is logical, it is not exactly satisfactory for the farmers.
They and other believers insist that the cuts are too precise and the mutilations happen at different times during the year. So as logical as the explanation is, it does seem to leave certain parts of the mystery clouding cattle mutilations unexplained, which leaves room for more speculation.
avhDe vreemde golven rolden van het eiland Mayotte naar Canada, Chili en zelfs Nieuw-Zeeland.
WETENSCHAP Van Madagaskar tot Canada en zelfs Nieuw-Zeeland: op 11 november rolden bizarre seismische golven over de aarde en wetenschappers zitten drie weken later nog altijd met de handen in het haar.
Op 11 november pikten seismologische stations over de hele wereld twintig minuten lang golven op die afkomstig leken van een zware aardbeving. Maar nergens ter wereld deed er zich die dag een zware aardschok voor. Wetenschappers staan nog altijd voor een raadsel: wat heeft die golven dan wel veroorzaakt?
Onderzoekers hebben intussen de oorsprong van de golven kunnen achterhalen: het eiland Mayotte ten noorden van Madagaskar in de Indische Oceaan. Maar daar gebeurde op 11 november niets noemenswaardigs. “Ik denk niet dat ik ooit al zoiets heb gezien”, vertelt seismoloog Göran Ekström van de universiteit van Columbia aan National Geographic.
Wat wetenschappers vooral verbaast, is de zuiverheid van de golf en de precieze frequentie waarmee de verschillende golven op elkaar volgden. De meeste aardbevingen sturen namelijk verschillende golven uit met verschillende frequenties, maar het signaal vanuit Mayotte was een zuivere golf die zich elke 17 seconden herhaalde.
Intussen doen verschillende theorieën de ronde. Mogelijk werd een meteorietinslag niet gedetecteerd of barstte een onderwatervulkaan uit. Die laatste theorie lijkt ook plausibel volgens de Franse geologische dienst: “Het kan een teken zijn dat magma onder een vulkanisch eiland aan het bewegen is.”
Ook Ekström is van mening dat de bron van de trilling veel minder ‘exotisch’ is dan de waarneming doet vermoeden. Bij Mayotte heeft sinds mei een aantal bevingen voorgedaan. De zwaarste daarvan, met een kracht van 5,8 op de schaal van Richter, was echter al op 8 mei.
Sindsdien is het aantal bevingen in aantal en magnitude afgenomen, terwijl de mysterieuze trilling zich deze maand liet zien. “Het was alsof de hele planeet rinkelde als een bel’’, omschrijft de seismoloog de bijna muzikale gebeurtenis. Het onderzoek gaat verder.
Wetenschappers blijven zoeken naar de oorsprong van de vreemde golven, maar tot dusver tasten ze allemaal in het duister.
Closest easily available BRB seismic station is GE SBV in north Madagascar.
Anthony Lomax @ALomaxNet
SBV, like the other stations, shows long monochromatic signal with ~17s period (mono-freq Rayleigh waves?). But filtered above 1Hz SBV (lower plot) also shows seismic(?) signals from repeating sources, with some ~50s apart. Maybe some large, shallow, oscillating volcanic source? pic.twitter.com/bPqdQFwAgm
REUTERSDe MarCo maakte een prachtige foto van Mars kort na de landing.
WETENSCHAPDat de wereld maandag de geslaagde landing van de Amerikaanse robot InSight op Mars in real time kon volgen, is dankzij twee meegereisde cubesats. Maar de missie van die kleine cubesats deed nog veel meer en geeft interplanetaire missies nieuwe perspectieven, zo schrijft space. com op gezag van het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA.
Toen in mei vanop de basis Vandenberg in Californië een Atlas-V draagraket vertrok met de InSight, had die nog twee “passagiers” bij: de MarCo-A en MarCo-B. Die legden (autonoom) mee het 484 miljoen kilometer lange traject naar de Rode Planeet af. Dat was in het kader van een 18 miljoen dollar kostend project om na te gaan of dergelijke ruimtetuigen ter grootte van een aktetas een missie zoals InSight kunnen ondersteunen en of zij ook op hun eentje kunnen instaan voor kleinere en minder risicovolle interplanetaire missies.
En dat kunnen ze blijkbaar. De vluchtleiding moest namelijk niet wachten tot een -rond Mars cirkelende- sonde in een zodanige positie was om data over de afdaling en landing van InSight door te sturen. De communicatie verliep via de twee MarCo’s.
Meer nog, minuten na de triomfantelijke landing van de robot - die met medewerking van de Belgische Koninklijke Sterrenwacht vooral het binnenste van de Rode Planeet moet onderzoeken - stuurde een camera al een foto van Mars door. Die foto werd door een van de Marco’s gemaakt op een afstand van 7.600 kilometer. En er valt allicht nog veel meer data te vergaren.
Zo hebben beide cubesats volgens de NASA ook geprobeerd de Marsmanen Phobos en Deimos te fotograferen. Of het gelukt is, voegde het ruimtevaartbureau er niet aan toe. Beide MarCo’s reizen ondertussen verder door ons zonnestelsel.
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Is het Bulgaarse leger op buitenaardse technologie gestuit? Kolonel doet boekje open over Area 51 van Bulgarije
Is het Bulgaarse leger op buitenaardse technologie gestuit? Kolonel doet boekje open over Area 51 van Bulgarije
Het Bulgaarse plaatsje Tsaritsjina wordt ook wel het Area 51 van Bulgarije genoemd. In de jaren negentig groef het Bulgaarse ministerie van Defensie er een groot gat.
Uiteindelijk werd het project stilgelegd en het gat volgestort met beton.
Veel lokale bewoners en onderzoekers maakten melding van vreemde lichten in het gebied. Sommigen claimden te zijn geraakt door een ‘krachtige lichtstraal’.
Buitenaards
Ook zeiden verschillende lokale bewoners dat ze stemmen hoorden.
Complotonderzoekers claimden dat het leger een driehoekig object had opgegraven, dat buitenaards zou zijn.
Uit een documentaire die in 2007 werd uitgezonden op de Bulgaarse staatstelevisie bleek dat de meeste legerdocumenten over het gat waren verdwenen of vernietigd.
In 1992 gaf de Bulgaarse kolonel Tsvetko Kanev een tv-interview over het project, waarin hij onder meer verwees naar een boek dat hij erover had geschreven.
Humanoïde figuur
Kanev vertelt daarin dat het leger op een diepte van zo’n vijf meter op een rechthoekige steen was gestuit.
Het leger besloot dieper te graven en stuitte al snel op een tweede barrière, een plaat in de vorm van een holle lens.
Rechts ervan was een muur te zien in de vorm van een humanoïde figuur die vele malen groter was dan een mens.
Onbekende metaalsoort
Volgens een soldaat die anoniem wilde blijven werden onderzoekers geraakt door een krachtige lichtstraal toen ze de plaat, die ‘bestond uit een onbekende metaalsoort’, probeerden op te hijsen.
Plotseling stonden ze voor een 1,5 meter hoge tunnel met een zilvergrijze vloer en extreem gladde muren, die waren voorzien van onbekende tekens.
Onzichtbare muur
Kolonel Kanev claimde dat één van zijn collega’s iedere keer dat hij erdoorheen wilde gaan, werd teruggeworpen alsof hij tegen een onzichtbare muur opliep.
Angst voor het onbekende en gevaren en mysteries die verborgen lagen in de tunnel zorgden er volgens Kanev uiteindelijk voor dat het leger besloot om het gat te dichten.
Anyone who knows their UFO history will know of The Robertson Panel—a group of leading scientists assembled by US government physicist Howard Percy Robertson under the guidance of the CIA for the purpose of reviewing the US Air Force’s UFO files. In 1953 the panel concluded that UFOs did not pose a direct threat to national security, but suggested nonetheless that the USAF begin a “debunking” campaign employing the talents of psychiatrists, astronomers, and celebrities with the goal of demystifying UFO reports. Their formal recommendation was that: “The national security agencies take immediate steps to strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired.”
The panel further stated that its debunking goals should “be accomplished by mass media such as television [and] motion pictures…” The extent to which the Robertson Panel’s recommendations were implemented is not entirely clear. However, even as late as 1966 the panel wielded a demonstrable influence over media representations of UFOs in the CBS TV broadcast of UFOs: Friend, Foe, or Fantasy?—an anti-UFO documentary narrated by Walter Cronkite. In a personal letter addressed to former Robertson Panel Secretary, Frederick C. Durant, panel member Dr. Thornton Page confided to having “helped organize the documentary around the Robertson Panel conclusions,” even though this was thirteen years after the panel had disbanded and despite the fact that he was personally sympathetic to the existence of flying saucers.
Also notable is the 1956 docudrama Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers. Neatly in line with the recommendations of the Robertson Panel, USAF to drew up contingency plans to counteract the anticipated fallout from the movie upon its release. The director of the USAF’s official UFO investigations unit Project Blue Book, Captain George T. Gregory, was tasked with monitoring not only the movie’s production process, but its public and critical reception. Believing the docudrama would stir up a “storm of public controversy,” the USAF set about preparing a special case file that would debunk every saucer sighting examined and even went so far as to have three of its Blue Book officers provide “technical assistance” to the filmmakers in an effort to control content.
Major Donald Keyhoe.
The mentality of the CIA-Robertson Panel was reflected in other productions during the 1950s. On 22 January 1958, the popular CBS television show Armstrong Circle Theatre presented an entire program dedicated to the subject of Unidentified Flying Objects, titled, “UFO: Enigma of the Skies.” Among the high-profile experts invited to speak on the show was retired US Navy Major Donald Keyhoe, Director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). Keyhoe was notable for his outspoken views on government secrecy surrounding the UFO phenomenon. Arguing against UFO reality on the program were astronomer and vehement UFO skeptic, Donald Menzel, and Air Force representative, Col. Spencer Whedon of the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC). Their task should have been an easy one as the show’s content had been scripted in advance by CBS in conjunction with the US Air Force (USAF), and all guests, especially Keyhoe, had been instructed to read their pre-approved material from a teleprompter.
When it came time for Keyhoe to speak, in frustration, he veered from his script and stated to the nation: “And now I’m going to reveal something that has never been disclosed before…” 1 The rest of his announcement went unheard by television viewers. Unbeknownst to Keyhoe, his microphone had been cut by the station. He continued:
“For the last six months, we have been working with a congressional committee investigating official secrecy about UFOs. If all the evidence we have given this committee is made public in open hearings, it will absolutely prove that the UFOs are real machines under intelligent control.”
After the show, CBS was inundated with calls and letters from viewers demanding to know why Keyhoe’s audio had been cut. “Call it what you like,” wrote one viewer, “but it appeared to be a very shocking display of censorship; and certainly offensive to the intelligence of the American public…” Nine days later CBS admitted it had been subject to official censorship. In a letter to a disgruntled viewer dated 31 January 1958, CBS director of editing, Herbert A. Carlborg, stated:
“This program had been carefully cleared for security reasons. Therefore, it was the responsibility of this network to ensure performance in accordance with predetermined security standards. Any indication that there would be a deviation might lead to statements that neither this network nor the individuals on the program were authorized to release.”
Yet another case in this vein relates to a UFO-themed episode of the Steve Canyon TV show (1958–1959). Backed by Chesterfield Cigarettes and produced at Universal Studios with the full cooperation of the USAF, the NBC show chronicled the live-action exploits of Milton Caniff’s famous comic strip character. The episode to which the USAF took objection, “Project UFO,” saw Colonel Steve Canyon investigate a spate of flying saucer sightings reported to a local Air Force base. According to aviation historian, James H. Farmer, “This was an episode that the Air Force did not really want to be aired,” because the UFO subject was “a hot potato.”
By the time the USAF had finished with the script, it was, according to Farmer, “pretty tame… compared to the earlier renditions.” In the episode as aired, the UFO sightings are attributed to a combination of hoax-induced hysteria and, in support of the USAF’s original Roswell cover story, misidentifications of weather balloons. Producer, John Ellis, of the Milton Caniff Estate (which owns Steve Canyon) told me, “Every single page got re-written, and re-written, and re-written…” David Haft, the show’s producer, was more to the point in his recollection of the USAF’s reaction when he submitted the first script draft for official approval, “Oh, oh, oh, oh! No, no, no, no!” Haft also noted that the USAF had difficulty in deciding what was acceptable for broadcast.
In one of the earliest drafts of “Project UFO,” Steve Canyon speaks to his Commanding Officer, Colonel Jamison, in defense of a civilian UFO witness, “Why call him a jerk?” asks Canyon, “Seems to me like he acted like a pretty solid, clearheaded citizen…” This dialogue was removed. Elsewhere in the draft, Canyon appears to be enthusiastic about flying saucers. At one point, when a fresh UFO report comes into the base from the local town, Canyon “Jumps to [his] feet, rushes to [the] door,” and cries “This I gotta see!” before making “a hurried exit.” In the final scene as originally written, Canyon is actually seen opening a book on flying saucers, “and sits there quietly reading…” This scene failed to make it into the final draft, and, in the version as aired, Canyon’s excitement about UFOs is replaced with skepticism or plain indifference. An entire plot strand concerning the recovery and scientific analysis of what is initially suspected to be flying saucer debris (shades of Roswell) was also predictably removed. The draft included dialogue like, “That thing [flying saucer] dropped a small metal ball enclosing an electrical apparatus so intricate, so ingenious, nobody yet has been able to figure out its purpose,” and, “the metal wouldn’t respond to any of the standard tests.”
Despite the rewrites, the USAF insisted that the episode not be aired at all. “It got stuck on a shelf,” Ellis explains in his Steve Canyon DVD commentary, “it was finished… but they held on until near the end of the series to air it.”Indeed, it was only through a last act of defiance on the part of the show’s producers toward the end of its run in 1959 that the episode was screened at all.
This is all just the tip of a very large iceberg when it comes to the history of government and military attempts to manage popular perceptions of UFOs. To document all such examples—from past to present—would require writing a book, which precisely is what I did. But the cases presented in this article at least provide a historical snapshot of just how seriously the powers that be have responded to what, for most audiences, would surely be considered harmless entertainment.
As the years have progressed, the activities of the CIA and military in Hollywood have evolved from debunking and demystifying to more subtle strategies of perception management. Heavy-handed censorship no longer plays well in liberal Hollywood, nor does it serve the evolving interests of the national security state in relation to UFOs.
In certain cases throughout the Cold War, the Robertson Panel’s recommendations may have been followed to the letter–using media to “debunk and demystify” UFOs. But CIA and military would soon have recognized this approach as illogical and unsustainable. It is impossible to disprove the existence of a phenomenon through media channels if the phenomenon persists in publicly and spectacularly manifesting itself–as has continued to happen in the United States and around the world. However, it is possible to manage how the public perceives the phenomenon. As such, as the Cold War thawed, the national security state began making concerted efforts to manage popular perceptions of UFOs by inserting itself into the production process of big and small screen entertainment products at every available opportunity, bringing their plots in line with their own mythologized, self-serving UFO narrative–a narrative that emphasises the potential threat of otherworldly visitors, justifying historical secrecy surrounding the subject while promoting the the the heroism and might of the American defense apparatus. In other words, officialdom’s attitude towards Hollywood eventually became “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, and exert what influence you can from within.”
Of course, none of this should come as any real surprise. Governmental structures have long recognized the power of the media—especially entertainment media—to subtly mould our perceptions of the world around us. In his book, The Power of Movies: How Screen and Mind Interact, Professor Colin McGinn notes that “In the movie-watching experience we enter an altered state of consciousness, enthralling and irresistible.” And this, of course, makes cinema the perfect tool for perception management. When watching a film, says McGinn [or equally a TV show], “The critical faculties are reduced, the mind entering a state of dreamlike susceptibility and suggestibility—this is fertile ground for persuasion of one kind or another.”
More recently, a former head of the CIA’s Entertainment Liaison Office, Paul Barry, remarked to propaganda studies expert Professor Tricia Jenkins: “You cannot underestimate Hollywood’s influence… most Americans are content to accept Hollywood’s message… very few ever conduct any research to determine the truth.”
Today, the interlocking of Hollywood and the national security state is as tight as ever, as famed ex-CIA operative Robert Baer(whose life inspired the 2005 George Clooney thriller, Syriana) told me:
“All these people that run studios, they go to Washington, they hang around with senators, they hang around with CIA directors, and everybody’s onboard.”
A sweeping statement, to be sure, and perhaps not intended to be taken literally, but it is now a matter of historical record that the US national security apparatus has gone to great lengths over the years to ensure that all those individuals it requires to be “onboard,” are. After all, film and televisual media are far too potent to be left unexploited, too powerful to be left unchecked.
Sometimes complexity can be the opposite of interesting. We’ve all read things that are just manage to use 500 obscure five-dollar-words without saying anything at all, and we’ve all heard guitar solos that use every single possible note without hitting any emotional resonance whatsoever. Complex is not always what you need. The same is true for anomalous sightings. What’s weirder, a flying craft with all sorts of bells and whistles, lights and widgets sticking off its sides, or just a big pink square sitting in the middle of the ocean?
It’s certainly debatable, but there’s something especially strange about geometric shapes and solid colors. While that last sentence reads like the internal dialogue of an infant musing over the mobile hung above his crib, it remains true. Certain things don’t show up in nature all that much, and when they do it can spark a sense of awe, excitement, and even fear, despite the likely mundane explanation. It’s just strange. Such is the case for a recent piece of footage, filmed in the middle of the Pacific ocean.
Uploaded to the YouTube channel Disclose Screen ‘The Grimreefar,’ the video (which you can watch in full here) was allegedly captured somewhere in the western Pacific by a crew of fishermen. It shows a very bright pink rectangle on the horizon that seems to morph and change shape. The cameraman and the rest of the crew are shouting excitedly. They aren’t speaking English, so I have no idea what they’re saying. However, the Disclose Screen narrator is. He calls the video the one of the weirdest pieces of footage he’s seen, and refers to the glowing rectangle as “a massive energy” (sic). He also says that it looks like a Viking ghost ship, despite it being nowhere near Viking territory. He says it could also be aliens or “the government” (which government? It’s the middle of the ocean.) The narrator also says that he sees “Loch Ness monster-type things” popping out of the water, and other strange anomalies in the sky, including UFOs.
Wrong color scheme for a ghost ship, dude.
When the video is slowed down and these other anomalies are circled, there are a couple of dark saucer shapes that appear, however briefly, in the sky. They appear too briefly to give any reasonable analysis. That’s not the case for the rest of the claims, which we will now tackle one by one.
First, the Loch Ness monster-type things. What are they? We can answer that question with another: what do fishermen do? They fish. Those are fish. Or dolphins. Or birds. Or any other animal that lives in a part of the sea specifically targeted by fisherman, presumably on the knowledge that a lot of animals live there.
Next, the “massive energy” itself. You know, I think he’s right. It is “a massive energy.” It’s the sun! It looks like it’s changing shape because of the rolling of the waves, the reflection off the water, and the low resolution footage. It’s a beautiful sunset poking through the clouds on the horizon, captured by fisherman who are freaking out because it’s a stunning and beautiful natural phenomenon. If you can’t recognize when people are gushing about a fantastic sunset, then that is the canary in the coal mine, choking out it’s death rattle, telling you to go outside once in a while, for the love of all that is holy.
Look, on the horizon, a massive explosion of nuclear energy!
But that’s the thing. Sometimes nature appears in a way that seems utterly alien to us. It’s human nature to stand in awe and wonder when we see it. Otherworldly phenomena may indeed exist, but don’t let the search for it cheapen your appreciation for beautiful sunsets.
The unicorn might be a fantastical creature found only within the pages and filmstrips of fiction, but at least one real-life unicorn has walked the Earth before – that we know of at least. The Elasmotherium sibiricum, or “Siberian unicorn,” is an extinct type of one-horned ancient rhinoceros which once roamed the area that is now Eurasia from about 2.5 million years ago to right up until the Stone Age. In fact, there is some archaeological evidence that the Siberian unicorn and humans oncelived side-by-sideon the steppes of Western Siberia
The Siberian unicorn (light gray) would have dwarfed even the largest humans.
While scientists have known about the Siberian unicorn for around a century, they have had only a few scattered fossil records to go on. As a result, the creature has remained somewhat of a mystery. However, an international team of researchers were recently able to assemble a collection of 23 different Siberian unicorn bone specimens in order to try and uncover more about this relatively unknown creature. After performing radiocarbon dating and DNA analyses on the specimens, the team has now published a new study on Elasmotherium sibiricum which sheds some light on the lives of this “unicorn.”
Not exactly the cuddly rainbow-pooping unicorns of Lisa Frank.
According to the study, most of the Siberian unicorn fossil specimens were found to date to time rangers long after the animals were thought to be extinct, as recent as 35,000 years ago. Furthermore, the study determined that Elasmotherium sibiricum is not closely related to modern rhinoceroses as was previously thought, but instead split off of the rhino’s evolutionary lineage over 40 million years ago.
Paleolithic cave art from as far west as France suggests the animals may have roamed a much larger area than previously thought, too.
The new timeline for the Siberian unicorn also sheds some light on the likely cause for its extinction. During the time to which the most recent specimens were dated, a period of colder winters meant there was far less grass for the animals to graze on throughout Eurasia. According to Alan Cooper of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide, the unicorn’s extreme specialization in eating grass meant that was its main food source died off, the animals likely starved to death:
It looks like this unicorn thing was so specialised to eat grass it couldn’t survive. Its head was a whopping great big thing, it was kind of extended really really low, sitting right at grass height, so it really doesn’t have to lift its head up. There’s question of whether it could even lift its head at all! It was highly specialist so once the environment shifted it appears to have died out.
Yikes. While the Siberian unicorn might have died out tens of thousands of years ago, this new timeline makes you wonder: if these “unicorns” and humans lived side-by-side for thousands of years, is that why unicorns are such a common legendary creature around the world? Depictions of unicorns are fairly ubiquitous worldwide. Like all beasts of lore and legend, the unicorn likely has its roots in the ancient human consciousness.
Cloaked Triangle UFO caught on camera above Homesteadt, Florida near Naval Base
Cloaked Triangle UFO caught on camera above Homesteadt, Florida near Naval Base
On November 17, 2018 a triangular UFO has been filmed over Homestead, Florida close to the Naval Base.
The cloaked object stays motionless in the sky, only the three bright lights in the form of a triangle are visible.
It looks like it is a TR3B.
Now, according to Smith, a top scientist, there are secret space stations approximately 10 times larger than the International Space Station, which are serviced by these TR-3B antigravity spacecraft.
During his insider testimony on these secret space stations he claims work is taking place on extraterrestrial technology harvested from alien beings and their crashed or captured spaceships which would change the world as we know it.
Below the footage of a possible TR-3B captured above Homesteadt, Florida.
He is better known for conquering the skies and is even planning to go to infinity and beyond with his ambitious space tourism programme. But now Sir Richard Branson has turned his attention to that other great undiscovered world, the depths of the ocean.
The Virgin founder and all-round adventurer has unveiled his latest challenge, to explore the deepest points in each of the world's five oceans in a single-seated submarine, called Virgin Oceanic.
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Mission impossible: Sir Richard Branson and American sailor Chris Welsh plan to take this eight-foot mini-submarine to explore the deepest points in the world's oceans
Sir Richard announced the project in Newport Beach, California, and said he was looking forward to learning more about 'the blue heart of the planet.'
If all goes well, the deep sea exploration will break as many as 30 Guinness world records, including the five deepest dives in history.
Sir Richard will take it in turns with U.S sailor and explorer Chris Welsh to pilot the snub-nosed submersible for five dives planned over a two-year period.
The first dive - the deepest - will take place in the western Pacific later this year.
On their journeys to the bottom of the sea, Sir Richard and Mr Welsh will spend up to 12 hours in complete darkness and freezing cold in the submarine's tiny cockpit.
Final frontier: The single-seated Virgin Oceanic sub is made of titanium and carbon fibre and is capable of withstanding pressures 1,500 greater than those exerted on aeroplanes
Ready for anything: Sir Richard said reaching the bottom of the ocean is the 'last great challenge' for explorers
It has been built to withstand the extreme pressure found 36,000 feet below the surface, which is 1,500 times the pressure exerted on an aeroplane.
The eight-foot long craft, made of carbon fibre and titanium, has stubby wings and a cockpit. It can cruise for about 6.2miles and can stay submerged without help for 24 hours.
Sir Richard said: 'With space long ago reached by man, and commercial space flight tantalizingly close, the last great challenge for humans is to reach and explore the depths of our planet's oceans.
'There are enormous amounts of the oceans that have not been explored. More men have been to the moon than have been down further than 20,000 feet.'
Mr Welsh will be the chief pilot for the first dive later this year. He will plunge into the Pacific's Mariana Trench, which goes down to 36,201 feet (11,033 metres).
Sir Richard, back-up pilot on the first attempt, is then scheduled to pilot the red, white and blue submersible into the Atlantic's 28,232-feet deep (8,605 metres) Puerto Rico trench, which has never been explored before.
He said the greatest danger is if the sub gets snagged on nets or shipwrecked galleons on the bottom.
He said: 'It is like being lost on the dark side of the moon. There is nothing that is going to rescue us down there.'
The 60-year-old is well known for his past adventures, including trying to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon.
Going solo: Sir Richard will pilot the mini-sub on a trip to the bottom of the Atlantic's Puerto Rico trench, which has never been explored before
Only two people have ever been deeper than 20,000 feet in the ocean, back in 1960. Sir Richard said these will be the first solo attempts.
Much of life at such depths is still unknown: He said: 'We will be discovering life forms that have never been seen by human eyes.
'It is one of the last great challenges for humans to explore the depths of our oceans. We will be seriously pushing the boundaries of human exploration.'
The Oceanic project was originally conceived by Steve Fossett, Sir Richard's former adventurer partner, who died in a mysterious plane crash in California in 2007.
He said: 'It will be very much in his honour and memory that we'll make the dives.'
Richard Branson is about to take his mini submarine down a deep hole he named the Great Blue Hole. The hole is big enough for two 747 jets to fit easily across its opening. But the real question is...is Sir Richard Branson attempting to make contact with an alien species?
You see, this giant hole is well located so that people would almost never be around it, leaving it very secluded of a location and safe for UFOs to exit and enter without worries of being seen. However it seems that Branson wants to explore it and if he does actually come near an underground alien base...what will aliens do to him?
Thats an interesting question and one of the answers is that they may capture him and keep him, forbidding him to leave so that no one would find out about the base.
Another scenario might have aliens instantly destroying the submarine...seeing it as a threat to their territory and not giving a damn who is in the submarine.
That last one scares the hell out of me and may have a higher chance of happening if he encounters aliens. Lets just hope he comes back safe.
The UFO captured by Cobh-native Luke Kelly-Wilmot.
Video: UFO spotted over Spike Island
Rob McNamara
IT APPEARS Spike Island is not just a popular destination for tourists if the latest UFO sighting in Cork is to be believed.
A Cork photographer has said he is baffled after he captured video of an object hovering over Spike Island before ascending at speed into the sky on Monday.
Cobh-native Luke Kelly-Wilmot was leaving his home in the harbour town when he spotted the object over the island. While travelling as a passenger in his girlfriend's car, he began filming and the video has gone viral since he shared it on social media.
“My girlfriend was driving and we were travelling about 50km/h. A lot of people are saying it was a drop of water on the window but that's not possible as the window was down and we were travelling from left to right," he told the Evening Echo.
“We were hopping into the car and I thought I could see something. As we were walking to the car I asked my girlfriend if she could see it but she didn't have her glasses on but I was sure I could see something over Spike.
“At the time I didn't think anything of it but when we started moving and got up a bit higher I could see it hovering and that's when I took my phone out. I didn't see it take off with my own eyes because I had turned to say something to my girlfriend but when I watched it back I could see that it just took off and then it was gone. I put it up on social media and it has blown up online.
“It's funny watching all the theories unfold on Facebook but I'm definitely going to keep my eye out now,” he added.
Some have dismissed the object as a drone or a bird caught in a crosswind.
However, the sighting is yet another unexplained event in Cork this month.
Douglas resident Donal Brady was in Bishopstown on November 10 at a friend’s house when he spotted a bright light travelling across the sky slowly. His video has since been viewed 165,000 times on Youtube Both a British Airways pilot and a Virgin Airlines pilot reported sightings of a UFO to Shannon Air Traffic Control on Friday, November 9.
The Irish Aviation Authority has launched an investigation into these incidents.
Jeff Woolwine, a popular UFO hunter based in Arizona, has released some eerie videos and pictures on his Facebook account that show bright flying objects hovering above his apartment. In the Facebook posts, Woolwine reveals that these glowing orbs were shot on November, and he argues that Phoenix lights are making its appearance again.
It should be noted that Phoenix lights were a series of widely sighted unidentified flying objects (UFO) observed in Arizona initially on March 13, 1997. Later, the lights reappeared in 2008, and a few days back, conspiracy theory YouTube channel Mavi777 released a video that shows glowing orbs in the night sky of Surrey Park Phoenix, Arizona which many people considered the reappearance of Phoenix lights.
In the video and photographs released by Jeff Woolwine, multiple lights can be seen hovering across the night skies, and interestingly, at the first glance, it looked like a giant triangular structure with lights on its edges.
However, at some point in time, these lights seem to be individual bright orbs hovering in the skies. The objects apparently spotted above the apartment of Woolwine seem to be moving at times in the eeriest manner, and it literally resembled the objects that appeared above Surrey Park Phoenix a few days back.
In one of the comments answered by Jeff Woolvine to a fan, the UFO researcher claims that each light spotted in the skies are actually living entities. Jeff Woolwine also believes that ancient Indian cave carvings hold the real secrets behind these weird skylights.
Jeff Woolwine can be also seen requesting his followers to read his new book 'Petroglyphs In The Sky' to understand more details about these flying UFOs in Phoenix.
However, some skeptics argue that Jeff Woolwine is trying to popularise his new book through these videos.
In the meantime, a section of conspiracy theorists has started claiming that these lights are actually alien spaceships from deep space. These theorists believe that aliens have been visiting the earth for hundreds of thousands of years and they even argue that governments all around the world are aware of their existence.
The red pin marks the coordinates where Nolinor pilots say they saw an unidentified flying object on Nov. 24. (Google Maps screenshot via Nunatsiaq News)
Pilots have reported the sighting of an unidentified flying object on Nov. 24, as they flew from Iqaluit to the Mary River mine in north Baffin Island.
The pilots were flying a Nolinor Aviation Boeing 737-200 jet, and reported that the sighting took place at about 8:30 p.m. local time.
Their incident report to Transport Canada’s Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System, or CADORS, gave few details about what they saw, but it suggested the sighting could have involved a weather balloon, meteor, rocket or another unidentified flying object.
On the CADORS report ,the unidentified flying object is referred to as CIRVIS/UFO, an abbreviation for “Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings” for a UFO.
The CADORS report says that the North American Aerospace Defence Command, NORAD, was advised. The flight experienced “no impact to operations.”
As for what happen now to this CADORS report, Transport Canada said that “with regards to next steps when reports like these are generated, it depends on the type of the incident reported,” and that “the information… should be treated as preliminary, unsubstantiated, and subject to change.”
This report to Transport Canada’s Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System describes what the pilots saw on Nov. 24 as they approached the Mary River iron mine in northern Baffin Island.
Marco Prud’homme, Nolinor’s vice president, said they learned Tuesday about the sighting and the CADORS report.
In speaking to the pilot, who had the day off, Prud’homme said he learned more about what was seen.
The pilot told him that he saw a shining light, which changed from red to green to white, and which may have been from a star or a meteorite, but “probably something natural,” Prud’homme suggested.
Various online sources suggest a report of a UFO can jeopardize a pilot’s career.
However, such UFO reports appear not to be that unusual: earlier this month several pilots reported seeing a “very fast” UFO above Ireland.
“It came up on our left hand side (rapidly veered) to the north, we saw a bright light and it just disappeared at a very high speed … we were just wondering. We didn’t think it was a likely collision course … [just wondering] what it could be,” said a recording of a pilot with air traffic controllers in Shannon, Ireland.
A group called Ufology Research. which has solicited UFO case data from known and active investigators and researchers in Canada, said earlier this year that 1,101 UFO sightings had been reported in Canada in 2017.
“The continued reporting of UFOs by the public and the yearly increase in numbers of UFO reports suggests a need for further examination of the phenomenon by social, medical and/or physical scientists,” the report said.
There have been reports of UFOs made from the ground in Nunavut.
On Sept. 16, 2016, in Iqaluit, a hiker said he was headed home and was looking at the northern lights “when a bunch of star-like lights moving in sequence caught my attention. Then I saw an airplane flying, and when it flew towards the lights it went out of sight until it reached the other side.
“I suddenly saw something bright flash, and I looked up then I saw it again, and it happened one more time, and I got a little nervous, so I went to call a cab and my phone started acting up, then all of a sudden it went to normal, and I finally got a cab and went home.”
Another UFO report from July 2011 includes a video taken by an Iqaluit man filming on his deck, where he had gone out to have a smoke.
“There was a blue light rotating around another stationary blue light. I ran for my camera and by the time I got back outside the ‘UFO’ was at a much higher altitude and thus the video. It stayed in the skies for almost three hours and I had at least 60 witnesses, mostly just curious but astonished and amazed individuals, one woman even freaked out and ran back inside her house,” said a text accompanying his video on YouTube.
Back in July 2004, Davidee Kowcharlie of Sanikiluaq saw “hovering and flying of different objects/lights.”
“More lights (were) noticed underneath the hovering white light and they seemed to be retrieving something from the area and there were more lights coming out of the big hovering light,” Kowcharlie said.
He said the “speed of objects coming out of bright light (were) too fast for this world.”
Representational Image of cave painting in India dated from 1500-2000 BC found in Bhimbetka, a UNESCO World Heritage Centre. (Creative Commons)Raveesh Vyas
A few years back, archeologists discovered pre-historic paintings dated back to 10,000 years that depicted aliens and unidentified flying objects (UFO). These rock paintings discovered in Charama, India soon became a hot topic among extraterrestrial buffs, and many people considered it an authentic proof of alien existence.
Humans knew what was happening on space
Now, a team of researchers at the University of Edinburgh has spotted another set of ancient cave paintings which made many experts believe that early humans were aware of astronomy. The cave paintings supposedly more than 40,000 years old were discovered at various sites across Europe, and they suggest that ancient humans used to keep track of time using the knowledge of how the position of the stars slowly changes over thousands of years.
Researchers who took part in this study revealed that symbols depicted in the caves are actually constellations, and they were used to represent dates and mark catastrophic events like asteroid hits. If the speculations of these researchers are right, ancient people were well aware of the effects which happen on earth due to its gradual shift of rotational axis.
"Early cave art shows that people had advanced knowledge of the night sky within the last ice age. Intellectually, they were hardly any different to us today. These findings support a theory of multiple comet impacts over the course of human development, and will probably revolutionize how prehistoric populations are seen," said Martin Sweatman, a researcher at the University of Edinburgh and the lead author of the study, Eurekalert.org reports.
Conspiracy theorists speculate alien angle
Soon after the discovery of these European cave paintings, conspiracy theorists soon jumped to the conclusion that aliens from deep space have direct involvement in teaching ancient humans about astronomy and space. As per these conspiracy theorists, aliens have been visiting the earth for hundreds of thousands of years, and depiction of these extraterrestrial beings on Indian caves is a strong sign of their existence.
Conspiracy theorists argue that ancient aliens which visited earth were often called 'Starmen' by humans. Due to their impeccable advancement in technology, humans often misunderstood them as Gods, and some section of people even started worshipping these extraterrestrial visitors.
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Hair-Raising Footage Pops Up of 'Triangle UFO' Devouring Lightning Storm
Hair-Raising Footage Pops Up of 'Triangle UFO' Devouring Lightning Storm
Less than two weeks earlier, conspiracy lovers eagerly chewed over alleged UFO sightings in the Irish skies; however, even non-believers were about to switch sides having learnt a probe was launched over the cases.
A video has emerged on the YouTube channel UFO Today showing ‘a black triangle UFO feeding’ on the energy of 200,000 ampere lightning strikes ‘to load their intergalactic batteries’, the caption below the footage stated, adding that the incident recorded on 22 November was not the first time that an alleged UFO was caught on camera, bringing up one case in 2017 in the US.
Conspiracy theorists further depicted the vehicle, which goes by the abbreviation TR3B – ‘a terrestrial aircraft that was built on re-engineered technology from an extra-terrestrial civilization when their aircraft crash landed into earth’.
‘Scientists were able to re-engineer the technology in order to create anti-gravity propulsion systems’, the website writers pointed out, asking readers to give their take on the matter.
Some chose to make a couple of amendments to the conspiracy theory:
‘Just because this is a triangle does not mean this is TR3B… these are THEIRS not ours… ARCTURIAN to be exact’, one stated, with another one suggesting that it could be man-made, for instance, a surveillance plane.
The news came shortly after reports over ‘apparent’ UFO sightings in Northern Ireland this month, as dash-cam footage uploaded by conspiracy channel Disclose TV appeared to showcase two weird, brightly-lit objects flying across the sky.
In a parallel development, at least three pilots asserted in mid-November that they saw the same glittering object disappearing into thin air in a matter of seconds, even as authorities claim that no military training was underway at the time in the area. The first of the sightings reportedly occurred while one of the pilots was on board a Boeing 787, while en route from Heathrow to Montreal.
Two more pilots chimed in, sharing the same impressions, with one expressing relief that it wasn’t ‘just him’, which prompted the Irish Aviation Authority to go as far as kick off a probe into the UFO sightings.
THERE WAS AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL CIVILIZATION ON EARTH BEFORE US
THERE WAS AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL CIVILIZATION ON EARTH BEFORE US
These civilizations would have existed millions of years ago on Earth, to be precise almost 60 million years ago.
Now, scientists ask if there would be evidence of such civilizations existing on Earth.
If you take a look at the long history of our planet, you will see that almost sixty million years ago, our planet experienced temperatures much warmer than today, and the poles of the planet melted.
THIS HISTORICAL FACT
It has led some scientists to venture into the unknown and reflect on whether it is possible that this event, the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), is the result of global warming caused by a civilization existing on Earth before humanity. Professor Frank writes: “Here is an enigma.
If the industrial activity of a previous species is of short duration, we probably can not see it easily. “Therefore, he could take new and dedicated detection methods to find evidence of a truly ephemeral event in ancient sediments. In other words, if you are not looking for it explicitly, you may not see it. ”
Professor Frank wondered: What could our civilization leave if it perishes one day and what other potential civilizations can find on Earth?
Will they find us because of the chemicals we have been using? Or will they find evidence of an ancient civilization on Earth before them because we have been using fossil fuels?
PROFESSOR FRANK CLARIFIES
That although there is no evidence of an ancient advanced civilization that existed on Earth before us, the idea raises several possibilities with respect to the life cycle and how it can operate on other alien alien worlds.
“It opened the possibility that some planets would have cycles fueled by fossil fuels of construction and collapse of civilization.
If a civilization uses fossil fuels, the climate change they cause can lead to a large decrease in ocean oxygen levels. ”
These low levels of oxygen (called oceanic anoxia) help to liberate the necessary conditions to make fossil fuels like oil and coal in the first place.
In this way, a civilization and its demise could sow the seed of new civilizations in the future.
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ROMANIAN GENERAL CONFIRMS THE EXISTENCE OF REPTILIANS – “THEY ARE HIDDEN IN GIANT UNDERGROUND BASES”
ROMANIAN GENERAL CONFIRMS THE EXISTENCE OF REPTILIANS – “THEY ARE HIDDEN IN GIANT UNDERGROUND BASES”
The Romanian general Emil Strainu, is an expert in radiolocation and a doctor in geophysical warfare.
He claims that the so-called extraterrestrial reptiles exist and that they are found in giant underground bases. In addition, some time later, a person very close to Strainu revealed a meeting between him and two reptilian beings.
After reading the books “The reptile inside me” (1 and 2), General Strainu contacted him because he had an incredible story to tell and was about to publish his third book on this subject: “Anunnaki vs. Anunnaki “(or” An.unnak.ki against An.unnak.ki “).
IN THE INTRODUCTION
We talked about a good friend of him who had seen two reptilian beings very early in the morning (5:00 am) in the mountains of Retezat.
His friend is also a military figure, a high-ranking officer who specialized in command warfare, and asked that his identity remain undisclosed.
He served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa and South America. General Strainu also mentioned that his friend is not a fan of science fiction or ufology. In addition, Strainu stated that he trusts his friend about any doubt. The high ranking officer (Colonel X) was returning from a short camping trip.
IT WAS NEAR BUCHAREST
When his car pointed out that he had little gas, he stopped at a small station. It was 5: 00-5: 10 in the morning, so there was nobody around.
He noticed a khaki Hummer with black windows parked outside the service station with the engine running, but no one around.
After refueling, he paid and went to his truck. He noticed that the driver’s door of the Hummer opened and, inside it, he saw a reptilian being.
He had no clothes, but he was in military boots; It was completely covered in green scales and had a lizard-shaped crest on its head.
After several kilometers, Colonel X was still very dismayed by the event, when he suddenly saw the same Hummer with the four doors open.
Also, out of the way, he noticed two dark green reptiles that seemed to be arguing. For two weeks, the story was analyzed in great detail and they looked for witnesses, but all efforts ended in failure.
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Scientists Confirm That Moses Did Cross The Red Sea, After Finding The Egyptian Army At The Bottom Of The Red Sea
Scientists Confirm That Moses Did Cross The Red Sea, After Finding The Egyptian Army At The Bottom Of The Red Sea
The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announced that a team of underwater archaeologists had discovered the remains of a large Egyptian army of the fourteenth century BC, in the Gulf of Suez, 1.5 km from the coast of the modern city. By Ras Gharib
The team was looking for ancient ships and artifacts related to the Stone Age and Bronze Age trade in the Red Sea region, when it stumbled upon a giant mass of human bones blackened by years of immersion.
THE SCIENTISTS
Led by Professor Abdel Muhammad Gader, who are linked to the Faculty of Archeology at the University of Cairo, they have recovered more than 400 different skeletons, as well as hundreds of weapons and pieces of armor, also the remains of two cars.
It is estimated that more than 5,000 skeletons could be scattered over a larger area, suggesting that a large army was in place.
Many clues led Master Gader to conclude that the bodies may be related to the famous episode of Exodus.
The old soldier seemed to have died in the dry land, since there are no traces of ships that are in the area.
The positions of the bodies and the fact that they were stopped in a large amount of clay and rock, implies that they could have died in a landslide or a tsunami.
This magnificent sheet of an Egyptian khopesh was undoubtedly the weapon of a main character.
It was found near the remains of a richly decorated chariot, suggesting that it might have belonged to a prince or nobleman.
The number of corpses suggests that a large ancient army perished on the site dramatically, both seem to corroborate the biblical version of the Red Sea crossing, when the army of the Egyptian pharaoh was destroyed when the Jewish people had passed through the Red Sea.
THIS DISCOVERY
It shows that a great Egyptian army was destroyed by the waters of the Red Sea during the reign of Akhenaten. The famous biblical story of “crossing the Red Sea” was discredited by most scholars and historians.
This surprising discovery provides undeniable scientific proof that one of the most famous episodes of the Old Testament is really based on a historical event. What do you think? Do not forget to share information.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOUND THE SECRET TOMB OF GOD OSIRIS UNDER THE SPHINX
ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOUND THE SECRET TOMB OF GOD OSIRIS UNDER THE SPHINX
He was the king of kings, the god of the gods. Now archaeologists believe they have found the “tomb” of the Egyptian supreme deity, Osiris. The Egyptian media reports that two new tombs were announced during the weekend, one of which belonged to an unknown queen.
In reality, it is not a tomb: it is a place of symbolic burial used in rituals to link the immortal powers of the god with those of the ruling pharaohs.
THE MINISTER OF ANTIQUITIES
Mamdouh al-DamAcaty said that the structure was inspired by a real tomb, with multiple axes and cameras. It consists of a transversal corridor supported by five pillars, as well as a staircase that goes down the rock to a complex dedicated to Osiris.
It was discovered by Project Min, an Italian-Spanish initiative in cooperation with the Egyptian government that aims to study the tombs of the New Kingdom in Thebes, namely a private tomb TT109 (also known as Tomb of Min) and Kampp -327-, which it is an extension of the original tomb.
A CENTRAL CAMERA
Deep in the rock is a statue of Osiris, an axis and two rooms full of rubble. The room facing west was where the sarcophagus of the owner of the tomb was intended (Matjaz Kacicnik, Project Min). Its main feature is a large room supported by five pillars.
A staircase leads to a burial chamber containing a carving of the dead god. An adjacent room contains reliefs of demons holding knives, which the archaeologist in charge of the Spanish-Italian excavators described as guardians.
A well of 9 m depth leads to a central chamber, below which another 6 m axis leads to two more unexplored, with rooms full of rubble. It is believed that the “tomb” is based on the ancient complex of the tomb / temple of the Osirion in Abydos, Sohag.
It is not the first time that the tomb is discovered. The Department of Antiquities in Egypt says that part of the structure was discovered in the 1880s by archaeologist Philippe Virey. Despite some attempts to make a map, the meaning and nature of the site remained unknown until now.
Aliens shot down by KGB turned soldiers into STONE – CIA file shockingly claims
Aliens shot down by KGB turned soldiers into STONE – CIA file shockingly claims
A CIA file document has revealed the fate of Russian soldiers who shot down a UFO. what happened after the Soviet Union shot down a UFO in the height of the Cold War in shocking revelations.
A document from the CIA’s FOIA Electronic Reading Room describes an incident in which “a group of red, green, and yellow flying saucers hovered over multiple military bases in Antarctica”.
The document itself was “dissolved” by USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, but it was obtained by the CIA.
Mr Gorbachev himself is also on record as saying, “the phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously”.
The document itself was “dissolved” by USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, but it was obtained by the CIA.
Mr Gorbachev himself is also on record as saying, “the phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously”.
US intelligence obtained The 250-page file details an on the attack on the UFO by a military unit in Siberia.
Describing the incident, the document says: “According to the KGB materials, a quite low-flying spaceship in the shape of a saucer appeared above a military unit that was conducting routine training manoeuvres.
“For unknown reasons, somebody unexpectedly launched a surface-to-air missile and hit the UFO.
“It fell to Earth not far away, and five short humanoids with ‘large heads and large black eyes’ emerged from it.”
But then the document claims to describe the alien’s terrifying retaliation using highly advanced weapons.
SHOCK: The USSR is said to have shot down a flying saucer (Pic: GETTY - CIA)
PROOF? The document was 'dissolved' by the USSR but recovered by the CIA(Pic: CIA)
The document continues: “After freeing themselves from the debris, the aliens came close together and then ‘merged into a single object that acquired a spherical shape’.
“That object began to buzz and hiss sharply, and then became a brilliant white.
“In a few seconds, the spheres grew much bigger and exploded by flaring up with an extremely bright light.
“At that very instant, 23 soldiers who had watched the phenomenon turned into stone poles.
TERRIFYING: The aliens attacked the base with terrifying weapons (Pic: GETTY)
THEY DO EXIST: Even Gorbachev said UFOs must be taken seriously (Pic: GETTY)
“Only two soldiers who stood in the shade and were less exposed to the luminous explosion survived.”
The KGB report goes on to say that the UFO and the soldier’s remains were transferred to a secret scientific research institution near Moscow.
It concludes: “Specialists assume that a source of energy that is still unknown to Earthlings instantly changed the structure of the soldiers’ living organisms, having transformed it into a substance whose molecular composition is no different from that of limestone.”
That the ISS is laden with germs isn’t, honestly, much of a surprise. But some of them are highly resistant to antibiotics, and that’s worrying.
The International Space Station as seen on May 2010.
Image credits NASA / Crew of STS-132.
The International Space Station might sound spacey-clean but it is, in fact, crawling with microbes. JPL-NASA scientists report identifying several strains of Enterobacterin samples collected from the space station’s toilet and exercise area. Enterobacter is best known for infecting patients with weakened immune systems in hospitals, and being extremelyresistant to antibiotics.
Spacebugs
Luckily, the strains identified on the ISS aren’t pathogenic to (they don’t infect) humans. And, while it’s virtually impossible to have humans without bacteria — we trail our own microbiomes around anywhere we go — just finding any strain of Enterobacter on the station is enough cause for concern.
The genus is infamous for its preying on immunocompromised patients here on Earth; it’s also renowned for its ridiculous resistance to antibiotics. Space is (pardon the quip) an environment out of this world. There’s more radiation, there’s virtually no gravity, there are humans everywhere, crammed up in a tube with a lot of their carbon dioxide. All of these constraints could alter how the microbes live and multiply — these changes, could, in turn, cause them to become pathogenic to humans.
NASA employs quite a handful of microbiologists at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who regularly analyze microbe samples sent down from the ISS to see whether space life alters their populations or habits. The microbiologists also keep an eye on any potential biological hazards to either equipment or the astronauts’ health. This is the first time they’ve identified antibiotic-resistant Enterobacter strains in the station.
“To show which species of the bacteria were present on the ISS, we used various methods to characterise their genomes in detail. We revealed that genomes of the five ISS Enterobacter strains were genetically most similar to three strains newly found on Earth,” explained microbiologist Kasthuri Venkateswaran.
“These three strains belonged to one species of the bacteria, called Enterobacter bugandensis, which had been found to cause disease in neonates and a compromised patient, who were admitted to three different hospitals (in east Africa, Washington state and Colorado).”
The samples were collected in 2015. Since no astronauts have been struck down since then, the bugs seem not to be an immediate threat. However, the team says this state of affairs can quickly change — and it would be bad. The space-borne Enterobacter were found to be resistant to a wide range of antibiotics, and virtually completely immune to cefazolin, cefoxitin, oxacillin, penicillin, and rifampin.
Enterobacter cloacae.
Image credits CDC Public Health Image Library (PHIL #6552).
The strains also share 112 genes with clinical strains, associated with virulence, disease, and defense. The team reports that computer models show a 79% probability that the space strains will develop a human pathogen and cause disease.
Right now, however, the astronauts are safe. The possibilities, however worrying, have yet to be tested in living organisms. So the team is working to better understand the situation and develop a response procedure (that they hope never to use) against these bacteria.
“Whether or not an opportunistic pathogen like E. bugandensis causes disease and how much of a threat it is, depends on a variety of factors, including environmental ones,” Venkateswaran said. “Further in vivo studies are needed to discern the impact that conditions on the ISS, such as microgravity, other space, and spacecraft-related factors, may have on pathogenicity and virulence.”
The paper “Multi-drug resistant Enterobacter bugandensis species isolated from the International Space Station and comparative genomic analyses with human pathogenic strains” has been published in the journal BMC Microbiology.
The photo that captured two breathtaking atmospheric wonders couldn’t have been taken at a more perfect time. The picture caught the incredibly unique moment that the Northern Lights – also known as the aurora borealis – and a ‘moonbow’ were seen together at the exact same time.
The astonishing picture was taken in Abisko in the Swedish Lapland which is north of the Arctic Circle. It was captured by Chad Blakeley who is the founder of “Lights Over Lapland” which helps visitors experience and photograph the spectacular phenomenon of the Northern Lights. “We’ve set up an Aurora webcam giving our community a live feed of images of the night Sky and Northern Lights,” Blakeley explained. And it was when he was reviewing the footage that he noticed the moonbow forming through the Northern Lights. “It was a unique experience for me and I’ve been photographing the Northern Lights every winter for the last 10 years,” he said.
A moonbow – which is also known as a lunar rainbow – works similar to a daytime rainbow except that it needs moonlight instead of sunlight to pass through the water particles in the air. They are, however, seen less often than the daytime rainbows as they need more precise conditions in order to form. They need the light of the full moon to be reflected, as well as the water droplets at a specific angle in order to be created. Normally, moonbows appear white to the human eye although the colors are always there and that’s why long-exposure photos are the best way to see and appreciate their stunning features.
The moon has to be full or very close to being full and it has be located quite low in the dark sky at less than 42 degrees. The rain also needs to fall opposite of the moon. In order to witness a moonbow, you have to have the moon behind you and the best time to observe them is either a couple of hours after the sun sets or before the sun rises. There are certain locations around the world where people have a better chance at witnessing moonbows, such as Hawaii. They have also been around for many years, as Aristotle first mentioned seeing a moonbow in the year 350 BC.
There are two types of Auroras: the Aurora Borealis which means “dawn of the north”, and the Aurora Australis which means “dawn of the south”. These spectacular light shows are created when electrically charged particles from the sun enter our atmosphere on Earth. During strong solar storms, the particles enter our atmosphere and combine with gas particles which includes helium and hydrogen, and that’s what creates the breathtaking light shows. While the Auroras can display many colors, the most commonly seen ones are green and pink.
Two of the world's most elusive atmospheric wonders have been caught on camera in a stunning visual display. The Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, made a spectacular appearance alongside a rarely-seen 'moonbow' over Sweden's Lapland on Tuesday night
Aurora borealis: Usually, the Northern Lights appear alone - as here at Lofoten islands, Norway, where green lights are seen hovering above the waters
There are two types of Aurora - Aurora Borealis (file photo), which means 'dawn of the north', and Aurora Australis, 'dawn of the south.' The displays light up when electrically charged particles from the sun enter the Earth’s atmosphere
*The Spectacular 2018 Flap Shows No Signs of Stopping* *Nearly Simultaneous UFO Events*
Two incidents - separated by 90 minutes and 160 kilometers in a straight line from each other, Lobos/Dolores - took place in the early hours of Monday, November 19, a time at which the airspace over Buenos Aires was fenced off due to the G20 Summit. We can add to this the daylight sighting of a very strange artifact over Coronel Vidal at noon on Friday, November 16, and two reports of "transparent" triangular craft at Ramos Mejía and City Bell on previous evenings.
The Lobos Case
The sighting that took place on Monday, November 19 was around 02:00 at the Lobos Lagoon, some 2 km distant. A circular, luminous object, flying from north to south, flew slowly over the trees until it vanished. It looked yellow in plain sight and no particular sound was heard. From where we stood it looked rather low, on the horizon, slightly above the treetops. There are no airports nearby. We could record it with the cellphone and take a photo with a 10 second exposure (Info courtesy of Marina Rabino and Maury González).
The Dolores Case
At 03:30 hours on Monday, November 19, during the course of a nocturnal skywatch, I was able to see to my astonishment five objects forming a perfect triangle, flying in a Southeast-Northeast heading. I tried to record them with my cellphone but was unable to do so. A few minutes later, I saw a similar object but this time with three lights, also forming a precise triangle, but flying in a direction opposite to the first. I continued looking at the sky and was able to see an object with highly distinctive characteristics flying from South to North. It was clearly visible on account of its low altitude, spherical shape, and it seemed to rotate to me while it changed color form blinding white to amber yellow, blue and red. I reported this to the group on WhatsApp to see if you could see it in the La Plata or Punta Indio region, as this was the trajectory it was following. (Info courtesy of Julio Gómez).
[Translation (c) 2018 S. Corrales with thanks to Luis Burgos, FAO)
What You Aren't Being Told About Astronomy, Is Wrong!
What You Aren't Being Told About Astronomy, Is Wrong!
The best evolutionary models say that many of the planets in our solar system should not exist. Yet there they are. Did God create our Solar System less than 10,000 years ago, as the Bible says? Or did it form all by itself from a cloud of gas 4,6000,000,000 years ago, as secular astronomers claim? Which account of history is true? Recent discoveries in space have supported the Biblical account.
Each planet in our Solar System defies the evolutionary model in multiple ways. Many of the planets and moons appear to be young, not billions of years old. Plus, these objects show evidence of design, not random processes.
NASA's Future Spaceships Will Travel At 1 Million Miles Per Hour
NASA's Future Spaceships Will Travel At 1 Million Miles Per Hour
NASA could be on the verge of a breakthrough. Currently, NASA is working on an advanced propulsion engine, that if cracked, can elevate ourspacetravel to the next level. For decades, spacecraft have been stuck traveling at low chemical speeds, limiting our ability to research and explore space. However, now speeds of over one million miles per hour before 2050 are possible. The NASA institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) is funding two high potential concepts.
There are new ion drives being developed right now that could have power levels that are tens thousand times higher. Antimatter propulsion and multi-megawatt ion drives are being developed. The current speeds of spacecraft are quite low in space terms. The Voyager 1 spacecraft is moving at 38,000 mph (61,000 km/h). This speed was achieved mostly by a chemical rocket but also with the assistance of gravity, using it to slingshot the spacecraft out of orbit. Juno, Helios I and Helios II managed to reach speeds of around 150,000 mph using gravitational boosts also. The recently launched Parker Solar Probe will reach 430,000 mph using the Sun's gravity.
Gravitational boosts are our current best way of achieving higher speeds for our spacecraft. However, this method is also detrimental to our research and exploration as it takes a lot of time to work. It can take many months before the desired speed is achieved and the real mission starts.
The new methods will use 50000 ISP lithium ion thrusters, the first of which will be tested in 4 months. This is part of a NASA NIAC phase 2 study to use lasers to beam 10 megawatts of power into new ion drivers. The recent progress of lasers is largely unknown to the public. The US military is developing lasers that can produce a whopping 100 kilowatts within the next two years.
Laser beam powered ion drives will be up to ten times faster than any previous ion drive. A spacecraft with this technology would take less than a year to get to Pluto.
Jet Propulsion Lab is building and ironing out the many components used in this system. The sail and the ion drives are finally coming together. The hardest part will be creating and sustaining the phased array lasers. Testing voltage will be boosted up to 6000 volts. This will allow the ion drives to be directly driven, which eliminates the need for a lot of electronics and weight. These type of ion drives do have many technical challenges, but predictions show a well-funded project could be successful before 2040.
Russian entrepreneur and physicist Yuri Milner wants to send a probe back to Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus, to search for evidence of life there. NASA wants to help him.
Cassini spacecraft image from 2010 of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The moon is backlit, with its dark outline crowned by glowing jets – aka geysers – emanating from Enceladus’ south polar region.
Image via NASA/JPL/SSI.
Saturn’s moon Enceladusis very small – only about 310 miles (500 kilometers) across – but it may hold clues to one of the biggest mysteries of all time – are we alone? Beneath the icy crust lies a global salty ocean, not too different from Earth’s oceans. Could that ocean contain life of some kind? That is a question that many scientists – and the public alike – would like to find an answer for. Enceladus, however, is very far away and planetary missions are expensive – but there may be an ideal solution.
Billionaire entrepreneur and physicist Yuri Milner wants to send a private mission back to this intriguing world, and NASA wants to help him. This incredible idea was first reported in New Scientist on November 8, 2018 (please note this article is behind a paywall). It was then reported by Gizmodo the same day.
Agreements signed by NASA and Milner’s non-profit Breakthrough Starshot foundation in September show that the organisations are working on scientific, technical and financial plans for the ambitious mission. NASA has committed over $70,000 to help produce a concept study for a flyby mission. The funds won’t be paid to Breakthrough but represent the agency’s own staffing costs on the project.
Enceladus is a very small moon, but it has a global ocean beneath its icy crust.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Breakthrough Initiatives, part of Milner’s non-profit Breakthrough Starshot Foundation, would lead and pay for the mission, with consultation from NASA. The board of Breakthrough Initiatives includes billionaires Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg, and the late physicist Stephen Hawking. Breakthrough Initiatives has been studying various mission concepts for space exploration, including a solar sail to nearby stars, advancing the technology to discover other Earth-like planets and sending out a direct message, similar to the previous Arecibo message, specifically to try and catch the attention of aliens.
Enceladus has become a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system, since its subsurface ocean is thought to be quite similar to oceans on Earth, thanks to data from the Cassini mission, which orbited Saturn from 2004 until September of last year. Scientists already know it is salty and there is evidence for geothermal activity on the ocean floor, such as “smoker” volcanic vents on the bottom of oceans on Earth. Such geothermal vents – at least on Earth – are oases for a wide variety of ocean life despite the darkness and cold temperatures away from the vents.
Cassini also investigated the plumes of Enceladus – huge “geysers” of water vapor erupting through cracks in the surface at the south pole of Enceladus. Cassini flew right through some of them, analyzing their composition, and found they contain water vapor, ice particles, complex organic molecules and salts. Cassini wasn’t capable of finding life directly, but it did find valuable clues and hints that there may well be something alive in that alien ocean, even if only microbes.
The geysers of Enceladus: huge plumes of water vapor erupt through cracks in the icy surface at the south pole. Cassini analyzed them and found they contain water vapor, ice particles, complex organic molecules, salts and methane.
Earlier this year, New Scientistalso reported that there may already be some tentative evidence for microbes in Enceladus’s ocean. Cassini detected traces of methane in the water vapor plumes, and when scientists tested computer models of conditions in the ocean, they found that microbes that emit methane after combining hydrogen and carbon dioxide – called methanogens – could easily survive there. According to Chris McKay at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California:
This [team] has taken the first step to showing experimentally that methanogens can indeed live in the conditions expected on Enceladus.
The scientists found that the microbes were able to thrive at temperatures and pressures likely found in Enceladus’s oceans, ranging from 0 to 90 degrees Celsius, and up to 50 Earth atmospheres. They also found that olivine minerals, thought to exist in the moon’s core, could be chemically broken down to produce enough hydrogen for methanogens to thrive.
Another proposed return mission to Enceladus is the Enceladus Life Finder (ELF), which would orbit Saturn and make repeated passes through the plumes – like Cassini, but with updated instruments.
Another proposed return mission to Enceladus is the Enceladus Life Finder (ELF), which would orbit Saturn and make repeated passes through the plumes – like Cassini, but with updated instruments that could even test whether any amino acids found have predominately left or right-handed structures. (Life on Earth predominately creates left-handed forms, and scientists think that life elsewhere will also favor one form over the other instead of a random mixture as would occur from abiotic chemistry.)
Cassini wasn’t designed to detect life directly, but on a future mission – such as the one proposed – a mass spectrometer would be able to detect carbon isotope ratios unique to living organisms, as well as other potential “biomarkers” of methanogens, including lipids and hydrocarbons.
Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus as seen by the Cassini spacecraft. Billionaire Yuri Milner wants to send a mission back there to search for life.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.
Bottom line: Scientists are eager to return to Enceladus to learn more about its intriguing subsurface ocean. The new plan by billionaire Yuri Milner, with NASA’s assistance, may be the best bet to go back and see if anything is swimming in those mysterious alien waters.
In this artist's illustration, NASA’s InSight Mars lander uses its robotic arm to cover the already-deployed seismometer instrument with a wind and thermal shield. InSight landed on the Red Planet on Nov. 26, 2018.
Credit: Lockheed Martin
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA's InSight lander has made it to Mars, but it'll be a while before the robot is ready to start its science work.
InSight arrived at its new home yesterday afternoon (Nov. 26), acing a touchdownon an equatorial plane called Elysium Planitia. The lander will begin probing the Red Planet's interior in unprecedented detail — a few months from now.
It'll take that long for InSight to deploy and calibrate its two main science instruments, a burrowing heat probe and a suite of super-sensitive seismometers. This gear must be placed on the Martian surface by the lander's robotic arm, and InSight team members want to make sure they get this crucial step — which no other Mars robot has ever done — exactly right. [NASA's InSight Mars Lander: Full Coverage]
So, the researchers will spend the next few weeks studying InSight's landing site carefully, deciding on the best deployment area. Then they'll practice deployment using a testbed lander here at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which manages InSight's mission.
This work will include "terraforming" the testbed to resemble InSight's actual environs on the Red Planet, mission instrument operations lead Elizabeth Barrett of JPL said yesterday during a post-landing news conference here.
Barrett likened deployment to a very difficult and high-stakes version of an arcade claw-machine game.
"It makes it a little bit longer — you need to take more pauses, to make sure you actually have the grapple on the payload before you lift it up, and it's actually on the ground before you let it go," Barrett said.
InSight's arm will actually perform three such placements, because it will drop a shield over the seismometer suite to insulate the instrument from wind and temperature swings, which could interfere with data collection and interpretation.
It'll take two to three months to finish the deployments, Barrett said, "and then another couple of months" before InSight's ready to begin its Mars science campaign in earnest. The additional time will be needed for the heat probe to hammer itself up to 16 feet (5 meters) below the surface, and to calibrate both instruments properly.
When they're up and running, the seismometers will be on the lookout for "marsquakes" caused by internal Martian rumblings and meteorite strikes. The heat probe, meanwhile, will gauge heat flow at different depths. InSight team members will also learn about the Martian core by measuring the slight wobbles in the planet's axial tilt — data they'll gather by precisely tracking InSight's position over time.
Together, these observations will reveal a great deal about Mars' internal structure and composition, which in turn will shed considerable light on how rocky planets in general form and evolve, mission team members have said.
InSight has already beamed home a bit of information, including a dust-speckled photo of its immediate surroundings. And this little taste — the stationary lander's first image from Mars — bodes well for future data collection, Barrett and other team members said: The area appears to be relatively flat and sandy, without lots of big rocks or other impediments to deployment.
"We were all certain that that first image would help us determine how difficult a job we would have in placing the instruments," Barrett said. "And I'm very happy that it looks like we'll be able to do it quite easily — we hope."
"InSight" is short for "Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport." The lander's surface mission is scheduled to run for one Mars year, which is nearly two Earth years. It'll probably take the lander about that long to gather enough data to address its main mission goals, team members have said.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate) is out now.
Landing on Mars is an incredibly challenging feat, a process that has claimednumerous probesand spacecraft over the last 50 years. On Monday, NASA landed its InSight Probe after it had traveled for six months through 300 million miles of space. According to the latest reports from NASA engineers, InSight has now deployed its array of solar panels so that it may recharge its batteries each day. The probe also beamed back its first clear photo of the Martian surface.
The picture was taken on November 26, 2018, the same day InSight landed on the Red Planet. The probe’s camera is still covered by a transparent dust cover meant to prevent damage to the lens upon landing.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
The signal that the solar panels had been deployed successfully was transmitted to Earth at about 5:30 p.m. PST (8:30 p.m. EST) by NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter. The twin solar arrays are each 7 feet (2.2 meters) wide, when fully open. This now makes the lander about the size of a large 1960s convertible. But because Mars is so much farther away from the Sun than Earth, the amount of sunlight that reaches the Red Planet is also weaker. The panels should provide about 600 to 700 watts of power on a clear day and 200 to 300 watts the panels are covered in dust, which is practically the norm. Luckily, the probe’s sophisticated instruments do not require a lot of energy and InSight’s solar arrays should be more than capable of recharging the batteries.
“The InSight team can rest a little easier tonight now that we know the spacecraft solar arrays are deployed and recharging the batteries,” Tom Hoffman, InSight’s project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement. “It’s been a long day for the team. But tomorrow begins an exciting new chapter for InSight: surface operations and the beginning of the instrument deployment phase.”
InSight’s mission is unlike that of any spacecraft we’ve sent to Mars. All of our past probes have studied the planet’s environment above ground, but InSight is focused on what happens beneath the surface by listening to ‘marsquakes’. By studying these slight seismic waves, scientists want to determine what makes up the planet’s mantle and core. Basically, InSight will study seismic waves as they pass through the Red Planet, using that information as a sort of ultrasound to find out what is lurking underneath the crust.
InSight will also help scientist come to a better understanding of how the solar system formed and evolved. Both Mars and Earth are rocky planets that had lots of water on their surface during their rich history. However, the two planets look very differently today — Earth is wet and teeming with life while Mars is barren and dead.
Next, NASA will use a robotic arm to deploy instruments on the surface of Mars, among them the precious seismometer and a heat flow probe. However, it will take at least three months before there will be any seismic data available. That’s because NASA wants to make sure that the instruments are properly set up and calibrated. Meanwhile, InSight will use its weather sensors and magnetometer to make measurements from its landing site at Elysium Planitia.
The exciting Bronze Age discovery was made in a rock shelter in Azerbaijan, and it suggests that the ancient people who designed it had long-reaching and intriguing cultural exchanges.
A dot pattern chiseled on stone at a Eurasian rock-shelter indicates that an ancient Near Eastern game called 58 Holes quickly spread to a distantherding population, a scientist says.
Image credits: W. Crist / Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Preserve.
A game called “58 Holes” or “Hounds and Jackals” is believed to have been invented in Egypt 4200 years ago, becoming increasingly popular over the next centuries, and ultimately fading away some 3650 years ago. But before its popularity dropped, it reached other parts of the world, such as Mesopotamia and Persia, where it also became pretty common.
At least 68 gameboards of 58 Holes have been found archaeologically, including examples from ancient cities such as Babylon, Ur, and Thebes. Archaeologist Walter Crist had been looking for examples of the game in the Azerbaijan area (which lies in the Caspian, a former USSR region). He got lucky when he found a photograph in an Azerbaijani online magazine. He had a contact in the country and arranged to visit the country in April 2018. His luck, however, took a turn for the worse: the site had been scrapped by bulldozers to develop a residential neighborhood. Thankfully, a science official learned of the situation and informed Crist about another similar pattern.
The archaeologist traveled to the new site and indeed found another board game sketched on the inside of a Bronze Age rock shelter that dated to approximately 4,000 years ago. Although precise dating has not been carried out, the archaeological context strongly suggests this approximate time frame.
Bronze Age herders in that region must have had contacts with the Near Eastern world,” Crist said. “Ancient games often passed across cultures and acted as a social lubricant.”
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A Bronze Age game was found chiseled into stone in Azerbaijan A newly discovered rock pattern suggests that the game traveled fast from the Near East to Eurasia thousands of years ago.
In the game, the two players are each presented with five pegs and dice. They have to reach a common end-point finish by moving their pieces along their respective tracks had to reach the finish, a common end-point, by moving their pieces along their respective tracks.
The “Hounds and Jackals” name comes from decorative shapes of the heads of playing pins found in Egyptian sites, where one player’s pins would be sculpted in the shape of a hound, whereas the other player would have jackals.
The pegs found at some archaeological sites were made of valuable materials such as gold, silver, or ivory. Of course, most versions would have featured simpler pegs made from wood, but these would have perished by now.
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White Cigar-Shaped Object Filmed Hovering Over Fort Worth Area
White Cigar-Shaped Object Filmed Hovering Over Fort Worth Area
Video showing a white glowing, large, rod or cigar-shaped object hovering over Keller, Texas on November 19th, 2018 has been submitted to TexasUFOs. The witness claimed she observed the UFO sit stationary and silent in the sky over about 20 minutes! What could this video be showing? Share your theories!
Bright fireball lights up Texas night sky (VIDEOS)
Bright fireball lights up Texas night sky(VIDEOS)
A large green-and-yellow-glowing celestial object, which was caught on several cameras darting across the night sky in central Texas, has reportedly produced a boom powerful enough to make some walls shake.
NASA and the American Meteor Society (AMS) received around 100 witness reports all claiming that a bright burning object pierced the Texan night sky at around 9:22pm Thursday. Some noted that a minute later they heard an explosion which produced a shockwave so strong that it made houses tremble.
A video of the event captured by a dashboard camera shows an unidentified object flying at high velocity across the sky with a green glare in its wake before disappearing into the abyss. The sighting of the fireball, which some said also produced a yellowish-orange glare, was seen across all parts of Texas, from Houston and San Antonio to Dallas.
While some wondered if they’d witnessed an alien invasion, NASA was quick to confirm that the fireball was a meteor that most likely came from the North Taurid meteor shower.
“The preliminary 3D trajectory computed based on all the reports submitted to the AMS shows that the Fireball was traveling from East to West and ended its flight somewhere South East of Johnson City, TX,” AMS said.
A bright green fireball whizzed through the sky in the Russian city of Novosibirsk in Western Siberia shocking residents. This fireball seems to have baffled social media users and scientists alike.
The flyby was spotted by locals in several areas of the city on Tuesday morning when the sky was still dark and luckily clear. These circumstances made viewing the fireball incredibly effective. Videos showing the green glowing meteor quickly started circulating on Russian social network Vkontakte and on YouTube.
NOTE: The meteor can be difficult to spot. Look to the left of the row of street lights that appear toward the middle of the screen near the median.
According to a report by RT, scientists say it was likely a bolide – an extremely bright meteor that explodes in the Earth’s atmosphere and has an iconic dazzling tail. Nonetheless, the planetarium has asked all locals with any visual evidence, such as photographs or videos, to send them in to help nail down exactly what happened.
This bolide (seen in the video above) is believed to have burned in the atmosphere and no traces of space rocks were found on the ground. Dozens of meteors fly over us every year, but most of them go unnoticed. This time Siberia was lucky to see the stunning space object streaking by above.
Astronomers have been somewhat bewildered by the appearance of this particular phenomenon because there are currently no active meteor showers. “It can be either the tail of a [Leonid] meteor shower or a lone meteor, we need to find out,” deputy director of local planetarium toldKomsomolskaya Pravda, a Russian media source.
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But the astronomers have been somewhat bewildered by the appearance of this phenomenon, as there are currently no active meteor showers.
“It can be either the tail of a [Leonid] meteor shower or a lone meteor, we need to find out,” deputy director of local planetarium told Komsomolskaya Pravda.
The bolide is believed to have burned in the atmosphere and no traces of space rocks were found on the ground. Dozens of meteors fly over us every year, but most of them go unnoticed. This time Siberia was lucky to see the stunning space object streaking by above.
EPADe Chinese wetenschapper He Jiankui op het genoomonderzoekscongres in Hong Kong.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETNa de wereldwijde harde kritiek heeft de Chinese wetenschapper He Jiankui zijn werk verdedigd dat naar verluidt heeft geleid tot de geboorte van de eerste genetisch gemodificeerde baby’s ter wereld. Hij zei trots te zijn op zijn werk. Ook meldde hij dat nog een vrouw zwanger is die meedoet aan zijn omstreden experiment. Dat zei Jiankui op een genoomonderzoekscongres in Hong Kong, waar hij vragen van internationale experts beantwoordde.
Het was de eerste keer dat de onderzoeker in het openbaar verscheen sinds een video van hem maandag op YouTube werd gepubliceerd, wat leidde tot wereldwijde verontwaardiging onder wetenschappers en ethici. Daarin had hij de geboorte van de baby’s Lulu en Nana aangekondigd. De ingrepen op embryo’s met de nog jonge crispr-cas-technologie, bedoeld om de kinderen resistent te maken tegen hiv. Tot nu toe is er geen onafhankelijke bevestiging van zijn bewering.
In Hong Kong herhaalde hij dat hij verschillende kinderloze paren van gezonde moeders en hiv-geïnfecteerde vaders had verzocht om deel te nemen aan het experiment. Uiteindelijk kreeg een van de koppels een tweeling. “Ik ben echt trots op dit specifieke geval”, sprak hij. Na de geboorte van de kinderen kreeg hij een bericht van de vader die beloofde hard te werken, geld te verdienen en altijd voor zijn twee dochters en zijn vrouw te zorgen. Ook zei hij dat er nog iemand zwanger is in het kader van zijn onderzoek.
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Hij koos ervoor de tweelingmeisjes resistent te maken tegen aids omdat hun vader besmet is met het hiv-virus, zei hij. “Ze hebben deze bescherming nodig omdat er geen vaccin bestaat.’’ Onzin, volgens wetenschappers.
Door het sperma van een met hiv besmette vader te ‘wassen’ valt heel goed te voorkomen dat een baby besmet raakt met het virus. Er was dan ook geen enkele medische noodzaak voor He Jiankui’s actie. Er zijn veel ergere erfelijke ziektes die eerder in aanmerking zouden moeten komen voor de techniek, zei Nobelprijswinnaar David Baltimore, die ook aanwezig is op de conferentie. Hij noemde het experiment onverantwoordelijk en stelde dat deze casus aantoont dat zelfregulering in de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap faalt.
Verschillende belangrijke vragen liet de omstreden wetenschapper onbeantwoord. Hij weigerde bijvoorbeeld in te gaan op de vraag wie betaald heeft voor zijn werk, waarom hij het geheim heeft gehouden en of de deelnemende ouderparen wel op de hoogte zijn van de mogelijke risico’s.
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Chinees beweert baby’s resistent tegen aids te hebben gemaakt
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Wetenschappers van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA hebben aan boord van het internationaal ruimtestation ISS bacteriën gevonden waarvan geweten is dat ze resistent zijn tegen antibiotica. Ze zouden nog geen astronauten ziek gemaakt hebben, maar kunnen wel een bedreiging vormen. Dat staat te lezen in een nieuwe studie.
De studie werd mee uitgevoerd door wetenschappers van het Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), dat onbemande ruimtetuigen bouwt en volgt voor de NASA. Het JPL zat onder meer achter de missie van de Marslander InSight, die deze week landde op de rode planeet.
Een en ander werd vorige week gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift BMC Microbiology en bouwde verder op een onderzoek van eerder dit jaar. Toen werden de genetische eigenschappen bestudeerd van bacteriën die in 2015 op de wanden van het ISS aangetroffen waren. Daarin vonden de wetenschappers meer dan 100 genen waarvan geweten is dat ze bacteriën helpen om resistent te worden tegen antibiotica. En de stalen van de Enterobacter bugandensis uit het ISS bleken zelfs resistent te zijn tegen alle negen antibiotica die erop werden getest. Superbacteriën dus.
De Enterobacter bugandensis leeft op veel plaatsen, onder meer in onze darmen, maar verwekt meestal geen ziekten. Tenzij bijvoorbeeld bij mensen met een lagere weerstand: bij hen kunnen ze zelfs levensbedreigende infecties veroorzaken. Door het feit dat ze resistent zijn tegen antibiotica, zijn ze erg moeilijk te behandelen. In de ruimte zijn de medische hulpmiddelen beperkt en astronauten hebben ook een verminderd immuunsysteem. Dat is een potentieel risico.
De nieuwe studie wil nu uitvissen hoe gevaarlijk de gevonden bacteriën precies kunnen zijn voor de mens. Daarvoor werd het genetisch materiaal van de stammen uit het ISS vergeleken met stammen van de Enterobacter bugandensis op aarde, die mensen ziek hadden gemaakt.
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Ze bleken erg gelijkend te zijn en daaruit werd afgeleid dat er een kans van 79 procent was dat de bacteriën in het ISS ook ziekte konden veroorzaken. “Ze kunnen een belangrijk gezondheidsrisico vormen voor ruimtemissies”, klinkt het. “We moeten het genetisch materiaal nu verder onderzoeken om het volledige ziekteverwekkend potentieel bloot te leggen. Maar dat moet gebeuren op een manier die rekening houdt met de invloed van de microzwaartekracht.”
Verder onderzoek in de ruimte moet nu dus uitwijzen hoe gevaarlijk de organismen daar zijn en of die andere omgeving ze eventueel gevaarlijker maakt of net niet. Zo zou het kunnen dat de microzwaartekracht maakt dat bacteriën sneller evolueren en antibiotica minder goed werken, zoals eerder werd gesuggereerd door wetenschappers.
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“Shoot First Ask Questions Later” : What Happens To A UFO When Tracked on Military Radar
“Shoot First Ask Questions Later” : What Happens To A UFO When Tracked on Military Radar
“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)
Based on all of my research into this topic, which has been conducted for more than 10 years, I’ve come across a number of apparent instances where these UFO’s completely avoided our aircfract, commercial or military.
Their (the UFO) actions, based on all the documentation out there, always seem to be evasive in nature, regardless of whether these craft are human controlled, or extraterrestrial controlled.
On the other hand, it’s not the same for the human race. When an unknown object enters into sensitive airspace, it’s going to be known about, and it’s not uncommon for military agencies to scramble jets in order to take a look. This is something that’s been very well documented, based on my estimates, this is something that’s happened thousands of times around the world for decades.
“The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data. Maybe when this group of nations acquires more precise and definite information, it will be possible to release the news to the world”
– General Carlos Castro Cavero, Spanish Air Force General (0)
Another common question that comes about when it comes to crashed craft, is if they are so advanced, how have we been able to bring some of them down?
Roswell was not the only incident, I believe this to have happened several dozens of times, and I’m not the only one. From what I’ve looked into, they could disable guided missiles, nuclear weapons and electronic equipment, but were not well prepared for anti-aircraft fire (guns).
I’m not quite sure if things have remained the same.
Below are the words of Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and the 6th man to walk on the moon, clearly I am not alone in my research and beliefs.
We now have statements from hundreds of credible whistleblowers on the topic of UFOs and Exxtraterrestrials.
“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.”
When the FAA tracks them on radar, a protocol is followedT hey report it to data collection centers, one of them being the Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies. (1) But evidence suggests that it’s not so simple as just following protocol. Retired FAA Senior Division Chief, John Callahan, shared his experience with regards to a specific UFO incident, you can watch hat b read more about that here.
Representatives from the FBI and CIA showed up to find out more about the incident, and to obtain all documentation and video footage. Bigelow Aerospace Director, Mike Gold, recently expressed that he is glad somebody is taking the reports, because it is a “serious issue,” but he also said that he could not comment on what they do with them. To see that interview, click here.
“If one thing is glaringly obvious, it is that the UFO phenomenon is global and has included many military encounters.”
– Richard Dolan, Author, Historian, UFO Researcher.(0)
So, what happens when UFOs are tracked on military/defence agency radar? Well, the first thing that happens is that it is recorded and documented. Documents regarding UFOs and the tracking of them on radar have been declassified within the past few years, there are countless examples from multiple agencies, like the NSA. (source)
If something is violating your airspace, and performing maneuvers that defy our understanding of physics, maneuvers that no known air craft can perform, you’re going to want to take a closer look. As UFOs do present a number of defence, national security and air safety issues.
One case in particular I’d like to start out with is the incident over Tehran, Iran. This incident occurred on the night of September 18th, 1976. A four page U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and NSA report describes the encounter in detail. Furthermore, both of the pilots involved discussed the event years later.(source)
What happened on this night is an example of what has happened multiple times with regards to military encounters with UFOs. Residents of the city noticed a big bright object in the sky. The airport traffic controller also noticed, “it was an intensely bright object that was not supposed to be there.” The Iranian Air Force was contacted (at the time they were a close ally of the United States, under the rule of the Shah), and they dispatched two F-4 fighter jets to check out the object. The United States took this encounter very seriously, a report of what happened was sent to multiple national security officials AND U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, CIA Director George Bush, and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, among others.(0)
Both of the F-4 interceptor pilots reported seeing the object visually, it was also tracked on their airborne radar. Both planes experienced critical instrumentation and electronics go offline at a distance of twenty-five miles from the object. Here is an excerpt from the report:
“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. ”
The report also described how a smaller object detached from the bigger object, turned inside the arc of the F-4 itself, and then regained the original object. This incident lasted for several hours. I decided to use this example because it has a number of declassified supporting national security documents, which goes to show how serious this event was taken.
Another significant event occurred over NATO’s Aviano Air Base in Italy, on July 1, 1977. During this event, several U.S. Air Force personnel saw a UFO hovering outside of the base perimeter. While the object was there, the facility lost electrical power.(5)
From November 9th through December 18th in 1978, several major UFO events occurred over the oilfields of Kuwait. They also appeared to disrupt major electrical equipment in this case. This event received major attention from the Kuwaiti government, as well as the U.S. government and Embassy.(6)(0)
According to Richard Dolan, one of the world’s leading UFO researchers, perhaps the most dramatic of all were two encounters that year on December 16th by the Chilean Air Force:
“Two pilots on a training mission, each flying an 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.”(7)(0)
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. (7)(0)
On May 19, 1986, there was a large portion of Brazilian airspace that was constantly occupied by UFOs. The Brazilian air-force constantly scrambled their jets to get a closer look at what they were picking up on radar. Here is a quote from the Brazilian Minister of Aeronautics, Brigadier General Otavio Moreira Lima:
“At least 20 objects were detected by Brazilian radars. They saturated the radars and interrupted traffic in the area. Each time that radar detected unidentified objects, fighters took off for intercept. Radar detects only solid metallic bodies and heavy (mass) clouds. There were no clouds nor conventional aircraft in the region. The sky was clear. Radar doesn’t have optical illusions. We can only give technical explanations and we don’t have them. It would be very difficult for us to talk about the hypothesis of an electronic war. It’s very remote and it’s not the case here in Brazil. It’s fantastic. The signals on the radar were quite clear.” (8)(0)
I’d also like to point out that UFOs have been seen and coincide with the deactivation of nuclear missiles and nuclear missile facilities all over the world.
Below is a video of Robert Hastings, you can look into him if you want to learn more.
The list goes on and on, UFOs tracked on radar and military jets scrambled to check them out is nothing new. I hope I’ve given you a good amount of info to further your research if interested. Dozens and dozens of governments have recently released their UFO files, admitting to the phenomenon being real. You can access the United Kingdoms latest batch that was released in June 2013here.
According to U.S. defense records, an interesting sighting of a UFO was reported by the Ghana Air Force on July 27, 1987. It was a large, silent object which the pilot described as two or three times large than a Boeing 747. He said that the “object dropped altitude, then gained altitude, then was replaced by small bluish lights arranged in a circular formation.” (9)(0)
Below is a quote from Paul Hellyer, X Canadian Defence Minister describing another documented case.
“In one of the cases during the cold war, 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying South from Russia across Europe. The supreme allied commander was very concerned and was about ready to press the panic button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole. They decided to do an investigation and they investigated for three years and they decided that with absolute certainty that four different species, at least, have been visiting this planet for thousands of years. There’s been a lot more activity in the past two decades, especially since we invented the atomic bomb. They are very concerned about that and if we will use it again, because the whole cosmos is in unity and it affects not just us but other people in the cosmos. They’re very much afraid that we might start using atomic weapons again and this would be very bad for us, and them also.”
“If it does indeed turn out that there is relevant physical evidence, if this evidence is carefully collected and analyzed, and if this analysis leads to the identification of several facts concerning the UFO phenomenon, then will be the time for scientists to step back and ask, what are these facts trying to tell us? If those facts are strong enough to lead to a firm conclusion, then will be the time to confront the more bizarre questions. If, for instance, it turns out that all physical evidence is consistent with a mundane interpretation of the causes of UFO reports, there will be little reason to continue to speculate about the role of extraterrestrial beings. If, on the other hand, the analysis of physical evidence turns up very strong evidence that objects related with UFO reports were manufactured outside the solar system, then one must obviously consider very seriously that the phenomenon involves not only extraterrestrial vehicles but probably also extraterrestrial beings.” (source)
The quote above comes from Peter Andrew Sturrock, a British Scientist, and an Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. Sturrock and a number of other notable scientists around the world came together during the 1990’s in order to examine the physical evidence that is commonly associated with the UFO phenomenon. One example used by Sturrock in his analysis, was a photo taken by two Royal Canadian Air Force pilots on August 27th, 1956, in McCleod, Alberta, Canada. (“Physical Evidence Related To UFO Reports” – The Sturrock Panel Report – Electromagnetic Effects) (source) (source)
The pilots were flying in a formation of four F86 Sabre jet aircraft. One of the pilots described the phenomenon as a “bright light which was sharply defined as disk-shaped,” that looked like “a shiny silver dollar sitting horizontal.” Another pilot managed to photograph the object, as you can see to the left.
The sighting lasted for a couple of minutes, and this specific case was analyzed by Dr. Bruce Maccabee, who estimated (from available data) that the luminosity of the object (the power output within the spectral range of the film) to be many megawatts. The Sturrock Panel also found it to be the case that a strong magnetic field surrounding the phenomenon or object was a common occurrence.
Maccabee published his analysis in the Journal of Scientific Exploration (“Optical Power Output of an Unidentified High Altitude Light Source,” published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 13, #2, 1999). He also published one in 1994 titled “Strong Magnetic Field Detected Following a Sighting of an Unidentified Flying Object,” in the same journal (8, #3, 347)
Dr. Jacques Vallee, notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA, and for his work at SRI International on the network information center for ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, also published a paper in the Journal of Scientific Explorationtitled “Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases Of Unexplained Ariel Objects With Defined Luminosity Characteristics.” (source)(source)
This particular case is also referenced in this paper.
“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.”
It’s only now that more people are starting to become aware of this information. Here is a quote from Senator Barry Goldwater before the de-classification of all of these files:
“This thing has gotten so highly-classified… it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since. I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified.”
– Senator Barry Goldwater, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee (source)
(6) U.S. Department of State Telegram, January 29, 1979, “UFO sightings Cause Security Concern in Kuwait,” From American Embassy Kuwait to Secretary of State, Washington, Dc; Kuwait Times, Nov. 16, 18, 1978; Arab Times,Nov. 23,25, 1978; “UFOs in Arab Nations,”MUFON UFO Journal, Jan-Feb 1979; “UFOs Over Kuwait,” The APRO Bulletin, Jan. 1979; Fawcett, Lawrence and Greenwood, Barry, Clear Intent, 90-91.
(7) 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.)
(8) 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.
(9)U.S Defense Department Information Report, August 20, 1987. From JCS; To AIG; Subject Unidentified Flying Object; Item Number 00427453.
CIA Document Shows What Happened After The KGB Shot Down A UFO
CIA Document Shows What Happened After The KGB Shot Down A UFO
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
A document stores in the CIA's electronic reading room describes what happened when the KGB took down a UFO with a surface to air missiles. The object was extraterrestrial and retaliation ensued.
Reflect On:
Would it be easy for an intelligent extraterrestrial to visit Earth? It doesn't seem so, it seems our reaction is always to shoot first and ask questions after. Is this really an intelligent decision?
Global governments and intelligence agencies around the world have released hundreds of thousands of pages of documents pertaining to the UFO phenomenon over the past few years. These files indicate that objects are commonly tracked on radar and pursued by our own military craft, which are then sent out to take a closer look. The files also reveal there have been sightings of strange objects travelling at tremendous speeds and performing maneuvers that no known aircraft is capable of performing.
These types of UFOs might now be officially verified within the mainstream, but they’ve been seen, photographed, and recorded by credible witnesses for decades. For example,here’s a document (straight from the CIA’s FOIA Electronic Reading Room) pertaining to “a group of red, green, and yellow flying saucers” that were seen “hovering” over multiple military bases in Antarctica.Here’sanother detailing how, when intercepters approached the object, pilots lost “all instrumentation and communications.” Here’sa great interview (and there’s no shortage of them) with navy commander pilot Graham Bethune, who describes another extraordinary in-flight encounter.
These objects are thought to be extraterrestrial in origin, not only because of their technological superiority, but also because many high-ranking political and military insiders, along with prestigious academics, have shared information they’ve been privy to regarding actual intelligent extraterrestrial beings visiting our planet. There could be several different groups doing so at the present moment. It may sound far-fetched, but as we move through 2017 and beyond, bits of truth will continue to leak out, and the “official campaign of secrecy and ridicule” that Roscoe Hillenkoetter described to the New York Times in 1960 may come to an end.
That being said, once this box is opened, everything will change. It will have tremendous implications for humanity — philosophically, scientifically, and technologically. Our world would change forever.
The Document
It shouldn’t really come as a surprise that the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were keeping tabs on other countries. We know spying happens all the time, and other governments probably did the same to North American governments as well.
The UFO issue has obviously been of extreme interest to these agencies, given the scale of resources put toward investigating it. One document within the CIA archives also shows that they were interested in reports of actual extraterrestrial bodies.
For example, here is one that was addressed to “certain scientists of distinction,” to “aeronautical and military authorities,” and to “a number of public officials.” The document, stored in the FBI database, shows interest in a letter written by someone with “several university degrees” and a former “university department head.” It provides information, (on pages 21 and 22) about extraterrestrial beings, their craft, how they operate, and where they come from.
Again, the question to ask here is, why were intelligence agencies so interested in this? They continue to investigate any reports of extraterrestrial bodies, and I have to wonder if it’s because they’ve had secrets of their own. Is it because, as Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell once put it so bluntly, “there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered”?
When you study ufology, you come across all sorts of stories, and one interesting thing these stories seem to share is that “they” (whoever is operating these crafts) are not interested in confrontation.
For example, in a (well-known) document released via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Four-Star General Nathan Twinning wrote that the “phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious” and that “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 air-craft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely.”
The key word there is “evasive.” This point was also made a few years ago by former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer, who stated that, “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.” In that same speech, he also mentions the fact that, as a result of our own displays of aggression, the UFOs started to take “corrective measures to avoid our air-craft,” and that some pilots actually lost their lives as a result of retaliation.
The KGB Incident
Which brings us to a document, stored in the CIA archives, that describes how Mikhail Gorbachev — who, by the way, once publicly stated that “the phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously” — was “dissolved.”
It’s a document keeping tabs on a report a media outlet put out, which again, clearly shows a high level of interest from them.
It states that “U.S. intelligence obtained a 250-page file on the attack by a UFO on a military unit in Siberia,” and it goes on to describe something extraordinary:
The file contains not only many documentary photographs and drawings, but also testimonies by actual participants in the events. One of the CIA representatives referred to this case as “a horrific picture of revenge on the part of extraterrestrial creatures, a picture that makes one’s blood freeze.”
According to the KGB materials, a quite low-flying spaceship in the shape of a saucer appeared above a military unit that was conducting routine training maneuvers. For unknown reasons, somebody unexpectedly launched a surface-to-air missile and hit the UFO. It fell to Earth not far away, and five short humanoids with “large heads and large black eyes” emerged from it.
It is stated in the testimonies by the two soldiers who remained alive that, after freeing themselves from the debris, the aliens came close together and then “merged into a single object that acquired a spherical shape.” That object began to buzz and hiss sharply, and then became a brilliant white. In a few seconds, the spheres grew much bigger and exploded by flaring up with an extrememly bright light. At that very instant, 23 soldiers who had watched the phenomenon turned into… stone poles. Only two soldiers who stood in the shade and were less exposed to the luminous explosion survived.
The document then goes on to state:
The KGB report goes on to say that the remains of the UFO and the “Petrified Soldiers” were transferred to a secret scientific research institution near Moscow. Specialists assume that a source of energy that is still unknown to Earthlings instantly changed the structure of the soldiers’ living organisms, having transformed it into a substance whose molecular composition is no different from that of limestone.
The document ends with a comment from a CIA representative, who said, “If the KGB file corresponds to reality, this is an extremely menacing case. The aliens possess such weapons and technology that go beyond all our assumptions. They can stand up for themselves if attacked.”
The Takeaway
Quite remarkable, isn’t it? This isn’t the only story of retaliation with regards to what happens when our agencies encounter a UFO. Yet, in every instance, we are the instigators it seems. Today, UFOs are no longer taboo, most people are well aware of their existence and all of the evidence that’s gone towards verifying that. The new question is whether some of them are extraterrestrial and some of them are not. Stories like this one, and countless others, are the reason why the extraterrestrial hypothesis has so much validity.
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Soldaten schoten per ongeluk een UFO uit de lucht. Dit CIA-document onthult wat er daarna gebeurde
Soldaten schoten per ongeluk een UFO uit de lucht. Dit CIA-document onthult wat er daarna gebeurde
Er iseen interessant documentover UFO’s opgedoken uit het archief van de CIA. Het stuk begint met een verwijzing naar Michail Gorbatsjov, die openlijk heeft gezegddat het fenomeen UFO’s bestaat en serieus moet worden genomen.
Het betreft hier een bericht dat in de jaren negentig in de Oekraïense kranten Ternopil vechirniy en Holos Ukrayiny is verschenen.
Nadat Gorbatsjov was afgetreden werd veel geheime informatie van de KGB doorgespeeld aan de CIA.
Steen
De Amerikaanse inlichtingendiensten kregen onder meer een 250 pagina’s tellend document over de aanval van een UFO op een legereenheid in Siberië.
Het document bevatte niet alleen foto’s en tekeningen, maar ook getuigenverklaringen.
In het vrijgegeven CIA-document valt te lezen dat Russische soldaten die per ongeluk een UFO neerschoten ‘in steen werden veranderd door aliens’.
In het stuk wordt gesteld dat 23 soldaten werden gedood door vijf aliens die in een vliegende schotel zaten die in 1993 boven Siberië uit de lucht werd geschoten.
Slechts twee
De vliegende schotel zou zijn verschenen op het moment dat een militaire eenheid in Siberië oefeningen deed.
Eén van de soldaten zou het object met een luchtdoelraket hebben neergehaald. “Vijf kleine humanoïden met grote hoofden en grote zwarte ogen stapten uit,” schreven de kranten.
Naar verluidt overleefden slechts twee soldaten het incident.
De vijf wezens kwamen volgens de kranten uit het gecrashte toestel en vuurden een lichtbol af waarna 23 soldaten ‘in steen’ veranderden.
Energiebron
Het rapport van de KGB vermeldt dat de resten van de soldaten werden overgebracht naar een geheim onderzoeksinstituut nabij Moskou.
“Experts nemen aan dat de structuur van het lichaam van de soldaten werd veranderd door een energiebron die voor ons nog onbekend is,” klinkt het.
De CIA merkte in een voetnoot op: “Als het rapport van de KGB overeenkomt met de werkelijkheid, is dit een extreem bedreigend voorval.”
We krijgen er steeds meer vreemde wolken bij en één van de meest vreemde is wel een wolk die eruit ziet als een soort vliegend matras.
Maar, geen nood, de mainstream wetenschap heeft overal een antwoord op en een verklaring uit die hoek is dan ook een uitgewaaierdechemtrail...... pardon contrail.
Je gelooft eigenlijk je ogen niet als je naar de lucht kijkt en je ziet de volgende wolk langs drijven.
En toch is dat precies wat te zien was in de Engelse stad Exeter enkele jaren geleden.
De Engelse Met Office (hun KNMI) kwam al heel snel met een verklaring: Het zou niets meer zijn dan een condensatiespoor/contrail veroorzaakt door een vliegtuig. En omdat de wind toevallig die dag vanuit een aantal rechte hoeken richting chemtrail waaide, kreeg je deze bijzondere vorm. Alhoewel ze moesten toegeven dat het toch wel heel bijzonder was dat er zulke perfecte rechte hoeken werden gevormd.
Bovenstaande waarneming gebeurde in 2014 en toen kwamen ze misschien nog weg met een dergelijke verklaring, maar die vlieger zou nu niet meer opgaan, want de afgelopen jaren zijn er steeds meer van die vreemdsoortige, rechthoekige wolken verschenen. Zoals de volgende in Tucson in de Amerikaanse staat Arizona. Zelfs als je beschikt over heel veel fantasie, dan nog is dit dit niet verklaren als een uitgewaaierde chemtrail.
Of de volgende, gemaakt ergens in Amerika.
En nu is er weer een vreemde rechthoekige wolk en wéér in Engeland.
De volgende opname werd op 24 november gemaakt in de buurt van Cleethorpes aan de Engelse oostkust. Misschien zal de Met Office dit keer proberen het te verklaren als een uitgewaaierde chemtrail van een heel groot vliegtuig, wie weet.
De grote vraag is natuurlijk hoe deze rechthoekige wolken worden gevormd, of misschien beter gezegd door wie/wat?
Het lijkt onwaarschijnlijk dat de natuur zelf wolken zal vormen met perfecte rechte hoeken en als dat zo is, dan denken we al snel aan menselijke interventie zoals met HAARP, waarover wij vijf jaar geleden het volgende schreven.
De ontwikkeling van de zogenaamde “weerwapens” zoals HAARP, wordt door de meeste mensen aan de kant geschoven als een paranoïde verhaal, het werk van een scriptschrijver voor een sciencefiction film en aanhangers van samenzweringstheorieën, maar het is een feit dat ze al tientallen jaren bestaan. Niemand minder dan de vroeger Amerikaanse Minister van Defensie, William Cohen, heeft diverse keren gesproken over de ontwikkeling van aan weer gerelateerde wapens, of om meer specifiek te zijn, de technieken om weersituaties te creëren die offensieve militaire operaties kunnen ondersteunen.
Is het HAARP of andere vergelijkbare systemen, of is er een andere. Ideeën zijn welkom bij redactie (apenstaart) niburu.co
“Besides, the truth is, I repeated my consistent claim of my sighting when there is a recent report of a couple of pilots in Ireland who also witnessed UFOs which also flew in unbelievable speed!”
Could an American politician get elected after making a statement like that one? How about this one?
“I am definitely not the only one who had seen such things zipping through our sky on Earth. It shows how myopic and ignorant people could be.”
Goh Meng Seng
US office seekers who have seen UFOs or believe in extraterrestrials may want to keep an eye on Singapore where Goh Meng Seng, the Secretary-General of the People’s Power Party (PPP) has been making these and similar statements on Facebook about his experiences and beliefs that are contrary to what we normally hear from political leaders. The Independent reports that Goh has been making these statements and more after the appointment of Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat as the first assistant secretary-general of ruling People’s Action Party (PAP). PPP is a minority opposition party, so it’s no surprise he’s opposed to the appointment, especially since Heng has had health issues, including a recent stroke.
“Back in 2000, I have seen an object masquerading as a cloud which was glowing and floating at a very slow speed. Before I could take out my camera to take a picture of it, it just zoomed away in extreme speed…astronomical speed, zipping through the evening sky. Such technology of speed is unknown to human civilization and that is why I believe there exists a more advanced civilization somewhere which is alien to Earth.”
Hey, at least he’s being honest and sticking to his UFO story, not like some US politicians who deny past UFO encounters or writing Bigfoot porn (OK, that guy still got elected). However, Goh has some other problems that have kept him from winning elections in previous parties he’s been in before founding PPP. In 2006, he was accused of posting on an online sex forum (damn Internet!). He’s also made some controversial comments about religion:
“Well as far as I am concern, seeing is believing and my belief in the existence of alien UFO is much more credible than any religion which was believed by others who didn’t even see their God, Goddess, Buddha, Angels etc before!”
Is Goh channeling John Lennon? Does he believe UFOs are more popular than Jesus or Buddha?
To cover all of the bases (and constituencies), Goh is also willing to accept other explanations:
“In my opinion, there are two types of UFOs on Earth. Some are human made, by some countries like America or Russia. But these are the ones which could just fly at “normal” speed due to technological limitations. They may be in saucer shape, have the ability to hover around etc but do not have the technology of traveling at the speed of light. Those which could do that, most probably are alien types.”
Needless to say, Goh is getting some pretty derogatory comments on his Facebook posts. Should he? Is this any different than other controversial statements made by other politicians around the world? Is he still being punished for his transgressions in 2006? Were they worse than Bigfoot porn?
One of the greatest questions of our time is “Are we alone?” Are there other lifeforms out there, and if so, will we ever meet them? Or are we truly alone, hurtling through space on this rock that holds the only life in the universe? Considering the incomprehensible vastness of space, and the fact that recent NASA estimates are that there could be as many as 40 billion habitable worlds in our galaxy alone, it seems almost certain that there must be some form of life out there besides ourselves, and some of them might even have the ability to reach out across the stars. Indeed, some estimates have suggested that there could be thousands of space going civilizations. I have already written here before aboutwhy we may not have heard from them yet, as well ashow we might communicate with them, so I won’t delve into that here, but a perhaps even more important question that I want to ask here is “If they are out there do we really want to meet them?” What would happen if we were to meet aliens? Would they be friendly, indifferent, or malevolent? We of course don’t know, but there are ideas.
Assuming that there actually is intelligent life out there, and assuming that they have mastered interplanetary travel, there are several ways that contact could go, which could largely depend on what brought them here and what their goals are, with varying possible scenarios. Let’s imagine for a moment that they intentionally came here, making a trip across the vast, yawning chasm of stars to come to this new land. If this were the case they would obviously have some vested interest in our planet, some reason to come all of that way, so would this be benevolent or malicious? Would they come here in peace, or bring down destruction? Speculation has long run rampant on these questions, and although we don’t really know the answer or how an alien intelligence would think or what their values would be, and it is impossible to know such things, we can still make guesses.
One of the main ideas in this particular scenario is that in the case of an expedition to our world, so to speak, they would likely be specifically interested in us and the life of our world for some reason. After all, it might hurt the ego to know this but in the grand scheme of things other than having life Earth is not really all that special. If aliens wanted natural resources they can find far more of those locked up in asteroids, comets, and moons than on our planet, to the point that these resources are believed to be so plentiful at such places that space mining is already being pursued by us, so why would anyone come light years to come all the way here for the very resources we are looking to mine from off-planet? It doesn’t make sense. The same goes with water, which can be found in abundance in ice on comets, moons, and planetary poles. What we do have is life, so there seems to really be no reason why they would want to come here and traverse that sea of stars unless it was for the expressed purpose of studying us or contacting us, perhaps out of curiosity after picking up the copious radio messages we relentlessly send out to anyone who will listen, and this could go a few different ways.
If they wanted to study us it would be somewhat akin to scientists finding a new continent, some lost world with myriad new species to study, although whether this would translate to benevolence from our point of view is uncertain, just ask all of the animals in jars of formaldehyde or the specimens sent off to be dissected. They could want to preserve us, but what this would involve and whether they would really treat us well is open to debate. There are those who believe that they might be more like peaceful missionaries contacting some new faraway tribe, trying to teach us and learn our ways, or to even welcome us into some intergalactic society, and this is a nice thought. Imagine how much we could learn from them and what an era of peace and prosperity this would bring.
There have been a lot of scientists that support this idea of a benign presence coming to us, arguing that any spacefaring civilization would be hundreds or thousands of years more advanced than us, and so would have by necessity learned to overcome such self-destructive behaviors such as war and murder and to have mastered empathy. One scientist who believes this is Seti’s former director, Jill Tarter, who thinks that such a civilization would have risen above such things and that the very fact that they are advanced enough to come to us means that they would be sophisticated, peaceful, and benevolent. Tarter said of this to Business Insider:
The idea of a civilization which has managed to survive far longer than we have…and the fact that that technology remains an aggressive one, to me, doesn’t make sense. The pressure of long-term survival — of limiting population…I think requires that the evolutionary trends that ratcheted up our intelligence…continues to evolve into something that’s cooperative and take on global scale problems.
In this line of reasoning, aggressiveness and evil are two traits that are not conducive to a species lasting very long, and that they by definition should have overcome them to have reached the stage where they can come here to begin with. Another SETI scientist who shares this sentiment is Dr. Doug Vakoch, who thinks that aliens might have evolved to a certain higher state of enlightenment, and would approach us to give us advice to save ourselves, saying, “We are in very precarious time in our development as a civilization. Our technologies are greater than our social stability. So if we make contact with another civilization that may be more advanced they may have got through the tech bottleneck and may have some advice.”
According to Vakoch it would be a huge mistake not to take the chance to reach out to aliens and bring them here, as the potential benefits for mankind would be enormous. Of course, there is the question of why in the world should they want to help us or teach us? What would they possibly have to gain from this? This is where opinions get decidedly more negative, and not everyone thinks technological progress equals a benign nature, as science fiction writer and marine biologist Peter Watts demonstrated when he pointed out:
If the best toys do end up in the hands of those who’ve never forgotten that life itself is an act of war against intelligent opponents, what does that say about a race whose machines travel between the stars?
Of course, not everyone has a rosy view of alien contact, and there are just as many people, if not more, who firmly believe that extraterrestrial intelligences would almost certainly be malevolent towards us, and could even spell the end of life as we know it. The sinister rationale here is that one need only look at how we humans on earth have exploited resources and other peoples and wiped each other out. In this scenario, aliens would be nefarious, resource hungry, aggressive beings, and here to either enslave us or exterminate us for whatever reasons. If they are anything like us, then the idea is that we should be very worried about meeting them. One of the most well-known proponents of the idea that aliens will be hostile was legendary physicist Stephen Hawking, who famously once said:
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans. We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.
Stephen Hawking
In this opinion, we are making a serious mistake by loudly advertising our presence to other civilizations with our radio messages, and that we should stop doing so immediately. As author and astrobiologist David Grinspoon has said, “If you live in a jungle that might be full of hungry lions, do you jump down from your tree and go, ‘Yoo-hoo?’” According to these often very vocal opponents of programs sending messages to the stars, we have to at the very least come together and actively discuss and debate the issue in order to come to a consensus and understanding of both the benefits and risks. There is no real official governing organization for deciding how to go about giving these messages and what is OK to send, and we are just sort of blindly calling out into space, uncertain of who will pick up on the other end and whether we really want them to. Lucianne Walkowicz, an astrophysicist at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, has said of our attempts to contact aliens:
There’s a possibility that if we actively message, with the intention of getting the attention of an intelligent civilization, that the civilization we contact would not necessarily have our best interests in mind. On the other hand, there might be great benefits. It could be something that ends life on Earth, and it might be something that accelerates the ability to live quality lives on Earth. We have no way of knowing.
It is all likely too late to do anything about it anyway, as our messages are out there, with no way to pull them back, so we’ll just have to wait and see. This all very interesting, and both sides of the debate have valid points, but all of this is assuming that aliens willingly come here for a specific reason. One aspect that I see discussed far less often is what if they sort of just stumble across us on some other business? What if they are either not tuned into our radio signals or aren’t listening, and then sort of find us by accident? What then? Again, there are several ways this could go, with varying levels of good or bad news for us. What would they do? Would they ignore us and fly right on by? Would they want to study us? Or would they just say, “hey check that out, that’s interesting,” and then squash us like a curious child squashing a weird bug that briefly catches their twisted curiosity?
If aliens should sort of just find us while passing through on some inscrutable errand, it has been argued that the very presence of life here would be enough to catch their attention, but how they would react would differ on why they are passing through and who they were. If they were scientists they might want to study us, but as pointed out before this does not necessarily equate to good news for us. There is also the fact that it is in no way certain that the ones who came across us would be scientists or even all that thrilled to find other lifeforms. They could be miners looking for planets, asteroids, and moons to mine, or something else, and all bets would be off. After all, how many archeological sites have been ruined because loggers found them instead of archeologists? How many species have been wiped out before they were even seen by scientists? If these were “interplanetary loggers” so to speak, then there is a very good chance they might be curious, but would almost certainly not have our best interests in mind, cruelly indifferent at best and destructive at worst. If they passed and actually decided to investigate rather than just ignore us we could be in a lot of trouble.
In the end, we just don’t know how alien contact would go down, and no idea of what the nature or intents of these unearthly visitors might be. We can only speculate and debate it, but we won’t really know until the day comes when they actually descend from the skies to bring either enlightenment or doom. In the meantime, we keep looking and keep blasting our calling card into space, wondering if we are alone or not, and ultimately time will tell whether this was a good idea or not.
Antarctica might as well be another planet. There is still much left to explore on the frozen continent on the bottom of the Earth, and it seems like each week there’s a new discovery which adds to the growing mystery of what might lie beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Strange lost continents? Unknown, bizarre organisms? Secret Nazi bases? How about all of the above, that do anything for ya?
This week, the latest bizarre Antarctica news concerns a mysterious, radioactive heat source melting the Antarctic ice sheet from below. Is this one of those crashed alien spacecraft the Google Earth people keep warning us about, or just some unknown geothermal process?
Of course it’s gonna be some boring rock phenomenon. It’s never aliens. Until it is. Scientists with the the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) found areas of the Antarctic Ice Sheet were melting unexpectedly quickly and used radar to peer through three kilometers of ice to determine what might be causing the melting. What the researchers discovered is an area twice the size of London which appears to be melting from the bottom up.
The researchers found that unusually radioactive rocks and hot water bubbling up from deep within the Earth were causing the melt, and the source of the radioactivity remains unknown. Thus, while the usual boogeyman of climate change can’t be cited as the cause, Dr. Tom Jordan from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) says this new phenomenon could speed up the melting caused by global warming:
The process of melting we observe has probably been going on for thousands or maybe even millions of years and isn’t directly contributing to ice sheet change. However, in the future the extra water at the ice sheet bed may make this region more sensitive to external factors such as climate change.
The discovery of this phenomenon was completely unexpected and shows how much more we have to learn about Antarctica. In many ways, the icy continent is one of the last great frontiers here on Earth – at least above the ocean. What secrets will it reveal in the future?
At the NASA site, they have a close up photo of part of the Eagle Nebula. Its an area that they thought looked like a fairy, so they named it The Fairy of Eagle Nebula. Yeah, you heard me right, NASA is seeing things in the nebulas...and no one laughs at them...yet, because I don't work for the US gov, many ridicule me. Who's laughing now?
I found that this part of the nebula is a figure, however its been viewed wrong. The photo has to be cut in half from top to bottom then flipped and added to itself...making one whole figure. This gives us the full figure of the alien it was made after. Remember its alien art, its meant to be viewed using a higher IQ than humans are suppose to have...humanity is not suppose to be able to see these or understand them. Its wearing a samurai type of armor. Humans made Mount Rushmore made from a entire mountain of stone...so you see, everyone likes to leave their mark for future generations, its just these aliens did it on a whole new level.
In the close up below, you see there are actually three heads, two of which are separate and looking down on the middle figure as if watching over him. Probably a spiritual reference to his ancestors of the the past insuring his safety for the future.
Do you remember I was talking about different civilization levels last week? Humanity still has not reached a type 1 civilization level yet, but what we are looking at is an alien figure in a nebula made by a type 5 civilization...which can manipulate space and time, basically, godly in every way.
Person in airplane filmed amazing footage of UFO in the sky of New York, Nov 23, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Person in airplane filmed amazing footage of UFO in the sky of New York, Nov 23, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 23, 2018
Location of sighting: New York, USA
This UFO was filmed flying along side a passenger jet over New York this week. The glowing orb is similar to the old WWII UFOs called foo fighters that use to follow fighter planes over the ocean.
However we do have to be careful that the reading lamps on the airplane are not reflecting in the window of the jet...which happens a lot. Unless a second video of this UFO comes in...it remains unknown.
Filer’s Files #47 – 2018 Rendlesham the Roswell of UK - PART I
Atlantic City. New Jersey- cylinder on November 15, 2018
Filer’s Files #47 – 2018 Rendlesham the Roswell of UK - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Robert White first Astronaut to Walk in Space Saw UFOs, Robert White first Astronaut to Walk in Space Saw UFOs, and Irish UFO Sighting
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Eire, France, India, Portugal, Spain, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
Robert White first Astronaut to Walk in Space Saw UFOs
On July 17, 1962 Major Robert White reported a UFO during his fifty-eight-mile high flight of an X-15. Major White reported: “I have no idea what it could be. It was grayish in color and about thirty to forty feet away.” Then according to a Time Magazine article, Major White exclaimed over the radio: “There ARE things out there! There absolutely is!”
Astronauts Ed White and James McDivitt, in June 1965, were passing over ‘the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii in a Gemini spacecraft when they saw a weird-looking metallic object.
One of their photos appeared to be cylinder shaped object. The UFO had long arms sticking out of it.
McDivitt took pictures with a cine-camera. Those pictures have never been released.
Rendlesham Forest Case the Roswell of Britain
Each year when December comes around I think of Britain’s foremost UFO incident Rendlesham Forest Case. I had Airman Larry Warren and Peter Robbins staying at my house for the weekend when they were preparing to write their fine book about the incident. Airman Larry Warren told us in detail of his experiences during the incident. From my perspective there are numerous eye witnesses in addition to Larry. I have talked to three and read the testimony of most who are willing to go public. In addition, I know how the military operates when a real event takes place and how they attempt to cover it up and bring in key UFO personal. The governments feel it is in their best interest not to verify any UFO or alien visitations after all they are greatly superior to us in technology and intelligence.
Dubbed the “British Roswell”, a similar incident concerning a UFO happened in Rendlesham Forest in 1980. On December 26, military personnel from RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, in Suffolk, England saw strange lights in a nearby forest – and three of them were sent out to investigate into Rendelsham Forest next to the bases.
The Rendlesham Forest incident took place on a series of at least two nights and possibly three nights on December 26 to 28, 1980. Military personnel at the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk saw a strange light in Rendlesham Forest, which lies between the two bases. Several military policemen men were sent out to investigate where two of the at least two encountered a small, triangular shaped craft.
One man, Jim Penniston, got close enough to touch the side of the object. He and another of the airmen present, John Burroughs, made sketches of the craft for witness statements. Two nights later Deputy Base Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt and his team encountered the UFO. Several books have been written about the incident and several eye witnesses have
USAF security police officer says he witnessed famous Rendlesham Forest UFO sighting, interview
Posted by: Philip Mantle who states "The Rendlesham Forest UFO sightings took place over several days in late December, 1980. Although exact dates have been disputed, according to the witnesses, it is likely the event began very late on December 25. The Rendlesham forest is flanked by two Royal Air Force (RAF) bases, RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge. At the time, both were on lease to the United States Air Force. Personnel from both bases reported seeing UFOs the night of the 25th into the early morning of the 26th.
Colonel Halt was the Deputy Base Commander at RAF Woodbridge in 1980, and was an eye witness to some of the UFO events observed in December 1980.
I have recently taken the opportunity to interview one of the US Airmen that was on duty on one of the nights in question. To the best of my knowledge he has not gone on the record before. His name is Steve Longero. I spoke with Steve twice on the telephone on October 29th & 30th 2016.
Who is Steve Longero ?
Steve Longero
My background:
I worked as a Police Officer for Dept of Veterans Affairs 1986-1988. I was hired by the County of Santa Clara Dept of Correction in 1988, I also was a Reserve Police Officer for the city of Manteca! I ended up retiring from the Sheriff’s office in Santa Clara County where I was recognized by the courts as a gang expert. I held the title of training officer, as was a team leader for the emergency response team there, until I retired in 2012.
I was a former Sergeant – Honorable Discharge – at USAF Security Police (1980 – 1984). Yes. I was in the forest, I saw the lights, heard the conversations, talked about it and was told to be quiet! My roommate was Ed Cabansag! I really never talked about it to Penniston and Burroughs but I was there! Warren can tell you! Yes we were debriefed and told to keep quiet!
Interview with Steve Longero by Phillip Mantle
Some of the following interview will be paraphrased while other parts will be verbatim.
Philip Mantle: Can you tell us when you joined the USAF.
Steve Longero: Yes, it’s been a long time. I joined in June 1980. Bentwaters was my first duty. I was a security policeman. You know my job was patrolling the flight line and the weapons storage area (WSA).
Photo of the weapons storage area at RAF Bentwaters.
(Credit: Philip Mantle)
Mantle: Do you remember the nights in question in late December 1980?
Longero: Yes, I sure do. I went on duty, what I remember that on one of those nights I was guarding the weapons storage area. He was on duty Dec. 26, 1980, the first night sightings were reported.
While on duty that night, we had a very sophisticated alarm system and everything just went off. And then, you know, I could see these lights over the treetops, and I was thinking, “What’s going on?” Then they started sending people out there and at first, you know, it was hard to believe, you know, all these bright lights. It was hard to take in. Well, from what I remember, the lights, fluorescent lights, kind of a glow, like a reddish glow. I remember going out there.
Steve went on to add that he went out into Rendlesham Forest and there were a lot of other people already there. The forest wasn’t that far from the perimeter. He was only a few hundred yards into the forest. He could not remember who ordered him to go out there. He remembered the flight chief being out there. He saw the lights in the forest. There were a number of others out there including Larry Warren and Jim Penniston and Cabansag. He was out in the forest from between one to two hours. A few days later they were told not to talk about it. Steve went on to confirm that OSI agents were there. He was asked to sign something and told not to talk about it.
He remembers seeing, among others, Larry Warren when they were told to obtain the ‘light alls’ (portable lights). These were used to light up the forest. So they were taken into the area.
Longero: I can’t remember verbatim what I saw that night but I was there.
Mantle: What I’d like to ask you again, Steve, is when you went out into the forest you could see the lights over the trees. Could you tell me what those lights looked like, please?
Longero: They looked like fluorescent colored lights, like red and green, glowing lights and that’s what they looked like.
Mantle: How long did you view them for do you reckon?
Longero: I’d say ten to fifteen minutes, and I could see them hovering over the treetops, and it was just hovering over the treetops, and it was just, just, like an eye that was almost following everybody.
Picture of Longero and his fellow airmen. Longero is in the bottom right.
Mantle:hen you went into the forest you mentioned others, can you remember anyone else who were there?
Longero: Yes, Penniston and Burroughs and Cabansag and, I remember others starting coming, we all kind of got dispatched there, if I remember, Larry was out there. Because, if I remember right, Larry was working at a gate and he got picked up by, I want to say, a Lt. Englund. I remember he was at the East Gate and I remember he, they transported people from there, like I said, they sent a lot of people out there.
(Larry Warren and Peter Robbins book “Left at East Gate.” On Dec 6, 2017 – Larry Warren passed a lie detector over the … Left at East Gate a first-hand account of the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident.)
Mantle: So when you were in the forest, can you explain to me what you saw and what was it like there?
Longero: It was real kind of quiet and, you know, this thing hovering over the trees, and you were like kind of tracking it and like, “What is this?,” you know, and it was like following, it was like watching us, that’s what it looked like to us. It seemed like something watching us.
Mantle: What color was it?
Longero: From what I remember, it was like aglow. It was really glowing like a reddish, greenish light. It was a like, it was really glowing. You know what it looked like, like something was really hot and it was just glowing.
Mantle: Did you see Col. Halt? Was he there?
Longero: Col. Halt came afterwards, yes, he came afterwards, after all that was called in. I remember him turning up. That’s when they kind of gathered everyone around and said this is what we are going to do, and everybody kind of dispersed and did what they were told to do. I remember we had like a little briefing right there and everybody was just like, we just could not believe what we were seeing. Your adrenalin was flowing and I remember people saying like, “What is that?,” you know.
Mantle: Now, I know I have asked you this question before Steve, but some people believe that you misidentified the lighthouse. What do you say to that?
Longero: (laughs). I don’t think so.
Mantle: Could you see the lighthouse at the same time?
Longero: I won’t say it was the lighthouse; no, it was not the lighthouse. Not unless the lighthouse could move (laughs). Unless they could float that thing in the air. And then, you know, as we got, as people were getting close to this thing,
it kind of came nearer to us and then it would go forward and then go back and all of a sudden it just disappeared, like something out of Star Trek. It was like warp speed and we were all, “What was that?” It was gone, and then that’s when they started doing all their investigations and I was just a, after we secured the area, they said, “Okay. You’re gone. Get out of here.”
Mantle: Was there a lot of talk about it back at base afterwards?
Longero: Oh yes. It was all over the base. It was a big topic.
Mantle: You said that you were debriefed a few days later. Is that right?
Longero: Yes, I want to say a day or two later. I remember that night we all used to go and eat at the chow hall and everybody was talking about it and I remember, in fact, I want to say I was sitting at the table where Penniston was sitting, and he was a Staff Sergeant, and he told all of us to stop talking about it. I remember that, you know, stop talking about it.
Mantle: You said, also, that Larry Warren was involved in helping set up the light-alls. Is that correct?
Longero: He was. Yes, that’s true.
Mantle: So who debriefed you Steve?
Longero: You know, Philip, I remember going in, they called us in individually, and I want to say that it was security police investigations, and I do believe that there was an OSI agent in there. I remember this OSI gentleman with a beard. I remember getting pulled in. I remember getting talked to by Major Zickler. I remember getting called into his office for something like that.
Newspaper breaking the story of the UFO sightings in the Rendlesham Forest.
Mantle: Can you remember what the conversation was (with Major Zickler)?
Longero: Well, you know, what you saw, remember where you work in the weapons storage area. It was like you don’t need to talk about this you don’t need to make a big deal out of this.
Mantle: And we are talking about nuclear weapons here aren’t we?
Longero: Yes sir.
Mantle: So, there was a lot of talk, was there a consensus about what this thing was?
Longero: Yes. It was like, “What did we see? Was this an experimental aircraft?” I remember that was one of the things, you know, “What was that?”
Mantle: What do you think it was?
Longero:I think it was something not from this world. Just because the way it hovered and just the way it disappeared. That’s what I think. That’s what I’ve always thought.
Mantle: You know Larry Warren has been criticized quite a bit. What do have to say in answer to that?
Longero: I think there were a lot of haters out there who just didn’t like Larry Warren. I liked Larry. I went to tech school with him and I never had a problem with Larry, but I know there were people in that unit that didn’t like him for whatever reason. Maybe they didn’t like his personality, but I never had any issue with Larry.
Mantle: But you definitely remember seeing him there, don’t you?
Longero: I remember, what I remember is that we had something to do with these light-all things, I remember, yes. And that was out there, yes.
Mantle: Did you get to know any of the civilians in the area at the time?
Longero: No. After that, I just kind of kept myself to myself, and kind of thought, “I’ll do my bit and get out of here.”
End of interview
Philip Mantle states, I have thanked Steve Longero for speaking to me and for going on the record for the very first time. Steve does not claim to be anything special, but he wanted to emphasize that there were a lot of others involved and who were witness to the events in question. Many of whom have yet to add their voice to these events.
Steve has confirmed the open secret that nuclear weapons were stored at RAF Bentwaters at the time, although, he did not personally witness any lights being shone onto the WSA. He has confirmed much of what Colonel Halt has already said on the record, and he is in no doubt that Larry Warren was there.
One thing that is clear is that there are probably many others who were stationed there at the time and, as yet, have not gone on the record. Let us hope that in some small way this article might encourage some of them to come forward.
Thanks to Philip Mantle December 6, 2016 to Open Minds
Two nights later, Deputy Base Commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt and his team also encountered the UFO – and were left baffled by the entire experience. He said later: “Here I am, a senior official who routinely denies this sort of thing and diligently works to debunk them, and I’m involved in the middle of something I can’t explain.” He has written an explosive new book called “The Halt Perspective” describing his close encounter and published by ’Haunted Skies.
To some, this case can change Ufology forever, while others dismiss it offering a variety of natural explanations to account for the observations in question. At one point, Halt described seeing an object resembling an eyeball moving through the trees, dripping a molten-metal-like substance.
Skeptics have claimed the airman were seeing the sweeping beam from the nearby Orford Ness lighthouse—despite the fact that Col. Halt has repeatedly said, as early as 1997, that the lighthouse beam was also visible during the incident, but 30-degrees away from the strange glowing object.
According to Halt, the eyeball eventually “exploded” and released five smaller disc-shaped craft that raced away in different directions,
After awhile, Halt says, three disc-shaped craft higher in the sky were observed doing grid search-like maneuvers. One of them approached his team, hovered above it, and directed a laser-like beam at their feet. After a few seconds, the beam clicked off and the object moved away, in the direction of the WSA. Seconds later, Halt heard excited radio chatter from guards posted at the facility, indicating that beams from the UFO were falling on or near the tactical nuclear bomb storage bunkers! Interestingly, a UFO trail at Rendlesham Forest, has become a tourist hotspot.
In January 2018, video footage revealed former base commander Charles Halt made explosive claims that airmen involved in the case were likely abducted by “aliens”.
Air Policeman Larry Warren told me he had been abducted by aliens and taken to an underground base. The aliens seemed very concerned about the nuclear weapons stored on Bentwaters RAF Base. They seemed prepared to stop humans from starting a nuclear war which has the potential of destroying life on the planet. Upon release Larry phoned his mother in the United States and told her about the abduction. He was then picked up by high ranking Air Force personnel and transferred immediately to Germany.
Airmen involved in ‘British Roswell’ may have been abducted by aliens, retired US colonel claims in secret footage Sgt Penniston got so close, he even managed to touch the craft, describing it as “smooth to the touch” and covered with strange symbols similar to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs – before it took off.
I personally spoke to Sgt. Penniston whose military medical records have disappeared preventing him from claiming any help from the Veteran’s Administration. His description of the craft and the incident seem realistic and In video footage obtained exclusively by Sun Online, the deputy commander of the base at the time, Charles Halt, can be heard stating that Burroughs “may have been abducted” and that the men were “unaccounted for” for hours.
Penniston left and Burroughs right headed into the woods to investigate some strange flashing lights, which is where they saw the UFO. Jim Penniston placed his hand upon the mysterious glyphs on the surface of the craft. When he did so, he became engulfed in a bright white light, and lost all sense of sight and sound. When he “awoke” from this trance-like state, he found himself standing near the craft. It began to glow once again, then ascended above the trees and vanished in an instant.
The following day, Penniston began to see them: images in his mind of thousands of ones and zeros. He didn’t know what to make of them, but he wrote them down in his notebook, along with drawings of the strange glyphs (you can view these drawings here)..
As soon as he finished writing them down, the images of the ones and zeros vanished from his mind. He put the notebook away, out of sight, and forgot about them.
The Binary Code
It wasn’t until the year 2010, after being contacted to share his story on the popular History Channel program Ancient Aliens, that Penniston revealed the existence of his notebook filled with the cryptic ones and zeros.
Along with the help of Linda Moulton Howe and other experts, he discovered that the ones and zeros were actually binary code, and when translated contained the following message:
What he saw astounded him: had he been granted an otherworldly message in binary code? It consisted of what seemed to be coordinates to locations around the world: Caracol, Belize; Sedona, Arizona; the Great Pyramid of Giza; the Nazca Lines in Peru; Tai Shan Qu, China; the Portara at the Temple of Apollo in Nexos, Greece; and a purported location of the mysterious phantom island, Hy-Brasil. Later he determined the message told that the aliens were from a base under the sea southwest of Ireland at 52 degrees North and 15 West.
Penniston, as well as others who have analyzed the strange message, does not believe that the craft he saw at Rendlesham Forest was extraterrestrial in nature. Instead, looking closely at the contents of the message, a bizarre possibility unravels: is it a message from the future?
It also posits that the binary message itself is actually the product of human time travelers from the year 8100 (hence “Origin Year 8100”). These same time travelers, whatever their purpose (“Exploration of Humanity,” perhaps?), are also responsible for most UFO sightings, and are in fact the ones leaving mysterious crop circles around the planet.
It is suggested that these crop circles are actually markers for fellow time travelers to assist them in navigating multiple timelines.
The coordinates in the message may be the locations of hidden portals on Earth that would allow for travel to other worlds. Or, perhaps, they mark the locations where the time machines exist where time travelers have traveled before.
Two nights later, the UFO returned, and Halt led a team of military experts into the woods in a bid to “debunk” the claims.
Retired Colonel Charles Halt, left, and Gary Heseltine, right, revisited Rendlesham Forest in 2010 for a documentary that was never completed.
For years it has been rumored Penniston and Burroughs, who were security policemen, may have been snatched by the UFO as they were out of radio communication with their Central Security Control (CSC) for several hours – but no one officially involved in the incident has ever publicly stated it.
Now former British police detective Gary Heseltine has released a video clip from 2010 – when he toured the forest with Halt for a documentary that was never made.
The video clip was recorded by Heseltine’s wife during a break in filming and shows Heseltine walking with Halt in the forest in an effort to retrace his steps during the third night of UFO activity during the 1980 incident. Thanks to the UK Sun News
UFO Moving at Incredible Speed Tracked By Radar
Researcher Robert Hastings interviewed the now-retired radar controllers who say they tracked a bona fide UFO that covered 120 miles in eight seconds, 54,000 mph or three sweeps of their radar beam! If that were not stunning enough, Carey says the object also made an instantaneous right-angle turn as it left the vicinity. For his part, Barker says he actually saw the amazing interloper as it briefly hovered near the air traffic control tower, describing it as an orange sphere with a series of portholes positioned around its center. The two U.S. Air Force air traffic controllers who were working in the RAF Bentwaters base tower in late December 1980—during the series of incidents collectively known as the Rendlesham Forest UFO Case—have finally discussed their long-held secret on camera.
Ike Barker and Jim Carey first spoke to me in 2007, allowing me to record their revelations on audio tape. But their dramatic, game-changing testimony is now available on video, in an interview appearing in my new documentary film, UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed, excerpted here:
The now-retired controllers say they tracked a bona fide UFO that covered 120 miles in eight seconds. the object also made an instantaneous right-angle turn as it left the vicinity. For his part, Barker says he actually saw the amazing interloper as it briefly hovered near the air traffic control tower, describing it as an orange sphere with a series of portholes positioned around its center.
Both controllers are emphatic: This was an intelligently-controlled craft whose capabilities far surpassed any current human technology. Significantly, the incident occurred the same night that USAF Lt. Col. Charles Halt was leading a small group of Security Policemen through nearby Rendlesham Forest. At one point, Halt described seeing an object resembling an eyeball moving through the trees, dripping a molten-metal-like substance.
Skeptics have always dismissed this “UFO sighting” as a misreported observation of the sweeping beam from the nearby Orford Ness lighthouse—despite the fact that Col. Halt has repeatedly said, as early as 1997, that the lighthouse beam was also visible during the incident, but located some 30-degrees away from the strange glowing object.
According to Halt, the eyeball eventually “exploded” and released five smaller disc-shaped craft that raced away in different directions. After awhile, Halt says, three disc-shaped craft higher in the sky were observed doing grid search-like maneuvers. One of them approached his team, hovered above it, and directed a laser-like beam at their feet. After a few seconds, the beam clicked off and the object moved away. Seconds later, Halt heard excited radio chatter from guards posted at the facility, indicating that beams from the UFO were falling on or near the tactical nuclear bomb storage bunkers!’
Georgina Bruni, interviewed a former British military radar operator at RAF Watton, Nigel Kerr, who admitted that an anomalous aerial object had appeared on his screen—for three or four sweeps—the night that Lt. Col. Halt and his team were in the woods. One UFO at RAF Bentwaters Appeared on Radar:
Now that the USAF air traffic controllers’ extensive, detailed testimony is also on the record, we can confidently assert that at least one genuine UFO—a high-velocity, maneuvering, hovering, spherical-shaped craft exhibiting advanced technology—was in the vicinity during the period that Halt described seeing multiple UFOs in the sky. A comprehensive assessment of the entire Rendlesham Forest Case is featured in the book, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites,
Despite an MOD investigation the Rendlesham Forest incident remains unexplained.
Irish UFO Sighting
The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating reports of bright lights and UFOs off the south-west coast of Ireland.
It began at 06:47 local time on Friday 9 November when a British Airways pilot contacted Shannon air traffic control.
She wanted to know if there were military exercises in the area because there was something “moving so fast”.
The air traffic controller said there were no such exercises.
The pilot, flying from the Canadian city of Montreal to Heathrow, said there was a “very bright light” and the object had come up along the left side of the aircraft before it “rapidly veered to the north”. He was wondering what it could be but said it did not seem to be heading for a collision.
Another pilot from a Virgin plane joined in and suggested it might be a meteor or another object re-entering the earth’s atmosphere.
He said there were “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory” and that they were very bright.
The pilot said he saw “two bright lights” over to the right which climbed away at speed.
One pilot said the speed was “astronomical, it was like Mach 2” – which is twice the speed of sound.
“It also appears there were bits coming off the object and flying past the aeroplane, that is also what you would expect if it was a particularly large rock from space hitting the atmosphere, it would tend to fragment.”
“Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday 9 November of unusual air activity the IAA has filed a report,” the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) said.
“This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process.”
A spokesperson for Shannon Airport said it would not be appropriate for the airport to comment while the IAA investigation is ongoing.
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Filer’s Files #47 – 2018 Rendlesham the Roswell of UK - PART II
Filer’s Files #47 – 2018 Rendlesham the Roswell of UK - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Glendale— Standing outside looking to the east I noticed lights changing colors but not moving on November 21, 2018
I ruled out aircraft in the sky to the east. with lights changing very fast. just to be sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks on me. I recorded video for 56 seconds and could see the lights on my phone screen. where in fact these lights were changing and that this was something I have never seen. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
A few friends of mine and I were sitting on my porch smoking cigarettes when we noticed something falling from the sky, at first it appeared to be a meteor but then we noticed it stopped and started going to the side after hovering for a while. Another object appeared next to it on November14, 2018. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Light
Canon – Just north of Royal Gorge Bridge and Park Road 3A. at 8:45 PM on September 10th, 2008 I witnessed a super bright light penetrating thru a heavy cloud around a craft. I saw about 5 men in dark jumpsuits loading things up into a rectangular structure. It was exposed just under the mist hovering above ground. I was driving west and turned off my car lights when I first saw a bright light filtering thru the trees 75 yards away. I had a clear view at this activity for three minutes and my wife witnessed this as well. Five men in jump-suits were silhouetted lifting up black boxes maybe 3 feet square by 4 feet long and one box the same size as a coffin. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Margate— There’s a light beam that cuts through the daylight sky on November 11, 2018. . It’s only on mornings with clear visibility. I’m raised in South Florida and these weren’t always here. Over the past 7-8 years I’ve been trying to figure it out. What can harness enough light to reflect it back out into space visibly in a daylight sky? I’ve got plenty of pictures and news reporters pass it off as a reflection from a water tower. There aren’t any water towers visible as far as eyes can see. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Cylinder
Atlantic City– My nephew was looking out window from passenger side backside on November 15, 2018, he asked me, “What the object was on my side, right side’. First I did a whole checklist in my head and when I couldn’t explain it . I started filming. It was bright like a Star and shaped like a tic tac. It hovered in what looked like downward direction. It was there until we were to far away. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Lights
Utica — I recorded them my patio on October 22, 2018, at 6:30 PM. There were seven UFO orbs in formation!! ufosoverny Utica NY Video
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Flash
Columbus — Arrived at work and upon exiting my vehicle noticed the lightning in the clouds. There was no sound associated with it and I felt odd on May 22, 2005. As I recorded the event a streak of green light shot across the sky and couldn’t make sense of what I had recorded. Shared with local meteorologist in email and the reply was it didn’t appear to be natural phenomena.. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oklahoma Cylinder
Norman— A friend of mine took this picture on his cell phone while driving East on Robinson Street, in front of the Airport/YMCA in Norman, Koon on October 0, 2018.
Note: The photo was taken from inside of a vehicle. Chances are that the objects (ring and lights) are a reflection of something on the windows of the vehicle. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Texas Objects
Lipan — We’ve had multiple sightings from Utah to Texas the last 3 months. But it’s getting more and more like an everyday occurrence now. I have multiple pix and videos ranging from lights in the sky at night, to shots of beams coming out of the moon at night. The sun that is not the sun, like a human flying 2-3000 yards up in the air moving at a high rate of speed. I need to get these pix and videos into someone who can use a computer to digitally enhance. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Lights
Lamsburg Parkway — I was taking some night shots with my new camera on the Blue Ridge Parkway on November 22, 2018. I realized there were strange lights in the sky. In two pictures, taken roughly a minute apart from each other, 6 lights appear to be hovering in the left side of the shot. In the second picture, they seem to be leaving, with only 3 lights visible, leading me to believe I captured UFOs in the distance. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Worm Hole
This was a picture I took in 2016 when i got my new telescope the Celestron Cpc 11 inch with a Cannon Dslr attached. This was a deep sky object which I only had one chance to take one pic with my telescope on the Sunshine Coast Queensland , this thing was huge but did not last long. To me it looked like a worm hole that had a huge amount of light inside it . Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ballivor, Co. Meath— My daughter saw a bell shaped UFO at 4.55 GMT on November 23, 2018, The object was hovering due south. There was a sound which she described as a cross between a jet and a helicopter. It had two red lights which flashed on and off alternatively about every second. The dome glowed very bright yellow. It rose slowly at a slight diagonal and then blinked out of existence. Five seconds later she saw a shooting star tracing South East. She was in bed at the time and the light drew her attention to the object. She put on her glasses and saw the object clearly and immediately thought it was a UFO. She was frightened and sent me a text. She did not lose sight of the object, it just blinked out of existence. The attached sketches are of the object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Possible Airliner
Paris — Have you ever seen an airliner moving backward? My video I took back in August 2017, shows a fake plane” hovering on Ivry-Sur-Seine, just beyond the south-eastern side of Paris Ring Road. Airliners descend and approach their final destination at Paris airport following exactly the same path every single night, this one was showing the same intense front light of a descending plane but was not proceeding toward the airport as usual. It was standing still hovering. that’s what caught my attention and made me decide to take a video with my camera (Canon Powers hot sx20 is, optical zoom 20x). Frames (#0173 and #1564) show how the plane moved from right to left in less than 40 seconds. The object changed from orange to green with a strange kind of elongated “rod.” Thanks to MUFON CMS
India Light
Ahmedabad — I was sitting on the sofa with my laptop on November 21, 2018 near the window. While smoking I noticed a triangular light above a building. When I looked out again I realized that it was higher than before and so I took my phone to take a video. I noticed it was gradually rising and disappeared completely. 6. I have always believed in UFOs Thanks to MUFON CMS
Portugal Light
Luzes— Good morning, I was at home when I saw these lights in the sky.
I do not know what they are. I took the film on November11, 2018
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Spain Object
Carretera Del Jerez A Ro –The photo was taken from the road of Rota to Jerez to test camera zoom, Nothing was seen at the time of the shot. There is a dark object near the top of the photo with the background of aero field generators and appliances of white color.
Photography was taken on November 8, 2007. I sent the original they must play with the contrast and the brightness to see them well. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK Disc
Hull— Sitting in my office, playing guitar, looking at CCTV of a helicopter flying west to east, on September 2, 2018. A dark silent object shooting across the sky from south to north, we were like “What was that” it just flew out of camera, we would like to know what it was. Files 1,2.3 are the ufo, it doesn’t appear in 3 until 14.26.04 and it is reversed slowed down 8 times. 4, 5 are the helio shadow which made us look.
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Discovery In China contradicts current archaeological beliefs
Discovery In China contradicts current archaeological beliefs
Scientists in China discovered a treasure: Stone cuttings, sophisticated tools made by Stone Age men. The problem is that the tools are far too old to be made by Homo sapiens.
Researchersreport in the scientific journal "Nature"about newly found Levallois tools, which do not fit into the picture of known human history at all. In southeastern China, in the Guanyindong Cave, the researchers discovered 45 stone fragments that were clearly crafted using the Levallois technique - but which are actually far too old for this region. Until now, it was assumed that humans reached southeast China only 40,000 years ago.
A completely different kind of human species?
In contrast, the new found tools are 170,000 to 80,000 years old. Archaeologists are now faced with a mystery: Who made these tools?
The discoverers of the Chinese findings around Bo Li from the Australian University Wollongong consider two plausible possibilities. Either Homo sapiens actually arrived in China earlier than previously thought. Or else, a completely different kind of human species manufactured the tools.
Denisova humans could have made the tools. So far, we can only speculate about their way of life - their fossils were found in a cave in the Siberian Altai Mountains. It is possible that their wanderings also brought them to southeastern China. That's not exactly close either. But still closer than Africa.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA heeft een eerste haarscherpe foto gedeeld die de InSight nam na zijn succesvolle landing op Mars. Het toestel stuurde gisteravond al een wazige foto door van de rode planeet, maar de nieuwe opname geeft een veel beter beeld van waar InSight precies terecht is gekomen en wat er op de landingssite te zien is.
“Er is hier een stille schoonheid”, tweette NASA in naam van het toestel afgelopen nacht bij de foto. “Ik kijk ernaar uit om mijn nieuwe thuis te verkennen.”
De InSight landde gisteravond om 20.54 uur Belgische tijd met succes op Mars, na een ruimtereis van 482 miljoen kilometer die ongeveer zeven maanden duurde. De Marsverkenner zal de komende twee jaar in de bodem van Mars boren om de binnenkant van de planeet te onderzoeken.
De landing zelf was een heuse thriller. Ongeveer een uur ervoor stuurde het controlecentrum op aarde de laatste aanwijzingen door naar het toestel en daarna was het in spanning afwachten en hopen dat alles goed ging. “Het duurt acht minuten voor een radiosignaal van ons Mars bereikt”, aldus Rob Grover, die de leiding had over de landing. “We konden de InSight dus niet door middel van een joystick in real time besturen. Alles moest automatisch gebeuren.”
Het apparaat - dat ruim een miljard dollar heeft gekost - kwam met een snelheid van bijna 20.000 kilometer per uur de atmosfeer van Mars binnen. In minder dan zeven minuten moest het zien af te remmen naar bijna nul. De onderkant van de lander was van cruciaal belang om InSight te beschermen tegen de enorme hitte die zo ontstond.
Afgezien van het hitteschild was ook de hoek waarin de landingscapsule de atmosfeer van Mars raakte, belangrijk. Die moest exact 12 graden zijn. Was de hoek te klein geweest, dan zou InSight afgekaatst zijn en voor eeuwig de ruimte in geslingerd. Was de hoek te groot, dan zou de sonde door de wrijving met de lucht als een vuurbal ten onder zijn gegaan.
Parachute
Het lukte en ongeveer drieënhalve minuut nadat de capsule de Mars-atmosfeer raakte, ging een parachute open die het ruimtetuig verder afremde. Enkele seconden later bliezen explosieven het hitteschild weg. Dat was het moment dat InSight zich opmaakte voor de daadwerkelijke landing. Enkele seconden later stak de sonde drie poten uit. Het toestel bengelde dan nog een minuut of twee onder de parachute.
EPA
45 seconden voor de landing moest InSight de capsule verlaten en moesten zijn landingsraketten het laatste remwerk overnemen. De boosters stopten elke horizontale beweging, waardoor de InSight loodrecht omlaag kwam. In de laatste 15 seconden haalde het toestel nog een snelheid van amper 2,5 meter per seconde. De Marslander landde vervolgens feilloos op de rode planeet.
Photo News
InSight kwam neer in Elysium Planitia, een kale vlakte net boven de evenaar van Mars. De vluchtleiding koos die plek in de hoop dat er weinig rotsen of stenen lagen die het de Marslander moeilijk konden maken bij de landing. En ook bij zijn missie. InSight gaat namelijk metersdiep in de bodem van Mars boren, zodat wetenschappers te weten komen wat er onder het oppervlak zit en inzicht krijgen in de geschiedenis van de rode planeet. Dat boren gaat eenvoudiger op een ondergrond die waterpas staat. Doordat er geen schaduwen zijn, kunnen de zonnepanelen van de lander bovendien meer energie opwekken op die plaats.
Photo NewsHet eerste beeld van Mars dat de InSight doorstuurde.
De Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België werkt mee aan het project. Bart van Hove, onderzoeker bij de KSB, is blij met de succesvolle landing. “Het was een geweldig moment. We hebben hier op het observatorium met een stuk of 20 mensen de landing samen bekeken.”
Marsbevingen
De KBS zal de gegevens van het Amerikaanse radio-instrument RISE (Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment) analyseren om een beeld te vormen van de inwendige structuur van de planeet. Professor Véronique Dehant is op de Sterrenwacht verantwoordelijk voor het verwerken van de gegevens van RISE. Ze maakt ook deel uit van het SEIS-team van het Franse ruimtevaartbureau CNES. Dat zal met een seismometer ‘Marsbevingen’ detecteren en registreren.
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Het vermoeden is dat die bevingen er wel zijn, alleen anders dan op Aarde. Mars heeft geen tektonische platen zoals onze planeet, maar onderzoekers denken de komende jaren toch tientallen tot honderden bevingen waar te kunnen nemen. Ook die trillingen kunnen iets vertellen over het binnenste van Mars.
Vandaag gaat het werk van de InSight meteen van start. InSight heeft vannacht zijn zonnepanelen al geopend en dat gemeld aan het controlecentrum. De orbiter Mars Odyssey stuurde de signalen door naar de aarde, waar ze omstreeks 2.30 uur Belgische tijd aankwamen. Door de zonnepanelen kan de robot elke dag zijn batterijen opladen, aldus NASA.
Zonnepanelen
De twee zonnepanelen van het ruimtetuig zijn elk 2,2 meter breed. Hoewel Mars minder zonlicht krijgt dan de aarde, vanwege de afstand tot de zon, heeft de robot niet veel nodig om te kunnen werken, aldus NASA. Op een klaarlichte dag leveren de panelen 600 tot 700 watt, wat meer dan voldoende moet zijn om de instrumenten van de robot te doen werken. Wanneer de panelen door stof zijn bedekt, wat vaak kan voorkomen op Mars, zouden de panelen nog zeker 200 tot 300 watt leveren.
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NASA's InSight Probe Has Successfully Landed on Mars
NASA's InSight Probe Has Successfully Landed on Mars
It’s the eighth time a vessel from the space agency has reached the red planet.
Update: NASA’s InSight probe landed safely on the Martian surface at around 3pm EST on Monday afternoon. The successful landing marks the eighth time a vessel from the space agency has reached the red planet, where it’s expected to investigate Mars’ interior and shed light on our own solar system.
Original story: NASA is heading back to Mars.
The space agency will attempt another Martian landing today when its latest robotic probe, the InSight Lander, attempts to parachute down to the red planet at around 3pm EST. Launched in May with the intention of studying the planet’s internal temperature, wind and seismic activity among other vitals, InSight is primed for a battle when it enters Mars’ thin atmosphere and attempts to land on the arid planes of the Elysium Planitia.
According to NASA, only 40 percent of Martian expeditions are successful—owing to the thin air, scientific instruments often fail to slow down and crash on the rocky surface— which is why watching InSight’s descent this afternoon is most certainly worth your while.
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There’ll be a bunch of live feeds broadcasting the probe’s journey and you can tune in anywhere free of charge, as long as you’ve got an internet connection. Here’s how to watch:
NASA TV will be streaming the event with live commentary starting at 2pm EST.
If social media is more your speed, the space agency will have a live feed on its Twitter page starting at 2pm.
NASA’s YouTube page will also be streaming the scene from mission control, starting at 2pm. The video is also linked at the top of this post.
Ustream.tv will be showing the view from mission control, starting at 2pm.
If everything goes according to plan, the probe will ostensibly look at home on the red planet’s craggy surface:
The Secret of Ancient Technology That Modern Science Tried to Hide (Video)
The Secret of Ancient Technology That Modern Science Tried to Hide (Video)
With Michael Tellingers dedication to discovering, tracking, and revealing vanished civilizations, it’s now possible to reach into the minds of our ancient forefathers to discover a purpose greater than what we might have expected.
Michael looks at major discoveries in the field of ancient Technology and delivers proof of advancement in the form of tools and artefacts that support his scientific findings.
He discovered more than 10 million stone ruins that are not dwellings,but energy generating devices. this vanished civilization had an astute knowledge of the laws of nature and the generation of free ENERGY from Mother Earth for all their needs.
Scholars have told us that the first civilization on Earth emerged in a land called Sumer some 6000 years ago.
New archaeological and scientific discoveries made by Tellinger and a team of leading scientists, show that the Sumerians and even the Egyptians inherited all their knowledge from an earlier civilization that lived at the southern tip of Africa more than 200,000 years ago… mining gold.
WETENSCHAPDe Marslander ‘Insight’ is gisteravond veilig en wel geland op Mars, na 6,5 maanden vliegen. De opluchting was groot bij de vluchtleiders van de NASA, want de afdaling in de atmosfeer van Mars, de zogenaamde Seven Minutes of Terror, was een hachelijke onderneming. Maar hoe belangrijk is die landing op Mars nu? VTM NIEUWS-anchor Freek Braeckman zet alles eens op een rijtje.
“We zijn in elk geval hard bezig om Mars van alle kanten te bestuderen. ‘InSight’ gaat binnenkort boren om te onderzoeken wat er onder het oppervlak van Mars verscholen zit”, zegt Freek. “Naast ‘Insight’ is ook ‘Curiosity’ nog altijd actief: een Marswagentje van drie meter lang, dat op 600 kilometer van ‘InSight’ rondrijdt en naar sporen van leven speurt. In een baan om Mars cirkelen er nog één Europese en één Russisch-Europese, één Indiase en drie Amerikaanse onderzoekssatellieten. Allemaal op zoek naar inzicht in de aard van Mars.”
“In 2020, dat is pas de volgende keer dat Mars gunstig staat voor een lancering, willen Europa, de VS, Japan, India en China elk een eigen Marswagentje sturen. Alweer voor verkenning, en een beter begrip.”
Binnenkort naar Mars?
Maar zien we dan binnenkort ook de eerste man of vrouw op Mars? “Dat is nog veraf”, vertelt Freek. “Het Nederlandse project ‘Mars One’ wilde vier mensen een kaartje aanbieden, enkele reis, in 2024. Om daar voor altijd te blijven, want terug geraken is de grootste moeilijkheid. Maar dat is al minstens tot 2032 uitgesteld. En de meest valabale kandidaat, het Amerikaanse NASA, wil ook gaan, na 2030 ergens. Of de technologie klaar zal zijn dan? We zijn er nog lang niet.”
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Buitenaardse schedel ontdekt in China. Lees wat deze ufoloog erover zegt
Buitenaardse schedel ontdekt in China. Lees wat deze ufoloog erover zegt
Een Chinese ufoloog is ervan overtuigd dat hij een buitenaardse schedel in zijn bezit heeft. Schrijver en onderzoeker Li Jianmin onthulde zijn ontdekking afgelopen maand tijdens een bijeenkomst in Peking, meldt de Chinese krant Global Times.
De schedel is bruin van kleur en heeft een doorsnee van zo’n 16 centimeter.
Li claimt dat de schedel niet afkomstig is van een mens, maar bestaat uit ‘twee lagen’.
Rapport
Foto: AsiaWire/bqshenyidu
De 55-jarige Li zei dat de schedel (foto rechts) eigendom is van een privéverzamelaar die het voorwerp in de autonome regio Binnen-Mongolië had gekocht van een straatverkoper.
“De verzamelaar zei dat de schedel erg leek op een afbeelding in mijn boek,” legde Li uit. “Hij vroeg me om de afkomst te bevestigen.”
Na vier maanden onderzoek publiceerde Li een 103 pagina’s tellend rapport over de mysterieuze schedel.
Andere landen
“Ik heb ramanspectroscopie uitgevoerd, een atoomkrachtmicroscoop gebruikt en de schedel vergeleken met buitenaardse schedels die in andere landen zijn gevonden,” zei Li.
Hij wacht nu tot hij genoeg geld heeft voor verder onderzoek. “Een DNA-analyse kost alleen al zo’n 100.000 yen (13.000 euro).”
Li staat achter zijn bevindingen. “Je mag me altijd vragen stellen. Maar als je me wilt uitdagen moet je wel zorgen voor bewijs.”
The Man Who Was Sentenced To 14 Years For Making ‘Anti-Gravity’ Vehicles
The Man Who Was Sentenced To 14 Years For Making ‘Anti-Gravity’ Vehicles
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
Anti-gravity technology has been around for decades, and there is much proof of that. One of the pioneers was Otis T. Carr, who was subjected to large amounts of ridicule and difficulty while pursuing his developments.
Reflect On:
If the release of this technology would completely wipe out the Oil Industry and collapse the monetary system, does that legitimize the suppressing of it? Is our collective consciousness ready for technologies that would change our entire society?
It’s astonishing to me how the topic of anti-gravity is still be placed in the “conspiracy theory” realm. This isn’t the stuff of conspiracy theories or “fringe” science, it’s a field full of reputable scientists and scholars, and real-world examples that have come not only from hard evidence but from extremely credible witness testimony as well. One thing is for certain when talking about such topics: one must delve into the black budget world.
Take, for example, a recent investigation conducted by a Michigan State University professor and a former secretary from the Department of Housing and Development. Together, with a team of Ph.D students, they uncovered approximately $21 trillion that went missing and unaccounted for from the Department of Defense as well as the Department of Housing and Development. Why is this relevant? Because they discovered that the money was going to fund black budget, off the books programs that require no oversight from Congress. This black budget world has been in operation for many years. You can read more about it here and here in two articles I’ve previously written on the subject.
Breakaway Civilization
The black budget world encompasses a separate civilization (Richard Dolan, “Breakaway Civilization”) that has used tremendous amounts of resources in all areas, from science to archaeology, to move itself far ahead of the mainstream world technologically. How many people does it employ? Who is operating it? Many of these questions remain unknown, but if you follow the money it will give you perhaps somewhat of an idea.
Any civilian who invents technology that rivals the black budget world has always been subjected to harassment, and has difficulty getting their innovations or inventions out to the public. That’s because these technologies have been ‘classified’, for if they were made public it would change everything, severely threatening the tremendous amount of power and control the global elite has over the human population.
The technology that’s been developed within these programs could change the world, but instead it’s used within the military-industrial complex for self-serving purposes, or so it seems. Efficient energy-generating devices that could eliminate the use of oil, or any other modern day fuel source for that matter, have been subjected to patent suppression.
Suppressed Technology List From 1971
For example, the previous list regarding technology suppressed was obtained by researcher Michael Ravnitzky in 1971. Most of the technology listed seems to be related to various military applications. You can view that list here. As 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%.”
Why would higher energy efficiencies be a “national security threat?” If this is true, we are talking about solar technology that goes far beyond the best commercial panels available today, which usually can’t even generate 20 percent efficiency.
“These concepts have been proven in hundreds of laboratories throughout the world and yet they have not really seen the light of day. If these technologies were to be set free worldwide, the change would be profound, it would be applicable everywhere. These technologies are absolutely the most important thing that has happened in the history of the world”
– Brian O’Leary, Former Nasa Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor, speaking about over-unity energy, or ‘free’ energy.
Anti-Gravity technology most probably falls into this category. According to the very first director of the CIA, Roscoe Hiellenkoetter, we know that there was an “official campaign of secrecy and ridicule” with regards to UFOs while stating that Air Force officers were well aware of their existence. Today we have electro-optical data and even physical evidence, not to mention credible witness testimony of technologies performing and demonstrating this type of technology.
We have statements from previous as well as the most recently retired Directors of Lockheed Martin Aerospace programs, like Steve Justice. So, what did Mr. Justice have to say? Well, a lot of things. One of the first statements he made using the To The Stars platform is that, when it comes to the technologies he’s been around, worked with, and seen, it would be an understatement to call them revolutionary. They are also working on a craft that mimics observations they’ve seen in UFOs, as he stated:
It mimics the capabilities observed in unidentified aerial phenomenon by employing a driver system that alters the 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.
So, as you can see, this type of technology is no joke. Many of the UFOs we see may be made by humans, others, probably not. The point is, they are here, within the “science division.”
“It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system.”
– Hermannn Oberth , one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry.
Anti-gravity technology has been around for a long time.
A paper entitled “Outside The Box” Space & Terrestrial Transportation & Energy Technologies For The 21st Century written by Professor Theodore Lodre of the University of New Hampshire reviews the development of anti-gravity research in the United States and emphasizes how “research activity seemed to disappear by the mid-1950s.” It then looks into recently reported scientific findings and witness testimonies “that show us that this research and technology is alive and well and very advanced. The revelations of findings in this area will alter dramatically our 20th-century view of physics and technology and must be considered in planning for both energy and transportation needs in the 21st century.”
Otis T. Carr
Otis T. Carr is one of many examples throughout history where there are clues that highly advanced technologies like anti-gravity crafts are actually legit. Given everything we know now, as well as what happened to Carr, only strengthens this suspicion.
In the late 1950s, OTC Enterprises, Inc. of Baltimore, Maryland put out a statement that was published in the April 3rd edition of the Baltimore Enterprise. The statement came in the form of a claim that the company was ready to manufacture a flying saucer that was capable of travel outside of the Earth’s atmosphere. All that was needed was a massive amount of funding, approximately 20 million dollars. The equivalent to that today is probably several billion.
Otis Carr with anti gravity vehicle model.
Now keep in mind that this is the 1950s. There was a big wave of UFO sightings at this time, especially after the Atom bomb was dropped. The topic was getting a lot of mainstream media attention. Rumors of “crashed craft, and bodies recovered,” that Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell claimed were real were running rampant at this time. Did ‘the powers that be’ or ‘the military-industrial complex’ have saucer technology at this time? Based on my research, it certainly seems that way. Take, for example, a document from the Central Intelligence Agency’s Electronic reading room:
“A German newspaper recently published an interview with George Klein, famous German engineer and aircraft expert, describing the experimental construction of ‘flying saucers’ carried out by him from 1941 to 1945.”
The document goes on to describe how many people believed ‘flying saucers’ to be a postwar development. They were actually in the planning stages in German aircraft factories as early as 1941. The document then goes on to mention an experiment described by Klein:
“The “flying saucer” reached an altitude of 12,400 meters within 3 minutes and a speed of 2,200 kilometers per hour. Klein emphasized that in accordance with German plans, the speed of these “saucers” would reach 4,000 kilometers per hour. One difficulty, according to Klein, was the problem of obtaining the materials to be used for the construction of the “saucers,” but even this had been solved by German engineers toward the end of 1945, and construction on the objects was scheduled to begin, Klein added.
Otis T. Carr, as mentioned above, had similar claims. He even put on numerous demonstrations for the public and amassed millions of dollars from extremely wealthy people to do so. If they did not believe him, and if he had not shown some promise, how did he receive all of this funding?
Think about it. We now know for a fact that global militaries have long had an interest in the UFO phenomenon. They’ve been asking who, what, where, when and how for a very long time, and of course it’s considered a national security matter. Any individual who has invented, or shows potential to invent craft that is capable of extreme, technologically advanced maneuvers, would not be allowed to develop it, and would be ridiculed like Carr was. This is why the invention secrecy act was made in the early 1950s. In my opinion, its true aimto protect the interest of the power under the guise of ‘national security.’
Carr’s Goal
His goal was to fly to the moon in his “circular foil spacecraft” on December 7th, 1959.
The “spacecraft” allegedly invented by Carr is much like the ideal spaceship imagined by Plantier and others. It is propelled by an artificial gravitic field (the “Carrotto gravity motor”) and if this were not miracle enough, it uses no fuel. It is powered by the “Utron electric accumulator”–a short of self-charging battery which “uses the Sun’s magnificent force of Electromagnetism by means of natural reproductive chemistry, to quote the interesting language of the Enterprise ad.
Below is a picture of Wayne Aho, a military intelligence officer who was going to accompany Carr on his trip to the moon. He claimed it would only take a few hours. Carr is second from the left.
Otis T. Carr was actually a protege of Nikola Tesla, according to independent researcher Doug Yurchey: “Carr and his team constructed a number of fully functional flying saucers in the late 1950s. The flying disk worked and was demonstrated. Carr was serious about ‘taking his craft to the Moon. ‘However, two weeks after a dramatic test flight, their laboratory was forcibly closed, Federal agents confiscated equipment as well as all documentation. Authorities told them Carr’s project would ‘destroy the monetary system of the United States.’ (source)
Carr was heavily criticized, ridiculed, and made a fool of by the press. I could not verify whether his connection with Tesla is actually true or not, but rumors of Carr’s relationship with Tesla were rampant, even in the 50’s.
Classic Hit Job
This is a classic story of someone who received lots of public attention and had many failed demonstrations, and apparently, many successful ones as well. Like other great inventors, Carr’s work was seized by the government. This happened in January 1961, when Louis J. Lefkowitz, the Attorney General of New York at the time, stated that “Carr had swindled $50,000, and later that year True Magazine labelled him as a hoaxer.” By then, his laboratory had been raided and destroyed, and the group of engineers had been ordered to disband and cease contact with one another.
This is very fishy, and similar to the Stan Meyer water powered car story. Looking at it today, it was quite clear that this was a huge attempt to shut Carr down. These developments and curiosities were not for our world, but were reserved for the black budget world. He was denied an appeal on March 1st, 1961 for his ‘crime’. He could not pay the fine and served part of a 14-year jail term. After that little is known about what became either of Carr himself or the craft, but they never flew again. Carr is reported to have suffered from ill-health, a broken man. He passed away apparently in Gardnerville, Nevada, in 2005.
In 1952, Carr actually wrote a book, called “Dimensions of Mystery.” The book was mostly written in ‘code,’ according to him, it was the complete layout of his plan and how his machine worked, yet for a reader like me, or anyone for that matter, it’s impossible to understand. He did switch from user code and poetry, to actually writing some real statements regarding his intentions, as you can see here:
Below is a discussion about the tests that would need to be conducted, and, apparently were conducted.
Hal Puthoff
As you can see, just like with most other stories of great technological advancements (there are too many examples to choose from), the global elite has always demonstrated their supremacy by ridiculing concepts that don’t really fit the frame. There are multiple technological developments that have been completely hushed up, for “national security purposes.”
Take this quote from Hal Puthoff, for example. It’s not with regards to UFOs but more so “free-energy,” which actually go hand in hand and relate directly to each other. Puthoff has published numerous papers on electron-beam devices, lasers and space propulsion and has patents issued in the laser, communications, and energy fields. Dr. Puthoff’s professional background spans more than five decades of research at General Electric, Sperry, the National Security Agency, Stanford University and SRI International. Dr. Puthoff regularly advises NASA, the Department of Defense and intelligence communities, corporations and foundations. Here’s what he’s had to say:
“I’ve been taken out on aircraft carriers by the Navy and shown what it is we have to replace if we have new energy sources to provide new fuel methods.”
Puthoff is now part of the ‘To The Stars’ academy, who have publicly disclosed that they are working on technology that mimics the flight patterns of observed UFOs.
Let’s keep an open mind, and not to brush off revolutionizing technologies just because they break the laws of physics as we know them; after all, such laws are made to be broken. It’s similar to when Lord Einstein published his paper on special relativity that completely shattered what we thought we knew back then. Today, we are more aware of how the giant national security apparatus intervenes, and given all of the information that’s emerged regarding the subject of exotic technologies like anti-gravity crafts, it’s easier to see 70 years after the fact what really happened to Otis T. Carr.
Dit is de man die werd veroordeeld tot 14 jaar cel omdat hij anti-zwaartekracht ruimteschepen bouwde
Dit is de man die werd veroordeeld tot 14 jaar cel omdat hij anti-zwaartekracht ruimteschepen bouwde
Eind jaren vijftig bracht uitvinder Otis T. Carr een verklaring naar buiten waarin stond dat zijn bedrijf OTC Enterprises vliegende schotels zou gaan bouwen die waren gebaseerd op de technologie van Nikola Tesla.
Hij kreeg patent op een vliegende schotel die in minder dan een dag van en naar de maan zou kunnen vliegen.
Carr zei dat het object zou worden aangedreven door een kunstmatig zwaartekrachtveld en geen brandstof zou gebruiken.
Geometrie
Het schip bevatte een accu die werd ‘geactiveerd door de energie in de ruimte’.
In de jaren vijftig was Carr vaak te zien in Fate Magazine. Ook was hij te gast in radio- en televisieshows.
Hij zei dat zijn schotel was ontworpen op basis van de dimensies van de ruimte, de geometrie.
Maan
Een testmodel, de OTC X-1, zou in 1959 een attractie worden in een pretpark in Oklahoma.
Daarnaast wilde hij met een demonstratiemodel met een doorsnee van 14 meter voor het oog van publiek binnen enkele uren van en naar de maan vliegen.
De schotel kwam nooit aan bij het pretpark. Datzelfde geldt voor Carr, die op de dag van de demonstratie ‘onwel’ was geworden.
O wee
Hij werd door de media voor schut gezet en belachelijk gemaakt. Vervolgens werd hij aangeklaagd wegens het verduisteren van 50.000 dollar.
In 1961 werd hij veroordeeld tot een gevangenisstraf van 14 jaar. Zijn werk werd in beslag genomen door de overheid.
O wee degene die vliegende schotels maakt die geen brandstof gebruiken.
Here’s today’s easy history test: What year did Russia or its predecessor, the Soviet Union, put cosmonauts on the Moon? (a) 1969 (b) 1968 (c) 2001 (d) trick question designed to make a point about Russia influencing US history books. If you answered (d), do your favorite Captain Picard face-palm as you turn towards Moscow to receive the news that the head of its space program announced the goal of Russia’s first human moon landingwill be to verify once and for all (OK, for all Russians and conspiracy theorists) that US astronauts walked on the lunar surface. Really!
“We have set this objective to fly and verify whether they’ve been there or not.”
Dmitry Rogozin, the Director General of Roscosmos, Russia’s national space agency, uttered those words during a news conference this week where he discussed his program’s plans to send a Russian to the Moon in the 2030s. (We’ll pause here for a moment while you do the math – yes, this is also a pop math quiz.) Rogozin was born in 1963, which means he was old enough in 1969 to watch the US moon landing, assuming the Soviet media covered it and his family had one of those tiny, crank-operated, government-issued black-and-somewhat-white Soviet television sets. And if he saw that one, he probably also saw the other five, whether it was on the same old TV or on the fancy newfangled color one they finally installed at Roscosmos headquarters to watch “Apollo 13” while planning their own 2030s trip to the moon.
While apologists insist that Rogozin’s body language indicates he was just joking (an affliction that he may have picked up from watching US political coverage with his pals at the Kremlin), he’s not the first Russian government official to question the US lunar landings. In 2015, after NASA admitted that official films of the landing had been destroyed and researchers noticed that many lunar rock samples brought back to Earth were missing, government spokesperson Vladimir Markin had this to say:
“We are not contending that they did not fly [to the Moon], and simply made a film about it. But all of these scientific – or perhaps cultural – artefacts are part of the legacy of humanity, and their disappearance without a trace is our common loss. An investigation will reveal what happened.”
We’ll take a moment while you clean up the irony dripping from that statement onto your shoes. True, Roscosmos has earned some snark leeway with its reliable (until they found a suspicious hole in one) Soyuz capsules that are currently the only way to shuttle (remember those?) astronauts and cosmonauts to the Space Station, which conspiracy theorists see as the second-biggest space hoax behind the lunar-landing-was-a-movie one. How do they explain how the US and Russia push their obvious and constant disagreements and outright hostilities aside and find a way to cooperate in a joint hoax? Perhaps the Flat Earthers can help them with some of their diagrams.
They believed it!
Rogozin is not a scientist – space or otherwise – but a career politician. These are the kind of denials that come from putting politicians in charge of scientific research and endeavors. Perhaps we and the Russians aren’t so different after all.
You know, maybe those chemtrail people were right about a few things after all. Maybe they saw this coming. While I’ve never donned my tin foil hat long enough to buy intochemtrail conspiracy theories, a new peer-reviewed study published by two Harvard scientists claims that spraying chemicals out of the backs of planes could actually change the weather here on Earth. Is this what all those theories were warning us about?
“Don’t mind us, we’re just irrevocably altering the planet.”
Harvard researchers Gernot Wagner and Wake Smith published the study, claiming that wide-scale geoengineering using actualchemtrails is not only technically possible, but inexpensive and definitely feasible. Even more promising (or terrifying), the researchers claim that this technique could be used to increase the amount of sunlight reflected by the atmosphere, thereby cooling the Earth. What could possibly go wrong?
The proposed technique involves spraying sulphate aerosols into the lower stratosphere in order to create a barrier that would repel sunlight, cutting the greenhouse gas effect in half. Similar phenomena occur as a result of volcanic eruptions, so while we know it’s possible, this new study focuses mainly on logistics like the cost of such a program and what types of aircraft might be capable of making these stratospheric flights.
However, right in the introduction, the authors question if such a geoengineering project could be launched without the public knowing about it:
We seek answers to three questions: if SAI deployment were to commence within the foreseeable future with the tools and technologies at our disposal, how would such deployment be physically achieved, how much would it cost, and could it be done in secret?
To further drive home the dystopian foreshadowing, the authors close the study by adding that “any entity that intends to engineer the climate of the entire globe must act—and be seen to act—purely out of humanitarian and environmental considerations unclouded by aspirations of direct financial gain.” Do these guys actually live on Earth?
The authors conclude that keeping such a program secret would be difficult given how much airspace access and international coordination it would require, but even the mention of keeping this program a secret should be great enough for the tin foil types to keep the chemtrail thing going.
UFOs are naturally cinematic. They shimmer, they glow, they glide majestically. Though factual, UFOs are also the stuff of great science-fiction, so it is no surprise that they have always sold well at the box-office. Recent years have seen an explosion in the popularity of the UFO subgenre in film and TV (the latest addition being History Channel’s Project Blue Bookseries), and audiences now stand little chance against what amounts to a full-scale alien invasion of our popular culture. In my book,Silver Screen Saucers, I consider the effects of this invasion and ponder cinema’s transcendent power to both fictionalize and actualize its subject matter.
Several years ago, I was enjoying coffee with a friend. She had no particular interest in UFOs—no UFOlogical knowledge of which to speak. I asked her, “Have you heard of men in black?” I was referring to the factual historical accounts of UFO witnesses suffering intimidation by ominous black-clad mystery men in the days and weeks following their sightings. This very real phenomenon dates back to the late-1940s and has been the subject of many factual books over the decades. My friend replied immediately, “Of course, everyone’s seen Men in Black!” Naturally, she was referring to the 1997 sci-fi blockbuster. Decades of lived history had thus been consumed in its entirety by a 98 minute Will Smith movie. All my friend knew of men in black… was Men in Black. This is the power of cinema.
For my friend, a little-known reality had been fictionalized through its fantastical representation onscreen. And yet, cinema also has the power to actualize. Men in Black and other UFOlogical entertainment products have assumed permanent residency in the popular consciousness, and thus will always occupy at least some level of our perceived reality.
Whether or not they serve to fictionalize or actualize, what is clear is that movies of any genre inform our “understanding” of the world around us. This was beautifully observed by the great British filmmaker Ken Russell, who said that “Hollywood fills the gaps in our knowledge of the world.” This is a profoundly true statement, and, I would argue, more than a little disturbing.
A great deal of Hollywood’s UFO movie content has been informed directly by fact-based UFOlogical literature, events, and debate. I am particularly interested in how Hollywood engages with UFO lore in parasitic fashion—how industry creatives latch onto and suck-dry the rich veins of a ripe old subculture. It’s a perspective contrasts with the skeptical assumption that the UFO subculture feeds on, and thrives as a result of, images projected by the American entertainment industry (although this assumption is well-founded in certain cases).
With this in mind, I encourage the reader to ask: how has so much dense UFOlogical discourse—by its very nature fringe and subcultural—so successfully burrowed its way into Hollywood’s popular narratives? Many in the UFO research community point to a “Hollywood UFO conspiracy” designed to acclimate us to an alien reality (and to subtly disinform us along the way). It’s a scenario in which the US government exploits its close historical relationship with Hollywood by systematically seeding inside UFO information into entertainment media, slowly bringing us around to the truth of the phenomenon, or at least the truth as officialdom wishes us to perceive it. Others, meanwhile, suggest that Hollywood’s UFO movies are merely the result of a natural cultural process driven by generic trends and stemming from a simple recognition among studio executives that, when it comes to the box-office, aliens sell like hotcakes. The truth of matter may lie somewhere in between both of these theories.
My point is this: if you care about UFOs, you should care very much about UFO movies. Like it or not, they are the dominant cultural force shaping our perceptions of the phenomenon. A magical medium has distorted an underlying and mystifying truth. Cinema has moulded and simplified our expectations of how the phenomenon should manifest. And yet, at the same time, UFO movies have provided us with nuggets of truth—inspired as they are by a tangible conundrum sprung from our lived historical reality. The challenge is to separate the truth from the fiction, the fact from the fantasy. To accept the challenge is to actively, rather than passively, engage with Hollywood’s treatment of this multifaceted phenomenon. This is an essential task if ever we are to truly understand the particulars of our own UFO beliefs—beliefs which have been finely sculpted through both natural cultural process and deep political propaganda.
To thoughtfully engage with Hollywood’s UFO-themed products is to anticipate your future and to understand that truth is often far stranger than the wildest Hollywood fiction. The entertainment industry has shaped our perceptions of the phenomenon, often without conscious intent, but sometimes wilfully. UFOs show no sign of leaving our skies, or our screens. They are here to stay. With this in mind, when next we encounter a silver screen saucer, let us all take a moment to peer up from our popcorn, and to separate the fact from the fantasy. We can but try.
Some pieces of history seem to be found purely by chance. These shards of the past lie sequestered away and forgotten, often to just come up to the surface suddenly to present numerous enigmas and puzzles. Often answering few questions, or even generating more, these findings nevertheless present to us a new view of history, and often come in the strangest forms, such as an ancient creepy giant doll pulled up from a peat bog in Russia, which holds a cryptic cipher that remains unsolved to this day.
On January 24, 1894, a very curious oddity was unearthed at the peat bog of Shigir, in Kirovgrad, the Sverdlovsk region, in the Middle Ural mountains of Russia, by prospectors looking for gold. Pieces began to turn up of what appeared to have once been a towering wooden idol of some sort, pulled up from 13 feet under the ground, and a Russian professor D. I. Lobanov would go on to meticulously cobble together the disparate shards to eventually recreate an immense and intimidating statue measuring a whopping 9.2ft (2.8 meters) in height, but it was found to have once even been bigger still when in 1914 the archaeologist Vladimir Tolmachev suggested in his own reconstruction that it would have actually once stood over 17.4ft (5.3 meters) tall, massive for sure. Although Tolmachev went through great pains to sketch all of the individual pieces, some of them were to go missing during Russian’s 20th century political turmoil, leaving us with only the drawings of many of these pieces of the idol.
The mysterious idol, often called the Shigir Idol, was carved out of a type of wood called “larch,” and what makes it all rather peculiar is that this particular wooden statue was originally dated by both the the Institute of the History for the Material Culture and the Geological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, back to the Mesolithic period, around 7,500 BC, making it at least 9,500 years old, and other German teams later found that it was even older still, at around 11,600 years old, which for context would make it over five thousand years older than Stonehenge and more than twice as old as the pyramids. It also makes this the world’s oldest wooden structure, and it is indeed apparently so old and so startling that there was long debate as to whether the dating methods used on it could have possibly been correct. Yet it is indeed of this age, the anti-bacterial effects of the peat it was found in serving to stave off deterioration and make sure that it remained stuck in time, as if an ancient insect stuck in amber, and scientists think that some sort of preservative glue was also utilized by its creators.
The statue itself seems to have been scooped and molded from a single immense wooden log by ancient hunter gatherers, using ancient tools such as carving instruments fashioned from the jaws and teeth of beavers, as well as at least three different sizes of primitive chisels. In appearance, other than its considerable height, the Shigir idol is flat and rectangular in shape, and seems to be composed of a figure with a total of seven faces, all expertly intertwined together similar to a totem pole, with each face possessing high cheekbones, straight noses, and the main head exhibiting a gaping mouth. Upon the thorax of the statue is a series of horizontal lines thought to represent ribs, and there are numerous patterns of straight, wavy, and zig-zagging lines covering it.
Most mysterious of all are all of the various strange geometric markings and motifs found upon the statue, which are reminiscent of hieroglyphics and are thought to indicate some sort of code, but no one has the slightest idea of what it is supposed to mean, and it has been the subject of quite a bit of debate and speculation. While some have said that it was just decorative markings, this has been challenged by a plethora of theories. One idea is that the odd markings represent some sort of cryptic encoded information pertaining to the creation of the world, and are an example of a very early early writing system. Russian archeologist Mikhail Zhilin has said of this with regards to the statue:
This is a masterpiece, carrying gigantic emotional value and force. It is a unique sculpture, there is nothing else in the world like this. The ornament is covered with nothing but encrypted information. People were passing on knowledge with the help of the Idol.
Other ideas include that it could have been a totem with a warning inscribed into it to keep out, that is was some sort of navigational aid or map, that it depicts mythological creatures its designers believed in, was used for ritualistic purposes, or even that it is a sort of very early precursor to the totem pole that would later be used by Native Americans, perhaps brought by these ancient people over the land bridge. It is speculated that there were probably many more of these mysterious wooden statues at one time, but that without the preservative qualities of the peat they withered and rotten away to be lost to the mists of time, leaving us only with this one enigmatic specimen. In the end, despite all of the speculation the Shigir Idol and its code have remained completely undeciphered, making it the oldest unbroken code in the world, and it is often touted as being “an utter mystery to modern man.”
Besides its mysterious code, the idol is exceptional in other ways as well. Up until its discovery it was long thought that such ritualistic artistic representations had first evolved around 8,000 years ago in sedentary farming populations in the Middle East, but the discovery of this statue upends all of that, and shows that these ancient hunter gatherer nomads possessed an ingenuity and artistic nature previously unknown. It has, in a sense, rewritten history as we know it, yet its precise meaning and how it came to be bogged down in that, well, bog, remain unanswered. It is amazing that we even are able to study it at all, considering that it is made of wood, which is one of the least permanent mediums there is, and it makes it all the more inscrutable, of which a Redditor has said of the whole conundrum of the Shigir Idol:
At this point, our best bet is to have something else to compare it to. We figured out cuneiform and hieroglyphs because there were a lot of them. This guy survived as a freak coincidence during a time when apparently everything was made of wood. So unless there are a couple dozen more wooden idols in that peat bog, it’ll have to remain a mystery.
At the moment, the idol is kept ensconced within a special glass display case at the Yekaterinburg History Museum in Russia, filled with age-defying inert gases and kept under constant guard. This baffling piece of lost history manages to remain a perplexing mystery, despite all efforts to look into it. What makes it especially noteworthy is that considering its wood construction it should have dissipated under the relentless attack of time. What can we pry from it? What understanding can we hope to achieve by studying it? What secrets lie there etched upon that wood which has sat there in that bog since time unremembered? We may never know.
Clouds come in all shapes, sizes, and types but have you ever seen square clouds?
On November 24, 2018 Jo wood captured such a strange square cloud over Cleethorpes in England and while it is said that these clouds are so-called rhombus-shaped clouds we may wonder whether these clouds are artificially created by a weather control program.
A rhombus-shaped cloud is a strange-shaped contrail formed by the water vapour blasted from a plane's jet engine as it moves through a pocket of air. With the right conditions and if the wind is blowing at right angles to the contrail, and due to the right atmospheric conditions this is causing the ice crystals in that trail to spread outwards - creating square or rectangular shaped clouds.
Perhaps some square clouds have indeed been formed by a contrail but if we look at the square clouds in the picture below it is hard to imagine that they originated from contrails.
Massive square clouds as photographed by crew members of the International Space Station are normal clouds or rhombus-shaped clouds? It seems unlikely!
It is clear that most of these square clouds have been artificially created by means of geoengineering which is a large-scale intervention in the Earth’s climate system usually with the aim of mitigating the adverse effects of the so-called global warming.
These square clouds are just a small part of the global geoenigeering project that slowly disrupt Earth's natural systems yet scientists have come up with a new and ingenious way of fighting global warming: Spray large amounts of chemicals into the Earth's lower stratosphere in order to literally dim out the sun.
As Dr Phil Williamson, an Honorary Reader at University of East Anglia, said; nations which “continued to experience extreme climate events” might then “consider that solar geoengineering had been responsible” and would need to be compensated.
In other words, cutting the earth off from the heavens might be a real liability issue.
Here is an amazing capture during Apollo 10 mission. In the NASA archives of an alien craft in Earths orbit. The craft has a raised center dome in the craft, and the front 80% is a disk, while the back 20% is flat, which indicates it the back of the ship, compounded by the fact that the thin rounded side is facing the Earth, I have easily determined which is the front and which is the back side of this craft. Its hard to believe that such obvious evidence is right in front of us in NASA photos, in easy reach of the public, and yet, 99.9% of the Earths population will never see any of this evidence. This NASA photo is 100% evidence that earth is being visited by alien from another world. Scott C. Waring
I noticed this object near the rover looks very similar in shape to a snail...like an old fossil of a Mars Ammonite from its ancient lakes or oceans. Here on Earth, Ammonites lived died out 66 million years ago, but lived as long ago as 200 million years ago. I believe that since it evolved on a different planet, its shape was effected by a different evolution involving different environmental influences. I'm confused at why the NASA rover didn't want to examine it more closely, since it was hovering over some rocks nearby for several days. It would be most interesting to have a paleontologist take a look at the object.
We kijken meestal naar de grond in plaats van naar de lucht en daardoor missen velen vaak bijzondere dingen.
Zoals een enorm ruimteschip boven Nederland met daarbij rond dezelfde tijd een vrijwel identieke waarneming boven de Amerikaanse staat Florida.
Het merkwaardige van de volgende waarneming is dat deze via Amerika bij ons terecht is gekomen. Een dame in Nederland maakte ergens op een niet nader bekend gemaakte locatie een foto van "iets" in de lucht dat allesbehalve natuurlijk is.
De opname heeft ze opgestuurd naar de bekende Youtube gebruiker Mr. MB333 en daarop is het volgende te zien. Het object rechtsonder op de foto is een lantaarnpaal of iets dergelijks.
We weten helaas niet waar boven Nederland deze foto is genomen, maar wat we wel weten is dat Mr. MB333 wat met die foto aan het experimenteren is geslagen door middel van het toepassen van filters en contrast, waardoor duidelijk wordt dat er in die wolk iets veel groters verborgen zit.
Het blijkt namelijk dat die driehoekige vorm eigenlijks niets meer is dan een soort uitsteeksel op een veel grotere romp.
Dit vreemde driehoekige object wordt rond dezelfde tijd gefotografeerd in de plaats Melbourne, niet in Australië, maar in de Amerikaanse staat Florida.
Hoe dat eruit ziet is te zien op de volgende foto die eigenlijk per ongeluk tot stand kwam omdat de maker een foto van het luchtschip wilde maken.
Wanneer je beide opnames naast elkaar plaatst, dan ziet het er als volgt uit:
De grote vraag is natuurlijk wat dit voor object is en of het dan menselijk is of buitenaards.
Is het dan toeval dat er ook ergens een soort driehoekige ufo opduikt in een onweersbui? Een opname waarvan ook niet duidelijk is waar deze is gemaakt, maar waarschijnlijk ergens in Amerika.
Tijdens een enorme lichtflits wordt er even heel duidelijk een ruimteschip zichtbaar.
De volgende foto is genomen vanuit een korte video, waar de lichtflits en de ufo te zien zijn, als je goed kijkt tenminste.
Bovenstaande korte video is door Tyler van Secureteam frame voor frame geanalyseerd en hij komt daarbij tot de conclusie dat er zich wel degelijk een solide object bevindt in de wolken. Daarnaast heeft hij meer interessante beelden van objecten in onweersbuien.
The Mars InSight Lander's 205-day journey from Earth is nearly complete. A little before 3 p.m. on Monday, November 26, 2018, the scientific exploration device made by NASA will attempt to land on the red planet. Watch the Inverse live stream above to learn more about InSight's incredible story.
Read all about the amazing Mars InSight lander on Inverse:
For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, For the want of $14,000 the alien skull was lost.
Wait … what?
A science fiction author (red flag #1) and amateur UFO hunter (red flag #2) has revealed what he claims is an alien skull brought to him by an unnamed collector (red flag #3) who allegedly bought it from a Mongolian trader (red flag #4). Now he needs $14,000 (red flag #5) to pay for DNA tests on the skull. Should this parade of red flags stop his march to proving the greatest discovery ever? Did it stop the three-fingered Peruvian mummy investigators?
” I welcome questions and skepticism, but if you decide to challenge me, be sure to bring along evidence.”
Where did I lose that skull?
In an extensive article on the Chinese media site jqknews.com, 55-year-old Li Jianmin explains that the “collector” bought the skull at a roadside stand in Inner Mongolia. (Pictures of the skull and Li can be seen here.) The collector decided to show it to Jianmin after reading one of his science fiction books and seeing an illustration which looked like his roadside acquisition, which is brown with a curved top and measures 16 cm (6.2 inches) in diameter. The skull also resembles a human cranium with skull lines and hippocampal grooves. Unlike a human skull, it is divided into distinct upper and lower layers. The “collector” claimed to have taken it to various “paleontologists” without success before bringing it to Jianmin.
Li Jianmin claimed he studied the skull for four months. He conducted Raman spectroscopy, a technique used in chemistry to identify molecules and study chemical bonding and intramolecular bonds, and atomic force microscopy, a very-high-resolution type of scanning probe microscopy said to be over 1000 times better than that of optical microscopes. He then claims he compared the results with others claiming to have alien skulls in their possession (sorry, I’ve run out of red flags). The end result of four months of work was a 103-page report with pictures and drawings which he presented at a UFO conference held in Beijing in October, along with his conclusion: the skull definitely belonged to an alien.
“DNA analysis alone costs around 100,000 yuan ($14,398).”
OK, despite saying the skull belongs to an alien, Li Jianmin doesn’t really have the definitive proof a DNA test would produce since it costs over 14 grand and he claims he’s already spent that much just completing the report. He’s certain it would back him up because the Raman test showed that it doesn’t match any known earth organism. He also speculated that the skull was anywhere from 2.5 to 400 million years old.
What is this thing Li Jianmin is so certain to be an alien skull? One observation was that it’s a “sea monster monk,” which probably refers to the so-called “sea monk monster” reportedly caught off the coast of Denmark in 1546 and so named because it resembled a monk. Later speculation pointed towards it being an angelshark (often called a monkfish) or a giant squid.
Illustration of a Sea Monk Monster
Want to know what it really is? You’ll have to wait until a “collector” shows Li Jianmin how to collect money using crowdfunding. Meanwhile, I’m setting one up to buy more red flags.
By using solar satellites to melt ice on Mars, it could be the only way to save humans from possible extinction. If we don’t want to go extinct like the dinosaurs, we need a “plan B” and creating a new world on Mars may be our best option according to top theoretical physicist, Michio Kaku.
While colonizing on the Red Planet seems like a far-fetched idea, humans may have no other choice in order to avoid future extinction. “Look at the dinosaurs,” Kaku explained, “The dinosaurs did not have a space program, and that’s why they are not here today to talk about it.” He went on to say “Extinction is the norm. We think of Mother Nature as being warm and cuddly, which is partly true. But nature is merciless when it comes to wiping out inefficient life forms.”
Many scientists, including Kaku, strongly believe in “terraforming” which is the process of turning the surface and atmosphere on Mars into the same as the conditions here on Earth. There are several theories on how they can make the Red Planet habitable for humans and one of those theories is that they could melt the polar ice caps using “solar satellites” to heat up the planet. These solar satellites would beam sunlight on the ice caps and once the temperature on Mars rises six degrees, the process would then continue in a way that would be similar to a greenhouse effect. In fact, some scientists believe that there’s a way to import greenhouse gases to Mars that would help maintain carbon dioxide, therefore creating a type of greenhouse warming effect.
And while some experts believe that Mars is on the outer edge of the habitable zone of our solar system, they also think that water should be able to be supported on the planet. As a matter of fact, it is strongly believed that many years ago Mars had an Earth-like atmosphere which makes it a great option for terraforming.
While scientists aren’t saying that humans should completely abandon Earth, it is a reasonable second option – or plan B – for people to go temporarily in case a catastrophic event occurs on our home planet.
Kaku also believes someday soon humans will have the option to spend their honeymoon on the Moon. It’s “only three days away,” he explained.
While it’s highly doubtful that newlyweds will opt for spending their honeymoon on the Moon, it’s still a fun thought. And it’s pretty exciting to think that one day humans could be labelled “Martians” as well as being “Earthlings”. I wonder how much luggage they’ll be allowed to carry and if they’ll need a passport to travel from one planet to the other?
Over the next several weeks, I’ll be conducting interviews with leading UFO researchers from countries around the world in an effort to paint a picture of global UFOlogy today.
This week, our global UFO trek takes us to Romania, and to Dr. Dan D. Farcas. Born in 1940 in Reşiţa, Romania, Farcas holds an MSc in mathematics and physics and a Ph.D. in mathematics and computers. He was formerly a project manager for several countrywide information systems, mainly in health and science management. In 1993 he was elected as a full member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Romania. Since 2011 he has been the President of the Association for the Study of Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (ASFAN) in Romania. He has published more than 25 books in Romania (on IT, philosophy of science, Extraterrestrials, UFOs etc.), and more than 1,200 articles. He has also participated in numerous radio and TV debates.
Dan D. Farcas, Ph.D.
RG: Who have been the defining figures in Romanian UFOlogy over the past 70 years (for better or for worse), and why?
DF: A major personality in Romanian ufology was Ion Hobana (1931-2011). Writer, journalist, editor, literary critic, essayist, translator, theorist of science fiction literature. Hobana established good relations with science fiction writers and critics in the West at a period in time when such relations were rare and difficult. Around 1967, he began understand that the UFO issue is much more serious than it seems. A UFO “wave” in 1968 had good media coverage in Romania and had sparked a general interest in UFOs. In 1971, Ion Hobana took the initiative of organising a “Scientific UFO Circle” at the Culture House of University Students, in Bucharest, which ran for several years and attracted a great number of young people as well as specialists. Later that same year, Hobana and the Belgian author Julien Weverbergh published the book OZN: o Sfidare Pentru Raţiunea Umană (UFO: A Defiance for Human Reason). It was the first book by a Romanian writer about UFOs. The second Romanian UFO book was published in 1973 by the engineer Florin Gheorghiţă, who was deeply involved in the investigation of the 1968 cases. Ion Hobana with Julien Weverbergh also published UFO books abroad, among themUFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain (1974), first in English and later translated into French and Spanish.
Pioneering Romanian UFO researcher, Ion Hobana.
Another Romanian passionately involved in the investigation of the unexplained occurrences was Călin Turcu. In 1977 he organized an informal group called RUFOR (“Romanian UFO Researchers”) as a means of information exchange. Between 1979 and 1986, this group published 27 issues of a “samizdat” magazine with the same name: RUFOR. Neither the organization nor the publication were officially allowed, but they were tolerated by the authorities as they were not considered as subversive. Several years later, from 1994-1996, in a completely changed political environment, members of the same group would publish the only widely marketed Romanian UFO magazine, also with the title “RUFOR”. It ran for 21 months. Since then, there was no printed UFO periodical in Romania.
Throughout the 1980s, dozens of UFO books were published in Romania. Among the Romanian authors were: Florin Gheorghiţă, Dan D. Farcaş, Doru Davidovici (fighter pilot 1945-1989), Dan Apostol and György Mandics. The number of Romanian UFO books increased dramatically after 1990. Many were written by Călin Turcu, Florin Gheorghiță, Adrian Pătruţ, general Emil Străinu and some of those above. But most of the titles in this period were translations. Călin Turcu’s books are the most complete inventory of UFO cases in Romania, starting around the year 1500. He also organized a library with over 500 UFO books, which was donated by his family to the Association ASFAN.
After 1990, Ion Hobana returned to UFOs, publishing several important books. In 1998, he became the president of the ASFAN, dedicated to studying the UFO phenomenon, a post held until his death in 2011.
RG: What do you consider to be the most compelling Romanian UFO incident on record, and why?
DF: It is difficult to choose. But certainly one of the most interesting cases (which I helped to investigate) was a close encounter which occured on the night of July 8-9, 1996, at around 12.30am in a village named Cerţeşti (pronounced Tchertzeshty) in the South of the Moldavian Region of Romania. Police sergeant Marian Mancu and Maricel Rusu, a voluntary guard, were patrolling in the centre of the village when they separated for a short time. When they saw some colored lights on the road, they headed towards them from different directions, both thinking it was a police car. The sergeant, getting closer, realised that it was an object hovering half meter above the road, flashing with blue and red lights and making a humming sound. A small, very strange person was moving around outside of it. The horrified guard hid under a small bridge over a ditch. He whispered to his colleague: “Mister Marian, it’s the Devil!”
After less than two minutes the UFO rose vertically. At that moment its lights became much brighter and the streetlights went out. When the object reached a height of around 30 meters, it changed direction and turned north-west.
Rural Romania
Rusu later reported that he saw three small ugly human-like creatures moving around. They were about one meter high, had a big head, elongated behind, with no hair. Their face was white and they had big eyes and big pointed ears. Gray scales like those of a fish covered their body. Their belly was relatively big and limp. The arms were not thicker than two fingers. None of the witnesses remembered the nose, the mouth or any footwear. The witnesses could not tell for sure if the creatures were walking or floating above the ground, but they felt the latter was more likely. Rusu said they moved “as if they were drunk.”
Both witnesses agreed that the object had the form of a flat hat, 5-6 meters across and 2-2.5 meters high and was hovering half a meter above the ground. Around the edge it had a continuous girdle of light, like a rainbow. At the bottom of the object was a bright white light. None of the witnesses saw any doors, portholes or other marks of any kind, and could not explain where the little people descended from and re-entered.
In the following days, sergeant Mancu felt sick and powerless and he was of the opinion that he was suffering from some kind of radiation poisoning. Rusu had repeated nightmares. He told us: “I was dreaming for several nights about how I was hiding myself in the ditch and then I woke up frightened mainly because the beings were so ugly.” I questioned both of them about the possibility of a loss of memory or of a missing time period during the encounter. None of them had any such impression.
The physical traces were weak. A huge sweet cherry tree nearby had around 15% of its leaves affected as if by an extreme heat, and, allegedly, after the encounter, many leaves and broken limbs were spread on the road at the site.
The witnesses to this event are very credible. The police sergeant Marian Mancu (30 years old at the time) was, for a while, a veterinary technician, before graduating at a police school. He was healthy and sane and was married with two children. The majority of the village population, including the village mayor, considered him a serious person, not likely to lies or hoax. The watchman Maricel Rusu (then 41 years old) had never heard anything before about the UFO phenomenon. He had no recorded psychiatric disorders and he had served in the army as sapper. The villagers could not remember any lies or tall tales from him in the past. It is unlikely the witnesses could invent the very peculiar details, and to make them public in such a highly natural and convincing manner. It also is unlikely that it could be a delusion staged by someone else. Also, we did not discover anybody with any kind of motivation to invent such a story. Additionally, several villagers noticed a blackout and other strange phenomena on the night of the UFO encounter.
But there are many other interesting UFO encounters in Romania. George Pârvu, Ph.D., who had a remarkable career in geology and authored more than 15 books, had a remarkable UFO encounter with some of his schoolmates in his native village 50 km north-east of Bucharest. This was 1939; he was 9 years old at the time. Pârvu and his friends saw a strange egg shaped UFO and two of its occupants. More recently, in the north of Romania, there was a case of alleged alien abduction involving with two witnesses and the sighting of a 2.5 meters-high fairy woman–a feared character, well known in the area. We have also several repeated abduction cases, one starting from cradle, as well as many interesting military cases.
All cases presented in this interview, along many others, are detailed in my book, UFOs over Romania (Flying Disk Press, UK, 2016).
RG: What is the Romanian government’s official stance on UFOs? When was the last time it issued a statement on the subject?
DF: Following a wave of observations in 1968, Communist-controlled state media exhibited a favorable attitude towards the UFO issue. This was because, in other countries of the “socialist camp,” the UFO subject was quite taboo, and the regime of president Ceausescu wanted to show that the Romanian authorities had a different, more open and progressive attitude.
After 1990, in a completely changed environment, a huge number of books about the UFO phenomenon were translated and published. From the year 2000 until now, public interest in UFOs has diminished considerably. I am not aware of any official statement by the Romanian Government about UFOs during this period.
RG: Does the Romanian Ministry of National Defence have an official UFO investigations unit?
DF: I have no knowledge of the existence of such a unit. Military cases have come to light mostly from retired officers. Among them, we examined the case of commander Mihai Barbutiu, who in 1966 was ordered to fire a volley to force a UFO to land in Timișoara; or the case of a huge V-shaped UFO witnessed by many pilots at a military airport near Constanța in 1989; or the case of a huge, red, spherical UFO in 1992 near Buzău, which disturbed and halted an exercise involving three military helicopters, as well as several other strange encounters. All of the witnesses made reports and signed documents prohibiting them from divulging what they saw.
The Romanian Ministry of National Defence building in Bucharest.
RG: Has the Romanian government shown more or less transparency on the UFO subject than the US government?
DF: In 2014, in preparation of a UFO Conference, our association, ASFAN, officially asked several institutions to provide access to the data on unidentified aerial phenomena occurred in Romanian airspace. The request was made under the law No 544/2001 on free access to information of public interest. The Romanian Aeronautical Authority, Department of Security, directed us to the Centre for Analysis and Aviation Security, which gave no reply. We have not received an answer, either from CN Bucharest Airports or from Romanian Administration of Air Traffic Services (ROMATSA).
We also made enquiries with the Ministry of Defence, which responded that: “The Ministry of Defence has no data and no information on unidentified aerial phenomena” but “for future cooperation” a senior officer was nominated as a contact person. ASFAN members had direct contacts with this person, who showed interest in further cooperation. But, after a while, we received some excuses saying that the international situation, especially that of the Ukraine, put other priorities before military aviation.
The attempt by ASFAN was not isolated. Some tabloids made earlier attempts to obtain access to military data about UFOs. The response was that the defence structures of Romania have no resources even for much more important issues than UFOs.
The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania.
RG: Does Romania have a national UFO investigations organisation today, and how many smaller Romanian UFO groups are you aware of?
DF: The Association for the Study of Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (ASFAN) is a nongovernmental and nonprofit organization which obtained juridical status in 1998. It has been the main UFO oriented organization ever since. Its first chairman was Ion Hobana, and I have held the chairman position since Hobana’s death. For the 21 founding members (demanded by the law at that point in time), highly skilled individuals were selected: mathematicians, astronomers, engineers, specialists in radar, aeronautics, meteorology, photo-imaging, medicine, as well as interdisciplinary oriented personalities.
Now, ASFAN has around 10 active members who are involved mainly in receiving and examining UFO sightings and the administration of our website. An ASFAN member participated in the editorial board of the “European Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies” (2000-2003). They had, in 2012, a collaboration for the National Geographic Channel documentary “UFOs in Europe: The Untold Stories.”
The ASFAN website: www.asfanufo.ro
For three years (2000-2003) ASFAN organised public conferences on a monthly basis in central halls in Bucharest. A more ambitious, one-day UFO Conference was organised in May 2014. Some ASFAN members were invited to appear on all of the main Romanian TV channels and radio stations for debates on current UFO events and related issues. Some ASFAN members have or had permanent UFO columns in Romanian popular science magazines. Unfortunately, the funding and the time available for the members was always very limited, so the achievements of ASFAN were lower than expected, and, in time, most of members became inactive with no one to take their place.
Apart from ASFAN, an informal but rather active organization on the internet is the Romanian UFO network – RUFON. I have no knowledge of other active UFO organizations in Romania. Since 1995, there is also no periodical about the UFO phenomenon in our country, only columns in publications of popular science or the paranormal.
The regions of Romania.
RG: What are the most active regions of Romania for UFO sighting reports (hotspots)?
DF: Judging by the list of known cases, we can not emphasise special UFO areas in Romania. There are observations from all regions. There have also been investigators in all corners of the country to examine and highlight these observations.
RG: Have you personally had any UFO sightings?
DF: I have some strange early childhood memories. Later I saw some unusual lights on the sky, but I am not sure they were UFOs. On the other hand, I have seen and filmed several false UFOs.
RG: How long have you been involved in the UFO subject; roughly how many cases have you personally investigated; and what conclusions, if any, have you drawn about the underlying nature of UFO phenomena?
DF: I graduated in mathematics and physics in 1960, and I obtained later a Ph.D. in mathematics and computers. Also, I was always interested in astronomy. Therefore, I have a longstanding interest in the idea of extraterrestrial intelligence. I came close to the UFO phenomenon only after 1980, understanding that statistics on observations made by competent persons are a serious argument that the phenomenon is real.
I directly investigated only several dozen cases, some of them quite complex, but I spent a lot of time comparing them with the plenty of similar cases in the literature worldwide, and also I feel it is my duty to popularize the phenomenon among the readers in Romania. After so many years, my personal opinion is that, above us, a powerful “control system” manifests itself, which could be a hypercivilization, possibly even one billion years old, monitoring us for many millions of years, intervening extremely discreetly in our evolution.
RG: How can Romanian UFOlogy better itself?
DF: Two main aims of ASFAN are to persuade more young people to join us, which in the current pragmatic context will be difficult, and we should be able to get better funding to allow us to better investigate cases and to bring them to wider attention.
The fact that we have tried in the last few years to improve the collection and recording of cases is reflected by an increase in the number of investigated observations as follows: 2015 (6), 2016 (15), 2017 (23), 2018, 10 months (28). But there is still room for improvement.
To learn more about the history of UFOs in Romania, read Dr. Dan D. Farcas’ book, UFOs Over Romania.
Here it is: the moment historians will look back upon as the dawn of Homo sapiens superior and the moment when us natural-borns get knocked down a peg on the social hierarchy. For decades, science fiction writers have foretold a future in which genetically-superior humans made possible by gene modification techniques will rise above us lowly normies with their enhanced intelligence and physiology, greater resistance to diseases, and stunning good looks of course. The prospect of editing the human genome has remained taboo, though, for longstanding ethical and moral reasons. Naturally, human-rights-optional China has ignored these and blazed ahead and given the world its first two genetically-modified superbabies whether we want them or not. It begins.
Evolution is just too slow.
This isn’t the first time Chinese scientists have tested CRISPR on humans. As early as 2015, Chinese researchers were already altering the genomes of human embryos in laboratories – embryos which were never gestated. Now, geneticists Southern University of Science and Technology, in Shenzhen have taken these techniques one step further by modifying the genomes of two embryos which were implanted into a human womb via in vitro fertilization. Those embryos are now two happy and healthy baby girls, Lulu and Nana. Scientists led by He Jiankui altered the girls’ genomes so that they will be immune to HIV – in theory. In statements made this week, He assures that the only changes made to the girls’ genomes were to the “doorway” which would allow HIV to potentially infect the girls. Who knows what unforeseen consequences might arise from the editing process, though?
The research has not yet been submitted for peer review and publication, so many scientists remain skeptical of the Chinese team’s claims. Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley who helped develop CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, warns that this trial is a “break from the cautious and transparent approach of the global scientific community’s application of CRISPR-Cas9 for human germline editing” adding that she and other scientists around the world are still “struggling to figure out what was done and also whether the process was done properly. We just don’t know yet.”
What will the future bring us now that we have the potential to alter the human genome as we see fit?
Many nations experimented with eugenics and other controlled breeding programs throughout the 20th century, but the advances made by CRISPR and other recent technologies let scientists remove all uncertainty from the equation (in theory) and edit the human genome on a gene-by-gene basis, opening the doors for all sorts of modifications with unknown long-term consequences.
While removing the chance for these girls to contract HIV can’t possibly be seen as a bad thing, this trial is the first to go over the apex and start sliding down the slipperiest of slopes. What’s next? Removing all cancer genes? Sure. Eradicating mental illnesses through removing their gene markers? Go right ahead. Creating an army of genetic Übermensch (more like 超人) capable of crushing genetically inferior opposing forces?
When Johnny Carson was host of the Tonight Show, comedians knew that they had made it to the top when the iconic comedy figure laughed and invited them to sit on his couch and talk. That happened to Jerry Seinfeld, David Letterman and the comic who took Johnny’s place, Jay Leno. Today, the host is Jimmy Fallon and, while he’s not the designated bestower of success to comedians, he may be one to robots. On November 21st, Fallon sang a duet of “Say Something” with Sophia, the most sophisticated humanoid robot to date, and it was sufficiently impressive, creepy and frightening. Was this the sign that AI has made it? If not, how about the news from Houston that a scientist has created a HAL 9000, the villainous computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey? Has the takeover begun … or is it already over?
Say something, I’m giving up on you I’m sorry that I couldn’t get to you Anywhere, I would’ve followed you Say something, I’m giving up on you
After watching a demonstration of the latest robotic animal doing back flips and being made a fool of by a robot feeding him a tomato while he’s jogging (yes, AI has already taken over Letterman’s Stupid Human Tricks — see the entire video here), Hanson Robotics’ Sophia rolled out. She’s not a walking robot but her facial expressions and human hand and arm motions more than make up for the option that will undoubtedly be available soon, if the Little Sophia which was also brought out is any indication. Fallon is of course a good actor and looked like he was enjoying his duet with Sophia … or was he covering up his realization of what was actually happening?
Meanwhile, AI and robotics developer Pete Bonasso from Houston-based TRACLabs unveiled his new robot in the current edition of Science Robotics. In CASE: A HAL 9000 for 2021 and in an interview with Space.com, he explains how CASE — “cognitive architecture for space agents” – is “an intelligent agent, like HAL 9000, can plan and manage activities for a planetary base and can interact with users through a dialog management system.” And that’s just the prototype!
CASE is designed to plan and control activities and technological operations for a planetary colony base on three levels: hardware (life-support, power, transportation, pod bay doors), software (the AI for the hardware) and daily maintenance and emergencies (gas leaks, pod bay doors stuck, alien invasion). CASE is also able to interface with humans via visuals and speech and can make judgement calls (handy for refereeing Martian football games).
“Our colleagues and NASA counterparts are not concerned that our HAL might get out of control. That’s because it can’t do anything it’s not programmed to do.”
Bonasso has demonstrated CASE to NASA in a four-hour simulation of managing a planetary space station and no humans were harmed in the making of the model. However, it hasn’t yet been tried in the ultimate test … Beer Pong with Jimmy Fallon.
Should we be worried? Is it too late? If it is, who will help us fight back?
PASADENA, Calif. — Mars just welcomed a new robotic resident.-
NASA's InSight lander touched down safely on the Martian surface today (Nov. 26), pulling off the first successful Red Planet landing since the Curiosity rover's arrival in August 2012 — on the seventh anniversary of Curiosity's launch, no less.
Signals confirming InSight's touchdown came down to Earth at 2:53 p.m. EST (1953 GMT),eliciting whoops of joy and relief from mission team members and NASA officials here at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which manages the InSight mission. A few minutes later, the team received confirmation from the lander that it's functioning after the landing. [NASA's InSight Mars Lander: Full Coverage]
"It was intense, and you could feel the emotion," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, who was in the control room here at JPL during the landing. "It was very, very quiet when it was time to be quiet and of course very celebratory with every little new piece of information that was received. It's very different being here than watching it on TV, by far, I can tell you that for sure now that I've experienced both."
Kris Bruvold, left, and Sandy Krasner react after receiving confirmation that the Mars InSight lander successfully touched down on the surface of Mars
Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA
But the tension hasn't completely dissipated and won't for a while yet: Mission team members won't know whether InSight successfully deployed its solar panels until 8:35 p.m. EST (0135 GMT on Nov. 27) at the earliest. Without those arrays extended, the lander cannot survive, let alone probe the Red Planet's interior like never before — the main goal of the $850 million InSight mission.
The agonizing delay is unavoidable; NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter won't be in position to relay the deployment confirmation to mission control until more than 5 hours after touchdown, agency officials said.
If the arrays do unfurl as planned, InSight will join a relatively select club. Less than 40 percent of all Mars missions over the decades have successfully arrived at their destination, be that an orbital path around the planet or its dusty red surface.
A long road to Mars
A diagram of NASA's InSight Mars lander and its science instruments to look inside the Red Planet.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech - Adrian Mann/Tobias Roetsch/Future Plc
InSight launched on May 5 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, in the first-ever liftoff of an interplanetary mission from the U.S. West Coast. (Florida's Space Coast is the traditional jumping-off point for such far-flung voyagers.)
InSight shared its Atlas V rocket ride with two briefcase-size cubesats called MarCO-A and MarCO-B, which have been making their own way to Mars over the past 6.5 months. The MarCO duo (whose name is short for "Mars Cube One") have been embarked on an $18 million demonstration mission, which seeks to show that tiny spacecraft can explore deep space.
NASA's InSight Mars lander captured its first image just moments after touching down on the Red Planet on Nov. 26, 2018
Credit: NASA TV
MarCO-A and MarCO-B also played a key role in today's excitement, relaying data from InSight to mission control here at JPL during the lander's harrowing entry, descent and landing (EDL) sequence.
And harrowing it was. InSight hit the thin Martian atmosphere at about 12,300 mph (19,800 km/h), nailing its entry angle of exactly 12 degrees. If the lander had come in any steeper than that, it would have burned up; any shallower, and it would have skipped off the atmosphere like a flat stone across a pond.
As the lander streaked through the Martian skies, its heat shield endured temperatures around 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit (1,500 degrees Celsius) — hot enough to melt steel. Atmospheric drag slowed InSight down tremendously, to about 1.7 times the speed of sound, at which point the lander deployed its supersonic parachute.
InSight soon fired up its small onboard thrusters to decelerate further, finally touching down on a flat equatorial plain called Elysium Planitia at around 5 mph (8 km/h). (These numbers are based on pre-landing modeling work by the InSight EDL team; the actual figures may end up being slightly different.)
All of this happened in just 6.5 minutes — InSight's total travel time in the Martian air, from atmospheric entry to touchdown. The lander's EDL sequence was a bit shorter than Curiosity's famous "7 minutes of terror" experience, which featured a rocket-powered sky crane that lowered the heavy, car-size rover onto the Martian surface on cables. (InSight's EDL mirrors that of NASA's Phoenix lander, which touched down near the Red Planet's north pole in May 2008. InSight's body is also based heavily on that of Phoenix; both landers were built for NASA by aerospace company Lockheed Martin.)
MarCO-A and MarCO-B didn't follow InSight onto the surface. The bantam probes flew right on by Mars, their work done and their place in history as the first interplanetary cubesats cemented. [NASA's Mars InSight Lander: 10 Surprising Facts]
"We believe that this is a really interesting technology overall, and we've really shown something unique in deep space that will allow us to further future missions in a compact and efficient way," MarCo-A mission manager Cody Colley of JPL said here yesterday (Nov. 25) during a pre-landing news conference.
Their work is probably done, I should say: It's possible that MarCO-A and MarCO-B could observe an asteroid or other celestial body if their paths bring them close enough, and if funding for an extended mission is granted, John Baker, NASA's program office manager for the MarCO mission, told Space.com.
Probing the Martian interior
As exciting as the landing was, it was just the prelude to the main event — InSight's science work on the Red Planet.
Over the next two Earth years, the lander will probe Mars' interior structure and composition in unprecedented detail. InSight will use two main science instruments to do this: a heat probe that will hammer itself up to 16 feet (5 meters) beneath the Martian surface, and a suite of three incredibly precise seismometers, which will be on the lookout for "marsquakes," meteorite strikes and other jolts.
"Incredibly precise" doesn't do these seismometers justice, actually.
"They can see vibrations with an amplitude of about the size of an atom — maybe a fraction of an atom," InSight principal investigator Bruce Banerdt, also of JPL, said during yesterday's news conference.
The seismometer suite is therefore encased in a vacuum chamber, to minimize disturbances that could muck up the data. In late 2015, the mission team detected a leak in this chamber. The leak was fixed, but not in time for InSight to launch in March 2016, as originally planned. Launch windows for Mars missions roll around just once every 26 months, so the lander had to wait until this past May to get off the ground.
The science team will also track InSight's position in space using the 789-lb. (358 kilograms) lander's communications gear. This information will allow scientists to measure the slight wobble of Mars' axis of rotation, which in turn will help them better understand the planet's core, NASA officials have said.
Together, all of this data will give scientists an unprecedented look at the Red Planet's interior.
"That is the goal of the InSight mission — to actually map out the inside of Mars in three dimensions, so that we understand the inside of Mars as well as we have come to understand the surface of Mars," Banerdt said.
And scientists can use Mars as a sort of laboratory to understand how rocky planets in general form, he added. That's because the Red Planet's insides have been more or less frozen in place since shortly after Mars formed about 4.5 billion years ago. We can't look to Earth as a time capsule in this way because our planet's insides have been roiled continuously over the eons by plate tectonics, mantle convection and other processes.
InSight (whose name is short for "Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport") features an unusual degree of international cooperation. The burrowing heat probe was provided by the German Aerospace Center, and France's national space agency CNES led the consortium that developed the seismometer suite. [Mars InSight: NASA's Mission to Probe Red Planet's Core (Gallery)]
"A slow-motion mission"
Don't expect InSight to dazzle you with pretty pictures. The mission isn't interested in cool surface features, which explains why it landed on Elysium Planitia; the plain is smooth and flat with a paucity of boulders, boosting the odds of a safe landing (and of the burrowing heat probe being able to get deep down into the Martian dirt). And InSight is a lander, not a rover, so any photos that it takes over the course of its mission will depict the same terrain.
It'll also take a while for the spacecraft to get up and running on Mars. InSight will use its robotic arm to place the heat probe, the seismometer suite and a weather shield (which will surround the seismometers) on the ground.
No other Mars mission has done such an instrument deployment — science gear tends to be fixed to the bodies or arms of Red Planet spacecraft — and the InSight team wants to make sure they get it right. So, once they get a look at InSight's Martian surroundings, they'll practice the deployment over and over using a testbed lander here at JPL.
Actual deployment probably won't happen until two or three months from now, Banerdt said. And it'll take another month or so to calibrate the instruments for use on the Red Planet.
So, it'll be at least six months before the InSight team even "gets a glimmer of what we're looking for," Banerdt said. And it'll likely take the full two-year mission lifetime, or close to it, to get a really detailed look at the Martian interior.
"Once we get to the surface, InSight is a slow-motion mission," Banerdt said.
Space.com managing editor Tariq Malik contributed to this story from Pasadena. Senior writer Meghan Bartels contributed from New York City. Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate) is out now.
NASA made history on Nov. 26 with its newest Mars probe, the InSight Mars lander, will touch down on the flat plains of Elysium Planitia to study the Red Planet's core like never before. Armed with a crane, heat probe and seismometer, InSight will look deep to understand Marsquakes and other Martian secrets. See our full coverage of the mission below and visit Space.com to watch a post-landing conference live at 5 p.m. EST (2100 GMT)!
NASA has released a high-resolution view of InSight's first photo of Mars. Space.com's Mike Wall explains the Mars photo here (including its innovative cubesat delivery).
InSight beamed its first photo from the surface of Mars back to Earth just minutes after landing, courtesy of the tiny MarCO relay satellites that accompanied the spacecraft on its journey. NASA is still waiting to hear whether the lander successfully deployed its solar arrays.Share
Anticipation is high here at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for today's InSight Mars landing. Check out this awesome fascinator hat made by space reporter Mika McKinnon!
An artist's concept depicts NASA's InSight lander after it has deployed its instruments on the Martian surface.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Hurrah, NASA's sending another robot to Mars!
InSight is scheduled to touch down on Mars today (Nov. 26) at 3 p.m. ET, joining Mars' other robotic inhabitants: Curiosity, Opportunity and Spirit (though only Curiosity is currently "live," sending signals back to Earth).
You may be wondering if InSight will meet native forms of life during its stay on Mars; alas, that question will remain unanswered. The hardy little lander won't be spending its time searching for signs of Martian microbes. Instead, InSight will send a probe to burrow several feet below the planet's surface.
In doing so, InSight will provide a never-before-seen glimpse into Mars' internal structure, which could help scientists figure out how Mars — and other rocky planets, like Earth — took shape in a young solar system. [Mars Insight Photos: A Timeline to Landing on the Red Planet]
On the surface, Mars is covered in red dust that is rich in iron oxide; this coating earned it the nickname "Red Planet." Even when viewed from Earth without a telescope, Mars appears reddish in color as it hangs amid the stars — in fact, its bloody appearance inspired ancient astronomers to name the planet after the Roman god of war, according to NASA.
However, this signature red color doesn't extend very far below the surface, as Curiosity discovered in 2013. After drilling about 2.5 inches (6.4 centimeters) into a rocky outcrop, the rover extracted rock dust that was light gray, offering a first look at subsurface material on Mars.
But InSight will explore far beyond that, sinking a "self-hammering" probe that will dig itself into the ground to a depth of 10 to 16 feet (3 to 5 meters), for experiments measuring how the rock in the planet's interior conducts heat. [NASA's InSight Mars Lander: Full Coverage]
This is an image taken by an engineering model of NASA’s InSight lander during a rehearsal for instrument deployment in a Mars-like testbed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. A flight version of the Instrument Context Camera (ICC) that took this image is expected to take InSight’s first image on Mars.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Curiosity, Opportunity and Spirit have already provided scientists with a wealth of data on Mars from samples collected on the planet's surface, revealing the composition of its minerals and showing that the planet might have been capable of supporting life in the distant past. Orbiting satellites have also revealed important puzzle pieces about Mars' climate makeup and orbit, and have even detected what are thought to be flows of salty liquid water.
But unlike these other missions, InSight — Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport — will gather information from inside the planet. In addition to the burrowing subsurface probe, InSight also carries seismometers that will measure "marsquakes" — tiny vibrations triggered by planetary activity under the planet's crust. As these tremors travel through rock, they reveal the thickness and composition of the planet's internal layers, NASA officials explained in a statement.
By mapping what Mars looks like on the inside, the InSight mission could also help to explain the violent processes that shaped other rocky planets in the solar system at the same time, William "Bruce" Banerdt, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the principal investigator for InSight, said in a video statement.
"InSight is a mission to Mars, but it's much, much more than a Mars mission. In some sense, it's like a time machine — it's measuring the structure of Mars that was put in place 4.5 billion years ago," Banerdt said.
"By studying Mars, we'll be able to learn more about Earth, Venus, Mercury, even the moon, even exoplanets around other stars," he added.
NASA 'tried to DESTROY images of pyramids and statues' found on Mars by Curiosity Rover
NASA 'tried to DESTROY images of pyramids and statues' found on Mars by Curiosity Rover
THE MARS Curiosity Rover has unearthed images "statues" hidden in the rocks of the Red Planet which NASA has tried to "cover up", according to conspiracy theorists.
Ancient astronaut theorists – who believe aliens visited Earth in prehistoric times – have claimed to have spotted a range of religious icons, including a statue of Buddha and a cross.
Satellite imagery expert Joseph White says the Rover’s images have been tampered with in order to keep these statues from being discovered by the public.
Speaking to the History Channel as part of their Ancient Aliens series, he said: “They [NASA] do so much to destroy these images.
“Basically, what they do is resize them down so that the detail is all lost.”
Author David Childress said: “Certain structures on Mars may be completely related to structures here on Earth.
“On Mars, we have structures that look like pyramids. There are standing stones and Stonehenge-type structures on Mars.”
David also points out a "structure" on Mars which looks like a Sphinx, as well as an object shaped eerily like a sarcophagus.
PROOF? Experts spot ancient structures on Mars (Pic: YOUTUBE/HISTORY)
Many of these unexplained objects have been spotted in an area known as The City, including a cluster of pyramids similar to the ones found in Egypt.
These pyramid-like mounds follow a similar pattern to the constellation of stars called the Pleiades – a constellation reflected in monuments on Earth.
On the topic, author Giorgio A. Tsoukalos said: “We have to ask ourselves ‘what civilisation built this and what happened to them?”
New episodes of Ancient Aliens are on free to air channel BLAZE™ every Wednesday at 9pm, Freeview Channel 63.
BOLDLY GOING Two briefcase-sized satellites, shown side by side in this artist’s rendering, will become the first tiny spacecraft to fly by Mars and act as communications relays for a lander.
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The next spacecraft set to land on Mars is bringing its own communications team. InSight, a lander scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet on November 26, is accompanied by a pair of briefcase-sized spacecraft that will send details of the landing to Earth in almost real time.
The twin craft on this mission are CubeSats — tiny, inexpensive satellites that are easy to build and launch. CalledMars Cube One, or MarCO for short, they will fly past Mars as InSight lands, becoming the smallest spacecraft ever to be entrusted with a task as crucial as relaying landing information for a mission. Now nearing Mars, they are also already the first CubeSats to make it so far from Earth. If all goes well with InSight’s landing, future Mars missions could also be equipped with their own single-use comms team.
“A future where landers and rovers brought their own communications systems for landing, that would be fantastic,” says engineer Joel Krajewski of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and MarCO’s program manager.
InSight — short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport — will carry the first seismometer to Mars (SN: 5/26/18, p. 13). After touching down in a wide, flat plain called Elysium Planitia near Mars’ equator, the lander will sit perfectly still to listen to seismic waves and measure how heat flows through the Red Planet’s interior. The results will help scientists understand how Mars, and perhaps other rocky planets like Earth, formed around 4.5 billion years ago.
It will be only 6½ minutes between when InSight enters the Martian atmosphere, at a speed of nearly 1,000 meters per second, to the moment its legs touch the ground. The spacecraft will use a parachute and rockets aimed at the ground to slow to about 2.4 meters per second as it lands. Light-speed signals from the CubeSats or Insight itself will then take about eight minutes to travel between Earth and Mars, so by the time NASA engineers hear that InSight has entered Mars’ atmosphere, the spacecraft will be on the ground.
“Which is terrifying,” says engineer Farah Alibay, also of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Whether it landed softly or pretty hard, we won’t know. But we’ll know when you get that first bit of data, InSight’s already landed.”
We’re listening
The MarCO CubeSats will watch InSight’s descent to the Martian surface (red line) and send details of the landing back to Earth, before continuing past the planet.
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For most previous Mars landings, one of the large orbiters currently circling the Red Planet had to pause its data-taking to watch the event and send details to Earth. The orbiter that will be in the best position to watch InSight will be NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. While that spacecraft will observe the landing, it won’t be able to relay any details to Earth for at least three hours as its orbit takes the craft behind Mars from Earth’s point of view, blocking communications.
“Three to four hours is not long for most people, but it’s pretty long for us,” Alibay says. “Landing is the scariest part of your mission.” Waiting to hear about the spacecraft’s landing is like waiting for news about a loved one’s health, she says.
To avoid that waiting, the team sent the twin CubeSats. The spacecraft launched with InSight, but have been navigating through deep space on their own since May. The MarCO craft can change their trajectories by expelling compressed cold gas, similar to the way a fire extinguisher works — which earned them the nicknames Wall-E and Eve among the team, after the space-flying Disney robot characters. “We’ve demonstrated that a CubeSat can leave Earth orbit, survive the harsh environment of space and direct itself towards Mars,” Alibay says.
About five minutes before InSight hits the top of the Martian atmosphere, the two MarCO craft will position themselves to track the lander all the way to the ground, and send details back to Earth immediately. Each operates independently, backing each other up.
If all goes well, MarCO could set a precedent for future Mars missions. Existing Mars orbiters will be able to support two Mars missions launching in 2020 — NASA’s Mars 2020 rover and the ExoMars rover run by the European Space Agency and Russia’s space agency. But after that, the future is dim.
“Right now, there’s not an active plan for an orbiter beyond that time frame,” Krajewski says. Plus, existing orbiters have to burn fuel to get into the right position to watch other spacecraft land, which shortens the orbiters’ lives. Sending future spacecraft with their own CubeSat comms team could help scientists monitor landings without compromising the big orbiters’ science missions.
After InSight lands, MarCO’s job will be done. The tiny craft don’t have enough fuel or the right equipment to enter a long-term orbit around Mars. Instead, MarCO will “wave goodbye and continue along,” Krajewski says.
A RIVER RAN THROUGH IT The next NASA Mars rover will land at Jezero crater, a former lake bed that includes the remains of an ancient river delta (seen above in this composite image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter).
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The next NASA Mars rover will hunt for signs of ancient life in what used to be a river delta, the agency announced on November 19.
The rover is expected to launch in July 2020 and to land on Mars around February 18, 2021. It will seek out signs of past life in the sediments and sands of Jezero crater, which was once home to a 250-meter-deep lake and a river delta that flowed into the lake.
“This is a major attraction from our point of view for a habitable environment,” said Mars 2020 project scientist Ken Farley of Caltech in a news conference discussing the site. “A delta is extremely good at preserving biosignatures.” Any evidence of life that may once have existed in the lake water, or even evidence that came from the river’s headwaters and flowed downstream, could be preserved in the rocks that are there today.
The 2020 rover’s design is similar to that of the Curiosity rover, which has been exploring a different ancient crater lake, Gale crater, since 2012 (SN: 5/2/15, p. 24). But where Curiosity has an onboard chemistry lab for studying the rocks and minerals in its crater, Mars 2020 will have a specialized backpack for sample storage. A future mission will pick up the cached samples and return them to Earth for more detailed study, possibly sometime in the 2030s.
“The samples will come back to the best labs — not the best labs we have today, but the best labs we will have then,” said science mission directorate administrator Thomas Zurbuchen of NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Mars 2020 will also use a souped-up version of Curiosity’s landing system called Sky Crane, in which a hovering platform lowers the rover onto the ground with a cable. Mars 2020’s version will include a navigation system that will help it avoid hazards on the ground, like cliff faces and boulders.
Jezero crater is within striking distance of another site on scientists’ wish list. That region, called Midway, is just 28 kilometers away from Jezero and contains some of the most ancient rocks on Mars. At the final landing site selection workshop in October, scientists floated the idea of visiting both sites in one mission, a feat seen as ambitious but achievable. But a decision on that will have to wait until after the rover is safely on Mars, Farley said.
A group of Chinese researchers recruited couples in order to create the first gene-edited babies — a pair of twin girls born earlier this month. The controversial initiative aims to make babies resistant to certain diseases and pathogens, such as HIV infections.
The news was first reported by MIT Technology Review, which obtained official medical documents (1 and 2) filed by researchers at the Southern University of Science and Technology, in Shenzhen.
According to the documents, the Chinese researchers want to use the gene-editing tool CRISPR to modify human embryos and then transfer them into women’s uteruses. They plan to edit the CCR5 gene in such a way as to potentially make the offspring resistant to HIV, smallpox, and cholera. Using the
The team led by He Jiankui previously carried out tests on fetuses as late as 24 weeks, or six months, into the pregnancy. Their first tests on human embryos in a dish were carried in 2015, causing an ethical debate among the scientific community.
Although gene editing on humans is prohibited in most countries (China has banned cloning but not human embryo gene editing specifically), He and colleagues seem nevertheless bent on experimenting with gene editing and human cells. The major concern is that any edits will be passed on to offspring, thus making their way into the gene pool. As such, potentially troublesome mutations could become relatively widespread. On the other hand, even if the gene editing process is flawless, any beneficial gene edits — such as enhanced resistance to disease and even intelligence — could result in unfair advantages and may open the door for eugenic practices.
Jiankui He.
Credit: SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.
It’s all uncharted territory, and the long-term consequences of gene editing on humans can be unpredictable, which is why the scientific community advises caution. In stark contrast to this cautionary approach, He claimed that his team has “a strong responsibility that it’s not just to make a first, but also make it an example.”
He says that the aim of the trial is not to cure or prevent an inherited disease, but rather to bestow traits that few people naturally have. Specifically, the ability to resist an infection with HIV, which some individuals from Western European populations have due to a rare CCR5 genetic mutation. This gene forms a protein doorway that allows HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, to enter a cell; the mutation alters this doorway, physically blocking the virus from entering the cell.
According to the Associated Press, the Chinese researchers have altered embryos for seven couples during fertility treatments, with one pregnancy being carried to term thus far. All the men involved in the trial had HIV, while the women did not. This claim, however, is unverified, and the work has yet to be published in any journal.
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The gene editing occurred during the lab dish fertilization (IVF) stage. The researchers first separated sperm from semen, the fluid which may contain HIV. A single sperm cell was joined with a single egg to form an embryo, which was subjected to gene editing via CRISPR. Once the embryos were 3 to 5 days old, some cells were removed and checked for editing. Overall, the Chinese researchers edited 16 of 22 embryos, out of which 11 embryos were used in six implant attempts, resulting in a single twin pregnancy. The couples could choose whether to use edited or unedited embryos for their pregnancy attempts.
Tests suggest that one twin had both copies of the altered gene and the other twin had just one altered copy. There was no evidence that suggests harm to other genes, according to He. People with only one copy of the CCR5 gene can still get HIV. Further pregnancies are on hold until the twin pregnancy is deemed safe.
Others say it could be a manmade UFO, such as a spy plane.
The news comes after apparent UFO sightings in Northern Ireland this month.
Dash-cam footage uploaded by Sandy Laverty, in Coleraine, and posted by conspiracy channel Disclose.TV, appears to capture two strange bright objects flying across the sky.
SPY PLANE: People claim the strange object could be a spy plane (Pic: YOUTUBE)
NOT THE FIRST TIME: The conspiracy theorists claim a UFO was spotted in lightning before(Pic: GETTY)
It also coincides with similar reports by pilots.
The first sighting recorded by a British Airways pilot flying a Boeing 747 jet from Montreal to Heathrow over Kerry was at 6.47am.
She described seeing an object coming up along the left-hand side of her aircraft before it "rapidly veered to the north".
IRAQI MINISTER: “OUR ANCESTORS TRAVELED TO SPACE 7,000 YEARS AGO”
IRAQI MINISTER: “OUR ANCESTORS TRAVELED TO SPACE 7,000 YEARS AGO”
The Sumerian people settled in Mesopotamia, currently in southern Iraq, from 5500 to 4000 BC.
Iraqi Transport Minister Kazem Finjan has claimed that the ancient Sumerians invented space travel (in present-day Iraq) 7,000 years ago. years, according to ‘The New Arab’.
The politician made this statement during a conference in the province of Di Qar, in the south of the country.
THE VISIT TO THE GOVERNORATE OF DHI QAR Iraqi Transport Minister Kazem Finjan said that Dhi Qar was the site of the first airport built 5,000 years ago by the Sumerians. At a press conference, Minister Finjan said that the Sumerian airport was used for space travel and helped the Sumerians to discover the planet Nibiru. The statements, which were made on September 30, were broadcast by Nasiriya TV, and NRT TV broadcast a shorter segment.
KAZEM FINJAN: “Maybe many people in the Governorate of Dhi Qar do not know that the first airport that was built on planet Earth, 5,000 years ago, before the Christian era, was built here in Dhi Qar, if you do not believe me, read the book of the great historian Zecharia Sitchin, who was an expert in Sumerian studies, read the books of Samuel Kramer, or the book written by HG Wells (sic) on this: the story begins with Sumer, spoke about the first airport built on the planet, it was in this place.
Samuel Kramer was a leading researcher of the Sumerians who was born in the Russian Empire and was forced to move to the United States. to study in Philadelphia.
The scientist analyzed the mythology of this ancient people and their ideas regarding our Solar System. Kramer died of cancer in the United States in 1990 and published numerous works.
Kazem Finjan have perplexed journalists about the supposed hiding of governments and space agencies in relation to contacts with foreigners and other phenomena.
NASA’s Future Spaceships Will Travel At 1 Million Miles Per Hour
NASA’s Future Spaceships Will Travel At 1 Million Miles Per Hour
NASA could be on the verge of a breakthrough. Currently, NASA is working on an advanced propulsion engine, that if cracked, can elevate our space travel to the next level. For decades, spacecraft have been stuck traveling at low chemical speeds, limiting our ability to research and explore space. However, now speeds of over one million miles per hour before 2050 are possible. The NASA institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) is funding two high potential concepts.
There are new ion drives being developed right now that could have power levels that are tens thousand times higher. Antimatter propulsion and multi-megawatt ion drives are being developed. The current speeds of spacecraft are quite low in space terms. The Voyager 1 spacecraft is moving at 38,000 mph (61,000 km/h).
This speed was achieved mostly by a chemical rocket but also with the assistance of gravity, using it to slingshot the spacecraft out of orbit. Juno, Helios I and Helios II managed to reach speeds of around 150,000 mph using gravitational boosts also. The recently launched Parker Solar Probe will reach 430,000 mph using the Sun’s gravity.
Gravitational boosts are our current best way of achieving higher speeds for our spacecraft. However, this method is also detrimental to our research and exploration as it takes a lot of time to work. It can take many months before the desired speed is achieved and the real mission starts.
The new methods will use 50000 ISP lithium ion thrusters, the first of which will be tested in 4 months. This is part of a NASA NIAC phase 2 study to use lasers to beam 10 megawatts of power into new ion drivers. The recent progress of lasers is largely unknown to the public.
The US military is developing lasers that can produce a whopping 100 kilowatts within the next two years.
Laser beam powered ion drives will be up to ten times faster than any previous ion drive. A spacecraft with this technology would take less than a year to get to Pluto.
Jet Propulsion Lab is building and ironing out the many components used in this system. The sail and the ion drives are finally coming together. The hardest part will be creating and sustaining the phased array lasers.
Testing voltage will be boosted up to 6000 volts. This will allow the ion drives to be directly driven, which eliminates the need for a lot of electronics and weight. These type of ion drives do have many technical challenges, but predictions show a well-funded project could be successful before 2040.
AFPInsight dringt vandaag met een snelheid van bijna 20.000 kilometer per uur de ijle atmosfeer van Mars binnen.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Als alles goed gaat, beleeft de reis van Marslander InSight vanmiddag een grootse finale. Mits de sonde een voorspoedige landing op het oppervlak van de rode planeet weet te maken. NASA’s ruim een miljard dollar kostende Marsverkenner is bijna zeven maanden onderweg geweest. De laatste uren zijn zenuwslopend.
TER INFO: Vanavond rond 21 uur zenden we de marslanding live uit via de stream van NASA.
Pas als de InSight met drie poten op de rode grond staat, is het eerste deel van de missie geslaagd. Iedereen die betrokken is bij het internationale project, houdt de adem in. Ook onze Belgische Koninklijke Sterrenwacht (Lees ook: Belg weet als eerste of het lukt, red). De afdaling van InSight, een compleet laboratorium dat de komende twee jaar inzicht moet verschaffen in de diepste geheimen van Mars, is niet bepaald simpel. Het kostbare apparaat komt met een snelheid van bijna 20.000 kilometer per uur de ijle atmosfeer van Mars binnen. In minder dan zeven minuten moet het ruimtetuig van die duizelingwekkende snelheid zien af te remmen naar bijna nul. De vluchtleiding op aarde kan slechts toekijken, ingrijpen is onmogelijk.
APHet onderzoek van InSight zal de opmars zijn naar bemande kolonies op de planeet.
Helse afdaling
De capsule waarin InSight zijn helse afdaling richting het oppervlak maakt, lijkt op die waarmee in de jaren zestig en zeventig ook de maanmissies terugkeerden: een conische vorm, met daaronder een gladde vlakke bodem. De onderkant van de lander is van cruciaal belang om InSight te beschermen tegen de enorme hitte die ontstaat bij het binnendringen van de Mars-atmosfeer. Afgezien van het hitteschild is ook de hoek waarin de landingscapsule de atmosfeer van Mars raakt, uiterst belangrijk. Die hoek moet exact 12 graden zijn. Is de hoek te klein, dan kaatst InSight af en duikt het de diepten van het heelal in. Is de hoek te groot, dan gaat de sonde door de wrijving met de lucht als een razende vuurbal ten onder. En de missie letterlijk in rook op.
APDe capsule waarin InSight afdaalt op Mars lijkt sterk op die van de Apollo-missien in de jaren zeventig.
Loodrecht omlaag
Ongeveer drieënhalve minuut nadat de capsule de Mars-atmosfeer raakt, gaat een parachute open die het ruimtevaartuig verder afremt. Vijftien seconden later blazen explosieven het hitteschild weg en maakt InSight zich op voor de daadwerkelijke landing. Na tien seconden strekt de sonde drie poten uit en bungelt nog een minuut of twee onder de parachute. 45 seconden voor de landing verlaat InSight de capsule en nemen zijn landingsraketten het laatste remwerk over. De boosters stoppen ook elke horizontale beweging van InSight, waardoor het ding uiteindelijk loodrecht omlaag komt. Met nog 15 seconden te gaan, is de snelheid dan nog slechts 2,5 meter per seconde en raakt het Marslab hopelijk soepel de grond.
APDrieënhalve minuut nadat de capsule de Mars-atmosfeer raakt, gaat een remparachute open.
Binnenkant
Komt InSight na intrede en afdaling met een vaart hoger dan 8 kilometer per uur op het oppervlak terecht, dan is het alsnog einde oefening. De sonde slaat te pletter en de missie is mislukt nog voor hij kan echt beginnen. Acht minuten na de, hopelijk geslaagde, landing komt het verlossende levensteken van InSight op Aarde aan.
De plek waar de InSight gaat landen, Elysium Planitia, is een kale vlakte net boven de evenaar van Mars. De vluchtleiding hoopt dat er weinig rotsen zijn of stenen liggen die een zachte landing kunnen dwarsbomen. Dat voor het weinig interessante landschap is gekozen, heeft nog een reden: het is InSight niet te doen om het oppervlak, zoals zijn voorgangers, maar om de binnenkant van Mars.
AFPAls alles goed gaat, komt InSight met een gangetje van 8 kilometer per uur neer op Mars.
Metersdiep boren
InSight gaat metersdiep in de bodem van Mars boren, zodat wetenschappers kunnen leren wat er onder het oppervlak zit en inzicht kunnen krijgen in de geschiedenis van de rode planeet. Dat boren gaat eenvoudiger op een ondergrond die waterpas staat. Doordat er geen schaduwen zijn, kunnen de zonnepanelen van de lander bovendien meer energie opwekken.
Een tweede taak van InSight is het registreren van bevingen op Mars. Het vermoeden is dat die bevingen er wel zijn, alleen anders dan op Aarde. Mars heeft geen tektonische platen zoals onze planeet, maar onderzoekers denken de komende jaren toch tientallen tot honderden bevingen waar te kunnen nemen. Ook die trillingen kunnen iets vertellen over het binnenste van Mars.
Met het oog op toekomstige bemande Marsmissies is het ook belangrijk om te leren wat de temperatuur op een bepaalde diepte is. Als de temperatuur onder het oppervlak warm genoeg is, zou water er in vloeibare vorm aanwezig kunnen zijn. Tot nu toe werd altijd aangenomen dat water slechts als ijs voorkomt. Vloeibaar water zou een verblijf op Mars aanzienlijk eenvoudiger maken.
APInSight gaat metersdiep de marsbodem inboren om de rode planeet te ontfutselen zijn geheimen te ontfutselen.
Maankolonie
NASA zet komend jaar de eerste stappen voor het stichten van een maankolonie. Een nieuw ruimtestation, The Gateway, moet als uitvalsbasis gaan dienen voor de eerste bewoners die ergens rond 2030 voet op de maan zullen zetten. De maankolonie kan de opmars zijn naar een kolonie op Mars, zoals techmiljardair Elon Musk graag wil. Een groot deel hangt af van wat InSights aan het licht gaat brengen. Mits hij veilig landt natuurlijk.
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Ruimtekerkhof
NASA, dat in de jaren zestig de planeet al aandeed met de Mariner-missies, heeft overigens behoorlijk wat ervaring als het aankomt op Mars. Toch is het alweer zes jaar geleden dat de ruimtevaartorganisatie de rijdende verkenner Curiosity Rover op Marsiaanse bodem wist te zetten. Het succespercentage van sondes om heelhuids te landen, ligt op 40 procent.
Mars is vooral een waar kerkhof van mislukte missies. Diverse ruimtevaartorganisaties, waaronder naast Amerikaanse en Russische ook Europese, Indiase en Japanse bureaus, stuurden de afgelopen decennia 44 sondes naar Mars. Daarvan waren er 18 succesvol, met zeven geslaagde landingen. 23 missies mislukten en drie haalden wel de planeet zelf, maar faalden bij de landing.
APEen overzicht van de diverse landingsplekken van de Mars-missies die NASA ondernam.
MEDISCH Lulu en Nana zijn een IVF-tweeling van enkele weken oud. Volgens de Chinese wetenschapper He Jiankui uit Shenzhen zijn de meisjes de eerste genetisch gemanipuleerde baby’s ooit geboren. Jiankui benadrukt dat hij de controversiële ingreep enkel voor gezondheidsredenen wil toepassen. Als dit waar is, gaat het om een enorme evolutie in wetenschap en ethiek.
De Chinese wetenschapper zette een filmpje op YouTube waarin hij aankondigde dat de eerste gemanipuleerde kindjes al geboren zijn. In de video zegt hij dat de vader van de bewuste meisjes, Mark, hiv heeft. Dankzij de genetische aanpassing die Jiankui met zijn team doorvoerde bij de embryo’s tijdens de vruchtbaarheidsbehandelingen, zijn de baby’s nu zelf resistent tegen het hiv-virus.
De ingreep gebeurde met de veelbelovende en erg precieze CRISPR-techniek. Die laat toe om een enkel ongewenst gen door te knippen en te vervangen door een ander gen. In het geval van de tweeling was het de bedoeling om te voorkomen dat de meisjes ziek zouden worden door een mogelijke hiv-besmetting. Maar de ethisch omstreden techniek zou ook kunnen gebruikt worden om een zogenaamde designerbaby samen te stellen. Dan kan je als ouder de kleur van ogen en van haar kiezen, tot zelfs het niveau van intelligentie. Van die mogelijke toepassingen distantieert He Jiankui zich uitdrukkelijk in het filmpje.
Het is koffiedik kijken of de beweringen van He Jiankui kloppen. Er is nog geen gepubliceerde studie van de case en dus ook geen onafhankelijke controle van andere experts. De ouders wensen niet in de pers te komen en blijven anoniem. De aankondiging gebeurde in Hong Kong aan de vooravond van een internationaal congres over genetische manipulatie. Aan AP zei Jiankui: “Ik voel een enorme verantwoordelijkheid om niet alleen de eerste te zijn maar ook als voorbeeld te dienen.” Over het al dan niet toelaten van de omstreden techniek zei hij: “Het is de maatschappij die zal beslissen over de volgende stappen.”
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De collega’s van He Jiankui reageren verdeeld. Sommigen vinden het hiervoor nog veel te vroeg. Ze benadrukken dat het over de bouwinstructies van de mens gaat waarmee je niet zomaar wat kan gaan experimenteren. Maar de bekende geneticus van Harvard University, George Church, verdedigde de poging om de genen aan te passen in het geval van hiv. Hij noemde het “gerechtvaardigd”, omdat hiv een “grote en groeiende bedreiging voor de volksgezondheid” is.
Tot nu toe werd de CRISPR-techniek enkel toegepast op planten en dieren, en bij volwassen mensen om een dodelijke ziekte te bestrijden. De invloed van zo’n ingreep op menselijke patiënten bleef beperkt tot die persoon zelf. Maar de genetische aanpassingen die nu zouden gerealiseerd zijn bij embryo’s kunnen mogelijk erfelijk zijn voor nakomelingen. In de VS is dit soort van genetische modificaties daarom verboden. En omdat er een risico bestaat op schade voor andere genen. China verbiedt zelf ook het klonen van mensen, maar niet genetische manipulatie op zich. Bij de aangekondigde medische wereldprimeur was wel een Amerikaanse wetenschapper betrokken.
He Jiankui beweert dat hij zeven koppels van wie de man besmet is met hiv dezelfde behandeling gaf. Tot nu toe kwam het tot één zwangerschap. De andere pogingen zijn voorlopig on hold gezet omdat het team de tweelingmeisjes eerst verder wil opvolgen.
MEDISCH Lulu en Nana zijn een IVF-tweeling van enkele weken oud. Volgens de Chinese wetenschapper He Jiankui uit Shenzhen zijn de meisjes de eerste genetisch gemanipuleerde baby’s ooit geboren. Jiankui benadrukt dat hij de controversiële ingreep enkel voor gezondheidsredenen wil toepassen. Als dit waar is, gaat het om een enorme evolutie in wetenschap en ethiek.
De Chinese wetenschapper zette een filmpje op YouTube waarin hij aankondigde dat de eerste gemanipuleerde kindjes al geboren zijn. In de video zegt hij dat de vader van de bewuste meisjes, Mark, hiv heeft. Dankzij de genetische aanpassing die Jiankui met zijn team doorvoerde bij de embryo’s tijdens de vruchtbaarheidsbehandelingen, zijn de baby’s nu zelf resistent tegen het hiv-virus.
De ingreep gebeurde met de veelbelovende en erg precieze CRISPR-techniek. Die laat toe om een enkel ongewenst gen door te knippen en te vervangen door een ander gen. In het geval van de tweeling was het de bedoeling om te voorkomen dat de meisjes ziek zouden worden door een mogelijke hiv-besmetting. Maar de ethisch omstreden techniek zou ook kunnen gebruikt worden om een zogenaamde designerbaby samen te stellen. Dan kan je als ouder de kleur van ogen en van haar kiezen, tot zelfs het niveau van intelligentie. Van die mogelijke toepassingen distantieert He Jiankui zich uitdrukkelijk in het filmpje.
Het is koffiedik kijken of de beweringen van He Jiankui kloppen. Er is nog geen gepubliceerde studie van de case en dus ook geen onafhankelijke controle van andere experts. De ouders wensen niet in de pers te komen en blijven anoniem. De aankondiging gebeurde in Hong Kong aan de vooravond van een internationaal congres over genetische manipulatie. Aan AP zei Jiankui: “Ik voel een enorme verantwoordelijkheid om niet alleen de eerste te zijn maar ook als voorbeeld te dienen.” Over het al dan niet toelaten van de omstreden techniek zei hij: “Het is de maatschappij die zal beslissen over de volgende stappen.”
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De collega’s van He Jiankui reageren verdeeld. Sommigen vinden het hiervoor nog veel te vroeg. Ze benadrukken dat het over de bouwinstructies van de mens gaat waarmee je niet zomaar wat kan gaan experimenteren. Maar de bekende geneticus van Harvard University, George Church, verdedigde de poging om de genen aan te passen in het geval van hiv. Hij noemde het “gerechtvaardigd”, omdat hiv een “grote en groeiende bedreiging voor de volksgezondheid” is.
Tot nu toe werd de CRISPR-techniek enkel toegepast op planten en dieren, en bij volwassen mensen om een dodelijke ziekte te bestrijden. De invloed van zo’n ingreep op menselijke patiënten bleef beperkt tot die persoon zelf. Maar de genetische aanpassingen die nu zouden gerealiseerd zijn bij embryo’s kunnen mogelijk erfelijk zijn voor nakomelingen. In de VS is dit soort van genetische modificaties daarom verboden. En omdat er een risico bestaat op schade voor andere genen. China verbiedt zelf ook het klonen van mensen, maar niet genetische manipulatie op zich. Bij de aangekondigde medische wereldprimeur was wel een Amerikaanse wetenschapper betrokken.
He Jiankui beweert dat hij zeven koppels van wie de man besmet is met hiv dezelfde behandeling gaf. Tot nu toe kwam het tot één zwangerschap. De andere pogingen zijn voorlopig on hold gezet omdat het team de tweelingmeisjes eerst verder wil opvolgen.
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Alle mensen zijn voortgekomen uit slechts twee volwassenen. Hebben Adam en Eva echt bestaan?
Alle mensen zijn voortgekomen uit slechts twee volwassenen. Hebben Adam en Eva echt bestaan?
Alle moderne mensen stammen af van één enkel stel dat 100.000 tot 200.000 jaar geleden leefde, zo zeggen wetenschappers.
Ze analyseerden de genetische ‘barcodes’ van vijf miljoen dieren en kwamen tot de conclusie dat de mensheid is voortgekomen uit twee volwassenen na een catastrofe waarbij bijna alle soorten uitstierven.
Deze barcodes, stukjes DNA die in levende cellen kunnen worden gevonden, suggereren dat niet alleen mensen, maar ook negen op de 10 diersoorten in diezelfde periode zijn ontstaan.
Wetenschappers analyseerden de genetische "barcodes" van 5 miljoen dieren en 100.000 vershillende soorten
Vraagtekens
De wetenschappers, Mark Stoeckle en David Thaler, concludeerden dat 90 procent van alle diersoorten die vandaag de dag leven, zo’n 250.000 jaar geleden tegelijkertijd is ontstaan.
Ze trekken daarmee de menselijke evolutie in twijfel.
“Deze conclusie is erg verrassend en ik heb er zo hard tegen gestreden als ik maar kon,” zei Thaler.
Kort
De onderzoekers hebben geen idee waarom de mens zo ‘kort’ geleden weer overnieuw moest beginnen.
Mensen blijken niet alleen verrassend veel op elkaar te lijken, maar ook op alle andere soorten.
Vogels
Zo verschilt het mitochondriale DNA van duiven en mensen maar heel weinig van elkaar.
“In termen van cultuur, levenservaringen en andere dingen verschillen we van elkaar, maar als je naar de biologie kijkt lijken we heel erg op vogels,” zei dr. Stoeckle.
Het onderzoek is verschenen in het tijdschrift Human Evolution.
Comm. Sgt. Maj. Robert O. Dean – UFOs, ETs Among Us, Deep Underground Bases, & Disclosure
Comm. Sgt. Maj. Robert O. Dean – UFOs, ETs Among Us, Deep Underground Bases, & Disclosure
Robert “Bob” Dean is an officer and a gentleman. Bob discussed all aspects of his military career, contact with extraterrestrials and even described his experience aboard an alien ship. The UFO topic is proud to have Bob Dean as one of its most important ambassadors. Bob came disclosed a few stories that he has not shared before. We are honored to have Bob Dean on the show.
Deux OVNI brillants dans le ciel Californien le 21 novembre 2018 (vidéo)
Deux OVNI brillants dans le ciel Californien le 21 novembre 2018 (vidéo)
Date de l’observation: 21 nov. 2018 Lieu de l’observation: Californie, États-Unis Source: MUFON #96518
Scott C. Waring:
Voici quelques images brutes d’un OVNI qui sort tout droit du ciel au-dessus de la Californie cette semaine. L’OVNI brille de mille feux et descend lentement du ciel. Au début, il ressemble à un météore, mais sa chute est trop lente pour en être un. Des images déconcertantes, c’est le moins que l’on puisse dire. Le fait est que deux ovnis existent et se succèdent, donc ils veillent l’un sur l’autre. Une sorte de copilote, comme ils l’ont fait dans l’US / Navy pour les pilotes afin de les tenir à l’écart des ennuis. Manifestement contrôlé intelligemment.
Le témoin oculaire déclare:
Quelques amis à moi et moi étions assis sur mon porche en train de fumer des cigarettes quand nous avons remarqué quelque chose qui tombait du ciel, au début c’était un météore, mais ensuite nous avons remarqué qu’il s’est arrêté et a commencé à aller sur le côté après avoir plané pendant un moment. Un autre objet est apparu à côté.
HOW AND WHERE TO WATCH NASA'S INSIGHT FINALLY LAND ON MARS
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HOW AND WHERE TO WATCH NASA'S INSIGHT FINALLY LAND ON MARS
ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26th, following a six-month journey across hundreds of millions of miles of deep space, NASA’s InSight spacecraft will arrive at Mars in suitably dramatic fashion, hitting the top of the planet’s atmosphere at 12,300 miles per hour—several times faster than a speeding bullet—shortly before 12:00 pm PST (3:00 pm EST).
If all goes as planned, it will take InSight (short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport) just seven minutes to decelerate completely and alight on Mars’ surface. The planet’s atmosphere will do a lot of the work, aided in turn by InSight’s parachute, descent thrusters, and shock-absorbing legs. If NASA can pull it off, it will be the agency’s eighth successful landing on the red planet.
NASA and others will be broadcasting news of InSight’s approach, entry, descent, and landing all day long. Here are the best places to keep tabs on Monday’s proceedings in person and online.
Watch on WIRED
Tune in here Monday to catch two live feeds from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The first will feature live interviews with mission experts between 3:00 am and 7:00 am PST (6:00—10:00 am EST), followed by live landing commentary and news briefings from scientists and engineers between 11:00 am and 12:30 pm PST (2—3:30 pm EST). The second will be an uninterrupted feed of cameras from inside JPL Mission Control, featuring mission audio only, during the same time window. Notification of the landing is expected to arrive at Mission control around noon PST, but if communication with the spacecraft is delayed, NASA might not know InSight’s status for hours or even days. For this reason, the agency has penciled in a post-landing news conference for no earlier than 2:00 pm PST.
Watch in Person
From the NASDAQ Screen in Times Square, to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, to the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany, live viewing parties will be taking place all over the world on November 26th. NASA has compiled a handy list of no fewer than 80 such events, complete with addresses and contact information. The agency is updating the list daily, so if you don’t see anything near you today, be sure to check back in the days ahead. You can also check with your local museum to see if they’ll be hosting a landing party. If you’ve never been to a watch party for a Mars landing, we highly recommend it. After all: They don’t happen very often!
Learn More About the Mission
InSight launched on May 5th from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base, making it NASA’s first interplanetary mission to lift off from the West Coast, rather than Cape Canaveral in Florida. Why the swap? Chalk it up to the evolving nature of launch logistics
The term cloud iridescence – aka irisation – comes from Iris, the Greek personification of the rainbow. True iridescent clouds are relatively rare. Here’s what causes them.
Ken Christison wrote on November 18, 2018: “We had some beautiful iridescence in the clouds late this afternoon. Seen from northeastern North Carolina.” Thank you, Ken!
Sky watchers often report seeing rainbow colors in clouds. There are various kinds ofhalosand colored arcsand even truerainbowsyou might see associated with clouds, but – if the rainbow-like colors are randomly distributed, and if the sun is nearby – what you’re seeing is likely an iridescent cloud.
These sorts of clouds are caused by especially tiny ice crystals or water droplets in the air. Larger ice crystals produce lunar or solar halos, but tiny ice crystals or water droplets cause light to be diffracted – spread out – creating this rainbow-like effect in the clouds.
The images on this page are mostly via the EarthSky community. Our thanks to all who contributed!
Kino Obusan caught these iridescent clouds – one on the right and one on the left – on July 15, 2016, from Batangas, Philippines. “It was my first time to see a rare cloud phenomenon like this.” Thank you, Kino!
Our friend Dave Walker in the UK caught another iridescent cloud in 2013. He wrote, “There’s been a lot of very high cloud recently, always a cue for me to look out for more atmospheric optics.”
The best way to see an iridescent cloud is to place the sun itself behind some foreground object, a building or mountain, for example. Other aids are dark glasses, or observing the sky reflected in a convex mirror or in a pool of water. EarthSky Facebook friend Duke Marsh captured this image in 2012 in New Albany, Indiana.
Charles Loyd wrote in 2014: “I was outside and my 9-year-old daughter looked up and asked why there was a rainbow in the clouds … “
The moon with Jupiter and iridescent clouds, seen over Greece in 2015 by Nikolaus Pantazis.
The colors in an iridescent cloud tend to be subtle and are usually pastel, but in some cases they can be vivid. Here is cloud iridescence captured by George Quiroga in Boynton Beach, Florida, in 2012.
Image via Wikimedia Commons.
Bottom line: You might on occasion see a rainbow-like cloud. They’re fairly rare, but people do spot them, and we sometimes receive photos of them. They’re caused by the presence of very tiny ice crystals or water droplets in the air, which cause light to be diffracted (spread out).
Sprawled out across a portion of the northern Mojave Desert of California, in the United States, is the magnificent yet forbidding moonscape that is Death Valley. This is one of the hottest, most inhospitable places on the planet, boasting the highest ground temperature ever recorded on earth at 201 °F (93.9 °C), and in general a sun-scorched wasteland, devoid of water and pounded by relentless sun and heat. It is so inhospitable that it might as well be the surface of some remote, lifeless planet, and it is not called Death Valley for nothing. Yet, for how totally uninhabitable it may seem there have long been Native tribes living in this extreme land for thousands of years, and it some reports are to be believed there is even a mysterious lost civilization that lived under it all.
The tribe most associated with the Death Valley region is the Paiute, who like many other tribes throughout the world have their particular legends and myths about the land they inhabit. For the Paiute one of the most intriguing is that of a great underground city they call Shin-au-av, meaning “God’s Land” or “Ghost Land.” According to the lore, there was once a great chief who lost his wife to the clutches of death. Unable to cope without her, this chief took a journey to the land of spirits, during which he found himself in a vast subterranean world. In this land he was attacked by horrific monsters, which he barely managed to fend off as he retreated, finally crossing a rock bridge and coming to a peaceful land ruled by a chief called Shin-au-av.
Death Valley
This was apparently a land of lush green meadows, sweeping valleys, and dancing, happy people, and the chief who had stumbled across this magical place realized that is was a land of spirits, possibly even harboring his dead wife. He even asked if his wife was there, and one of his guides said that she indeed was, and that she would be presented to him with the caveat that he whisk her away as soon as possible without looking back. The chief was elated, but after waiting several days she did not materialize. He was about to give up but then she appeared and he did as promised, taking her by the hand and leading her across that stone bridge back to the land of the living, but he broke his pact by looking once more onto that sumptuous realm of green and his wife subsequently faded away once again. The heartbroken chief made his way back to his village, but he was never the same again, and his tale of that amazing underground domain became the stuff of legends.
Whether this fantastic fable is based in any way in reality or not, there have actually been explorers and adventurers who seem to have stumbled across this seemingly mythical place buried under the harsh hellscape of the Death Valley above, and whether connected to this legend or not there have been many who have claimed to have found something quite odd there under the parched earth. One of the earliest such accounts comes from the early 1900s, when two men named White and Thomason were said to have been hiking through Death Valley and one of them allegedly fell through the ground into an old mine shaft at a place called Wingate Pass.
It turned out that there underground was a gigantic cavern that they claim to have followed for 20 miles beneath the earth, where it penetrated out under the Panamint Mountains. According to them, this meandering, expansive cavern emptied out into a vast and ancient subterranean city, which had long since been abandoned but which still held much evidence of its past residents. White and Thomason said that they found perfectly preserved mummies wearing leather clothing and gold jewelry down there in the dank depths, as well as gold spears, a polished stone round table of some sort, golden statues, and just generally gold lying all over the place, as well as countless gemstones. Throughout all of it was an intricate lighting system that they speculated harnessed natural gases, and immense stone doors that seemed to have once been operated with elaborate mechanical systems.
The men claimed to have taken some of the treasure and relics out of there so that they could be studied, but that they had been subsequently stolen by an associate. They captured the attention of the Smithsonian Institute, and promised that they could show them where the entrance to this bizarre underground world was, but the men were unable to locate it again. Considering there is absolutely no evidence of these men’s claims, we are left to merely speculate as to how much truth any of it has.
In the 1920s there was another interesting account when a Native Guide named Tom Wilson came forward to claim that his prospector grandfather had also found some sort of underground city under Death Valley. Wilson said that his grandfather had followed a cave down into the earth, where he had come across a city of fair-skinned people living there underground, who spoke a language he could not understand and were decked out in leather clothing of some sort. This strange race had horses down there, and the whole city was lit up by some sort of lighting system he could not comprehend. Interestingly, Wilson would hear the earlier account of the explorer White and would go on to spend the rest of his life obsessively looking for the lost city without success until he passed away in 1968.
In 1947 the mysterious lost city of Death Valley captured the public imagination when a man named Howard E. Hill came forward with a rather bizarre tale of his own, which was circulated in the newspaper The San Diego Union. Hill told of a man named Dr. F. Bruce Russell and his colleague, an archeologist named Dr. Daniel S. Bovee. In 1931, Russell was claimed to have discovered a complex network of subterranean caves, which were stumbled across completely by accident while sinking for a mine shaft to make a claim on. The two men went on to explore these uncharted tunnels and found a series of spectacular caverns and catacombs down there in the gloom, which revealed some rather startling discoveries indeed.
According to the report, Russell and Bovee came across the mummified remains of three actual giants in the darkness, each measuring a purported 9 feet tall and wearing clothing that appeared to be jackets and knee length trousers made of some sort of unknown animal skin. The chamber that the giants were found in was allegedly full of relics that seemed to be some sort of mix of Egyptian and Native American design, and there were apparently hieroglyphics etched into the walls and ceiling. The men also found some sort of hall that they believed had been used for mysterious rituals, and within this hall were the remains of numerous animals presumably used for sacrifices, including both known and unknown animals, as well as the bones of extinct animals such as mammoths and even actual dinosaurs, as weird as that may seem.
Russell supposedly claimed that the remains were dated to be at least 80,000 years old, and that the whole complex meandered out into the unexplored dark for miles, with no telling what else lie within the unexplored murk. Although the two tried to get interest from the scientific community they were perhaps not surprisingly looked at with quite a bit of skepticism, with all of this talk of giant bones and dinosaur skeletons in an underground city. Yet they were apparently adamant that it was all real and that it was the discovery of the century. The two were finally able to draw some interest, but when they tried to find the entrance again they of course could not. Rather bizarrely, not long after this Dr. Russell and Bovee just suddenly vanished, and Russell’s car would supposedly be found abandoned in the desert of Death Valley several months later with no sign of its occupant.
There have been sporadic reports since of finding anomalous caverns and ruins down there in the earth below Death Valley, and we are left to wonder what it all means. Was there ever an ancient underground city here or is this all just myths and folklore? What of the findings of these explorers who have claimed to have been there? What is the significance of the mummies or the bones? It is a hard case to really get a bead on, and for now we are left to merely wonder if down in the depths below the unforgiving remote desert of Death Valley there is some ancient mysterious city lost to time.
Did you hear about the Archangel Gabriel's Ark? Is supposed to be stronger than the Ark of the Covenant
Did you hear about the Archangel Gabriel's Ark? Is supposed to be stronger than the Ark of the Covenant
Archangel Gabriel, who is said not only that he would have dictated the Qur'an of the "Prophet" Mahomed but also would have given to Prophet a sort of box of immense power. Then the founder of Islam said to bury the arc and to reveal it when the end of the world is near. The Ark would have been discovered and given to Russia, whose army had taken it just in Antarctica, possibly to a kind of former UFO base with Nazi ties
This is one of the best UFO interviews I've watched, my favourite UFO researcher Richard Dolan confirms he believes Bob Lazar and what he has disclosed about working at area51
Really looking forward to the new Lazar documentary - I do hope we get more from this Corbell film than we got from the Skinwalker movie, but we do know it will be very well made.
Breaking News - Tom Delonge is publishing the Bob Lazar BOOK !
70 metal plates contain the earliest account of Jesus
70 metal plates contain the earliest account of Jesus
The discovery of 70 metal plates in Jordan in 2008 describes the earliest account of Jesus, among many other references to the time 2000 years ago. The metal plates have now been confirmed as authentic...
In 2008, the authenticity of the 70 metal plates was questioned, but now the codicils have been analyzed and confirm that they are genuine and 2000 years old. The metal plates have been joined together and represent documents from this period. Particularly striking is the statement that Jesus did not establish a new teaching at all, but that he carried on the teachings of King David as a 1000-year-old tradition.
His intention was not to create a new religion, but rather to represent a God who is both male and female. The metal plates were in a large box made of stone bone and lead. The scientists Roger Webb and Chris Jeynes from the "Nodus Laboratory" of Surrey University tested the plates extensively and found that they were equivalent to a sample from an ancient Roman mine at the excavation site in Dorset. The language to be discovered on the metal plates is Paleo-Hebrew. They also mention the apostles Peter, John, James, and Jesus.
The authors Jennifer and David Elkington have revived interest in Jordanian codicils. They temporarily received the metal plates for further study. They attempted to largely translate and examine the text. They even discovered the face of Jesus surrounded by a halo. Webb and Jeynes also stated in their research that the many blogs that doubted the authenticity of the metal plates withdrew these hasty conclusions because they are now considered authentic. The symbols discovered on the metal plates show a clear correspondence with those of the Temple of Solomon.
The names Jesus and Simon were also discovered. Simon is associated with Simon bar Kokba, who led a rebellion against Rome at the time. The plates are probably from 137, but are probably copies of the originals that were made in earlier times. In addition to the text, there are pictures and symbols, most of which are associated with the temple in Jerusalem. The pictures depict seven-branched candlesticks, palm trees, eight-pointed stars, bowls with templefern and diagonal crosses as symbols of the early Christian period. Links to the secret Kabbalah script have also been identified, esoteric and mystical script interpretations. In addition, references to coded Bible texts about the sealed books of the Bible of Isaiah, Daniel, and Revelation.
Jesus is said to have even known female apostles by his side. Dr. Ziad Al Saad, the former director of the antique collection in Amman, regards the codicil as one of the most important finds of our time. He very much hopes that the codicils will be known throughout the world in the future.
David Elkington is a well-known researcher and says: "The main material is found in nine plates of this book and also describes the beginnings here on earth. The representations are very astronomical in nature with stars. There are three stars on it, like the Sun, which are relevant, with Earth-like planets on it."
He also found the Ra symbol in them. He is convinced that the sun depicted does not mean our sun. "It seems to me as if we were never alone in the universe and we are the offshoots of distant star visitors," he explains thoughtfully.
NASA Death Conspiracy. The warning of an alien invasion? UFOmania. A channel I follow and a great place for some different ideas and new content covering the field of UFO or UFP ‘if you prefer’ research. One story which caught my eye was that of a Female Astronaut who screamed a Warning to Earth Before she attempted to take her own life. This conspiracy theory makes the claim that French astronaut Claudie Haigneré warned the world of an imminent alien invasion minutes before falling into a coma from overdosing on sleeping pills. The strange thing is she is not the only person who has travelled into outer space returned and died under mysterious circumstances. Over the years of space programs, many astronauts and cosmonauts alike have come to an untimely demise. Why is this? What pattern is there to these deaths? Is there something being hidden?
BREAKING: Complex Organic Molecules Discovered on Enceladus For The First Time
BREAKING: Complex Organic Molecules Discovered on Enceladus For The First Time
MICHELLE STARR
The plumes of salty water shooting out of Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus have just ponied up one of the most significant ingredients for habitability: large organic molecules rich in carbon.
It's a discovery that suggests a thin, organic rich film atop the oceanic water table - very similar to the sea surface microlayer here on Earth, which is extraordinarily rich in organic compounds.
And yes, you guessed it. These findings bolster the hypothesis that, deep under its icy crust, Enceladus could be harbouring simple marine life, clustered around the warmth of hydrothermal vents.
Previously, simple organic molecules detected on the little moon were under around 50 atomic mass units and only contained a handful of carbon atoms.
"We've found organic molecules with masses above 200 atomic mass units. That's over ten times heavier than methane.
"With complex organic molecules emanating from its liquid water ocean, this moon is the only body besides Earth known to simultaneously satisfy all of the basic requirements for life as we know it."
Let that sink in for a moment.
One might think that a moon far from the Sun with an ocean covered by a thick crust of ice would be an unlikely place to look for extraterrestrial life, but the case for it is mounting.
Last year, Cassini data revealed the presence of molecular hydrogen in the plumes shooting off the surface of Enceladus - a possible source of which would be the ocean's water reacting with rocks via hydrothermal processes.
That process has been observed here on Earth - around hydrothermal vents, volcanic apertures in the seafloor that spew heat into the surrounding water.
These terrestrial hydrothermal vents are often far from the life-giving light of the Sun, which triggers the photosynthesis on which the vast majority of Earth's life depends.
But the warmth from the vents allows a different process to take place - chemosynthesis. Bacteria around the vents harness chemical energy, such as the reaction between hydrogen sulfide from the vent and oxygen from the seawater, to produce sugar molecules - food.
"Hydrogen provides a source of chemical energy supporting microbes that live in Earth's oceans near hydrothermal vents," said physicist Hunter Waite of the Southwest Research Institute, principal investigator on the Cassini Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer.
"Once you have identified a potential food source for microbes, the next question to ask is 'what is the nature of the complex organics in the ocean?' This paper represents the first step in that understanding - complexity in the organic chemistry beyond our expectations!"
The molecules were also detected by Cassini, which sampled an Enceladus plume before it was decommissioned in September of last year.
It then used its Cosmic Dust Analyzer and Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer to take measurements, both of the plume and of Saturn's E ring - the planet's second outermost ring, within which Enceladus orbits. It's formed by particles escaping the moon's gravity.
It's possible that a future probe may be able to dive through the plumes, equipped with a high-resolution mass spectrometer, to analyse those molecules in greater detail, and with more advanced technology.
Meanwhile, researchers here on Earth are continuing to observe and experiment on hydrothermal vents in the hopes of advancing our understanding of what life on Enceladus might look like.
And there are a number of proposed missions to actually send a craft to the ice moon to investigate more closely the possibility of life - and maybe even find it. But sadly, none of those are in development yet, so any such mission would still be years away, if it happens at all.
But, based on what we're still continuing to learn from Cassini, the moon is only looking more and more intriguing.
"Even after its end," Glein said, "the Cassini spacecraft continues to teach us about the potential of Enceladus to advance the field of astrobiology in an ocean world."
The research has been published in the journal Nature.
Nasa's Mars InSight mission heads for '7 minutes of terror'
Nasa's Mars InSight mission heads for '7 minutes of terror'
By Jonathan Amos - BBC Science Correspondent, Pasadena
The American space agency Nasa will attempt to put another robotic probe on Mars later.
The InSight landeris being targeted at a flat plain just north of the planet's equator called Elysium Planitia.
It carries a suite of instruments - many of them from Europe - to try to determine the rocky world's internal structure.
Signals from the probe confirming its safe touchdown should be received at 19:53 GMT, give or take a minute.
As with previous surface missions, InSight must survive the "seven minutes of terror" - the time it takes for a probe entering Mars' thin atmosphere at hypersonic speed to slow to walking pace and gently put itself on the ground.
Many have tried; most have failed. "As humanity, as explorers - we're batting at less than 50%," said Nasa's science chief, Thomas Zurbuchen. "Going to Mars is really, really hard."
InSight has some heritage on its side. It will be using the exact same combination of heatshield, parachute and retro-rockets that proved so successful in positioning Nasa's Phoenix probe in Mars "Arctic" in 2007.
Engineers here at mission control on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory campus in California have a quiet confidence in the outcome as a result. That said, they are also very aware of the statistics.
"We've done all the preparations that we can possibly think of to make sure that our entry, descent and landing (EDL) goes as smoothly as we can imagine," explained project manager Tom Hoffman. "But Mars as a planet does not always behave. I think our team is ready; I think the spacecraft is ready. We just don't know if Mars is ready," he told BBC News.
What is the latest status?
The EDL engineers have been closely watching the weather on the Red Planet, looking especially for any dust storms and evidence of high winds that could complicate InSight's passage through the atmosphere.
The probe's trajectory was altered ever so slightly on Sunday, to ensure it is lined up perfectly with the targeted landing zone on Elysium Planitia.
There is very little now that Nasa teams can do to influence the outcome. The whole process is necessarily automated because commands take eight minutes to traverse the 146 million km distance between Mars and Earth. You cannot use a joystick to control a far-off probe.
InSight will transmit messages as it heads down to the surface. These will be relayed back to Earth via two small satellites flying overhead. Radio telescopes at Earth will also be tracking the probe's progress just in case the primary communications link falls over.
Assuming it lands in one piece, InSight is programmed to take a quick picture of its immediate surroundings. This could come back within the first 30 minutes on the surface.
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Image captionInSight will be using technologies that were proven on the 2007 Phoenix mission
What is different about this mission?
This will be the first probe to dedicate its investigations to understanding Mars' interior.
Scientists want to know how the world is constructed - from its core to its crust. InSight has three principal experiments to achieve this goal.
The first is a package of Franco-British seismometers that will be lifted on to the surface to listen for "Marsquakes". These vibrations will reveal where the rock layers are and what they are made of.
A German "mole" will burrow up to 5m into the ground to take the planet's temperature. This will give a sense of how active Mars still is.
And the third experiment will use radio transmissions to very precisely determine how the planet is wobbling on its axis. Deputy project scientist Suzanne Smrekar uses this analogy: "If you take a raw egg and a cooked egg and you spin them, they wobble differently because of the distribution of liquid in the interior. And today we really don't know if the core of Mars is liquid or solid, and how big that core is. InSight will give us this information."
Why do we need to know this?
Scientists understand very well how Earth's interior is structured, and they have some good models to describe the initiation of this architecture at the Solar System's birth more than 4.5 billion years ago. But Earth is one data point and Mars will give researchers a different perspective on how a rocky planet can be assembled and evolve through time.
InSight chief scientist Bruce Banerdt said: "The small details in how planets evolve are what we think make the difference between a place like Earth where you can go on vacation and get a tan, and a place like Venus where you'll burn in seconds or a place like Mars where you'll freeze to death."
Media captionBruce Banerdt: "Right now a picture of the inside of Mars would have fuzzy boundaries"
The head ofRussia‘s national space agency has proposed a mission to the moon to verify whether the Americanmoon landingsreally took place.
Dmitry Rogozin responded to a question about whetherNasa’s Apollo programme actually put men on the moon back in the 1960s and 1970s during a conversation with the president of Moldova, Igor Dodon.
He appeared to be joking, as he smirked and shrugged while answering. But conspiracies surrounding Nasa's moon missions are common in Russia.
In a video of their interaction, posted to his 815,000 Twitter followers, Mr Rogozin says: “We have set this objective to fly and verify whether they’ve been there or not”.
Nasa’s six well-documented official manned missions to the surface of the Moon, beginning with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in July 1969 and continuing with Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt in December 1972, have been dogged with conspiracy theories.
Vladimir Markin said an enquiry should be launched into the disappearance of original footage from the first moon landing in 1969 and the whereabouts of lunar rock, which was brought back to Earth during several missions.
The International Space Station (ISS) is about 254 miles above the Earth. The inner Van Allen Belt is about 400 miles above the Earth. The radiation levels in the Belts is deadly. The US moon landings were fake. The Russians won't be going to the moon. The Chinese won't be going to the moon. The US never went to the moon.
Russische ruimteagentschap gaat controleren of Amerikanen echt op de maan zijn geweest. Was de Apollomissie een hoax?
Russische ruimteagentschap gaat controleren of Amerikanen echt op de maan zijn geweest. Was de Apollomissie een hoax?
Het hoofd van de Russische ruimtevaartorganisatie Roscosmos heeft een missie voorgesteld om te controleren of de Amerikanen echt op de maan zijn geweest.
Dmitri Rogozin gaf tijdens een gesprek met de president van Moldavië, Igor Dodon, antwoord op de vraag of gedurende het Apolloprogramma van de NASA in de jaren zestig en zeventig daadwerkelijk mensen op de maan zijn gezet.
Hij leek het als grap te bedoelen omdat hij grijnsde en zijn schouders ophaalde terwijl hij antwoord gaf, maar complottheorieën rond de maanmissies zijn erg populair in Rusland.
Verdwijning
“We willen ernaartoe vliegen en controleren of ze er al dan niet zijn geweest,” zei Rogozin.
In 2015 pleitte een voormalige woordvoerder van het Onderzoekscomité van Rusland voor een onderzoek naar de maanlandingen van de NASA.
Vladimir Markin zei dat er een onderzoek moest worden ingesteld naar de verdwijning van de oorspronkelijke beelden van de eerste maanlanding in 1969 en maangesteente dat tijdens diverse missies mee terug was genomen naar de aarde.
Stanley Kubrick
Volgens complottheorieën is alles in scène gezet. In veel van de theorieën wordt onder meer cineast Stanley Kubrick genoemd die het jaar voor de eerste maanlanding zijn klassieker ‘2001’ uitbracht.
Kubrick zou de maanlanding op de set van de film hebben vastgelegd.
Basis
De Sovjet-Unie beëindigde haar eigen maanprogramma in de jaren zeventig nadat vier experimentele raketten waren ontploft.
Begin november onthulde Rogozin plannen om na 2025 een basis op de maan te bouwen.
Дмитрий Рогозин✔@Rogozin
Отвечаю на вопросы президента Молдавии: были ли американцы на Луне, зачем у @roscosmos есть истребители и трамваи и как российская космонавтика поможет молдавскому винограду?https://youtu.be/dsntQZJyUWw
UFO streaking across the sky in front of a thunderstorm in Columbus, Ohio
UFO streaking across the sky in front of a thunderstorm in Columbus, Ohio
The witness who reported the sighting to Mufon says that he observed lightning during a thunderstorm in Columbus, Ohio, which was only seen within the clouds. The clouds lit up several times during the video.
He says that he heard no sounds coming from the lightning and thought that it was unusual that the lightning was only seen within the clouds, and recorded the event.
During the recording some type of flying object can be seen streaking across the sky from left to right.
I noticed this object near the rover looks very similar in shape to a snail...like an old fossil of a Mars Ammonite from its ancient lakes or oceans. Here on Earth, Ammonites lived died out 66 million years ago, but lived as long ago as 200 million years ago. I believe that since it evolved on a different planet, its shape was effected by a different evolution involving different environmental influences. I'm confused at why the NASA rover didn't want to examine it more closely, since it was hovering over some rocks nearby for several days. It would be most interesting to have a paleontologist take a look at the object.
UFO Sighted Over Denver, Colorado, Changes Direction! ( November 24, 2018 ) VIDEO, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Sighted Over Denver, Colorado, Changes Direction! ( November 24, 2018 ) VIDEO, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 24, 2018
Location of sighting: Denver, Colorado, USA
This video was taken in a UFO hotspot...Denver, Colorado just two days ago. Whats happening here is a drone UFO is creating a cloud tunnel for transportation purposes. The drone creates the tunnel and for some unknown reason the tunnels keep their shape for hours. UFOs will then use the tunnel to fly to the location s that they desire to go. At the end of the tunnel, where its being created, the object changed direction.
Yes, I personally witnessed four such cloud tunnels (side by side) back in 1989-90 in Rapid City, SD and watched the glowing balls of light appear at the tunnels beginning which just happened to be 1km above my parking lot...everyone going to their cars were staring up in awe. The lights appeared one at a time (3X bigger than a B1 bomber) then then the light rolled increased speed moving from slow to fast, faster, then gone...then another orb would appear in a different tunnel and do the same...there was also a rumbling as it moved...like a wooden cart being pulled over a cobblestone road. Saw over 25 in 20 minutes...before I had to leave to work at Ellsworth AFB flight line. Its a base with hundreds of nuclear silos that it controls, and lots of B-1 bombers which I worked on. No, the UFOs were not USAF. I knew everything going on there, even saw the nuclear attack plans made for presentations since I worked with the base commander. Awesome, but never saw it in the news, even though it was seen by thousands of residence.
Scott C. Waring
Some Youtube comments say it was just a meteor...but a meteor is incapable of changing direction so dramatically. It looks like its headed down into the Rocky Mountains...where there have been hundreds of UFO reports coming from...describing white glowing florescent orbs...that even the local government and police officers have reported seeing.
Signals from Mars will take 8 minutes to travel to Earth on Monday. By the time we hear that InSight has reached the top of Mars’ atmosphere, the lander will have already touched down safely … or crashed.
Artist’s concept of MarCO CubeSats – briefcase-sized spacecraft traveling with the InSight mission – relaying data from the InSight lander as it enters the Martian atmosphere.
If you’re at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it sounds like winning the Super Bowl: cheers, laughter and lots of hollering.
But in the minutes before that, NASA’s InSight team will be monitoring the Mars lander’s radio signals using a variety of spacecraft – and even radio telescopes here on Earth – to suss out what’s happening 91 million miles (146 million km) away.
Because these signals are captured by several spacecraft, they’re relayed to Earth in different ways and at different times. That means the mission team may know right away when InSight touches down, or they may have to wait up to several hours.
Here’s how NASA will be listening for the Mars landing on November 26, 2018.
Radio Telescopes
As the InSight lander descends into Mars’ atmosphere, it will broadcast simple radio signals called “tones” back to Earth. Engineers will be tuning in from two locations: the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy’s facility at Effelsberg, Germany. Their results will be relayed to Mission Control at JPL and to engineers at Lockheed Martin Space in Denver.
These tones don’t reveal much information, but radio engineers can interpret them to track key events during InSight’s entry, descent and landing (EDL). For example, when InSight deploys its parachute, a shift in velocity changes the frequency of the signal. This is caused by what’s called the Doppler effect, which is the same thing that occurs when you hear a siren change in pitch as an ambulance goes by. Looking for signals like these will allow the team to know how InSight’s EDL is progressing.
Mars Cube One (MarCO)
Two briefcase-sized spacecraft are flying behind InSight and will attempt to relay its signals to Earth. Belonging to a class of spacecraft called CubeSats, the MarCOs are being tested as a way for future missions to send home data during EDL.
The MarCOs are experimental technology. But if they work as they should, the pair will transmit the whole story of EDL as it’s unfolding. That might include an image from InSight of the Martian surface right after the lander touches down.
InSight
After it touches down, InSight will essentially yell:
I made it!
Seven minutes later, the spacecraft says it again – but a little louder and clearer.
The first time, it will communicate with a tone beacon that the radio telescopes will try to detect. The second time, it will send a “beep” from its more powerful X-band antenna, which should now be pointed at Earth. This beep includes slightly more information and is only heard if the spacecraft is in a healthy, functioning state. If NASA’s Deep Space Network picks up this beep, it’s a good sign that InSight survived landing. Engineers will need to wait until early evening to find out if the lander successfully deployed its solar arrays.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Besides the MarCO CubeSats, NASA’s MRO will be soaring over Mars, recording InSight’s data during descent.
MRO will hold on to the data it records during EDL as it disappears over the Martian horizon. When it comes back around from the other side, it will play back that data for engineers to study. By 23:00 UTC on November 26 (6 p.m. EST), they should be able to piece together MRO’s recording of the landing.
MRO’s recording is similar to an airplane’s black box, which means that it could also prove important if InSight doesn’t successfully touch down.
2001 Mars Odyssey
NASA’s longest-lived spacecraft at Mars will also relay data after InSight has touched down. Odyssey will relay the entire history of InSight’s descent to Mars, as well as a couple of images. It will also relay confirmation that InSight’s solar arrays, which are vital to the spacecraft’s survival, deployed fully. Engineers will have this data just before 01:30 UTC on November 27 (8:30 p.m. EST on November 26).
Odyssey will also serve as a data relay for InSight during surface operations, along with MRO, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission (MAVEN) and the European Space Agency’s Trace Gas Orbiter.
Artist’s concept of the Mars Insight spacecraft landing on Mars, via NASA.
Bottom line: Here’s how NASA will know the fate of its InSight lander, as it attempts to land on Mars on Monday, November 26, 2018.
There are around 500 billion planets in the Milky Way alone, and at least 10 billion of them are Earth-like. All these planets, and yet, we’ve discovered exactly zero alien life forms.
But what if we did? What if NASA announced that they found microbes in the oceans of Europa? Or ancient alien ruins on Venus?
What would that mean to our human civilization here on Earth? Would we consider that good news at all?
Aliens? No Aliens?
Since humans began searching for extraterrestrial life within our Solar System in the 1890s, we’re still waiting to encounter an alien life form. But if we did find one, that would be very bad news. Because in that case we might as well be dead.
Obviously, in this case we’re referring to life which comes from a planet other than Earth, not alien residents of other countries. Humans have speculated about alien life for decades, ranging from simple bacteria to advanced species.
Most of our speculation on alien life is based on the simple fact that the universe is huge. How could we be the only life in the galaxy, let alone the universe?
This logic is based on the Copernican principle. Named for the scientist Nicolaus Copernicus, the principle states that the Earth and the Sun are not observers in the universe, nor are they better or worse than every other planet. Everything that applies to other planets applies to Earth… including life.
Scientists have proposed various ‘habitable zones’, where extraterrestrial life could theoretically live. Billions of ‘Earth-like’ planets have been discovered, but very few have been found in one of these zones which meet the criteria for life.
These zones require solvent water, which is a necessity for life on Earth.
So, what if the aliens invaded? It wouldn’t look anything like the alien invasion you might imagine. Nobody would blast their super advanced weapons at us… Hopefully not.
Even if they did, it wouldn’t be that much of a problem. Because by the time we found alien life, we’d already be on our way to self-destruction. All because of the Great Filter. But what kind of filter is capable to kill our entire civilization? And why?
The Great Brita Filter:
Let’s back up a little bit. Basic probability asserts that alien life must exist somewhere in the Universe. If that were the case, wouldn’t we be able to see some signs of life out there? But we don’t. The Universe seems endlessly empty.
It’s this contradiction that has been blowing scientists’ minds ever since they realized that the Universe is very, very big. They called it the Fermi paradox. It also says that all species in the Universe go through the same evolutionary path, no matter where they’re from.
First, the development of life anywhere in the Universe starts with the right star system and a planet that has just the right conditions.
Then organic compounds assemble themselves into self-replicating patterns and eventually evolve into more complex multi-cell organisms. All the way up to the species with the big brain, that eventually take over their own planet and change it according to their needs. Here on Earth, that happens to be us, humans.
Then there’s the last step – space colonization. That could happen for many reasons – overpopulation and the need to spread out to survive, conquest of solar systems one after another, or even simple curiosity. Whatever the reason is, all civilizations will end up trying to colonize space.
Some alien species may have been around for billions of years longer than us. But they still haven’t shown up here on Earth. Looks like something is making it very hard to colonize a galaxy, maybe even impossible. The Great Filter. Yes, the thing that might wipe out all of humanity.
It’s something very dangerous, something that happens to every civilization that is advanced enough to go beyond their planet. One of the steps on everyone’s evolutionary path. Something that takes maybe billions of years to go through.
Having never met life on other planets means that the hypothesized Great Filter didn’t wipe us out. Instead, we might be the first civilization to pass it safely, and the first to reach this level of technology in the entire Universe.
But, just because we haven’t seen them, doesn’t mean they don’t exist, or never existed…. There’s a chance some aggressive alien species might have been on the way to Earth to destroy us all. But since they never showed up on our planet, that means something destroyed their entire civilization before they even reached Earth. The Great Filter?
It doesn’t look we’re going to find anyone as advanced as we are. If there was a more advanced civilization than ours, we’d know it by now. The most we can hope for is bacteria on Mars, or multicellular animals in the oceans of Europa.
Both options would be disturbing, but the worst thing to find would be the ancient ruins of an advanced alien civilization.
Because if they didn’t get past the Great Filter, neither did we. The only difference is that they are long dead, and we are just on our way to self-destruction.
The more complex and advanced the discovered alien life was, the more likely it would mean we’re behind the Great Filter.
Maybe that filter starts once the species take control over their own planet?
AI destroying its creator… Experiments that blow up the whole planet… Genetic engineering gone wrong… Climate change…It could be anything. It might have happened to those dead alien civilizations, and might happen to us, too.
Alien life might sound like the most exciting discovery of our time. However, it may be better for us if the Universe is absolutely sterile, and there are billions of new planets to be discovered and terraformed.
SHENZEN, China — Amy and John Bollinsworth are sitting on a white couch in the waiting room of BabyX, China’s chain of premiere fertility clinics. Two days ago they flew from London with a mixture of excitement and anxiousness for today’s appointment with their genetic counselor.
After a month’s discussion and going through the BabyX’s gene catalogue, they’re ready to pick out the traits of their future baby: a piercing blue eyed, curly-red haired girl with tiny freckles on her face and a gene enabling her to sleep just a couple of hours a night and feel rested.
It is 2070, the year when China registered five million “designer babies” being born, up 20% from last year and expected to continue growing. BabyX, a part state-owned enterprise, is at the forefront on the boom. Developed out of GHealth, a consumer genomics company offering genetic tests to improve fertility treatments, BabyX received the first commercial baby-engineering license in 2030.
“We’re happy to be able to provide a high quality genetic service to our customers coming from over 50 countries across the world,” said Xiao Bao, head of BabyX business operations, speaking at a recent launch of a new product line in Beijing — a gene catalogue of sports traits including increased reaction speed, endurance, among others.
BabyX is one of many companies which sprung up during the genomics revolution in the first half of the 21st century. In 2014 the total sequencing market was estimated at $1.9 billion, with the potential market being estimated at $23 billion. For reproductive testing market, the opportunity was estimated to be close to $2.0 billion annually.
The “designer babies” are created using CRISPR gene editing, a technique that allows genes to be modified at specific desired locations within the genome and that became commonly used in laboratories around the world in early 2010s.
Gene editing is done using a tool called CRISPR-Cas9. CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats. The name refers to the DNA sequence within the bacterial system where CRISPR was initially discovered. The DNA sequence repeats itself over and over again with unique sequences in-between the repeating palindromic ones. Cas9 is a protein which acts like molecular scissors, while a guiding piece of RNA (the other molecule essential to life) works as a small tag pointing Cas9 to which area in the DNA it should go and then where it should make very precise cuts. One way to think about CRISPR is as a text editor where you could search the given text of your genome, find the place where you want to edit it and make a change.
The technology has developed rapidly since the 2010s, although it initially ran into heavy resistance. Around forty countries, including China, discouraged or banned the editing tool to genetically engineer germline cells — cells whose change in the genome will be passed onto the progeny.
After publishing the first study on human embryos in 2015, where scientists attempted to modify a gene responsible for B-thalassaemia, a fatal blood disorder, China took the lead from the US in genome editing of embryos.
Whereas in the US, the federal funding of germline gene editing research was prohibited, the B-thalassaemia study was funded by the Chinese government. Within the next decade, technical challenges on the road to designer babies were overcome. One of the biggest challenges was preventing CRISPR going rogue and acting on unintended sites within the genome. This could lead to unwanted mutations such as inadvertently activating a cancer-causing gene or allowing pieces of chromosome to come together in a genomic rearrangement called a translocation, one of the causes of diseases like chronic myeloid leukemia. But by 2025 CRISPR system evolved up to the point where such off-targeting was strictly controllable.
The same year, 2025, China established its Human Fertilization Agency and lifted the ban on embryo genome editing, paving the way to commercializing the science behind it. The role of the Human Fertilization agency was to issue licenses to private and governmental organizations to use embryo genome editing for commercial and research purposes.
In China, these arguments were brushed aside. “China supports human rights and is a leader in the fight to improve health around the world with use of genetic engineering. UNESCO declarations do not create a legally binding obligations for the countries which signed them,” was the only short statement given from the communications department of the Human Fertilization Agency. After this act, a number of private designer genomic clinics sprung up in China.
The first “designer baby” was born in 2030 in Tianjin: Adam, a boy with purple eyes and golden locks framing his heart-shaped face. Like the Bollinsworths’ future daughter, Adam also had the ability to sleep just a couple of hours a day and feel rested. The activation of this gene enhanced the productivity of the working population by 3 percent around 2070, when the generation after Adam’s began entering the workforce. In the 2030s, though, it initially just meant longer sleepless nights for Adam’s parents.
Adam and other designer babies were born with enhanced intellectual abilities and physical appearances, designed to be more attractive based on population wide polls. However, the superhuman life they were given to lead came at a price.
In the decades after Adam’s birth debates raged from questions of serving genetically enhanced people to the need for different grading systems adapted to designer children’s enhanced abilities. Private schools appeared, offering accelerated curriculum specially catering for designer children. Education specialists warned that designer children could face similar challenges as gifted learners. A 2006 study, reported that 67% of gifted individuals experienced some form of bullying by the age of 14 within the educational system and therefore could face higher rates of suicide and depression.
The rise of genetically-modified people also quickly provoked fear, particularly in the US.
On Time Magazine’s 2040 Person-of-the-Year cover, a 10 year-old Adam stared out under the headline, “U.S. or Them” — just a decade after he had appeared on it under a celebratory one. A month earlier, the U.S. had banned entrance to all genetically-modified people, except in cases where the modification was medical-related.
“We won’t let those monsters enter our country and procreate with our citizens!” Benjamin Jackson, the country’s controversial president, had told TV cameras, as he signed an executive order imposing the ban.
There had also been a fearful reaction in Europe, where France required special visas for GM-people entering. Countries enforced strict border controls where the special visa stamped in the passport contained a barcode with person’s stored genome sequence, allowing immigration officers to see what modifications had been made.
Just five years before that, in 2035 the world had celebrated a milestone together. Thirty two OECD countries had recorded zero new cases of cystic fibrosis. In more than two thirds of cases the difference between suffering the disease or not had proved to be just a single missing letter in a person’s genome.
This disease was just one of many genetic disorders that future generations in developed countries would know nothing about. Progress was still uneven though, while developed nations were making huge strides towards disease eradication, developing countries faced the same problems as in the past: poor medical access and unaffordable prices of genetic engineering. Similar to prices of insulin which soared in 2010s, the price of a genetic modification didn’t depend only on the price of technology. Although the technology was getting cheaper, prices often depended more on the politics around governments and the pharmaceutical companies providing the service. Genetic engineering of embryos came coupled with IVF treatments, which, according to the Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago, in their basic form without CRISPR came with a price tag of $15,000, making them unattainable for populations of developing countries.
But, while throughout the 2030s the world embraced editing embryo’s genomes as a way to eradicate heritable diseases, enhancing the genetic traits of your offspring remained intensely contested.
The EU and the US initially banned any kind of genetic manipulation which didn’t directly aid disease prevention and treatment. Asian and Latin American countries, however — led by Japan, China, Brazil and India — allowed the creation of designer babies under one condition: a designed life couldn’t create life, all people created this way were compulsorily born sterile.
Unsurprisingly, the technology was quickly identified as a potential means of population control, particularly in countries where policies meant to target overcrowding were already in place. The same year Adam was born, China, released a planning document estimating a 1:1 ratio of designer vs. normal newborns would lead to a decrease in the population numbers. India projected that by 2080 a quarter of its births would be designer babies, conducted under a public births program. As the GM-people matured, adoptions also surged.
After half a year in China and two IVF treatments, Amy and John Bollinsworth returned to London expecting a child. Not everyone was pleased by their decision — some friends refused to hold baby Jemima. Many things though were the same for them as any other family — there were still waiting lists for childcare, and the scrambling later to get her into the right school catchment area. Even in a world of genetically-designed life some things didn’t change.
De Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA heeft een video vrijgegeven van de lancering van een Russische onbemande draagraket op 16 november in Kazachstan. Het bijzondere aan de beelden is dat ze geschoten werden vanuit het internationaal ruimtestation ISS. Astronaut Alexander Gerst deelde de timelapse op Twitter. In het filmpje is goed te zien hoe de raket en de cargo van elkaar losgekoppeld worden, en die eerste naar de Aarde terugkeert. Het ISS bevond zich op dat moment op ruim 400 kilometer van de onbemande Soyuz.
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RUSSEN WILLEN OP DE MAAN KIJKEN OF DE AMERIKANEN ER ECHT WAREN ( VIDEO )
RUSSEN WILLEN OP DE MAAN KIJKEN OF DE AMERIKANEN ER ECHT WAREN ( VIDEO )
De discussie of de Amerikanen nu wel of niet mensen op de maan hebben gezet blijft tot op de dag van vandaag aktueel.
Om aan alle speculaties een einde te maken, zijn het de Russen die op de maan willen controleren of de Amerikanen er werkelijk zijn geweest.
Voor velen is het niet voor te stellen dat de maanlandingen door de Amerikanen waarbij mensen op dit hemellichaam rondliepen wellicht in scene is gezet.
De discussie of dit nu wel of niet echt is gebeurd, wordt uiteraard niet alleen bij ons gevoerd, maar eigenlijk overal ter wereld.
En zo kan het dat de president van Moldavië aan Dmitry Rozogin, hoofd van Roscosmos (de Russische NASA), vroeg of hij wist of de Amerikanen nu wel of niet op de maan zijn geweest. Dit mede omdat Rusland zelf ook plannen heeft om met maanmissies te gaan beginnen. In de jaren zeventig van de vorige eeuw waren ook zij bezig met maanmissies, maar na vier exploderende raketten werden verdere pogingen toen afgeblazen.
Rozogov antwoordde dat een onderdeel van de Russische maanmissies zal zijn om te controleren of de Amerikanen daadwerkelijk op de maan zijn geweest. Nu wordt er in de Amerikaanse media gezegd dat Rozogov dit gezegd zou hebben als grap, maar Russen staan er in het algemeen niet om bekend dat ze echte grappenmakers zijn. Verder weet Associated Press te melden dat er in Rusland veel mensen zijn die samenzweringstheorieën aanhangen.
Er is uiteraard een reden dat Rozogov dit zegt en misschien doet hij het wel voor komen als grappig bedoeld, maar dat zal het waarschijnlijk niet zijn. Uiteraard zullen de Russen controleren of er inderdaad sporen te vinden zijn op de maan van de geclaimde Amerikaanse aanwezigheid.
Wij hebben twee jaar geleden een uitgebreid artikel gepubliceerd, geschreven door een lezer, waar overtuigend wordt afgerekend met de Amerikaanse bewering dat ze op de maan zijn geweest.
Ook nu nog, bijna een halve eeuw later, komen er nog steeds nieuwe dingen boven water waaruit blijkt dat NASA heeft gelogen over de maanlandingen, zoals het volgende uit een artikel eerder dit jaar.
Het schijnt een wetenschappelijk feit te zijn dat geluid niet hoorbaar is in de ruimte. Dit komt omdat volgens de wetenschapje klaarblijkelijk geen geluid kunt horen omdat er geen atomen of moleculen zijn om dit geluid te dragen.
Ruimtefilms met zware explosies slaan de plank volledig mis. In de ruimte is het doodstil, want geluid plant zich niet voort in een vacuüm.
Nasa laay zich door dit soort kleinigheden niet uit het veld slaan en wil de wereldbevolking doen geloven dat astronauten op de maan met een hamer kunnen slaan en dat dat geluid vervolgens kan worden gehoord.
We kunnen daarom ook een lang verhaal kort houden dit keer, want de fameuze Streetcap heeft beelden ontdekt van de Apollo 15 missie, waarbij een astronaut druk bezig is met met een hamer een soort paal in de grond te slaan en iedere keer als hij de paal raakt dan hoor je dit.
Dat betekent dan dat de maan een atmosfeer heeft net als de aarde en als dat niet zo is, dan zijn de beelden volkomen nep en is Nasa bij deze wederom betrapt.
Mocht je nog meer argumenten willen hebben waaruit zou blijken dat de maanlandingen nep waren, dan volgen er hier nog tien in de volgende video.
Maar, het is zoals met alles. Ook al wijzen veel argumenten in de richting van een nep maanlanding, het zou natuurlijk heel mooi zijn als de Russen er daadwerkelijk in zouden slagen om voor eens en voor altijd vast te stellen wat er nu wel of niet is gebeurd.
En mochten zij vaststellen dat de maanlandingen inderdaad helemaal nep waren, dan is nog maar de grote vraag of wij dat ooit te weten zullen komen. Waarschijnlijk zullen de Russen dat lekker voor zichzelf houden, bijvoorbeeld om Amerika mee onder druk te zetten, net zoals Erdogan dat doet met de moord op de journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
En, mocht je al moeite hebben met het idee dat de bevolking massaal is voorgelogen betreffende de maanlandingen, dan raden wij je voor je eigen gemoedsrust aan vooral niet op deze link te klikken.
It’s the favorite Old Testament story of fire-and-brimstone preachers who want their flocks to clean up their acts. In fact, fire and brimstone (an ancient word for ‘sulfur’) is what the Book of Genesis says rained down on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah as punishment for various sins (sexual, of course – the source of ‘sodomy’). And who can forget Lot’s wife, who disobeyed an order and looked back at what was happening to Sodom and turned into a pillar of salt. Did Sodom and Gomorrah really exist? Is there some sort of natural explanation for what might have happened to them … and to poor Lot’s wife, who doesn’t even get a name in the account? A group of researchers recently found evidence that leads them to believe the fire-and-brimstone the destroyed Sodom was the result of an atmospheric meteor explosions that puts those of Tunguska and Chelyabinsk to shame. And they name names!
“That the most productive agricultural land in the region, which had supported flourishing civilizations continuously for at least 3,000 years, should suddenly relinquish, then resist, human habitation for such a long period of time has begged investigation.”
That puzzle was the inspiration for “The 3.7kaBP Middle Ghor Event: Catastrophic Termination of a Bronze Age Civilization,” a paper produced by a multidisciplinary group of scientists and presented by archaeologist Philip Silvia at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research held last week in Denver. According to The Times of Israel, Silvia revealed the results of twelve seasons of study in a 25-km (15 mile)-wide circular plain north of the Dead Sea called Middle Ghor which is where Sodom and Gomorrah were believed to have once stood. Radiocarbon dating and minerals that appeared to have been instantly crystallized by high temperatures convinced them that these were the result of a massive airburst caused by a meteor about 3,700 years ago … the time when Lot’s wife would have turned around to see the explosion and possible been incinerated.
The excavations showed that the area, now a part of Jordan, was continuously occupied for at least 2.500 years before an estimated 65,000 people disappeared, entire cities were reduced to rubble and the Dead Sea suddenly spread its salty waters over once-fertile farmlands, rendering the area uninhabitable for 700 years. The archeologists found pieces of pottery melted into glass and shards of minerals embedded into their surfaces by incredibly high-force winds. This evidence and much more left them no doubt as to what Lot’s wife saw:
“This paper surveys the multiple lines of evidence that collectively suggest a Tunguskalike, cosmic airburst event that obliterated civilization — including the Middle Bronze Age city-state anchored by Tall el-Hammam — in the Middle Ghor (the 25 km diameter circular plain immediately north of the Dead Sea) ca. 1700 BCE, or 3,700 years before present (3.7kaBP). Based upon the archaeological evidence, it took at least 600 years to recover sufficiently from the soil destruction and contamination before civilization could again become established in the eastern Middle Ghor.”
OK, that explains the fire-and-brimstone, but does it prove that this meteor destroyed the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah?
There are biblical references to “ha-kikkar,” which means “the plain,” and translations of Genesis refer to the rain of “burning sulfur” destroying “those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities — and also the vegetation in the land.” Silvia and co-author Dr. Steven Collins write:
“The physical evidence from Tall el-Hammam and neighboring sites exhibit signs of a highly destructive concussive and thermal event that one might expect from what is described in Genesis 19. The destruction not only of Tall el-Hammam (Sodom), but also its neighbors (Gomorrah and the other cities of the plain) was most likely caused by a meteoritic airburst event.”
What about Lot’s wife and all the sinning? You’ll have to wait for another study.
PRE-ADAMITES: DID HUMANS INHABIT EARTH BEFORE ADAM AND EVE?
PRE-ADAMITES: DID HUMANS INHABIT EARTH BEFORE ADAM AND EVE?
The timeline of human existence has captured the attention of philosophers, scientists, and ordinary, curious people throughout the ages. Of course, there is the famous tale of Adam and Eve, but were they truly the first humans to walk the Earth? There is a growing body of research that suggests modern humans were not the first intelligent beings to live on our planet.
IS IT POSSIBLE PRE-ADAMITES EXISTED?
There are groups from all belief systems — Christians, conspiracy theorists, alien researchers, evolutionists, and more — who believe pre-Adamites (humans or intelligent beings that walked the Earth before Adam) actually existed.
The idea of the possibility of a pre-Adamite civilization and discussion about the origin of the human race is not a new one. Debates on the topic have been taking place since 170 AD. Over the years, many theories swirled about, enticing logical and romantic thinkers alike to explore further, look deeper, and question what they had been taught.
THE CHRISTIAN DEBATE
A growing number of Christians and people of other faiths believe modern-day humans were not the first — and possibly are not the last.
The Bible has clear passages about events that have taken place and that will take place at some point in the future, stating human existence operates on a 7,000-year cycle. Based on scripture now, the Earth is only a little over 6,000 years old. However, a great deal of scientific evidence indicates it is much, much older.
The Bible does not specifically state Adam was the first man ever to walk the Earth. There are too many gaps in the information contained in that chapter to get a clear picture.
Consider the account of Noah and the Great Flood. All humans were wiped out, except for Noah and his family. It’s quite possible a new Adam and Eve were born out of this catastrophe, starting the cycle anew. Therefore, it’s not entirely irrational to have doubts over whether or not Adam and Eve were truly the first humans on Earth.
In the book of Genesis, we read the Earth was without form and void — as if it had experienced a great catastrophe. We know from scripture that water already covered the Earth, and scientists are now finding, under the great bodies of water of the world, evidence of entire civilizations. These findings raise more questions than answers. How do we mesh science with scripture? Is it possible?
Many events documented in the biblical texts seem to be supported by science. Can these two seemingly oppositional systems coexist and come together to give us a more complete picture of where we came from?
Consider that the original biblical texts have been translated repeatedly. The version we use today has only been around since the 1600s, and the Catholic church uses a heavy hand in changing the scripture and the structure of the book itself. If you stop and think about it, perhaps we’ve lost something in all the edits and translations. Maybe we don’t have the whole story.
Keep in mind, there is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9).
THE SCIENTIFIC DEBATE
Traditionally, science and religion are diametrically opposed, with religion calling for faith and science calling for fact. However, scientific findings in recent years seem to be closing that gap.
Scientists present evidence that dinosaurs once roamed the Earth. Christians open their Bibles to the book of Job to read about what appears to be dinosaurs coexisting with humans. More recently found civilizations and objects defy all scientific and biblical teaching.
Throughout the world, ancient cities are being discovered; not on mountaintops or in forests, but under the ocean. These include:
Port Royal, Jamaica
Lion City of Quiandao Lake, China
Nero’s sunken city
Cleopatra’s Palace in Alexandria, Egypt, and Thonis-Heracleion in Egypt
Sunken city of Cuba
Dwarka, India
Yonaguni Monument, Japan
What are these ancient underwater cities? Are they evidence of a pre-Adamite civilization? Many of them have elaborate structures and display a level of technology scientists say was not possible at the time they would have been in use. Could carbon dating and other methods scientists use to date materials really be that far off? That’s not just a decade or two but a multi-billion-year error. Scientists believe they have definitive evidence, or are at least very close, to support their timelines.
Some scientists believe they have found evidence of the inhabitants of some of these civilizations. A flash frozen civilization in Antarctica is of particular interest. The skeletons looked vaguely human except for the elongated skulls. Who were they? What were they? Scientists speculate an ancient race that has long since died out.
Conspiracy theorists, on the other hand, believe they are an alien race that came here to escape their dying planet. They set up their civilizations and “seeded” the Earth. That is what we humans are.
Everyone has a story, a theory about what took place. The truth is, there are very strange things on this planet that cannot be explained by our current understanding of history, science, technology, and culture. What do we do? We press on. We continue to explore. We keep our minds open and keep searching for the truth.
Regardless of our belief systems, nothing can be learned by blindly walking through life ignoring what does not fit in the history books. Skeptics must acknowledge these ancient civilizations are real, and they were left here for a reason. Why weren’t they destroyed? Is this part of an elaborate puzzle, a higher test to separate the wheat from the chaff?
As for the scientists, are they doing all they can? Is science truly utilizing all available resources to explore these civilizations and search for clues that would change the way we view society and the world? The fact that these structures and entire cities were left behind and buried, only for us to find them so many years later, suggests intent.
When you are deciding what to believe, the greatest tool that can be sharpened and utilized is your critical thinking.
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All modern humans descended from a solitary pair who lived 100,000 to 200,000 years ago, scientists say.
Scientists surveyed the genetic 'bar codes' of five million animals - including humans - from 100,000 different species and deduced that we sprang from a single pair of adults after a catastrophic event almost wiped out the human race.
These bar codes, or snippets of DNA that reside outside the nuclei of living cells, suggest that it's not just people who came from a single pair of beings, but nine out of every 10 animal species, too
Stoeckle and Thaler, the scientists who headed the study, concluded that ninety percent of all animal species alive today come from parents that all began giving birth at roughly the same time, less than 250 thousand years ago - throwing into doubt the patterns of human evolution.
Scientists surveyed the genetic 'bar codes' of five million animals and 100,000 different species
'This conclusion is very surprising,' Thaler admitted, 'and I fought against it as hard as I could.'
The new report from experts at the Rockefeller University along with from the University of Basel published the extraordinary findings in Human Evolution.
The research was led by Senior Research Associate Mark Stoeckle and Research Associate David Thaler of the University of Basel, Switzerland.
They mined 'big data' insights from the world's fast-growing genetic databases and reviewed a large literature in evolutionary theory, including Darwin.
Dr Stoeckle said: 'At a time when humans place so much emphasis on individual and group differences, maybe we should spend more time on the ways in which we resemble one another and the rest of the animal kingdom.'
The conclusions throw up considerable mystery as to why the need for human life to start again was needed such a relatively short time ago, especially since the last known extinction we know of was during the time of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
This opens up the possibility of an inbuilt human evolutionary process wherein we break down and die out, leaving the need to start from scratch.
Mark Stoeckle (left) of Rockefeller University made findings with David Thaler of Basil Uni
The research deduced that humans and animals sprang from single pair - as did animals
We're also surprisingly similar to not just every other human, but every other species.
'If a Martian landed on Earth and met a flock of pigeons and a crowd of humans, one would not seem more diverse than the other according to the basic measure of mitochondrial DNA,' said Jesse Ausubel, Director of the Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University.
'Culture, life experience and other things can make people very different but in terms of basic biology, we're like the birds,' Dr Stoeckle added.
The 'mitochondrial DNA' examined in the research is that which mothers pass down from generation to generation and it showed the 'absence of human exceptionalism.'
'One might have thought that, due to their high population numbers and wide geographic distribution, humans might have led to greater genetic diversity than other animal species,' added Stoeckle.
'At least for mitochondrial DNA, humans turn out to be low to average in genetic diversity.'
The study has been misunderstood by some religious parties who thought it meant that we all came into being in some seminal Big Bang-typed event 100,000 ago, but this isn't what the findings actually suggest.
What Stoeckle and Thaler's findings point to is that our species has to revamp far more often than we thought, and we do so in unison with all animals.
On Monday (Nov. 26), Mars fans around the globe willwatch eagerlyto see NASA land a new mission calledInSighton the Red Planet — but for the scientists who built the mission, the real excitement will just be getting started.
That's because the $850 million InSight mission has anambitious slateof scientific tasks to accomplish during its time at work on the surface, which is planned to last about two years. While plenty of orbiters, landers and rovers have sought to understand Mars' surface and atmosphere, InSight — or more formally Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport — will be the first to turn its gaze inward.
With just three main instruments aboard the lander, the team has carefully designed the mission to tackle a big mystery: What's hiding beneath the Martian surface — geologically, that is. That makes InSight stand out from the string of missions that have gradually looked at the possibility of life on Mars throughout the planet's history, most recently the Curiosity rover and the upcoming Mars 2020 rover. [NASA's InSight Mars Lander: Full Coverage]
An artist's depiction of NASA's InSight lander at work on the surface of Mars.
Credit: NASA
InSight has three main projects that will structure its time on Mars.
First, it carries a seismometer decked out with a suite of environmental sensors. You may be familiar with seismometers from their work here on Earth detecting tremors in the ground, and InSight's will perform a similar task, sensing hypothesized shakes in the ground that scientists call marsquakes, as well as tremors triggered by meteorite impacts.
But terrestrial seismometers build up a dense network of instruments, helping scientists pinpoint what's causing the shakes those instruments feel. InSight's seismometer will be the only quake sense on all of Mars, so scientists had to rig the instrument to make sure they could still get the data they need. They'll also be hoping to see as many shakes as possible to maximize the data they can use and its precision.
Another challenge for the seismometer was eliminating all the other factors that could look like shakes to the super-sensitive instrument. That means the seismometer is decked out with a suite of sensors measuring factors like wind and pressure, which could be misinterpreted as marsquakes.
Once the seismometer has time to gather data on shakes, the team hopes to be able to map layers within Mars, since waves travel differently through rock under different conditions. The analysis could also potentially identify liquid water or plumes feeding volcanoes, although scientists aren't yet confident of that.
That underground-mapping project is paralleled by the work being done by a second instrument, a pair of incredibly precise radio transmitters. By bouncing signals to and from Earth and watching how they travel, scientists can identify where InSight is in space down to just a couple inches (a few centimeters).
Using that ultra-detailed location, the scientists can then watch the lander move over time and gradually map the tiny wobbles in how Mars rotates. Those wobbles reflect the planet's interior structure, specifically where its core falls on the spectrum between solid and liquid — the latter sloshes more.
InSight's final task is to deploy a heat probe that can hammer itself 16 feet (5 meters) below the Martian surface — much deeper than the mere inches that other spacecraft have drilled on planetary bodies.
The probe will measure how heat is rising through the planet, which should help scientists figure out where the heat is coming from. It can also produce its own brief flashes of heat and study how that heat flows through the surrounding rock, learning more about the rock that makes up the Martian crust.
All told, InSight's three projects will help scientists figure out how our neighbor was born and whether Mars was formed from the same mixture of materials as Earth and our moon. That could have implications for our broader understanding of how our solar system formed — and even for what we know about solar system formation more generally.
So get excited for the drama of landing — but remember, it's just the beginning for InSight.
Look out, International Space Station, this spacecraft is hot on your tail! An astronaut captured a stunning time lapse video of the Russian Progress MS-10 cargo spacecraft, also known asProgress 71, on its way to the orbiting complex.
About 15 minutes of the Progress launch on Nov. 16 show up in the time lapse video posted on theEuropean Space Agency website. The video clearly shows the flare of rocket launch, the spacecraft making its way up into space, and the re-entry of the first stage of the rocket. As the spacecraft becomes a bright light in the sky, the Earth spins below.
European Space Astronaut Alexander Gerst, the commander of Expedition 57, captured the images from the wrap-around Cupola window on the space station. He set a camera that took pictures at regular intervals, and the resulting timelapse shows the launch at about eight to 16 times normal speed, according to a statement from ESA.
Progress delivered 5,652 pounds (2,564 kg) to the space station Nov. 18 after making a flawless launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where Russia blasts cargo and cosmonauts to the space station. The next scheduled launch from the site will have a crew on board — the three-person Expedition 58 crew, which is expected to leave Earth at 6:31 a.m. EST Dec. 3 (1131 GMT).
Gerst, NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev arrived at the space station on June 8. Gerst's crew was supposed to be joined by two other astronauts after an Oct. 11 launch, but that flight aborted during launch due to a deformed sensor in the rocket. Russia swiftly wrapped up an investigation and moved the Expedition 58 launch three weeks earlier in order to keep the station crewed while Gerst's team leaves for home on Dec. 20.
Retired Air Force officer claims he chased a 8000 mph craft over Stonehenge
Retired Air Force officer claims he chased a 8000 mph craft over Stonehenge
As a former flight and intelligence officer with a 20-year service record, he said he has personally witnessed some pretty bizarre phenomena, George Filer III came clean saying that the UK government hides extraterrestrial life as a top-secret
George Filer III is 82 years old and currently serves as the New Jersey director of MUFON, which is an American based non-profit association that studies the UFO phenomena. He is one of the many ex-military and NASA veterans to speak openly about UFOs. However, he also happens to have 20 years of experience as an Air Force officer. He revealed that some of the events he experienced in the air are rather inexplicable.
Illustration of an Unidentified Flying Object
Namely, during the Cold War, Filer was placed in Scotland. He remembers piloting a military aircraft that tried to intercept a weird object that was as big as a bridge on the radar. As they were getting nearer, they were able to see lights off in the distance. He described the lights looked something like a cruise ship at night. There were multiple all over the object.
When we got closer, we could see lights off in the distance – kind of like a cruise ship you would see at night, with multiple lights across it. As we got, I don’t know, about 5 miles from it – it went up into space. And we were doing over 400 (miles per hour) and I would say it was doing 10, 20 times our speed and it was this huge object. So we were convinced that it was something that was not ours, let’s put it that way. To me, it looked like a long cylinder.
George Filer III came clean saying that the UK government hides extraterrestrial life as a top-secret, further describing his own UFO confrontation:
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FILE -- This image shows Earth as seen by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), aboard NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft.
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In one of the most provocative and misunderstood studies of the year, scientists in the U.S. and Switzerland have madean astonishing discovery: All humans alive today are the offspring of a common father and mother – an Adam and Eve – who walked the planet 100,000 to 200,000 years ago, which by evolutionary standards is like yesterday. Moreover, the same is true of nine out of every 10 animal species, meaning that nearly all of Earth’s creatures living today sprang into being recently from some seminal, Big Bang-like event.
Mark Stoeckle at Rockefeller University and David Thaler at the University of Basel reached this striking conclusion after analyzing the DNA “bar codes” of five million animals from 100,000 different species. The bar codes are snippets of DNA that reside outside the nuclei of living cells – so-called mitochondrial DNA, which mothers pass down from generation to generation.
With each reproduction, errors creep into the bar code, as they do when you repeatedly photocopy a document. By measuring the accumulated errors – the blurriness or “diversity” among the bar codes – scientists are able to infer the passage of time.
That’s how Stoeckle and Thaler concluded that ninety percent of all animal species alive today come from parents that all began giving birth at roughly the same time, less than a quarter-million years ago. “This conclusion is very surprising,” Thaler avers, “and I fought against it as hard as I could.”
What caused animal life on Earth to be almost completely renewed such a short time ago? For now, it remains a mystery.
It’s possible something far more powerful than H-bombs decimated life and only a single set of parents for each species survived to live and procreate another day. But the last major extinction event we know about – the one that snuffed out the mighty dinosaurs – happened a full 65 million years ago.
It’s also possible there is something in nature that limits the size of an animal population. Perhaps it’s some built-in evolutionary process that when a population gets too big, it crashes and must restart itself from scratch.
In their report, published in Human Evolution, Stoeckle and Thaler offer other possible explanations, including, Thaler explains, “ice ages and other forms of environmental change, infections, predation, competition from other species and for limited resources, and interactions among these forces.” Whatever the explanation, he adds, the takeaway is this: “all of animal life experiences pulses of growth and stasis or near extinction on similar time scales.”
That is, humans, elephants, birds, you name it – Earth’s creatures tend to stand and fall in unison, like the rising and falling of the tides. And even though we don’t know what Svengali is directing the show, we now have scientific evidence that it wipes the slate clean far more frequently than we ever imagined.
Many religious commentators misunderstand this study to mean that species abruptly came into being only recently. To be clear: according to evolutionary biologists, species developed gradually over many millions of years. Stoeckle and Thaler’s discovery is that something happened roughly 100,000 years ago that created entirely new populations from long-existing species.
That said, Stoeckle and Thaler’s study does line up with the Bible in at least two notable ways. First, it affirms that we and our fellow creatures on Earth arose from a recent and profound creation event, orchestrated by some unknown mechanism. And second, the DNA bar codes reveal that species are quantized. Instead of there being a continuum of animal varieties, as one might expect from millions of years of gradual evolution, creatures fall into very distinct, widely separated populations – what the Bible describes as “kinds,” from the Hebrew word min.
“Darwin struggled to understand the absence of intermediates and his questions remain fruitful [to this day],” says Thaler. What the new study discovered, he explains, is that “If individuals are stars, then species are galaxies. They are compact clusters in the vastness of empty sequence space.”
Above all, Stoeckle and Thaler’s intriguing study serves up hard evidence for the astonishing fragility of life and a humbling lesson for the high-and-mighty among us. It proves we are at the mercy of forces we do not see nor understand; forces that made our existence possible a few hundred thousand years ago and that just as quickly – in the twinkling of an eye – can and will one day take us out.
Groot, groot nieuws in deze video. En voordat we beginnen moet ik zeggen dat uit de duizend of zo video’s die ik in de laatste vier of vijf jaar heb gepost, van al die vreemde dingen waar we over spraken, over alle beelden die we hebben gezien en van al het bewijs dat naar boven is gekomen dat het buitenaardse fenomeen bevestigde en het lange verbergen ervan. Van al die zaken waar we over hebben gesproken is er waarschijnlijk geen andere video of ander onderwerp waar ik meer opgewonden van raak als het onderwerp waar we het vandaag over gaan hebben. En ik heb dit in het verleden al opgemerkt, en ik heb er sindsdien een veelvoud aan vragen over ontvangen en ik ben er min of meer zwijgzaam over geweest omdat ik niet wist wat er zou gaan gebeuren. Maar vandaag ben ik opgewonden en verheugd te zeggen dat de man waarvan de Amerikaanse overheid trachtte die uit te wissen, Bob Lazar een exclusief interview zal doen hier op SecureTeam, tezamen met mr Jeremy Corbell die een film in voorbereiding heeft die uit zal komen, en nogmaals, ik vertelde jullie een paar maanden geleden erover, toen we hier min of meer over fluisterden, die film is getiteld: ‘Bob Lazar, Area-51 en vliegende schotels. En als jullie de naam Bob Lazar kennen, als je al van deze man hebt gehoord of je weet wie hij is en wat hij heeft gedaan, wel, dan weet je hoe explosief deze film en dit interview zal zijn en wat het betekent voor dit onderwerp. Hier wordt daadwerkelijk geschiedenis geschreven.
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Killer Robots? They Are Reality. Should We Be Concerned?
Killer Robots? They Are Reality. Should We Be Concerned?
As I write this my robot vacuum cleaner hums away downstairs quietly doing its thing, sometimes rumbling over the air vent in such a way that I can hear it upstairs in my office. It has a name – Sharknado.
The robot vacuum is great. I was initially skeptical. How could it do a decent job ? It’s a rolling disk with brushes. How could it do anything close to the job of a conventional vacuum? But after 2 sessions with the thing I was convinced. As I marveled at the nice fresh family room courtesy of our new gadget I became a believer.
It was yesterday that I heard my wife yell to the kids that they needed to pick their headphones up off the floor “so the robot could clean” their rooms. The sentence gave me pause.
It won’t be long before yards are cut, kids are driven to school, dogs are walked, beds are made, and meals are cooked by robots on a large scale. The trajectory seems clear. The robots are coming.
We are just in the opening scenes of this new world and we would be wise to have a serious debate about the role of robots in our society,now. The ethical questions we are and will be presented with in a robotized world are and will be profound. They will challenge our understanding of what it means to be human. We will have to consider seriously the prospect of robots as potentially sentient beings. (Beyond sci-fi movies.) What does it mean generally if a robot can “think”? What if a robot can “feel”? What does that mean for us in a real (forgive me) nuts and bolts sense?
In a more narrow sense we need to be aware of the fact that robots represent a leap in warfare, and that the leap is happening right now. If robot slaves can go to war and do the bidding of governments (and other entities with resources), governments are going to use them. Imagine a Golden Horde of automated soldiers sweeping into a city to raise it. Consider how one would counter such an assault. (Likely with other robots.) Consider what it means to have these machines wandering the landscape. Machines that with time may prove more robust than relatively fragile humans. We’d better make sure we do some real hard thinking before we end up with a Terminator-like situation. No joke and God forbid.
(From The Daily Beast)
The introduction of automatons into factory jobs has lead to the displacement of hundreds of workers, and has forced surviving workers to work harder, longer, and more intricate jobs. Christoph Walter, a robotics engineer in Freiburg, Germany, doesn’t see automated labor as an issue, though. When interviewed in the documentary, he explains, “We don’t want to replace a worker [with a robot]. We want to support workers.”
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Linda Moulton Howe Discloses Huge Whistleblower Testimonies That Will Change Everything (Video)
Linda Moulton Howe Discloses Huge Whistleblower Testimonies That Will Change Everything (Video)
Linda Moulton Howe has received astonishing emails about extremely strange extremely events happening in this world right now.
These stories relate to some of the biggest UFO and Alien stories that you wont find anywhere else.
From the Vietnam jungles to Area 51 and S4 at Nellis AFB in Nevada, to Wright-Patterson AFB and bases beyond — whistle-blowers have revealed to me firsthand encounters with various kinds of entities and technologies in an alien presence that has allegedly interacted with Earth for thousands of years.
WETENSCHAP De autoriteiten in het Egyptische Luxor hebben gisteren een opvallend goed bewaarde, 3.000 jaar oude mummie van een vrouw onthuld. Het was de eerste keer dat voor de ogen van de pers een tot nu toe gesloten sarcofaag, een oude doodskist, werd geopend.
Het ging om een van de twee sarcofagen die archeologen eerder deze maand aantroffen op een grote begraafplaats aan de westoever van de Nijl, meldt Reuters. Het eerste exemplaar werd eerder al geopend en onderzocht door Egyptische oudheidsdeskundigen. “Eén sarcofaag was van de rishi-stijl, daterend uit de zeventiende dynastie”, vertelde de betrokken minister Khaled Al Anani. “De andere kist was van de achttiende dynastie.”
De achttiende dynastie stamt uit de dertiende tot en met de zestiende eeuw voor Christus. In die periode leefde een aantal van de bekendste farao’s, onder wie Toetanchamon en Ramses de tweede. De gisteren geopende kist was volgens Egypt Today van hout; de mummie aan de binnenkant was in linnen doeken gehuld. De Egyptische autoriteiten meldden aanvankelijk dat de vrouw Thuya heette, maar voegde later toe dat onderzoekers de identiteit van de vrouw nog moeten vaststellen.
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De oude Egyptenaren mummificeerden mensen om hun lichamen te conserveren voor hun leven na de dood. Sinds begin dit jaar heeft Egypte al meer dan een dozijn aan archeologische vondsten onthuld. De hoop is dat de cultuurschatten het imago van het land oppoetsen en toeristen lokken. Die bleven sinds de politieke onrust die in 2011 begon namelijk vaak weg uit het land.
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Mysterious tunnels discovered in Tampa may have been used for smuggling Chinese-Cuban prostitutes during Prohibition
Mysterious tunnels discovered in Tampa may have been used for smuggling Chinese-Cuban prostitutes during Prohibition
A network of underground passageways has been unearthed in Tampa, Florida
The tunnels were found this week during construction of an office building
University of Southern Florida - St. Petersburg professor Emeritus of history Dr. Gary Mormino told DailyMail.com they were likely part of a criminal network
Mormino believes Ybor City officials would have had to be in on the construction
He's ruled out use of the tunnels by bootleggers, and instead thinks they were used to smuggle in Chinese-Cuban prostitutes and Chinese laborers after 1865
Spacious tunnels that may have been used for smuggling in Chinese-Cuban prostitutes during Prohibition have been discovered during construction in Florida.
There's been talk about mysterious passageways underneath the suburb of Ybor City in Central Florida going back about 20 years, University of Southern Florida - St. Petersburg professor Emeritus of history Dr. Gary Mormino told DailyMail.com.
Mormino, 71, who has been researching the history of Ybor City for about 40 years, said the first tunnels of this kind were unearthed about two decades ago when work was being down below a Blue Ribbon grocery store.
'That provoked the question, "Why would you build a tunnel in an area that has a water table of about one foot below sea level?"'
While some have guessed the underground passages may have been used by bootleggers, Mormino said that doesn't make sense, and it's more likely they were used to bring in prostitutes or Chinese laborers from Cuba.
Spacious tunnels that may have been used for smuggling in Chinese-Cuban prostitutes during Prohibition have been discovered during construction in Tampa, Florida's Ybor City
These latest tunnels were found earlier this week near the Old Florida Brewery, close to East 6th Avenue and Noccio Parkway, while construction was being done on a new office building.
Workers were tearing down a warehouse when they found the hidden passage, tall enough to stand up in with a rounded ceiling.
Mormino described them as, 'nothing too remarkable to look at,' flat on the bottom, and wide, making them unsuitable as a sewage system, and all the more interesting to those wondering why they exist.
History professor and researcher Dr. Gary Mormino described the tunnels to DailyMail.com as, 'nothing too remarkable to look at,' flat on the bottom, and wide, making them unsuitable as a sewage system, and all the more interesting to those wondering why they exist
'At this point, I'm looking at ruling things out,' he said. 'I'm asking myself, "What were the tunnels not used for?"'
While some are quick to guess they may have been used to transport bootlegged alcohol during the 1920s and early 1930s, Mormino said that doesn't make any sense, either.
'I interviewed a lot of people in the 1970s and '80s who would have been involved in bootlegging of '20s and '30s and they've all said the only people who feared the police were those who weren't involved in the rackets' he said. 'If you paid off the police, you were fine.'
Mormino shared a story about one of his interview subjects named Sam, who said his father was an Italian bootlegger, who would receive a call once each month from the police telling him he had to come in and be arrested and pay his fines.
Once there, Sam said the police would ask his father what name he wanted to be arrested under 'this time,' and the next day the front page of the newspaper would read, 'Seven Italian bootleggers arrested,' as part of a ruse intended to appease the public.
In fact, Mormino said Sam also told him he used to deliver crates of bootlegged alcohol to shops and when the police were they, they would open the door and help him carry the boxes in, praising him for being such an enterprising young man.
So, Mormino has determined, the tunnels probably weren't used for bootlegging.
Instead, he said, it's far more likely they were used for 'white slavery related to bringing women across interstate lines for immoral purposes,' along with smuggling in Chinese laborers and Chinese-Cuban prostitutes.
Mormino said Ybor City has had a large Chinese-Cuban population dating back to 1886.
'Chinese people were brought to Cuba after slavery ended in late 19th century to replace slaves and work in the sugar industry,' Mormino said.
The professor guessed that around that time, city of Tampa officials may have been in on creating the tunnels which would have otherwise been a massive and expensive undertaking for a criminal enterprise.
While some are quick to guess they may have been used to transport bootlegged alcohol during the 1920s and early 1930s, Mormino said that doesn't make any sense, because police were so 'in on it' that tunnels wouldn't have been necessary; In this undated photo federal authorities are shown unearthing a buried whiskey cache in the backyard of a Ybor City home
Mormino believes that local leaders may have extending the passages down to the port
'Basically, corrupt politics likely allowed the criminal elements to use those tunnels as part of a vast, interconnected network,' he said.
But, Mormino made sure to mention, that while it's fun to guess about what may have gone on in those hidden passageways all those years ago, anything anyone has come up with is just a guess.
'I don't know if we'll ever know the truth, to be honest,' Mormino said. 'It's a rather elusive story now.
Mormino told DailyMail.com they were likely part of a criminal network, and that Ybor City officials would have had to be in on the construction; Ybor City's 7th Avenue Historic Street is pictured in a file photo from November 28, 2016
I don’t know what UFOs are, but I do know one thing. I can say with confidence that according to hundreds of thousands of reports across the globe and going back over several millennia, humans have a knack for encountering unexplainable things.
Does this mean that every single anomaly is a message from spirits, alien beings, or mystical entities? No. Just because someone saw something doesn’t mean that it is real, objective or honest. Lying and hallucinations are authentic phenomena. Moreover, many things that were once spooky to our little species have since been explained. We know that bubonic plague is not caused by evil spirits and that lightning is not the wrath of a vengeful god. That being said, there are still many things that escape our explanation. Many mysteries remain, and bizarre sightings and events continue to haunt us. Indeed, one day, many more of these odd events will be explainable as our ability to learn, grow and understand changes. We will continue to develop. With all that being said, errors and delusion happen, but can we claim that nothing is outside of current human knowledge? We still have much to learn.
The UFO, as an objective and cultural phenomenon, is undefinable. Author and academic Dr. Jeffrey Kripal, in his book, The Super Natural; A New Vision of the Unexplained,compares the “UFO phenomenon” to “a wastebasket problem.” He writes that the,
“UFO phenomenon is not a single thing. It is a broad set of things that are constantly being confused and mixed up.”
We tend to hold assumptions, the vast majority of which are influenced by our cultures, histories and collective mythologies, concerning exactly what we believe the UFO phenomenon to be. We toss all those assumptions into the wastebasket, creating a chaotic mix of ideas which have little rhyme or reason to be together. As I continue to study both the community and the phenomenon, I am at a loss on how to properly define the term “UFO phenomenon.”
We lump alien abductions and extraterrestrial contact in with seeing strange lights and unknown objects in the sky. The channeling of inter-dimensional entities or spirits, and even poltergeist activity, often accompany UFO sightings. Sightings of Sasquatch often accompany orbs and aerial lights. Are these all part of the UFO enigma? While the term “UFO” itself began as an American Cold War military response to ‘foo fighters’ and flying saucers, it has often been co-mingled with parapsychological phenomena such as remote viewing and telepathy. How about ancient sightings and reports of fairies, goblins, and elves? Various other modern creatures like the Mothman and the Flatwoods Monster also have connections to the UFO phenomenon. How about New Age mystical beliefs, UFO cults, demonology, secret military black aerospace projects, seeing ghosts of deceased loved ones, and near-death experiences? It is impossible to make adequate distinctions.
The UFO is incredibly pervasive, not because of the number of sightings, but because it seems to co-mingle with a vast array of established and soon to be established mythological constructs. Interestingly, it is possible to trace the various shifts in Ufological thinking across the century. From ancient mythological creatures, to evil bacteria prone Martian invaders, to flying saucers piloted by men from Venus, to extraterrestrial Greys and Nordics from distant stars, to ultraterrestrials and interdimensional beings crawling through portals, to TicTac piloting “Others,” the UFO has always been symbiotically connected to broader cultural motifs, anxieties, and ideologies. The UFO is undefinable because our cultures are. UFOs are the ghosts which haunt our socio-cultural zeitgeist, and we, in turn, haunt UFOs and make them reflections of us. It is impossible to understand what UFOs are because, fundamentally, we do not yet understand what we are.
Our cultural ideologies are constantly changing and shifting. Our values and worldview evolve. To paraphrase philosopher Guy Debord, we live in and as “representations” of the real, in a spectacle of reality, and not totally in the ‘real’ itself. This begs a key question. What contemporary ideological constructs will shape the UFO reality going forward?
With last year’s revelations concerning the Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program and the Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application Program, a very specific framework is continuing to form around the phenomenon. Former intelligence officers and current defense contractorsare involved in Tom DeLonge’s To The StarsAcademy of Arts and Science. We learned that the Defence Department put boots on the ground at Utah’s Skinwalker Ranch, as well as other alleged “paranormal hotspots.” We know that today, a private corporate security firm monitors the Skinwalker gate. How long before serious discussion surrounding meta-materials turns to the potential manufacturing of weapons and military hardware? While the military conspiracy trope has a long history in the Ufological narrative, the lines between absurd conspiracies and factual investment into the study of UFOs are blurring.
With defense contractors and players in the military intelligence game openly getting into bed with the UFO community, am I the only one who is a little nervous? As author Robbie Graham pointed out in his book, Silver Screen Saucers, the military has always tried to have a hand in the creation of fictional UFO-themed films. However, it seems that they are much more involved in the factual aspects of Ufology, and if their intent in dramatic films is to manage the message, what ideologies and hegemonic systems are being established when it comes to the “real” thing?
If 2017 has shown us anything, it is that the tenets and ideas within UFO research can change quickly. If anyone asked me in 2016 whether the majority of the UFO community trusted certain military and intelligence organizations, I would have guffawed. Today, my Twitter feed is a massive military industrial love-in. Are we being sold that this phenomenon is a threat and that weaponization is part of the solution?
I am not suggesting that there is a conspiracy or some secret cabal. There really doesn’t need to be. The UFO community is reflective and reflexive, and every cultural movement is influenced by a wide collection of experiences and events. The only Ufological reality we can be certain of is that reality is changing.
In retrospect, maybe the one thing I know about UFOs is that I know nothing.
Unexplained mass animal deaths just don’t seem to get the headlines they should. Shouldn’t we be worried when large groups of animalsfall from the sky or wash up on shorewith no discernible cause of death? These unexplained animal deaths appear to be getting more common. Couple that with the World Wildlife Fund’s recent data demonstrating that 60% of vertebrate life has been lost in the last four decades, and it’s easy to imagine the type of future envisioned in Blade Runnerand other sci-fi in which humans are the last living things on Earth. Bye bye, bacon.
Eat as much as possible while you can.
The latest mysterious mass animal death to drive a nail in the animal kingdom’s coffin occured in Hillsboro, Oregon this month where dozens of birds from four different species were found dead with “no obvious signs of death.” Wildlife agencies are currently testing the birds to try and determine a cause of death, but as in other recent mass bird suicide events and deaths, the cause will likely remain elusive.
The bird suicides are the most troubling. Entire flocks have been seen to dive bomb the ground for no reason.
The dead birds in Hillsboro include dozens of red-winged blackbirds and European starlings, a red-tailed hawk, and a bald eagle. It’s quite uncommon for so many birds to die at once, and the fact that several different species were involved is even more anomalous. Bob Sallinger, the Conservation Director at Audubon Society of Portland, believes the birds may have been unintentionally poisoned, but other residents aren’t so sure. One resident, who refused to speak on camera, toldlocal news outlet KPTV that he has been finding dead birds on his property ever since a new electrical transformer was installed in a nearby field.
All of the new types of radiation we’ve introduced to the world can’t be good for animals.
Could electromagnetic fields generated by telecommunications or electric grid infrastructure be affecting birds’ internal navigation mechanisms? NASA has been exploring the possibility that solar weather and fluctuations in Earth’s magnetic field may be driving unexplained mass marine mammal beachings. Could something similar be causing these recent bird deaths and suicides?
Burning UFO Over Polska, Poland May Be Secret Space Project, Nov 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Burning UFO Over Polska, Poland May Be Secret Space Project, Nov 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 23, 2018
Location of sighting: Polska, Poland
This is a UFO video that just came out. It was released by an eyewitness in Poland today. At first the video shows what looks like a four engine passenger jet burning up and crashing, but no news of such a plane crash exists. As we watch the video, the object begins to burn more and more until its just a burning ball with a flaming tail behind it. It does look like its coming from outside Earths atmosphere and boring up on reentry. There is no chance in hell that this is a meteor. No meteor ever had four contrail tails lined up side by side. Either this is a top secret space craft of Russia making a crash landing (a boarder neighbour of Poland) or this is a UFO. But as you can see, if this is a top secret craft...by the time it hit the ground, it was a crispy critter.
I do know that many UFOs can make such trails behind them, because I have seen such UFO first hand. I use to work on aircraft in the USAF. I worked on B1 and B2 bombers at Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, a SAC high security base.
Na 9 maanden werken op archeologische site: mummies van meer dan 3.500 jaar oud gevonden
Na 9 maanden werken op archeologische site: mummies van meer dan 3.500 jaar oud gevonden
Een team van archeologen heeft in Egypte een oude tombe ontdekt met daarin nog intacte mummies van meer dan 3.500 jaar oud.
De ontdekking werd gedaan in de Al-Assasif-vallei, niet ver van de stad Luxor. Daar werden twee sarcofagen gevonden, met daarin telkens een mummie. Volgens de archeologen dateert de vondst uit de tijd van de 13e tot de 16e eeuw voor Christus. Een van de twee mummies was een vrouw met de naam Thuya.
De wetenschappers waren al sinds maart aan het werk op de plaats waar de sarcofagen nu zijn gevonden. Er werden bovendien ook zo’n 1.000 beeldjes van begrafenisrituelen gevonden, naast ook een aantal andere mummies die niet in een sarcofaag lagen. Daar zaten ook kinderen bij.
Researcher Found An Alien Shipwreck In The Bermuda Triangle
Researcher Found An Alien Shipwreck In The Bermuda Triangle
Mysterious underwater objects have emerged in the Bermuda Triangle and no one can explain whether they have a natural, an artificial or an extraterrestrial origin. The researcher who discovered the objects believes that, in fact, he found an extraterrestrial ship.
For those who don’t know, the Bermuda Triangle is located in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean. However, it doesn’t appear on any official geographic map. Its second infamous name is the Devil’s triangle.
Under the water, this area hosts many mysteries and secrets. Namely, the Bermuda Triangle is notoriously responsible for many disappearances of aircraft and ships for unknown reasons.
According to some claims, the disappearances happen due to some strange hexagonal clouds in the area.
Numerous diving researchers claim they have witnessed perplexing events in this scope. For instance, a few years ago, divers exploring the area said to have discovered a large ancient underwater city with sunk sphinxes and old wrecks. Could it have been the legendary city of Atlantis? Many, rightfully, thought so.
Treasure hunter Darrell Miklos announced yet another interesting discovery regarding the area. According to him, the Bermuda Triangle could be the home of an alien spaceship.
While diving in an area nearby the Bahamas, he saw a marvelous but mysterious underwater structure. “It was a formation unlike anything I’ve ever seen related to shipwreck material, it was too big for that,” Miklos said in an interview with Daily Mail.
As Daily Mail further reveals, Miklos arrived in the undisclosed area thanks to some secret maps designed by Gordon Cooper, a NASA astronaut and a close friend of his.
At first, Miklos actually believed he would find an English sunken ship linked to Sir Francis Drake. However, he encountered something far more mystical.
“I was trying to identify shipwreck material based on one of the anomaly readings on Gordon’s charts when I noticed something that stuck out, that shocked me. It was a formation unlike anything I’ve ever seen related to shipwreck material, it was too big for that.”
Miklos added that the objects he discovered were unique and they didn’t look as they were created by nature. “It’s almost like there are five arms coming out of a steep wall cliff and each one of these is the size of a gun on a battleship. They’re enormous and then there’s five over here and five over there, 15 in total,” he said.
There are identical formations in three different areas and they don’t look nature made, they don’t look man-made, certainly nothing I’ve ever seen based on my experience and I have years of experience at doing this, we’ve identified multiple different types of shipwreck material, this doesn’t match or look anything like that.”
Even though Miklos is convinced the structures have an extraterrestrial origin, it is still too quick to draw such conclusions. Therefore, they need to undergo a further analysis in the future.
The pilot, who has chosen to remain anonymous, gave his testimony as part of the Disclose Project – an investigation into the facts behindUFOsightings over the years. Steven Geer, who heads up the research project, has spent years collecting personal accounts and evidence to put together the film “Unacknowledged”. In it, one former US Air Force pilot made a shocking revelation about his apparent first-hand experience while travelling over Germany.
The International Space Station is said to be infested with mysterious ‘space bugs’ which may be leaving astronauts at risk of ‘serious harm’.
Bugs, which are similar to the ones found in hospitals, have been discovered by a group of scientists, who found the thriving ecosystem of ‘infectious organisms’.
A NASA team discovered five different varieties of Enterobacter, with researchers figuring out there’s a ’79 per cent probability they may potentially cause disease’
12 Amazing Facts About Space
Both the toilet and the base’s exercise area onboard the orbiting space station were listed as two of the main sites of infection. According to BMC Microbiology, four strains were isolated from the toilet and one strain from the exercise platform.
There are growing concerns how portions of the bacteria could be drug-resistant, and would subsequently leave astronauts at risk of serious harm should traditional treatments fail to kill any infection.
Dr. Nitin K. Singh, lead author on the report, said:
Given the multi-drug resistance results for these [bacteria] and the increased chance of pathogenicity we have identified, these species potentially pose important health considerations for future missions.
However, researchers have stressed the bugs are not harmful to humans who are currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
It is important to understand that the strains found on the ISS were not virulent, which means they are not an active threat to human health, but something to be monitored.
While Dr. Kasthuri Venkateswaran, Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Biotechnology and Planetary Protection Group, revealed how three of the strains belonged to a species which caused illness in newborn babies.
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The strange and out of this world (literally) bugs, are also said to have infected a ‘comprised patient’, which suggests they may have been suffering from a condition which made them susceptible to contamination of this strain.
Scientists will likely now try to perform further tests in order to decide how much of a threat the bacteria actually pose to astronauts.
In other space station news, the orbiting laboratory has just turned 20 years old (Tuesday 20).
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According to Business Insider, the ISS is now voluminous enough to fill a six-bedroom house. It’s the largest space vehicle ever built, and scientists have conducted more than 2,500 investigations there.
Since November 2000 – when NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko became the first humans to stay long-term on the ISS – more than 230 people have visited the $150 billion laboratory in space.
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American astronaut Peggy Whitson was the first woman to command the ISS. Whitson retired in June and holds the US record for most time in space: 665 days.
Whitson told Business Insider she won’t miss the food, which is on a 16-day rotation cycle:
The motto ‘it’s all about the sauce’ really is true, because it all kinda starts tasting the same after a while.
It’s a very special experience to see the Earth from above. It gives you a new perspective on what home is.
If you have a story you want to tell, send it to stories@unilad.co.uk
Trump’s Administration Has Been Briefed About UFOs – According To Steven Greer
Trump’s Administration Has Been Briefed About UFOs – According To Steven Greer
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
According to Dr. Steven Greer, founder of The Disclosure Project, Trump's people have been briefed about the UFO topic. His claims of having meetings inside of the Pentagon have been verified by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell.
Reflect On:
The implications of the disclosure of information about intelligent extraterrestrial life visiting our planet are grand. It leaves no aspect of humanity untouched. It is nothing to fear, contact is a normal step in the evolution of the human race.
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.
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, and see more examples, in an this CE article.
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.
So What About Trump?
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. Wikileaks documents have also been released which saw astronaut Edgar Mitchell communicate with US politician John Podesta. You can access those documents and read more about them here.
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.
New Massive UFO Disclosure in 2018 these Stories Way too BIG for Mainstream
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. There is a CE podcast featuring CE founder Joe Martino, myself, and a “contactee” who discuss this exact topic. You can listen to that, it’s linked at the bottom of this article, for more information.
The Takeaway
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 ourselves from 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, and generate discussion, the closer we get to finding out what’s really going on. It’s definitely an exciting time to be alive.
VLIEGTUIGEN LIJKEN UFO TE ACHTERVOLGEN OP ANTARCTICA
VLIEGTUIGEN LIJKEN UFO TE ACHTERVOLGEN OP ANTARCTICA
Bij door mensen gemaakt opnames van ufo's is het altijd nog maar de vraag of de beelden echt zijn en niet gemanipuleerd.
Echter, als een satelliet opnames maakt van vliegtuigen die een ufo lijken te achtervolgen op Antarctica, dan lijkt het toch een iets ander verhaal.
Talloos zijn de verhalen over het mysterieuze en nog steeds grotendeels bevroren continent Antarctica. Het blijft voorlopig nog een geheim wat er zoal onder die enorme ijslaag verborgen ligt. Alhoewel er soms een tipje van de sluier opgelicht wordt.
Eén van die verhalen die ook maar niet wil verdwijnen is het verhaal dat de Duitsers daar voor, tijdens en na de Tweede Wereldoorlog één of meerdere, al dan niet ondergrondse of inde aarde, bases hebben aangelegd en tot op de dag van vandaag daar nog rondvliegen met hun ufo's.
En wie weet heeft het volgende daar wel alles mee te maken:
Er zijn namelijk door een satelliet gemaakte beelden opgedoken waar het lijkt dat een aantal vliegtuigen achter een ufo aan zit. De opnames zijn echt, want ze zijn te vinden op Google Maps en Google Earth en dus gemaakt door een satelliet. Mits ze daar niet met opzet door iemand zijn neergezet ter misleiding, maar daar gaan we niet van uit.
Het beeld wat je vindt via die programma's, ziet er als volgt uit.
Volgens ufoloog Scott Waring is het duidelijk en zie je twee laagvliegende vliegtuigen, waarvan de schaduwen weerkaatsen op de sneeuw die in achtervolging lijken te zijn van een ufo, die eveneens een schaduw op de sneeuw werpt.
Volgens hem vliegen zowel de vliegtuigen als de ufo's laag bij de grond om zo te kunnen ontsnappen aan de radar.
De opnames lijken echt, maar zien we ook daadwerkelijk wat de maker van de video en Scott Waring ons vertellen? Wie zelf een beetje rond wil neuzen op die locatie via Google Maps, kan dat hier doen.
Voor de vliegtuigen is een ufo te zien die een schaduw op de grond werpt, maar iets verder weg is nog een groter rond object te zien. Scott Waring spreekt dan ook van een kleine en een grote ufo.
Waarschijnlijk is dit de enige of in ieder geval een van de zeer weinige websites binnen de alternatieve media waar de volledige redactie zelf vliegervaring heeft en daardoor vallen bepaalde dingen misschien eerder op.
Want, als je goed naar de beelden kijkt, dan klopt er iets niet. Het grotere vliegtuig lijkt met de neus omhoog laag over de grond te vliegen, maar dat kan niet. Wanneer een vliegtuig op die hoogte zou vliegen met een dergelijke neusstand, dan zou het onherroepelijk in een "stall" terechtkomen. Dat wil zeggen dat de vleugels onder een dusdanige hoek staan dat ze niet meer voldoende lift (opwaartse kracht) leveren om het toestel in de lucht te houden.
Een vliegtuig in een dergelijke positie, zo dicht bij de grond, kan eigenlijk alleen maar een geparkeerd toestel zijn met een staartwiel. Het type toestel zoals je die vroeger veel zag, maar tegenwoordig eigenlijk niet meer. Het toestel ernaast lijkt moderner, kleiner en met een neuswiel, zoals bijvoorbeeld de Twin Otter.
Verder vonder we het vreemd dat er geen vliegveld of landingsbaan te zien was bij het ernaast gelegen Zuchelli Station. Echter, als we op de Wikipedia kijken, blijkt dat er wel degelijk een landingsbaan is met ongeveer drie kilometer lengte, maar dat die zich op ijs bevindt.
Zou het misschien kunnen zijn dat we hier twee geparkeerde vliegtuigen zien staan aan het begin van een landingsbaan op het ijs? Als je goed kijkt zie je de contouren van de landingsbaan boven de vliegtuigen die loopt van links naar rechts, waarbij de "grote ufo" een markering lijkt voor het begin van de baan.
Na enig zoekwerk vinden we enkele vliegtuigen die geparkeerd staan bij de landingsbaan van de Zuchelli basis en die zien er als volgt uit:
Een oude Dakota DC3 met moderne turbinemotoren en een staartwiel, waardoor de neus omhoog staat met daarnaast een Twin Otter.
Wat dan die "kleine ufo" zou moeten zijn weten we niet, misschien is dat wel degelijk een ufo. Maar het lijkt er in ieder geval op dat de vliegtuigen die door Scott Waring worden genoemd en in de video voor komen, niet vliegen, maar op de grond staan geparkeerd.
Mocht iemand een ander idee hebben, laat het ons weten.
I found this alien looking space station in orbit around Earth in a NASA photo from the Apollo 10 era. Remember thats a time before they even thought about editing out alien artefacts from space photos. Today its just common knowledge that most photos get seriously edited before being released to the public. This space station is like nothing you can ever imagine. Its not like the space ship was built using blueprints and engineers...this is a home grown space ship. Notice the unevenness of all the appendages and sides. Imagine growing a space ship...so much faster and easier than going to buy one from someone who will only take advantage of you for your money. It looks like aliens have found an easy solution to transportation problems.
Scott C. Waring
I also found this strange UFO (below photos) near the edge of the earth. Its not the moon, not sure what it could be back during the Apollo 10 days, so yep, UFO.
The universe has so many galaxies, stars, planets, and moons that many scientists believe intelligentaliensshould 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.”
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.
What if we are the first and/or only civilization in the galaxy?
What if we are the first and/or only civilization in the galaxy?
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I watched this video a few days back and it's a pretty interesting take on the Fermi Paradox and what the galaxy would look like if humanity ever becomes a true spacefaring species in the event there are no other civilizations in the galaxy. Basically, the video talks about the concept of human speciation through natural evolution, genetic engineering or cybernetic enhancement and the possibility of us creating other alien civilizations by uplifting animal or alien species. So, do you think this is a likely scenario?
SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCE UNPRECEDENTED DISCOVERY BENEATH THE ICE OF ANTARTICA
SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCE UNPRECEDENTED DISCOVERY BENEATH THE ICE OF ANTARTICA
A team of German scientists has announced an unprecedented discovery that has been hiding beneath the ice of Antartica for millions of years.
Researchers from Kiel University in Germany say they have discovered that Antartica holds the secrets of continents that preceded the creation of the ice-covered South Pole.
Lead scientist Jörg Ebbing, said that the vast continent contains the cores of other continents that existed before Antartica was formed.
“This observation leads back to the break-up of the supercontinent Gondwana and the link of Antarctica to the surrounding continents,” Ebbing said in a statement.
Westernjournal.comreports: Scientists believe that at one time, all of the Southern Hemisphere’s continents were part of one vast super continent called Gondwana. Current theory suggests the continents split apart 180 million years ago.
Some of the evidence for that is found in an area known as the Mawson Craton, which has a matching piece of land that is geologically similar in southern Australia.
The new research did not come from digging into the ice that hold Antarctica captive, but through a sophisticated use of the Gravity field and Ocean Circulation Explorer satellite that generated data about gravity and software to look below the ice to see what stories the rock would tell. The satellite orbited the Earth from 2009 through 2013.
“The satellite gravity data can be combined with seismological data to produce more-consistent images of the crust and upper mantle in 3D, which is crucial to understand how plate tectonics and deep mantle dynamics interact,” Ebbing said.
“These gravity images are revolutionizing our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth, Antarctica,” said Fausto Ferraccioli, the science leader of geology and geophysics at the British Antarctic Survey, according to the European Space Agency.
Ferraccioli said that scientists now know the eastern and western halves of Antarctica are very different.
“The new images show us the fundamental difference in the lithosphere beneath East and West Antarctica in agreement with previous seismic findings,” Ferraccioli said, according to Smithsonian.
“We also found a greater degree of complexity in the interior of East Antarctica than is apparent from current seismic views, suggesting that this part of the continent is a mosaic of old cratons and orogens. Some of these regions have clear ties to formerly adjacent continents in the supercontinent Gondwana—such as Australia, India and Africa,” he said.
“In East Antarctica, we see an exciting mosaic of geological features that reveal fundamental similarities and differences between the crust beneath Antarctica and other continents it was joined to until 160 million years ago,” Ferraccioli said, according to Space.com.
What they found was that in addition to areas where once-similar regions are now divided, there are regions called orogens, where pieces of continents collided, causing mountains to form.
In one area where the crust was very thin, researchers found evidence for what’s known as a mantle plume, in which volcanic material from the Earth’s core strains against the Earth’s surface, sometimes causing volcanoes.
“It is exciting to see that direct use of the gravity gradients, which were measured for the first time ever with GOCE, leads to a fresh independent look inside Earth – even below a thick sheet of ice, said ESA scientist Roger Haagmans.
“It also provides context of how continents were possibly connected in the past before they drifted apart owing to plate motion,” he said.
Scientists: Sodom destroyed by 'superheated blast from skies'
Scientists: Sodom destroyed by 'superheated blast from skies'
Artist’s representation of Sodom and Gomorrah
A scientific study aligns with the biblical account of the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah being destroyed by fire and brimstone from the heavens.
The book of Genesis tells the story of God sending two angels to save Lot and his family from a city where men demanded to “be intimate” with visiting men, one of the clearest biblical condemnations of homosexuality. In response,God “rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah sulfurous fire … out of heaven.”
Science News reported archaeologist Phillip Silvia of Trinity Southwest University in Albuquerque has concluded a “superheated blast from the skies … obliterated cities and farming settlements north of the Dead Sea around 3,700 years ago.”
Siliva found “radiocarbon dating and unearthed minerals that instantly crystallized at high temperatures indicate a massive airburst caused by a meteor that exploded in the atmosphere instantaneously destroyed civilization in a 25-kilometer-wide circular plain called Middle Ghor.”
Science News said the event “also pushed a bubbling brine of Dead Sea salts over once-fertile farm land, Silvia and his colleagues suspect.”
Silvia reported the conclusions recently at an annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
“Excavations at five large Middle Ghor sites, in what’s now Jordan, indicate that all were continuously occupied for at least 2,500 years until a sudden, collective collapse toward the end of the Bronze Age. Ground surveys have located 120 additional, smaller settlements in the region that the researchers suspect were also exposed to extreme, collapse-inducing heat and wind. An estimated 40,000 to 65,000 people inhabited Middle Ghor when the cosmic calamity hit, Silvia said,” Science News said.
Silvia has been excavating in the area for more than a decade, and radiocarbon dating suggests the mud-brick walls suddenly disappeared at once, “leaving only stone foundations.”
“What’s more, the outer layers of many pieces of pottery from same time period show signs of having melted into glass. Zircon crystals in those glassy coats formed within one second at extremely high temperatures, perhaps as hot as the surface of the sun, Silvia said,” according to the report.
And tiny bits of rock were found on pottery fragments, suggesting it “rained down.”
Researchers likened it to an event in Siberia in 1908 in which an apparent meteor exploded in the air, flattening 2,000 square kilometers of forest.
Another incident in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013, injured some 1,600 people.
Silvia and his team concluded the “destruction not only of Tall el-Hammam (Sodom), but also its neighbors (Gomorrah and the other cities of the plain) was most likely caused by a meteoritic airburst event.”
“The scientific explanation clearly reflects the biblical description of the destruction of the twin cities of evil located in the same area,” he wrote.
SputnikNews noted the Bible says the ancient cities were “wiped away by God for the sinful behavior of their people.”
The report says modern scientists call the events a “major calamity.”
It said the impact also pushed salty water from the Dead Sea onto land, devastating the soil and the once-fertile region’s ability to produce crops.
WikimediaDe eerste succesvolle vlucht van de Flyer van de gebroeders Wright, in 1903.
WETENSCHAP Vliegen we straks op ionische wind? Fysici zijn er alvast in geslaagd om onbemande vliegtuigjes te laten vliegen zonder bewegende delen. Experts vergelijken het met de vlucht van de gebroeders Wright.
Ruim een eeuw geleden, op 17 december 1903, vloog de Flyer van de gebroeders Wright twaalf seconden lang boven de duinen van Kitty Hawk. ‘Kennelijk zijn ze erin geslaagd zichzelf van de grond te tillen met een motorisch toestel’, meldde het tijdschrift Nature destijds. Nu schrijft het vakblad over een nieuwe korte vlucht die wel eens net zo historisch zou kunnen worden.
Amerikaanse fysici hebben voor het eerst een toestel gebouwd dat vliegt zonder bewegende delen en wordt voortgedreven door zogeheten ionische wind. Hun onbemande vliegtuigje maakte vluchten van acht à negen tellen waarin het telkens zestig meter aflegde.
“Dit opent de mogelijkheden voor een nieuwe generatie vliegtuigen”, zeggen de onderzoekers in een persbericht. “Vliegtuigen die stil zijn, mechanisch simpel en geen uitlaatgassen produceren.”
Onderzoeker Steven Barrett was als kind gefascineerd door de futuristische ruimteveren uit ‘Star Trek’
Elektrodes
Het idee van de ionische wind stamt al uit de tijd van de gebroeders Wright zelf. Leg twee elektrodes aan met een flink spanningsverschil. De positieve elektrode ‘zuigt’ alle elektronen weg van de omringende (stikstof)moleculen in de lucht. Die zijn daardoor positief geladen en worden aangetrokken door de negatieve elektrode even verderop. Doordat ze onderweg nog meer moleculen ioniseren ontstaat er een heuse luchtstroom.
Maar uit proeven in de jaren zestig van de vorige eeuw bleek dat die ionische wind veel te zwak was om een vliegtuig van de grond te tillen. Het idee verdween in een diepe la totdat Steven Barrett van het MIT in het Amerikaanse Cambridge het er tien jaar terug weer uithaalde. Barrett was als kind gefascineerd door de futuristische ruimteveren uit ‘Star Trek’ die moeiteloos en stil door de lucht zoefden.
Toen hij op de ionische wind – ook wel de elektroaerodynamische voortstuwing genoemd – stuitte, besefte hij dat hij het liftvermogen kon verbeteren door meer spanning uit de batterijen te halen en door een ontwerp te kiezen dat optimaal gebruikmaakte van de wind. Met lichtgewichtmaterialen en speciale omvormers kon hij zijn batterijen opstuwen tot 40.000 volt, terwijl een computerprogramma de ideale vorm uitrekende.
Drones
Een spanwijdte van vijf meter, een gewicht van 2,5 kilo, terwijl de stroomdraden om de voor- en achterzijdes van de vleugels gewikkeld zijn. In de plaatselijke sporthal maakte het toestel tien geslaagde testvluchten.
Barrett hoopt dat zijn vondst ooit de gehele luchtvaart verovert, maar dat duurt zeker nog enige decennia. Voor de kortere termijn dacht hij aan stille drones en aan hybride vliegtuigen die van de ionische wind een extra zetje kregen.
Het rendement valt nu nog tegen; het toestel zet 2,5 procent van de energie uit de batterijen om in vliegkracht, maar de theorie leert dat die efficiëntie bij normale kruissnelheden kan oplopen naar 50 procent. Vergeet niet, schrijft Nature, dat de vlucht van de gebroeders Wright destijds weinig indruk maakte. Niemand had toen een idee van de huidige luchtvaart.
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Triangle UFO Caught In Clouds Over Netherlands, 10X The Size Of 747, Nov 2018, video, UFO Sighting News.
Triangle UFO Caught In Clouds Over Netherlands, 10X The Size Of 747, Nov 2018, video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 2018 Location of sighting: Netherlands This triangle UFO was caught over the Netherlands this week. The UFO is huge...about 7-10X the size of a 747. The two lines next to each other are layers...with an dark transparent interior window area. The lines are the top and bottom of the craft. The dark center is a long dark window-like area for watching humans first hand. I learned from the sighting back at O'hare Airport that UFOs do cause holes in clouds. These holes will stay there up to 15 minutes after the UFO passes through...as stated by pilots and airline employees at the O'hare Airport in 2006. So, UFOs do break through the clouds by accident. Their systems will cause the cloud to disappear when activated. Its no surprise that this one is partly revealed. Sometimes viewing humans on a computer screen just isn't the same as seeing them with your own eyes. They want to look out the ship to see them for themselves. Wouldn't you? Scott C. Waring
Two Glowing UFOs Over California On Dark November Night, Nov 21, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Two Glowing UFOs Over California On Dark November Night, Nov 21, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 21, 2018
Location of sighting: California, USA
Source: MUFON #96518
Here is some raw footage of a UFO falling from the sky over California this week. The UFO is glowing brightly and slowly lowering itself down from the sky. At first it looks like a meteor, but its falling too slow to be one. Baffling footage to say the least. The fact that two of them exist and are following one another means they are watching out for on another. A wingman of sorts, as they have in the US Navy for pilots to keep them out of trouble. Obviously intelligently controlled.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
A few friends of mine and I were sitting on my porch smoking cigarettes when we noticed something falling from the sky, at first it appeared to be a meteor but then we noticed it stopped it started going to the side after hovering for a while. Another object appeared next to it.
Boomerang V-Shaped UFO hit by an enormous lightning strike!
Boomerang V-Shaped UFO hit by an enormous lightning strike!
On November 22, 2018 while filming a thunderstorm the witness was able to capture a huge boomerang v-shaped UFO that was hovering nearby the thunderstorm and became visible when it was suddenly hit by a lightning strike.
Even though little is known about this craft it is quite possible that it was a black TR3B a man-made secret craft.
Probably there are several types of the mysterious TR3B because several days earlier, on November 19, 2018, a huge de-cloaked UFO has been caught on camera while moving in the sky of Long Island, New York, see image below. Watch Video.
Some people say that these UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin but let's not forget that our technology is much more advanced than NASA and world governments are having us believe, just think about the "Secret Space Fleet" discovered by Gary McKinnon after hacking into 97 United States military and NASA computers.
I suppose that the craft being hit by a lightning strike as well as the craft above Long Island, New York are secret man-made craft equipped with alien technology and part of a secret government/military project.
The following short footage shows the possible TR3B being hit by the lightning strike.
Unidentified flying object was caught on tape over US state Oregon yesterday (22nd November 2018).
Witness report:
I seen a Orb shaped thing in the air right before sunrise seen small objects next to it.
Ok so I was on my way back from my work lunch grabbing some McDonalds and seen a bright orb shape in the sky luckily I was almost to the place I park. I got out and started to records the situation. I noticed that there were not any other stars able to be seen but I did see some smaller objects flying around the area kind of looked like a mothership of some sorts. My camera on my phone really sucks but I ended up recording as much as I could before it disappeared in the clouds. Tried to see it on the other end but unable to. It was def strange due to the fact of never noticing something like this.
I have heard some good things looking forward to seeing if any experts can edit the video to see a bit more or know the reason this occurred. I know bringing this stuff to your guy’s awareness helps research.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Calvin Parker was 19 years old in 1973 when he and his friend Charles Hickson witnessed a UFO while fishing in Pascagoula Mississippi. They reported seeing strange creatures that took them into the craft and examined them. Terrified, they went to the police. Their story leaked, and the incident made headlines. Hickson, 42 years old at the time, was a family friend who had just gotten Parker a job. However, Parker wanted nothing to do with the publicity they were receiving and left town. He rarely spoke of the incident until now. With the release of his new book telling his side of the story, he is now doing interviews and a few appearances before he goes back to focusing on retirement and fishing.
UFO hunter shares pictures of 'real-life ALIEN skull' with two separate 'layers'
UFO hunter shares pictures of 'real-life ALIEN skull' with two separate 'layers'
Li Jianmin made the astonishing revelation at a seminar - but admitted no DNA tests have yet been done on the 'skull'
By Tim Wyatt
The brown object is said to be double-layered, unlike human skulls
(Image: AsiaWire /bqshenyidu)
A science fiction author and amateur UFO hunter claims he has got hold of an alien skull.
Li Jianmin, 55, made the astonishing revelation at a seminar in the Chinese capital Beijing.
He said the 'skull' was brown in colour and about 16cm in diameter, according to local media.
Unlike human skulls, the supposed extraterrestrial one had two "different layers", he added.
The other-worldly artifact originally came from a street seller in the Inner Mongolia region and was bought by a private collector.
The buyer was then reading one of Li's sci-fi novels when he came across an illustration of an alien skull which looked remarkably like the one he had just bought.
The skull which a Chinese researcher claims belongs to an alien creature(Image: AsiaWire/@fangshimin)
Mutant starfish discovered on the ocean floor leaves scientists dumbstruck
After the collector got in touch with Li, the UFO enthusiast spent four months examining the find.
He has now produced a 103-page study in a bid to provide evidence that the 'skull' is in fact from outer space.
Li said he had used high-tech scientific methods to test the 'skull'.
He carried out Raman spectroscopy - which creates a "fingerprint" to identify which exact molecules are present in a sample - and atomic force microscopy, a technique which can see things 1000 times smaller than ordinary microscopes.
Li Jianmin, the science fiction author and UFO researcher who revealed the 'skull'(Image: AsiaWire /bqshenyidu)
He then compared his findings with other supposed alien skulls discovered elsewhere in the world.
But when asked by reporters, Li admitted he had not yet done a DNA test, which could prove if the cranium is actually from a creature on Earth.
"Paying for DNA analysis is around 100,000 yuan," he said, which is about £11,200.
No DNA testing has yet been done on the find(Image: AsiaWire/@fangshimin)
The author has been widely mocked on social media for his wild claims, but remains convinced the skull is real.
"I welcome questions and scepticism, but if you decide to challenge me, be sure to bring along evidence," he said.
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Four times people cried ‘aliens’ — and four times they were wrong
Four times people cried ‘aliens’ — and four times they were wrong
The mummified remains of a fetus that was either stillborn or died shortly after birth.
Discovered in Chile’s Atacama Desert in 2003, this tiny, 6-inch-long mummy, with its pointed head and atypical number of ribs, stoked theories that aliens have visited Earth. Scientists have had genetic proof that the remains are human since 2013, and a new genetic analysis reveals that mutations in genes related to growth might explain the mummy’s atypical bones.
The results, which have been making headlines, are a reminder that the truth may well be out there — but it isn’t aliens. A series of discoveries this past year make it clear that, sadly, it never is.
1. SAD BUT TRUE
Scientists have struggled to explain why this mummy, known as Ata, is the size of a fetus and yet has bones as developed as those of a six- to eight-year-old child, Science reported in 2013. The new analysis of Ata’s DNA, published last week in the journal Genome Research, reports mutations in seven genes key for human growth.
These mutations could explain why Ata’s bones developed so quickly, Gary Nolan, an immunologist at Stanford University and co-author of the study, told National Geographic. He suspects that the story is much sadder and more human than an extraterrestrial visitation: someone gave birth to a stillborn fetus several decades ago and buried her in the desert. “The alien hype was silly pseudoscience promoted for media attention,” paleoanthropologist and anatomist William Jungers told National Geographic. “This paper puts that nonsense and poor little Ata to bed.”
2. A BIZARRE DEEP SPACE SIGNAL-
In the summer of 2017, astronomers at the Arecibo Observatory picked up a strange radio signal that seemed to be coming from a small red dwarf star called Ross 128. But the source of the signal was a mystery: a solar flare on Ross 128 might have produced it, but the frequency of the radio waves didn’t quite fit that theory. Could it have been a deep space call for ET? No such luck. The astronomers discovered a week later that the signal originated much closer to home — most likely from satellites in high geostationary orbit in the same part of the sky as Ross 128.
The Arecibo Observatory.
Photo: H. Schweiker / WIYN and NOAO / AURA / NSF
3. JUST DUST
The wild flickerings of star KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby’s star, suggest that something occasionally passes in front of it and blocks out as much as 20 percent of its light. The flickerings have no clear pattern, and whatever is blocking the star’s light probably isn’t a celestial body like a planet. Some have suggested alien megastructures or some sort of extraterrestrial solar panel might be passing in front of the star instead.
But in January 2018, a team of astronomers reported that something much more ordinary is probably to blame for the star’s unusual behavior: a bunch of dust could be surrounding the star and filtering its light. “Weird stars that have dust coming from somewhere isn’t as much of a headline grabber,” Jason Wright, an astronomer at Penn State University and one of the study’s authors, told The Verge’s Loren Grush at the time. But there’s still some mystery left: we don’t know where exactly the dust is coming from.
An artist’s rendering of KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby’s star.
Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt (IPAC)
4. THE GREAT PYRAMID’S GIANT VOID
In November 2017, scientists reported the discovery of a vast empty cavity inside the Great Pyramid at Giza. Using a kind of souped-up X-ray, an international team of researchers tracked subatomic particles called muons that plummet to Earth at nearly the speed of light. Since muons can pass through the air more easily than they can travel through dense stone, the researchers were able to discover previously unknown cracks and cavities — like the 100-foot-long cavern they called the “Big Void.”
The researchers still don’t know the precise shape of the cavity or why it’s there, but study co-author Mehdi Tayoubi said in a press briefing that they suspect that this cavity was built on purpose (by humans). Because, friends: it’s never aliens.
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They tried to bring down an UFO they paid with there lives!
They tried to bring down an UFO they paid with there lives!
In Brazil in 1966 at the height of the violence and death squads an total of three Brazilian electricians where mysteriously found dead on Brazilian hillsides an sum of money was said to have been robbed from the dead mens bodies by corrupted law enforcers and strange fashioned lead masks where also discovered next to the mens decaying bodies,there cause of death has never been substanciated but it was said the electricians had been supplied with equipment and handsomely paid to try to bring down UFO's however these poor Brazilian men they tragically paid with there lives.
Un OVNI triangulaire repéré aux abords de la station spatiale lors de la récupération d’un satellite, 22 novembre 2018
Un OVNI triangulaire repéré aux abords de la station spatiale lors de la récupération d’un satellite, 22 novembre 2018
Date de l’observation:22 nov. 2018 Lieu de l’observation:Station spatiale internationale Source:http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
Scott C. Waring:
Je regardais la caméra de la station spatiale en direct quand j’ai remarqué un OVNI triangulaire surgir de nulle part. La lumière frappant le satellite et l’OVNI était de la lumière infrarouge et aussi l’angle du soleil a fait que l’OVNI s’est révélé pendant quelques minutes. L’OVNI correspond parfaitement à la vitesse de la station spatiale et du satellite, mais à ce moment-là, le satellite se trouvait en fait à une centaine de mètres de la station spatiale. Plus tard, ils ont changé de caméra et j’ai vu à quel point le satellite s’était éloigné. La caméra est équipée de filtres infrarouges, qu’elle semble avoir utilisés… Je dis cela parce que les filtres infrarouges donnent une teinte rose pourpre aux vidéos et aux photos, comme nous le voyons ici. Nos yeux ne peuvent pas voir l’infrarouge, mais les caméras avec filtres le peuvent. C’est pourquoi nous voyons apparaître l’OVNI occulté pendant un bref instant.
Photographer Reuben Wu creates images that reveal an alien splendor in natural and manmade landscapes across the globe. Previously he has explored the brilliant blue rivers of molten sulfurin Indonesian volcanoes, and photographed the thousands of glistening mirrors that compose Nevada’s SolarReserve. For his ongoing series Lux Noctis, the Chicago-based photographer utilizes modified drones as aerial light sources, illuminating obscure landscapes in a way that makes each appear new and unexplored.
Recently Wu has evolved his process of working with the drones to form light paths above topographical peaks in the mountainous terrain. “I see it as a kind of ‘zero trace’ version of land art where the environment remains untouched by the artist, and at the same time is presented in a sublime way which speaks to 19th century Romantic painting and science and fictional imagery,” said Wu to Colossal.
The light from his GPS-enabled drones create a halo effect around some of the presented cliffs and crests when photographed using a long exposure. An elegant circle of light traces the flight of the drone, leaving a mark only perceptible in the resulting photograph. You can see more of Wu’s landscape photography on his Instagram and Facebook. (via Faith is Torment)
Update: A book of Wu’s photo series will be published in Fall 2018 and is available for preorder.
Scientists Have Created A Star Trek-Like Plane That Flies Using “Ion Thrusters” And No Fuel
Scientists Have Created A Star Trek-Like Plane That Flies Using “Ion Thrusters” And No Fuel
Scientists have taken a major step towards creating an aircraft of the future, one powered by an ion drive rather than using moving parts and fuel like conventional aircraft. In a paper published today in Nature, a team led by Steven Barrett from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) described how they created a so-called electroaerodynamic-powered plane, one that uses solid-state propulsion, meaning no propellers or jet engines with expendable fuel.
“The future of flight shouldn’t be things with propellers and turbines,” Barrett says in the video below. “[It] should be more like what you see in Star Trek, with a kind of blue glow and something that silently glides through the air.”
This breakthrough has not been possible before because our technology simply wasn’t advanced enough. As far back as 1921, scientists have been unsuccessful in trying to develop something similar, once mistaken for anti-gravity technology. But now the team say that key technology advances have enabled this to happen.
In their tests from 2016 to 2018, they created an aircraft with a wingspan of 5 meters (16 feet) that weighed 2.45 kilograms (5.4 pounds). It has a number of thin electrodes running across its wings, and at the front of these are thin wires, while at the back is an aerofoil – a curved surface to produce the lift, like on a regular plane wing.
The thin wires at the front are charged to positive 20,000 volts, while the aerofoil at the back is charged to negative 20,000 volts, creating a strong electric field. At the front, electrons are removed from nitrogen molecules in the air to produce ions. And as these accelerate to the back, they produce an ionic wind, which gives the plane thrust.
“The basic idea is that if you ionize air, which means removing an electron from it, you can accelerate the air with an electric field,” Barrett told IFLScience. “Like the force you get if you rub a balloon on your head.” Over the course of 10 test flights, the plane successful flew about 60 meters (200 feet) in about 12 seconds in a gym that the team hired to use, with a thrust efficiency of about 2.6 percent.
But as the speed increases, the efficiency of the system increases, just like in a regular plane. Theoretically, at 670 miles (1,080 kilometers) per hour, faster than a passenger jet, it is 50 percent efficient.
The technique is similar to how ion engines are used in some spacecraft to travel through space. “There are some significant similarities,” said Barrett. However, those spacecraft rely on ionizing a fuel – such as xenon gas – to produce thrust. The plane developed by the MIT team does not require propellant, instead relying only on the thin wires and an off the shelf lithium-polymer battery. At the moment the technology is limited, with the plane being very much a prototype. But the future possibilities are exciting. In the near-term, this thrust system could be used to power small drones, making them near-silent as they wouldn’t have any propellers like regular drones.
“I don’t yet know whether you’ll see large aircraft carrying people any time soon, but obviously I’d be very excited if that was the case,” Barrett said in the video.
Tests on the plane are still continuing, with the team now able to turn the plane in the air with a remote control rather than just flying in a straight line. Going forward, they want to try and remove the filaments that are hanging off the plane, with more tests to follow in the coming years.
At the end of their paper, the team compares the length of the plane’s flight (12 seconds) with that of the Wright Brothers in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1904 (11 seconds), the world’s first heavier-than-air flight, although that one did include a pilot.
While this flight is perhaps not on the same magnitude, some of the future possibilities are certainly exciting. “It is possible to fly planes that are solid state, and we demonstrated that for the first time,” said Barrett.
Whistleblower Discloses Major Info on UFOs and Aliens in Underground Bases
Whistleblower Discloses Major Info on UFOs and Aliens in Underground Bases
From the extreme security measures taken to secure an underground base to extra-terrestrial coworkers assisting you in surgery, Emery dives into all details regarding his work underground in Sandia labs at KAFB & Los Alamos research labs.
This talk will include the incredible technology witnessed in the labs, experiences riding maglev trains to Dulce, the various genetic hybrid programs Emery Smith was involved in as well as retrieving crafts and being a part of the scientific team to study ET crafts.
He discusses his once classified work history in hopes of further educating the public in an effort to spread awareness and potentially bring out the many witnessed suppressed technologies for our world’s benefit.
In short, Emery is a scientist, inventor and a humanitarian looking to join forces with like minds to cure the planet.
Archaeologists Discover Massive 4,000-Year Old Bomb Crater at Site of Sodom and Gomorrah Destruction
Archaeologists Discover Massive 4,000-Year Old Bomb Crater at Site of Sodom and Gomorrah Destruction
According to the Bible, the ancient cities, thought to have been located on the Dead Sea, were wiped away by God for the sinful behaviour of their people. The preliminary findings of US scientists suggest that this region witnessed a major calamity almost 4 thousand years ago, which left it uninhabited for centuries.
God looks down on man’s nuclear weapons, and I believe He laughs at our puny attempts at warfare. He has things in His arsenal that make our most powerful nukes look like firecrackers. We first read about these weapons in the 38th chapter of the book of Job. The weather is the strongest weapon that has ever been created, and there is no defense against it. Think about that the next time your ‘small talk‘ revolves around the weather, no small matter there.
“But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.”
Genesis 13:13, 19:24,25 (KJV)
Contrary to modern-day
Laodicean revisionists, the twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of unrepentant homosexual behaviour. This was the place where the original LGBTQ lifestyle was founded, and when God pronounced judgement on it in a fiery blast from above, Sodom and Gomorrah ceased to exist. That area today, as you see in the photo, resembles a bomb blast crater after an horrific explosion has taken place. It remains uninhabited to this day.
“And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.”
Genesis 19:27,28 (KJV)
Bible Revisited: Alleged Sodom Site Thought to Have Been Hit by Cosmic Blast
FROM SPUTNIK:
Archaeologists from Trinity Southwest University, a Christian higher educational institution in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have claimed civilisation in the Dead Sea region was destroyed 3,700 years ago following a meteor explosion in the atmosphere.
During the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research in Denver, Colorado, scholar Phillip Silvia reported the preliminary findings of their excavations in the area, which some scientists consider to be home to the Biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. The results suggest that cities and settlements in the Jordan Valley’s Middle Ghor region, where up to 65,000 people lived around that time, were obliterated with a powerful wave of heat, wind and tiny particles, the outlet Science News reports.
Waives also pushed salty water from the Dead Sea, which devastated the soil. The explosion, the researchers argue, “not only wiped out 100% of the Middle Bronze Age cities and towns, but also stripped agricultural soil from once-fertile fields,” Newsweek reports.
According to the scientists,
a low-altitude meteor explosion caused the catastrophe which wiped out the region, including the ancient city of Tall el-Hammam, where the researchers worked for years. Radiocarbon dating reportedly revealed that mud-brick walls suddenly disappeared in the Middle Ghor city, as only stone foundations remained.
A pottery surface found on the site was melted into glass, which may be a result of extreme temperatures. Following the alleged blast, people wouldn’t return to the region for 600-700 years.
Humanity has seen several space explosions before.
Five years ago, a near-Earth asteroid exploded in the atmosphere near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, making headlines around the world and even worming its way into a Hollywood movie. This resulted in over 1,000 people being injured (mostly by broken glass from windows blown out by the shockwave). A more powerful blast came in 1908, when an asteroid exploded over a scarcely populated Siberian region on the Tunguska River, wiping away 2,000 square kilometres. SOURCE
Ron Wyatt’s Awesome Discovery of Sodom and Gomorrah
The visual quality of this video from the 1980’s is a little poor, but well worth the watch.
What’s scarier than a star in our own Milky Way galaxy exploding? How about if that explosion is predicted to be one of the most energetic events in the universe? How about if that star happens to be named after Apep, the ancient Egyptian god of chaos and opponent of light? How about if that explosion is capable of blasting Earth with a massive dose of high energy gamma rays, the same type of radiation which turned Bruce Banner into the Incredible Hulk? That do it for ya?
Ok, so maybe the gamma ray blast isn’t probable – but it’s still possible. And actually a planet full of mutated Hulks running around smashing cars and leaving their footprints in rooftops sounds pretty awesome. Ultimately, it’s unknown exactly what the effects will be when Apep finally goes full on supernova and explodes and how Earth will be affected if at all. An international team of astronomers have published a study just this week which describes the discovery of a pair of extremely hot stars about 8,000 light-years away in the Milky Way. One of those, Apep, God of Chaos, teeters on the brink of supernova as you read this and has the potential to release an incredible long-duration gamma ray burst.
According to this new study, Apep is currently spinning so fast that it’s on the verge of ripping itself apart. “The rapid rotation puts Apep into a whole new class,” says study co-author Benjamin Pope of New York University. “Normal supernovae are already extreme events but adding rotation to the mix can really throw gasoline on the fire.” Of course, “on the verge” in astronomical terms means the supernova could occur any time in the next hundred thousand years or so.
Plenty of time to finish that novel. Maybe.
Gamma ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe and at their peaks can be brighter than the entire rest of the universe. If the Earth did happen to get blasted by a massive gamma ray burst, it could strip away our ozone layer, shower the planet in radiation, and trigger a mass extinction. Luckily, these bursts tend to send out two high-energy and focused jets of radiation and Apep does not appear to be aimed at Earth, so the odds of one of those jets lining up with Earth are pretty small at the moment. Pretty small is still greater than zero, though!
Apep is often depicted as a snake, seen here battling Ra, depicted in the form of a cat.
According to co-author Peter Tuthill, an astronomer at the University of Sydney in Australia, Apep’s fate remains unknown– as do any possible effects the explosion could have on Earth:
Ultimately, we can’t be certain what the future has in store for Apep. The system might slow down enough so it explodes as a normal supernova rather than a gamma-ray burst. However, in the meantime, it is providing astronomers a ringside seat into beautiful and dangerous physics that we have not seen before in our galaxy.
Invest in super-stretchy purple pants before Apep bombards us all with a Hulk-sized dose of gamma rays. Seriously, though: how do Bruce Banner’s pants manage to grow with him when he exponentially increases in size while transforming into the Hulk? In reality, Hulk would be perpetually naked, and the self-confidence of men everywhere would be perpetually damaged. Some things you just can’t unsee – like a gamma ray burst brighter than the rest of the Universe combined.
Some believed that there was a natural explanation as to why the light coming from the star dimmed, while others claimed that a Dyson Sphere was responsible.
Experts theorised that an advanced alien race had constructed a megastructure around the star dubbed KIC 8462852, or more colloquially ‘Tabby’s star’ after its discoverer Tabetha Boyajian, to harness energy from their host star.
However, experts have now discovered a new star known as EPIC 204278916 which has similar characteristics to Tabby’s star in the sense that it too is showing regular dips in brightness.
Nonetheless, scientists believe they have finally cracked the mystery of Tabby’s star by studying EPIC.
Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel believes that they two may be surrounded by a protoplanetary disk that is blocking the view from Earth.
Protoplanetary disks are large disks of gas and dust that surrounds new born stars before planets have been created.
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A protoplanetary disk
Mr Siegel writes in Starts With a Bang: “Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) are known to have the large flux dips that this weird star has, and they’ve recently been shown to come in a variety of inclination angles.”
It is believed that both stars are still young, with EPIC being under 11million years old, which in astronomical terms is still in its infancy – less than 0.8 per cent of the age of the universe.
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A protoplanetary disk may make scientists think a Dyson Sphere is surrounding a star
Mr Siegel points to previous research which found infrared emissions coming from the disk surrounding EPIC – which is commonplace – but the alignment of the disk would make the radiation invisible to us on Earth – which is why scientists may not have been able to detect it and jumped to the conclusion that a megastructure is responsible.
He continues: “If [Tabby’s Star] turns out to be younger than is generally accepted (which many professional observers think it is), if it has a disk that happens to be edge on (so we don’t see the infrared flux), and if there’s either a warped inner disk or cometary-like debris, then what we’ve discovered is a new stage in the early evolution of a class of stars!
“This is also interesting, it just isn’t aliens like many were hoping for. But this brings up an incredibly important point: science isn’t about what you hope for, it’s about what the evidence points towards.”
An artist’s rendition of a hypothetical warped band of dust around KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's Star. This is but one of several potential explanation’s for the star’s strange flickering, and could be a factor in a second newfound star also exhibiting similar behavior. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A faraway star in the southern sky is flickering in an odd manner that suggests a bizarre cloud of material—or something even stranger—is in orbit around it. Discovered by astronomers using a telescope in Chile, the star is reminiscent of two other enigmatic astrophysical objects, one thought to harbora planet with rings 200 times larger than those of Saturn, the other most famous for the remote possibility it is encircled by “alien megastructures.” The newfound star may help shed some light on one or both of these puzzling objects.
In 2010, the Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey began its project of creating a three-dimensional map of variable stars in the vicinity of the Milky Way’s center. As part of the project, astronomer Roberto Saito of the Federal University of Santa Catarina scoured the telescope’s data for eruptive outbursts from the hundreds of millions of monitored stars. But the most notable thing he found was not an outburst at all—it was a star that grew mysteriously dim over several days in 2012. He and his colleagues reported their findings in a recently published paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Known as VVV-WIT-07, the star appears to be much older and redder than our sun, although the amount of interstellar dust between our solar system and the star’s home closer to the galactic center makes exact classification and distance measurements very difficult. What is certain is that in the summer of 2012, the object's brightness faded slightly for 11 days, then plummeted over the following 48 days, suggesting that something blocked more than three quarters of the star’s light streaming toward Earth. But what could that “something” be?
According to Eric Mamajek, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester unaffiliated with the VVV survey, such a profound degree of dimming suggests that a staggeringly large object or group of objects is blocking the light. “It's got to be over a million kilometers wide, and very dense to be able to block that much starlight,” he says. Mamajek should know: He led the team that discovered J1407, another strange star periodically eclipsed by a planet-sized object thought to boast a massive ring system some 200 times broader than that of Saturn. In this latest case, he says, the strange signals from VVV-WIT-07 could arise from clumps or clouds of material passing between Earth and the star, though he cautioned that the data were preliminary and more observations are required.
Tabetha Boyajian agrees. Boyajian, an astronomer at Louisiana State University, was the lead author for the 2015 paper announcing the strange dimming of KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's Star, an unusual object first spotted by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. VVV-WIT-07 would have to harbor “a very peculiar kind of dust cloud to make these kinds of dips,” Boyajian says. Boyajian’s study helped spark a surge of public interest in Tabby’s Star because the star’s unusual dimming could be seen as evidence of an alien civilization building an artificial structure that soaked up the star’s light. More conventional explanations include a swarm of comets or fragments from a shattered planet, both of which would create significant clouds of dust and debris that could also occlude the star’s light. But, so far, no simple single explanation fits the complexities of the dimming seen around the star; researchers remain stymied in their attempts to understand the true nature of the strange dimming of Tabby’s Star.
Astronomers track such dips by plotting the intensity of a star’s light over time, a figure known as a “light curve.” The light curve of J1407 shows its massive rings can occasionally block as much as about 95 percent of the star’s light, while the light curve of Tabby's Star suggests that whatever orbits there only occludes about 20 percent of that star’s luminous emission. That makes VVV-WIT-07 an intermediate case, Saito says. “Our object is similar in the sense that we are also trying to explain the behavior in the light curve based on material surrounding the star,” he says.
Based on their data, including follow-up observations made in 2016, Saito and his colleagues speculate that the star may continue to flicker into 2019, potentially displaying four additional dimming events throughout the year as the mysterious light-blocking material continues its orbit around the star. If those predictions are borne out, they could prove key to unlocking not only the mysteries behind VVV-WIT-07 but also those surrounding Tabby’s Star.
“Having a sample of two, we can have two stars to study instead of one to try to unify a theory of whatever is going on,” Boyajian says. If both stellar dimmings are caused by the same natural process, it makes it less likely that something unusual is happening—like supersized cosmic construction projects.
There is hope that more of these peculiar flickering stars may show up in the near future. Saito says that it is possible the VVV survey could discover more, even though it is not optimized for identifying such systems. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), an 8.4-meter instrument under construction in Chile, could up turn up more members of the odd collection when it begins operations in the 2020s.
“I think we’re going to start finding more objects like this in the LSST era,” Mamajek says. “We’re probably going to start discovering weird variable [stars] that have not been seen before.”
For now, Saito and his colleagues plan to continue observing VVV-WIT-07 with infrared instruments on the ESO's New Technology Telescope and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory's Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope, both of which contributed to the team’s 2016 observations. The star’s intrinsic faintness—as well as the attenuation of its light across vast galactic distances—means that it is best observed at near-infrared wavelengths where interference from interstellar dust is minimal. Although the VVV Survey concluded last year, an extended survey is still observing the galactic center and may turn up other eclipses missed in the initial observations.
Hopefully these observations will shed some light on what is causing the bizarre dimming of VVV-WIT-07. “This is certainly not a common phenomenon,” Mamajek says. “I can't wait to see the future results.”
Nieuwe ‘buitenaardse megastructuur’ stelt astronomen voor groot raadsel. Wat is dit?
Nieuwe ‘buitenaardse megastructuur’ stelt astronomen voor groot raadsel. Wat is dit?
Astronomen hebben een ster ontdekt die net zulk bizar gedrag vertoont als Tabby’s ster (vernoemd naar astronoom Tabetha Boyajian).
De ster vertoont mysterieuze helderheidsdipjes die worden veroorzaakt door iets wat rond de ster cirkelt. Astronomen staan voor een raadsel.
VVV-WIT-07, zoals de ster genoemd is, bleek in 2012 enige tijd zwakker te worden. Gedurende 11 dagen nam de helderheid van de ster af, om in de 48 dagen daarna te kelderen.
Buitenaardse megastructuren
Iets hield maar liefst 80 procent van het sterlicht tegen, maar wat?
Tabby’s ster, officieel KIC 8462852 geheten, vertoont vergelijkbaar gedrag. Verklaringen voor het bizarre gedrag lopen uiteen van kometen en puin tot buitenaardse megastructuren.
Onderzoekers denken dat VVV-WIT-07 komend jaar opnieuw een aantal helderheidsdipjes zal vertonen. Wellicht komen ze dan meer te weten.
“Het moet meer dan een miljoen kilometer breed en heel dicht zijn om zoveel sterlicht tegen te houden,” zei astrofysicus Eric Mamajek van de Universiteit van Rochester, die niet bij het onderzoek betrokken was.
Nog nooit eerder
“Ik denk dat we meer van zulke objecten gaan vinden,” zei Mamajek. “We gaan waarschijnlijk vreemde sterren ontdekken die nog nooit eerder zijn waargenomen.”
“Dit is zeker geen alledaags fenomeen,” besloot hij. “Ik wacht met smart op de toekomstige resultaten.”
DISCLOSURE LIJKT NU TOCH DICHTERBIJ TE KOMEN ( VIDEO )
DISCLOSURE LIJKT NU TOCH DICHTERBIJ TE KOMEN ( VIDEO )
Het is een tijd waarin dingen razendsnel veranderen en waar steeds meer dingen "normaal" worden die we tot voor kort niet voor mogelijk hielden, zoals de fenomenaal snelleontwikkeling van robots.
Als robots onderdeel kunnen uitmaken van onze samenleving, dan is het ook niet zo'n grote stap meer om te geloven dat er andere wezens bestaan van buiten onze aarde.
Wanneer je bij veel mensen diep in hun hart kijkt, dan zullen ze best geloven dat er buiten ons mensen om ook vast meer is in het enorme heelal en dat buitenaardse wezens helemaal niet zo'n gekke gedachte is.
Alleen hebben heel veel van die mensen er nog grote moeite mee om dat publiekelijk uit te spreken, want het is ongeveer de standaard geworden dat iemand flauwe grappen hoort te maken als ze het woord buitenaards horen.
En dat is best vreemd, want nergens wordt zo lacherig over gedaan als buitenaards leven. Mensen kunnen daar maar heel moeilijk mee omgaan en dus hoort het zo dat er grappig op moet worden gereageerd. Daarmee geven ze dan ook aan dat ze zelf natuurlijk niet in zoiets geloven.
Voor de "normale" wereld bestaat buitenaards leven dan ook nog steeds niet, maar voor de machthebbers achter de schermen is het een ander verhaal. Zij beschikken niet alleen over contacten met buitenaardsen, maar ook over hun techniek. Deze vorm van de buitenaardsen overgenomen techniek heet "reverse engineering" en vormt de basis voor wat wij noemen de geheime ruimtevloot van de Bilderbergers.
Het bestaan van een dergelijke vloot is ook aangetoond door hacker Gary McKinnon die wist in te breken in systemen van de Amerikaanse overheid en daar lijsten met namen aantrof van buitenaardse officieren.
Al met al betekent dit dat het voor ons gewone mensen heel verwarrend is, omdat we nooit met zekerheid weten of waargenomen UFO's nu echt buitenaards zijn of onderdeel vormen van de geheime ruimtevloot. Beiden bestaan en dat maakt het zo moeilijk om ze precies te identificeren.
Om het nog een beetje gecompliceerder te maken weten we van de voormalig Nazi en later Amerikaanse raketwetenschapper Wernher von Braun, dat de machthebbers achter de schermen op een gegeven moment een nep buitenaardse invasie zullen uitvoeren, om er zo voor te zorgen dat de mensheid zich unaniem wil verenigen in een wereldverbond/-regering om zo de dreigingen van buiten de aarde het hoofd te kunnen bieden.
Voorzetten voor dit spektakel dat nog moet plaatsvinden werden destijds al gemaakt door de voormalige Amerikaanse president Ronald Reagan.
De man die alles weet over buitenaards contact en reverse engineering is Bob Lazar. In een eerder artikel schreven wij het volgende over hem.
Lazar heeft persoonlijk gewerkt aan een ruimteschip in een gebied dat heet S4 wat ligt in Area 51. Bob Lazar maakte onderdeel uit van het zogenaamde “reverse engineering” team. Die bouwden een ruimteschip gebaseerd op de kennis van daar aanwezige buitenaardse ruimtevaartuigen.
Eind jaren tachtig werkte Lazar in Area 51 als jong nucleair natuurkundige aan een vliegende schotel met een diameter van 9 tot 12 meter. Het had een bedieningspaneel en de stoelen waren klein, bijna alsof ze voor kinderen waren gemaakt. Er werd hem verteld dat de buitenaardsen afkomstig waren van de vierde planeet van het binaire zonnenstelsel, Zeta Reticuli 2.
Nadat Bob Lazar naarbuiten kwam met zijn informatie via een televisiestation in Las Vegas in 1989, werden onmiddellijk alle sporen die zijn verhaal konden bevestigen, gewist. Zo waren plots al zijn bestanden verdwenen bij bedrijven waar hij eerder had gewerkt, zodat niet meer gecontroleerd kon worden of zijn verhaal klopte.
Zo zegt Lazar ondermeer dat hij begin jaren tachtig heeft gewerkt voor de Los Alamos Nationial Laboratories, maar ook daar was via de officiële route niets te vinden. Echter, zijn naam komt wel voor in een oud intern telefoonboek van wetenschappers die destijds in Los Alamos werkten. Ook in een oude kopie van een tijdschrift, The Los Alamos Monitor, komt Lazar voor met een foto naast een zogenaamde “jet car”. Er zijn bovendien oud personeelsleden die zich Bob Lazar herinneren.
Het is ongeveer dertig jaar stil geweest rondom Bob Lazar, maar er zijn nu nieuwe ontwikkelingen te melden. Er is een film/documentaire in de maak over Bob Lazar die begin december in Los Angeles in première zal gaan.
Het beloofd een film te worden waarin nog veel meer dingen naar buiten gebracht zullen worden door hem. Iemand die al vele jaren een fan is van deze man is Tyler van Secure Team en in onderstaande video kan je niet alleen de trailer van de film zien, maar kondigt Tyler ook aan dat hij niet alleen is uitgenodigd voor de premiere van de film, maar dat hij binnenkort ook een exclusief interview heeft met Bob Lazar.
Voor de volledigheid volgt hier de video over Bob Lazar die eerder is gemaakt door Tyler in 2017.
Gezien alle boven geschetste complicaties voor wat betreft de siutatie met buitenaardsen moeten we bij alles wat er op dit gebied gebeurt op onze hoede blijven. Dit geldt in het geval van de vliegtuigbemanningen die UFO's waarnemen voor de Ierse kust en ook voor onthullingen van Bob Lazar.
Is het allemaal echt en zo ja, is het buitenaards of onderdeel van de geheime ruimtevloot? Waar het wel op lijkt is dat we toch langzamerhand richting Disclosure gaan. Tenminste als het echt is dan, wel te verstaan.
En niemand van ons kan met enige zekerheid zeggen of het allemaal echt is of nep. De tijd zal het leren.
Dat de aarde een proces doormaakt van steeds heftiger wordende aardveranderingen, daarover bestaat geen enkele twijfel.
Met een steeds kouder wordende atmosfeer begint het nu toch eindelijk bij meer mensen door te dringen dat er misschien sprake is van een enorme klimaatoplichtingszwendel die ze veel geld gaat kosten.
Onze planeet maakt op dit moment een turbulente periode door, waarbij steeds vaker "ongewone dingen" voor komen.
Hoge golven hebben enkele balkons van een vakantiecomplex op Tenerife weggeslagen.
In totaal zijn op Tenerife zo'n zestig appartementen beschadigd, circa veertig mensen moesten zaterdag hun huis in de regio tijdelijk verlaten. In het zuiden van het vakantie-eiland sloegen de golven door het raam van het restaurant van een hotel waar verschillende mensen aan het eten waren. De restaurantbezoekers kwamen met de schrik vrij.
Grote golven die zomaar uit het niets verschijnen.
Ook in de Italiaanse stad Salerno keek men vreemd op toen zich een enorme waterhoos/windhoos vormde die recht op de kust af kwam. Dit fenomeen zorgde ervoor dat er in de haven complete containers de lucht in vlogen, maar gelukkig raakte niemand gewond.
Waar wij nog nauwelijks weten wat echte regen ook alweer is, zo hebben ze in Saoedi Arabië precies het tegenovergestelde. Daar heb je woestijnen waar nu paarse bloemen bloeien en de grond bedekt raakt met andere groene gewassen.
Niet alleen bij ons slaat de klimaatopwarming genadeloos toe en staan we te bibberen in een koude oostenwind, met de eerste sneeuwval in het land, ook in Amerika is het afzien.
Traditioneel wordt op de vierde donderdag van november Thanskgiving gevierd. De vrijdag erna staat te boek als Black Friday. Het zijn twee dagen waarop de meeste Amerikanen vrij zijn en de gelegenheid aangrijpen om familie of vrienden te bezoeken en the shoppen. Veel mensen zullen woensdag of donderdag onderweg zijn. Het advies is om dit jaar extra warme kleding aan te trekken of mee te nemen want het wordt bitterkoud in het noordoosten.
Terwijl de klimaatprofeten van Urgenda het land in een wurggreep proberen te krijgen om burgers kapitalen uit de zak te trekken voor de "bestrijding van de opwarming" en het spekken van hun eigen handel, beginnen er toch steeds meer berichten te verschijnen dat we toch werkelijk wel eens een hele koud tijdperk tegemoet kunnen gaan.
We zien dat de aardveranderingen onverminderd doorgaan en zelfs nog heftiger worden.
Hieronder staat een video met de meest heftige gebeurtenissen uit de afgelopen maand oktober. Wat je vooral ook ziet is dat het water dat uit de hemel neerdaalt, dit steeds vaker in heel geconcentreerde vorm doet op bepaalde plaatsen, die dan vervolgens met een enorme overlast te kampen krijgen, terwijl het op andere plaatsen kurkdroog blijft.
Ook in oktober waren er al de eerste tekenen dat het een koude winter zou gaan worden. Daarnaast het steeds vaker voor komen van sinkholes, iets dat nu ook mensenlevens begint te eisen. Allemaal dingen waar je 20 jaar geleden helemaal niets over hoorde.
Over de oorzaken van dit alles zijn de meningen uiteraard verdeeld. De klimaatprofeten proberen alles op een door de mens veroorzaakte opwarming van de aarde te gooien, alleen met een komende soort mini ijstijd zal dat steeds moeilijker te verkopen zijn aan een publiek dat zich nu achter de oren begint te krabben. Het aantal zonnevlekken dat in de komende zonnecycli steeds minder schijnt te worden heeft ongetwijfeld invloed op de steeds lager wordende temperatuur, maar of dat ook alle heftige aardveranderingen kan verklaren?
Met onze menselijke zintuigen kunnen we maar een beperkt aantal zaken waarnemen, maar dat er veel meer is dan dat wij zien, is een (wetenschappelijk) feit.
Alleen is het niet altijd even duidelijk wat er zich dan in die voor ons onzichtbare dimensies bevindt, zoals bij de onverklaarbare verschijnselen die zich voor doen in een werkplaats in Texas.
We lezen en zien de laatste jaren steeds meer over orbs. Een soort vreemde rondjes die vaak op foto's verschijnen en waarvan niemand eigenlijk precies weet wat ze zijn.
De mainstream media verklaring voor een orb is als volgt:
Een lichtbol, in het Engels een light orb, is een optisch verschijnsel dat zich voordoet bij het maken van foto's, bestaande uit typische cirkelvormige witte, of doorzichtige vlekjes.
De eerste denkwijze bekijkt het als een heel duidelijk gevolg van een flits reactie op stofdeeltjes, insecten of vochtdruppels in de lucht die voor de camera komen. Het zijn dus natuurlijke oorzaken die voor de vertekening van de foto zorgen. Dit verschijnsel komt vooral voor bij camera’s met ingebouwde flitser, doordat de flitser dicht bij de lens zit.
De tweede denkwijze is totaal tegenovergesteld; de ‘orbs’ zijn een paranormaal verschijnsel en niet van natuurlijke oorzaak. Sommigen beweren dat orbs enkel op een bepaalde plek verschijnen, of aangetrokken worden door menselijke activiteiten (zeker als deze activiteiten rond kinderen draaien).
Maar, hoe zit het dan als je die orbs duidelijk ziet bewegen op video?
Er is een werkplaats in de Amerikaanse staat Texas waar al jarenlang paranormale activiteiten plaatsvinden. De eigenaar van die werkplaats heeft camera's laten installeren en op de beelden daarvan zijn interessante zaken te zien.
Het lijkt enigszins op een aantal orbs die heen en weer door het beeld bewegen. Het kunnen geen dingen zijn zoals stofdeeltjes want je ziet ze regelmatig van richting veranderen. Het kunnen ook geen insecten zijn, want de orbs zijn min of meer doorzichtig
Aan het eind van de clip is er nog een opname te zien van "iets" waarvoor geen verklaring is.
Zijn het nu een soort geesten, orbs of een andere vorm van energie? Is het iets dat wetenschappelijk te verklaren is of hoort het thuis in de onverklaarbare wereld van het paranormale?
Mocht iemand een theorie hebben of iets dat wij over het hoofd hebben gezien, laat het ons weten. En ter verdere ondersteuning bij het denken, hierna nog even een deel uit een eerder artikel dat wij enkele jaren geleden schreven:
Een lezer heeft een ervaring met deze orbs en stuurt ons het volgende (dank!):
Ik ben sinds kort verhuisd en op één of andere manier voel ik aanwezigheid in huis.
Omdat er al vele dierbaren van mij niet meer in aardse bestaan zijn, dacht ik laat mij eens kijken of ik de entiteiten (orbs) kan vastleggen op foto.
Ik stuur jullie twee filmpjes, ik dacht dat deze bijlage van de plant is, hierop zie je op de hoogte van de witte bloempot vanuit het groene gordijn ook nog iets meer aparts tevoorschijn komen dan alleen orbs, wat richting de dekenkist gaat maar ook daar verdwijnt.
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Op het tweede filmpje wat ik met een andere email verstuur, zie je werkelijk een invasie aan orbs, niet meer te tellen. Deze zie ik niet met het blote oog.
Ook ik ben paranormaal met de gaves; Heldervoelend,-wetend,-horend,-ruikend maar ook maak ik astrale reizen mee zoals Nostradamus ze had.
Wanneer dit gebeurd, weet ik voortaan dat het kort daarop het wereld nieuws is en dat zijn niet de mooiste nieuwsberichten.
Ik krijg er helaas geen tijdstip en of werelddeel bij waar het gaat gebeuren maar mocht ik dat wel erbij krijgen,
Wie zou mij dan geloven...
Soms weet ik al iets van tevoren waar ik zelf nog niet eens weet van heb of kan hebben.
Ik heb jullie ook ooit aaangeschreven dat ik 21 oranjebollen tegenover mijn oude woning over de daken zag glijden met een gelijkwaardige snelheid.
Helaas heb ik daar geen filmpje van omdat ik toen nog niet in bezit was van een smartphone, een ouwe muts of laatbloeier daarin ;)
Dit was in Eindhoven, er waren wel twee getuigen. Eén bij in de woning aanwezig die ik lijkbleek zag wegtrekken maar ook een onbekende man voor mij die tegenover een winkel had die hij om 18.00 uur ging sluiten.
Ik heb deze man nog gesproken en die is zelfs nog naar het vliegveld gereden omdat hij dacht dat er vliegtuigen niet mochten landen, Zijn verhaal horende, was het voor hem of hij van onder af in iets heel groots ronds keek met allemaal lichten.
Ik had jullie eerder deze maand foto's gestuurd met het verhaal dat ik entiteiten wilde vastleggen maar iets anders tegen kwam, daar was iets uitvergroots(een soort ET) op te zien wat niet met het blote oog in huis te zien was.
Helaas namen jullie mij denk ik niet serieus maar ik was het wel.
Kijk maar of jullie de twee filmpjes willen delen met Niburu lezers, ik vond het interessant genoeg om ze naar jullie op te sturen.
Two airplanes chasing a UFO near Zucchelli Station, Antarctica, Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Two airplanes chasing a UFO near Zucchelli Station, Antarctica,Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 23, 2018
Location of sighting: Near Zuccheli Station, Antarctica
Two planes chasing a UFO and being pursued by another larger UFO disk...all on Google map. The satellite that took the photo of these craft has no agenda, nothing to hide, its just a machine doing its job. Therefore the satellite cannot create fake UFOs or airplanes but can only report what it sees.
This is an awesome find on Google map. The planes are flying low to the ground to escape radar and so is the UFO as if they were together watching out for on another. I think this smaller UFO ahead of the planes is alien tech in the hands of the USAF and is being used to train new pilots to handle the alien tech disks that the Air Force either made, or traded for.
ANCIENT WIPEOUT Preliminary evidence indicates that a low-altitude meteor explosion around 3,700 years ago destroyed cities, villages and farmland north of the Dead Sea (shown in the background above) rendering the region uninhabitable for 600 to 700 years.
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DENVER — A superheated blast from the skies obliterated cities and farming settlements north of the Dead Sea around 3,700 years ago, preliminary findings suggest.
Radiocarbon dating and unearthed minerals that instantly crystallized at high temperatures indicate that a massive airburst caused by a meteor that exploded in the atmosphere instantaneously destroyed civilization in a 25-kilometer-wide circular plain called Middle Ghor, said archaeologist Phillip Silvia. The event also pushed a bubbling brine of Dead Sea salts over once-fertile farm land, Silvia and his colleagues suspect.
People did not return to the region for 600 to 700 years, said Silvia, of Trinity Southwest University in Albuquerque. He reported these findings at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research on November 17.
Excavations at five large Middle Ghor sites, in what’s now Jordan, indicate that all were continuously occupied for at least 2,500 years until a sudden, collective collapse toward the end of the Bronze Age. Ground surveys have located 120 additional, smaller settlements in the region that the researchers suspect were also exposed to extreme, collapse-inducing heat and wind. An estimated 40,000 to 65,000 people inhabited Middle Ghor when the cosmic calamity hit, Silvia said.
The most comprehensive evidence of destruction caused by a low-altitude meteor explosion comes from the Bronze Age city of Tall el-Hammam, where a team that includes Silvia has been excavating for the last 13 years. Radiocarbon dating indicates that the mud-brick walls of nearly all structures suddenly disappeared around 3,700 years ago, leaving only stone foundations.
What’s more, the outer layers of many pieces of pottery from same time period show signs of having melted into glass. Zircon crystals in those glassy coats formed within one second at extremely high temperatures, perhaps as hot as the surface of the sun, Silvia said.
High-force winds created tiny, spherical mineral grains that apparently rained down on Tall el-Hammam, he said. The research team has identified these minuscule bits of rock on pottery fragments at the site.
Examples exist of exploding space rocks that have wreaked havoc on Earth (SN: 5/13/17, p. 12). An apparent meteor blast over a sparsely populated Siberian region in 1908, known as the Tunguska event, killed no one but flattened 2,000 square kilometers of forest. And a meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013 injured more than 1,600 people, mainly due to broken glass from windows that were blown out.
ION POWER A new aircraft (illustrated) is propelled forward by streams of charged molecules moving among wires.
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A newly designed airplane prototype does away with noisy propellers and turbines.
Instead, it’s powered by ionic wind: charged molecules, or ions, flowing in one direction and pushing the plane in the other. That setup makes the aircraft nearly silent. Such stealth planes could be useful for monitoring environmental conditions or capturing aerial imagery without disturbing natural habitats below.
The aircraft is the first of its kind to be propelled in this way, researchers report in the Nov. 22 Nature. In 10 indoor test flights the small plane, which weighs about as much as a Chihuahua, traveled 40 to 45 meters for almost 10 seconds at a steady height, even gaining about half a meter of altitude over the course of a flight.
Most planes rely on spinning parts to move forward. In some, an engine turns a propeller that pushes the plane forward. Or a turbine sucks in air with a spinning fan, and then shoots out jets of gas that propel the plane forward.
Ionic wind is instead generated by a high-voltage electric field around a positively charged wire, called an emitter. The electricity, often supplied by batteries, makes electrons in the air collide with atoms and molecules, which then release other electrons. That creates a swarm of positively charged air molecules around the emitter, which are drawn to a negatively charged wire. The movement of molecules between the two wires, the ionic wind, can push a plane forward. The current design uses four sets of these wires.
FLIGHT PATH Scientists tested a new aircraft, propelled by ionic wind, at MIT’s indoor track. This time-lapse photo shows that the plane can fly at a level height for tens of meters.
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Moving ions have helped other things to fly through the air, such as tiny airborne robots. But conventional wisdom said that using the approach to move something through the air as big as an airplane wasn’t possible, because adding enough battery power to propel a plane this way would make it too heavy to stay aloft. (The ion thrusters that propel spacecraft through the vacuum of space work in a very different way and aren’t functional in air.) Attempts to build ion-propelled aircraft in the 1960s weren’t very successful.
MIT aeronautics researcher Steven Barrett thought differently. With the right aircraft design and light enough batteries, flight might be possible, his initial calculations suggested. So he and his team used mathematical equations to optimize various features of the airplane — its shape, materials, power supply — and to predict how each version would fly. Then the researchers built prototypes of promising designs and tested the planes at the MIT indoor track, launching them via a bungee system.
“The models and the reality of construction don’t always match up perfectly,” Barrett says, so finding the right design took a lot of tries. But in the new study, he and his collaborators report success: 10 flights of the aircraft, which has a 5-meter wingspan and weighs just under 2.5 kilograms.
Barrett’s team isn’t the only one who thought the ionic wind method might take off. Based on calculations done in his lab, “we were confident that this could be done,” says Franck Plouraboue of the Toulouse Fluid Mechanics Institute in France, who wasn’t part of the research. “Here they've done it — which is fantastic!”
It’s an example of distributed electric propulsion, says Plouraboue — spreading out the thrust-generating parts of the plane, instead of having one centralized source. That’s a hot area for aircraft research right now. NASA’s X-57 Maxwell plane, for example, bears 14 battery-operated motors along its wings. Increasing the number of propellers makes the plane go farther on the same amount of energy, says Plouraboue, but also increases the drag. With ionic wind propulsion, increasing the number of wires doesn’t increase drag very much.
The plane still needs some upgrades before it’s ready for the real world: Its longest flight was only 12 seconds. And while the aircraft can maintain steady flight for a short time once launched, it can’t actually get off the ground using ionic wind.
Even with improvements, ion-propelled aircraft won’t find their niche as passenger planes, predicts Daniel Drew, an aerodynamics researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in the work. (Drew has designed miniature flying bots that fly using ionic propulsion.) It’s probably not feasible to scale up to something the size of a 747 — there are efficiency trade-offs as planes get bigger, he says. But down the road, the approach might be useful for small, uncrewed planes or drones.
Researchers at MIT have achieved the first sustained flight powered by ionic wind. Their small unmanned aircraft prototype has no moving parts and creates lift by ionizing the atmosphere around it in an electric field, instead of pushing the air with a propeller or turbine.
Illustration of the world’s first ionic-wind-powered aircraft.
Credit: MIT.
In order to move air around it, the world’s first solid-state aircraft generates an ionic wind. By applying a high voltage to a pair of electrodes, electrons are stripped off nearby air molecules, and the ionized oxygen and nitrogen molecules collide with neutral air molecules as they move from one electrode to the other. It’s this bulk movement of atmospheric molecules — the ionic wind, flowing in one direction and pushing the aircraft in the opposite direction — that enabled MIT’s drone-sized aircraft to stay airborne.
The ion-drive aircraft’s design is fairly simple: a thin wire acts as the leading edge, where nitrogen and oxygen get ionized by 20,000 volts of electricity. Behind the wire is a thin airfoil covered by the second electrode, which is charged with negative 20,000 volts, creating a difference of 40,000 volts. The winged body, a 40 kilovolts custom-built battery, and an electronic control system round off the rest of the setup.
Ion drives have been used in spacecraft for decades, but getting them to work in Earth’s gravity had not been possible until now. It’s thanks to advances in electronics and batteries that researchers were able to design an ion-drive aircraft capable of generating practical amounts of thrust.
There is a series of inherent trade-offs due to physical limitations that scientists had had to constantly joggle. For instance, an ion-drive generates the most thrust with a lower electric field strength. However, if the field’s strength drops below a threshold, air molecules won’t get ionized in the first place. Then, if the mass of the aircraft is too great, you need more power, which implies bigger and heavier batteries — at some point, the thrust is just not large enough to carry the airplane’s weight.
Timelapse image of the craft in flight in a gym.
Credit: MIT.
After tweaking various thruster designs, the researchers finally found a version that is capable of sustaining flight. Their a 5-meter wingspan, 2.5-kilogram aircraft made 10 flights, flying up to 9 seconds over a distance of 45 meters at a speed of 5 meters per second. It had to be launched from a mechanical bungee system in order to give it a brief time to power up. A computer algorithm optimizes the electric field constraints so that maximum thrust is achieved during flight.
According to the MIT researchers, the ion-wind thruster generated 5 newtons for each kilowatt of power, which is on par with the output of jet engines. However, the overall efficiency of the system is just 2.5%m which is well below a conventional aircraft that pushes the air mechanically.
This is just a proof of concept, and the researchers are confident that they can come up with a much more efficient system. Their current design was limited by the fact that they had to fly inside an indoor track. By fitting larger wings, the authors say that they could up the efficiency of the system to 5% without changing the setup. Different designs for the electrode and better power conversion electronics could further boost efficiency.
An ion-drive might never be capable of generating enough thrust to carry human passengers or large cargo like conventional aircraft can. To move that much mass, you’d need a huge power input, which is not feasible with current battery technology. However, there are various applications where its low thrust density would be well suited to. A silent aircraft with no moving parts may be advantageous as an urban monitoring vehicle or for transporting small packages, thus avoiding the annoying noise pollution generated by mechanically propelled drones.
The ionic-wind-powered drone was described in the journal Nature.
Et on ne parle pas d'une idée loufoque d'illuminés. Les créateurs de ce signal radio sont Carl Sagan et Frank Drake. Le premier, célèbre astronome américain, est l'un des fondateurs de l'exobiologie, l'étude scientifique du développement hypothétique de la vie dans l'Univers. Le second, astronome américain également, a cofondé le projet de recherche SETI, qui vise à détecter une civilisation extraterrestre grâce à nos connaissances scientifiques. Il a également mis au point une équation tentant d'estimer le nombre de ces civilisations dans notre galaxie.
Evidemment, le message d'Arecibo n'a pas eu de réponse. Il faut dire qu'il n'en attendait pas tellement: il était dirigé vers l'Amas d'Hercule, à 22.200 années-lumière de la Terre. Il n'a aujourd'hui parcouru que 0,20% de son chemin. Mais si quelqu'un le captait, après l'avoir déchiffré, il aurait découvert de nombreuses informations sur l'Homme, la Terre et notre connaissance de l'Univers. Une sorte de preuve, de bouteille spatiale jetée dans l'océan du vide intersidéral.
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Une fois le message décodé, on y lit les nombres de un à dix, les numéros atomiques des atomes courants, des formules chimiques, des informations sur l'ADN, un dessin d'un être humain, le système solaire et le radiotélescope d'Arecibo.
Le paradoxe de Fermi
De manière générale, nous n'avons aucune preuve scientifique de l'existence d'une vie biologique ailleurs que sur la Terre. Et encore moins d'une vie intelligente. Pourtant, cette question de la vie extraterrestre obsède beaucoup de monde, y compris de très nombreux astronomes.
Pourquoi cette question nous obsède tant? Il y a bien sûr la quête de connaissances. Mais c'est surtout qu'elle nous interpelle. Pourquoi serions-nous uniques dans l'énormité de l'Univers, ou même plus simplement de notre galaxie?
Depuis quelques décennies, nous avons repéré des milliers d'exoplanètes, des planètes en dehors de notre système solaire. Mais c'est un grain de sable. Si on extrapole, on se rend compte de l'immensité qui nous entoure. Rien que dans notre galaxie, les chiffres donnent le tournis. Les estimations tablent sur au moins 100 milliards d'étoiles. Même avec l'estimation la plus basse, on peut imaginer la présence, au moins, de milliards de planètes dans la galaxie. Sans même parler des plus de 100 autres milliards de galaxies.
Alors bien sûr, les conditions pour que la vie émerge sont difficiles à comprendre et sont certainement rares. Pour autant, vu le nombre de planètes, l'âge de la galaxie et la vitesse à laquelle une espèce intelligente peut se développer technologiquement, on peut s'étonner que la galaxie n'ait pas été colonisée depuis bien longtemps.
Ce raisonnement, de nombreux scientifiques l'ont fait. Notamment l'un d'eux, Enrico Fermi, l'un des créateurs de la bombe atomique. Lors d'un déjeuner dans les années 50 avec des collègues physicien, la question de la vie extraterrestre arrive sur la table. Le chercheur fait alors remarquer ceci: vu l'immensité et l'âge de l'univers, si une civilisation extraterrestre existait, elle aurait certainement eu le temps de s'étendre sur des milliers de mondes et de nous rendre visite. Alors, où sont-ils?
C'est le "paradoxe de Fermi". Depuis des milliers de personnes ont essayé de trouver une réponse à ce problème.
Toujours plus d'hypothèses
Des théories, il en existe tellement qu'un physicien, Stephen Webb, a publié un ouvrage évoquant 75 solutions au paradoxe de Fermi, regroupées dans 3 catégories: ils sont là (mais nous ne le savons pas), ils existent mais n'ont pas communiqué avec nous ou encore ils n'existent pas.
C'est aussi pour réfléchir à ce paradoxe que Frank Drake a créé sa fameuse équation. Aujourd'hui encore, par pure expérience de pensée ou via des découvertes astronomiques récentes, de nombreux physiciens font régulièrement des hypothèses. La plus pessimiste étant que la vie a existé ailleurs, s'est développée, est devenue intelligente... mais a fini par s'auto-détruire, soit par la guerre, soit par l'exploitation des ressources. Un scénario qu'on peut effectivement imaginer si l'humanité n'arrive pas à endiguer le réchauffement climatique et sa course à la croissance.
Evidemment, ces hypothèses ne restent que des hypothèses. Mais ces expériences de pensées philosophiques ne sont pas dénuées d'intérêt, loin de là, car elles permettent d'imaginer des schémas, de dénicher des inconnues à tester dans la pratique.
Car justement, ce dont la science a besoin pour avancer, c'est de faits, de preuves tangibles. C'est le but du SETI, qui observe l'espace sur différentes longueurs d'ondes en espérant entendre un signal étranger, une sorte de bouteille à la mer similaire à notre message d'Arecibo.
Ecouter ou émettre, encore et encore
ESO
Le grand réseau d'antennes millimétrique/submillimétrique de l'Atacama (ALMA) de l'ESO
D'ailleurs, en septembre, un grand télescope français s'est lui aussi lancé dans la recherche de signaux extraterrestres. Pour autant, les chances de trouver un signal sont objectivement extrêmement basses, et ce pour plusieurs raisons. La principale, c'est que nous n'observons qu'une partie infime du ciel. A un moment donné bien défini, pendant lequel une hypothétique civilisation aurait émis un signal il y a très longtemps. Le temps que le message, qui voyage à la vitesse de la lumière, traverse l'immensité qui nous sépare des autres systèmes stellaires. Même pour les plus proches, cela se compte en années.
Il y a aussi la question de savoir ce que nous observons. Il y a tellement de moyens de communiquer, de fréquences radios... Et même si nous cherchons le bon type de signal, encore faut-il que nous écoutions dans la bonne direction et au bon moment. Au vu de la taille et de l'âge de la galaxie, c'est un peu comme rechercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin. Mais cela peut aussi donner de l'optimisme: si nous n'avons rien trouvé, c'est peut-être tout simplement car nous ne cherchons pas assez.
En parallèle, certains chercheurs veulent aller plus loin. Ne pas écouter, mais émettre. Comme le message d'Arecibo, mais en faisant tout pour être entendu. En 2016, un message a été envoyé vers l'étoile polaire Polaris, située à 450 années-lumière. Ce qui veut dire que même si des extraterrestres vivaient autour de cette étoile, l'onde électromagnétique qui contient le message ne les atteindrait qu'en 2466. Cette capsule temporelle était surtout une sorte de testament et de message d'alerte destinée à la Terre, selon l'auteur du projet, l'artiste écossais Paul Quast.
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Ceci est une simple photo d'illustration. Les lasers du Très Grand Télescope de l'ESO ne sont pas des messages envoyées dans l'espace, mais une technique permettant d'illuminer le ciel d'une manière bien précise pour améliorer la précision des images prises.
D'autres, comme les astronomes du METI (une organisation nommée en référence au SETI, mais qui veut émettre plutôt qu'écouter), veulent envoyer de nombreux messages et espèrent être écoutés. Un premier a été envoyé en novembre 2017, à destination de GJ 273b, une exoplanète située à 12,4 années-lumière de la Terre. La porte à côté, à l'échelle de la galaxie. Un message simple, répété pendant trois jours. Un tutorial mathématique et scientifique utilisant une "langue cosmique" imaginée par un mathématicien pour communiquer de la manière la plus abstraite possible, en faisant fi de nos références culturelles.
Une initiative qui a créé la polémique, même si les chances d'obtenir une réponse sont, au mieux, infinitésimales. Déjà, des chercheurs ont critiqué l'idée même des ces bouteilles à la mer, estimant que les chances de réponses sont trop faibles face aux coûts. Mais certains scientifiques vont plus loin dans la désapprobation.
Un débat qui peut se résumer ainsi: si nous envoyons des messages dans l'espace, nous signalons notre présence à de potentielles civilisations avancées, sans rien savoir d'elles. Et si des aliens à la technologie avancée envahissaient notre monde en remontant à l'origine du message? C'est un peu ce que redoutait Stephen Hawking.
L'astrobiologiste Dirk Schulze-Makuch affirme lui que les conséquences de ce genre de message sont si grandes que l'envoi d'un tel signal devrait faire l'objet d'un débat citoyen et ne pas être simplement décidé par "un petit groupe de scientifiques".
Tant de débats sans aucune preuve, cela peut sembler étrange de la part de scientifiques. Mais quand on pense à toutes les implications scientifiques et philosophiques qu'aurait la découverte d'une preuve de l'existence d'une vie intelligente extraterrestre, en fait-on finalement assez?
A RIVER RAN THROUGH IT The next NASA Mars rover will land at Jezero crater, a former lake bed that includes the remains of an ancient river delta (seen above in this composite image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter).
The next NASA Mars rover will hunt for signs of ancient life in what used to be a river delta, the agency announced on November 19.
The rover is expected to launch in July 2020 and to land on Mars around February 18, 2021. It will seek out signs of past life in the sediments and sands of Jezero crater, which was once home to a 250-meter-deep lake and a river delta that flowed into the lake.
“This is a major attraction from our point of view for a habitable environment,” said Mars 2020 project scientist Ken Farley of Caltech in a news conference discussing the site. “A delta is extremely good at preserving biosignatures.” Any evidence of life that may once have existed in the lake water, or even evidence that came from the river’s headwaters and flowed downstream, could be preserved in the rocks that are there today.
The 2020 rover’s design is similar to that of the Curiosity rover, which has been exploring a different ancient crater lake, Gale crater, since 2012 (SN: 5/2/15, p. 24). But where Curiosity has an onboard chemistry lab for studying the rocks and minerals in its crater, Mars 2020 will have a specialized backpack for sample storage. A future mission will pick up the cached samples and return them to Earth for more detailed study, possibly sometime in the 2030s.
“The samples will come back to the best labs — not the best labs we have today, but the best er, which has been exploring a different ancient crater lake, Gale crater, since 2012 (SN: 5/2/15, p. 24). But where Curiosity has an onboard chemistry lab for studying the rocks and minerals in its crater, Mars 2020 will have a specialized backpack for sample storage. A future mission will pick up the cached samples and return them to Earth for more detailed study, possibly sometime in the 2030s.
“The samples will come back to the best labs — not the best labs we have today, but the best labs we will have then,” said science mission directorate administrator Thomas Zurbuchen of NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Mars 2020 will also use a souped-up version of Curiosity’s landing system called Sky Crane, in which a hovering platform lowers the rover onto the ground with a cable. Mars 2020’s version will include a navigation system that will help it avoid hazards on the ground, like cliff faces and boulders. labs we will have then,” said science mission directorate administrator Thomas Zurbuchen of NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Mars 2020 will also use a souped-up version of Curiosity’s landing system called Sky Crane, in which a hovering platform lowers the rover onto the ground with a cable. Mars 2020’s version will include a navigation system that will help it avoid hazards on the ground, like cliff faces and boulders.
Jezero crater is within striking distance of another site on scientists’ wish list. That region, called Midway, is just 28 kilometers away from Jezero and contains some of the most ancient rocks on Mars. At the final landing site selection workshop in October, scientists floated the idea of visiting both sites in one mission, a feat seen as ambitious but achievable. But a decision on that will have to wait until after the rover is safely on Mars, Farley said.
Could it have been a rogue aircraft in unauthorised airspace? Or some junk thrown into the depths of space by humans?
We still don't know - but here are the three main possibilities:
Military Activity
As you can hear in the air traffic control recording, the captain of a British Airways flight asked if there were any military exercises taking place in the vicinity of the sighting.
The response from controllers was that they weren't aware of any military activity and no other aircraft were shown on radar.
"Did I just see Air Force One?" Photo credit: Getty ImagesBut that doesn't necessarily mean this possibility can be ruled out.
In 2003, then US President George W Bush boarded Air Force One near Washington DC on a top secret mission to visit American troops stationed in Iraq.
Given the extreme risk of taking the president into a war zone, it was critical that no one knew he was coming.
This meant the crew had to fly a distance of 10,000km, taking 10 hours and flying over the busy airspace of the United Kingdom, France and Germany, without the iconic giant blue and white aircraft being spotted by anyone.
Most of Air Force One's communication equipment was switched off, and the crew identified themselves to air traffic control as a much smaller Gulfstream private jet. This would be their cover when they appeared on radar screens during the journey.
The entire mission was almost called off when the presidential aircraft flew over London. An observant pilot jumped on the airwaves.
"Did I just see Air Force One?" they asked
There was some silence, then the Air Force One captain replied.
"No. Gulfstream."
Luckily for the president and his team, the British Airways pilot took his observation no further and President Bush landed in Iraq before anyone even knew he was coming.
Air Force One, one of the most identifiable of all aircraft in the world, was flying within UK airspace and none of the air controllers had any idea.
Space Debris
This theory is so far stacking up to be the most likely explanation. One of the pilots who witnessed the lights shared his thoughts on the cause.
"It may have been a meteor or some other object making some sort of re-entry. [It] appeared to be multiple objects heading on the same trajectory. It was very bright," he said.
It could have been something discarded by humans many years ago. Photo credit: Getty Images/Newshub.
Additionally, newly emerged video filmed in Ireland at the same time of the sighting seems to back this up. The object appears to break up and fade into thin air as it streaks across the night sky.
Sandy Laverty, the driver who captured the lights on her dashcam, said it was much larger and brighter in real life and said she didn't hear the story about the pilots until the following day.
Something else?
A letter to the editor published in the Irish Times by a Mr John Bergin says the object was a UFO because it is exactly that, an unidentified flying object. If it turns out that it was being used by alien lifeforms, then it will lose that title.
FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder reads briefing documents about UFO sighting in Ireland. Photo credit: Getty Images
Loman Ó Loingsigh also wrote to the paper with his thoughts. He said the little green men are already here.
"They have been helping people cross the road safely for years," he said.
It does seem likely that if little green men were to make anywhere on Earth their home, it would be Ireland.
Unbelievable 'UFO' captured in stunning picture above South Lanarkshire
Unbelievable 'UFO' captured in stunning picture above South Lanarkshire
Fiona Pagett got the shock of her life when she spotted a strange flying saucer shape in the sky.
ByArthur Vundla
Fiona Pagett pictured the flying saucer shape above South Lanarkshire
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A mum has captured a stunning picture of a cloud formation - that looks just like a flying saucer.
Nature lover Fiona Pagett, 49, headed out to Biggar, South Lanarkshire, on Sunday evening to photograph the beautiful sunset.
But the mum-of-two got the shock of her life when she spotted a strange flying saucer shape in the sky.
Fiona, from Edinburgh, took out her Nikon camera to capture the UFO-shaped object only to realise it was actually a lenticular cloud - stationary clouds that form in the lowest region of the atmosphere.
The personal trainer says she did not expect to capture "some sort of spaceship".
She said: "Well I had headed there to try and take some pictures of the beautiful sunset but I noticed some sort of spaceship cloud.
"It was a bit surreal especially considering we had the most beautiful weekend with beautiful blue skies.
"When I did some research regarding the type of cloud it was, I noticed they are unusual clouds and some people have got them mistaken for ufos.
"I put the picture on Facebook, it was pretty cool to get a positive response."
Fiona enjoys doing photography in her spare time.
She added: "I've always been doing it. It's a hobby of mine."
UFO sighting on LIVE TV is ‘100 percent’ PROOF of aliens
UFO sighting on LIVE TV is ‘100 percent’ PROOF of aliens
A SPECTACULAR UFO sighting was caught on live television in Argentina, sending the presenters into a frenzy, with hunters saying it is “100 percent” proof of aliens.
A bright light was caught travelling across the background screen during a live news broadcast in Argentina. The two presenters quickly spotted the cube-shaped object and were keen to point this out to the viewers. The news broadcast rapidly went viral, with alien hunters keen to point out that this is strong evidence that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth.
The UFO appears to have no wings or propellers, which has led some to dismiss any suggestions that it is a plane or helicopter, while it is also seemingly moving too fast to be considered a balloon.
Prominent alien hunter Scott C Waring wrote on his blog UFO Sightings Daily: “During a live news broadcast two reporters were surprised when a box shaped UFO began to cross the top of the large screen TV.
This box shape is actually more common than you might think. Without wings, propellers, jets this boxy UFO moves across the sky at a very high speed, much too fast to be a balloon
“Remarkable, and this is 100 percent proof that aliens are trying to gentle their way into the hearts and minds of the public.”
UFO sighting on LIVE TV is ‘100 percent’ PROOF of aliens
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Argentina is something of a hotspot for UFO sightings, so much so that 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.
Mr Jaisli built the monument in the Argentinian desert just outside of the small town of Cachi in the province of Salta.
Aliens are apparently trying to make their presence on Earth known
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The larger monuments are 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 neighbour Luis. It was midnight on November 24, 2008.
The UFO landing pad
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“'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.”
Construction on the groundbreaking station started on November 19, 1998, and continued until 2011, floating through space as one of mankind’s proudest endeavours to date.
However, it has been the subject of all kinds of conspiracies and cover-ups as we step ever closer to answering the age-old question: Do aliens exist?
To celebrate the International Space Station’s birthday, here are some of the most suspicious ISS moments to date.
Irishwoman spooked after spotting 'UFO' hovering over Dublin Airport
Irishwoman spooked after spotting 'UFO' hovering over Dublin Airport
She was in the airport when she saw a bright light in the sky
By Aengus O'Hanlon
UFO SPOTTED FLYING OVER CRUMLIN, DUBLIN
A northside woman who was at Dublin Airport at the weekend managed to get a photo of a strange unidentified light she spotted in the sky.
The Dubliner - who asked not to be named - was in the airport when she saw a bright light appear to hover in the sky above the busy plane hub.
She told her husband what she'd seen and he mentioned that very similar lights had been spotted over Crumlin last week , just days after pilots reported seeing UFOs off the coast of Kerry, Dublin Live reports.
He said that his wife had heard nothing about the alleged UFO sightings of the past week, but after they discussed it, they decided to get in touch with Dublin Live.
The man told us: "My wife was at the airport on Sunday morning when she saw this strange light appear in the morning sky. It was at around 7.20am, and it was there for a while in the one spot and then moved before disappearing.
The object spotted in the air above Dublin
"She knew nothing about the sightings last week over the airport - she also said a plane flew over past it at one stage."
Last week, Crumlin man Craig Keogh said he spotted an unidentified flying object as he was leaving for work.
He quipped: "I wasn't freaked - I was more puzzled to know what it was like.. someone needs to give answers or come up with some reason because me little bro is scared big time, and I'm not helping him either."
Dublin Live has contacted the Irish Aviation Authority for a comment.
Donal Brady's video of a UFO over Cork has racked up almost 155,000 views online.
Bishopstown mystery UFO video goes viral online
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A CORKMAN's video of a UFO over Bishopstown has gone viral with over 155,000 viewings on YouTube since being uploaded last week.
Douglas resident Donal Brady was in Bishopstown at a friend's house when he spotted a bright light in the sky. He then took out his phone to film it as a plane flew past.
The jerky video shows the object moving very slowly across the Cork sky.
A number of commercial airline pilots flying near Kerry reported similiar sightings in the south-west of the country the day before but these have been dismissed by experts as possibly a meteorite or the reflection of a high flying plane's hull.
Others have dismissed the object as the International Space Station passing over or a large satellite but some people commenting on the video are saying it could be proof of an alien species visiting our skies due to the trajectory of the object and the movements reported by the airline pilots.
Both a British Airways pilot and a Virgin Airlines pilot reported sightings of a UFO to Shannon Air Traffic Control on Friday, November 9.
Mr Brady told the Evening Echo that reaction to the video has gone “off the wall” and the media interest has been “crazy” since he posted it.
The Irish Aviation Authority has opened an investigation into the sightings which have extended as far as Carlow.
FORMER WORKER OF AREA 51 SAYS: I FLEW IN A UFO AND TRAVELED IN TIME
FORMER WORKER OF AREA 51 SAYS: I FLEW IN A UFO AND TRAVELED IN TIME
The protagonist of the video is Robert Miller. He worked in Area 51, he is famous for his alleged UFO research, and that he was recruited by the US government.
He piloted an alien ship with only his mind and with the ship he also traveled in time.
It is hard to believe him. We know. But he also claims that he films the video because he somehow feels the responsibility to reveal the truth about how the evidence of extraterrestrial life systematically hides us at the Groom Lake facility. That’s why Miller decided to tell his story in the first person.
IN HIS HANDLING OF THE SHIP, HE DETAILS: “I remember being taken inside a boat and in the pilot’s seat. There was only room for one person in the giant boat. I looked around the cabin and saw only one seat. No joystick, no steering wheel, no other controls.
However, there was a helmet. They told me that the ship controlled itself telepathically. They told me to imagine that the ship was beginning to float on the ground, but it did not work.
I had to imagine that I was the boat, as part of it, and I began to think of myself floating. ”
REALLY AMAZING Especially because he explains that after the experience he fainted and could have traveled in time. In his own words: “(The ship) was falling to the ground and I was unconscious.
The next thing I knew, I was in the hospital. A man in a black suit came in and explained what happened. He said that just before.
The ship touched the ground, it simply disappeared, exploded, disappeared. Then, in the middle of the night, they heard a loud noise outside and the ship crashed in the same place.
The scientists hypothesized that the ship had traveled in time. Have you seen the video?
Is it possible that they are hiding what is happening outside our planet so blatantly? For us, it is about believing or revealing.
What do you think about these revelations and affirmations?
Three separate pilots were left baffled when they encountered a bright light whizzing through the sky. The incident occurred in the early hours of Friday, November 9, when a British Airways pilot contacted Shannon air traffic control (ATC) as 06.47 local time. The pilot wanted to know if any military exercises were taking place as she claimed the object was "moving so fast”.
ATC said no exercises were taking place, yet the mystery deepened when two other pilots contacted ground control stating "multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory” were spotted in the same region.
ATC said there were no military exercises had been planned, before eerily adding: “There is nothing showing on either primary or secondary radar.”
The pilot said: "OK. It was moving so fast. We saw a bright light and it then just disappeared at a very high speed.”
She claimed that it did not appear to be on a collision course with the plane but admitted she was still "wondering" what it could be.
UFO MYSTERY: Pilots break silence on incredible ‘ALIEN’ sighting in Ireland
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To the surprise of ATC, a third pilot called in to report the same sighting, adding: "I'm glad it wasn't just me.”
They reported that the 'UFO' was moving at "astronomical speeds - it was like Mach 2."
For reference, Mach 2 is 2,500 kph – twice the speed of sound.
However, pilots, who were not involved in the sightings, have offered their theories and believe there is a more plausible explanation than that of an alien visit.
The sighting occurred over the south of Ireland
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Speaking on the Professional Pilots Rumour Network (PPRuNe) internet forum, user Cygnet720 explained that the sighting is probably down to meteors hitting the planet’s atmosphere.
Cygnet720 wrote: “I remember about two years ago coming out of Nice under Milano radar, seen quite a bright one, was far from the first time seeing them, but apparently Alitalia E-190 crew were more impressed and reported to ATC asking about military activity in the area.
“No idea why, but we were quite accustomed to seeing meteors and were quite surprised our Italian friends were so impressed, and much less cool about them.”
Aviation journalist Gerry Byrne agreed with this sentiment, stating: "In all probability they were meteorites and it's not uncommon for meteorites to come in at a low angle, a low trajectory into the Earth's atmosphere.”
Experts believe it was a meteor
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Nonetheless, the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) will investigate the incident.
The IAA said in a statement: "Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday 9 November of unusual air activity the IAA has filed a report.
"This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process."
Millions of people from around the world claim to have been abducted by extraterrestrials.
The typical testimony from abductees describes how they are taken from their beds, homes, cars, and other locations and transported to spaceships manned by small grey aliens with oversized black, slanted eyes.
Memories of the abduction include being unable to move, hearing buzzing sounds, electrical sensations and difficulty breathing due to pressure on the chest.
In Netflix documentary Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries narrator Robert Russell said: “In analysing the statements of people who claim to have encountered or been abducted by aliens, there are similarities.
“There’s the UFO sighting, then an intense ray of light and a crackling sound, followed by paralysis of the contact or abductee while remaining fully conscious.”
However, some experts offer a different explanation for the alien abduction phenomenon: sleep paralysis.
Sleep paralysis is a known, documented condition which is when someone consciously awakens from sleep during the night but their body is completely immobilised.
In a typical sleep-paralysis episode, a person wakes up paralysed, with senses a presence in the room. They feel fear or even terror and may hear buzzing and humming noises, or see strange lights.
Alien abduction HORROR: Aliens cause human “Paralysis” while fully conscious
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A visible or invisible entity is even felt on their chest, shaking, strangling or prodding them.
Attempts to fight the paralysis are usually unsuccessful.
The phenomenon is experienced by millions of people, even larger numbers than polls conducted asking about alien abduction experiences.
Aspects of the experience reported by those who have had a sleep paralysis experience overlap considerably with those of alien abduction.
This theory would not argue that all abductions are because of sleep paralysis but may go some way to explaining some accounts.
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CITY BENEATH THE WAVES? - Ancient flooded ruins off Spanish coast are lost city of Atlantis, satellite experts claim
CITY BENEATH THE WAVES?- Ancient flooded ruins off Spanish coast are lost city of Atlantis, satellite experts claim
Research leader Tim Akers said the find would have huge implications for how we view ancient history
By Gerard du Cann
Ancient flooded ruins off the Spanish coast are the lost city of Atlantis, a UK team of satellite historians claim.
Antiquity specialists Merlin Burrows believe the ruins of the legendary civilization can be found below the wetland's of Doñana National Park.
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Researchers believe the circular formations in the wetland's of Doñana National Park are the remnants of the carved pieces of land residents lived on
Atlantis was recorded in the writings of Greek philosopher Plato who lived around 400BC.
He described an advanced island civilization that ruled a vast maritime empire, some 9,000 years before his own era.
The city was described as having, among other features, an enormous harbour wall, huge entrance pillars, a temple to the god Poseidon and massive circular pieces of land carved out by the Atlanteans to live on.
The location, the researchers claim, is somewhere north of the city of Cadiz, Andalucía, centred around the Doñana National Park, in what they believe was once a vast inland sea.
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A computer model of how British historians believe the Atlanteans lived on small circular islands in a sea which is today the Doñana National Park
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An aerial image some of the ancient structures which litter the western Andalucian coastline, which could be Roman, Greek, or from Atlantis.
A picture shows what the UK firm believe are the remnants of the harbour wall of Atlantis
Doñana National Park has long been suspected as a possible location, with the marshland that floods six months of every year believed to hide the once proud city.
It is thought a cataclysmic natural disaster, such as a tsunami or volcanic event, wiped out the Atlanteans.
Using satellites, aerial photography and ground observations, the team believe they have found all the features of Atlantis Plato described.
Research leader Tim Akers said not only had they discovered Atlantis but also found the people were incredibly advanced, perhaps having huge implications for how we view ancient history.
He said laboratory analysis of material recovered from Spain showed evidence of a new type of cement, as well as ancient advanced metallurgy.
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Satellite scans have found evidence of dozens of circular foundation structures which they believe are the circular islands described by Plato
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Ancient structures on a beach near Cadiz could be Roman or Greek, but the researchers claim they are far older
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The researchers believe these are remnants of the harbour wall of Atlantis just yards from the coast of Andaluci
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A scan showing one of the beach pillars and foundations they believe point to the structure being from Atlantis
Akers claimed to have even found a green patina on the ruins, which match Plato's description, and provided it to a lab in Italy for analysis.
The team also claim ruins on the beaches around the area are from the Atlantians, but ancient Greeks and Romans also lived in the area.
Aerial images of the site reveal what could have been a harbour wall – an incredible 75-metres thick.
The researchers say Plato wrote that this wall was ’50 stadia long’ which would make it around five-and-a-half miles in length.
“Investigations in Doñana lead to the conclusion that there have been two natural disasters (tsunamis) that caused the islands and dry areas to sink, one of which happened around 1500 BC and the other 200AD. There is also evidence of a tsunami event in the Bible.”
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The Dolmen of Menga, an incredible 5,500 year old burial tomb built into a mountain near the Atlantis site
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Head of Research Tim Akers (left) and CEO Bruce Blackburn (right) from Merlin Burrows
Merlin Burrows have now recorded a documentary film - ‘Atlantica’ - about the discovery.
In the film the team visit sites they believe still show clues of the legendary city.
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A map showing the location of the suspected lost city
Akers said: “Plato describes the location exactly and all we did was follow in his footsteps the way ancient seafarers would have travelled to the cities.
“The site has both Tartessian, Greek, Phoenician, and Roman additions and our scans show multiple occupations over time till there final and ultimate destruction.
Documentary filmmaker Michael Donnellan, who has studied classical Greek and Minoan archeology, said tests at the Modena Materials Analysis Laboratory in Italy on material taken from the site had revealed amazing results.
“The harbour wall seems to have had a coating that prevented barnacle growth, like modern Teflon.
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Today huge sand dunes occupy the wall area to the left of the image and to the right it is still visible they claim in the mouth of an estuary
Giacomo Falanga, from the Modena Centro Prove, a chemical testing laboratory in Italy, said samples from the site included a variety of material.
He said: “These structures contain binders, like calcite. The presence of mica, potassium, and other trace minerals show proof of artificial mixing of materials, so the samples we have tested are made from an ancient, prehistoric concrete.”
Andrea Carpi, a material engineer, said: “We can confirm with certainty that the samples analysed were the creation of an ancient civilization with advanced construction methods, which makes me believe that we’re talking about a civilization with very advanced technology.”
Salyut 6, DOS-5, was a Soviet orbital space station, the eighth flown as part of the Salyut programme. Launched on 29 September 1977 by a Proton rocket, the station was the first of the “second-generation” type of space station.
On June 18, 1981, Gosplan called for an extraordinary conference, with the presence of UFO experts, cosmonauts and Soviet authorities, including military officers.
Its moderator was the chief of the Soviet Space Program, General Georgi Timofeevict Beregovoy. Beside him was Vladimir Kovalyonok [Kovalenok], the cosmonaut who, along with Viktor Savinikh[Savinykh], stayed 77 days in space, aboard the Salyut-6 station. … The revelation they made was to shock the world.
It’s quite simply the story of a close encounter of the second kind – which didn’t go the third kind because mission control ordered: NYET. Salyut-6 made contact with an alien spaceship for 4 days (with interruptions) and together they orbited Earth.
The event involved five astronauts: Kovalyonok, Savinikh and three aliens aboard an unknown vehicle that had the shape of a sphere.”
It’s an Amazing Story. The tale describe how the cosmonauts managed to contact the extraterrestrial intelligences, first by a failed attempt flashing a light in Morse code, but eventually succeeding with an alleged mathematical message. There is also the physical description of the aliens, essentially human beings, or “similar to human beings”:
“They used light helmets, such as tight hoods. … They had thick and long eyebrows and straight noses, like those of Greek statues. What most impressed the cosmonauts were the eyes – large and blue, twice as large as ours – fixed on them, without a trace of emotion. Their traces were handsome, very dark. They reminded of solemn Hindu men. But no muscle moved on their faces. They looked like robots.”
It’s even more amazing because, according to the story, the contact was fully recorded in many photographs and a long film footage, which was shown in the Gosplan conference and even today must be kept highly secret in some Russian vault.
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Daytime UFO recorded over Kamloops, Canada 10-Nov-2018
Daytime UFO recorded over Kamloops, Canada 10-Nov-2018
Check out this interesting footage of a huge UFO that appeared in the sky above Kamloops in BC, Canada on 10th November 2018.
Witness report:
An unidentified object was flying under cloud lying as if it had wings. Directional changes.
1.I didn’t witness this UFO, I saw it on the local news but I don’t believe that it has been reported here. This is the most clear footage I have ever seen of a UFO and I think that it should be getting more coverage.
2. Seeing it on the local news
3. At first I thought it was a massive kite. But all I could come up with was that it was a flying object that could change it’s direction in the air. Looks like it had malleable wings that flexed in the air
4. Object was black, entering and exiting the cloud lining. It was able to change it’s direction and flew around as if it was a “sting ray” in the air.
5. I didn’t witness the event but what shocked me was it’s ability to change direction and elevation on command. From what I know, humans don’t have a aerial transportation machine that can do this. I was also shocked by how flexibile it was. Almost as if it was an animal flying in the sky.
The Irish Aviation Authority has officially launched an investigation after multiple commercial aircrafts reported seeing an unidentified flying object off the southwest coast of Ireland last Friday. In the bizarre recording from air traffic control, the pilots seemed pretty confused when they radioed ground control to ask about the strange bright light they saw flying around them.
This already sounds like the opening scene of an alien invasion movie, so that’s why it’s not weird at all that I’m sitting in my basement writing this with a tin foil hat on.
At about 6:47 am on November 9, the pilot of a British Airways flight travelling from Montreal to Heathrow contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) asking if any military exercises were going on in the airspace . There wasn’t. ATC responded, “There is nothing showing on either primary or secondary [radar].” The pilot goes on to describe how the “bright light” appeared on her left-hand side then suddenly turned north and disappeared at a very high speed. “We were just wondering what it might be”
Moments after, another pilot from a Virgin Airlines plane radioed ATC about multiple objects following the same trajectory, and said they were very bright from where he was. After first commenting that maybe it was a meteor making re-entry, he goes on to say that it appeared as if the objects “climbed away at speed, at least from our perspective”.
A third pilot than chimes in, “glad it wasn’t just me”. In a separate recording, he claimed the object was travelling at “astronomical” speeds, at least Mach 2 (2,500 km/h).
You know what they say: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and talks like a duck, then it’s probably an alien.
According to reports from the Irish Examiner, the British Airways flight was passing over Kerry at the time, while the other two flights were heading eastbound in high-level airspace, 24,500 ft and above.
The Irish Aviation Authority has since released a statement, “Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday, November 9, of unusual air activity, the IAA has filed a report. This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process.” In other words, just leave this one up to the Men in Black.
Unsurprisingly, “experts” are already pointing the finger at a meteor shower as the culprit of this strange sighting, which is obviously code for secret government cover-up, right?
Why Are Skies Turning Purple? Here's What The Media Won't Tell You...Bizarre!
Why Are Skies Turning Purple? Here's What The Media Won't Tell You...Bizarre!
By Lisa Haven
Red skies at night shepherd’s delight. Red skies in morning shepherd’s warning…but what if the sky is purple? Have you looked up recently and noticed an unnatural color? Many from across the U.S. have as reports roll in from Coast to Coast. Something that has never occurred before is now a ‘normal’ occurance. One must ask themselves what has changed and what is different? What is causing this exterme phenomenon? All this and more in the video below.
Bosnische Zonnepiramide blijkt 32.000 jaar oud. Krant publiceert over spannende ontdekkingen
Bosnische Zonnepiramide blijkt 32.000 jaar oud. Krant publiceert over spannende ontdekkingen
De Bosnische Zonnepiramide is ongeveer 32.000 jaar oud, zo blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek. Het bouwwerk is geen heuvel zoals sceptici beweren, maar door mensen gemaakt.
Materiaal dat is verzameld bij de ingangen van pas ontdekte tunnels onder de piramide is onderworpen aan koolstofdatering.
“Analyse van de stalagmieten in de nieuwe tunnels heeft aangetoond dat ze 26.200 jaar oud zijn,” zei dr. Semir Osmanagic, ontdekker van het piramidecomplex.
Dezelfde cultuur
“Dat betekent dat deze ingangen en tunnels, die tot voor kort aan het oog werden onttrokken, een lange geschiedenis achter de rug hebben,” voegde hij toe.
Als je de tijd die nodig is voor de vorming van stalagmieten daarbij optelt, kom je uit op ongeveer 32.000 jaar, aldus Osmanagic.
“Dit is precies hoe oud de Bosnische Zonnepiramide en ondergrondse tunnels zijn,” zei hij tegen de krant Dnevni Avaz. “Ze maken deel uit van dezelfde cultuur.”
Druk gewerkt
De Bosnische piramides trekken ieder jaar duizenden mensen uit 160 landen. Gemiddeld blijven mensen ongeveer een week.
Tussen maart en november worden de meeste gasten verwelkomd, maar ook in de wintermaanden blijven de toeristen komen.
Dit jaar wordt er weer druk gewerkt rond de piramides. Zo verrichten vrijwilligers opgravingen bij de oostkant van de Zonnepiramide.
GIZA LOOK Egyptian Pharaoh ‘HIDDEN’ inside Great Pyramid’s ‘secret chamber’, historian reveals
GIZA LOOKEgyptian Pharaoh ‘HIDDEN’ inside Great Pyramid’s ‘secret chamber’, historian reveals
The chamber may hold the body of Khufu, show body has never been found
By Tariq Tahir
THE Egyptian king who ordered the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza could have hidden his body in a secret chamber, it has been claimed.
Khufu, also known as Cheops, is believed to have reigned during the 26th century BC from 2589BC to 2566BC built and had the pyramid built as a tomb for him and his queen.
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The Great Pyramid of Giza, centre, is one of three on the site
Egyptologists believe the enormous structure was built over a 20-year period ending in around 2,560BC.
But according to one amateur historian, there be a secret chamber inside the huge building where Khufu, whose body has never been found, is buried.
Matt Sibson claims to have made a discovery on the brickwork of this huge complex after reading a paper on the geology of the stones, the Daily Star Online reported.
He points to triangle marks on pyramid as being the clue that there maybe a secret burial chamber
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The pyramid was built by Khufu was a burial site for him and his wife
“On the west side it is the most prominent and it looks out of place - so I think it is hiding another entrance to the pyramid,” he said.
“So maybe they made a tomb and took away the staircase at a later date. So if there is another entrance, then he could be buried in there somewhere.
“Maybe there is a second set of chambers that could lead to the body of Khufu.
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The pyramid was built with 100,000 slaves
Pharaohs expected to become gods in the afterlife and so built temples to the gods and massive pyramid tombs for themselves.
Pyramids would be filled with the things each ruler would need to guide and sustain himself in the next world.
The Great Pyramid is part of a complex of three large pyramids in the Giza Necropolis, part of a Unesco world heritage site, which is also home to The Great Sphinx.
Mystery black granite sacrophagus, thought to be 2,000-years-old, is opened in Alexandria
The ITMO University and the Laser Zentrum Hannover researchers plans to use the results to design nanoparticles, which will be used to develop sensors and highly efficient solar cells.
Beroemde farao verborgen in geheime kamer in Grote Piramide? Amateurhistoricus doet ontdekking
Beroemde farao verborgen in geheime kamer in Grote Piramide? Amateurhistoricus doet ontdekking
Ligt er een farao verborgen in een geheime ruimte in de Grote Piramide van Gizeh? Een amateurhistoricus denkt van wel.
Volgens hem bevindt zich in het enorme bouwwerk een geheime kamer waar Cheops, wiens lichaam nooit gevonden is, verborgen ligt.
Matt Sibson baseert zijn uitspraken op het metselwerk. Hij wijst op driehoeken op de piramide die volgens hem wijzen in de richting van een geheime ruimte.
Tweede reeks
“Op de westkant zie je de meest prominente, dus ik denk dat daar nog een ingang naar de piramide verborgen zit,” zei hij.
“Mogelijk hebben ze een tombe gemaakt en het trappenhuis later weggehaald. Als zich daar inderdaad een andere ingang bevindt, kan hij er begraven liggen,” klonk het.
“Wellicht is er nog een tweede reeks kamers die naar het lichaam van Cheops kan leiden,” zei Sibson.
Elektromagnetische energie
Eerder dit jaar ontdekten wetenschappers dat het 146 meter hoge bouwwerk elektromagnetische energie concentreert in de verborgen kamers.
Deze energie wordt richting de basis van de piramide geleid, waar interne magnetische velden ontstaan. Waarvoor die dienen is onbekend.
One of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th century may have taken a step closer to resolution, thanks to a late 20th century invention that has changed more than just mapping. That invention is Google Earth and the mystery is the Dyatlov Pass Incident which refers to the unsolved deaths of nine skiers in the Ural Mountains of the then Soviet Union who perished in strange and unusual ways that appeared to be unspeakably horrifying.
“On the pass Dyatlova found traces of a nuclear explosion”
Planetanovosti.com reports (in a rough translation – another gift from Google) that Valentin Degteryov, a longtime Dyatlov Pass investigator, claims he has found a previously unknown crater approximately thirty meters (98 feet) in diameter about three km (1.86 miles) from the location of the pass on the eastern side of the Kholatchakhl mountain (the name ironically means “dead mountain” or “lack of game” in the local Mansi language) where on February 2, 1959, a group of experienced ski hikers led by Igor Dyatlov mysteriously perished. After examining an aerial photograph of the terrain at 61 ° 45’48.6 “N 59 ° 24’30.2” E, Degteryov concluded he was looking that the remnants of a weak nuclear explosion, which turned rocks in the area to a reddish glass.
Rescuers find the camp
Military testing of nuclear weapons or a crash of an errant nuclear missile has been one of the theories presented to explain in particular why traces of radiation were found on some the clothing of some of the victims and why some of the bodies mysteriously had orange skin and grey hair, neither of which were their natural colors. Also, the site was immediately sealed off and the records were suppressed by the Soviet government, hinting at a cover-up of a secret military operation or accident. However, both theories were eventually discounted. A nuclear explosion, even a weak one, would have dispersed radiation on all of the equipment and their clothing and affected all of their bodies, not just a random few. While the Soviet government was indeed highly secretive and controlling, its eventual demise resulted in all of the records being released and none indicated a nuclear explosion.
Memorial to the ski hikers
And yet … Degteryov found something he believes can only be explained by a nuclear explosion. (The image can be seen in this video at about 0:56.) Of course, it’s winter in the Urals, so he won’t be able to mount an expedition until spring to examine the area himself. It seems strange, with the amount of investigating that has already taken place in and around the pass that no one has found it before. Also, the nuclear option doesn’t explain some of the unusual injuries (broken bones without an external wound, missing tongues and eyes) or the report by another group of hikers about 50 km (31 mi) away who claimed they saw strange orange spheres in the sky that same night.
It’s no wonder ‘death by Yeti’ is also one of the theories. Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait until spring for any additional information. In the meantime, keep checking Google Earth.
Stan Gordon isone of the United States’ leading researchers of the stranger sides of the Bigfoot phenomenon. And they don’t come much stranger than a case that Gordon investigated, in late 1973, in his home state of Pennsylvania. It’s important to note that the case in question was one of dozens that Gordon received from 1972 to 1974, which, collectively, suggested the presence of unknown, hairy, man-beasts all across Pennsylvania. Many of the cases that Gordon investigated, however, were dominated by phenomena that, for many Bigfoot investigators, fell far outside what one could call the norm – including a certain event that occurred at Fayette County, in October 1973.
It was the dark night of October 25 when all hell broke loose in the heart of the county. The primary player in the story was one Steve Palmer who was both amazed and frightened to see a brightly illuminated UFO hovering over local farmland, around 9.00 p.m. But that wasn’t all that Palmer encountered: a pair of immense, ape-like animals with very long and muscular arms surfaced out of the shadows of the dark field and proceeded to walk right towards Palmer, himself. He wasted no time and blasted them with a salvo of bullets.
Very weirdly, the bullets appeared to have no effect – at all – on either creature, and they retreated into the darkness. The UFO did likewise, vanishing in an instant. That was not the end of the affair, however. Approximately four hours later, things took on even stranger, and far more terrifying, proportions.
It was roughly 1.00 a.m. when Stan Gordon arrived on the scene, having been alerted to the Palmer encounter by a local police officer, one who had been apprised of the facts. Along with Gordon were fellow investigators Dennis Smeltzer, Fred Pitt, David Smith, and George Lutz. They met with Palmer, who proceeded to tell them of his unearthly encounter with the two Bigfoot and the UFO. Then, quite out of the blue, something horrifying occurred: Palmer’s breathing changed, to the extent that he was literally panting heavily and deeply, and he broke into a deep, guttural growl and knocked both his own father and Lutz to the field floor. And that was only the start of things.
Pitt found himself unable to breathe properly, Smeltzer felt faint, and Palmer fell to the ground, having apparently passed out. A powerful, rotten odor of brimstone suddenly dominated the cold night air. The terrified group knew that it was vital they get out of the field – and quickly, too – before things got even worse. Later, when Palmer regained consciousness, he told Gordon and his team that he, Palmer, while in his passed out state, had seen before him a sickle-carrying, dark-robed figure that warned him the Human Race was on the verge of destroying itself – and would do exactly that unless it curbed its violent instincts.
Fayette County
Even stranger than that, a couple of weeks later, Palmer was visited at his home by two Air Force officers, one in uniform and the other in plainclothes. It became very clear, and very quickly, that the pair knew all about Palmer’s weird encounter and the later experience. They even confided in him they knew that both UFOs and Sasquatch were genuine. There was a specific reason for the visit: first, they showed Palmer a number of photos of Bigfoot creatures and wanted to know if the beast he encountered resembled them. Second, they asked if Palmer would be willing to be placed into a hypnotic state, to ensure that the military secured all the relevant data. Palmer agreed. And with all the information in hand, the two men got up, thanked Palmer, and left. Despite telling Palmer they would keep him informed of any future developments, they failed to do so. He never saw them again. It was a fitting end to a case steeped in mystery.
I’ve always been fascinated with identical twins. The fact that there could be an exact copy of yourself out there in the world just seems so eerie, especially coupled with all of thehigh strangenessandmysterious connectionswhich sometimes occurs between twins. While there have been many cases of long-lost separated human twins discovering their genetic facsimiles, this week the astronomical world might have gotten its first case of a long overdue twin reunion. It turns out that our own Sun may have an identical twin out in the universe, and astronomers think they’ve just discovered where it’s been hiding.
Our Sun’s twin has been identified as HD 186302, a yellow dwarf star just 184 light-years away. We’re practically neighbors! Recent astronomical research has revealed that all stars likely begin their lives as binary pairs, with some estimates claiming up to 85% of all stars exist in binary pairs. Based on analysis of new data gathered by the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, HD 186302 has a nearly identical surface temperature, luminosity, age, and chemical composition, making it a likely candidate for Sol’s long-lost identical twin. Its unknown how it might have gotten separate from its twin, but astronomers believe some binary pairs of stars are separated and flung into different reaches of space during stellar formation.
Yellow dwarf stars convert hydrogen to helium in their cores through nuclear fusion.
Astronomer Vardan Adibekyan of Portugal’s Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences published the study of HD 186302 in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics just this week. According to Adibekyan, the fact that HD 186302 is so similar to our own Sun means there is a “non-negligible” probability that it too could support life:
Some theoretical calculations show that there is non-negligible probability that life spread from Earth to other planets or exoplanetary systems, during the period of the late heavy bombardment. If we are lucky, and our sibling candidate has a planet, and the planet is a rocky type, in the habitable zone, and finally if this planet was ‘contaminated’ by the life seeds from Earth, then we have what one could dream – an Earth 2.0, orbiting a Sun 2.0.
Obviously, the next step is to send the Space Force over there to see if Earth 2.0 has any interesting or valuable stuff we might be able to use here on Earth 1.0, then cook up some reasons why they warrant a good ol’ fashioned dose of “civilization.” We all know the long-lost twin is always the evil twin. Although, maybe we’re looking at it backwards. Maybe we are their long-lost twin…
NASA explains that the eye-catching shape looming in this image of NGC 281 is a sculpted dusty column, a dense Bok globule seen in silhouette, eroded by intense, energetic winds and radiation from the hot cluster stars.
NGC 2818 is a planetary nebula located in the southern constellation Pyxis (The Compass). It consists largely of glowing gases from the star's outer layers ejected during the final stages of its life when it had run out of the fuel necessary to sustain its core fusion processes.
But according to Scott Waring from UFO Sightings Daily the eye-catching shape is a massive Unidentified Flying Object at the edge of the Nebula.
In the following video, Scott shows that this UFO looks like the infamous Black Knight Satellite which is a spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin.
I found a mothership hiding on our side of a nebula. I'm a little surprised that NASA didn't see this, or maybe they just don't care about details. Either way...you can see with your own eyes that its a large, dark, solid object on the edge of the nebula. I have reported similar dark non reflective black craft before...back in 2011 I discovered NASA links going to about size of such craft, all HD and all close up. Some call them the Dark Knight satellites, left here from an ancient alien culture long ago. This is a similar but larger craft. Click here to see that old post. Guys, I studied in astrophysics and was at the top of my class while working on my masters in counselling. I loved it and I learned a lot. This object is obviously a solid and large object due to the lighting hitting the craft. Its a dead give-away. The right side of the craft looks to be the head, the left side is the rear. Scott C. Waring
Look carefully at the center of this crater, do you notice the white fungus structures inside? Those are the same structure we saw glowing on dwarf planet Ceres. These are also the same white fungus structures on the back side of the moon. The side that never ever faces Earth...and for a reason.
Oh...there is one big drawback of discovering such white structures...they are near impossible to get 100% focused details. Its just not possible for our human technology to correctly focus on these white shiny structures. A form of camouflage I would guess, to protect them from being seen from far away.
When I put the photo into negative formate (seen below) several structure came into view and even some window like openings. Why would structures look like a fungus? Because aliens were not raised like us, were not exposed to our environmental influences, our TV shows, our food, our language, our relationships, our conflicts, clothing, mannerisms, or nature...they had their own. Their own influenced them to create structures in this way. I also believe that these fungus structures were grown. Yes, you heard me say it a thousand times before, well here it comes again...they were bioengineered in order to let them grow and create the structures so that it save the aliens loads of time and resources. Of course the downside is they will have to nurture the structures and keep them healthy in their own ways. But a living structure will always be on the defence and always becoming stronger, continuing to grow...to learn, to understand its purpose. Have you ever seen the Farscape TV series with the living ship they traveled upon? Yeah...then you get it.
I was watching the live space station cam when I noticed a triangular UFO appearing out of nowhere. The light hitting the satellite and the UFO was infrared light and also the suns angle was to the far right which made the UFO reveal itself for a few minutes. The UFO match its speed perfect with the space station and the satellite, but at this moment in time the satellite was actually about one hundred meters away from the space station. Later they switched cameras and I saw how distant the satellite really was. The camera is equipped with infrared filters, which it seems to have been using...I say this because infrared filters cause a purple pink hue in video and photos, just as we see here. Our eyes cannot see infrared, however cameras with filters can. That is why we see the cloaked UFO appear for a short time. Scott C. Waring
These video was filmed in US state California on 14th November 2018.
Witness report:
Was watching 2 objefts fall from sky with trail when they branched off into more objects and changed path. A few friends of mine and I were sitting on my porch smoking cigarettes when we noticed something falling from the sky, at first it appeared to be a meteor but then we noticed it stopped it started going to the side after hovering for a while. Another object appeared next to it.
Forty years since Victorian pilot Fred Valentich’s disappearance off the coast of Cape Otway, his fiancée Rhonda Rushton has revealed for the first time about an ominous conversation she shared with her boyfriend a day earlier. She revealed the unsettling final words to her. She admitted that she has not able to move on from the tragedy ever since.
Ms Rushton stated despite Mr Valentech’s plans to set course across the Bass Strait; he admitted being fearful of flying over water.
She found it a bit strange, but it was clear to her that he had some sort of gut feeling.
Despite extensive ground and air search, no trace of him or his plane was ever recovered after he took off on October 21, 1978, from Moorabbin airport.
But his final conversation with an air traffic controller would eventually baffle investigators and spark one of the most enduring aviation mysterious in Australia.
Mr Valentich told Melbourne air traffic control that a long metallic, unidentified aircraft followed him. The UFO had four bright lights at times moved at high speed, according to Mr Valentich. The pilot further described to the air traffic control that the mysterious aircraft orbited above his plane. Moments after, he reported his engine was failing.
Mr Valentich also told air traffic control that the UFO was playing some sort of game as it was flying over him two, three times at a time at speeds he could not identify. Melbourne – Delta Sierra Juliet said it wasn’t an aircraft.
Critics claimed that the pilot might have faked his disappearance or disoriented and crashed. However, Ms Rushton said that Fred was very honest as he would never make something like that up.
Fred Valentich’s disappearance has become one of the most enduring mysteries of Australian aviation history and one of the most famous UFO conspiracies in the world.
Large UFO Caught By News Network KTLA 5 During Coverage Of Camp Fires That's Happening In California
Large UFO Caught By News Network KTLA 5 During Coverage Of Camp Fires That's Happening In California
In the clip we can see what looks like a "Cigar shape craft" using the smoke as cover. With the sea on the same side of the object one could think it's a boat or ship but look at the speed in which this object is moving..
Did Silicone-Based Life Dominate Our Planet's Surface?
Did Silicone-Based Life Dominate Our Planet's Surface?
Imagine Earth billions of years ago. Life blooms everywhere. But it is not the single-celled life or plants. It is gem-based. Giant crystalline trees shine in all colors. It is silicone-based life. It emerged before carbon emerged as the basic building blocks of being. That is my favorite conspiracy theory. How unlikely is it?
Dash-cam footage was uploaded by dash-cam by Sandy Laverty in Coleraine. Looks like a bolide to me. It does correspond with the one pilot's comment that there were two objects. However, that could be a coincidence.
Juno captured this picture - Nasa doesn't understand it
Juno captured this picture - Nasa doesn't understand it
Juno was launched on the 5th of August 2011. It was designed to fly to Jupiter to investigate the gravity field, it's magnetic field and it's polar magnetosphere. On the 13th of September Juno captured this mysterious photograph of Jupiter in which we can see an anomalous object. This object resembles a giant whale from earth. Is it possible that Juno captured a photo of a giant Jupiter whale that has been feeding on the plankton that is floating around Jupiter's atmosphere? What is this mysterious object that was caught on camera by Juno?
On November 26, 2018, NASA’s InSight lander will make its daring descent to Mars’ surface. The spacecraft is scheduled to touch down Monday at approximately 20:00 UTC (3 p.m. EST), with live landing commentary starting about an hour before.
Artist’s concept shows a simulated view of NASA’s InSight lander firing retrorockets to slow down as it descends toward the surface of Mars.
On Monday, November 26, 2018, NASA’s Mars Insight is scheduled to land on Mars. The spacecraft will touch down at approximately 20:00 UTC (3 p.m. EST). Watch coverage of the event on NASA TV. Live landing commentary runs from 19:00-20:30 UTC (2-3:30 p.m. EST). Translate UTC to your time.
Launched on May 5, 2018, InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) marks NASA’s first Mars landing since the Curiosity rover in 2012. The landing will kick off a two-year mission in which InSight will become the first spacecraft to study Mars’ deep interior. Its data also will help scientists understand the formation of all rocky worlds, including our own.
InSight is being followed to Mars by two mini-spacecraft comprising NASA’s Mars Cube One (MarCO), the first deep-space mission for CubeSats. If MarCO makes its planned Mars flyby, it will attempt to relay data from InSight as it enters the planet’s atmosphere and lands. Here’s where Insight will touch down.
So far, there are about 80 live viewing events around the world scheduled for the public to watch the InSight landing. For a complete list of landing event watch parties, go here.
For a full list of websites broadcasting InSight landing events, go here.
Bottom line:How to watch the landing of NASA’s Mars Insight spacecraft on November 26, 2018.
When it comes to alien lifeforms in the Solar System, Titan – the largest moon of Saturn is one of the most likely candidates.
Whenever considering the possibility of finding alien lifeforms in the universe, scientists are mostly focusing their search power on exoplanets, or celestial bodies that have the optimal conditions for liquid water to form. With this rapidly growing space race, Earth’s powerful nations have scattered their probes across the Solar System in the hope of being the first to stumble across lifeforms outside of our planet, be it intelligent or not.
One of the surprise candidates that could host alien life is Titan – Saturn’s moon that’s larger than Mercury and has an atmosphere one-and-a-half times as dense as Earth’s. This might satellite is very similar to our planet. Its surface is covered with seas, lakes and rivers that, unlike Earth’s watery composition, are made up of liquid methane and ethane. Although the nitrogen and methane present in the air are toxic for human beings, researchers suggest that other lifeforms could have developed on this particular satellite.
Photo credit: NASA/JPL
Their assumptions are based on over a decade of thoroughly analyzing its surface using data collected by the Cassini-Huygens mission sent by NASA in collaboration with the European Space Station (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Cassini is not the only space probe to visit Saturn’s satellite, but rather the first to enter its orbit. Keeping this in mind, we can only think at what novel info the craft was able to gather from there, since NASA is already working on developing a submarine to explore the vast and unusual seas of Titan.
Adding up to the mystery of this oversized moon, researchers have discovered an unusual feature that seems to defy any logical explanation so far. Images received by Cassini orbiter revealed how, in July 2012, a huge chunk of land measuring approximately 100 square miles (260 square kilometers) has surfaced from beneath the Ligeia Mare, one of Titan’s largest seas. On August 21, 2014, this alleged island disappeared under the shallow portion of the sea, baffling the scientific crew who were unable to find a precise explanation.
Apart from this, scientists believe that a massive underground ocean is trapped within Titan, and that it could contain liquid water leaked from the frozen surface of the planet. There has been much debate on this topic, and researchers strongly suggest that these kind of underground oceans, which are scattered throughout different places in the Solar System, could give rise to alien life.
A recent study of the chemical composition of the planet showed that it contains hydrogen cyanide (HCN) molecules in the atmosphere, particles which react to form polymers, including polyimine that is able to absorb a considerable spectrum of light. Snatching all this light, polyimine could be a real catalyst for life, according to various researchers.
“Polyimine can exist as different structures, and they may be able to accomplish remarkable things at low temperatures, especially under Titan’s conditions,” said chemist Martin Rahm from Cornell University.
“We are used to our own conditions here on Earth. Our scientific experience is at room temperature and ambient conditions. Titan is a completely different beast,” he added.
With all these unusual features of Titan and the keen interest developed by NASA and the Europeans Space Station to furtherly explore the watery surface of this natural satellite, it’s likely that some form of extraterrestrial life has been spotted and seems within reach.
If they’ll find an advanced species of underwater inhabitants, or rather primordial lifeforms we can only speculate, but judging by the secrecy NASA has accustomed us to, and the unusual enthusiasm and energy directed towards Titan, is likely that something of extreme importance has already been discovered on the surface.
The discovery ofwobbling "hotspots"circling the drain of a massive black hole offers exciting new evidence for the behemoth that lies at our galaxy's center — and the astronomer who first worked on this theory shares how 13 years of observations have finally paid off.
The new study, involving the work of by Avery Broderick, an astronomer from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, revealed three flares, or visual hotspots, emanating from the Milky Way's central black hole, also known as Sagittarius A*.
The team detected a wobble of emissions coming from the flares, allowing the scientists to detect the accretion disk — a growing mass of orbiting gas and debris — surrounding the black hole itself. In turn, the researchers were able to use the emissions to map the behavior of Sagittarius A*, Broderick told Space.com. [Images: Black Holes of the Universe]
Broderick's black hole theory built on earlier research by two teams that studied the galactic center of the Milky Way in near-infrared. This included the work of Reinhard Genzel, an astronomer from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, as well as researchers Andrea Ghez and Mark Morris of University of California, Los Angeles. At the time, their work revealed that the center of the Milky Way wasn't steady, but instead would drastically brighten about once a day for about 30 or 40 minutes, Broderick said.
Researchers think supermassive black holes exist at the center of most, if not all, large galaxies. Therefore, in 2005, while working alongside researcher Avi Loeb at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Broderick argued that a periodic brightening observed at the heart of the Milky Way, also known as a bright infrared flare, was the result of an incredibly massive object such as a black hole.
This theory was further supported by evidence of a very bright, dense group of stars called a nuclear star cluster that surrounds the central region of the Milky Way. In addition, infrared observations showed that the stars at the very center of the galaxy orbit a dark object estimated to be 4 million solar masses in size, again suggesting the presence of a black hole, Broderick said.
Even still, there was not enough data to prove that a black hole truly exists at the center of the Milky Way, Broderick added — until now.
Sudden flare behavior
The three flares recently detected emanate from the central region of the Milky Way and are the product of gravitational lensing by the black hole, Broderick said.
"The black hole acts like the lens of a lighthouse. [There is] a localized emission region, but it's not the sudden brightening of the emission region itself that causes the flare," Broderick said. Rather, the gravity of the black hole bends the light from the emission and magnifies it for us to see. "That's what's responsible for the flaring — the manifestation of extreme gravity."
Based on this, Broderick and Loeb originally predicted that objects embedded in the accretion disk surrounding Sagittarius A* would exhibit a distinct wobble in their infrared emissions due to their orbital motion around the black hole. The researchers published their theory in a 2005 paper, as well as a 2006 follow-up study. However, at the time, the technology was not yet available to detect such a wobble, Broderick said.
That all changed with the launch of the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in 2016. The precision and sensitivity of the GRAVITY instrument helped astronomers detect a wobble in emissions coming from the three flares in the accretion disk circling Sagittarius A*. Their findings were published Oct. 18 in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
"While flares have been seen for a long time now … the key finding here is the characteristic wobble of the flares," which indicates that the material producing these flares is moving around a black hole, Broderick said.
The flares observed near Sagittarius A* occur when magnetic field lines close to the black hole break apart and reconnect. This process, also known as magnetic reconnection, releases large amounts of energy and charged particles, causing the telltale shine. The infrared emissions from the flares exhibit a characteristic wobble due to their orbital motion around the black hole. Specifically, as other emissions embedded in the accretion flow move around the galactic center, the center of light shifts, or "wobbles," Broderick said.
The material circling just outside the black hole's event horizon whirls at roughly a third of the speed of light. The orbital period of the flare — the time it takes to complete one orbit — is the same as that of the wobble, which astronomers observed once every 40 to 50 minutes. The short time scale is a result of the strength of gravity from the black hole and suggests that the material is orbiting incredibly close to the black hole, Broderick said.
"Thirteen years ago, our statement was that these flares were associated with the structural variability [of the galactic center] and that we were going to be able to use that structural variability to say something about general relativityand strong gravity," Broderick said. "The exciting thing is, that [statement] appears to be true."
Proving there's a black hole
The wobble of emissions coming from the flares is not the only sign suggesting that a supermassive black hole lies at the heart of the Milky Way. There's no doubt that a supermassive object with a mass about 4 million times that of the sun is located at our galactic core, but proving that it's a black hole has been challenging.
However, the center of the galaxy is also home to a nuclear star cluster comprising more than 500,000 stars. Based on Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, astronomers are able to estimate the mass of the object lurking at the center of the Milky Way by measuring the speed of the orbiting stars and gas. This further supports the idea that the 4-million-solar-mass object is a supermassive black hole, Broderick said.
"There is no other object that we know of that could sustain all of that mass in such a compact configuration and not collapse," Broderick said. "If not a black hole, then it would have to be something extraordinarily exotic and outside the realm of what we understand today."
Furthermore, observations have revealed that material really does disappear from our galactic center. As this material is drawn inward toward that center, it gets trapped in the black hole’s growing accretion disk. While most matter in the accretion disk orbits safely around Sagittarius A*, material that gets too close risks being drawn past the event horizon, the point beyond which it can't escape the black hole's gravitational pull. Researchers can see friction created by the material flowing toward the event horizon causing that material to brighten, Broderick said.
"It becomes this sort of 'where did it go?' argument," Broderick said. "We have this material that we know is falling in towards a black hole, because we see its accretion luminosity, but we don't see the corresponding impact luminosity. Therefore, it must be disappearing somewhere."
The presence of an event horizon beyond which lies a black hole is therefore the most logical explanation for the behavior observed at our galactic center, Broderick said.
"It's extremely exciting on a personal level to see a prediction actually pan out," Broderick said. "I think this marks a moment in the history of science, where black holes are going from something of curiosity to something that is fundamentally real."
Editor's note:This story has been corrected from an earlier version that referenced Avery Broderick as the lead author of the new study. The new study was led by astronomers with the GRAVITY Collaboration and further supports the theory originally developed by Broderick in 2005.
MYSTERIEUZE INGANG OP ANTARCTICA DEUR NAAR HOLLE AARDE ? ( VIDEO )
MYSTERIEUZE INGANG OP ANTARCTICA DEUR NAAR HOLLE AARDE ? ( VIDEO )
Het is niet de opwarming van de aarde die ervoor zorgt dat op een bepaalde plek op Antarctica het ijs is gesmolten, maar een geheimzinnige ondergrondse warmtebron.
Dat er meer gebeurt onder het ijs/de grond op dit continent wordt bewezen door de ontdekking van een ingang naar deze mysterieuze wereld.
Soms is het om gek van te worden. Je weet dat er zich ontzettend veel dingen afspelen op het nog steeds bevroren continent Antarctica en wij krijgen daarvan maar een heel klein gedeelte mee.
Soms komt er iets via de mainstream media naar buiten, maar vaak zijn het amateur onderzoekers die door stug volhouden vreemde dingen op het spoor komen. Vandaag hebben we iets uit beide categorieën.
Het eerste is afkomstig uit mainstream informatie en betreft een door wetenschappers gedane ontdekking in de buurt van zuidpool. Er is daar een gebied dat ongeveer twee keer zo groot is als de provincie Utrecht waaronder een deel ontbreekt.
Wat men heeft ontdekt is dat het ijs niet smelt door hoge temperaturen van de buitenlucht, maar door een hittebron ergens diep onder het ijs. De manier waarop men dit heeft kunnen vaststellen is door boven dat gebied te het vliegen in een vliegtuig uitgerust met een speciale radar.
Ook schijnt men in de hete rotsen onder het ijs radioactiviteit te hebben ontdekt en hoewel de wetenschappers zeggen dat dit opwarmingsproces misschien al duizenden jaren aan de gang is, hebben ze in werkelijkheid geen flauw benul wat die ondergrondse hittebron nu eigenlijk is.
Dit is natuurlijk nog maar één van de vele geheimen die zich op dat continent nog steeds verbergen onder het ijs.
Het tweede vreemde fenomeen van vandaag betreffende Antarctica heeft niets te maken met wetenschappers, maar met een volhardende amateur onderzoeker die op Google Earth iets merkwaardigs ontdekte.
Het is ontdekt in een gebied waar niet veel sneeuw ligt en duidelijk is dat het niet iets natuurlijks is. Het ziet eruit als een soort rechthoekige ingang naar een ondergrondse wereld.
De "ingang" is ongeveer 16 meter breed en 8 meter hoog. Wanneer je op de beelden hierna kijkt naar het omringende landschap, dan zie je dat deze "ingang" helemaal niet past in die omgeving.
Wat het precies is en waarvoor het dient weten we niet, dus mocht iemand kennis of een idee hebben, laat het ons weten.
King Kong finally got his ownBroadway musical. Is it time for the Peruvian three-fingered, possibly alien, maybe pregnant mummies to get theirs? Better yet, is time for them to finally be accepted by the scientific community for what they really are … whatever that might be? On November 19, the people who have been studying them since their discovery, The Alien Project, gave a nearly five-hour televised presentation on their latest findings and analyses at the Congress Hall of the Republic of Peru in Lima with at least one Peruvian MP present. The results are in, the lights are dimming, the curtain is rising, the band is reaching a crescendo …
“The black-legged mummies of Nazca are authentic. The demonstration by the results of the DNA analyzes, the scanners, the x-rays, the tomography. According to DNA analysis, scans and X-rays, the experts are confronted with the facts, the incredible “Little Grays” and Maria belong to two new species totally unknown until today. It is clear that we are facing an unexpected discovery and of interest to all humanity! Back in detail about Josefina “the centerpiece”, Victoria, Alberto, and Maria’s anatomy.”
The five-hour video (you can see it here) was immediately published in the magazine Ikaris and all of the data and pictures are on display on The Alien Project website. Fortunately, the results were summarized by a number of websites and they are indeed interesting. (You can get up-to-speed on the past story of the mummies here and here and here.) Here are some of the highlights of the latest presentation:
DNA tests of the mummies show no relationship to any known human or animal
The bones of the mummies are hollow but rigid, similar to the structure of bird bones. There is visible wear at the joints between the bones which indicates that the beings were of advanced age and that they were actually alive – in other words, the mummies were not assembled from various parts.
3D scans of the insides of the mummies show that the bones, organs, muscles, fat, fat and possible eggs are in the proper locations for the creatures to have been living beings.
The data does not match any known species, making it highly likely that these are an unknown species with an evolutionary path separate from humans.
The features that look like eggs in the mummy Josefina are of various sizes, indicating differing stages of development.
Again, there is much more detailed coverage of the data and analyses on The Alien Project’s website.
The presence and apparent approval of the presentation by MP Armando Villanueva Mercado lent legitimacy to the announcement, although he admitted that the Peruvian Ministry of Culture turned down an invitation to attend. The audience was populated with plenty of university archeologists and experts in the field of mummy studies, which is a big field in Peru. As expected, there was plenty of disagreement at the end of the presentation, with many repeating the same complaint they’ve had throughout the history of these three-fingered mummies – that they were not allowed to participate in or even observe the study and analyses of the remains and that the whole process did not follow proper scientific procedures. On the other hand, the audience also contained plenty of believers and new converts and there is expected to be more and detailed coverage of the report.
Is this the announcement that changes everything? If not, who would go to such lengths to perpetrate a fraud? (Yes, we hear you, moon landing skeptics.) Yes, the name “Alien Project” Is presumptuous and many of the participants in the many announcements about these mummies have been wrong before. At this point, if The Alien Project (and the Peruvian government and the World Congress on Mummies which rightly protect the dignity of the remains of past Peruvians, whatever they might be) do not allow outside scientific analysis and review, the three fingers on the alien mummy meter are still stuck between “Skeptical” and “Unproven.”
On the other hand, the needle on the “Three-Fingered Alien Mummies!” Broadway musical meter is speeding towards “Hey kids! Let’s put on a show!”
Poor Mars rovers. Those plucky little robots get rocketed on a one-way mission to the Red Planet, only to live out their usefulness cold and alone on the desolate, lifeless rock. Good thing they don’t have feelings, though, right? Just wait until we start sending AI-equipped anthropomorphic robots to distant planets to toil themselves into obsolescence or be torn apart by giant insectoid aliens. It’ll be a lesson in empathy, that’s for sure.
“WHY WAS I PROGRAMMED TO FEEL SHAME?”
One of NASA’s active Mars rovers, Opportunity, has been operating for more than 55 times its intended lifespan, but has been inactive for months since a planet-wide dust storm engulfed the Martian surface in darkness back in June. With no way to gather solar energy to charge its batteries, the Opportunity rover went into hibernation mode until it could absorb enough energy to phone home once the sun came back out.
The haze from the Martian tempest began to clear up a few months ago, but NASA scientists and engineers have been unable to wake the sleepy Opportunity rover. However, Opportunity appeared to suddenly gather enough strength to beam a short transmission back to Earth this week. Deep Space Network, an automated Twitter account which tracks NASA activity, announced that a NASA sensor was receiving data from Opportunity. Space watchers began to rejoice that the long-lasting, seemingly unbeatable Opportunity was reawakening.
Opportunity has sent back some breathtaking images of useless rocks and dust.
However, a few hours later, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California retorted via Twitter that the signal was in fact not from Opportunity. Naturally, the internet exploded with claims of “UNKNOWN TRANSMISSIONS FROM MARS” and “MYSTERIOUS SIGNALS FROM OUTER SPACE” and while we would all love for that to be true, it turns out there’s likely a much more boring and banal explanation. There always is, isn’t there?
JPL scientists say the signal was a false alarm, most likely a blip due to a false positive or contamination from test data. Still, that won’t stop the tin foilers from claiming that NASA routinely lies to us or that this is likely a cover-up of something big. Would NASA hide proof of anomalous transmissions? Is something strange afoot with Opportunity?
Probably not. Still, with every strange signal or anomalous transmission comes the hope that someday one, just one, will be the one. Will it happen before humankind inevitably nukes itself to radioactive ash?
Residents of Southern California flooded social media overnight with posts wondering about a mysterious flash of light seen in the skies in the early morning hours of November 20. Most of the witnesses described the phenomenon as an “explosion” in the early morning sky. Whatever it was, law enforcement agencies throughout the region aren’t saying anything. What happened in the skies over California?
If San Diegans saw it at night through all of the city’s light pollution, it must have been bright.
Local news outlet KTLA reports the phenomenon was seen throughout Southern California, with residents posting from Long Beach to San Diego and as far inland as Riverside. Whatever the event was, it must have been large. Twitter was full of residents’ concerned and curious posts describing what they saw and asking others if anyone had any answers. “Definitely saw 2 streaks of light in the sky this morning on Vern’s dog walk. Managed to snap a pic of the 2nd one, right next to a plane,” posted user @ROBBWEBB3. Webb managed to grab a picture of the phenomenon, a picture which definitely makes the event look more streak-like, possibly suggesting a meteor event in the atmosphere.
Was this merely a meteor exploding?
Just a few days prior, two separate drivers in Arizona were shaken up when unidentified falling objects struck their vehicles, shattering one’s sunroof and damaging the windshield of another. Both drivers suspected meteorites, but some astronomers aren’t convinced. A similar event happened in San Diego the same day, with two cars sustaining damage from mysterious falling rocks. One driver was injured when one of those rocks hit him in the chest. The California Highway Patrol found no pedestrians nearby and considers the incident a mystery.
Could these events be connected? With the Leonid meteor shower currently underway, there’s no telling what tiny bits of rock might actually survive their fiery collisions with our atmosphere. Of course, there’s always the chance that this alleged explosion in the sky could be something altogether different and stranger. With no official explanation, this one’s still up for debate.
Then again, we all know how official explanations go.
A video from NASA was released on Friday, November 16th that teased many space enthusiasts on the space agency’s plan to send humans to the moon permanently and eventually to Mars. A Colorado-based company called Lunar Outpost will also play a vital role in the effort for a return trip to the moon by building small exploratory moon rovers.
Part of the video says “We’re building the next chapter of American exploration. Returning to the moon to stay so we can go beyond to Mars.” Near the end of the nearly two and a half minute video, you hear the words “We are NASA and after 60 years, we’re just getting started.”
It was just 49 years ago on July 20, 1969 when man first walked on the moon and now there are plans for humans to reside there permanently. It’s hard to believe how much advancement has been made in less than fifty years.
In other important space news, the highly anticipated details have been revealed on where the Mars 2020 rover is going to land. After carefully analyzing over 60 potential locations on the “Red Planet” as the best place for the rover to land, NASA has decided on the Jezero Crater for the landing destination.
The mission is scheduled for July in the year 2020. The rover’s mission will include looking for signs of habitable conditions in ancient times, as well as searching for microbial life. In addition, it will collect soil and rock samples and place them in a hidden and safe location on the planet. NASA and the European Space Agency are currently looking at a future mission to Mars in order to gather the samples and bring them back to Earth for testing.
They chose the Jezero Crater because it has rich terrain and landforms that could be as old as 3.6 billion years so this could potentially answer important questions in the history and evolution of the planet. The 28-mile-wide crater is located on the western end of a huge impact basin called Isidis Planitia and it is slightly north of the equator. Since there was once a river that flowed in the crater billions of years ago, it’s quite possible that the rover will be able to find ancient molecules and other signs of life there.
There is some nervousness, however, when it comes to the actual landing process on Mars as the location has several boulders, rocks, cliffs, and ripples in the sand that could potentially cause problems for the rover. The Jezero Crater landing location is fifty percent smaller than the area chosen for the Curiosity rover in 2012 when it landed in Gale Crater.
The Mars 2020 will take off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and that will certainly be a day to remember as this new mission could potentially find ground-breaking new evidence of life on Mars.
When filmmaker Dave Beaty heard about the strange encounter in November of 2004 between dozens of ‘Tic-Tac’ shaped UFOs, several Naval fighter jets, and the USS Nimitz battle group, he was captivated. Much like the rest of the tireless researchers, filmmakers, and writers who forge the Ufological narrative, Beaty stayed up late, spending countless hours of his personal time totell a story.
The film uses a mix of stock Navy footage and digitally rendered animations to provide a detailed yet quick recap of the now famous 2004 Nimitz UFO Incident. While much of the documentation of that event is still classified or hidden away by various other interests, the film tells the story with as much accuracy as possible.
Beaty explained in an interview,
“I am using the primary witness accounts available to the public. I have interviewed several of the USS Princeton Air Controllers and radar techs. CDR. David Fravor was interviewed by dozens of journalists, as were CDR. Slaight, and Senior Chief Day. The “Female Pilot” gave a detailed briefing to the AATIP program. These primary witnesses to the event, the radar screens, the cockpits, and the close up visual observations of some of the world’s most highly trained observers leads me to believe what they say is very accurate. So in making this re-creation, I used all those details. Location, time, date, weather, seas, jets, altitudes, speeds, distances, directions. These things are known for the most part. The part that is fiction is what the pilots said to each other – the dialog is fiction.”
As was reported in August of 2018, an unredacted Nimitz report was leaked on Chris Mellon’s website. Mellon, a previous intelligence advisor to the Clinton administration, and To The Star’s Academy’s National Security Affairs Advisor, has made no official comment concerning the leak, but rumors circulating within the UFO community are pointing to a hack. The unredacted report contained the names and personal information of the various pilots involved, including the mystery female pilot who has yet to publicly come forward. Unfortunately, some unsavory profiteering and opportunistic UFO enthusiasts seem to have already released her name publicly on the internet. Beaty, who undoubtedly has seen the unredacted report, has taken the high road, as many other researchers have, and kept her name out of the video.
USS Nimitz
Beaty explained that creating CGI renderings and making films is his day job. He expressed that this project was different.
“It’s one of the most satisfying things to do, to create stories with total freedom, with no deadline and with no one reviewing proofs endlessly and changing my work.”
With over 18,000 views to date, interest has allegedly been expressed by some mainstream networks such as A&E. Whether this documentary becomes a funded full feature project or not, the true importance of it lies in its desire to seek out more witnesses to the incident.
Beaty explained that those witnesses are out there, he’s been contacted by some.
“In the film I provide an email of anon@thenimitzencounters.com for people to contact me if they have had sightings from military ships or planes. So far I have had several vets reach out to relate their sightings. We are working with a group to help organize military witnesses of UAP. We also hope to convince some of the USS Roosevelt sailors from 2015 to come forward. We believe that the Gimbal video shown by the NYT article was filmed on January 26th, 2015, off the coast of Florida by the Red Rippers squadron.”
The Nimitz event is still shrouded in a lot of mystery. While there is little doubt that the incident occurred, the UFO myth-making machine has been at work spinning various tales which are often sold as knowledge but fundamentally hinges purely on speculation and belief. Moreover, if more information is available, it is being held by very few people with various agendas. Whether Beaty knows it or not, this project of his is an attempt to democratize the knowledge surrounding this incredible event.
The (in)famous “Tic-Tac.”
UFO research has never been perfect and it is haunted by a lot of ghosts in its historical and ideological past. However, the UFO community, much the phenomenon it chases, always works at a grassroots level. With every attempt to gain more ‘official’ insight, it slips the proverbial leash and becomes something else entirely.
At the end of the film, any people with information concerning the Nimitz event, or other military UFO sightings, are asked to e-mail Beaty, and that their anonymity can be maintained. While checks and balances will obviously need to be put into place to ensure misinformation and disinformation isn’t disseminated as fact, the testimony of witnesses concerning this event becomes much more difficult to control. This is, curiously, one of the greatest aspects of the UFO community. No one owns the UFO narrative or discourse; some try to corner the market to ensure their ideological interpretation is popularized, but it isn’t long before rifts and tears eat away at them.
This indie UFO documentary is incredibly necessary, not just because it tells a good story and highlights the events which occurred in 2004, but because it attempts to bring much-needed information, data, and testimony out of the darkness and into the light.
Move over, Tabby … there’s a new flickering star in town and this one behaves a lot more like it has a megastructure built around it than you do. Astronomers in Chile report finding a mysterious star whose light dims by 80 percent on an irregular schedule and they can’t figure out why. An alien Dyson sphere? Dust? Aliens cleaning house and kicking up a dust cloud?
“We don’t know what the object is. And that’s interesting.”
Astronomer Roberto Saito of the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil is the co-author of a study in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society describing VVV-WIT-07, “an unique and intriguing variable source presenting a sequence of recurrent dips with a likely deep eclipse in July 2012.” The title of the study implies that this star could be another Boyajian’s star (astronomer Tabby Boyajian discovered the blinking KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby’s star) or a Mamajek’s object (astronomer Eric Mamajek found 1SWASP J140747, a star that dims due to a massive orbiting gas planet with rings). However, the data is inclusive and they speculate whether it could also be a young stellar object, a star surrounded by clumpy dust structure, a main sequence star eclipsed by a nearby extended object or a self-eclipsing R CrB (R Coronae Boreali) variable star.
Tabby’s star (NASA)
Or … it could be a star surrounded by an alien-made Dyson sphere. While hypothetical, the idea of a megastructure surrounding a star and harvesting its energy for space travel, manufacturing or other energy-consuming activities, received a lot of speculative press when Tabby Boyajian discovered her blinker in 2015.
“I was fascinated by how crazy it looked. Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build.”
Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, was one of the leading proponents of at least considering a Dyson megastructure as a possibility for causing the dimming of Tabby’s star. Each time anything that looks like a blinking star appears, that possibility is brought up, scoffed at by skeptics and pushed by believers, as hypothetical as it might be. However, VVV-WIT-07 is a puzzler, which explains why the WIT in its name stands for “What is this?”
The puzzle starts with the amount of dimming. While Tabby’s star darkened by 20%, VVV-WIT-07 nearly disappears as it dims by 80%. It also dims more sporadically than KIC 8462852. When asked for her opinion on this blinking star, Boyajian, who openly considered the possibility of a Dyson megastructure, said in ScienceNews:
“If this phenomenon is the same as what’s happening with Tabby’s star, then we can’t invoke an elaborate explanation for what’s happening in both systems. If you’re starting to see stars similar to this all over the place, then it’s got to be a really common thing that happens in nature. That’s really cool.”
Not as cool as a Dyson megastructure, right?
“Pretty much everything’s on the table for it right now. We need more data.”
Freeman Dyson, the cause of all the controversy
Saito promised to provide her with more when he can look at his star again using the larger 8.1-meter Gemini telescope or the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Chile.
Dyson? Dust? Damn planet blocking the light? An advanced but bored alien civilization messing with the rest of the universe by playing with a giant dimmer switch?
“Pretty much everything’s on the table for it right now.”
Linda Moulton Howe “Something is Coming to Earth From 2 5 Billion Light Years Away”
Linda Moulton Howe “Something is Coming to Earth From 2 5 Billion Light Years Away”
What has been making very powerful and rapid signals in the past ten years from 2.5 billion light-years from Earth?
Linda Moulton Howe explains that the first recorded fast radio burst was in 2007 by the Parkes radio telescope in Australia.
The power of that radio burst was 500 million times the power of our solar system’s sun and lasted only 5 milliseconds.
Whatever the source is has become the subject of intense speculation by astrophysicists and astronomers.
In the March 9, 2017, Astrophysical Journal Letters, Avi Loeb — Chair of Harvard University’s Astronomy Dept. and Director of Harvard’s Institute for Theory and Computation and the Black Hole Initiative — proposed that fast radio bursts could be “interstellar light sails pushing payloads up to a million tons each, large enough to carry living passengers across interstellar or even intergalactic distances.”
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UFO Shows Up On Live Newcast Over Buenos Aires, Argentina, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Shows Up On Live Newcast Over Buenos Aires, Argentina, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: October 11, 2018
Location of sighting: Buenos Aires, Argentina
During a live news broadcast two reporters were surprised when a box shaped UFO began to cross the top of the large screen TV. As they are talking you first notice the UFO on the far right at 16 seconds into the video, but they don't notice the UFO until 36 seconds into the video.
The shape and size of this UFO is very similar to one I reported over New York a few days ago. This box shape is actually more common than you might think. Without wings, propellers, jets this boxy UFO moves across the sky at a very high speed, much too fast to be a balloon. Remarkable, and this is 100% proof that aliens are trying to gentle their way into the hearts and minds of the public.
Large UFO Caught By News Network KTLA 5 During Coverage Of Camp Fires That's Happening In California
Large UFO Caught By News Network KTLA 5 During Coverage Of Camp Fires That's Happening In California
In the clip we can see what looks like a "Cigar shape craft" using the smoke as cover. With the sea on the same side of the object one could think it's a boat or ship but look at the speed in which this object is moving..
An elongated very fast traveling object has been spotted over the west coast of Florida. Neither wings nor a contrail can be seen. What is the logical explanation for this sighting? Interesting footage for sure.
NASA recently announced it will land its Mars 2020 rover in Jezero Crater. The 45-km-wide site was once filled with water and features rich geology that could tell scientists a lot of things about the planet’s troubled history. There’s also a chance that the rover mission might find evidence for past life on the Red Planet.
Color-coded image of Jezero Crater taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Jezero means ‘lake’ in Serbian.
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / JHU-APL.
Jezero Crater sits on an ancient river delta, just north of the Martian equator on the western edge of Isidis Planitia. The crater was formed billions of years ago by a meteorite impact and, at one point, became filled with water to a depth of about 250 meters. Although the water is long gone, sediments at the site could still contain a record of microbial life — if any existed in the first place.
“The delta is a good place for evidence of life to be deposited and then preserved for the billions of years that have elapsed since this lake was present,” Mars 2020 project scientist Ken Farley said during a press conference.
Carbonate rocks present at Jezero may also tell us how surface water and the Martian atmosphere interacted billions of years ago. In fact, it is Jezero’s diverse geology that distinguished it from other potential landing sites for the 2020 rover. NASA had also considered Northeast Syrtis, which contains some of the oldest rocks on Mars, and Columbia Hills, which the Spirit rover explored between 2004 and 2011.
Jezero is also more accessible than the other sites, although that doesn’t mean that touchdown will be a piece of cake. NASA is doing everything it can to minimize the risk of landing the rover in a boulder field, a sand trap, or on the edge of a cliff.
“Getting samples from this unique area will revolutionize how we think about Mars and its ability to harbor life,” Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said in a press release.
The $2.4-billion rover will launch in July 2020, landing on Mars seven months later, in February 2021. The six-wheeled, nuclear-powered Mars 2020 rover has almost the same design as NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been operational on the surface of Mars for the past six years. Like Curiosity, Mars 2020 will be deployed on the Martian surface from a rocket-powered “Sky Crane” platform. NASA has also refined its landing technique, which means Mars 2020 should be better equipped to doge risky areas.
Artist concept of the Mars 2020 rover.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Unlike the Curiosity mission, Mars 2020 will also bring samples back to Earth. Although it’s not certain how this will happen, NASA says it hopes to send a new mission to Mars in the late 2020s to retrieve the rocks collected by the rover and return them to Earth by the early 2030s.
In the meantime, NASA has more immediate things to worry about. On 26 November, a robot called InSight will land on the surface of Mars, tasked with studying the Red Planet‘s interior.
TheTree of Lifeis a metaphor established by Charles Darwin to give some perspective to evolution. Every living organism on Earth has a home somewhere on the Tree, and by looking at it, we can see how species relate to one another.
While we’ve known about a type of microbe called hemimastigotes since the 1800s, it turns out we were totally wrong about where they fit on the Tree of Life — because they didn’t fit on any of the existing branches.
Home Of Its Own
In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers from Dalhousie University detail their discovery that hemimastigotes are so unlike anything else in the Tree of Life, they require the creation of a brand-new branch.
“It was clear from our analyses that hemimastigotes didn’t belong to any known kingdom-level group, or even to a known ‘super-group’ of several kingdoms together, like the one that includes both animals and fungi,” researcher Alastair Simpson said in a news release.
“This one little collection of organisms is a whole new group at that level, all on its own,” she continued. “It’s a branch of the Tree of Life that has been separate for a very long time, perhaps more than a billion years, and we had no information on it whatsoever.”
Evolution Of Tech
The Dalhousie team was only able to reach this conclusion thanks to an advanced genetic analysis technique that wasn’t available when scientists first discovered hemimastigotes.
“That such a distinct form of life could be hiding literally under our feet,” Simpson said in the press release, “is a sharp reminder about how little we still know about the diversity of life on Earth.”
And as our technologies advance even further, there’s no telling what else we might discover — or how many other branches we might add to the Tree of Life.
A newly released composite photo of the galaxy cluster Abell 1033, which lies about 1.6 billion light-years from Earth, bears a striking resemblance to the Starship Enterprise from "Star Trek."
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Leiden Univ./F. de Gasperin et al; Optical: SDSS; Radio: LOFAR/ASTRON, NCRA/TIFR/GMRT
Is that the USS Enterprise blurring as it makes the jump to warp speed?
Well, no. But a new photo of the galaxy cluster Abell 1033 certainly does call the famous "Star Trek" starship to mind.
The image, which was released Thursday (Nov. 15), is a composite that combines observations in optical light as well as X-ray and radio wavelengths, the latter two of which are represented by the colors purple and blue, respectively. [USS Enterprise Evolution : The Many Faces of Star Trek's Favorite Starship]
The optical data was gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the X-ray by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the radio by the Low-Frequency Array network in the Netherlands.
Abell 1033 lies about 1.6 billion light-years from Earth. The object is actually two galaxy clusters coming together in a dramatic, hugely energetic smashup that's generating shock waves and other forms of turbulence in this patch of space-time.
The fully restored studio model of the starship USS Enterprise, from the TV series "Star Trek," which is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Credit: Dane Penland/National Air and Space Museum
"In Abell 1033, the collision has interacted with another energetic cosmic process — the production of jets of high-speed particles by matter spiraling into a supermassive black hole, in this case one located in a galaxy in one of the clusters," Chandra mission team members wrote Thursday in a description of the image.
"These jets are revealed by radio emission to the left and right sides of the image," they added. "The radio emission is produced by electrons spiraling around magnetic field lines, a process called synchrotron emission."
The observed radio emission in Abell 1033 spans a whopping 500,000 light-years, Chandra team members said. The electrons responsible for this emission have likely been re-energized, a result that researchers announced and explained in an October 2017 study. You can read it online for free at arXiv.org.
The newly released image is an example of pareidolia, which describes the tendency of the human brain to see familiar shapes in more or less random data. Other examples include the famous "Face on Mars" and the various creatures that some folks see in the Red Planet rocks photographed over the years by NASA's Curiosity rover.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate) is out now.
As Earth's tectonic plates dive beneath one another, they drag three times as much water into the planet's interior as previously thought.
Those are the results of a new paper published today (Nov. 14) in the journal Nature. Using the natural seismic rumblings of the earthquake-prone subduction zone at the Marianas trench, where the Pacific plate is sliding beneath the Philippine plate, researchers were able to estimate how much water gets incorporated into the rocks that dive deep below the surface. [In Photos: Ocean Hidden Beneath Earth's Surface]
The find has major ramifications for understanding Earth's deep water cycle, wrote marine geology and geophysics researcher Donna Shillington of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in an op-ed accompanying the new paper. Water beneath the surface of the Earth can contribute to the development of magma and can lubricate faults, making earthquakes more likely, wrote Shillington, who was not involved in the new research.
The deep water cycle
At earthquake-prone subduction zones, where tectonic plates dive beneath one another, massive amounts of sea water are dragged into the planet's interior, a new study has revealed.
Credit: visidia/Getty
Water is stored in the crystalline structure of minerals, Shillington wrote. The liquid gets incorporated into the Earth's crust both when brand-new, piping-hot oceanic plates form and when the same plates bend and crack as they grind under their neighbors. This latter process, called subduction, is the only way water penetrates deep into the crust and mantle, but little is known about how much water moves during the process, study leader Chen Cai of Washington University in St. Louis and his colleagues wrote in their new paper.
"Before we did this study, every researcher knew that water must be carried down by the subducting slab," Cai told Live Science. "But they just didn't know how much water."
The researchers used data picked up by a network of seismic sensors positioned around the central Marianas Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. The deepest part of the trench is nearly 7 miles (11 kilometers) below sea level. The sensors detect earthquakes and the echoes of earthquakes ringing through Earth's crust like a bell. Cai and his team tracked how fast those temblors traveled: A slowdown in velocity, he said, would indicate water-filled fractures in rocks and "hydrated" minerals that lock up water within their crystals.
Missing water
The researchers observed such slowdowns deep into the crust, some 18 miles (30 km) below the surface, Cai said. Using the measured velocities, along with the known temperatures and pressures found there, the team calculated that the subduction zones pull 3 billion teragrams of water into the crust every million years (a teragram is a billion kilograms).
Seawater is heavy; a cube of this water 1 meter (3.3 feet) long on each side would weigh 1,024 kilograms (2,250 lbs.). But still, the amount pulled down by subduction zones is mind-boggling. It's also three times as much water as subduction zones were previously estimated to take in, Cai said.
And that raises some questions: The water that goes down must come up, usually in the contents of volcanic eruptions. The new estimate of how much water is going down is larger than estimates of how much is being emitted by volcanos, meaning scientists are missing something in their estimates, the researchers said. There is no missing water in the oceans, Cai said. That means the amount of water dragged down into the crust and the amount spouted back out should be about equal. The fact that they aren't suggests that there's something about how water moves through the interior of Earth that scientists don't yet understand.
"Many more studies need to be focused on this aspect," Cai said.
Filer’s Files #46 – 2018 President Reagan Chased UFOs - PART I
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Filer’s Files #46 – 2018 President Reagan Chased UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Astronaut and Research Pilot Joseph A. Walker Saw UFOs, President Reagan Chased UFOs, ECETI (Enlightened Contact with extra Terrestrial Intelligence, Beyond UFOs, Dr. Jack Sarfatti Star Gate Book, and 750 UFO sightings in October
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Idaho. Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Virginal.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Korea, New Zealand, Poland, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
Astronaut and Research Pilot Joseph A. Walker
On May 11, 1962 NASA pilot Joseph Walker said that one of his tasks was to detect UFOs during his X-15 flights. He had filmed five or six UFOs during his record breaking fifty-mile-high flight in April, 1962. It was the second time he had filmed UFOs in flight. During a lecture at the Second National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space Research in Seattle, Washington he said: “I don’t feel like speculating about them. All I know is what appeared on the film which was developed after the flight.” – Joseph Walker. To date none of those films has been released to the public for viewing.
Joseph A. Walker was a Chief Research Pilot at the NASA Flight Research Center during the mid-1960s. Walker was the recipient of many awards during his 21 years as a research pilot.. He joined the NACA in March 1945, and served as project pilot at the Edwards flight research facility on such pioneering research projects as the D-558-I, D-558-II, X-1, X-3, X-4, X-5, and the X-15. He also flew programs involving the F-100, F-101, F-102, F-104, and the B-47.
Walker made the first NASA X-15 flight on March 25, 1960. He flew the research aircraft 24 times and achieved its fastest speed and highest altitude. He attained a speed of 4,104 mph (Mach 5.92) during a flight on June 27, 1962, and reached an altitude of 354,300 feet on August 22, 1963 (his last X-15 flight). He was the first man to pilot the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) that was used to develop piloting and operational techniques for lunar landings.
President Reagan Chased UFOs
Gobachev and Reagan
On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan spoke the people of West Berlin at the base of the Brandenburg Gate, near the Berlin wall stating, “. Mr. Gobachev, Tear down this wall.” The speech began the destruction of Soviet Communism.
Ronald Reagan claimed to have seen UFOs on at least two occasions. Allegedly, before he was governor of California, he and Nancy were on their way up the Pacific coast highway to a dinner party. They arrived half an hour late and distraught saying they had seen a UFO and that was why they were late. They did not explain the time delay and may have had a life-altering experience for the two of them if not an actual abduction experience. Later when Governor of California, he asked his pilots to chase a UFO. He alerted the Navy to one of his sightings, and he and Nancy believed that Egyptian hieroglyphics referenced extraterrestrial flying crafts.
On June 8, 1982, President Reagan spoke to the British House of Commons and called the Soviet Union an “Evil Empire.”Almost a year later, President Reagan in a television speech announced on March 23, 1983, the US was building the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) later known as the
“Star Wars” program. The system was designed to destroy missiles in flight.
In 1985, at the summit meeting Soviet premier, Mikhail Gorbachev states, Reagan surprised me by asking, “What would you do if the United States were suddenly attacked by someone from outer space; would you help us?” I said, ‘No doubt about it.'” “He said, ‘We would help you too.”
“At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the earth faced an invasion by extraterrestrials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute that hypothesis.”
Gorbachev confirmed the earlier Geneva conversation in a speech to the Central Committee in the Grand Kremlin Palace.
In the Summit Meeting in Iceland during October of 1986, astonishingly, Reagan offered to share the Stars Wars weapons system with the Soviets. The Star Wars system was the most expensive weapons system ever conceived and parts are still being designed and built.
That alien space invaders scenario was so compelling to Reagan that he repeated it in public speeches, on multiple occasions, while president. Reagan talked about this alien threat all the time, to the apparent consternation of his staff and was receiving UFO data on a regular basis.
President Ronald Reagan’s remarks made to the 42nd General Assembly of the United Nations, on September 21, 1987. In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us realize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, IS NOT AN ALIEN FORCE ALREADY AMONG US?”
Soviet Communist KGB sources claim during the late 1980s large triangular craft were attacking Soviet installations. These drawings were provided to me by a Soviet KGB Colonel who felt this was the real cause of the demise of Soviet Communism. I said, “We were told financial weakness was the cause.” He indicated they were in better financial shape than in many previous years. .
The Soviet Union mysteriously gave up its position as one of the world’s greatest powers and splintered into multiple nations. Its leader at the time was Mikhail Gorbachev who has made several public statements about the reality of a covert extraterrestrial presence visiting Earth. He stated,
‘The phenomenon of UFO’s does exist, and it must be treated seriously.’The Russian anti-missile-missile system remains in operation today as the upgraded A-135 anti-ballistic missile system.
ECETI (Enlightened Contact with extra Terrestrial Intelligence
ECETI (Enlightened Contact with extra Terrestrial Intelligence where contact happens virtually every night. Kathryn Vestal visited the ranch near Mount Adams and saw green Ultra-dimensional Orbs come out of the mountain and fly about maneuvering and overcoming inertia in every way. When the crowd cheered and clapped the orbs substantially brightened in acknowledgement. After flying around for an extended period the green orbs reentered Mount Adams. Jay Gillilandreports that the sightings have increased and they have film of ships going in and out of the mountain, Thermal cameras of the orbs do not record heat but do show the heat generated by a human body.
Many massive ships are seen flying over the fields and the ranch. Military helicopters and jets attempt to chase the UFOs but they easily out distance, maneuver or simply disappear. Web: www.eceti.org/
Beyond UFOs
The video is a recent lecture Rey Hernandez gave to the Boston Chapter of IANDS (International Association of Near Death Studies) on the possible relationship between UFO Contact, NDEs, and OBEs). This presentation highlighted many similarities between Contact with Non Human Intelligence (NHI) via UFO related contact, via Near Death Experiences (NDEs) and via Out of Body Experiences. (OBEs). The FREE Foundation firmly hypothesize that all of these experiences are in fact one phenomenon which needs to be studied jointly and not separately.
NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness and Contact with Non Human Intelligence Attached is a free copy of selected sections from the Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation’s (FREE), new book titled “Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness and Contact with Non Human Intelligence”. The Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation’s mission is focused on exploring the question: What is the relationship between Consciousness, the nature of our multi-dimensional reality, and contact with Non-Human Intelligence with what we have termed the Contact Modalities (contact via UAPs, NDEs, OBEs, Remote Viewing, Channeling, perceived ghosts/spirits, hallucinogenic experiences, among many others). The FREE organization hypothesizes that all of these Contact Modalities. ghosts/spirits, hallucinogenic experiences, among many others).
The FREE organization hypothesizes that all of these Contact Modalities are not separate phenomena but possibly ONE phenomena and that Consciousness is the key to its understanding. Thus, we are not a Ufology organization– instead, our mission is to change the academic focus in how it addresses the topic of “What is Consciousness”.
We are attaching a free copy for your review of Chapter 1, comprised of 122 pages, which provides a summary and analysis of the research findings from our historic 5 year academic research study. We are also attaching the Table of Contents, Book Endorsements, Author Biographies and the Preface written by FREE’s Executive Director and Harvard Astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild. If you enjoyed reading these attached materials and would like to read our entire book, you can purchase our 820 page book via AMAZON at this link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1721088652/ref=sr_1_1?s=books
Dr. Rudy Schild.
FREE is in the 5th year of administering the world’s first comprehensive, multi-language worldwide academic research study on individuals that have had Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) related contact experiences with Non-Human Intelligence (NHI)– The FREE Experiencer Research Study. The Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Experiences, or FREE, is a 501c3 not for profit academic research foundation. FREE was co-founded by the late Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Harvard University Astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild, Australian researcher Mary Rodwell, and Rey Hernandez, an attorney, a UAP Contact Experiencer, and Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley. Over the last 5 years, the FREE Foundation has had over 10 Ph.D.s, mostly retired academic professors, and 20 other lay researchers, volunteering in this research study. FREE’s Executive Director is Dr. Rudy Schild, a retired Astrophysicist from Harvard University.
This 820 page book details the academic research findings of the world’s first comprehensive multi-language quantitative and qualitative 5 year academic research study on individuals that have had UFO related contact with Non Human Intelligence (NHI)– The FREE Experiencer Research Study. Over the last 5 years FREE has collected detailed responses to 3 extensive quantitative and qualitative surveys from over 4,200 individuals from over 100 countries. Our survey findings from these thousands of “Experiences” contradict much of what is circulating in mainstream materialist Ufology. Our academic book will establish a new paradigm for viewing the UAP (UFO) Contact Phenomenon.
Due to the controversial nature of the FREE research data, the UAPrelated contact phenomenon is not studied in universities. Even the field of “Parapsychology” continues to view the UAP contact phenomena as a taboo topic and the majority within parapsychology do not want to be directly associated with the UAP phenomenon. FREE’s academic research study seeks to address this problem. Until we began our research, no one had a basic understanding on the topic of UAP-related contact with Non-Human Intelligence (NHI). Why? Because the basic research data collection on this topic was never undertaken. We discovered that many of our survey findings contradict much of what has been circulating in the field of Ufology. The true story of UAP-related contact with Non-Human Intelligence was not being accurately presented. FREE’s work is thus a paradigm-shifting event. As you will soon observe from our data, FREE’s research suggests that the physical aspects of this phenomenon are but a small fraction of attributes associated with these complex manifestations.Indeed, it is the pervasive non-physicality, the parapsychological and other paranormal aspects, that comprise the majority of survey respondents’ experiences. The majority of FREE Board of Directors, including
the late Dr. Edgar Mitchell, agrees with the hypothesis of Dr. Jacques Vallee when he stated: My personal contention is that this phenomenon could be something much more interesting– that the phenomenon is the result of an intelligence, that is technologically directed by an intelligence, and that this intelligence is capable of manipulating space and time in ways that we don’t understand… The essential conclusion I’m tending to is that the origin of the phenomenon of the intelligence is not necessarily extraterrestrial. … I think we are dealing with something that is both technological and psychic, and seems to be able to manipulate other dimensions. Dr. Jacques Vallee, ufology research pioneer and consciousness scholar. (YouTube video titled “Thinking Allowed – Implications of the UFO Phenomena,” interviewed by Dr. Jeffrey Mislove, dated 2003.)
This book is dedicated to the potential in humanity, which can bring a new age of understanding, cooperation, and peace among all intelligent entities, human and non-human, who reside in our vast multidimensional reality Rey Hernandez, Dr. Rudy Schild, Dr. Jon Klimo
There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomena, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural. Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut a
We live in an exciting world where advances in space exploration and astrophysics are matched by the wonder of UAP2 sightings and deep inner space phenomena, as detailed in the field of parapsychology. We now understand that the speed of thought far exceeds the speed of light. We live in a quantum universe in which quantum effects reside in the dark energy fields and support telepathic transfer of information from mind to mind, through the exchange of quantum holograms. Preceding at the speed of thought allows for what the Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation calls the Contact Modalities—contact with Non-Human Intelligence (NHI)3 via UAP related contact, Near Death Experiences (NDEs), Out of Body Experiences 1 Executive Director of the Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation and one its co-founders. I am an Emeritus research astronomer at the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cosmology, http://journalofcosmology.com/Contents14.html. My astronomy website is www.cfa.harvard.edu/~rschild and my personal website is www.rudyschild.com. 2 The term “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” (UAP) will be used in preference to “Unidentified Flying Objects” (UFOs), a more traditional term popularized in movies and mass media, since the term UAP is more inclusive, comprising such things as strange lights or plasma phenomena, in addition to unidentified aerial craft like the proverbial “flying saucer.” 3
The term “Non-Human Intelligence” (NHI) will be used in preference to “Extraterrestrial,” a more traditional term popularized in movies and mass media, since the term NHI is more inclusive, comprising both physical and non-physical “beings” as well as “terrestrial” and possible “inter-dimensional” intelligence.
There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomena, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural. Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut and FREE Co-Founder
We live in an exciting world where advances in space exploration and astrophysics are matched by the wonder of UAP2 sightings and deep inner space phenomena, as detailed in the field of parapsychology. We now understand that the speed of thought far exceeds the speed of light. We live in a quantum universe in which quantum effects reside in the dark energy fields and support telepathic transfer of information from mind to mind, through the exchange of quantum holograms. Preceding at the speed of thought allows for what the Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation calls the Contact Modalities—contact with Non-Human Intelligence (NHI)3 via UAP related contact, Near Death Experiences (NDEs), Out of Body Experiences
(OBEs), Channeling, Telepathic Communications, Remote Viewing, visual sightings of Orbs, Spirits, Hallucinogenic Journeys, etc., which involve parapsychological phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, precognition, retrocognition, etc. The Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Experiences, or FREE, is a 501c3 academic research not for profit foundation. FREE was co-founded by myself (R.S.), the late Apollo astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Australian researcher Mary Rodwell, and Rey Hernandez, an attorney, a UAP Contact Experiencer, and Ph.D. candidate at the University of California at Berkeley. Over the last 5 years, the FREE Foundation has had over
Ralston spoke about the soul, which he believes has two parts, a higher consciousness that rises to a higher dimension when we die, and a lower consciousness which holds the body in form and is connected to the earth. “When I’m crossing souls over, I’m either dealing with low souls or high souls. I’ll go into graveyards and crossover hundreds of souls at one time, and most of them are the low souls that are attached to the earth,” many of whom died under traumatic conditions that kept them lingering around, he remarked. Ralston shared that one of the most gratifying aspects of his work is empowering people to get rid of unwanted emotional blocks, and gain their personal power back.
Jack Sarfatti Star Gate Book
Jack Sarfatti has authored a new book called, Star Gate that includes essays by and about his ideas as an advanced physicist. If you wish to be in on the latest concepts in physics this is the book to read. Jack Sarfatti created the legendary Physics/Consciousness Research Group at the New Age Esalen Institute in Big Sur and in San Francisco in 1975. MIT physics professor historian David Kaiser wrote in his award-winning book: “Little could Herbert, Sarfatti and the others know that their dogged pursuit of faster-than-light-communication and the subtle reasons for its failure, would help launch a billion dollar industry … at the heart of today’s quantum encryption technology” (How the Hippies Saved Physics). This book tells the story left out of Kaiser’s book showing how Sarfatti has explained the physical nature of our consciousness – our souls. The simple physics involved, if true, will herald in a new post-quantum technology of fully conscious artificial intelligent nano-electronic machines into which your consciousness can be uploaded to survive physical death. Sarfatti also explains what happened in the USS Nimitz’s Close Encounter with advanced warp drive craft off the coast of San Diego in 2004 that can render all our weapons impotent and obsolete. Key Words history of physics, Quantum Mechanics, Einstein’s Gravity, Physics of Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Space Craft, Time Travel web https://www.lap-publishing.com/
SOLUTION TO DAVID CHALMERS’S “HARD PROBLEM”
Jack Sarfatti and Arik Shimansky Internet Science Education Project
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: A completely non -statistical non -linear non-unitary framework in which “God does not play dice …” (Einstein) that describes the physical foundations of consciousness is presented for the first time. At its core is the insight that the missing link between current physical descriptions of reality and a credible physical framework for consciousness is provided by post quantum mechanics (PQM): the extension of statistical linear unitary quantum mechanics for closed systems to a locally -retrocausali non-statistical non -linear non-unitary theory for open systems through the introduction of a back -reaction potential and its implications. PQM is to orthodox QM as General Relativity (GR) is to Special Relativity (SR). PQM and GR both share the same metaphysical organizing principle that one way actions without a compensating reaction or back -reaction means an incompleteness in the theoretical model leaving out important physical phenomena. We gleaned the final piece in the puzzle of how consciousness arises from the material world from a result relating to long range collective excitations in microtubules described by Stuart Hameroff in a recent Fetzer Foundation conference in London. Herbert Fröhlich suggested that almost any many-particle system when properly pumped far off thermodynamic equilibrium can be put into a robust macro -quantum coherent state immune from environmental decoherence. Indeed, we suggest that all life forms are an example of Frohlich coherence that is intimately connected with locally-retrocausal PQM back reaction’s violation of the de Broglie guidance equation that was assumed by Bohm in his 1952 pilot wave theory. Using nature as a guide combined with nano -technology points the way to the construction of naturally conscious artificial intelligence machines capable of hacking into current-day quantum cryptographic networks. Furthermore, one can imagine attaining the transhumanist agenda. For example, the consciousness of a genius like Stephen Hawking could be uploaded to the post-quantum Cloud and then downloaded to a healthy body or android.
The original Foundations of Mind papers are being downloaded at an increasing rate (now more than 100,000 downloads per year), with the top papers receiving more than 100 downloads per week. In three years, Sarfatti and his group have published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers. To download these key free papers go to:
October 2018saw a total of 750 UFO sightings reported to the Mutual UFO Network, MUFON from around the world. A breakdown by country is shown on the right. By scrolling down you can also see the number of reports by state, shape, and distance from the witness as well.
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Filer’s Files #46 – 2018 President Reagan Chased UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files #46 – 2018 President Reagan Chased UFOs - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Object
Yucaipa — I’m watching this red light in the sky about 8:00 pm on November 9, 2018, that flew erratically then became two. It disappeared after that.
I have no idea what it was. If it was a drone, I can’t figure the split into two. Used 8″ F10 Eade telescope and Cannon Rebel.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
North Key Largo – On November 13, 2018, I was taking a picture of sunrise in North Key Largo. The photo was taken at 7:31 AM. I was going out trapping. It is strange looking and I don’t know what to call it. It looks to have legs. I would like your opinion on what it could be.
Note: I am not sure what anomaly that the witness is referring to, but I suspect that it is the strange cloud (circled in the photo). Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Idaho Light
Boise — I was in front of my house helping a friend hook on to a camp trailer. I looked up to see what appeared to be a crescent of dim bluish light in the sky northeast of me. I noticed it was moving and was very large. As it got closer I could see a dark boomerang shaped object moving behind the light at around 200 knots. It seemed to put off a light glow all around the craft like a static glow. It had no lights. Once it was overhead it turned west and I lost it to the horizon. Three of us clearly witnessed it at about 8000 feet. It had to be close to a half mile across. This all happened a mile away from the Boise airport and Gown Field Army Base. My family has owned and flown small planes my entire life so I’m pretty confident in the altitude and speed it was traveling. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Object
Las Vegas— I was driving to work November 3rd, 2018, when I saw this object in the sky not moving on my 22 minutes drive. Once to the casino at Red Rock resort I parked on the top level 6th floor of the garage to observe the object better still thinking it had to be a balloon. Yet it was not tethered to anything on the ground. I took these three photos and still cannot seem to know what it could be hovering stationary above the skyline.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Disc
Bellmawr— Bright metallic disc/oval shape. No windows. Disappeared 2018-11-03 16:05:00
Jackson–We were at Six Flags amusement park-on October 30, 2018 at 8:30 pm and I looked to the right and saw a huge hovering object. At first we thought it was a drone, or blimp then we realized how massive the object was. It was huge. It was large and dark black making no noise at all. It had flashing lights on the three tips of the triangle and a top part similar to a diamond shape. After watching for a minute or so trying to grasp what it was it slowly crept forward and then it was gone and I couldn’t see it anymore. The photo is a depiction. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Light
Greensboro — I was walking back to my apartment from work. I saw two other students looking up at the sky and thought they were watching the clouds for rain. I looked up and first noticed the c and then the circular shape. The first thing I thought was am I really seeing a UFO?’ I decided to call my roommate who, luckily told me to take pictures because I was awestruck. The object was stationary but took up a huge part of the sky. From work to my apartment is about a mile and the object appeared very close the entire time I was walking. The light blinked in about two second intervals from violet to turning off. Almost to my apartment, I looked back up in the sky and it was gone. I was a bit uneasy but also really excited and awestruck. I couldn’t stop looking up at the sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Lights
Utica –Five multicolored UFOs popping in and out ufosoverny New York video close up!
Video taken on November 11, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Disc
Welches — I was on vacation taking photos of the scenery with my cell phone on November 10, 2018.
When I reviewed them, I found an anomalous light that looks like a glowing golden disc seen from its side. I did not see this while taking the photos.
This may be some sort of camera glitch, but I took a couple of photos of that spot from the same vantage point all at the same time and the light is only in one photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Lights
Shamokin – Slow moving bright lights were seen on November 10, 2018. Very strange never seen anything like it. Shamokin is a city in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, surrounded by Coal Township at the western edge of the Anthracite Coal Region in central Pennsylvania. It was named after a Saponi Indian village,Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Cloud Face
Monroe Institute — Look at the alien face that showed up Monday in some photos that I took. I didn’t see it until today. Looks a lot like K2A and others that I have snapped through the years. This is what Brett had to say about them: “Yes, definitely. I ran into this before… one interesting phenomena. Mark ran into while looking at NASA jpegs from the Moon and Mars, and also with pictures that he shot of UFOs.. He would drop a most basic filter in this old Photoshop program over the image and Wallah pictures of Zeta type ETS, but sometimes the imaging was like coded data historical possibly, happened repeatedly very peculiar. Love and Light, Dan Johnson
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Light
Brisbane— My 14 year old son and I were just going to town ,as we started down our drive way my son said “What is that?” Pointing to a set of bright red lights that to me seemed like 3 across the top and 4 or 5 across the bottom of an hovering object about 1 mile away. I quickly grabbed my phone. My son said, “Wow did you see that light it was like a shooting star came out of the ground and flew into the red lights?” I finely got my camera on and took a pic and video. I see that these set of red lights appear on camera as an orb so it’s a very short video. This was taken just as my son shouted.
The light shot up and it glowed brighter for a second and then faded away.
Another identical one appeared to the right and just above. You can hear our amazement on the video. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Objects
Halifax — I was in an airplane on descent into Nova Scotia filming the coastline, as it was a clear day when I spotted two stationary objects above the clouds. They appeared to be hovering. It’s hard to say how far they were from my position, but they were quite small from my point of view, so I’d guess they were pretty far away. I was amazed to see them, and glad that I’d been recording with my phone so that I could try and get a better look at them. When I looked at the footage later, and zoomed on the disc shaped object, it has a definite lenticular shape. I lost sight when my plane moved away from the location. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Cylinder
I was in Google Map to check an animal park in Northern France where I saw these of cylindrical shape figures over the park and a third one but very faint image. The date on the Google Map was June 2012. The park is called: Parc Animalier Saint Croix France. I took a screen shot of the objects.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ireland UFO
The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating reports of bright lights and UFOs off the south-west coast of Ireland. It began at 06:47 local time on Friday 9 November 2018 when a British Airways pilot contacted Shannon air traffic control. She wanted to know if there were military exercises in the area because there was something “moving so fast”.
The air traffic controller said there were no such exercises. The pilot, flying from the Canadian city of Montreal to Heathrow, said there was a “very bright light” and the object had come up along the left side of the aircraft before it “rapidly veered to the north”. She was wondering what it could be but said it did not seem to be heading for a collision.
Another pilot from a Virgin plane joined in and suggested it might be a meteor or another object re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. Trevor Buckley reports very interesting report on Shannon high level on November 9, 2018, with UFO report over County Kerry at 6:30 pm
He said there were “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory” and that they were very bright. The pilot said he saw “two bright lights” over to the right which climbed away at speed. UFO-News from BBC:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46181662
Korea Object
I went to see the chrysanthemum festival in Hwasun-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea, and was at the festival scene. I did not know it at the time and I found it while sharing a photo with my wife. I thought it might be a balloon or other float, but it was not a good thing to be around. I did not know about the operation at the time of photographing. I am writing about the idea of a UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Zealand Lights
Tauranga— The moon was near full and I like moon photography on May 31, 2018. Stood on my deck this night and after taking moon shots, noticed how bright Venus was close by. Just for fun I took a highly magnified shot of Venus and didn’t notice the UFO shapes until I had downloaded several days later. What the ‘UFO’s” in the photo are please Thank you Jocelyn Winwood
Poland Lights
Gostyn— On October 16, 2018 at 6:27 PM, a woman was waiting to watch her son practice soccer and snapped some photos. Later when reviewing the photos she found some strange formations of lights in the sky. She did not see anything unusual. She said that she took the photos outdoors and not through the windows of a vehicle. She took the photos with an I-phone X. She wanted to know if the lights were UFOs.
Note: The lights could be reflections of ground lights off of the clouds, but that is speculation. The ground lights in the photo would not cause the reflection. The witness sent three photos and the large formation shows up in all three photos. Only the first photo shows two formations of lights. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
UK Lights
Prestonpans — I was taking long exposure photos of the sky and planes in 16 second long exposures. I expected the line of the plane in lights to show with stars but after shot was taken an object appears in shot and is static with circular outline and green light. No idea what it is and how it appears in photo but couldn’t be seen while taking photograph! CMS
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A stream of galactic debris is hurtling at us, pulling dark matter along with it
It’s traveling so quickly it’s been described as a hurricane of dark matter
Scientists are excited to set their particle detectors at the onslffaught
Technically, “S1” is a stream of debris from a dwarf galaxy torn apart by the Milky Way’s gravity, passing through space. What S1 is pulling along with it, though, is being described in a far more dramatic way, as “a dark matter hurricane.” Scientists believe this companion stream of dark matter (DM) is hurtling through us right now at a jaw-dropping speed of 500 kilometers a second. Hence the “hurricane” metaphor. Is it time to head down into our quantum storm cellars? Not quite. This is dark matter, after all, material we can’t directly perceive and with which we can’t interact, so no worries. On the other hand, this blast of DM has the potential to afford us our best glimpse yet of the elusive stuff.
A team lead by Ciaran A. J. O’Hare developed a series of models that predicted what would happen as all of this DM came charging through our solar system, and published research presenting resulting signatures whose detection would signify S1 and its dark matter.
Stream time
Astronomers have, over time, observed about 30 such streams wending their way across the heavens. S1 was first discovered about a year ago by the Gaia satellite. What makes it exceptionally interesting, though, as the paper says, is that the “stars in S1 impact on the Solar System at very high speed almost head-on. A coherent stream of DM associated with S1 hits the Solar System slap in the face.”
The reason scientists suspect S1 of having a companion stream of dark matter is that its source galaxy seems to have been similar to an existing galaxy, the Fornax galaxy. The paper asserts, “If this prediction is true then the S1 stellar stream must be accompanied by a substantial DM stream.”
What the hurricane looks like from here
IMAGE: Dark matter is a form of matter that cannot be detected by telescopes as it emits no radiation.
To register dark matter, our best detection devices seek out WIMP — “weakly interacting massive particles” — and axions, both suspected of being component particles of dark matter. With current technology, it’s unlikely we’ll get a glimpse of WIMP, but as particle detectors improve in the future we may, someday. There’s more hope for axion haloscopes finding dark matter, since the energy spectrum the dark matter generates should present a distinctive broad frequency bump with a recognizably narrow peak. This leads the authors of the research to a certain optimism if the dark matter is made up of axions, predicting “truly excellent detection prospects if the DM in our galaxy is made up of axions.”
Pay more attention to the earthly weather
There’s arguably nothing more intriguing in physics than dark matter, which many believe comprises some 85 percent of the universe, all while being imperceptible to us. You’re likely to be in the presence of it as you read this. The hurricane made of dark matter, then, is nothing to fear. In fact, it’s exciting in that it gives our scientists an improved, if long, shot of finally detecting some, testing the limits of our current detectors, and envisioning future ways of solving the mystery of dark matter.
Linda Moulton Howe: Something is Coming to Earth From 2.5 Billion Light Years Away (Video)
Linda Moulton Howe: Something is Coming to Earth From 2.5 Billion Light Years Away (Video)
What has been making very powerful and rapid signals in the past ten years from 2.5 billion light-years from Earth?
Linda Moulton Howe explains that the first recorded fast radio burst was in 2007 by the Parkes radio telescope in Australia.
The power of that radio burst was 500 million times the power of our solar system’s sun and lasted only 5 milliseconds.
Whatever the source is has become the subject of intense speculation by astrophysicists and astronomers.
In the March 9, 2017, Astrophysical Journal Letters, Avi Loeb
— Chair of Harvard University’s Astronomy Dept. and Director of Harvard’s Institute for Theory and Computation and the Black Hole Initiative
— proposed that fast radio bursts could be “interstellar light sails pushing payloads up to a million tons each, large enough to carry living passengers across interstellar or even intergalactic distances.”
NASADe Mars 2020-verkenner zal onder meer speuren naar microben die op leven wijzen.
WETENSCHAPNa vijf jaar uitzoeken heeft de NASA beslist zijn Mars 2020 sonde te laten landen in de Jezero-krater op de rode planeet. Dat heeft het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau bekendgemaakt.
De onbemande sonde zal in juli 2020 op Cape Canaveral in Florida vertrekken met een Atlas-V draagraket. Lanceerbedrijf United Launch Alliance benadrukt dat het hetzelfde type zal zijn als de Atlas die destijds de succesrijke Mars Curiosity naar de Rode Planeet heeft geslingerd.
Mars 2020 zal niet alleen op zoek gaan naar aanwijzingen van vroeger levensvatbare omstandigheden en vroeger microbiologisch leven. De robotjeep zal ook stalen nemen van gesteente en de bodem, en die daar in een soort opslagplaats stockeren. NASA zegt met de Europese zusterorganisatie ESA een toekomstige missie te bestuderen om die stalen op te halen.
De Jezero-krater herbergde ooit de delta van een rivier. Die heeft mogelijk, via in de krater terechtkomend water en sedimenten, vroegere organische moleculen en andere aanwijzingen van microbiologisch leven verzameld en bewaard, zo luidt het.
For a demonstration that overturned the great Isaac Newton’s ideas about the nature of light, it was staggeringly simple. It “may be repeated with great ease, wherever the sun shines,” the English physicist Thomas Young told the members of the Royal Society in London in November 1803, describing what is now known as a double-slit experiment, and Young wasn’t being overly melodramatic. He had come up with an elegant and decidedly homespun experiment to show light’s wavelike nature, and in doing so refuted Newton’s theory that light is made of corpuscles, or particles.
But the birth of quantum physics in the early 1900s made it clear that light is made of tiny, indivisible units, or quanta, of energy, which we call photons. Young’s experiment, when done with single photons or even single particles of matter, such as electrons and neutrons, is a conundrum to behold, raising fundamental questions about the very nature of reality. Some have even used it to argue that the quantum world is influenced by human consciousness, giving our minds an agency and a place in the ontology of the universe. But does the simple experiment really make such a case?
In the modern quantum form, Young’s experiment involves beaming individual particles of light or matter at two slits or openings cut into an otherwise opaque barrier. On the other side of the barrier is a screen that records the arrival of the particles (say, a photographic plate in the case of photons). Common sense leads us to expect that photons should go through one slit or the other and pile up behind each slit.
They don’t. Rather, they go to certain parts of the screen and avoid others, creating alternating bands of light and dark. These so-called interference fringes, the kind you get when two sets of waves overlap. When the crests of one wave line up with the crests of another, you get constructive interference (bright bands), and when the crests align with troughs you get destructive interference (darkness).
But there’s only one photon going through the apparatus at any one time. It’s as if each photon is going through both slits at once and interfering with itself. This doesn’t make classical sense.
Mathematically speaking, however, what goes through both slits is not a physical particle or a physical wave but something called a wave function—an abstract mathematical function that represents the photon’s state (in this case its position). The wave function behaves like a wave. It hits the two slits, and new waves emanate from each slit on the other side, spread and eventually interfere with each other. The combined wave function can be used to work out the probabilities of where one might find the photon.
The photon has a high probability of being found where the two wave functions constructively interfere and is unlikely to be found in regions of destructive interference. The measurement—in this case the interaction of the wave function with the photographic plate—is said to “collapse” the wave function. It goes from being spread out before measurement to peaking at one of those places where the photon materializes upon measurement.
This apparent measurement-induced collapse of the wave function is the source of many conceptual difficulties in quantum mechanics. Before the collapse, there’s no way to tell with certainty where the photon will land; it can appear at any one of the places of non-zero probability. There’s no way to chart the photon’s trajectory from the source to the detector. The photon is not real in the sense that a plane flying from San Francisco to New York is real.
Werner Heisenberg, among others, interpreted the mathematics to mean that reality doesn’t exist until observed. “The idea of an objective real world whose smallest parts exist objectively in the same sense as stones or trees exist, independently of whether or not we observe them ... is impossible,” he wrote. John Wheeler, too, used a variant of the double-slit experiment to argue that “no elementary quantum phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is a registered (‘observed,’ ‘indelibly recorded’) phenomenon.”
But quantum theory is entirely unclear about what constitutes a “measurement.” It simply postulates that the measuring device must be classical, without defining where such a boundary between the classical and quantum lies, thus leaving the door open for those who think that human consciousness needs to be invoked for collapse. Last May, Henry Stapp and colleagues argued, in this forum, that the double-slit experiment and its modern variants provide evidence that “a conscious observer may be indispensable” to make sense of the quantum realm and that a transpersonal mind underlies the material world.
But these experiments don’t constitute empirical evidence for such claims. In the double-slit experiment done with single photons, all one can do is verify the probabilistic predictions of the mathematics. If the probabilities are borne out over the course of sending tens of thousands of identical photons through the double slit, the theory claims that each photon’s wave function collapsed—thanks to an ill-defined process called measurement. That’s all.
Also, there are other ways of interpreting the double-slit experiment. Take the de Broglie-Bohm theory, which says that reality is both wave and particle. A photon heads towards the double slit with a definite position at all times and goes through one slit or the other; so each photon has a trajectory. It’s riding a pilot wave, which goes through both slits, interferes and then guides the photon to a location of constructive interference.
In 1979, Chris Dewdney and colleagues at Birkbeck College, London, simulated the theory’s prediction for the trajectories of particles going through the double slit. In the past decade, experimentalists haveverified that such trajectories exist, albeit by using a controversial technique called weak measurements. The controversy notwithstanding, the experiments show that the de Broglie-Bohm theory remains in the running as an explanation for the behavior of the quantum world.
Crucially, the theory does not need observers or measurements or a non-material consciousness.
Neither do so-called collapse theories, which argue that wavefunctions collapse randomly: the more the number of particles in the quantum system, the more likely the collapse. Observers merely discover the outcome. Markus Arndt’s team at the University of Vienna in Austria has been testing these theories by sending larger and larger molecules through the double slit. Collapse theories predict that when particles of matter become more massive than some threshold, they cannot remain in a quantum superposition of going through both slits at once, and this will destroy the interference pattern. Arndt’s team has sent a molecule with more than 800 atoms through the double slit, and they still see interference. The search for the threshold continues.
Roger Penrose has his own version of a collapse theory, in which the more massive the mass of the object in superposition, the faster it’ll collapse to one state or the other, because of gravitational instabilities. Again, it’s an observer-independent theory. No consciousness needed. Dirk Bouwmeester at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is testing Penrose’s idea with a version of the double-slit experiment.
Conceptually, the idea is to not just put a photon into a superposition of going through two slits at once, but to also put one of the slits in a superposition of being in two locations at once. According to Penrose, the displaced slit will either stay in superposition or collapse while the photon is in flight, leading to different types of interference patterns. The collapse will depend on the mass of the slits. Bouwmeester has been at work on this experiment for a decade and may soon be able to verify or refute Penrose’s claims.
If nothing else, these experiments are showing that we cannot yet make any claims about the nature of reality, even if the claims are well-motivated mathematically or philosophically. And given that neuroscientists and philosophers of mind don’t agree on the nature of consciousness, claims that it collapses wave functions are premature at best and misleading and wrong at worst.
The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
Niets is vast en alles is energie. Wetenschappers verklaren de vreemde kwantumwereld om ons heen
Niets is vast en alles is energie. Wetenschappers verklaren de vreemde kwantumwereld om ons heen
Al in 1803 omschreef de Engelse natuurkundige Thomas Young iets wat vandaag de dag bekendstaat als het tweespletenexperiment.
Hij liet aan de hand van een experiment zien dat licht zich óók kan gedragen als een golf. Daarmee weerlegde hij de theorie van Newton dat licht enkel bestaat uit deeltjes.
Met de geboorte van de kwantummechanica aan het begin van de 20e eeuw werd duidelijk dat licht bestaat uit piepkleine onzichtbare eenheden energie die we fotonen noemen.
Onmogelijk
Young zette vraagtekens bij de aard van de realiteit. Sommigen stellen dat de kwantumwereld wordt beïnvloed door menselijk bewustzijn.
Werner Heisenberg zei bijvoorbeeld dat de realiteit niet bestaat totdat zij waargenomen wordt.
“Het idee van een objectieve, echte wereld – waarbij de kleinste onderdelen objectief bestaan op dezelfde manier als stenen of bomen, ongeacht of we ze waarnemen – is onmogelijk,” schreef hij.
Onmisbaar
Onlangs schreven natuurkundige Henry Stapp en zijn collega’s dat het tweespletenexperiment bewijst dat ‘een bewuste waarnemer onmisbaar is’ om het kwantumrijk te kunnen begrijpen en dat er een transpersoonlijk bewustzijn schuilgaat achter de materiële wereld.
De Broglie-Bohm-theorie stelt verder dat de realiteit zowel een golf als een deeltje is.
Of zoals Max Planck zei: “Ik zie bewustzijn als iets fundamenteels. Ik zie materie als een afgeleide van bewustzijn. We kunnen niet achter bewustzijn gaan staan.”
It looks like Peru no longer has a lock on the title of South America’s hot spot for elongated skull (not yet recognized by the Guinness folks). Archeologists have discovered 500-year-old tombs in a Bolivian quarry that contain the remains of individuals whose civilization was conquered by the Incas … remains which include the elongated skulls of people believed to have been high on the local social ladder – the only ladder safe enough to climb with those big heads.
Bolivian Minister of Culture Wilma Alanoca announced last week the discovery of a cemetery three months near the town of Viacha in Bolivia’s Altiplano (the high plains of the Andes) 20 km (12.4 miles) from La Paz. Reuters reports that it had been kept secret until the site was secured since it showed signs of previous looting. The find was made by a mining company digging just three meters down into limestone. Upon opening the tombs carved into the rocks, the workers immediately stopped and notified the government, which sent in archeologists to determine what they had uncovered. And what they uncovered had never before been seen in Bolivia. (Pictures here.)
Archeologist Jedu Sagarnaga holds a skull as part of an archeological finding, dated approximately 500 years ago, in Mazo Cruz, near Viacha, Bolivia, November 12, 2018 ( REUTERS/David Mercado )
“There are objects that are clearly attributed to the Inca culture, and others that are not Inca, but rather Aymara.”
Indigenous Bolivians
Referring to the 30-plus funerary vessels found in the tomb, archaeologist Wanderson Esquerdo was not surprised to find artifacts of the Incas, who conquered the area in the 15th century. However, the cemetery itself belonged to the Pacajes culture, which was part of the Aymara, the indigenous people of the Andes and Altiplano regions whose descendants are still found in Bolivia. The four tombs appeared to have contained the remains of over 100 individuals, along with the vessels, jewelry and funereal bundles. The jewelry — necklaces, bracelets, hair combs and headbands – indicated the tomb was used by families of mixed levels of social status.
And then there’s the elongated skulls. The presence of the skulls means the Incas used the tomb after conquering the Aymaras and that they were at the highest social level – the one that thought elongated skulls were a sign of superiority. Believe it or not, the archeologists are less interested in the skulls than in the remains and artifacts of the Amaras, a culture little is known about.
“(It’s a period when) many of the cultural patterns that today deeply mark the customs of the ethnic groups of present-day Bolivia were shaped. Although they have been the subject of some research, they are not known in depth, so the new findings will help fill the gaps of that era.”
Inca expansion
Roberto Lleras , professor at the Externado de Colombia University, will be studying the remains and artifacts after they’re analyzed at an archeological center, and then returned to a museum in Viacha. Per Bolivian law, the town is responsible for preserving both the artifacts and the historical site.
Are elongated skulls becoming so common in South America that they generate little interest and no shouts of “Aliens!”? That’s probably a good thing … although it certainly wasn’t for the poor little rich kids whose parents wanted bumper stickers on their carts that read “My child is an honor student at Big Skull Academy.”
Just a handful of days before Christmas 1977, the United States’ Department of the Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a thought-provoking paper. It was focused on how, in theory, the world of officialdom might handle the situation if it was proved that Bigfoot really exists. And other mysterious animals too.The document had the following heading: Are We Ready For ‘Bigfoot’ Or The Loch Ness Monster? I have presented for you the contents, without interruption. It begins: “What if they really did find the Loch Ness monster or the legendary Bigfoot of the Pacific Northwest? Most scientists doubt that these creatures exist, but thoughts of the discovery of a new species that might be the closest living relative to man, or the possibility of finding a leftover dinosaur, excite the imagination of scientist and nonscientist alike. It also poses another question: Would such a creature be subjected to the same kind of exploitation as the giant movie ape, King Kong?
“Scientists generally believe there are still many species of birds and mammals that have not been discovered because they live in remote areas and their populations are limited. After all, the gorilla and giant panda were only legends until the late 19th century when their actual existence was first confirmed by scientists. The komodo dragon, a 10-foot-long lizard, wasn’t known to science until 1912. The coelacanth, a deep-water prehistoric fish, was known only from 65 million-year-old fossils until 1938 when a specimen was caught alive off the Madagascar coast. Just last year a Navy torpedo recovery vessel dropped a sea anchor into 500 feet of water off Hawaii. But instead of a torpedo, it hauled up a 15-foot representative of a new species of shark. The dead shark, named megamouth after its bathtub-shaped lower jaw, had an enormous, short-snouted head and 484 vestigial teeth.
Megamouth shark
“To be sure, no remains of today’ s legendary ‘monsters’ have ever been found. There are no living specimens in zoos or dead ones in museums. Most certainly, many “sightings” of these creatures are exaggerated or misinterpreted reports, and some are downright hoaxes. But finding a Loch Ness monster or Bigfoot is still a possibility, and the discovery would be one of the most important in modern history. As items of scientific and public interest they would surely command more attention than the moon rocks. Millions of curiosity seekers” and thousands of zoologists and anthropologists throughout the world would be eager to “get at” the creatures to examine, protect, capture, or just look at them.
“What would the United States Government do? ‘I doubt well ever have to do anything, because I don’ t believe there are any of the things around to be discovered in the first place,’ said Keith Schreiner, Associate Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Service is the Government agency with responsibility for protecting endangered and threatened species. ‘At least, we have the laws and regulations on the books to deal with newly discovered species.’
“Schreiner acknowledged, however, that a good deal of international cooperation would be needed if extremely rare species were found abroad. And finding one on U.S. soil would pose serious problems too, Service officials agree. Undisputed proof of a Bigfoot might cause an immediate, short-term problem no law could handle. Word of its discovery would be flashed around the world within hours. Hysteria, fear, or panic might accompany the news in the area where the creature was located. The throngs of curiosity seekers, would-be captors, and others wishing to find Bigfoot would not only create a serious threat to the animal itself, but to public safety as well. Some officials doubt whether any State or Federal action short of calling out the National Guard could keep order in the area within the first few hours or days of the creature’ s discovery. This could be essential until a team of scientists could do the necessary things to ensure the creature’s survival.
“The key law in the preservation of a species is the Endangered Species Act, which pledges the United States to conserve species of plants and animals facing extinction. This broad, complex law protects endangered species from killing, harassment, and other forms of exploitation. The Act prohibits the import and export of, and interstate commerce in, endangered species. American citizens cannot engage in commercial traffic in endangered species between nations, even when the United States is not involved. Scientists wishing to study endangered species are required to have a permit issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
“But before a creature can receive protection under the Endangered Species Act, a number of actions normally must occur which involve recommendations from the public, scientists, and State and foreign governments where the species exists. The first of these would be the species’ formal description and naming in a recognized scientific publication. In addition, if it were a U.S. species, the Governor of the State where it was found would be contacted, as would the officials of foreign governments if it were found outside the United States. Only after much information was collected could the Service make a formal determination as to whether the species should be afforded endangered or threatened status.
“For the Loch Ness monster, the first step has already been taken. Last year, a highly respected British journal published a description and proposed the name Nessiteras rhombopteryx, meaning ‘awesome monster of Loch Ness with a diamond-shaped fin.’ ‘Nessie,’ as the creature is affectionately known by believers in its existence, has been periodically sighted in Loch Ness, Scotland, over the last 14 centuries. Loch Ness is a 2.5-mile-long, cold, deep lake whose peat-stained, murky waters make positive identification of almost anything from photographs next to impossible. But the most recent reports, based on sophisticated underwater cameras and electronic gear, identify a 30-foot-long creature with a massive, humped body bearing a small head and long slender neck with an immense set of flippers. Although no presently known aquatic organism answers this description, it would fit any of various species of prehistoric, carnivorous reptiles called plesiosaurs which lived 100 million years ago.
“In recent discussion in the British House of Commons, members of Parliament were assured that if ‘Nessie’ were found it could theoretically receive immediate protection since it had already been described and named. If ‘Nessie’ were taken out of Britain illegally, it would be a violation of the U.S. Lacey Act to bring it into the United States. Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is purported to be an 8-foot, 900-pound humanoid that roams the forest and wilderness areas of the Pacific Northwest. One ‘eyewitness’ described an obviously female Sasquatch as a ‘tall, long-legged, gorilla-like animal covered with dark hair and endowed with a pendulous pair of breasts.’ It, too, has been described in publications and given a scientific name. In fact, so many people were stalking Bigfoot with high-powered rifles and cameras that Skamania County, Washington, is prepared to impose a fine of $10,000 and a 5-year jail term on anyone who kills a Bigfoot. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers even lists Bigfoot as one of the native species in its Environmental Atlas for Washington. This year the Florida and Oregon legislatures also considered bills protecting ‘Bigfoot’ type creatures. A Bureau of Indian Affairs policeman has 18-inch plaster cast footprints of the ‘McLaughlin monster,’ a Bigfoot-type creature he saw last month in South Dakota.
“Under U.S. Law, the Secretary of the Interior is empowered to list as threatened or endangered a species for 120 days on an emergency basis. For endangered species in the United States, the Secretary can also designate habitat that is critical to their survival. No Federal agency could then authorize, fund, or carry out any activities which would adversely modify that habitat. So long-term Federal protection of Nessie or Bigfoot would basically be a matter of following the same regulatory mechanisms already used in protecting whooping cranes and tigers.
“‘Under normal situations,’ Schreiner said, ‘we must know a great deal about a species before we list it. How big is the population? Does it occur anywhere else? Is the population in danger of decline? Is its habitat secure? Is the species being exploited? What is its reproductive rate? Obviously, if a Bigfoot really were found we could use emergency provisions of the Act to protect it immediately. But for the record, I seriously doubt whether such a creature really does exist.’ Along with the hundreds of requests received last year to protect more well-known plants and animals, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was queried about protection for Bigfoot and the ‘Lake Champlain sea serpent.’
“No requests have so far been received for the protection of the reputed foul-smelling Noxie monster, a 7-foot denizen of Oklahoma, or the skunk ape of the Everglades, or the infamous Mothman in West Virginia. But in time, they, too, might come. And when they do, they’ll be treated accordingly.”
The evolutionary tree of life is called as such because of the way species are interrelated to each other. From the base of the trunk, which represents the single-celled common ancestor that all life on earth shares, the tree grows and splits into branches: bacteria and other single-celled organisms split from the branch of the Eukaryotes, multi-celled organisms like plants, animals, fungi, etc. Then those branches split. Plants, animals, and fungus all go their own ways. And then again. Mammals end up on a different branch than reptiles, for instance, and then dogs, bears, and primates all end up on different smaller branches. On and on it goes until we end up with all the life we see on earth today. That’s a gross simplification, but it works. Sort of. According to a recent paper published in the journal Nature, Canadian scientists have discovered an organism so vastly different from anything else alive that they believe it requires it’s own own unique branch on the tree of life.
The organism, a microbe called Hemimastigophora, isn’t a new discovery. While it is rare, scientists have known about its existence for some time. Ten species of Hemimastigophora have been known to scientists for over 100 years. While they knew it was weird, technology and genetic science hadn’t progressed far enough to tell exactly how weird.
A simplified picture of the evolutionary tree of life.
Hemimastigophora looks like one of the terrifying creatures you might see under a microscope. It moves, it hunts prey, and it utilizes microscopic body parts to get through it’s day to day existence. It looks and behaves like a microscopic animal, but it’s not. In fact, Hemimastigophora is farther away from any other living organism than humans are from mushrooms. According to Alastair Simpson, an author of the study:
“They represent a major branch… that we didn’t know we were missing. There’s nothing we know that’s closely related to them.”
The discovery was made by Dalhousie University graduate student Yana Eglit and a team of biologists after Eglit, on a whim, collected some soil samples on a hike in Nova Scotia. Upon examining the soil samples Eglit and fellow graduate student Gordon Lax found that they not only contained the rare microbe but contained two of them, including a previously undiscovered species of hemimastigophora which they named Hemastix kukwesjijk, after a hairy ogre from the legends of the local M’ikmaq people.
Its name means “little greedy ogre.”
Genetic analysis of the Hemastix showed it’s bizarre evolutionary lineage. Despite being a small micro-organism it’s a complex multi-cellular creature which puts it in the kingdom of Eukaryotes, the kingdom that includes plants, fungi, and animals. Yet it doesn’t fit in to any of those kingdoms. The scientists have now proposed adding an entirely new “supra-kingdom” to the tree of life to account for Hemimastigophora. A supra-kingdom is a fundamental separation. Again, human beings and portabello mushrooms are part of the same supra-kingdom.
Of course, proposing a new branch on the tree of life doesn’t mean the rest of the scientific community will easily accept it, and if they do it will take a long time. Still this shows, once again, how much we have yet to learn about the this strange floating rock we call home.
This is really strange. This metallic looking UFO floated over an heavily populated area of New York four days ago. The object was very high in the sky and hard to observe, possibly spinning making it appear to be shapeshifting. The fact that its spinning makes it clear that its not a balloon which would float and drift with the wind without spinning so fast. UFOs often do spin a different speeds, so this seems to be a legit sighting. Even John Lennon witnessed a UFO in New York while standing on his patio of his penthouse apartment back in Aug 23, 1974. Just because its a populated area doesn't mean a UFO wont visit that area. UFOs visit all areas of the planet. This looks real to me. I have to say its similar to a UFO tracked by the US military on infrared camera last year. Amazing video. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
After the 1st snow in Long Island New York, the skies were not that clear but enough sunshine for some footage. The time of sighting 3:09 p.m. in Valley Stream New York. Was not able to get a great image but a decent footage since they move a bit fast along with its shape shifting abilities.
Skulls, there is something about them that draws our attention to them...probably that it forces us to face our own mortality. I think aliens face the same dilemma. Although they may life thousands or millions of years, accidents do happen and lives do get lost.
I found another face in a nebula today. Its called the Rosette Nebula. The face is similar to the skull I found on the asteroid 2015 TB145 (above photo) the got into the world news a while back. This is soooo much bigger! Russian astrophysicist back in 1964 created a scale of civilizations from type 1, humanity being slightly below that at the moment, to type 5 which are to us...like gods. It would take a type 5 civilization to be able to create a face from a nebula. Here beings would be like gods, having the knowledge to manipulate the universe as they please. Only then could an entire nebula be purposely created to become a face of their culture.
Back in 2016 I discovered the first evidence the world has ever seen of a type 5 civilization...a human face...blue at the center of a the Carina Nebula (seen in above photo). So now we not only know that two type 5 civilizations exist, but we also know what their faces look like and where in the universe they are from. Where? They will be from a location not far from the nebulas of course, so all their race could see their great creation.
Now there is a new question that arises from this evidence...since two type 5 civilizations have been found to exist, then there must be many more we don't even know about. So...the question is...is the universe unnatural? Is the universe natural, unnatural, or does it have a modified naturalness? The most exciting thing about that question is that we now have an answer based on the evidence from the Carina and Rosetta Nebulas. Whether the answer is comfortable or uncomfortable, we are headed into a new era of scientific understanding. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Irish Aviation Authority Launches Investigation After Reports Of UFOs in Northern Ireland
Irish Aviation Authority Launches Investigation After Reports Of UFOs in Northern Ireland
Social media users have been ecstatic about the footage of what some think to be a UFO above Northern Ireland.
Resident Sandy Laverty recorded the UFO sighting video on a dash-cam as they drove to work on the Cloyfin Road in Coleraine on November 9, Friday at 6:44 am.
The footage seems to show a bright object shooting across the sky.
A few minutes later on the same day, a pilot of British Airways flying over Kerry, Ireland reported observing a very bright light at 6:47 am.
Flying into Heathrow from Montreal, Canada, the pilot reported seeing an object that had come up along the left side of the airplane and then quickly veered to the north. She further revealed that the object was approximately moving at astronomical speed like it was Mach 2, which was twice the speed of sound.
The Irish Aviation Authority said that it was investigating reports of UFOs and bright lights observed off the southwest coast of Ireland.
The IAA has filed a report following reports from several small aircraft on November 9, Friday of strange aerial activity.
According to the IAA, the report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process.
Social media users have been ecstatic about the footage of what some think to be a UFO above Northern Ireland.
Resident Sandy Laverty recorded the UFO sighting video on a dash-cam as they drove to work on the Cloyfin Road in Coleraine on November 9, Friday at 6:44 am.
The footage seems to show a bright object shooting across the sky.
A few minutes later on the same day, a pilot of British Airways flying over Kerry, Ireland reported observing a very bright light at 6:47 am.
Flying into Heathrow from Montreal, Canada, the pilot reported seeing an object that had come up along the left side of the airplane and then quickly veered to the north. She further revealed that the object was approximately moving at astronomical speed like it was Mach 2, which was twice the speed of sound.
The Irish Aviation Authority said that it was investigating reports of UFOs and bright lights observed off the southwest coast of Ireland.
The IAA has filed a report following reports from several small aircraft on November 9, Friday of strange aerial activity.
According to the IAA, the report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process.
After researching for more than a decade, two divers found the mysterious sea creature that is leaving many people breathless and astonished. On October 25, 2018, two divers, Steve Hathaway and Andrew Buttle, were shooting a video underwater near the volcanic island of White Island located approximately 30 miles off of New Zealand’s northern-most point. In fact, Buttle’s family owns the island which has been in their family since the 1930’s. And that day in late October was when they came upon the 26-foot-long worm-like creature.
This worm-like creature is described as a pyrosome which is a colony of hundreds or thousands of very small sea creatures that come together in a tube-like mass that free-float in the water. The mysterious way that it appears, along with the bioluminescent glow have made some scientists describe them as “bizarre unicorns of the sea.”
In an interview, Hathaway explained how happy he was to have encountered the sea creature. “I’ve always wanted to see one,” he explained, “I was beyond excited, this is like finding something that you’ve dreamed of for so many years.” Hathaway has been filming mostly underwater footage for eleven years but he had never seen a pyrosome before, so when he noticed that one was lying beneath him on the ocean floor he had to capture it on video.
Scientists have said that while most pyrosomes aren’t that huge, there have been some found near Australia and New Zealand that have reached more than 60 feet in length. Perhaps the reason why they are so big is because in the springtime there is a lot of phytoplankton which pyrosomes feed on. And while pyrosomes are normally only encountered by people who spend a lot of time in the water, they have apparently been around for many years, as some of the earliest reports of seeing them date as far back as the 1800s by sailors who had witnessed the bright glow of the creatures.
Hathaway has been fascinated with the ocean since he was a young child and as an adult he founded the “Young Ocean Explorers” which helps to encourage and educate children on marine life and the oceans. He also wants to share his experience with the world. “It’s always been about wanting to go see these things for myself and then sharing them with others,” he said.
“Even the most articulate person in the world couldn’t describe the creature that we filmed,” Hathaway expressed. And he’s certainly right; seeing a 26-foot-long mysterious sea creature is definitely a once in a lifetime event that those two divers were lucky enough to capture on video. Now that’s what you call being at the right place at the right time.
The black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*.
Credit: J.Davelaar 2018.
Gravity is so strong in the vicinity of a black hole that nothing can escape its clutches, not even light. This makes that black holes very difficult to study (we aren’t able to directly image them) — they’re also incredibly frightening. Luckily, you don’t have to getspaghettified in order to see what a black hole’s environment looks like. An international team of researchers has created an immersive virtual reality simulation based on recent astrophysical models of Sagittarius A* — the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way — and it all looks as amazing as it sounds.
“Our virtual reality simulation creates one of the most realistic views of the direct surroundings of the black hole and will help us to learn more about how black holes behave. Traveling to a black hole in our lifetime is impossible, so immersive visualizations like this can help us understand more about these systems from where we are,” Jordy Davelaar, a postgrad at Radboud University, The Netherlands, and co-author of the new study, said in a statement.
The researchers employed the most advanced physical models to create a series of images that were stitched together, forming a 360-degree virtual reality simulation of Sagittarius A*. Using any widely available VR console, people can now dive deep into the chaos that surrounds the black hole.
Sagittarius A* is located around 26,000 light years from Earth, and scientists estimate it measures 27 million miles (44 million km) across. The black hole itself — or rather its event horizon — cannot be imaged by telescopes due to large clouds of gas and dust blocking the view.
About 1% of all matter that orbits the black hole is sucked in. The rest forms a swirling disk many light-years across that constitutes a reservoir of gas and dust that black holes feed on — and its motion is completely mesmerizing!
The realistic simulation will help researchers form a better understanding of the dynamics of black hole systems. It also serves an educational purpose by providing a compelling visual explanation of how black holes behave.
“The visualisations that we produced have a great potential for outreach. We used them to introduce children to the phenomenon of black holes, and they really learned something from it. This suggests that immersive virtual reality visualizations are a great tool to show our work to a broader audience, even when it involves very complicated systems like black holes,” Davelaar said.
Here Are Some of The Strangest Things on Earth You May Not Have Heard Of
Here Are Some of The Strangest Things on Earth You May Not Have Heard Of
HILARY BRUECK, BUSINESS INSIDER
The Earth is wonderfully weird. From tiny puddle-dwelling creatures that can survive in outer space to a paint so dark that your eyes can't actually even see it, Earth is filled with plenty of strange and incredible things - both natural and made by us.
Here are a handful of things on this planet that you probably had no idea existed.
1. Vantablack is the darkest known substance in the universe.
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Vantablack is a nanomaterial that is darker than any other substance on Earth. It was developed in the UK by Surrey NanoSystems in 2015 and is actually a collection of vertical carbon tubes that are "grown" on a substrate.
Vantablack absorbs 99.98 percent of the light that hits its surface. This means that the human eye technically sees nothing when it looks at Vantablack, making it the closest thing to staring into a black hole.
Glaucus Atlanticus is a species of sea slug nicknamed the "blue angel." This otherworldly creature is as rare as it is beautiful and is only found on the coasts of South Africa and Australia.
The slug's mesmerising looks belie a dangerous nature.
The blue angel is carnivorous and feeds on other venomous sea creatures, such as the Portuguese man o' war. It collects the venom from its prey in specialised sacs, concentrates it, then uses the venom on future prey.
3. Aerogel looks like a slice of cloud.
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Aerogel is an ultralight material made from gel and gas. It's been nicknamed "frozen smoke" or "solid cloud" because of its ethereal appearance.
Scientists have created more than a dozen recipes for different types of aerogel, but they all share a similar process: mix chemicals together, let them settle into a wet gel, and then suck all of the liquid out. The result is a substance of extremely low density that is actually 99 percent air.
Because it's made primarily of air and air is such a terrible heat conductor, placing a layer of Aerogel between a flower and a flame will protect the flower from getting destroyed.
4. Rainbow eucalyptus trees have candy-coloured bark.
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The Eucalyptus Deglupta tree may look like it has fallen out of a Dr. Seuss book, but it actually grows in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines. This unique tree has multicolored bark that features bright blue, orange, purple, green, and maroon streaks.
The unusual colours are a side effect of the tree's shedding, according to Missouri Botanical Garden – as strips of bark peel away, the tree's bright green inner bark is revealed. This inner layer slowly matures and turns a range of colours.
5. There's an underground cathedral in Colombia entirely made of salt.
The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá is an underground Roman Catholic Church in Cundinamarca, Colombia, that was excavated from a salt mine in 1954. It is completely made of salt and is located 180 meters (590 feet) below the surface of the small town of Zipaquirá.
The cathedral includes a giant salt cross and can accommodate up to 10,000 people, though it has never been filled to capacity.
6. Goblin sharks are 'living fossils' that look straight out of a nightmare.
Goblin sharks are a rare species of deep-sea shark that are sometimes referred to as "living fossils." They are the only known remaining member of the ancient Mitsukurinidae family of sharks.
Goblin sharks are notable for their distinctive elongated jaws, which are filled with nail-like teeth. They are able to detect the electrical currents emitted by other animals and rapidly extend their jaws in order to snatch up prey.
7. Bismuth is an element with a psychedelic surface.
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You may remember the chemical element bismuth from your high school chemistry class, but you probably had no idea that it has a colourful, iridescent appearance.
Bismuth has a unique "stair step" growth pattern in which the outer edges form more quickly than the inner areas, according to Live Science. This results in a crystalline structure that appears to be made of interlocking rainbow squares.
8. This volcano in Indonesia spews bright-blue lava - sort of.
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Indonesia's Kawah Ijen volcano is remarkable for its tendency to emit oozing waves of what appears to be blue and purple lava.
Technically, the lava itself isn't blue. According to Smithsonian Magazine, the fascinating coloration comes from high quantities of sulfuric gas that emerges along with the lava. When the gas catches fire, it burns with a bright hue that makes the lava appear to be electric blue.
9. The Voynich Manuscript is mysterious book written in an untranslatable language.
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The Voynich Manuscript is a 240-page medieval tome written in an unknown language that has baffled scholars and code-breakers for years.
The manuscript is believed to have originated sometime between 1404 and 1438. It is filled with enigmatic illustrations and diagrams that seem to depict everything from unusual plants to women with swollen bellies bathing in green pools.
All attempts to translate the book's text or identify the plants depicted in it have failed.
In January 2018, a group of Canadian computer scientists announced that they may have had some limited success decoding parts of the manuscript using AI. The researchers, however, admitted that further refinement of the process and input from scholars is needed.
10. The most inaccessible place in the world is called Point Nemo.
Point Nemo is the furthest point from land on Earth. Officially known as the oceanic point of inaccessibility, it's located in the center of the triangle made by Ducie Island, Motu Nui (part of the Easter Island chain) and Maher Island near Antarctica.
It is so far from land that the closest humans to Point Nemo are usually astronauts – the International Space Station orbits the Earth from a distance of about 258 miles (415 kilometres), while the closest inhabited spot to Point Nemo is more than 1,670 miles (1,225 kilometres) away.
11. The Danakil Depression looks like the surface of an alien planet.
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Ethiopia's Danakil Depression is home to one of the most bizarre-looking landscapes on Earth.
Located in the Afar Triangle, this surreal spot is dotted with crackling lava pools, neon-coloured hot springs, and sparkling salt flats. Poisonous gases swirl around hydrothermal fields, and many of the area's pools are filled with acid.
12. There are underwater lakes and rivers within the ocean.
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Also known as brine pools, underwater lakes are bodies of water that have a much higher salinity (i.e. saltiness) than the surrounding ocean. The briny water is denser than the rest of the seawater, which causes underwater lakes to form that appear separate from the surrounding sea.
These lakes have distinct waves of their own that lap against the "shoreline," and submarines can even float on these brine pools when they descend to the ocean floor.
Unfortunately, these lakes also contain high amounts of toxic methane and hydrogen sulfide, so swimming in them would be toxic for humans.
13. The biggest living thing on Earth is a massive fungus.
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Whales, redwood trees, and elephants are all very big – but they're not the largest living organism on the planet by acreage. That title, when looking at sheer size – the Pando tree colony holds the title of the largest living organism by mass – goes to the Armillaria Ostoyae mushroom.
Nicknamed the Humongous Fungus, this mushroom has spread across 2,385 acres of Malheur National Forest in Oregon. The scientists who discovered the fungus in 2017 used DNA testing to determine that all parts of the growth are in fact different segments of the same organism.
The giant mushroom has probably been growing for between 2,400 to 8,650 years, and its caps are said to be quite delicious.
14. Tardigrades are microorganisms that can survive in outer space.
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Tardigrades, also called water bears or moss piglets, are fascinating microorganisms that can survive just about anywhere.
They prefer to hang out in moist places like mud or moss, but according to Smithsonian magazine, the creatures can survive in environments at least as cold as -328 degrees Fahrenheit (-200 degrees Celsius) or as hot as 300 degrees Fahrenheit (149 degrees Celsius).
Scientists have also found that water bears can survive radiation, boiling liquids, pressures more than six times that of the deepest part of the ocean, and even the vacuum of space.
15. There's a cave in Mexico filled with towering white crystals.
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Fittingly known as the Cueva de los Cristales or The Cave of Crystals, this enchanting cavern is crisscrossed with gleaming gypsum crystals that dwarf human explorers.
This mysterious spot was only discovered in 2000 when miners drained the water from a zinc mine beneath Naica, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
The sparkling structures are so pure that scientists are unable to date themusing conventional techniques. But researchers have discovered what is believed to be a 50,000-year-old bacteria sample within one of the crystals.
In 2017, the mining company that owns the property where the cave is located allowed the cave to reflood.
These 4 NASA astronauts claim that the aliens are watching us
These 4 NASA astronauts claim that the aliens are watching us
Although there is still no clear evidence that we are being observed, these astronauts claim that some extraterrestrial beings are already among us.(aliens are watching us)
1. Edgar Mitchell
is one of the people who has traveled to the moon; in fact it was the sixth one, in 1971. His trip was meant to recover samples of the Moon and return, and it was one of his last works after almost 20 years at NASA. After retiring, he said he was “90% sure that many of the thousands of unidentified objects that have been registered since 1940 are from visitors to other planets.”(aliens are watching us)
Likewise, in multiple questions he assured that the UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) are real and that he spoke with world leaders that have come into contact with aliens, but that this information is classified. Similarly, he said that governments around the world have been hiding it from the public for more than 60 years.(aliens are watching us)
However, the man states with certainty that the Roswell Incident (in which an object of the United States Armed Forces crashed on a ranch in New Mexico, which was believed to have been the landing of an alien) was an encounter with aliens, and that the US government hid it for decades, although it has constantly been shown that the material that fell from the sky was made by humans.
Also, the man claims that the aliens stopped some nuclear bombs during the Cold War and that they have been in contact with the Vatican to help humanity.(aliens are watching us)
2. Deke Slayton .
This astronaut participated in the Mercury Project, the first space flight program in the United States whose purpose was to put a man on the Moon. He later served as Operations Director of the NASA flight team. However, before all that, in 1951 he thought he saw an alien spacecraft. “It looked like a saucer at a 45-degree angle […]. Soon it started and took off, and I could not see it anymore ». He could never see anything else during his missions as a member of the space organization.(aliens are watching us)
3. Gordon Cooper was
also part of the Mercury Project looking to put a man on the Moon, and he was the first one to sleep in space. Also, it was part of another type of missions in which he had the opportunity to fly over the planet, but like his partner Slayton, his encounter with a UFO was long before being part of NASA. Interestingly, he also mentioned having seen something in 1951 but about Germany.(aliens are watching us)
After retiring he declared: “I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews visit this planet from others, which are much more advanced than the Earth.” The man said that maybe the aliens will not communicate with us until we learn to solve our conflicts by peaceful means instead of constantly creating wars.
4. And finally, Brian O ‘Leary ,
who was part of another group of NASA astronauts who wanted to find a way to step on Mars, but eventually that project was canceled. He did some tests before finally retiring to become an academic. He became friends with Carl Sagan and taught with him at Cornell University.
In his life as a retired he claimed that there was an extraterrestrial existence on Earth that had caused strong technological advances and said, “Other civilizations have been monitoring us for a long time. Its appearance is strange from the western point of view ».(aliens are watching us)
Most of the comments of these astronauts create hope and terror in many people, are you one of those who are passionate or terrified? Leave your comment below!
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A Ukrainian Physicist Has Discovered The Secret About The Pyramids – And It Will Change The World
A Ukrainian Physicist Has Discovered The Secret About The Pyramids – And It Will Change The World
When we talk a bout Pyramids everyone immediately turns their thoughts to Egypt, the Giza plateau and the three pyramids standing tall just outside of Cairo.
However, did you know that there are more than 1000 pyramids in Central America alone? There are 300 Pyramids in China and over 200 Pyramids in Sudan. Egypt boasts only around 120 Pyramids.
But, no matter where you look, you’ll find pyramids scattered across the globe. But why? Why are these enigmatic structure located across the planet? Why did nearly all ancient civilizations across the globe, the Ancient Maya, Aztecs, Pre-Inca Cultures, Ancient Chinese, and many others build these supermassive structures? Furthermore, why are so many pyramids around the globe so eerily similar in design?
Why is it that we still can’t fully understand why the ancients built Pyramids? Were they meant to serve as eternal resting places for different Pharaohs and kings?
Or is it possible they served another, completely different purpose than what mainstream scholars are making us believe? Is it just a wild coincidence that there are thousands of Pyramids scattered all across the globe?
How are most of them so similar? Is it possible that ancient cultures were somehow interconnected thousands of years ago? And that somehow a pyramid building culture—that is now long gone—passed onto different civilizations the blueprints of building pyramids? What if after all, Pyramids were not used as tombs, but as something entirely different?
A Ukrainian scientist believes he may have finally solved the mystery behind the Pyramids and says he now understands what they were used for by ancient civilizations across the globe.
Dr. Volodymyr Krashnoholovets, a physicist from the Ukraine, who has curiously spent over a decade building and researching pyramids has been fascinated by these ancient structures for a long time.
Endorsed by the Russian government, he created a 144-foot-tall pyramid outside of Moscow. He is a man who believes to have finally cracked the mystery behind pyramids and why they were built, and according to him, this is a summary of his discoveries on the effects Pyramids:
1. Immune system of organisms improved (blood leukocyte composition increased). 2. Improved regeneration of tissue. 3. Seeds stored in the pyramid for 1-5 days showed a 30-100% increase in yield. 4. Soon after construction of the Lake Seliger pyramid a marked improvement of the ozone was noted above the area. 5. Seismic activity near the pyramid research areas are reduced in severity and size. 6. Violent weather also appears to decrease in the vicinity of the pyramids. 7. Pyramids constructed in Southern Russia (Bashkiria) appeared to have a positive effect on oil production with oil becoming less viscous by 30% and the yield of the oil wells increased according to tests carried out by the Moscow Academy of Oil and Gas. 8. A study was done on 5000 prisoners who ingested salt and pepper that had been exposed to the pyramid energy field. The test subjects exhibited a greatly reduced violence rate and overall behavior was much improved. 9. Standard tissue culture tests showed an increase in survival of cellular tissue after infection by viruses and bacteria. 10. Radioactive substances show a decreased level of radiation inside the pyramid. 11. There are reports of spontaneous charging of capacitors. 12. Physicists observed significant changes in superconductivity temperature thresholds and in the properties of semi-conducting and carbon nanomaterials. 13. Water inside the pyramid will remain liquid to minus 40 degrees Celsius but freeze instantly if jostled or bumped in any way.
All of the above-mentioned discoveries made by Dr. Volodymyr Krashnoholovets are explained in the following video presented by author and researcher David Wilcock.
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What do you think? Is it possible that after all Pyramids were not used as tombs in ancient times? Is it possible that after all, these majestic ancient structures—scattered across the globe—have a purpose that mainstream scholars have not yet identified?
A northside woman who was at Dublin Airport at the weekend managed to get a photo of a strange unidentified light she spotted in the sky.
The Dubliner - who asked not to be named - was in the airport yesterday morning when she saw a bright light appear to hover in the sky above the busy plane hub.
She told her husband what she'd seen and he mentioned that very similar lights had been spotted over Crumlin last week, just days after pilots reported seeing UFOs off the coast of Kerry.
At one point a plane flew over the light
He told Dublin Live that his wife had heard nothing about the alleged UFO sightings of the past week, but after they discussed it, they decided to get in touch with Dublin Live.
The man told us: "My wife was at the airport on Sunday morning when she saw this strange light appear in the morning sky. It was at around 7.20am, and it was there for a while in the one spot and then moved before disappearing.
"She knew nothing about the sightings last week over the airport - she also said a plane flew over past it at one stage."
A close up of the unidentified hovering object
Last week, Crumlin man Craig Keogh said he spotted an unidentified flying object as he was leaving for work.
He quipped: "I wasn't freaked - I was more puzzled to know what it was like.. someone needs to give answers or come up with some reason because me little bro is scared big time, and I'm not helping him either."
Dublin Live has contacted the Irish Aviation Authority for a comment.
At the UFO DATA conference in October 2007, I met up with veteran UFO investigator David Beezer. I’ve known David for many years and he has regularly attended many of our public events. David wanted me to read a report he had received from a RAF officer, but on the day I simply did not have the time. David made me a copy of the report in question and I read it a day or two after the conference had finished.
The report came from a Mr. Alan Turner, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), and concerned a UFO observed on radar at Royal Air Force (RAF) base Sopley in the summer of l971. I subsequently contact Mr. Turner and have his permission to document the following. His report is published in full.
Alan Turner was aged twenty-five when he joined the Royal Air Force in l966 and was commissioned that year as an Air Traffic Control Officer. RAF Sopley was a wartime bunker, which had been converted into a joint military/civilian Air Traffic Control Radar Unit (ATCRU): it closed in l974 when both the civil and military ATC functions were transferred to West Drayton.
Alan Turner remained in the RAF eventually to command the Central ATC School from 1990 to 1992. In July 1995, he was discharged from the RAF in the rank of Wing Commander.
1982: This was taken in l982 when Alan Turner was the Senior Air Traffic Control Officer at RAF Lossiemouth. He is pictured on the right.
This is Wing Commanders Turner’s account of what he personally observed at RAF Sopley in the summer of l971 in full:
In the summer of 1971, I was the Duty Military Supervisor at RAF Sopley, which was a joint military/civil Air Traffic Control Radar Unit (ATCRU). It was a Tuesday afternoon but I cannot remember the exact date. The Duty Civil Supervisor drew my attention to a situation on radar the likes of which neither of us had ever encountered.
Emanating from a point some twenty nautical miles east of the eastern extremity of the Salisbury Plain Danger Area were a series of six or seven blips moving on a south-easterly track each being separated from the other by about six miles. At about forty miles from the point they appeared on radar they disappeared to be followed almost immediately by a replacement at the point of origin.
I put the FPS 6 Height Finder onto some returns to discover that they were about 3000 feet when they came into radar cover and climbing extremely rapidly so that, by the time they disappeared from radar, they were in excess of 60,000 feet. To climb to such a height in only forty miles was beyond the ability of any fighter aircraft at the time.
The phenomenon was witnessed by four civil and six military controllers on duty at the time. I called Heathrow Radar to discover that they, also, were seeing a similar picture. The same situation prevailed in the Fighter Control Operations Rooms at RAF Neatishead. The three units involved operated different radars from each other thus different frequencies were in use. The weather forecast from the south of England was calm and sunny. I called the Met Office to confirm the strength of the upper winds to find that they were also relatively calm and were about fifty degrees off the southeasterly track of the blips; they also confirmed that there were not Met balloons/probes airborne at the time.
The winds were not strong enough, nor in the right direction, to cause the blips to travel on their observed track, especially at the speed they were travelling. It was estimated that they were doing around 250 knots, but it must be borne in mind that this was a lateral speed as seen on radar – they must have been travelling very much faster to climb over 50,000 feet in less than forty miles. Equally the weather was such that there were no ‘angels’ to affect the radar picture. “Angels” was a euphemism for, what were believed to be, ionozed pockets of air which, under very specific atmospheric conditions, were often seen on radar screens in those days: when seen, these ‘angels’ traveled extremely slowly simply drifting along haphazard tracks. In those days all radars were ‘raw’. That is to say that, whatever was within the coverage of the radar envelope and capable of bouncing (returning) the radar pulse back to the receiver, would be seen on the radar tube. Today’s radars are computerised thus such interference is processed out so as not to affect the picture.
Looking around for some other method of checking what was going on, I discovered that a controller had two Canberras on frequency returning from Germany. One of the pilots agreed to investigate so I assumed control of his aircraft and, having confirmed he was in good visual met conditions, I vectored him on to the blips keeping him regularly updated on their position relative to the Canberra. The aircraft was flying at around nineteen thousand feel and when it got within a mile or so of one particular blip, the pilot reported, in a very agitated voice, that his radar had picked something up heading down his port side by about a quarter of a mile and ‘climbing like the clappers’, it was on a reciprocal heading to the Canberra. The pilot admitted that neither he nor his navigator made any visual contact and confirmed that the weather conditions were such that they would have had no difficultly seeing something that close.
The whole episode lasted for twenty minutes or more before the blips stopped appearing. I impounded the R/T tapes and the Radar Video film and made appropriate entries in the log. Each person in the Ops Room who witnessed the incident was required to write a report. The Squadron Leader in charge of Operations collated the reports and informed higher authority. Within a couple of days I was interviewed in the Squadron Leader’s office by two men who were not identified to me. I, along with all the others in the Ops Room on the day in question, were told in no uncertain terms not to relate what we had seen until cleared to do so. About four years later I was serving at RAF Wattisham when the Station Commander asked to see me. I was told that he had a communication from the MoD about the incident at Sopley and that as ‘nothing could be confirmed’ the situation was such that doubt would be cast on anything I said about it. I took this to mean that I was no longer to remain silent.
I am at a loss to explain what I, and many other people, saw. In those days aircraft could not climb at such a rate. To be seen on displays by three different ground radars, plus the airborne radar in the Canberra, is also a mystery. The weather conditions were very definitely VMC or Visual Met Conditions; the aircraft was clear of cloud by at least a thousand feet vertically and with a forward visibility of at least five nautical miles.
Alan Turner MBE 10th November 2007.
Map: Map of the area showing the track on the unidentified radar target. Map supplied by Alan Turner.
In Mr. Turner’s letter to be dated 10th November 2007 he apologised for not remembering the exact date of the incident and believes that there are those out there that will use this to discredit his account. I’ll leave you with his final comments on the incident; “Please use the information in any way you see fit; I stand by what I saw because I know what I saw.”
1984: This is Wing Commander Alan Turner and his wife Diane at Buckingham Palace where he received his MBE from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in l984.
1994: Alan Turner at a social function during his last appointment with the RAF in l994.
Thanks must go to David Beezer for supplying the information and contact details and special thanks to Alan Turner MBE for allowing me to publish his account.
All photographs copyright Alan Turner MBE and reproduced with his kind permission.
Royal SHOCK: Prince Philip embroiled in 'close encounter with UFO'
Royal SHOCK: Prince Philip embroiled in 'close encounter with UFO'
PRINCE Philip personally congratulated a military pilot who claimed he chased a UFO out of Britain, according to the veteran involved some 40 years ago.
Major George A. Giller was an Air Force intelligence officer for the USAF, who claims to have encountered a UFO over England. He says his jet got a call from London Air Traffic Control about an aircraft that had failed to identify itself near Stonehenge, Salisbury. However, when George got there to inspect, the "floating cruise ship" darted from the scene.
Apparently Prince Philip thought it was very important and invited us to dinner
Major George A. Giller
"We were up at 33,000ft and the UFO was down at about 1,000ft," he said on Netflix film "Unacknowledged".
"We dove down on it and eventually we got close and it looked like a cruise ship at sea with all the bright lights.
"We got about a mile from it and it went up into space.
"London control just said 'you can continue with your mission' now."
CONGRATS: Major Giller claims the royal thanked him
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ALIENS: George says he saw a UFO
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However, that was not the end of the story for George, as he recalls meeting with Prince Philip as a result of his close encounter.
He added: "Apparently Prince Philip thought it was very important and invited us to dinner.
"He knew all about the fact we had chased the UFO and made me a believer in it since.
"When someone of his stature indicates they are real and from another planet, it's very convincing."
CHASED DOWN: The USAF investigated
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SPOTTED: The UFO was apparently over Stonehenge (Image: GETTY)
George gave his testimony as part of the Disclosure Project, which claims UFOs and aliens have been covered up by government agencies for years.
Dr. Steven Greer, who heads up the project, has spoken to CIA Directors, top Pentagon Generals and many military individuals about their experiences over the years.
A former traumatologist, Steven turned his interests to ufology and opened the Centre for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
UFO ‘ABANDONED’ on the moon by space travelling ALIENS - shock claim
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The massive artefact was found in the Plaskett crater – a large impact zone on the moon witch is 109 kilometres in diameter. Conspiracy theorists located the supposed UFO using satellite imagery from the European Space Agency (ESA). The sighting adds to a growing list of alien-looking objects which have been found on our lunar satellite.
UFO researcher Scott C Waring was the first to discover the potential alien spaceship, raising the theory that it looks as if it was abandoned by extraterrestrials.
He wrote on his blog UFO Sightings Daily: “I found a large triangle UFO that was sitting in the centre of a crater on the moon. The UFO is dead centre in Plaskett crater.
“ESA says that crater is 109km in diameter. That would mean this UFO is 25+ miles across!
“The shape and size would be fitting for a craft that travels across the universe. Sitting in the centre of the crater makes me wonder if its been abandoned due to being outdated?
The UFO is apparently 25 miles in circumference
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“Often I find ships in craters, however they are usually parked close to the inner edges so that they have some shelter to protect them.
“There is no intent or worry about have such protection here. I find that odd.”
Several other things have been spotted on the moon which has led some to believe there is an alien civilisation there.
Some conspiracy theorists claims the moon could be occupied by aliens and that is the reason NASA has not returned since the Apollo missions ended in the 1970s.
They suspect findings such as this and anomalies like pyramids could be monuments built by an ancient alien civilisation similar to the pyramids and other structures on Earth.
Similar anomaly hunters have found what they believe could be pyramids on Mars and other parts of the moon.
However, sceptics and NASA say the findings are just the effects of pareidolia – a psychological phenomenon when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar objects or shapes in patterns or textures such as a rock surface.
Many viewers have been quick to deem the footage as a UFO sighting, pointing out the enormous amount of energy needed to light up such a large object.
One astonished viewer wrote: “It would take a lot of power to light up like that during the day on the first one the circling lights are a bit suspect.”
Another UFO believer commented: “Thank you for getting this out to people.”
However, some believe the video may have simply been a trick of the light.
GLOWING: A bright light was spotted above San Francisco (Pic: YOUTUBE/JOELCARDOSO)
One sceptical user said: “The first video is most likely lens flare from a solar reflector.
“They have been mistaken for a UFO once before from a plane. Great sightings as always though.”
The video has been viewed over 1,000 times since it was first posted yesterday (18th November).
Similar objects were seen floating in the air across Ireland last week, sparking rumours of an alien invasion on the emerald isle.
IS HET EINDE VAN DE BOUWVAKKER IN ZICHT? ( VIDEO )
IS HET EINDE VAN DE BOUWVAKKER IN ZICHT? ( VIDEO )
Hoelang zal het nog duren voordat ook in ons land de uitdrukking "de bouwvak" uit de Nederlandse taal zal zijn verdwijnen.
Het leger van robots rukt steeds verder op en als eigenaar van een bouwvak robot weet je zeker dat ze nooit met vakantie zullen gaan, anders dan misschien een time out voor een reparatie of iets dergelijks.
Er lijkt geen ontkomen aan een toekomst waarbij veel van de taken die nu door mensen worden uitgevoerd overgenomen zullen zijn door robots.
Zo wordt overal ter wereld druk geëxperimenteerd met zelfrijdende auto's en treinen, waardoor binnen niet al te lange tijd het beroep chauffeur of machinist tot het verleden zal behoren. Natuurlijk gebeuren er in het stadium waarin we ons nu bevinden nog regelmatig ongelukken, maar zal er een punt komen waarop de software zo goed als perfect functioneert. Bij vliegtuigen is het technisch eigenlijk al zover.
Los van alle mogelijke toepassingen op het gebied van kunstmatige intelligentie zullen er in de nabije toekomst heel veel banen verdwijnen. Dat is geen doemdenken, dat is realiteit; want is het slechts een kwestie van tijd.
Iedere keer komt men een stapje verder met de ontwikkeling van weer een nieuwe robot. Vooral in Aziatische landen wordt hier druk aan gewerkt en zo komt er nu uit Japan de nieuwe bouwvakker.
Ontwikkelaars van Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) hebben een menselijke robot ontwikkeld, de HRP-SP, die in staat is om zelfstandig zware lichamelijke arbeid uit te voeren in gevaarlijke omstandigheden.
De robot is met een lengte van ongeveer 1.80 net zo groot als een mens en is volgepropt met sensoren waardoor het in staat is om tot nu toe onmogelijk fysiek werk uit te voeren in moeilijke omstandigheden.
Zoals je in de volgende video kunt zien, is deze robot in staat om grote muurplaten op te pakken en deze te bevestigen. Net zoals dit nu door bouwvakkers wordt gedaan. Net zoals een mens dat doet, pakt hij de muurplaat, loopt naar de plek waar deze moet worden bevestigd en voert dat tenslotte feilloos uit.
Je ziet dat hij net zoals bij een mens zijn handen gebruikt voor houvast tijdens het bevestigen en dat de robot dit soort taken kan uitvoeren zonder menselijke supervisie. Het gebeurt op dit moment misschien nog wat langzamer dan een menselijke bouwvakker dat zou doen, maar de robot heeft geen pauze of vakantie nodig en gaat gewoon door met zijn werk.
Zo heb je nu ook al robots die kunnen metselen en er zijn al zelfs robots die erin slagen om hetmeubilair van Ikea feilloos in elkaar te zetten.
Niet alleen zullen miljoenen mensen hun baan gaan verliezen, ook overheden zullen gigantische bedragen aan inkomstenbelasting gaan mislopen. Want, als bedrijf koop of lease je een robot en je betaalt geen loon en aangezien de belasting hierop één van de grootste melkkoeien van een stelende overheid is, zullen deze ongetwijfeld manieren bedenken waarop ze de robots kunnen belasten.
Het meest waarschijnlijke is dat robots een soort eigen burgerslavennummer (BSN) van de overheid zullen krijgen en de eerste stappen daartoe zijn binnen de Europese Commissie al gemaakt. Net zoals auto's kentekens krijgen, zo zullen robots een eigen BSN krijgen, waardoor de eigenaar over ieder gedraaid robotuur een fictief bedrag aan loonbelasting gaat betalen.
Naast alle werkeloosheid binnen veel beroepen, zit er nog een duister aspect aan deze ontwikkelingen, waarover wij in een vorig artikel het volgende schreven.
Het lijkt ogenschijnlijk langzaam te gaan en er zijn nog diverse kinderziektes, maar over een aantal jaren zijn die allemaal opgelost en zijn er nog veel meer dingen bijgekomen die overgenomen zijn door robots.
Een belangrijke leverancier van Apple, Focconn uit Taiwan, heeft vorig jaar 60.000 fabrieksarbeiders vervangen door robots. Dit bedrijf heeft ook talloze vestigingen in China waar eveneens plannen bestaan om arbeiders te vervangen door robots.
Volgens een bericht in de Telegraaf gisteren zullen de typische mannenberoepen eerder verdwijnen dan beroepen die veelal door vrouwen worden uitgeoefend.
Als de robots komen om banen over te nemen, zijn mannen eerder de klos dan vrouwen. Mannenberoepen worden veel meer bedreigd door robots dan vrouwenberoepen, blijkt uit een analyse van beroependatabase Jobpersonality.
Of we het nu leuk vinden of niet, de komende jaren zullen er steeds meer banen verdwijnen omdat ze worden overgenomen door robots en zal een groot deel van de bevolking daardoor werkeloos worden.
Bovenstaande is eveneens interessant in het kader van de alsmaar toenemende chemtrails boven onze hoofden en daarnaast nu ook aquatrails. Daarnaast nog de steeds verder oprukkende dreiging van verplichte vaccinaties.
Wanneer je deze ontwikkelingen naast de razendsnelle opkomst van de robots legt, dan klinkt het scenario van de auteur Peter Frase zoals wij daarover schreven in een eerder artikel niet meer zo vergezocht.
Er zijn ook al diverse boeken geschreven over dit onderwerp zoals het boek "Four Futures" van Peter Frase. Daarin wordt onder andere gespeculeerd dat de elite maar een bepaalde tijd zal tolereren dat er een niet langer werkende en nutteloze massa aan de hekken staat te rammelen. Geen werk en geen vooruitzichten betekent een onrustige bevolking en gezamenlijk kunnen die heel wat hooivorken bij elkaar scharrelen.
Frase schrijft: “Wat gebeurt er als die massa gevaarlijk wordt, maar niet langer de werkende klasse is en geen enkele toegevoegde waarde meer heeft voor de heersers? Er zal dan een moment komen waarop iemand het idee krijgt dat het beter zou zijn om ze op te ruimen”. Frase heeft een heel toepasselijke naam bedacht voor deze toekomst: het exterminisme. “Genocide van de rijken op de armen”
BEVOLKING WORDT VOORBEREID OP KOMENDE KOUDE PERIODE ( VIDEO )
BEVOLKING WORDT VOORBEREID OP KOMENDE KOUDE PERIODE ( VIDEO )
Dat wat wij al jaren schrijven, namelijk dat we door gebrek aan zonneactiviteit een koude periode tegemoet gaan, vormt natuurlijk toch wel een probleem voor de klimaatoplichters.
Maar, geen nood, want wij, de klimaatoplichters, gaan de geschiedenis gebruiken om de mensheid wijs te maken dat het hier slechts om een hele tijdelijke dip gaat en dat we gewoon moeten blijven betalen om de opwarming van de aarde tegen te gaan.
De machthebbers op deze aarde kunnen van alles controleren, behalve onze zon, voor zover bij ons bekend. En die gooit nu aardig roet in het eten van de grootste oplichtingstruc uit de menselijke geschiedenis.
Wat was het ergste jaar ooit? Het jaar 1349, toen de Zwarte Dood de helft van de Europese bevolking uitroeide? Of 1918, waarin 50 tot 100 miljoen - vooral jonge - mensen aan de griep bezweken? Nee, zegt historicus Michael McCormick van de Harvard Universiteit: ,,Het was het jaar 536.’’ Vanaf toen was de aarde een hele tijd dag en nacht in duisternis gehuld, wat McCormick en zijn team nu toeschrijven aan vulkaanuitbarstingen.
Ik ben al jaren van mening dat het jaar 536 het startschot gaf van het verhaal openbaringen. Zoals we in het artikel kunnen lezen was dit de periode van 3 jaren duisternis die er zouden gaan komen.
Aan het eind van deze 3 jaren zien we in 538AD de eerste roomse paus, wat tevens de anti-christ is maar dat is weer een heel ander verhaal. Dit pausdom is tevens het eerste beest uit het verhaal openbaringen en zou uiteindelijk zijn eigen mensen, de christenen massaal vermoorden.
Voor wie dit interessant vindt is er uiteraard een mooie documentaire over.
Wat ik mij afvroeg bij het zien van het artikel was; "Waarom nu zo'n artikel plaatsen?
Vaak hebben dergelijke artikelen een esoterische en een exoterische betekenis. Het esoterische heb ik al gegeven en het exoterische lijkt mij ook duidelijk.
De media begint namelijk de bevolking al vast een reden te geven waarom het de komende jaren wel eens flink kouder gaan worden wat natuurlijk lijnrecht gaat tegen de huidige klimaatverandering theorieën die uitgaan van een steeds warmer wordende aarde.
Ik schrik er niet van dat we straks artikelen gaan krijgen die over de record aantal uitbarstingen van de vulkanen zullen gaan. Men zal het jaar 536AD gaan aanhalen als voorbeeld en de mensen wijs gaan maken dat dit een tijdelijke dip zal zijn en dat we toch wel degelijk moeten doorgaan met alle milieu maatregelen, lees doorvoeren van de belastingen.
Dat het wat frisser gaat worden heeft natuurlijk vooral te maken met de zwakkere zon maar dat kunnen we de mensen maar beter niet gaan vertellen. Het zou namelijk aangeven dat het hele gebeuren toch gewoon een natuurlijke cyclus is die we dan niet kunnen belasten bij de mensen.
Since 1991, the Wisconsin town of Elkhorn has been the lair and hunting ground of a terrifying creature that is the closest thing one can imagine to a real-life werewolf. The monster has become known as the Beast of the Bray Road – on account of the fact that many of the initial sightings were made on that particular road in the town. Without doubt, the expert on the monster is author and journalist Linda Godfrey. Some years ago, I interviewed Linda about her research into this malignant beast, which has become knownas the Dogman. Since 1991, reports have surfaced from other parts of Wisconsin. Michigan, too. Linda told me: “The story first came to my attention in about 1991 from a woman who had heard rumors going around here in Elkhorn, and particularly in the high school, that people had been seeing something like a werewolf, a wolf-like creature, or a wolf-man. They didn’t really know what it was. But some were saying it was a werewolf. And the werewolf tag has just gotten used because I think that people really didn’t know what else to call it.
“I started checking it out. I talked to the editor of The Weeknewspaper here, and which I used to work for. He said, ‘Why don’t you check around a little bit and see what you hear?’ This was about the end of December. And being a weekly newspaper that I worked for, we weren’t really hard news; we were much more feature oriented. So, I asked a friend who had a daughter in high school and she said, ‘Oh yeah, that’s what everybody’s talking about.’ So, I started my investigations and got one name from the woman who told me about it. She was also a part-time bus driver. In my first phone call to the bus driver, she told me that she had called the County Animal Control Officer. So, of course, when you’re a reporter, anytime you have a chance to find anything official that’s where you go. I went to see him and, sure enough, he had a folder in his file draw that he had actually marked Werewolf, in a tongue-in-cheek way.
“People had been phoning in to him to say that they had seen something. They didn’t know what it was. But from their descriptions, that’s what he had put. So, of course, that made it a news story. When you have a public official, the County Animal Control Officer, who has a folder marked Werewolf, that’s news. It was very unusual. It just took off from there and I kept finding more and more witnesses.” Indeed, it did take off: Linda has now written five books on the subject. While there are numerous for what the Dogmen are (demonic entities, shape-shifters, a rare/unique kind of wolf; the list goes on) the strangest of all the theories is that which suggests the creatures are extraterrestrials. Yes, you did read that right.
In 2005, Linda was contacted by a man – a military whistle-blower, we might say – who was an expert in the field of remote-viewing. Essentially, remote-viewing is a process that allows the mind to psychically travel to just about here, there and everywhere. Astral travel, one might say. According to Godfrey’s Edward Snowden-like source, the U.S. Government has uncovered data suggesting that the Dogmen are a very ancient, alien race that closely resembles the ancient deity of the Underworld, Anubis. Godfrey’s informant also discovered – via remote-viewing – that the Dogmen can “jump” from location to location via portals or doorways in the fabric of space and time. That’s quite a story told to Linda! Crystal Links state of Anubis:
“Anubis is the Egyptian name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in Egyptian mythology. In the ancient Greek language, Anubis is known as Inpu, (variously spelled Anupu, Ienpw etc.). The oldest known mention of Anubis is in the Old Kingdom pyramid texts, where he is associated with the burial of the king. At this time, Anubis was the most important god of the Dead but he was replaced during the Middle Kingdom by Osiris. He takes various names in connection with his funerary role, such as He who is upon his mountain, which underscores his importance as a protector of the deceased and their tombs, and the title He who is in the place of embalming, associating him with the process of mummification.”
Could THIS be this the answer to the mysterious purple lights in the sky?
Could THIS be this the answer to the mysterious purple lights in the sky?
A resident of Greensboro, North Carolina has taken some amazing images of what he describes as a circular-shaped UFO that emits a triangular purple light from the bottom of the UFO.
He reports: On October 10, 2018 I was walking back to my apartment from work. I saw two other students looking up at the sky and thought they were watching the clouds for rain.
I looked up and first noticed the triangular purple light and then the circular shape.
The first thing I thought was 'I can't be seeing this. Am I really seeing a UFO?' and decided to call my roommate who, luckily told me to take pictures because I was awestruck.
The object was stationary but took up a huge part of the sky.
From work to my apartment is about a mile and the object appeared very close the entire time I was walking.
The light blinked in about two second intervals from purple to disappearing, or turning off.
I don't know if it disappeared because before I walked into my apartment, I looked back up in the sky and it was gone. With it being so close in the sky, I was a bit uneasy but also really excited and awestruck. I couldn't stop looking up at the sky, I have reported this sighting to Mufon.
Since these purple lights are showing up more and more in the sky over the US we may wonder, given the testimony of the resident of Greensboro, whether the purple lights indeed come from UFOs.
The atmospheric phenomenon 'STEVE' which appears as a purple and green light ribbon in the sky
Northwestern University Astrophysicist J. Allen Hynek, 1966.
Alvin Quinn/AP Photo
It’s September 1947, and the U.S. Air Force has a problem. A rash of reports about mysterious objects in the skies has the public on edge and the military baffled. The Air Force needs to figure out what’s going on—and fast. It launches an investigation it calls Project Sign.
By early 1948 the team realizes it needs some outside expertise to sift through the reports it’s receiving—specifically an astronomer who can determine which cases are easily explained by astronomical phenomena, such as planets, stars or meteors.
For J. Allen Hynek, then the 37-year-old director at Ohio State University’s McMillin Observatory, it would be a classic case of being in the right place at the right time—or, as he may have occasionally lamented, the wrong place at the wrong one.
The adventure begins
Hynek had worked for the government during the war, developing new defense technologies like the first radio-controlled fuse, so he already had a high security clearance and was a natural go-to.
“One day I had a visit from several men from the technical center at Wright-Patterson Air Force base, which was only 60 miles away in Dayton,” Hynek later wrote. “With some obvious embarrassment, the men eventually brought up the subject of ‘flying saucers’ and asked me if I would care to serve as consultant to the Air Force on the matter… The job didn't seem as though it would take too much time, so I agreed.”
Little did Hynek realize that he was about to begin a lifelong odyssey that would make him one of the most famous and, at times, controversial scientists of the 20 century. Nor could he have guessed how much his own thinking about UFOs would change over that period as he persisted in bringing rigorous scientific inquiry to the subject.
“I had scarcely heard of UFOs in 1948 and, like every other scientist I knew, assumed that they were nonsense,” he recalled.
Project Sign ran for a year, during which the team reviewed 237 cases. In Hynek’s final report, he noted that about 32 percent of incidents could be attributed to astronomical phenomena, while another 35 percent had other explanations, such as balloons, rockets, flares or birds. Of the remaining 33 percent, 13 percent didn’t offer enough evidence to yield an explanation. That left 20 percent that provided investigators with some evidence but still couldn’t be explained.
The Air Force was loath to use the term “unidentified flying object,” so the mysterious 20 percent were simply classified as “unidentified.”
In February 1949, Project Sign was succeeded by Project Grudge. While Sign offered at least a pretense of scientific objectivity, Grudge seems to have been dismissive from the start, just as its angry-sounding name suggests. Hynek, who played no role in Project Grudge, said it “took as its premise that UFOs simply could not be.” Perhaps not surprisingly, its report, issued at the end of 1949, concluded that the phenomena posed no danger to the United States, having resulted from mass hysteria, deliberate hoaxes, mental illness or conventional objects that the witnesses had misinterpreted as otherworldly. It also suggested the subject wasn’t worth further study.
Project Blue Book is born
That might’ve been the end of it. But UFO incidents continued, including some puzzling reports from the Air Force’s own radar operators. The national media began treating the phenomenon more seriously; LIFE magazine did a 1952 cover story, and even the widely respected TV journalist Edward R. Murrowdevoted a program to the topic, including an interview with Kenneth Arnold, a pilot whose 1947 sighting of mysterious objects over Mount Rainier in Washington state popularized the term “flying saucer.” The Air Force had little choice but to revive Project Grudge, which soon morphed into the more benignly named Project Blue Book.
Hynek joined Project Blue Book in 1952 and would remain with it until its demise in 1969. For him, it was a side gig as he continued to teach and to pursue other, non-UFO research, at Ohio State. In 1960 he moved to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, to chair its astronomy department.
As before, Hynek’s role was to review the reports of UFO sightings and determine whether there was a logical astronomical explanation. Typically that involved a lot of unglamorous paperwork; but now and then, for an especially puzzling case, he had a chance to get out into the field.
Everett
There he discovered something he might never have learned from simply reading the files: how normal the people who reported seeing UFOs tended to be. “The witnesses I interviewed could have been lying, could have been insane or couldhave been hallucinating collectively—but I do not think so,” he recalled in his 1977 book, The Hynek UFO Report.
“Their standing in the community, their lack of motive for perpetration of a hoax, their own puzzlement at the turn of events they believe they witnessed, and often their great reluctance to speak of the experience—all lend a subjective reality to their UFO experience.”
For the rest of his life Hynek would deplore the ridicule that people who reported a UFO sighting often had to endure—which, in turn, caused untold numbers of others to never come forward. It wasn’t just unfair to the individuals involved, but meant a loss of data that might be useful to researchers.
“Given the controversial nature of the subject, it’s understandable that both scientists and witnesses are reluctant to come forward,” says Jacques Vallee, co-author with Dr. Hynek of The Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on Unidentified Flying Objects. “Because their life is going to change. There are cases where their house is broken into. People throw stones at their kids. There are family crises—divorce and so on… You become the person who has seen something that other people have not seen. And there is a lot of suspicion attached to that.”
Eyes on the skies—and the Soviets
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory scientists doctors J. Allen Hynek (left) and Fred Whipple plotting orbit of Sputnik I at the Harvard University campus in 1957.
Dmitri Kessel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
In the late 1950s, the Air Force faced a more urgent problem than hypothetical UFOs. On October 4, 1957, the U.S.S.R. surprised the world by launching Sputnik, the first artificial space satellite—and a serious blow to Americans’ sense of technological superiority.
At that point, Hynek had taken leave from Ohio State to work on a satellite-tracking system at Harvard, notes Mark O’Connell in his 2017 biography, The Close Encounters Man. Suddenly Hynek was on TV and holding frequent press conferences to assure Americans that their scientists were closely monitoring the situation. On October 21, 1957, he appeared on the cover of LIFE with his boss, the Harvard astronomer Fred Whipple, and their colleague Don Lautman. It was his first taste of the national celebrity, but wouldn’t be the last.
With Sputnik circling the earth every 98 minutes, often visible to the naked eye, many Americans began looking skyward, and UFO sightings continued unabated.
From Dr. Hynek to Mr. UFO
By the 1960s, Hynek had emerged as the nation’s—perhaps the world’s—top expert on UFOs, quoted widely in his capacity as scientific consultant to Project Blue Book. But behind the scenes, he chafed at what he perceived as the project’s mandate to debunk UFO sightings. He was also critical of its procedures, judging the Blue Book staff “grossly inadequate,” its communication with outside scientists “appalling” and its statistical methods “nothing less than a travesty.”
The feeling, apparently, was mutual. In an unpublished manuscript unearthed by biographer McConnell, Air Force Major Hector Quintanilla, who headed the project from 1963 to 1969, writes that he considered Hynek a “liability.”
Why did he stick around? Hynek offered a number of explanations. “But most importantly,” he wrote, “Blue Book had the store of data (as poor as they were), and my association with it gave me access to those data.”
UFO expert Dr. J. Allen Hynek holds a pipe and one of his magazine editorials while serving as technical advisor for the film, 'Close Encounters of The Third Kind.'
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If Hynek often angered UFO debunkers, like Quintanilla, he didn’t always please the believers, either.
In 1966, for example, he went to Michigan to investigate multiple reports of strange lights in the sky. When he offered the theory that it might have been an optical illusion involving swamp gas, he found himself widely derided in the press and “swamp gas” became a punchline for newspaper cartoonists. More seriously, two Michigan Congressmen, including Gerald R. Ford (who later became president), took umbrage at the apparent insult to their state’s citizenry and called for a Congressional hearing.
Testifying at the hearing, Hynek saw an opportunity to plead the case he’d been making to the Air Force for years, but with little success. “Specifically, it is my opinion that the body of data accumulated since 1948…deserves close scrutiny by a civilian panel of physical and social scientists…for the express purpose of determining whether a major problem really exists.”
Hynek would soon get his wish, or so it seemed. Now facing greater scrutiny in Congress, the Air Force established a civilian committee of scientists to investigate UFOs, chaired by a University of Colorado physicist, Dr. Edward U. Condon. Hynek, who would not be on the committee, was hopeful at first. But he lost faith two years later when the committee issued what came to be known as the Condon Report.
He called the report “rambling” and “poorly organized” and Condon’s introductory summary “singularly slanted.” Though the report cited numerous UFO incidents its researchers couldn’t explain, it concluded that “further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified.” It was exactly what Hynek wouldn’t have wanted.
The following year, 1969, Project Blue Book shut down for good.
After Blue Book, a new chapter
The end of Blue Book proved a turning point for Hynek. As McConnell writes, he “found himself suddenly liberated from the frustrations, compromises and bullying of the U.S. Air Force. He was a free man.”
Meanwhile, sightings continued around the world—UFOs, Hynek later quipped, “apparently did not read the Condon Report”—and he went on with his research.
In 1972, he published his first book, The UFO Experience. Among its contributions to the field, it introduced Hynek’s classifications of UFO incidents he called Close Encounters.
Close Encounters of the First Kind meant UFOs seen at a close enough range to make out some details. In a Close Encounter of the Second Kind, the UFO had a physical effect, such as scorching trees, frightening animals or causing car motors to suddenly conk out. In Close Encounters of the Third Kind, witnesses reported seeing occupants in or near a UFO.
Though less remembered now, Hynek also provided three classifications for more distant encounters. Those involved UFOs seen at night (“nocturnal lights”) during the day (“daylight discs”) or on radar screens (“radar/visual”).
The most dramatic of Hynek’s classifications, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, would, of course, become the title of a Steven Spielberg movie released in 1977. McConnell reports that Hynek was paid $1,000 for the use of the title, another $1,000 for the rights to use stories from the book and $1,500 for three days of technical consulting—hardly a windfall by Hollywood standards. He also had a brief cameo in the film, playing an awestruck scientist when the alien craft comes into close view.
In 1978, Hynek retired from teaching, but he continued to collect and evaluate UFO reports under the auspices of the Center for UFO Studies, which he had founded in 1973. The organization continues to this day.
Hynek died in 1986 at age 75, the result of a brain tumor. He hadn’t solved the riddle of UFOs but, perhaps more than anyone else, he had made trying to solve that riddle a legitimate scientific pursuit.
“The main thing I got from my father in this whole thing was how important it was to keep an open mind,” says his son, Joel Hynek, who as a young ham-radio operator used to record many of his father’s witness interviews. “He kept saying, ‘You know, we don’t know still everything there is to know about the universe… There could be aspects of physics that we haven’t come upon yet.’”
Something Strange And Hot Is Lurking Beneath Antarctica's Ice
Something Strange And Hot Is Lurking Beneath Antarctica's Ice
There's something unusual – and very, very hot – going on beneath the ice sheets of Antarctica.
A new study has shown that the Antarctic Ice Sheet at the South Pole has a giant “hotspot” – triple the size of London – under its bedrock.
As reported in the journal Scientific Reports this week, the freakishly hot zone is not likely to melt away Antarctica any time soon. However, the researchers note that its extreme heat has caused a 100-by-50 kilometer (62-by-31 mile) area of the ice layers to sag and droop downward, as you can see in the graphic below.
“This was a really exciting project, exploring one of the last totally un-surveyed regions on our planet. Our results were quite unexpected, as many people thought this region of Antarctica was made of ancient and cold rocks, which had little impact on the ice sheet above,” lead author Dr Tom Jordan from the British Antarctic Survey said in a statement. “We show that even in the ancient continental interior, the underlying geology can have a significant impact on the ice."
Graphic showing the aircraft using aerial radar to map the ice sheet and bed. Tom Jordan/British Antarctic Survey
It’s unknown how long the hotspot has been there, but it’s certainly nothing new. The researchers estimate that it’s been there for thousands of years, perhaps even millions. That said, the outside environment is changing fast. With global temperatures continuing to rise, this portion of Antarctic ice might become especially vulnerable to melting.
"In the future the extra water at the ice sheet bed may make this region more sensitive to external factors such as climate change," added Dr Jordan.
It’s thought that the heat is being generated by unusually radioactive rocks in the Earth’s upper crust, as well as geothermically heated water coming from deep under the ground. However, truth be told, the scientists are not certain about this as they can't access the rocks.
The British Antarctic Survey team reached this conclusion by using radar data collected from an aircraft to peer through 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) of ice, providing them with all kinds of insights into the thickness, structure, and conditions of the ice sheet and its layers.
This project also sought to fill in the gaps of an incredible European Space Agency mission that used gravity-mapping satellite data around the South Pole to peer at the Earth’s lithosphere beneath the ice. The results were pretty outstanding. As documented in a recent study, their work managed to discover a patchwork of long-lost continents and geological features on the Earth’s lithosphere.
Onder het ijs van Antarctica ligt iets vreemds en heets verborgen. Wetenschappers doen onverwachte ontdekking
Onder het ijs van Antarctica ligt iets vreemds en heets verborgen. Wetenschappers doen onverwachte ontdekking
Er is iets vreemds aan de hand onder de ijskap van Antarctica. Uiteen nieuwe studieblijkt dat onder de Zuidpool een gigantische ‘hotspot’ verborgen zit, die drie keer zo groot als Londen is.
De extreme hitte afkomstig van de hotspot zorgt ervoor dat een deel van de ijslaag langzaam smelt, schrijven onderzoekers van hetBritish Antarctic Survey.
“Dit was echt een spannend project,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Tom Jordan. “We hebben één van de laatste totaal onverkende regio’s op onze planeet onderzocht.”
Niet bekend
“Onze resultaten waren onverwacht, aangezien veel mensen dachten dat dit deel van Antarctica bestond uit koude rotsen, die weinig impact hadden op de bovenliggende ijslaag,” vervolgde hij.
“We laten zien dat zelfs de onderliggende geologie een aanzienlijke impact op het ijs kan hebben,” klonk het.
Het is niet bekend hoelang de hotspot zich al op die plek bevindt. Duizenden jaren? Misschien zelfs miljoenen jaren? De onderzoekers weten het niet.
Diep onder de grond
Gedacht wordt dat de warmte afkomstig is van zeer radioactieve rotsen in de aardkorst en warm water dat van diep onder de grond komt.
Maar ook dat kunnen de wetenschappers niet met zekerheid zeggen omdat ze de rotsen niet van dichtbij kunnen bekijken.
Inzicht
Het team van de British Antarctic Survey heeft zich gebaseerd op radargegevens die zijn verzameld aan boord van een vliegtuig.
De data geven de onderzoekers inzicht in onder meer de dikte en structuur van de ijskap.
Heeft de Tempelberg misschien in een ver verleden ook een rol gespeeld bij de aanwezigheid van de Goden op aarde. Wordt er ook in de Tempelberg iets geactiveerd, net zoals bij de piramides?
In 2011 vond er nog een merkwaardig voorval plaats op de Tempelberg. Een gebeurtenis die door talloze mensen is gezien en vastgelegd en waarvan de mainstream-media niet wisten hoe snel ze dit tot hoax moesten verklaren.
Op 28 januari 2011 daalde ’s avonds een UFO neer boven de Rotskoepel op de berg en schoot even later met een onvoorstelbare snelheid weer de lucht in.
Voor de mainstream wereld zou het hier gaan om een hoax, in elkaar gezet door iemand die met zijn video zoveel mogelijk bezoekers wilde trekken om hiermee geld te verdienen, maar de werkelijkheid ligt ook hier zoals zo vaak wat anders.
Er is namelijk niet één opname van dit fenomeen gemaakt, maar meerdere, door verschillende mensen en vanaf verschillende posities. De kans dat deze opnames echt zijn, is dan ook veel groter dan dat ze allemaal nep zouden zijn.
Bovendien zijn er nog meer merkwaardigheden, zoals te zien in de volgende video:
Om te beginnen zegt hij dat ook hij uitgebreide analyses heeft uitgevoerd voor wat betreft de opnames van deze gebeurtenis en dat ze honderd procent echt zijn. Niet alleen zijn er door talloze verschillende mensen opnames gemaakt, het is daarnaast volgens hem nog gezien door ongeveer 10.000 ooggetuigen, bestaande uit een mix van toeristen en lokale bewoners.
Ook vertelt hij dat gedurende de kruistochten de Tempeliers een aantal heilige objecten hebben verborgen onder de Rotskoepel. Die objecten zouden dan onder andere zijn de Ark van het Verbond en de Heilige Graal.
Velen zullen zich afgevraagd hebben wat die UFO daar op dat moment te zoeken had, wetende dat ze zouden worden opgemerkt door duizenden mensen. Waarom kwam het juist naar beneden boven een tempel die duizenden jaren oud is?
Scott denkt dat hij het antwoord op die vraag heeft:
Ze noemen het niet voor niets Rotskoepel. De tempel uit die tijd werd gebouwd bovenop een rots die een heilige betekenis had. Het is een heilige rots voor zowel Joden als moslims.
Moslims zeggen dat de rots de plek is van de nachtreis van de profeet Mohammed. Op een nacht toen Mohammed lag te slapen in de buurt van Mekka kwam de engel Gabriël bij Mohammed en nam hem mee naar al-Mashjid al-Aqsa (de verste moskee) in Jeruzalem, gelegen op een steenworp afstand van de Rotskoepel.
Vanaf de rots reisde Mohammed samen met de engel Gabriël naar de hemel, waar hij andere profeten ontmoette zoals Jezus en Mozes. Ook zag hij daar zowel de hel als het paradijs en zag tenslotte God op zijn troon, omringd door engelen.
Scott zegt nu dat de UFO die we boven de Rotskoepel zien, niemand minder is dan de engel Gabriël.
De rots heeft volgens hem een heilige betekenis die heel ver teruggaat en bevat waarschijnlijk ook hele oude technologie, waarbij mensen snel konden reizen van de ene plek in het heelal naar de andere (teleportatie). Misschien kwam die UFO wel om dat dimensieportaal in de rots opnieuw te activeren. Of misschien was het Gabriël die daar nogmaals kwam ter gedachtenis aan het eerdere bezoek aan zijn goede vriend Mohammed.
De engel Gabriël was buitenaards, beschikte over vergevorderde technologie, waardoor mensen hem in die dagen alleen maar konden identificeren als een dienaar en/of boodschapper van God.
En dit is volgens Scott Waring het geheim achter de mysterieuze en tot op de dag van vandaag niet verklaarde UFO boven de Rotskoepel een aantal jaren geleden.
Tot slot nog een deel uit een eerder artikel waaruit blijkt dat er zich vaker vreemde dingen voordoen rondom de Tempelberg, de locatie van de Rotskoepel.
De Tempelberg of de berg Moria, door joden Har ha-Bayit en door moslims Haram al-Sharif genoemd, is een heuvel in het oostelijk deel van de door Israël bezette en geannexeerde oude stad Jeruzalem (in Oost-Jeruzalem), die voor elk van de drie abrahamitische religies (jodendom, christendom en islam) van groot belang is. De Haram es-Sharif wordt beheerd door een islamitische waqf, een religieuze stichting.
De bovenzijde van de berg is onder Herodes de Grote vlak gemaakt en vormt een plein met een oppervlakte van ongeveer 15 hectare. Midden op dit tempelplein staat de Rotskoepel, en aan de zuidzijde de Al-Aqsamoskee, gebouwd door de Omajjaden. Tevens bevinden zich hier meerdere islamitische bouwwerken, waaronder de Dome of the Chain, de Kettingkoepel.
De Westmuur (ook wel Klaagmuur genoemd) is een gedeelte van de westelijke muur dat het plateau omringt onder het niveau van het tempelplein en vormt mede het fundament waarop de Rotskoepel en de Al-Aqsamoskee staan. Vanaf het plein aan de Westmuur, waar tot 1967 de Marokkaanse wijk lag, loopt nu de houten Mughrabibrug omhoog, vanwaar men via de Mughrabipoort toegang heeft tot het tempelplein. Voor niet-moslims is dit de enige manier om de Tempelberg te bereiken.
Vorig jaar bezocht een vrouw deze Tempelberg en zij zag een paar merkwaardige dingen in de lucht en niet alleen dat, ze kreeg er ook een heel akelig gevoel bij.
Ze maakte een aantal foto’s en zegt dat ze niet alleen een soort vreemde cirkelvormige wolk ontdekte, maar ook drie verschillende zonnen zag.
Van de drie “zonnen” die zij zag lijkt de kleinste op een lensflare, maar naast de zon is inderdaad een tweede lichtbron te zien en ook zie je de contouren van een soort cirkelvormige chemtrail. (Redactie: De dame verklaart in de video dat ze dingen met het blote oog zag maar we zijn er niet zeker van of dat ook met deze 3 zonnen het geval was.)
In de onderstaande video doet de vrouw haar verhaal en vertelt de verslaggever dat zij ervan overtuigd is dat we hier te maken hebben met een fenomeen dat waarschijnlijk is veroorzaakt door CERN omdat zij nu ook beschikken over een soort filiaal in Jordanië, Sesame genaamd.
In het kader van de samenwerking met CERN claimt zij verder dat de koning van Jordanië een enorme generator heeft geïnstalleerd op de Tempelberg, waarvan zij zegt dat deze ook een rol speelt in de totstandkoming van de taferelen in de lucht.
Het is een bizarre situatie rondom die Tempelberg, want de koning van Jordanië zou dit inderdaad kunnen doen.
Net als de andere wijken van de Oude Stad in Oost-Jeruzalem, heeft Israël het gebied van de Tempelberg geannexeerd. Het beheer ervan is gebleven bij de Jordaanse islamitische waqf, een religieuze stichting. In 1988 erkende Israël de bevoegdheid van koning Hoessein van Jordanië om het toezicht op de heiligdommen op de Tempelberg te blijven behouden.
Dat CERN een honderd procent satanisch instituut is dat heel goed in staat zou zijn om bovengenoemde effecten te veroorzaken, staat buiten kijf.
Maar, gezien de bijzondere locatie is er wellicht ook nog een andere mogelijkheid en dat is dat er misschien toch ook een verband bestaat met de Goden uit de oudheid. Deze Goden, de Anunnaki, die nu met de nadering van hun planeet Nibirusteeds dichter in onze buurt komen.
In de video zegt de vrouw op een gegeven moment het volgende:
Lichtstralen die vanuit de Tempelberg lijken te komen en de lucht in schijnen.
Volgens Nancy Lieder waren de piramides navigatiebakens voor de Annunaki en het is dan ook geen toeval dat deze piramides met de komst van Nibiru de afgelopen jaren weer tot leven zijn gekomen.
Op een bijzondere manier, want verschillende keren zijn er de laatste jaren opnames gemaakt van piramides die een felle lichtstraal de hemel insturen zoals de volgende:
Heeft de Tempelberg misschien in een ver verleden ook een rol gespeeld bij de aanwezigheid van de Goden op aarde. Wordt er ook in de Tempelberg iets geactiveerd, net zoals bij de piramides?
It’s time for another edition of “Myth or History?” Today’s question: is the ancient lost city of Tenea, said to have been built by Trojan prisoners of war freed by the Greeks after the Trojan War, myth or history? If you said “Myth,” you were right … until this week. That’s when the Greek Culture Ministry announced that archaeologists “located the first tangible remains” of the real lost city of Tenea. No word on whether they found Helen, her husband King Menelaus or Paris of Troy.
Helen of Troy
“The town called Tenea is just about sixty stades distant. The inhabitants say that they are Trojans who were taken prisoners in Tenedos by the Greeks, and were permitted by Agamemnon to dwell in their present home. For this reason they honor Apollo more than any other god.” — Pausanias, “Description of Greece”
The historical authenticity of the Trojan War, a Homeric tale of both gods and men, has long been debated. Tenea was mention by both Pausanias, a Greek traveler and geographer in the second century CE, and Strabo, a Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian in the first century CE. Tenea was said to be south of the ancient port of Corinth and succeeded as a settlement, eventually developing its own government. It was said to have been spared by the Romans when they destroyed Corinth in 146 BCE, but it eventually collapsed on its own and disappeared, establishing itself as a “lost city.”
While artifacts had been found, including a statue dating to 550 BCE of a youth that was named Kouros of Tenea, none offered conclusive proof of the existence of the lost city. Despite that, archaeologist Elena Korka formed a team and began digging where she thought Tenea would be, encouraged by pottery fragments and a sarcophagus containing the remains of a high-society woman from about the right time period. In 2017, they found tombs of wealthy individuals, gilded bronze leaves, a golden ring, precious stones, gold and bronze coins, vases and a series of decorated lamps. Not proof yet, but they were getting close.
Kouros of Tenea
This week, Korka, who is now Greece’s director of antiquities and cultural heritage, unveiled stone walls with door openings and floors that were definitely from the lost city of Tenea.
“It is significant that the remnants of the city, the paved roads, the architectural structure, came to light. We’ve found evidence of life and death … and all this is just a small part of the history of the place.”
For being prisoners of war, the founders of Tenea did surprisingly well. The coins were indicators of economic success and the items in the tombs identified their owners as wealthy individuals. The find was not just of a few buildings or tombs either.
“These buildings date from early Hellenistic to late Roman times and appear to be expanding in all directions. Research will continue in these areas in the next period. Building remains reveal continuous interventions and remodeling due to their long period of use.”
As always, more excavations will occur. The archeologists are fortunate to have the help of residents of the modern city who have formed the ” Friends of Ancient Tenea.”
The lost mythical city of Tenea has been found, proving it to be real. Now let’s find that giant wooden horse.
There are few places in this world as permeated and imbued with wonder and mystery as ancient Egypt. This is the land that gave us the mysteries of the pyramids and various other legendary enigmas that stretch back into the furthest reaches of history and the murky depths of time. Of all of these various mysteries, one that truly stands out is that of a mystical curse, to have been bestowed upon the tombs of the ancient kings, and which has gone on to become a popular legend and point of speculation in the world of the paranormal. Here we have a bit of mystery, adventure, and exploration, mixed with deadly magical evil. This is the curse of King Tut.
The rulers of ancient Egypt, known as the Pharaohs, were seen by their people as actual gods, and this reverence for them continued on even when their earthly form inevitably died. In order to make sure that the beloved kings could more effectively make the journey to the afterlife, the kings were carefully and meticulously embalmed and mummified, preserving the body forevermore, after which they were ensconced within extravagant, ornate tombs. These tombs were loaded with vast riches, countless valuable artifacts, and often livestock or servants who were sealed away in the perpetual dark along with their master, and everything else the Pharaoh would possibly need in order to live on in the next realm.
The tombs themselves were carefully sealed in order to keep away would be grave robbers, sometimes booby trapped as well or containing numerous false doorways or labyrinthine passages that led to nowhere in order t sow confusion, and in some cases the entrances to the tombs were inscribed with powerful curses for the purpose of bringing down strife, misfortune, and death upon any who would dare defile the final resting places of the Pharaohs. Many of these curses are quite ominous and threatening indeed, such as the one carved into the stone of the the tomb of Khentika Ikhekhi, of the 9th and 10th dynasty, which reads, “As for all men who shall enter this my tomb… impure… there will be judgment… an end shall be made for him… I shall seize his neck like a bird… I shall cast the fear of myself into him. As for him who shall destroy this inscription: He shall not reach his home. He shall not embrace his children. He shall not see success.” This was rather common for such curses, and they seem for the most part to have been something not to trifle with.
Howard Carter
Rumors of the “Curse of the Pharaohs,” as well as the ancient secrets of Egypt itself, gained great interest and popularity in the West during the 19th and 20th centuries, mingling with the romantic allure of this far away exotic land to imbue it with a sense of dark magic and legend. Regardless of the curses supposedly hanging over these tombs, grave robbers had still managed to loot many of these sacred places, stealing the treasure and priceless relics contained within, proving to be a bane for the numerous European adventurers and archeologists who began pouring into the region looking for intact, untouched tombs and ancient treasure for them to study, but mostly finding ones that had long ago been pillaged and gutted of teir valuables. Nevertheless, this was an age of real life Indiana Jones adventures, as the outsiders spread out under the desert sun and these scorched lands to look for ancient secrets buried out in the sands.
One of the adventurers who made it to this faraway land of Egyptian kings and their mysterious tombs was a British archeologist by the name of Howard Carter, who was in particular obsessed with locating the lost tomb of the great King Tutankhamun, commonly referred to as simply King Tut. In life, Tutankhamun had been the ruler of all of Egypt from 1332 B.C, taking over the role from his father, Pharaoh Akhenaten, at the tender age of just 9 years old, giving him the nickname The Great Boy King, and he made sweeping changes under his short but illustrious rule. King Tut would die under mysterious circumstances at the age of 19, after which there were a great many efforts by successrs to actually physically remove him from the face of history by erasing his name from all records. Obviously this did not work, and King Tutankhamun would later go on to become one of the most famous of all Pharaohs, partly due to the fact that his mysterious lost tomb had never been found and partly due to the efforts of Carter and his team, as well as the ominous rumors of a curse that would follow.
Carter came to Egypt in the 1890s with the backing of a Lord Carnarvon, who also just so happened to have been an avid amateur Egyptologist who believed that not only was King Tut’s tomb out there to be discovered, but that it was one of the few such tombs remaining that was still sealed and undefiled. Carter spent years scouring the desert looking for the tomb without success, and Lord Carnarvon almost called the whole thing off after sinking so much money into endless expeditions that failed to produce any results. Just when it seemed that Carnarvon was going to give up and pull his funding, Carter managed to stumble across what they had been looking for in November of 1922, after accidentally discovering a series of deep cut steps leading down into the earth right up beside a pyramid. They followed these steps by digging deeper and deeper into the earth, uncovering more steps as they went into the gloom, until they came to an inscription marking the sealed entrance of Tutankhamen’s tomb.
At the time is was a marvelous and groundbreaking discovery, an ancient Pharaoh’s tomb that was actually still for the most part intact and free of any looting. The possibilities for what lie beyond that inscrutable thick stone slab were endless, and Carter immediately sent for Lord Carnarvon to come join him at the dig for the purpose of penetrating this long sealed place hidden away from human eyes for millennia. That very same night there would be the first in what would be a long line of oddness when Carter was told by a panicked servant that a cobra had broken into the cage of the canary that the explorer had been using to gauge the safety of the air in the tomb and had eaten the bird. The servant took this to be a dire warning from beyond the grave, and allegedly told Carter, “That is the Pharoh’s servant and he has sent it to kill the bird for leading you to the tomb! You must not disturb Pharoh Tutankhamun’s peace!”
As spooky as all of this was, Carter was a man of science, and did not put much stock in this superstitious nonsense. He had the servant dismissed and awaited the arrival of Lord Carnarvon, while the media began to work itself into a fervor over the discovery of this long lost and very much intact tomb that had been there sitting in the dark for thousands of years. On the day that the tomb was opened, Carter began by poking a small hole through the entrance, through which he peered by candlelight, the first eyes to meet what lie within for millennia, the first light to hit it, and stated that he could see “wonderful, wonderful things.”
Indeed, as they pushed into the inner sanctum, their thirst for discovery overriding any talk of ancient nefarious curses, one very vocal proponent of the curse was the novelist Marie Corelli, who lamented, “the most dire punishment follows any rash intruder into a sealed tomb.” These warnings were drowned out in the celebratory fanfare, and as the explorers pushed into the murk of the actual burial chamber they uncovered a treasure trove of findings, including religious objects, wealth, gold, paintings, statues, scrolls, and a gold encrusted sarcophagus containing the mummified remains of King Tutankhamen himself. According to the lore, there was also allegedly found a stone tablet inscribed with a curse, which simply read “Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the peace of the King.” Carter would later deny that any such tablet had been found, but the strange phenomena that would orbit the discovery from then on would speak for itself.
One of the first victims of the “Curse of King Tut” would be Lord Carnarvon, who was bitten by a mosquito on his cheek not long after the discovery and would subsequently cut the bite while shaving. Bizarrely, the cut would become hellaciously infected and he would go on to die of acute blood poisoning. Oddly, it was allegedly to be found that the body of King Tut displayed a similar wound upon the cheek, in precisely the same spot as Carnarvon’s ultimately lethal injury. His death really catapulted the talk of ancient curses into the spotlight, and before long there was much gossip on the awakening of a sinister curse that should have stayed buried down there beneath the sand forevermore. It was all further fueled by a statement from Sherlock Holmes author Conan O’Doyle, who speculated that the death had been caused by elemental spirits tasked with guarding the tomb. Other rumors that would spring up to reinforce this are that Lord Carnarvon’s dog let out a howl before dying at the same time, as well as the story that the power in Cairo temporarily went out when the Lord died.
Another rather notorious aspect of the King Tut curse comes in the form of a small golden scarab bracelet that had been found in the burial chamber attached to the mummified hand and had been presented to a Sir Bruce Ingham. The bracelet apparently had born the sinister inscription, “Cursed be he who moves my body, to him shall come fire, water and pestilence,” and sure enough Ingram’s house is said to have burnt down under mysterious circumstances shortly after receiving it. In the meantime, Carter, who did not believe one iota in any sort of supernatural curse, did claim to have seen the presence of a type of jackal similar to the same type depicted in the Anubis, roaming about a region of the desert where they had not been seen for decades.
Whether Carter believed any of this or not, the string of deaths concerning those who had been involved with the discovery of King Tut’s tomb would continue. Prince Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey of Egypt was shot dead by his wife in 1923, Sir Archibald Douglas Reid, who had helped to X-ray the mummy, died under mysterious circumstances in 1924. George Jay Gould I, a visitor to the tomb, died in 1923 after developing a mystery fever, Sir Lee Stack, Governor-General of Sudan, died after an assassination in 1924, Arthur Mace, of Carter’s excavation team, died of arsenic poisoning in 1928, another died in a horrific accident, Carter’s secretary Richard Bethell was suffocated in his bed in 1929, Bethell’s father committed suicide in 1930, and a Lord Westbury killed himself by jumping from the roof of his home. Indeed, by 1935 there was a total of 21 deaths supposedly linked to the relentless “Curse of King Tut,” and Carter himself would die of lymphoma in 1939 at the age of 64, funnily enough after long adamantly dismissing all talk of curses surrounding the tomb.
The suspicious number of deaths congregating around this “cursed” tomb and others like it have been cause for a good amount of speculation over the years. One is that the toxins and chemicals used in the embalming process might become concentrated enough in these sealed, confined spaces to produce dire health problems down the line. There is even the idea that the curse was caused by some form of illness triggered by a type of fungus commonly called “black mold” (Aspergillus niger), or something similar, which can cause all sorts of health issues ranging from fever to diminished immune systems, organ failure, and much worse, although it is hard to reconcile some of the deaths here with the effects of a fungus.
Of course there is a lot of skepticism pointed at the talk of a curse. When the tomb was opened there were many people present, most of whom went on to live long and healthy lives, and even the ones who died are not beyond what would be expected, After all, several of them already had health problems, and of course someone is going to eventually die. It has been pointed out that there is nothing particularly statistically anomalous about the deaths revolving around King Tut’s tomb, so perhaps the media talk of diabolical ancient curses has just managed to color the deaths that did happen and cast them in a more sinister light? It is hard to say. It all fits into a similar trend with other cursed placs and items, in that it is difficult to tell if this is all freaky coincidence or if there is something truly paranormal going on. Whatever the case may be, the curse of King Tut’s tomb has gone on to become almost legendary, and it remains a most curious historical oddity and companion to an era of discovery and adventure.
Four Ancient Monuments On Mars Still Visible On Google Mars Map, On 8.6km long! Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Four Ancient Monuments On Mars Still Visible On Google Mars Map, On 8.6km long! Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: 2009-2010, but revisiting today.
Location of discovery: 33°12'29.82"N, 12°55'51.21"W
Here's an old discovery I made back in 2010 and wanted to revisit it to see if its still there and it sure was. I really thought that Google Mars map would have edited these faces, figure and giant arrow out...but they didn't and thats rare. Usually objects are edited out within 3-6 months after reporting them on Google Earth, however, Mars map is less edited.
There are four ancient monuments seen here.
1. Face one, human like, but with bigger ears.
2. Face two, non human, near leg of figure.
3. Tall standing figure, with long arms and legs.
4. An arrow pointing to the tall figures head.
The standing figure measures 8.6km or 5.3 miles from top of head to bottom of feet. The figures long arm measures 3.4 miles or 5.5km long. The Arrow measures 1.9km long, 1.1km wide at tip. The face near the leg is 1.76km from chin to top of head. The human face is 2.0km from head to lower neck.
The detail of these ancient monuments are outstanding. Its hard to believe that NASA has never discussed even one of them, let alone ignoring all four. These are too large to ignore.
Much like the large face at Cydonia, Mars everyone has heard of. I have found a lot of faces since I was 7 years old at Silicon Valley, CA including the face at Cydonia. Yes others take credit, they always do, but I know the truth and it feels like yesterday, even though it was 43 years ago. I wrote about it several times and is included in my book UFO Sightings of 2006-2009.
I was looking at a photo of Saturns moon Titan that was taken by using radar from Cassini orbiter so that they can see below surface of its lakes and oceans. On the far lower right hand corner is a round tubular alien structure. Its hidden below the surface but its really big. Its hard to estimate its size but my best guess would be its 25 miles across. Perfect size for thousands of aliens to live.
This structures shape is not something that would normally be seen made in nature, especially that size. The structure is probably a alien ship that can fly through space, but has landed in this location to do its work or to make a station for travelers. The right side has tube endings..which I assume are the back of the craft. The left side is more rounded and disk like which is probably the front of the craft.
I found a large triangle UFO that was sitting in the center of a crater on the moon. The UFO is dead center in Plaskett crater. ESA says that crater is 109km in diameter. That would mean this UFO is 25+ miles across! The shape and size would be fitting for a craft that travels across the universe. Sitting in the center of the crater makes me wonder if its been abandoned due to being outdated? Often I find ships in craters, however they are usually parked close to the inner edges so that they have some shelter to protect them. There is no intent or worry about have such protection here. I find that odd.
Perhaps Sir Trevor McDonald was simply overcome with X-Files fever like the rest of the nation in 1994 when he stated that UFOs were a reality. But has the Pentagon now proven him right? Science and technology with Bill Bain
SIR Trevor McDonald is a guy you can trust. It’s his unique selling point – natural authority crystallised by a rich vocal timbre oozing gravitas and empathy. Then there’s that fine moustache – a symbol of old-school chivalry, curled snugly around his tunnel of truth like a greying cat warmed by the hot breath of righteousness.
If Trevor ever approached you in the city centre, all urine-stained jogging bottoms and uncomfortable familiarity, asking for change towards his train fare home, you wouldn’t hesitate to dig deep – perhaps handing over your £1000 smart phone too so he could check the Central Station timetable.
That’s why I believed this establishment-approved Knight of the Realm when he said UFOs were real. The year was 1994 – the fag end of true reality, a few years before the mass fractionalisation, isolationism and grotesque self-glorification bequeathed to us by the digital dawn. No phones, no internet, your gran could whistle the Top Ten and 30 million folk watched Coronation Street. Before Xhamster, Ken Barlow’s rampant bed-hopping was all teenagers had to learn about sex.
This vacuum of yawning nothingness allowed for mass pop culture crazes that infected entire continents with short-lived delirium – and in 1994, the brow of the globe’s collective consciousness was hot and sweaty with X-Files fever.
In fact, so seismic was the show’s influence that ITV saw fit to dedicate an entire evening’s scheduling to UFOs – showcased somewhat predictably in the familiar format of a panel debate. Nothing that would scare the horses, then – or elderly folk too jiggered to get up and change the channel after Corrie.
Saucers full of secrets
IT was as a prelude to this peculiar pow-wow that host Sir Trevor greeted viewers with an unforgettable soliloquy. “We’re here tonight not to decide if UFOs are real – unidentified flying objects clearly are real,” he announced, steely-jawed, unblinking. “Something is in our skies. We’re here to discuss what they could be and from where they might originate.”
It didn’t matter that Trevor was likely reading some faceless producer’s hyperbolic spiel from an autocue. The significance lay in the fact someone who didn’t cut his own hair or eat roadkill just told the nation UFOs were real.
Even unbound by its ubiquitous acronym, 'unidentified flying objects' being legitimised on ITV should have been a cultural watershed – a moment where even the most earthbound of cynics recalibrated their stance.
Yet, nearly a quarter of a century later, the credibility of UFOs has lost much of its worth in terms of cultural currency. Even reputable sightings like the darting lights witnessed by several commercial airline pilots over Ireland last week barely registered a raised eyebrow.
Perhaps, then, UFOs really are just a fading hangover from less informed times, when our species was far more susceptible to vague notions of the supernatural – before smartphone addiction stopped our minds from wandering, killing imagination, wonder and creativity stone dead.
Perhaps Sir Trevor’s new gig chatting to folk with morals lower than snake testicles – not celebs, the monsters he salaciously affords the oxygen of publicity on his abhorrent Inside Death Row show – is also indicative of today’s anaesthetised indifference to anything that’s not taking place within our own silos.
The dying scream of a world quickly spiralling into an uninhabitable, fascist dystopia is being deafened by the static of digital isolation. In such a dystopian, self-obsessed reality, it might actually take something as seismic as the sight of a UFO hovering over a major city to dig us out our deep burrows and unite us again as a species.
Escape the net
THE smoking gun often held up by cynics dismissing the UFO phenomenon is the distinct lack of any clear photos in this smartphone-dominated era.
Certainly, two major online sites for reporting sightings – the National UFO Reporting Center and the Mutual UFO Network – have both experienced numerical declines parallel to Gary Glitter’s royalty cheques.
The internet itself can certainly shoulder some of the blame for UFOs' fading fame too. Despite the initial promise that free access to information and instant communication could birth a more enlightened, empowered and equal world, a grotesque funfair mirror reflection of reality has instead haemorrhaged.
Without gatekeepers, lies are now afforded an equal platform to truth, and the ensuing static serves only to discombobulate focus and perception. In the era of spin, reality distortion, Photoshop and Deepfakes, good luck finding credible evidence of your own existence never mind UFOs. The internet is rather like communism – wonderful in theory, but the cradle of true horror when human nature is added to the formulae.
At times, however, some notable events do cut through the noise. Commercial pilots are certainly credible witnesses and last week’s incident over the Irish sea proved that very strange things continue to happen in our skies – even odder than folk willingly paying £10 for a coffee and biscuit.
Some of the individuals now coming forward to tell their stories are actually more plausible witnesses than those we trust to steer us through the clouds in a sky-dart – high ranking government employees and military personnel with nothing to gain and everything to lose. Yet, despite waving all manner of prestigious credentials, it’s likely they will be taken as seriously as folk who claim to have skinny-dipped with Nessie.
Full Disclosure
OVER the past few decades, there have been several “official” movements attempting to find some sort of objective truth on UFOs.
The most high profile is ‘Disclosure’, where ufologist Steven Greer herded 20 whistle-blowers –including astronaut Gordon Cooper and a brigadier general – for a fascinating press conference held in Washington DC in 2001. The aim? To “establish the reality of extraterrestrial vehicles, life forms and advanced propulsion technologies”. The bantz at that Christmas party must be awesome.
Yet, groups like Disclosure are finding it tough to gain publicity in the mainstream media, where editors have licked a finger and held it to the wind, deeming the public has lost its appetite for such frivolity in an age filled with real clear and present otherworldly dangers.
But who needs the media as a conduit when the lying, conspiring governments themselves are now releasing the most intriguing and credible UFO evidence for public consumption?
Perhaps most jaw-dropping of all the recently declassified military footage released by the US Defence Department is an encounter between Navy F-18 fighters and several unidentified aircraft. The recording captures several pilots discussing a hovering egg-shaped craft, apparently one of a “fleet”. Another film trumps that however – showing an F-18’s close encounter with what is clearly, well, an unidentified flying object.
More sober mindsets will speculate if this was simply space junk catching the sun’s light or even an advanced craft piloted by tiny Russians. Yet, such speculation itself suggests something even more terrifying than the existence of UFOs – that we might actually be completely alone in the universe. Or perhaps we're simply in too early a stage of evolution to be interesting.
The Pentagon comes clean
IF it’s a credible UFO whistleblower you’re after, perhaps someone with a lot to lose from being subject to ridicule from his peers, then Christopher Mellon is your man – a former deputy assistant Secretary of Defence for Intelligence for the Clinton and George W Bush administrations.
Bemoaning the lack of transparent government investigations into valid sightings, Mellon recently told the Washington Post: “I know from numerous discussions with Pentagon officials over the past two years that military departments and agencies treat such incidents as isolated events rather than as part of a pattern requiring serious attention and investigation.”
He also makes reference to his colleague Luis Elizondo - who used to run a Pentagon intelligence program examining evidence of “anomalous” aircraft - resigning in protest at the US government’s seeming indifference to a “growing body of empirical data”.
“Nobody wants to be ‘the alien guy’ in the national security bureaucracy,” Mellon soberly concluded. “Nobody wants to be ridiculed or sidelined for drawing attention to the issue. Yet, the current attitude is a serious and recurring impediment to progress.”
Other declassified documents reveal that the US Air Force recently launched several F-15 fighters in a failed attempt to intercept an unidentified high-speed aircraft darting over the Pacific. Defence Department officials also confirmed more than a dozen similar incidents taking place off the US East Coast since 2015.
It’s perhaps no coincidence that these stories emerged not long after the Pentagon itself publicly acknowledged the existence of a program dedicated to studying unidentified flying objects. The soberly-monikered Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program ran from 2007 to 2012, but many officials claim its efforts have simply resumed under another name. Either way, admission of its existence has marked one of the most significant disclosures about UFO government research since the infamous Project Blue Book, a lengthy US Air Force study into thousands of sightings that was shut down in 1969.
Officially, Project Blue Book failed to find “any technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge”, yet a small number of its investigations remain unexplained. And that’s the thing – if even one of the millions of UFO sightings is true, then the phenomenon is conclusively proven. Just one.
Wha’s like US?
FAR from being a spectacle confined to the toothless whispers of mulleted banjo prodigies, Scotland is no stranger to wee visits from aliens, interdimentional structures, highly evolved sky dragons and time travellers from the future. Perhaps all four if you're in Port Glasgow.
Just last year, an Airbus A320 with 220 people on board which was making its final approach into Glasgow airport, came within 300 feet of colliding with a “blue, yellow and silver” object, which pilots witnessed flying underneath it. The disturbed crew immediately contacted air traffic control, stating: “Not quite sure what it was but it’s definitely quite large and it’s blue and yellow.” Prestwick airport backed up the sighting, with radar detecting an “unidentified track history” 1.3 miles east of the plane's position 28 seconds earlier.
However Scotland’s most infamous UFO tale, unique in British history as the only example of a close encounter becoming the subject of a criminal investigation, is known as The Livingston Incident. Forestry worker Robert Taylor claims he saw "a huge flying dome" in woodland near Dechmont Law on November 9, 1979, describing it as seven metres in diameter, and made of a dark metallic material with a rough texture like sandpaper.
Taylor claimed to have experienced an acrid smell "like burning brakes" and the sensation of being dragged. When police visited the site, they found marks in the soil where the craft was said to have hovered, and further tracks following the path of two “mine-like objects”. Taylor, who died in 2007, never sought publicity or financial gain – and always stood by his account.
Perhaps he would have found a more sympathetic audience in Bonnybridge, home of the infamous 'Falkirk Triangle’. This well-kent – and henceforth thoroughly monetised – phenomenon was first reported in 1992 and the area still continues to register around 300 sightings a year, more than any other place on Earth – even more than the notorious Area 51 in Nevada. The fact it attracts a lot of UFO tourists who are perhaps inclined to believe in the phenomenon – and also want their money's worth – is neither here nor there, of course.
Scots UFO expert Ron Halliday says: "One theory is that there could be a window into another dimension, other worlds, the past or the future.” Even Nessie probably thinks that's a bit outlandish. Although where else would you visit but Scotland if this planet is simply some sort of space zoo for holidaying Zeta Reticulians?
And finally …
Temporal lobe epilepsy is an unenviable yet fascinating condition that many doctors deem entirely responsible for all occurances of inexplicable supernatural phenomena, from UFOs to religious communion to the indeterminate forces holding Donald Trump’s barnet together.
Those afflicted may not be aware of their condition, unwittingly suffering brief seizures, paralysis, vivid hallucinations and – notably – an overwhelming feeling of something other in their vicinity.
If UFOs are indeed a purely internally projected phenomenon, we can then safely assume such stories would likely reflect current sociological, technological and cultural fears and aspirations.
Certainly during the Cold War, the beings described in these close encounters were often characterised as benign saviours who wanted to help humans overcome the prospect of nuclear annihilation.
And after events such as Watergate and the Vietnam war fuelled mass distrust in government, witnesses came to describe UFOs as a threat to humanity – their sinister occupants often rendering abductees powerless and repeatedly probing them intimately against their will.
He believes the three asteroids will arrive on the third day of “five waves of energy” washing over the planet – an event which he says could be more than a mere coincidence.
The conspiracy theorist said: “Three asteroids are on their way this weekend, we just found out within an hour. Three of them.
“They’re not going to hit us, they shouldn’t. They’re going to come close and are coming the same weekend of the third wave of the five waves of energy.
“Now, 40 fireballs broke through the Earth’s atmosphere last night, so what’s going on here?”
The firebrand preacher claimed “something ugly is happening in the heavens” and suggested it could be the wrath of God.
PROPHECY: Some doomsayers believe the bible predicted the end of the world (Pic: Getty)
NASA predicts the first asteroid, named Asteroid 2018 VS1, will pass the Earth around 2.03pm.
The second asteroid is comparable in size and speed to Asteroid VS1 but will only come as close as 3.12 million miles.
But, terrifyingly, the third space rock with hurl passed later in the afternoon – this time coming closer than the moon.
Pastor Begley defended his claims, saying his interpretations of the end times approaching are purely based on Christian scripture and the word of God.
He said: “I’m not in charge of how God is going to shake the heavens, I’m supposed to just tell you that he is going to shake the heavens.
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BIZARRE: The preacher warned blasphemers before the apocalypse (Pic: Youtube)
“And when people say ‘well I don’t believe he’s going to shake the heavens’ then I say ok, well here’s what some scientists say could cause it.
“As a matter of fact, here’s what’s already happened in the past in Exodus Chapter Nine when fire mingled with hail and hailstones fell on the Earth and the fire rang along the earth creating chaos.
“If you read Revelation it tells you it will. If you read Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21 – if you read second Peter Chapter 3 you know that Peter says that Earth is going to melt with a fervent heat.”
The preacher claimed the asteroids and waves of energies passing over Earth are all signs of the second coming of Jesus Christ.
PREDICTION: The end is near, according to some (Pic: Getty)
“The end is near”
Begley
He said: “People need to be saved and people need to be ready because we are truly living in the last days. Can you say amen?”
Of course the warning about the upcoming rapture is the latest prophecy about the arrival of the apocalypse.
The predictions conflict other end of the world forecasts, including that of serial end of the world predictor David Meade – who said a mythological planetary system known as Planet X or Nibiru would appear in the sky and wipe pout humanity last year.
Jonathan Sarfati of Creation Ministries International said such doomsday predictions reflect little understanding of astronomy and theology.
That’s not to debunk the belief and biblical teachings about an end and Judgment Day, experts say.
While people of different faiths believe that there will be some religious end to life on Earth, they disagree about how it will happen.
Scientists have several theories about when Earth will be destroyed, although none of the data points to tomorrow.
The most widely accepted theory is that the Sun, which is already gradually increasing in temperature, will expand and swallow up the planet. Some scientists believe this could happen as soon as 7.6billion years’ time.
CREEPY: Is this painting proof aliens have been visiting Earth? (Pic: GETTY)
The artwork, which dates from the 15th century, is proof aliens have been visiting our planet for hundreds of years, according to conspiracy theorists.
An unknown artist painted Madonna and Child with the Infant, Saint John the Baptist.
It can be found in the Hall of Hercules in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy.
PROOF? The UFO can be seen in the top right and alien-like creatures in the top left (Pic: GETTY)
“Are these also aliens?”
The Ancient Aliens website
Alien hunters have noticed something behind the Madonna and baby Jesus and St John in the artwork.
A disc can be seen in the top right of the painting – with speculation it could be a extraterrestrial UFO.
In the top left, an “odd creature with tentacles” can also be spotted.
This is evidence that other-worldly creatures have been visiting planet Earth, according to alien hunters.
Burning objects in the Nashville sky Saturday night? Paratroopers at the Vandy game
Burning objects in the Nashville sky Saturday night? Paratroopers at the Vandy game
An object streaking across the Nashville skyline Saturday night got people talking — and speculating about what it was.
An object was seen streaking across the sky in Nashville on Saturday, Nov. 17.
Matt Burke
Despite some speculation that it was activity from the Leonid meteor shower, the arrival of aliens or something more serious (the FAA reported no plane crashes), it was actually paratroopers dropping into the Vanderbilt football game.
The paratroopers, outfitted with flares, dropped into Vanderbilt Stadium about the time the burning objects caught the eyes of Nashville skywatchers.
Reports of burning objects falling from the sky first started coming in shortly before 6:30 p.m.
About 100 people were standing outside Bridgestone Arena before the Predators game against the L.A. Kings on Saturday night and saw the display, said Michael Schneider, who was one of many Nashville residents to capture the images on his phone.
But the activity immediately led to rampant speculation about the source of the flaming UFOs.
The FAA and National Weather Service did not immediately return messages for comment, leaving us reasonably assured that nothing more serious took place in the sky over Nashville on Saturday night.
According to Plato, and indeed Greek mythology, Atlantis was protected by the god Poseidon, who for some unexplained reason, made his son Atlas king of this mythical land. We perceive this explanation given by Plato, as a clue to the fate of not only Atlantis but the pre-diluvian world. Atlas being the defining individual and indeed word, which could unravel this mystery. Is it mere coincidence that atlas is incredibly similar in lexical similarity to Atlantis, and also that it is the name given to the map of modern landmasses and indeed the oceans of our modern world?
Could this making of Atlas as king by Poseidon, claimed by Plato, be an admittance to an awareness of the Atlanteans fate by Plato himself? With Poseidon deciding the fate of Atlantis, the God of the Sea, Earthquakes and thus Cataclysm? Has this mythical continent of Atlantis never been found, because we have already found it? Proof of their existence and indeed inhabited landmasses, being all the existing advanced ancient ruins, we so often cover here on our channel which escape explanation, surviving above the waves?
Not only has the ancient pyramids been found to have once been submerged under several metres of sea water, but countless other ruins we have covered also share this intriguing characteristic. Are we looking at the past existence of the Atlanteans, every time we explore an as yet, unexplained advanced ancient ruin? The instructors of these ruins, the font of this knowledge, having been the Atlanteans themselves? Who just like the legends tell of, met their untimely demise at the hands of a great deluge? We find the evidence to suggest such, highly compelling.
Ex-General of the United States talks about what they really found on Mars
Ex-General of the United States talks about what they really found on Mars
Humanity has witnessed one of the greatest popular movements in the history of our planet. We have realized that the UFO phenomenon is not an isolated event, and there is more information on the subject than we have been led to believe. In the last couple of years, high-ranking individuals from politics, government and the military have spoken freely about the UFO phenomenon, suggesting that its reality and deserves more attention.
The UFO phenomenon, however, is not an isolated event that is only seen on planet Earth. While there are millions of people around the world who claim to have seen objects in the sky that defy explanation, astronauts in space have witnessed incredible things in recent decades.
From the mission of Apollo to the International Space Station, there are enough images to make a strong argument when it comes to visits from another world. In short, there are things that even science can not explain. Whether it is the Earth, the Moon or Mars, the UFO phenomenon is everywhere, and one of the most interesting statements made in recent years comes from General Stubblebine.
Some of the most startling statements come from Albert Stublebine, a Major General, who was also a Commander in Chief of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command, and one of the most distinguished soldiers in the United States and the head of Army Intelligence. U.S.
The statements were made by two possible personalities including John Podesta, who was the Chief of Staff of Bill Clinton and Counselor of Barack Obama.
Or by Dr. Brian O’Leary, a former NASA astronaut and professor of physics at Princeton University, who said: There is ample evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been contacting us for a very long time .
According to Alber Stubblebine, there are constructions on the surface of Mars, since there are underground areas. There are also machines on the surface of Mars.
At one point in his statement he says the following:
“There are structures on the surface of Mars. I will tell you so that there are structures below the surface of Mars that can not be seen by the Voyager cameras that happened in 1976. I will also tell you that there are machines on the surface of Mars and there are machines under the Surface of Mars that you can look at, you can discover in detail, you can see what they are, where they are, who they are and a lot of details about them. ”
So when it says who they are, I do not know if it refers to extraterrestrial beings or machines.
To make clear, in his statement the general does not mention anything about where he gets his sources, but the author makes an assumption that part of that information could come from the Remote Viewing Program. Since the general apparently played a key role in the Stargate project, it was a remote viewing program.
General Albert Stubblebine was an advocate of the “psychic” war and a key player in the “Stargate” project.
Remote viewing can be defined in multiple ways. It is the ability of people to describe a remote geographic location several hundred thousand kilometers away from their physical location.
The results of this project were declassified and published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. In this project, individuals successfully described physical objects that were not close to their physical location.
A strange coincidence about his birth and death of Albert Stubblebine :, he was born on February 6, 1930 and died on February 6, 2017.
NASA announces their return to the Moon. This time...
NASA announces their return to the Moon. This time... "to stay"
NASA announces their return to the moon. This time to create a sustainable outpost.
We’ve taken giant leaps and left our mark in the heavens. Now we’re building the next chapter, returning to the Moon to stay, and preparing to go beyond. We are NASA – and after 60 years, we’re just getting started.
The space race is very real between nations. It’s only a matter of time until wars are fought in space due to rapidly advancing tech. If we could claim the moon as a military outpost before Russia and China do, that would be a great thing. Unleash the space force!
Atlantis? Ancient Flooded Ruins Discovered On Satellite Images
Atlantis? Ancient Flooded Ruins Discovered On Satellite Images
Ancient ruins found flooded near the Spanish coast, could be the lost city of Atlantis.
Archaeologists have been trying to find the ancient lost city of Atlantis for years. thanks to satellite imagery, it could finally have been found. The ancient ruins that were found provide evidence that the city's huge harbor walls one stood in southern Spain - according to experts. Many of the sites that the team studies were already known and these are said to have been constructed by the ancient Romans and Greeks.
Researchers at a private satellite imaging firm, known as Merlin Burrows, have claimed to have found evidence that these sites were built by Atlanteans. Atlanteans are ancient people who we do not know much about currently. Atlantis was recorded in the writings of Plato, a Greek philosopher, in 400BC. Plato described an advanced island civilization that rules around 9,000 years before his era.
Atlantis was at the center of the empire and was described to have a huge harbor wall, entrance pillars, a temple to the god Poseidon and massive circular pieces of land carved out by the Atlanteans to live on. Some believe that a natural disaster, such as a tsunami or volcanic disaster, eventually wiped out the Atlanteans, causing their legacy to end and be confined to legends. Scientists are yet to find solid evidence that Atlantis even existed. Many scholars think of Plato's story as just that, a story, and a way to present his philosophical theories.
Shown above is what the Merlin Burrows believes to be the remainder of the harbor wall that Atlantis would have had. It is said to be five and a half miles long.
The experts at Merlin Burrows say that the flooded ruins of the legendary city are off the coast of southern Spain. The exact location being somewhere north of the city of Cadis, Andalucía, which is centered around the Donana National Park. Historians believe this once was a vast inland sea. Apparently there are 15 other settlements dotted along the coastline, which they say is further evidence of the ancient civilization.
Most of the settlements scattered across the coastline are believed to be Roman or Greek, according to archaeologists. This would make sense as each civilization once occupied these areas. However, using unique satellite techniques, aerial photography and ground observations of the site, British experts now believe that they have found all the features of the Atlantis that Plato described all those years ago.
The head historian, Tim Akers, at Merlin Burrows, has said that they haven't just found Atlantis but that they have also discovered that the people within were incredibly advanced. According to him, laboratory analysis of the material recovered from Spain showed evidence of a type of cement that has not been seen before - as well as ancient advanced metallurgy. The greenish blue patina that has been found covering some of the ruins, has been shown by tests to be an ancient combination of metals.
Aerial images of the site, show that what they think is evidence of a harbor wall, is a whopping 75 meters thick. Plato also writes that the wall stood 50 stadia long, which would convert into about five and a half miles long. These images also show that there are sand dunes where this massive wall was destroyed by a huge influx of water. This same water which eventually filled the inland sea with sediment and destroyed Atlantis.
Flying Saucer Like Object Filmed Passing By the Sun During Sunset By International Space Station
Flying Saucer Like Object Filmed Passing By the Sun During Sunset By International Space Station
This footage was spotted by Tom Brown whilst watching the live stream from space googlevesaire. Tom Brown says "I was watching the International Space Station live feed from a third party and noticed a flying saucer-shaped object pass by the sun. I don't think it is part of the ISS or a spec of dirt on the camera but an actual object in space whether it is a satellite, space rock, or whatever." This happened on November 15, 2018
TWO NEW SCIENTIFIC PAPERS SUGGEST A CATASTROPHIC EXTRATERRESTRIAL IMPACT EVENT OCCURRED 13,000 YEARS AGO
TWO NEW SCIENTIFIC PAPERS SUGGEST A CATASTROPHIC EXTRATERRESTRIAL IMPACT EVENT OCCURRED 13,000 YEARS AGO
‘Alternative history’ researcher and author Graham Hancock has long postulated that a cataclysm some 12,000 years ago might have wiped out advanced civilisations. In his most recent book Magicians of the Gods (Amazon US/Amazon UK) he discusses at length the Younger Dryas period (c. 12,900 to c. 11,700 calendar years ago), which began when temperatures plummeted over the course of just a few decades – and the ‘heretical’ theory that this event may have been caused by a comet impact.
Now, two new papers recently published in respected journals may perhaps provide material support for that idea. The first, published late last week in Nature’s “Scientific Reports”, notes the discovery of “a distinct platinum anomaly spread widely across North America and dating to the Younger Dryas (YD) onset”, supporting the conclusions of previous papers that have provided evidence for an impact event at that time.
The presence of platinum is a strong indicator of an impact event: as lead author Christopher Moore has pointed out, the element “is very rare in Earth’s crust, but it is common in asteroids and comets”; and previous studies have also found “a rise in platinum concentrations over 14 years and subsequent drop during the following 7 years” that is consistent with “the known residence time of stratospheric dust”.
Christopher Moore says that his team’s finding on elevated levels of platinum…
…is a confirmation of data previously reported for the Younger-Dryas onset several years ago in a Greenland ice-core. The authors for that study concluded that the most likely source of such platinum enrichment was from the impact of an extraterrestrial object.
Our data show that this anomaly is present in sediments from U.S. archaeological sites that date to the start of the Younger-Dryas event. It is continental in scale – possibly global – and it’s consistent with the hypothesis that an extraterrestrial impact took place.
The other new paper has just been published in the journal Geomorphology (“A model for the geomorphology of the Carolina Bays). It also provides evidence for an impact event around that time, suggesting that the Carolina Bays may be the remains of “oblique conical craters formed on ground liquefied by the seismic shock waves of secondary impacts of glacier ice boulders ejected by an extraterrestrial impact on the Laurentide Ice Sheet”.
The evidence for an extinction level comet-impact event in North America 12,800 years ago, setting in motion the mysterious episode of megafaunal extinctions, floods and freezing temperatures that geologists call the Younger Dryas, continues to grow stronger with a new paper published in the distinguished peer-reviewed journal Geomorphology. You can read a discussion of the implications of the paper, and you can download a pdf of the paper itself, here.
Those who have read my book Magicians of the Gods, now available in an extended and updated paperback edition, will be aware that I focus extensively on the Younger Dryas cataclysm in which I believe not only mammoths, not only the hunter-gatherer “Clovis” culture, but also an advanced prehistoric civilization, hitherto the stuff only of myths and legends, was lost to history. This, in my view, was when we became a species with amnesia.
Check out my previous post on this subject, with more links and papers, here.
You can of course read Graham’s thoughts on this topic at length by picking up a copy of Magicians of the Gods from Amazon US or Amazon UK.
Web Bot: Clif High: Aliens, Ufo's, Disclosure, Secret Space Program (Video)
Web Bot: Clif High: Aliens, Ufo's, Disclosure, Secret Space Program (Video)
Define Space, Define Outer space. What’s the wisdom to know the difference? Do you trust the government? Did we land on the moon during the Apollo missions? Does Nasa use green and blue screens, wires, cables, cgi in the ISS? Do we have non-photoshopped pics of Earth? What is Scientism?
Is the sun 93 Million miles away? How about the Moon, 237,000 miles away? Have you ever seen the Moon and the Sun out in the same sky? What would cause the shadow on the Moon when we see both the sun and the moon in the same sky? Bear Nugent
Its a weak argument Cliff. Although you tend to make it seem very good with your excellent intelligence. Say a reptilian or avian here on earth has a certain vagus nerve structure, that doesn’t necessarily mean an advanced being of that species doesn’t. Its a weak argument.
And you are too proud sadly. Too aggressive… I’ve heard that for every species here there is an equivalent in the celestial worlds. According to their status they acquire a nature. A status is a hierarchal thing corresponding to a beings service to the one infinite creator and service to all. Peter Hamilton
Dulce Uncensored: Truth and Evidence about The Mysterious Dulce Base (Video)
Dulce Uncensored: Truth and Evidence about The Mysterious Dulce Base (Video)
Greg Valdez Dulce Uncensored- Dulce Base- The Truth and Evidence about the Mysterious Dulce Base from the Case Files of Gabe Valdez. Greg Valdez is interviewed about details surrounding the mystery about the alleged underground Dulce Base in New Mexico.
His book, listed below, assists in clearing up a lot of misinformation and outright fabrications that have followed the Dulce story for years, to finally get us closer to learning the truth about the dulce base.
Paul Bennewitz’s involvement led to the air force launching an exhaustive disinformation campaign, and included intelligence agencies involved in the story of the alien base Dulce.
Phil Schneider also made some mysterious claims regarding an alien-military shootout underground in dulce. Greg tells us that the Dulce base is actually a classified military testing site.
It’s time for another edition of “Fiction or fact?” Today’s subject: Atlantis, Plato’s creation that has spawned more interest, arguments, explorations and movies than any other mythical city. While the needle has often crept away from “fiction,” it returns to it as more investigation yields less evidence. Which way will the needle move as we look at the latest theory that Atlantis lies not in the Atlantic but in a Spanish swamp?
“It is unique, nowhere in our world is there anything resembling this, and the structures match exactly Plato’s dimensions with no deviation. It is absolutely spot on.”
“It,” according to maritime historian Tim Akers of the Merlin Burrows private satellite imaging company, is Doñana National Park, a swampy preserve in Andalusia in southern Spain, where new images taken of the area show what Akers and others claim are the remains of an ancient city that clearly resemble the layout of Atlantis as described by Plato. Using the images, they’ve identified evidence of a massive harbor wall Plato estimated to be 5.5 miles long that collapsed under the pressure of the water that flooded Atlantis into mythological extinction. Those images are shown in his interview with The Daily Mail (see them here).
“We filmed clear evidence and collected samples that were analyzed scientifically in a laboratory in Modena, Italy, which is used to study ancient Roman finds.”
Google map location of Donana National Park
The images also led Akers and Merlin Burrows archeologists to spots where they took samples from the wall area which the report from the Modena Materials Analysis Laboratory claimed to find evidence that …
“The harbour wall seems to have had a coating that prevented barnacle growth, like modern Teflon. That requires highly advanced construction technologies and knowledge of chemistry.”
Samples from remains of pillars showed more …
“These structures contain binders, like calcite. The presence of mica, potassium, and other trace minerals show proof of artificial mixing of materials, so the samples we have tested are made from an ancient, prehistoric concrete.”
The minerals and the design led them to claim that …
“…we’re talking about a civilisation with very advanced technology.”
But is this enough proof to say with confidence that this is Atlantis? Ingenio seems to think so. Ingenio Films is a film and documentary company that has partnered with Merlin Burrows to produce “Atlantica” which its PR team excitedly describes:
“ATLANTICA” is the first in the ATLANTICA series, and in this two hour film, we document and identify every single item that Plato described, using years of research, and extraordinary technologies. The focus of this first installation in the Atlantica Series is to identify, beyond any doubt, that this discovery is indeed ATLANTIS!! In our complex discovery of Atlantis, we have involved every available science and technique along the way, in order to show the FACTS, for which our team has included a multi disciplinary set of experts, sciences, technologies, and academia.”
They claim the film will show “the Temple of Poseidon, the vast Harbor Front cities of Poseida, the massive Harbor Wall, the Inland Sea, and most importantly… the CONCENTRIC ISLANDS themselves!!”
Looking for Atlantis in Doñana National Park
Those are bold claims about the Doñana National Park wetlands and a 100-mile surrounding area stretching from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean which others have also claimed could be the location of Atlantis – albeit without Ingenio’s enthusiasm and confidence. Akers is a bit more reserved:
“We only present the facts and try not to delve into speculation. What is unique in our presentation is all of this material has never been seen before.”
Atlantis: fact or fiction? When this new documentary is finally released, which way will the needle move?
It’s a serious claim to make, the worst year to be alive. There’s been some pretty bad years. Yet, Harvard University historians have determined that year 536 was the worst it’s ever been, with cataclysms so serious and world-changing it sent all of Europe into what was later called the dark ages. Although the term “dark ages” is not used officially to describe the early middle ages anymore, it’s an incredibly fitting term for the hundred year period which began in 536, considering that it all started with a mysterious “fog” that plunged Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia into complete darkness for 18 months.
According to New Scientist, the cause of this fog has been a mystery for historians and archaeologists until now. By examining ice cores, blocks of ice from permanently frozen glaciers that keep a historical record of particulates in the air, Medieval historian Michael McCormick, chair of the Harvard University Initiative for the Science of the Human Past, and glaciologist Paul Mayewski at the Climate Change Institute of The University of Maine have identified the catalyst for the 18-month-long night: a big ol’ volcano. The eruption of a massive volcano in Iceland spewed volcanic ash into the atmosphere so thick that it completely blotted out the sun, caused catastrophic crop failure, and dropped the global temperature to its record low in 2,300 years. And that was just the beginning.
Like this, but way bigger.
Byzantine historian Procopius wrote at the time:
“For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during the whole year.”
Really old writing always sounds unduly severe, but in this case it’s warranted. In 536, after daylight itself was dead, temperatures fell 1.5 to 2.5 degrees Celsius globally. The Irish chronicles recorded a complete failure of bread from 536 to 539. That summer, it snowed in China.
It didn’t get any better for a very long time either. Two more eruptions followed in 540 and 547. During that time, in 541, the bubonic plague hit Roman-controlled Egypt and quickly burned its way across the eastern Roman Empire, killing between one third and one half of the population and quickening the empire’s collapse.
The repeated battering by forces outside our control hastened the crumbling of the already-pretty-sickly empires of antiquity and essentially shut down the economy of Europe, paving the way for the period of regal kings, magical princesses, and gallant knights. Just kidding, it was brutal and bloody war, plague, tyranny, and feudalism that followed.
Eighteen months of this nonsense.
Even that nightmare took a long time to start after the sun killing volcano. According to McCormick and Mayewski, the ice cores showed that Europe didn’t dig itself out of stagnation until over a century later. Lead particulates found in the ice core beginning in the year 640 signals the beginning of silver mining, which due to the lack of gold, had become the standard currency.
Honestly, all of those years sound pretty horrible. I guess it’s the complete lack of sun and the knowledge of imminent starvation that really pushes 536 over the top. Just remember this next time you crack your phone or your car battery dies: at least some angry Viking volcano hasn’t stolen the sun. Yet.
For a number of decades, people have claimed that they have been taken aboard unusual flying craft–often against their will–and examined in alien environments by strange beings.
Known to those who study unexplained aerial phenomena as UFO or alien abduction, the earliest UFO literature was essentially void of any references to such captures or kidnappings. However, beginning in the 1960s popular books on the subject, namely John G. Fuller’s The Interrupted Journey, began to chronicle the claims of those like Betty and Barney Hill, a New Hampshire couple who alleged they were taken aboard a flying saucer and examined by aliens while returning late one night from a vacation at Niagara Falls.
Other books that followed expanded on the narrative of abductions, producing similar reports to that of the Hills–some of which dated prior to their own 1961 encounter–and before long a shift in the focus of the UFO community at large was well apparent. Conferences that once showcased Air Force veterans like Major Donald Keyhoe, advocating the release of UFO information by the government, and civilian researchers and scientists like J. Allen Hynek seeking trace evidence of landed saucers, were replaced by those now taking up the case of the abductees: Harvard psychologist Dr. John Mack and artist-turned investigator/hypnotist Budd Hopkins, as well as those like Whitley Strieber, a successful novelist who eventually came forward with his own abduction experiences… both to fanfare, and attacks from critics.
Then, with the coming of the new millennium, the focus of the UFO community seemed to shift once again, this time moving gradually away from the abduction phenomenon, in favor of more “nuts and bolts” approaches to studying odd things in the skies.
What caused the shift? Has the widespread accessibility to information sources (and, perhaps more importantly, opposing viewpoints) led to fewer budding researchers following what could be deemed more credulous lines of thought, despite interest that persists in a UFO phenomenon? Could it also be that the once popular abduction literature–after decades of being sustained on even less physical evidence than that which exists in support of UFOs themselves–finally began to collapse inward, under the weight of broader scientific scrutiny?
Perhaps it’s a combination of factors that have caused the shift away from alien abductions that once held the hearts of so many in the UFO community. In a sense, UFO reporting in the last few decades has taken a postmodern approach, in the sense that old ideas once taken for granted are now more thoroughly questioned. Some of the better books on the UFO subject to arrive in recent years have focused almost exclusively on science, historical analysis, and sometimes just bare-bones journalism: Leslie Kean’s UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record comes to mind, as well as my friend David Marler’s Triangular UFOs: An Estimate of the Situationand John B. Alexander Ph.D.’s UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realitiesall come to mind in this regard. From the more skeptical side of the equation, Bad UFOs: Critical Thinking About UFO Claims by Robert Sheaffer takes a look at famous cases, and calls into question how and why caution should be employed by UFO advocates. Occasionally, groups from one camp may criticize the other (or hit back in defending their positions) although, in my opinion, perspectives from both sides of the fence are helpful, and necessary, in an effort toward looking at the phenomenon objectively.
Of course, one thing that the reader of any of the aforementioned books will notice is that there is very little (if any, in some cases) to be said about alleged alien abductions in such modern examples of UFO literature. We could speculate all day on the reasons for this “shift,” as I’ve called it, although a more interesting line of inquiry, in my opinion, has to do with its origins in the first place: where did the idea of alien abductions come from? Or at very least (and so as not to presuppose that all such claims are to be ruled out of hand, however unlikely they seem), are there cultural predecessors in myth and fiction that might give us an idea about some of the influences behind the strange rise, and sudden fall, of what became a fringe movement within an already controversial subject like UFOs?
As several researchers have outlined already over the years, the general features of the alien abduction motif are all common in much earlier literature, including fairy folklore of the British Isles, as well as other mythology from around the world (the works of Jacques Vallee come to mind here, as do those of Jerome Clarke, among others). Cultural groups since time immemorial have spoken of gods and spirit folk who occasionally carry humans away from the mortal realm, sometimes accompanied by periods of missing time–a trope that has been present in alien abductions as early as the Betty and Barney Hill encounter.
Shortly after UFOs assumed their place in the cultural landscape by the end of the 1940s, claims of encounters with “Space Brothers” and other friendly visitors from nearby planets that are now well-known to be uninhabited (or simply uninhabitable) began to appear. These alleged encounters are very different from the claims of the abductees, however: most of the “friendly” aliens of this period were suspiciously humanlike in appearance, and any earthling setting foot inside one of their flying saucers did so of his or her own volition.
Not so with the abductees, among whose claims we find such terrors as paralysis and levitation in the methods extraterrestrials employ to bring their human captives on board (as many modern chroniclers of the phenomenon will note, certain similarities exist here with the sensations experienced by sufferers of sleep paralysis, a phenomenon that was not as widely recognized by the general public only decades ago).
It is also noteworthy that the first known appearance of the alien abduction idea in a print publication occurred yearsbefore any allegedly “true” abduction reports had been publicized. One of the cover stories of the October 1953 issue of Man to Man, a men’s pulp magazine known for its adventure stories (and occasionally, speculative science articles) had been the sensational piece, “Are Flying Saucers Kidnapping Humans?” This was featured alongside the appetizing feature article, “WHY PEOPLE MUTILATE THEMSELVES” (all the sorts of pertinent things readers of adventure magazines in the 1950s wanted to know, I suppose).
See, I wasn’t kidding… and what’s the deal with the walrus?
Even the earliest alien abductions on record occurred after the publication of the aforementioned article; the strange case of Antonio Villas Boas, for instance, allegedly took place in 1957, but wasn’t written about until much later. And on a similar note, researcher Peter Rogerson has said that he feels the Vilas Boas case may raise a few red flags, since a story with details that were similar to Vilas Boas’s account had been printed in the November 1957 issue of the Brazilian periodical O Cruzeiro (this would have placed the publication date after the date Villas Boas would later allege that his encounter took place, although he didn’t publicly discuss it until well after the article was published. Hence, it is possible that if his story was a fabrication, the “later” article could nonetheless have been its inspiration).
Books like Ann Druffel and Scott Rogo’s The Tujunga Canyon Contacts actually did outline a series of alleged abductions said to have occurred in 1953; however, as with the Antonio Villas Boas affair, the account wasn’t written about until 1980 (I should note that Whitley Streiber’s book Communion also outlines experiences from his childhood, although these likely would have placed them between the late 1950s and early 1960s). Hence, it is reasonable to assume that the aforementioned article does, in fact, predate virtually all of the modern alien abduction claims.
Add to this the countless science fiction magazines from even earlier in the twentieth century that featured humans being captured, strapped down, and examined with scientific equipment from fictional alien worlds on their covers, and it becomes hard to avoid the fact that the alien abduction meme had already been firmly planted (or maybe we should say “implanted” in this case) in the public mind by the time stories of “real” abductions began to appear in books and magazines.
Alien beings are often (but not always) likened to insects in their behavior and appearance.
Although my general tone here may sound completely dismissive toward the alien abduction meme, it is not my intention to say that all people who claim to have had odd experiences–in particular, those with unusual aerial vehicles, or even their occupants–are liars, frauds, or simply wrong (and frankly, I maintain a certain disdain for those who do resort to ad hominem attacks and accusations fraud, hoaxes, or monetary incentives in order to get their points across in any case).
As I’ve noted before in the past, I have met Travis Walton on a number of occasions, and find him to be a delightful person in general (as anyone who has met him would attest). Walton is a kind, friendly person, and on many occasions when we’ve talked, the conversation has had to do with anything but UFOs or abductions. He often gives talks about his experience, where he notes the way its depiction in Hollywood was sensationalized.
He wrote a book about his experience, and in addition to selling it at events he attends, he is sometimes paid to give his lectures. Strangely, the fact that Travis profits in any way from his experiences have sometimes been used as a case against his claims, with doubtful types calling foul and complaining that “it’s all just a way of making money!” To the contrary, Walton is not a full time “UFO celebrity,” and has had to work for a living like anyone else over the years. Frankly, if I had experienced what Walton says happened to him back in November 1975, I would have written a book about it, too. In short, the complaints that people like Travis Walton do what they do “for the money” is an old–and inaccurate–stereotype, that is all-too-often launched against UFO advocates as a way of delegitimizing their claims (as an author of at least a few books on the more nuts and bolts side of the UFO equation, I can say I speak from a degree of experience in this regard, as there are far more profitable ways to make a living!).
Of course, I can’t prove or disprove what Travis Walton claims. All I can tell you personally is that he is a pleasant individual and that while I am often not convinced as far as many abduction claims go, there are a few elements to his experience that, to me, stand out from the rest. Despite having received plenty of critiques over the years, it remains one of the only multiple-witness UFO encounters of its kind; this alone sets it apart from a broad majority of more credulous abduction claims, let alone the fact that in Walton’s case, an individual (Walton) actually did go missing for several days. This is far more than could be said of the majority of similar incidents.
And as far as similar incidents go, there is really just one that comes to mind, although it is seldom discussed in the United States (or in general). The disappearance of Franck Fontaine near Pontoise, France in November 1979 is a case that bears a few similarities to the Travis Walton situation, and perhaps curiously so. To summarize the situation briefly, Fontaine and a pair of friends were planning a trip to the nearby market to sell clothing on the morning of Monday, November 26, 1979. Shortly after 4 AM, Franck and his friends observed a light that appeared to be larger than the moon passing behind the La Justice Mauve apartment complex where they lived. Franck went in the direction of the object to get a closer look, and when his friends pursued him minutes later, Franck’s truck was found sitting with its interior lights on, surrounded by a curious fog; the light zipped away into the sky, and Franck was nowhere to be seen.
Much like the Walton case, Franck Fontaine remained missing for several days, then purportedly reappeared at the apartment at 4:20 AM on December 3. A media frenzy ensued, during which police, reporters, and UFO investigative groups all became interested; ultimately the three would come forward and admit that the entire affair had been a hoax, and most left it at that, satisfied that the entire affair had been another waste of time, like most similar UFO-related claims.
A point worthy of mention here is that when elements arise during a UFO investigation that would seem to point to a hoax, skeptical investigators tend to rest their case, emphasizing only the facts that support such dismissal (in Walton’s case, the fact that questions remained about various lie detector tests he and the other witnesses had taken, as well as the involvement of the National Enquirer in a possible monetary reward for “proof” of alien contact, come to mind). This is logical, of course, since those making the extraordinary claims are the ones left with the burden of proof, not the skeptics (who are right to question what appear to be extraordinary claims). If a party in question is suspected of a possible hoax, and then they come forward later and admit to it, continuing to pursue the case would appear to make no sense.
Jacques Vallee wrote about the Fontaine case in his 1991 book, Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception, a book which presented what may be Vallee at his most skeptical. Colleagues of Vallee in the French UFO research community that had been in touch with Fontaine and his friends had noted inconsistencies in their narrative, albeit not with relevance to the incident so much as their claims that the entire affair had been a hoax. In essence, the group from La Justice Mauve finally claimed to a select few researchers that they were so harrassed by reporters, skeptics, and UFO advocates alike that they simply admitted it was a hoax so they could be left alone.
Vallee goes on to follow this line of inquiry, which leads to a meeting with a French government official who is not named in the book, but of whom Vallee says, “His full name is known to me.” This individual explains to Vallee that the entire affair had actually been orchestrated, as outlined in this exchange which Vallee paraphrases in Revelations (for sake of clarity, Vallee leads off the exchange below, with questions and answers from the unnamed official alternating thereafter):
“What happened to Fontaine?”
“We put him to sleep and he was kept under an altered state of high suggestibility.”
“Were the police and the gendarmerie aware that the operation was a hoax conducted by a higher-level agency?”
“Certainly not. Their behavior under these conditions was one of the things we wanted to observe.”
“What was your own role?”
“My interest in the affair is purely personal. It has no relationship to my position with the French Air Force.”
“Would it be correct to say that you deliberately created a major UFO event to find out if you could rely on the reactions and the investigative abilities of local law enforcement agencies?”
“That would be a fair way to describe it.”
As Vallee notes in Revelations, upon asking whether the official was concerned whether he would publish this exchange, the official told him that “anything you publish will simply be denied.” However, of greater importance here is the fact that Vallee notes the similarities between the Fontaine case and the Walton incident from a few years earlier. “I have met with Travis Walton and with the crew boss, Mike Rogers,” Vallee says, “who had seen the craft and the beam. I am satisfied they are telling the truth as they experienced it, although I am not ready to take the hypnotic data literally, for reasons I have explained in detail in previous works.” (In contrast to Vallee’s latter statement, Walton states on a “Questions and Answers” page on his website that, “I did not recall any experiences under hypnosis that I could not remember before. The hypnosis did help me verbalize my experience in greater detail, without being overwhelmed by anxiety, but did not help me regain any lost memories.”)
“I do not think Fontaine was abducted by extraterrestrials,” Vallee continues later in the chapter. “But I do not think he is lying either. The disappearance of Franck Fontaine is one of the most disturbing episodes in the whole history of UFOs. But it was not a hoax.”
Arguably, Vallee’s considerations in relation to the Fontaine case–and that of Travis Walton–are very similar to my own. The trouble with the aforementioned points of interest, of course, is that unique though they are, they still don’t provide the hard evidence we require in order to conclusively prove that there is a tangible element to such cases; they do, however, strongly imply that what could be occurring is far from being anything extraterrestrial in nature.
Of course, the same may be said of the broader UFO phenomenon, too: despite our best efforts over the decades, very little in the way of tangible, physical evidence has been supplied in support of such claims, let alone in a way that might be conducive to the advancement of new ideas. On the other hand, while we’re terribly lacking in physical proof, there is more than enough data that pertains to UFO eyewitness reports to suggest there is something going on here. In that sense, the case for rational inquiry has never been greater: if there is a phenomenon or other element at work here–as many have supposed for decades already–then obviously the most reliable methodologies at our disposal must be employed in order to assess what it is, and to see if there is an underlying purpose or intention behind it.
That much would seem evident, of course, in the event that UFOs represent a real and tangible phenomenon. Obviously, we still have a lot of questions left to be answered here.
If any readers would like to correspond with me on this, or similar related subjects, I can be reached via email here, or at my website here.
In his 1991 book, Alien Liaison, Timothy Goodrelated the fascinating account of a man who, from 1956 to 1960, was employed as a radio technician at the Weapons Research Establishment, Salisbury, South Australia. As the man recalled, in either 1958 or 1959, a strange, spherical object was recovered at theRAAF Woomera Range Complex. “It was a sphere about 2 feet 9 inches in diameter. Its color was a mid-grey metallic, somewhat darkened by extreme heat…We tried to cut it, and could not even mark it with hand tools – saws, drills, hammers, chisels – nothing.”
Shortly afterwards, Good was informed, U.S. authorities claimed the material was American space debris, whereupon it was transferred to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio – which for many years was the rumored resting place for a host of crashed UFOs, extraterrestrial debris, and dead aliens. “Perhaps this is foolish, “Good’s source told him, “but for many years now I have believed that what we held in those several days was not merely space debris, was perhaps not even some material left by a UFO, but that it was perhaps some form of UFO itself.”
At the time, I was intrigued by this story and dug into it quite deeply. At the time, I was in my mid-twenties and still championing the idea that the UFO phenomenon was extraterrestrial. Certainly, though, by the time thirty loomed, I can say for sure I was far more an adherent of John Keel’s theories and ideas – which took matters far away from all-things extraterrestrial. I should stress that I don’t totally dismiss the ET theory for the UFO phenomenon, but I think it’s the least likely of all the scenarios that have been put forward. But, I digress. Back to the story of the sphere.
As well as contacting Australian authorities, I also spoke with New Zealand’s military authorities. I was pleasantly surprised when those same authorities sent me a package of material on a number of what I call “sphere incidents,” in both New Zealand and Australia, and dating from the 1960s and the 1970s, specifically from 1963 to 1972. All of the spheres, the files revealed, had been claimed by U.S. authorities. All were around two-feet in diameter. The retrieval locations included New South Wales, Western Australia, and Queensland. Whether or not Australian authorities were satisfied with the explanations put forth by the Americans as they sought to explain the discovery of the spheres, was not made clear from a reading of the papers. It was evident, however, that the governments of New Zealand and Australia were involved in the recovery of twelve such spheres in less than ten years.
By far the most interesting piece of evidence made available to me was a 1972 newspaper clipping that referenced an incident on Australian territory in 1963. According to the report, two spheres had been recovered approximately one hundred and fifty miles north of Broken Hill, and the Broken Hill police had arranged to have the objects flown to the National Weapons Research Establishment (NWRE) at Adelaide for examination. Unfortunately for the police, the pilot of the aircraft refused to allow the mystery spheres on board, lest they might explode! Ultimately, the police took the spheres by road. A study of the remains suggested the spheres were neither American nor Russian in origin, but definitely man-made.
This is all very intriguing. I have to say, though, that I think we really need to focus on terrestrial technology, rather than extraterrestrial science. Here’s why: over the years and decades, numerous such spheres from the skies have been found – and all across the planet. They have proved to be wholly terrestrial. And, I don’t see why the near-identical spheres found in New Zealand and Australia should be any different. For example, there is this story from 2012, of just such a sphere that came down in Brazil. It’s clear it was one of ours and not “theirs.” And, another sphere was found in Vietnam in 2016. There is also this story from earlier this year. An online search on “spheres, space debris” will reveal more than a few such cases. All of them have the mark of being the work of us. But not of “them.”
Multiple Light Beings caught on camera above St.Helens, Oregon
Multiple Light Beings caught on camera above St.Helens, Oregon
Multiple unidentified flying objects have been spotted in St. Helens, Oregon according to one woman who said they've appeared over her house two nights in a row.
The objects resemble large bright orbs that constantly rotate and change shape.
It is unknown from where these orbs came from since they are not connected to a laser beam or other light source from the ground.
Could it be that these orbs are angelic beings or spirits who are beings that have evolved beyond the need to incarnate?
The UFO and Alien subject is always highly debated. Over time there has been and still remains those who want to cover up the truth about UFOs and Aliens…there is also those who want to know the truth, not the lies fed to us by the world’s governments. There is seemingly one problem, investigators and those who know material on this subject and of whom want to release that information, are being killed! Murder?? Very likely given the circumstances in each death. It is obvious that something is going on and that those with power are doing their best to stop us knowing anything….I hope that this video will show the world of there activity.
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Video – UFO Chased and Destroyed the Russian Meteor!
Video – UFO Chased and Destroyed the Russian Meteor!
Footage of what appears to be a UFO shooting down the meteor that crashed in Russia. “They” are protecting us, and this planet. The meteorite that crashed on Russia was hit by an unidentified flying object causing it to explode and shatter over the Urals, it has been claimed.
This annual meteor shower, which peaks overnight on Nov 17-18. The early morning hours are ideal for observation.
Friends of shooting stars can be looking forward: The Leonids are active again as of Tuesday. The shooting star stream that occurs every year in November reaches its maximum in the night from Saturday to Sunday.
"Up to ten shooting stars per hour are expected", said Simon Plate, head of the Potsdam Urania Planetarium. They are best seen in the early morning hours in dark surroundings. "In the second half of the night, you look east, the same direction as the Earth. Because the earth is running towards the Leonids, you can see it better," said Plate.
In 2018, the Leonids will peak on the night between 17–18 nov
November Meteor Shower
The Leonid meteor shower is annually active in the month of November and it usually peaks around November 17 or 18. The shower is called Leonids because its radiant, or the point in the sky where the meteors seem to emerge from, lies in the constellation Leo.
Comet Tempel-Tuttle
The Leonids occur when the Earth passes through the debris left by Comet Tempel-Tuttle. The comet takes around 33 years to make one orbit around the Sun.
What Time is the Meteor Shower Tonight
The table is updated daily when the Leonids are active and shows the position of the radiant in the sky for the upcoming night. The Leonids will be active starting 6 nov 2018. Use the date drop down above the Interactive Meteor Shower Sky Map to change dates.
Leonids meteor shower for Brussels (Night between 17 november and 18 november)
You don't need any special equipment or a lot of skills to view a meteor shower. Even though all you really need is a clear sky, lots of patience, and our handy Interactive Meteor Shower Sky Map with a visibility conditions meter to see a meteor shower, the following tips can help maximize your shooting star viewing experience.
Find a secluded viewing spot, away from the city lights. Once at the venue, your eyes may take 15 to 20 minutes to get used to the dark.
Dress for the weather, and make sure you are comfortable, especially if you plan to stay out long. Bring a blanket or a comfortable chair with you—meteor watching can be a waiting game.
Once you have found your viewing spot, lie down on the ground and look up in the direction of the radiant. Use our Interactive Meteor Shower Sky Map or the table above to find the current direction of the radiant in the sky.
APGletsjers bevatten informatie over vulkaanuitbarstingen, stormen en vervuiling. Gletsjeronderzoek kan zo een belangrijke bijdrage leveren aan historisch onderzoek.
WETENSCHAPOp de vraag welk jaar het ergste jaar ooit was, antwoordt historicus Michael McCormick van de universiteit Harvard: “het jaar 536”. Niet het jaar 1349 waarin de Zwarte Dood de helft van de Europese bevolking uitroeide of het jaar 1918 waarin 50 tot 100 miljoen- vooral jonge - mensen aan de griep bezweken. Nee, het was 536. Vanaf dat jaar was de aarde een hele tijd dag en nacht in duisternis gehuld, wat McCormick en zijn team toeschrijven aan vulkaanuitbarstingen.
Het jaar 536 markeerde “het begin van een van de ergste periodes om te leven, misschien was het zelfs het ergste jaar”, zegt de Michael McCormick, mediëvist, archeoloog en hoofd van het Harvard University Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.
Achttien maanden lang waren Europa, het Midden-Oosten en grote delen van Azië dag en nacht in duisternis gehuld. De Byzantijnse historicus Procopius die in die periode leefde schreef daarover: “De zon scheen het hele jaar licht zonder helderheid, net zoals de maan”. Dat had ook een effect op de temperaturen. In de zomer van 536 was het anderhalf tot tweeënhalf graden Celsius kouder. Het was het koudste decennium van de voorbije 2300 jaar. Er viel die periode veel sneeuw, de oogst mislukte en mensen stierven van honger. In Ierse kronieken staat dat er tussen 535 en 539 geen brood was.
Enkele jaren later, in 541, brak in de Oost-Romeinse haven Pelusium in Egypte de builenpest uit. De uitbraak werd ook wel de plaag van Justinianus genoemd, de Oost-Romeinse keizer op dat moment. De ziekte verspreidde zich snel en kostte aan een derde tot de helft van de bevolking van het Oost-Romeinse Rijk het leven, wat de ondergang van het Rijk heeft bespoedigd, aldus McCormick.
Vulkaanuitbarstingen
Het is niet nieuw dat het midden van de zesde eeuw een donkere tijd was in deze “Dark Ages” maar over de oorzaak van de duisternis bestond veel onduidelijkheid. Nu schijnt een onderzoek van een Zwitserse gletsjer onder leiding van McCormick en glacioloog Paul Mayewski van de Universiteit van Maine daar licht op: een grootschalige vulkaanuitbarsting in IJsland begin 536 deed de lucht in het noordelijke halfrond vertroebelen door de assen. Doordat het zonlicht weerkaatste op de partikels van de assen werd het op aarde beduidend kouder. Kort daarop, in 540 en 547, volgden nog twee massieve uitbarstingen.
Deze vulkanische activiteit met haar gevolgen voor de natuur in combinatie met de pest deden de Europese economie stagneren tot 640. In dat jaar wordt een piek in loodconcentratie in het ijs vastgesteld, wat zou wijzen op de heropleving van zilverontginning. Zilver wordt gewonnen uit looderts en de verhoogde aanwezigheid van lood in het ijs wijst op de groeiende rol van het edelmetaal in de samenleving en dus een florerende handel.
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Two UFO Clouds Seen Over Czech Republic In Nov 2018, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Two UFO Clouds Seen Over Czech Republic In Nov 2018, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighing: Nov 2018
Location of sighting: Czech Republic
Here we have a photo of two UFO disks that are trying to appear as clouds so that they can fly low and slow to scan the planet below. As you can see they are flying in military formation...one watching out for the other...like a wingman. Even though they are flying slowly, don't be fooled by their appearance. The cloud is only a few meters deep and is held inside of the forcefield so that the cloud cannot escape. Imagine a forcefield made to keep micro meteorites and other things out...it can also be used to keep the cloud smoke in. Thus, they have the perfect disguise.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
There's a lot of people from Czech Republic sharing photos of,, UFO" clouds. And I also took some.
The Doñana National Park is under the scrutiny of researchers who have long suspected that their marshes may be submerged in mythical Atlantis. Evidence from under the marsh indicates the round disks are of intelligently made materials, that they do not make this mix of substances in nature. Either way, more tests need to be run on these objects. Tests that measure radiation, magnetism, electrical stimulation on samples, chemical composition, and more. Very interesting but to me it appears to be ancient UFOs that have crash landed and become fossilised into the earth after a billion years. Scott C. Waring
Rectangular entrance to an underground base found in Antarctica On Google Map, Video, Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Rectangular entrance to an underground base found in Antarctica On Google Map, Video, Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: Nov 18, 2018 Location of discovery: Antarctica A rectangle entrance was found in Antarctica using Google Earth free map. The entrance was deliberately made...as you can see from the right angles of the entrance. Also the removed dirt has created a surrounding pile all around it of grey dirt. A color that is not seen on the surface anywhere, but only here. Measuring 9 meters by 16 meters its large enough fly small craft in and out easily. This is an excellent find by UFOmania of Youtube. Scott C. Waring UFOmania states: Exploring the continent of Antarctica using google earth, i came across this perfect rectangular entry for an underground world.
Source: Ufomania - The truth is out there via Google earth.
De aarde zit mogelijk midden in een 'orkaan van donkere materie'
De aarde zit mogelijk midden in een 'orkaan van donkere materie'
Caroline Kraaijvanger
En wetenschappers vinden het prachtig.
In 2017 ontdekten onderzoekers in data van de Gaia-satelliet de zogenoemde S1-stroom. Het gaat om een verzameling sterren die allemaal in dezelfde richting bewegen. Aangenomen wordt dat het om een restant van een dwergsterrenstelsel gaat dat door onze Melkweg is opgeslokt. Het is niet voor het eerst dat onderzoekers zo’n stellaire stroom ontdekken. Sterker nog: er zijn er al zo’n dertig in onze Melkweg aangetroffen. Maar toch is S1 uniek. Het pad dat deze stellaire stroom volgt, kruist namelijk het pad van onze eigen zon.
Donkere materie Maar het wordt nog opwindender. In het blad Physical Review D schrijven onderzoekers namelijk dat de stellaire stroom – die met zo’n 500 kilometer per seconde aan ons voorbijtrekt – mogelijk een flinke hoeveelheid donkere materie meevoert. Ze spreken daarbij – met het oog op de snelheid van deze stellaire stroom – zelfs van een ‘orkaan van donkere materie’. Als de onderzoekers het bij het juiste eind hebben, zit ons zonnestelsel daar op het moment zelfs middenin!
Donkere materie: een hoofdpijndossier Slechts een fractie – ongeveer vijf procent – van het universum bestaat uit materie die wij kunnen zien. Maar liefst 70% van het universum bestaat uit donkere energie: de drijvende kracht achter de versnelde uitdijing van het heelal. En de overige 25% van het universum? Dat zou uit donkere materie bestaan. Wat dat precies is? Dat is een raadsel. Donkere materie is namelijk onzichtbaar en gaat nauwelijks de interactie aan met andere materie. We hebben dan ook geen idee waaruit de donkere materie is opgebouwd en dat maakt het vanzelfsprekend ook heel lastig om detectoren te ontwikkelen waarmee we dit onbekende goedje kunnen spotten.
Detectie Het klinkt misschien een beetje verontrustend, zo’n orkaan van donkere materie. Maar wetenschappers zien vooral mogelijkheden. In het blad Physical Review D schrijven ze dat we dankzij de S1-stroom mogelijk een iets grotere kans hebben om donkere materie te detecteren. Hoe zit dat? Donkere materie zweeft overal en de aarde beweegt er waarschijnlijk dus ook regelmatig doorheen. Maar het is ons tot op heden niet gelukt om die donkere materie te detecteren (zie ook het kader hierboven). S1 kan daar om meerdere redenen verandering in brengen. We hebben hier een enorme stellaire stroom die waarschijnlijk een hoge concentratie donkere materie heeft (donkere materie vinden we in alle sterrenstelsels, maar met name in dwergsterrenstelsels, waar S1 dus een restantje van is). Die donkere materie beweegt ook nog eens veel sneller dan de donkere materie waar onderzoekers normaliter op jagen én beweegt in tegenovergestelde richting van ons. We weten voor de verandering dus in welke richting we het moeten zoeken én als we een signaal oppikken dat doet denken aan donkere materie kunnen we er ook behoorlijk zeker van zijn dat het daadwerkelijk om donkere materie gaat.
WIMPs en axionen De onderzoekers berekenen in hun paper het effect dat S1 op de donkere materie in onze regio kan hebben en houden daarbij rekening met verschillende modellen die iets zeggen over de dichtheid en distributie van de donkere materie in de stroom. Op basis daarvan trekken ze vervolgens conclusies omtrent onze kansen om de donkere materie tussen de resten van dit dwergsterrenstelsel te detecteren. Het slechte nieuws? Met de huidige detectoren – die zoeken naar zogenoemde WIMPS, Weakly interacting massive particles, een mogelijke vorm van donkere materie – gaat het waarschijnlijk niet lukken. Maar toekomstige WIMP-detectoren zouden wel succesvol kunnen zijn. Nog beter worden onze kansen als donkere materie bestaat uit axionen en we axion-detectoren inzetten.
Kortom: we weten nog altijd niet hoe donkere materie in elkaar steekt. Maar de orkaan van donkere materie die mogelijk momenteel aan ons voorbijraast zou daar in de toekomst verandering in kunnen brengen. Het klinkt misschien niet heel erg veelbelovend, want het is allemaal gestoeld op aannames, onder meer over de dichtheid van de donkere materie in S1. Maar als je weet dat onderzoekers al jaren – tevergeefs – grip proberen te krijgen op donkere materie, snap je hun enthousiasme wel.
Scientists Discover 300-Million-Year-Old ‘Chariot Wheel’ Deep In A Mine
Scientists Discover 300-Million-Year-Old ‘Chariot Wheel’ Deep In A Mine
Deep beneath the city of Donetsk, within the Rostov region of Russia, a large foundation of sandstone can be found, something known as rock shield of Carboniferous age, it is about 360 to 300 million years ago, and is lined with distributions of coking coals that are also of around the same age.
Astonishingly, Mr. Kasatkin has discovered upon the rook of this shaft of coal, an imprint of a chariot wheel, an imprint, undoubtedly made before the rock had formed around it, he also later discovered another imprint a small distance further along the shaft.
Ancient Aliens Found in “The Wall Of Humanity” – PumaPunku
Ancient Aliens Found in “The Wall Of Humanity” – PumaPunku
Jay Jonson
We recently covered the astonishing, precision-cut, ancient ruins which can be found at PumaPunku within Bolivia. Once an enormous city complex, which still possesses some incredible features.
One of the more controversial of these still surviving attractions, is undoubtedly “The wall of humanity.”
During the 1960s, archaeologists employed by the Bolivian government, excavated a Temple at Tiahuanaco. Within the walls of the courtyard, hundreds of stone heads were discovered, all with a diverse range of features, masterfully built into the architecture.
A once perfectly constructed wall, adorned with a variety of different faces, each now believed by a number of independent researchers, to represent the different tribes and civilisations which could be found upon our planet at the time.
If proven true, it is clearly a controversial reality for academia to explain, how can a wall, supposedly built by the Inca’s, display faces from all corners of the world? Built by people who never travelled intercontinentally…
Or does the wall of humanity further support the premise, of a world going advanced civilisation, actually having once built such sites?
Furthermore, and perhaps the most intriguing detail surrounding this ancient artefact, is the addition of two heads, made of a noticeably different material, that instead of displaying a possible lost tribe, appear to actually represent what many would now identify as grey aliens…
Created with a different, whiter clay from the others, clearly to emphasise the figures visual differences from other figures presented.
The question is, if the wall of humanity does indeed represent the different tribes, which could be found all over the world at the time of its creation, then who, or indeed what do these two faces represent?
Are the ancient alien theories true?
Did an extra-terrestrial race, not only once visit our planet, but actually called it home?
Clearly an astonishing ancient artefact, which demands more alternative research.
THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL FIND OF THE AZTECS IN OJUELOS DE JALISCO (MEXICO)
THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL FIND OF THE AZTECS IN OJUELOS DE JALISCO (MEXICO)
Jay Jonson
Our ancestors may have had a constant relationship with extraterrestrial beings. We informed you about the material that made one of Tutankhamun’s daggers.
However, this is not the only unique discovery, since a surprising series of archaeological objects is the clear proof of the existence of a remote pre-Mayan culture (possibly the ancient gods with elongated skulls or cone-shaped heads), hidden by those who rule the world and forgotten by humanity.
Several families from the city of Ojuelos in the province of Jalisco, Mexico, have been collecting for approximately 50-60 years a total of approximately 400 extraordinary archaeological objects, with the dream of one day opening their own museum and becoming known by the public. said objects.
THE COLLECTION CONSISTS OF TABLETS: Knives, plates, figurines, rings and jade pendants, made of stone or metal, which clearly describe how these ancient extraterrestrial extraterrestrial gods (of elongated skulls and large slanted eyes, with a high degree of intelligence).
A high state of consciousness and a deep spirituality and connection with the universe, traveled in their spaceships.
Through the high technological development of their UFOs, they knew very well not only our solar system, in which they traveled between the Earth and their planets of origin, but could also come from beyond our solar system or from our galaxy.
They have also discovered a series of skulls discovered in several Latin American countries, especially Paracas – Peru, called “Paracas Elongatus”.
Also in Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and Mexico, have been in recent years, a series of skulls and skulls in the shape of a cone, which have left scientists without words.
In the last dates also one was found in Australia, that received the name of “Australian Elongatus”.
Er is zo langzamerhand geen nieuwskanaal ter wereld dat geen aandacht heeft besteed aan de UFO waarnemingen van een aantal piloten.
Op zich is dat niets bijzonders, want piloten nemen al heel lang vreemde objecten in de lucht waar, dus waarom nu al die commotie?
Update: 17 november 2018
Er komt steeds meer ondersteunend bewijs voor de objecten die door een aantal vliegtuigbemanningen werden gemeld aan de verkeersleiding.
Drie minuten voordat de eerste piloot een melding deed, werd er door een dashcam in een auto de volgende ufo vastgelegd.
Op vrijdag 9 november om 6:44 reed Sandy Laverty naar haar werk en bevond zich op de Clovfin Road in Coleraine. Haar dashcam legde de volgende beelden vast die zij omschrijft als: "een helder object dat door de lucht schoot".
Origineel artikel: 14 november 2018
Het lijkt erop dat wanneer één mainstream publicatie een bericht publiceert, de rest van de wereld over elkaar heen buitelt om ook dit bericht te brengen. Dit bleek duidelijk het geval met een UFO waarneming voor de Ierse kust afgelopen vrijdag van een aantal verkeersvliegers.
De Ierse luchtvaartautoriteiten gaan onderzoek doen naar meldingen van piloten over ufo's. Een piloot meldde afgelopen week een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object toen hij boven Ierland vloog. Het incident gebeurde afgelopen vrijdag, tijdens een vlucht van het Canadese Montreal naar Londen, aldus nieuwszender BBC. Ook andere piloten deden melding van snel bewegende vliegende objecten. De piloot vroeg omstreeks zeven uur ’s ochtends de verkeersleiding van het vliegveld Shannon of er een militaire oefening was, omdat het voorwerp zich ‘razendsnel verplaatste’. Dat bleek niet het geval.
Het volgende is een korte reportage van de Ierse televisie:
Op zich natuurlijk niet zo verwonderlijk dat er na bovenstaande meer meldingen binnen komen van UFO waarnemingen in dat gebied.
Zo vertelt de Irish Mirror dat ze werden overstelpt met berichten van mensen die ook iets hadden gezien en één van die meldingen was afkomstig van Donal Brady die de onderstaande opname maakte ongeveer 12 uur na de melding van de piloten in de buurt van Cork.
Er schijnt dus wel degelijk iets gaande te zijn in het Ierse luchtruim.
Want wat gebeurde is helemaal niets nieuws. Hierna een opname uit 1962 waar in precies hetzelfde gebied de bemanning van een Aer Lingus toestel ook een UFO zag. Captain Gordon Pendleton legt uit dat hij samen met zijn co-piloot een vreemd vliegend object zagen zonder vleugels dat zich met grote snelheid door het luchtruim bewoog tijdens een vlucht van Cork naar Brussel.
Hoe er in het verleden werd omgegaan met UFO meldingen door piloten blijkt uit het volgende verhaal dat afkomstig is uit een eerder artikel:
Hoe de afgelopen decennia is omgegaan met betrouwbare UFO informatie door overheden blijkt uit de gebeurtenissen rondom vlucht 1628 van Japan Airlines.
We hebben hier te maken met de waarneming van een ervaren bemanning, waarvan de captain zelfs meer dan 10.000 vlieguren heeft.
Het vrachtvliegtuig was in november 1986 onderweg van Reykjavik naar Anchorage, toen het boven het oostelijk deel van Alaska een ontmoeting had met enkele UFO’s.
Wat hier vrij uniek was, was dat de UFO's te zien waren op de radarsystemen van de verkeersleiding. Al met al duurde de ontmoeting ongeveer 40 minuten en in die tijd zag de bemanning dat de kleinere UFO’s zich vervoegden bij een moederschip dat het vliegtuig bleef volgen.
Na de landing werd alles wat er gebeurd was gerapporteerd door de bemanning, inclusief tekeningen van de UFO's en het moederschip.
Als beloning voor het rapporteren van deze waarneming werd de gezagvoerder Captain Kenju Terauchi geschorst en mocht de eerstvolgende jaren niet meer vliegen.
Zoals je ziet zijn er door de jaren heen betrouwbare meldingen geweest van piloten in verkeersvliegtuigen. We zullen moeten afwachten of bij de gebeurtenissen in Ierland een officieel vervolg komt, of dat dit weer één van de zoveelste waarnemingen is die in een archiefkast zullen verdwijnen net zoals al de voorgaande. Kans is ook aanwezig dat het onderdeel uitmaakt van gecontroleerde disclosure. UFO's op het Brexit toneel!
Het goede nieuws is dat veel mainstream mensen nu toch wel beginnen te twijfelen over het al dan niet bestaan van UFO's. Een mooi voorbeeld daarvan zie je in de volgende nieuwsuitzending van Fox News.
Mensen gaan twijfelen omdat ze piloten toch hoger inschatten voor wat betreft waarnemingen dan doorsnee burgers. Dus, als het allemaal echt is dan zou het mooi zijn als vliegtuigbemanningen wereldwijd alles zouden rapporteren wat ze zien. Dat dit dan de nodige problemen kan opleveren blijkt uit de volgende video van Tyler van Secureteam.
Ook daar het verhaal van professionals uit de luchtvaartindustrie die melding maakten van de vreemde objecten naast hun vliegtuig en die opdracht kregen om daar onmiddellijk mee te stoppen omdat ze anders hun baan zouden kwijtraken.
Verder heeft Tyler ook nog een opname van een UFO die is gemaakt in de buurt van waar de vliegtuigbemanningen ze zagen vliegen.
In my recent book on pole shifts, proof of previously advanced civilizations like Atlantis are just one small portion of the pile of evidence suggesting that the entire surface of the Earth is repeatedly destroyed and re-oriented in a periodic cycle of natural catastrophes. The lastPOLE SHIFTseems to have occurred less than 13,000 years ago.
Thank you Bright Insight for compiling this evidence over many video presentations including the video below. Some key points:
The Richat Structure, a.k.a. The Eye of Africa, is a series of concentric circles in the desert in Mauritania.
If it was on an ancient shoreline as the evidence suggests, it was on the Atlantic, west of the Pillars of Hercules/Straits of Gibraltar as described by Plato almost 2500 years ago.
Russia UFO Encounters That the West Would Rather You Didn't Know About (Video)
Russia UFO Encounters That the West Would Rather You Didn't Know About (Video)
Incredible research uncovers the secrets of UFOs and the SETKA program, these are the most dramatic cases of UFO encounters.
Russia’s policies regarding “anomalous aerial phenomena.”Reveals the amazing secrets of the Russian X-Files. Reports of KGB officials, Cosmonauts & pilots eyewitness accounts, & top-secret documents of the secrecy
-obsessed Soviet military are all referred to by the author to prove that — despite their public denials
– the Soviet authorities treated the evidence of the existence of UFOs, & of alien visitations, with the utmost seriousness.
Alien hunters believe the UFO that has been spotted in Argentina could be the reason for bad weather. The orb-like flying object was seen with bright light hovering outside a home in Santa Cruz. It was observed during a wind storm, making some to think the mysterious bright light may have caused it. It seems to hover around the area calmly.
Some observers theorize that aliens are monitoring the human race and even affect the weather on Earth as if it is fun for them.
Several prominent alien hunters believe space aliens could be monitoring the humanity’s reaction to extreme weather scenarios.
According to the report, the UFO was spotted outside a home in Argentina during a wind storm, and it may be the reason for the weather being so bad that day.
Unidentified flying objects are known for causing tornadoes, hail, thunder, lightning, and wind.
Argentina is a UFO hotspot, and this is very evident on a UFO landing pad created in the country’s wilderness. A man built the pad after aliens allegedly told him to do so in the site.
A Swiss man named Werner Jaisli is the one who builds the strange monument.
The secret of the KGB: the extraterrestrial races on Earth
The secret of the KGB: the extraterrestrial races on Earth
Jay Jonson
In Russia, it is said that the children of a deceased Ukrainian officer found a book belonging to the secret services of the Soviet Union (KGB), which describes more than fifty alien races that have visited the Earth. (extraterrestrial races on Earth)
The book of extraterrestrial races is one of the most controversial and original documents of the period in which Russia was dominated by communism. Obviously, the information in this book is still very controversial, and its authenticity can not be verified. However, we believe that it could be useful since the information found in this supposed book could be linked to the statements made some time ago by Dmitry Medvedev about aliens.(extraterrestrial races on Earth)
The first edition was published in 1946 and was intended to inform agents of the secret services about different alien races that were visiting the Earth at that time. This book, in particular, is fascinating because many types of alien species are described, as well as the description and type of their ships and their place of origin.(extraterrestrial races on Earth)
The book was made by the SMERSH counterintelligence service built by the Red Army in late 1942 or even earlier, but officially founded on April 14, 1943. On January 13, 1947, a small book containing a description of the best extraterrestrial SMERSH agents.
Also in the book of the KGB describes how each species has contributed to the development and progress of human life on the planet Earth. Therefore, the book also describes the alien races that have observed our planet over time, as well as the fact that they have interacted with different governments in different countries of the world.(extraterrestrial races on Earth)
The book also provides information on meetings held with other governments and kept secret. The KGB book is a great source of information, but also a manual to learn how to communicate with some of these exotic species.
For example, there are Aliens “Allgruulk” who are known in the Universe as creators and builders. They can live up to 230 years and have visited the Earth for a period of 300 years in which they have had direct contact with people. The aliens “RAK” are another exotic species.(extraterrestrial races on Earth)
This species has visited humanity since 720 BC. The secret document describes not only the physical characteristics of the different types of Aliens, but also details how many times they have visited the planet and what is the planetary position of each of the identified species.
Numerous websites dedicated to research on UFOs claim that in the pages of this old high-secret file on aliens, we can find information from different spaceships in which these beings move in the cosmos, and also the chilling details of those who come from the beings.
The ET and UFO community has been met with a great deal of drama and divide over the years. I have seen it deeply in only 10 years in the space. So I asked David Wilcock to share his thoughts on how we can come together.
Reflect On:
Do you find yourself all out disliking people in this space due to one or two things they said you didn't like? Do you create any 'us vs them' feelings with certain people and certain aspects of this space? If so, do you feel this helps or divides?
The more time you spend on the forums, pages, commenting sections and events that touch the ET and UFO community, the more you realize it is like anything else: there are deep differences and deep divides.
You’ve heard it, the lashing out on stage or online from various figureheads, calling out others in the space as not having their facts straight or being infiltrated by intelligence communities etc. This then goes online in an even bigger way, spreading through comments, forums and everything else, creating more confusion amongst people. In essence, it’s a giant distraction.
I found out how intense this really was when first became a lot more involved within the community 5 years ago. So I decided to make it a personal mission to begin mending relationships in the space. Further to that, we committed to producing our content the way we do at CE, in our view, has encouraged both ‘leaders’ and the ‘viewers’ in the space to begin thinking differently about how we create hate, divides and focus on differences. To us, this is truly ‘walking the talk’ when it comes to the unity message of the movement.
This space, like any other thing in our world, requires us to look within ourselves individually to find out why we are creating the experiences we are. Stop blaming others and pointing fingers, and instead make this about truly doing the conscious work to create unity.
Thus far, I have seen shifts and changes happen amongst our audience, people uniting more, being more empathetic towards all presenting a message. And when they disagree with something they simply move on. I feel it’s more important that we come together as a community and support bringing this message out in a big way than it is to become divided and distracted like we often can be.
My Two Rules
For me, I have carried two rules into this ET and UFO space as I have met and worked with many of the prominent figures within it. They are:
1. If I hear something that is hearsay from someone else, usually trash talking or something of that nature, I go directly to the person it’s about and talk to them about the info. I don’t care to name names, more so just talk about the facts. Most of the time, you find out the trash talking was BS or misconstrued. You also often find that people have never actually taken the time to speak to their colleagues about the issue at hand.
2. I remember that like me, and everyone else on the planet, we are all souls on a journey. We each have our everyday challenges we are working through. With this level of empathy towards others, we are much more open to discerning information.
These rules have helped to bridge gaps between people, repair relationships and ultimately work towards creating a more solid and united disclosure movement grounded in the practice of living through the heart. An important and sometimes missing aspect of this space.
In a recent interview, I decided to ask David Wilcock about this very subject to see what he had to say with his many years in the space.
A new film called Above Majestic has come out and it features David Wilcock, Corey Goode, John Desouza, William Tompkins, David Adair, Laura Eisenhower, Niara Isley, and Jordan Sather.
Above Majestic is a shocking and provocative look at what it would take to hide a multi-trillion-dollar Secret Space Program (a clandestine group of elite military and corporate figureheads charged with reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology also known as “Majestic 12”) from the public and the implications this would have for humanity. Viewers will be guided through taking a deep dive into the origins, technologies, history, cover-ups, conspiracies, testimony and research that goes beyond and Above Majestic.
In 1974 Carl Sagan Sent This Message Into Space: In 2001 We Received This Response
In 1974 Carl Sagan Sent This Message Into Space: In 2001 We Received This Response
In 1974, a broadcast (known as the “Arecibo” message) put together by Carl Sagan and colleagues was sent into space via radio waves at a special ceremony to celebrate the remodelling of the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. It was the most powerful broadcast ever deliberately beamed out into space. Directed at a star cluster sitting approximately 25,000 light years away, it consisted of a pictorial message depicting our planet’s location in our solar system, the core principles of our math and science, and the NASA antenna used to transmit the signal in the hopes that it would be interpreted by an extraterrestrial intelligence. The message also included details about human beings, such as our physical appearance and DNA code. The signal was a million times stronger than the typical TV transmission. You can see the message in the cover photo (above).
27 years later, in 2001, the crop circle phenomenon gained some well-deserved attention when a pattern in the form of a response to the 1974 broadcast appeared right next to Britain’s largest telescope, the Chilbolton, and observatory, home to the world’s largest fully steerable meteorological radar. It’s one of the most amazing crop circles to ever appear, regardless of whether you believe it was done by human beings or an extraterrestrial intelligence
Above is a picture of what seems to be the response to the message sent out in 1974 by NASA (see cover photo). The message describes a different solar system, an image of the sender (just like on the original NASA message), non-human DNA, and a microwave antenna instead of the radio-wave antenna that was depicted in ours.
A simple Google search would suffice if you want to see more pictures. It was written off as a hoax, like most crop circles are within the mainstream.
The face you see there appeared three days before the rectangular image. The face represented a new technique in crop circle generation, a screen technique that is also used for printing a face on a piece of paper.
What’s also interesting to note is the fact that the microwave antenna signal in this crop circle also appeared a year earlier in the exact same field. You can view an image of that one here.
The Arecibo message sent out into space was in binary, and I thought it would be fitting to source a declassified NSA (National Security Agency) document titled “Key To The Extraterrestrial Messages.” This document reveals that they received a series of 29 messages from outer space that also appear to be in some binary form. The title of the document alone is quite shocking given the fact that it comes straight from the NSA.
Some Things You Might Not Know About Crop Circles
Not many people are aware of the fact that crop circles happen all over the world and there have been reports of them for decades. Some of their designs are so complex and elaborate that they’ve completely baffled onlookers, researchers, and scientists alike. Not only that, many of the designs are often electrostatically charged, usually with the nodes of some of the plant stalks blasted out on one side. Some of them are also littered with strange magnetic particles. This effect has been replicated by highly localized microwave heating, which causes water inside the plants to vaporize and dislodge, thus flopping the stock completely over to one side.
This fact has led some physicists to publish work on the phenomenon, concluding that the perpetrators (who have never been caught in the act of making a crop circle, anywhere) are using GPS devices, lasers, and microwaves to create these astonishing geometric forms. (source)
According to Richard Taylor, director of the Materials Science Institute at the University of Oregon: “Crop circle artists are not going to give up their secrets easily. This summer, unknown artists will venture into the countryside close to your homes and carry out their craft, safe in the knowledge that they are continuing the legacy of the most science-oriented art movement in history.”(source)
Other physicists, like Dr. Terence Meadon, have explained that the light energy involved is a result of atmospheric phenomena.
So, if the circle makers are indeed human, we are looking at an extremely advanced/artistic group of people with a tremendous amount of resources at their disposal.
What are your thoughts on the crop circle phenomenon? Feel free to share in the comment section below.
The Nimitz UFO Encounters – A Short Documentary Film
The Nimitz UFO Encounters – A Short Documentary Film
The Nimitz UFO Encounters
On the morning of November 14th, 2004 off the coast of California, the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group was conducting routine training. Soon the sailors and naval aviators of the carrier strike group would encounter unknowwn craft.
By David C. Beatty
The answers to the question of “what are they?” remains unknown to this day.
At 6 am today (10-23-2018) to have a cigarette and a minute or two later directly above me was a UFO Triangle 100 ft wide 50 ft length.
I stepped out on the balcony just after 6 am today (10-23-2018) to have a cigarette and a minute or two later directly above me was a UFO that had to be at least 100 foot in width and 50 or more feet in length, 50 feet or less above me just over the tree tops moving 10 to 15 mph in a straight line going East heading towards the city of Winston-Salem, NC. with 4 huge tail lights flashing/strobes bright yellow-orange and red, (multi-colored) randomly without a pattern and one flashing bright red light on top, bright as LED lights and just as it was getting out of sight another one going North but 100 to 150 feet higher and directly above me came and moving about 20 to 25 mph, I was watching this UFO and to the right of me looking North-East I saw another UFO heading towards the first one that was now out of sight going 20-25 mph heading South-East and as I was following that UFO another UFO heading South but much higher in the air about 300-400 feet and just above a thin cloud appeared.
I called using 411 the Winston-Salem Police non emergency number and was connected and gave the same account I"m telling you at approximately at 6:15 am and asked them if they could tell me if the Military was doing Drone exercises but they said they would make a report and have someone call back.
At 6:30 am give or take a officer called me back and all she told me was she didn't see anything and wouldn't answer my question if the Military was in the area. The first UFO Sighting did have a hard to describe very slight sound which I can mimic if I had to but I tried to record it with my iPad and it doesn't come out good, I've attached photos (taken within a hour afterwards, it was dark at the time but the sky had lightened up) I took them from my perspective and sketched on them (poorly) what I saw and I hope it gives you a good idea of what I seen. I'm regretting not thinking to grab my iPad and take a video but I was in complete awe of what I was seeing but I'll now be out in the morning ready and waiting to see if t! hey come back.
There was a man walking South on the sidewalk and I tried to get his attention so he could witness it too but he didn't respond to me and also in the distance there was a lady walking 4 small dogs that were freaking out when this happened and she was yelling at them and trying to calm them down. I've have never seen anything like this and so close to me that would make me want to file a report, I just want to know if what I saw could be Military Drones. Thank-you for providing a way for me to share my experience and I'm hoping you can provide some information regarding this experience.
Throughout human history we have strove and endeavored to push out past the horizon and the limits of what we can see, to go out into the world and indeed the universe to explore new realms in our innate, insatiable quest for discovery. We have gone out past the hills or mountains in the distance, over the vast sea that sprawls out as far as we can see, into the thickest jungles and down into the deepest, darkest abysses of our oceans. We have gone out past the blue skies above, launching out into space to our moon and the planets beyond, and one day we may go even further still, into the corners of our observable universe and beyond to who knows what. Yet, for all of the mysteries that lie out there in the seas and wildernesses of our planet and beyond our world, it is interesting to think that some of the more baffling frontiers lie not out beyond us, but rather within us, and the human body is in many ways just as unexplored and misunderstood as any far away realm.
Some of the puzzling mysteries of the human body are everyday things that we take for granted, and which no one really gives much thought to. Take yawning for instance, you have probably done this countless times today, hopefully not too much while reading this article, whether it be because you are tired, bored, or just because the person next to you did it. But have you ever thought about “why” we yawn? Or why it should be contagious? There are lots of ideas for why we yawn, such as that it regulates the temperature of our brains, or helps us shift from one condition to another, such as from sleep to wakefulness or alertness to boredom, or maybe it just gives us a physiological boost, but the fact is we don’t really know. Making it all more mysterious is the fact that yawning seems to be infectious, as you have no doubt already surmised from your own experiences, but why should this be? The closest we have to an answer for any of this is that it is some ingrained social bonding trait, a subconscious show of empathy, of which neuroscientist and professor of psychology, Robert Provine, has said in a statement to Healthline:
Yawning may be a primitive form of empathy that binds tribal members together and coordinates their physiology, such as synchronizing arousal and bedtimes. Diminished contagion, whether from yawning or laughing, may be a novel measure of social disorders as in autism or schizophrenia.
That is a rather unromantic and coldly scientific way of saying that yawing brings us together. It is interesting to note that contagious yawning is seen mostly only in social animals such as dogs, lions, chimpanzees, and humans. However, again we just don’t know, and yawning, one of our most common behaviors, remains little understood. Another contagious behavior that we do all of the time is laughing, which if you are lucky you have also done many times today already. Laughter, and its ability to infect others around us with its mirth, is also actually a rather mysterious trait, with no real concrete commonly accepted reason for why we should do it or why it should spread to others. The most widely accepted theory is that, like yawning, it is a sort of social behavior. In this case, it is likely an evolutionary trait designed to specify that we are playing and not engaging in threatening behavior or feeling threatened. In this way, our laughter puts others of our group at ease and they too laugh to show others around them that there is no immediate danger. The social angle helps explain why we laugh far less when we are alone, but the true reason for laughter and its contagious nature remains murky. It doesn’t, however, explain why some people laugh at some things while others don’t, or why in some cultures laughing is actually sometimes a sign of discomfort or even alarm.
So we have these behaviors and reactions so far of when we are sleepy, bored, or conversely happy and amused, so what usually happens when you are embarrassed? Do you blush? Well a lot of people do, and if so, there is another mystery we still don’t have an answer to, made all the more intriguing by the fact that humans are the only animals that do it. We know the “how” part of the equation. Blushing is basically caused by blood vessels dilating in reaction to the adrenaline stirred up by stress, and this allows the adrenaline to flow through your system faster and more smoothly. In the face, this results in that redness we call blushing, but this redness shows up nowhere else on the body. This stress can be caused by embarrassment, but it can also be caused by positive emotions such as being thrilled or receiving a compliment.
This we know, but more confusing is the “why” of it all. Why should only our faces turn red in these situations? What possible purpose or advantage could our faces turning red have, and why does it happen even in positive situations such as meeting the man or woman of your dreams? It is so baffling that Charles Darwin himself once said of it, “Blushing is the most peculiar and the most human of all expressions.” Again, there are many ideas for why we might blush, but no definitive answers. One of the main theories is that blushing serves as a social nonverbal form of apology, meaning that when you do something you know was a mistake or wrong you subconciously visibly blush to show others that you realize it and are sorry about it, visually representing your regret and remorse for all to see. This has actually been tested, and studies have shown that people who blush are indeed more likely to be forgiven than those who don’t. However, like the others we have looked at so far, nobody really knows for sure.
Another thing many of you might take for granted and do every day is write, throw a ball, or use a fork or knife with either your right or left hand. For most people it is just one of those “just because” things, yet the fact that we have a dominant hand at all, as well as why most people should have that be the right hand, have long been a baffling mystery of the human body. Wouldn’t it make more evolutionary sense for us to be able to use both hands equally? Yes, it would, and although a small percentage people are ambidextrous (able to use both hands equally), scientists can’t seem to agree on why this isn’t the case for everyone, or why it should 7 to 9 times out of 10 be the right hand that is favored, no matter the culture or country.
One idea is that because of our advanced speech capabilities there are more brain resources dedicated to the complex wiring of the speech producing region of our brains, which is also linked to motor skills and which usually sits on the left hemisphere, but not always. However, many right-handed people have been found to have speech centers on the right hemisphere and many left-handed people have speech centers on the left as well, making this an unreliable indicator at best. There is also the fact that animals without the complex speech wiring and fine motor skills of humans have also been shown to have preferred dominant appendages as well. In the end, it is not fully understood, and it is difficult to study as many societies take naturally left-handed people and force them into right-handedness, making it difficult to get a fix on. The subject of the nature of handedness continues to be debated and discussed, and we are no closer to an answer.
Other mysteries of the human body have more to do with our actual anatomy and the make-up of our bodies. Some of these are external and you can see them right now. For instance, look at your hands and you’ll see that not only do you have fingerprints, but you may also know that their particular patterns of whorls and ridges are completely unique to you and you alone. Have you ever thought about why that should be, or indeed why you should have fingerprints in the first place? If you have been paying attention so far you can probably see where this is going. That’s right, we don’t know.
“Whoa, whoa, wait!” you might be thinking right about now. “They are for gripping things, right?” you may be asking. Well, here’s the thing about that, while indeed it was long thought that this was the purpose of fingerprints, that the ridges create friction, this has since been seen as more and more doubtful. In the June 12, 2009 issue of the Journal of Experimental Biologya report was published by Peter Warman, from the University of Manchester in England, that showed that fingerprints don’t seem to improve grip at all, and actually may even make our grip worse. It was found that considering that our skin behaves almost like rubber when producing friction with an object, we need more of the skin in contact with the object to get a better grip. In our case, those fingerprints of ours actually make sure that we have less of our skin in contact than we would if we didn’t have fingerprints, worsening the grip, although they are still seen as perhaps helping to grasp rougher surfaces. Other theories for why we have fingerprints include that they help drain water from our fingers to keep our grip dry, that they could have a role to play in helping to prevent blisters, or that they somehow increase touch sensitivity, but at the moment those unique prints of yours are an evolutionary mystery.
Moving within the body we come to other inscrutable mysteries. Probably the one most people will immediately think of is the appendix, a seemingly pointless organ that is apparently only good for getting infected and having to be removed. Indeed, many of you reading this right now are probably without an appendix and also without any ill effects, and indeed even the word itself “appendix” in common usage denotes something that is sort of tacked on as an afterthought. One would think that after all of these years we would by now have discovered just what it is supposed to do, but actually no. All we have are ideas, such that it is a vestigial remnant of an organ that helped our ancestors digest food, that it helps develop the immune system of fetuses, or even that it plays an important role in attracting and providing a living environment for the “good bacteria” in your gut, but we are basically just as perplexed by this anomaly of the human body as we always have been.
The very blood that runs through our veins also holds mysteries. All human beings can be classified into different blood types, which have different enzymes that determine the types of sugars that stick to blood cells, and the main four types are classified as A, B, O, and AB. The differences between these types is such that for blood infusions it is a necessity that donors with compatible types be found. Yet why human beings should have different blood types in the first place has long remained an enigma. The closest we have come to an answer is that certain blood types and their antigens may be more useful for fighting off pathogens found in particular geographical areas of the world or that they have evolved for some other function, but there is no definitive reason and they are a mystery.
There is also the question of the very make-up of our bodies. It is no mystery that much of our body is made up of foreign agents, such as microbes, which compose around 1-3 per cent of our total body weight. This we know, and we even know the functions of some of the bacteria living in our bodies, such as helping with digestion, aiding healing, fighting infection, or keeping our skin clean, but there are vast numbers of these microbes that coexist with us and make up our bodies whose purposes we have no idea of. The fact that we have no clue what many of the microbes that make up so much of our bodies do is a sobering thought, and making it even more mysterious still is that among all of the bacteria permeating our bodies there are also quite a few viruses permanently floating about, even in healthy people, and it is a total mystery as to what function they are serving or why this should be.
Perhaps the biggest human body mystery of all, and the one we take for granted most, is the one that sits up in your head, the brain. It is a vast, supremely complex network of trillions and trillions of neural connections, a mind-boggling web that somehow runs and regulates our bodies, facilitates our mental functions, and bestows us with consciousness and self-awareness. How can this be? The full extent of the human brain and its workings are still little understood, and the most perplexing mystery of all is how this blob of jelly in our skulls gives us consciousness, spirituality, appreciation, self-awareness, love, art, literature, and everything else that makes us human. Neuroscientists still don’t know, and one neuroscientist, V.S. Ramachandran, has famously and eloquently summed it all up:
Any single brain, including yours, is made up of atoms that were forged in the hearts of countless, far-flung stars billions of years ago. These particles drifted for eons and light-years until gravity and chance brought them together here, now. These atoms now form a conglomerate — your brain — that can not only ponder the very stars that gave it birth but can also think about its own ability to think and wonder about its own ability to wonder. With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, is the greatest mystery of all.
It is spooky and profound to contemplate, indeed. Here we have looked at a selection of some of the baffling mysteries of the human body that, while they may be things that you take for granted every day, are nevertheless just as unknown, uncharted, and indeed impenetrable as the deepest unexplored sea, jungle, or the faraway landscape of some alien planet. Such aspects of our bodies and indeed who we are may one day be more fully understood, just as we will discover more of our universe as we continue our inexorable drive of exploration, but for now they remain strange frontiers that lie not out over the horizon or out past the stars, but right here with us now.
A couple of days ago, I wrote an article on a strange MIB-themed case from the 1960s that Robert Goerman investigated. The article began as follows: “Born on March 3, 1952,Robert A. Goermanis a native of New Kensington, Pennsylvania. As an investigative scholar of unknown and unexplained phenomena, he has been fortunate enough to have his writings featured in national magazines and serve as source material for many books and popular television shows such as Unsolved Mysteries, The Unexplained, History’s Mysteries, Animal X, MonsterQuest, and Dark Matters: Twisted But True. Founded in June of 2012, his Nonhuman Research Agency explores encounters with mysterious strangers, beings, and creatures and studies interspecific relationships. Robert offers his very own insights into the Men in Black mystery, based upon his firsthand investigations of a very weird case from the 1960s that is steeped in menace of the black-colored kind. It is a case that has led Robert to some thought-provoking theories concerning the nature and actions of the MIB, too.”
Robert has generously given me permission to use the accounts he has sent me. The following from Robert demonstrates just how downright weird the MIB phenomenon really is. It’s an account that is focused on an MIB experience he had in the dream state. Interestingly, I receive from people a lot of very graphic, dream-based experiences with the Men in Black. It’s a situation which has led some witnesses/victims to suspect the MIB can literally “invade” their dreams and turn them into downright nightmares.
Over to Robert:
“Before you continue reading, let me preface this post by confessing that the MiB ‘visit’ was merely a dream shard. I would never even publish my experience if not for its curious physical aftermath. It is also necessary to point out that I have resided at my present residence for much of my life. This was my childhood home. It was inherited upon the passing of my parents. The bedroom that I now occupy as an adult was at one time shared for many years with my younger brother. There was barely enough room for two twin beds and a tiny writing nook where I documented my early research on a vintage Smith-Corona typewriter.
“The dream that I had shortly after midnight on Monday, July 18, 2016 found me seated at my writing nook as a young man (1969 or 1970) at night. I was typing a report about the Men in Black and uttered to myself that these scenarios echoed the MIB cases reported by Brad Steiger. My desk lamp was the only light source in the room. Movement off to my left caught my attention and I turned my head. Two Men in Black, wearing the classic fedoras, stood not six feet away, between the twin beds, blocking any hope at escape. The closest one was about my height. His companion was a head taller. Both were no more than silhouettes. There were no details. Escape was the last thing on my mind.
“I remember saying, ‘I have been looking forward to this,’ jumping up, and grabbing the shorter MIB by his arms between the elbows and shoulders. (Anecdotal information suggests that the MIB hate being touched by humans. I knew this.) BIG MISTAKE. It was like grabbing a high voltage tornado! In fact, the MIB became a whirling blur of time and space. My left arm was being ripped from its socket. I screamed that high-pitched scream that only excruciating pain can create. Pain beyond pain. Folks that have experienced certain traumatic accidents know exactly what I mean.
“Hearing my cries for help, my wife awakened me. I snapped fully awake to the horror that the pain in my left arm and shoulder was quite real. (My firsthand relationship with pain comes from the agony of a herniated disc that required spinal surgery and too many kidney stones.) I understand pain. This was real pain. Maybe not quite as extreme as those two previous examples… but still, as real as it gets. It took a healthy dose of Ibuprofen and the gentle working of the tender arm and shoulder to make things tolerable. Traces of soreness lasted most of the day. It is what it is.”
The image captured by Glen Webster on his camcorder in the sky over Norwich. Date: 11 Nov 1995.
Picture: EDP Library
Remember, remember the beginning of November…it was the month, back in 1995, when Norfolk’s skies were lit up by close encounters of the third kind.
More cynical readers might put the sudden spate of UFO sightings in the Norfolk town down to early celebrations for Bonfire Night, but those who saw the strange lights or gliding objects in the sky know that earthly pyrotechnics can’t explain what they witnessed. The first account of something strange in the sky was on November 2. Computer engineer Nick Colman was driving home from work when he saw a bright light tracking his car as he approached Aylsham – just hours later, a man telephoned police at Great Yarmouth, reporting a suspected UFO at Freethorpe.
Worried Nick, who was working for a computer company on the Sweetbriar Industrial Estate and was 30 at the time, watched as the light appeared in his rear view mirror and moved round to the side of his car before shooting up into the sky in front of him.
“At first I thought it might have just been a halogen lamp but when it started moving to the side of the car, where there was no road, I knew it wasn’t. It couldn’t have been a helicopter because it was too low to the ground and I have never known a helicopter shoot up so fast,” he said.
Glen Webster with the camcorder he used to capture the silent object over his Mile Cross home. Date: 11 Nov 1995.
Picture: EDP Library
“I told about 20 people about it later that night and then I read about the sighting in Freethorpe. Someone told me if could have been a reflection in my windows but I was smoking a cigarette so my window was wound down.”
A man called Great Yarmouth police in the early hours of the next day, reporting a blue and white flashing disc over fields at Freethorpe. A police spokesman later told the Norwich Evening News that there had been no more reported sightings of the strange lights.
But there had been another sighting, a day after Mr Colman’s, this time in Appleyard Crescent in Norwich at around 8.15pm.
Painter and decorator Glenn Webster captured the extraterrestrial visitor on camera: in the video, a shape-shifting black object can be seen moving swiftly from side-to-side before spinning rapidly and zooming off into the Norfolk night.
Looking slightly like an axe-head (although the ‘bites’ out of the disc were later found to be caused by the camera’s zoom lens shutter), the strange-looking object excited some of the country’s top UFO experts.
So stunned was Mr Webster, 32, by what he saw that he tripped and fell while filming. His video clearly shows the shape first appearing in the sky over Norwich as a huge bright light zig-zagging from side to side. As Mr Webster ran outside to get a better shot of the object it zoomed off towards Yarmouth.
“I was stunned when I first saw it and reached for my camcorder. When I zoomed in on the shape I couldn’t believe it. I moved forward and tripped over my hi-fi. The object made no sound and I gasped when I saw it shoot towards the moon,” he said.
“I have always been a bit sceptical about this type of thing but this was simply amazing.”
The video was watched by Ian Simmons, British contributing editor of the Fortean Times, the journal of strange phenomena, who said: “the object doesn’t behave like anything we know about. It appears to be something which could well be extra-terrestrial.
“Originally I thought it sounded like the shape the afterburner of a jet fighter makes, but after watching the video, that can be ruled out. It’s too clearly
defined a shape and too large. Many other UFO sightings can be put down to views of the planet Venus, but that can also be ruled out in this case. This falls into the category of a very mysterious light, or shape. Many of the famous UFO sightings show a solid object.”
Norfolk UFO Society chairman Alex Clark said at the time: “Based on descriptions given so far, I have never heard of an object like this before. After watching the film we could decide to hand the tape over to the British UFO Research Association which has computer technology to make accurate assessments of size, colour and heat patterns.”
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence told the Norwich Evening News in 1995: “The MoD does not normally investigate unless there is a Services interest. We are not aware of any evidence that this is a matter of defence concern.”
Local residents spotted UFO on same day pilots reported flying object sighting in Ireland
Local residents spotted UFO on same day pilots reported flying object sighting in Ireland
Local residents have spotted bizarre unidentified flying objects (UFO) on the same day pilots spotted bright lights travelling across the skies in Ireland.
As the Irish Aviation Authority is investigating the unusual sightings of bright lights and UFOs reported by three commercial aircraft pilots, fresh reports of UFO sightings on the same day have now surfaced online. Popular conspiracy theory website 'Disclose.tv' has recently released an eerie clip that shows two bright lights hovering in the skies, and they claim that these visuals were shot in Northern Ireland, on the same day pilots spotted high-speeding bizarre objects.
In their website post titled 'Actual Footage Of The Ireland UFO Encounter', Disclose.tv reveals that the new sighting does correspond with one pilot's comment that there were two objects speeding in the skies.
"Dash-cam footage was uploaded by dash-cam by Sandy Laverty in Coleraine. Looks like a bolide to me. It does correspond with the one pilot's comment that there were two objects. However, that could be a coincidence," wrote Disclose.tv on their website.
The video soon went viral, and it has already racked up more than 18,500 views. As the video became popular, conspiracy theorists soon jumped to the conclusion that alien life is a reality, and made it clear that extraterrestrial beings from advanced civilizations used to visit earth to monitor our activities.
It was on November 09 that a British pilot initially spotted a flying object and contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control to know whether there are any military exercises going on. The air traffic control soon informed the pilot that there were no such activities in and around the area.
As per the testimonial from the British pilot, the object spotted in the skies initially come up along the left side of the aircraft before it rapidly moved to the North at a very high acceleration. The pilot also revealed that the UFO spotted in the skies had bright lights on its body.
Another pilot who witnessed this sighting revealed that the UFO was travelling at twice the speed of the sound.
However, some experts argue that the objects spotted by the pilots could be a meteor or asteroid. But adamant conspiracy theorists believe that a meteor will never change its trajectory like the object did while trailing the aircraft.
The truth is out there: was Kerry UFO really a meteor?
The truth is out there: was Kerry UFO really a meteor?
Simon Brouder
Astronomy and aviation experts now think that a UFO spotted over Kerry by three airline pilots might have been a meteor falling to earth.
Following the twin Star Wars movie shoots in south and west Kerry, the county is no stranger to 'extraterrestrial' visitors but something far more unusual unfolded high above the Kingdom in the early hours of last Friday morning.
The bizarre incident began at 6.47am on Friday as a British Airways flight from Montreal to Heathrow passed over Kerry.
As the 787 jet flew across the county, an extremely fast moving bright object appeared to the left of the plane.
This led the startled pilot to contact Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to ask if there were any military exercises taking place in the area.
A recording of their exchange was released on Friday.
Shannon ATC said that there were no exercises taking place and that there was "nothing showing on either primary or secondary radar".
The BA pilot, who sounds taken aback by what she had seen, responds and describes what she had just observed.
"Ok. It was moving so fast" she said, adding that the "very bright light" came up along the left of the airliner then "rapidly veered to the north and disappeared at a very high speed".
The unidentified object was also spotted by two other airliners which were flying just off the Kerry coast. They also contacted Shannon ATC to report their sightings.
A Virgin Airlines pilot described seeing multiple "very bright objects following the same trajectory" that then climbed away at a high speed.
The third pilot, on a Norwegian Airlines plane, reported a bright object travelling at an "astronomical" speed.
One of the stunned pilots, who was part of the four way conversation with Shannon ATC, expressed relief that he wasn't imagining things.
"I'm glad it wasn't just me" he said.
The Irish Aviation Authority issued a statement confirming that they have launched an investigation into an incident of "unusual air activity" which the body said had been reported by "a small number of aircraft".
While alleged UFO sightings are common - particularly in the United States - what makes this incident so unusual is that the UFO was spotted by three flight crews and reported separately by three highly experienced commercial airline pilots.
In the wake of the sighting, several leading international astronomy and aviation experts have argued that the UFO was, in all likelihood, a meteor that was burning up after it entered Earth's atmosphere.
This has been contested by hundreds of UFO enthusiasts - posting on various internet forums and websites - who argue that the pilots' description of the UFO changing course and "veering" or "climbing" away at high speed rules out the possibility of a meteor.
The explanation for Friday's remarkable sighting is something we will likely never know. Keep watching those skies.
Huge Alien Disclosure: Researcher Has Discovered How UFOs Are Coming to Earth (Video)
Huge Alien Disclosure: Researcher Has Discovered How UFOs Are Coming to Earth (Video)
ALIEN UFO DISCLOSURE
The intelligence behind the UFO phenomena has chosen either not to disclose or to cover-up the reality of what is happening on our planet, so what are they doing?
This lecture will look at what the intelligence might be doing. It will also look at the phenomena of the appearance of aliens in xendras which are inter-dimensional portals to other worlds.
Lastly it will look at the CIA effort to possibly disclose the reality of portals.
'Space Age record' for cold temperatures in a matter of months, NASA warns
'Space Age record' for cold temperatures in a matter of months, NASA warns
NASA scientists warn that the absence of sunspots could result in record-breaking cold temperatures above Earth in just a few months
An alarming new trend in the atmosphere could mean a significant drop in the temperature of the thermosphere, and it could happen sooner than anyone might have previously predicted.
Using NASA’s TIMED satellite, which measures changes in Earth’s atmosphere, scientists have determined that the atmosphere is losing heat energy. In a Space Weather feature, Dr. Mlynczak explained to Dr. Tony Philips how this development high above earth’s surface on the edge of space could bring record cold temperatures.
Sunspots no more?
The usual sunspots seem to have disappeared for the majority of this year, leading to these massive losses of heat energy and causing the thermosphere to cool and shrink.
The SABER instrument installed on the TIMED satellite monitors infrared emissions from carbon dioxide and nitric oxide. Both substances are crucial in maintaining the overall balance of energy. Part of the SABER instrument is the Thermosphere Climate Index (TCI), created by a group of researchers lead by Dr. Mlynczak, which shows the number of heat trapping molecules such as carbon dioxide and nitric oxide being released into space. The current measurement of 33 billion watts of infrared power from nitric oxide is ten times less than what is considered normal during more active solar cycle phases. This frighteningly low number could lead to the record setting cold temperatures in a ‘matter of months’, according to Dr. Mlynczak.
Solar activity cycles generally last for approximately eleven years, and the prolonged inactivity of the past year, as evidenced by the lack of sunspots, could send temperatures plummeting in the thermosphere, which is a layer of gases located 60 to 180 miles (100 to 300 kilometres) above the planet’s surface.
Scientists do not yet understand the full implications for sunspots, but they occur in areas of strong magnetic activity as part of the eleven year solar cycle.
The particles in Earth’s atmosphere are agitated by the ultra-violet radiation given off by sunspots, which then causes those particles to heat up. With the absence of sunspots for the majority of this year resulting in a lack of agitation, this is what is causing the upper atmosphere to lose heat energy. Research seems to indicate that while there may be significant changes happening far above the Earth, it is unlikely to have much effect on the weather experienced on the planet’s surface. The absence of sunspots will not result in climate change.
During the Solar Minimum phase of the eleven year activity cycle the ultraviolet output of the sun drops substantially and Earth’s upper atmosphere reacts accordingly, says Dr. Martin Mlynczak.
The Solar Minimum phase also leads to an increase in the amount of space junk that can be allowed to accumulate in low Earth orbit.
Another effect is increased solar winds, which can be the cause of more lightning and abnormal cloud formation due to the alteration of the chemistry of the Earth’s upper atmosphere.
An historical record of the Thermosphere Climate Index
Air travel may also be affected as increased solar wind can increase the amount of radiation that is able to penetrate aircraft. Passengers traveling on long-haul flights may be exposed to doses of radiation equal to that of a dental x-ray. This also poses an additional risk for flight crews who spend many hours in the air.
Additionally, Solar Minimum may increase the effects of space weather and lead to the disruption of navigation technology and communications.
Early this year, cameras on board NASA 's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite captured images of the sun’s surface which showed an unusual stillness amid the lack of sunspot activity in the magnetic field.
The predicted Solar Minimum low point was originally said to be coming in 2019 or 2020, according to calculations by NASA, but now researchers say the sunspots are disappearing at much faster rate than anticipated and that the current solar cycle may end sooner than thought.
Why does the lack of sunspots create disruptions for Earth?
Inactivity in the sun’s magnetic field leads to a decrease, or even cessation, of sunspot activity. Throughout the average eleven year solar cycle there are periods known as Solar Maximum, with more activity, and Solar Minimum, with little to no activity.
While sunspots and solar flares decrease during the Minimum, long lived phenomena such as coronal holes, are expected to increase. Coronal holes occur when the star’s magnetic field opens up into space, creating fast moving solar winds. As the sun’s magnetic field becomes less active solar winds become more prevalent and begin to bombard the Earth. Coronal holes allow charged particles to find their way into the solar system, hitting the atmosphere of the planet.
This results in complications such as magnetic storms, impacts satellite operations, causes power grid fluctuations, and can also affect the migration pattern of animals.
With all of these potential problems that can be caused by the drop in solar activity, people need to be aware and cautious.
Photo NewsEen SpaceX Falcon 9 raket werd deze maand gelanceerd.
WETENSCHAPHet Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX heeft van de Amerikaanse federale autoriteiten toestemming gekregen om in de jaren twintig een constellatie van 11.943 satellieten in de ruimte te brengen voor wereldwijde internettoegang aan hoog debiet.
Ter vergelijking: sinds de Sovjetrussische Spoetnik in 1957 heeft de mensheid iets meer dan achtduizend objecten de ruimte ingeschoten, zo berekende het Ruimtevaartbureau van de Verenigde Naties. Het telt er nu nog 4.880, maar volgens het Amerikaanse leger zijn er minder dan 2.000 nog actief. De constellatie van SpaceX zal het aantal meervoudig opdrijven. En dan zijn er nog concurrerende projecten van andere bedrijven zoals OneWeb dat 900 satellieten voorziet.
De federale communicatiecommissie FCC liet weten dat zij de lancering van 7.518 kunstmanen door SpaceX heeft goedgekeurd, na in maart al het licht op groen voor 4.425 andere stuks te hebben gezet. Hiervan is nog geen enkel exemplaar gelanceerd. Het bedrijf van Elon Musk heeft zes jaar tijd om de helft van het pakket in de ruimte te brengen en negen jaar voor het geheel.
SpaceX wil die satellieten in een zeer lage baan opereren: een hoogte tussen 335 en 346 km, of onder de baan van het Internationaal Ruimtestation dat op ongeveer 400 km hoogte rond onze planeet wentelt. Probleem is dat een zo lage baan aanhouden moeilijk is en dat kleine satellieten een korte levensduur, enkele jaren, hebben. De FCC liet nog andere bedrijven toe honderden kunstmanen te lanceren: Kepler (140), Telesat (117) en LeoSat (78).
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The location of the lost city of Atlantis may finally have been discovered, according to one team of historians.
Ancient ruins examined using satellite imagery provide evidence that the city's huge harbour walls once stood in southern Spain, the experts say.
Many of the sites studied by the team were already known to archaeologists, and are thought to have been constructed by the ancient Romans and Greeks.
Now researchers at private satellite imaging firm Merlin Burrows claim to have found evidence that the sites were in fact built by a mysterious ancient people known as the Atlanteans.
Atlantis was recorded in the writings of Greek philosopher Plato, who in 400 BC described an advanced island civilisation that ruled a vast maritime empire, some 9,000 years before his own era.
The city of Atlantis at the centre of this empire was described as having an enormous harbour wall, huge entrance pillars, a temple to the god Poseidon and massive circular pieces of land carved out by the Atlanteans to live on.
It is thought a cataclysmic natural disaster, such as a tsunami or volcanic event, eventually wiped out the Atlanteans, consigning their legacy to legend.
Scientists are yet to find conclusive evidence that Atlantis existed. Many scholars believe Plato invented the story as a way to present his philosophical theories.
Picture shows what UK firm believes are the remnants of the harbour wall of Atlantis which was said to five-and-a-half miles long. Plato wrote that this wall was '50 stadia long' which would make it around five-and-a-half miles (9 km) in length
Image shows formations inside the Doñana National Park, Andalucia, Spain. They may be evidence of islands depicted by Plato in his story of Atlantis. The philosopher described how buildings were propped up on a mixture of natural and man made island structures
Pictured are a selection of the sites studied by the team at Merlin Burrows, a satellite imaging company based in Yorkshire. The white line shows where researchers believe the harbour wall described by Plato was built
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ATLANTIS?
Atlantis was recorded in the writings of the famed Greek philosopher Plato around 400 BC.
He described an advanced island civilisation that ruled a vast maritime empire.
According to Plato, Atlantis existed some 9,000 years before his own era.
The city of Atlantis at the centre of this empire was described as having, among other features, an enormous harbour wall and huge entrance pillars.
It had a temple to the god Poseidon and massive circular pieces of land carved out by the Atlanteans to live on.
It is thought a cataclysmic natural disaster, such as a tsunami or volcanic event, eventually wiped out the Atlanteans, consigning their legacy to legend.
Scientists are yet to find conclusive evidence that Atlantis ever existed, and many scholars believe Plato invented the myth as a way to present his philosophical theories.
Experts at Merlin Burrows believe the flooded ruins of the legendary city are off the coast of southern Spain.
The location is somewhere north of the city of Cadiz, Andalucía, centred around the Doñana National Park, which the historians believe was once a vast inland sea.
And they claim that south and north of the park there is further evidence of the ancient civilisation, with 15 other settlements dotted along the coastline.
Most of these settlements are believed to be of Roman or Greek origin by archaeologists, as each civilisation once occupied the area.
But now using unique satellite investigation techniques, aerial photography and ground observations of the site, British experts believe they have found all the features of Atlantis Plato described and evidence of how they were destroyed.
Although some scholars believe Atlantis to be a myth, Merlin Burrows claim their discoveries will once and for all prove the lost civilisation existed.
Maritime historian Tim Akers, head of research at Merlin Burrows, said not only had they discovered Atlantis, but also found the people were incredibly advanced.
He said 'laboratory analysis' of material recovered from Spain showed evidence of a type of cement not seen before, as well as ancient advanced metallurgy.
A greenish blue patina has been found covering some of the ruins which tests have shown is an ancient combination of metals.
He said: 'Plato describes in detail a patina on the buildings and structures of the cities and temples making up this complex.
'We have filmed clear evidence and have collected samples which have been scientifically tested in a lab in Modena, Italy, which is used to test ancient Roman finds.
'The results of the tests prove the age of the finds are older than Roman or Greek, and that they were more advanced.'
This image shows a computer mock-up of what the team believes the city of Atlantis would have looked like. Buildings were constructed on island platforms dotted throughout a stretch of inland sea that has since filled with sediment at what is now Doñana National Park in Spain
The city of Atlantis was described by Plato as having, among other features, an enormous harbour wall and huge entrance pillars. It had a temple to the god Poseidon and massive circular pieces of land carved out by the Atlanteans to live on
Aerial images of the site where Merlin Burrows believes Atlantis once stood show what they think is evidence of a harbour wall – an incredible 75 metres (245 ft) thick.
Plato wrote that this wall was '50 stadia long' which would make it around five-and-a-half miles in length.
Satellite images show what Merlin Burrows claim is evidence still visible today of sand dunes where this massive wall was destroyed by a huge influx of water.
The same water which eventually filled the inland sea with sediment and destroyed Atlantis.
Tim said: 'The site is spread over 100 miles from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, as to age as yet we have been unable to give a fixed date for the beginning, but its end was at the last Ice Age around 10,000 years ago.
'At the centre of the line of coastal cities was one gigantic inland sea 65 miles long, filled with multiple islands, some natural, others man-made.
'The main complex consists of two distinct individual multi-Island platforms.
This radar scan from Merlin Burrows shows what they claim is a foundation that once help up a building of Atlantis. It was discovered on a beach in southern Spain
Image shows an aerial of some of the ancient structures which litter the western Andalucian coastline. Romans, Greeks both are recorded as settling there. However, British historians believe that many of the ruins were in fact part of the city of Atlantis
'And one is offset from the other so that anyone on those islands can see every island in the complex.
'It is unique, nowhere in our world is there anything resembling this, and the structures match exactly Plato's dimensions with no deviation. It is absolutely spot on.
'Investigations in Doñana lead to the conclusion that there have been two natural disasters (tsunamis) that caused the islands and dry areas to sink, one of which happened around 1500 BC and the other 200AD. There is also evidence of a tsunami event in the Bible.'
Merlin Burrows have now recorded a documentary film about their mission to reveal Atlantis called 'Atlantica'.
In the film the team visit sites they believe still show clues to the past people that once lived there, right up to the naming of the ancient town in the region Medina-Sidonia.
Pictured is the Dolmen of Menga, an incredible 5,500 year old burial tomb built into a mountain near the team's Atlantica site. They suggest the tomb may have formed a part of the ancient city of Atlantis
Aerial images of the site where Merlin Burrows believes Atlantis once stood show what they think is evidence of a harbour wall (pictured), which was an 75 metres (245 ft) thick
The settlement is believed to be the oldest city in Europe and its name means City of Sidon – the word Sidon which could be linked to Poseidon.
Tim said much of what Merlin Burrows have found today with their technology is thanks to Plato's original descriptions.
He said: 'Plato describes the location exactly and all we did was follow in his footsteps the way ancient seafarers would have travelled to the cities.
'We explain why, people have misunderstood the circles of Atlantis and why no one had seen these stunning complexes before.
'The site has both Tartessian, Greek, Phoenician, and Roman additions and our scans show multiple occupations over time till there final and ultimate destruction.
This image shows detail on a stone object on a beach north of Cadiz, Andalucia, Southern Spain. Merlin Burrows claims this structure dates back to the time of Atlantis and is not a later Greek or Roman artefact, as many archaeologists believe
Picture shows a beach north of Cadiz, Andalucia, Southern Spain. Merlin Burrows, a British satellite firm believes the beach hides the once massive harbour wall of Atlantis
'We only present the facts and try not to delve into speculation. What is unique in our presentation is all of this material has never been seen before.'
Now Merlin Burrows hope recognition of both their discovery and distribution of the film will help protect the region for future generations and secure funding for further study.
Tim said: 'To understand Atlantis is to understand the ways of ancient life as it was at the peak of human life on earth.
'We would hope that the people in southern Spain would benefit from the knowledge of their ancient past.
'That all the sites are protected, and in some cases moved, so we can all enjoy them in the future. Also, that the regions would benefit from the tourism both in work and other opportunities.
This computer generated image shows what the massive 75 metre wide, five-and-a-half-miles-long harbour wall that some believe protected Atlantis may have appeared
This image shows ancient structures on a beach near Cadiz, Andalucia, Southern Spain. The team believes these are from Atlantis, and not later Roman or Greek additions, which is currently the accepted origin by most archaeologists
'New museums and scientific study centres would enhance the economy and open active debates to the early origins of man.'
Documentary filmmaker Michael Donnellan has produced the film 'Atlantica' about Merlin Burrows discovery.
Michael, who has studied classical Greek and Minoan archeology, travelled to Southern Spain to film what Tim and the team of satellite historians had found.
He said: 'Finding and filming Atlantis has been life changing. Talk about a purpose.
'All my skillsets and passions have come together in the creation of this series of films. The discovery of Atlantis is monumental.
'Suddenly we know, not think, but know that humanity, in an advanced stage of development, existed, so long ago.
Pictured is a topographical scan of the area of the harbour wall remnants from Merlin Burrows. They claim the wall once guarded the entrace to a vast inland sea which today covers most of the area of Doñana National Park
'And had existed undisturbed for many thousands of years prior to its destruction.
'The imagination boggles when considering their capabilities. We have a lot we can learn from this civilization, to help move our own into a better future.'
Michael said that tests at the Modena Materials Analysis Laboratory in Italy on material taken from the site had revealed amazing results.
He said: 'The harbour wall seems to have had a coating that prevented barnacle growth, like modern Teflon.
'That requires highly advanced construction technologies and knowledge of chemistry.
'We've received overwhelming excitement about our discovery of Atlantis, including a great deal of feedback from our colleagues in academic circles as well.
Image shows Head of Research Tim Akers (left) and CEO Bruce Blackburn (right) from Merlin Burrows, in Harrogate, North Yorkshire
'It is for this reason we continue to include every science available to us, in order to verify all our finds are genuine, and to satisfy every angle we can.'
Material gathered from the Atlantis site, from the habour wall and from the pillars found on the beach, has been tested in Italy at a laboratory used to dealing with Roman finds.
Dr Giacomo Falanga, from the Modena Centro Prove, a chemical testing laboratory in Modena, Italy, said samples from the site included a variety of material.
He said: 'These structures contain binders, like calcite. The presence of mica, potassium, and other trace minerals show proof of artificial mixing of materials, so the samples we have tested are made from an ancient, prehistoric concrete.'
Andrea Carpi, a space materials engineer from the laboratory, said: 'We can confirm with certainty that the samples analysed were the creation of an ancient civilisation with advanced construction methods, which makes me believe that we're talking about a civilisation with very advanced technology.'
The location is somewhere north of the city of Cadiz, Andalucía, centred around the Doñana National Park, which the historians believe was once a vast inland sea
Satellieten spotten oude ruïnes voor de kust van Spanje. Is dit de verloren stad Atlantis?
Satellieten spotten oude ruïnes voor de kust van Spanje. Is dit de verloren stad Atlantis?
De locatie van de verloren stad Atlantis is ontdekt, zo beweert althans een team historici.
Oude ruïnes die zijn geanalyseerd aan de hand van satellietbeelden bewijzen dat enorme havenmuren van een verloren stad voor de kust van Spanje ooit in Zuid-Spanje stonden, aldus de experts.
Onderzoekers van de firma Merlin Burrows claimen bewijs te hebben gevonden dat de ruïnes overblijfselen zijn van een stad die is gebouwd door een mysterieus volk, genaamd de Atlantiërs.
Enorm zeerijk
De Griekse filosoof Plato omschreef Atlantis als een hoogontwikkelde eilandbeschaving die zo’n 10.000 jaar geleden heerste over een enorm zeerijk.
De stad Atlantis zou hebben bestaan uit een enorme havenmuur, een tempel van Poseidon en verschillende concentrische ringen.
Experts van Merlin Burrows geloven dat de ruïnes voor de kust van Zuid-Spanje restanten zijn van de legendarische stad.
Binnenzee
De ruïnes bevinden zich in de buurt van de stad Cadiz in Andalusië, waar volgens de historici ooit een binnenzee was.
Ze claimen dat ten zuiden en noorden van het nabijgelegen nationaal park Donana meer bewijzen zijn te vinden van een oude beschaving.
Zo zijn langs de kust resten gevonden van 15 andere nederzettingen.
Onbekende soort cement
Merlin Burrows zegt definitief te zullen bewijzen dat de verloren stad heeft bestaan.
Historicus Tim Akers van Merlin Burrows zei dat tijdens een analyse van het materiaal uit Spanje sporen zijn gevonden van een onbekende soort cement en hoogwaardige metaalbewerking.
Onze resultaten laten zien dat de stad ouder is dan de Romeinen of de Grieken en dat de beschaving die er leefde geavanceerder was, aldus Akers.
Sophia The Robot, Hanson Robotics Limited's David Hanson, and SingularityNET's Ben Goertzel at RISE 2018.
Have you ever heard that a robot has many different intelligences? This session with Ben Goertzel and David Hanson will show that they can be as broadly intelligent as humans.
An Interview With AI Robot Sophia
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Be Aware! Xinhua's first English Artificial Intelligence Anchor makes debut!
Be Aware! Xinhua's first English Artificial Intelligence Anchor makes debut!
The idea of super intelligent machines may sound like the plot of "The Terminator" or "The Matrix," but many experts say the idea isn't far-fetched. Some even think the singularity — the point at which artificial intelligence can match, and then overtake, human smarts — might happen in just 16 years.
The question is, could we evolve ourselves out of existence, being gradually replaced by the machines?
Many experts believe that our future society will be built on effective human-machine collaboration. But a lack of trust remains the single most important factor stopping this from happening.
AI’s decision-making process is usually too difficult for most people to understand. And interacting with something we don’t understand can cause anxiety and make us feel like we’re losing control.
Many people are also simply not familiar with many instances of AI actually working, because it often happens in the background. Instead, they are acutely aware of instances where AI goes terribly wrong.
Intelligent Robots Will Overtake Humans and a striking example is Xinhua's first English AI anchor who made its debut at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen 2018.
China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency unveiled a deeply creepy artificial intelligence news anchor at the government’s World Internet Conference tech expo.
The AI newscaster is a pure virtual mouthpiece in a country with tight controls on press freedom, and its first report this week featuring fawning coverage of China’s trade show felt distinctly dystopian.
“I will work tirelessly to keep you informed as texts will be typed into my system uninterrupted,” the AI anchor said in its debut video at the conference.
The virtual anchor’s features are based on those of a real-life Xinhua host named Zhang Zhao.
But as with most attempts at computer-generated humanity, the virtual anchor is both impressively realistic and yet unsettlingly soulless.
Its limited range of motion and expressions becomes repetitive after a short time, while its gray crisp suit and perfectly coiffed hair are even more rigid than human cable news hosts.
According to huffingtonpost, newsrooms have increasingly implemented AI technology in recent years, with outlets including The Washington Post using AI to write short reports on such topics as the outcome of sporting events or to send news alerts.
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Angel Gabriel was the UFO seen at Jerusalem, over Dome of Rock temple seen by over 10,000 tourists, Jan 28, 2011, UFO Sighting News.
Angel Gabriel was the UFO seen at Jerusalem, over Dome of Rock temple seen by over 10,000 tourists, Jan 28, 2011, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Jan 28, 2011 Location of sighting: Dome of Rock, Jerusalem This is one of the most memorable UFO sightings in the last 20 years! A glow orb of florescent light slowly decided straight down from the sky hovering over an ancient temple called Dome of Rock. Seen by over 10,000 tourists and locals in the area, over a dozen videos of the event were released across the internet from different angles, giving us a great view of the event. The glowing UFO defended over the temple, fluctuated with waves of light through it, then in a great flash that shot in all directions, the UFO shot straight up at faster than speed of sound speed. This sighting is 100% real and confirmed to be so from serious video analysis I have done. It would be impossible to fake such an event of such proportions. During the crusades, the knights templar resided in the Dome of Rock temple and are believed to hidden sacred relics below it in a hidden tomb. One of those relics is the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail. The real question on everyones mind is why would an alien want to visit here and ignore the fact that thousands were watching it? Why did it descend over the 2,000 year old ancient temple? Well I dug a little deeper into that and found out why. Something the world press and public had never discovered. They call it Dome of Rock, because the temple was built over a rock with holy significance and it has our answers. Its a holy rock to Muslims and Jews.
Muslims say that the Rock commemorates the night journey of Muhammad. One night long ago the Angel Gabriel came to Muhammad while he slept near the Kaaba in Mecca and took him to al-Masjid al-Aqsa (the farthest mosque) in Jerusalem. From the Rock, Muhammad journeyed to heaven with the angel Gabriel, where he met other prophets, such as Moses and Christ, witnessed paradise and hell and finally saw God enthroned and circumambulated by angels. This UFO...we see in the videos over Dome of Rock...it was the angel Gabriel. So you see, the rock has ancient holy significants, and probably contains ancient technology that allows a person to transport (teleport) across space and time to the planet in which these holy beings live. Perhaps they came to reactivate the portal, or to disable it? To ready the door for an important event in the near future. Or maybe they came to remember his close friend Muhammad, and celebrate his life. The angel Gabriel was an alien...with such advanced technology, humans back then could only explain him as being a servant of god...an angel. Muhammad was his friend. And now you know the secret to the UFO sighting at Dome of Rock. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Glowing ring UFO recorded over New South Wales, UK on Nov 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing ring UFO recorded over New South Wales, UK on Nov 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 2018 Location of sighting: News South Wales, UK Excellent capture of a very common shape UFO. A similar UFO was seen by thousand of tourists at Temple of Rock in Jerusalem back in 2011. Yes that one was real, and freaking amazing. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
The video was contributed by MUFON submitter 96385 and shows a round object with a white exterior and what appears to be a semi-transparent middle section. This gives the object a donut appearance. The video was originally about 6 minutes in length. The submitter describes what he saw: A bright white disc-shaped object with 4 white lights, one blue, one green, with multiple small beams of light. It is very difficult to see the different lights as the entire video seems to show only a white color.
UFO Caught on Video in Northern Ireland Three Minutes before Pilots Sighting, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Caught on Video in Northern Ireland Three Minutes before Pilots Sighting, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 2018
Location of sighting: Ireland
Why did the glowing UFO crossed the road? Nope, not a joke. Here we have real footage of a car mounted dash cam catching two white glowing orbs passing over the road. The same type of glowing orbs were seen by three different pilots later that day. There has to be more footage of those pilots UFOs...I would guess the pilots recorded them, but only released the video to the FAA.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
The footage of the ‘unidentified flying object’ was recorded on a dash-cam by Sandy Laverty, a member of the public, as they drove to work on the Cloyfin Coad in Coleraine on Friday November 9 at 6:44am. Sandy described the footage as “showing a bright object shoot across the sky”.
Giant UFO Sighted Over Salinas, California ( November 14, 2018 ) UFO Sighting News.
Giant UFO Sighted Over Salinas, California ( November 14, 2018 ) UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 14, 2018 Location of sighting: Salinas, California, USA Here is a great cigar shaped UFO hovering over a isolated area of California. The wind is really kicking up, no blimp could withstand that wind, and yet this object stays in place. The only thing I could wish for is a few more minutes of footage. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan WITNESS STATEMENT:
It was impossible for me to be able to describe this object when I saw it judge yourselves what they think it is about. Tell me in the comments.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Een Brits satellietbedrijf denkt de resten gevonden te hebben van de mythische beschaving Atlantis. Wetenschappers van Merlin Burrows onderzochten via satellietbeelden eeuwenoude ruïnes voor de kust van het Spaanse Andalusië, waarvan werd aangenomen dat ze van de Grieken of de Romeinen waren. Maar er bleek een en ander niet te kloppen.
Het eilandenrijk Atlantis werd voor het eerst beschreven door de Griekse filosoof Plato. Hij had het over een vergevorderde beschaving, die heerste over een maritiem rijk, zo’n 11.000 jaar geleden. De hoofdstad zou gigantische havenmuren gehad hebben met grote zuilen, een tempel die gewijd was aan de zeegod Poseidon en cirkelvormige stukken land, waarop de bewoners leefden. Het rijk zou ten onder gegaan zijn door een enorme natuurramp, zoals een vulkaanuitbarsting of tsunami.
Bewijsmateriaal voor het bestaan van de beschaving werd tot nu toe niet gevonden en heel wat wetenschappers geloven dan ook dat de stad een hersenspinsel was van Plato, waarmee hij zijn filosofische theorieën probeerde uit te leggen. Daar denkt Merlin Burrows anders over.
Volgens het bedrijf liggen de ruïnes van de beschaving voor de Spaanse kust, ten noorden van de stad Cadiz. In de buurt van nationaal park Doñana, waarvan wetenschappers denken dat het ooit een binnenzee was. En het beweert dat er ook ten noorden en ten zuiden van het park bewijsmateriaal te vinden is van de oude beschaving, in de vorm van resten van 15 andere nederzettingen in zee. (lees hieronder verder)
Ancient flooded ruins off Spanish coast are lost city of Atlantis, satellite experts claim
Ancient flooded ruins off the Spanish coast are the lost city of Atlantis, a UK team of satellite historians claim. Antiquity specialists Merlin Burrows believe the ruins of the legendary civiliza…
De experts gebruikten satellietbeelden, luchtfotografie en grondobservaties om hun vaststellingen te doen en vonden naar eigen zeggen opmerkelijke parallellen met het verhaal van Plato. Volgens Tim Akers – een maritiem geschiedkundige die de onderzoeksafdeling bij Merlin Burrows leidt – zouden de bewoners bovendien erg ontwikkeld geweest zijn. Zo werd een type cement gevonden dat nooit eerder werd gezien en werden er geavanceerde metalen gebruikt. Sommige ruïnes waren bedekt met een turquoise legering, zoals die beschreven werd door de Griekse filosoof.
Laboratorium
Stalen van het materiaal werden getest in een gespecialiseerd laboratorium in het Italiaanse Modena, het Modena Centro Prove, dat vooral Romeinse resten onderzoekt. “Ze bleken ouder dan de bekende Griekse en Romeinse resten en verder ontwikkeld”, aldus Akers.
“De stalen bestonden uit oud, prehistorisch beton”, aldus dr. Giacomo Falanga van het Modena Centro Prove. Zijn collega Andrea Carpi voegt toe: “De stalen werden met zekerheid gemaakt door een eeuwenoude beschaving met geavanceerde bouwmethodes. Het doet me geloven dat we het over een beschaving hebben die technologisch ver ontwikkeld was.”
Volgens Merlin Burrows is op luchtbeelden ook bewijs te zien van een havenmuur die 75 meter dik was. Volgens Plato strekte die zich uit over een afstand van 8,8 kilometer. Op satellietbeelden zijn duinen te zien op de plaats waar de muur vernietigd zou zijn door het water. Hetzelfde water dat de binnenzee vulde met sediment en een einde maakte aan Atlantis.
“De hele site strekt zich uit over een oppervlakte van 160 kilometer, van de Atlantische Oceaan tot de Middellandse Zee”, aldus Akers. “Ongeveer in het midden van al die nederzettingen was een gigantische binnenzee van 100 kilometer lang, waarin verscheidene eilanden lagen. Sommige waren natuurlijk, andere door de mens gemaakt. Het hoofdcomplex bestond uit twee platformen van waaruit je de hele eilandengroep kon zien. We weten niet wanneer de beschaving gesticht werd, maar vermoeden dat ze verdween op het einde van de laatste ijstijd, zo’n 10.000 jaar geleden.”
Tsunami’s
Volgens Akers is er nergens ter wereld iets soortgelijks te vinden en komen de structuren in dimensie exact overeen met wat Plato schreef. Twee tsunami’s – eentje in 1500 voor Christus en eentje in 200 na Christus – zouden de laatste resten van de eilanden verzwolgen hebben.
Het bedrijf liet intussen een documentaire filmen over de ontdekking – Atlantica – die later uitkomt. Er werd al een trailer online gezet. Met het project hoopt Merlin Burrows het gebied te beschermen voor de toekomst en fondsen te verzamelen voor verder onderzoek.
Those looking to bolster their argument that not all climate change is manmade may have received an early Christmas gift – researchers have found a massive hidden asteroid impact crate under Greenland whose age coincides with the beginning of a previously unexplained cooling period about 12.000 years ago. Does this change everything?
“The crater is exceptionally well-preserved, and that is surprising, because glacier ice is an incredibly efficient erosive agent that would have quickly removed traces of the impact. But that means the crater must be rather young from a geological perspective.”
In a press release announcing the study “A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland” published in the current edition of Science Advances, co-author Professor Kurt H. Kjær from the Center for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark describes how researchers first found signs pointing to the existence of the crater under Greenland’s ice sheet in July 2015. It was not far from where a 20-ton iron meteorite had been discovered, but that wasn’t enough to connect the dots.
Is any part of Greenland not covered by glaciers?
A German research plane from the Alfred Wegener Institute flew over the Hiawatha Glacier and, using a new ice radar system, was able to better image the depression and added to the evidence, exciting NASA glaciologist Joseph MacGregor. (Pictures here.)
“A distinctly circular rim, central uplift, disturbed and undisturbed ice layering, and basal debris. It’s all there.”
Surface expeditions in 2016 and 2017 collected samples of sediment washed out from under the depression and found the missing link.
“Some of the quartz sand washed from the crater had planar deformation features indicative of a violent impact, and this is conclusive evidence that the depression beneath the Hiawatha Glacier is a meteorite crater.”
The crater measures more than 31 km (19.25 miles) in diameter, which puts the size of the iron meteorite at 1 km (.6 miles) wide and puts the impact in the top 25 of Earth impact craters, making it a good candidate for causing ecological disasters. Ice layers show it’s at least 12000 years old and rock erosion samples say it’s no more than 3 million years old.
It’s the more recent date that has scientists linking the event to the Younger Dryas period – a sudden unexplained cooling during a time of global warming after the last ice age. Occurring about 12,900 to 11,700 years ago, geological records in the Northern Hemisphere indicate a swift drop in temperatures of 2 to 6 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 10.8 degrees Fahrenheit), increases in glacier ice and cold waters in the Atlantic and general drier conditions. While the cooling was widespread, a few areas, southeastern North America for one, had a slight warming. The Younger Dryas coincided with a number of human cultures shifting from hunting and nomadic life to agriculture and settlements. In North America, the Clovis culture declined and a number of animal species went extinct.
All of these things could certainly have been caused by a meteor impact of catastrophic size. Is that the answer to the cause of the Younger Dryas that scientists have been searching for?
“The next step in the investigation will be to confidently date the impact. This will be a challenge, because it will probably require recovering material that melted during the impact from the bottom of the structure, but this is crucial if we are to understand how the Hiawatha impact affected life on Earth.”
Sounds like Kjær is making his plans for next summer. Pack a parka, professor!
If witnessing unidentified flying objects over your home isn’t frightening enough, imagine seeing them during two consecutive nights. This is exactly what happened toSt. Helens resident Michelle Gabrielliwho documented the UFOs with pictures and a video.
She claimed that she saw at least fifteen odd looking lights in the sky that were flying apart before joining back together. While skeptics believe that the lights could have been either planes flying to the Portland airport or even several drones lighting up the night sky, Gabrielli isn’t quite sure as to what she witnessed. “I don’t know what that was last night,” she explained. “I don’t know. I can only speculate…it’s an unidentified flying object…that we didn’t do.”
It’s very possible that what she saw was indeed something of alien origin, as Oregon is ranked second in the United States for the most reported UFO sightings. In fact, Portland has the highest number of UFO sightings in the entire state. And since St. Helens is only around 30 miles away from Portland, the fact that Ms. Gabrielli’s claimed to have seen UFOs is definitely not unheard of. On the other hand, it’s a little odd that she only captured documentation of one flying object, so where were the other fourteen?
Michelle Gabrielli’s experience is only one of thousands of sightings around the state. According to research conducted by Oregon MUFON (Mutual UFO Network), over 2,000 UFO sightings have been reported all over the state in the last 70 years, specifically in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s.
One of the most famous UFO sightings happened on June 25, 1947 when a pilot named Ken Arnold was flying his plane in the Pacific Northwest between Mount Rainier and Mount Adams when he witnessed “nine saucer-like aircraft flying in formation” at a height of between 9,500 and 10,000 feet and at a speed of approximately 1,200 miles per hour – faster than any aircraft on the planet. He also explained that the nine objects looked like the “tail of a Chinese kite.”
In McMinnville, Oregon on May 11, 1950, married farmers Evelyn and Paul Trent saw a hovering disc-shaped object that they were lucky enough to be able to photograph. In fact, that incident inspired McMinnville’s yearly UFO Festival which is said to be second-biggest celebration in the entire country.
Another famous sighting happened in 1959 when a police officer named Robert Dickerson was driving around Redmond, Oregon when he witnessed a huge bright object hovering over the city at an elevation of around 200 feet. He said that the object was so low that it illuminated the tops of several trees. And it wasn’t only the officer that saw the UFO. Apparently an administrator at the Redmond Airport also saw the unidentified object.
See the pictures of the McMinnville sighting here:
There have been countless UFO sightings in the Pacific Northwest over the decades, especially in Oregon. Whether there are natural explanations for the sightings such as weather balloons and drones, or if in fact cities all over the United States and around the world are being visited by aliens, one thing for certain is that the UFO craze is as strong now as it ever was. If you keep your eyes focused on the sky when you’re outside, you may just see something unexplained.
Born on March 3, 1952, Robert A. Goerman is a native of New Kensington, Pennsylvania. As an investigative scholar of unknown and unexplained phenomena, he has been fortunate enough to have his writings featured in national magazines and serve as source material for many books and popular television shows such as Unsolved Mysteries, The Unexplained, History’s Mysteries, Animal X, MonsterQuest, and Dark Matters: Twisted But True. Founded in June of 2012, his Nonhuman Research Agency explores encounters with mysterious strangers, beings, and creatures and studies interspecific relationships. Robert offers his very own insights into the Men in Black mystery, based upon his firsthand investigations of a very weird case from the 1960s that is steeped in menace of the black-colored kind. It is a case that has led Robert to some thought-provoking theories concerning the nature and actions of the MIB, too. With that all said, over to Robert:
“One bizarre Pennsylvania case (that I personally investigated) began on the night of January 20, 1967, when Mrs. Walter Kushner and her two daughters, Susan (17) and Tanya (14) and a close friend of the girls, Marianne Williamson (16), witnessed a brilliant UFO drop below the cloud cover and maneuver at high speed while the four were returning to the Kushner’s Pittsfield residence. Hours later, as the three girls enjoyed a ritual teenage slumber party, they spotted a peculiar light shimmering through the closed curtains of Susan’s bedroom.
“Without warning, the drapes parted of their own volition and a small triangular object hovering a few feet from the house began beaming brilliant light into the bedroom. When the triangle moved to another window, the curtains repeated their opening act and the intensity of light emanating from the object increased. At this point, the girls became quite frightened and decided to retreat. ‘It’ had different ideas.
“All three girls found themselves unable to move or cry out. Sheer terror escalated to fervent prayers for help. After what seemed like an eternity, the siege ended. Although their freedom of movement was restored, a weird dizzy sensation haunted the girls for an hour. The girls awoke Mrs. Kushner and tearfully described the party crasher and their fear that ‘it’ might return. Mother eventually got the trio settled down and after much discussion decided that it would be for the best if everyone simply forgot an incident that nobody would believe anyway. All agreed.
“Things were back to normal when shortly after the dinner hour on Saturday, exactly one week following the horrific pajama party, two men arrived at the Kushner household. They identified themselves as military investigators and flashed what appeared to be United States Air Force identification. Both men wore tan trench-coats which they kept buttoned from knee to collar. The taller of the two, who, according to the family’s testimony, did all the talking, was described as having blond hair, green eyes, was thin and deeply tanned. The other gentleman was heavyset with dark hair, piercing blue eyes and was also deeply tanned.
“Mrs. Kushner explained that both men wanted every shred of information regarding the UFO that the girls claimed had intimidated them. Neither parent can explain to this day why they allowed their children to be so intensely grilled by these ‘government agents.’ These characters moved about the house with apparently total knowledge of the whereabouts of rooms, furniture, objects, et cetera. When asked how the Air Force learned of the UFO sightings, the taller one responded with, ‘We know a lot of things, a lot of things.’
“Although compelled to accept the situation, the family felt that something seemed off-center, something that, for whatever reason, they couldn’t quite put their finger on until after the officers departed. Sue noted that their clothes looked as if they had purchased them in a clothing store ten minutes before and even the bottom of their shoes seemed unwalked on in appearance. The cigarette pack held by the taller one was unopened (and stayed that way) and even his wallet was brand new.
“While the taller of the two showed his captive audience a loose-leaf notebook with professionally printed schematic diagrams and photos of both the exterior and interior views of various types of UFO-type craft, Sue watched the shorter officer secretly write in an elongated notebook not unlike those used by stenographers. Catching him off guard, she was amazed to see him writing strange symbols in vertical columns, starting from the left, going down one column, up the next, down the third, up the fourth, et cetera. Being accustomed to standard shorthand, Sue had no idea of the graphic’s origin.
“Meanwhile, the talkative officer continued to mystify his audience, telling them that UFOs were nothing more than secret U. S. experimental devices which have never harmed persons or property and that public disclosure of seeing one up close could result in criminal prosecution. When Tanya asked how the family could get in touch with them should there be another sighting, the officer replied, ‘I can find you anywhere, any time.’ When these military men finally left, they backed their vehicle out onto the roadway, extinguished the headlights and zoomed off into the night. It is against Pennsylvania commonwealth traffic laws, and all common sense and safety, to drive after sunset without suitable lighting. These gentlemen probably had no connection with the United States Air Force.
“Men in Black are neither hallucinations nor hoaxes. But what do these visitations represent? Role-playing covert government operatives? Nonhumans acting human? Maybe a little of both. Maybe something beyond our comprehension. Odd appearance and bizarre behavior does not certify the existence of nonhumans among us. However, dissolving coins and cars raise interesting questions. Our failure to understand these events in no way negates their validity.
“These visitations represent entity contact at its most accessible in that entire families have endured grueling visits by these mystery men and many witnesses are harassed more than once. These visitations represent entity contact at its most elusive. Parents wonder why they allowed their children to be so intensely grilled by these strangers. Victims speak of being unable to think or react normally until after the mysterious visitors leave. To some, this suggests altered states of consciousness or subliminal hypnotic techniques. What if the MIB visit you? Will you be witty and clever and insist they pose for a snapshot? Or will you be a deer in headlights and spend your tomorrows wondering why?”
A shopper was left mystified after a UFO appeared in the sky above Exeter's Ikea store.
Steve Shaw saw the glowing sight moving through sky at around 4.30pm on Wednesday.
Perplexed at what it might be, he sent photos to DevonLive.com and shared the images on social media.
"I was leaving Ikea when I looked up and saw the trail of light in the sky," said Steve, who lives in Torquay.
"It looked like something was falling but I couldn't work out what it was.
The light was seen moving through the sky(Image: Steve Shaw)
"As first I was worried it might be something that was about to land on earth but there have been no reports of that since it happened.
"I've been told that it's likely to be the result of a vapour trail from a plane but you couldn't see any aircraft nearby at the time.
"Someone else said it could have been a meteorite coming too close to the atmosphere.
"Either way I was curious to know what it might be."
What could the UFO have been?
1. A plane's vapour trail
Vapour trailare line-shaped clouds produced by aircraft engine exhaust or changes in air pressure, typically at aircraft cruise altitudes several miles above the Earth's surface. Contrails are made up mainly of water, in the form of ice crystals.
Depending on the temperature and humidity at the height the contrails form, they may be visible for only a few seconds or minutes, or may persist for hours and spread to be several miles wide, eventually resembling natural clouds.
2. A meteoroid burning up
As meteors fall through the atmosphere, they tend to fall at enormous speeds of around 26 miles per second. This process creates a lot of friction and a lot of heat.
The surface of the meteor starts to vaporize when it reaches about 1100 degrees Celsius causing a glow to light up the sky.
3. A satellite flare
Satellite flares are caused by the reflective surfaces of passing satellites, reflecting sunlight toward the Earth below and appearing as a bright 'flare'.
The time and place of the satellite's flare can be predicted only be predicted when the direction and location of its orbit is known.
4. Aliens
Perhaps the most unlikely of the four options but lots of people are convinced that aliens exist.
Just last month a UFO researcher said he wanted to contact a trio of teenagers who reported a close encounter of the third kind in Devon 40 years ago.
Terry Hooper-Scharf, a naturalist and historian who runs the Anomalous Observational Phenomena Facebook Page, says the youngsters, who will now all be in their 50s, reported seeing a number of UFOs in the sky after leaving a youth club in Buckfastleigh.
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Northern Ireland' emerges on SAME DAY pilots reported sighting
Northern Ireland' emerges on SAME DAY pilots reported sighting
SHOCKING footage what what's claimed to be a UFO flying over Northern Ireland was captured on the same day pilots reported seeing a similar phenomenon in the Republic of Ireland.
SHOCK: The shocking footage was captured on a dash cam (Pic: NC)
UFO spotted in Derry
The dash-cam footage was uploaded by Sandy Laverty in Coleraine and posted by conspiracy channel Disclose.TV.
It appears to capture two strange bright objects flying across the sky, which also coincides with similar reports by the pilots.
The first sighting recorded by a British Airways pilot flying a Boeing 747 jet from Montreal to Heathrow over Kerry was at 6.47am.
UFO? The footage appears to show two objects fly across the sky (Pic: NC)
She described seeing an object coming up along the left-hand side of her aircraft before it "rapidly veered to the north".
But the dash-cam footage shows the suspected UFO at 6.44am, only minutes before.
Disclose.TV said the two sightings “could be a coincidence”, but if they are related then the UFOs must have travelled hundreds of miles in a matter of minutes.
The dash cam shows two glowing objects in the distance come into view before disappearing suddenly.
There is no footage of the initial sightings by the pilots, but audio has emerged of the pilot speaking to Air Traffic Control.
The Irish Aviation Authority has launched an investigation into the incident after the Shannon Airport Air Traffic Control unit was asked if any “military exercises” were taking place.
Terrifyingly, air traffic controllers replied saying: “There is nothing showing on either primary or secondary [radar].”
The concerned pilot replied: “OK. It was moving so fast", before adding that she was "wondering" what it could be.
DEJA VU: It comes the same day BA pilots spotted UFOs (Pic: GETTY)
INVESTIGATION: An inquiry has been launched after the pilot's sightings (Pic: GETTY)
The pilot goes on to describe how a bright light sped past the aircraft heading north at a “very high speed”.
After her report, another pilot from Virgin Airlines revealed that they also saw "multiple objects " which were "very bright".
The Virgin Airlines pilot discussing the possibility of a meteor with “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory”.
Another pilot added their shock at the speed of the unidentified object, saying the acceleration was “astronomical, it was like Mach 2”.
Is de ‘ruimtesigaar’ een buitenaardse technologie? Deze astronoom denkt van wel
Is de ‘ruimtesigaar’ een buitenaardse technologie? Deze astronoom denkt van wel
Een jaar na de ontdekking van zijn passage langs de aarde blijft het interstellaire object ‘Oumuamua de wetenschappelijke wereld beroeren. ‘Verkeerd zijn is niet zo erg, daar leren we uit,’ wuift astrofysicus Avi Loeb de kritiek op zijn hypothese weg.
Was het een rotsachtige asteroïde of eerder een ijzige komeet? Toen het stof van de ontdekking in oktober 2017 was gaan liggen, besloten de betrokken astronomen dat ‘Oumuamua – Hawaiaans voor boodschapper die van ver komt – een komeet moest zijn, al bleef zijn vreemde traject onverklaarbaar. Begin deze week publiceerden Amerikaanse astrofysici een nieuwe hypothese: ‘Oumuamua is een door zonlicht aangedreven object dat misschien het eerste bewijs is van een buitenaardse technologie in ons zonnestelsel. Ze hadden de paper al op 8 november op het open acces platform Arxiv.org gepost, waar het bericht eerst door bloggers en nadien via twitter gretig werd verspreid. Er volgden vooral negatieve commentaren.
De hoofdauteur is niet de eerste de beste. Abraham (Avi) Loeb is naast Harvard-professor astronomie ook oprichter en directeur van het Black Hole Initiative en voorzitter van de adviesraad van Breakthrough Starhot. Starshot wil later dit millenium met lichtzeilen de dichtstbijzijnde ster Alpha Centauri verkennen. Eos sprak Loeb op de Falling Walls-conferentie in Berlijn.
Hoe bizar is het object ‘Oumuamua eigenlijk?
Loeb: ‘Het is het eerste object uit een ander zonnestelsel dat we vanaf de aarde detecteerden. Het is zoals een buitenlandse gast die aan je dis aanschuift. Door die gast te bestuderen en te doorgronden leer je het andere land beter kennen zonder dat je een vliegtuigticket moet kopen om ter plaats te gaan. Van ‘Oumuamua hebben we jammer genoeg geen beeld. Maar terwijl het object roteert krijg je de variatie in de hoeveelheid weerkaatsend zonlicht te zien. Hier was de variatie in helderheid erg hoog, veel meer dan je bij kometen of asteroïden kan verwachten. Berekeningen laten zien dat het object vijf keer zo lang is als het breed is, bij asteroïden in ons zonnestelsel treffen we maximum factor 3 aan.
De beweging van het object lijkt te suggereren dat het afkomstig is uit wat astronomen de Local Standard of Rest noemen, een punt in de melkweg dat een snelheid heeft die gelijk is aan de gemiddelde snelheid van de sterren in de buurt van de zon. Dat vormt eigenlijk een perfecte camouflage. Als je niet tot een bepaalde ster wil behoren, dan bevind je je best in dat referentiekader. Slechts een op de 500 sterren beweegt er net zo traag.
Tot slot lijkt ‘Oumuamua een koud object, een goede reflector, maar geen goede opslorper van zonlicht. Het meest intrigerende is dat zijn traject afwijkt van wat je zou verwachten op basis van de zwaartekracht van de zon. Er lijkt een extra kracht te zijn die erop inwerkt. Bij kometen kennen we zo’n kracht. De verdamping van ijs op het oppervlak stuwt kometen voort. Maar bij ‘Oumuamua zien we geen komeetstaart.
Waar kan die extra kracht dan vandaan komen?
Loeb: ‘Ik denk dat zonlicht het object voortdrijft. Om effectief te zijn, moet het dun zijn. Minder dan een millimeter dik, en ten minste 20 meter in omvang. Het is precies een zeil. Net zoals de wind een zeilboot vooruit duwt, kan lichtreflectie zogenaamde lichtzeilen voortstuwen. Deze technologie bestuderen we hier op aarde om de ruimte te exploreren. Je hoeft dan geen brandstof mee te voeren. Bij conventionele raketten verhindert de brandstof dat je hoge snelheden kan bereiken. Lichtzeilen gebruiken enkel licht en kunnen in principe de lichtsnelheid bereiken. Dat is ook de technologie die Starshot vooropstelt. Ik ben adviseur van dat project en het inspireerde me om in deze richting te denken.
Als ‘Oumuamua een lichtzeil is, dan kun je je afvragen of het kunstmatig is gemaakt. Kan het een message in a bottle van een andere beschaving zijn? Het is alsof je naar het strand gaat en kijkt naar de schelpen die aanspoelen. Die getuigen allemaal over hun verschillende, natuurlijke afkomst. Maar af en toe vind je een plastic fles en die heeft een andere, artificiële oorsprong.’
Hoe zeker bent u van deze controversiële hypothese?
Loeb: ‘Als wetenschapper heb ik niets liever dan bewijs. Ik zou blij zijn als we beelden hadden van dit object. Als het eruit zou zien als een stuk rots, dan hoefde ik deze paper niet te schrijven. Maar dan nog zou je die extra kracht moeten verklaren. Misschien hebben astronomen die de data verzameld hebben (van het Pan-STARRS consortium, red.) zich vergist, dat is altijd mogelijk. Ik baseer me op hun analyses. Maar ze zijn wel gereputeerd en hun resultaten verschenen in Nature.
Er zijn twee manieren om meer informatie te krijgen. Ofwel gaan we op jacht naar dit object, maar daarvoor beweegt het te snel. Van Spoetnik tot en met New Horizons zijn onze raketten niet sneller geworden. Maar misschien beschikken we binnen twee decennia wel over de technologie. Dat is niet te laat, want dit object heeft duizenden jaren nodig om doorheen het zonnestelsel te raken. In het andere geval zoeken we andere objecten van dezelfde klasse. Binnen een paar jaar is de Large Synoptic Survey Telescope klaar, die veel gevoeliger is. Mensen vragen me hoe groot de kans is dat ‘Oumuamua een artificieel voorwerp is. Ik weet het niet en ik zeg dan dat alles op bewijs en meer data moet rusten. Niet op de vele vooroordelen die de afgelopen dagen de ronde deden.’
De kritiek was niet min.
Loeb: ‘Wetenschappers moeten bewijzen zoeken en niet op voorhand alle afwijkende meningen veroordelen. We kunnen leren uit de geschiedenis van de wetenschap. Mensen waren er lang stellig van overtuigd dat de zon rond de aarde draaide. Maar het was verkeerd. Galilei heeft daarvoor huisarrest gekregen. Hij zei dat de welgevormde opinie van één persoon meer waard is dan de authoriteit van duizenden, waarmee hij de kerk bedoelde.
Het is niet verboden om over buitenaardse beschavingen na te denken. Het is een kwestie van bescheidenheid. Wie beweert dat we uniek zijn, de enigen in het universum, stelt zich arrogant op. Een kwart van de sterren in de melkweg hebben planeten die op de aarde lijken, en waar de voorwaarden voor leven aanwezig zijn. Je dobbelt en de kans dat je elders leven aantreft, microbieel of zelfs intelligent, is vrij groot.
Waarom blijft het dan zo stil in het universum?
Loeb: ‘Volgens mij zijn intelligente beschavingen korte levens beschoren. Technologie groeit exponentieel, ook bij ons. Ik rij met een auto vol gadgets die drie jaar geleden nog niet bestonden. In een paar decennia kan technologie een beschaving vernietigen. Mogelijk gedragen ze zich zoals wij, en geven ze niet om hun planeet of om elkaar. We zouden op zoek moeten gaan naar resten van dode beschavingen. Een soort ruimtearcheologie bedrijven.’
Is uw hypothese over ‘Oumuamua als lichtzeil niet een manier om aandacht en geld te genereren voor het Starshot-project, dat toevallig dezelfde technologie propageert?
Loeb: ‘Ik publiceer ongeveer veertig artikelen per jaar, en met deze heb ik gedaan wat ik altijd doe, namelijk na acceptatie in het online archief Arxiv.org plaatsen. Als dit een publiciteitsstunt moest worden, dan zijn we zeer incompetent. Dan hadden we beter de geijkte weg gevolgd, namelijk publicatie voorbereiden, persbericht onder embargo, advertenties uitsturen en gecoördineerd het nieuws loslaten. De Breakthrough Initiatives, die Starshot betaalt, was niet betrokken en stuurde geen persbericht uit. Ik ben enkel de auteur van een paper die veel aandacht kreeg. Ik had het niet verwacht, en ook niet gewenst. Ik heb die aandacht niet nodig.’
Kan Starshot zijn doel niet veranderen, en in plaats van Alpha Centauri zijn pijlen richten op ‘Oumuamua?
Loeb: ‘Als we nu al over de Starshot-lichtzeilen zouden beschikken, dan zeker. Daarmee kunnen we Pluto in een paar dagen bereiken in plaats van de 9,5 jaar die New Horizons nodig had. We zouden het object in enkele minuten te pakken hebben. Voorlopig hebben we niks beter dan raketten. Het is logischer om te veronderstellen dat ‘Oumuamua een van de vele objecten is en gewoon te wachten op de volgende.’
Gaat deze controverse uw carrière schaden?
Loeb: ‘Als ik iets weird zie, dan wil ik erover praten en niet wachten tot alles klip-en-klaar is. Wetenschappers moeten veel meer communiceren met het publiek, zeker nu populisten ons willen doen geloven dat er overal informatie achtergehouden wordt. Wetenschap is een leerproces. In het begin heb je weinig informatie, maar gaandeweg ontwikkel je ideeën die je test en uiteindelijk kom je met een oplossing. Ik volg in deze de stelregel van Sherlock Homes: ‘Als je het onmogelijke hebt uitgesloten, moet alles wat overblijft, hoe onwaarschijnlijk ook, de waarheid zijn.’
Als wetenschapper spiegel ik mij aan kinderlijke nieuwsgierigheid. Kinderen vragen dingen zonder rekening te houden met de mening van anderen, ze willen gewoon het antwoord weten. Sommige van mijn collega’s schuwen populaire onderwerpen, maar ik vind dat we moeten ingaan op vragen die het grote publiek interesseren. De zoektocht naar primitief of intelligent leven is zo’n onderwerp. Voor het overige wil ik vooral onafhankelijk mijn onderzoek voeren. Ik heb lak aan wat anderen denken.’
Shmuel Bialy en Abraham Loeb, ‘Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain ‘Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?’; The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 12 november 2018; link https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.11490.pdf
Solar Warden ⊗ Secret Space Program From Reagan’s Presidency?
Solar Warden ⊗ Secret Space Program From Reagan’s Presidency?
Solar Warden | The discovery made by the hacker who entered NASA’s databases is fabulous. Gary McKinnon said he found enough information that Americans would have a secret space program run by the Navy.
After 10 years of fighting in court for having illegally accessed NASA’s computers, the hacker is talking about the findings he has made at the time, writes Business Magazine.
Gary McKinnon thinks he has found enough evidence to assert that the Americans have a secret space program run by the Navy, that is, spaceships.
According to metro.co.uk, all the details are reported in an ample interview with RichPlanet TV, known for its UFO programs: “We used a program called Landsearch to help us access all the tabs and folders.”
“There we found an Excel file named” Non-Terrestrial Officers “(the officers from outside the Earth).
The file contained names and ranks, and material transfers were specified between ships, and the name of the spacecraft began with the USS”
SOLAR WARDEN Stellar Fleet Existed During Reagan’s Presidency?
On April 13, 2009, the US National Archives of Administration provided nearly 250,000 pages of documents during the Reagan administration, including its Personal Journal. In this, on 11 June 1985, the president wrote:
“WE HAVE LUNCH WITH 5 TOP SCIENTISTS IN THE FIELD OF AEROSPACE.” IT WAS FASCINATING. “SPACE IS REALLY THE LAST FRONTIER, AND SOME OF THE DEVELOPMENTS THERE IN ASTRONOMY ARE SCIENCE FICTION UNLESS THEY ARE REAL. LEARNED THAT OUR TRANSFER CAPACITY IS SUCH THAT WE COULD PUT 300 PEOPLE IN ORBIT. ”
Ronald Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
This is curious because Space Shuttle has a maximum of 8 people and only 5 for space flight.
Even fully loaded it would be impossible to place and maintain 300 astronauts in orbit.
Reagan has revealed the existence of a highly classified space program that could host hundreds of astronauts in orbit?
It seems that according to military and corporate “informants” there is, along with dozens of other secret programs of the Pentagon, a highly ranked program of the Strategic Command.
It would include a fleet of medium-sized ships and accompanying ships with anti-gravitational technology operating in space.
The US organized its military forces in a unitary command of 10 combatants headed by a four-star general or admiral who reports directly to the Secretary of Defense. Six of the unified forces comprise different geographic areas around the globe.
In addition, there are four functional commands that are specialized in military activities and are run by a single commander.
Between 1985 and 2002, the Space Command was responsible for space operations in the US Army. In June 2002, the Space Command merged with the Strategic Command, which is responsible for activities such as nuclear missiles, satellites, and more.
Rumours like the US would hold a highly classed fleet of anti-gravity propellers, circulated for years.
On March 23, 1993, at an engineering conference in Los Angeles, Dr Ben Rich, a former CEO of Lockheed’s Skunkworks, showed a black space-driven slide and said: “We now have the ET technology home”.
Military and corporate informants say they have first-hand information and know that there are classified space vehicles that use anti-gravity such as Aurora and TR-3B. In his book, Zero Point Hunt, analyst Nick Cook wrote about Aurora: “… there has been speculation since the late 1980s about the existence of a replacement for the SR-71 Blackbird, a mythical vehicle moving two Or faster and at the edges of space “(page 14).
Secret Space Program built with Reverse-Engineered Alien Technology
Evident circumstantial evidence reveals the existence of the space fleet of antigravity vehicles. On August 6, 2007, for example, NASA awarded the “Human Space Support Team” to assist NASA vehicles in extra-atmospheric space.
The support team was part of the USAF Spatial Command, which is publicly declared to be the major military command of space forces for the Strategic Command.
However, neither the USAF Spatial Command nor the Strategic Command is publicly known to have any spacecraft to technically assist the International Space Shuttle or the Space Shuttle from any orbital danger.
Normally, both NASA vehicles would need gradual orbital corrections that would take too long and be insufficient to cope with one immediate threat.
Based on the evidence available from a wide range of sources, President Reagan, in his diary, honestly, recognizes the existence of a classified space program that can transport and host hundreds of astronauts.
His diary highlights the fact that he has received several informational sessions on the subject.
Important indications can be derived from Reagan’s registers on the Strategic Command Fleet.
Furthermore, the public can soon find out about advanced antigravity technologies that have been developed secretly and used for decades for military astronauts to fly deep into space.
“In his first interview with George Noory, pilot John Lear – now retired – talks about his experience as a pilot, about NASA’s secret missions and about life on other planets.
John Lear Pilot
He says that in 1967, the fourth deadly case in NASA’s astronaut training was a special case.
Lear states that the real reason for the death of that astronaut was that he was part of the “secret group of astronauts.”
The information was received by John Lear from an insider (now deceased) with a very high-security license. The secret colonization program of the Moon actually began in 1962, and in 1966 the first mopping on the red planet was already taking place.
The propulsion technology that was then used was based on antigravity devices. Popular programs, such as the “space shuttle”, are only a disguise of what is actually happening behind closed doors.
John Lear also said that what hides the public is the fact that most of the planets in our solar system have a life similar to Earth.
For example, he says that there are about 660 million souls on Mars (most living underground), and Venus actually has green areas that are delightful. Moreover, the sky is blue on both Mars and Venus, Lear added.
Composite of Viking Frames 70A13 and 35A72
A recent witness in the project, the physicist and author, Richard Alan Miller, told the public in summary that “There are two human civilizations on Earth, one that travels in space and one does not.”
Those who do, are part of a vast network that extends beyond our world into space, called for the sake of the “Secret Space Program.”
Historian Rich Dolan calls this a “rogue civilization,” and that in fact, it is exactly what it is, what has become.
No matter how it started. In Volume II he highly appreciated the UFOs and the NATIONAL SECURITY STATUS,
Rich writes, “Six decades of spending and document classification (and other forms of secret spending) have provided ample resources to apply principles and technologies that have remained isolated from the rest of mankind.
“What became apparent is that the Secret Government or the Shadow Government established the Secret Space Program and the Black Projects by virtue of having access to mainly two important advantages sustained by the power of the industrial military complex: Money and extraterrestrial technology (ET).
During the “Conscious Life Expo 2017” conference in Los Angeles, paranormal and ufology specialist Corey Goode revealed fascinating details about secret space programs, alien life, and the inner civilizations of Earth, knowledge forbidden to the public.
Corey Goode claims to have participated in a secret program of the American Army – MILAB – for 11 years between 1976 and 1987. MILAB is dealing with the study of aliens on Earth.
Goode also participated in another ultra-secret program called INTRUDER, an intercept and interrogation program that aimed to use intuitive empathy to interrogate aliens trapped in our solar system or on Earth.
Corey Goode is not the only one to talk about the existence of a US government-run secret operational program.
Interestingly, a former NASA employee claimed that there were secret crew missions on Mars, more than 20 years ago.
An audio clip posted on YouTube from the “Coast to Coast AM” American radio show, a woman (claiming to be a former NASA employee) claims she and her colleagues who would watch a 1979 American probe Viking, would have seen two human figures walking on Mars:
“Then I saw two men in space costumes – not the voluminous outfits normally used. They walked to the Viking Explorer ”
The discovery made by the hacker who entered NASA's databases is fabulous. Gary McKinnon said he found enough information that Americans would have a secret space program run by the Navy.
Corey Goode claims to have participated in a secret US Army program - MILAB - for 11 years between 1976 and 1987. MILAB is dealing with the study of aliens on Earth. Goode also participated in another ultra-secret program called INTRUDER, an intercept and interrogation program that aimed to use intuitive empathy to interrogate aliens trapped in our solar system or on Earth.
Dash-cam footage was uploaded by dash-cam by Sandy Laverty in Coleraine. Looks like a bolide to me. It does correspond with the one pilot's comment that there were two objects. However, that could be a coincidence.
Colonizing Mars Means Contaminating Mars — And Never Knowing For Sure If It Had Its Own Native Life
Colonizing Mars Means Contaminating Mars — And Never Knowing For Sure If It Had Its Own Native Life
By David Weintraub, Vanderbilt University
Once people get there, Mars will be contaminated with Earth life.
Credit: Pat Rawlings, SAIC/NASA
The closest place in the universe where extraterrestrial life might exist is Mars, and human beings are poised to attempt to colonize this planetary neighbor within the next decade. Before that happens, we need to recognize that a very real possibility exists that the first human steps on the Martian surface will lead to a collision between terrestrial life and biota native to Mars.
If the red planet is sterile, a human presence there would create no moral or ethical dilemmas on this front. But if life does exist on Mars, human explorers could easily lead to the extinction of Martian life. As an astronomer who explores these questions in my book "Life on Mars: What to Know Before We Go," I contend that we Earthlings need to understand this scenario and debate the possible outcomes of colonizing our neighboring planet in advance. Maybe missions that would carry humans to Mars need a timeout.
Where life could be
Life, scientists suggest, has some basic requirements. It could exist anywhere in the universe that has liquid water, a source of heat and energy, and copious amounts of a few essential elements, such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and potassium.
Mars qualifies, as do at least two other places in our solar system. Both Europa, one of Jupiter's large moons, and Enceladus, one of Saturn's large moons, appear to possess these prerequisites for hosting native biology.
I suggest that how scientists planned the exploratory missions to these two moons provides valuable background when considering how to explore Mars without risk of contamination.
Below their thick layers of surface ice, both Europa and Enceladus have global oceans in which 4.5 billion years of churning of the primordial soup may have enabled life to develop and take root. NASA spacecraft have even imaged spectacular geysers ejecting plumes of water out into space from these subsurface oceans.
To find out if either moon has life, planetary scientists are actively developing the Europa Clipper mission for a 2020s launch. They also hope to plan future missions that will target Enceladus.
Taking care to not contaminate
Since the start of the space age, scientists have taken the threat of biological contamination of other worlds seriously. As early as 1959, NASA held meetings to debate the necessity of sterilizing spacecraft that might be sent to other worlds. Since then, all planetary exploration missions have adhered to sterilization standards that balance their scientific goals with limitations of not damaging sensitive equipment, which could potentially lead to mission failures. Today, NASA protocols exist for the protection of all solar system bodies, including Mars.
Since avoiding the biological contamination of Europa and Enceladus is an extremely well-understood, high-priority requirement of all missions to the Jovian and Saturnian environments, their moons remain uncontaminated.
NASA's Galileo mission explored Jupiter and its moons from 1995 until 2003. Given Galileo's orbit, the possibility existed that the spacecraft, once out of rocket propellant and subject to the whims of gravitational tugs from Jupiter and its many moons, could someday crash into and thereby contaminate Europa.
Such a collision might not occur until many millions of years from now. Nevertheless, though the risk was small, it was also real. NASA paid close attention to guidance from the National Academies' Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration, which noted serious national and international objections to the possible accidental disposal of the Galileo spacecraft on Europa.
To completely eliminate any such risk, on Sept. 21, 2003, NASA used the last bit of fuel on the spacecraft to send it plunging into Jupiter's atmosphere. At a speed of 30 miles per second, Galileo vaporized within seconds.
Mars is the target of seven active missions, including two rovers, Opportunity and Curiosity. In addition, on Nov. 26 NASA's InSight mission is scheduled to land on Mars, where it will make measurements of Mars' interior structure. Next, with planned 2020 launches, both ESA's ExoMars rover and NASA's Mars 2020 rover are designed to search for evidence of life on Mars.
The good news is that robotic rovers pose little risk of contamination to Mars, since all spacecraft designed to land on Mars are subject to strict sterilization procedures before launch. This has been the case since NASA imposed "rigorous sterilization procedures" for the Viking Lander Capsules in the 1970s, since they would directly contact the Martian surface. These rovers likely have an extremely low number of microbial stowaways.
Any terrestrial biota that do manage to hitch rides on the outside of those rovers would have a very hard time surviving the half-year journey from Earth to Mars. The vacuum of space combined with exposure to harsh X-rays, ultraviolet light and cosmic rays would almost certainly sterilize the outsides of any spacecraft sent to Mars.
Any bacteria that sneaked rides inside one of the rovers might arrive at Mars alive. But if any escaped, the thin Martian atmosphere would offer virtually no protection from high energy, sterilizing radiation from space. Those bacteria would likely be killed immediately. Because of this harsh environment, life on Mars, if it currently exists, almost certainly must be hiding beneath the planet's surface. Since no rovers have explored caves or dug deep holes, we have not yet had the opportunity to come face-to-drill-bit with any possible Martian microbes.
Given that the exploration of Mars has so far been limited to unmanned vehicles, the planet likely remains free from terrestrial contamination.
But when Earth sends astronauts to Mars, they'll travel with life support and energy supply systems, habitats, 3D printers, food and tools. None of these materials can be sterilized in the same ways systems associated with robotic spacecraft can. Human colonists will produce waste, try to grow food and use machines to extract water from the ground and atmosphere. Simply by living on Mars, human colonists will contaminate Mars.
Can't turn back the clock after contamination
Space researchers have developed a careful approach to robotic exploration of Mars and a hands-off attitude toward Europa and Enceladus. Why, then, are we collectively willing to overlook the risk to Martian life of human exploration and colonization of the red planet?
Contaminating Mars isn't an unforeseen consequence. A quarter century ago, a National Research Council report entitled "Biological Contamination of Mars: Issues and Recommendations" asserted that missions carrying humans to Mars will inevitably contaminate the planet.
I believe it's critical that every attempt be made to obtain evidence of any past or present life on Mars well in advance of future missions to Mars that include humans. What we discover could influence our collective decision whether to send colonists there at all.
Even if we ignore or don't care about the risks a human presence would pose to Martian life, the issue of bringing Martian life back to Earth has serious societal, legal and international implications that deserve discussion before it's too late. What risks might Martian life pose to our environment or our health? And does any one country or group have the right to risk back contamination if those Martian lifeforms could attack the DNA molecule and thereby put all of life on Earth at risk?
But players both public – NASA, United Arab Emirates' Mars 2117 project – and private – SpaceX, Mars One, Blue Origin – already plan to transport colonists to build cities on Mars. And these missions will contaminate Mars.
Another look at the Walanae River on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
Does humanity have an inalienable right to colonize Mars simply because we will soon be able to do so? We have the technology to use robots to determine whether Mars is inhabited. Do ethics demand that we use those tools to answer definitively whether Mars is inhabited or sterile before we put human footprints on the Martian surface?
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À la suite de l'appel à témoins publié le dimanche 14 octobre, La Rep' compile, depuis, des témoignages tous plus édifiants les uns que les autres, à propos de mystérieuses lumières se déplaçant la nuit dans le ciel. Comment mettre en doute la sincérité des témoins quand ceux-ci sont désormais plus de 200 à évoquer les mêmes apparitions, partout dans le Loiret ?
Que se passe-t-il dans le ciel du Loiret, et son horizon bas, depuis cet été ? Après trois premières observations pour le moins intrigantes réalisées depuis Orléans, l’appel à témoins de La Rep’ publié dimanche 14 octobre a rencontré une somme relativement inédite de témoins du phénomène, que l’on ne peut définir, pour l’heure, autrement sous le terme d'"Ovni". Faute de connaître l'origine de ces mystérieuses apparitions célestes. Des Objets volants non-identifiés, donc.
Parole qui se libère (« J’avais un peu peur d’être pris pour un fou » ; « ça me rassure de constater que je ne suis pas la seule à avoir vu »), les témoins décident finalement de partager leurs observations, parfois à plusieurs reprises, au-dessus de leur quartier, des cultures ou de la forêt... Précisons qu'entre 150 et 200 mails nous ont été envoyés (en plus de dizaines de coups de fil), parfois avec photos, vidéos (prises de nuit, d'où leur caractère d'imperfection)... Nous vous en livrons quelques-unes ci-dessous.
Ajoutons seulement à l'attention des sceptiques - au point de vue tout aussi respectable - que, face à tant de témoignages émanant de gens ne se connaissant pas, se sentant obligés de se définir en préambule de "sérieux", et rapportant souvent avoir vu la même chose dans la nuit, on ne peut balayer d'un revers de la main le caractère de sincérité général. Très peu se risquent par ailleurs à avancer une piste extraterrestre. Même si elle peut parfois brûler certaines lèvres...
Comme celles de ce couple du petit village de Gy-les-Nonains (Gâtinais). Celui-ci jure avoir vu de jour, et c'est là l'un des seuls témoignages du genre, entre 15 heures et 15h15, "trois énormes boules lumineuses aller et venir dans le ciel. D'en bas, c'était dix fois plus gros qu'un avion de ligne". L'observation aurait eu lieu le vendredi 5 octobre.
Des sphères lumineuses en formation
Reste qu'il convient à présent de regarder froidement la réalité en face, et de laisser la place aux autres récits (parus dans nos éditions papier du mercredi 24 octobre, NDLR), avec cette question : mais que voient, depuis au moins cet été, les Loirétains dans leur ciel ? Une synthèse des dizaines de mails envoyés à notre rédaction, et aussi des commentaires laissés sur Facebook, permettent de définir très schématiquement les curieuses manifestations, intervenant plutôt dans le jour naissant, entre 6 heures et 7h30 (mais avant, on est au lit) ou à la tombée de la nuit (mais après, on dort).
Sont ainsi évoquées des boules de lumière extrêmement brillantes, qui se déplaceraient en général en formation de trois ou quatre. Deux des sphères sont souvent considérées par les témoins comme solidaires, en ce sens que leurs trajectoires semblent exactement les mêmes, "comme si un fil invisible les reliait". La dernière boule - quand elles sont bien trois -, parfois rouge, aurait, elle, plutôt tendance à incarner l'électron libre dans la nuit d'automne.
À Ingré, Richard, un retraité, précise, en préambule, ne pas être "le perdreau du coin". À deux reprises, le soir du vendredi 12 et samedi 13 octobre au petit matin, il voit les lumières au-dessus des champs de blé derrière chez lui. "Les drones de Bricy, que je connais bien pour habiter près de la base, étaient tout autour.Tout se passait peut-être entre 200 et 900 mètres d’altitude, enfin, c'est difficile à estimer. Reste que c’était l’affolement là-haut. Est-ce que l'on teste un nouvel engin militaire derrière chez moi ?", interroge l'homme de 73 ans. Une chose est sûre, précise-t-il, "je ne m'explique pas ce que j'ai vu, à quatre reprises en tout. J'ai vu partir ces boules de lumière à l'horizontale, c'était comme des comètes au-dessus des maisons, mais qui ne venaient pas du ciel. Elles laissaient une longue traînée orangée derrière elles, et rien de ce que je connais sur terre ne peut se déplacer à cette vitesse. Je peux vous dire que les drones ne suivaient pas, c'était bien trop rapide, 100, 200 fois plus qu'un avion de chasse".
Phénomène observé partout dans le Loiret
Celui de Richard constitue l'un des témoignages les plus saisissants, mais ils viennent de partout : Orléans, Saint-Jean-de-Braye, Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle, Saint-Jean-le-Blanc, Mardié, Pithiviers, Bouzonville-aux-Bois, Souppes-sur-Loing, Montargis, Lamotte-Beuvron, Etampes (91), Amilly, Corquilleroy, Gy-les-Nonains, La Ferté-Saint-Aubin, Vienne-en-Val, Saint-Lyé, Neuville-aux-Bois, Viglain ou encore Mézières-les-Cléry...
"Fin septembre-début octobre, vers 22 heures, à Vienne-en-Val, ma femme et moi-même avons vu une lumière rouge et deux blanches se déplaçant très rapidement du nord au sud. Elles étaient visibles côté est de notre village. J'ai d'abord pensé à un aéronef, malgré une vitesse exceptionnelle, mais ça a traversé l'horizon en huit ou dix secondes", décrit cet autre témoin.
Tout autant troublé que Richard par la vitesse de déplacement phénoménale observée. Et Richard de préciser : "Je connais bien le ciel pour l’observer depuis 50 ans. Je sais reconnaître une météorite, un avion de ligne, la station spatiale ou une étoile filante... Mais là, les trajectoires ne correspondent pas, et puis, on dirait que ça vient d'en bas…"
"Est-ce bien humain ?", interroge Jacques, de Marigny.
"Rien ne peut aller aussi vite. En un battement de cils, les lumières sortent de l’horizon", rapporte Jessica, de Viglain.
"C’est là pour être vu"
Une chose sur laquelle beaucoup s’accordent cependant : "Quelle que soit l’origine du phénomène, militaire ou autre, une chose semble évidente, c’est là pour être vu", en déduit cet habitant de Neuville-aux-Bois.
Une petite dizaine de groupes d'ufologues (de toute la France) ont déjà contacté notre rédaction, à la suite de l'appel à témoin. L'un d'eux aura eu cette réflexion : "Vous tenez peut-être là, dans le Loiret, quelque chose d’énorme."
Énorme ou pas, l'Orléanais Thierry, le premier à s'être signalé à La Rep', après quinze jours d'observation des lumières dans l'horizon depuis son immeuble du quartier Saint-Marceau, dit désormais "peiner à trouver le sommeil. Je n'arrête pas d'y penser depuis". Et de se dire "émerveillé", quandd'autres témoins confient plutôt leur angoisse, après avoir vu les lumières.
Le témoignage le plus édifiant
C'est le cas de l'Orléanaise K., que nous avons eu au téléphone la semaine dernière. Son récit est proprement édifiant : "J'habite le quartier Barrière-Saint-Marc. Dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi, je dormais, quand, après deux heures du matin, une lumière extraordinaire a percé à travers ma fenêtre de toit. J'ai d'abord cru à un incendie, raconte-t-elle, encore paniquée. Je l'ai donc ouverte, et ai passé la tête dehors. Au-dessus de chez moi, il y avait cette forme triangulaire avec des lumières dessous. Vertes et rouges, je crois. J'ai eu la peur de ma vie, j'étais comme paralysée. Que se passe-t-il ? Tout s'est arrêté quand c'est parti en direction de l'ouest à une vitesse fulgurante." Des larmes dans la voix, K. affirme, depuis, souffrir de maux de tête et de vomissements. Mardi, elle se décidait à aller consulter un généraliste. Son témoignage est le seul du genre. Édifiant au point que l'on comprendra aisément que beaucoup ne lui apportent que peu de crédit. Il n'en demeure pas moins que la sincérité de K. transparaissait dans sa voix, ses tremblements et interrogations. Précisons seulement que K. n'est pas la première personne à évoquer un triangle dans la nuit. Les témoignages sont certes rares à l'échelle du Loiret, mais ils existent.
Triangles noirs et centrale survolée
Ce que confirme le chercheur strasbourgeois, et chef d'entreprise, Silvano Trotta :"La présence dans le monde de triangles noirs avec quatre lumières dessous capables de s'en détacher est observée depuis au moins 1936, rapporte le chercheur américain au Mufon, David B. Marler." Il précise : "Marler observe que ces ovnis ont toujours affiché des attributs physiques et une dynamique de vol similaires. Ce qui vient contredire fortement l'idée qu'ils peuvent être un nouvel engin militaire, vu qu'on les observe depuis 80 ans."
La semaine dernière, La Rep' a envoyé des photos à Silvano Trotta : celles qu'un Loirétain assure avoir prises aux abords de la centrale nucléaire de Saint-Laurent-des-Eaux (Loir-et-Cher).
Sphère aperçue, de jour, au-dessus du Centre-Val de Loire et de la centrale de Saint-Laurent-des-Eaux. Cette image du Loirétain David Godet "est authentique à 99%", selon des chercheurs, à qui nous l'avons envoyée cette semaine.
Le chercheur Silvano Trotta les a donc faites analyser. Ses conclusions sont les suivantes : "Elles sont à 99 % tout à fait authentiques". Précisons que Silvano travaille avec des ingénieurs qui ont rentré les images dans un logiciel de contrôle de leurs pixels. Le but : vérifier si elles sont truquées ou non. Celles-ci ne le seraient donc pas.
D'où la question : qu'est-ce qui survole la centrale nucléaire de Saint-Laurent ? Sommes-nous en présence d'un drone ? "Cela pourrait effectivement être un drone militaire, voire étranger, que l'on ne connaît pas, ajoute Silvano. Mais quel intérêt auraient les Russes ou les Chinois à survoler une vieille centrale nucléaire française ?"
La sphère en question semble identique en tout points et se comporter dans le ciel de la même façon que les lumineuses, observées, de nuit, au-dessus du Loiret par des centaines d'habitants. "Le phénomène semble effectivement s'intensifier depuis plusieurs semaines, et à l'échelle de toute la France," ajoute Jean-Louis Lagneau, à la tête de la revue ufologique LDLN, Lumières dans la nuit.
Il précise : "Des abonnés du Loiret m'avait, avant votre appel à témoins, déjà fait remonter leurs observations, notamment dans la région de Pithiviers et de la commune de Sury-aux-Bois".
Inquiétude et dérision
Un ultime ufologue entré en contact avec notre rédaction aura eu ces mots : "Personne n'est aujourd'hui en mesure de dire de quoi il s'agit, ce qui survole manifestement votre département, et plus largement la France, c'est le grand mystère. Mais il faut en parler, car j'observe que de plus en plus de personnes sont témoins des lumières, et qu'il s'installe une certaine inquiétude un peupartout. Le sujet des Ovnis est généralement tourné en dérision quand on l'évoque, et pas qu'en France. Allez à la télévision en parler sérieusement et il y aura, en général, un type déguisé en alien sur le plateau. Ce n'est pas bien, c'est une façon de faire diversion, de tourner les choses en dérision. On est pourtant là sur un sujet sérieux, et ça commence à se voir. Il n'y a qu'à observer ce qui se passe chez vous, dans le Loiret".
La base aérienne de Bricy contactée
Nous avons contacté la base de Bricy (le mercredi 17 octobre) pour savoir notamment si ses radars n'avaient pas détecté une activité aérienne pouvant sortir de l'ordinaire, ou un peu extraordinaire. La réponse est "non". "Aucune activité particulière n'a été repérée." Et la cellule communication de la base aérienne 123 de préciser que celle-ci n'abrite pas de drones, en référence à cet Ingréen affirmant en avoir vus dans le périmètre de sa maison, autour des sphères lumineuses.
An artist's illustration of two merging neutron stars. Astronomers spotted gravitational waves and light emitted by such an event in August 2017.
Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
The historic neutron-star crash that astronomers observed last year didn't generate a black hole after all, at least not initially, a recent study suggests.
In October 2017, researchers announced that they had detected both light and gravitational waves — the ripples in space-time first predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago — emanating from themerger of two superdense stellar corpsesknown as neutron stars.
This epic collision — called GW170817, because it was first spotted on Aug. 17, 2017 — marked the beginning of the era of "multimessenger astrophysics," astronomers said. This term refers to the study of a cosmic object or phenomenon using at least two different types of signals. [Neutron-Star Crash: A Gravitational Waves Discovery in Pictures]
Data gathered by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) project indicated that the object created by the merger was about 2.7 times more massive than the sun. That's right on the neutron star-black hole borderline, so the identity of the newly formed body was unclear: It was either the least massive black hole ever discovered, or the most massive neutron star.
Astronomers initially leaned toward the black-hole interpretation, but the recent study argues for a neutron star — specifically, a supermagnetic type known as a magnetar. That's because the authors dug a new signal out of the data collected by LIGO and its sister project, Virgo — a 5-second descending "chirp" that began after the initial round of gravitational waves, but before an accompanying burst of high-energy gamma rays.
This newly discovered chirp's frequency was less than 1 kilohertz (kHz), the study reports. That's consistent with what a magnetar should produce, and significantly lower than the minimum value expected from a roughly 3-solar-mass black hole, which should be at least 2 kHz, study team members said.
"We're still very much in the pioneering era of gravitational-wave astronomy," lead author Maurice van Putten of Sejong University in South Korea, said in a statement. "So, it pays to look at data in detail. For us this really paid off, and we've been able to confirm that two neutron stars merged to form a larger one."
A graph showing data points from the LIGO gravitational-wave observatory, plotting frequency against time. The GW170817 chirp in gravitational waves produced by the coalescence of two neutron stars is clearly visible as a sequence of dots in an ascending curve.
Credit: M.H.P.M. van Putten & M. Della Valle/LIGO
The fate of the magnetar, however, is unknown. It may enjoy a long life as a fast-spinning neutron star called a pulsar, or it may eventually collapse to form a black hole, the researchers wrote in the study, which was published online in September in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate) is out now. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall.
Why haven't we heard from aliens? Scientists don't know, but they have a couple of ideas — and Space.com senior writer Mike Wall tackles that question and many more in his new book "Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018). Space.com caught up with Wall by email to talk about the book, when we'll first spot alien life and how he brought concrete, scientific answers to speculative questions.
Space.com: Why did you decide to write this book?
Mike Wall: These are very interesting times. The search for alien life has moved from the fringes to the scientific mainstream, and the private-spaceflight revolution led by companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin is making it possible for us to think seriously about settling Mars and other worlds beyond Earth. [Read an excerpt from "Out There"]
I guess I wanted to get this sense of excitement across to readers — to let them know that they're living through an era that future generations may well regard as an inflection point in our understanding of humanity's place in the universe and our quest to get off our home planet and out into the solar system.
Space.com: Which topics did you find most fascinating to cover?
Wall: I've always been most interested in the search for alien life. It is one of the biggest unanswered questions in science, after all: Are we alone?
And there are so many secondary questions that spring from that big one. If we're not alone, then, how common is life throughout the Milky Way galaxy and the broader universe? What kinds of life are out there? Just "simple" organisms such as microbes, or technologically smart creatures capable of reaching out to us in some way? How could we find these organisms, if they exist? What kind of evidence would be needed to convince everyone (or nearly everyone; unanimity is hard to imagine) of such of an epochal find, and how would society react to the news?
Space.com: Your book deals with a lot of hypothetical situations. How did you bring the reality of existing research to bear when answering such speculative questions?
Wall: You have to extrapolate based on what happened here on Earth, because that data set is the only one we have. For example, we know that life had taken root here by about 3.8 billion years ago, which suggests that it may not be terribly tough for microbial life to get going. We also know that Earth life remained microbe only for 3 billion years after that, which seems to indicate that the jump to multicellularity may be a serious hurdle for life in general.
And it seems reasonable to suspect that alien life, if it exists, may be carbon-based and use liquid water as a solvent. That's what happened here, and complex carbon compounds and water are both incredibly common throughout the cosmos.
But you don't want to get locked in to Earth's example as the only way that things could happen. That's unjustifiable, given how little we know and the staggering diversity of alien worlds, both in our solar system and beyond. So, it's a fine line to walk — informed speculation, with an open mind. Hopefully, I've managed to stay on that line, more or less, throughout the book.
Space.com: Do you think we'll ever run into alien life? In what circumstance do you think it's most likely that will happen?
Wall: I do, and I think it will happen relatively soon. I suspect that microbial life is common throughout the cosmos. And our own solar system harbors multiple potentially habitable alien environments, from the clouds of Venus to the Martian underground to the buried oceans of the Saturn satellite Enceladus and the Jupiter moon Europa.
I think we'll find evidence of microbial life on one of these worlds in Earth's backyard in the next few decades. We might also spot biosignature gases in the atmosphere of a nearby exoplanet in roughly the same time frame. This is just a hunch, of course. But I'm optimistic.
I'm more agnostic about the discovery of intelligent alien life. That, to me, is such a crapshoot that it's hard to make any predictions about it.
Space.com: Why might intelligent aliens be keeping quiet?
Wall: I don't think there's any one answer to Fermi's Paradox; it's probably a combination of factors.
For example, I'd wager that intelligent aliens are rare throughout the cosmos, both because it's tough to make the leap from microbe to multicellular life to technologically intelligent creature, and because supersmart species may well destroy themselves once they reach a certain level of technical aptitude (the ability to build an atomic bomb and/or greatly alter their home planet's climate, for example).
And then there's the immensity of space. If "advanced" aliens are spread thinly throughout the universe, it would take a very long time for their missives or their starships to reach us, and there's no guarantee that the timing would work out. For instance, we may have gotten a ping 3 billion years ago, or 100 million years ago, or 500 years ago, and completely missed it.
And then there's the motivation question: We can't assume that every extraterrestrial civilization would want to reach out to their neighbors. Many may be keeping quiet for safety's sake, afraid of betraying their presence to colonization-minded species that could wipe them out.
Of course, the most depressing answer is the simplest one: We are alone.
Space.com: Do you think we should keep quiet as well?
Wall: This is a topic of much debate within the SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) community, and I see merit on both sides. Stephen Hawking was right, of course, when he stressed that we cannot know what advanced aliens may think of us, or want to do with us. So, broadcasting signals out into the galaxy could be inviting our own destruction.
But it's also true that we've been broadcasting such signals, in a passive and diffuse way, for a century now already. So, maybe advanced aliens already know we're here, and they're just waiting for a sign that we want to talk, or that we're worth talking to — that we merit inclusion in the "Galactic Club."
I haven't completely made up my mind, but I probably lean more toward openness. Attempts to message ET have already happened, after all, and they'll doubtless continue. It's hard to keep nearly 8 billion people in line and off the airwaves.
Researchers working in China’s oldest archaeological site have discovered two human skulls featuring traces of trepanation.
The archaeological site of Yin Xu, close to Anyang City, some 500 km south of Beijing, is an ancient capital city of the late Shang Dynasty.
Image credits: UNESCO.
Trepanation, the practice of drilling hole in the skull for medical purposes, was remarkably widespread across ancient cultures. We have found evidence of trepanation from theInca peoplein South America toAncient Greece; humans were also practicing it on animals more than5,000 years ago. However, for the longest time, China seemed devoid of trepanation. A 2017 study attributes this to “the lack of publications on this topic in the English language,” and a recent finding seems to add to that idea.
Archaeologists have just uncovered two skulls, including one belonging to a 10-year-old boy, that show clear signs of trepanation.
“The skull surface is smooth and even, indicating the traces of artificial drilling. And the cranium shows that it still grew after the perforation, which suggests the surgery was successful,” said Yue Hongbin, researcher with the Institute of Archaeology under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), according to Xinhua.
The skulls date back to the Shang Dynasty (about 1600 BC-1046 BC), a period known for many cultural and social advancements. During the Shang Dynasty, people would treat diseases with drugs, surgeries, acupuncture, and massages, said Yue.
The findings were made at a long-known site: Yin, the last capital of the Shang Dynasty, which is in the current day city of Anyang. Yin has been excavated for some 90 years, yielding numerous remarkable findings — and this one is no exception. Archaeologists have discovered a hospital or a similar medical site, it seems, which is surprisingly sophisticated for its time. They’ve uncovered inscriptions on tortoise bones, detailing the names, symptoms, and treatments of 50 kinds of diseases, says Song Zhenhao, one of the research leaders at CASS.
In a nearby tomb, archaeologists also discovered a large number of plant leaves, including some of ‘oriental bittersweet’ (Celastrus orbiculatus) — a plant that’s still used in Chinese traditional medicine to clear away toxins such as snake venom.
Archaeologists also report identifying bone needles which they believed were used for medical purposes.
“They were not needles for sewing, since they are sharp at both ends and do not have pinholes. We believe they were for medical use,” said Yue. “Archaeological findings in the ruins have continued to provide more and more evidence to help recast ancient medical history.”
It’s not clear how common trepanation was in ancient China, though it was definitely practiced at times. A recent study suggests that the practice dates back at least 3,500 years, and these new findings seem to support that timeline.
Credit: Natural History Museum of Denmark/Cryospheric Sciences Lab/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Greenbelt, MD, USA
2. Zooming In
Hiawatha Glacier was named in 1922 in honor of the native American leader who co-founded the Iroquois Confederacy. Nearly a century later, scientists using advanced technology to peer under more than half a mile (nearly a kilometer) of ice discovered a hidden crater.
Credit: Natural History Museum of Denmark/Cryospheric Sciences Lab/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Greenbelt, MD, USA
3. A Large Feature
The hidden crater stretches nearly 20 miles (31 km) wide. A prominent rim surrounds the depression.
Credit: Natural History Museum of Denmark/Cryospheric Sciences Lab/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Greenbelt, MD, USA
4. Evidence Reveals Details
A view of the bedrock below the ice facing northwest, toward the sea, shows the terrain of the crater. In addition the rim surrounding the feature, the researchers behind the discovery also spotted a slight rise in the center. Such a rise is a fairly common feature in impact craters, but not diagnostic of how the gape formed.
Credit: Natural History Museum of Denmark/Cryospheric Sciences Lab/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Greenbelt, MD, USA
5. Perspective
The Hiawatha Crater is so large that it could comfortably hold the French city of Paris within its rim.
Credit: Natural History Museum of Denmark/Cryospheric Sciences Lab/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Greenbelt, MD, USA
6. Hurtling Through Space
An artist's depiction of a large, iron-heavy meteor falling through Earth's atmosphere toward northwest Greenland.
Credit: Natural History Museum of Denmark/Cryospheric Sciences Lab/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Greenbelt, MD, USA
7. Impact!
An artist's depiction of the meteorite smashing into the Greenland ice sheet. The scientists behind the new research believe the initial impact created a hole 12 miles (20 km) across, which rapidly collapsed to form the crater left behind
Credit: Natural History Museum of Denmark/Cryospheric Sciences Lab/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Greenbelt, MD, USA
8. Dating the Crater
The researchers who spotted the crater used radar data gathered by airplanes to study the feature. That data suggested that the impact occurred somewhere between 3 million and 12,000 years ago, after the ice sheet had already formed.
Credit: Natural History Museum of Denmark/Cryospheric Sciences Lab/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Greenbelt, MD, USA
9. Studying the Rocks
The scientists collected sediment carried out of the crater by the glacier. They looked for shocked quartz grains, which bear the traces of dramatic impact and melting from a collision.
Credit: Natural History Museum of Denmark/Cryospheric Sciences Lab/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Greenbelt, MD, USA
10. Collecting Evidence
Lead scientist Kurt Kjær visited the Hiawatha Glacier to collect samples in hopes of learning how the giant crater formed below Greenland's ice.
Earth hides its scars well; the planet has endured countless millennia of eruptions and collisions, but scientists are still stumbling upon the evidence of all that geologic drama.
Now, one such team has announced that it spotted a scar hidden below Greenland's ice, a giant crater nearly 20 miles (31 kilometers) wide. The researchers said a giant iron meteorite likely created the mark by slamming into Earth sometime in the past 3 million years.
Other scientists aren't necessarily sold yet that a space rock created the feature. "I think that the authors have presented some intriguing evidence of a possible impact site, and I think that's the right word — intrigued," David Kring, who studies impact craters at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston and who wasn't involved with the new research, told Space.com. "I'm intrigued. I'm not wholly convinced that this is an impact crater." [In Pictures: The Giant Crater Beneath Greenland Explained]
The feature in question is tucked below the edge of the ice sheet in northwest Greenland, lending a semicircular edge to the ice sheet near where a glacier called Hiawatha flows toward the sea. Looking through data originally gathered to track changes in the ice itself, scientists spotted a strangely circular feature in the bedrock, so they arranged for a high-powered ice-penetrating radar instrument to fly over the area.
An aerial view of northwest Greenland, with the location of what appears to be a giant impact crater circled in red.
Credit: Natural History Museum of Denmark
That instrument's data confirmed the structure of the feature itself: a depression large enough to hold all of Paris in its embrace, with a clearly defined rim all the way around. So, scientists flew in to gather samples in person, looking for chemical fingerprints of anexotic event that could have formed the feature.
And while the glacier blocks the scientists from reaching the heart of the crater, it makes up for that inconvenience by ferrying sediment out from the site in meltwater. "It's almost like a home delivery," Kurt Kjær, lead author of the study and a geologist at the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen, told Space.com.
Among those sediments, geologists found what they believe are shocked quartz grains, the result of an impact's force abruptly melting rock. The team also analyzed the chemistry of the sample, finding an unusual fingerprint of rhodium, platinum and palladium. "We don't tend to find that in many rocks that we find on Earth," Iain McDonald, a geochemist at Cardiff University in the U.K. who conducted that analysis, told Space.com. "I'm pretty convinced by what's there."
An artist's depiction of the potential meteor entering the atmosphere headed toward Greenland.
Credit: Natural History Museum of Denmark, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., USA
There's another twist to the puzzle of the crater: in Kjær's own institution sits a large iron meteorite that was found about 185 miles (300 km) away from the crater site. Could it be that the meteorite and crater originated from the same incoming asteroid breaking up in Earth's atmosphere as it fell to the surface? "I think it's fair to start speculating if those two are linked," Kjær said. "Maybe we found the home of this meteorite. That would be fun."
But Kring isn't as convinced as the research team that the feature actually has an extraterrestrial origin. "There are thousands, tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of circular structures on the Earth's surface," Kring said. "Almost none of them are impact craters." He said he would also like to see stronger evidence from rock analysis that the feature was truly caused by an impact, rather than by some other process. [Photos: Hunting Meteorites from Florida Fireball in Osceola]
He said he's particularly struck by the apparent lack of any measurable climate upheaval that such a large impact would have caused. The team wants to narrow down the date more precisely with future research but is confident that the crater formed between 3 million and 12,000 years ago, likely on the later end of that range. "It certainly should have created global effects, and we just have no hint or signature of that at this time," Kring said.
(Kjær said that, depending on when precisely the feature formed, it may match the sharp cooling of the Younger Dryas period, which ended about 11,500 years ago, but that it's certainly too early to say.)
Geomorphological and glaciological setting of Hiawatha Glacier, northwest Greenland. (A) Regional view of northwest Greenland. Inset map shows location relative to whole of Greenland. Magenta box identifies location of panels B-D. (B) 5-m ArcticDEM mosaic over eastern Inglefield Land. Colors are ice surface velocity. Blue line illustrates an active basal drainage path inferred from radargrams. (C) Hillshade surface relief based on the ArcticDEM mosaic which illustrates characteristics such as surface undulations. Dashed red lines are the outlines of the two subglacial paleo-channels. Blue lines are catchment outlines, i.e., solid blue line is subglacial and hatched is supraglacial. (D) Bed topography based on airborne radar sounding from 1997-2014 NASA data and 2016 AWI data. Black triangles represent elevated rim picks from the radargrams and the dark purple circles represent peaks in the central uplift. Hatched red lines are field measurements of the strike of ice-marginal bedrock structures. Black circles show location of the three glaciofluvial sediment.
Credit: University of Kansas
Nevertheless, Kring said he's glad the team is pushing forward on ways to identify unknown features on Earth's surface and understand how the planet has changed over time. And if the site does indeed turn out to be an impact, studying it in more detail could offer helpful insight for planetary protection, which considers the potentially devastating effects that future impacts from the ongoing hail of planetary material could cause.
"[Asteroids] are a hazard. They are, in fact, a threat to human civilization," Kring said. "We want to better understand the consequences if or when one of those objects actually hits the Earth, and one way to do that is to go into the geological record and measure those impacts."
For Kjær, what's most exciting isn't even the dramatic collision or its potential successors — it's the act of stumbling upon something unknown. "Look here — the age of discovery is not over yet," he said. "We can still go out here and find things that we didn't see before."
The research is described in a paper published today (Nov. 14) in the journal Science Advances.
Our corner of the Milky Way is getting rather neighborly. In 2016, astronomers discovered a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our sun, just 4 light-years away. Now, they believe they have found an exoplanet around Barnard’s star, which at 6 light-years away is the second-closest star system. The planet—a chilly world more than three times heavier than Earth—is close enough that scientists could learn about its atmosphere with future giant telescopes. “This is going to be one of the best candidates,” says astronomer Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who was not part of the discovery team.
Barnard’s star b, as the new planet is called, was excruciatingly difficult to pin down, and the team is referring to it as a “candidate planet” though it is confident it’s there. Most exoplanets, including the thousands identified by NASA’s recently retired Kepler space telescope, were found using the “transit” technique: looking for a periodic dip in starlight as a planet passes in front. But that method detects only the small fraction of planets that cross their star’s face when viewed from Earth. Despite decades of watching, astronomers haven’t detected any planets transiting Barnard’s star.
But astronomers can also look for planets by measuring their gravitational tug on a star. Hundreds of exoplanets have been found by looking for periodic Doppler shifts in the frequency of starlight. In 2015, astronomers saw hints of such shifts in the light from Barnard’s star. “Then we went hard for it,” says astronomer Ignasi Ribas of the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona, Spain, who led the new project.
His team made observations from two ground-based telescopes in Chile and Spain. They also observed with a spectrograph at Spain’s Calar Alto Observatory and added in archival data spanning 20 years from those and four other instruments, giving them a total of nearly 800 measurements. “It was a community effort,” Ribas says. As they report today in Nature, they found that the star’s light oscillated every 233 days, implying a planet orbiting with a 223-day year.
There’s a chance that the oscillations are caused by something that affects the way the star shines in a periodic way, such as star spots. The team has calculated that this is highly unlikely, although still possible. “We’re quite convinced” it is a planet, Ribas says. Madhusudhan isn’t quite so certain: “If confirmed, this will be very good. It shows how hard it is to do this thing.”
From this orbital information, the team calculates the planet must weigh at least 3.2 times as much as Earth. That puts Barnard’s star b squarely into a terra incognita between small rocky planets like Earth and larger gas planets like Neptune. The Kepler mission has shown that such intermediate planets are common across the galaxy, but with no examples among our eight home planets, astronomers have few ideas what they are like. Are they rocky super-Earths, or gaseous mini-Neptunes? “We just don’t know. It’s really hard to tell,” Ribas says.
Finding out more about Barnard’s star b will likely require telescopes able to detect light from the planet itself. That’s hard to do because, viewed from Earth, the planet is close to the star and swamped by its glare. A few telescopes with coronagraphs—devices for masking a star’s light—have directly imaged a few large planets in wide orbits, but something like Barnard’s star b will require the greater resolution of giant telescopes coming in the next decade, such as Europe’s 39-meter Extremely Large Telescope. Observations from these scopes could reveal the planet’s rotation rate, the composition and thickness of its atmosphere, and whether it has clouds. “This would be a dream. We would learn so much about this planet,” Ribas says.
Even if Barnard’s star b is rocky, life would have a hard time taking root on its chilly surface. Although the planet orbits its star much closer than Earth does to the sun, Barnard’s star, a red dwarf, is so dim that its planet gets only 2% of the energy that Earth does. The team estimates surface temperatures of –170°C.
Madhusudhan thinks the result is a sure sign that astronomers will soon find other arrivistes to the stellar neighborhood. “I’m willing to guess there are lots like this nearby,” he says. “The question is, how do we detect them?”
*Correction, 15 November, 9:50 a.m.: This story has been updated to correct the orbital period.
L’activité des OVNI en Argentine est à l’origine d’un “CLIMAT EXTRÊME” – déclaration choc
L’activité des OVNI en Argentine est à l’origine d’un “CLIMAT EXTRÊME” – déclaration choc
Un OVNI ÉTRANGE de type orbe a été repéré en Argentine et les chasseurs d’extraterrestres pensent qu’il pourrait être à l’origine du mauvais temps dans cette région.
Une mystérieuse lumière brillante a été vue juste devant un domicile à Santa Cruz, en Argentine. La lumière étrange a été observée au cours d’une tempête, ce qui a incité certains à croire qu’elle pourrait en être la cause. L’objet semble flotter sur les lieux dans une propriété calme, et dont la finalité a provoqué l’apparition d’une multitude de théories. Certains théoriciens du complot croient que les extraterrestres sont ici sur Terre pour surveiller la race humaine, et s’amuser avec le climat car “c’est fun pour eux”.
L’éminent chasseur d’extraterrestres Scott C. Waring croit que des extraterrestres pourraient surveiller notre réaction à des scénarios météorologiques extrêmes.
Il a écrit sur son blog populaire UFO Sightings Daily : “Cet OVNI a été pris à l’extérieur d’une maison en Argentine lors d’une tempête et c’est peut-être la cause même du climat si rude de cette journée.”
“Les OVNI sont connus pour provoquer des rafales de vent, la foudre, le tonnerre, la grêle et même des tornades.”
“Pourquoi personne ne le sait encore, mais des OVNI ont été signalés lors de tels événements comme si c’était un jeu pour eux.”
“Vidéo très rare et incroyable ici.”
L’Argentine est en quelque sorte un point chaud pour les observations d’OVNI, à tel point qu’une “piste d’atterrissage” pour ovni a été construite dans la nature sauvage de l’Argentine par un homme qui prétend que des aliens lui ont demandé de créer le site.
L’étrange monument aurait été construit par un Suisse du nom de Werner Jaisli.
la piste d’atterrissage est une collection de roches blanches et brunes placées en forme d’ovniport – un monument qui ressemble à une étoile que les théoriciens du complot ont liée à une activité extraterrestre.
M. Jaisli a construit le monument dans le désert argentin juste à l’extérieur de la petite ville de Cachi dans la province de Salta.
Les plus grands monuments sont entourés de plus petits morceaux et peuvent être vus du ciel, ce qui serait pratique pour n’importe quel OVNI piloté par des extraterrestres comme ils le font près de la Terre.
Le site attire des centaines de visiteurs par an et M. Jaisli a décidé de le construire quand dit avoir reçu un “message télépathique” d’extraterrestres dans lequel ils lui ont dit qu’ils avaient besoin d’un endroit pour atterrir quand ils débarqueront sur notre planète.
Il a déclaré au journal argentin El Tribuno : “J’étais à Fuerte Alto avec mon voisin Luis. Il était minuit le 24 novembre 2008.”
“C’est une nuit d’Ovni”, j’ai dit à Luis. Et la phrase n’a pas été terminée, lorsque deux objets lumineux ont avancé d’environ 200 mètres au-dessus de la rivière Calchaquí.
“Ils étaient solides, circulaires et comme du métal bruni. Je ne sais pas pourquoi, mais mentalement je leur ai demandé de se rapprocher. Et ils l’ont fait !”
“Ils m’ont demandé par télépathie de construire l’ovniport.”
Astronomers are “99 percent confident” that this exoplanet is real and not a false detection. The planet for Barnard’s star – 2nd closest star system to our sun – appears to be a cold super-Earth.
Barnard’s star – the 2nd closest star to Earth – has a large proper motion on our sky’s dome. This image – via One-Minute Astronomer – shows its motion from 1991 to 2007. Now, this very nearby star is known to have a planet.
Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets in recent years – even an Earth-sized planet orbiting the nearest star to our sun – Proxima Centauri. Today (November 14, 2018), they’re announcing another exciting finding, a super-Earth planet orbiting the closest single star (and second-closest star system) to our own sun at only six light-years away, Barnard’s Star.
The planet has been labeled Barnard’s Star b (GJ 699 b). Its discovery has been decades in the making!
Indeed, Barnard’s Star was among the first to be announced – from the early 1960s to the early 1970s – as having an orbiting planet. Astronomer Peter van de Kamp argued he saw “wobbles” in the star’s motion across our sky, indicating one or more planets tugging on the star. He was in error, with the apparent positional shifts apparently caused by adjustments in the telescope lens, but the mystique of Barnard’s Star endured.
That mystique, and the nearness of this star to Earth, must have helped encourage an international team of astronomers to work hard to find a planet for Barnard’s Star. The team – including astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the Carnegie Institution for Science and elsewhere – has published its paper announcing the discovery in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
The astronomers found the planet via the same method van de Kamp used in the 1960s and ’70s – which is called the radial velocity method – aided by instruments with vastly greater power and sensitivity, plus modern computers. The new planet for Barnard’s Star was found by analyzing 20 years of combined data from various telescopes, stitched together to create an exceptionally large database. According to lead author Ignasi Ribas of Spain’s Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia:
We used observations from seven different instruments, spanning 20 years of measurements, making this one of the largest and most extensive datasets ever used for precise radial velocity studies. The combination of all data led to a total of 771 measurements – a huge amount of information!
And, indeed, Barnard’s Star b is the smallest and most distant planet from its star to be found so far using radial velocity.
Our sun’s closest neighbors among the stars, including Barnard’s Star.
The radial velocity technique relies on the fact that a planet’s gravity causes tiny wobbles in the orbit of its star. The technique is based on the fact that not only does the star’s gravity affect any orbiting planets, but those planets can also affect the star, albeit to a much lesser degree.
This technique has been used to find hundreds of planets. We now have decades of archival data at our disposal. The precision of new measurements continues to improve, opening the doors to new parameters of space, such as super-Earth planets in cool orbits like Barnard’s Star b.
Astronomers are confident that the planet is real and not a false detection. Ignasi Ribas commented:
After a very careful analysis, we are over 99 percent confident that the planet is there. However, we’ll continue to observe this fast-moving star to exclude possible, but improbable, natural variations of the stellar brightness which could masquerade as a planet.
Barnard’s Star is a red dwarf star. It’s small; here’s its size compared to that of our sun and Jupiter, our solar system’s largest planet.
Barnard’s Star b appears to be a super-Earth – a type of exoplanet that is larger than Earth but smaller than Uranus or Neptune. It has a mass 3.2 times that of Earth and orbits its star every 233 days. At that distance, because the star is smaller and cooler than our sun – only emitting 0.4 percent of our sun’s radiant energy – the planet is colder than Earth, with an estimated surface temperature of -238 degrees Fahrenheit (-150 degrees Celsius). This makes it unlikely to be habitable, although little is known still about specific conditions on the planet.
We have all worked very hard on this breakthrough. This discovery is the result of a large collaboration organized in the context of the Red Dots project, which included contributions from teams all over the world. Follow-up observations are already underway at different observatories worldwide.
These astronomers also note that, since the planet is close, it will be an ideal target for NASA’s upcoming Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). It might also be possible to observe Barnard’s Star via the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, whose second data release earlier this year has yielded a huge bounty of new and exciting insights in astronomy.
Artist’s concept of the surface of the newly discovered planet, called Barnard’s Star b.
At six light-years away, Barnard’s Star is the closest single star to our sun, but fourth closest star overall, after the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri triple-star system, which includes Proxima Centauri. It is a red dwarf star, known to produce some flaring, but less active than most other known red dwarfs in terms of stellar flare activity. Like red dwarfs generally, this star is smaller – and believed to be older – than our sun.
Even though it is the second-closest star system, Barnard’s Star is too faint to be seen with the human eye.
The star is named for Yerkes Observatory astronomer E. E. Barnard, who was the first to notice its large proper motion – or sideways motion on our sky’s dome – in 1916. The large proper motion of Barnard’s Star is caused in part by the star’s nearness to Earth, but also by the fact that Barnard’s Star – and its newly found planet – are merely passing through our neighborhood of space, as opposed to moving in the same general stream as our sun and other nearby stars around the galaxy’s center. Over the long course of astronomical time, Barnard’s Star will move farther away!
Barnard’s Star b is a super-Earth, like Kepler-62f. This picture is an artist’s concept.
Image via NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle.
Bottom line: The discovery of a super-Earth exoplanet so close to our solar system is exciting, even if the planet is unlikely to be habitable. The fact that many such worlds have already been found, and now this one so close by, means that they must likely be common throughout the galaxy, increasing the chances that some of them, or their Earth-sized cousins, could indeed support life.
Greek Culture Ministry/ APTenea, de verloren stad.
WETENSCHAPDe legende van het paard van Troje is wereldberoemd, maar het verhaal van verloren stad Tenea is minder bekend. Geen wonder want archeologen twijfelden over het bestaan ervan. Tot nu. Recente vondsten verraden het weemoedige verhaal van een groep buitenstaanders die verbannen werd naar het zuiden van Oud Korinthe.
Volgens de legende wisten de Grieken Troje te veroveren met een geniepige list. Ze bouwden een reusachtig houten paard waarin soldaten zich verstopten. Dat paard haalden enkele nietsvermoedende inwoners naar binnen waarna de Grieken tevoorschijn kwamen en de stad veroverden.
Wat er met de oorspronkelijke inwoners van Troje gebeurde, wordt meestal achterwege gelaten in de Griekse mythologie. Velen wachtten immers een gruwelijk lot, anderen werden volgens historische verhalen verbannen naar de verloren stad Tenea. En recente vondsten bevestigen die verhalen. Dat kondigde het Grieks ministerie van Cultuur aan.
De eerste inwoners van de stad waren Trojaanse krijgsgevangen die verbannen werden uit eigen stad, maar wel toestemming kregen van de bezetter om een nieuw stadje te bouwen. En dat deden ze met succes want Tenea transformeerde van een plek voor buitenstaanders naar een stad met een eigen regering. Het is overigens de enige stad die ongedeerd werd gelaten na de inval van de Romeinen.
Huzarenstuk
De stad, geregeerd door oorlogsgevangenen, hield archeologen decennialang in de ban. Zeer periodieke vondsten plaagden onderzoekers en leverden beperkt bewijs van het bestaan van de stad. Zo werd er een marmeren beeld van een jongeman (Kouros van Tenea) opgegraven. Verder nog ontdekten archeologen honderden jaren geleden al een sarcofaag met het skelet van een vrouw. En de vondsten situeerden zich allemaal in de regio ten zuiden van Oud Korinthe.
EPAKouros.
Tenslotte werden archeologen in 2013 aangemoedigd om wat meer moeite te steken in de opgravingen in die regio. “Het is dankzij een plotse hoge concentratie aan keramiek en architecturale overblijfselen dat we de site ontdekten”, aldus het team Griekse archeologen. Toch konden die restanten geen hard bewijs leveren voor het bestaan van de stad Tenea, zoals die in oude verhalen omschreven wordt.
Romeins-Griekse beschaving
Gelukkig bracht de recente vondst eindelijk verlossing: de stenen muren tonen de structuur van een nederzetting die zo’n 3.000 jaar oud is. De archeologen wisten deuropeningen, muren en vloeren te onderscheiden en konden zo de mysterieuze stad een beetje minder mysterieus maken. Zo ontdekten ze ook artistieke werken waarbij de Griekse en Romeinse beschavingen samenkomen. “De overblijfselen dienden vele doelen. Een ervan was voldoen aan zowel de Griekse als de Romeinse culturele codes”, aldus de Griekse archeologen. Dat bewijst meteen dat de Romeinen het stadje van oorlogsgevangenen ongedeerd lieten in 146 voor Christus.
WETENSCHAPWetenschappers hebben onder een gletsjer in het noordwesten van Groenland een gigantische krater ontdekt. Ze denken dat die veroorzaakt is door de inslag van een meteoriet en als dat klopt, zou dat nieuw licht kunnen werpen op een controversiële theorie over het massaal verdwijnen van een heel aantal diersoorten op het einde van de laatste ijstijd.
Een verslag van de ontdekking is te lezen in het nieuwste nummer van het vakblad Science Advances. De krater zou 31 kilometer breed zijn en zo tot de 25 grootste inslagkraters op aarde behoren. Hij zou 1 kilometer onder de Hiawatha Gletsjer zitten en de eerste ooit zijn die onder ijs wordt aangetroffen.
Al in 2015 werd er voor het eerst een glimp van de krater waargenomen. Wetenschappers vlogen toen over het gebied met lasers en radars om het in kaart te brengen. Dat was een onderdeel van ‘Operation IceBridge’, van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA.
De scans werden publiek gemaakt en een groep van Deense glaciologen – die gletsjers bestuderen – merkte iets vreemds op bij het bekijken van de data: een gigantische uitsparing in de vorm van een kom in het gesteente onder het ijs. “We vroegen ons meteen af of het een inslagkrater kon zijn”, aldus Joseph MacGregor, een van de auteurs van de paper. “We lachten eerst. Maar het kon.”
Om een nog duidelijker beeld te krijgen werden in mei 2016 nieuwe vluchten uitgevoerd over het gebied, met nieuwe en nog gevoeliger apparatuur. In juli werd er ook een grondteam op uitgestuurd dat de omliggende structuren in kaart bracht en stalen verzamelde van sediment dat van onder de gletsjer was gekomen. Daardoor kreeg het team een nog gedetailleerder beeld van de krater.
AFPOp de foto is de gletsjer Hiawatha te zien. De krater bevindt zich bijna 1 kilometer onder het ijs.
Hij bleek 320 meter diep en in het midden zat een verhoging van tussen de 50 en de 70 meter hoog. Volgens gletsjergeoloog Kurt Kjaer van de universiteit van Kopenhagen – de hoofdauteur van de studie – iets wat je kan verwachten als je aanneemt dat het om een inslag gaat. In het sediment vonden de wetenschappers ‘geschokte kwarts’, een zeldzame vorm van het mineraal die ontstaat als er erg veel energie vrijkomt. Zoals bij een inslag van een meteoriet.
Op basis van de vorm van de krater, kan hij volgens de wetenschappers veroorzaakt zijn door een meteoriet van 1 kilometer breed en 11 tot 12 ton zwaar.
Boren
De onderzoekers willen nu nog meer analyses uitvoeren op het materiaal dat ze hebben en meer materiaal verzamelen op de site zelf. In het ideale geval zouden ze dwars door de gletsjer heen kunnen boren, maar dat zou een moeilijke en dure operatie worden. Het is echter noodzakelijk als ze hun vermoedens wetenschappelijk bevestigd willen zien.
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Wanneer de meteoriet precies ingeslagen kan zijn, is ook nog niet duidelijk. Ook daarvoor is meer onderzoek nodig. Op basis van de gegevens die de onderzoekers hebben, moet het gebeurd zijn toen de gletsjer er al was en zou de meteoriet een gat in het ijs geslagen hebben. “Het is waarschijnlijk minder dan 3 miljoen jaar geleden gebeurd, vermoedelijk tussen 12.000 en 15.000 jaar geleden”, aldus MacGregor.
Controversiële theorie
Als dat effectief klopt, kan dat nieuw licht werpen op een controversiële theorie – de Jonge Dryas impact hypothese – die aanvoert dat er tussen 10.900 en 12.900 jaar geleden op het einde van de laatste ijstijd een gigantische inslag plaatsvond in Noord-Amerika. Die zou grote bosbranden hebben doen ontstaan, die leidden tot het uitsterven van grote zoogdieren zoals de mammoet en de mastodont en zelfs de menselijke Cloviscultuur. Groot probleem met die theorie was tot nu toe dat er nergens een inslagkrater gevonden kon worden. Maar dat kan deze ontdekking misschien oplossen. “Het is erg speculatief”, aldus nog MacGregor. “Maar als het klopt, kan dat de menselijke geschiedenis helemaal door elkaar schudden.”
What brand of beer do extraterrestrials drink? If you’re a fan of the movie “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” you might think it’s Coors, the beverage E.T. consumed a six-pack of. Of course, that was in 1982. Today, craft beers have taken over and any aliens here for a take-over might first make a stopover at a craft brewery. At least that’s what the owners of The Unknown Brewery want you to believe. They posted a picture this week of what appears to be a UFO hovering over their North Carolina facility. Did E.T. pick up another six-pack or a keg?
”Ummmm so we took a pic of a UFO last night…”
That’s the extent of the details posted on The Unknown Brewery’s Facebook page along with a picture of the alleged UFO. For skeptics who commented that it was a reflection through a car window, they pointed out that the video was taken outdoors. Surprisingly, the people standing in line, possibly waiting to get into the taproom, weren’t looking up at the UFO and the videographer didn’t point the triangle of lights out to them. If they had seen it, the fans of the brand might have recommended a spaceship-oriented brew like the Tele-Porter (a coffee porter) or the Cloudbuster (a white India pale ale).
Trying to call a UFO with beer?
“But it’s just lens reflection, mirrored about the center. You can see this by copying the lights at the top, rotating them 180 degrees, and then overlaying them on the bottom half of the image. I use a “subtract” blend mode, which makes the bright light look dark, and you can see they match exactly with the lights around the building.”
Mick West of the Metabunk.org website refused to play along and gave this explanation of how a lens reflection could be the cause, while ufoofinterest.org said simply “UFOs? Nope, massive lens flares :).” (Did they need to rub it in with a smiley?) If asked, the makers of UFO beer might wonder why the UFO wasn’t over their breweries in Boston, Massachusetts, or Windsor, Vermont.
What do they drink on the Dog Star?
Fans of Star Trek might point out that aliens wouldn’t stoop to Earth beer when they could drink Romulan ale like Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy did in the original series (for medicinal purposes only). not be over a brewery but a distillery instead. When back on Earth, Mr. Spock might make a stop at the real place known as The Federation of Beer in Vulcan, Canada, for a glass of Vulcan Ale (“The aroma consists of sweet malts, bread, apple and some grassy hops. The flavour is of mild hops upfront, sweet apple, bread, malts, nuts and an earthiness.”) Of course, Scotty and Chekov would never drink anything but Scotch and vodka, respectively, so they’d be looking for a distillery or liquor store.
Hats off to The Unknown Brewery for their great publicity stunt. Now, to take tongue out of cheek and fill the void with some Tele-Porter.
“In the beginning,” so it is written, “God created the heavens and the earth.”
Sometime after that, humans came along in this cosmological origin story too (although I would wager that this occurred more than just a few days later, despite what the text quoted above has to say about it). Thereafter, we spent ages bumbling around on our little mudball, during which the rise and fall of chiefdoms, city-states, and civilizations occurred, along with countless wars and conflicts over land disputes, material shortages, kidnappings, killings, and the like.
At some point, things seemed to have calmed down a little–agriculture certainly helped with this, as did the formation of laws and governance–and humans finally had time to rest, and perhaps more importantly, to think. After a few thousand years of contemplation along these lines, finally, within the last few hundred years or so somebody had the idea that we might not be the only ones the Big Guy upstairs took the time to bother to create… if you prescribe to that sort of thing.
Formation of the idea that there might be inhabited worlds beyond our own first required understanding that Earth is, in fact, a round planetary body in space, and that several others exist in our cosmic neighborhood, all encircling our sun (hat tips are in order here for Galileo, Kepler, Pythagoras, Eratosthenes, and various others who contributed to such thought over the ages). In light of this, the idea of leaving Earth to visit nearby celestial bodies has actually been around for quite a while: mention of such things as travel to the moon had already been left to posterity as early as the second-century in Lucien’s satires, and a few centuries thereafter, philosophers were seriously debating the idea of whether other planets existed, and what kinds of “people” might reside there (“Cosmic Pluralism,” in other words).
By the 17th century, discussion of such likelihoods had become fairly commonplace. Eighteenth-century writers of no less esteem than Washington Irving and François-Marie Arouet (or Voltaire, as he’s better known, for those of you who slept through French Enlightenment history) had written stories where anthropomorphic “aliens” visited Earth.
There were a number of consistent themes in early science fiction writing about aliens. In particular, aliens were generally anthropomorphic (that is, they resembled humans), and were often even referred to as “people.” In fact, for some authors of alien fiction, these beings didn’t merely resemble us: visitors from other worlds actually were humans. This isn’t hard to imagine, given consideration that prior to the publication of Darwin’s The Origin of the Species in November 1859, concepts like evolution would have been remote, to say the least. In times prior to Darwin’s influence, the notion that humans were literally “made in God’s image” was more widely accepted; hence our human shape and form had been divinely inspired, not as a result of adaptations to our environment over long stretches of time.
It only stood to reason, then, that if God made us in his image, and that we lived on a planet orbiting the sun, then perhaps there were other “people” made by God, who lived elsewhere in the universe on alien planets similar to ours. Thus, the theological concept of “aliens” still entailed beings that were essentially human. Authors whose written works followed Darwin’s widespread influence reflected themes of evolution and adaptation in relation to the alien concept, such as Camile Flammarion’s 1862 work, The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds.
Decades later, H.G. Wells pointed us in a less anthropocentric direction with the octopoidal Martian invaders featured in his The War of the Worlds. The inclusion of tentacled antagonists set a new precedent for how alien life would look in the fiction of the years to come; however, rather than diversifying as Wells did, and allowing their aliens to take other unusual shapes and forms, many writers simply followed suit and incorporated tentacled, squid or octopus-like aliens into their own work (even H.P. Lovecraft, for all his imagination, appeared to strongly favor this motif). There are some notable exceptions, of course (insectoids, bodiless brains, symbiotes, robotic beings, etc), but the “tentacled alien” is a trend that nonetheless continues today, as seen in films like The Arrival and countless other stories.
Of particular interest in our brief look at the evolution of the “alien” idea is that concepts involving biological alien entities from other planets were in use for centuries before the word extraterrestrial ever came along. According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, the word extraterrestrial is defined as follows:
extraterrestrial (adj) also extra-terrestrial, “occurring or originating outside the Earth,” 1812, from extra- + terrestrial. As a noun from 1956.
While OED gives us the correct definition, there are a few things to point out about the history given here; they provide a rather obscure, earlier date of 1812 for the origin of the term (without further context or reference to where this occurred), and later its appearance as a noun in 1956. As far as finding the earliest print appearances of this expression (and specifically in relation to alien life), once again we must return to Wells, who after giving us the first non-anthropomorphic aliens in popular fiction, also seems to have been the first popular writer to gift us with a new term for them. The passage below appeared in the third chapter of The War of the Worlds, entitled “On Horsell Common,” where we can see that Wells was using the word more than half a decade earlier:
‘It required a certain amount of scientific education to perceive that the gray scale of the Thing was no common oxide, that the yellowish-white metal that gleamed in the crack between the lid and the cylinder had an unfamiliar hue. “Extra-terrestrial” had no meaning for most of the onlookers.’
It is possible that the earliest use of a non-hyphenated, nominative variant of extraterrestrial didn’t appear in print until the 1950s, although L. Sprague de Camp also appears to have used the expression in 1939 in an article, “Design for Life (Part 1 of 2),” which was first published in the May 1939 issue of Astounding Science-Fiction (this was actually one of two pieces de Camp published in that issue, although his other contribution, a short story called “Employment,” was published under a pseudonym due to the magazine’s policies against publication of more than one contribution by an individual within a single issue). It was also de Camp who first shortened Wells’ term into the popular acronym “E.T.” as seen today, and borrowed famously by Steven Speilberg for his famous film of the same name.
L. Sprague de Camp
So while it does appear that Wells was first to use the hyphenated form of the word in popular literature in 1898, there is one other noteworthy example of a similar concept that does come to mind. In the 1885 preface to his Beyond Good and Evil, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche also uses the term “super-terrestrial,” although not in reference to the idea of biological alien life (I happened to notice Nietzsche’s use of this expression quite apart from any research for this article, and so admittedly I find it to be novel, albeit not particularly relevant to our search for the etymological origins of extraterrestrials in the English language. Also keep in mind that Nietzsche would have written the word in German, appearing as überirdischen, which directly translates to mean “unearthly,” or in the context in which he used it, might also be taken to have meant “supernatural.” In my estimation, the translation of this word into “super-terrestrial” had been a selective interpretation made by the translator, who in this case would likely have been Helen Zimmern, whose first English translation of the book appeared in 1906. Thus–spake Zarathustra?–we might even stretch a bit further to speculate that Zimmern could even have read Wells’ The War of the Worlds, and had come across his use of “Extra-terrestrial,” which for all we may know could have influenced her later translation of Nietzsche… so in essence, the point is still awarded to Wells for this one).
But why is there any need for a further distinction between “alien” and “extraterrestrial” in the first place? Actually, if we look back at Wells’ first use of the word, he wasn’t referring explicitly to a biological alien entity, per se: he had been using the term in relation to the description of “the gray scale of the Thing,” which “was no common oxide,” and also “the yellowish-white metal that gleamed in the crack between the lid and the cylinder”. In other words, Wells described the appearance of the cylindrical vessel in which the invading Martians have arrived. Quite obviously, it had been later authors that would begin to use the term in relation to alien beings themselves.
And for such authors, another reason for the “shift” might be that the word alien, in modern usage, has a variety of different meanings and interpretations. In the strictly terrestrial sense, it has relevance to things that may be seen as foreign or different to a given person or group; this has led to some problems, since the use of alien as a noun, which entails “a foreigner, someone who isn’t a naturalized citizen“ has a hard time escaping associations with its adjective form, which generally means “distasteful or odd” (one can clearly see the reasons for controversy here over its use in relation to such things as immigration, particularly in North America and parts of Europe). On the other hand, there is nothing about the word extraterrestrial that can be misconstrued as pertaining to earthly affairs.
The evolution of the extraterrestrial idea, as we can see, moved at a slow creep across the ages. Looking back over time at the conceptual development of human attitudes toward alien life is fascinating in a number of ways, and of course, far more could be said of this subject than the brief overview presented here. If anything, the gradual revelation that other forms of life could exist somewhere “out there”–and perhaps more importantly, that such a thing as “out there” existed in the first place–did more than merely introduce the concept of alien life; it caused humans to think about ourselves, our origins, and ultimately, what it actually means to be human.
Perhaps with the innovation and discovery of the coming years, we will also begin to glean some idea about what it could mean to be “extraterrestrial,” if such life from other worlds is eventually proven, without question, to exist.
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PILOTEN ZIEN UFO's BOVEN IERLAND 9 november 2018
PILOTEN ZIEN UFO's BOVEN IERLAND 9 november 2018
(NL ondertiteling) PILOTEN ZIEN UFO's BOVEN IERLAND 9 november 2018
Woord vooraf – Paul Harmans – ufowijzer.nl Voor alle duidelijkheid, NIEMAND weet nog wat deze snel bewegende lichten op 9 nov. 2018 in het luchtruim boven Ierland waren, dus worden ze UFO’s genoemd. Dat betekent niet meteen dat het buitenaardse toestellen zijn, maar uitsluiten kun je het op basis van het al tientallen jaren beschikbare bewijs niet.
Meteen na de meldingen van de piloten kwamen de bekende ‘leunstoel experts’ naar voren en beweerden dat het om vallende sterren ging. Vallende sterren, de naam zegt het al: ‘vallen’, en vallen doe je naar BENEDEN. In eerste instantie deden deze lichten dat ook, maar vervolgens meldt één van de piloten dat de lichten weer op zeer hoge snelheid omhoog gingen. Dat doen vallende sterren NIET!
De zwaartekracht dicteert dat alles in ons luchtruim zonder eigen voortstuwing naar het aardoppervlak valt, dus niet omhoog, maar naar BENEDEN (dat hoeft overigens niet volledig verticaal zijn). Jammer dat veel mensen de media klakkeloos geloven, alwaar dit onlogische leunstoelverhaal breed wordt gebracht als de oplossing voor de lichten die de piloten boven Ierland zagen.
Leunstoel-astronomen doen vaker volkomen onlogische beweringen als het om UFO-waarnemingen van piloten gaat. Zo beweerden zij ooit dat een Japanse piloot twee heldere planeten verwarde met een UFO. Dat de piloot meldde dat hij de UFO tegen de achtergrond van een bergketen zag, dus onder de horizon, dat deert dergelijke ‘ontkenners’ niet. De piloot meldde ook dat de UFO rondjes om zijn 747 vloog en rondom gekleurde lichten voerde en vele malen groter was dan een 747. Dat deze UFO ook werd waargenomen op de radarschermen van zowel de FAA als de luchtmacht, ach, een kleinigheidje, voor dergelijke ‘astronomische domkoppen’ verschijnen planeten blijkbaar ook op radar.
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Researchers recently identified a huge bowl-shaped crater measuring a staggering 19 miles (31 km) across under half a mile of Greenland ice. The immense crater was likely formed by the impact of a mile-wide iron meteorite, which must have unleashed 47,000,000 times the energy of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the very end of WWII. The biggest question on everybody’s mind right now is when it all happened.
Illustration of the newly-discovered immense crater in Greenland.
Credit: Nasa/Cryospheric Sciences Lab/Natural History Museum of Denmark.
Kurt Kjær, a Professor at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, suspected an impact crater might be hidden away under Greenland’s ice after NASA radar images showed a massive depression of the bedrock beneath the Hiawatha glacier, in the northwestern part of the island.
In May 2016, one year after the satellite images were released, scientists flew over the glacier pointing a cutting-edge ice-penetrating radar onto the glacier to map the underlying rock. The 3-D images clearly show all the hallmarks of an impact crater — a 19.3-mile-wide circular feature with a rim around it and an elevated central region.
The crater’s basin is about 300 meters deep, suggesting it was perhaps made by a one-mile-wide meteorite. This immediately classes the impact site among the top 25 largest known craters on Earth. According to the researchers, the impact would have melted and vaporized approximately ~20 km3 of rock.
“There would have been debris projected into the atmosphere that would affect the climate and the potential for melting a lot of ice, so there could have been a sudden freshwater influx into the Nares Strait between Canada and Greenland that would have affected the ocean flow in that whole region,” co-author John Paden, Associate Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Kansas University, told the AFP.
Kurt Kjær collecting sediment samples from the crater’s drainage system.
Credit: Natural History Museum Denmark.
The meteorite was likely mostly made of iron, judging from geochemical tests performed on particles of shocked quarts collected from a nearby floodplain.
“Beyond the grains in the sediment sample that we interpret to be possible ejecta, no ejecta layer associated with this structure has yet been identified. Despite the absence of such additional evidence, an impact origin for the structure beneath Hiawatha Glacier is the simplest interpretation of our observations,” the authors wrote in their new study.
Black triangles represent elevated rim picks from the radargrams, and the dark purple circles represent peaks in the central uplift.
Credit: Science Advances.
When exactly did the impact actually takes place is not at all certain. Kjær and colleagues are confident that the crater is no older than 3 million years, the time when ice began to cover Greenland.
“The age of this impact crater is presently unknown, but from our geological and geophysical evidence, we conclude that it is unlikely to predate the Pleistocene inception of the Greenland Ice Sheet,” the authors wrote in the journalScience Advances.
As for the lower limit, radar images show that the deepest layers of the glacier that are older than 12,000 years are very deformed compared to upper layers and are filled with lumps of rock. To be sure, researchers will have to use radiometric dating techniques on material from the crater — that means drilling through half a mile of ice. It might take a few years before this happens, however.
‘Oumuamua is the first interstellar object astronomers have detected in our solar system. For decades, scientists had been expecting to come across such an object, but it only happened in October 2017, while the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on Haleakala, Hawaii was surveying near-Earth asteroids. Astronomers tried pointing NASA’s mighty Spitzer Space Telescope onto ‘Oumuamua, however, the comet-like object was too faint to observe directly — but this was a valuable result in and of itself.
According to a new study that worked with Spitzer data, previous estimates of ‘Oumuamua’s size have been too generous. In reality, the intriguing cosmic object is much smaller than scientists initially thought.
“‘Oumuamua has been full of surprises from day one, so we were eager to see what Spitzer might show,” David Trilling, lead author on the new study and a professor of astronomy at Northern Arizona University, said in a statement. “The fact that ‘Oumuamua was too small for Spitzer to detect is actually a very valuable result.”
Vents on the surface of the interstellar object probably emit jets of gases, propelling the object slightly. The jets were detected by measuring the position of the object as it passed by Earth in 2017.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Besides setting new upper and lower boundaries for the size of ‘Oumuamua (pronounced oh MOO-uh MOO-uh, meaning ‘scout’ in Hawaiian), the study also reveals new spicy details about our lone interstellar visitor. One rather amazing finding is that ‘Oumuamua is expelling gas, which acts like a small thruster pushing the small asteroid. This explains the slight changes in speed and direction of the object when scientists tracked it last year.
In the months following is discovery, astronomers conducted multiple observations with ground-based telescopes but also using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. These optical observations reported large variations in brightness, suggesting that ‘Oumuamua has an elongated shape, resembling a cigar, and that it probably measures less than half a mile (800 m) across its longest side.
However, Spitzer’s instruments can see things in infrared, meaning it can measure how much heat ‘Oumuamua radiates — and this can be helpful in measuring the object’s size with better accuracy than optical evaluations alone could. By measuring infrared light emitted by an object, scientists can essentially measure temperature which, in turn, can be used to determine the reflectivity of an object’s surface — what’s technically called albedo.
The new study estimates what ‘Oumuamua’s diameter would be if it were spherical. Trilling and colleagues used three separate models, each with its own different assumptions about the object’s composition but which only slightly differed from one another, and ultimately came up with three possible diameters for ‘Oumuamua: 1,440 feet (440 meters), 460 feet (140 meters) or even as small as 320 feet (100 meters).
Images of an interloper from beyond the solar system as seen on Oct. 27 by the 3.5-meter WIYN Telescope on Kitt Peak, Ariz.
Credit: WIYN OBSERVATORY/RALF KOTULLA.
The findings suggest that ‘Oumuamua may be up to 10 times more reflective than the comets we can find our solar system. A typical comet will constantly change its albedo as its ice warms and turns into gas during its close approaches to the Sun. However, ‘Oumuamua likely traveled through interstellar space for millions of years before entering our solar system, far from a star’s ‘touch’. Once it actually made it close to the sun, ‘Oumuamua’s surface likely suffered some transformations. For instance, some of the released gas may have covered the surface of the object with ice and snow that increase reflectivity.
At the moment, ‘Oumuamua is beyond Saturn’s orbit and is exiting the solar system. But scientists expect other interstellar visitors to follow. In the meantime, data gathered on the asteroid could shed light on how planet form in the solar system.
An artistic rendering of what the planet around Barnard’s star might look like. Image: IEEC / Science-Wave
A planet three times more massive than Earth may be lurking around the second-closest star system to our cosmic neighborhood. Astronomers say they have found evidence for a so-called “super-Earth” around the famous Barnard’s star — a small, faint dwarf star located less than six light-years away. Though we don’t know what this potential planet looks like, its close proximity makes it an excellent target for future telescopes to study in the long-enduring hunt for extraterrestrial life.
Plus, a planet around Barnard’s star is one that we could see someday soon. Though we’ve found thousands of planets outside our Solar System, most of these worlds — known as exoplanets — are usually impossible to see directly with our current telescopes. They’re so far away that they become completely overwhelmed by the light from their host stars. But planets around nearby stars — like Barnard’s star — are easier for our instruments to detect. One day, we could potentially distinguish the light reflected from this planet from the light of its host star, especially as bigger and more sophisticated observatories come online in the 2020s.
“That’s the key benefit of finding a planet this close,” Ignasi Ribas, an astronomer at the Institute of Space Sciences in Spain and lead author on the study, tells The Verge. “If we ever have the hope of being able to directly image planets, it’s got to be planets that are really close by because you need to separate them from their star’s light.”
A graphic showing the relative distances of the closest stars to our Solar SystemImage: IEEC / Science-Wave
Barnard’s star has long intrigued astronomers. Because of its relatively short distance from us, it appears to be moving through the sky faster than all the other stars. The star gets its name from E. E. Barnard, the American astronomer who measured this motion in 1916. Barnard’s star is also a very small and dim type of star known as a red dwarf. In fact, it is just 14 percent the mass of our own Sun, and it’s so faint that you need a telescope to see it. Though they are among the smallest stars in the galaxy, red dwarfs are also the most common. In the past few decades, astronomers have found more and more potentially habitable planets around these celestial objects.
Because of its closeness, Barnard’s star has become a popular target for exoplanet hunters. In the 1960s, an astronomer named Peter van de Kamp claimed to have found a Jupiter-sized world around Barnard’s star after studying how the red dwarf moved. At the time, it was a big claim since we did not have good confirmation that exoplanets existed yet. But the findings were eventually refuted and blamed on issues with the telescope van de Kamp used. Over the years, astronomers have ruled out the existence of planets in the habitable zone of Barnard’s star, which is the region around a star where temperatures are just right for water to exist as a liquid.
But this time, there may actually be something in orbit around the star just a little farther out from the habitable zone. An international group of astronomers used data from 20 years of observations of Barnard’s star, taken with seven different telescopic instruments, to find clues that a planet may exist. “We put together nearly 800 observations, using the most precise instrumentation in the world just to see this small planet,” says Ribas.
Specifically, the team looked at how Barnard’s star “wobbled” over time — a technique that astronomers use to find exoplanets when they can’t be seen. Since exoplanets are drowned out by starlight, astronomers have to use clever, indirect ways to tease out the existence of a distant world. One way is to watch as these planets pass between their host star and Earth — what’s known as a transit — which slightly dims the star’s light. However, this planet does not transit, so instead, astronomers looked at how the planet’s gravity is affecting Barnard’s star. Even small planets can push and pull on a nearby star, creating tiny “wobbles” that we can measure from Earth.
Ribas and his team noticed a pattern in Barnard’s star’s wobbling within the 20 years’ worth of data, which indicated a planet revolving around the star every 233 days. They estimate the exoplanet is about 3.2 times the mass of Earth, and its distance from the star puts it in what’s known as the snow line. That’s the region around a star where gases can condense into solids and water turns into snow and ice. This area is about four times farther from the habitable zone, and many astronomers think this is the best spot around a star for planets to form. “If it’s real, then this would be a strong confirmation, one of our leading theories of planet formation,” Keivan Stassun, an astronomer at Vanderbilt University who was not involved in the study, tells The Verge.
An artistic rendering of what the surface of the planet around Barnard’s star might look like (though we haven’t actually seen it yet). Image by M. Kornmesser / ESO
Still, we haven’t seen this planet directly, and though Ribas is confident in his team’s findings, he admits there’s always a tiny chance that the wobbles they saw can be explained another way. “We are not 100 percent sure the signal comes from a planet, but 99.2 percent sure,” he says. “But being this confident is sufficient to claim detection of the planet.”
So the obvious next step is to get a signal from the planet itself, which may be possible soon. “At this very near distance, we should be able to separate the light from the planet from the light of the star,” says Stassun. Being able to see the light from an exoplanet is huge because then we can study what’s in the planet’s atmosphere. And the gases surrounding a planet could tell us a lot about what’s on the surface below — perhaps even indicating whether or not life is present.
Since this planet is near the snow line, it’s not a particularly promising candidate in the search for alien life. But it will be a good exoplanet for astronomers to study. It could help them refine their techniques for distinguishing planets from stars and figuring out what’s in their atmospheres. And the tools to do this should be coming online within the next decade. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which is supposed to launch in 2021, should have enough sensitivity to study this planet further. And big telescopes, such as the Thirty Meter Telescope planned for Hawaii, may also be able to spot the planet.
Ribas says the best bet for seeing this world is a future telescope NASA is working on called WFIRST. The space telescope could potentially study large planets using a special instrument known as a coronagraph, which helps to block out the light of stars. Due to budget concerns, NASA has been looking at ways to reduce the cost of the coronagraph by reducing the number of masks and filters the instrument uses, according to Space News. But Ribas says a coronagraph is the most certain way to see this world. “It would be very efficient at removing the starlight,” he says. “If that kind of machinery is in place, we’ll be able to image the planet.”
For now, Ribas and his team will continue to monitor the wobbles of Barnard’s star to further strengthen their claim — one that now aligns with numerous works of science fiction. Stories like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and The Garden of Rama feature planets around Barnard’s star as way stations for interstellar travelers. “It has for decades been a favorite imagined destination for human civilization at some point in the future,” says Stassun. “How tantalizing that this neighboring star is a neighboring solar system.”
SPACE ROCK An iron asteroid hurtles through space in this artist’s conception of an event that left a large crater in northwest Greenland sometime in the distant past.
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF DENMARK, CRYOSPHERIC SCIENCES LAB/GSFC/NASA
There’s something big lurking beneath Greenland’s ice. Using airborne ice-penetrating radar,scientists have discovered a 31-kilometer-wide crater — larger than the city of Paris — buried under as much as 930 meters of ice in northwest Greenland.
The meteorite that slammed into Earth and formed the pit would have been about 1.5 kilometers across, researchers say. That’s large enough to have caused significant environmental damage across the Northern Hemisphere, a team led by glaciologist Kurt Kjær of the University of Copenhagen reports November 14 in Science Advances.
Although the crater has not been dated, data from glacial debris as well as ice-flow simulations suggest that the impact may have happened during the Pleistocene Epoch, between 2.6 million and 11,700 years ago. The discovery could breathe new life into a controversial hypothesis that suggests that an impact about 13,000 years ago triggered a mysterious 1,000-year cold snap known as the Younger Dryas (SN: 7/7/18, p. 18).
Hidden bowl
A crater was discovered at the edge of Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland. Airborne radar data revealed a round depression (bottom image) buried beneath almost a kilometer of ice. Researchers also found deformed quartz minerals and other signatures of an ancient impact within sediments collected just outside the edge of the ice (black circle).
K.H. KJÆR ET AL/SCIENCE ADVANCES 2018
Members of the research team first spotted a curiously rounded shape at the edge of Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland in 2015, during a scan of the region by NASA’s Operation IceBridge. The mission uses airborne radar to map the thickness of ice at Earth’s poles. The researchers immediately suspected that the rounded shape represented the edge of a crater, Kjær says.
For a more detailed look, the team hired an aircraft from Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute that was equipped with ultra-wideband radar, which can send pulses of energy toward the ice at a large number of frequencies. Using data collected from 1997 to 2014 from Operation Icebridge and NASA’s Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment, as well as 1,600 kilometers’ worth of data collected in 2016 using the ultra-wideband radar, the team mapped out the inner and outer contours of their target.
The object is almost certainly an impact crater, the researchers say. “It became clear that our idea had been right from the beginning,” Kjær says. What’s more, it is not only the first crater found in Greenland, but also one of the 25 or so largest craters yet spotted on Earth. And it has held its shape beautifully, from its elevated rim to its bowl-shaped depression.
“It’s so conspicuous in the satellite imagery now,” says John Paden, an electrical engineer at the University of Kansas in Lawrence and a member of the team. “There’s not another good explanation.”
On the ground, the team hunted for geochemical and geologic signatures of an asteroid impact within nearby sediments. Sampling from within the crater itself was impossible, as it remains covered by ice. But just beyond the edge of the ice, meltwater from the base of the glacier had, over the years, deposited sediment. The scientists collected a sediment sample from within that glacial outwash and several from just outside of it.
The outwash sample contained several telltale signs of an impact: “shocked” quartz grains with deformed crystal lattices and glassy grains that may represent flash-melted rock. The sample also contained elevated concentrations of certain elements, including nickel, cobalt, platinum and gold, relative to what’s normally found in Earth’s crust. That elemental profile points not only to an asteroid impact, the researchers say, but also suggests that the impactor was a relatively rare iron meteorite.
SHOCKED QUARTZ This grain of quartz shows crystal deformation that is a signature of a massive impact event.
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF DENMARK, CRYOSPHERIC SCIENCES LAB/GSFC/NASA
Determining when that iron meteorite slammed into Earth is trickier.
The ice-penetrating radar data revealed that the crater bowl itself contains several distinct layers of ice. The topmost layer shows a clear, continuous sequence of smaller layers of ice, representing the gradual deposits of snow and ice through the most recent 11,700 years of Earth’s history, known as the Holocene. At the base of that “well-behaved” layer is a distinct, debris-rich layer that has been seen elsewhere in Greenland ice cores, and is thought to represent the Younger Dryas cold period, which spanned from about 12,800 to 11,700 years ago. Beneath that Younger Dryas layer is another large layer — but unlike the Holocene layer, this one is jumbled and rough, with undulating rather than smooth, nearly flat smaller layers.
“You see folding and strong disturbances,” says study coauthor Joseph MacGregor, a glaciologist with Operation IceBridge. “And below that, we see yet deeper, complex basal ice.” Radar images of that bottommost ice layer within the crater show several curious peaks, which MacGregor says could represent material from the ground that got incorporated into the ice. “Putting that all together, what you have is a snapshot of an ice sheet that looked fairly normal during the Holocene, but was quite disturbed before that.”
Those data clearly suggest that the impact is at least 11,700 years old, Kjær says. And the rim of the crater appears to cut through a preexisting ancient river channel that must have flowed across the land before Greenland became covered with ice about 2.6 million years ago.
That time span — essentially, the entire Pleistocene Epoch — is a large range. The team is working on further narrowing the possible date range, with more sediment samples, simulations of the rate of ice flow and possibly cores collected from within the crater.
The date range does include the possibility that the impact occurred near the onset of the Younger Dryas. “It’s the woolly mammoth in the room,” MacGregor says.
HIDDEN TREASURE A newly discovered 31-kilometer-wide crater, long buried underneath Greenland’s ice sheet, may be the remnants of an iron asteroid that struck Earth sometime in the distant past.
Planetary scientist Clark Chapman of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., notes that “there are plenty of roughly circular landforms on Earth of many different sizes, most of which are not impact craters.” Still, he says, the paper presents several lines of evidence that strongly support the conclusion that the object is a crater, including the shocked quartz and the topography.
As for the idea that a crater may have formed within the last couple of million years, Chapman says, it’s “quite unlikely.” Such strikes are rare in general, he adds, and asteroids barreling into Earth are far more likely to land somewhere in an ocean. “[And] it would be at least a hundred times less likely that it could have happened so recently as to have affected the Younger Dryas.”
Regardless of when the crater formed, it is “a straight-up exciting discovery,” MacGregor says. “And we’re just happy not to have to keep it a secret anymore.”
µThe mysterious object appeared as a “very bright light” that came up along the left side of the airliner before it “rapidly veered to the north”.
At first, the pilot of BA94 from Montreal to Heathrow thought she might have been looking at some kind of military aircraft.
Bright lights
But she was told there were no military exercises taking place in the area and the fast-moving object did not appear on air traffic control’s radar systems.
A second pilot, flying a Virgin Atlantic plane from Orlando to Manchester, confirmed the sighting, suggesting it might be a meteor or “another object re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere”.
He saw “two bright lights, [which] seemed to bank over to the right then climb away at speed”.
David Moore, head of Astronomy Ireland, favours the meteor theory. He told The Times he was “1,000 per cent sure” the mysterious light was a fireball, or a flaming meteorite, tumbling through the atmosphere.
A flying saucer model created by US plastic artist Peter Coffin’s in 2009.
(Photo: Antonio Scorza/AFP/Getty)
One thing is certain: the truth is out there, and the Irish Aviation Authority intends to find it.
The organisation, which has launched an investigation into the 9 November sightings over Ireland’s south-west coast, has said it is unlikely that the incident involved alien life.
Yet these are simply the latest close encounters to fuel the imaginations of those who believe we are not alone.
The act of reporting a UFO sighting dates back to the 40s, with the first official account widely accepted to be that of a private pilot in 1947.
He reported seeing nine strange objects moving at speed across the state of Washington, comparing them to “saucers skipping on water”.
UFO hotline
There have been hundreds of alleged sightings – often involving unusual lights – since. Some are hoaxes, some can be explained by natural phenomena; others are seemingly genuine mysteries.
For years, people in the UK were able to report their sightings via a special Ministry of Defence (MoD) hotline.
The MoD eventually closed its dedicated UFO desk in November 2009, saying it served “no defence purpose” and was taking staff away from “more valuable defence-related activities”.
Declassified papers released by the National Archives in 2013 revealed the Ministry had logged 643 reported sightings in its final year, treble the previous year and the second-highest recorded since 1978, when there had been 750 alleged sightings.
The papers also contained reports from someone who had been “living with an alien” in Carlisle and sightings of UFOs over Stonehenge, Parliament and Blackpool Pier.
Further afield, cases such as the Roswell incident – the high-altitude weather balloon that crashed in New Mexico in 1947 and spawned a thousand conspiracy theories – show just how much interest the idea of UFOs can generate.
A store in Roswell, New Mexico, selling UFO souvenirs.
(Photo: Hector Mata/AFP/Getty)
Television shows such as The X-Files have indulged our fascination with all things extraterrestrial and, thanks in part to social media, people are still sharing their strange encounters.
Indeed, a video of what some believe to be a UFO was recorded in Northern Ireland just minutes before the recent sightings by the two pilots.
The dashcam footage, recorded by a member of the public as they drove to work in Coleraine, showed what they described as a “bright object” shooting across the sky.
In 2014, a pilot claimed he had experienced a close encounter while flying a passenger jet at 34,000ft over Berkshire the previous year.
According to reports, the captain was so convinced that the “silver, rugby ball”-shaped object would smash into his Airbus that he ducked as it headed towards the cockpit.
The UK Airprox Board, which investigates near-misses in British airspace, said that no other aircraft had been in the vicinity at the time. It also ruled out meteorological balloons. No military radars picked up any sign of a UFO, however.
How to report a sighting
For those who think they have seen something, the British UFO Research Association is among the organisations which will analyse sightings.
The voluntary organisation, which has been running for more than 50 years, receives between five and 20 reports a week – though only a few of these remain a mystery.
“Up to 98 per cent of sightings can be explained if they are reported very quickly and with accurate information,” says national investigations co-ordinator Heather Dixon.
“We have a form on our website for people to report sightings which asks the relevant questions.
“Eighty per cent of all sightings are now photographed, [but] that doesn’t mean anything on its own – we have to have supporting information."
Dixon explains that in cases where there are photos, the UFOs can normally be explained. A low-quality photo is often the problem in more difficult cases.
Heather Dixon, of the British UFO Research Association, said it is important to be objective about all potential sightings.
(Photo: David McNew/Newsmakers)
She says that UFO sightings highlight how differently people can perceive and interpret something in the sky.
“If you see something and you have no way to understand what that is, you use imagery that you have downloaded over your lifetime.
“The brain has to do something to identify or make some kind of explanation for what is happening.
“So if someone has a strong belief in the subject, and the idea that there are cover-ups, then they will relate that to their sighting.”
But, she adds: “That’s not to say there aren’t mysteries.
‘You have to be objective’
“On a personal level, I am very sceptical, but I have had a handful of things happen to me – not UFO-related – that have been stranger and have made me think.
“But you have to be objective. You have to investigate and research in a meticulous way. What I have learnt is the more you learn about anything, the less you realise you know.”
For Robert Massey, deputy executive director at the Royal Astronomical Society, a meteor is the most likely culprit behind the latest sighting.
“The idea that it is something entering the Earth’s atmosphere – a meteor – is the most likely case,” he says. “It is perhaps an unusually bright one and that, I imagine, is what they have seen.”
Dr Massey adds that the speed of the object lends credence to the object being a natural one – such as a meteor – as opposed to something like debris from a satellite.
“That would also explain why it won’t be on the radar,” he explains. “Meteors are pretty high up in the Earth’s atmosphere – well above the altitude you’d expect for a commercial flight.
“There’s no reason to jump to the conclusion that it is any kind of spaceship. It will almost certainly have a more mundane explanation.
“But the thing that’s nice to take from this is that there’s an awful lot of drama in the night sky. “It just reminds us that even the things for which we do have an explanation can be pretty spectacular.”
Video of a flashing, glowing, and elongated light over Houston has been uploaded to YouTube, along with a long and detailed narration and witness description. The object had apparently been hovering in the nighttime sky for several minutes before the witness started recording:
Went outside for a smoke. Saw it and thought it was lightning. Sat back for the show, the night air was cool and sweet, and I was having a good day. But it didn't act like lightning and after five or ten minutes, I dragged my stepdad out of bed to see it. He saw it too. After a few more minutes of signaling the strange lights with various lights and flashes, he ran to get a camera. Long story short, no batteries. So he started using his phone. Once I felt we had a good amount of footage on his phone saved, I ran for my phone (Samsung S9+), it had a superior camera. But it's still grainy af. That's a little disappointing. The cameras at least picked up the flashing lights and my voice narration. The film cuts out because my camera spontaneously shut down. My fingers could have slipped, I was shaking like a leaf and you can hear how freaked out I am. The camera shut off on its own when I was at an awesome angle. It was overhead maybe a mile up, 300 yards long, moving in a slow triangle pattern and flashing. The camera picked up a strange pulsating aura of colors my eyes couldn't pick up. It responded to a halogen torch when I flashed back. It communicated. Footage lost. This is just 5 minutes from a 30 minute encounter I panicked and ran inside to make sure the video was saved. It was! I immediately uploaded it to YouTube and posted a link on my Facebook page. We went back outside to find it. It was hiding from spotlights. We flashed at it again then it pulsed and as the spotlights zeroed in, it flew off at high speeds quieter than a whisper.
Ps. I apologized to my stepdad for snapping. I was really freaked out. They are #real. We aren't alone.
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After leaving the International Space Station last week, a Japanese cargo spacecraft dropped a small capsule of science experiments into the Pacific Ocean before falling to its fiery demise in Earth's atmosphere.
Before it was intentionally incinerated upon reentry, the HTV-7 cargo resupply ship spent 41 days at the International Space Station. The Expedition 57 crew used the station's Canadarm2 robotic armto send it off on Wednesday(Nov. 7). On board was theHTV Small Re-Entry Capsule(HSRC), a small cone-shaped capsule that would become the first Japanese spacecraft to bring experiments back to Earth from the space station.
Following a deorbit burn, the HTV-7 entered Earth's atmosphere on Nov. 10 at 4:14 p.m. EST (2114 GMT), and the little capsule separated from its mothership and began its own descent. It floated down to Earth via parachute and splashed down off the southern coast of Marcus Island, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) tweeted. The capsule's contents were then brought to JAXA headquarters at the Tsukuba Space Center for analysis. [Japan's Huge HTV Space Truck Explained (Infographic)]
This NASA diagram shows the location and size of Japan's HTV Space Return Capsule on the HTV-7 cargo ship. The small capsule successfully returned experiment samples to Earth on Nov. 10, 2018.
Credit: NASA
Inside the HSRC were samples of protein crystals grown at the space station. These microgravity-grown crystals can be used to study the structure of the proteins in greater detail than is possible on Earth, and understanding their structures could help researchers develop new pharmaceutical drugs, NASA officials said.
During this mission, which was the first test flight of the HSRC, the little capsule demonstrated its flight capabilities as well as its ability to protect its internal payload against the extreme temperatures of re-entry. "We expect that these efforts will lead to securing flexibility in our future space flight activities," JAXA president Hiroshi Yamakawa said in a statement.
With a successful test mission under its belt, JAXA can start using the HSRC to bring science experiments back to Earth using a Japanese aircraft, rather than having to hitch a ride with SpaceX's Dragon capsule — the only cargo spacecraft built to survive re-entry. JAXA's next HTV cargo resupply mission is scheduled to launch to the space station in mid-2019.
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The concept lander, perhaps the most complicated structure ever created using "generative design," was unveiled today (Nov. 13) at Autodesk University, a conference being held this week in Las Vegas.
Generative design is a relatively new approach that uses machine intelligenceand cloud computing to quickly generate a broad set of design solutions that fit within the specific constraints set by engineers. It enables design teams to explore a much wider design space while still being bound by manufacturing and performance requirements dictated by the team or environment, according to an Autodesk statement.
A commercial form of generative-design technology is available today in Fusion 360, Autodesk's cloud-based product development platform.
A model of the new planetary lander design.
Credit: Autodesk
Organic-looking shapes
Generative design is often associated with 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, which is well-suited for the complex, organic-looking shapes that the software produces based on user specifications.
For the lander project, the JPL team is using experimental generative-design technology for multiple structural components, including the internal structure that holds the scientific instruments and the external structure that connects the lander legs to the main payload box. The team has been able reduce the mass of the external structure by 35 percent compared with the baseline design they started with.
An Autodesk staffer putting together lander components.
Credit: Autodesk
New designs quickly
A key benefit of generative design is that it enabled the JPL team to iterate their designs rapidly.
"As a design matures and new performance or environmental data comes in, generative design can enable our customers to create new designs quickly," Karl Willis, Autodesk's technology lead on the project, said in the statement.
Most design teams typically take two to four months to turn around a revised design. But by working with generative design, Willis added, that process can take place in just two to four weeks.
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.
Thanks to our robotic emissaries, we humans know what a sunrise& on Mars looks like without ever having set foot on the Red Planet ourselves — but what does it sound like?
The Mars Opportunity rover's 5000th sunrise picture’s brightness and color data was fused with terrain elevations and algorithmically assigned pitch and melody to make music. - Learn more about how they did it: https://www.space.com/42426-what-a-su..
Credit: Space.com / images courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona / Audio: Dr. Domenico Vicinanza & Dr. Genevieve Williams / produced and edited by Steve Spaleta http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta
But even the scientists behind the project were pleased by how appealing and coherent a sound scape the photograph's data created. "It was almost alive in some sense. It was telling a story in a very natural way," Domenico Vicinanza, a physicist and sound scientist at Anglia Ruskin University in the U.K., told Space.com. "That was surprising." [Mars Dust Storm 2018: What It Means for the Opportunity Rover]
Vicinanza and his colleague Genevieve Williams of the University of Exeter in the U.K. specialize in turning data into sound. Most of their work focuses on the human body, for example turning ultrasound and CT scans into sound — but they didn't want to limit themselves to the medical. "We're also passionate about space," Vicinanza said. "Of course, we thought using music to describe certain characteristics of space exploration was fascinating and also, in some ways, natural."
This image of the Opportunity rover's 4,999th sunrise on Mars (captured Feb. 15, 2018, in Earth time) inspired acoustic scientists to turn the picture into a sound scape.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State University/Texas A&M
The composition they created combines two different types of data from Opportunity's sunrise image. The melody of the composition comes from the visual data itself — the brightness of the sun and the amount of blue, in particular — panning from left to right in narrow strips across the image.
The low-frequency undertones, which are easiest to hear on a high-quality stereo system, are interpretations of the terrain at Opportunity's location when the photograph was taken, along the western edge of the Endeavour Crater. "We looked at all the bumps and all the terrain characteristics, and we mapped that to sound waves," Vicinanza said. "It's basically like jumping on top of Opportunity and taking a tour of the region."
The ability of a sound scape to combine those two types of inputs is, for Vicinanza, one of the most appealing aspects of turning data to sound. "There is no way of doing something like that with vision," he said. "Sound is an underutilized way of experiencing data." The process also makes that information accessible to people who have visual impairments.
Vicinanza said he also hopes the sonification will encourage people to think about sunrises — terrestrial and Martian alike — from a fresh perspective. "Sunrise is something so familiar. It is something we experience every day," Vicinanza said. "We kind of get used to it."
And, of course, there's now a more melancholy aspect to the sunrise image; scientists haven't received such a postcard from Opportunity since the rover went silent in June, when a global dust storm blocked the solar panels that power the robotic explorer.
When the dust began to settle in the middle of September, Opportunity's engineers began pinging the rover in hopes of getting it working again, but those efforts have been in vain so far. Scientists hope that a seasonal wind phenomenon called dust devils, which is due to last from November to January, may clear off Opportunity's solar panels and help the team re-establish contact.
It's no sound scape, but an answering beep from that rover would be the sweetest tone of all.
WETENSCHAPAls tektonische platen -stukken van de aardkorst- onder elkaar duiken, wordt er drie keer meer water onder het aardoppervlakte gezogen dan oorspronkelijk gedacht werd. Dat blijkt uit recent onderzoek dat in het tijdschriftNature verscheen. Zal onze planeet zichzelf niet uitdrogen op die manier?
De oppervlakte van de aarde bestaat uit zeven grote tektonische platen en acht kleinere. Die platen verschuiven jaarlijks enkele millimeters (5 tot 85 millimeter), op een zeer traag tempo. Dat proces wordt aangeduid met de wetenschappelijke term ‘platentektoniek’. Wanneer de aardplaten verschuiven wordt er een beetje water mee onder de aardkorst getrokken. Maar dat beetje blijkt drie keer meer te zijn dan eerst gedacht werd.
Dat roept natuurlijk een aantal vragen op. Hoe komt het dat wetenschappers zich zo lang vergisten, wordt de inhoud van onze oceanen daardoor kleiner, en zal de aarde zichzelf uiteindelijk uitdrogen waardoor er binnenkort geen oceanen meer bestaan?
Wetenschappers veronderstelden jarenlang dat de hoeveelheid water die onder de aardkorst verdwijnt veel kleiner zou zijn. Dat komt omdat er ook wat water vrijkomt bij de beweging die de aardplaten maken. Er is geen water vermist, de inhoud van de oceanen bleef met andere woorden tamelijk stabiel. Dat veronderstelt dat de hoeveelheid die naar buiten wordt gestuwd ongeveer gelijk is aan de hoeveelheid die onder de aardoppervlakte verdwijnt.
Aardbevingen en tsunami’s
Voor onze oceanen maakt de grotere hoeveelheid water die de aarde opslokt dus geen groot verschil. Anderzijds speelt de hoeveelheid wel een belangrijke rol bij het ontstaan van aardbevingen en tsunami’s.
De aanwezigheid van water kan de temperatuur waarop gesteente smelt immers sterk beïnvloeden. Daardoor draagt het water onder de aardoppervlakte bij tot de ontwikkeling van magma –het vloeibare gesteente dat ook in de vorm van lava uit vulkanen stroomt. Die magma doet de platen trouwens ook bewegen. Wanneer de hoeveelheid magma groter wordt, kan een tektonische plaat plots sneller verschuiven. En door het enorme gewicht van de aardplaten kan de verschuiving een grote spanning creëren. Vervolgens barst die in één ruk los, in de vorm van een aardbeving.
De nieuwe bevindingen kunnen helpen bij het accurater voorspellen van zulke aardbevingen.
Getty Images/iStockphotoGebarsten stenen als gevolg van een (lichte) aardbeving.
Vertragingen
Voor hun onderzoek bestudeerden wetenschappers hoe snel de trillingen van aardbevingen zich voortbewegen. Eenmaal die beweging vertraagt, ontstaat een subductiezone waarbij een oceanische aardplaat –zwaarder dan de continentale platen- onder een continentale schuift en water met zich meetrekt. Aan de hand van de vertragingen konden ze de breuken detecteren die zich vulden met water.
Tektonische platen
De zes grote tektonische platen zijn de Afrikaanse, de Antarctische, de Australische, de Euraziatische, de Noord-Amerikaanse, de Pacifische en de Zuid-Amerikaanse Plaat. Daarnaast zijn er nog acht kleinere platen.
AFPZo ziet het oppervlak van Barnard b er volgens astronomen uit.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETAstronomen hebben een nieuwe ‘superaarde’ ontdekt op amper zes lichtjaren van de aarde. Dat is uniek, want het is de op één na dichtstbijzijnde exoplaneet. De planeet draait rondjes rond de Ster van Barnard en krijgt daarom de naam Barnard b. Zo staat te lezen in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift ‘Nature’.
In de afgelopen twintig jaar ontdekten onderzoekers een paar duizend exoplaneten, planeten bij andere sterren dan de zon. Daar zitten veel ‘superaardes’ tussen: planeten die een flinke slag groter zijn dan de aarde en een paar keer zo zwaar. Uit onderzoek blijkt dat Barnard b minstens 3,2 keer zoveel massa heeft dan onze aarde.
Wetenschappers onthullen dat er geen leven mogelijk is op Barnard b. De planeet doet immers 233 dagen over een rondje rond zijn moederster, een zogeheten rode dwerg. Dat is een kleine, koele ster die maar weinig licht geeft. Daardoor krijgt de planeet maar 2 procent van de hoeveelheid licht en energie die de aarde van de zon krijgt.
Daarnaast is de afstand tussen Barnard b en de moederster klein: ongeveer 0,4 keer de afstand tussen de aarde en de zon. Hoewel de planeet zich dichtbij de moederster bevindt, is het op Barnard b bijzonder koud, zo’n -170 graden Celsius. Er is met andere woorden geen vloeibaar water, een noodzakelijke voorwaarde voor de levensvormen die we tot nu toe kennen.
“De ontdekking van de planeet biedt astronomen de mogelijkheid om theorieën over het ontstaan, de evolutie en de fysica van exoplaneten te toetsen”, zo zegt het European Southern Observatory (ESO). Een filmpje, gemaakt door het ESO, toont hoe het oppervlak van Barnard b er vermoedelijk uitziet:
"People have close encounters of the second kind," says Don Donderi, a retired McGill professor who has studied UFOs since 1965. "Pilots have reported seeing vehicles within 100 yards of them."
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Just as Harvard scientists weigh in on that massive thingamajig that zipped past the sun last year — the flat, elongated‘Oumuamua’was possibly a probe sent to Earth by “an alien civilization,” they said — British pilots flying home from Montreal have reported other UFOs off the coast of Ireland.
This time, the unidentified objects were bright lights, heading north, at “Mach 2” speed, they told air-traffic controllers.
But they might also have been extra-terrestrial vehicles, says Don Donderi, a retired McGill professor who has studied UFOs since 1965.
It wouldn’t be the first sighting, Donderi said. Some pilots have seen them up close.
“There are cases going back 50 years of pilots seeing what we call nocturnal lights,” Donderi said. “They provide some evidence that some of what people see in the sky and call UFOs are extra-terrestrial vehicles.”
A Perseid meteor flashes across the night sky above Corfe Castle in the U.K. in August.
“It was moving so fast,” the BA pilot said of the object that appeared along the left side of the aircraft “then rapidly veered to the north.”
It was “a very bright light,” she continued, that “disappeared at very high speed.”
The Virgin Airlines pilot, flying from Orlando to Manchester, reported the same thing, but described it as a “meteor or another object making some kind of re-entry.”
Whatever is was, it was enough for the Irish Aviation Authority to open an investigation under the “normal confidential occurrence investigation process.”
It was also enough for the Twittersphere, if not the stratosphere, to light up.
The news, including audio of the pilots’ conversation with Irish air traffic control, travelled across the globe, at Mach internet speed, while others turned to mockery.
“As a skeptic, I think it’s probably nothing stranger than flying leprechauns up to their usual mischief again,” said one commenter.
It was the same attitude taken by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, a renowned American astrophysicist and author, when asked to comment on the existence of extra-terrestrial UFOs. “Call me when you have a dinner invite from an alien,” he said.
But Donderi, who was a professor of psychology but now teaches a class called “UFOs: History and Reality,” says some sightings have been unnervingly detailed — and harder to dismiss.
“People have close encounters of the second kind,” Donderi said. “Pilots have reported seeing vehicles within 100 yards of them. They see an actual shape, an object suspended in the sky, hovering over them, with windows, surrounded by a luminous glow — and then it moves off abruptly.”
Some of the reports, by qualified individuals, backed up by instruments (like radar) turn out to be things humans can’t make, Donderi said.
“Machines that fly faster and manoeuvre more abruptly than (vehicles) we can make.”
He situates himself somewhere between the DeGrasse Tyson “establishment,” which denies there is any evidence of extra-terrestrial contact with Earth, and those who see in UFOs proof of the second coming.
The revelation in December of the U.S. Department of Defence’s now-defunct Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, along with footage of pilots seemingly chasing UFOs, have bolstered Donderi’s beliefs.
Luis Elizondo, one of two Pentagon officials who resigned at the time because he felt the program was too secretive, described the objects they researched: “These aircraft — we’ll call them aircraft — are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the U.S. inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of,” he told CNN.
“Those who study it say that some of the UFOs are extra-terrestrial vehicles,” Donderi said Tuesday. “They’re here. And sometimes there’s interaction between aliens and people. There is evidence. But what it means and where we go from here, I don’t know.”
Donderi says humans find it easier to convince themselves there is no evidence, and prefer to see those affirming the existence of ETs as crazy, or seeking adventure or profit.
“If everyone realizes we’re being surveilled by extra-terrestrials who have better machinery than we do, we have a potential problem,” he said. “But any sensible person will say the first step in dealing with any problem is admitting it exists.”
Soms is er sprake van contact tussen mensen en aliens, er is bewijs. Professor reageert op UFO-meldingen piloten bij Ierland
Soms is er sprake van contact tussen mensen en aliens, er is bewijs. Professor reageert op UFO-meldingen piloten bij Ierland
Harvard-wetenschappers suggereerden onlangs dat ons zonnestelsel is bezocht door een buitenaardse ruimtesonde. Piloten maakten daarnaast melding van UFO’s voor de kust van Ierland.
Het ging om felle lichten die met Mach 2 langs de piloten vlogen.
Mogelijk waren het buitenaardse vaartuigen, stelt de gepensioneerde professor Don Donderi van de McGill University, die al sinds 1965 onderzoek doet naar UFO’s.
Ramen
“Het zal niet de eerste waarneming zijn,” zei hij. “Sommige piloten hebben ze van dichtbij gezien.”
Uit waarnemingen die al tenminste 50 jaar worden gedaan blijkt volgens hem dat in ieder geval sommige UFO’s buitenaardse schepen zijn.
“Diverse piloten hebben deze vaartuigen op minder dan 100 meter afstand waargenomen,” zei Donderi. “Ze zagen een vorm, een object in de lucht, met ramen, omgeven door een lichtgevende gloed.”
Ze zijn hier
Sommige waarnemingen worden gedaan door getrainde individuen en ondersteund door instrumenten (zoals radar), merkte hij op, toevoegende dat het dingen bleken te zijn die mensen niet kunnen maken.
“Machines die sneller vliegen en manoeuvreren dan vliegtuigen die wij kunnen maken.”
“Ze zijn hier,” zei de gepensioneerde professor. “Soms is er sprake van contact tussen mensen en aliens. Er is bewijs.”
Makkelijker
Donderi wees erop dat mensen het makkelijker vinden om zichzelf ervan te overtuigen dat er geen bewijs is en mensen die het bestaan van buitenaards leven bevestigen liever afschilderen als gekkies of aandachtszoekers.
“Als iedereen beseft dat we in de gaten worden gehouden door buitenaardsen die over veel betere machines beschikken dan wij, hebben we een potentieel probleem,” zei hij.
“Maar om een oplossing te bedenken voor een probleem, moet je eerst erkennen dat het bestaat,” besloot hij.
Er is zo langzamerhand geen nieuwskanaal ter wereld dat geen aandacht heeft besteed aan de UFO waarnemingen van een aantal piloten.
Op zich is dat niets bijzonders, want piloten nemen al heel lang vreemde objecten in de lucht waar, dus waarom nu al die commotie?
Het lijkt erop dat wanneer één mainstream publicatie een bericht publiceert, de rest van de wereld over elkaar heen buitelt om ook dit bericht te brengen. Dit bleek duidelijk het geval met een UFO waarneming voor de Ierse kust afgelopen vrijdag van een aantal verkeersvliegers.
De Ierse luchtvaartautoriteiten gaan onderzoek doen naar meldingen van piloten over ufo's. Een piloot meldde afgelopen week een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object toen hij boven Ierland vloog. Het incident gebeurde afgelopen vrijdag, tijdens een vlucht van het Canadese Montreal naar Londen, aldus nieuwszender BBC. Ook andere piloten deden melding van snel bewegende vliegende objecten. De piloot vroeg omstreeks zeven uur ’s ochtends de verkeersleiding van het vliegveld Shannon of er een militaire oefening was, omdat het voorwerp zich ‘razendsnel verplaatste’. Dat bleek niet het geval.
Het volgende is een korte reportage van de Ierse televisie:
Op zich natuurlijk niet zo verwonderlijk dat er na bovenstaande meer meldingen binnen komen van UFO waarnemingen in dat gebied.
Zo vertelt de Irish Mirror dat ze werden overstelpt met berichten van mensen die ook iets hadden gezien en één van die meldingen was afkomstig van Donal Brady die de onderstaande opname maakte ongeveer 12 uur na de melding van de piloten in de buurt van Cork.
Er schijnt dus wel degelijk iets gaande te zijn in het Ierse luchtruim.
Want wat gebeurde is helemaal niets nieuws. Hierna een opname uit 1962 waar in precies hetzelfde gebied de bemanning van een Aer Lingus toestel ook een UFO zag. Captain Gordon Pendleton legt uit dat hij samen met zijn co-piloot een vreemd vliegend object zagen zonder vleugels dat zich met grote snelheid door het luchtruim bewoog tijdens een vlucht van Cork naar Brussel.
Hoe er in het verleden werd omgegaan met UFO meldingen door piloten blijkt uit het volgende verhaal dat afkomstig is uit een eerder artikel:
Hoe de afgelopen decennia is omgegaan met betrouwbare UFO informatie door overheden blijkt uit de gebeurtenissen rondom vlucht 1628 van Japan Airlines.
We hebben hier te maken met de waarneming van een ervaren bemanning, waarvan de captain zelfs meer dan 10.000 vlieguren heeft.
Het vrachtvliegtuig was in november 1986 onderweg van Reykjavik naar Anchorage, toen het boven het oostelijk deel van Alaska een ontmoeting had met enkele UFO’s.
Wat hier vrij uniek was, was dat de UFO's te zien waren op de radarsystemen van de verkeersleiding. Al met al duurde de ontmoeting ongeveer 40 minuten en in die tijd zag de bemanning dat de kleinere UFO’s zich vervoegden bij een moederschip dat het vliegtuig bleef volgen.
Na de landing werd alles wat er gebeurd was gerapporteerd door de bemanning, inclusief tekeningen van de UFO's en het moederschip.
Als beloning voor het rapporteren van deze waarneming werd de gezagvoerder Captain Kenju Terauchi geschorst en mocht de eerstvolgende jaren niet meer vliegen.
Zoals je ziet zijn er door de jaren heen betrouwbare meldingen geweest van piloten in verkeersvliegtuigen. We zullen moeten afwachten of bij de gebeurtenissen in Ierland een officieel vervolg komt, of dat dit weer één van de zoveelste waarnemingen is die in een archiefkast zullen verdwijnen net zoals al de voorgaande. Kans is ook aanwezig dat het onderdeel uitmaakt van gecontroleerde disclosure. UFO's op het Brexit toneel!
Het goede nieuws is dat veel mainstream mensen nu toch wel beginnen te twijfelen over het al dan niet bestaan van UFO's. Een mooi voorbeeld daarvan zie je in de volgende nieuwsuitzending van Fox News.
Mensen gaan twijfelen omdat ze piloten toch hoger inschatten voor wat betreft waarnemingen dan doorsnee burgers. Dus, als het allemaal echt is dan zou het mooi zijn als vliegtuigbemanningen wereldwijd alles zouden rapporteren wat ze zien. Dat dit dan de nodige problemen kan opleveren blijkt uit de volgende video van Tyler van Secureteam.
Ook daar het verhaal van professionals uit de luchtvaartindustrie die melding maakten van de vreemde objecten naast hun vliegtuig en die opdracht kregen om daar onmiddellijk mee te stoppen omdat ze anders hun baan zouden kwijtraken.
Verder heeft Tyler ook nog een opname van een UFO die is gemaakt in de buurt van waar de vliegtuigbemanningen ze zagen vliegen.
There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it’s all dark.
China’s march towards domination of Earth and space alike continues as the Middle Kingdom prepares to be the first to launch a spacecraft to the far side of the moon next month. You know – the Dark Side. There’s still a lot we don’t know about the uncharted territory on the far side of the moon, and the mission has the potential to open up whole new avenues of lunar study. A second mission planned for 2019, meanwhile, will be the first to return moon rocks to Earth in over forty years. The missions are named after Chang’e, the Chinese moon goddess, and show that the Chinese fully intend to become a leading superpower when it comes to space exploration.
The voyage to the dark side of the moon presents several new technical challenges. Because the moon is tidally locked, meaning the same side always faces us, astronomers here on Earth won’t be able to communicate directly with the Chang’e-4 rover on the dark side because the moon would block all transmissions. To overcome this, the Chinese space agency has launched a transmission relay satellite to the other side of the moon to bounce signals back and forth between the far side of the moon and Earth.
That satellite, named Queqiao, has defense analysts in the West worried. Any craft or satellite sitting in at the far equatorial side, or L2 point, would remain almost completely undetectable by current defense satellites if it should come flying back towards Earth. At a recent Air Force Association event, senior intelligence engineer Jeff Gosse of the Space and Missile Analysis Group at the Air Force’s National Air and Space Intelligence Center says that such a satellite could pose a unique threat to American defense satellites in traditional geostationary orbits (GEO):
You could fly some sort of a weapon around the moon and it comes back — it could literally come at [objects] in GEO…and we would never know because there is nothing watching in that direction. Why do you need a relay satellite flying around L2? So you can communicate with something that’s going to land on the other side of the moon — or so you can fly around the other side of the moon? And what would that mean for our assets at GEO?
Defending communications and support satellites has become a chief concern of the armed forces, particularly as Russia and other actors seem to be waking up their space-based arsenals. When politicians talk of war in space, they don’t mean zero-gravity laser rifle battles; they mean satellite-to-satellite warfare.
Taking out another nation’s GPS and communication satellites are an easy way to cripple forces on the ground.
Still, others aren’t so convinced that the Chang’e missions represent a new mineshaft gap for the Space Force, as there are perfectly peaceful reasons why a space agency would want a satellite on the dark side of the moon – particularly one sending a rover to said dark side. When the U.S. launched the Space Shuttle program, the Soviet Union feared that the shuttle was a new form of space weapon, and we all know how wrongthose fears turned out to be, right?
Former Army Officer Tells Us What He Saw While Out In The Wilderness
Former Army Officer Tells Us What He Saw While Out In The Wilderness
Former army officer tells us what he saw while out in the wilderness. An army officer explain that while out in the wilderness he came across something he couldn't explain.
Over the years many interesting stories have been told by people in the military. This person encountered something strange while out in the woods. He said the following "I experienced something strange during my time in the army. I'm 65 now and this encounter happened over 25 years ago. I don't like to give away too much personal information as my story is truly bizarre.
On this particular occasion me and other officers were trekking close to Michigan. While here we were performing some basic exercises. We was here for 2 days but during our first night something bizarre happened. It got to 10pm and at this point it was dark...
Artifacts Discovered In Utah Link To Lady of Elche As An Anunnaki Queen
Artifacts Discovered In Utah Link To Lady of Elche As An Anunnaki Queen
The Lady of Elche is one of the most enigmatic faces of human history that dates back of the Iberian culture. Despite the Lady high lineage clothing, her identity is not known. However, as the years passed by, enigmas have become more evident, and new hypotheses are at least surprising.
A medal discovered in 1966 in Utah has an engraved lady similar to that of Elche, particularly the ritual earrings and necklaces. It has been thought that the two relics reveal a connection despite the vast distances between Utah and Elche.
The earmuffs were Atlantis representative as well. In Bolivia, Peru and the Andes there has always been a trail of Atlantis, which had capital on Lake Titicaca. The lake is in the mountains and with remains of Anunnaki. Legends say that there had been Venus men visited the area and had that type of earmuffs.
With the interesting link from the medal to the statue, the mystery only deepens.
Multiple Pilots Report UFO Sightings Off Ireland Coast
Multiple Pilots Report UFO Sightings Off Ireland Coast
Reports of UFOs and bright lights off the southwest coast of Ireland have reached the Irish Aviation Authority, and they are investigating the case.
According to the report, the strange aerial activity started at 06:47 local time on November 9, Friday. Shannon air traffic control received a question from a British Airways pilot.
The pilot wanted to know if military exercises were conducted in the area after seeing something moving so fast.
The air traffic controller answered there was none.
The pilot reported seeing a very bright light while flying from the Canadian city of Montreal to Heathrow. The object was reportedly coming along the left side of the aircraft before it quickly veered to the north.
She had no idea about the strange object, which did not appear to be heading for a collision.
Another pilot from a Virgin plane joined in suggesting that it might be an object or a meteor re-entering the atmosphere of the Earth.
He said there were several very bright objects following a similar trajectory. He saw two bright lights over to the right that climbed away at speed.
Another pilot said the speed was around Mach 2, which was astronomical and twice the speed of sound.
The Irish Aviation Authority said they received reports from a small number of aircraft on November 9 of the strange air activity and filed a report. According to the IAA, the report will be investigated according to the confidential occurrence investigation process.
UFO sightings recorded closer to Dublin as Ireland becomes hotbed of alien activity
UFO sightings recorded closer to Dublin as Ireland becomes hotbed of alien activity
By Pat Flanagan
Aliens (Image: Getty)
The sightings of UFOs over the coast by three sets of airline pilots has led to Ireland being seen as a hotbed of alien activity.
It has emerged the crews who reported an unidentified object streaking through the skies over Co Kerry are not alone.
Dublin Live has been inundated with reports of similar sightings around the country in recent weeks.
The Irish Aviation Authority has begun an investigation into the appearance of the mysterious objects which were first spotted by a British Airways pilot early last Friday.
But at around 4.30pm the next day Donal Brady reported another strange sighting while looking towards Cork city from Bishopstown.
He said: “I don’t know what it was. I was at my friend’s house and I’d just dropped off my daughter and stepped out to have a cigarette and just noticed this thing in the sky.
“It was extremely bright, a beautiful day. At first I thought it was a high-altitude airliner reflecting in the sun.
“I observed it for a minute or two and I noticed it was stopping, hovering and moving side to side.
“It wasn’t going in a straight line and it wasn’t going away from and wasn’t coming towards me.
“Then along came this plane and it wasn’t reflecting anything and I thought that was unusual.
“That’s when I started to video it. If it was an airliner you’d expect contrails and some lights, which there weren’t.”
Mr Brady thought no more about it until it was reported pilots from British Airways, Virgin and Norwegian Air saw an unidentified object over Co Kerry just before 7am last Friday.
UFOs spotted by Laura Byrne above Wicklow Town
He added: “I watched the video again and thought it was something that might be related to that. I’m not pushing it in any shape or form, it is what it is.”
Another Irish Mirror reader sent in a video of what appears to be a UFO in Co Carlow.
Gerard Pollard said: “On the 2nd November at 8.32am I saw two lights in the sky coming from the south west, over Mount Leinster.
“I thought at first it was an airplane heading to Dublin Airport.
“Then I noticed it was going too fast for a plane. They seemed very high in the sky.µ
“I took my phone from my belt and took a photo. I enhanced the photo to my iPad and you can just see two small light dots in the sky.
“I can say these two craft were travelling at great speed, but there as no sound from them.”
Meanwhile, Laura Byrne shared pictures of three dots she spotted over Wicklow town.
NASA-wetenschapper waarschuwt voor recordlage temperaturen. Hier heeft het mee te maken
NASA-wetenschapper waarschuwt voor recordlage temperaturen. Hier heeft het mee te maken
Vanwege een gebrek aan zonnevlekken kunnen we recordlage temperaturen verwachten in de bovenlagen van de aardatmosfeer, zo heeft een NASA-wetenschapper gewaarschuwd.
Het kwik in de thermosfeer zou als gevolg van de afgenomen zonneactiviteit weleens kunnen gaan kelderen.
Zonnevlekken worden nog niet volledig begrepen. Wel is bekend dat ze ontstaan in gebieden waar intense magnetische activiteit wordt waargenomen.
Temperatuurrecord
Deze zonnevlekken produceren ultraviolette straling die in botsing komt met deeltjes in de atmosfeer van de aarde, waardoor ze opwarmen.
Op het zonneoppervlak zijn dit jaar vrijwel geen zonnevlekken waargenomen, waardoor de bovenste lagen van de aardatmosfeer zijn afgekoeld.
“Hoog boven het aardoppervlak raakt onze atmosfeer warmte kwijt,” zei dr. Martin Mlynczak van NASA’s Langley Research Center.
“Als de huidige trend doorzet, wordt het temperatuurrecord in het hedendaagse ruimtetijdperk mogelijk spoedig verbroken,” voegde hij toe.
Afkoelt
En dat betekent dat het hier beneden ook kouder zal worden.
Mlynczak baseert zich op gegevens die zijn verzameld door de TIMED-satelliet van de NASA, die veranderingen in de atmosfeer van de aarde registreert.
De satelliet heeft ontdekt dat de thermosfeer op dit moment afkoelt en krimpt.
Met behulp van de satelliet wordt vastgesteld hoeveel warmtevasthoudende moleculen zoals koolstofdioxide (CO2) en stikstofmonoxide (NO) in de ruimte belanden.
Eén van de zwakste ooit gemeten
“We meten momenteel 33 miljard watt aan infrarode straling afkomstig van NO,” zei dr. Mlynczak.
“In vergelijking met meer actieve fasen van de zonnecyclus is dat 10 keer zo weinig,” vervolgde hij. “Mogelijk wordt het record binnen enkele maanden verbroken.”
De zonneactiviteit doorloopt een cyclus die ongeveer 11 jaar duurt. Momenteel is de zon relatief inactief, zoals blijkt uit het gebrek aan zonnevlekken.
NASA-adviseur Ron Turner zei verder dat de huidige zonnecyclus ‘één van de zwakste ooit gemeten’ is.
Filer’s Files #45 – 2018 UFO Sightings Increasing - PART I
Daipur Rajasthan, India at 07:30 pm, on November 8, 2018
Filer’s Files #45 – 2018 UFO Sightings Increasing - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Increased UFO Sightings, Moon Mining, NASA’s Photos from Mars, Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Is Able to Host Life, Great Pyramid Star Map 9200 BC, Hieroglyphics and the Ancient Alien Gods, Underwater Alien Base, The Olmec Heads, and Bizarre Truth of WHY People Disappear in National Parks
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Wyoming.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
Increased UFO Sightings
The UK Sun News reports Strange footage has emerged of a mysterious UFO moving and changing shape in the sky over Sweden. The intriguing footage was captured by baffled motorists inside the city of Gothenburg which sparked rumors of whether the footage is conclusive proof of extra-terrestrial life.
The footage, captured by onlookers travelling in their car, shows an unidentified flying object move through the sky and appear to change shape. Huge UFO in the sky above Gothenburg, Sweden, appears to hover before moving and changing shape
The number of UFO sightings is currently flying at an all-time high, according to data cruncher and blogger Sam Monfort. The alien expert reckons there have been more than 100,000 recorded UFO sightings in the past 100-plus years. And Sam is far from the only believer on our planet. Eye witnesses claim they saw UFOs in Roswell in 1947, and in Rendlesham Forest in 1980
On December 26, military personnel from RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, in Suffolk, saw strange lights in a nearby forest – and three of them were sent out to investigate. Two of them encountered a small, triangular shaped craft – which they later drew images of. One man, Jim Penniston, got close enough to touch the side of the object receiving a message. Two nights later, Deputy Base Commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt and his team also encountered the UFO – and were left baffled by the entire experience.
In January 2018, unseen footage revealed former base commander Charles Halt made explosive claims that airmen involved in the case “aliens”. In UFO documentary Unacknowledged it is claimed that Marilyn made the threats after having affairs with both President JFK and Bobby Kennedy, and was seeking revenge as they both simultaneously ended things with her.
Chuck Zukowski and Debbie Ziegelmeyer have spent years travelling across the US investigating hundreds of UFO sightings and other paranormal occurrences. The pair believe that the 37th latitude line is a kind of UFO or paranormal “highway” along which extra terrestrial craft enter and exit the earth. Their theory is now the subject of a book called the 37th Parallel, written by Ben Mezrich.
Chuck told Sun Online: “Back in 2006 I was looking at my cattle mutilation investigations – there were huge similarities between them all – most of them were laying on their right side, they’re laying east to west and then I noticed that lots of them were on the 37 degree latitude.
“I called my sister at midnight and I said, ‘”Didn’t you have cattle mutilations on the 37 degree latitude in Missouri?’ “And she said, ‘Yes‘ and we started looking more into it. We soon realized it wasn’t just cattle mutilations – there were all kind of events. “We’re up until 2.30 in the morning going through all these cases and started seeing these amazing patterns.”The 37th latitude line runs from California through Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and across to Virginia.”
Allegedly, Aldrin, Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper all took part in the study which took place at the Institute of BioAcoustic Biology in Albany, Ohio, the Daily Star reported. Aldrin, now 88, claimed he saw a spaceship on his way to the moon, adding: “There was something out there that was close enough to be observed… sort of L-shaped.”
Moon Mining
Ingo Swan the remote viewer used to stay over at my house for the weekend with a dozen other researchers remote viewing the moon. Swann helped develop the process of remote viewing at the Stanford Research Institute in experiments that caught the attention of the Central Intelligence Agency and developed intelligence collection techniques for the government. He is commonly credited with proposing the idea of controlled remote viewing, a process in which viewers would view a location given nothing but its geographical coordinates, which was developed and tested with CIA funding with 90% accuracy, Ingo attempted to teach us the concept of remote viewing various places on earth and the moon. Bob Durant a commercial pilot and Ingo were excellent and could view the moon and told us they could see mining going on the moon by aliens with large space ships. They were mining a dark mineral that looked something like coal, but they didn’t think it was coal. Much of the mining was underground in craters. They gave us a detailed description of the mining with heavy machinery and alien looking humanoids. The aliens apparently became aware of our attempts at remote viewing. Personally, I viewed a ship leaving a crater and some of the dust came attached to the ship and as it flew away the dust blew off and left markings on the ground as the ship gained altitude. Ingo Swan said, “The aliens know we are viewing them and he quickly told us to stop, since they were getting angry.”
We did some research and found that Titanium on the moon is primarily found in the mineral ilmenite, a compound that contains iron, titanium and oxygen. This and other minerals is likely what the aliens were mining.
If humans one day mine on the moon, they could break down ilmenite to separate these elements. Mercury, Uranium. gold and silver are also known to be on the moon according to a more detailed analysis of the chilled lunar soil near the moon’s South Pole,
The main minerals on the Moon are “plagioclase” minerals (aluminum silicates of which anorthite — calcium aluminum silicate — is the most common plagioclasemineral), “olivine” (predominantly magnesium and iron silicates — Mg2SiO4 and Fe2SiO4), and ilmenite shown.
A sample of soil from the rim of Camelot crater was brought back to Earth by the crew of Apollo 17. Little did we know at the time, on December 13, 1972, that sample 75501, along with samples from Apollo 11 and other missions, would provide the best reason to return to the moon in the 21st century. That realization would come 13 years later. In 1985, young engineers at the University of Wisconsin discovered that lunar soil contained significant quantities of a remarkable form of helium. Known as helium-3, it is a lightweight isotope of the familiar gas that fills birthday balloons.
Small quantities of helium-3 previously discovered on Earth intrigued the scientific community. The unique atomic structure of helium-3 promised to make it possible to use it as fuel for nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun, to generate vast amounts of electrical power without creating the troublesome radioactive byproducts produced in conventional nuclear reactors. Extracting helium-3 from the moon and returning it to Earth would, of course, be difficult, but the potential rewards would be staggering for those who embarked upon this venture. Helium-3 could help free the United States–and the world–from dependence on fossil fuels.
Helium 3 Mining
On January 14, 2004, when President George W. Bush challenged NASA to “explore space and extend a human presence across our solar system.” It was an electrifying call to action for those of us who share the vision of Americans leading humankind into deep space, continuing the ultimate migration that began 42 years ago when President John F. Kennedy first challenged NASA to land on the moon. We can do so again. If Bush’s initiative is sustained by Congress and future presidents, American leadership can take us back to the moon, then to Mars and, ultimately, beyond. We need to hurry as the Chinese also plan to conduct mining on the moon.
Although the president’s announcement did not mention it explicitly, his message implied an important role for the private sector in leading human expansion into deep space. In the past, this type of public-private cooperation produced enormous dividends. Recognizing the distinctly American entrepreneurial spirit that drives pioneers, the President’s Commission on Implementation of U.S. Space Exploration Policy subsequently recommended that NASA encourage private space-related initiatives.
I believe that if government efforts lag, private enterprise should take the lead in settling space. We need look only to our past to see how well this could work. In 1862, the federal government supported the building of the transcontinental railroad with land grants. By the end of the 19th century, the private sector came to dominate the infrastructure, introducing improvements in rail transport that laid the foundation for industrial development in the 20th century. In a similar fashion, a cooperative effort in learning how to mine the moon for helium-3 will create the technological infrastructure for our inevitable journeys to Mars and beyond.
The Basics of Limitless Power: Albert Einstein’s famous E=MC2 equation reflects the enormous energy that can be released by fusing atoms. Hydrogen atoms fusing together to create helium powers the sun.
FIRST GENERATION: Scientists have duplicated solar fusion on Earth by using two “heavy” hydrogen atoms–deuterium and tritium–which fuse at lower temperatures than ordinary hydrogen. A first-generation deuterium-tritium fusion reactor operated experimentally for 15 years at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey.
SECOND GENERATION:While useful for studying fusion, reactors operating with deuterium-tritium fuel are impractical for commercial use. Among other things, the reaction produces large amounts of radiation in the form of neutrons. Substituting helium-3 for tritium significantly reduces neutron production, making it safe to locate fusion plants nearer to where power is needed the most, large cities. This summer, researchers at the University of Wisconsin Fusion Technology Institute in Madison reported having successfully initiated and maintained a fusion reaction using deuterium and helium-3 fuel.
THIRD GENERATION: First-generation fusion reactors were never intended to produce power. And, even if they are perfected, they would still produce electricity in much the same way as it is created today. That is, the reactors would function as heat sources. Steam would then be used to spin a massive generator, just as in a coal- or oil-fired plant. Perhaps the most promising idea is to fuel a third-generation reactor solely with helium-3, which can directly yield an electric current–no generator required. As much as 70 percent of the energy in the fuels could be captured and put directly to work An aggressive program to mine helium-3 from the surface of the moon would not only represent an economically practical justification for permanent human settlements; it could yield enormous benefits back on Earth.
I believe that helium-3 could be the resource that makes the settlement of our moon both feasible and desirable.
Researchers have tried several approaches to harnessing the awesome power of hydrogen fusion to generate electricity. The stumbling block is finding a way to achieve the temperatures required to maintain a fusion reaction. All materials known to exist melt at these surface-of-the-sun temperatures. For this reason, the reaction can take place only within a magnetic containment field, a sort of electromagnetic Thermos bottle.
Substituting helium-3 for tritium allows the use of electrostatic confinement, rather than needing magnets, and greatly reduces the complexity of fusion reactors as well as eliminates the production of high-level radioactive waste. These differences will make fusion a practical energy option for the first time.
It is not a lack of engineering skill that prevents us from using helium-3 to meet our energy needs, but a lack of the isotope itself. Vast quantities of helium originate in the sun fortunately, the conditions that make helium-3 rare on Earth are absent on the moon, where it has accumulated on the surface and been mixed with the debris layer of dust waiting for the taking.
Harrison H. Schmitt became the first and only fully trained geologist to explore the moon with a doctorate from Harvard University. He was already on the staff of the U.S. Geological Survey’s astrogeology branch in Flagstaff, Ariz. His job included training astronauts during simulated lunar field trips. On Dec. 11, 1972, he and Eugene Cernan landed in the moon’s Taurus-Littrow Valley. On the first of three moonwalks, Schmitt’s scientific knowledge became evident. So did his enthusiasm. Four years after returning with 244 pounds of moon rocks, Schmitt was elected U.S. senator from New Mexico. Now chairman of Albuquerque-based Interlune-Intermars Initiative, he is a leading advocate for commercializing the moon.–
Lunar Mining for Helium 3 on top 9 feet
Samples collected in 1969 by Neil Armstrong during the first lunar landing showed that helium-3 concentrations in lunar soil are at least 13 parts per billion (ppb) by weight. Levels may range from 20 to 30 ppb in undisturbed soils. Quantities as small as 20 ppb may seem too trivial to consider. But at a projected value of $40,000 per ounce, 220 pounds of helium-3 would be worth about $141 million.
Because the concentration of helium-3 is extremely low, it would be necessary to process large amounts of rock and soil to isolate the material. Digging a patch of lunar surface roughly three-quarters of a square mile to a depth of about 9 feet should yield about 220 pounds of helium-3–enough to power a city the size of Dallas or Detroit for a year.
Although considerable lunar soil would have to be processed, the mining costs would not be high by terrestrial standards. Automated machines might perform the work. Extracting the isotope would not be particularly difficult. Heating and agitation release gases trapped in the soil. As the vapors are cooled to absolute zero, the various gases present sequentially separate out of the mix. In the final step, special membranes would separate helium-3 from ordinary helium.
The total estimated cost for fusion development, rocket development and starting lunar operations would be about $15 billion. Thanks to Stefano Coledan
NASA’s Photos from Mars
Frank Jacobs has found some astounding images of Mars that indicate precision cuts on stone of ancient archeological ruins.
This image appears to show some type of truck or vehicle carrier. If it represents stone it is obvious the stone has been cut in the past similar to that found on Earth in the building of the pyramids at Giza, Egypt. Speculation suggests Martians left Mars and came to Earth.
Mars image found by Frank Jacobs shows Mars from space taken by the Hubble telescope. It appears to show clouds or at least strong winds blowing up dust. The pictures indicate some kind of atmosphere.
Not usually known is that temperatures around the Mars equator in the summer months reach 90 degrees.
Life apparently existed on Mars and the archeological remains are available for all to see who wish to take the time to investigate the images.
While scanning over photos from Mars, I found an unusually bright object that appears to have its own light source. This photo is zoomed in on the bright object. The NASA photos show the object at considerable distance. I thought maybe this was a reflection…but how? It’s an overcast sky, yes, Mars has clouds…a lot on this day. Then I thought it might be gamma radiation hitting the surface of the planet…but three times in a few hours? That like the same guy winning the mega lottery in the same day…the odds are way out there. So…this object had to have come into the photo, had its own light source and lingered for a while changing shape…as the photos attest too. Its alive!
So why didn’t NASA go to investigate? Fear…of what its close proximity to the rover might do…shut it down, cause glitches, take control…act.
Scott C. Waring found a lot of ancient structures in a Mars photo today. These structures are long and almost resemble walls, but are buildings in long lines. I also discovered a face carved into a hill top, but is so ancient, it may be hard for some to see its details. This is 100% proof that ancient civilizations once flourished on the surface of Mars, and that NASA doesn’t want you to know about it. Thanks to Scott C. Waring UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY
moon Enceladus could provide enough energy in the water to feed microbial life, scientists have been searching for proof that the right sort of reactions really do occur.
And during its last dive through the icy plumes that Enceladus erupts into space in October 2015, the Cassini spacecraft has finally managed to find it – in the form of molecular hydrogen. The finding, published in Science, means the moon can now be considered highly likely to be suitable to host microbial life. In fact, the results should undermine the last strong objection from those who argue it could not. Water 200 degrees fare height bursts up from the ocean.
The etching of a star map centered exactly above Gantenbrink’s Door, in the “airshaft’ running up and away south from the Queen’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid, depicts some amazing surprises for us all, if we would only do the research.
No hieroglyphs here at all; just celestial markings. These markings were NOT purposeless graffiti; because if you track the positions of the stars it dates to 9200 BC some 6000 years before Egyptologists claim it was built. Similar age is found on the Sphinx if you consider the deep erosion from rain water.
Hieroglyphics and The Ancient Alien Gods
Egyptian hieroglyphics
It is possible that hieroglyphics might have come from the same source? The aliens could have brought it here in the distant past. Many ancient nations claim to have been taught by alien visitors. A plausible explanation would be that a civilization not of this earth has brought them here. But this is not enough evidence to arrive at such a conclusion. Occam’s Razor theory states that the simplest explanation is usually the most likely to be correct.
These Egyptian hieroglyphics often depict flying, gods and the like. Humans could have been brought here from other planets. Our eyes and skin are unusually sensitive to the bright sun indicating we may be from a planet with a darker sun. Unlike most animals most humans have back problems indicating our original planet had much less gravity.
Mars fits this scenario and disaster on Mars may have made them decide to come here. There is evidence that Mars once had an advanced civilization that could had flown here.
Martian statues are often depicted with large heads as are Egyptian pharoses and leaders of their society. Does the object in the sky depict the sun or a spaceship?
Underwater Alien Base
Scott C. Waring believes this alien base is connected to all the UFO sightings coming out of Mexico and the entire Central America. This base is huge and it’s no wonder why we hear about so many UFO sightings over Mexico,” he writes. “This base is just 45 miles away from the Mexican coast. The chances of this being an intelligently-made structure… I put that at 100 percent.”
It’s interesting to note the similarity between the structure’s arrangement and that of an airport’s landing strips when viewed from above. However, the sheer size of the tubular structures that make up the underwater network means they must have served a different purpose. It is unfortunate that we might never know what that purpose was, but unless the scientific community decides to investigate the matter in a thorough, transparent way, we’ll remain clueless. Coordinates for the underwater base here. UFO Sightings Daily’s
The Olmec Heads
The giant stone heads of the Olmecs found in La Venta, Tres Zpotes and other sites in Mexico can be classed as artifacts of a similar type. These colossal heads carved of black basalt are from 1.5 to 3 meters high (5-10 feet), weighing from 5 to 40 tons. They are placed on stone stands like similar large globes also found in the area. The globes would be easier to role to various locations and later carved into heads.
The nearest basalt quarries are 50 to 100 kilometers (31-62 miles) away. How could a people without a wheeled vehicle or pack animal bring the masses of rock across swamps and jungles to the erection sites?
These immense faces of La Venta and San Lorenzo have been dated to 1200 BC – another surprise for the historians of science. (CC by SA 3.0)
Olmec head. Parque-Museo La Venta, Villahermosa, Tabasco (Steve Bridger)
Bizarre Truth of WHY People Disappear in National Parks
David Paulides, an ex-cop from San Jose, California, is the founder of the North America Bigfoot Search. His obsession shifted from Sasquatch to missing persons when, he says, he was visited at his motel near an unnamed national park by two out-of-uniform rangers who claimed that something strange was going on with the number of people missing in America’s national parks. (He wouldn’t tell me the place or even the year, “for fear the Park Service will try to put the pieces together and ID them.” So in 2011, Paulides launched the CanAm Missing Project, which catalogs cases of people who disappear—or are found—on wild lands across North America under what he calls mysterious circumstances. He has self-published six volumes in his popular Missing 411 series, most recently Missing 411 Hunters: Unexplained Disappearances. Paulides expects Missing 411: The Movie, a documentary codirected by his son, Ben, and featuring Survivorman Les Stroud, to be released this year.
The gym-fit Paulides, who moved from California to Colorado in part for the skiing, is right out of central casting for a detective film.
David Paulides—founder of the CanAm Missing Project and author of Missing 411 Hunters: Unexplained Disappearances—is committed to finding missing persons. (Courtesy of David Paulides)
“I don’t put any theories in the books—I just connect facts,” he told me. Under “unique factors of disappearances,” he lists such recurring characteristics as dogs unable to track scents, the time (late afternoon is a popular window to vanish), and that many victims are found with clothing and footwear removed. Bodies are also discovered in previously searched areas with odd frequency, sometimes right along the trail. Children—and remains—are occasionally found improbable distances from the point last seen, in improbable terrain. Many of the disappearances indicate a flying object picking up the hunters similar to abductions by aliens or the use of helicopters.
It’s tempting to dismiss Paulides as a crypto-kook—and some search and rescue professionals do—but his books are extensively researched. On a large map of North America on his office wall, Paulides has identified 59 clusters of people missing on federal wild lands in the U.S. and southern Canada. To qualify as a cluster, there must be at least four cases; according to his pins, you want to watch your step in Yosemite, Crater Lake, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, and Rocky Mountain National Parks. But then, it would seem you want to watch your step everywhere in the wild. The map resembles a game of pin the tail on the donkey at an amphetamine-fueled birthday party. Thanks to Patty Blackwell
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Filer’s Files #45 – 2018 UFO Sightings Increasing - PART II
Filer’s Files #45 – 2018 UFO Sightings Increasing - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Phoenix— My wife and I were on holiday and visited the 2018 Arizona State Fair where we took some pictures on an Apple IPhone. Later, I transferred the photographs to my PC I noticed 3 lights in the sky in two of the photos. From what I can see in the two pictures, 3 orbs or sources of light seem to move from right to left. I don’t believe the light sources in the two pictures are reflective light, because of their position in both photos. The images are original and have not been altered or enhanced in any way. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Capitola — I started this video at 9:17 am, and it lasted over 8 minutes. at 2155 Wharf Road facing east. It was only upon review of the video that I became aware of that it included a tremendous amount of UFO activity It is my intuition that these events (the chemtrails and UFOs) were not a coincidence. I saw white lights behind a treetop that would grow long and then short. It was there for over ten seconds in the video. A descending UFO appears to change forms during its flight. There might be two rows of multiple orbs around a dark center, but then very complex changes occur. To begin with, there were three flights moving toward the south over Wharf road. That already is unusual. Flights 2 and 3 crossed over each other, creating a huge X, and flight 2 crossed over a the top portion of an impressive segment trail from flight 1 Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Light
Monument Park — We were flying to Raton, NM for a mountain flying trip. I wanted to get some photos. We departed KEWK at about 0830 landed in KLBL at about 1230. after I got back I found odd images on my photos that I did take. I would just like to know what I have. I have about 90 photos that I took on the trip if you guys would like them I would be glad to give you a copy of the entire trip. Photos taken on October 27, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Connecticut Light
Freetown — I was taking a smoke break at work and chatting with my girlfriend on the phone at the time on November 8, 2018. All of a sudden a light in the distance caught my eye. At first I figured it was an airplane in the distance and that the sun was reflecting off of it. However, I realized it wasn’t getting closer and the glow was increasing. I kept my eye on it a few moments longer and then saw it start to slowly move north stop intermitted.
It continued like this until it was behind the tree line. I work security, so I hopped in the patrol vehicle and drove to where I had access to our security cameras. It took me less than 2 minutes. By the time I got the cameras locked on to that position in the sky, the object was gone. I drove back to the spot I had observed it from at the beginning, and it was gone from the sky all together. I felt a combination of creeeped out and the adrenaline rush of a hunter. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Object
I noticed a white cloud turning and moving fast, turning, rising, and then slowly moving down. A military helicopter fly’s by very quiet and then it disappears.’
Photo was taken on November 3, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Lights
Evanston— Myself and 3 others were driving down Clark Street on November 3, 2018. There were three objects hovering and descending slowly. One or two intermittently gave off large trails of sparks. Lights were far too slow to be meteors and a plane would not have sparked in this way. They were moving around each other in a somewhat irregular patterns blinking on and off irregularly. They were giving off a trail of sparks intermittently and could be meteors, as some had been reported the night before, but they never disintegrated and continued to hover and intermittently move downward slowly. We lost sight of them behind buildings. Soon thereafter, a helicopter appeared to be circling around the area. The whole event lasted 2.5 minutes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kentucky Lights
Grayson — I was sitting in the living room when my step dad called me to come there to look outside. He said there was a light in the hill adjacent to our house; he thought it was coon hunters. I step outside and there’s a UFO and not a plane.
It just hovered, then it started moving slowly with two enormous lights to the side with another one beneath it. The sound was faint and buzzing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Louisiana Cylinder
Lafayette — I get to work and I see the moon is full and it has a rainbow shining on top of it so I take two pictures and I go inside and I show my friend the pictures on September 29, 2018and he says what is that green thing I said where and then I see it one picture shows that it moves a little then we look at the next one and it moves way to the right within 3 minutes I it was in front of the moon I should have video it thanks. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Hampshire Light
Kingston— I was driving through New Hampshire at 10 pm on Route 107 and notice extremely bright lights in the sky. The lights seemed to be too bright to be a plane.. I slowed down my car and as it got closer and could see the lights were shaped differently than on planes. The craft was shaped basically like a”V” and on each wing there were two very big bright lights positioned close to each other. There were also two bright white lights in the front of the craft but those were much smaller than the ones on the wings. The craft flew right over my head and it was extremely big and silent and much bigger than a passenger airplane.. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Clinger
Port Orford — At a beach just south of Port Orford taking photos, I did not see or hear anything at the time, I was talking to a lady just before and after and she did not mention anything about this. I saw this the next day while going through my photos.
I shot this in Jpeg and CR2 RAW. The object is almost centered in photo above the flat roc. Photo was taken on September 24, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Carolina ‘Objects
Hilton Head Island — On the beach around 3:30 pm, on October 29, 2018, I saw boats on horizon and then looked up and saw two strange shaped clouds that looked like an upside down mushrooms with a circle in the mushroom head. It seemed unnatural for a cloud. Then both small clouds changed shape at the same time. Shape changed to a more natural small cloud shape. No clouds anywhere in the sky except these two. Took photo and didn’t think anymore about it until I got home and looked at the photo and zoomed in. Saw black dots over both clouds and some around the cloud. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Light
San Antonio — I am in leadership seminar for my client looked up and saw a large Chevron/inverted V shaped ‘airplane’ with a white flashing light at the V point flying low and slow, no sound. I couldn’t believe my eyes – it was so low and over the highway 1604 going SW along the road, right next to a large shopping center area with a lot of lights and cars. I grabbed my iPhone to try and video and photograph it. My video didn’t record but I did get ONE ‘live’ iPhone photo which shows the object (changed shape/color!) as a yellow-orange disc that appears to be a fluid energy source? There was movement from left to right. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia object
Monroe Institute — This is the same photo, (IMG_5082A1), that I sent you a little while ago, however, it is slightly bigger. I was in error. It was taken on November 6, 2018, one day after I took my photo (DSC06516A), which was taken on 11-5-18. They are very similar except maybe they were taken from different angles. Love and Light, Dan Johnson
Wyoming Triangles
Buckhorn— Photo was taken October 15, 2018, of a herd of Black Angus cattle on Highway 85 some 5 miles from crossing into South Dakota. There were about 200 head of cattle and cowboys on horseback, the calves were scared and bellowing, Took me 20 minutes to drive through the wandering and upset cattle and took photos.
Later on after checking into the Elk Ridge Resort cabin in Spearfish, North Dakota, I took a look at the attached photo….that’s when I saw the 4 white triangles that look like spacecraft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Object
I was sitting in car around 6:30 am on my phone on August 29, 2018. it was dusk, just becoming light. I couldn’t get off the phone quick enough as I saw this light traveling across the sky, which appeared to have come from the west coast, the ocean is a few kilometer’s away from where I live near the west coast of western Australia. I quickly started my Samsung galaxy s5 phone camera and filmed it for a few minutes, It traveled in easterly direction, making no noise at all. there is an airport just out of town and I hear them flying most days very clearly, however this light object made no noise at all. it disappeared into smallish cloud and came out other side, then I followed it as it moved into more cloud cover and never came out Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Cigar
Vaughan — Was taking a picture of the cool clouds outside the house.
When I looked at the pictures I noticed in the second picture what appeared to be a black cylinder hovering in front of the clouds.
Photo was taken on November 3, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Guatemala Light
Antigua–This photo was taken in December 2011 and was taken above the Volcano “El Agua” with a little light above the clouds. It was the fifth picture of a sequence of 12 pictures I took in the same direction, in just a few minutes. No one of the other photos showed the light. The light that appears above the clouds did not appear in the other photos.
I noticed it later when I checked the photo a few minutes later. Although the clouds were well focused, the strange light was blurred suggesting high speed Thanks to MUFON CMS
Hungary Lights
Budapest l — I was watching a live webcam feed on Earth Cam at around 6 pm UK time on November 7, 2018. I noticed strange lights in the sky. I was watching on my iPad. As you can see I fumbled around with my phone then turned out the light to show the footage better. This is live and in real time. I was amazed and fascinated. The actual display lasted at least an hour before the webcam changed angles. The craft were almost playing with each other. Their movements are so fluid like a dance and they are leaving light trails behind themselves. They are moving in all directions at great speed. Thanks to MUFON CMS
India Disc
DAIPUR – RAJASTHAN — Yes, it was 07:30 pm, on November 8, 2018, and my sister and I were standing on our balcony. We saw an orange and white colored thing in the sky, which was coming towards us I asked, “What’s that?” It was totally different in color from a helicopter and suddenly it stopped there and stayed for 5 seconds, so we waved towards that thing, and it went back a little. We realized that we had seen something we were not supposed to see. That made us bring out our phone and record that incident, and when i was recording it just disappeared in thin air. we were so excited that we were shouting and shocked. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Puerto Rico Object
Naguabo– I found cigar shape object after reviewing sequences of photos on left of photo.
The event took place during sun, 26 August 2018 at 08:51 am in saguaro, Puerto Rico.
I was taking a ride through the rainforest. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Orb
Cardiff— I was on the beach with my partner and two children at around 19:08 on September 29, 2018. I started to film the sea because it was so calm/ My partner mentioned seeing the moon because of how bright the light was. After I watched the film back I showed my partner the light but it was no longer there. The sky was very clear?
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Certainly, that’s a very controversial question to ask. It was put to me last week, while doing radio. For many researchers, the Mothman is perceived as being a creature of purely cryptozoological proportions. Others take the view that the Mothman was (and, perhaps, still is) something of a definitively supernatural nature. But, to get back to the matter of that question put to me, let’s see what the evidence, testimony and data provides. But, first a bit of background on the weird winged-thing is required. There can be few people reading this who have not at least heard of the legendary Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, who so terrorized the town and the surrounding area between November 1966 and December 1967, and whose diabolical exploits were chronicled in the 2002 hit Hollywood movie starring Richard Gere: The Mothman Prophecies, so named after the book of the same title written by Mothman authority John Keel.
A winged monster with red eyes, Mothman came out of nowhere. Some say its presence culminated in high tragedy and death. But what was the Mothman of Point Pleasant? And how did the legend begin? To answer those questions we have to go back to the dark night of November 12, 1966, when five grave-diggers working in a cemetery in the nearby town of Clendenin were shocked to see what they described as a “brown human shape with wings” rise out of the thick, surrounding trees and soar off into the distance. Three days later, the unearthly beast surfaced once again. It was at the highly appropriate time of the witching-hour when Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette – two young, married couples from Point Pleasant – were passing the time away by cruising around town in the Scarberrys’ car.
As they drove around the old factory, the four were puzzled to see in the shadows what looked like two red lights pointing in their direction. These were no normal lights, however. Rather, all four were shocked and horrified to discover that, in reality, the “lights” were the glowing, self-illuminating red eyes of a huge animal that, as Roger Scarberry would later recall, was “…shaped like a Mothman, but bigger, maybe six and a half or seven feet tall, with big wings folded against its back.” Not surprisingly, they fled the area at high speed. Unfortunately for the Scarberry’s and the Mallette’s, however, the beast seemingly decided to follow them: as they sped off for the safety of Point Pleasant, the winged monster took to the skies and shadowed their vehicle’s every movement until it reached the city limits.
Water River Point Pleasant Bridge West Virginia
The four raced to the sheriff’s office and told their astounding story to Deputy Millard Halstead, who later stated that: “I’ve known these kids all their lives. They’d never been in any trouble and they were really scared that night. I took them seriously.” And even though a search of the area by Halstead did not result in an answer to the mystery, the Mothman would soon return. Again and again. And again. As far as the question concerning Mothman being an extraterrestrial is concerned, I would be inclined to completely dismiss this “E.T.” theory were it not for one thing. Namely, that there was indeed a great deal of UFO- and alleged alien-themed activity going on at that time – and in relatively close proximity to Point Pleasant. In other words, where UFOs were seen, so were strange lights in the sky. Moving on…
Susan Sheppard is a friend of mine, who has expert knowledge of the strange tale of a man named Woodrow Derenberger and a creepy character named Indrid Cold. I’ll now turn you over to Susan: “…strangeness that enveloped West Virginia and Ohio Valley did not begin with the Scarberry encounter along route 2 north of Point Pleasant. There had been another puzzling event that occurred in Parkersburg 12 days before. This happened on November 2, 1966 one mile south of the city limits of Parkersburg. It involved a sewing machine salesman whose life was about to be disrupted in such a way that he would never entirely recover. His name was Woodrow Derenberger, but everyone called him ‘Woody.’ It was shortly after 6 p.m. in the evening, when Woody Derenberger was driving home from his job as a sewing machine salesman at J.C. Penny’s in Marietta, Ohio to his farmhouse in Mineral Wells, West Virginia. The ride home was overcast and dreary. It was misting a light rain.
“As Derenberger came up on the Intersection of I-77 and Route 47, he thought that a tractor trailer truck was tailgating him without its lights on, which was unnerving, so he swerved to the side of the road and much to his surprise, the truck appeared to take flight and seemed to roll across his panel truck. To his astonishment, what Derenberger thought was a truck was a charcoal colored UFO without any lights on. It touched down and then hovered about 10 inches above the berm of the road. Much to Derenberger’s surprise a hatch opened and a man stepped out looking like “any ordinary man you would see on the street – there was nothing unusual about his appearance.
“Except the man [Indrid Cold] was dressed in dark clothing and had a ‘beaming smile.’ As the man proceeded to walk toward Derenberger’s panel truck the ‘craft’ jetted up to about 40 feet in the air where it floated above the highway. What happened next was unsettling, because as the darkly-dressed man came up toward the vehicle Woody Derenberger heard the words, ‘Do not be afraid, I mean you no harm, I only want to ask you a few questions.’ Derenberger did become afraid because as the man spoke to Woodrow his lips did not move. The man then moved to the opposite of the truck and told Derenberger to roll down his window so they could talk better, which he did. Next what formed in Derenberger’s mind were the words, ‘Now you can speak, or you can think… it makes no difference, I can understand you either way,’ … this is what the dark man said. Later, when Derenberger was questioned on local live television he was scrutinized over what seemed a contradiction because if the dark man communicated through a type of mental telepathy why would Derenberger need to roll down his window to talk? Wouldn’t it be easier just to talk mentally?
“Woodrow Derenberger explained it was because Indrid Cold wanted to look directly at him as they spoke and he felt that, really, Cold wasn’t so interested in what was said but more interested in keeping up a communication with him. To Derenberger, that seemed the entire point of it all. Derenberger also noted that when Cold stared into his eyes, it was as if he knew everything about Woodrow Derenberger, and also, if he could only let go of his fear and do the same, he felt he would also know and understand all about Cold. In any event, Cold spoke through the passenger side window the entire time. The physical description of Cold was commonplace. Derenberger described him as about 35 years of age, having a trim build, was about six feet tall, 185 pounds with dark eyes and dark hair slicked straight back. Cold wore a long dark coat and beneath the coat Woodrow Derenberger was able to glimpse the fabric of his “uniform” that glistened beneath the coat. He also described Cold as having a ‘tanned complexion.’ Throughout the conversation Cold kept a frozen smile and curiously hid his hands beneath his armpits most of the time.
“Cold did, however, point at the city lights above the distant hills of Parkersburg and asked Mr. Derenberger, ‘What do you call that over there?’ Derenberger said, ‘Why, that’s Parkersburg and we call that a city.’ Cold responded, ‘Where I come from we call it a gathering.’ Cold later added the curious statement that “’I come from a place less powerful than yours.’ As the men talked cars passed under the craft which drifted above the road. The occupants were seemingly unaware of the spaceship being there. After all, there were no lights that could be seen. Cold then asked about Parkersburg, ‘Do people live there or do they work there?’ Woody Derenberger answered, ‘Why, yes, people live and work there.’ Cold interjected ‘Do you work, Mr. Derenberger?’ (Woodrow told Cold his name as the conversation began) Derenberger answered, ‘I am a salesman. That’s what I do. Do you have a job?’ Cold answered, ‘Yes. I am a searcher.’
“After that the conversation became mundane. Cold seemed to notice Woodrow Derenberger was scared and commented on it. Mr. Derenberger claimed Cold asked him, ‘Why are you so frightened? Do not be afraid. We mean you no harm. You will see that we eat and bleed the same as you do,’ and then added an emotive note, ‘We only wish you happiness’ which Cold said to the frightened man more than once. While Mr. Derenberger was being interviewed on live television on WTAP-TV, he attributed this puzzling statement to Indrid Cold, “At the proper time, the authorities will be notified about our meeting and this will be confirmed.” The entire conversation took between five and ten minutes and then Indrid Cold looked inside Woody’s car with his ever-present smile, and said, ‘Mr. Derenberger, I thank you for talking to me. We will see you again.’
There ends an extract from an excellent paper that Susan very generously prepared for me.
Moving on, there’s the matter of the Men in Black. In his classic book, The Mothman Prophecies, John Keel said of one such case: “On a rainy night in April a man from Ohio had been driving along Route 2 near the Chief Cornstalk Hunting Grounds when a large black form rose from the woods and flew over his car. ‘It was at least ten feet wide,’ he claimed. ‘I stepped on the gas and it kept right up with me. We were doing over seventy. It scared the hell out of me. Then I saw it move ahead of me and turn toward the river.’” Keel continued: “Months later, late in October, he returned home from work and found a prowler in his apartment. ‘When I opened the door I saw this man standing in my living room,’ he reported. ‘I think he was dressed all in black. I couldn’t see his face, but he was about five feet nine. I started to fumble for the light switch when he took my picture. There was a big flash of light, so bright I couldn’t see a thing. While I was rubbing my eyes the burglar darted past me and went out the open door. I guess I arrived just in time because nothing was missing.’”
Mary Hyre was a woman who played an integral role in the series of 1960s-era events that led John Keel to write The Mothman Prophecies. In January 1967, Hyre was visited by a creepy, bowl-haired MIB of around 5-feet in height and who had oddly hypnotic eyes. Throughout the encounter, the black-clad “man” kept staring at Hyre’s ballpoint pen. To the point where Hyre told him he could keep it. He took it, laughed loud in a strange fashion, and vanished as mysteriously as he first arrived. As The Demoniacal notes: “Mary Hyre was the Point Pleasant, WV, correspondent for the Athens, OH, newspaper titled, The Messenger. Hyre documented strange occurrences happening in Point Pleasant in 1966-1967 and was well loved by locals due to her professional and open-minded take on the subjects. In one weekend alone, Hyre received 500 reports of UFO sightings from locals. Hyre’s fascination with flying saucers stemmed from her own sighting of a UFO which she claimed flew over her backyard.”
All of which brings us back to the matter of the Mothman. As we have seen, at the same time the Mothman was soaring around the skies of Point Pleasant, Mary Hyre had a close encounter with a weird Man in Black. The MIB are, of course, inextricably linked to the UFO phenomenon. Not only that, Hyre was the recipient of hundreds of UFO reports and someone who became one of Keel’s closest friends. Add to that the saga of Indrid Cold and what we have is an area that was dominated by not just the famous, flying monster, but by a number of UFO-related issues too. I consider it highly unlikely that the Cold controversy, the experiences of Mary Hyre, and the Mothman and MIB presences were completely unconnected. So, that’s why I am at least open to the idea that the Mothman just may have been an extraterrestrial – and not a creature of Cryptozoology or even of something of paranormal origins.
The world is full of strange phenomena and one of them happens to be the UFOs. Even after 71 years since the first sighting, the UFO remains a mystery. Many believe that aliens visit our planet in flying saucers. On the other hand, some believe that it’s just a regular aircraft that somehow appears like a strange object. Some even disregard it as any kind of flying machine but consider it merely a balloon or a cloud.
Nonetheless, for the past 71 years, the UFO craze has taken the world by storm. It has provided the mainstream media and authors enough room to explore and come up with all sorts of explanations. Yet, most of us are still trying to figure out the reality behind UFOs.
So, without wasting any time let’s find out more about UFOs. Are aliens visiting us in UFOs or it’s just an interesting story created by the media?
What Is A UFO?
Though people have reported about seeing strange objects in the sky since ancient times, UFO is a rather new-age phenomenon. Basically, UFO is an acronym for Unidentified Flying Object. This particular term appeared for the first time in the 1950s. Until then the strange flying objects were referred to as Flying Saucers.
Does it ring any bell?
Yeah, that’s the term that we’re more accustomed to.
The weird flying machines were called flying saucers because of their disc- like shape. The term flying saucers for the UFOs became a trend after a US pilot Kenneth Arnold reported about seeing a saucer-like object. He was flying over the Mount Rainier when he saw it. Until the late 1940s, the flying saucer was the term that defined UFOs.
Originally, the term UFO was used for almost any strange object seen floating or flying in the sky. Whenever a pilot saw an experimental plane that couldn’t identify, he believed it to be a UFO.
Gradually, the definition and specification of UFOs got more refined. After the 1940s, the aircraft sightings believed to be from another planet were labeled as UFOs. In fact, the idea became deeply embedded that UFOs were flown by aliens. People believed that UFOs were outer-worldly vehicles.
There were many reports of people being abducted by the aliens and taken along to an unknown destination. A majority of the UFO sightings have come from pilots. In many incidents, the pilot claims to have seen a strange flying object unlike any aircraft he’s seen before.
Unidentified Flying Object or UFO as a term for flying saucers was firstly recorded in 1953. It was firstly used in a book authored by Donald Keyhoe, a famous writer and US aviator. In 1956, the term UFO formally replaced flying saucer and the credit goes to Edward Rupplet, a USAF officer.
Rupplet was responsible for investigating the strange flying objects. He believed that flying saucer wasn’t a suitable term. UFOs offered a broader description of these objects, in his opinion. Thus, this is how the world was formally introduced to the UFO phenomenon.
Pretty soon there were reports of potential UFO sightings from around the globe. So extensive was the impact that investigations were launched to study the phenomenon. The study of UFOs was officially named as Ufology in 1959 and the field experts were categorized as Ufologists in 1963.
Flying Saucers- A Brief History:
It all started from June 24, 1947. A civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying over the Pacific Northwest in his private aircraft. There came a point when he realized that there was something else flying alongside his plane. As his plane closed in to the Mount Rainier, Washington, he spotted some objects. In his own words, there were “nine objects, glowing bright bluish-white.”
These 9 objects were flying quite close to his aircraft. Eight objects, claimed Arnold, were disc-shaped. The ninth one was much bigger than the rest and was shaped like a crescent. He also noted that all the objects were flying in a customary V-shaped formation at roughly 1,200miles an hour. He suspected it to be a military exercise. However, he was sure that the objects were saucer-like in shape. He hadn’t yet seen such a weirdly designed aircraft. Moreover, at the time no aircraft could fly in this formation.
While he was giving interviews to the press and at the radio station, his comment saucer was highlighted a lot. Physical description of the strange objects was, thus, associated with the term saucer since then on.
Immediately, rumor mills got activated and all sorts of theories emerged. The most popular one was that the objects were from outer space. This was regarded as a ground-breaking discovery as it indicated there was life on other planets.
However, by that time aliens weren’t specifically associated with the visitors in the strange objects. It was in the 1970s that people started speculating about the presence of aliens on UFOs. It was an era when environmental concerns were rising and the threat of a nuclear war was looming. Hence, conspiracy theorists came up with the idea of alien species visiting the earth.
By the 1990s, though, this narrative reached a new height of extremity. Not hundreds but thousands of reports about people being abducted by aliens emerged. It was believed that aliens are kidnapping humans to perform medical experiments. Even the thought of being abducted by the aliens is eerie. Isn’t it?
Who are the Sky People AKA Aliens?
Theories of aliens and ancient astronauts have remained the center of human imagination for centuries. There are many legends and artifacts from thousands of years ago that describe sightings of unidentified flying objects. Their shape, size, and characteristics do vary though. Back then, aliens were referred to as the Sky People. It was believed that the sky people come from a highly advanced civilization.
Legend has it that the first ever contact with the sky people occurred soon after the cataclysm. Theorists proclaim that this contact has occurred several times in the history of the planet. This information has been substantiated by archaeological, geological, anthropological, and paleontological data as well. Evidence suggests that there have been several cataclysms on the planet. Every time there was a change at the global level such as climate change or mass extinction, this contact occurred.
One of the legends claims that after the catastrophe, human civilization was reduced to the Stone Age. Then the sky people descended on the Earth from their spacecraft and rebuilt the civilization. Could they be aliens or just an illusion?
It is evident from many historical accounts that there are various kinds of sky people who are part of legends. These could be gods, aliens or planetary bodies like the sun, moon, stars, etc. Investigators in the TV show Ancient Aliens attempted to know the reality behind ancient gods. Their conclusion was that they were aliens.
However, this judgment lacks substance. For instance, the Greek sun god Apollo is just that- a sun god. It cannot be an alien flying through the sky in a saucer-like spaceship. Moreover, the spacecraft that many legends refer to as vimanas and flying machines, could very well be from previous civilizations on earth.
Many legends state that the spacecraft transported some of the humans to another planet during the catastrophe. This planet could be the Moon, Mars or Venus. It may also be somewhere under the sea or the earth.
There isn’t any clear indication of the reality of the sky people. So, if the accounts are true and not mere myths, then sky people might be humans who somehow built flying machines.
Most Famous UFO Sightings:
We may disregard the concept of a UFO as a mere myth or product of crazy fiction. But, the unexplainable sightings in such a large number do hint that UFOs could be for real. Some of the famous sightings are listed below.
The 1940s-50s:
Nearly 12,618 sightings were reported only between 1947 and 1969. These sightings were reported to Project Blue Book. It was the name of an ongoing UFO research project headquartered at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Out of these, about 701 still remain unidentified.
The first and probably most talked about sighting involved Kenneth Arnold who identified 9 strange flying objects in 1947. We have already discussed this incident at length earlier in the article.
The same year, on July 8 New Mexico’s public information office reported about recovering a crashed flying disc. It was recovered nearby a ranch in Roswell. The military later explained that it was the debris from an experimental observation balloon. However, critics weren’t buying this explanation. They even criticized the government for hiding the truth. It was firmly believed that an extraterrestrial aircraft was found near Roswell. They were also certain that not just the spacecraft but its occupants were also captured from the location.
In 1948, a 25-year old Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Captain Thomas Mantell died while chasing a UFO. He was an expert airman and had actively participated in the WWII as a pilot. So, it came as a surprise to many that he died in a plane crash. The two co-pilots who were flying with Mantell that fateful day couldn’t clearly explain the object they were pursuing.
In November 1953, First Lieutenant Felix E. Moncla Jr. received strange orders while he was flying. He was tasked to intercept an unidentified object. The object was tracked by the radars installed at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. As Moncla Jr. got closer to the object, his plane simply vanished from the radar. It was never found again.
The Mariana UFO Incident from 1951 is another popular case of UFO sighting. Great Falls’ pro baseball team’s manager managed to capture images of two UFOs. The spaceships were flying over Great Falls. The footages were analyzed quite extensively by the USAF and independent researchers too but they couldn’t explain it.
In 1959, a Pan American flight was traveling to San Francisco from Honolulu. The crew suddenly encountered a UFO while flying at 21,000feet over the Pacific. Pilots from two other airlines also confirmed the sighting. Reporters were later told by Captain George Wilson that there was a very bright light surrounded by smaller lights. The UFO was traveling at lightning speed.
“I’m a believer now” concluded Wilson.
1980s-90s:
In Belgium, between 1989 and 1990 a large object containing huge lights was identified by not one or two but hundreds of individuals. Those who saw the object included air traffic controllers, cops, and Air Force officials. However, their claims about seeing a UFO were rejected and the object was termed as a polystyrene fake. This was a rather hilarious logic offered to explain something witnessed by hundreds.
On July 11, 1991, Mexico City was observing an eclipse when many people saw and even recorded glimpses of a UFO.
A similar incident occurred in Belgium in 1997. It became famous as the Phoenix Lights. This particular incident was also witnessed by a multitude of people including politicians and air traffic officials. This story was featured on the National Geographic documentary titled “Secret History of UFOs” too.
The ex-governor of Arizona Fife Symington stated that he himself had witnessed the Phoenix lights.
“I suspect that, unless the Defense Department proves it otherwise, it was some form of an alien spacecraft,” said Symington.
Key Abductions:
Apart from UFO sightings, there have been countless reports about people being abducted by aliens. Travis Walton is one such abductee.
In NatGeoTV’s show Chasing UFOs the story of Walton was reported in which he claimed to have been kidnapped by aliens. He also identified witnesses who observed strange UFO activity soon after his alleged abduction.
Investigators although disagree with Walton but it’s a fact that his story remained consistent throughout the investigation, which continued for decades. This story made a sensational debut in the movie Fire in the Sky as well.
Another famous incident of abduction by aliens is that of Betty and Barney Hill. The couple was traveling to a road nearby Portsmouth, in 1961, when they believe aliens abducted them. While narrating the events, they said that a spaceship landed and they were taken inside the craft. There, they had to undergo thorough body inspection. They claim that aliens performed the inspection. This incident attracted worldwide attention and was also explored in the movie The UFO Incident.
Astronauts and UFO Sightings:
If you think that only common people have seen UFOs so far then you are mistaken. The fact is that a majority of the UFO sightings have been reported by astronauts. In 1977, Stanford University’s space science and astrophysics professor, Peter Sturrock, decided to find out the same thing. He mailed over 2,500 questionnaires to the American Astronomical Society members.
The purpose was to find out more about their experiences of UFO sightings if any. Surprisingly, out of the 1,356 responses, 62 astronomers reported about witnessing unexplainable aerial occurrences. The rate of UFO sightings witnessed by astronauts turned out to be 4.6%. This is similar to 5% of the total UFO sightings that are still unexplained. Further investigation revealed that most of the UFO observations reported by astronomers occurred at nighttime.
The article titled “Apollo Astronaut Chats About UFO, Alien Belief” published in Discovery magazine explained more about the discovery at Roswell. In the article, Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell surprisingly admitted that the crash at Roswell involved aliens and a spacecraft. He also claimed that the Phoenix Lights was also an out-worldly event.
“Three humongous craft flew over Phoenix, very slowly in the middle of the night that clearly were not local stuff, home-grown stuff” confirmed Mitchell.
However, the government quickly came out in its defense. NASA released this statement:
“NASA does not track UFOs. NASA is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe.”
What Do the Experts Say?
For decades, researchers have been trying to explain the phenomenon of UFOs. However, the biggest challenge that they face in studying it closely is that these spaceships appear suddenly. For science to explain something, it is important to verify conclusions using testable evidence. UFO sightings cannot be controlled or repeated. This is why Ufology is such a challenging study.
The general public has also been fascinated by the UFOs to such an extent that any explanation from experts is quickly dismissed. Most of the explanations provided by scientists and the governments declare them as weather phenomenon or human acts. There is no substantial evidence that could justify the sightings to involve aliens, extraterrestrial, spaceships, and flying saucers.
Experts believe that there has never been any extraterrestrial visit on the planet. There are no aliens and certainly no flying saucers. But, there is so little evidence that their theories can never be backed by solid arguments. The most they do is regard the topic as off-limits.
In 2010, Dr. Michio Kaku, a well-known scientist, settled all the confusion once and for all by admitting that the UFOs are real. In his statement, he clearly said that at least 5% of the sightings are unidentified objects. These objects, added Dr. Kaku, behaved oddly and scarily.
However, a majority of scientists believe that UFOs are simply planes and clouds. These could also be celestial events like meteors or planets that sometimes appear unusually bright.
Despite investigations, some of the cases of sightings remain unexplainable to date. Scientists argue that the sightings could be of common objects that appear different in the skies. Some say that it could just be a normal balloon that appears unidentifiable high up in the air.
Final Thoughts:
It is simply not possible to dismiss thousands of UFO sightings as that of a balloon or the planet Venus. Still, a majority of the sightings are unexplainable while only a few could be regarded as manmade objects. In the past few decades, approximately millions of people have witnessed strange objects. There are pictures and videos available as well. So, can we disregard all of them and start believing that instead of a flying object, it could be a balloon?
What about the abductions? Are such incidents merely hallucinations?
Okay, hallucination can be the case once or twice but not always!
It’s been exactly 71 years since Kenneth Arnold first reported about a UFO. Science is nowhere near the truth as yet. Whether it is a secret spying project by the intelligence agencies or aliens visiting our planet, there is no clarity.
When there is doubt and mysteriousness surrounding an event, people will create theories. Despite that there isn’t any solid evidence of extraterrestrial involvement but can we completely rule it out? That’s not possible either.
So, let’s believe in the unbelievable until science gives us a credible explanation of the UFO phenomenon.
L'Autorité de l'aviation irlandaise enquête sur des informations faisant état de lumières et d'OVNI au large de la côte sud-ouest de l'Irlande, selon la BBC.
Tout a commencé à 9 h 47, heure locale, le vendredi 9 novembre, lorsqu'un pilote de British Airways contacte le contrôle du trafic aérien de Shannon. Il voulait savoir s'il y avait des exercices militaires dans la région parce qu'il y avait quelque chose "qui bouge très vite".
Mais aucun exercice n'était en cours. Le pilote, qui volait de Montréal à Heathrow, a déclaré qu'il y avait une "lumière très brillante" et que l'objet était monté le long du côté gauche de l'avion avant qu'il ne "vire rapidement au nord".
Un autre pilote d'un avion Virgin a suggéré qu'il puisse s'agir d'un météore ou d'un autre objet pénétrant dans l'atmosphère terrestre. Il a déclaré qu'il y avait "plusieurs objets qui suivaient le même type de trajectoire" et qu'ils étaient très brillants. Le pilote a déclaré avoir vu "deux lumières brillantes" vers la droite qui s'éloignaient rapidement.
Un pilote a déclaré que la vitesse était "astronomique, c'était comme Mach 2", ce qui correspond à deux fois la vitesse du son. "Suite à des informations sur une activité aérienne inhabituelle annoncées vendredi par un petit nombre d'aéronefs, l'IAA a déposé un rapport", a déclaré l'Irish Aviation Authority (IAA). "Ce rapport fera l'objet d'une enquête dans le cadre du processus d'enquête normal sur un événement confidentiel."
Un porte-parole de l'aéroport de Shannon a déclaré qu'il ne serait pas approprié que l'aéroport fasse des commentaires pendant que l'enquête de l'IAA est en cours.
Viewed from afar, the Milky Way might appear similar to the galaxy known as NGC 7331. Picture: R. Jay GaBany/NASA
RELIGIOUS leaders in Durban are mixed in their views about alien life.
This follows a suggestion from scientists at Harvard University in the US that a cigar-shaped object that tumbled through our solar system in October last year, was a probe sent by an intelligent alien life form to spy on us.
The object was called “Oumuamua” which means “a messenger that reaches out from the distant past” in Hawaiian. It was picked up by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii.
Since its discovery, scientists have been at odds as they tried to explain its unusual features and origins.
Researchers first called it a comet, then an asteroid. When the object failed to satisfy the criteria of either, they labelled it a first of its kind: a new class of “interstellar objects”.
Given its high speed and its unusual trajectory, the reddish, stadium-sized whatever-it-is clearly came from outside our solar system.
But its flattened, elongated shape and the way it accelerated through the solar system set it apart from conventional asteroids and comets.
In a paper, researchers at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics raised the possibility that the elongated dark-red object, which is 10 times as long as it is wide and travelled at speeds of more than 300000km/* , could be of “artificial origin”.
“Oumuamua may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilisation,” they wrote in the paper, which has been submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The theory is based on the object’s “excess acceleration”, or its unexpected boost in speed as it travelled through and ultimately out of our solar system in January.
Religious leaders also expressed mixed views on the possibility of other life forms.
According to Bishop Rubin Phillip, head of the Anglican Church in KwaZulu-Natal, God created all life in the universe, not just on Earth.
As a result, it was his belief that Christianity could include the possibility of life beyond our planet.
“The Bible talks about God creating every living creature. God created all life and not just life on Earth alone, but in the whole universe.
“If life is discovered in the universe, this is not a contradiction of our beliefs, because God created life and we believe that there is life all over,” said Bishop Phillip.
Dr Faisal Suliman of the SA Muslim Network said there was nothing in the Qur’an that negated the possibility of other creations in the universe.
“Yes, we believe that we may not be the only creations in the universe.
“The Qur’an does not say that we are the only creation,” said Suliman.
However, Ashwin Trikamjee, president of the SA Hindu Maha Sabha, rejected the notion of alien life.
“Hinduism believes in Karma and that if you have been doing good, you come back again.
“The soul finds itself another body to live in.
“Therefore there is no space for any other life,” he said.
Shembe (Ebuhleni) spokesperson Thokozani Mncwabe also dismissed the idea that there could be life on other planets.
“I do not wish to stretch much on the matter, however, we strongly believe that all living creatures are on Earth and anything else is a fable,” said Mncwabe.
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Glowing golden disc appears in the sky of Welches, Oregon
Glowing golden disc appears in the sky of Welches, Oregon
On November 11, 2018 a bright anomaly has been photographed in the sky of Welches, Oregon.
The photographer was on vacation taking photos of the scenery with his cell phone.
When he reviewed the photos, he found an anomalous light that looks like a glowing golden disc seen from its side.
He did not see the anomaly while taking the photos.
At first he thought that it may be some sort of camera glitch, but he took a couple of photos of the same spot from the same vantage point all at the same time and the golden disc appears only in one photo.
The photographer has submitted the images to Mufon for further investigation of the unknown object.
This Discovery In A 4,500-Year-Old Quarry Solves The Mystery Of Egypt’s Great Pyramid
This Discovery In A 4,500-Year-Old Quarry Solves The Mystery Of Egypt’s Great Pyramid
A new archaeological dig has led to an important discovery about how the Egyptians built the Great Pyramids.
It seems that the Egyptians could have used a system of ramps and pulleys to make work easier for builders of the Pyramids. The picture below indicates a ramp structure that could be used to pull blocks up with ropes. This 4,500-year-old ramp was unearthed in an ancient quarry in the Eastern Desert. Ancient Egyptian architects probably realized that an incline plane can decrease the amount of force required to pull up these blocks. Each block can weigh around 2.3 tons, which is equivalent to 4,600 pounds!
The Great Pyramids are one of the last surviving Wonders of the World today, built during the reign of Khufu, and we still do not know exactly how they were built. This graphic could lead to more discoveries into the building of the Pyramids.
The workers would have used wooden poles which they pulled ropes around to hold the blocks. These poles acted as pulleys showing that the Egyptians understood more than one way to decrease workload.
Dr. Roland Enmarch of the University of Liverpool says:
'The arrangement allows people to be spaced up and down the ramp, and all the force to be exerted in the same direction'
Mount the block onto a sled
Tie ropes around sled and drag ropes around wooden poles
Have workers above and below the sled pulling on ropes to move the block
The reason it has taken so long to discover these ramps is that they would have been removed immediately after construction. Now that we see the Egyptians did indeed use ramps, we can make more conjectures about exactly how these 481-ft Great Pyramid were built. The workers probably mounted a block onto a sled which was tied with ropes wrapped around the wooden poles. The ramp was probably at a gradient of 20 percent relieving as much work as possible to allow the blocks to slide easily up the ramp into place.
The Sky Turns Purple In The US And Nobody Knows Why
The Sky Turns Purple In The US And Nobody Knows Why
An odd and out of the ordinary purple glow has been reported on multiple occasions illuminating the sky over various places across the United States. The reasoning for this weird occurrence in the sky is yet to be determined.
Many videos have surfaced over the internet revealing the purple sky found in the United States. One video reveals a purple sky found over a large tree and house in a residential area. The purple sky seems to be hovering in the sky above the house. The sky around it is of a typical shade.
The video above was recorded on October 13th, 2018. Another video on that same day in Cleveland shows another purple sky as a person is driving down the street and approaching the purple sky. Once again, the sky appears to be in a small area of the sky, as most of the surrounding sky is of a regular formation.
Many people who are posting the videos are describing the purple sky as above the clouds, as opposed to below it. The purple sky is also being described as motionless. Two more videos showing the purple sky can be viewed at the following links;
Many of the videos show the purple sky with a location in Ohio. People are posting many videos from Cleveland, River Kuyahoga, and Dayton. The weird sky has not been limited to Ohio however, as reports are coming in from Wisconsin, Washington, and other areas across the country. All of the videos clearly show a purple sky and express uncertainty concerning the purple sky and why it is there and what it represents.
First, asteroids can serve as pit stops – and provide resources – for future space exploration. Second, some asteroids or comets may be hazards to Earth.
This video clip was compiled from images taken by NASA’s EPOXI mission spacecraft during its flyby of comet Hartley 2 on November 4, 2010.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD.
Funding for small object studies – asteroids and comets – has increased over the past several decades, mainly since astronomers realized that space rocks sometimes do strike the Earth. Now – thanks to adequate funding over decades – scientists believe they have a good handle on the paths through space of the major asteroids, the ones that would literally rock our world if they collided with us. And, fortunately, no major asteroid is known for certain to be on a collision course with Earth at the present time. But small asteroids do pass us all the time, too, in a mass range capable of causing local damage. Some close-passing asteroids are discovered only after they’ve passed closest. What’s more, scientists have come to recognize, in the most profound way, that asteroids can serve as resources for humanity, especially as we venture out into space. Thus NASA is still all-in for studying asteroids, and on November 7, 2018, it released these six reasons why. Note that we’ve changed the order of these six items, from NASA’s original article.
This is Ceres, the 1st asteroid ever to be discovered, in the year 1801. In recent years, the Dawn spacecraft has orbited it and obtained stunning close-up images. What you’re seeing here is Occator Crater (in false color), home to Ceres’ most famous bright spots, which are apparently salt deposits.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA.
1. Asteroids can serve as pit stops – and provide resources – for future space exploration.
Decades ago, visionaries began in earnest speaking of asteroids and comets as places to mine for resources needed by space-faring humans. NASA pointed out:
There are no gas stations in space yet, but scientists and engineers are already starting to think about how asteroids could one day serve as refueling stations for spacecraft on the way to farther-flung destinations. These small worlds might also help astronauts restock their supplies. For example, asteroid Bennu [target of the ongoing OSIRIS-REx mission] likely has water bound in clay minerals, which could perhaps one day be harvested for hydrating thirsty space travelers.
Scientists also suggest asteroids might be mined, and the materials in space used in space for further exploration.
This “super-resolution” view of asteroid Bennu was created using 8 images obtained by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on October 29, 2018, from a distance of about 205 miles (330 km).
Image via NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona.
2. Some asteroids or comets may be hazards to Earth.
When speaking of hazardous asteroids, NASA specifically mentioned asteroid Bennu again. As it happens, this asteroid is one of the most potentially hazardous asteroids to Earth currently known, even though the odds of its colliding with Earth are relatively small. NASA said:
… scientists estimate Bennu has a 1-in-2,700 chance of impacting our planet during one of its close approaches to Earth in the late 22nd century. Right now, scientists can predict Bennu’s path quite precisely through the year 2135, when the asteroid will make one of its close passes by Earth. Close observations by OSIRIS-REx will get an even tighter handle on Bennu’s journey, and help scientists working on safeguarding our planet against hazardous asteroids to better understand what it would take to deflect one on an impact trajectory.
This animation shows how NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) would target and strike the smaller (left) element of the binary asteroid Didymos to demonstrate how a kinetic impact could potentially redirect an asteroid as part of the agency’s planetary defense program.
Another upcoming mission that will test a technique for defending the planet from naturally occurring impact hazards is NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which will attempt to change a small asteroid’s motion by colliding with it, in a precise way.
DART’s target is Didymos, a binary asteroid composed of two objects orbiting each other. The larger body is about half a mile (800 meters) across, with a small moonlet that is less than one-tenth of a mile (150 meters) wide. An asteroid this size could result in widespread regional damage if one were to impact Earth.
DART will deliberately crash itself into the moonlet to slightly change the small object’s orbital speed. Telescopes on Earth will then measure this change in speed by observing the new period of time it takes the moonlet to complete an orbit around the main body, which is expected to be a change of less than a fraction of one percent. But even that small a change could be enough to make a predicted impactor miss Earth in some future impact scenario. The spacecraft, being built by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, is scheduled for launch in spring-summer 2021.
Didymos and Bennu are just two of the almost 19,000 known near-Earth asteroids. There are over 8,300 known near-Earth asteroids the size of the moonlet of Didymos and larger, but scientists estimate that about 25,000 asteroids in that size range exist in near-Earth space.
Artist’s concept shows the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, spacecraft, in its orbit around Earth. In its NEOWISE mission it finds and characterizes asteroids.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech.
A space telescope is currently helping scientists discover and understand these near-Earth objects, including potential hazards. It’s called NEOWISE, and Amy Mainzer is its principal investigator. She said:
For most asteroids, we know little about them except for their orbit and how bright they look. With NEOWISE, we can use the heat emitted from the objects to give us a better assessment of their sizes. That’s important because asteroid impacts can pack quite a punch, and the amount of energy depends strongly on the size of the object.
But asteroids and comets – even those in near-Earth space – weren’t always considered hazards to our world. In fact …
3. Asteroids and comets may have delivered the elements of life to Earth.
Consider asteroid Bennu again, target of the OSIRIS-REx mission. Bennu may be loaded with molecules of carbon and water, both of which are necessary for life as we know it. Scientists believe that – as Earth formed, and afterward – objects like Bennu rained down and delivered these materials to our planet. These objects did not have oceans themselves, but rather water molecules bound up in minerals. A substantial percentage of Earth’s water is thought to have come from small bodies like Bennu (the rest of Earth’s water likely came from an even more primeval source, the solar nebula). NASA said:
By studying Bennu, we can better understand the kinds of objects that allowed a barren young Earth to blossom with life.
Bennu likely originated in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and it’s thought to have survived a catastrophic collision that happened between 800 million and 2 billion years ago. Scientists think a big, carbon-rich asteroid shattered into thousands of pieces, and Bennu is one of the remnants. Rather than a solid object, Bennu is thought to be a “rubble pile” asteroid – a loose collection of rocks stuck together through gravity and another force scientists call cohesion. OSIRIS-REx, which will arrive at Bennu in early December 2018 after a 1.2-billion-mile (2-billion-km) journey, will bring back a sample of this intriguing object to Earth in a sample-return capsule in 2023.
The Japanese Hayabusa 2 mission is also looking at an asteroid from the same family of bodies that are thought to have delivered ingredients for life to Earth. Currently in orbit at asteroid Ryugu, with small hopping rovers on the surface (see images from the rovers here), the mission will collect samples and return them in a capsule to Earth for analysis by the end of 2020.
But there’s more. Small bodies in space didn’t just supply the ingredients for life. They also supplied the ingredients for the planets themselves, Earth included.
Artist’s concept of NASA’s Lucy mission, due to launch in October 2021. The mission will investigate the swarms of asteroids known as Trojans – which orbit in Jupiter’s orbit – for the 1st time. It’ll thoroughly investigate 6 Trojans (3 asteroids in each of 2 Trojan swarms).
Image via NASA/SwRI
4. Essentially, asteroids were the building blocks of planets.
Our solar system as we know it today formed from grains of dust – tiny particles of rock, metal and ice – swirling in a disk around our infant sun. Most of the material from this disk fell into the newborn star, but some bits avoided that fate and stuck together, growing into asteroids, comets and even planets. Lots of leftovers from that process have survived to this day. The growth of planets from smaller objects is one piece of our history that asteroids and comets can help us investigate. NASA said:
Two ancient fossils providing clues to this story are Vesta and Ceres, the largest bodies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, which recently ended its mission, orbited both of them … While many asteroids are loose collections of rubble, the interiors of Vesta and Ceres are layered, with the densest material at their cores … This indicates both of these bodies were on their way to becoming planets, but their growth was stunted. They never had enough material to get as big as the major planets.
5. Asteroids and comets help astronomers trace solar system evolution.
NASA said:
Most of the material that formed our solar system, including Earth, didn’t live to tell the tale. It fell into the sun or was ejected beyond the reaches of our most powerful telescopes; only a small fraction formed the planets. But there are some renegade remnants of the early days when the stuff of planets swirled with an uncertain fate around the sun.
A particularly catastrophic time for the solar system was between 50 and 500 million years after the sun formed. Jupiter and Saturn, our system’s most massive giants, reorganized the objects around them as their gravity interacted with smaller worlds such as asteroids. Uranus and Neptune may have originated closer to the sun and been kicked outward as Jupiter and Saturn moved around. Saturn, in fact, may have prevented Jupiter from “eating” some of the terrestrial planets, including Earth, as its gravity counteracted Jupiter’s further movement toward the sun.
Farther afield, the New Horizons spacecraft is currently on its way to a distant object called 2014 MU69, nicknamed “Ultima Thule” by the mission. One billion miles farther from the sun than Pluto, MU69 is a resident of the Kuiper Belt, a region of ice-rich objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. Objects like MU69 may represent the most primitive, or unaltered, material that remains in the solar system. While the planets orbit in ellipses around the sun, MU69 and many other Kuiper Belt objects have very circular orbits, suggesting they have not moved from their original paths in 4.5 billion years. These objects may represent the building blocks of Pluto and other distant icy worlds like it. New Horizons will make its closest approach to MU69 on January 1, 2019 – the farthest planetary flyby in history.
Artist’s concept of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt object that orbits the sun 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto, on January 1, 2019.
Image via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI.
6. Asteroids and comets help astronomers understand processes in an evolving solar system
Have you ever seen the zodiacal light? At this time of year, from the Northern Hemisphere, it’s easiest to see before dawn and is sometimes called the false dawn. This mysterious light is really scattered sunlight, from dust in the region of the sky where the planets orbit. This dust is left over from the collisions of small bodies such as comets and asteroids. The zodiacal light is an indication that our solar system is still active, NASA said, adding:
Zodiacal dust around other stars indicates that they, too, may harbor active planetary systems.
Dust from small bodies has had an important role in our planet in particular. About 100 tons of meteoritic material and dust material fall on Earth every day. Some of it comes from comets, whose activity has direct implications for Earth’s evolution. As comets approach the sun and experience its heat, gases inside the comet bubble up and carry away dusty material from the comet – including ingredients for life. NASA’s Stardustspacecraft flew by comet 81P/Wild in 2004 and found that cometary dust contains amino acids, which are building blocks of life.
Occasional outbursts of gas and dust observed in comets indicate activity on or near their surfaces, such as landslides. The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission, which completed its exploration of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2016, delivered unprecedented insights about cometary activity. Among the changes in the comet, the spacecraft observed a massive cliff collapse, a large crack getting bigger and a boulder moving. Ramy El-Maarry, a member of the U.S. Rosetta science team from the University of Colorado, Boulder, said in 2017:
We discovered that boulders the size of a large truck could be moved across the comet’s surface a distance as long as 1 1/2 football fields.
Comets also influence planetary motion today. As Jupiter continues to fling comets outward, it moves inward ever so slightly because of the gravitational dance with the icy bodies. Neptune, meanwhile, throws comets inward and in turn gets a tiny outward push. Uranus and Saturn are also moving outward very slowly in this process.
Thus the small bodies in space – the asteroids and comets – have established themselves as vital objects of study in astronomy. NASA has more to say on this subject, which you can read here.
This view shows Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen by the OSIRIS wide-angle camera on ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft on September 29, 2016, when Rosetta was at an altitude of 14 miles (23 km).
Image via ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA.
An animation portrays a comet as it approaches the inner solar system. Light from the sun warms the comet’s core, or nucleus, an object so small it cannot be seen at this scale. Click here to view animation.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Bottom line: Six reasons to study asteroids, comets and other space rocks.
Army Of Miniaturized Terracotta Warriors Discovered Guarding 2,100-Year-Old Chinese Prince’s Tomb
A 2,100-year-old pit containing a mini "Terracotta Army" has been discovered in China.
Army Of Miniaturized Terracotta Warriors Discovered Guarding 2,100-Year-Old Chinese Prince’s Tomb
A 2,100-year-old pit discovered in China was found to contain not only chariots and miniature statues of cavalry, horses, watchtowers, infantry, civil officials and musicians, but at its center was a scaled down version of the famous “Terracotta Army.”
“The pit, along with several other archaeological sites, was discovered in the winter of 2007 during construction work” and was excavated by the Cultural Relics Agency of Linzi District of Zibo city. According to an article in Live Science archaeologists from this agency teamed up with researchers from the Shandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and they published a report journal Wenwu, recently translated into English and published in the journal Chinese Cultural Relics .
A Miniature Force for the Afterlife
The southern part of the pit was found to have been filled with:
“formations of cavalry and chariots with models of watchtowers that stand 55 inches (140 centimeters) high and at the pit's center… 300 infantrymen stand alert in a square formation, while the northern part of the pit has a model of a theatrical pavilion holding small sculptures of musicians.”
The archaeologists noted that the newly discovered soldiers are smaller than those in the Terracotta Army and that the infantry sculptures are between 9 and 12 inches (22 and 31 cm) tall, much shorter that the famous life-size soldiers buried near the tomb of the First Emperor.
The miniatures include cavalry, horses and watchtowers.
Based on “the date, size and location of the pit,” archaeologists believe it might been built for Liu Hong, a prince of Qi (a part of China), who was the son of Emperor Wu (reign 141–87 BC).” Based in Linzi, near the pit, Hong died in 110 BC without any heir, archaeologists wrote in their journal article. The scientists also wrote that “the vehicles, cavalry and infantry, laid out in a square formation, were reserved for burials of the monarchs or meritorious officials or princes” and they suspect Hong’s royal burial might lie undisturbed nearby.
Substantiating their suspicions, older residents in the area reported descriptions of “a prominent earthen mound, some 13 feet (4 meters) high, near the pit,” reports which are corroborated by an aerial photograph taken in 1938 by the Japanese Air Force. However, the study says that “Sometime in the 1960s or 1970s, workers removed the earth and flattened the area in order to widen the Jiaonan-Jinan Railway” and while “There are possibly architectural remains or a path leading from the pit… There is no way to explore the main burial chamber” believing that “the tomb itself may have been destroyed.”
There are around 300 infantry in a square formation at the center of the pit.
What Was The Function of Chinese Terracotta Armies?
This particular form of ritualized funerary art began with the burial of the First Emperor in 210 to 209 BC which is arguably one of the most famous archaeological sites anywhere in the world, discovered by villagers in 1974. According to a Daily Mail article about the latest terracotta findings “The figures vary in height according to their roles, with the tallest being the generals. Current estimates [of the full sized terracotta army at X’ian] are that there were over 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry horses, the majority of which are still buried.”
Archaeologists know that the specific purpose of the warriors was to ‘protect’ emperors in their journeys into the corridors of the afterlife and they are thought of as of “crucial importance to our understanding of his attempts to control the world even in death.” Second in importance to being protected after death, Chinese emperors, it would seem, also required to be ‘entertained’, a claim which is made evident in the discovery of terracotta “acrobats, bureaucrats, musicians and bronze birds” at the First Emperor’s grave and the “model of a theatrical pavilion holding small sculptures of musicians” found at the new pit.
Terracotta Warrior Wrangle
Over the last decade the terracotta grave warriors have travelled from China and have been displayed in museums and universities in several countries, but these new statues won’t be coming to North America any time soon. And this has nothing to do with current trade wars or political wrangling, but because of the open wound in American - Chinese cause in 21st December 2017 when a 24-year-old American man was arrested by the FBI for breaking off and then stealing part of a $4.5 million Terracotta Warrior.
According to a report on Ancient Origins the Chinese government was pressing for a heavy jail sentence and as of yet the case is not closed, and until such times that it is, no more Chinese artifacts will find their way to American shores.
Top image: A 2,100-year-old pit containing a mini "Terracotta Army" has been discovered in China.
Alien Abductee's Strange Ecounters With Beings Not of This Planet (Video)
Alien Abductee's Strange Ecounters With Beings Not of This Planet (Video)
Thousands of people have reported the observation of structured craft that maneuver beyond our technological capability or that of any other nation. They appear to have overcome inertia and have their own gravitational field. Non-human figures have been observed both in the craft and on the ground. Sometimes they appear to be collecting samples of our flora and fauna.
They take samples of our wildlife and leave them with highly unusual properties, to the ground. They have been observed entering our oceans and rising from them into the air, departing vertically toward space. Thousands contend they have been kidnapped by non-humans in association with these craft and returned to their natural environment. Others claim that they’ve had a lifetime of friendly contact.
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Ancient Mysteries of Our Time Biggest Secrets Answered via Graham Hancock (Video)
Ancient Mysteries of Our Time Biggest Secrets Answered via Graham Hancock (Video)
Graham Hancock as you’ve never seen before, answering a multitude of questions on ancient origins. Graham traveled to Ethiopia and then to Israel, to uncover the lost secrets of the Ark of the Covenant.
The Sign and the Seal took him to Egypt and opened his eyes to the incredible enigma of the Great Pyramid of Giza, while the “technological” aspects of the Ark had alerted Hancock to the existence of out of place technologies in antiquity.
The stage was now set for his next project – a worldwide investigation into the possibility of a lost, prehistoric civilisation that resulted, in 1995, in the publication of Fingerprints of the Gods, undoubtedly his best known book.
Graham will answer questions of these subjects and many more in this previously unseen lecture.
Ancient Mysteries of Our Time Biggest Secrets Answered via Graham Hancock (Video)
Ancient Mysteries of Our Time Biggest Secrets Answered via Graham Hancock (Video)
Graham Hancock as you’ve never seen before, answering a multitude of questions on ancient origins. Graham traveled to Ethiopia and then to Israel, to uncover the lost secrets of the Ark of the Covenant.
The Sign and the Seal took him to Egypt and opened his eyes to the incredible enigma of the Great Pyramid of Giza, while the “technological” aspects of the Ark had alerted Hancock to the existence of out of place technologies in antiquity.
The stage was now set for his next project – a worldwide investigation into the possibility of a lost, prehistoric civilisation that resulted, in 1995, in the publication of Fingerprints of the Gods, undoubtedly his best known book.
Graham will answer questions of these subjects and many more in this previously unseen lecture.
Egyptian monuments rival the grandeur of our most modern buildings today and have wowed mankind for centuries. The landmarks have been connected to deities and gods since ancient times and the Great Pyramid of Giza is widely seen as one of mankind's most incredible achievements. These constructions were erected by a civilisation that had no knowledge of the wheel and were technologically limited, compared to modern standards. In Netflix documentary “The Pyramid Code”, researchers and conspiracy theorists question the possibility that the Egyptian pyramids were "built with high technology".
However, the show explains that we are taught to believe that we are the ones with knowledge of high technology, something the ancient Egyptians could not have possibly had.
Dr. Carmen Boulter, PHD, claims: “As long as we think that the ancients weren’t able to use high technology, then we're not looking for it.
"And yet, the evidence is right in front of our eyes.”
The Great Pyramid of Giza is estimated to have around 2,300,000 stone blocks that weigh from 2 to 30 tons each and there are even some blocks that weigh over 50 tons.
(Image: Getty)
The pyramid was composed of 144,000 casing stones and it is believed that all of them were highly polished and flat to an accuracy of 1/100th of an inch, about 100 inches thick and weighing approximately 15 tons each.
Evidence of advanced knowledge can be found in the Pyramid of Giza as the centres of the four sides are indented with an extraordinary degree of precision, forming the only eight-sided pyramid.
Bewijs dat piramides zijn ‘gebouwd door aliens’ bevindt zich recht onder onze neus. Netflix-documentaire doet stof opwaaien
Bewijs dat piramides zijn ‘gebouwd door aliens’ bevindt zich recht onder onze neus. Netflix-documentaire doet stof opwaaien
The Pyramid Code is een vijfdelige documentaire waarin onderzoek wordt gedaan naar oude piramides en tempels in Egypte.
De gepensioneerde professor Carmen Boulter van de Universiteit van Calgary heeft gedurende haar reizen naar Egypte en andere landen uitgebreid onderzoek gedaan.
Wie waren de oude Egyptenaren en wat wisten ze? Zou het kunnen dat de piramides vele malen ouder zijn dan traditionele egyptologen ons willen doen geloven? Kan het zijn dat de oude Egyptenaren veel hoger ontwikkeld waren dan wij? Waarom begrijpen we zo weinig van de oude Egyptenaren?
Zeer geavanceerde technologie
En zijn wij werkelijk de hoogst ontwikkelde beschaving die ooit op aarde heeft geleefd?
Deze bouwwerken zijn neergezet door een beschaving die niet de beschikking had over het wiel en die in vergelijking met moderne standaarden technologisch beperkt was.
In de Netflix-documentaire vragen onderzoekers zich af of de Egyptische piramides wellicht gebouwd zijn met behulp van zeer geavanceerde technologie.
Recht onder onze neus
We leren op school dat wij degenen zijn met kennis van geavanceerde technologie, iets waar de oude Egyptenaren niet over konden beschikken.
“Zolang we denken dat zij niet in staat waren om deze technologie te gebruiken, zullen we er niet naar zoeken,” zei dr. Boulter. “En toch bevindt het bewijs zich recht onder onze neus.”
The Rolling Stones song “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” was recorded 50 years ago this year, but If Keith Richards was born today, or at least during the current week, his signature opening line about a crossfire hurricane (which referred to a World War II German air raid on London) might have been updated to the dark matter hurricane slamming into the solar system and planet Earth as we speak. A what?
“The cosmic weather forecast calls for strong dark matter winds in our region of the Galaxy. The prediction is based on a new study of a nearby collection of stars that are all moving in the same direction.”
In the study “Dark matter hurricane: Measuring the S1 stream with dark matter detectors” published this past week in the journal Physical Review D and summarized in Physics, researchers from the University of Zaragoza in Spain reveal – a little too late – that Earth is presently in the midst of a ‘stellar stream’ that may contain a large amount of dark matter. Let’s break that down and see if we should look up at the sky or bend over and kiss our butts goodbye.
A stellar stream is the remains of a dwarf galaxy that was destroyed by a larger one. In this case, a stream called S1 by the researchers who discovered it last year using the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite is the remnants of dwarf galaxy eaten by the Milky Way billions of years ago. It appears to contain remnants of about 30,000 stars and is traveling through the galaxy at a speed of about 500 kilometers (310 miles) per second. How do they know this? Because it’s blowing past and around the sun and our planet right now.
That in and of itself doesn’t put us in any danger, according to the study. However, what happened on its journey here might. While passing through the rest of the galaxy, S1 has been picking up dark matter and is now bombarding us with it at such a high speed that study co-author Ciaran O’Hare named it a “dark matter hurricane.” (A new song would have to credit O’Hara to avoid the controversy Keith had with Stones bass player Bill Wyman over his uncredited contribution to the opening guitar riff of “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.”)
Inferred distribution of dark matter (blue) through the effect of gravitational lensing
Since we’re already theoretically surrounded by dark matter, the hurricane itself isn’t hurting us. In fact, it’s helping astronomers and physicists potentially identify what dark matter really is. One theory is that it’s a form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). O’Hara’s team believes current detectors won’t be able to pick them up but future WIMP detectors might. They’re more excited about identifying axion dark matter (theoretical particles 500 million times lighter than electrons) which “should exhibit a broad bump with an additional narrow peak if the S1 hurricane is truly buffeting our shores.”
So, we’re not going to get hit by any of the big pieces in S1 and we’re theoretically in no danger of the load of theoretical dark matter it’s dumping on us. The S1 dark matter hurricane is one of those things that will only give wet dreams to astronomers, physicists … and possibly future songwriters and heavy metal bands.
“Here I am … rock you like a dark matter hurricane.”
It’s an inevitability that when we find extraterrestrial life, despite the funding and civic pride and hope the nations of the world have put into their space programs, it’s going to be a rich dude that finds it. When you’ve got more money than you can count in a lifetime, the reasonable thing to do is hunt for aliens. What else is there to do? Yachts get boring after number 7 or 8, and you’re guaranteed an immortal legacy if you’re responsible for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Russian billionaire Yuri Milner is trying to be that rich dude, and he recently signed an agreement with NASA for their help with his planned mission to hunt for alien life on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus.
According to New Scientist, NASA is providing concepts, plans, and consulting work for Milner’s mission, which would be the first ever privately funded mission to deep space. From their report:
Agreements signed by NASA and Milner’s non-profit Breakthrough Starshot Foundation in September show that the organisations are working on scientific, technical and financial plans for the ambitious mission. NASA has committed over $70,000 to help produce a concept study for a flyby mission. The funds won’t be paid to Breakthrough but represent the agency’s own staffing costs on the project.
Non-profit is a funny word. Some things are worth more than money and discovering alien life represents an incalculable profit.
The Breakthrough Initiatives were founded in 2015 by Milner and his wife Julia, their board of directors includes Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg. The late physicist Stephen Hawking was on the board of directors, but we live in a world where the Facebook guy is going to discover aliens instead of Stephen Hawking. Let that sink in. Not too deep though, it’s incredibly depressing.
Enceladus.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Breakthrough Starshot is just one of the initiatives that the foundation is undertaking. Others include designing tech like solar sails and there are initiatives to fund both the listening for extraterrestrial civilizations and the sending of our own messages that someone might listen to. Which we can all agree is a terrible idea.
As to why they’re choosing Enceladus, the ice moon represents one of our best chances for finding life outside the cozy blanket of Earth’s atmosphere. Enceladus is cold. Its surface temperature never reaches above −324 °F (−198 °C). Despite its surface temperature, the Cassini spacecraft found evidence of a large ocean of liquid water beneath the ice surface in 2014. Cassini also observed geysers of ice and other compounds shooting into space, shows internal geothermal activity. Enceladus is locked in orbital resonance with another moon, Dione, and the resulting tidal activity in Enceladus’ subsurface ocean seems to be driving that activity. There’s something else too: on June 27, 2018, NASA revealed that Cassini had detected complex organic matter in the ice jets coming out of Enceladus.
Cross section of what Enceladus’ interior probably looks like.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
So we’ve got a water ocean, geothermal activity, and complex organic matter being shot into space from that ocean. Yeah, that seems life a fair place to look for life.
We’ll see. The beginning states of the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative will begin next year, as the team begins working through the concepts and planning phases. For all the problems with ultra-wealthy individuals making themselves the standard-bearers of humanity, there is an undeniable truth that money makes things happen. If enough money is thrown at these projects then it’s a sure bet that something will get done. What it is and what we’ll find is anyone’s guess at this point, but it will probably be pretty neat.
The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating a series of unexplained sightings reported by pilots flying over Ireland’s west coast last week. The incident began on Friday, November 9 when Shannon Air Traffic Control received a call from a British Airways Boeing 787 pilot flying from Montreal to Heathrow. Around 6:47 a.m. local time, the pilot radioed in to ask air traffic controllers if any military exercises were taking place at the time after he says his plane was buzzed by a “really bright light” which intercepted his plane before zooming away to the north “at a very high speed.”
Air traffic control reported nothing on radar.
Two other planes also reported witnessing similar objects in the area around the same time. Audio of those interactions between pilots and Shannon Air Traffic Control have been posted to YouTube. A nearby pilot can be heard suggesting that the objects may be meteors entering the Earth’s atmosphere, noting that multiple bright objects were following the same trajectory. A third pilot then joins in, adding “Glad it wasn’t just me.”
In response to those sightings, the Irish Aviation Authority issued the following statement to the Irish Examiner:
Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday 9th November of unusual air activity the IAA has filed a report. This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process.
We could very well never know what it was these pilots saw given the lack of any other evidence. Still, this incident adds to the growing body of recent sightings documented by recordings between pilots and air traffic controllers. Do these suggest some type of high strangeness going on overhead, or possibly that the skies aren’t quite as friendly as they used to be?
I always tend to side with theories which pin UFO activity and anomalous sightings on military activity or new types of unknown or unmanned aircraft. Given the somewhat testy geopolitical climate of today, it could be merely that we’re getting glimpses of things to come: hypersonic and space-based warfare, governmental misdirection, and a whole lot of confused civilians on the ground.
I was checking out the NASA SOHO images from their satellite that monitors the sun. The EIT filter captured a strange shaped UFO near the sun. The object appears to be white metallic with a reflection of yellow over it, probably caused from being so near the surface of the sun. The video is in HD so make it full screen to get a better view. Scott C. Waring
Updated: Made a video analysing the UFO...Video below.
I am searching for some photos of these UFOs. They reported multiple UFOs, glowing flying twice the speed of sound one after another and that just incredible. We have to believe aircraft pilots...we put our families lives at risk when flying with them...trusting them to do their job well. They are trained pilots who have trained for everything...except this. Listen to this audio tape and just maybe it will open some eyes about the existence of aliens. Scott C. Waring
Below you see that I added contrast, which reveals that there are spinning parts of this orb...separate parts which rotate in unison around the UFO. These panels that are seen on the UFO below rotate together and allow this UFO to travel faster than light speed. When the pilots and radar operators saw them, the UFO fleets speed was twice that of the speed of sound. These are built for speed and for carrying passengers across the universe. SCW
News states:
At 6.47am on November 9, 2018, the pilot of a British Airways flight contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to report a mysterious object travelling at high speed, and to ask if there were military exercises taking place in the airspace through which her Boeing 787 was passing. She was told that no military exercises were taking place, and that there was nothing unusual showing up on radar. The pilot responded: “OK. It was moving so fast.” The controller then asked: “Alongside you?” She described how the UFO came up along the left-hand side of the aircraft, “then rapidly veered to the north”. She said it was “a very bright light” that “disappeared at very high speed”. The pilot of a Virgin Airlines Boeing 747 then joined the conversation and said there were “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory”. Shannon ATC asked if the pilots knew which direction the objects were heading. The Virgin Airlines pilot said it was in his “11 o’clock position” with “two bright lights over to the right”, that then climbed away at speed. The Irish Aviation Authority has begun an investigation into the sighting.
Skinwalker Ranch UK Documentary 2018 Werewolves, Bigfoot, Men in Black and UFO (Video)
Skinwalker Ranch UK Documentary 2018 Werewolves, Bigfoot, Men in Black and UFO (Video)
So what is going on here? Inter-dimensional visitors from the Otherworld? Advanced military projects? Extraterrestrials? Black magic? Spirits of the land? We live in a more unusual world than most of us ever really notice. The type of incidents detailed in this documentary occur the length and breadth of our island and planet and have done arguably for as long as we have existed.
This is a classic piece of citizen investigation. Strange lights in the sky, people disappearing, big cats stalking the landscape, werewolves in the woods, fairy folklore, little humanoid creatures, this is high strangeness galore! The veil between worlds seems to be very thin in this area of East Yorkshire.
Military Abductions: Covert Disclosure of RectangleAntigravity UFO (Video)
Military Abductions: Covert Disclosure of Rectangle Antigravity UFO (Video)
On the morning of October 23, Exopolitics long-time source JP (a pseudonym) was once again instructed to look up into the sky by a nearby covert operative where he saw a rectangle platform shaped UFO.
He used his camera phone to take five photos of the UFO. He then noticed that he had missing time and when he tried to recall what had happened he had memory flashes of being inside the flying rectangle he had just photographed.
It seems the military use antigravity rectangle UFOs to carry out special abduction and mind control operations!
1942: Is This Original Footage of the Battle of Los Angeles UFO Incident? (Video)
1942: Is This Original Footage of the Battle of Los Angeles UFO Incident? (Video)
The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as The Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to the rumored enemy attack and subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage which took place from late 24 February to early 25 February 1942 over Los Angeles, California.
The incident occurred less than three months after the United States entered World War II as a result of the Japanese Imperial Navy’s attack on Pearl Harbor, and one day after the bombardment of Ellwood on 23 February 1942.
Initially, the target of the aerial barrage was thought to be an attacking force from Japan, but speaking at a press conference shortly afterward, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox called the incident a “false alarm.” Newspapers of the time published a number of reports and speculations of a cover-up.
The spacecraft zoomed within 15 million miles (24 million kilometers) of the sun on Monday (Nov. 5) — far closer than any mission had ever gotten before. And on Wednesday afternoon (Nov. 7), the probe phoned home, telling its controllers that it's in good health and continuing to collect science data.
(Orbital trajectory of the Parker Solar Probe.
Image credit: JHUAPL)
"Parker Solar Probe was designed to take care of itself and its precious payload during this close approach, with no control from us on Earth — and now we know it succeeded," Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate at agency headquarters in Washington, D.C., said in a statement. [The Parker Solar Probe's Mission to the Sun in Pictures]
An artist's illustration showing NASA's Parker Solar Probe approaching the sun.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben
"Parker is the culmination of six decades of scientific progress," Zurbuchen added. "Now, we have realized humanity's first close visit to our star, which will have implications not just here on Earth, but for a deeper understanding of our universe."
The probe also set a speed record during its first solar encounter, which technically ran from Oct. 31 through Monday. At closest approach, the spacecraft topped out at 213,200 mph (343,112 km/h) relative to the sun, NASA officials said.
Members of the Parker Solar Probe mission team celebrate on Nov. 7, 2018, after receiving a beacon indicating the NASA spacecraft is in good health following its first close solar flyby.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman
The German-American Helios 2 mission had held both the speed and close-approach records. In April 1976, that probe reached 153,454 mph (246,960 km/h) and got within 26.55 million miles (42.73 million km) of the sun.
The Parker Solar Probe will break both of its new records many times over the next seven years. The spacecraft will make 23 additional solar flybys during this span, getting closer and closer to our star.
(Artist's depiction of the Parker Solar Probe in orbit around the sun.
Credit: Steve Gribben/NASA/Johns Hopkins APL)
The final close approach, in late 2025, will take the Parker Solar Probe to within just 3.83 million miles (6.16 million km) of the sun's surface. During that dramatic flyby, the sun's gravity will accelerate the spacecraft to around 430,000 mph (690,000 km/h), NASA officials have said.
The $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe mission launched on Aug. 12, tasked with helping scientists better understand the sun's structure, composition and activity. The observations the spacecraft makes during its flybys should help solve two longstanding solar puzzles, mission team members have said — why the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is so much hotter than the surface, and how the flow of charged particles known as the solar wind gets accelerated to such high speeds.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There,"will be published on Nov. 13 by Grand Central Publishing.
The pilots spotted fast flying objects and bright lights in the sky
The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating reports of bright lights and UFOs off the south-west coast of Ireland.
It began at 06:47 local time on Friday 9 November when a British Airways pilot contacted Shannon air traffic control.
She wanted to know if there were military exercises in the area because there was something "moving so fast".
The air traffic controller said there were no such exercises.
The pilot, flying from the Canadian city of Montreal to Heathrow, said there was a "very bright light" and the object had come up along the left side of the aircraft before it "rapidly veered to the north".
She was wondering what it could be but said it did not seem to be heading for a collision.
Another pilot from a Virgin plane joined in and suggested it might be a meteor or another object re-entering the earth's atmosphere.
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He said there were "multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory" and that they were very bright.
The pilot said he saw "two bright lights" over to the right which climbed away at speed.
One pilot said the speed was "astronomical, it was like Mach 2" - which is twice the speed of sound.
What could it have been?
Apostolos Christou, an astronomer from the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, said what the pilots saw was probably a piece of dust entering the earth's atmosphere at very high speed.
"It was most likely what are commonly called shooting stars," he said.
"It appears the matter was extremely bright so it must have been quite a large piece of material.
"I cannot say from the pilots' description, but it could have been the size of a walnut or an apple."
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The astronomer said November tended to be a very busy month for such activity.
"It also appears there were bits coming off the object and flying past the aeroplane, that is also what you would expect if it was a particularly large rock from space hitting the atmosphere, it would tend to fragment."
"Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday 9 November of unusual air activity the IAA has filed a report," the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) said.
"This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process."
A spokesperson for Shannon Airport said it would not be appropriate for the airport to comment while the IAA investigation is ongoing.
Not long ago, we couldn’t see planets orbiting distant stars at all. Now astronomers have captured the passage of exoplanet Beta Pictoris b into the glare of its star … then its re-emergence 2 years later.
View larger. | Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b moving around its parent star, from December 2014 until it disappeared into the star’s glare in late 2016. Then, 2 years later, astronomers saw it re-emerge on the other side of its star. Notice the planet’s position in the bottom right image, in contrast to the others!
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) said on November 12, 2018, that its Very Large Telescope has captured an unprecedented series of images showing the passage of the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b around its parent star. The images are above. They’re amazing on their face, but especially when you notice the location of the exoplanet in the bottom right image – the one from September 2018 – in contrast to all those that came before. In other words, this planet went into the glare of its star for about two years. We couldn’t see it at all then. But now it has re-emerged on the opposite side of its star, as any respectable world moving in orbit would do.
We know worlds in space do this, but to see it! That’s something new.
It wasn’t until the early 1990s that astronomers began finding planets orbiting distant suns. Now – despite the conjecture that there might be some billion planets in our Milky Way galaxy alone – we’ve managed to discover only several thousand exoplanets. It’s finding them in the glare of their stars that has been the challenge. By their nature, stars produce light; planets don’t. Planets only shine with the reflected light from their stars. So spotting them in their stars’ glare was a major challenge to astronomers for decades.
And it’s still a challenge, although – as you can see from this stunning image – the technologies have vastly improved.
Beta Pictoris b is a young massive exoplanet, initially discovered via direct imaging in 2008 using ESO’s NACOinstrument at the Very Large Telescope. Most exoplanets are discovered when they transit, or pass in front of, their stars along our line of sight. But, from our earthly perspective, Beta Pictoris b doesn’t quite transit, so it hadto be found via direct imaging. ESO said:
The same science team [that discovered it] since tracked the exoplanet from late 2014 until late 2016, using the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument (SPHERE) — another instrument on the Very Large Telescope.
Beta Pictoris b then passed so close to the halo of the star that no instrument could resolve them from one another. Almost two years later, after seeming to merge into the image of the star, Beta Pictoris b has now emerged from the halo. This reappearance was captured again by SPHERE … [which] specializes in direct imaging, hunting for exoplanets by taking their photographs. This extraordinarily challenging endeavor provides us with clear images of distant worlds such as Beta Pictoris b, 63 light-years away.
Beta Pictoris b orbits its star at a distance similar to that between the sun and Saturn [approximately 800 million miles or 1.3 billion kilometers], meaning it’s the most closely orbiting exoplanet ever to have been directly imaged. The surface of this young planet is still hot, around 1,500 degrees Celsius [2,700 degrees Fahrenheit], and the light it emits enabled SPHERE to discover it and track its orbit, seeing it emerge from its passage in front of its parent star.
ESO has also created a timelapse video from these images, which you can see here. Enjoy!
Bottom line: Stunning new sequence of images from ESO’s SPHERE instrument, showing the passage of exoplanet Beta Pictoris b into the glare of its star and then, two years later, re-emerging.
Some 4,000 years ago, the Harappa culture thrived in the Indus River Valley of what is now modern Pakistan and northern India. They had big, prosperous cities, invented sewage centuries before the Romans, and established far-reaching trade routes to Mesopotamia. But in less than two centuries, their culture faded and their cities fell — and the main culprit may have been climate change.
An ancient well and bathing place at the Archaeological Site of Harappa. Image credits: Hassan Nasir.
The Indus Valley civilization was a primarily urban culture sustained by surplus agricultural production and commerce. They preferred urban settlements and built at least two major cities: Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, which were remarkably advanced for their time.
But things started to change around 2500 BCE. Shifting temperatures and weather patterns all over the Indus Valley caused a gradual dry-up of the summer monsoons, which made agriculture more and more difficult.
Liviu Giosan, a geologist at WHOI and lead author of the new paper, says this is what ultimately brought their demise and forced them to slowly retreat to smaller villages in the Himalayan foothills.
“Although fickle summer monsoons made agriculture difficult along the Indus, up in the foothills, moisture and rain would come more regularly,” Giosan says. “As winter storms from the Mediterranean hit the Himalayas, they created rain on the Pakistan side, and fed little streams there. Compared to the floods from monsoons that the Harappans were used to seeing in the Indus, it would have been relatively little water, but at least it would have been reliable.”
The end of an era
This isn’t a new theory, but evidence for these shifting patterns has been difficult to find in soil samples. So instead, Giosan and colleagues took to the ocean. They looked at microscopic fossils called foraminifera. Foraminifera are primitive “living fossils,” living from the Cambrian (542 million years ago) on to the present. They have a fossil commonly made of calcium carbonate, which means they often fossilize, especially in the environment of the Indus area. However, instead of looking for fossils, researchers looked one step deeper: they looked for DNA fragments.
“The seafloor near the mouth of the Indus is a very low-oxygen environment, so whatever grows and dies in the water is very well preserved in the sediment,” says Giosan. “You can basically get fragments of DNA of nearly anything that’s lived there.”
“The value of this approach is that it gives you a picture of the past biodiversity that you’d miss by relying on skeletal remains or a fossil record. And because we can sequence billions of DNA molecules in parallel, it gives a very high-resolution picture of how the ecosystem changed over time,” adds William Orsi, paleontologist and geobiologist at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, who collaborated with Giosan on the work.
This is an interesting type of indirect evidence: during winter monsoons, strong winds bring nutrients from the deeper parts of the ocean towards the surface, feeding a surge in plant and animal life — evidence of this surge is recorded in DNA sequences in sedimentary layers of the ocean floor. The DNA evidence revealed that winter monsoons seemed to become stronger, and summer monsoons weaker towards the later years of the Harappan civilization, corresponding with the move from cities to villages. It’s not clear exactly when and how quickly this process took place, but it was the end of an era.
“We don’t know whether Harappan caravans moved toward the foothills in a matter of months or this massive migration took place over centuries. What we do know is that when it concluded, their urban way of life ended,” Giosan says.
A lesson for today
This event signifies a very important warning for today. Unlike us, the Harappans didn’t bring this climate change on themselves — the source of this climate change actually came from very far away. A mini ice age settled in, releasing colder air from the Arctic into the Atlantic and subsequently, into northern Europe. In turn, this pushed the cold (but relatively warmer air) of northern Europe around, creating storms into the Mediterranean, which led to a surge in winter monsoons over the Indus valley — it was a remarkable series of domino pieces falling into place and sparking doom for the Harappan cities.
A similar process is happening today, and climate change is setting in motion a complex mechanism that will affect all areas of the globe.
“It’s remarkable, and there’s a powerful lesson for today,” he notes. “If you look at Syria and Africa, the migration out of those areas has some roots in climate change. This is just the beginning–sea level rise due to climate change can lead to huge migrations from low lying regions like Bangladesh, or from hurricane-prone regions in the southern U.S. Back then, the Harappans could cope with change by moving, but today, you’ll run into all sorts of borders. Political and social convulsions can then follow.”
MEDISCHSoms is er een duidelijke bron, zoals wegverkeer of de warmtepomp van de buren, maar vaak registreren zelfs de scherpst afgestelde microfoons helemaal niets. “Dit is bijna niet te overleven.”
Dirk van der Plas (57) noemt het niets minder dan een constante marteling. Hij formuleert bedachtzaam en zachtjes. Dan staat de man met donkergrijs kuifje op van de rode bank in zijn kleine woonkamer en knijpt zijn ogen halfdicht. “Ik hoor het nu heel hard.”
Wat precies? De brom. Voor veruit de meeste mensen klinkt het doodstil hier in het Groningse Saaksum, een pittoresk dorpje met zo’n honderd inwoners en omgeven door weiland. Nou ja, vogels hoor je, en op deze zonnige dag ook het zachte geritsel van de bladeren van zijn walnootboom. Maar Van der Plas heeft de pech daarbovenop een snoeihard laagfrequent geluid te horen.
Lage tonen dus, iets wat zij die het horen als een constante bromtoon omschrijven. “Alsof hier voor de deur een vrachtwagen stationair staat te draaien. En niet minder zacht ook.” Veel van hen voelen de trillingen ook, alsof ze voor een grote luidspreker in een concertzaal staan. “En ik ervaar ook een soort elektrische prikkel tegen mijn oren, alsof iemand er een batterij tegenaan houdt.”
Inmiddels hoort en voelt bijna 10 procent van de mensen het gebrom soms, blijkt uit een rapport dat het Nederlandse RIVM onlangs uitbracht. Dat is veel. Van die mensen ondervindt ongeveer 2 procent ‘ernstige hinder’. En hun aantal groeit, zo toont een inventarisatie van alle meldingen die gemeentes binnenkregen de laatste jaren. Stichting Laagfrequent Geluid, waar Van der Plas voorzitter van is, kreeg vorig jaar 633 meldingen binnen – een record van zijn jonge stichting. Vier op de vijf melders slaapt er slecht door. Zij zijn verspreid over het hele land, al is de problematiek in sommige steden en regio’s groter dan elders.
Duister
Experts tasten nog bijna volledig in het duister over de oorzaken. Soms is er een duidelijke bron, maar vaak registreren zelfs de scherpst afgestelde microfoons helemaal niets. In die gevallen lijken de problemen niet te verklaren met een beter gehoor van mensen als Van der Plas. Daar moet iets anders aan de hand zijn. Ondertussen merken de meeste buren of visite er niets van. Eén buurman hoort het soms, vooral in de winter. Af en toe horen ze de brom tegelijkertijd aanzwellen, als ze samen koffiedrinken.
Het is fijn als er een duidelijke bron is. “We zagen veel casussen langskomen die gewoon te verhelpen waren”, zegt RIVM-onderzoekster Irene van Kamp. “Denk aan een woonschip dat zijn eigen elektriciteit opwekt met een zwaar dreunende dieselmotor. Die kun je dan beter isoleren, en dat kan veel klachten van omwonenden ineens doen verdwijnen.” In andere gevallen is het een warmtepomp waarmee de buren hun stroom opwekken in de tuin, of een cv-ketel die niet goed hangt. “Bij het Zuid-Hollandse Nesselrode bleek wegverkeer de boosdoener.”
Lange geluidsgolven
De pech is dat lage tonen van windmolens, fabrieken of snelwegen zich door bijna niets laten stoppen. De lange geluidsgolven van lage tonen glijden moeiteloos door geluidswal en muurisolatie, en ook zogeheten ‘stil asfalt’ helpt alleen tegen ‘gewoon’, voor iedereen hoorbaar geluid. Dat maakt dat je soms heel ver moet fietsen om op de bron te stuiten. “En het maakt dat veroorzakers vaak niet weten dat zij mensen zo ver weg verstoren met gebrom”, zegt Van Kamp.
Maar vaak lijkt er überhaupt geen bron in de omgeving te zijn en dan begint de wanhoop pas echt. Van der Plas krijgt daar dagelijks mailtjes over. “Soms beginnen die met het woord ‘HELP’. Anderen moeten spontaan huilen, zodra ze voor het eerst op de site van mijn stichting kijken. Zij zien dat ze niet de enige zijn die het gebrom hoort. Ze beseffen: ‘Ik bén niet gek’.”
Van der Plas en zijn lotgenoten hebben drie problemen. Ten eerste natuurlijk het constante gebeuk in hun oren en lichaam. Maar ook dat de medische wetenschap hun tot op heden geen enkel zicht op oplossingen of uitleg kan bieden. En tot slot het onbegrip van hen die niets horen – de ruime meerderheid van de wereldbevolking.
Als straling zo hard staat dat het zenuwen activeert, verwacht je dat probleem ook in andere organen zoals het oog.
Bernhard Englitz , Biofysicus
Want dit probleem beperkt zich niet tot Nederland. In Canada woont biofysicus Glen MacPherson, werkzaam aan de universiteit van British Columbia. Hij heeft zelf last en richtte er een meldpunt voor op: thehum.info (the hum is Engels voor ‘de brom’). Iedereen kan op een wereldkaart precies aangeven waar hij ‘de stationaire vrachtwagen’ hoort. Die wereldkaart is inmiddels goed roodgekleurd van iedereen die dat deed. ‘We proberen daarmee zo goed mogelijk uit te zoeken wat de geplaagde regio’s gemeen hebben’, mailt MacPherson. ‘Dat antwoord is er nog niet.’
Omdat het dus moeilijk is de bron te vinden, en er vaak überhaupt geen geluid gemeten wordt, wijst Van der Plas in Saaksum op een andere mogelijke schuldige: straling. “Bijvoorbeeld van telefoonmasten of elektriciteitskabels.” Volgens hem zouden elektro-magnetische velden het binnenoor zo kunnen stimuleren dat iemand geluiden ervaart.
“Ook activeren die velden het brein wellicht op andere plekken, waardoor het gevoel van trilling ontstaat.” Hij wil dat er veel meer onderzoek komt naar straling als veroorzaker van de bromtoon. “Ik weet niet hoe het precies zou moeten werken – ik ben geen wetenschapper. Ik zoek gewoon naar mogelijke oorzaken.” Het zou wel verklaren waarom hij en anderen er in het hele land last van hebben, zegt hij.
Maar volgens MacPherson lijkt elektromagnetische straling geen gemene deler, zegt hij op basis van eigen experimenten. Daarvoor ging hij in een zelfgebouwde ruimte staan die alle straling buitenhield, waarop de brom in zijn oren onverminderd doorzong. Ook de Nijmeegse biofysicus Bernhard Englitz heeft vraagtekens bij het stralingidee. “Als straling zo hard staat dat het zenuwen activeert, verwacht je dat probleem ook in andere organen zoals het oog. Maar daar lijken deze mensen geen last van te hebben.”
Tinnitus
MacPherson houdt rekening met een paar mogelijke oorzaken. Misschien zorgt ondergrondse activiteit – lang doorzeurende aardbevingen, bijvoorbeeld – voor de gehoorde trillingen. Maar waarschijnlijker lijkt hem iets vergelijkbaars met tinnitus, de hoge piep die beter bekendstaat als oorsuizen. Dat is ‘intern geluid’ dat de hersenen dénken te horen. In de oren van tinnituspatiënten zijn de trilhaartjes beschadigd. Daardoor geven die minder signalen door aan de hersenen. Die gaan die leegte dan maar zelf invullen, waardoor het lijkt of er een constante piep aanwezig is.
Ook onderzoeker Englitz oppert dat een deel van de groep een variant van tinnitus zou kunnen hebben. “Door lang in hard en laag geluid te staan, beschadigt vooral het gedeelte van het oor dat dat lage geluid registreert. Dan kan het brein dat hiaat aan signalen daaruit zelf gaan inkleuren, waarop de persoon juist die lage toon constant hoort.” Een soort ‘brom-tinnitus’.
Mensen schamen zich. Ook in mijn dorp zullen sommigen me wel voor gekke gerritje hebben uitgemaakt.
Dirk van der Plas
MacPherson heeft tegelijkertijd sterke twijfels en kanttekeningen bij zijn meest waarschijnlijke hypothese. De door hard geluid veroorzaakte tinnitus is van alle tijden, maar de bromtoon lijkt een recent fenomeen. En patiënten die lijden aan zowel tinnitus als de brom stellen dat deze twee totaal verschillend bij ze binnenkomen. Ook Van der Plas zegt vanachter zijn koffie dat zijn brom echt van buiten komt, terwijl hij tijdelijke oorsuis na een hard optreden van binnenuit ervaart.
Hij wil zelfs niets weten van de suggestie dat het iets als tinnitus kan zijn. “Dat leidt de aandacht af van onderzoek naar de echte oorzaken. En ik weet zeker dat het iets anders moet zijn. De bestuursleden van mijn stichting en ik horen de brom soms op dezelfde dagen harder worden. Maar we zitten verspreid over Nederland – Almere, Haarlem, Deventer en ik in Saaksum. Dan kán het dus niet in ons eigen hoofd zitten.” Voor dat laatste heeft ook biofysicus Englitz geen verklaring.
Bij Van der Plas begonnen de problemen op 22 november 2009. “Specifiek, ja. Bijna iedereen die er last van heeft, herinnert zich de precieze dag nog dat het begon. Zo intens is het.” Dan begint het zoeken. “Hoofdschakelaar in huis uitdoen, rondjes door de buurt fietsen, met de buren praten of zij ook last hebben.”
Al is dat praten voor veel mensen lastig, vervolgt hij. “Ze schamen zich. Zij horen iets waar de rest stilte ervaart. Ook in mijn dorp zullen sommigen me wel voor gekke gerritje hebben uitgemaakt.” Dat is een van de redenen dat zo weinig mensen ervan weten, stelt hij. “Gelukkig komt daar langzaam verandering in. Het helpt dat het RIVM onze problemen erkent.”
Cognitieve gedragstherapie
Niet elke instantie gaat er zo mee om. Gemeentelijke gezondheidsdiensten (ggd’s) handelen meldingen van een bromtoon vaak bot af, vindt Van der Plas. “Ze zeggen: ‘Het uitvoeren van een meting heeft geen zin, er wordt toch geen bron gevonden’. En bieden daarna cognitieve gedragstherapie aan om met de hinder te leren omgaan.” Dat steekt hem enorm. “Ze spreken je vaak belerend toe.”
Het helpt daarbij niet dat laagfrequent geluid niet verankerd is in milieuwetgeving. Voor hoger geluid bestaan duidelijke normen, gemeenten kunnen daarop handhaven. Voor het toegestane geluidsniveau van bromtonen bestaat geen bovengrens. Het is daarvoor nog te moeilijk te bepalen bij welke geluidssterkte die schadelijk zijn voor het lichaam.
Van der Plas heeft weinig hoop dat zijn klachten binnenkort verholpen kunnen worden. Hij zit er nu tien jaar chronisch vermoeid door in de ziektewet. Tussen zeven en acht uur gaat hij naar bed, om door de onvaste slaap net zo vermoeid weer wakker te worden. “Bij thuiskomst gisteren was de brom loeihard”, mailt hij een dag na het interview. “Dat is amper te overleven. Het feit dat geen enkele instantie dit oppakt, dat je er dus nergens mee heen kan, is zeer pijnlijk.”
When it comes to the matter of UFOs, there’s one question that I get asked more than any other. Namely, “Have you ever seen a UFO?” Well, in the terms that most people think of UFOs, my answer to that question can only be a firm “No.” By that, I mean I have never seen a nuts and bolts-type object flying in the sky that baffled me. But, I did have one experience that some might suggest (and, indeed, have suggested) should cause me to change my stance. The story goes back more than a decade. Along with the late Rob Riggs (the author of several books, including In the Big Thicket), and several other friends and colleagues, on June 11, 2005 I headed out to Texas’ Big Thicket. It’s a large area of forestland that has a couple of weird legends attached to it: (a) the many and varied Bigfoot reports that have surfaced from the area; and (b) the Big Thicket’s resident “Ghost Lights,” as they have become known.
If, late at night, you have hung out in the Big Thicket’s Bragg Road (or Ghost Road and Ghost Light Road, as it’s known locally), you’ll know it’s very easy to mistake car headlights for something much stranger. But, that doesn’t take away the fact that there are far more than a few cases on record which stand the test of time. My very own late-night encounter in the area in 2005 was one of them. Here’s how I described the brief affair in my 2007 book, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter:
“We were on our way back to the vehicles to grab a bite to eat and some drinks when, as we entered a clearing in the trees, a basketball-sized bright light floated over us at a height of about 35 feet. It was moving from right to left, and sailed slowly, yet, purposefully on its journey. The ghost light was present for barely 10 seconds, but I managed to quickly capture the strange visitor on camera before it blinked out, never to return. Indeed, it all happened so fast that I almost convinced myself it had merely been a dream or the result of wishful thinking. But it was neither. The photograph had clearly recorded the ghost light. And more importantly, several members of the group could be seen in the picture, too, as could the road and the surrounding trees. In other words, I had secured an almost perfectly framed image of one of the Big Thicket’s mysterious ghost lights.”
And that was about it, a brief view of…well…something. So, to return to the theme of this article (did I see a UFO?), it all very much depends on how you, me and anyone and everyone interested in the subject interprets the term “UFO.” What I saw in the Big Thicket in the summer of 2005 was certainly unidentified. I can’t say it was flying, though. It was more like it was slowly, gently floating. And I saw no evidence at all that it was an “object.” At least, not in the way the word is used by ufologists. Rather, it just appeared to be a light. I suppose, something along the lines of the equally-controversial matter of ball-lightning.
In view of all the above, some might say that I really did see a UFO. Others might even go so far as to claim I saw an alien spacecraft (but, if it was, it would have been a hell of a small one!). Me? All I can say for sure is that I saw a fairly significantly-sized ball of light – and for a very short time – that was briefly there and which was then suddenly gone. At a veryconsiderable stretch, I guess I could claim to have seen a UFO. But, I would be deceiving myself. All I can say for sure is that I saw an odd light.
Solar storms have taken root as a modern boogeyman. Solar flares, or coronal mass ejections (CMEs), are fast approaching the top spot in many people’s minds as the probable cause for the collapse of society, the end-of-days, and the justification for buying that stupid shovel with the sharpened edge and the paracord wrapped around the handle (no, not the one they sell at Walmart, the nice one). Maybe it’s due to all the technology we’re completely and hopelessly addicted to being the prime victims should a solar flare backhand us out of nowhere.
We’ve spent the last century stockpiling electronics and hurling satellites into orbit and putting increasingly more faith in those satellites and not a lot of time into insulating that network from the inevitable belch of solar radiation coming our way sometime soon. It would be pretty inconvenient, perhaps even society shattering, if that were all to get fried even for a day. But you know what else we’ve been stockpiling for a century? Bombs! We have so many bombs. If you tried to count how many bombs we have, you’d give up. Because it’s a lot. And if you needed just one more push to get on the solar storm fear-hype-train, here it is. According to U.S. Navy documents from the Vietnam war, a solar storm in August of 1972 detonated 4,000 of the United States’ undersea mines. That’s right, solar storms are wielding heavy ordinance now.
In a recent paper published in the journal Space Weather, researchers dug up Navy records from the Vietnam War to asses the full extent of the solar storm’s impact. Here is a passage from the paper detailing the effect of the solar storm on Naval operations
The sudden detonation of a large number of U.S. Navy magnetic‐influence sea mines (designated as Destructors, DSTs) dropped into the coastal waters of North Vietnam only 3 months earlier…. Tucker…wrote that “… on 4 August (1972) TF‐77 aircraft reported some two dozen explosions in a minefield near Hon La over a thirty‐second time span…Ultimately the Navy concluded that the explosions had been caused by the magnetic perturbations of solar storms, the most intense in more than two decades
Further research suggested that the number was actually much higher:
Aerial inspections revealed additional evidence of detonations elsewhere along the coast. The wartime memoirs of a U.S. Navy Mineman‐Sailor, Chief Petty Officer Michael Gonzales, state that “During the first few weeks of August, a series of extremely strong solar flares caused a fluctuation of the magnetic fields, in and around, South East Asia. The resulting chain of events caused the premature detonation of over 4,000 magnetically sensitive DSTs (Destructor mines) … ”
The Destructor mine. These mines were launched into the ocean by aircraft, hence their aerodynamic features.
So, how did this even happen and what was the mechanism for the detonation? These undersea mines were equipped with magnetic sensors to trigger their detonation. When a solar flare hits Earth, it triggers a geomagnetic storm. the resulting fluctuations in the Earth’s magnetic field were sufficient enough to trigger the detonators.
And that’s not all. The August 1972 solar storm also damaged solar panels on satellites in space, caused a “mission-ending” power failure on one defense satellite, and caused Air Force sensors to register that a nuclear bomb had been detonated somewhere on Earth. I’m starting to connect nuclear false alarms and the old children’s story “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” and I’m beginning to feel very anxious for some reason.
Due to this event, the Navy replaced the magnetic detonation systems on their undersea mines, and great strides have been made since then, in general, to insulate our technology against solar storms. But is it enough? We won’t know till we know, I guess. As a last note—because it wouldn’t be doom porn without bringing nukes up twice—this solar storm happened in 1972 and then the Navy stopped using those magnetic sensors, but we built a lot of nuclear warheads before 1972. I’m sure work has been done to stop a solar storm from triggering our nukes’ detonators (I have to be sure because otherwise I’ll never sleep again), but I think we, as a global society, should agree to begin every single news broadcast, from now on, with a reassurance that the sun can’t nuke us.
I am searching for some photos of these UFOs. They reported multiple UFOs, glowing flying twice the speed of sound one after another and that just incredible. We have to believe aircraft pilots...we put our families lives at risk when flying with them...trusting them to do their job well. They are trained pilots who have trained for everything...except this. Listen to this audio tape and just maybe it will open some eyes about the existence of aliens. Scott C. Waring News states:
At 6.47am on November 9, 2018, the pilot of a British Airways flight contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to report a mysterious object travelling at high speed, and to ask if there were military exercises taking place in the airspace through which her Boeing 787 was passing. She was told that no military exercises were taking place, and that there was nothing unusual showing up on radar.
The pilot responded: “OK. It was moving so fast.” The controller then asked: “Alongside you?” She described how the UFO came up along the left-hand side of the aircraft, “then rapidly veered to the north”. She said it was “a very bright light” that “disappeared at very high speed”. The pilot of a Virgin Airlines Boeing 747 then joined the conversation and said there were “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory”. Shannon ATC asked if the pilots knew which direction the objects were heading.
The Virgin Airlines pilot said it was in his “11 o’clock position” with “two bright lights over to the right”, that then climbed away at speed. The Irish Aviation Authority has begun an investigation into the sighting.
Mysterious cosmic radio signal spotted unusually close to Earth
Mysterious cosmic radio signal spotted unusually close to Earth
We’re listeningCSIRO
By Alice Klein
A strange flash of radio waves that was recently detected in space has now been traced to its home galaxy – and appears to originate from relatively nearby.
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are blasts of radio waves that last for only a few milliseconds but can contain as much energy as our sun puts out in decades. Over 50 have been spotted in space since they were first discovered in 2007, however we still don’t know what causes them.
Most detected bursts have been billions of light years away, making them hard to study. But Ryan Shannon at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia and his colleagues recently found one called FRB 171020 that occurred unusually close to Earth.
In the neighbourhood
FRB 171020 was spotted by the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope in Western Australia. The researchers could tell from its radio wave characteristics that it originated only a hundred or so million light years away.
Elizabeth Mahony at Australia’s national science institute, CSIRO, and her colleagues have now determined that it most likely came from a galaxy called ESO 601-G036 located 120 million light years from Earth.
However, ESO 601-G036 doesn’t emit the same continuous stream of low-level radio emissions as the Auriga galaxy. This contradicts previous suggestions that FRBs can only form in galaxies with these background emissions.
Mahony’s team is now focusing its telescopes on ESO 601-G036 to confirm that it can indeed produce FRBs. If they spot another one, they may be able to pinpoint exactly which part of the galaxy it comes from. “Then we might actually be able to solve the mystery of what causes these fast radio bursts,” she says.
Some people believe the bursts are messages from aliens, but Mahony says they’re more likely to be products of astrophysical events, like the formation of new neutron stars.
Making signals from afarJohn R. Foster/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
Multiple Aircrafts Report UFO Sighting Over Ireland
Multiple Aircrafts Report UFO Sighting Over Ireland
Last Friday, the Irish Aviation Authority launched an investigation into the sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) by a number of aircraft over the southwest coast of Ireland.
At around 6.47 a.m. on 9 November, the pilot of a British Airways flight, Speedbird94, contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to ask whether military exercises were taking place in the airspace through which her Boeing 787 was passing. Shannon ATC then asked if the pilots knew in which direction the objects were moving.
Trevor Buckley@IrishAero
Very interesting report on Shannon high level Friday 9 November at 0630z with multiple aircraft with reported sightings of a UFO over County Kerry. Skip to 17 minutes to listen reports on @liveatc
Another pilot said the speed of the object was astronomical, it was like Mach 2, or twice as fast as the sound.
In a statement, the agency said the following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday, November 9, of unusual air activity, the IAA submitted a report.
“This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process.”
HE RECORDED AN IMPRESSIVE UFO SIGHTING DURING A LIVE BROADCAST IN MEXICO
HE RECORDED AN IMPRESSIVE UFO SIGHTING DURING A LIVE BROADCAST IN MEXICO
A video filmed this October 28 in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico, around 4:23 am, caused a great debate on social networks.
The author of the video, Esteban Zavala, claims to have shared live on Instagram the strange event that was “happening”.
“I was driving back to San Diego, California, with my grandmother. We were having a normal conversation when suddenly she stays silent and starts pointing to the sky. I looked and there were five of these things about the houses and the beach.
I parked and immediately began to broadcast it live on Instagram, hence its quality, to save me future speculations on video editing, “writes Zavala in the description of the video posted on YouTube.
In the comments, the cybernauts express their astonishment before huge flying saucers that seem to have a row of white lights covering their side.
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Einstein Reveals The Existence Of Aliens On Earth In This Document Written With Oppenheimer
Einstein Reveals The Existence Of Aliens On Earth In This Document Written With Oppenheimer
Jay Jonson
WE ARE NOT ALONE. The universe is so complex and infinite as to think that the human race is the only one that inhabits it.
This was known to Albert Einstein, a German theoretical physicist ,and in June of 1947 Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer together wrote a TOP SECRET six page document entitled “Relationships with Inhabitants of Celestial Bodies”.
This enigmatic six-page document is one of the first to refer to biological extraterrestrial entities and states that the presence of UFOs is something accepted by the military for a long time.
It also deals with the subjects that you would expect competent scientists to deal with – i.e., where do they come from, what does the law say about it, what should we do in the event of colonization and/or integration of peoples, and why are they here?
Finally, the document addresses the presence of celestial astroplanes in our atmosphere as a result of actions of military experiments with fission and fusion devices of warfare.
Einstein and Oppenheimer encourage consideration of our potential future situation and safety due to our present and past actions in space. How can we avoid a perilous fate?
Extracts from the document:
“Relationships with extraterrestrial men presents no basically new problem from the standpoint of international law; but the possibility of confronting intelligent beings that do not belong to the human race would bring up problems whose solution it is difficult to conceive.”
“In principle, there is no difficulty in accepting the possibility of coming to an understanding with them, and of establishing all kinds of relationships.”
“If these intelligent beings were in possession of a more or less culture, and a more or less perfect political organization, they would have an absolute right to be recognized as independent and sovereign peoples.”
“Another possibility may exist, that a species of homo sapiens might have established themselves as an independent nation on another celestial body in our solar system and evolved culturally independently from ours.”
“Living conditions on these bodies lets say the moon,-or the planet Mars, would have to be such as to permit a stable, and to a certain extent, independent life, from an economic standpoint.”
“Much has been speculated about the possibilities for life existing outside of our atmosphere and beyond, always hypothetically. Lets assume that magnesium silicates on the moon may exist and contain up to 13 per cent water. Using energy and machines brought to the moon, perhaps from a space station, the rooks could be broken up, pulverized, and then backed to drive off the water of crystallization. This could be collected and then decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen, using an electric. current or the short wave radiation of the sun. The oxygen could be used for breathing purposes; the hydrogen night be used as a fuel.
“Now we come to the problem of determining what to do if the inhabitants of celestial bodies, or extraterrestrial biological entitles (EBE) desire to settle here.
1. If they are politically organised and possess a certain culture similar to our own, they may be recognized as a independent people.
2. If they consider our culture to be devoid of political unity, they would have the right to colonize. Of course, this colonization cannot be conducted on classic linos.
A superior form of colonizing will have to be conceived, that could be a kind of tutelage, possibly through the tacit approval of the United Nations. But would the United Nations legally have the right of allowing such tutelage over us in such a fashion?
We cannot exclude the possibility that a race of extraterrestrial people more advanced technologically and economically may take upon itself the right to occupy another celestial body.
The division of a celestial body into zones and the distribution of them among other celestial states.
A moral entity? The most feasible solution it seem would be this one, submit an agreement providing far the peaceful absorbtion [sic] of a celestial race(s) in such a manner that our culture would remain intact with guarantees that their presence not be revealed.
It would merely be a matter of internationalizing celestial peoples, and creating an international treaty instrument.
The presence of celestial astroplanes in our atmosphere is a direct result of our testing atomic weapons?
The presence of unidentified space craft flying in our atmosphere (and possibly maintaining orbits about our planet) is now, however, accepted by our military.
Military strategists foresee the use of space craft with nuclear warheads as the ultimate weapon of war. Attack no longer comes from an exclusive direction, nor from a determined country, but from the sky, with the practical impossibility of determining who the aggressor is.
When artificial satellites and missiles find their place in space, we must consider the potential threat that unidentified space craft pose. One must consider the fact that mis-identification of these space craft for a intercontinental missile in a re-entry phase of flight could lead to accidental nuclear war.”
What do you think? Do the possibilities that man can establish a cordial relationship with the extraterrestrial?
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This Bizarre Form of Ice Grows at Over 1,000 mph, And Now Physicists Know How
This Bizarre Form of Ice Grows at Over 1,000 mph, And Now Physicists Know How
DAVID NIELD
New research into a very weird type of ice known as Ice VII has revealed how it can form at speeds over 1,000 miles per hour (1,610 kilometres per hour), and how it might be able to spread across yet-to-be-explored alien worlds.
This ice type was only discovered occurring naturally in March, trapped inside diamonds deep underground, and this latest study looks in detail at how exactly it takes shape – apparently in a way that's completely different to how water usually freezes into ice.
Based on a mathematical model devised by researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, there's a certain pressure threshold across which Ice VII will spread with lightning speed. This process of near-instantaneous transformation is known as homogeneous nucleation.
"This is a regime where the limits of our physical understanding are being tested," says one of the team, physicist Alex Chernov.
Scientists had already worked out that Ice VII could form under high temperatures coupled with intense pressure – around 100,000 times greater than normal atmospheric pressure – but experiments had shown it forming both homogeneously (almost all at once) and heterogeneously (from the surface inwards).
Up until now, that had physicists scratching their heads. This new research suggests a specific tipping point is the reason for the variations – as well as a difference in temperature between the liquid water and the ice crystals being formed.
These types of ice, or ice phases, also have different atomic structures in their crystals, which have a crucial impact on how the liquid water turns into solid ice. The researchers were able to determine that Ice VII initially forms in molecule clusters before spreading in nanoseconds across a body of water.
That's partly because there's no layer of heat at the point of nucleation – the point where the liquid turns solid – as there would be in ice that's freezing at normal pressures.
Molecular ordering of Ice VII
(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
"There is no need for the slow process of latent heat removal and the interface velocity is controlled only by very fast molecular ordering at the interface," Chernov explains.
Now that we have a mathematical model that fits the experimental data, we can apply it in all kinds of other areas of research. The existence of Ice VII itself was theorised and created in a lab first before being found packed away in diamonds.
The new explanation of how Ice VII forms at a fundamental, molecular level could have implications for the study of memory storage, material synthesis, and much more, according to the team behind the new model.
It could also prove prove useful in our hunt for life on other planets. The existence of water is used as a key indicator of whether life can exist on planets other than Earth, but if that water is pressurised enough to get zapped into Ice VII, then there might not be any life left to find.
"Water on these ocean worlds, under bombardment from other planetary bodies such as meteors or comets, undergoes intense changes for which life might not survive," senior author and materials chemist Jonathan Belof told Physics Central.
It's another clue for working out if an icy planet might be habitable, as well as just a fantastically cool example of how the boundaries of physics keep getting pushed.
For The First Time, Scientists Have Captured 'Alien Ice' Crystallising on Earth
For The First Time, Scientists Have Captured 'Alien Ice' Crystallising on Earth
PETER DOCKRILL
Not all ice is the same. In distant realms far beyond this world's Slurpees, melting glaciers, and the Ice Bucket Challenge, water hardens into a solid state in strange ways that just aren't possible here on Planet Earth.
Now, for the first time, scientists have managed to catch one of these alien, otherworldly ices in the act as it crystallises – recording water freezing into a structure called Ice VII (aka 'ice seven') under extreme, controlled conditions in the lab.
"These experiments with water are the first of their kind, allowing us to witness a fundamental disorder-to-order transition in one of the most abundant molecules in the Universe," says geophysicist Arianna Gleason from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
But wait – if you're wondering what happened to Ices I through to VI already, you've got another thing coming. There are actually around 20 known crystalline phases of ice, and only two of them – hexagonal ice and cubic ice – occur naturally on Earth.
Hexagonal ice, also known as Ice Ih (ice one h), is the structure of pretty much all the frozen water humans ever come into contact with on Earth's surface, while cubic ice (Ice Ic, or ice one c) is thought to sometimes form in our planet's upper atmosphere.
Ice VII. Credit: Arianna Gleason
All the other kinds of ice would only occur in conditions involving extreme temperatures or pressures not found here on Earth. Sometimes scientists can replicate those parameters in the lab and artificially create foreign ice structures, while at other times they only exist in simulations, being too difficult to actually synthesise.
In the case of Ice VII, this incredibly dense form is thought to naturally occur when icy planetary bodies collide in space, bringing an insane amount of pressure to bear on any liquid water molecules caught in the squeeze.
To recreate the intensity of such a hypothetical clash, Gleason's team fired a laser at a layer of diamond adjacent to a small cell containing liquid water.
Doing so vaporised the diamond and generated an intense shock wave, compressing the water to a pressure some 50,000 times greater than the Earth's atmospheric pressure at sea level and triggering the phase change from liquid to solid.
At the exact same instant, pulses from a strobing X-ray laser imaged the water as it underwent its transformation, providing the first record of Ice VII crystallising on Earth.
"We discovered that we can transform the liquid into a solid just by moving the shock wave through. And during that tiny, short amount of time – it really is only a few nanoseconds, that's a billionth of a second – we probe with these ultrafast and brilliant X-ray pulses."
According to the team, this kind of laser setup could help scientists to capture some of the other mysterious ice structures at the moment of crystallisation – and the things we can learn from studying these molecular transitions aren't purely theoretical.
With Ice VII, for instance, knowing how ice crystals form on icy moons and comets could help us prepare for future space exploration to destinations like Jupiter's moon Europa, and help us understand why impact craters form the way they do on battered off-world landscapes.
According to planetary scientist Sarah Stewart from the University of California, Davis, who wasn't involved with the study, there's no shortage of demand for these kinds of insights.
"Looking at the fundamental materials that are everywhere in the Solar System to understand what happens under dynamic pressure," she told Space.com, "as a materials scientist, you eat this up."
Duikers ontdekken bijzondere 'zeeworm' van duizenden organismen - HLN.be
Duikers ontdekken bijzondere 'zeeworm' van duizenden organismen - HLN.be
Duikers hebben vlakbij Nieuw-Zeeland een pyrosoom gefilmd. Dat is een soort worm van organismen. Pyrosomen komen vaker voor, maar de lengte van acht meter maakt dit exemplaar wel heel bijzonder.
Voor de kust van het Nieuws-Zeelandse White Island hebben duikers een gigantische zeeworm kunnen filmen. Het exemplaar van meer dan 8 meter lang bestaat uit duizenden kleine organismen en komt vooral voor in warme wateren.
KameraOneVoor de kust van het Nieuw-Zeelandse eiland White Island hebben duikers een zeeworm gefilmd van meer dan 8 meter lang.
ShutterstockMeerdere piloten zagen een helder licht dat zich met hoge snelheid verplaatste. Foto ter illustratie.
De Ierse luchtvaartautoriteiten gaan onderzoek doen naar meldingen van piloten over ufo’s. Een piloot meldde afgelopen week een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object toen hij boven Ierland vloog. Ook andere piloten deden melding van snel bewegende vliegende objecten.
Het incident gebeurde afgelopen vrijdag, tijdens een vlucht van het Canadese Montreal naar Londen, aldus nieuwszender BBC.
De piloot vroeg omstreeks zeven uur ’s ochtends de verkeersleiding van het vliegveld Shannon of er een militaire oefening gaande was, nadat hij een voorwerp nabij had gespot dat zich “razendsnel verplaatste”. Dat bleek niet het geval. Vervolgens meldde de piloot een “zeer helder licht” te zien en een voorwerp dat aan de linkerkant van zijn vliegtuig vloog en snel naar het noorden verdween.
Very interesting report on Shannon high level Friday 9 November at 0630z with multiple aircraft with reported sightings of a UFO over County Kerry. Skip to 17 minutes to listen reports on @liveatc
Een andere piloot zegt “twee felle lichten” te hebben gezien, die met hoge snelheid omhoog vlogen. Hij spreekt van iets met een “astronomische snelheid, bijna twee keer dat van het geluid”.
De piloot van een Virgin-toestel suggereert dat het mogelijk een meteoriet was die de atmosfeer binnenkwam. Volgens de man volgden meerdere objecten dezelfde baan.
De Ierse luchtvaartautoriteiten nemen de meldingen serieus, maar heeft nog geen verklaring. “De IAA heeft een rapport ingediend, nadat een aantal vliegtuigen melding heeft gemaakt van ongewone luchtactiviteit”.
‘Oumuamua, that Hawaiian-named, cigar-shaped comet / asteroid / spaceship / planet fragment / something else and the controversy surrounding what exactly it is keeps getting more heated … now with personal attacks, rebuttals and more. Less than a week after many media sites reported that Avi Loeb, chairman of Harvard’s astronomy department, said in a letter in The Astrophysical Journal Letters that ‘Oumuamua could be a spaceship or a “lightsail of artificial origin “from an alien civilization, his and his co-author’s intelligence and opinions were called into question by scholars in numerous fields.
llightsail
“Like most scientists, I would love there to be convincing evidence of alien life, but this isn’t it. It has already been shown that its observed characteristics are consistent with a comet-like body ejected from another star system. “And some of the arguments in this study are based on numbers with large uncertainties.” — Dr. Alan Fitzsimmons, Queens University Belfast.
And …
“The thing you have to understand is: scientists are perfectly happy to publish an outlandish idea if it has even the tiniest *sliver* of a chance of not being wrong. But until every other possibility has been exhausted dozen times over, even the authors probably don’t believe it.” — Astrophysicist Dr. Katie Mack, North Carolina State
The Daily Galaxy contacted Dr. Loeb and he clarified the contents of the letter. Here are portions of his response:
“I was very surprised about the reaction of the media to our paper … It is exciting to live at a time when we have the scientific technology to search for evidence of alien civilizations. The evidence about `Oumuamua is not conclusive but interesting. I will be truly excited once we have conclusive evidence … The excess acceleration of `Oumuamua was detected at multiple times, ruling out an impulsive kick due to a break up of the object. The only other explanation that comes to mind is the extra force exerted on `Oumuamua by sunlight. In order for it to be effective, `Oumuamua needs to be less than a millimeter in thickness, like a sail. This led us to suggest that it may
be a light-sail produced by an alien civilization. I welcome other proposals, but I cannot think of another explanation for the peculiar acceleration of `Oumuamua.”
‘Oumuamua’s path through the solar system
Loeb’s co-author, Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, also responded. Here are portions of his answer/defense:
“It’s true that the Harvard paper suggesting that this object might be engineered, rather than simply the ten millionth rock from the Sun, has certainly provoked a lot of interest by the public. But one should keep in mind that the idea of alien company has perennially been interesting to the public … One-third of the public seems to think that we really are being visited by extraterrestrial tourists … It’s obviously far less interesting to suggest that Oumuamua might be no more than an insensible, random hunk of ice.”
Loeb is an adviser to Breakthrough Starshot, an initiative working to send a fleet of tiny laser-powered lightsails to the nearest star system. Is his study about ‘Oumuamua possibly just a justification for this project? Is his quest to find alien life blinding him to scientific principles? What does Harvard think about all of this attention from the UFO world?
One thing is for certain … the controversy circling ‘Oumuamua is far from over.
Oh, Area 51, don’t ever change. America’s spookiest Air Force facility has a firm hold on the world’s imagination and continues to spark speculation conspiracy theories about UFOs and secretive weapons and aircraft. The latest Area 51 weirdness was reported this week by Tyler Rogoway at aviation blog The Drive and seems to suggest the classified operations show no signs of stopping in the skies above Groom Lake.
What exactly goes on in the desert?
Despite the fact that nearly all of this testing is highly classified, there is only so much the Air Force can keep a secret due to the fact that much of the armed service’s flight data remains open to the public. Aviation watchdogs poring over this data noticed a strange flight which took place on September 20th earlier this year, flying with no callsign – the first suggestion that something strange was going down. Even stranger? The flight flew a repeated loop directly over the secretive Area 51 facility in the middle of the night. After four hours, the aircraft headed southwest before disappearing.
The aircraft has been identified as a Boeing NKC-135 Stratotanker, usually used for in-flight refueling operations. This particular aircraft, identified with the serial 61-0320, is a highly modified tanker which has been particularly busy in 2018 flying missions out of Area 51’s host facility, Edwards Air Force Base.
Edwards Air Force Base is home to the 412th Test Wing which conducts testing on new Air Force technologies.
The flight’s entire path can be seen here. Note that on this flight data website, a glitch caused two separate flights to be combined into one. That other flight, ten hours later, saw the same aircraft fly over desolate, unpopulated areas in the desert before making a similar loop over the ocean west of Vandenberg Air Force base. That second flight featured the appropriately spooky callsign “GHOST 57.”
In all likelihood, this tanker was refueling highly classified and experimental aircraft flying out of Edwards – but that makes it no less mysterious and fascinating. Then again, why spend so much time in the air directly above Area 51? That airspace is usually restricted and test flights rarely enter. What was being tested in the remote Nevada desert?
Glowing UFO Recorded Outside House On Harsh Windy Day, Argentina, Nov 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Recorded Outside House On Harsh Windy Day, Argentina, Nov 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 8, 2018 Location of sighting: Santa Cruz, Argentina This UFO was caught outside a home in Argentina during a wind storm and it may be the very cause of the weather being so harsh that day. UFOs are known for causing wind, lightning, thunder, hail and even tornadoes. Why is still unknown, but UFOs have been recorded during such events as if it was fun for them. During lightning storms...like the one back at Norte Dame Stadium and caused the game to halt for a while...small glowing firefly UFOs were seen zooming around on camera. Very rare and amazing video here. Scott C. Waring
White Oval UFO Seen Over Forested Area Of Quebec, Canada ( November 10, 2018 ), VIDEO, UFO Sighting News.
White Oval UFO Seen Over Forested Area Of Quebec, Canada ( November 10, 2018 ), VIDEO, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 10, 2018 Location of sighting: Forest of Quebec, Canada Source: MUFON #96275 This UFO was caught hovering over a forest area of Quebec a few days ago. The person noticed it while driving and pulled over in time to catch it for a few more seconds. The objects shape closely resembles that of the Star Trek Voyager ship from the TV show. This UFO is white so is easily confused with a cloud, but its obvious that the object is a smooth hard white surface. The ship appears uneven because it was not made, but grown...bioengineering makes crafts for you, they grow and learn. This looks like just such a craft. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I was a trucker, I was coming back from Le Havre St-Pierre, at the exit of Mingan Point, my attention was attracted by an object in the sky, the more I approached more believed a kite that would have been on the beach, but it was not that! absolutely not. There was no wire, no noise, no smoking, it was almost moving, but it was almost stationary. I saw little wings and it was as big as a hot air balloon. I filmed some time, I do not know why I went my way? I recognized the truck that was last to mine, I spoke to the driver Richard, he also told me "but what was it? He was not caught taking a picture. He claims that it is not a known object.
Huge Interstellar Alien Craft Caught Near Orion Nebula M42
Huge Interstellar Alien Craft Caught Near Orion Nebula M42
It seems as November is the month to spot interstellar alien craft near the Orion Nebula M42.
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion.
M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth.
On November 7, 2018 Moonshot23 spotted a huge cigar-shaped UFO near the Orion Nebula M42 coming across his CMP screen as he was stacking images in his nebulosity program. “The three second between shots does stretch the object, I tested it out”, he said.
Last year on November 29, 2017 a sky-watcher from North Carolina was out collecting data on M42 Orion Nebula.
As he still was fine focusing his 8 in astrograph / Newtonian Telescope a giant cigar-shaped UFO appeared on his laptop screen which he captured in a single 30.2 second frame.
Just as he thought the thrill was over several other objects appeared on the laptop screen which he also captured in a 5 frame sequence at 30.2 second frames and it clearly shows the movement of the objects at the bottom of the frames.
Below the footage of the huge cigar-shaped UFO captured on November 7, 2018.
Airline Pilots report close encounter with UFOs off Irish Coast (Audio)
Airline Pilots report close encounter with UFOs off Irish Coast (Audio)
The Irish Aviation Authority has begun an investigation into the sighting of multiple unidentified flying object (UFOs) by a number of aircraft off the south-west coast of Ireland last Friday.
At approximately 6.47am on November 9, the pilot of a British Airways flight, call sign Speedbird94, contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to ask if there were military exercises taking place in the airspace through which her Boeing 787 was passing but there were no military exercises underway.
She further explained that the object had appeared as a "very bright light" and had flown along the left side of their 787 before it "rapidly veered to the north" and then "disappeared at very high speed." There is no indication of concerns about a possible collision.
Shannon ATC replied: “There is nothing showing on either primary or secondary (radar).” The pilot responded: “OK. It was moving so fast.” The controller then asked: “Alongside you?”
The pilot of a Virgin Airlines Boeing 747, call sign Virgin76, then joined the radio conversation to say that they too had seen more than one bright light there were “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory”. He repeated the details about the objects being very bright and moving at extremely high speeds, likening their appearance to an object re-entering the earth's atmosphere from space.
The pilot of Virgin76 said they were very bright “where we were”.
"Glad it wasn't just me," someone chimed in at one point. "No, ah, yeah, very interesting that one," the pilot of Virgin 76 replied and noted that the two very bright objects went from 11 o'clock off their nose before climbing away at high speed.
The pilot of British Airways BA pilot flying from Montreal to Heathrow, describes how the UFO came up along the left-hand side of the aircraft, “then rapidly veered to the north”.
She said it was “a very bright light” that “disappeared at very high speed”. She said they were “wondering” what it could be, that it did not seem to be on a collision course.
The pilot of another aircraft, a Norwegian Air 737, was also party to the overall conversation. Eventually, air traffic controllers said that they had received multiple reports about the objects and would pass the information on to authorities.
A third individual – it's unclear whether they were onboard Speedbird 94, Virgin 76, or a third plane – said they were going so fast it was "astronomical, it was like Mach 2.”
Shannon ATC asked if the pilots knew which direction the objects were heading. The Virgin Airlines pilot said it was in his “11 o’clock position” with “two bright lights over to the right”, that then climbed away at speed. Shannon ATC told the pilot it would pass that information on. Shannon ATC then told Speedbird94 that “other aircraft in the air have also reported the same thing so we are going to have a look and see”.
The BA flight was passing over Kerry at the time, while the other two flights were off the south-west coast, heading eastbound, and in high-level airspace, which extends from 24,500ft upwards.
The Irish Examiner contacted the Irish Aviation Authority to ask if it was investigating the UFO.
In a statement, the authority said: “Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday, November 9, of unusual air activity, the IAA has filed a report.
“This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process.”
According to thedrive objects regularly enter the earth's atmosphere, and some are quite spectacular looking if they make it to lower altitudes, they do not fly up alongside aircraft, make hard lateral maneuvers, and then accelerate away at high speed.
The fact that Speedbird 94 provided a 'close-up' account of the incident while Virgin 76 conveyed a 'wide-angle' account that made this encounter even more compelling.
The entire audio is available here. It begins 17:50 and ends right after the 20:00 minute mark.
A strange disc-shaped object has been observed in the skies above Scotland, creating speculation that aliens operated the craft.
A regular person in Scotland spotted the black UFO, which sparked a debate as to whether it was evidence of extraterrestrial activity.
The video shows a cigar-shaped object hovering among the clouds and swopping up and down.
The footage was taken in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland and the one who took the video sent it to UFO investigation organization MUFON.
MUFON then uploaded the video to its YouTube page, leaving many viewers wondering whether it was real or not.
The person behind the video described the object as puck-shaped, an edged disc. He observed it moving from his left to right, and it looked like a cigar as it moved horizontally.
He further revealed that there were clouds above and below the mysterious object. When viewed from underneath, he clearly saw it was circular.
Many viewers think the video shows a real alien activity. Some others assume that the video has undergone MUFON authenticity check before posting, so it must be real.
A few others, meanwhile, were not so convinced. They were surprised MUFON put such video online.
Onderzoek nadat meerdere piloten een UFO voor de kust van Ierland zien. Wat was het?
Onderzoek nadat meerdere piloten een UFO voor de kust van Ierland zien. Wat was het?
De Ierse luchtvaartautoriteit heeft een onderzoek ingesteld naar een UFO die afgelopen vrijdag door meerdere piloten is waargenomen.
Op 9 november nam de piloot van een toestel van British Airways contact op met de luchtverkeersleiding om te vragen of er militaire oefeningen werden gehouden in haar omgeving.
Ze kreeg te horen dat dat niet het geval was. “Er is niets te zien op de radar,” aldus de luchtverkeersleiding.
Ontzettend snel
De UFO verscheen aan de linkerkant van haar vliegtuig, om vervolgens ‘met hoge snelheid af te buigen richting het noorden’.
De piloot zei over het onbekende vliegende object: “Het bewoog zo ontzettend snel.”
Ze zei dat het ‘een zeer fel licht’ was dat ‘met zeer hoge snelheid verdween’ en dat ze zich afvroegen wat het zou kunnen zijn.
Mach 2
De piloot van een Boeing 747 van Virgin Airlines zei vervolgens dat hij ‘meerdere objecten had gezien die dezelfde koers volgden’ en die ‘zeer fel’ waren.
Zo zag hij rechts van hem ‘twee felle lichten die omhoog klommen’.
Een andere piloot zei dat de UFO met een snelheid van ongeveer Mach 2 vloog.
Ongewone activiteit
Ook een Boeing 737 van Norwegian Air nam deel aan het gesprek.
“Er is een onderzoek ingesteld naar aanleiding van een aantal meldingen van vliegtuigen over ongewone activiteit in het luchtruim op vrijdag 9 november,” bevestigde de Ierse luchtvaartautoriteit.
I was just a kid when I was introduced to the menacing and macabre world of the enigmatic Men in Black, those dark-suited ghouls that terrorize UFO witnesses and researchers alike. I eagerly began reading the disturbing-yet-compelling pages of John Keel’s now-classic title, The Mothman Prophecies, which told of distinctly strange goings-on at Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the mid-to-late 1960s. Come to think of it, “strange goings-on” may not be the correct terminology to use. Outright paranormal foulness and malignancy would be far more apt, methinks. A fiery-eyed winged-thing, surreal reports of contact with enigmatic alien entities on lonely, moonlit, tree-shrouded roads, occult phenomena plaguing the entire town by the dead of night, and lives manipulated and transformed in ways near-unimaginable were the order of the day. And then there was the brooding, predatory, and repeated manifestations of the dreaded MIB who, I got the distinct impression, were pulling the supernatural strings of just about all those myriad entities and unspeakable things that had chosen Point Pleasant as their targets.
For reasons I have never truly been able to fathom, from that very day onward I became particularly fascinated by the actions of the Men in Black, their silencing of UFO witnesses, their near-ethereal presence in our world, and, of course, their overwhelming and mysterious elusiveness. Who, or more likely what, were they? From where did they originate? What did they want of us? Why were they so deeply intent on silencing Flying Saucer-seekers? The further and deeper I dug into the subject, the more I found myself attempting to penetrate the veil of unsettling darkness and hostility that seemed to forever surround the MIB. In the immediate years that followed my reading of John Keel’s legendary study of Mothman, I sought out just about as many works on the MIB as was conceivably possible. And, at the absolute top of my list – in undeniably joint first-place – were Gray Barker’s 1956 title They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers and a small and overwhelmingly bizarre book titled Flying Saucers and the Three Men. The latter was penned in 1962 by a curious and undeniably paranoid character named Albert Bender, without who there simply would be no MIB puzzle. Period.
Barker, who had a flair for all-things dramatic, was the perfect person to address the MIB mystery – even though a self-admitted combination of embellishment, parable and exaggeration was his typical and controversial style. But, Barker would never have been in a position to do much of an MIB nature had it not been for the eccentric and occult-obsessed Bender, who, in 1953, was allegedly silenced by a trio of black-garbed, blazing-eyed entities from some strange netherworld after getting too close to the truth about Flying Saucers.
As time went on I also learned, unfortunately, that Barker would tell a tale purely for for effect. He was also someone who was willing to hoax, to fabricate, and to outright lie in the name of the M.I.B. In other words, reading Barker’s works requires one to be on one’s guard all of the time. His writings do contain facts, but there is a hell of a lot of fiction and lying there, too. All of that just has to have a bearing on the early days of M.I.B. lore and legend. Far less Mulder and Scully, and far more H.P. Lovecraft meets Devil Girl from Mars meets Bram Stoker, Flying Saucers and the Three Men presented the MIB not as government agents of the Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones variety, but as harshly cold and emotionless aliens who seemed to be as familiar with matters occult and nightmarish as they were with UFOs and faraway, fantastic worlds.
Appearing as well-dressed, pale-faced corpses, the terrible trio intimidated and terrified the obsessive-compulsive Bender to the point of near physical and emotional collapse. No wonder he quit Ufology and moved onto other things, such as focusing on the works of Austrian composer, Max Steiner, who was responsible for the soundtracks to the original of King Kongand Gone with the Wind. Indeed, in 1965, Bender established the Max Steiner Music Society, and left his old life firmly in the past. As for Barker, in 1984 it was ill-health, rather than the black-garbed ones, that took him before he reached sixty. Keel continued on for a quarter of a century after Barker, still caught up in – yet never, ever quite resolving – the conundrum of the three shadowy men from beyond the veil.
Of course, as my teens became my twenties, and then my thirties, my views on the MIB phenomenon changed, in some ways subtly, but in other ways far less so. But there was one thing that never did alter: My earnest wish to solve the puzzle of the true nature, origin and intent of the Men in Black. Since those days of my childhood, I have pursued the MIB on a scale that has easily far exceeded my quests for the truth about Bigfoot, the Chupacabras, and Roswell combined. My first book, A Covert Agenda, which was published in 1997, detailed a number of curious MIB-style encounters in the U.K. from the 1950s onward. My 2003 title, Strange Secrets, included a chapter on the little-known issue of government files on the Men in Black. Three years later, I penned On the Trail of the Saucer Spies, which was a full-length study of the secret surveillance of certain elements of the UFO research community by MIB-type characters in government. Then, in 2011, The Real Men in Black hit the bookshelves. This latter title from me specifically addressed the paranormal side of the MIB phenomenon. And, in that same year, I wrote a new foreword to an updated and expanded edition of Gray Barker’s 1983 book: M.I.B.: The Secret Terror among Us. Since then, I’ve written Men in Black, Women in Black, and The Black Diary. As well as a book on the ultimate Man in Black, the Slenderman. It has been a curious journey, to say the least…
Ancient tombs found in Egypt? Old news. Mummies in the tombs? Old news. Mummified cats? Not as common, but still old news. Mummified scarab beetles? Now there’s something you don’t hear about very often. Throw in a sealed door that appears to never have been opened and you’ve got the makings of a great discovery in the Saqqara necropolis.
“The (mummified) scarab is something really unique. It is something really a bit rare. A couple of days ago, when we discovered those coffins, they were sealed coffins with drawings of scarabs. I never heard about them before.”
That explains the excited announcement last week by Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, of the discovery of seven tombs – three from the New Kingdom and four from the Old Kingdom – containing a wide variety of animal sarcophagi and wooden statues. The tombs were discovered in a partially excavated area on the edge of the pyramid complex dedicated to the mysterious King Userkaf, the founder of the Fifth Dynasty whose parents and queen are unknown. One of the tombs belonged to Khufu-Imhat, the overseer of the royal buildings in the royal palace. Another of the 4,500-year-old tombs has its door still sealed, meaning it may have escaped looting by grave-robbers. Mohamed Youssef, director of the Saqqara area says it will be opened soon.
Live (or at least it once was ) scarab beetle
However, the center of interest is the animal mummies, especially the scarabs – large dung beetles that were revered in ancient Egypt. (Large set of photos here.) Two of the mummified scarabs were found wrapped in linen and in very good condition inside a limestone sarcophagus with a decorated lid. More were found in a smaller sarcophagus. Mummified scarabs are extremely rare finds and these are not only the first in this area but the first anywhere that date back to the Fifth Dynasty.
Another tomb contained dozens of cat mummies, gold-covered statues of cats and a bronze statue dedicated to the cat goddess Bastet, who was apparently the world’s first cat lady. In addition to the feline collection, there were mummified crocodiles in crocodile sarcophagi, crocodile statues and painted wooden statues of cobras. And of course, the usual burial objects such as amulets, canopic jars and papyri baskets. The mummified cats could have been pets of the tomb owner but more likely they, the other animals and especially the scarabs were gifts for the gods.
Bastet
How many more tombs may have had unusual contents like these but were looted or destroyed? We’ll probably never know. However, it’s good that the Council of Antiquities has recognized their value – even if it’s just to attract tourists with money – and is doing its best to preserve these and future discoveries.
Space junk could explain what pilots saw over Ireland last week.
NASA/P.Spurny/Astronomical Institute
Pilots flying over Ireland on Friday reported seeing an unidentified flying object, or possibly objects, spurring an investigation into the UFO (or UFOs) by the Irish Aviation Authority.
"It was moving so fast," the pilot says. "It [came] up on our left hand side and then rapidly veered to the north. We saw a bright light and then it just disappeared at a very high speed."
The pilot explains the team didn't fear the object was on a "collision course," but was just wondering what it could be.
At that point another pilot cuts in, saying his Virgin Airlines 747 also had encountered multiple meteors or some other sort of objects "making some kind of reentry."
"Appeared to be multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory," the pilot says. "They were very bright where we were."
Harvard astronomer Jonathan McDowell, who also makes a habit of tracking space launches and the many bits of space junk that regularly burn up in the atmosphere, tweeted that he wasn't aware of any satellites known to be reentering at that time.
Know of any satellites re-entering that this could have been? Cheers
Close encounter with UFO off Irish coast leaves pilots ‘wondering’
The Irish Aviation Authority has begun an investigation into the sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) by a number of aircraft off the south-west coast of Ireland last Friday.
But as McDowell himself has pointed out in the past, there are literally thousands of objects whipping around Earth. It's possible any number of them could have reentered the atmosphere and been responsible for what the pilots spotted.
Aliens? Mysterious UFO spotted by three pilots under investigation amid BIZARRE radar data
Aliens? Mysterious UFO spotted by three pilots under investigation amid BIZARRE radar data
A MYSTERIOUS bright light spotted by three separate pilots has sparked an investigation from the Irish Aviation Authority - after an initial report could not explain the UFO sighting.
A mysterious unidentified flying object - described as a "bright light" and moving at "astronomical speeds" - has baffled officials and sparked alien conspiracy theories. The Irish Aviation Authority have launched an official investigation into the event, after several sightings of the same unexplained object. Incredible audio has been released of the moment the pilots from three different flights had a close encounter with the "bright light".
The three pilots both reported that the object vanished quickly after the sighting, just took place on the south-west coast of Ireland.
The UFO was first spotted by a baffled British Airways pilot last Friday at approximately 6:47am, during a flight from Heathrow to Montreal.
The pilot immediately called Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to see whether there were any military exercises taking place in the airspace.
ATC said there were no military exercises had been planned, before eerily adding: “There is nothing showing on either primary or secondary radar.”
The Irish Aviation Authority have launched an official investigation into the event
(Image: GETTY; IG)
I'm glad it wasn't just me
Third pilot who reported sighting
The pilot explained: "OK. It was moving so fast. We saw a bright light and it then just disappeared at a very high speed.
She claimed that it did not appear to be on a collision course with the plane but admitted she was still "wondering" what it could be.
Moments later, a Virgin Airlines Boeing 747 pilot also called in, reporting that they had just spotted "multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory,” and that they were “very bright where we were".
To the surprise of ATC, a third pilot called in to report the same sighting, adding: "I'm glad it wasn't just me."
They reported that the object was moving at "astronomical speeds - it was like Mach 2."
Mach 2 is 2,500 kph - twice the speed of sound.
The Irish Aviation Authority confirmed that they had filed a report of the “unusual air activity” following sightings from a “small number of aircraft on Friday.”
In response to the story, aviation journalist Gerry Byrne has downplayed the chances of the encounter being linked to aliens.
He said: "In all probability they were meteorites and it's not uncommon for meteorites to come in at a low angle, a low trajectory into the Earth's atmosphere."
UFO investigation launched by Irish aviation officials after pilots flying BA and Virgin Airlines jets report seeing mysterious bright lights 'moving fast' above the country
UFO investigation launched by Irish aviation officials after pilots flying BA and Virgin Airlines jets report seeing mysterious bright lights 'moving fast' above the country
BA pilot on flight from Canada to London reported 'very bright light' over Ireland
She said the object came up on the left side before it 'veered to the north'
Pilot of Virgin Airlines jet saw 'multiple objects following same sort of trajectory'
Irish Aviation Authority is investigating the UFO sightings after filing a report
A UFO investigation is under way in Ireland after pilots flying BA and Virgin Airlines jets reported seeing mysterious bright lights as they crossed the country.
The Irish Aviation Authority launched the probe after sightings on November 9 at around 7.40am.
The pilot of British Airways flight BA94 from Montreal to London contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control after seeing the object on the left-hand side of her Boeing 787.
A UFO investigation is underway in Ireland after pilots flying BA and Virgin Airlines jets reported seeing mysterious bright lights as they crossed the country (stock image of a Boeing 787)
She asked whether military exercises were taking place, according to Airlive.
Air traffic control reportedly said nothing was showing on their radar systems, to which the unnamed pilot replied: 'OK. It was moving so fast.'
She added that after approaching on the left side, it 'rapidly veered to the north'. She described it as a 'very bright light' that 'disappeared at very high speed'.
The pilot of Virgin Airlines flight VS76 from Orlando to Manchester then reported seeing a similar thing, the website reports.
The pilot of Virgin Airlines flight VS76 from Orlando to Manchester then reported seeing a similar thing, the website reports
He described it as a 'meteor or another object making some kind of re-entry' and said it was 'multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory – very bright from where we were.'
Both planes were flying in high level airspace - an altitude from between 28,500ft and 42,000ft.
Airlive says a third pilot also saw the bizarre lights and that the Irish Aviation Authority has filed a report with the sightings due to be 'investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process'.
The UFO – described as a strange, bright, floating light - was spotted in the skies over Deal, a small Kent town in the UK. A video filmed by local Pete Tyas who spotted the glowing orb moving over the small town at 6.30 AM on November 3. Mr Tyas sent his footage to conspiracy theorists The Hidden Underbelly who uploaded his footage to YouTube.
The video description from The Hidden Underbelly reads: “We can see this bright object moving silently through the early morning sky.
“Also it looks like the object has dropped something but it could be a star but there is no doubt about the bigger craft.”
The video was quickly picked up upon by an international audience.
Prominent alien hunter Scott C Waring believes the craft is being used to monitor the activities and thoughts of humans.
UFO sighting: ‘THOUGHT MONITORING’ spaceship seen over Kent
(Image: GETTY • YOUTUBE)
Mr Waring claims the object which was supposedly dropped by the craft is an “AI drone ship” which allows ET to spy on us.
In his popular blog, UFO Sightings Daily, Mr Waring writes: “Glowing lights are once of the types of UFOs often seen during UFO encounters. I myself have seen more than my share.
“This has a shape of a AI drone ship. One that can travel at incredible speed and not have to worry about passengers, however aliens can see, hear, smell, feel the wind and even monitor a humans thoughts and things when using this drone to interact with its surrounds.”
Kent is something of a hotspot for UFO sightings in the UK.
Several witnesses reported seeing the triangle and the RAF carried out an investigation.
Sophie Wadleigh, 25, from Hythe, said: “It was so peculiar, it all felt really odd and I heard this humming noise.
The UFO looked as if it deployed something
(Image: YOUTUBE)
“As I looked across the field I saw a large triangular-shaped flying craft hovering about 300 metres off the ground.”
It had been thought that maybe the lights were caused by flares being shot, but the Ministry of Defence denied the use of any activity in the area during the period.
A spokesperson for the MoD said: “There were no military exercises taking place at the time.”
The Most Reputable UFO Blogs & Resources on The Internet
The Most Reputable UFO Blogs & Resources on The Internet
Any UFO enthusiast knows there’s no shortage of websites and UFO blogs dedicated to the search for alien life. But navigating through hoax sites and click-bait can be tiresome.
There’s also the issue of running into sites where the writers and researchers believe so strongly that every single thing moving in the sky must be aliens.
So where do you go for good unbiased information?
When I do research for my articles, I really put effort into finding reputable sources. Credibility is key. Here’s a list of the top sites I’ve found which provide the most reputable research on UFOs and aliens.
MUFON is by far one of the most reputable sites you can find. They have a global network of trained investigators who research UFO sightings and alien abduction reports around the world.
The MUFON organization has been around since 1969 and takes pride in applying the scientific method to their research.
MUFON approaches every report with an eye towards proving separating the hoaxes & misidentifications from the true mysteries.
If MUFON concludes that a sighting is unexplained, you can be confident they’ve honestly researched it to arrive at that conclusion.
Also known as NUFORC, The National UFO Reporting Center keeps a large database of UFO sighting reports. The reports are similar to the database kept on MUFON.
NUFORC was founded in 1974 and actually has a 24/7 hotline for reports.
While they don’t have investigators going out into the field to research reports, their report database is a treasure trove for those looking to find sightings similar to their own or to find multiple reports which corroborate a single event.
For a more local twist, the UFO Research Center of Pennsylvania provides a real world take on unexplained phenomena.
They don’t post often, and while much of their information includes paranormal topics outside the realm of extraterrestrial life, it’s well-thought out and unbiased.
When I first found out that Express had a ton of UFO articles, I was skeptical. Their headlines are total clickbait and they get a bad rap for that in the news world.
But, if you actually delve into the article and read beyond the headline, you’ll actually find a lot of down to earth reporting.
They’re not afraid to say when there’s a legitimate explanation about a particular sighting, though the headline may not lead you to believe that.
TR3B Aircraft: The USA’s Most Secret Plane or Alien Spacecraft? Or Both?
TR3B Aircraft: The USA’s Most Secret Plane or Alien Spacecraft? Or Both?
With the exception of the flying disc, the triangular-shaped craft is one of the most common UFO shapes seen in the sky. Some believe it’s an alien spacecraft or a super-secret US Military plane known as the TR3B Astra, TR-3 Black Manta, or just TR3B for short.
The triangle UFO gained mainstream headlines in 1989. That year, a wave of sightings over Belgium began that lasted until 1992. The sightings included dozens of credible witnesses including law enforcement personnel.
Actual photograph of the triangular UFO during the “Belgian UFO Wave” Image Credit: Outer Places (unable to find an official source).
Mainstream news outlets covered the story, which is odd even today. Even primetime documentary shows such as Unsolved Mysteries got in on the action.
The Belgian UFO Wave wasn’t the end of the triangle UFO. It seemed that the triangle TR3B was showing up everywhere.
It appeared during the Phoenix Lights incident in 1997 and in various other sightings on record from 2000 through 2018.
Is the Triangle UFO TR3B an Alien Spaceship?
If you’ve read any of my articles before, you already kinda know my answer to this one. We simply don’t know.
What we do know is these sightings have ranged all over Europe and the USA for over 30 years.
The range and timelines of these sightings provide some important distinctions. It’s fair to say these sightings may be of different objects and the entire thing is unlikely to be some massive hoax.
While a sighting here and there might be able to be proven fake, there are some that can’t be simply dismissed.
That being said, conclusive evidence the triangle UFOs are manufactured and controlled by aliens isn’t available either.
Image from the patent application for the TR-3B Image Credit: Google Patent Search
TR-3B: A US Military Plane that Officially Doesn’t Exist
The link between UFO sightings and top-secret military aircraft goes hand in hand. The triangle UFOs may actually be a surveillance aircraft built by the US military called the TR-3 Black Manta, or TR-3B for short (also knows as the TR3B Astra).
Officially, the TR-3B doesn’t exist. What’s interesting though, is there’s actually a 2004 patent for a triangular spacecraft. The image from the patent application looks almost exactly like photos taken of the TR3B spacecraft by sighting witnesses.
Sources claim the TR-3 Blank Manta is a nuclear-powered plane developed under the Aurora program. The name is pretty darn cool too.
The plane makes use of stealth and propulsion technology that can be traced back to the 1980’s. These technologies, however, weren’t made public knowledge.
Allegedly, the craft employs a propulsion system based on a fast-spinning mercury-based plasma. While some call it anti-gravity, it sounds more like the way modern gyroscopes can offset weight by maintaining a large angular momentum.
Final Thoughts on the TR3B Astra
In the world of UFOlogy, experimental aircraft are UFOs to the typical observer. The TR3B Astra may be a perfect example of this phenomena.
It’s impossible, however, to claim that all sightings of triangular UFOs going back to the 1980’s can be attributed to a single secret aircraft. Is it possible that counterparts in Europe may have been working on the same technology as the US? That would certainly explain the Belgian Wave of sightings that started it all.
But the scariest possibility isn’t aliens. It’s that our enemies may have leapfrogged us in technology and now fly over our skies uninhibited.
We must also consider that, perhaps, there may also be an extraterrestrial component. Even if the TR-3B is man-made, there are allegations that it contains reverse-engineered alien technology.
Such is the case with top-secret black budget projects. The secrecy surrounding the TR3B creates a flash pan for conspiracy theorists. It also happens to be the military’s best weapon for keeping them secret.
Sightings of the TR3B continue to this very day, and there’s no sign of it going away anytime in the near future.
This past October, a cigar shaped object was been discovered hurdling through our solar system. Most likely an asteroid, the object is about 10 times as long as it is wide. It’s certainly an odd shape for an asteroid. Named “Oumuamua”, the object appears to have originated from far away outside our solar system and appears to be just passing through.
A Cigar Shaped Alien Ship?
While Oumuamua is almost certainly an asteroid, there are some who believe it could possibly be an alien ship. Even prominent mainstream scientists such as Stephen Hawking admit the possibility cannot be ruled out just yet. But if it was an alien ship, does the cigar shape even make sense? Is there any scientific theories or data that indicate a cigar-shaped craft would be the best geometry for an interstellar ship?
The elongated cigar shape has long been a staple of UFO sightings. Only a handful of more common geometries exist in the realm of ufology. But does the geometry meet the sniff test for space travel?
The Cigar Shape We Already Use
No, I’m not talking about the Goodyear Blimp. I’m talking about modern day rockets. The human race has relied on cigar shaped rockets for our meager space travel endeavors for decades. Sure, the rockets don’t remain in that shape once they exist the earth’s atmosphere, but they are cigar shaped nonetheless.
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, United States Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash
We design our rockets for low drag. In deep space, there is no atmosphere in space to create drag. A spacecraft might still, however, be slowed down by friction from cosmic dust and other particles. The oblong cigar-shape helps to minimize this. For especially long journeys lasting maybe for years or even decades, that lower friction could add up to significant savings.
Oblong Shape for Protection
Another benefit of the cigar shaped craft is protection from space debris. It’s critical that a craft uses as little mass as possible because it takes a lot to move mass over great distances. Low mass could mean a flimsy ship and nobody wants to be on one of those hurdling through space at Mach 30.
Assuming a cigar-shaped space vessel is moving through space like an arrow, engineers could place protective armor at the nose for protection while going lighter on the sides. Modern-day airplanes already use this idea in their nose construction.
What About Warp Speeds?
This is where it gets a bit complicated. The benefits of the cigar shaped spaceship begin to fade once we break past light speed. Since it’s impossible for anything to physically move faster than the speed of light, the only way for a warp engine to work is by bending the fabric of space itself. It would require a tremendous amount of energy.
A warp drive might be able to use an intense artificial gravity field to shrink the space in front of the ship while expanding the space behind it. The ship itself wouldn’t really move, but space would move around it. It would travel in its own little ‘gravity bubble’. In such a scenario, a cigar or oblong shape would have little benefit. In fact, the ship could be any shape imaginable with no detriment.
It’s safe to say that a cigar shaped spaceship would only be beneficial for space travel at sub-light speeds.
Manned vs. Unmanned Space Travel
Here’s another thing to consider. Human beings don’t do well in zero gravity for long periods. We lose muscle mass, bone density, and our immune systems shut down. In a zero-gravity environment, we’re literally dying. Without a way to create artificial gravity of some sort, humans simply can’t survive space flights lasting for years.
One way to create artificial gravity is by using a gravity field generation device. Currently, human beings don’t have this type of technology.
We could also construct rotating spaceships where artificial gravity is created by the centrifugal force of rotation. The design is known as a Stanford Torus and it’s basically a big spinning ring. This type of ship would provide reliable artificial gravity for long-term space voyages or even permanent colonization in space.
The rotating design could be used for even multi-generational space travel to migrate explorers over hundreds of years to a new solar system for example.
Unfortunately, as cool as the rotation spaceship is, it’s not cigar shaped. So where does that leave us with the viability of cigar shaped spacecraft? Is it really a good geometry for space travel? As usual, when it comes to complexities such as this, the answer is, “it depends”.
Bringing it All Together
For faster-than-light travel, a cigar shaped craft doesn’t really provide any benefit. It’s not bad. There’s simply no advantage to the shape. As it also turns out, a cigar-shaped spaceship doesn’t have a way to provide artificial gravity needed for humans to survive long-term in space.
So what’s the verdict?
For a long-term travel at less than the speed of light, a cigar-shaped craft would be good for unmanned missions. Robots don’t need artificial gravity. We must note, however, aliens might not have the gravitational requirements of human beings. So while an oblong craft may not be good for humans, it could be perfectly safe for an alien race in the right circumstances.
A cigar shaped ship will only be good for humans over long travel periods if we can develop an artificial gravity generator. Without it, humans will perish in a relatively short time in such a ship. Because of the connection between gravity & warp speed, once we have the technology to build an artificial gravity generator, we’ll likely already know how to build warp engines. At that point, we’ll be able to travel faster than the speed of light eliminating the benefit of the cigar shape anyway.
A complete human habitat within a Stanford Torus Image Credit: NASA
A rotating vessel is currently the only option for humans to travel for long periods in deep space. The cigar shape would be a death trap. Human beings in a cigar-shaped craft for many years would be doomed to waste away to nothing, eventually falling ill and dying as their immune system shuts down.
What do you think about space travel and our place in it? Would you want to take a journey in cigar shaped spaceship or a Stanford Torus? Let us know in the comments!
The buried secrets of the deadliest location on Earth
The buried secrets of the deadliest location on Earth
Chicxulub Puerto, Mexico, is the centre of the impact crater that scientists believe was made when the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs smashed into the Earth’s surface.
By Matthew Ponsford
In the mid-1980s, as a group of American archaeologists pored over satellite images showing Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, they did not know what to make of one unexpected pattern: a near-perfect ring, about 200km across.
Cenotes, the blue water sinkholes that are a staple of Yucatan tourist brochures, dot this arid landscape, opening up seemingly at random as you trek across the vast flatlands of the Yucatan, a dogleg of low, dry forest on Mexico’s eastern edge. But seen from space, they cluster together to form a pattern: an arc, articulating nearly half a circle, as if a drawing compass had been stuck into the map on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico and spun around until running out of land.
Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula is famous for its cenotes, blue water sinkholes that dot the arid landscape
The archaeologists had discovered the pattern, which encircles the Yucatecan capital, Merida, and port towns of Sisal and Progreso, while trying to understand what had become of the Mayan civilisation that had once ruled over the peninsula. The indigenous Maya had depended on the cenotes for drinking water, but the uncanny circular arrangement of the holes perplexed the researchers as they presented their findings to fellow satellite specialists at a scientific conference Selper in Acapulco, Mexico, in 1988.
For one scientist in the audience, Adriana Ocampo, then a young planetary geologist at Nasa, the circular formation sounded a klaxon she had been trained to anticipate.
Ocampo, now 63, explains that she saw not just a ring, but a bullseye.
This is something amazing
“As soon as I saw the slides that was my ‘Aha!’ moment. I thought ‘This is something amazing’. ‘This could be it’,” said Ocampo, now director of Nasa’s Lucy programme, which will send a spacecraft into Jupiter’s orbit in 2021. “I was really excited inside but I kept cool because obviously you don’t know until you have more evidence.”
Approaching the scientists, heart pounding, Ocampo asked if they had considered an asteroid impact – one giant and violent enough to have scarred the planet in ways still being revealed 66 million years on.
“They didn’t even know what I was talking about!” she laughed, three decades later.
In the mid-1980s, a group of archaeologists discovered that Yucatan’s cenotes formed a near-perfect ring, about 200km across
(Credit: NASA Image Collection/Alamy)
Ocampo's chance encounter was the beginning of a scientific correspondence that would establish the foundations for what most scientists believe today: that this ring corresponds to the edge of the crater caused by an asteroid 12km wide, which struck the Yucatan and exploded with unimaginable force that turned rock to liquid.
Since the early ‘90s, teams of scientists from the Americas, Europe and Asia have worked to fill in the remaining blanks. They now believe the impact instantly created a crater 30km deep, causing the Earth to act like a pond after a pebble is dropped, rebounding up in the centre to create a mountain – just for a moment – reaching twice the height of Mt Everest, before crashing down. In the years that followed the cataclysmic impact, the world would have changed beyond recognition, with the plume of ash blocking the sky and creating perpetual night-time for more than a year, plunging temperatures below freezing, and killing off about 75% of all life on Earth – including almost all the dinosaurs.
Today, that centre point, the place where that imaginary compass stuck and the mountain once rose, is a buried a kilometre below a tiny town called Chicxulub Puerto.
Scientists believe that the ring corresponds with the edge of a crater formed by an asteroid impact that occurred 66 million years ago
(Credit: Science History Images/Alamy)
When I visited that settlement of a few thousand people, low-rise houses painted yellow, white, orange and ochre surrounded a type of modest town square that makes up the area’s many photogenic but unremarkable Yucatecan villages. The town has had so little publicity that the few dinosaur-lovers who do try to make their way in pilgrimage along the Yucatan's long, twisty roads between prickly scrubland forest often end up lost in another nearby town called Chicxulub Pueblo, half an hour’s drive inland.
Without that impact, humanity might well have never existed
Even if they reach the correct town, located 7km east along white-sand coastline from the popular holiday resort of Progreso, there are few indications that this was the scene of one of the most consequential and disastrous acts of the last 100 million years of Earth's history. Stroll around the main square and you'll catch sight of paintings of dinosaurs by local children. There is a playground nearby where climbing frames and slides are topped with hard plastic sauropods in primary colours. The only monument, in front of the church on the main square, takes the form of a cartoonish bone, made from concrete, laid in front of an altar like plinth depicting dinosaur species.
Until Ocampo's findings were published in 1991, this area of the Yucatan had been the subject of little international interest. Today, there is a museum, opened in September 2018 between Chicxulub Puerto and the Yucatan capital Merida, 45km to the south). The Museum of Science of the Chicxulub Crater, a joint project by the Mexican Government and the country's biggest university, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), aims to take people back to the moment, 66 million years ago, when the 12km asteroid changed world history, ending the reign of the giant beasts that had lasted hundreds of thousands of years. And by boosting local awareness of the cataclysmic events that took place here, the museum hopes to begin the process of bringing tourists to explore the Yucatan’s prehistoric past, which overlaps with popular Mayan historical destinations like Chichen Itza and the party city of Cancun.
It is believed that the asteroid impact would have wiped out 75% of all life on Earth, including almost all of the dinosaurs
(Credit: Science Photo Library/Alamy)
Chicxulub Puerto and its surrounds deserve to be better known worldwide, says Ocampo, who was born in Colombia but moved as a child to Argentina, arriving in the US at age 15. The asteroid, although bringing unimaginable violence to this area, benefitted one species above all others: humans, who, millions of years later, would evolve into the ecological gap created by the destruction of the world's biggest predators.
Without that impact, humanity might well have never existed.
“It gave us a leg up to be able to compete, to be able to flourish, as we eventually did,” she said.
Ocampo's discovery came at the end of a decade-long quest for the location of the asteroid impact. The key to her ‘Aha! moment’ had been an intuition she’d picked up after working with a legendary figure in space science, Eugene Shoemaker. Shoemaker – the pioneering American geologist who is credited as one of the founders of the field of planetary science and remains, 21 years after his death, the only person whose ashes are buried on the Moon – had instructed her that near perfect circles were unlikely to have been caused by other terrestrial forces, and could provide clues to Earth’s geological development.
The small, coastal town of Chicxulub Puerto is believed to be the centre of the impact crater
(Credit: Adamcastforth/Wikimedia Commons)
The idea that a giant asteroid had wiped out the dinosaurs was proposed by Californian father-son duo Luis and Walter Alvarez in the early 1980s. “But, then, it was extremely controversial,” Ocampo said. What she did was to place one of the final connecting jigsaw pieces that began linking scattered ideas between scientists who were working independently with fragments of information, often on overlapping investigations.
Without that impact, humanity might well have never existed
For example, as early as 1978, geophysicist Glen Penfield, working alongside Antonio Camargo-Zanoguera for Mexico’s national oil company Pemex, had flown out over the Caribbean waters that lap the shore at Chicxulub Puerto. Using a magnetometer, he scanned the waters looking for signs of oil, instead finding the underwater half of the huge crater. But that evidence belonged to Pemex, so was not made available to the scientific community.
In fact, the first person to connect the Yucatan ring with the Alvarez asteroid theory was a Texan journalist named Carlos Byars who wrote an article for the Houston Chronicle in 1981 asking if the two were linked. Byars later shared his theorywith a grad student named Alan Hildebrand, who then approached Penfield after examining a rock layer in Haiti, and it was the two of them who determined that the crater wasn’t a volcano, but an asteroid impact. “[Byars] gets the credit for being the first to put the pieces together – a newspaperman!” Ocampo said. “It’s an amazing story when you put all the pieces together.”
Texan journalist Carlos Byars was the first person to connect the Chicxulub Crater with the theory that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
(Credit: Graham Prentice/Alamy)
But the story is not simply one of history, it could also give us insight into life beyond Earth. Lessons learned in the asteroid crater have informed research by Nasa’s Curiosity rover, which touched down on Mars in 2012 and has spent the last six years investigating the Martian environment and geology.
Debris discovered from asteroid impacts on Mars compared with ejecta from the Chicxulub Crater shows similarities that indicate that Mars must once have had much thicker an atmosphere than it does now – one closer to the atmosphere that supports life on Earth. “It’s important for us to know what happened in the past to be prepared for the future,” Ocampo said. “It provides a really good insight into what has happened in the geological evolution of Mars.”
The Chicxulub Crater has been nominated for recognition as a Unesco World Heritage site
(Credit: Reinhard Dirscherl/Alamy)
But, in the Chicxulub Crater, much of the incredible knowledge remains buried below ground, rarely recognised by visitors or locals despite the opening of the museum and Mexico’s application to have the crater recognised by Unesco. There is precious little for visitors to see as the impact was so long ago. Tourists who do visit one of the few remnants – the stunning cenotes, where you can swim among fish and dangling tree roots – may be unaware that these geological features exist only because the soft limestone they are made of was forced to the surface from deep underground by the impact. Over thousands of years, dripping water has carved out the sinkholes.
It is a unique place in our planet – It truly is
Ocampo has visited the peninsula numerous times since her discoveries there in the late 1980s, but when asked if people are aware of the importance of this place, she responds unhappily.
“The short answer is no,” she replied. “We need to do better. We need to educate, we need to make them aware of the extraordinary ground that they are living on.”
“They [local people and authorities] are trying to raise the knowledge base and it would be wonderful to help,” said Ocampo, who is also a proponent of planetary science education in Latin America. “It is a unique place in our planet. It truly is.”
“It should be preserved as a World Heritage site.”
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bbcDavid Attenborough in Frozen Planet. De ijsbeer is verdoofd voor onderzoek.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETIn zijn nieuwe BBC-serie ‘Dynasties’ koos Sir David Attenborough er bewust voor om milieuproblemen buiten beeld te houden. Dat levert de nestor van de natuurfilm harde verwijten op. “Hij creëert een overvloedige sprookjeswereld die niet meer bestaat”, klinkt het onder meer.
De BBC zond gisterenavond de eerste aflevering uit van een nieuwe vijfdelige serie van Sir David Attenborough. Die laat de leeuw, chimpansee, tijger, wolf en keizerspinguïn zien in de spectaculaire visuele pracht die we van de maker van ‘Planet Earth’, ‘Life’ en ‘Blue Planet’ kennen. In de weerbarstige natuur worstelen de koningen van het dierenrijk om te overleven en om hun jongen groot te brengen. Maar hun werkelijk grootste bedreiging - de mens - is in documentairereeks ‘Dynasties’ niet te zien.
Moet je bij elke bedreigde diersoort zeggen: ‘let op, ze zijn in gevaar’? Hoe vaak kun je dat doen zonder dat mensen afknappen?
“Kijkers haken af op waarschuwingen voor de menselijke destructie van de natuur”, verklaart de wereldberoemde filmmaker in een interview met The Guardian. Attenborough (92) noemt de bedreigingen wel, maar waakt er bewust voor om alarm te slaan en kijkers op hun eigen verantwoordelijkheid voor het milieu te wijzen. “Moet je bij elke bedreigde diersoort zeggen: ‘let op, ze zijn in gevaar’? Hoe vaak kun je dat doen zonder dat mensen afknappen?” Zijn films zijn juist bedoeld om kijkers even te laten ontsnappen aan Trump, de brexit en ander negatief nieuws, verklaart hij.
“Verraad”
Het levert hem snoeiharde kritiek op van de bekende Britse zoöloog George Monbiot. “David Attenborough pleegt verraad aan de levende wereld die hem dierbaar is”, schreef Monbiot in The Guardian. “In het licht van de verbijsterende ineenstorting van de dierenpopulaties is zulk escapisme niet uit te leggen.” Het Wereld Natuur Fonds waarschuwde twee weken geleden dat de natuur in zo’n schrikbarend tempo verloren gaat dat nu de mensheid zelf wordt bedreigd. In minder dan vijftig jaar tijd is 60 procent van de wilde zoogdieren, vogels, vissen en reptielen op aarde verdwenen.
Door zogenaamd ongerepte natuur te laten zien, scheppen filmmakers als Attenborough een vals beeld van veiligheid en overvloed, betoogt Monbiot. “Hun camera stelt ons gerust dat er nog uitgestrekte gebieden zijn waar de natuur floreert. Dat leidt ertoe dat mensen achteroverleunen in plaats van in actie komen.”
Norwegian Polar InstituteEen zeehond zit verstrikt in een net. Afval in de oceanen levert grote problemen op voor dieren.
Oneens
De Nederlandse natuurfilmer en ecoloog Ruben Smit is het hartgrondig oneens met die kritiek. “Als je met een opgeheven vingertje te werk gaat, krijg je een moralistische film waar niemand naar kijkt. Ik geloof erin dat je mensen eerst moet verwonderen. Dan kun je ze wijzen op de waarde van de natuur en wakker schudden: dit staat op het spel.”
Zijn films ‘De Nieuwe Wildernis’ over de Oostvaardersplassen en ‘Wad’, maakte hij volgens de school van Attenborough. In ‘Wad’ zijn geen mensen, vissersboten of boorplatformen te zien. Pas aan het einde, in de aftiteling, vertelt hij over de bedreigingen van de Waddennatuur. “Dat leverde mij ook kritiek op. Maar ik geloof oprecht dat de boodschap harder binnenkomt als je net negentig minuten ademloos hebt zitten kijken naar mooie beelden. Met anderhalf uur beelden van dode vissen, plasticsoep en zeehondjes die worden doodgeknuppeld, trek je geen kijkers.”
Ik geloof oprecht dat de boodschap harder binnenkomt als je net ademloos hebt zitten kijken naar mooie beelden. Met anderhalf uur beelden van dode vissen, plasticsoep en zeehondjes die worden doodgeknuppeld, trek je geen kijkers
De Nederlandse natuurfilmer en ecoloog Ruben Smit
Realiteit
Monbiot, vroeger zelf filmmaker bij de BBC, liep ook steevast tegen een muur als hij voorstelde een documentaire te maken over ‘de milieurealiteit’. Maar juist levende legende Attenborough, die als belichaming van de Britse omroep wordt gezien, had zijn macht volgens hem moeten aangrijpen om kijkers wél op die realiteit te wijzen.
Overigens wordt Attenboroughs oceanendocumentaire ‘Blue Planet II’ beschouwd als startpunt van de protestbeweging tegen de plasticsoep, die heeft geleid tot een Europees verbod op wegwerpplastic. Fundamentele problemen als overconsumptie - waar tv-kijkers zelfs iets aan kunnen doen - gaan natuurfilmers volgens Monbiot echter steevast uit de weg. “Met dank aan David Attenborough weten veel mensen nu behoorlijk veel over de natuur. Maar zij zijn nog altijd verbijsterend onwetend over wat er met de natuur aan het gebeuren is.”
Persmateriaal Wadfilm.nlRuben Smit, Nederlandse filmmaker en ecoloog.
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Massale sterfte onder spreeuwen in Den Haag leidt tot complottheorieën. Is er een link met geheime 5G-testen?
Massale sterfte onder spreeuwen in Den Haag leidt tot complottheorieën. Is er een link met geheime 5G-testen?
In het Huygenspark in Den Haag zijn honderden dode spreeuwen gevonden. Er wordt momenteel onderzoek gedaan naar de mysterieuze dood van de vogels, die intussen internationale aandacht hebben getrokken.
Sommige buurtbewoners denken dat het iets te maken heeft met geheime 5G-testen van de gemeente.
Diverse websites legden het verband tussen de massasterfte van de spreeuwen en een onzichtbare zendmast op het dak van een gebouw waarin een belwinkel zit.
Kwaad is al geschied
“Na een test met 5G om te zien of station Hollands Spoor daardoor geen schade zou oplopen, vielen de vogels massaal dood uit de bomen,” klonk het.
Het AD besloot contact op te nemen met de eigenaar van de belwinkel. Die weet van niets. “Ik huur alleen een winkel van woningcorporatie Staedion. Hierboven wonen mensen. Ik kán niet eens op het dak.”
Het Duitse onderzoekscollectief Mimikama heeft de complottheorie inmiddels weerlegt, maar het kwaad is al geschied.
Massagraf voor spreeuwen op het Haagse Huygenspark: voer voor complottheorieën over geheime testen.
De winkeleigenaar krijgt geregeld anonieme telefoontjes. “Ik ben anderhalve week geleden gebeld door iemand die vroeg wanneer ik een 5G-mast op mijn dak had gezet.”
Ook vogelopvang De Wulp kwam vanwege de complottheorie onder vuur te liggen. De opvang zou de geheime testen ‘onder de pet houden’.
“Wij hebben totaal geen belang bij het ‘onder de pet’ houden van de doodsoorzaak,” zei de vogelopvang tegen de krant.
Geen 5G-testen
Het Antennebureau, het informatiebureau van de overheid over antennes voor draadloze en mobiele communicatie, liet weten dat er geen 5G-testen zijn geweest rond het Huygenspark.
Er wordt wel met 5G getest, maar dat gebeurt op vier andere plaatsen in het land, aldus het bureau.
Bekijk hieronder de video over de spreeuwensterfte:
Montana Air Base loses power as giant circular-shaped UFO hovers overhead
Montana Air Base loses power as giant circular-shaped UFO hovers overhead
According to a report published by The Mutual UFO Network a Montana witness near Great Falls reported that a contact on the Malmstrom Air Force Base described a 10-minute power outage after a circular-shaped object “over a half-acre in size” hovered over the base” on January 24, 2018.
“My base contact described the object only as black,” the reporting witness stated. “If contacted, Malmstrom AFB will confirm the power outage but nothing more. Investigators are on their way. Last sighting was in May 2017. This source is reliable and confirmed as am I.”
The witness describes himself as a retired police detective “not given to exaggerations.”
The filed report indicates the object was black in color with no structural features. The object size was larger than 300 feet. No exterior lights. No emissions. The object was hovering at less than 500 feet in altitude. The object was over one mile away from the witness. No landing was observed.
Investigators contacted the media relations department at Malmstrom and did not receive a reply. The power outage may have been limited to the launch site area and not the entire base. '
MUFON CAG Investigator Marie Cisneros and Montana State Director John Gagnon closed this case as Information Only.
“Ruled out for astronomical or weather anomalies,” Cisneros and Gagnon stated in their report. “Ruled out for bolides or fireball activity. Ruled out for obvious hoax.
“Our conclusion: Unidentified object. Size, shape, flight pattern and path does not fit with known conventional aircraft. Because this was reported by someone other than the witness, this case has to be filed as an Information Only unless further information is forthcoming by the witness.”
Malmstrom Air Force Base is in Cascade County, Montana, adjacent to Great Falls. It is the home of the 341st Missile Wing (341 MW) of the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC). As a census-designated place, it has a population of 3,472.
If aliens are visiting Earth they have proved to be very elusive.
Photograph: iStock
The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) is investigating an unidentified flying object (UFO) which streaked across the sky on Friday morning and disappeared.
Several commercial aircraft reported seeing at least one bright light with one pilot stating that the UFO was going at an “astronomical” speed of at least Mach 2 (2,500 km/h), which is twice as fast as a commercial jetliner.
The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating a unusual sightings by a number of pilots of commercial aircraft while in contact with Shannon Air Traffic Control last weekend.
If there are little green men and women visiting Earth for the first time, they have proved to be very elusive.
The British Airways 787, call sign Speedbird 94, radioed Shannon Air Traffic Control at 6.47am asking if there were any military exercises off the west coast of Ireland.
A pilot recounted: “It was moving so fast. It appeared on our left hand side and rapidly veered to the north. We saw a bright light and it then just disappeared at a very high speed.
“We were just wondering. We didn’t think it was likely political. We were just wondering what it might be”, she added.
A Shannon air traffic controller responded: “There’s nothing showing on either primary or secondary (radar)”.
A pilot from a Virgin Airlines plane, callsign Virgin76, came on to air traffic control and suggested it might be a “meteor or another object making some kind of re-entry. There appeared to be multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory. They were very bright from where we were.”
The pilot also confirmed that he he had seen “two bright lights that seemed to bank over to the right and climb away at speed at least from our perspective.”
A third pilot responded: “Glad it wasn’t just me”.
An IAA spokesman said the authority is investigating the incident and will file a report. “This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrance investigation process.” The spokesman added that it was unlikely to be aliens from another planet.
The Irish Aviation Authority has begun an investigation into the sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) by a number of aircraft off the south-west coast of Ireland last Friday.
At approximately 6.47am on November 9, the pilot of a British Airways flight, call sign Speedbird94, contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to ask if there were military exercises taking place in the airspace through which her Boeing 787 was passing.
There were no military exercises underway.
Shannon ATC replied: “There is nothing showing on either primary or secondary [radar].”
The pilot responded: “OK. It was moving so fast.”
The controller then asked: “Alongside you?”
The BA pilot, flying from Montreal to Heathrow, describes how the UFO came up along the left-hand side of the aircraft, “then rapidly veered to the north”.
She said it was “a very bright light” that “disappeared at very high speed”.
She said they were “wondering” what it could be, that it did not seem to be on a collision course.
The pilot of a Virgin Airlines Boeing 747, call sign Virgin76, then joined the conversation and made reference to a meteor or another object re-entering the earth’s atmosphere and said there were “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory”.
He said they were very bright “where we were”.
Shannon ATC than asked if the pilots knew which direction the objects were heading. The Virgin Airlines pilot said it was in his “11 o’clock position” with “two bright lights over to the right”, that then climbed away at speed. Shannon ATC told the pilot it would pass that information on. Shannon ATC then told Speedbird94 that “other aircraft in the air have also reported the same thing so we are going to have a look and see”.
Another pilot said the speed of the UFO was “astronomical, it was like Mach 2”, or twice the speed of sound.
The Virgin Airlines flight, from Orlando to Manchester, can carry 455 passengers, while the 787 has 214 seats. A third aircraft, a Norwegian Air 737 travelling from Stewart, New York, to Shannon, which can carry 200 passengers, was also party to the conversation.
The BA flight was passing over Kerry at the time, while the other two flights were off the south-west coast, heading eastbound, and in high-level airspace, which extends from 24,500ft upwards.
The Irish Examiner contacted the Irish Aviation Authority to ask if it was investigating the UFO.
In a statement, the authority said: “Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday, November 9, of unusual air activity, the IAA has filed a report.
“This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process.”
Investigation launched after several pilots report close encounter with UFO (AUDIO)
Investigation launched after several pilots report close encounter with UFO (AUDIO)
Several sightings of an unidentified object flying at “astronomical” speed before disappearing off the coast of Ireland has sparked an investigation by the Irish Aviation Authority.
The UFO was first spotted by a baffled British Airways pilot last Friday (November 9) at approximately 6:47am local time while flying over the south-west coast of Ireland.
The pilot was flying a Boeing 787 from Heathrow to Montreal when he made a call to Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to ask if there were military exercises taking place in the airspace.
You can listen to the archived recording of the call from 17 minuteshere.
“OK. It was moving so fast,” the pilot replied. “Alongside you?” asked the controller. The pilot went on to describe the UFO that appeared along the left side of the aircraft and then “rapidly veered to the north.”
The pilot said they saw “a bright light” that “disappeared at very high speed.” She said that she did not believe it to be on a collision course but was “wondering” what it could be.
A Virgin Airlines Boeing 747 pilot then joined the conversation to suggest that a meteor or some other object was re-entering Earth’s atmosphere. The pilot said there were “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory,” and that they were “very bright where we were.”
When Shannon ATC asked the pilots which direction the objects were heading, the Virgin Airlines pilot said it was in his “eleven o’clock position” with “two bright lights over to the right,” that then climbed away at speed. “Very interesting, that one,” said the pilot.
After a third pilot chimed in to say “Glad it wasn’t just me,” and reported a UFO that was “astronomical, it was like Mach 2,” (2,500kph or twice the speed of sound), Shannon ATC told the BA pilot that “other aircraft in the air have also reported the same thing so we are going to have a look and see.”
The Irish Aviation Authority said they had filed a report of the “unusual air activity” following reports from a “small number of aircraft on Friday.”
“This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process,” read the IAA statement to the Irish Examiner.
For decades, scientists have said that at least some of Earth’s water came from comets and asteroids. New research suggests an even more primordial source, the vast cloud in space from which our world formed.
Earth, the water planet.
Image via NASA.
Earth is rich in water, and has been for a few billion years, but scientists are still debating just where all that life-sustaining liquid came from. At least some of it was thought to have been brought here by comets or asteroids, but that idea still falls short in explaining how so much water ended up on Earth’s surface – and deep below, as well. Now, a team of scientists at Arizona State University (ASU), led by Peter Buseck, has come up with a new proposal. The new peer-reviewed paper was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets on October 9, 2018.
The new research suggests that Earth’s water came from both rocky material, such as asteroids, and from the vast cloud of dust and gas remaining after the sun’s formation, called the solar nebula.
Earth’s ocean water is similar to that found in asteroids. That’s one reason scientists have long thought that most earthly water came from an asteroid bombardment in the days of the early solar system. The ratio of deuterium– a heavier hydrogen isotope – to normal hydrogen is a unique chemical signature in various water sources. In the case of Earth’s oceans, the deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio is close to what is found in asteroids. But, according to Steven Desch, also at ASU and one of the team members:
It’s a bit of a blind spot in the community. When people measure the [deuterium-to-hydrogen] ratio in ocean water and they see that it is pretty close to what we see in asteroids, it was always easy to believe it all came from asteroids.
Some of Earth’s first water came from colliding planetary embryos containing asteroidal water.
Image via J. Wu/S. Desch/ASU.
Jun Wu at ASU is lead author of the study. He added:
The solar nebula has been given the least attention among existing theories, although it was the predominant reservoir of hydrogen in our early solar system.
The hydrogen in Earth’s oceans may not represent the hydrogen throughout the planet as a whole, however. Samples of hydrogen from deep inside the Earth, close to the boundary between the core and mantle, have notably less deuterium – indicating that this hydrogen may not have come from asteroids, after all. The noble gases helium and neon, with isotopic signatures inherited from the solar nebula, have also been found in the Earth’s mantle.
How to explain these differences? The researchers needed to develop a new theoretical model of Earth’s formation to answer that question. According to the model, Earth was the largest of many planetary embryos – aka protoplanets – in the early solar system.
Essentially, their model shows large, waterlogged asteroids eventually forming into planets like Earth through collisions.
Much of Earth’s water is thought to have come from asteroids impacting the planet early in its history.
The surface of the very young Earth was initially an ocean of magma. Hydrogen and noble gases from the solar nebula were drawn to the planetary embryo, forming the first atmosphere. Nebular hydrogen, which contains less deuterium and is lighter than asteroidal hydrogen, dissolved into the molten iron of the magma ocean.
Hydrogen was then drawn toward the center of the Earth – a process called isotopic fractionation. Hydrogen was delivered to the core through its attraction to iron, while much of the heavier isotope, deuterium, remained in the magma which eventually cooled to form the mantle. Impacts from smaller planetary embryos and other objects continued to add additional water and mass until Earth reached its final size.
The end result was that Earth had noble gases deep in its interior, with a lower deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio in its core than in its mantle and oceans. Most of Earth’s water did come from asteroids, but some also came from the solar nebula. As Wu noted:
For every 100 molecules of Earth’s water, there are one or two coming from the solar nebula.
Artist’s concept of the solar nebula – a giant disk of gas and dust – that surrounded the young sun early in the solar system’s history. Some of Earth’s water is now thought to also have come from here.
Image via ESO/L. Calçada.
So what about comets, since they have so much water-ice in them? According to Desch:
Comets contain a lot of ices, and in theory could have supplied some water. But there’s another way to think about sources of water in the solar system’s formative days. Because water is hydrogen plus oxygen, and oxygen is abundant, any source of hydrogen could have served as the origin of Earth’s water.
Also, comets have higher deuterium-to-hydrogen (D/H) ratios, so they are actually not good sources for Earth’s water. The D/H ratio of hydrogen gas in the solar nebula was only 21 ppm, too low to have supplied most of the water on Earth. Asteroids are a much better match, along with the solar nebula.
The new study results could also have implications for rocky exoplanets orbiting other stars, such as the super-Earth Wolf 1061c in this artist’s concept image. Many of them could have abundant water, just like Earth.
Image via NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech.
Finally, the new results have implications for rocky exoplanets orbiting other stars. Many such worlds have now been discovered, and if there is a greater chance for some of them to also have liquid water, that also increases the chances of those planets being habitable. According to the researchers:
Our results suggest that forming water is likely inevitable on sufficiently large rocky planets in extrasolar systems.
Bottom line: The origin of Earth’s water has been debated for a long time, but this new study points to a source – the solar nebula, or cloud of gas and dust left after the sun’s formation – that had been previously mostly overlooked. The new work, based on computer modeling, may have implications for rocky worlds orbiting distant stars.
Either Stars are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us
Either Stars are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us
We all want there to be aliens. Green ones, pink ones, brown ones, Greys. Or maybe Vulcans, Klingons, even a being of pure energy. Any type will do.
That’s why whenever a mysterious signal or energetic fluctuation arrives from somewhere in the cosmos and hits one of our many telescopes, headlines erupt across the media: “Have We Finally Detected An Alien Signal?” or “Have Astronomers Discovered An Alien Megastructure?” But science-minded people know that we’re probably getting ahead of ourselves.
Skepticism still rules the day when it comes to these headlines, and the events that spawn them. That’s the way it should be, because we’ve always found a more prosaic reason for whatever signal from space we’re talking about. But, being skeptical is a balancing act; it doesn’t mean being dismissive.
What we’re talking about here is a new study from E.F. Borra and E. Trottier, two astronomers at Laval University in Canada. Their study, titled “Discovery of peculiar periodic spectral modulations in a small fraction of solar type stars” was just published at arXiv.org. ArXiv.org is a pre-print website, so the paper itself hasn’t been peer reviewed yet. But it is generating interest.
The two astronomers used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and analyzed the spectra of 2.5 million stars. Of all those stars, they found 234 stars that are producing a puzzling signal. That’s only a tiny percentage. And, they say, these signals “have exactly the shape of an ETI signal” that was predicted in a previous study by Borra.
A portion of the 234 stars that are sources of the pulsed ETI-like signal. Note that all the stars are in the narrow spectral range F2 to K1, very similar to our own Sun. Image: Ermanno F. Borra and Eric Trottier
Prediction is a key part of the scientific method. If you develop a theory, your theory looks better and better the more you can use it to correctly predict some future events based on it. Look how many times Einstein’s predictions based on Relativity have been proven correct.
The 234 stars in Borra and Trottier’s study aren’t random. They’re “overwhelmingly in the F2 to K1 spectral range” according to the abstract. That’s significant because this is a small range centred around the spectrum of our own Sun. And our own Sun is the only one we know of that has an intelligent species living near it. If ours does, maybe others do too?
The authors acknowledge five potential causes of their findings: instrumental and data reduction effects, rotational transitions in molecules, the Fourier transform of spectral lines, rapid pulsations, and finally the ETI signal predicted by Borra (2012). They dismiss molecules or pulsations as causes, and they deem it highly unlikely that the signals are caused by the Fourier analysis itself. This leaves two possible sources for the detected signals. Either they’re a result of the Sloan instrument itself and the data reduction, or they are in fact a signal from extra-terrestrial intelligences.
This graph shows the number of detected signals by Spectral Type of star. Image: Ermanno F. Borra and Eric Trottier
The detected signals are pulses of light separated by a constant time interval. These types of signals were predicted by Borra in his 2012 paper, and they are what he and Trottier set out to find in the Sloan data. It may be a bit of a red flag when scientist’s find the very thing they predicted they would find. But Trottier and Borra are circumspect about their own results.
As the authors say in their paper, “Although unlikely, there is also a possibility that the signals are due to highly peculiar chemical compositions in a small fraction of galactic halo stars.” It may be unlikely, but lots of discoveries seem unlikely at first. Maybe there is a tiny subset of stars with chemical peculiarities that make them act in this way.
To sum it all up, the two astronomers have found a tiny number of stars, very similar to our own Sun, that seem to be the source of pulsed signals. These signals are the same as predicted if a technological society was using powerful lasers to communicate with distant stars.
We all want there to be aliens, and maybe the first sign of them will be pulsed light signals from stars like our own Sun. But it’s all still very preliminary, and as the authors acknowledge, “…at this stage, this hypothesis needs to be confirmed with further work.”
Breakthrough team don’t seem that excited about Borra’s findings. They’ve already poured cold water on it, trotting out the old axiom that “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” in a statement on Borra’s paper. They also give Borra’s findings a score of 0 to 1 on the Rio Scale. The Rio Scale is something used by the international SETI community to rank detections of phenomena that could indicate advanced life beyond Earth. A rating of 0 to 1 means its insignificant.
Octopuses are known to be intelligent, advanced creatures, able to create their own shelter, change color in an instant and even adapt well to climate change.
In a new study, a group of 33 international scientists suggest these unique traits may have an unearthly origin. They investigated the theory that octopuses may have evolved from life forms that came to earth on ancient comets.
This isn’t a new concept. Scientists have been grappling with the origins of life on our planet for centuries. And this study adds an intriguing look into the theory of panspermia, that suggests the evolution of life on Earth has, and continues to be, influenced by the arrival of organisms from space.
The study has faced some criticism, but the scientists have also supported their claims with well-established research. Let’s take a closer look at their findings.
THE THEORY OF PANSPERMIA
In the 1980s, astronomer Fred Hoyle teamed up with astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe to propose that life didn’t originate on earth. In fact, life was seeded on our planet by comets carrying space-hardy bacteria, viruses and perhaps even fertilized eggs and plant seeds. This concept is scientifically known as “panspermia”.
The earliest microbial life found on Earth was discovered in Canadian rocks and is estimated to be about 4.1-4.23 billion years old. This was during the Hadean epoch, when the earth was still forming its core and crust, as well as its atmosphere and oceans. Our planet had frequent and violent collisions with asteroids and comets during that period, and the surface was still extremely hot and unstable.
The study’s researchers propose that it was impossible for life to have formed on Earth during this time. The first microbes found in Canada were most likely delivered by comets and meteorites that impacted with our planet, and these microbes went on to become the basis of terrestrial life on Earth.
WHAT CAN ACTUALLY SURVIVE ON A COMET?
Comet-hopping life forms may sound far-fetched, but research is starting to show this may be a distinct reality. Evidence has found that comets would have contained vast amounts of water in their interiors when they were first formed billions of years ago at the dawn of our solar system. These protected, watery environments would have provided ideal conditions for early bacteria and viruses to grow and multiply.
The discovery of a wide variety ofancient organic particlesin comets also supports this theory. Organic particles areimportant precursorsfor the creation of molecules that are the foundation of life, such as sugars, amino acids and DNA bases.
Once comets had cooled down and after millions of years in space, evidence suggests the primitive bacteria and viruses living on them became embedded in rock, carbonaceous material or ice. This effectively protected them from the intense radiation and sub-zero temperatures encountered in space.
Although not proven, it is also possible that more complex life forms, such as fertilized eggs and plant seeds, could also have survived in similar conditions.
Masters of disguise – Mediterranean Octopus
WHAT OCTOPUSES CAN TELL US ABOUT EVOLUTION
Octopuses are actually related to slugs and snails. They belong to a group of mollusks known as cephalopods that developed about 500 million years ago during what’s known as the Cambrian Explosion. This was a time when life in the earth’s oceans went through a dramatic stage of diversification and evolution, and most of the ancestors of modern life were born.
The new study, titled “Cause of the Cambrian Explosion – Terrestrial or Cosmic?”, investigated panspermia and how it may relate to the Cambrian Explosion, and the rise of life forms like octopuses. They made a few important conclusions.
1. Virus-bearing comets fueled the Cambrian Explosion.
Viruses are the smallest living organism on earth, and they reproduce by attaching themselves to a host cell in another living organism and inserting their own genetic material into the cell. This changes the genetic structure of the host cells, which can cause disease in the host.
This also means that a viral infection can alter the host’s genetic code, and potentially change its course of evolution. Retroviruses are a specific type of virus that first appeared and multiplied just before the Cambrian Explosion.
And the researchers believe these retroviruses came from cometary bombardment the Earth was experiencing around the same time. As the comets broke up and left debris trails in the Earth’s atmosphere, dormant retroviruses were released and spread across our planet’s surface.
This wide-spread introduction of new genetic material in the form of viruses affected the development of life in our planet’s oceans, and potentially all land-dwelling life forms that came later.
2. Octopuses appeared too abruptly to have evolved on Earth.
The introduction of interstellar viruses may have increased the genetic diversity of life on our planet, but octopuses have some unique genetic traits that simply don’t make sense from an evolutionary stand point.
Genetically, octopuses are significantly different than most other life forms on Earth. Their large brains, sophisticated nervous systems, flexible bodies and ability to instantly switch color and shape are still very unique compared to other modern life forms.
And these striking traits appeared very suddenly on the evolutionary scene about 270 million years ago. The research group concluded that this sudden “great leap forward” would be impossible in such a short time frame.
“Thus the possibility that cryopreserved squid and/or octopus eggs, arrived in icy bolides several hundred million years ago should not be discounted,” the researchers say.
HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO LIFE ON EARTH TODAY?
We may never know whether or not octopus eggs actually arrived on Earth from outer space, but the theory of panspermia does hold the potential for a radical shift in our world view.
The research group concluded their study by discussing the need to change from our outdated view of life originating exclusively on Earth to one incorporating “cosmic biology,” which recognizes the scientific evidence that life on our planet may have been, and continues to be, influenced by organisms that arrive from outer space.
They also point out the vast number of Earth-like planets and other life-friendly planetary bodies that exist in our galaxy, and the potential for billions of exchanges of material between them through meteorites, cometary bolides and even space dust.
“One is thus forced in our view to conclude that the entire galaxy (and perhaps our local group of galaxies) constitutes a single connected biosphere,” the researchers write.
What do you think? Is Earth part of an intergalactic web of life? Or are we alone in the universe? Please share your thoughts in the comments!
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Baalbek In Lebanon: Megaliths Of The Gods Full Lecture, Why We Can't Build Them Today, Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Baalbek In Lebanon:Megaliths Of The Gods Full Lecture, Why We Can't Build Them Today, Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of video: Nov 2018 This is a video by the famous Brian Forester. His analyses of different ancient structures, shapes, configuration are very thought provoking. He says these structures are impossible to have been made with primitive tools and methods. I have to agree, even with todays advanced technology, I highly doubt that we will ever see an actual 100% replica of the great pyramids ever built in our lifetime. The blocks of stone are too big, too heavy and too solid. Todays tech and machines are not use to such incredible weights and sizes. To build an Egyptian pyramid that matches in every way to the original...whole new tools, transportation, machines and methods would have to be invented. Today in 2018, we just couldn't do it. Scott C. Waring
Bright UFO Captured Over Kent, England. November 3, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Bright UFO Captured Over Kent, England. November 3, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 3, 2018 Location of sighting: Kent, England Glowing lights are once of the types of UFOs often seen during UFO encounters. I myself have seen more than my share. This has a shape of a AI drone ship. One that can travel at incredible speed and not have to worry about passengers, however aliens can see, hear, smell, feel the wind and even monitor a humans thoughts and things when using this drone to interact with its surrounds. Scott C. Waring Video states:
This footage was was filmed by Pete Tyas at 06:30am in the town of Deal in Kent, England. We can see this bright object moving silently through the early morning sky. Also it looks like the object has dropped something but it could be a star but there is no doubt about the bigger craft.
Linda Moulton Howe: Extraterrestrials Are Likely Someone Else's Machines via Artificial Intelligence (Video)
Linda Moulton Howe: Extraterrestrials Are Likely Someone Else's Machines via Artificial Intelligence (Video)
Linda Moulton Howe starts off with Elon Musk’s comments to American governors at a meeting in Rhode Island: “Artificial Intelligence is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization and I don’t think people really appreciate that.” With video and images, Linda will lay out the emerging problems of applying A. I. to robots, especially those under development for military applications with weapons, and those problems include the potential for robots to lethally turn on their human makers.
As humanity is rapidly moving to depend on A. I. robot support, people in the UFO/E.T. abduction syndrome have been saying for decades that some of the beings they have dealt with were clearly Someone else’s programmed androids and robots.
Russia UFOs: Something Not From This Earth Is in the Skies and Waters There (Video)
Russia UFOs: Something Not From This Earth Is in the Skies and Waters There (Video)
Mysterious events are occurring in Russia in the form of UFOs and USOs. The topics presented at the lecture are listed below: Ancient Russia and the Russian Empire’s UFO sightings.
The Tunguska Object and other mysteries before 1917. KGB and UFOs in the USSR.The most important UFO cases of the Soviet Union. UFOs over the Caucasus, Siberia, Russia’s North and Far East: then and now.
UFOs in the oceans and space from the secret files and heretofore unavailable information regarding USOs (unidentified submersible objects) and sightings of UFOs by Russian cosmonauts.
This gold-anodized aluminum plaque was attached to the Pioneer 10 spacecraft before it was launched into space on March 2, 1972. Scientists Carl and Linda Sagan and Frank Drake designed the plaque that was attached to Pioneer 10 to communicate with extraterrestrial beings. (Note: Due to size limitations, the entire plaque is not pictured here.)
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One of the biggest voices in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, once wrote that humans should be prepared to deal not just with aliens, but also with their artificial intelligence. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer for the SETI Institute, based his argument on watching us create both basic AI and cloud computing technology and sending robots to explore places we currently can't go. If we can do that, why couldn't an alien species do something similar?
The communication part is where it gets tricky. The prospect of getting aliens to understand what we're saying is hard enough. What chance would an alien machine have? After all, whatever signals we send might seem based on immutable laws of math to most of us, but they'd be arbitrary to an extraterrestrial mind, organic or synthetic. For instance, the fact that we divide information into bits and bytes, that each byte contains eight bits, and there are 1024 bytes in a kilobyte are consequences of computing being adjusted to better handle certain arbitrary communication protocols. So, while we could imagine beaming pulses that are neatly decoded into greetings and instructions for alien probes, how do we know that these machines could understand our Earth-centric standards?
Shostak says we shouldn't worry about that. An alien machine could do what we do when we're trying to understand a different language. They could parse it for distinct patterns, notice repetitions and conclude that what they're receiving is an intelligent signal.
"If you just said lots of things," he explains, "and no matter what is at the other end, if it's an intelligent machine, then it can certainly go through all that information and pick out the redundancies. Even if it's little gray guys with big eyeballs, they probably have some big computers and so they could do the same thing with their computers."
In fact, he argues that trying to send a large volume of data is a more efficient way for aliens to understand our language, more efficient than signals showing that we understand the laws of mathematics. Faced with vast amounts of data, alien machinery could build up a large list of nouns and learn to associate them with certain images.
"If they were parsing [the digital version of] The Library of Congress, they would quickly learn that the name for this square thing with four wheels is 'automobile,'" he says. "What will be hard is understanding verbs, but they could certainly pull out sequences and try to figure them out, kind of how you learn to read actually, although you'd already know the language."
Of course, there's only so far we can broadcast our radio signals, and there are only so many targets at which we can aim our lasers. But let's say that at some point alien machines do encounter our probes. It's very unlikely the two devices will be able to successfully communicate because in a few hundred years the electronics on our probes would fail thanks to wear and tear and the radiation of outer space. It's also statistically unlikely they'd be quickly found by an alien spaceship. However, says Shostak, that doesn't mean there wouldn't be a lot for aliens to learn from the discovery, starting with analyzing the probes' levels of technology.
"Say something happened to Christopher Columbus' ships and they all sank except maybe one," he elaborates. "So imagine that Santa Maria washes up on the shore and Native Americans go down and take a look at this ship. What can they tell about the culture that was on the other side of the ocean that launched this ship? Well, they have metal, and they have big pieces of cloth that serve some function they can probably figure out what the purpose of it was. They'd see a rudder and certainly know what a rudder was. They could certainly learn a lot from just the technology about the relative technical sophistication of the culture at the other end."
Each of the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977 carry one of the 12-inch gold-plated phonograph records pictured here, replete with images and sounds from Earth.
NASA
And while Shostak says aliens are probably never going to run into the Voyager or the Pioneer probes, they'd be intrigued with the technology we put into them, more intrigued than with any plaques adorning said probes. If anything, he argues that equipping probes for first contact should be done with as much data as possible and allow alien machines to figure out the rest.
In other words, aliens will understand our communication protocols as long as we're consistent about the ones we send and we make sure to give them a lot of data so they can decipher that they're dealing with a language. How much time and energy they'll invest in their process will likely be determined by their priorities and the limitations of their machines' programming, but it's unlikely that alien machines and their handlers won't at least recognize that they've made first contact with something out there.
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Shostak also suggests using a kind of interstellar braille on crystals that can survive for extremely long periods, "sort of like a CD designed for the rigors of space" that can still be read by scanners since an alien machine would be able to notice the patterns of redundancies and start the process of deciphering what we have to teach it.
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Bizarre Light Orbs Over California Prompt Interstellar Visitor Theories (VIDEO)
Bizarre Light Orbs Over California Prompt Interstellar Visitor Theories (VIDEO)
A clip with a mysterious flying object, uploaded by an ordinary YouTube user, has been quickly picked up by Disclose Screen, a popular channel among UFO enthusiasts.
Chris Wilson managed to capture a free-falling object that emanated a bright white light, hovering over San Diego, California at sunset. At one point, the alleged UFO split into two, which stunned Wilson, who, nevertheless, continued filming:
“That’s crazy. Woah, what the hell, it's stopped its free-fall and now there are two.”
YouTube users, who probably have a thing for conspiracy theories, appeared to be impressed with the video, leaving comments such as: “Cool, NASA will say it’s [sic] balloons or reflections,” “Wow, crazy. Great catch,” “Alien invasion” or “The war of Armageddon is raging.”
Another user suggested that “an object flying straight away from you will appear to be descending. Helicopters and drones can easily hover and change direction in mid air,” while a fellow YouTuber wrote that there was a marine base north west of the place where the sighting took place.
Sur les fonds du littoral breton, on ne trouve pas que des épaves, mais aussi de bien curieux mégalithes qui semblent bien ne pas avoir été déposés par hasard à une profondeur d’une vingtaine de mètres. Une étrange pyramide engloutie se dresse ainsi dans les profondeurs du golfe du Morbihan. Sa position et des marques découvertes sur les rochers environnants prouvent que son origine n’a rien de naturel. Sa présence tendrait à conforter l’hypothèse d’une montée des eaux beaucoup plus importante qu’il est communément admis, il y a environ 5000 ans…
Il est des secrets qui dorment sous nos yeux, jusque devant nos portes, oubliés de tous, sortis de la mémoire collective à tel point que personne n’est en mesure aujourd’hui de retrouver leur origine…
C’est le cas en Bretagne sud, dans le golfe du Morbihan, une petite mer intérieure (traduction littérale de Mor-Bihan) de 15 km de long sur 12 km de large, parsemée d’une myriade d’îles et d’îlots, ne communiquant avec l’océan que par un goulet de 900m de large, se remplissant et se vidant toutes les six heures au rythme des marées en engendrant de redoutables courants pouvant dépasser 15km/h. Là, les tombants, dont la profondeur n’excède guère 25 m, sont d’une extraordinaire richesse en faune et en flore.
C’est là, le long des tombants de la pointe Sud-Ouest de l’île Longue, non loin de l’accès du golfe à la mer libre, que j’ai découvert une énigme à laquelle personne, jusqu’à présent, n’a pu fournir d’explication.
La pyramide est posée par 23m de fond
Là, en un lieu nommé ”les Gorets”, j’ai fait la découverte d’une curieuse pyramide monolithique, sous une vingtaine de mètres d’eau. Elle semble taillée dans le granit et possède trois faces sur une base triangulaire (c’est un tétraède). Les faces sont lisses, les angles sont vifs et elles sont d’inégales surfaces. La plus grande, orientée vers l’Ouest, est parallèle au tombant. La base de la pierre est située, par marée haute de coefficient moyen, à 23m de la surface. Sa hauteur est de 1,70m. La roche est rougeâtre, peut-être du granit rose ou du porphyre ? Je l’ai mesurée pour en calculer le volume puis le poids : celui-ci doit être d’environ 1,4 tonne. Une prospection au détecteur de métaux dans les alentours n’a rien donné : pas de trésor, ni de métal en vue !
Emplacement actuel de la pyramide, à la pointe de l’Ile Longue
Que fait à cet endroit cette bizarre structure ? Trois hypothèses ont été émises quant à la présence de ce monolithe en ce lieu et à cette profondeur. J’ai d’abord pensé à une pierre taillée tombée d’un bateau. Nous savons en effet que les anciens transportaient par voie d’eau des blocs découpés destinés à des constructions lointaines. Mais le fait que cette pierre pointue (les angles au sommet sont inférieurs à 90°) me semble mal convenir à une bâtisse, il est peu vraisemblable qu’elle soit tombée la pointe bien orientée vers le haut, la plus grande face exactement parallèle au tombant.
La deuxième hypothèse me fut suggérée par David, un ami moniteur local. ”Tu sais, m’avait-il dit, c’est probablement une formation géologique naturelle. Les roches en cristallisant donnent parfois ce genre de structure. Regarde par exemple la Chaussée des Géants en Irlande”. Certes, mais ce sont des roches éruptives comme le basalte qui forment naturellement ces constructions géométriques. Or notre pyramide semble en granit qui n’est pas d’origine volcanique. D’ailleurs, le volcanisme récent est inexistant dans le vieux massif armoricain et il n’y a nulle part, en surface, de monolithe de ce genre. Les roches, érodées, sont arrondies.
Autrefois, le Golfe du Morbihan n’était que le confluent marécageux de plusieurs rivières, le niveau de la mer était bien plus bas qu’aujourd’hui. La pyramide était alors sur le rivage.
La troisième hypothèse était que cette pierre, appartenant au substrat, avait été taillée par la main de l’homme pour en faire un amer, marquer un lieu sacré ou Dieu sait quoi d’autre. Car n’oublions pas que nous sommes en plein cœur d’une région extrêmement riche en monuments mégalithiques. Les célèbres menhirs des alignements de Carnac ne sont, à vol d’oiseau, qu’à 14 km. Bien plus près, à environ 1 200 m, le tumulus de Gavrinis abrite une allée couverte ornée d’énigmatiques gravures. Mieux encore, en face de Gavrinis se trouve l’îlot d’Er-Lannic. Celui-ci, classé réserve ornithologique, possède sur sa pente sud-est deux cromlechs (un cromlech est un ensemble de menhirs-pierres dressées disposés en forme de fer à cheval). Le premier, parfaitement visible quand on passe en bateau, est semi-immergé. Quant au second, il est complètement recouvert par en moyenne 3 à 4 m d’eau. Il ne se laisse entrevoir que par grande marée basse. Preuve indubitable que le niveau des eaux a monté dans le golfe depuis l’érection de ces monuments. Des fouilles effectuées par des archéologues et des plongeurs locaux ont permis tout d’abord de faire un relevé précis de ces alignements puis de dater leur édification à 3 500 av. JC, période d’apogée du Néolithique en Armorique. Notre pyramide pourrait donc faire partie de cet ensemble de constructions préhistoriques.
De nombreux mégalithe sont aujourd’hui immergés par la montée des eaux.
Problème : les eaux du golfe, d’après les spécialistes, ont dû monter de 7 à 8 m depuis 5500 ans. Or la pyramide est à -23m ! Donc, soit le niveau de la mer s’est beaucoup plus élevé que ce que l’on pense, soit le monolithe est beaucoup plus ancien et aurait été recouvert lors de la fonte des glaciers mettant un terme à la glaciation de Wurm. C’est-à-dire au plus tard vers 8000 av. J.C.! Pourtant les archéologues nous ont appris que les plus vieux mégalithes bretons datent d’environ 4500 av. J.C. Nous étions donc loin du compte !
Quelques années passèrent depuis cette curieuse découverte. Une observation plus attentive me permit de constater que la pyramide n’appartenait pas au substrat mais était ”simplement” posée sur le sol rocheux de surface inégale, créant ainsi des cavités abritant congres ou homards. Posée oui, mais par qui et pourquoi ?
J’en étais là de mes interrogations quand, passant fin juillet faire gonfler mon bloc au Crouesty (grand port de plaisance situé près de l’entrée du golfe), Martial ami de longue date, me fit une confidence qui m’intrigua : ” j’ai trouvé, il y a peu, près de la pyramide, un triangle gravé sur la face plate d’une roche, tu devrais allez voir”.
Confiant en sa parole et en son œil exercé (il avait déjà découvert, dans la même zone, en faisant des baptêmes, un petit muret d’un demi-mètre de haut dissimulé dans les algues) je mouillais, début août, mon bateau aux Gorets et plongeais. Suivant ses indications je ne tardais pas à trouver, à cinq mètres (distance mesurée) de notre monolithe une pierre portant, grossièrement gravé, le dessin d’un triangle ! Coïncidence ?
Le signe gravé dans la pierre, découvert récemment à 5m de la pyramide.
Je le nettoyais puis revenais le mesurer. Il était représenté pointe vers le bas, son plus grand côté faisant 43cm, les deux autres respectivement 36 et 28cm. Etant dessinateur de métier, j’en traçais un plan à l’échelle ¼. Je mesurais son angle au sommet : 85°, presque un angle droit. Mais aussi pratiquement le même angle au sommet de la grande face de la pyramide, celle qui est parallèle au tombant ! Là les coïncidences devenaient trop nombreuses pour que ce soit seulement le hasard. Il s’agissait dès lors de raisonner logiquement.
Pour moi ce triangle sommairement gravé le fut pour indiquer à ceux qui allaient amener la pyramide que c’était là l’endroit où la placer. Il s’agissait d’un emplacement bien précis, ne devant rien au hasard (il n’y a que 5m de la gravure à la pyramide), mais dont nous ignorons la signification.
Sur l’île Longue, à quelques dizaines de mètres de la pyramide, se trouve une allée couverte dont les parois sont recouvertes de mystérieuses gravures
N’oublions pas qu’il y a, sur l’extrémité Sud de l’île Longue, donc à quelques dizaines de mètres de la pyramide, une allée couverte (propriété privée, la visite en est interdite) dont les parois sont recouvertes des mêmes mystérieuses gravures que celles du cairn de Gavrinis datant de 3700 av. J.C et situé à 1000m de là. Gravures qui à ce jour n’ont jamais pu être interprétées. On ne sait d’ailleurs pratiquement rien sur le peuple qui a couvert de monuments mégalithiques toute cette région de Bretagne Sud. N’ayant pas d’écriture ils n’ont laissé de leur présence que ces énormes blocs de pierre érigés en menhirs, dolmens, allées couvertes ou cairns.
Les gravures n’ont jamais pu être interprétées.
Songeons que le grand menhir (pierre dressée) de Locmariaquer, situé à la pointe Ouest de l’entrée du golfe, aujourd’hui abattu et cassé en quatre morceaux, faisait 20m de long et pesait 300 tonnes ! (A titre comparatif, l’obélisque de la Concorde à Paris pèse 200 tonnes). Il fut érigé vers 4500 av. J.C., soit 2000 ans avant les pyramides d’Egypte, et auparavant déplacé sur 17km ! Il fallait à un peuple capable d’un tel exploit une organisation sociale élaborée, avec des décideurs, des concepteurs, des cadres et de la main-d’œuvre. Il avait également besoin d’une intendance pour outiller, loger, nourrir tout ce monde. Et tous ces gens avaient surtout une foi profonde envers leurs dieux, car tous ces édifices avaient selon toute vraisemblance, un but religieux.
Le grand menhir brisé de Locmariaquer qui pèse plus de 300 tonnes
Déplacer une pierre pyramidale d’un peu plus d’une tonne pour l’installer en un endroit pré-déterminé ne devait donc pas leur poser de gros problèmes. Reste celui de la profondeur à laquelle reposent pyramide et triangle. Certes nous avons la preuve que le niveau de la mer s’est élevé au cours des siècles : face à Gavrinis se trouve l’îlot d’Er-Lannic. Il possède sur sa pente Sud-Est deux cromlechs, ensemble de menhirs disposés en demi-cercle. Le premier parfaitement visible est semi-immergé. Le second est complètement recouvert par 3 ou 4m d’eau. D’autres sites en Bretagne ont également les ”pieds dans l’eau” : dolmen de Kerroyal au fond du golfe, menhir de Penglaouic à Loctudy, allée couverte de Guinirvit en Finistère Nord, etc…
Cette montée des eaux, appelée ”transgression flandrienne”, est due à la fonte des glaciers du Nord de l’Europe à la fin de la glaciation de Wurm il y a 10-12000 ans. Mais elle ne dépasse pas, aux dires des hydrologues, 7 à 8m en 5500 ans. Les géologues nous apprennent aussi que la Scandinavie, libérée du poids de ses glaces, s’élève lentement depuis 10 000 ans et que par contre-coup la péninsule armoricaine s’abaisse sensiblement. Ce phénomène, appelé ”mouvement épirogénique”, accentue encore l’importance de l’ennoyage des estuaires et des plaines basses du littoral breton.
La pyramide engloutie garde son mystère
Alors, pour que la pyramide ait été placée là où elle est, c’est à dire à plus de vingt mètres de la surface actuelle, il n’y a que deux possibilités :
soit le niveau des eaux dans ce qui deviendra le golfe du Morbihan, est vers 5000 av. J.C. (en admettant que notre pierre fasse partie des tous premiers mégalithes) beaucoup plus bas que ce qui est généralement admis et que donc la montée des eaux a été plus importante et plus rapide que ce que nous pensons.
Soit la pyramide est beaucoup plus vieille et a été positionnée vers la fin de la dernière glaciation, c’est à dire vers 8000 av.J.C. ! C’est ce que pense le plongeur- spéléo Francis Le Guen qui lui, a trouvé un petit dolmen par 25m de fond en Finistère Nord. Mais dans ce cas quelle population aurait été capable à cette époque, d’une telle réalisation ?
Pour ma part je pencherais plutôt pour la première hypothèse. Seules les rivières de Vannes et d’Auray serpentaient dans la plaine cernée de mamelons rocheux qu’était alors le golfe. Elles ne devaient pas être très profondes et peu soumises à la marée, la mer libre étant beaucoup plus loin, au delà de Houat et peut-être de Belle-Ile. Aujourd’hui le fond moyen de cette zone est d’environ -25m. Si on admet une profondeur des deux rivières à l’époque de 4 à 5m on a donc un rivage dans les -20m actuel ce qui nous place la pyramide en bordure du flot, mais à sec.
Quand à savoir qu’elle était l’utilité réelle de notre pyramide c’est un mystère dont je laisse la résolution aux archéologues. Mais je pense qu’une extension des recherches sous-marines dans le golfe du Morbihan, malgré les difficultés (courant, trafic), pourrait nous apporter d’autres intéressantes découvertes.
Attention !
Si vous désirez plonger dans le golfe, sachez que c’est une zone dangereuse pour le néophyte. Les courants y sont violents et changeants ; le trafic en été y est intense. Il est donc grandement préférable de s’adresser aux très sérieux clubs locaux.
Bibliographie :
Giot P.R. La Bretagne des Mégalithes Ed. Ouest France ; Lecerf Y. Mémoire de pierres Ed. Cloître ; Lecerf Y. La Bretagne préhistorique Ed. Skol Vreizh ; Mohen J.P. Pierres vives de la préhistoire Ed. Odile Jacob ; Politzer A. er M. Des Mégalithes et des Hommes Ed. Coop Breizh
Stunned dad spots ‘submerged plane’ on Google Earth in the sea off Scotland – but is all as it seems?
Stunned dad spots ‘submerged plane’ on Google Earth in the sea off Scotland – but is all as it seems?
Robert Morton, 55, found the incredible image under the sea near Edinburgh
By James Cox
A SHOCKED dad couldn't believe his eyes after spotting a submerged plane on Google Earth.
Robert Morton, 55, found the incredible image under the sea near Edinburgh.
GOOGLE EARTH
A dad from Doncaster was shocked to find a submerged plane under the sea on Google Earth, near Scotland
The father-of-three, from Doncaster, said the image appears to show an airliner underneath the waves.
He told Mirror Online that the discovery was "incredible and very strange".
Robert, a mechanical fitter, said: "I was just looking on Google Earth on Monday and, by chance, I came across the picture of the aircraft.
"It looks like it is the sea, just off the coast of Edinburgh. It looks like it is underwater.
GOOGLE EARTH
But is there another explanation of why the plane is 'in the sea'?
"Its very, very strange. It's incredible.
"I have never actually seen an aircraft on Google Earth so it is very strange. It appears to be underwater."
The bizarre image can be found around nine miles from Edinburgh airport, off the Scottish coast near Portobello.
So what is the story behind the picture?
Robert says he has never heard of a plane crash in that region - and suggests there is an Earthly solution to the mystery.
The plane can be found 9 miles from Edinburgh airport, off the coast near Portobello
GOOGLE EARTH
How did the plane get down there...or is it down there at all?
He described his find as a "Google anomaly".
Robert added added: "I know the picture of the plane isn't really in the water, its probably the satellite looking down on it through thin cloud giving it that appearance."
Researchers just test-fired a new type of ion thruster that “breathes” air, and one day, it could help humanity reach Mars and beyond.
Better propulsion systems are key to advancing our space capabilities, and one of the most promising kinds is ion propulsion. An ion thruster “ionizes” a propellant, most commonly xenon, by either adding electrons to it or taking electrons away. This creates thrust that can position a satellite or propel spacecraft, for example.
Ion thrusters are much cleaner, safer, and more fuel-efficient than standard rocket engines. However, they are still limited by the amount of propellant their craft can carry.
Scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA), Polish company QuinteScience, and Italian space company SITAEL hope to change that. The team has successfully tested an ion thruster that utilizes a method known as air-breathing electric propulsion (ABEP), or RAM electrical propulsion. That means it quite literally runs on air.
Image Credit: ESA
While ABEP is not a new concept, the ESA’s prototype is the first of its kind. It works by sucking in air molecules from the top of Earth’s atmosphere. Then, it gives those molecules an electric charge and accelerates them. Finally, it ejects the ionized molecules back out into space. This ejection of ions is what causes thrust.
After running a number of successful computer simulations, the team decided it was time to test their thruster in the physical world.
The group set up a vacuum chamber at the SITAEL’s test facility in Italy to replicate conditions 200 kilometers (124 miles) above Earth’s surface. Through a series of tests, they proved they could ignite the system using solely an atmospheric mix of nitrogen and oxygen.
“This result means air-breathing electric propulsion is no longer simply a theory but a tangible, working concept, ready to be developed, to serve one day as the basis of a new class of missions,” Louis Walpot, an ESA aerospace engineer, said in a statement.
Slow And Steady
This “air-breathing” thruster may not be as powerful as some other ion thrusters in development, including NASA’s X3, but what it lacks in power, it makes up for in potential longevity.
Because they can pull fuel from the air, these ion thrusters could expand our reach into space. A craft could travel from one atmosphere to the next, “refueling” at each before continuing on its journey. Instead of causing drag, air would become a fuel source.
Of course, any long-distance trips would still take a long time, but at least we’d have the ability to eventually reach objects much farther away.
A hypothetical design of a craft using the ESA’s air-breathing ion propulsion system. Image Credit: ESA
Besides supporting future long-distance missions, these air-powered thrusters could be superior alternatives to the thrusters that currently help satellites maintain their positioning. Those systems eventually run out of propellant and can no longer function, as was the case with the ESA’s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite.
The ESA’s ion thruster could also cut down on the weight of spacecraft, which is a constant limiting factor for launches. The GOCE satellite, for example, carried 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of xenon for propellant. Getting rid of this weight could be a significant benefit to using these thrusters.
While it isn’t the most powerful propulsion system, the ESA’s new ion thruster design has clear advantages over older designs. Eventually, it could become the propulsion system of choice for spacecraft engineers.
The US government made a pact with Aliens for otherworldly technology
The US government made a pact with Aliens for otherworldly technology
There are numerous Ufologists who claim that extraterrestrial beings have worked with our government for years. This theory, which has been seriously ridiculed by many, might actually be true since numerous scientists and governmental official have come forward suggesting that there is more to alien life on Earth than previously believed.
Philip Schneider was a man who is believed to have come forward with highly classified information. He was a geologist and structural engineer of the Government of the United States and was involved in the construction of deep underground military bases in the United States with the Army Corps of Engineers. He was one of three people to survive the 1979 fire fight between the large Greys and U.S. intelligence and military forces at Dulce underground base. At Dulce, Schneider maintained, “gray” humanoid extraterrestrials worked side by side with American technicians. In 1979, a misunderstanding arose. In the ensuing shootout, 66 Secret Service, FBI and Black Berets were killed along with an unspecified number of “grays”.
Philip Schneider’s father, Oscar Schneider was a medical advisor to the US Navy. During the last two years of his life, Phil Schneider gave over 30 lectures to a variety of audiences around the world talking about highly classified information of the government involving alien technology, alien weapons, experiments and pacts between governments worldwide and aliens.
Many people remained skeptical about what Schneider had brought forward and much of his life was seriously questioned by people worldwide. He was ridiculed by many, but there were many who believed that what Schneider was telling was the absolute truth, something that no one dared to talk about.
Mysteriously in 1996, Schneider was found dead in his apartment. Authorities said it was a suicide, but many people believe that Schneider was killed because he had leaked extremely classified information to the public.
In 1954, former President Dwight Eisenhower, made a pact with three species of aliens, Schneider said at a conference in 1995. n exchange for alien technology, Eisenhower allegedly gave permission for the aliens to abduct a limited number human beings to perform numerous experiments on Earth and in space.
Schneider said that many of the thousands people who have gone missing around the world, may have been taken by aliens. He said there are nine races of aliens who see the human race as “a bag of food.”
According to Schneider, the technology that aliens gave us as part of this exchange includes a type of metal that is almost indestructible. Schneider showed the audience what he said was a piece of this metal. It is made of niobium, an element that we have in the periodic table, and Marinite, a strange element which is not found on Earth.
But there were other technological utilities that aliens gave to humans thanks to the pacts. The government was able to develop a spy satellite with help of aliens that can detect a penny on the floor of your kitchen according to Schneider. This spy-satellite uses some sort of infrared technology with a resolution factor of 99.99961.
But this pact was broken by the aliens since they have abducted way more aliens than agreed. According to Schneider, since the pact was broken there have been tensions among alien races and humans.
The debate over who arrived in the New World first is a contentious one. Their identities aside, nobody can quite decide how those first Americans traveled or how they dispersed once they arrived. But now, a new study published in Cell, illuminating the genetic history of some of those early travelers, reveals a unifying thread.
An international team of scientists announced Thursday that the majority of people in Central and South America can be linked to a single ancestral lineage of humans who journeyed across the Bering Strait at least 15,000 years ago. After their journey southward into the new world, this source population broke into at least three branches, which diversified and spread, some of them back toward the north.
Two of those branches are new to science. One is unexpectedly connected to the Clovis people — who were thought to be the first Americans until the early 2000s— whereas the other links ancient North Americans to people who lived in Southern Peru and Northern Chile at least 4,200 years ago.
“These [findings] are fascinating as they open new gateways into archeological and genetic research,” explains co-author and Harvard Ph.D. candidate Nathan Nakatuska to Inverse. “It was previously not known that the Clovis culture extended into South America, and it is incredible that these people were able to migrate all the way through North, Central, and South America. In addition, the new migration into the Southern Andes was not previously known, and we are unsure what historical events led to this.”
The majority of Central and South American ancestry arrived from at least three different streams of people.
Nakatuska and his colleagues analyzed DNA from 49 ancient individuals who once lived in what is now Belize, Brazil, the Central Andes, and the southernmost parts of Chile and Argentina and died between 10,900 and 8,600 ago. The team worked with government agencies and indigenous people to identify the samples, extract powder from skeletal material, and extract the DNA necessary to created double-stranded DNA libraries.
The use of DNA is one of the most novel aspects of this research. When studying migration of ancient peoples, other scientists often have to rely on other factors, such as old footprints or lice.
This broad dataset allowed the team to link genetic exchanges between people in North and South America and confirm the common origin of North, Central, and South Americans. The analysis made it clear that the original “source” population, fresh off the Bering Strait, diversified before they spread into South America.
What surprised the study authors most was the genetic connection they found between the Clovis culture and South America. About 13,000 years ago, the Clovis were distributed across North America. Though they were long thought to be the first Americans, findings of even older remains stripped them of that title. In the new paper, the team links DNA from a Clovis boy who lived in Montana about 12,800 years ago to some of the data set’s oldest individuals, who lived much farther south, in modern-day Belize, Chile, and Brazil.
“This [previously unknown gene flow event] suggests that, surprisingly, the genetic ancestry of people who produced the Clovis culture expanded further south,” explains first author and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History researcher Cosimo Posth, Ph.D. to Inverse. “However, this ancestry was replaced at least by 9,000 years ago from another lineage, which left a long lasting population continuity until today, in multiple South American regions.”
The second previously unknown population links ancient individuals who lived on California’s Channel Islands to individuals who lived at least 4,200 years ago in Southern Peru and Northern Chile. Posth notes that “this might be linked to a population expansion in the region seen in the archeological record around that time.”
Clovis spearheads found in Iowa.
Nakatuska hopes the team’s research will stimulate further investigation into these genetic bonds and emphasizes the need for researchers to respectfully work with indigenous people. While strides have been made in the past two decades, archeology has a history of cultural imperialism.
“We hope the findings will facilitate greater collaboration and engagement with indigenous communities where the communities are deeply engaged and provide their insights to help drive the science and complement the studies with their own indigenous epistemologies,” Nakatuska says.
“We must ensure that our studies benefit indigenous people, particularly those currently living in the areas near the ancient individuals from our studies.”
Study Summary from Authors:
We report genome-wide ancient DNA from 49 individuals forming four parallel time transects in Belize, Brazil, the Central Andes, and the Southern Cone, each dating to at least ∼9,000 years ago. The common ancestral population radiated rapidly from just one of the two early branches that contributed to Native Americans today. We document two previously unappreciated streams of gene flow between North and South America. One affected the Central Andes by ∼4,200 years ago, while the other explains an affinity between the oldest North American genome associated with the Clovis culture and the oldest Central and South Americans from Chile, Brazil, and Belize. However, this was not the primary source for later South Americans, as the other ancient individuals derive from lineages without specific affinity to the Clovis-associated genome, suggesting a population replacement that began at least 9,000 years ago and was followed by substantial population continuity in multiple regions.
Earlier in 2018, the Curiosity rover found evidence for abundant organic compounds – those containing carbon – on Mars. Does this mean Mars once had life? Or can some other process can explain it? Here’s one idea.
Mars as seen by one of the Viking orbiters in the late 1970s. We now know there are organics there, but where did they come from?
Image via NASA.
For a long time, it wasn’t known if organic compounds – compounds containing carbon – existed on Mars. They are ubiquitous within living things on Earth, but – due to its thinner atmosphere – these compounds would be destroyed on Mars’ surface by strong incoming ultraviolet radiation. Still, scientists have thought that there should be some organics on Mars – hidden within rocks or perhaps just under the surface – even if just very simple ones from the meteorites that strike Mars regularly. Various landers and rovers found hints of organics, but nothing too substantial. Then, earlier in 2018, the Curiosity rover finally hit pay dirt, finding evidence for abundant organics in the ancient mudstone rocks in Gale Crater, which used to be a Martian lake billions of years ago. These carbon molecules ranged from simple to fairly complex, but their actual origin was still unknown. They could be created by abiotic processes (without life). Or they could be the molecular remains of once-living organisms.
Now, a new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science has shown one possible way that these or similar organics might have been created on Mars. The new peer-reviewed paper – by Andrew Steele and his colleagues – has been published in Science Advances.
The researchers studied organics found in three Martian meteorites – Tissint, Nakhla, and NWA 1950 – and compared them to the organics discovered by Curiosity. They found that both sets of organic carbon were quite similar, suggesting a possible similar origin. From the paper:
Here, we show that Martian meteorites Tissint, Nakhla, and NWA 1950 have an inventory of organic carbon species associated with fluid-mineral reactions that are remarkably consistent with those detected by the Mars Science Laboratory mission[with its Curiosity rover]
Earlier this year, NASA’s Curiosity rover found organic carbon compounds in ancient mudstones, similar to ones previously discovered in Martian meteorites.
Image via NASA/GSFC.
Previously, in 2012, Steele led another team that determined the organics found in 10 different Martian meteorites was indigenous to Mars, not contamination from Earth, but also was not biological in origin. But if those carbon deposits were not biological, then how did they form?According to Steele:
Revealing the processes by which organic carbon compounds form on Mars has been a matter of tremendous interest for understanding its potential for habitability.
Basically, according to the paper, Mars’ organics may have originated from a series of electrochemical reactionsbetween briny liquids and volcanic minerals – in other words, natural “batteries.”
The Tissint Martian meteorite, one of several that were found to contain organic material.
So what about the organics found by Curiosity? Steele and his team looked closer at the organics in the meteorites – using advanced microscopy and spectroscopy – and found that they were likely created by electrochemical corrosion of minerals in Martian rocks by a surrounding salty liquid brine. As Steele noted:
The discovery that natural systems can essentially form a small corrosion-powered battery that drives electrochemical reactions between minerals and surrounding liquid has major implications for the astrobiology field.
A high-resolution transmission electron micrograph (scale 50nm), from a transmission electron microscope, of a grain from the Martian meteorite Nakhla. The organic carbon layers are found between the intact “tines.” This texture is created when the volcanic minerals of the Martian rock interact with a salty brine and become the anode and cathode of a naturally occurring battery in a corrosion reaction. This reaction would then have enough energy – under certain conditions – to synthesize organic carbon.
Image via Andrew Steele/Science Advances.
Does this prove the Curiosity organics were created in the same way? No, but it is a viable answer. Curiosity itself is somewhat limited in being able to determine whether any organics are biological in origin or not. The upcoming 2020 roverwill be able to do that, NASA has said.
The team further postulates that similar processes could also occur on Jupiter’s moon Europa, Saturn’s moon Enceladus and other bodies in our solar system – anywhere that igneous rocks are surrounded by salty brines. This could also have a bearing on their potential habitability as well.
Bottom line: The origin of organics on Mars is still unknown, but this new study from the Carnegie Institution for Science may hold some important clues for how at least some of them were created.
This new Juno spacecraft image shows magnificent, swirling clouds in Jupiter’s dynamic atmosphere. The craft was about 4,400 miles (7,000 km) from the planet’s cloud tops on October 29, over about 40 degrees north.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this image of swirling clouds over Jupiter’s North-North Temperate Belt on October 29, 2018, as the spacecraft performed its 16th close flyby of Jupiter. At the time, Juno was about 4,400 miles (7,000 km) from the planet’s cloud tops, at a latitude of approximately 40 degrees north.
Appearing in the scene are several bright-white “pop-up” clouds as well as an anticyclonic storm, known as a white oval.
Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran created this color-enhanced image using data from the spacecraft’s JunoCam imager. JunoCam’s raw images are available for the public to peruse and to process into image products here.
Bottom line: Image of Jupiter’s clouds by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
What landed here – a UFO or a meteorite? This 40 meter high geological formation was never thoroughly investigated until the 2000s but Russian scientists seem to have found an explanation.
A gloomy dark mount towers over the bright green landscape of the dense Russian taiga. Looking like a giant speaker – 40 meters high and 100 meters wide – it’s an unexpected site to see in a remote area in the north of Irkutsk region, some 210 km north of the town of Bodaibo.
Until 1949 only a few locals knew about it. They call it the “Fire Eagle’s Nest” and used to think of it as a bad place that even animals avoided. Some who visit this place die a strange death and household animals vanish without a trace. What’s the mystery behind this crater and is there a rational explanation for the all the mysterious activity?
How it was discovered
The scientist who first chanced upon this unique formation was Russian geologist Vadim Kolpakov. In 1949 he came here to conduct research and couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw the crater.
“I thought I was mad,” he recalled. “From a distance it reminded me of a giant pit mine and I even wondered if people were there. Why would they be? This is a dense area of the taiga. Plus there were no NKVD labor camps around here – I knew it for sure. Secondly, I thought that it might be an archeological artefact, but the local Evenk and Yakut people were not ancient Egyptians. They can’t built rock pyramids.”
A closer examination showed that the crater was a large mound made of shattered limestone blocks with a diameter of around 160 meters, with an estimated weight of about one million tons. The crater was coined “Patom” (the name of a nearby river), but wasn’t examined thoroughly until the 2000s due to a lack of funding.
Photograph of Patom Crater (made by M.V. Antipin, view from Dzhebaldo Mount). The diameter of the basement is 125 × 155 m, and the diameter of the annular swell is 80 m. The inset shows the geographical position of Patom Crater(asterisk).
The mystery of “Fire Eagle’s Nest” has fueled various theories, from an alien ship landing to an underground nuclear reaction. Some, including Kolpakov himself, supported the idea that the crater was formed by a meteorite falling on the Patom Highland – people thought it might be a fragment of the Tunguska meteorite that fell in the Siberian taiga in 1908. Others suggested that the crater is a volcanic structure that formed due to gas steam jets from a significant depth along fault zones.
The first complex scientific expedition that visited the site in 2005 didn’t get any answers. The head of the expedition died of a heart attack – a tragedy that some believed was a bad omen.
Still, the scientists continued to examine the area. Subsequent expeditions in the years that followed (2006, 2008, 2010) were more successful. Gathered material from the site showed that the crater formed around 500 years ago (way earlier than the Tunguska meteorite) and that it has a zoned ring structure with individual zones formed at different times.
The scientists eventually discarded the meteoritic theory and cryogenic formation hypothesis (suggesting that the cone formed by the freezing of aquifer sequence) and came to the conclusion that the Patom Crater formed by a phreatic (steam) explosion, that happened either during magma emplacement into hydrous rocks or due to the faulting and decompression of heated hydrous rocks.
Despite this, some prefer to believe in more exciting, farfetched explanations like a tiny fragment of a neutron star falling to Earth – so massive that it punched straight through the Earth and out the other side, through the Patom Crater. It’s not completely unrealistic – two similar events happened in 1993 in different parts of the planet, both within a month of each other.
There’s still no explanation for strange events reportedly happening in the crater’s vicinity. Apart from the magnetic anomaly that was detected during one of the first expeditions there is no confirmed evidence that something big is buried in the center of the crater.
Whichever theory one chooses to believe, the crater will most likely remain one of the most mysterious places in Siberia.
If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I’d be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere anecdote. As with the face on Mars and alien abductions, better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
Carl Sagan
There are people who claim that the extraterrestrials abducted them. Brace yourself to get familiar with these true stories because they are sure to give you jitters down your spine. The claims of the real life alien abductions may be true or may not be, but they will definitely petrify you of the UFOs. Here we begin with the alleged true stories of alien abductions.
1 – Abduction of Clayton & Donna Lee
The heart wrenching story of Clayton and Donna Lee claims that the aliens stole a foetus from Donna. Clayton claims that the aliens abducted him in his childhood, while he was visiting a park. Donna says that she remembers floating around the stars and darkness.
Donna claimed in one of the media outlets that she saw the aliens and they took her to a far off place in a vehicle, full of metal. The couple say that they remain petrified all the time, fearing these kind of abductions.
2 – Alien Abduction of Amy
Amy, a 22 year old girl alleges that the aliens abducted her right out of the window of her lounge room. She was with her friend Petra, who claims to witness a bright light post which, a spaceship sort of a thing lifted Amy up. Strangely, the police found Amy miles away from her house, with some weird marks on her inner thighs.
3 – Abduction of the Russian Millionaire and Politician
Believe it or not, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov claims that from his window, a spaceship kidnapped him and took him to some star. He says that he has seen and talked to the aliens. According to him, the aliens are people like us.
4 – Robert Taylor Incident
This incident does not involve alien abductions but it does involve alien encounter. According to Robert Taylor, a forestry worker in Livingston, a spaceship tried to pull him into it. He says, he fell unconscious after an alien encounter and upon gaining consciousness, he was completely out of energy and lost his voice. His dog went hysteric to an extent that it was difficult for him to control it.
5 – Travis Walton’s Abduction Story
Travis Walton, a forestry worker in Arizona, states that three men with bald head and huge eyes, interrogated him after kidnapping him. He, along with his six friends, was heading home after work one night, when they saw a blinding streak of light. Thinking it to be a plane crash, they went to the spot, but it was allegedly a spaceship.
Apparently Walton went closer to the ship, and got abducted by the aliens. His friends claim to witness Walton floating up in the ship. But, on reporting this incident to the police, they did not believe these forestry workers. Even after some gruelling rounds of interrogation, their statements did not change.
6 – Abduction from Manhattan Apartment
Linda Napolitano (Originally Linda Cortile), a Manhattan resident, describes an unbelievable episode of alien abduction. She alleges that the aliens took her from her window, inside their spaceship where she witnessed benches, tables and sliding doors. Strangely, her story supports the claims made by two bodyguards of the United Nations.
7 – Bizarre Visitation of Real Life Men in Black
Robert Richardson supposedly had an encounter with two men who instantly vanished the moment he wanted to inspect them. What the men let behind was a piece of metal, which Richardson took home with him. He alleges that after three days, the men suddenly reappeared at his house to ask for the metal, which Richardson had sent to the lab for analysis. After asking them to leave, he never saw them again.
Betty and Barney claim that they witnessed a UFO while driving back to home from a vacation. Barney alleges that he saw people inside the spaceship with the help of his binoculars. They allege of alien encounters in their dreams. Their claims are that the aliens examined their bodies and tried to wipe their minds completely.
How did life begin? The biggest question mankind has asked itself. Where did we come from? The idea that gods from the heavens had provided the seed of life has been supported by many researchers. End of the day we may have been looking into the correct direction: a breakthrough study claims that the so-called building blocks of life, the elements that are the backbone of organic molecules which form living matter, came to Earth from outer space.
Evidence of seeding
According to a team of researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and their colleagues from France and Taiwan, phosphates and diphosphoric acid, two major chemicals that form chromosomes carrying our genetic information, were generated billions of kilometers away from our planet and were delivered to Earth by space wanderers such as asteroids or comets.
The scientists used a vacuum chamber cooled down to near absolute zero to simulate interstellar icy grains coated with carbon dioxide, water, and phosphine.
When exposed to radiation, these grains created both phosphates and diphosphoric acid. “On Earth, phosphine is lethal to living beings,” said Andrew Turner of the University of Hawaii.
“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.”
Scientists suggested that these phosphorus oxoacids could be traced back to an interstellar medium, the materials that fill the space between stars, which are delivered to Earth by comets or meteorites.
Humans are not from Earth?
Panspermia is a mechanism that allows biology to spread through space without needing a spaceship. Living matter “hitches a ride on sunlight or inside rocks.” Some scientists believe that Mars was indeed inhabited at one time. Some space rocks were “kicked” off the planet and landed in a “suitably welcoming patch” on Earth. Biological material from Mars that was in the rocks may spur exploration into the search for the solution to the age-old question: Where do we come from and why are we here? There are several theories that relate to extraterrestrials.
There are suggestions that aliens escape from an unknown planet and come here due to dire circumstances on their home planets and most likely we are descendants of this race. Environmentalist and ecologist turned author Dr. Ellis Silver believes we may have come from Alpha Centauri. The planet may have suffered some type of cataclysmic event from which a few residents were able to escape and come to Earth.
Other scientists believe that, eons ago, Humanoids inhabited Mars but a war destroyed the livability of the planet. This could have been due to the equivalent of two hydrogen bombs exploding on Mars 300,000 to 1 million years ago. Is it possible some living beings were able to escape to Earth before the destruction?
There are many mysteries and controversial theories for which there seems to be more questions than answers.
Newscasters, cable news show anchors and news readers are finding their jobs in precarious positions for a number of reasons, but those in Western countries have no threat to their employment quite s big as the one facing their counterparts in China, where media providers are testing virtual newsreaders created by combining images and voices of humans with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Mr. President! Mr. President! Robbie Gort here from AI 2001 News. What’s your stance on robot rights?
“AI anchors have officially become members of the Xinhua News Agency reporting team. They will work with other anchors to bring you authoritative, timely and accurate news information in both Chinese and English.”
Xinhua News Agency is the official state-run news provider of the People’s Republic of China. It’s the largest media organization in China and the largest news agency in the world in number of correspondents (10,000) worldwide. That last figure, according to South China Morning Post, is why the organization is turning to AI.
“Celebrity anchors are regarded as important assets at major news networks in the US. The highest paid news anchor, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, is reportedly paid US$100 million a year, while Diane Sawyer at ABC and Sean Hannity at Fox News earn US$80 million each. Celebrity anchors in China are generally paid a lot less because they work for state-run TV stations but they often earn extra money from product endorsements and book sales.”
Let’s take a look at the weather map
Not only do Xinhua’s lifelike AI anchors work cheap, they never need bathroom breaks, lunch hours, sleep, vacations, huge paychecks or ego-stroking. As long as human editors keep feeding them news items (and those people could be eliminated soon as many news agencies are testing automated news aggregators and story writers), the AI anchors will keep staring into the camera and talking — 24 hours a day, seven days a week … or at least until viewers get tired of staring at the same face, which may not be a problem (or at least one that anyone will feel safe complaining about) since Xinhua is the state news agency. (See a video of the first AI anchor here.)
The AI news anchors were announced at the recent World Internet Conference in Wuzhen and developed by Sogou, China’s second-largest search engine operator. It has proprietary technology in natural language processing – a branch of AI dealing with how computers understand and interpret human language – so it is undoubtedly working on improvements to give the AI newsreaders more realistic-looking speech, lip movements and facial expressions.
Who is in control?
What about questioning authorities or telling the truth? There has been ongoing controversy in the U.S. over local TV news staffs being forced to read copy written by the station’s owners and management without question and without changing any words. Artificial intelligence hasn’t reached the point yet where an AI anchor can get disgusted and walk off the set while yelling, “I’m mad as Hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
Can it? Should it? Will other media providers see this as something to fight or a means to greater profits?
What do you think … while you can still think for yourself? Anderson?
In a recent article here at Mysterious Universe I described how, on occasion, people in the UFO research field have fallen victim to paranoia. And, on some occasions, to an almost life-crippling degree. In many cases, the paranoia was provoked by wholly down to earth issues that were misinterpreted and blown out of proportion. A perfect example of one such case: back in the 1990s, I had a friend, Wayne, who lived in a little village in the north of England; a friend who was deeply involved in the UFO subject. Wayne told me that on three occasions across a period of several weeks, an old, black-colored Jaguar car was parked directly opposite his house, on the other side of the road. He was seriously concerned it wasthe Men in Black, carefully watching him. It was not.
After confronting his neighbor (in a fashion which didn’t really help the situation at all), Wayne was told that the car belonged to his daughter’s boyfriend. The boyfriend, it turned out, was someone who restored old, classic cars and then sold them for a good price. The car was a 1950s-era Jaguar, which soon went up for sale. Mystery solved. In fact, there was no mystery at all: just a mind overwhelmed by MIB-driven paranoia. Sometimes, though, it’s very easy to see why paranoia might occasionally surface and for legitimate reasons. I’ll share several examples with you.
Greg Bishop is a good friend and the author of a number of excellent books, including Project Beta (on the weird and even sinister UFO-themed saga of Paul Bennewitz and his, Bennewitz’s, descent into a state of overwhelming paranoia), and It Defies Language! The latter is a book that contains dozens of Greg’s articles on UFOs. Greg has a strange story to tell that is relevant to the subject of this article. He says: “Mail tampering is the darling of clinical paranoids, but nearly every piece of mail that the late researcher/abductee Karla Turnersent to [my] PO Box looked like it had been tampered with or opened. Since this is easy to do without having to be obvious, we figured someone was interested in her work enough to make it clear that she was being monitored. She took to putting a piece of transparent tape over the flap and writing ‘sealed by sender’ on it. Karla pretty much took it for granted after awhile, and suggested I do likewise.” Moving on…
Lisa Hagan has been my literary agent for around a decade-and-a-half. Some time ago, Lisa shared with me several strange experiences she had and which gave her reason to be concerned. Lisa said that on several occasions, late at night, she heard the trunk of her vehicle open. She explained the situation: “It’s very dark where I live and there are only a few people here. It’s very heavily wooded and there’s a lot of farmland. And it’s all dirt road, so there’s not a lot of traffic. So far, it has happened to me at least three or four times. My house is a long bungalow, and my bedroom is on the end, near the car-port. And, periodically, I’ll be lying there reading, with the light on. It’s always been between 10:00 and 11:00 at night, and I’ll hear my vehicle trunk open. Then I hear it close. I do have a picture of a hand-print, in the dust on my trunk that I took after it happened one night. I kept the picture in case I wanted to do anything with it, which I did not. If I had wanted to I could have crept up in my pajamas and intervened, but what would I do? It made me mad, though. Nothing was ever taken from the trunk. But, I did check if anything had been put in there. Those bugs are small though, so who knows?”
Lisa also had a run-in with what John Keel termed “phantom photographers.” Over to Lisa: “It was a Sunday and I was in the kitchen making something, standing at my kitchen sink. And, I saw a flash to the left. In my yard. I looked over and there was a little white Honda. An Accord, I think; two people. There was a guy taking pictures of the side of my house. And then they drove right in front of the house and took a picture – right where I was standing in front of the kitchen window. They were only about two car-lengths from the window. They went down passed my house and then came back. And then they drove off. That made me nervous and my anxiety went up. My intuition, my alarm bells, went off.”
Finally, from Lisa: “The other story is that my aunt and I had seen a UFO on our farm. This was Christmas night, 2015. And, on the 26th she left. I called and asked friends if they wanted to come over, to look for UFOs. They were like, ‘No, we’re already in bed.’ But, another friend wanted to come over and see if we might see anything. We were standing by the trunk of my vehicle – the trunk someone had been in and out of – as we had the iPads and the binoculars resting on it. It was a beautiful night and we were talking and looking around. As my friend left, he said that when he was maybe ten cars away from me, around a row of trees here, there was a black, unmarked SUV with a lot of antenna on it. Not long after that, the same friend was driving on our main road – the road that everyone lives off – and there were two of those SUVs, with men outside them with binoculars, overlooking our farm.”
Sometimes UFO footage makes me want to grab the aliens by their tiny shoulders and yell at their dumb faces like a disappointed little league coach “Be cooler!” All the footage that ever really seems unidentified is also always the most boring. Both in the filming itself, and the thing that’s being filmed. But that’s to be expected and it’s why those are usually the most convincingly bizarre.
UFO’s aren’t going to look like floating neon sci-fi disco balls. They don’t care about aerodynamics, they’re not going to be sleek. They don’t have the same imaginative sense style and intimidation that we do, they’re not going to be “cool” in the classical sense. UFOs probably look like weird potatoes. But that doesn’t mean they won’t be worth filming. If you do spot a weird potato in the sky, you’re not going to get your DSLR and $1,200 telephoto lens. You’re not going to set up a gimbal and frame the shot perfectly. You’re just going to hit record and get what you get. It’s going to be messy and shaky and generally unpleasant to watch.
This looks cool, because a human made it.
And here we have a video that’s a perfect example of both those things. This footage—which you can watch here—was uploaded by MUFON to their YouTube channel, so it comes from as decent a source as you can reasonably hope for. At the very least, someone who’s watched a lot of these things saw it first and decided it was worth uploading. The footage was reportedly taken in Perthshire, Scotland. Here’s a snippet ofthe description the witness sent to MUFON along with the footage (edited for clarity and the reader’s well-being):
I would describe the object as puck shaped, a disc with an edge. I was viewing it moving from my left to right. It does appear cigar shaped as it moves horizontally. There were clouds above it and below it. It approached some lower level clouds then banked. As it did this, you could clearly see it was circular when viewed from underneath.
You say puck-shaped, I say potato. Despite the horrendous shaky-cam situation going on when they zoom in (kudos for at least trying, though) you can see that the object is moving and seems to be swooping over the clouds. It certainly looks like the classic UFOs that became known as “flying saucers.” It’s not the moon, and it’s not a bird. You show me a potato bird and I’ll show you an abomination.
Flying saucers are the rally cars of space.
It could be a drone. But I’m starting to suspect that the more times you say the phrase “it could be a drone” the easier it will be to dismiss all UFO footage. After all, they didn’t have drones when these things first started showing up in the skies. That’s the modern version of the weather balloon dismissal. You never want to fall into those traps, in any part of your life. The easy way out is never worth it.
VANISHING ACT A relative of the Komodo dragon, this goanna, shown attacking a wallaby, lived in Australia 50,000 years ago. What happened to this and other extinct giant animals is the subject of a new book.
Today’s land animals are a bunch of runts compared with creatures from the not-too-distant past. Beasts as big as elephants, gorillas and bears were once much more common around the world. Then, seemingly suddenly, hundreds of big species, including the woolly mammoth, the giant ground sloth and a lizard weighing as much as half a ton, disappeared. In End of the Megafauna, paleomammalogist Ross MacPhee makes one thing clear: The science on what caused the extinctions of these megafauna — animals larger than 44 kilograms, or about 100 pounds — is far from settled.
MacPhee dissects the evidence behind two main ideas: that as humans moved into new parts of the world over the last 50,000 years, people hunted the critters into oblivion, or that changes in climate left the animals too vulnerable to survive. As MacPhee shows, neither scenario matches all of the available data.
Throughout, Peter Schouten’s illustrations, reminiscent of paintings that enliven natural history museums, bring the behemoths back to life. At times, MacPhee slips in too many technical terms. But overall, he offers readers an informative, up-to-date overview of a fascinating period in Earth’s history.
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Enraged Scientists Hit Back at 'Outlandish' Harvard Claims 'Oumuamua is Alien Spacecraft
Enraged Scientists Hit Back at 'Outlandish' Harvard Claims 'Oumuamua is Alien Spacecraft'
all this speculation.......is it a comet....is it a spaceship...is it a probe.......is it bullshit.........
harvard astro-physisists claim that solar radiation slowed the thing down........why is it that there is more of a concern for this object after it is out of reach.........why didnt they check it out while it was here????
The mysterious object known as ‘Oumuamua has given us a lot to talk about in recent times. A new scientific paper published by two researchers at Harvard University has recently hinted at the possibility that ‘Oumuamuamay be an alien spacecraft sent by an advanced civilization elsewhere in the universe to study us. The cigar-shaped ‘spacecraft’ allegedly displays features …
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Scientists have detected long-lost continents hidden under Antarctica’s ice sheets
Scientists have detected long-lost continents hidden under Antarctica’s ice sheets
Dead satellite reveals lost continents.
Recent scientific discoveries have revealed continents from long ago hidden beneath Antarctica’s ice sheets using data from a satellite that has been inoperative for about five years.
This new research reveals a better understanding of the geological history of Antarctica over the last 200 million years. The data reveals that roughly 180 million years ago the main landmasses of Antarctica, India, and Australia separated from Gondwana. This separation resulted in a slow shift to their current locations.
The satellite used concerning these discoveries is known as the Gravity Field and Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE). GOCE was a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite that was in orbit from 2009 to 2013. During the four years of operation, GOCE mapped the gravity field on Earth with unmatched accuracy before being purposefully destroyed when re-entering the atmosphere. Since its destruction, scientists have studied the data of GOCE and have used it to create maps of the lithosphere of the Earth. The lithosphere is the tectonically active layer that contains the crust and outer mantle of the Earth.
These maps are used to sketch long-lost masses of land trapped within drifting continental plates known as cratons. Cratons have typically been hard to examine in the lithospheric structure of Antarctica because of the isolated location and huge ice sheets that obscure the underlying geology of Antarctica. The observations GOCE has provided has solved this problem significantly.
Using GOCE, scientists were able to locate ancient cratons below the ice fields of Eastern Antarctica and link them to the past neighbors in the region, India, and Australia. GOCE also revealed that Western Antarctica has a much thinner lithosphere, therefore lacking similar cratons.
The findings of GOCE are significant because they reveal that a combination of seismological and satellite gravity gradient imaging has great potential regarding increasing our understanding of the structure of the Earth. This is particularly true in previously hard to map regions such as Antarctica.
'Alien Autopsy' Video Faker Finally Reveals The Truth
'Alien Autopsy' Video Faker Finally Reveals The Truth
In 1995, a video showing the gruesome autopsy of an alien by ‘government pathologists’ in protective suits shocked the world. Now the film-maker behind it revealed how the ‘Alien Autopsy’ film fooled the world (and inspired a ‘classic’ film starring Ant and Dec).
Spyros Melaris says that the film claiming to show an alien body being examined in 1947 actually shows a foam body filled with cow and lamb organs from a local butcher.
Roswell UFO video faker finally reveals how he did it.
According to news outlet Metro Melaris told The Sun that he considered using raspberry jelly for the ‘brain’ but rejected it as ‘too dark’ as he filmed in a north London flat in 1995.
He spliced his film footage onto a 1947 Pathe newsreel to fool experts at Kodak – and a documentary on the film aired three times on Fox, being viewed by 11.7 million people.
The effort was privatized by Channel 4 by bringing in a company with "deep pockets" that could give the broadcaster a "stronger future", the Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has said.
Melaris sourced 1940s surgeons’ outfits and medical instruments from prop providers in the UK and USA and The ‘government pathologists’ filmed dissecting the pale, potbellied corpse of the extraterrestrial being.
Merlaris said, ‘Our whole film was made up but we hung it on little elements of truth because something crashed in Roswell and we pinned the film on this being a body that could have been picked up in that crash.’
UFO news: Scott Waring claims this Borg Cube-like spacecraft was seen near the Sun
(Image: SCOTT WARING/STAR TREK)
The UFO hunter likened the supposed alien spacecraft to a Borg Cube from the Science Fiction franchise Star Trek. Mr Waring, who runs the UFO investigation website UFOSightingsDaily.com, came across the alien cube in a photo snapped by NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. He said: “The cube as you see, has something coming out of it – there is an opening.
In Star Trek, the alien cyborg race known as the Borgs travelled through space in giant cubes without any discernible features on the outside.
That looks like a Borg Cube, doesn’t it?
Scott Waring, UFO hunter
The alien cube found by Mr Waring appears to follow a similar principle.
Mr Waring said: “That looks like a Borg Cube, doesn’t it? I mean it really looks like one of those Star Trek Borg Cubes.
“That’s really crazy cool, super, super, super strange. “
Some of the people who saw Mr Waring’s latest finding were amazed by the concept of a spacecraft this bizarre barrelling through space.
UFO news: The supposed alien cube was photographed by a NASA satellite
(Image: SCOTT WARING)
UFO news: Scott Waring is a notorious UFO hunter and conspiracy theorist
(Image: SCOTT WARING)
Samuel Figueroa commented on YouTube: “Wow, amazing cube spaceship, and the little ones coming out of it. Wow, super awesome thanks.”
And YouTuber Liz M said: “Thank you for bringing us an honest opinion and showing us exactly what is there.”
There were, however, some YouTubers who questioned the validity of the photographs.
Some people suggested the alien cube was simply a digital glitch in the NASA photo and others even more bizarrely suggested the space agency was attempting to hide something from sight.
NASA’s SOHO spacecraft is a real-time observation platform, designed to capture snapshots of the Sun for more accurate space weather predictions.
Conspiracy theorists have been on the hunt to prove NASA has been lying to the public about life on Mars. Now, one may have revealed some evidence which seemingly shows an ancient structure on the Red Planet. The image, taken by NASA satellites hovering over Mars, appears to depict ancient structures and even stone carvings.
In the picture, which includes annotations, walls look as if they appear to have been built as if they are part of a fortress,
Prominent alien hunter Scott C Waring says this is “100 percent” proof that life does, or did, exist on the Red Planet.
He wrote on his blog, UFO Sightings Daily: “I found a lot of ancient structures in a Mars photo today. These structures are long and almost resemble walls, but are buildings in long lines.
“I also discovered a face carved into a hill top, but is so ancient, it may be hard for some to see its details.
“This is 100 percent proof that ancient civilisations once flourished on the surface of Mars, and that NASA doesn't want you to know about it.”
ANCIENT city’ on Red Planet is ‘100 percent proof’ of aliens
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
Supposed walls on Mars
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
Sceptics and NASA would say the ‘city’ and other similar findings are just the effects of pareidolia – a psychological phenomenon when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar objects or shapes in patterns or textures such as a rock surface.
This is not the first time that ‘evidence’ of aliens on Mars has been discovered.
Earlier this year, an "alien face" was found in a NASA satellite image of Mars, according to more bonkers claims.
Mr Waring was convinced it could be a rock carving, done by a Martian race, in the same way ancient Britons carved out the chalk figures in hillsides like the giant of Cerene Abbas in Dorset and the Long Man of Wilmington in East Sussex.
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An alien face carving
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
However, NASA insisted the rock is just a meteorite impact crater that has been left in the unusual form by later erosion.
When NASA released the image under the "alien head" caption, it said: "The image shows an impact crater in Chryse Planitia, not too far from the Viking 1 lander site, that to seems to resemble a bug-eyed head.
"The two odd depressions at the north end of the crater (the ‘eyes’) may have formed by wind or water erosion.
"This region has been modified by both processes, with water action occurring in the distant past via floods that poured across western Chryse Planitia from Maja Valles, and wind action common occurrence in more recent history.”
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Climate Change: 5 Things to Know About Rapid Ocean Warming
Climate Change: 5 Things to Know About Rapid Ocean Warming
Emissions will need to be cut faster and deeper.
ByScott Denning, The Conversation
Editor’s note: A new study by scientists in the United States, China, France, and Germany estimates that the world’s oceans have absorbed much more excess heat from human-induced climate change than researchers had estimated up to now. This finding suggests that global warming may be even more advanced than previously thought. Atmospheric scientist Scott Denning explains how the new report arrived at this result and what it implies about the pace of climate change.
How do scientists measure ocean temperature and estimate how climate change is affecting it?
They use thermometers attached to thousands of bobbing robots floating at controlled depths throughout the oceans. This system of “Argo floats” was launched in the year 2000, and there are now about 4,000 of the floating instruments.
About once every 10 days, they cycle from the surface to a depth of 6,500 feet, then bob back up to the surface to transmit their data by satellite. Each year this network collects about 100,000 measurements of the three-dimensional temperature distribution of the oceans.
The Argo measurements show that about 93 percent of the global warming caused by burning carbon for fuel is felt as changes in ocean temperature, while only a very small amount of this warming occurs in the air.
Normal cycle of an Argo float collecting ocean temperature and salinity data.
The new study finds that since 1991, the oceans have warmed about 60 percent faster than the average rate of warming estimated by studies summarized by the IPCC, which are based on data from Argo floats. This is a big deal.
Most of the difference comes from the earliest part of this period, before there were enough Argo floats in the oceans to properly represent the three-dimensional distribution of global water temperatures. The new data are complete all the way back to 1991, but the Argo data were really sparse until the mid-2000s.
The implication of faster ocean warming is that the effect of carbon dioxide on global warming is greater than we’d thought. We already knew that adding CO2 to the air was warming the world very rapidly. And the IPCC just warned in a special report that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels — a target that would avert many extreme impacts on humans and ecosystems — would require quickly reducing and eventually eliminating coal, oil, and gas from the world energy supply. This study doesn’t change any of that, but it means we will need to eliminate fossil fuels even faster.
To limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the IPCC warns that greenhouse gas emissions would need to be drastically reduced over approximately the next decade.
What did these researchers do differently to arrive at a higher number?
They have measured tiny changes since 1991 in the concentrations of a few gases in the air — oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide — with incredibly high precision. This is really hard to do, because the changes are extremely small compared to the large amounts already in the air.
Some of these gases from the air dissolve into the oceans. The water’s temperature dictates how much it can absorb. As water warms, the amount of a gas that can dissolve in it decreases — that’s why a soda or beer left open on the kitchen table goes flat. That same temperature dependence allowed the scientists to calculate total changes in global ocean heat content from 1991 to now, just using very precise measurements of the air itself.
If this study is accurate, what does it suggest we should expect in the way of major climate change impacts in the coming decades?
This study did not address climate impacts, but they are already well known. As the world warms, more water vapor evaporates from both oceans and land. This means that when big storms develop, there’s more water vapor in the air for them to “work with,” which will produce more extreme rain and snow and resulting winds.
What this study suggests is that the climate is more sensitive to greenhouse gases than we previously thought. This means that in order to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, emissions will need to be cut faster and deeper.
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe explains the consequences of two degrees of warming above pre-industrial levels.
How will we know whether these findings hold up?
There are other groups making precise gas measurements, and many of them have data going back to the 1990s. Others will repeat the analyses made by these authors and check their results. There will also be careful work to reconcile the increased warming rate of the oceans with the Argo temperature data, the surface air temperature record, atmospheric data from balloons, and measurements made from satellites. The real world must be consistent with all of the observations taken together, not just a subset.
This study very cleverly used data from the composition of the air itself going back nearly 30 years. We didn’t have Argo floats back then, but air samples are still available that can be analyzed decades later. Using a longer record of warming is much better for estimating the rate, because it’s less sensitive to year-to-year variations than a shorter record.
These scientists have given us a new and independent way to assess the sensitivity of long-term global warming to changes in atmospheric CO2 levels. I expect the findings will indeed hold up, and that we will be hearing a lot more about this new method in the future.
The Juno probe, which began orbiting our largest neighbor in July 2016, is laden with a host of scientific instruments designed to crack some of the gas giant's biggest secrets. But it also carries a camera, one that is directed based on public input.
The community's votes have resulted in incredible photos like this one, taken on Oct. 29, at 4:58 p.m. EDT (2158 GMT). At the time, the spacecraft was conducting its 16th skim over Jupiter's surface, coming within just 4,400 miles (7,000 kilometers) of the top of Jupiter's cloud system. (The images are also processed by the community, not by NASA.)
A photo of Jupiter's atmosphere taken by the Juno probe on Sept. 6, 2018, shows an anticyclone storm.
Credit: Kevin M. Gill/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
On Twitter, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory dubbed the atmospheric display a dragon's eye. The photo shows a region scientists have dubbed Jupiter's North North Temperate Belt. The large white oval is a type of atmospheric knot called an anticyclonic storm, which means that in the outer edge of the storm, winds are blowing in a direction that's opposite to the surrounding air mass. Smaller cloud structures are also on view.
This isn't the only anticyclonic storm on Jupiter; a photo captured on Sept. 6 shows a similar structure in the gas giant's southern hemisphere.
JunoCam also captures stunning planetwide shots as it flies away from Jupiter, like this one it snapped on Sept. 6, 2018.
Earlier this year, NASA extended the Juno mission, with the probe now due to remain in orbit through the summer of 2021. However, that extension reflects the fact that the spacecraft was unable to maneuver into a shorter orbit, instead remaining on a wider orbit that has it skimming Jupiter only every 53 days. The extension will allow the spacecraft to complete the same number of orbits as originally scheduled.
Existing laser technology could be fashioned into Earth’s “porch light” to attract alien astronomers, study finds.
An MIT study proposes that laser technology on Earth could emit a beacon strong enough to attract attention from as far as 20,000 light years away.
Image: MIT News
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists somewhere in our galaxy, a new MIT study proposes that laser technology on Earth could, in principle, be fashioned into something of a planetary porch light — a beacon strong enough to attract attention from as far as 20,000 light years away.
The research, which author James Clark calls a “feasibility study,” appears today in The Astrophysical Journal. The findings suggest that if a high-powered 1- to 2-megawatt laser were focused through a massive 30- to 45-meter telescope and aimed out into space, the combination would produce a beam of infrared radiation strong enough to stand out from the sun’s energy.
Such a signal could be detectable by alien astronomers performing a cursory survey of our section of the Milky Way — especially if those astronomers live in nearby systems, such as around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth, or TRAPPIST-1, a star about 40 light-years away that hosts seven exoplanets, three of which are potentially habitable. If the signal is spotted from either of these nearby systems, the study finds, the same megawatt laser could be used to send a brief message in the form of pulses similar to Morse code.
“If we were to successfully close a handshake and start to communicate, we could flash a message, at a data rate of about a few hundred bits per second, which would get there in just a few years,” says Clark, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and author of the study.
The notion of such an alien-attracting beacon may seem far-fetched, but Clark says the feat can be realized with a combination of technologies that exist now and that could be developed in the near term.
“This would be a challenging project but not an impossible one,” Clark says. “The kinds of lasers and telescopes that are being built today can produce a detectable signal, so that an astronomer could take one look at our star and immediately see something unusual about its spectrum. I don’t know if intelligent creatures around the sun would be their first guess, but it would certainly attract further attention.”
Standing up to the sun
Clark started looking into the possibility of a planetary beacon as part of a final project for 16.343 (Spacecraft, and Aircraft Sensors and Instrumentation), a course taught by Clark’s advisor, Associate Professor Kerri Cahoy.
“I wanted to see if I could take the kinds of telescopes and lasers that we’re building today, and make a detectable beacon out of them,” Clark says.
He started with a simple conceptual design involving a large infrared laser and a telescope through which to further focus the laser’s intensity. His aim was to produce an infrared signal that was at least 10 times greater than the sun’s natural variation of infrared emissions. Such an intense signal, he reasoned, would be enough to stand out against the sun’s own infrared signal, in any “cursory survey by an extraterrestrial intelligence.”
He analyzed combinations of lasers and telescopes of various wattage and size, and found that a 2-megawatt laser, pointed through a 30-meter telescope, could produce a signal strong enough to be easily detectable by astronomers in Proxima Centauri b, a planet that orbits our closest star, 4 light-years away. Similarly, a 1-megawatt laser, directed through a 45-meter telescope, would generate a clear signal in any survey conducted by astronomers within the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, about 40 light-years away. Either setup, he estimated, could produce a generally detectable signal from up to 20,000 light-years away.
Both scenarios would require laser and telescope technology that has either already been developed, or is within practical reach. For instance, Clark calculated that the required laser power of 1 to 2 megawatts is equivalent to that of the U.S. Air Force’s Airborne Laser, a now-defunct megawatt laser that was meant to fly aboard a military jet for the purpose of shooting ballistic missiles out of the sky. He also found that while a 30-meter telescope considerably dwarfs any existing observatory on Earth today, there are plans to build such massive telescopes in the near future, including the 24-meter Giant Magellan Telescope and the 39-meter European Extremely Large Telescope, both of which are currently under construction in Chile.
Clark envisions that, like these massive observatories, a laser beacon should be built atop a mountain, to minimize the amount of atmosphere the laser would have to penetrate before beaming out into space.
He acknowledges that a megawatt laser would come with some safety issues. Such a beam would produce a flux density of about 800 watts of power per square meter, which is approaching that of the sun, which generates about 1,300 watts per square meter. While the beam wouldn’t be visible, it could still damage people’s vision if they were to look directly at it. The beam could also potentially scramble any cameras aboard spacecraft that happen to pass through it.
“If you wanted to build this thing on the far side of the moon where no one’s living or orbiting much, then that could be a safer place for it,” Clark says. “In general, this was a feasibility study. Whether or not this is a good idea, that’s a discussion for future work.”
Taking E.T.’s call
Having established that a planetary beacon is technically feasible, Clark then flipped the problem and looked at whether today’s imaging techniques would be able to detect such an infrared beacon if it were produced by astronomers elsewhere in the galaxy. He found that, while a telescope 1 meter or larger would be capable of spotting such a beacon, it would have to point in the signal’s exact direction to see it.
“It is vanishingly unlikely that a telescope survey would actually observe an extraterrestrial laser, unless we restrict our survey to the very nearest stars,” Clark says.
He hopes the study will encourage the development of infrared imaging techniques, not only to spot any laser beacons that might be produced by alien astronomers, but also to identify gases in a distant planet’s atmosphere that might be indications of life.
“With current survey methods and instruments, it is unlikely that we would actually be lucky enough to image a beacon flash, assuming that extraterrestrials exist and are making them,” Clark says. “However, as the infrared spectra of exoplanets are studied for traces of gases that indicate the viability of life, and as full-sky surveys attain greater coverage and become more rapid, we can be more certain that, if E.T. is phoning, we will detect it.”
The now defunct website UAPinfo wasn’t able to come to full fruition like many had hoped. Our biggest accomplishment, however, was this eye opening interview with the legend, George Knapp. Mr. Knapp graciously answered our questions in an honest, in depth and forthcoming manner. All members of UAPinfo, myself included, will forever be grateful that Mr. Knapp took the time out to share his views with us. – Danny Silva
Andreas Stahl: Without going into specific individual cases or details there seems to be a few individuals claiming they are whistleblowers from inside DOD ‘black projects’. Given the extreme claims in some of these cases, what do you believe should be put in place with regards to verification of sources, how therefore can Ufology be brought into the upcoming mainstream to that regard?
George Knapp:The only Latin phrase I know that comes close is…Caveat Emptor. Buyer beware. In a subject as crazy as this it is important to keep an open mind while maintaining a healthy degree of skepticism. Basically, it boils down to this–show me what you’ve got and is there supporting evidence? I can’t even guess how many times in the last 30 years that people have contacted me, claiming to be DOD insiders or whistle blowers who want to share info about UFOs, and for the most part, they turned out to be bullshitters, or people who wanted attention, some who seemed mentally unstable, and a few who–I suspect–wanted to find out what I knew, as opposed to telling me what they knew.
Legitimate DOD insiders/whistle blowers who have plausible or verifiable info about UFOs are pretty rare. There are a lot of people in the military establishment who know bits and pieces about UFOs because, as we know, the Pentagon has continued to collect information, incident reports, visual and other types of evidence, but there are very few who know the big picture stuff. The subject really is compartmentalized. Most DOD folks think it’s nonsense because that is what has been drilled into them for the last 60 years, and as we have learned in the last 9 months, even dramatic encounters involving large numbers of pilots and other personnel can and are kept secret, or at least do not end up being reported on network newscasts or on the front page of the New York Times. The ridicule factor is a huge part of that. The same is true at higher levels of DOD. No one wants to be the UFO general or UFO admiral of UFO guy on the Joint Chiefs. In the end, that means the number of insiders who really, truly know about the subject is pretty small.
I can say, with a degree of confidence, that much of what is known on a macro scale about UFOs is not within the confines of DOD. It is in private industry. My guess is that a small and informal network of like-minded people on the inside will occasionally exchange information on this subject with what might be a larger network on the outside, but, again, the number of people who know the big picture stuff is likely pretty low. We have all seen what has happened in recent times regarding objective truth, actual facts, a shared version of reality. They’ve been demolished. Facts are now flexible. A large segment of the population thinks that Alex Jones is a crusading truth-teller while the New York Times peddles fake news. That world of fact-free facts is a target-rich environment for anyone peddling wacky UFO tales and Deep State conspiracies. The more outrageous the claims, the more attention they seem to get from devotees of UFOlogy. It’s not a new development for ufology, because there have always been hucksters, but this current crop of pitchmen has taken things to a whole new level. Mars? Really? With Barack Obama? Or, say, are you one of the guys who personally shot and killed and gutted a few dozen extraterrestrials? Are you the guru who can attract alien spaceships anytime you want, just by using a flashlight? You asked how can ufology enter the mainstream? The UFO topic has already entered the mainstream. It happened this year. Ufology, however, is another matter.
There are no standards, no prerequisites, no governing authority, not even an agreement on what is included under that umbrella term. If someone says they study anthropology or microbiology, we have a pretty solid idea what they mean. But ufology is a different animal. It includes everyone from a nuts-and-bolts physicist like Stan Friedman to the media personality who thinks Queen Elizabeth is a Reptilian. I support and sympathize with MUFON, which has strived to make Ufology respectable or credible, but it is an uphill battle, and one that might be unwinnable. In a way, this is similar to what has happened to journalism. Social media and the rise of citizen journalism have been great in many respects, but owning a keyboard and computer does not make someone a journalist. The claims made by ufologists of UFO “journalists”, either online or in conference speeches or on TV shows, don’t undergo a rigorous editing process. There is no hard-nosed managing editor asking for the proof or verification that a DOD insider source actually exists, or that the writer really did hang out on Mars with young Mr. Obama. People type stuff up and let it fly from their computer or Twitter feed, with no editorial oversight or fact checking, and then they wait to see how many people will buy into it.
I realize that Tom Delonge is seen as a controversial figure in this arena. He has taken an amazing amount of shit from ufology in general, from assorted UFO poobahs, and from what seem to be millions of UFO authorities and experts who lurk on Twitter and Facebook, but…I can tell you from direct personal experience that he really DID develop a small and special network of insider sources. I know because Tom and I were in frequent contact as it was happening. He would call and share info about breakthroughs he had made, and it was understood I was not going to report the details. In many of those conversations, I offered some suggestions about “the pitch” he could make as he worked his way up the UFO food chain, and he would call me back to tell me how things went. It was an incredibly exciting time. Tom has always been interested in the subject but I think he did his first major interview on the topic with me on Coast to Coast, then, on his own initiative, he shifted into UFO overdrive. He took things to a much higher level. When he started to share little tidbits about having inside sources, the reaction from “serious ufologists” was pretty much universal–ah, bullshit, they said, no Pentagon insiders are going to spill UFO secrets to a rock star. But it was true. I watched it happen in real time, step by step, name by name. When Wikileaks published John Podesta’s emails, the world found out that Tom wasn’t exaggerating. Among the leaked emails were a few from Delonge in which he mentioned the names of the people he’d been speaking to about UFOs—major league, heavy hitter names. He was telling the truth. (One of those leaked emails was mine, by the way, and it was a very odd feeling at the time.)
The leak was initially viewed as a disaster because it spooked the people he had cultivated, but it confirmed he had been telling the truth, that Tom Delonge really did have insider DOD sources who were talking to him, as well as sources outside of DOD. Like it or not, he is the primary driving force for much of what has unfolded in the last 9 months. (There are others who do not work for or with TTSA who have helped as well.) With the high level contacts he developed, he was able to convince some pretty serious people to join him at TTSA. His organization gave Lue Elizondo a place to land when Lue left the Pentagon and AATIP. The now-famous videos were released. The Pentagon confirmed the program was real. The NY Times and countless other news organizations did serious, straightforward news stories about UFO research and the Pentagon’s interest. These are major developments. Tom did that, like it or not.
I am not in that loop anymore. I don’t know who might be helping him now, other than the team that has been identified publicly. I do not work for TTSA. As with everything else in “ufology”, it is a good idea to take new information with a grain of salt, so I would not necessarily endorse all of the stuff that Tom has been told. I think even he would admit that some of what he has been told might be a test of sorts, or a riddle. But he really did develop legitimate DOD insider sources, and together, they have turned the UFO subject on its head. Sometimes DOD sources turn out to be real. What the ultimate agenda might be is a whole different subject. One last point about DOD insiders–there is an entirely different cadre of people who have–or had–direct info about UFOs, but who are hostile to anything approaching disclosure. Their motives range from petty personal issues to religious beliefs to the fact that a few of them get a kick out of stirring the pot and watching what happens. UFO folks are always on the lookout for the dreaded disinformation plot. Well, it does happen. We can all cite examples. I am reasonably sure there are a couple of long-time influencers who are currently whispering in the ears of people in this field, people whose lives and stature have been upended by TTSA/AATIP/AAWSAP/BAASS/NIDS revelations. If you wonder why there is so much conflicting information and seemingly contradictory theories and scenarios, all coming from the same place, well….
Dregs: Can you speak on the Height 611 UFO crash? How did a fragment of the debris end up in the national atomic testing museum? The analysis of this debris sounds like Delonge’s metamaterials. Is there a connection? What became of the debris?
George Knapp:There is no connection between the meta-materials mentioned by TTSA and the material that was on display in the museum. In the early 90’s, I worked for Altamira Communications in Las Vegas, and the reason I took the job is that Altamira has its own TV studio, and the owner was willing to finance the ultimate UFO documentary project. I sketched out an initial series of 12 documentary films. We travelled all over the country to interview authorities and witnesses. A US Congressman introduced me to a Russian physicist who was in the US to lecture about nuclear arms issues. He had been the national security advisor to Russian president Yeltsin, to the Russian Parliament, and to their Academy of Sciences. We engaged him to seek out sources of UFO information, people who had never spoken publicly about the topic. He did. I made two trips to Russia…one in 93 and one in 96. We succeeded in obtaining hundreds of pages of Ministry of Defense documents regarding UFOs. Turns out the Russian military conducted the biggest UFO study ever. It lasted ten years, collected thousands of detailed cases, some of them very dramatic encounters. During that first trip, we met a Russian microbiologist who studied UFO landing site trace cases. He had found hundreds of very odd, very tiny glass-like spheres in the soil at places where witnesses had reported UFO landings. He referred to them as cosmic sperm. He generously agreed to share with me about half of the world’s known supply of cosmic sperm. I carried it out of Russia through multiple airport checkpoints along with very sensitive documents, a few of which were STILL classified.
When I returned to Moscow in 96, everything had changed. The sources who had been cooperative during the age of glasnost were scared to even be seen with me. I was traveling with a British TV crew who were re-tracing our steps from the 93 trip for a Discovery show, with one exception–this visit would include a side trip to Dalnegorsk, 11 time zones from Moscow, on the edge of the world. It was a rough journey. Dalnegorsk had been the site of an unusual crash. An object in the sky was seen by hundreds of witnesses before it crashed on Hill 611. The first scientist to climb the hill and collect samples was the main person we interviewed during the visit. He handed over several packets of material gathered from the crash site. He told me the debris from the object itself had very strange qualities, were the product of unknown engineering processes, and had been sent to various government and military labs for further analysis. (The scientists never had his samples returned.) The material I brought back was not the metal from the craft. it was rocks and soil and plants that had been burned when the object exploded.
When the Atomic Testing Museum wanted to open an Area 51-themed exhibit, I offered to loan them whatever I had. They were intrigued by the Russian samples and included the material in their exhibit, and it was a big hit for them. It generated a lot of media attention over a few years. (I supplied them with samples from Dalnegorsk as well as some of the tiny spheres.) In the meantime, the spheres I still possessed were subjected to rigorous testing in multiple labs. I am not able to share those specific results with you except to say the composition was really unusual and the reason they had been made at all remained a mystery. So far as I know, the spheres had no magical properties. Fast forward—the few spheres I still had at my home disappeared. I don’t know how or when it happened, but after holding onto the samples for close to 20 years, the spheres were gone. As a footnote, when the Atomic Museum decided to downsize its Area 51 exhibit, they returned the various objects and materials I had loaned them—except for the spheres.
They’re missing.
Danny Silva: What got you interested in the subject, originally?
George Knapp:There are some events in my family history that I do not remember. I don’t know if they were a subconscious influence or not, but as an adult, i had no interest in UFOs. That changed in 1987 when a pilot named John Lear walked into KLAS TV. Lear’s family was well known in Nevada (and around the world.) John had helped my bosses, Bob Stoldal and Ned Day, in breaking a huge story about the existence of a “stealth” aircraft being developed at a mysterious base called Area 51. Stoldal, my news director, had been collecting anything and everything that was reported about Area 51. It wasn’t much—a folder of maybe 25 pages. Lear’s improbable story about a plane that was invisible to radar turned out to be true (it was a plane called the F-117 Nighthawk) so he had some credibility with us. He walked into the newsroom and dropped a stack of UFO documents onto the desk of managing editor Ned Day. He told Ned that this would be the biggest story of his life, the UFO coverup. Ned wanted no part of it, told Lear that if the UFO thing was true, he–Ned–would already know about it. I was eavesdropping–as always–and as Lear started to leave, I asked if I could see his stack of documents. Over the next few days, I pawed through the material. Some of it was of unknown origin, but most of the pages had been released through FOIA, meaning they were legitimate government documents. At the time, I hosted and produced a 30-minute public affairs interview show called On the Record. The guests were mostly Nevada political figures or the occasional mobster. I asked Lear if he wanted to come on the show to talk about UFOs. He did. It changed my life, not because I believed everything Lear told me, but because of the paper trail–the internal reports and memos written to and for military insiders in which they acknowledged UFOs were real and of unknown origin.
The documents had been written before FOIA existed, so the DOD folks were candid in sharing their opinions in writing–unlike now. Anyway, after the Lear interview aired, my phone started ringing off the hook. People were calling to ask when that UFO interview would air again, or to tell me their UFO story. i wondered, what the hell is going on? I had Lear return for a second interview and the public response was even bigger. t was clear that the subject touched the pulse of the pubic in a way i did not understand or had not recognized. I started reading UFO books and tried to get my head around the subject, went to Lear’s home to see what else he had in his files, then had him on the program a third time, an interview that aired sometime in late 1988. It was a pretty wild program because Lear brought along a guy named Bill Cooper, who spun quite a tale of mystery. In that interview, Lear hinted that he knew a guy who might be taking a job at Area 51. That guy turned out to be Bob Lazar. In May 1989, I was the anchorman on the 5 pm news and our interview guest cancelled at the last minute. I called Lear to ask if his Area 51 contact might be willing to come on the show, even if we had to hide his identity. He called Lazar. We sent our live truck to Lear’s house. The live silhouette interview we did with Lazar created a firestorm and media frenzy, and dramatically changed the lives of everyone who was directly involved, for better or worse.
Area 51 has since become known all over the world.
Danny Silva: What are the biggest stories and issues affecting the subject that aren’t getting talked about or focused on? What UAP incidents have slipped through the cracks that should be revisited?
George Knapp: In just the last few weeks, the public has heard about mystery metals and meta-materials, pieces of odd stuff that reputedly is from crash sites or UFO landing sites. It’s been around for a long time but either wasn’t tested or our technology was not advanced enough to notice the unusual properties. TTSA has issued some clues about what it is doing. I hope that we might soon learn about really unusual, distinctly physical pieces of evidence that will be difficult to dismiss. Months before the New York Times broke its story, I was fortunate to get an early view of the Pentagon videos that are now widely known…Gimbal and Go Fast. People can nitpick all they want, but those videos are damned interesting, and, in my opinion, are legit. I hope that we will learn a lot more about the videos that are already known. I am less hopeful about the other videos that were scheduled for public release. I’m just guessing, but I can imagine there are military recordings of very clear, very dramatic, multi-plane, long-duration encounters with unknown aircraft. Presumably, there could be dozens of highly qualified military witnesses. If such video exists, we have no idea if it will ever be released.
If you have noticed, since the Pentagon reluctantly admitted to the NY Times that AATIP was real, there have been NO releases of UFO files or video, despite thousands of records requests filed by the public. I am NOT optimistic that this will change. Bottom line, there are thousands of UAP incidents that have slipped through the cracks…..that have never been made public at all…and I do not believe the Pentagon is in Disclosure mode. It might look that way, but it really is not the case. Ultimately, this subject is NOT about physical, observable UFOs, in my opinion. That stuff is window dressing. If you want to get to the next level, consider the possibility that UFOs are like shiny baubles on a Christmas tree ….or candles on a birthday cake. They are a performance, and sometimes a distraction. For a deeper dive, read Vallee.
Danny Silva: You are able to boil things down into profound statements. You now have become the story. You are one of the only outlets that the community is able to turn to for direct, credible information. Do you have any plans to write another book, or get more of your personal story released in some way?
George Knapp:Any decent reporter would be aghast at the suggestion that THEY have become the story. I certainly do not agree with that assessment in this case. I have been able to break some pretty good stories related to the subject because of a combination of geography, some tenacity, and a lot of luck. When the 1989 stories about Lazar and Area 51/S-4 exploded on a massive scale, I was fortunate to get a call from a Las Vegas businessman named Bob Bigelow, who is an amazing –and greatly misunderstood person. He told me he was interested in the subject and wanted to know how he could help. I had no idea he would subsequently create an elite scientific team–NIDS–and that I would get to meet and interact with…. truly remarkable people like Colm Kelleher, Hal Puthoff, Kit Green, Edgar Mitchell, Eric Davis, John Alexander, Jacques Vallee, and many others who do not want their names to be made public. It was a mind-blowing and humbling experience. For years, I was allowed to be a fly on the wall for much of what they pursued back then, including their investigation of a Utah property that would later be known as Skinwalker Ranch. NIDS has been described as a UFO research organization. That doesn’t even come close.
Another fortuitous connection is Harry Reid. In 1989, when I was initially overwhelmed by the Bob Lazar/Area 51 allegations, the first person I told–outside of the KLAS newsroom–was Harry Reid. Reid later became the Senate Majority Leader, the most influential Nevadan in history. Over the next quarter century, we continued a discreet, off the record conversation about UFOs. The conversation is ongoing. In the mid 90’s, I told Sen. Reid about NIDS. He had met Bob Bigelow many years before, so he asked about attending a NIDS board meeting. (Reid was not the only Senate member who was present.) It happened. He developed an understanding and appreciation of the larger subject matter. From that seed–and a variety of other lucky circumstances–I am now in an unexpectedly fortunate position, just at the time when all of this UFO news is breaking. Harry Reid was the principal sponsor of the Pentagon UFO study. Bob Bigelow created BAASS, which relied on the talents of many of the NIDS scientists. Some of those NIDS scientists are now part of Tom Delonge’s TTSA. That has spawned many conspiracy scenarios, I know, but the simple fact is, there are not that many credible scientists with DOD clearances who are willing to put their careers on the line by tackling these subjects.
It is understandable why some people want to connect the dots and assume that all of these people are involved in the same ongoing plot, but that is simply not true, in my opinion. I have great respect for Mr. B, and for the work done by NIDS, and I think this subject matter is lucky to have people like Hal Puthoff and Chris Mellon and Lue Elizondo who are STILL willing to risk their personal and professional reputations in the pursuit of this bewildering and frustrating mystery. As for future books, there are several I would like to write but can’t imagine when I would ever have the time. There really should be a new book about Skinwalker Ranch because the story of the BAASS study, what they encountered, and how BAASS interacted with the AATIP folks has not been told. (BTW—shameless plug—there is new info coming in Jeremy Corbell’s film about Skinwalker. It will be unleashed in September.) I also think there could be an important book about the politics of UFOs and the extraordinary risks that were taken by Harry Reid and a few others to both initiate and protect the Pentagon UFO study. I could not write such a book unless given the green light by both Mr. Bigelow and Senator Reid because I made a promise.
Danny Silva: Tom Delonge highlighted Operation Starfish Prime as one of the most important moments in the history of the phenomenon. In regards to weapons being used against UAP, what has your research pointed towards and what is your opinion?
George Knapp:Sorry, but I don’t know anything about it, beyond what has been reported.
Danny Silva: How do you obtain the documents you release?
George Knapp: I can’t tell you. I’ll say this much—the guesses are wrong.
Danny Silva: You were involved in Wikileaks’ Podesta emails. The public was able to hear from you directly, speaking candidly to Tom. How did you first find out that you were involved in the leak? How were you affected by it and did you receive any blow back?
George Knapp:Someone sent me an email to let me know that my name came up in the Wikileaks dump. It was a very weird feeling. It happened again a few weeks ago when the Russians who allegedly
engineered the hack were indicted, by name. I received no blowback whatsoever. I think Tom had some problems in dealing with the people whose names were mentioned. Some of them may have cut off contact. He seems to be moving forward.
Danny Silva: In the Wikileaks emails, Delonge said you were in his secondary advisory group. Recently, you stated that ended when the emails were leaked. What were some of the most important topics discussed during that time?
George Knapp:If I was listed as a secondary advisor, I don’t remember it. I did talk to Tom a lot back then. I would certainly be a secondary person compared to the other folks he engaged during that time. I’m not going to be specific about personal conversations, but will say this: the reasons I wanted to continue a conversation with Tom are 1) because it was fun to bullshit about UFOs with him, 2) because he was smart, 3) because he wanted to learn more about how it all fits together, and 4) because he went way out on a limb for this subject. I have read these scathing, brutal, atomic bombs lobbed in his direction…initially from Blink 182 fans who insisted he reunite with the band, then from UFO people who think he is being used by the Deep State, then from hardcore conspiracy folks who are certain he is helping to initiate a false flag alien invasion…blah blah blah…. I think that what TTSA is doing is pretty remarkable. I do not know where it will lead but am willing to give them some space before I pass final judgement.
The last 9 months have seen a major shift on how the topic is viewed. It is the biggest change in my 30 or so years of chasing this. If this is some kind of stealth disclosure operation, great. If it is disinfo, we will know soon enough. What if it’s real? Lue Elizondo, in my opinion, is a solid dude. It does not seem to me that he is spreading lies. At the MUFON event, he responded to a semi-hostile question about his motives and told the audience that even if he is carrying out an assignment here, sharing UFO info with the public because he was ordered to do it, what is the difference? Ufology wants the government to admit these things are real and that the subject should be studied. It just happened.
Christian Flynn: There are two dominant schools of thought on the incident at Roswell. One promotes the ET hypothesis, the other a Nazi/Russian source. Which do you find more compelling?
George Knapp:Roswell is a mud puddle for me. Seems like that is on purpose. I have no idea if it was ET, but I believe the eyewitnesses. The Nazi/Russian story is interesting but not credible. Who knows? Maybe there is physical evidence that can be analyzed.
Christian Flynn: What was the final piece or pieces of evidence that concretised your belief in the Bob Lazar story?
George Knapp:Mostly, it was the little things that happened during that very strange period….break-ins at Bob’s house…in his car…the people that followed us around…the agency that tapped my phone and then threatened and intimidated people who agreed to be interviewed. When I visited Los Alamos National Lab, and the guard waved Bob into the facility without even looking at his badge, then other folks in different LANL facilities did the same…the fact that the lab denied he had ever worked there, even though he was listed in their phone book…..the fact that Kirk Meyer initially offered to hand over his employment file, then said there was delay, then said they didn’t have the files, then wouldn’t take my calls at all..the fact that he knew the name of the investigator who came to his house to do a background check….and, perhaps most importantly, Bob knew when and where a glowing disc shaped object would be flown on Wednesday nights out in the Nevada desert. It happened three weeks in a row and it’s on video. I lived through it, I saw it, and it was real. When Lazar got into trouble for getting involved with some hookers—a not-entirely-uncharacteristic move on his part–the Parole folks wanted him to do hard time because they could not confirm his background. THAT was the time to come clean if he was making it up, because if he stuck to a lie, it meant prison. He didn’t change his story. I used to care whether people believed Lazar or not. I stopped that many years ago. People can make up their own minds, but I was there.
Keith Mayoh: In a recent interview with Shadows of your mind magazine you stated that you have suspicions that the Ute tribal people have other ideas about what may be going on at Skinwalker Ranch, can you share these with us?
GK: Some of them told us (this year) that they view the ranch property as a portal..a place where spirits of their ancestors move from one life to the next.
Keith Mayoh: You have given the subject a lot of coverage through the years particularly in the I-team news format. Is there a general consensus with your colleagues there that this subject is legitimate or is there some skepticism?
George Knapp: I hope there is some skepticism. That’s our job. In our newsroom, I’ve been there longer than anyone and was reporting UFO stories before any current employee was hired, so it sort of comes with the territory when new people are hired. Seems like a lot of them have heard about it before they get there, or soon thereafter. I have the support of my news director and station management and think my fellow employees generally tolerate my eccentricities. For many years since I dived into the deep end of the pool, our competitors in both TV and print took a lot of pot shots. It’s okay. I have hard bark. I think the events of recent months make it a lot harder to laugh it off.
Jason Goldthorpe: Has the phenomena changed how it portrays itself in anyway over the years that you have been involved with the subject?
George Knapp: It always changes. That is maybe the only consistent thing about it. In the late 80’s when I started down this road, the dominant paradigm was that UFOs are spaceships piloted by aliens from other planets. It didn’t take long to figure out that the explanation really doesn’t cut it. There might be ET’s visiting here in spaceships that are far more advanced than anything we have… and maybe we have recovered pieces of those ships. The pieces, the ships, maybe the bodies of the visitors could be distinctly physical, measurable, real in every sense, but I don’t think that evidence adds up to anything remotely close to actual truth. I do not claim to know what the real deal is, and in my opinion, no one does. No one. This thing takes on many forms. It appears to us in different ways. Sometimes it is physical and many times it is not. The shapes and forms change from century to century, continent to continent. Humans have different name for it, different explanations. UFOs and ETs are seemingly distinct from Bigfoot and poltergeists… and from fairies and goblins and creatures and bulletproof wolves. I think the phenomena has always been here, and it often puts on shows and displays for us, messes with our heads, manipulates humans on both micro and macro scales. Vallee and Puthoff and others say the UFO craft can manipulate space-time, which means they could be from other planets.. or other realities .. or other times… or all of the above. I don’t think the phenomena is benign, and I don’t think anyone really knows what it is or where it is from or what its agenda is.
Jason Goldthorpe: Is it possible that Bob Lazar was purposefully planted as a conduit for the UAP community?
George Knapp:Yes, it is possible. I’ve had that conversation with Bob more than a few times and he agrees it is possible, but if he is a plant or operative, I think it is not a conscious decision on his part. They definitely messed with his head….. and with mine.. and with the other people who were in his orbit. (And it is still going on, by the way.) But, as I have stated a few times, if the idea was to release the UFO story as a distraction from some other program under way at Area 51/S-4, that was a really bad plan, because the end result was to shine an international spotlight on that secret base and whatever it might be doing. Was it an operation to see how the public might react to this kind of news? Maybe, but again, I think the consequences were not what was intended. The public didn’t freak out. The general reaction was—and IS—please tell us more. There is a documentary movie in the works about Lazar. You can judge for yourselves.
Jason Goldthorpe: Is there a possibility that Robert Bigelow is involved in other SAPs as well as his own space program? Do you think he is still studying the phenomena but in a different guise?
George Knapp:No. and No. Mr. Bigelow will always have an interest in the subject, but he separated himself from any active role. People don’t want to believe it, but it is true. He had very good reasons for taking this step. The business reasons are well known. There are personal reasons that are even more compelling. I’ve known him for almost 30 years and he has always been honest with me. He is no longer actively involved.
Jason Goldthorpe: Will we eventually get to see full length videos such as the gimbal and do you agree that if we do it can only be congress that makes such a release?
George Knapp:I hope so but am not optimistic. Unless Congress or the White House order the Pentagon to release other videos, it seems unlikely. I do not agree with the general opinion that some sort of formalized disclosure program is underway. It might look like it, but it is also possible that multiple parties, acting independently, have seized the moment and tossed a few tidbits into the mix. To someone, it might appear to be a large, coordinated effort, but looks can be deceiving. Remember, many of the people who have always wanted to keep the public in the dark about this are still working on the inside.
I-Team: Race is on to solve the mystery of unknown materials
I-Team: Race is on to solve the mystery of unknown materials
LAS VEGAS - A global scramble is underway to identify and perhaps replicate unidentified mystery materials that have been collected at multiple sites around the world.
A few of the samples have defied analysis by leading scientists, who say they don't know how the material was engineered, or why, or by whom?
Some of the metamaterial was allegedly collected in connection with UFO incidents, which gives the whole endeavor an otherworldly glow.
For years, the Pentagon secretly studied the seemingly impossible abilities of unknown craft captured in military videos.
Scientists now want to know if the materials used in these mystery aircraft allow them to do what they do. For years, one of the secret studies was carried out by BAASS (Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies), a Las Vegas operation hidden within Bigelow Aerospace.
Documents first reported by the I-Team show that BAASS landed a contract with the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency), and one of the objectives was to study so called metamaterials, as well as futuristic technologies.
"It was a multilayered bismuth and magnesium sample. Bismuth layers less than a human hair. Magnesium samples about 10 times the size of a human hair, supposedly picked up in the crash retrieval of an advanced aerospace vehicle. It looks like it's been in a crash," said Dr. Hal Puthoff, with the Institute for Advanced Studies during a presentation in Las Vegas.
In June, physicist Hal Puthoff came pretty close to saying that the weird wedge of metamaterial came from a crashed saucer, but he can't know for sure. Puthoff and his colleague Dr. Eric Davis are on the cutting edge of attempts to identify an assortment of bits and pieces that are seemingly beyond anything we can create.
This one sample is engineered in layers thinner than microns, through a process unknown on earth, and for a purpose we can only guess.
"Nowhere could we find any evidence that anybody ever made one of these when we talked to people in the materials field who should know, they said we don't know why anybody would want to make anything like this," Dr. Puthoff said.
Astrophysicist Dr. Jacques Vallee has been analyzing mystery materials since the 80s, often using the technical expertise of Stanford University and Silicon Valley to unravel unknown samples acquired from all over the world. Vallee pointedly steers clear of any military funding and he's shared his findings at public conferences.
"We have multiple samples from multiple sources, a wide range of variety and integrity," said Lue Elizondo, To The Stars Academy.
These days, former intelligence officer Lue Elizondo helps to collect and protect unknown chunks for To The Stars Academy. Before that, he ran AATIP (Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program), the Pentagon's secret UFO study. The same one which released the now famous videos of encounters between Navy pilots and the mystery machines dubbed the Tic Tac and Gimbal UFOs.
This summer, To The Stars launched ADAM, its own effort to find and study pieces of material that may have been stashed for decades after being retrieved from the sites of close encounters. Elizondo says there are legitimate reasons why the military, and now private groups, are now in a race to figure out these materials.
"What our international efforts are to potentially -- and I say potentially, I'm not saying we're doing this, maybe to replicate that technology or to reverse engineer that technology. Now you're getting into sensitivities you don't necessarily want everyone to be privy to," Elizondo said in a June 2018 interview with the I-Team.
When the New York Times broke its story last year about the Pentagon's UFO story, it reported that a sample of mystery material was secretly stored at Bigelow aerospace. Managers of that program told the I-Team that while they are familiar with some of the metamaterial samples, none were ever stashed in Las Vegas.
Dr. Jacques Vallee invites the public to send inquires and samples of mystery metal to him at the following address: P.O. Box 641650, San Francisco, CA 94109
HUNDREDS OF BIRDS FALL FROM THE SKY DURING 5G TEST IN THE NETHERLANDS
HUNDREDS OF BIRDS FALL FROM THE SKY DURING 5G TEST IN THE NETHERLANDS
Hundreds of birds have fallen from the sky in The Hague, the Netherlands, during a 5G experiment to see how large the range was and whether the new wireless technology would cause any harm in the local area.
News of the adverse effects suffered by the starlings was slow to break, as initially the birds died in small numbers during the first wave of the experiment. However when a further 150 birds suddenly died at the same time, falling into a public park, people began to take notice and investigate.
What caused the death of 297 birds in a park in The Hague?
If you look around that park you might have seen what is on the corner of the roof across the street from where they died: a new 5G mast, where they had done a test at almost the exact same time as the birds fell from the sky.
According to reports, nearby ducks seemed to react oddly as well. They simultaneously put their heads underwater to escape the radiation, while others flew away, landing on the street or in the canal.
All the information that follows comes from John Kuhles’ public Facebook page:
In the meantime (30-10-2018) received some more information. The birds that fell massively dead would be the victims of an experiment, performed on those days in The Hague, where RF radiation was tested with a peak frequency of 7.40 GHz. This information comes from one source and should still be confirmed, if possible.
It is not clear at this moment whether tests with 5G transmission masts have been carried out again, but so far everything points in the direction of 5G as the most probable cause. Earlier, crazy things happened, such as with cows in Groningen’s Loppersum last year, where it was also tested with 5G. But also how in Switzerland a complete herd of cows collapsed in a ravine when there was tested with 5G.
In the Huijgenspark in The Hague, more than a hundred starlings have fallen dead from the trees in recent days. It is a mystery what happened to the animals.
The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) is having a number of birds examined in the laboratory of Wageningen Bioveterinary Research. Parts of the park are blocked and dogs are no longer allowed to be let out. The dead birds are always cleaned up as quickly as possible. Yet it is a lugubrious scene. Council member Robert Barker of the Party for the Animals had the feeling of being on a ‘crime scene’. “The fact that so many birds fall from the sky at this location must have a cause and must be investigated. If there is talk of poisoning, then we have to take a hard time. ”
It is also possible that the birds have a disease. “In any case, it’s going fast. The animals are not emaciated, do not seem ill. They just fall dead from the tree, “says employee Sharon Lexmond of bird shelter De Wulp.
A possible link was established between 5G trials in Groningen and the ‘crazy cows there, as they were called, see here.
Further info from Facebook:
Trondheim (3rd city of Norway) also attacked the birds. After 6 months there was no toxicological report yet. It has also happened in Sweden, Australia, United States.
In the meantime (30-10-2018) I received some more information. The birds that fell massively dead would be the victims of an experiment, performed on those days in The Hague, where RF radiation was tested with a peak frequency of 7.40 GHz, which corresponds to a wavelength of 4.05 cm. This wavelength is of the same order of magnitude as the size of the starlings. This may be important because of possible resonance effects. The mast in question is about 400 meters from where the starlings have fallen dead. This information comes from one source and should still be confirmed, if possible.
Mysterious bird deaths in The Hague: dead starlings fall massively from the sky
Oct. 26, 2018
For several days in a row, dead starlings fall from the sky in the Huijgenspark in The Hague. It is estimated that around 150 birds have already lost their lives. What is the cause of this is being investigated?
The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, the Dutch Wildlife Health Center and a Wageningen University laboratory are investigating the cause of death of the starlings. A veterinarian of bird care De Wulp performed a number of birds last week. She only found internal bleeding and no trace of poison.
Contaminated water
“Last year we had the same situation at the Haagse Hogeschool, where it was renovated at the time ”, says an employee of the Animal Ambulance.” Then dozens of dead jackdaws were found, which were probably poisoned because they had been drinking polluted water. What is going on right now is really speculating. Hopefully, we know more next week, because this is not normal. ”
No trace of poison.
Source 3: Dierenhospitaal and Dierenambulance The Hague
Again, dead starlings have been found in the Huijgenspark in The Hague. More than ninety dead birds were spread across the park in the Stationsbuurt.
We took the birds. Last time, five of the deceased starlings were examined by a local specialist. It did not show signs of poison, but only internal bleeding in two copies. The newly found starlings are examined by the specialized Wageningen Bioveterinary Research laboratory in Lelystad and the Dutch Wildlife Health Center in Utrecht.
The municipality has promulgated a ban on dogs in the area because the cause of the mortality is unclear. Poisoning is taken into account. The area has been blocked by the police.
Source 4: Birdcare the curlew
Oct. 26, 2018
How is the current state of affairs with regard to the dead starlings?
Last Friday, Wednesday and Thursday, a total of +/- 150 deceased starlings were found in the Huijgenspark in The Hague. On Sunday, Thursday and Friday our veterinarian visited and carried out a total of 15 animals and collected material for further research. On Wednesday, the NVWA collected a cargo of birds that were examined in Lelystad on West Nile Virus. The negative result has now arrived.
On Thursday, the Dutch Wildlife Health Center also picked up a load of birds and we got a result today. Both veterinarians (ours and those from the DWHC) discussed their findings with each other. (Birds in good condition, some small bleeding in some animals, good for the upcoming winter, empty stomachs.) It is a very strange story!
Components of the deceased birds now go to various institutes for further research into rat poison and various viruses. On Monday the preparations are ready and the microscopic examination is started. In the meantime, the municipality has instituted an outlet ban in the park until further notice.
We will keep you informed and hope that we will get a quick answer regarding the bizarre deaths.
Source 5: New contribution from Facebook:
Nov. 2, 2018
There is, of course, no certainty about the cause. There are stronger 4G and IoT channels in the vicinity near the park. In July there was also 5G tested, but then the birds did not swarm and they did not arrive in the park. IoT has also been active since 30 October 2017, so it is only briefly active with a safe distance (for humans) of 7.4 meters and with a 2000 Watt transmitter at less than 200 meters from the park main beam direction exactly across the park. Also at the same distance LTE channels and at another location also LTE stations etc. Here again exactly about the park.
The truth about the safety of 5G is that it’s not safe and corporations are being allowed to roll out the new technology before they are sure about it’s effects.( Or because they already know it’s very harmfull to humans and animals and thats why they want to roll it out as fast as possible before any “public testings” that would be mae this technology banned from being rolled out.)
The roll out of 5G technology is a “massive bio-experiment” that will have “disastrous consequences” for the human race, according to the first major university study into the controversial wireless service — and a coalition of 200 leading scientists and doctors are calling for an urgent stop to the roll out.
“5G technology is a very real danger,” warns Dr. Moskowitz, a public health professor at the University of California. “The deployment of 5G, or fifth generation cellular technology, constitutes a massive experiment on the health of all species,” he said.
With the death of the birds in the Netherlands, we are already starting to see the results of 5G technology.
An image taken by the Curiosity rover of the 18th hole it has drilled on Mars.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
After suffering a couple technical glitches that have put NASA's Curiosity rover off its duties on Mars this year, the robotic explorer seems to be back in full health, having driven to a new site and drilled a sampling hole, according to NASA statements.
That hole is its 18th successful drilling assignment, according to NASA. It targeted a type of rock geologists with the mission have been eyeing for more than a month, but failed to successfully drill at a previous site. The drill was out of commission between late 2016 and this May as engineers addressed a problem with the instrument.
But the rover had better luck at the new site, nicknamed Highfield. Curiosity is now analyzing the powder it was able to produce, which should tell scientists more about the rock at the site. The rover will also be watching how the little pile moves over time, which essentially creates weather observations by tracking wind movement, according to NASA.
It's a particularly interesting time for weather observations on Mars because Curiosity's robotic companion, Opportunity, remains silent on the opposite side of the planet after a global dust storm earlier this year. Scientists hope that a seasonal weather phenomenon known as dust devils will be able to clear any lingering dust off Opportunity's solar panels and help it return to normal operations.
In order to reach the new science site, Curiosity had to drive about 197 feet (60 meters), according to NASA. The journey comes a month after engineers running the rover were forced to switch Curiosity to its back-up brain after a computer glitch occured on Sept. 15.
Engineers are still trying to figure out what went wrong on the computer the rover had been relying on before the switch. Although the rover doesn't need both computers operating at once, they do want to repair the problem and switch back because the offline computer has more memory.
De vreemde paarse luchten en ook een mogelijke verklaring daarvoor kwamen aan bod in een eerder artikel:
Zo werden de inwoners van de Amerikaanse stad Houston enkele weken geleden wakker en zagen ze overal paarse luchten.
Aangezien eerst even de zon scheen en toen onweerswolken binnen begonnen te rollen, werd de lucht helemaal paars en zong iedereen in de stad het lied “Purple Rain” van de onlangs overleden Prince.
Volgens Nancy Lieder van Zetatalk wordt dit soort verschijnselen veroorzaakt door een combinatie van het ijzeroxide stof in wat zij noemt de “staart van Niburu”, die zich vermengt met luchtvervuiling zoals je die in Houston aantreft. Dit zorgt ervoor dat in plaats van een rode kleur de hemel boven de stad paars kleurt.
We gaan nu richting einde van het jaar en het aantal mensen dat vreemde paarse luchten ziet, schijnt toe te nemen.
Op 13 oktober werd de volgend opname gemaakt in de Amerikaanse staat Ohio. Het valt de getuige dusdanig op dat hij ervoor naar buiten gaat, constateert dat het geen lamp is en dat dit in een bepaald gedeelte van de lucht voor komt.
Ook de volgende opname is op dezelfde dag gemaakt in Ohio door iemand die onderweg was om te tanken. Ook deze zegt nog nooit een dergelijke lucht te hebben gezien:
Bijna twee weken later was het opnieuw raak in de staat Ohio:
En dan de volgende vreemde paars/blauwe licht die is gefilmd in Bellevue in de staat Washington.
En tenslotte nog een opname van enkele dagen geleden, dit keer uit de staat Winsconsin en ook hier hetzelfde verhaal: Degene die het heeft gefilmd heeft nog nooit eerder zoiets gezien.
Allemaal mensen die zich afvragen hoe het kan dat de lucht paars is en allemaal mensen die zeggen nog nooit eerder zoiets gezien te hebben.
Antarctica continues to dominate the news, with the discovery of lost continents, scientists stabbing each other and that amazing perfectly-rectangular iceberg. Speaking of that berg, its popularity has inspired NASA to forget about the dead Martian rover for a while and try and figure exactly how it formed. It did, and the answer is …
Not so fast! We might as well join NASA and milk this frozen squareberg for all it’s worth. After the tabular iceberg was discovered in October 2018 by NASA scientist Jeremy Harbeck while riding in a plane when he was supposed to be studying changes in the thickness of the glaciers and ice sheets, speculation on its pointed to A-68, the massive iceberg that broke off from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in 2017. This sounded plausible since A-68 was travelling into slightly warmer waters and banging into the coast and other icebergs. Ice on the thinner edges could easily break off along a straight line.
A-68 breaking away
(NASA)
However, when it comes to tracking the lineage of icebergs, the proof is in the pictures. NASA went far above Jeremy Harbeck’s Operation IceBridge plane to images from its Landsat 8 and the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 satellites taken over the past few years. Scanning the Larsen C ice shelf, they found that the squareberg actually broke of from it rather than A-68 just weeks after the monster berg’s violent exit, which probably left the edges of Larsen C in a weakened state.
A-68 breaking away from another angle
(NASA)
The image of the birth of the squareberg (seen here) shows just how tiny the 4 km long iceberg is in relation to A-68, which is often compared to states or small countries. What surprised NASA researchers more than its shape was that it stayed relatively intact for a year as it floated very close to both the ice-bull-in-a-china-shop A-68, which is constantly colliding with the Bawden Ice Rise, an elevated ice shelf on Larsen C, and other smaller icebergs. While still rectangular, it’s down to 1500 meters by 900 meters and tending towards a trapezoid with just two parallel sides.
Still, it’s pretty impressive … as is NASA’s quick work in using its satellites to accurately pinpoint its place of origin. Now, if they could just use the same satellites to find keys and remote controls …
Time travel. It is a staple of science fiction and has long captured the imagination. It seems as if that is the realm in which it should stay, within movies and books, and entertaining yarn but far from reality. Yet in this day and age of the Internet there have been people given a voice that they never had before, and cases have come out of the woodwork of people who actually claim to be time travelers. Not only that, but some of them actually say that they have the evidence to prove it. Outlandish, surreal, and always bizarre, here are some cases of self-professed time travelers who say they can prove it.
A very strange individual came forward in November of 2017 with quite a bizarre and colorful tale to tell, and would go on to become quite the media and viral video sensation at the time. The man calls himself Noah, and claims that he is in fact from the future, the year 2030 to be exact, becoming stranded here in the present due to a “failed mission” in which he got “fired” and stuck in our present and decided to tell the world of the realities of time travel and of his experiences in a series of videos on YouTube. Of the machine that he used to jump through time, he has explained to news.com.au:
I have many body implications and things all over myself, and I step in this giant dome and these things fire up and basically a large electronic weight basically pushes you through time. It feels like if you got electrocuted.
The range of stories he has to tell of these adventures is as outlandish as it is entertaining. Noah claims that he was recruited into the government’s top secret time travel program at a very young age, and that he regularly took anti-aging pills to fight the aging effects that time travel had on his body, saying “When you time travel you gain time. When I was in junior high and I was a time traveler, I had to take these pills to make sure I don’t grow old while time travelling.” He also has made numerous predictions about the future, including that Trump will win a second term of presidency, that the granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr., Yolanda Renee King, will become president at some point, and many others. According to Noah there will be a cure for cancer, that scientists will live on Mars in 2028, incidentally the same year we figure out time travel, and that we get into contact with extraterrestrials.
It all sounds pretty vague, rather unimaginative and not really that hard to guess, but what really made his story take off in the news is that he supposedly passed a lie detector test on all of this. He has also shown footage that he claims is from the future. At one point during his interview on YouTube he produces a smartphone and shows a futuristic looking city with red clouds ominously hanging over it, which he claims to be Las Vegas in the year 2120. It looks pretty questionable, as the video is stationary and doesn’t show much that couldn’t be altered through digital manipulation, but Noah has other “evidence” as well, such as an X-ray image showing a device within his hand that he says is integral for the time travel process, and he has claimed that he has even better evidence that he sadly cannot share for fear of triggering a paradox.
Still from “Noah’s” video
Throughout his whole video interview his face is obscured as he says he is in danger of being assassinated for what he is telling the rather skeptical interviewers, and many confessed time travelers do so. He also explains that he is alone, and that although he has family in the present he cannot meet them out of danger of meeting his younger self and causing a massive paradox. It is all a completely off the wall tale that has understandably drawn a lot of criticism, not only for its sheer bizarreness, but also from the fact that the video appears on the Apex TV YouTube channel, a paranormal research organization which is popular for its numerous time traveler stories and which many accuse of being full of hoaxes.
YouTube in general, and Apex TV in particular, are fertile grounds for such wild tales, and it is in this unchecked medium that alleged time travelers have come out of the woodwork. One is an anonymous man who says he worked out of London, where there was a secret laboratory called Globus, involved with testing and experimenting with all manner of bizarre technology, such as teleportation devices and of course time travel. He claims that the mysterious machine used to travel through time is called “The Time Queen,” and that a main component to its inner workings is powerful stone that emits some sort of alien, misunderstood energy. He has explained of this Time Queen:
The most important part in that machine was the piece of asteroid which has a radiation maker. The radiation of uranium is even weaker. The power of the stone has such energy it can destroy the whole planet. Fortunately, that energy only can be used in laboratory. Otherwise, the planet could be already destroyed. That energy can create time borders. We can outsmart computers to that energy and get an algorithm which transforms time to the mathematics, and this let us to travel through the time.
The machine was used to travel to the past in the United States, Russia and Britain, and frequently to 17th century China, but that certain limitations of the technology meant he could only travel a maximum of 4,000 years back in time. It all sounds completely off the rails, but this time traveler claims to have evidence in the form of a photo of a Swiss made watch that was allegedly found in the tomb of a 17th century Chinese soldier and which he says was a watch he lost on one of his many jaunts through time, of which he would say:
It is just that watch that I had lost in China in 16th to 17th centuries. I was running at the time from Chinese soldiers. A few months ago this watch was found in soldier’s tomb. I think, while I was running, he found and took it. Scientists were shocked.
It is actually striking how many of these self-professed time travelers bring forth what they say is evidence of their time bending adventures, such as photographs, videos, and others. Another man called simply Edward claimed in a video to have been part of a top secret time travel experiment in 2004, and that his travels had taken him far into the future to the year 5000, when much of the planet had been submerged due to global warming and vast wooden cities floated upon the seas of what once was. One of these cities doomed to a watery grave was apparently Los Angeles, California, a fact which Edward “proves” with a photo he produces from his pocket that he claims shows the submerged city but is actually pretty hard to make out. Edward explains of this photo to The Sun, “I was standing on a huge wooden platform. Not only me, houses, building of course all made from wood. And after, I realized it was the same city, Los Angeles, but under water.”
Edward’s photo
There is also the claim from a time traveler calling himself John, from the year 4,000. John says that he has been living in this present for the past 6 years, and that in his home time he is the president of a company that produces flying cars, and that their use of AI had resulted in a potential threat to humanity. According to John, in the year 4000 all birds have been wiped out in order to reduce the danger to the widely used flying cars, and that animals in general, even dogs and cats, are rare. It is due to concerns over the spread of AI that he says he has traveled back to the past, and as evidence of all of this he has shown a picture of what appear to be spider-like robots putting together a future vehicle called the “DR-18.”
Similarly, to John is a man identified as Alexander Smith, who says he is one of the first time travelers and appears in his video looking decidedly disheveled and harried. Smith then goes on to say that the world is in dire danger from AI running amok, and that global warming and floods are also a prominent threat. As proof of his claims he produces a photo from his crumpled suit and holds it up, saying that it is a picture of a city center form the year 2118. The photo looks very blurry and indistinct, and he assures us that this is merely an artifact from the time traveling process, not in any way because it could be a hoax. There is also the photo presented by an unidentified Greek man who in 2017 claimed that he had been recruited by a professor for time travel experiments. One of these experiments saw him launched to the year 10000, where there was a war raging between humans and robots. This man also shows a picture of this future landscape, but it is not clear what it is supposed to be of, and of course the low quality is blamed on the effects of time travel.
The picture from the year 10000
It’s not only photographs or video clips that have been offered up as evidence by time travelers either. One man calling himself W.D. Davis says he is from the year 2200, which he paints a colorful picture of indeed. According to him, in this future not only have all diseases been cured, but humans live on Mars and in great underwater cities, and that we peacefully coexist with aliens that can change shape at will. Davis, who claims to be 103 years old, said that in the future there are “miracle food pellets,” one of which can sustain an adult for a week, and he presented one of these pellets as proof. He says that in the future these pellets will be available to people all over the planet and have solved world hunger. Unfortunately, he would not allow it to be analyzed due to the paradoxical ramifications it could have, so I suppose we will just have to take his word for it.
Another anonymous time traveler is a woman who says she is from the year 3780, and that the use of the time technology is based on chips that these travelers have implanted into their arms. These devices supposedly do something to warp the space-time continuum, and she even produces one of the chips as evidence, which she calls a “skin.” It looks sort of like a big computer chip, and it is hard to tell if that is exactly what it is. The woman rambles for some time on the technology, but it is very hard to understand, and in the end it is hard to tell if any of it makes sense or not.
In the end it is hard to know how much truth any of these bizarre and quite frankly outlandish claims have. It is unfortunate that many such cases come to light on these YouTube videos, a place that is a magnet for those looking to get attention and pull hoaxes, yet there are plenty of people who give these claims serious thought, and they have become a hotbed for discussion and conspiracy theories. It is equally regrettable that the “evidence” that these supposed time travelers present in these cases is circumstantial at best, and clearly faked at worst. Yet is still gets a lot of play in discussions and debates on time travelers. Ultimately, if time travel really does exist, then these cases certainly don’t prove it in any way. It is up to the reader to make up their own mind.
While searching for UFOs near the sun, I found a long rocket like object shooting out of the sun during a solar explosion. The explosion was so big it rocked the SOHO satellite and jiggled it, but still caught this UFO during the burst. This UFO was really moving fast, but lucky for us the digital camera of the SOHO satellite caught it well.
If I am wrong, and this is burning solar material flying out from the sun, then its enough material to make a mini sun and would easily destroy the earth if it hit us. However solar material would not shoot off at light speed. This object was only caught once, traveled millions of miles across the SOHO satellite view area...and only got caught once...thats a freaking UFO.
I made a short recording of the object and repeated it several times, you may need to pause the video to see the UFO...there are two bursts, its on the second larger solar explosion. I will include my Dropbox link to download the video for those who need it.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has uncovered relics of lost continents that have hidden under Antarctica for millions of years.
Satellite images reveal a timeline of the ancient landmasses buried a mile (1.6 km) beneath the icy continent.
Scientists said the snaps shed new light on Antarctica, the 'least understood continent on Earth'.
They used data from the long-dead Gravity field and Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE), which plummeted into Earth after it ran out of fuel in 2013.
While the satellite has been out of action for five years, scientists are still pouring over reams of data it collected on Earth's gravitational pull.
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Their research allowed them to track hidden tectonic shifts over the last 200 million years, offering fresh insights into how Antarctica formed. Pictured left is the position of the tectonics 180 million years ago, while right shows the plates 10 million years ago
A team of scientists used GOCE readings to map out the movements of Earth's tectonic plates under Antarctica.
Their research allowed them to track hidden tectonic shifts over the last 200 million years, offering fresh insights into how Antarctica formed.
'These gravity images are revolutionising our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth: Antarctica,' said co-author Fausto Ferraccioli, Science Leader of Geology and Geophysics at the British Antarctic Survey.
'In East Antarctica, we see an exciting mosaic of geological features that reveal fundamental similarities and differences between the crust beneath Antarctica and other continents it was joined to until 160 million years ago.'
Scientists combined the GOCE readings with seismological data to create 3D maps of Earth's lithosphere.
The lithosphere is made up of the crust and the molten mantle beneath Earth's surface, and includes mountain ranges, ocean backs and rocky zones called cratons.
A team of scientists used GOCE readings to map out the movements of Earth's tectonic plates under Antarctica
Cratons are the leftovers of ancient continents embedded in continents as we know them today.
The new readings shed light on the breakup of Gondwana, a long-gone 'supercontinent' that housed what is now Antarctica.
While the landmass split some 130 million years ago, the map shows that Antarctica and Australia remained linked as recently as 55 million years ago.
The study also revealed that West Antarctica has a thinner crust than East Antarctica, which has a 'family likeness to Australia and India'.
The study revealed that West Antarctica (green) has a thinner crust than East Antarctica (blue), which has a 'family likeness to Australia and India'
WHAT WAS ESA'S GOCE SATELLITE?
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) probe tracked the pull of Earth's gravity.
It orbited our planet for over four years, from March 2009 to November 2013.
During that period it got within 140 miles of Earth's surface - unusually low for a satellite - to maximise the accuracy of its instruments.
The European Space Agency (ESA) claims one of its sleek research satellites, dubbed the 'Ferrari of space' has plummeted somewhere into the South Atlantic ocean
Scientists are still scanning GOCE data today in a bid to understand more about processes occurring inside Earth.
In addition, the measurements are being used to improve estimates of polar ice-sheet thickness and their movement.
On 21 October 2013, the mission came to a natural end when it ran out of fuel.
Three weeks later, on 11 November, the satellite disintegrated in the lower atmosphere.
Scientists hope to use their findings to examine how Antarctica’s geology and continental structure is affecting the melting of its ice.
GOCE mission scientist Roger Haagmans said: 'It is exciting to see that direct use of the gravity gradients, which were measured for the first time ever with GOCE, leads to a fresh independent look inside Earth – even below a thick sheet of ice.
'It also provides context of how continents were possibly connected in the past before they drifted apart owing to plate motion.'
Space mission: GOCE was launched in 2009 to map variations in Earth's gravity with unprecedented accuracy
Overblijfselen van verloren continenten op 1,6 kilometer onder Antarctica onthuld. Zo werden ze ontdekt
Overblijfselen van verloren continenten op 1,6 kilometer onder Antarctica onthuld. Zo werden ze ontdekt
De Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA heeft overblijfselen van verloren continenten ontdekt die al miljoenen jaren verborgen liggen onder Antarctica.
Satellietbeelden onthullen dat de continenten op 1,6 kilometer onder de Zuidpool liggen.
Wetenschappers hebben gezegd dat de beelden een nieuw licht werpen op Antarctica, het minst begrepen continent op aarde.
Revolutionaliseren
Ze hebben gegevens gebruikt die zijn verzameld door de Gravity field and Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE), die in 2013 neerstortte op aarde.
Onderzoekers gebruikten de data om de bewegingen van de tektonische platen onder Antarctica in kaart te brengen.
“Deze beelden revolutionaliseren de manier waarop we het minst begrepen continent op aarde, Antarctica, kunnen bestuderen,” zei coauteur Fausto Ferracciolo van de British Antarctic Survey.
Kratons
“In Oost-Antarctica zien we fundamentele overeenkomsten en verschillen tussen de korst onder Antarctica en andere continenten waar het tot 160 miljoen jaar geleden mee verbonden was,” vervolgde hij.
Met behulp van de gegevens ontdekten wetenschappers zogeheten kratons, restanten van zeer oude continenten die deel uitmaken van de continenten zoals we die vandaag de dag kennen.
GOCE-missiewetenschapper Roger Haagmans zei: “Het is spannend om te zien dat we [op deze manier] een frisse, onafhankelijke blik in de aarde kunnen werpen, zelfs onder een dikke laag ijs.”
Beroemde rechthoekige ijsberg is al veel ouder dan gedacht
Beroemde rechthoekige ijsberg is al veel ouder dan gedacht
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De ijsberg zou in november 2017 al van de Larsen C-ijsplaat zijn losgekomen.
Eind vorige maand trok een ijsberg nabij Antarctica de aandacht van heel wat mensen naar zich toe. En terecht, want deze ijsberg leek wel met een schaartje geknipt te zijn. De randen waren keurig recht en de hoeken behoorlijk haaks, waardoor de ijsberg bijna onnatuurlijk aandeed. In eerste instantie werd aangenomen dat de ijsberg vrij recent van de Larsen C-ijsplaat was losgekomen. Want, zo stelden onderzoekers, anders waren die strakke randen al lang ten prooi gevallen aan eroderende golven en wind.
Ouder Maar wetenschappers hebben zich nog eens in het leven van de rechthoekige ijsberg vastgebeten en ontdekt dat deze al veel ouder is dan gedacht. Satellietbeelden onthullen dat de ijsberg al in november 2017 – kort nadat de Larsen C-ijsplaat die enorme ijsberg kwijtraakte – afkalfde. Op dat moment was de ijsberg ongeveer vier kilometer lang.
In beweging De ijsberg begon richting het noorden te bewegen en werd daarbij continu bedreigd door botsingen met A-68 (de enorme ijsberg die Larsen C in juli van dat jaar was kwijtgeraakt) en andere, kleinere ijsbergen. Maar de ijsberg bleef ondanks al die dreigingen noordwaarts bewegen en moest uiteindelijk via een smalle passage – gelegen tussen het noordelijke tipje van A-68 en de zogenoemde Bawden Ice Rise – door zien te bewegen om open water te kunnen bereiken. En dat is het moment waarop de ijsberg zijn opmerkelijke rechthoekige vorm krijgt, aldus onderzoekers. Bawden Ice Rice is een verhoging in de rotsachtige zeebodem en A-68 is daar bijvoorbeeld al regelmatig tegenaan gebotst, waardoor stukken van de ijsberg zijn afgebroken. Het is op die plek dan ook een rommeltje (zie afbeelding hieronder, gemaakt op 14 oktober 2018). Er drijven allemaal kleinere ijsbergen rond die continu met elkaar in botsing komen. Ook de ijsberg die in november 2017 loskwam van Larsen C kwam duidelijk niet ongeschonden uit de strijd. Op de foto hieronder zie je dat deze oorspronkelijk qua vorm veel wegheeft van een trapezium. Maar een paar dagen later blijkt deze door de botsingen omgetoverd te zijn tot een rechthoekige ijsberg met steile randen en keurige hoeken.
De rechthoekige ijsberg heeft op deze foto nog een iets andere vorm. De ijsberg is hier ongeveer 900 meter breed en 1500 meter lang.
Inmiddels zijn we weer een paar weken verder en heeft de ijsberg het open water weten te bereiken. Onderzoekers verwachten dat de ijsberg spoedig geschiedenis zal zijn.
Dit weekend scheren maar liefst drie ruimtestenen langs de aarde
Dit weekend scheren maar liefst drie ruimtestenen langs de aarde
Vivian Lammerse
Het grootste exemplaar is naar schatting twee keer zo groot als een passagiersbus.
Dit weekend kunnen we een bezoekje verwachten van drie ruimtestenen, die relatief dicht langs de aarde zullen scheren. Het gaat om de objecten 2018 VX1, 2018 VA2 en 2018 VSI. Maar geen paniek; de objecten zullen geen gevaar vormen voor de aarde.
Ruimtestenen Het object 2018 VXI zal komende zondag het dichts in de buurt van de aarde komen. Zo zal deze op ongeveer één maanafstand (dat is de afstand tussen de aarde en de maan) langs de aarde scheren. De geschatte diameter van de ruimtesteen is tussen de 7.9 en 18 meter. Maar eerst zal morgen 2018 VA2 zijn scheervlucht maken. Dit object zal ons op ongeveer 1.87 maanafstanden naderen. Het grootste is ruimtesteen 2018 VSI. Zo wordt de diameter van deze ruimtesteen geschat tussen de 13 en 28 meter. Echter blijft deze ook het verst van de aarde uit de buurt; zo zal hij ons op 3.62 maanafstanden passeren.
MAATREGELEN
Onderzoekers zijn op zoek naar allerlei manieren de aarde te beschermen tegen potentieel gevaarlijke ruimtestenen. En daarbij komen de meest bizarre methoden voorbij. Zo kunnen we planetoïden een duwtje geven, er juist aan trekken, opblazen of laseren. Een andere voorgestelde methode is om een planetoïde te bekogelen met witte verf. Dat bekogelen zou namelijk al een geringe invloed hebben op de baan van de planetoïde. De witte verf zou zorgen dat de planetoïde meer zonlicht reflecteert. Elk lichtdeeltje dat vervolgens wordt weerkaatst, oefent kracht uit die de planetoïde wegduwt van de zon.
Tsjeljabinsk-meteoriet Zoals gezegd vormen de ruimtestenen geen gevaar voor de aarde, omdat ze toch nog ver van onze planeet vandaan blijven. Komen planetoïden echter dichterbij de aarde in de buurt en zijn ze daarnaast ook nog eens groot van stuk, dan kunnen dit soort ruimtestenen wel voor wat opschudding zorgen. Dat bewees de Tsjeljabinsk-meteoriet, die in 2013 de Russische stad Tsjeljabinsk op deed schrikken. Deze ruimtesteen was zo’n 17 meter groot en ontplofte op 20 kilometer hoogte in de atmosfeer. Bij die explosie kwam zo’n 30 keer meer energie vrij dan tijdens de kernaanval op Hiroshima. De schokgolf zorgde ervoor dat ramen van honderden gebouwen uiteenspatten. Bijna 1500 mensen raakten daarbij gewond.
Klein risico Toch is de kans klein dat zoiets nog eens gebeurt. Zo denken astronomen dat dit slechts enkele keren per eeuw voorkomt. Daarbij is het risico dat het dicht bij een dichtbevolkte stad zoals Tsjeljabinsk gebeurt, nog kleiner. Naar schatting vindt dat ongeveer 1 keer in de 10.000 jaar plaats. Toch is het niet helemaal uit te sluiten dat er brokstukken vanuit de ruimte op ramkoers komen te liggen met de aarde.
Voorbereiden Daarom speuren wetenschappers met telescopen continu de hemel af op zoek naar onbekende planetoïden. En dat werpt zijn vruchten af. In een paar jaar tijd zijn zo 90% van alle aardscheerders groter dan 1 kilometer opgespoord. Vervolgens proberen astronomen om potentiële gevaarlijke ruimtestenen te detecteren. Hoe eerder we die opsporen, hoe beter. Ondertussen wordt er ook aan methoden gewerkt om de aarde weerbaarder te maken tegen dergelijke aardscheerders.
Een voorbeeld daarvan is de DART-missie. Dit ruimtevaartuig heeft een heel speciaal doel; zo gaat hij proberen om de baan van planetoïde Didymos te veranderen. Deze ruimtesteen bestaat uit twee delen, waarvan Didymos A zo’n 2,5 kilometer groot is en Didymos B ongeveer 160 meter. Het ruimtevaartuig zal vervolgens op de kleinere planetoïde inslaan met 6 km/sec. Van deze missie kunnen we veel leren. Zo is de kennis van groot belang mochten we ooit in een situatie terecht komen dat we objecten van de aarde moeten afbuigen.
Heeft een buitenaards ruimteschip ons zonnestelsel bezocht? Professoren van de Harvard universiteit sluit dit niet uit. Het zou verklaren waarom de asteroïde ‘Oumuamua zich nogal vreemd gedroeg.
‘Oumuamua werd in oktober 2017 ontdekt en was al snel wereldnieuws. De baan van het object – dat toen nog C2017U1 werd genoemd – wees er namelijk sterk op dat de ruimtesteen afkomstig was uit een ander zonnestelsel. Het is mogelijk het eerste interstellaire object dat is aangetroffen in ons zonnestelsel. Anders gezegd: ‘Oumuamua is bij een andere ster dan de zon ontstaan. Dat is natuurlijk al bizar. Als we de zon even vergeten, dan de eerstvolgende ster vier lichtjaar van de aarde verwijderd. Het object heeft dus zeker tientallen biljoenen kilometers afgelegd (en mogelijk nog wel veel meer)…
Vliegende sigaar Het object is nogal vreemd. Zo lijkt ‘Oumuamua op een enorme, vliegende sigaar. Deze kosmische sigaar is 400 meter lang en 40 meter breed. Daarmee wijkt de asteroïde qua vorm sterk af van andere hemellichamen in ons zonnestelsel. Onderzoekers kunnen niet verklaren hoe een object met een ratio van 1:10 ontstaat.
Lichtzeil? Maar er is meer. Wetenschappers van het Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics vinden het vreemd dat het object in januari 2018 plotseling versnelde. “Mogelijk is ‘Oumuamua een soort lichtzeil, dat zweeft in de interstellaire ruimte”, schrijft onderzoeker Abraham Loeb in een paper dat is ingediend in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Astrophysical Journal Letters. “Mogelijk wordt het object versneld door zonnestraling.”
Het is geen vreemde gedachte. “Wij mensen maken al soortgelijke lichtzeilen met vergelijkbare afmetingen”, vervolgt Loeb. “Denk maar aan het IKAROS-project en Starshot Initiative. De lichtzeil-technologie wordt misschien vaak gebruikt (door aliens, red.) als vrachttransport tussen sterren of tussen planeten.”
IKAROS was een experimenteel ruimtevaartuig van de Japanse ruimtevaartorganisatie JAXA. Dit ruimtevaartuig werd in mei 2010 gelanceerd en naar de planeet Venus gestuurd. Daarmee demonstreerde de Japanse ruimtevaartorganisatie dat de zonnezeil-technologie werkt in de interplanetaire ruimte.
Niet langer actief ‘Oumuamua heeft een opvallend hoge snelheid en een bijzondere baan. Zo tuimelt de sigaar ongecontroleerd om zijn as. De wetenschappers vermoeden daarom dat ‘Oumumua niet langer actief is.
Geen komeet Als ‘Oumuamua inderdaad ooit door aliens is gebouwd, dan verklaart dit waarom het object zo vreemd is. Loeb: “Zo reflecteert ‘Oumuamua opvallend veel licht, heeft het geen komeetachtige staart en zendt het object weinig warmtestraling uit.” Als een komeet de zon nadert, dan warmt de zon het oppervlak van de komeet op en komen er gassen vrij. Hierdoor kan een komeet versnellen. Aangezien er bij ‘Oumuamua geen sprake was van ontgassing, verklaart dit niet waarom de interstellaire reiziger plotseling versnelde.
En nu? Eigenlijk ontstaan er steeds meer vragen, maar blijven deze vragen onbeantwoord. Auteurs Shmuel Bialy en Abraham Loeb concluderen in het paper dat het nu te laat is om ‘Oumuamua te fotograferen of te achtervolgen met raketten. De mannen hopen dat er in de toekomst vaker soortgelijke objecten langs de zon reizen, die wél bestudeerd kunnen worden. Een andere mogelijkheid is dat er duizenden inactieve ruimteschepen gevangen zitten in het zonnestelsel door zwaartekrachtinteracties met Jupiter en de zon. Met de toekomstige Large Synoptic Survey Telescope kunnen deze objecten wellicht worden gespot.
Scientists analyzed the ancient DNA of individuals who lived in Central and South America up to 10,000 years ago and found that these regions were settled by at least three waves of migration. The studies paint a rich and diverse history of the Americas, suggesting that the people who formed these migratory waves branched out of a single population that crossed the Bering Strait into North America about 15,000 years ago.
“Our work multiplied the number of ancient genomes available from these areas by about 20, giving us a much more comprehensive picture of indigenous history in the Americas,” co-senior author David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, said in a statement. “This broader dataset reveals a common origin of North, Central, and South Americans as well as two previously unknown genetic exchanges between North and South America.”
The DNA collected from 49 individuals who lived in Belize, Brazil, the Central Andes, and southern South America shows that they all originate from the same ancestral population that colonized North America. In and of itself, this fact is not particularly remarkable because scientists have always known that Central and South America were peopled by a migration that moved southward. However, what was truly surprising about the findings of three new ancient DNA studies, all published this week (Cell, Science, Science Advances), was that there were multiple distinct migratory movements — some that mixed, others that formed new lineages.
Archaeologists believe that the Clovis people were the first to pass through the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska, which is now underwater, settling in the lower 48 states some 13,000 years ago. The Clovis culture was named after flint spearheads found in the 1930s at a site in Clovis, New Mexico. These mammoth-hunting people are considered to be the ancestors of most of the indigenous cultures of the Americas. Now, the new genomic analysis has yielded fresh insights into how Clovis people may have spread across the Americas.
Researchers compared the genome of a Clovis toddler who lived in Montana about 12,700 years ago to the earliest genome analyzed from South and Central America dating to between 9,000 and 11,000 years ago. The analysis revealed a common ancestry between the remains found in Montana and Lagoa Santa in Brazil, which suggests that the Clovis made a major impact much further south. Previously, anthropologists believed that the people at Lagoa Santa originated from a separate migration from Asia.
“We weren’t expecting to find a relation to people associated with the Clovis culture in South America,” says co-first author Nathan Nakatsuka from Harvard. “But it seems the expansion of the Clovis-associated lineage extended to parts of Central and South America.”
From around 9,000 years ago, however, the Clovis culture-associated ancestry completely disappeared in Peru. We don’t know what was the cause of such a dramatic large-scale population replacement but what seems certain is that the region was populated by a separate wave of migration, which showed remarkable continuity compared to Eurasia and Africa.
“There is remarkable continuity between earlier and later skeletons with South Americans today,” said Cosimo Posth, an archaeogeneticist from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. “For example, modern-day Quechua and Aymara from the Central Andes can trace their ancestry back to the ancient people of the Cuncaicha site from 9,000 years ago onwards. This is a longer-standing continuity than you see in other continents.”
The big question right now is why the branching occurred so fast. What seems certain is that the narrative of humanity’s distribution across the Americas is far more complex than meets the eye.
“We’re very enthusiastic about the prospects for a much richer understanding of American population history, but this is still a vast region full of geographic and chronological holes,” says Reich. “We’d like to collect more genetic material from earlier and later sites and from more countries, such as Colombia, Venezuela, and other parts of Brazil. We also want to examine the evolution of genetic traits over time.”
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) released this new image on November 6, 2018. It’s a composite image of a giant elliptical galaxy – surrounded by a sprawling cluster of other galaxies – known as Abell 2597. The yellow parts of the image come from observations made by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and show a relatively cold gas. The red is data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) showing hot hydrogen gas in the same region. The purple shows extended hot, ionized gas as imaged by Chandra X-ray Observatory.
This vast structure is a billion light-years from Earth. It’s one of our universe’s most massive structures. At the core of Abell 2597, NRAO said:
… a supermassive black hole is powering the cosmic equivalent of a monumental fountain, drawing in vast stores of cold molecular gas and spraying them back out again in an ongoing cycle.
Astronomers have long theorized that fountains such as this continually recirculate a galaxy’s star-forming fuel. But new data from ALMA – based on observations of Abell 2597 – show the first clear and compelling evidence for the simultaneous infalling and outflow of gas driven by a supermassive black hole. The researchers reportedtheir observations in the peer-reviewedAstrophysical Journal.
Artist’s concept of Abell 2597 showing the central supermassive black hole expelling cold, molecular gas – like the pump of a giant galactic fountain.
Image via NRAO/AUI/NSF; D. Berry
Astrophysicist Grant Tremblay at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is lead author on the new paper. He said in a statement:
The supermassive black hole at the center of this giant galaxy acts like a mechanical ‘pump’ in a water fountain. This is one of the first systems in which we find clear evidence for both cold molecular gas inflow toward the black hole and outflow or uplift from the jets that the black hole launches.
According to the researchers, this entire system operates via a self-regulating feedback loop. The infalling material provides power for the fountain as it “drains” toward the central black hole, like water entering the pump of a fountain. This infalling gas then causes the black hole to ignite with activity, launching high-velocity jets of super-heated material that shoot out of the galaxy. As it travels, this material pushes out clumps and streamers of gas into the galaxy’s expansive halo, where it eventually rains back in on the black hole, triggering the entire process anew.
In total, about three billion solar masses of molecular gas is part of this fountain, forming a filamentary nebula that spans the innermost 100,000 light-years of the galaxy.
ALMA image of cold molecular gas in Abell 2597.
Image via NRAO/G. Tremblay et al.
In an earlier study by the same authors published in the journal Nature, the researchers were able to verify the interconnection between the black hole and the galactic fountain by observing the region across a range of wavelengths, or portions of the spectrum. By studying the location and motion of molecules of carbon monoxide (CO) with ALMA, which shine brightly in millimeter-wavelength light, the researchers could measure the motion of the gas as it falls in toward the black hole.
Earlier data from the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) revealed warm, ionized gas being expelled from the galaxy – essentially the plume of the fountain. The new ALMA observations found clumps of cold, molecular gas in precisely the same locations as the warm gas seen in the earlier observations. Tremblay commented:
The unique aspect here is a very detailed coupled analysis of the source using data from ALMA and the MUSE instrument. The two facilities make for an incredibly powerful combination. ALMA revealed the distribution and motions of the cold molecular gas clouds, and MUSE did the same for the warm ionized gas.
The ALMA and MUSE data were combined with a new, ultra-deep observation of the cluster by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, revealing the hot phase of this fountain in exquisite detail, noted the researchers.
The observations also very convincingly support the hypothesis that the warm ionized and cold molecular nebulas are one and the same, with the warm ionized gas merely being the “shell” around the cold molecular cores that churn within this galaxy-scale fountain.
This multiwavelength approach offers an uncommonly complete picture of this system. Tremblay noted:
It’s like observing the rain cloud, rain, and puddle all at the same time.
While this is just one observation of one galaxy, the astronomers speculate that they may be observing a process that is common in galaxies and fundamental to their evolution.
Animation of the MUSE H-alpha data showing the different velocities of material in the “galactic fountain.”
Bottom line: At the core of the giant elliptical galaxy Abell 2597, a supermassive black hole is powering the cosmic equivalent of a gargantuan, ongoing fountain.
The Orion Cube: An extraterrestrial device hidden by the US
The Orion Cube: An extraterrestrial device hidden by the US
Jay Jonson
Dan Burisch, a doctorate in microbiology and former worker of the secret military forces of the United States, details great puzzling information about extraterrestrials, the Orion Cube, time machines, secret government plans and human extinction.
Dan Burisch, born in California in 1964, studied microbiology and psychology at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada. He graduated in 1986 and did a Ph.D. in microbiology in 1989 in the state of New York. A sports fan since childhood, he played basketball. But his true passion was science and five years later he was given his first microscope, after which he later became the youngest member of the microbiology society of Los Angeles.
In 1986 he received an unexpected visit at the University of Las Vegas, the so-called “secret” government of the United States. Two of those men, in military uniform, offered to work on a top-secret project where they could put their talent to work at a maximum level. In 1987 he began working in a Nevada State Government office related to prison parole. In 1989 he began receiving tissue samples. Burisch examined them in another place and sent the report to the place of origin of the same. In 1989 he worked on a secret project and also on the so-called “Sharp Storm”. But in 1994 he was taken to an underground place called “Century IV” which is part of Area 51, where he started working on the “Aquarium” project.
There he learned that the military were in possession of ships and extraterrestrial beings. In one department there was information about beings called Orions, beings from the star system Z Reticuli. Also a copy of the agreement made by President Eisenhower, beings called P-50 and the so-called Orions. In a place called The Bay of Galileo, Burisch could see different types of spacecraft. One of them was the ship that Bob Lassar (a former Nasa worker who made Area 51 known in the eighties). Another of the ships he saw was the one that crashed in Roswell in 1947.
According to Burisch, we have a misguided concept of aliens. It clarifies that aliens and extraterrestrials are not the same. But aliens are beings that come from other planets, and that extraterrestrials are human in the future and that they travel in time to solve certain problems, but they are from the earth, because these are actually the evolution of the human being during thousands of years.
They are distinguished into four groups. They are classified with the letter P, which means present time and the years that lead us in the future. For example, Roswell’s are P-24. That is, present time plus 24 thousand years in the future. The others are known as: J ROD P-45, J ROD P-52 and P-54. He says that these JROD suffer from a very painful illness and he participated in this project to try to find a cure. He claimed to have taken blood samples a female of these beings and that for two years worked on this project studying the being.
He assures that they came to establish a friendly relationship and that in one of the face-to-face meetings, this one skipped the protocol pouncing on him. He telepathically transmitted a large amount of information in which he could know that two thirds of humanity died in a nuclear catastrophe. A part of the people hid underground to survive and others did it on the surface. 24 thousand years later the most advanced beings on earth could travel in time, which is why they traveled to Roswell in 1947. Roswell’s ship was really a time machine. They did not come from another planet but from Earth.
According to Colonel Philip J. Corso (1914 – 1997) who wrote the book “The day after Roswell”, beings were made to travel in spacetime. They had two brains, one of them to control the ships. And they did not reproduce. He also affirmed that the ship was the key to technological progress.
Other groups “survivors” to the extinction, evolved in the Moon, Mars and finally in Orion, where the P-52 come from, or the Orions, which, in spite of being Terrestrials, also colonized these other places. The P-45 would be the most Machiavellian, thirsty for nuclear catharsis to pass in our future in order to justify its existence. These are responsible for the majority of abductions. They lack emotional empathy.
Eisenhower met with these extraterrestrial groups in order to avoid the obvious nuclear catastrophe. In this meeting diplomatic discussions between civilizations were made and an agreement was adopted to abduct human beings in order to study them, provided they did not suffer or remember anything of what happened. The Orions gave President Eisenhower a cube about eight centimeters wide by another eight centimeters long, capable of predicting the future. It was passed between rich and powerful to be able to choose well in their lives.
Burisch worked directly under the orders of “Majestic 12”. One of his most important statements are those related to the “StarGates”. They are devices made in the earth, but with extraterrestrial technology. According to him, the information on how to make them is in the Sumerias tables. They were used to communicate with other extra-planetary civilizations. With them you could access a wormhole. Next to this enormous apparatus, there was a platform that allowed to throw the object to the wormhole to travel to other stars, teleporting people or materials from one place to another instantly.
But Burisch says it is not very reliable and that he saw a person die during one of the experiments. This device is also known as “Looking Glass” and was used to see probabilities of future events. As they saw, the catastrophe would happen because of these Stargates. According to the doctor, there are fifty Stargates on earth. Although all the Stargates have apparently been dismantled, we are still in danger of extinction today. What do you think about the Orion Cube? Watch the following video and leave us your comment below!
WETENSCHAP Een Amerikaanse sonde heeft zijn eerste vlucht langs de zon goed doorstaan. De systemen aan boord van de Parker Solar Probe hebben de extreme hitte en straling overleefd en werken zoals het moet, zegt de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA.
De Parker Solar Probe werd gelanceerd in augustus en gaat de komende zeven jaar ovale banen rond de zon draaien. De eerste duikvlucht begon vorige week, en afgelopen maandag kwam de Parker tot op 24 miljoen kilometer van de zon. Nog nooit kwam een sonde zo dicht bij onze ster.
De Parker haalde daarbij een recordsnelheid van ruim 343.000 kilometer per uur. Beide records worden later nog verbeterd, want in 2024 haalt de Parker een snelheid van ruim 692.000 kilometer per uur en nadert hij tot op 6 miljoen kilometer van de zon.
Bekijk de lancering van de sonde.
Hitte
De sonde vliegt nu weg van de zon, en voert in april zijn tweede duikvlucht uit. Tijdens de duikvlucht maandag werd de Parker blootgesteld aan temperaturen van meer dan 400 graden Celsius. Dat loopt op tot bijna 1.400 graden bij volgende duikvluchten. Door koeling blijven de meetinstrumenten aan boord echter op kamertemperatuur.
De Parker doet onder meer onderzoek naar de zonnewind, de stroom geladen deeltjes die de zon constant afvuurt. Het concept daarvan werd bedacht door de nu 91-jarige wetenschapper Eugene N. Parker, naar wie de sonde is vernoemd.
‘I’d say theorists are excited and experimentalists are very sceptical,’ said Alexandre Nikitenko, a theorist on the CMS team who worked on the data. Photograph: CERN
Scientists at the Cern nuclear physics lab near Geneva are investigating whether a bizarre and unexpected new particle popped into existence during experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.
Researchers on the machine’s multipurpose Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector have spotted curious bumps in their data that may be the calling card of an unknown particle that has more than twice the mass of a carbon atom.
The prospect of such a mysterious particle has baffled physicists as much as it has excited them. At the moment, none of their favoured theories of realityinclude the particle, though many theorists are now hard at work on models that do.
“I’d say theorists are excited and experimentalists are very sceptical,” said Alexandre Nikitenko, a theorist on the CMS team who worked on the data. “As a physicist I must be very critical, but as the author of this analysis I must have some optimism too.”
Senior scientists at the lab have scheduled a talk this Thursday at which Nikitenko and his colleague Yotam Soreq will discuss the work. They will describe how they spotted the bumps in CMS data while searching for evidence of a lighter cousin of the Higgs boson, the elusive particle that was discovered at the LHC in 2012.
The Large Hadron Collider creates particles by smashing subatomic protons into one another at close to the speed of light. When the protons meet, the energy in the collision is converted into mass, and so particles, in line with Einstein’s equation, E=mc2.
Many particles created in the LHC are highly unstable and immediately decay into lighter, more stable particles such as photons and electrons. It is by looking for an excess of these particles, apparent as a bump in the data, that physicists tend to find new particles. For example, one way the Higgs boson betrayed its existence was through the unusually high number of photons recorded in collisions in which the particle was made.
But particle physics is no easy pursuit. To the endless frustration of its practitioners, bumps in data produced by nothing more than statistical fluctuations pop up all the time. The best way to distinguish between these and Nobel prize-winning discoveries is to analyse more and more data: statistical flukes always vanish with time.
In two separate analyses, the CMS team found data that pointed to a build-up of muons, or heavy electrons, in their detector. If real, the data indicates a new particle with a mass of 28GeV or 1 billion electron volts, slightly less than a quarter of the mass of a Higgs boson. Whatever it is, it is not the particle Nikitenko and his colleagues were looking for.
To complicate matters further, the bumps were more pronounced in the LHC’s low energy collisions than in more energetic collisions the machine performed after an upgrade. That could be explained, said Nikitenko, if more “background” particles are produced at higher energies that then obscure the signal.
Because the analysis is so time-consuming, it could take the CMS team another year to confirm or rule out the existence of a new particle. But Karl Jakobs, spokesperson for the Cern team that works on Atlas, the LHC’s other multipurpose detector, said it was checking its own data for signs of the proposed particle. “We are working on a similar analysis of the Atlas data, however I cannot yet give you a timeline when the results will become public,” he said.
For Atlas to cross-check the result was “crucial”, Nikitenko said. “If it is confirmed by Atlas it will be the real thing. It will be really something terribly new.”
One independent study has already reported potential evidence for the particle. Arno Heister, a former member of the CMS team who knew about the bumps in the data, analysed older results collected by Aleph, a detector on Cern’s previous particle accelerator known as the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP). He found a similar bump at 30GeV. “This excess, if real, is something very unexpected,” he told the Guardian.
Georg Weiglein, a theorist on the German Electron-Synchrotron machine (DESY) said it will be hard to come up with a model that has a particle like the one the CMS bump calls for. “This does not exclude the possibility that such a signal could actually exist. On the contrary, it would be even more exciting if a signal were observed that does not seem to fit into our present models,” he said. “Further experimental information is eagerly awaited.”
Michelangelo Mangano, a researcher at Cern, said: “Of course theorists are always happy when some anomaly shows up in the data. And I am confident many colleagues have started looking into this. However it is a bit early to get excited.” “Given that Atlas has yet to release their analysis, and given that much more data is on tape even for CMS, it is clear that the effect will soon be confirmed or diluted away,” he said.
Mysterieus ‘spookdeeltje’ ontdekt in deeltjesversneller LHC. Zijn wetenschappers iets revolutionairs op het spoor?
Mysterieus ‘spookdeeltje’ ontdekt in deeltjesversneller LHC. Zijn wetenschappers iets revolutionairs op het spoor?
Een mysterieus deeltje zorgt voor opwinding bij wetenschappers van het Europees Centrum voor Kernonderzoek (CERN) in Zwitserland. Zij doen momenteel onderzoek naar een onverwacht ‘spookdeeltje’.
De wetenschappers zeggen dat het onbekende deeltje mogelijk is verschenen tijdens experimenten met de Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Tijdens het bestuderen van de gegevens stuitten ze op onregelmatigheden. Zo vonden ze aanwijzingen voor een deeltje dat meer dan twee keer zo zwaar is als een koolstofatoom.
Geen enkele theorie
Er zou op dit moment geen enkele theorie zijn die dit mysterieuze deeltje kan verklaren.
“We sluiten niet uit dat een dergelijke signaal echt kan bestaan,” zei Georg Weiglein van het Duitse nationale laboratorium voor deeltjesfysica DESY.
“Sterker nog: het zou nog spannender zijn als we een signaal zouden waarnemen dat niet lijkt te passen in onze huidige modellen,” voegde hij toe.
Iets revolutionairs
Het is dus goed mogelijk dat het hier gaat om een nieuwe ontdekking. We kunnen hier te maken hebben met iets revolutionairs, denken wetenschappers.
Karl Jakobs, woordvoerder van het onderzoeksteam van CERN, zei dat de gegevens van verschillende experimenten nu met elkaar worden vergeleken om te speuren naar tekenen van het deeltje.
“Ik kan alleen niet zeggen wanneer de resultaten naar buiten worden gebracht,” zei hij.
Let’s face it. Forget Musk, Bezos, Branson and the rest of the billionaires trying to become private space entrepreneurs … NASA would be in big trouble without the old-but-reliable-even-with-its-problems Russian space program — Roscosmos. But don’t let those dented and shopworn Soyuz capsules fool you – Roscosmos is eyeing the future and may beat the U.S. to the Moon the next time around … not by man, but by avatar.
“This is about creating a long-term base, naturally, not habitable, but visited. But basically it is the transition to robotic systems, to avatars that will solve tasks on the surface of the moon.”
Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, revealed his futuristic-yet-feasible plans this week through the state-run news agency RIA Novosti. He likened them to NASA’s vision and subsequent success in the 1960s and 1970s to put the first human on the Moon, with a dig that his is “more ambitious and responsible.” “Responsible” is easier to achieve from Day 1 – avatars do not create waste that must be either stored for transport or disposed of in a way that doesn’t sully the environment.
While what happens on the lunar surface may be ambitious, getting there will still rely on the current Angara carrier rocket and Soyuz spacecraft, allowing Russia’s efforts for new development to focus solely on the robotic work and exploration forces that will ride them to the Moon. That includes heavy use of 3D printing to lessen the load sent with them, including the possible use of lunar soil as a raw material for the 3D printers.
“Plus, there will be an opportunity, as they say at the Academy of Sciences, to use helium-3 as the basis for rocket fuel.”
The Russian Academy of Sciences agrees with NASA and the ESA in the idea that helium-3 – the non-radioactive isotope of helium constantly being brought to the Moon by solar wind – can and should be mined and used as a safe nuclear fuel for a fusion reactor, with the added benefit that its spent fuel is not radioactive.
All of this sounds so doable right now. When will we see Russia take the lead in making science imitate science fiction?
“The first landing of the Russian cosmonaut is scheduled for 2030.”
That whooshing sound is not from balloons but from hopes deflating and the reality setting in that we’re still dealing with antiquated technology, limited budgets, massive bureaucracies and a public (at least in the U.S.) that is slowly losing its faith and trust is science.
Forget Musk, Bezos, Branson and the rest of the billionaires trying to become private space entrepreneurs. It’s time to do an avatar GoFundMe and hire James Cameron!
The first part of this article told (in his own words) the strange saga of a man named Ray Boeche. Part-One started as follows: “My previous article was on the subjects of (A) how the UFO phenomenon might be a threat to our physical and mental health; and (B) why the Men in Black might not be bad guys, after all. Rather, they just might actually be good guys trying to warn us of the hazards that the same phenomenon might pose. I thought I would follow-up that article with one which graphically demonstrates the dangers that UFO entities and their powers might pose. We have to go way back to November 25, 1991. On that date, Ray Boeche – a priest and a former State-Director with MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network) – had a very strange meeting at Lincoln, Nebraska’s Cornhusker Hotel. It was a meeting with a couple of guys who worked on a highly classified program within the U.S. Department of Defense. Now, with that said, I’ll hand the story over to Ray himself, who I extensively interviewed for my Final Events book.”
And here, in Part-Two, are Ray’s words on what was undoubtedly the most disturbing – and even deadly – part of the story. Why so? Because it all ended in three strange and violent deaths. Back to Ray: “They showed me a dozen photos of three different people – four photos of each person, who had apparently been killed by these experiments. These were all postmortem photographs, taken in-situ, after the experiments. The areas shown in all of the photographs were like a dentist’s chair or a barber’s chairs; and the bodies were still in those positions, sitting in the chairs. Still there, with EEG and EKG leads coming off of them; and I believe that one had leads to their head. They were all wired.
“It was a very clinical setting, and there was no indication of who they were. It was a very disturbing sort of thing. And I’m thinking in the back of my mind: if these are real, who would they have gotten for these experiments? Were they volunteers? Were they some sort of prisoner? I have no idea. Were they American? Were they foreign? There was no way to tell.” Ray told me that the three deaths were caused by a “remotely induced” fatal heart attack; a “remotely transmitted head trauma” and “remotely controlled suffocation. The deaths and heart attacks were allowed to happen because it served the NHE’s goals: the deception that they were aliens trying to help us and give us this advanced technology.”
As for why Ray was contacted, he told me: “The impression was that it was to test the waters; that’s what they told me. They had read some of my stuff; and they knew that I’d become a pastor and that I had a Christian viewpoint from which I could view these things. And they were concerned morally and ethically that they had allowed themselves to be duped into doing this research; and it had taken such a turn. My concern was always that: why come to me? Who am I? I can’t do anything for you. I’m happy to evaluate it as best I can; but if you have this concern why not go to a Christian leader with a lot more clout and public visibility than I’ve got? But that was their reason: they were aware of the research I had done on a lot of things; that I could approach it from a Christian viewpoint; and that it was more of a moral dilemma for them. They wanted the information out there. But, to me, I have to think: is any of this accurate? On one hand, is this a way to throw disinformation out? But, on the other hand, I think that even if they wanted to just spread disinformation, they could have done it with someone a lot more influential than me.
“As a pastor and someone who’s trained as a theologian, I can’t come to any other conclusion than there is some sort of spiritual deception going on here. In so many of these kinds of alien contacts, they make a denial of Christianity: anytime the spiritual issues are addressed, there is always some sort of denial of the validity of Christianity, and the validity of The Bible. And, I find it interesting that these percipients are told that Jesus was a great guy; but you just misunderstood him. They say: he wasn’t really God’s son. You just don’t quite get it. But you never hear them say that about Buddha, or Krishna, or Mohamed. It always seems to come down to some sort of denial of Christianity. I mean the percipients of contactees, abductees and the NHE’s engage them in spiritual discussions – but it’s always one-sided. I would have a lot less suspicion for the potential of the demonic nature of these things if they were to say: ‘You guys are all screwed up, that all of your spiritual leaders had some good ideas; but none of them really got it. It’s a big mess.’ But it seems to be so specifically pointed at the Judeo-Christian tradition. It certainly seems to me like it’s the two genuine forces squaring up against each other.
“I think that some people have a sharper sense of sight; some have a sharper sense of hearing, or touch. I think there are people who have an ability to somehow have some sense stimulated and be aware of something that the majority of people aren’t. These are people just better gifted in some way than others. This is a thorny thing to dissect because there are definitely demonic influences generally. They do want to deceive us. I’m hesitant to paint with too broad a brush and say that everything can be attributed to them. I think there are too many theologians, Christians, who want to see a demon behind every rock. But I think the demonic world is real. But one of its principle goals is to deceive us. Does that negate the existence of some sort of extraterrestrial intelligence? I don’t think so. I think, though, that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is too simple an explanation. I have come into contact with too many cases that go so far beyond that; where there are so many strange effects that are left in the lives of the percipients that to me seem to say this is E.T. is too simplistic for so many of these things.
Ray’s final words: “A valid way to distract people is the two camps: the E.T. believers and the skeptics, while the real story is buried. The more distractions you can make, the easier it is to keep people from hitting on what’s actually important. That’s what so confusing about the whole thing. I’ve been involved in this since 1965 and this is the most bizarre stuff I’ve ever run across. I didn’t know what to make of it then and I don’t know what to make of it now.”
The news keeps getting stranger from Antarctica. First there was the iceberg (and maybe two) shaped like a perfect rectangle or parallelogram. Then there was a scientist-on-scientist stabbing at a remote Russian station that was blamed on the stabbee spoiling book endings for the stabber. Now comes word that NASA data from a satellite which died five years ago shows multiple lost continents underneath the frozen one. Dead men may tell no tales but it looks like dead satellites can.
“In East Antarctica we see an exciting mosaic of geological features that reveal fundamental similarities and differences between the crust beneath Antarctica and other continents it was joined to until 160 million years ago.”
Commenting in a statement *with map) about a new study in Scientific Reports titled “Earth tectonics as seen by GOCE – Enhanced satellite gravity gradient imaging,” co-author Fausto Ferraccioli reveals what he and a team of researchers from Kiel University and the British Antarctic Survey found after five years of studying data from the European Space Agency’s GOCE (Gravity field and Ocean Circulation Explorer) mission – a gravity-mapping satellite in operation from March 17, 2009, until October 21, 2013, when the very thing it was mapping pulled it to its atmospheric demise. Nicknamed “‘the Ferrari of space” — possibly because of its sleek silver design or its supply of xenon propellant which allowed it to resist drag while it dipped down to a 225 km altitude for highly accurate gravity measurements – the GOCE measured Earth’s gravity more precisely than any satellite ever.
The Ferrari of space
(ESA image)
“These gravity images are revolutionising our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth, Antarctica.”
Specifically, those high-resolution images showed gravity gradients – measurements of how rapidly the acceleration of gravity changes – allowed them to search the lithosphere – the solid crust and molten mantle hidden underneath Antarctica’s thick ice – for remnants of ancient ocean beds and cratons, which are highly folded orogen (belt of the earth’s crust involved in the formation of mountains) regions left from previous lost continents that Antarctica was once connected to.
The team released a short video (see it here) showing how these long-lost continents may have looked as they moved around Antarctica – bumping into it, breaking off and floating away.
Antarctica from space
(NASA image)
Is this a big deal?
“Overall, we emphasise that satellite data such as from the GOCE mission, provide novel datasets with a global homogenous coverage that can significantly advance our understanding of the Earth structure and tectonic setting.”
That’s a ‘yes’. Understanding the early history of Earth’s tectonic plates helps predict future earthquakes … and it’s just plain interesting. Perhaps someday, another “Formula One” satellite will tell us once and for all if Antarctica was once occupied by humans … or aliens.
And studying Antarctica from space seems to be safer than a surface look with colleagues who are book spoilers.
A few weeks ago I spoke at the annual Texas Bigfoot Conference, held in Jefferson, Texas. During the lunch break, a woman came up to me and asked an interesting question. She had an intriguing scenario to discuss. Having read all of my various books on the Men in Black phenomenon, her question went roughly like this: “Is it possible that the Men in Black are really the good guys, protecting us from the UFO phenomenon?” It’s a thought-provoking scenario and one that does, admittedly, pop up occasionally. She drew parallels with what happens when we take our pets to see the veterinarian.
Most people who have ever owned a pet and have had to take her or him to the vet will know how, very often, our furry friends get in a complete state of stress and even fear when they realize where they are going. I recall how, when I lived in the U.K., my dog Susie (a Cairn Terrier who lived to the ripe old age of 18), would shake when she had to get her shots. In fact, she would start to shake as soon as I pulled onto the parking area of the vet’s office. The reason was simple: on occasion, and just being a little dog and with not much muscle, it would hurt her when the needle went in. So, she associated the vet with pain. But, in reality, the vet was actually helping her. Of course, trying to explain that to Susie didn’t work at all! I did try, though.
Is it possible that something akin to this is going on with the Men in Black? That was the question posed to me. Well, I’m not convinced (yet…), but a reasonable case can be made that the scenario just might be the correct one. For example, I know of several people whose interest in the UFO subject, over time, went from being an interest to a full-blown obsession. Paranoia set in. They came to do nothing but dig into the UFO issue, almost on a 24/7 basis. Having fun, hanging out with friends, going out and having a good time on a Friday night, and knocking back a few beers went out of the window. I have even seen a couple lives crippled and ruined by Ufology – and I don’t exaggerate when I say that. We’re talking about mental illness, divorce, and even a cry-for-help-style suicide attempt. Thankfully, that doesn’t happen all the time, but it does on occasion.
There is something about the UFO subject that, now and then, seems to provoke negativity, paranoia and more to a severe degree. Which is why I strictly work approximately 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday (occasionally starting at 8am if I’m down to the wire…), and I keep evenings and weekends solely for a good time (which means soccer, beer, loud music, and girlfriends). “Balance” is the important factor in all of this. Sometimes, however, when it comes to UFOs, balance goes right out of the window and mania sets in. Are the MIB aware of this? And, if so, are they trying to warn us of the potential perils of getting into Ufology?
It’s interesting to note that the one man who arguably kicked off the MIB phenomenon in the early 1950s – Albert Bender – was someone who suffered greatly as he got deeper and deeper into the UFO mystery. Bender was an unusual character: he lived in the attic of his stepfather’s home in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He converted it into a kind of “Chamber of Horrors.” He began to delve deep into the world of the supernatural, even to the extent of creating an “altar” in the attic, as a means to call forth supernatural entities. His obsession with UFOs grew. By the time he was thirty, Bender had developed an irrational and overwhelming fear that he had cancer. Bender’s 1962 book, Flying Saucers and the Three Men, reveals that he clearly had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Everything had to be exactly in its correct place. Bender would seethe and get frustrated if someone happened to move something in his room – even slightly. And then the MIB turned up.
At the height of his research into all things saucer-shaped, Bender was “visited” by a trio of shadowy, fedora-wearing Men in Black at his home in Bridgeport. For a while he ignored (or tried to ignore) the orders of the MIB to quit Ufology. Finally, and not long after, Bender really did quit Ufology (except to briefly return and write the aforementioned Flying Saucers and the Three Men). And guess what happened? I’ll tell you: Bender’s fear of cancer went away. He got a girlfriend, who soon became his wife. When Bender died in 2016, he was just six years short of being one hundred. Cancer did not take him at thirty, after all. Life was good. At least, it was specifically after he decided to heed the words of the MIB and he walked away from Ufology. So, you can see where I’m going with all of this. The Bender affair is just one of many that had a tragic and traumatic aspect to it, and which involved someone who had spiraled into a state of paranoia as a result of not finding balance in life. But, the MIB came along and, lo and behold, Bender’s life soon became a great one.
In this scenario, the MIB might be to us what the vet was to Susie. We’re utterly incapable of telling man’s best friends that a trip to the vet is actually for their own good. Likewise, perhaps, the clearly non-human Men in Black are incapable of properly getting across the message they want us to get. The result: it looks as if the MIB are threatening people. Maybe, though, they’re just doing their best to keep us away from UFO-driven realms filled with paranoia, obsession, fear and stress.
I found a lot of ancient structures in a Mars photo today. These structures are long and almost resemble walls, but are buildings in long lines. I also discovered a face carved into a hill top, but is so ancient, it may be hard for some to see its details. This is 100% proof that ancient civilizations once flourished on the surface of Mars, and that NASA doesn't want you to know about it.
“The Bell” UFO filmed in the sky of Gothenburg, Sweden
“The Bell” UFO filmed in the sky of Gothenburg, Sweden
A huge flying object was spotted in the sky of Gothenburg, Sweden. Witnesses of the UFO have filmed the object that slowly moves over the city.
The shape of the UFO is similar to an infamous top secret Nazi scientific technological device, called “Die Glocke”, a device made out of a hard, heavy metal" approximately 2.7 meters wide and 3.7 to 4.6 meters high, having a shape similar to that of a large bell.
Even it looks like the Gothenburg UFO has the shape of the UFO that crashed in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania on December 9, 1965. Government authorities swiftly confiscated the object and the public were told that the UFO crash never has happened despite a wealth of witnesses.
Below the intriguing footage of the Gothenburg UFO.
Unidentified submerged objects, or USOs, don’t quite get the attention that their flying brethren do, but that doesn’t make them any less mysterious and intriguing. USOs have captured the imagination of mystery hunters throughout history, and advances in submersible drones and satellite imagery has renewed interest in theseaquatic anomalies.
While some of these unidentified submerged objects couldhave extraterrestrial or unknown origins, many of them turn out to be military submarines or other vessels engaging in clandestine activities where they shouldn’t be. One of the latest of these unexplained cases comes from Sweden, where several teens at a sailing camp near Stockholm spotted what certainly appears to be a submarine conning tower rising out of the bay. The youths reportedly first noticed large air bubbles disturbing the surface before the object rose from the water. Naturally, they caught it on video and posted it to social media.
Pretty hard to mistake that for anything else.
Micael Bydén Supreme Commander of Sweden’s Armed Forces told the press there is “no cause for concern linked to this incident” and that the armed forces have a “clear idea” of what the teens saw. “I am able to say with certainty that it was not a submarine,” Bydén told reporters. “There was no foreign underwater activity.”
An armed forces spokesperson stated that they have interviewed witnesses and that the information gleaned from those interviews remains confidential. In typical armed forces spokesperson fashion, Jesper Tengroth told Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter that the military will ultimately remain tight lipped on this anomalous sighting:
We can confirm that we have received information about an alleged observation in this area at that time. We will not comment on any further actions that we have taken or will take. We neither comment on results nor our view of alleged sightings.
Why all of the secrecy? Because let’s be honest: this is probably a Russian submarine and the Swedish armed forces are trying to keep a lid on it to prevent panic. As Cold War II continues to heat up, we’re likely going to see more unidentified objects in the skies and waters all around the world. Could recent UFO “disclosures” be a smokescreen to cover increased military activity worldwide?
My previous article was on the subjects of (A) how the UFO phenomenon might be a threat to our physical and mental health; and (B) why the Men in Black might not be bad guys, after all. Rather, they just might actually be good guys trying to warn us of the hazards that the same phenomenon might pose. I thought I would follow-up that article with a two-part one which graphically demonstrates the dangers that UFO entities and their powers might pose. We have to go way back to November 25, 1991. On that date, Ray Boeche – a priest and a former State-Director with MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network) – had a very strange meeting at Lincoln, Nebraska’s Cornhusker Hotel. It was a meeting with a couple of guys who were working on a highly classified program within the U.S. Department of Defense. Now, with that said, I’ll hand the story over to Ray himself, who I extensively interviewed for my Final Events book. Ray told me:
“I found it interesting because they had contacted me at work, and I have no idea how they tracked me down there. But, they wanted to know if we could get together and have lunch to discuss something important. I met them for a brief period of time on that first meeting, and then they said: ‘We’d like to get together and have a longer conversation.’ I arranged a time and it was quite a lengthy discussion: probably three and a half hours. And that’s how it all came about. After the meetings, when I was able to verify that the men held the degrees they claimed to hold, and were, apparently, who they claimed to be, I was intrigued and excited at the possibility of having stumbled on a more or less untouched area which could be researched. But I was also cautious in terms of ‘why me?’
“Initially, I suppose I was apprehensive and curious. I had no way of knowing before our face-to-face meeting if there was any legitimacy to this at all. I wasn’t given any information at all before our meeting, just the indication that they were involved in areas of research I would find interesting, and that they had some concerns they wished to discuss with me. Both men were physicists; I’d guess they were probably in their early-to-mid fifties, and they were in a real moral dilemma. Both of them were Christians, and were working on a Department of Defense project that involved trying to contact the NHE’s [“Non-Human Entities,” as the pair called what most people refer to as “aliens”]. In fact, this was described to me as an ‘obsessive effort.’ And part of this effort was to try and control the NHE’s and use their powers in military weapons applications and in intelligence areas, such as remote-viewing and psychotronic weapons.
“They believed that the NHE’s were not extraterrestrial; but were some sort of demonic entities. And that regardless of how benevolent or beneficial any of the contact they had with these entities seemed to be, it always ended up being tainted, for lack of a better term, with something that ultimately turned out to be bad. There was ultimately nothing positive from the interaction with the NHE entities. They felt it really fell more under the category of some vast spiritual deception instead of UFOs and aliens. In the course of the whole discussion, it was clear that they really viewed this as having a demonic origin that was there to simply try and confuse the issue in terms of who they were, what they wanted, and what the source of the ultimate truth is. If you extrapolate from their take that these are demons in the biblical sense of the word, then what they would be doing here is trying to create a spiritual deception to fool as many people as possible. From what they told me, it seemed like someone had invoked something and it opened a doorway to let these things in. That’s certainly the impression they gave me.”
Ray told me that his informants said the “doorway” was opened by none other than Jack Parsons, a brilliant figure in 1930s-early 1950s rocketry. He was a man with a Top Secret clearance with the military, and a devotee of Aleister Crowley. Ray expanded on this: “They said that was the genesis of this. Was this a doorway that was opened by Parsons to allow these demonic entities in? Or did Parsons give someone else the idea that maybe someone in the government should look into this? That was one of their big concerns: that in order to try and accomplish some sort of military advantage, demonic things – masquerading as aliens – had been contacted and forces had been unleashed that were not going to be able to be controlled for very long; or, at least, were not going to be able to be bent to the will of whoever started this project. Satanic rituals, ritual magic and even human sacrifice were all mentioned as being linked with the project. They were convinced the work had to stop.
“They never revealed how it was all initiated in the beginning; but the situation today did, they said, go back to Parsons. I was never able to get an exact point of origin of these sorts of experiments, or of their involvement, and when they got started. But I did get the impression that because of what they knew and the information that they presented, they had been involved for at least several years; even if the project had gone on much longer. They were concerned that they had undertook this initially with the best of intentions; but then as things developed they saw a very negative side to it that wasn’t apparent earlier. So, that’s what leads me to think they had a relatively lengthy involvement.
“They didn’t just think that this was a spiritual deception; but that it was possibly something leading to a final deception. In their view – which, theologically, I don’t particularly hold – they viewed things much more like that of [Tim] LaHaye and [Jerry B.] Jenkins in the Left Behind book-series: the anti-Christ will appear, then we are fooled, and Armageddon will then be triggered. That seemed to be their personal feeling about the whole scenario.”
Ray added: “I tend to take the view that a lot of those prophecies in the Book of Revelations were fulfilled with Rome’s destruction of Jerusalem. I don’t think there is any way to deny that orthodox Christianity teaches a physical return of Christ; but that is always considered to be the church’s great hope: Christ’s returning, a triumphant return. So, from that point of view, the Left Behind mentality – that Armageddon is a terrible thing – and that you want to push off as long as possible, to me doesn’t really hold; at least in the historical sense. Christ’s eventual return is the culmination of this age and this world; so it’s not something to fear. It’s something to be welcomed. But it was viewed by the DoD like that, and as a final-battle scenario. Their other big fear in the whole thing was: if you have these types of entities who will present themselves as extraterrestrial beings, how is that going to affect the spiritual outlook of the people? Will it sway people from a belief in Christ? Would it have that sort of a spiritual effect?
“Their position was that these entities are the origin of a lot of the UFO reports; a lot of the abduction phenomena, and the cattle mutilations; and that they are able to interact physically with us in our world. I was never told how they knew, but the guys knew that there was wreckage of non-earthly origin at Roswell. And I remember asking them specifically in a later conversation: ‘How do you know this? And how does it happen that a demonic force can also interact physically?’ Their response was to me was: ‘You’re a pastor; you’ve studied theology. Go back to the Bible and look.’
“Well, that set me on months trying to piece this together in my own mind. Scripture refers to Satan as the prince of this world and the prince of the powers of the air. I deduced that there could be a precedent: a logical precedent based on scripture that demonic forces can in some way influence the physical world. So, given that that’s the case, could they create something? Could they somehow pluck matter from somewhere else – a different planet, a different galaxy that was so different from Earth that it’s going to be something recognized as not coming from here? Could they manufacture or create a physical object or wreckage – deliberately – to make us fall into the trap of believing that something extraterrestrial had fallen from outer space? A staged crash: to make us fall into the deception that they are extraterrestrials. That was the scientists’ conclusion. One of the things that made me believe there could be some sort of physical interaction is the mention of the Nephilim in Genesis in The Bible. Whatever these other worldly beings were – angels, fallen angels – they were able to interact physically and create some sort of progeny here on earth.
“Most of it was related to psychotronic weaponry and remote viewing; and even deaths by what were supposed to be psychic methods. They said that these entities are really the ones who were behind whatever actions the people working on the project thought they were able to perform themselves. It seemed that the project was allowed to assume that it had somehow technologically mastered the ability to do what the NHE’s could do: remote-viewing and psychotronics. But in actuality it was these entities doing it all the time, or allowing it to happen, for something that suited their deception. With both psychotronic weapons and remote-viewing, I was told that the DoD had not really mastered a technology to do that; they were allowed by the NHE’s to think that this is what they had done. But the NHE’s were always the causal factor.”
Part-2 of “More On The Deadly Dangers of UFOs” to follow…
My previous article was on the subjects of (A) how the UFO phenomenon might be a threat to our physical and mental health; and (B) why the Men in Black might not be bad guys, after all. Rather, they just might actually be good guys trying to warn us of the hazards that the same phenomenon might pose. I thought I would follow-up that article with a two-part one which graphically demonstrates the dangers that UFO entities and their powers might pose. We have to go way back to November 25, 1991. On that date,Ray Boeche– a priest and a former State-Director with MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network) – had a very strange meeting at Lincoln, Nebraska’s Cornhusker Hotel. It was a meeting with a couple of guys who were working on a highly classified program within the U.S. Department of Defense. Now, with that said, I’ll hand the story over toRay himself, who I extensively interviewed formyFinal Eventsbook. Ray told me:
“I found it interesting because they had contacted me at work, and I have no idea how they tracked me down there. But, they wanted to know if we could get together and have lunch to discuss something important. I met them for a brief period of time on that first meeting, and then they said: ‘We’d like to get together and have a longer conversation.’ I arranged a time and it was quite a lengthy discussion: probably three and a half hours. And that’s how it all came about. After the meetings, when I was able to verify that the men held the degrees they claimed to hold, and were, apparently, who they claimed to be, I was intrigued and excited at the possibility of having stumbled on a more or less untouched area which could be researched. But I was also cautious in terms of ‘why me?’
“Initially, I suppose I was apprehensive and curious. I had no way of knowing before our face-to-face meeting if there was any legitimacy to this at all. I wasn’t given any information at all before our meeting, just the indication that they were involved in areas of research I would find interesting, and that they had some concerns they wished to discuss with me. Both men were physicists; I’d guess they were probably in their early-to-mid fifties, and they were in a real moral dilemma. Both of them were Christians, and were working on a Department of Defense project that involved trying to contact the NHE’s [“Non-Human Entities,” as the pair called what most people refer to as “aliens”]. In fact, this was described to me as an ‘obsessive effort.’ And part of this effort was to try and control the NHE’s and use their powers in military weapons applications and in intelligence areas, such as remote-viewing andpsychotronic weapons.
“They believed that the NHE’s were not extraterrestrial; but were some sort of demonic entities. And that regardless of how benevolent or beneficial any of the contact they had with these entities seemed to be, it always ended up being tainted, for lack of a better term, with something that ultimately turned out to be bad. There was ultimately nothing positive from the interaction with the NHE entities. They felt it really fell more under the category of some vast spiritual deception instead of UFOs and aliens. In the course of the whole discussion, it was clear that they really viewed this as having a demonic origin that was there to simply try and confuse the issue in terms of who they were, what they wanted, and what the source of the ultimate truth is. If you extrapolate from their take that these are demons in the biblical sense of the word, then what they would be doing here is trying to create a spiritual deception to fool as many people as possible. From what they told me, it seemed like someone had invoked something and it opened a doorway to let these things in. That’s certainly the impression they gave me.”
Ray told me that his informants said the “doorway” was opened by noneother than Jack Parsons, a brilliant figure in 1930s-early 1950s rocketry. He was a man with a Top Secret clearance with the military, and a devotee of Aleister Crowley. Ray expanded on this: “They said that was the genesis of this. Was this a doorway that was opened by Parsons to allow these demonic entities in? Or did Parsons give someone else the idea that maybe someone in the government should look into this? That was one of their big concerns: that in order to try and accomplish some sort of military advantage, demonic things – masquerading as aliens – had been contacted and forces had been unleashed that were not going to be able to be controlled for very long; or, at least, were not going to be able to be bent to the will of whoever started this project. Satanic rituals, ritual magic and even human sacrifice were all mentioned as being linked with the project. They were convinced the work had to stop.
“They never revealed how it was all initiated in the beginning; but the situation today did, they said, go back to Parsons. I was never able to get an exact point of origin of these sorts of experiments, or of their involvement, and when they got started. But I did get the impression that because of what they knew and the information that they presented, they had been involved for at least several years; even if the project had gone on much longer. They were concerned that they had undertook this initially with the best of intentions; but then as things developed they saw a very negative side to it that wasn’t apparent earlier. So, that’s what leads me to think they had a relatively lengthy involvement.
“They didn’t just think that this was a spiritual deception; but that it was possibly something leading to afinaldeception. In their view – which, theologically, I don’t particularly hold – they viewed things much more like that of [Tim] LaHaye and [Jerry B.] Jenkins in theLeft Behindbook-series: the anti-Christ will appear, then we are fooled, and Armageddon will then be triggered. That seemed to be their personal feeling about the whole scenario.”
Ray added: “I tend to take the view that a lot of those prophecies in theBook of Revelationswere fulfilled with Rome’s destruction of Jerusalem. I don’t think there is any way to deny that orthodox Christianity teaches a physical return of Christ; but that is always considered to be the church’s great hope: Christ’s returning, a triumphant return. So, from that point of view, theLeft Behindmentality – that Armageddon is a terrible thing – and that you want to push off as long as possible, to me doesn’t really hold; at least in the historical sense. Christ’s eventual return is the culmination of this age and this world; so it’s not something to fear. It’s something to be welcomed. But it was viewed by the DoD like that, and as a final-battle scenario. Their other big fear in the whole thing was: if you have these types of entities who will present themselves as extraterrestrial beings, how is that going to affect the spiritual outlook of the people? Will it sway people from a belief in Christ? Would it have that sort of a spiritual effect?
“Their position was that these entities are the origin of a lot of the UFO reports; a lot of the abduction phenomena, and the cattle mutilations; and that they are able to interact physically with us in our world. I was never told how they knew, but the guys knew that there was wreckage of non-earthly origin at Roswell. And I remember asking them specifically in a later conversation: ‘How do you know this? And how does it happen that a demonic force can also interact physically?’ Their response was to me was: ‘You’re a pastor; you’ve studied theology. Go back to the Bible and look.’
“Well, that set me on months trying to piece this together in my own mind. Scripture refers to Satan as the prince of this world and the prince of the powers of the air. I deduced that there could be a precedent: a logical precedent based on scripture that demonic forces can in some way influence the physical world. So, given that that’s the case, could they create something? Could they somehow pluck matter from somewhere else – a different planet, a different galaxy that was so different from Earth that it’s going to be something recognized as not coming from here? Could they manufacture or create a physical object or wreckage – deliberately – to make us fall into the trap of believing that something extraterrestrial had fallen from outer space? A staged crash: to make us fall into the deception that they are extraterrestrials. That was the scientists’ conclusion. One of the things that made me believe there could be some sort of physical interaction is the mentionof the Nephilim inGenesis inThe Bible. Whatever these other worldly beings were – angels, fallen angels – they were able to interact physically and create some sort of progeny here on earth.
“Most of it was related to psychotronic weaponry and remote viewing; and even deaths by what were supposed to be psychic methods. They said that these entities are really the ones who were behind whatever actions the people working on the project thought they were able to perform themselves. It seemed that the project was allowed to assume that it had somehow technologically mastered the ability to do what the NHE’s could do: remote-viewing and psychotronics. But in actuality it was these entities doing it all the time, or allowing it to happen, for something that suited their deception. With both psychotronic weapons and remote-viewing, I was told that the DoD had not really mastered a technology to do that; they were allowed by the NHE’s tothinkthat this is what they had done. But the NHE’s werealwaysthe causal factor.”
Part-2 of “More On The Deadly Dangers of UFOs” to follow…
Study Offers Answers To The Behavior Of Cigar-Shaped UFO In Our Solar System
Study Offers Answers To The Behavior Of Cigar-Shaped UFO In Our Solar System
In October 2017, scientists observed a strange cigar-shaped interstellar object falling our solar system at an incredible speed through Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii. The mysterious object then officially named Oumuamua, derived from a Hawaiian word that means a messenger who reaches out from the distant past. Researchers assumed that it was an ordinary asteroid or comet. However, they later realized that Oumuamua was ten times longer than it was wide. Adding to the mystery, was that it suddenly accelerated for no discernible astrophysical reason.
Now, a new paper from scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics postulates that Oumuamua is a solar sail. The study asserts that it is an object that channels solar energy to propel itself through space. The hypothesis would explain why the strange object suddenly accelerated in our solar system.
The study notes the possibility that Oumuamua is a light sail floating as debris in interstellar space from advanced technological equipment. It stresses that this would account for the many anomalies of the object, including the unusual geometry inferred from its light-curve, its deviation from a Keplerian orbit in the absence of any sign of a cometary tail or spin-up torques, and its low thermal emission.
Oumuamua is the first object ever seen in our solar system originating outside of it. The ostensible behavior of Oumuamua, which observed the Earth briefly in October 2017 and suddenly fled our solar system at 196,000 miles per hour, is without a doubt what most remotely intelligent life form would do.
The strange object spotted on the surface of the planet closest to the sun is shaped similarly to conchiglie, shell-shaped pasta and could provide evidence that extraterrestrials conquered the solar system long before we have.
UFO hunters believe the craft on Mercury resembles one spotted by Woodrow Derenberger is 1966, near a town called Parkersburg in West Virginia.
Mr Derenberger went on to write a book about his encounter titled Visitors From Lanulos – the planet where the supposedextraterrestrialscame from.
The discovery of the apparent UFO on Mercury was spotted by French conspiracy theorist Christian Mace on NASA satellite images, but was soon picked up by an international audience.
US alien hunter Scott C Waring posted on his blog UFO Sightings Daily: “Here is a great discovery of a crashed ship on Mercury found in NASA photos by Christian Mace, a French UFO researcher.
“The UFO resembles an old craft from a UFO that landed on the road. As you see in the drawing above, its very similar. Awesome discovery.”
However, the chances of finding life on Mercury are extremely slim, if not impossible by our current understanding.
Mercury is just 58 million kilometres from the sun, a small fraction compared to the 150 million kilometres the Earth is from our host star.
The strange UFO wreckage spotted on Mercury (Image: NASA)
The UFO resembles one spotted by Woodrow Derenberger is 1966
(Image: FACEBOOK)
This means temperatures on the tiny planet are a blazing 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celcius) by day, and a freezing -290 degrees Farenheit (-180 degrees Celcius) at night due to its lack of atmosphere.
Sceptical debunkers say these are the result of pareidolia, a phenomenon when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar objects or faces in patters like clouds or the surface of a rock, combined with Mr Waring's over active imagination.
NASA denies yet finding any evidence of even the most simplistic forms of life in our solar system.
The US government claims to have no interest in UFOs and denies frustrating the work of alien truth seekers.
Notorious UFO hunter Scott Waring has accused NASA of doctoring its space photos to conceal evidence of aliens from the public.
Mr Waring, who runs the website UFO Sightings Daily, said NASA has “deliberately altered” its photos of Asteroid Ryugu and Asteroid Bennu to keep the public in the dark.
According to the conspiracy theorist, pictures of the distant space rocks show clear evidence of alien UFO activity.
In a video shared online, Mr Waring said: “This is a UFO that I found on Ryugu Asteroid. It’s pretty extraordinary, it’s very long and as you see it is really, really kind of cool.”
Mr Waring found the supposed UFO in question between two canyon walls, hidden away on the asteroid.
He claims the alien spacecraft was hidden there “for a long time” and has only now seen the light of day.
The UFO hunter also claimed he has found a similar spacecraft tucked away on the Earth’s Moon.
He said: “The UFO looks very similar to one I found in about 2013 and look at the size of this UFO.
UFO news: UFO hunter Scott Waring claimed NASA is hiding evidence of alien activity
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“It’s long and it has an L-shaped arm here and kind of a huge, huge area which looks like a black, clear, transparent sunglasses kind of sunroof area.”
Mr Waring then accused the US space agency NASA of tampering with its latest batch of Asteroid Bennu photos, which NASA published online.
They didn't want the public to know that alien structures exist on it
Scott Waring, UFO hunter
The conspiracy theorist accused the space agency of making the asteroid appear farther away than it actually is to obscure the amount of detail seen on its surface.
He claimed NASA “lied” to keep the truth of alien structures on Bennu a secret.
Some of these photos supposedly show a giant pyramid on the asteroid’s surface and a “square structure with windows or entrance openings along its sides”.
UFO news: The notorious conspiracy theorist claims to have found alien structures on asteroids
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
UFO news: This photo shows a supposed alien spacecraft on the Moon
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
However, since the Japanese probes landed on the asteroid, scientists and astronomers have not found any evidence of alien life.
Instead, Mr Waring may have fallen to the effects of mind trick known as pareidolia.
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.”
UFO hunters typically fall for this effect when they claim to see faces, structures and spacecraft in shadows and rocks on planets or moons where they do not exist.
UFO sighting over Lake Tahoe is ‘100 PERCENT’ proof aliens are visiting
UFO sighting over Lake Tahoe is ‘100 PERCENT’ proof aliens are visiting
A UFO spotted over Lake Tahoe in the US in unprecedented detail is “100 percent” proof that aliens are visiting Earth. The sighting has been described as a “classic” spaceship by alien enthusiasts who claim it to be a flying saucer.
Some UFO experts are so convinced by the authenticity of the video that they believe it is only a matter of time before aliens reveal themselves to humans.
UFO Sightings Daily says on its website: “Here is the most detailed UFO I have seen all week.
“This is a classic flying saucer, a beautiful metallic disk with a raised upper dome area.
“This is 100 percent proof that aliens are monitoring human up close and personal.
UFO sighting over Lake Tahoe is ‘100 PERCENT’ proof aliens are visiting
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“Makes you wonder if they are so interested in us, when are they going to make their presence known by landing and having a meet and greet session with people?”
However, some people were not as convinced by the video, blasting it as a fake.
YouTube user J Cole Knight wrote on a video: “This is so OBVIOUSLY A FAKE.
“Why would someone waste the time of real UFO investigations with this one that is so so fake.
The UFO is 'proof' of aliens, according to some
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“It looks like a cartoon, tiny tiny ship that is not in the right field range.”
Unbelievable? A number of strange narratives related to the Dulce battle, including those from locals and law enforcement, attest to strange phenomenon in the area. And all of the relevant names in this story are tied to each other in different ways, but everyone experiencing different strange occurrences, most with dark outcomes. But whether the stories are the product of actual extraterrestrial activity or government scare tactics remains fodder for debate.
After the alleged battle, Schneider dedicated his life to serving as a whistleblower, exposing the events that occurred during his time there. There are videos of Schneider describing the experiments conducted deep underground by the greys on live humans. He said that human specimens were kept in liquid-filled capsules where the greys experimented with human DNA. Schneider said that the greys would absorb the blood of humans and cattle for sustenance.
The fate of Philip Schneider, however, adds to the level of conspiracy and the extent to which intelligence agents were involved. Schneider spent the latter part of his life giving speeches about his alleged experiences at the Dulce base. He often said he was being watched by the government and that if he ever was found to have committed suicide, one could assume he was murdered. In 1996, Schneider was found dead with the cord of a catheter wrapped around his neck, in what was labelled a suicide
Another name involved with the case, of questionable provenance, was a security guard on base named, Thomas Castello. He also allegedly witnessed this project and saw local missing persons underground being experimented on by the greys. Castello says he witnessed the rising tension and paranoia between the thousands of aliens and government employees in advance of the violent battle as well, but there isn’t much else about him.
FURTHER DULCE BASE PROOF
A little over a year ago, a local newspaper interviewed Dulce residents on the Jicarilla Apache reservation, home to about 2,500 people. Residents of the town are quick to discuss their experiences, strange phenomena and sightings around the base which is near the UFO Highway. The town has embraced the UFO community and has become the next tourist stop after Roswell.
One account from a state trooper in 1975 maintained the hype around Dulce. The trooper, Gabe Valdez, reported coming across a mutilated cattle carcass in a field outside of Dulce. Valdez said he discovered a fetus inside the cattle that he described as looking, “like a human, a monkey and a frog. It didn’t have any bones in the head. It was all full of water.” He said what he saw looked like “an incubation chamber for a cloned creature,” much like the experiments purported to have taken place deep below ground.
After discovering the carcass, Valdez alleges he found listening devices in his home, and reported UFO sightings. Valdez claims there are four underground bases at Dulce, which are now inactive, but he does not believe there were any alien beings there.
He said he believes the UFOs he saw were not necessarily extraterrestrial, but highly advanced, stealth military aircraft, including silent, black helicopters. He also revealed that he has insight into what the military was researching at the base, but cannot disclose it for reasons unknown. Could Valdez he be implying that his discoveries uncovered some bizarre biological experiments conducted by the government?
Atomic refuge in Moscow (Russia)
A MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CONSPIRACY
The story of Paul Bennewitz, a key figure in the perpetuation of the Dulce Air Force base story, adds another kink to the narrative. In the ’70s, Bennewitz researched clandestine government programs conducted at the Kirtland Air Force base in Albuquerque.
Bennewitz’s research revealed information he said made government officials nervous. To prevent him from further discovering secret programs, government operatives, namely Richard Doty, were tasked with feeding Bennewitz false stories about alien bases in New Mexico. He says they employed the help of famous ufologist William Moore, who co-authored The Roswell Incident. Doty and Moore’s efforts drove Bennewitz to the brink of paranoid insanity.
It seem that much of the propagation of the Dulce Air Force base battle can be attributed to Bennewitz and the government’s insidious operation to subversively drive him insane. If Bennewitz’s story was proven to be fabricated by Doty, where does Schneider’s story fit in? Was he also manipulated into believing the stories told to Bennewitz, or was he uncovering other secrets the government didn’t want him to know? One of the subjects Schneider often discussed, in addition to the Dulce story, was the government’s black budget for classified programs. Was Schnieder on the cusp of exposing nefarious government projects, or was the government afraid he worked for the Soviets? Whatever the case, the implications of government foul play are more than evident.
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UFOs/ORBs flying over Budapest, Hungary 7-Nov-2018
UFOs/ORBs flying over Budapest, Hungary7-Nov-2018
Check out this new footage filmed over Budapest on 7th November 2018.
Witness report:
Filmed from phone onto iPad. Live feed via EarthCam orbs over Budapest. I was watching a live webcam feed on EarthCam at around 6 pm uk time. I noticed strange lights in the sky. I was watching on my iPad. As you can see I fumbled around with my phone then turned out the light to show the footage better. This is live and in real time. I was amazed and fascinated. The actual display lasted at least an hour before the webcam changed angles. The craft were almost playing with each other. Their movements are so fluid like a dance and they are leaving light trails behind themselves. They are moving in all directions at great speed.
The final stage of a merger between two galactic nuclei lurk in the galaxy NGC 6240. The black holes at the cores are growing quickly devouring the merger's gas and dust.
Credit: M. Koss (Eureka Scientific, Inc.)/NASA/ESA/W.M. Keck Observatory, Pan-STARRS
For the first time, astronomers have observed the final stages of galactic mergers, peering through thick walls of gas and dust to see pairs of supermassive black holes drawing closer together and the black holes' rapid growth.
At the centers of most, if not all, galaxies are supermassive black holes with masses that are millions to billions of times that of Earth's sun. For instance, at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lies Sagittarius A*, which is about 4.5 million solar masses in size.
Previous work found that mergers of galaxies might help fuel the growth of supermassive black holes. That research suggested that black holes at the cores of colliding galaxies may combine to become even larger black holes. [When Galaxies Collide: Photos of Great Galactic Crashes]
Galactic mergers likely give supermassive black holes ample opportunities to rip apart stars and devour matter. Such destruction releases extraordinary amounts of light and likely serves as the driving force behind quasars, which rank among the brightest objects in the universe.
However, support for the merger-based model of the growth of supermassive black holes has proven mixed, the new work's authors said. While some research has shown a link between quasars and merging galaxies, other studies have found no such association.
One possible explanation for the apparent lack of a link between quasars and merging galaxies is that gas and dust swirling around these galaxies is likely to heavily obscure the black holes. This would be true even during the early stages of mergers, when the galaxies are separated by more than 16,000 light-years of space. Computer simulations suggest that such concealment peaks during the final stages of mergers, when galactic cores are less than 10,000 light-years apart, the study authors said.
Now, the researchers have observed several pairs of galaxies in the late stages of merging, their core supermassive black holes pulling closer. The findings shed light on how even more-massive black holes might come about.
The scientists first searched for hidden black holes by sifting through 10 years' worth of X-ray data from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. When black holes devour matter, such "active" black holes can generate high-energy X-rays visible even through thick clouds of gas and dust.
Next, the researchers looked for galaxies matching these X-ray finds by combing through data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Deformable mirrors controlled by computer, a technology called adaptive optics at the Keck Observatory help sharpen images of stars, "leading to a huge increase in resolution," study lead author Michael Koss told Space.com. Koss is an astrophysicist at scientific research company Eureka Scientific in Oakland, California.
"It would be like going from 20/200 vision, where you are legally blind, to 20/20 vision, helping us see galaxies in incredible detail," he said.
The messy cores of these colliding galaxies hide the final stage of two merging galactic nuclei. Top: NGC 6240, as imaged by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, paired with a close-up of the galactic cores in infrared light by the Keck Observatory in Hawaii. The other four galaxies are imaged by the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) as well as Keck.
Credit: M. Koss (Eureka Scientific, Inc.)/NASA/ESA;Keck images: M. Koss (Eureka Scientific, Inc.)/W.M. Keck Observatory; Pan-STARRS images: M. Koss (Eureka Scientific, Inc.)/Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System
All in all, the scientists analyzed 96 galaxies observed with the Keck Observatory and 385 galaxies from the Hubble archive. All of those galaxies are located an average of 330 million light-years from Earth, relatively close by in cosmic terms, with many similar in size to the Milky Way.
The researchers found that more than 17 percent of these galaxies hosted a pair of black holes at their centers, signs of the late stages of a galactic merger. These findings matched the researchers' computer simulations, which suggested that highly active but heavily obscured black holes hidden within gas- and dust-rich galaxies are responsible for many mergers of supermassive black holes.
"Galactic mergers might be a key way of growing black holes," Koss said.
Our own Milky Way galaxy is currently undergoing a merger with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, and the supermassive black holes at the two galactic cores will eventually smash together, Koss said.
"Right now, the galaxies are separated by millions of light-years, but we're moving toward Andromeda at 250,000 mph [400,000 km/h]," Koss said. "In 6 billion years, there will be no Milky Way galaxy or Andromeda galaxy — just one big galaxy."
An even better view of mergers in dusty, heavily obscured galaxies may come from NASA's highly anticipated James Webb Space Telescope, slated for launch in 2021. Improved images could also come from adaptive-optics systems in the next generation of very large ground-based telescopes, such as the Thirty Meter Telescope, the European Extremely Large Telescope and the Giant Magellan Telescope, Koss said. The James Webb Space Telescope should also be capable of measuring the masses, growth rates and other physical features for each member of nearby black hole pairs, according to the researchers.
The new work was detailed online today (Nov. 7) in the journal Nature.
Des OVNI envahissent le ciel de Bogotá, en Colombie
Des OVNI envahissent le ciel de Bogotá, en Colombie
Un homme est resté bouche bée quand il a aperçu quatre OVNIS dans le ciel nocturne. Quelques instants plus tard, un certain nombre d’hélicoptères sont arrivés et ont semblent entourer ces mystérieux engins.
Une séquence vidéo, prise depuis un balcon à Bogotá, en Colombie, nous montre quatre OVNIS de couleur rouge dans le ciel nocturne. Ces étranges anomalies semblent rester en formation avant de se déplacer lentement vers le haut.
Mais alors, le bruit d'un hélicoptère peut être entendu. Rapidement, l’appareil se dirige vers les lumières non identifiées.
Un deuxième hélicoptère surgit pour aider son comparse.
La vidéo a été mise en ligne sur YouTube par Armando Blanco, l’homme qui a filmé cet étrange événement.
Tyler Glockner – célèbre ufologue qui tient une chaîne YouTube baptisée secureteam10 - a partagé la vidéo sur sa chaîne. Il a supposé que l'armée avait intercepté ces OVNI extraterrestres qui se préparaient à mener une invasion.
« Cetteétrange formation[d’OVNI]dans le ciel semble réagir lorsque l'hélicoptère se dirige vers eux pour vérifierce qui se passe », a-t-il déclaré.
«Les militaires sont évidemment au courant et les surveillent. »
Les images ont été visionnées plus de 230 000 fois. Les internautes n’ont pas tardé à réagir.
« Les extraterrestres sont là », lit-on dans un commentaire.
Un autre a ajouté : « C’est un signe qu’une guerre va bientôt éclater».
Et un troisième a déclaré : « Cela ressemble àlaGuerre desMondes ».
La Guerre des Mondes est un film de science-fiction américain réalisé en 2005 par Steven Spielberg.
Dans le film, un docker américain se bat pour protéger ses enfants alors que des extraterrestres envahissent la Terre et dévastent des villes avec des machines de guerre gigantesques.
Men might be soon replaced by male love robots offering an ultimate experience in pleasure.
Men may be soon be made redundant in the bedroom as they might be replaced by male love robots who offer the ultimate experience in pleasure. Pleasure dolls have come on in leaps and bounds during the last couple of years; they are no longer the plastic looking blow-up dolls they once were. Real Doll is one company that has changed how people think about pleasure dolls, and now a company is creating a male love doll.
Male Love Doll Can Respond Verbally
Real Doll said that the male love doll is just as real as a living partner, with the doll being able to respond to verbal communication. This may mean that along with the doll being able to provide pleasure in the bedroom it will also be able to have a conversation afterward instead of turning over to fall asleep.
Tthe male love doll from Real Doll offers the ultimate pleasure experience. The doll, with the name of “Gabriel”, can “go all night” if needed, as it does not tire nor suffer from performance issues as the majority of men do. This means it might take over from real men in the bedroom.
The male dolls will be programmed with unique conversations, and each will have their own stories. Women do not have to worry about going unfulfilled in the bedroom as the robot goes on and on. Women will also not have to worry about making any effort to get pleasure in the bedroom as the doll satisfies every whim.
Women Say They Cannot Tell Lifelike Male Dolls Apart from Real Men
Real looking pleasure robots are becoming the in-thing, today they look more lifelike than ever before. Love dolls today not only look real but also feel a lot more real than the older blow-up dolls made from plastic. Today love dolls are traditionally made from silicone, which gives a skin-like feel.
Video Reveals How Male Pleasure Robots Are Intricately Made
A teaser video has been released showing the male robot. However, it might be a bit strange at first waking up at the side of a robot, as seen in the video.
The robots are made from silicone and look extremely lifelike after being spray painted as Sinthetics. Each of the dolls is customized to meet the requirements of the customer, including the head, body, and gender. The dolls are hand painted with a variety of paint colors, including such as freckles, birthmarks along with scars.
The private parts for the male robots are all based on real-life ones and come in various sizes. Gone are the times when the person who bought a love doll was known as the creepy man. Today the love doll industry is huge, selling to both men and women from all walks of life.
The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it.
The warping of spacetime, in the General Relativistic picture, by gravitational masses is what causes the gravitational force. It is assumed, but not experimentally verified, that antimatter masses will behave the same as matter masses in a gravitational field.
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One of the most astonishing facts about science is how universally applicable the laws of nature are. Every particle obeys the same rules, experiences the same forces, and sees the same fundamental constants, no matter where or when they exist. Gravitationally, every single entity in the Universe experiences, depending on how you look at it, either the same gravitational acceleration or the same curvature of spacetime, no matter what properties it possesses.
At least, that's what things are like in theory. In practice, some things are notoriously difficult to measure. Photons and normal, stable particles both fall as expected in a gravitational field, with Earth causing any massive particle to accelerate towards its center at 9.8 m/s2. Despite our best efforts, though, we have never measured the gravitational acceleration of antimatter. It ought to accelerate the exact same way, but until we measure it, we can't know. One experiment is attempting to decide the matter, once-and-for-all. Depending on what it finds, it just might be the key to a scientific and technological revolution.
Trajectories of antihydrogen atoms from the ALPHA experiment. We can hold them stable for up to 20 minutes at a time now, and measuring how they behave in a gravitational field is the next logical step.
CHUKMAN SO/UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
You might not realize it, but there are two entirely different ways of thinking about mass. On the one hand, there's the mass that accelerates when you apply a force to it: the m in Newton's famous equation, F = ma. This is the same as the m in Einstein's E = mc2, which tells you how much energy you need to create a particle (or antiparticle) and how much energy you get when you annihilate it away.
But there's another mass out there: gravitational mass. This is the mass, m, that appears in the equation for weight at Earth's surface (W = mg), or in Newton's gravitational law, F = GmM/r2. For normal matter, we know that these two masses — inertial mass and gravitational mass — must be equal to something like 1 part in 100 billion, thanks to experimental constraints from a setup designed over 100 years ago by Loránd Eötvös.
Newton's law of universal gravitation (L) and Coulomb's law for electrostatics (R) have almost identical forms. If the 'm' in the gravitational force obtains a negative sign for antimatter, upcoming experiments ought to reveal it.
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For antimatter, though, we've never been able to measure this at all. We've applied non-gravitational forces to antimatter and seen it accelerate, and we've created and annihilated antimatter as well; we're certain how its inertial mass behaves, and it's exactly the same as normal matter's inertial mass. Both F = ma and E = mc2 work just the same for antimatter as they do for normal matter.
The ALPHA collaboration has come the closest of any experiment to measuring the behavior of neutral antimatter in a gravitational field. With the upcoming ALPHA-g detector, we might finally know the answer.
MAXIMILIEN BRICE/CERN
One of the great strides that's been taken recently is the creation of not just particles of antimatter, but neutral, stable bound states of it. Anti-protons and positrons (anti-electrons) can be created, slowed down, and forced to interact with each other, where they form neutral anti-hydrogen. By using a combination of electric and magnetic fields, we can confine these anti-atoms and keep them stable, away from the matter that would cause them to annihilate.
We've successfully held them stable for around 20 minutes at a time, far exceeding the microsecond timescales that unstable, fundamental particles survive. We've struck them with photons, discovering that they have the same emission and absorption spectra as atoms. In every way that matters, we've determined that antimatter's properties are exactly as standard physics predicts them to be.
The ALPHA-g detector, built at Canada’s particle accelerator facility, TRIUMF, is the first of its kind designed to measure the effect of gravity on antimatter. When oriented vertically, it should be able to measure which direction antimatter falls, and at what magnitude.
STU SHEPHERD/TRIUMF
Except, of course, gravitationally. The new ALPHA-g detector, built at Canada's TRIUMF facility and shipped to CERN earlier this year, should improve the limits on the gravitational acceleration of antimatter down to the critical threshold. Does antimatter accelerate, in the presence of the gravitational field on the surface of Earth, at +9.8 m/s2 (down), at -9.8 m/s2(up), at 0 m/s2 (no gravitational acceleration at all), or some other value?
From both a theoretical and an applications perspective, any result other than the expected +9.8 m/s2 would be absolutely revolutionary.
If there were some type of matter that had negative gravitational charge, it would be repelled by the matter and energy that we are aware of.
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The antimatter counterpart of every matter particle should have:
the same mass,
the same acceleration in a gravitational field,
the opposite electric charge,
the opposite spin,
the same magnetic properties,
should bind together the same way into atoms, molecules and larger structures,
and should have the same spectrum of positron transitions in those varied configurations.
Some of these have been measured for a long time: antimatter's inertial mass, electric charge, spin and magnetic properties are well-known. Its binding and transitional properties have been measured by other detectors at the ALPHA experiment, and line up with what particle physics predicts.
But if the gravitational acceleration comes back negative instead of positive, it would literally turn the world upside down.
The possibility of having artificial gravity is tantalizing, but it is predicated on the existence of negative gravitational mass. Antimatter may be that mass, but we don't yet know, experimentally.
ROLF LANDUA / CERN
Currently, there is no such thing as a gravitational conductor. On an electrical conductor, free charges live on the surface and can move around, redistributing themselves in response to whatever other charges are around. If you have an electric charge outside an electrical conductor, the inside of the conductor will be shielded from that electric source.
But there's no way to shield yourself from the gravitational force. There's no way to set up a uniform gravitational field in a region of space, either, like you can between the parallel plates of an electrical capacitor. The reason? Because unlike the electric force, which is generated by positive and negative charges, there's only one type of gravitational "charge," and that's mass-and-energy. The gravitational force is always attractive, and there's simply no way around that.
Schematic diagram of a capacitor, where two parallel conducting plates have equal and opposite charges, creating a uniform electric field between them. This configuration is impossible for gravity, unless there's some form of negative gravitational mass.
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But if you have negative gravitational mass, all of that changes. If antimatter actually anti-gravitates, falling up instead of down, then gravity sees it as though it were made of anti-mass or anti-energy. Under the laws of physics that we currently understand, quantities like anti-mass or anti-energy don't exist. We can imagine them and talk about how they would behave, but we expect antimatter to have normal mass and normal energy when it comes to gravity.
If anti-mass does exist, though, then a slew of great technological advances, imagined by science-fiction writers for generations, would suddenly become physically possible.
The Virtual IronBird tool for the CAM (Centrifuge Accommodation Module) is one way to create artificial gravity, but requires a lot of energy and only allows a very specific, center-seeking type of force. True artificial gravity would require something to behave with negative mass.
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We can build a gravitational conductor, and shield ourselves from the gravitational force.
We can set up a gravitational capacitor in space, creating a uniform artificial gravity field.
We could even create warp drive, since we'd gain the ability to deform spacetime in exactly the way that a mathematical solution to General Relativity, discovered by Miguel Alcubierre in 1994, requires.
The Alcubierre solution to General Relativity, enabling motion similar to warp drive. This solution requires negative gravitational mass, which could be exactly what antimatter might provide.
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It's an incredible possibility, one that's considered wildly unlikely by practically all theoretical physicists. But no matter how wild or tame your theories are, you must absolutely confront them with experimental data; only through measuring the Universe and putting it to the test can you ever accurately determine how the laws of nature work.
Until we measure the gravitational acceleration of antimatter to the precision necessary to determine whether it falls up or down, we must keep ourselves open to the possibility that nature might not behave as we expect. The equivalence principle may not be true for antimatter; it may, in fact, be 100% anti-true. But if that's the case, a whole new world of possibilities will be unlocked. We could change the currently-known limits of what humans can create in the Universe. And we'll learn the answer in just a few years through the simplest of all experiments: putting an anti-atom in a gravitational field, and watching which way it falls.
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UFOs continue to be a fascinating subject for the American public. Recent information has come to light that Google has not updated images of the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada for 8 years. This military base happens to be located near Area 51. Coincidence or conspiracy?
UFOs have captured the minds of the American public since the Roswell crash in 1947. With the recent exposure of the government’s Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program and the compelling evidence that unidentified aerial phenomenon does exist the interest has intensified.
Nick Pope, former head of the Ministry of Defense’s UFO program in the U.K. appeared on Fox News to discuss an unexplained blind spot on Google Earth images. This lack of information lasted over an 8-year period of time. The location in question is the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada.
What is intriguing about this scenario is the fact that the Test Range is located 70 miles away from Area 51. For over 7 decades, Americans have believed that the secretive military installation is the proving grounds for the development of alien technology and re-engineering of otherworldly aircraft.
What is Google Earth hiding? More importantly, are they being directed to do this? There will always be conspiracy theorists and in fact, Tonopah is probably classified and off the grid because we test our experimental airplanes there as well as our latest military weapons.
Tucker Carlson asked Pope a very poignant question as to why so many documents pertaining to UFOs from 50 years ago still remain in a classified status. Both men agreed that we do need to keep military secrets confidential. Mr. Pope stated that we always have to be mindful of who can see our information that we put onto the internet.
While he states that he doesn’t know what goes on in Nevada, he went on to say that Congress is starting to ask questions. The Senate Armed Services Committee is looking into the Navy videos of UFOs that were made public in December of 2017.
While the House Armed Services Committee are researching the Pentagon’s AATIP program. It is about time because as taxpayers we helped to fund this initiative. Was our money well spent?
Who exactly has knowledge of all these behind the scenes machinations? Pope contends that the President must have some information and it is rumored that this is why the “Space Force” is being created. The hope is to get formal Congressional hearings into these matters.
Google Earth has since released pictures of the Tonopah Test Range. However, the question still remains is there something more than meets the eye going on in the Southwestern desert? Like Fox Mulder says, “The truth is out there.”
Why do you think Google Earth didn’t update their images? Is Tonopah just a test facility or could there be alien technology at work in Nevada? Share your opinions with us in the comments section below. We want to hear from you.
Scientists have a new explanation for an unusual acceleration during 'Oumuamua's Earth flyby.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
Oddball space rock 'Oumuamua, discovered over a year ago, is the first interstellar object to visit our solar system and is unlike any comet or asteroid observed before. But does that mean that intelligent aliens created it? A new study examining 'Oumuamua's orbit hints that they might have.
Two astronomers with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) recently took a closer look at the cigar-shaped object's unusual acceleration during its trip through our solar system, to figure out what may have caused the unexpected boost in the object's motion.
Such acceleration during orbit is characteristic of comets, because their icy bodies evaporate, expelling water vapor that propels the objects. But prior analysis of 'Oumuamua (which means "messenger from afar arriving first" in Hawaiian) suggested that the strange object was no comet. This implies that other factors shaped 'Oumuamua's trajectory, the scientists reported in a new study.
They found that pressure from solar radiation could propel 'Oumuamua if the object — or part of it — is thin enough and strong enough to act as a type of "light sail," which generates propulsion using solar energy. Such a structure could have formed naturally, but it could also represent "a light sail of artificial origin" crafted by intelligent extraterrestrials, the researchers wrote. [9 Strange, Scientific Excuses for Why We Haven't Found Alien Life Yet]
However, that conclusion is just one of the possibilities presented in the new study, published online Oct. 26 in the preprint journal arXiv and submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Even when 'Oumuamua still resided in our cosmic neighborhood — it has now zipped beyond the reach of our telescopes — scientists were investigating if it might represent an alien spacecraft. Astronomers in Australia pointed a powerful telescope at the 1,300-foot-long (400 meters) 'Oumuamua to see if they could detect radio transmissions that would indicate signs of life on board the object (or ship). But only silence came back from 'Oumuamua, Live Science previously reported.
As the visiting 'Oumuamua left our solar system, images showed that the object was speeding up. But other images captured as 'Oumuamua passed close to the sun showed no trailing tail and no halo of vapor — something that astronomers would expect to see in a water-releasing comet, the researchers wrote. Vapor off-gassing when a comet swings close by the sun also affects such an object's spin, but 'Oumuamua's spin appeared unchanged as it accelerated. Whatever 'Oumuamua is, it certainly didn't behave like a comet, the study authors reported.
But if 'Oumuamua didn't get a boost from evaporating ice, how did the object speed up? The likeliest explanation is solar radiation pressure — the force applied to an object's surface by sunlight — with 'Oumuamua acting as a "solar sail," the study said.
For that to work, the researchers calculated, the so-called sail would have to be thin enough to respond to the pressures of radiation, yet durable enough to travel great distances and withstand the wear and tear that comes with flying through space. The scientists calculated that a solar sail with a thickness of about 0.01 to 0.04 inches (0.3 to 0.9 millimeters) could survive the inevitable collisions and erosion that 'Oumuamua likely encountered during its long journey.
"If radiation pressure is the accelerating force, then 'Oumuamua represents a new class of thin interstellar material," the scientists said.
As to what may have produced this previously unseen material, it could have emerged naturally from the debris of a planet-forming disk in a distant solar system going "through a yet-unknown process," the study authors suggested.
But there's also a chance that 'Oumuamua's novel structure was crafted deliberately, the researchers added. One possible scenario is that 'Oumuamua is a bit of light-sail debris broken off from an advanced form of extraterrestrial technology, drifting aimlessly in space.
Or maybe it was sent here on purpose, the scientists added.
"A more exotic scenario is that 'Oumuamua may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization," the study authors wrote.
Because the opportunity to capture images or samples of 'Oumuamua is long gone, "its likely origin and mechanical properties could only be deciphered by searching for other objects of its type in the future," the researchers concluded.
DOOR DE GLOED VAN DE VERWOESTER WAS DE AARDE GEHULD IN EEN ROODACHTIG LICHT
DOOR DE GLOED VAN DE VERWOESTER WAS DE AARDE GEHULD IN EEN ROODACHTIG LICHT
Omdat wij als slaven van de elite niet de echte menselijke geschiedenis mogen kennen, zullen de meesten nog nooit van De Verwoester hebben gehoord.
De Verwoester is niet nieuw, onze voorouders hebben ermee te maken gehad en als de voortekenen niet bedriegen dan heeft ook de huidige generatie een goede kans om hiermee kennis te maken.
Het zal zo langzamerhand voor eenieder wel duidelijk zijn dat er iets gaande is op onze planeet. Dat dingen niet meer zijn zoals ze vroeger waren en dat er grote krachten werkzaam zijn die zorgen voor heftige aardveranderingen.
Alhoewel de wereld een zucht van verlichting slaakte toen het einde van 2012 passeerde en er ogenschijnlijk geen schokkende dingen waren gebeurd, was dit wel degelijk het geval.
Waar het op lijkt is dat eind 2012 de startdatum was van een stroomversnelling in de aardveranderingen.
Die fenomenale stijging in aardbevingen heeft zich verder voortgezet, waardoor we in dit lopende jaar 2018 wederom te maken zullen krijgen met een record aantal aardbevingen. Klik op de afbeelding voor een grotere versie.
Aardbevingen zijn slechts een klein deel van de totale aardveranderingen. Iets dat daar ook bij hoort zijn de vreemde, vaak apocalyptische geluiden die mensen wereldwijd horen.
Ook die geluiden hoorden onze voorouders toen de Verwoester in de buurt kwam. De planeet en haar metgezellen werd in die dagen aangeduid als de Verwoester en dat is ook de naam waaronder de planeet bekendstaat in de Kolbrin bijbel.
De Kolbrin Bijbel is een verzameling van oeroude teksten die vertaald zijn. De herkomst is het oude Egypte en daarna komen we ze weer tegen in de Middeleeuwen. De manuscripten zouden gered zijn tijdens een brand in het klooster van Glastonbury Abbey in 1184. Er gaat zelfs het gerucht dat de beroemde Nicola Tesla enkele van zijn wijsheden haalde uit de Kolbrin Bijbel.
Deze bestaat uit in totaal elf boeken, waarvan men zegt dat de eerste zes geschreven zijn door Egyptenaren ten tijde van de Exodus. Het werk is nooit toegankelijk geweest voor het grote publiek, maar werd altijd geheimgehouden en bestemd voor een select groepje mensen. Tegenwoordig is er een gedrukte versie beschikbaar via het Culdian Trust.
Het volgende staat onder andere in die Kolbrin bijbel:
“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.
Overal ter wereld horen mensen vreemde geluiden in de lucht. Geluiden die daar niet horen en niemand weet precies wat het is.
Zoals de volgende, enkele weken geleden ergens in Nederland opgenomen.
Of de volgende, enkele dagen later opgenomen in Ierland.
Ook in San Diego, Californië, worden bizarre geluiden gehoord.
De Kolbrin bijbel gaat verder:
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.
Wat te denken van het volgende filmpje: Een vrouw die midden in de nacht naar buiten kijkt en niet alleen een hele vreemde lucht ziet, maar ook geluiden hoort.
Leven wij daadwerkelijk in de eindtijd en (gaan er) grootse dingen gebeuren of berust alles louter op toevalligheden?
The search for dark matter has been a quest of physicists for decades. While some evidence suggests that the universe could be made up of up to 85% of this invisible and undetectable form of matter, scientists have yet to conclusively identify it in the wild; most of the evidence is gleaned from the unexplained gravitational effects that something is exerting on the matter we can see. Does dark matter actually exist, or is the theory a modern-day four humours?
Time will tell. In the meantime, scientists in a different discipline are uncovering evidence that other types of dark matter may be all around us: living matter. According to recent discoveries in microbiology, there could be an entire branch of the tree of life composed of unknown forms of “dark life.” It’s only been a few hundred years since Hooke and Van Leeuwenhoek discovered microorganisms – just imagine what we’ll know about in a few hundred more. The really weird stuff.
Microbes Under the Miscroscope
Mark Miller, a biochemist at the University of California San Diego, was recently awarded close to $3 by the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health to study these mysterious forms of dark life. According to Miller, advances in computing power has produced evidence of unknown forms of life which resist being cultured in petri dishes the way other microbes can. Part of the reason these life forms have evaded discovery is the fact that they live in exotic or near-unreachable environments like within deep sea vents or the inside of dolphins’ mouths. Yuck.
If you ever drop your sandwich in a dolphin’s mouth, just consider it gone forever. Trust me.
Soon, Miller says, we may be able to conclusively prove the existence of these organisms through massive data collection performed by supercomputers:
Dark life is those organisms that are not visible to the human eye and cannot be successfully cultured. It’s kind of mind-blowing. There are whole metabolic pathways that I, as a classically-trained biochemist, think are essential for life that seem to be missing from these new organisms. And until we had these very sophisticated DNA techniques available to us, we also could not detect it.
“This is an interesting time,” Miller adds, “because DNA sequencing is cheap: you can get all the data you want. But you get so much data you choke on it.” Sure beats choking to death on croissants on live TV.
Could we be on the verge of discovering entire new ecosystems of unknown organisms? Given that the search for alien life has taken to focusing on microbes, this type of research will be essential for providing space agencies with the tools they need to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before. Could first contact happen in our lifetime? Even it if it’s with a microbe, I’ll take it as a win.
Things just disappear sometimes: car keys, jewelry, whole entire islands. It’s just the way things are. Sometimes those things are pretty hard to let go of. If your car keys disappeared, it’s a fair bet that you’d tear your house apart trying to find them. Well, in 2014, Japan named 158 uninhabited islands off its coast to delineate the nation’s territorial waters, boundaries that have become increasingly contentious in recent decades. One of those 158 islands has up and vanished. The Japanese government has responded by initiating a search and rescue mission to locate the island that was seriously just there a second ago.
The island, Esanbehanakitakojima, is—was—located in the cold north ocean off the coast of Hokkaido, the northernmost of the major Japanese islands. It’s not a particularly impressive island. At only 4.6 feet above sea level, Esanbehanakitakojimaonly barely qualified as a real island. Still, it’s important. The area where the island is located is contentious. Japan and Russia both lay claim to the area, and China is a close and aggressive neighbor. For China’s part, they have been constructing artificial islands off their coast in an effort to inflate their claims on the surrounding sea.
With this island gone, Japan stands to lose about 500 meters of territory. That might not sound like a lot, but it’s concerning enough for the Japanese government to dispatch the coast guard and avoid ceding any territory to their unfriendly neighbors.
Going, going….
The island is unlikely to be found, however. The first report of the vanishing island came in September, when the author of a book on Japan’s smaller islands went to photograph Esanbehanakitakojim. No photographs were taken because the island was not there. When the author said that he couldn’t find the island, a group of fishermen set off on their boats to locate the darned thing. No such luck. Now the coast guard is looking for it, but they do not suspect that their luck will be any different.
The thing is, no one has recorded any data on this now-nonexistent island since 1988, so not only does no one know where it is, no one knows when it disappeared either. Any number of things may have caused its disappearance. Wind erosion, ice bergs, or rising sea levels may all have played a part in the vanishing, but no one knows for sure.
And it’s gone.
The oceanic boundaries of Japan are constantly changing, however, and when one island disappears, it seems another pops into existence to take its place. In 2013, an undersea volcanic eruption caused an island to spontaneously appear south of Tokyo. That brand new island now has its own ecosystem, as plant and animal life moves in to colonize it. The Japanese government has taken measures to preserve this virgin island, but who knows how long it will be before someone steals this one too.
It’s official: Earth has more than just one moon out there in its orbit.
Well, sort of. National Geographicreports that a pair of particulate clouds–“dustballs,” in essence–have been located in Earth’s orbit at a distance roughly equal to that of the moon itself. The unusual formations were suspected to have existed for decades already, although this was only recently confirmed by a team of Hungarian astronomers and physicists with Eötvös Loránd University.
Located around 250,000 miles from Earth, these outer space dustballs, known as “Kordylewski clouds,” are roughly the same distance from Earth as the moon, although they are much wider–as much as nine times–than the Earth.
Despite their size, they are apparently extremely difficult to find, too.
The clouds were first spotted as far back as 1961 by Polish astronomer Kazimierz Kordylewski, and are among a variety of other supposed natural objects or formations hypothesized to accompany the moon in orbit around the Earth. Since Kordylewski’s initial observation, the unusual clouds had remained unconfirmed by other observers; some even doubted whether they existed at all.
“It is intriguing to confirm that our planet has dusty pseudo-satellites in orbit alongside our lunar neighbor,” study co-author Judit Slíz-Balogh told National Geographic.
In past articles here at MU, I’ve chronicled the odd history of past searches for a hypothetical “second moon” in orbit around the Earth. Although there has never been convincing evidence that such a feature–generally referred to as a “moonlet”–has ever existed, there have been some notable cases where scientists thought they might be on the verge of such a discovery.
In fact, going all the way back to the 1840s, Frederic Petit, then director of the observatory of Toulouse, claimed to have spotted a second moon in orbit around Earth; a few decades later, Canadian weather reporter E. Stone Wiggins made similar claims, which were widely publicized in periodicals at that time (you can read more about these early searches for Earth’s second moon in my article here).
Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer renowned for his discovery of Pluto, was tasked with searching for a secondary moon-like object orbiting the Earth beginning in 1954, and concluded after a three-year search that no such objects could be found. Prior to Tombaugh’s search for Earth’s mystery moonlet, notable sightings of objects in orbit around Earth had also been made by Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, who claimed to have seen such a satellite prior to the launch of Sputnik 1 by Russia on October 4, 1957.
Alleged sightings by LaPaz and others of mysterious orbital objects were the likely inspiration behind later claims made by Major Donald Keyhoe, arguably one of the most popular UFO advocates of his era. Keyhoe later described in his book Aliens From Space what appeared to be a reference to LaPaz’s sighting:
“During 1953, the AF began experiments with new long range radar equipment. While making the initial tests, AF operators were astonished to pick up a gigantic object orbiting near the equator. Its speed was almost 18,000 miles an hour. Repeated checks showed that the tracking was correct. Some huge unknown object was circling Earth, six hundred miles out.”
Keyhoe and others who wrote about the U.S. Government’s apparent interest in finding moonlets in the 1950s helped spawn theories of an alleged “alien satellite” popularly known as the “Black Knight” satellite. Theories appearing online propose a number of wild theories about this alleged object, which include the claim that this “alien” satellite has orbited Earth since around the end of the last Ice Age (I give a complete breakdown of the history of the “Black Knight” in my article here, covering how a number of separate claims from over the decades became interwoven into a single UFO conspiracy theory over time).
In light of the latest discovery of these Kordylewski dustballs (I wouldn’t necessarily call them “moons”, seeing as how they are merely particulate clouds… and certainly not genuine “moonlets”), it is nonetheless interesting that additional orbital features have finally been confirmed alongside Earth’s moon.
With any luck, they won’t prove to be problematic: as National Geographic notes, these clouds form naturally around areas that result from the centripetal forces between objects like Earth and the sun “balancing out” their gravitational pulls, which are known as “Lagrange points.” NASA has used these areas in the past as fuel-efficient parking lots for satellites, whose performance might end up being hindered if tossed into the mix with concentrated clouds of space dust.
The Hungarian team’s research was featured in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Harvard Astronomers: “Oumuamua is an Alien Spacecraft
Harvard Astronomers: “Oumuamua is an Alien Spacecraft"
The object named Oumuamua, derived from a Hawaiian word that means a messenger who reaches out from the distant past, is 1,300 feet long (400 meters) long and about 130 feet wide.
Now, an intriguing new study from astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics offers that Oumuamua might actually be a light sail which is propelled by radiation pressure from the sun.
When Oumuamua arrived in our solar system in October 2017 NASA spotted unexpected boost in speed and shift in trajectory as it passed through the inner solar system.
NASA not only concluded that Oumuamua must be very elongated because of its dramatic variations in brightness as it tumbled through space but they also concluded that vents on the surface must have emitted jets of gases, giving the object a slight boost in speed, which researchers detected by measuring the position of the object as it passed by in 2017.
Credit image NASA: Jets of gases or... Oumuamua’s Thrusters?
What we already know and now confirmed by Harvard astronomers; Oumuamua’s origin is extraterrestrial, an alien spacecraft floating as debris in interstellar space from advanced technological equipment that could have been investigating our part of the galaxy.
A large reservoir of liquid water has been found deep beneath the frozen surface of Mars near the planet’s south pole, according to a new paper by Italian researchers published in the journal Science.
The discovery caps decades of debate over whether such bodies of liquid water exist on Mars today and is sure to fuel speculation about the possibility that life exists on the Red Planet. Water is considered an essential ingredient for life.
Mars' south polar ice cap in an image captured the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft. Italian researchers believe a reservoir lies below ice about a mile thick in an area close to the planet's south pole.ESA
“I think the chances now of finding a place to look for current life have gone up,” said Scott Hubbard, a professor of astronautics at Stanford University in Stanford, California, who was not involved in the new research. Hubbard, who served as NASA's first Mars program director, called the discovery “thrilling and exciting.”
The subglacial lake was detected below a polar region known as Planum Australe by a ground-penetrating radar instrument aboard the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars since 2003. The lake is about 20 kilometers (12 miles) wide and is buried about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) below the surface, according to an analysis of radar readings made between 2012 and 2015.
ESA's Mars Express used radar signals bounced through underground layers of ice to identify a pond of water buried below the surface.ESA
“This is just one small study area,” Roberto Orosei, an astronomer at the University of Bologna and the study’s lead author, said in a written statement. “It is an exciting prospect to think there could be more of these underground pockets of water elsewhere, yet to be discovered.”
The newfound lake is likely to be extremely cold and salty, according to the research. Those are “not ideal conditions for life to form,” Kirsten Siebach, a planetary scientist at Rice University in Houston, told the Associated Press. But, she added, microbial life has been found in such environments on Earth.
Scientists have long believed that water flowed on Mars billions of years ago, when the planet was hotter, and it's well-established that large deposits of water ice exist there still. Recent research showed that complex organic molecules — the building blocks of life as we know it — are present there. But this is the first time a stable body of liquid water has been detected on Mars.
The Italian scientists spent years analyzing the data to make sure the radar readings indicated liquid water — but not everyone is convinced.
“I would say the interpretation is plausible, but it’s not quite a slam dunk yet," Jeffrey Plaut, a research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who is not involved in the new research, told Science.
But Hubbard called the researchers a “careful group” and said he found the new research convincing — and a likely prelude to additional research. “I think this finding will stimulate other science groups" to reexamine radar data of Mars "to see if they missed anything."
ILS TROUVENT DES PREUVES D'UNE GRANDE INONDATION SUR MARS DANS LE PASSÉ.
ILS TROUVENT DES PREUVES D'UNE GRANDE INONDATION SUR MARS DANS LE PASSÉ.
La présence d'eau sur Mars est théorisée depuis des siècles. Les premiers télescopes ont révélé des calottes glaciaires et les premiers astronomes ont observé des chenaux supposés être des rivières naturelles ou des chenaux créés par des créatures.
Mariner 4 a été le premier rover à se rendre sur Mars, qui a atterri sur la planète en 1965. Les explorations se sont poursuivies et, au cours des deux dernières décennies, les rovers Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity et Curiosity ont envoyé des données inestimables aux scientifiques interpréter la planète, émerger et découvrir des preuves de l'eau passée ou présente.
Depuis son atterrissage sur la « planète rouge » en août 2012, Curiosity Rover a parcouru une vingtaine de kilomètres à l'intérieur du cratère Gale. L’explorateur a examiné environ 400 mètres de roches sédimentaires présentes dans le cratère, explique Ezat Heydari, de l’Université d’État de Jackson à Jackson (Mississippi), y compris des roches âgées de 3,7 à 4,1 milliards d’années.
Heydari et ses collègues ont utilisé ces images de roches sédimentaires pour interpréter les processus géologiques survenus il y a des milliards d'années sur Mars. Leurs conclusions ont été présentées dimanche lors de la réunion annuelle de la Geological Society of America à Indianapolis, dans l'Indiana.
Dans ces 400 mètres de roche, les chercheurs ont identifié quatre unités différentes représentant différents types de dépôts, et Heydari a déclaré que "selon moi, le dépôt de tous ces restes implique de l'eau."
L'un de ces restes, appelé Hummocky Plain Unit, est un conglomérat dont les grains peuvent atteindre une taille de 20 centimètres. Les images de Curiosity montraient des crêtes dans l'unité de Hummocky Plain, remplies de galets arrondis et de lits croisés atteignant 4 mètres de haut, indiquant que le dépôt avait été fait en déplaçant l'eau. En outre, certaines images contiennent des informations de hauteur pouvant créer un profil topographique de la surface, révélant les profils des crêtes.
Heydari a dit :
"Ces crêtes sont asymétriques. En d'autres termes, ils ont été formés par un courant directionnel ".
Après avoir visionné les images, Heydari a déclaré avoir immédiatement pensé aux Scablands canalisés dans l'État de Washington. Les crêtes martiennes sont à égale distance, dit-il, ajoutant qu'elles sont environ deux fois plus grandes que celles de Scabland. Les crêtes de Mars et de la Terre présentaient des caractéristiques similaires, mais ce n’est qu’après avoir vu les lits croisés que Heydari est parvenu à la conclusion que les dépôts de Mars avaient été faits par des inondations de grande ampleur.
Heydari souligne, à l'aide de comparaisons avec les rivières de la Terre, que pour créer des lits transversaux de 4 mètres de hauteur, l'eau courante aurait eu une profondeur d'environ 10 à 20 mètres.
Heydari a dit :
"C’est l’une des raisons pour lesquelles j’affirme que ces dépôts sont liés à des inondations plutôt qu’à un fleuve insignifiant. "
Selon Heydari, les roches sédimentaires Noach trouvées dans le cratère Gale pourraient s'être déposées dans un environnement similaire à celui de la Terre pléistocène (il y a environ 2 millions d'années et jusqu'à 12 000 ans), avec la glace globale à grande échelle et les inondations dramatiques.
Heydari dit :
"Sur les deux planètes, l'un des hémisphères était recouvert de glace : l'hémisphère nord de la Terre par rapport à l'hémisphère sud de Mars et l'autre était chaud. "
Il ajoute que cette comparaison est importante car elle montre que l'ancienne Mars semble être très similaire à la Terre pléistocène, où l'eau liquide est stable et capable de soutenir la vie.L'étude scientifique a été publiée dans la GeologicalSociety of America.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Nick Redfern is a journalist, author, and UFO researcher. He is originally from England, but now lives in Texas. The topics in his books range from Men in Black, UFOs, Cryptozoology and other paranormal topics. His latest book, just released this month, is titled Top Secret Alien Abductions.
In this episode, we discuss his latest book. However, the majority of the show is regarding the topic of his 2010 book, FINAL EVENTS and the Secret Government Group on Demonic UFOs and the Afterlife. In a recent interview on Open Minds UFO Radio, investigative journalist George Knapp discussed the influence religious government insiders had in squashing funding of UFO and paranormal investigations. He referenced Nick’s work investigating religious cabals in the government. Just this week, Luis Elizondo, former head of the recently revealed UFO program, wrote an article for To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences in which he claimed these same insiders ruined his predecessor’s career.
As you've probably noticed, we live in a world defined by three spatial dimensions and one dimension of time. In other words, it only takes three numbers to pinpoint your physical location at any given moment. On Earth, these coordinates break down to longitude, latitude and altitude representing the dimensions of length, width and height (or depth). Slap a time stamp on those coordinates, and you're pinpointed in time as well.
To strip that down even more, a one-dimensional world would be like a single bead on a measured thread. You can slide the bead forward and you can slide the bead backward, but you only need one number to figure out its exact location on the string: length. Where's the bead? It's at the 6-inch (15-centimeter) mark.
Now let's upgrade to a two-dimensional world. This is essentially a flat map, like the playing field in games such as Battleship or chess. You just need length and width to determine location. In Battleship, all you have to do is say "E5," and you know the location is a convergence of the horizontal "E" line and the vertical "5" line.
Now let's add one more dimension. Our world factors height (depth) into the equation .While locating a submarine's exact location in Battleship only requires two numbers, a real-life submarine would demand a third coordinate of depth. Sure, it might be charging along on the surface, but it might also be hiding 800 feet (244 meters) beneath the waves. Which will it be?
Could there be a fourth spatial dimension? Well, that's a tricky question because we currently can't perceive or measure anything beyond the dimensions of length, width and height. Just as three numbers are required to pinpoint a location in a three-dimensional world, a four-dimensional world would require four.
At this very moment, you're likely positioned at a particular longitude, latitude and altitude. Walk a little to your left, and you'll alter your longitude or latitude or both. Stand on a chair in the exact same spot, and you'll alter your altitude. Here's where it gets hard: Can you move from your current location without altering your longitude, latitude or altitude? You can't, because there's not a fourth spatial dimension for us to move through.
But the fact that we can't move through a fourth spatial dimension or perceive one doesn't necessarily rule out its existence. In 1919, mathematician Theodor Kaluza theorized that a fourth spatial dimension might link general relativity and electromagnetic theory [source: Groleau]. But where would it go? Theoretical physicist Oskar Klein later revised the theory, proposing that the fourth dimension was merely curled up, while the other three spatial dimensions are extended. In other words, the fourth dimension is there, only it's rolled up and unseen, a little like a fully retracted tape measure. Furthermore, it would mean that every point in our three-dimensional world would have an additional fourth spatial dimension rolled away inside it.
String theorists, however, need a slightly more complicated vision to empower their superstring theories about the cosmos. In fact, it's quite easy to assume they're showing off a bit in proposing 10 or 11 dimensions including time.
Wait, don't let that blow your mind just yet. One way of envisioning this is to imagine that each point of our 3-D world contains not a retracted tape measure, but a curled-up, six-dimensional geometric shape. One such example is a Calabi-Yau shape, which looks a bit like a cross between a mollusk, an M.C. Escher drawing and a "Star Trek" holiday ornament [source: Bryant].
Think of it this way: A concrete wall looks solid and firm from a distance. Move in closer, however, and you'll see the dimples and holes that mark its surface. Move in even closer, and you'd see that it's made up of molecules and atoms. Or consider a cable: From a distance it appears to be a single, thick strand. Get right next to it, and you'll find that it's woven from countless strands. There's always greater complexity than meets the eye, and this hidden complexity may well conceal all those tiny, rolled-up dimensions.
Yet, we can only remain certain of our three spatial dimensions and one of time. If other dimensions await us, they're beyond our limited perception -- for now.
Explore the links below to learn even more about the universe.
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Kornreich, Dave. "What is a dimension?" Ask a Scientist. January 1999. (Aug. 26, 2010)http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=4
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Sometimes, boring is best — and that's certainly true when you're trying to set a lander down on the surface of Mars, where any eventfulness is likely bad news.
That's why scientists carefully chose a flat, featureless expanse of the Red Planet called Elysium Planitia for NASA'sInSight missionto touch down on to maximize the odds of everything going smoothly. The lander will arrive after asix-month cruiseon Nov. 26.
Landing on Mars is challenging under the best of circumstances, requiring a carefully choreographed insertion into the atmosphere, a hefty heat shield and an extremely durable parachute. Then there's the matter of actually touching down, which is where flat terrain like that around Elysium Planitia becomes important, so that the spacecraft doesn't accidentally topple over or get caught in a crevasse.
An artist's depiction of the Mars InSight lander on Elysium Planitia, where it will land on Nov. 26.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Unlike the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers, InSight will be stuck in the same place for its entire stay on Mars — it doesn't have any way to move across the planet's surface. That means that it needs to be able to accomplish all its scientific research precisely where it lands.
In the case of the InSight lander, that science is focused on studying the interior of the planet rather than its surface. Among its instrument suite is a probe that buries itself 16 feet (5 meters) below the surface, which means the team needed to find a landing site with rock the probe could drill through.
"Picking a good landing site on Mars is a lot like picking a good home: It's all about location, location, location," Tom Hoffman, InSight project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in the same statement. "And for the first time ever, the evaluation for a Mars landing site had to consider what lay below the surface of Mars."
Out of 22 initial contenders, the team eventually narrowed it down to just Elysium Planitia, or rather, an oval 81 miles (130 kilometers) long and 17 miles (27 km) wide across that plain. And while it may not make for the most stunning postcard, the view doesn't matter to the InSight team nearly as much as the science does.
"If you were a Martian coming to explore Earth's interior like we are exploring Mars' interior, it wouldn't matter if you put down in the middle of Kansas or the beaches of Oahu," Banerdt said in the statement. "While I'm looking forward to those first images from the surface, I am even more eager to see the first data sets revealing what is happening deep below our landing pads. The beauty of this mission is happening below the surface. Elysium Planitia is perfect."
After half a century of speculation, astronomers from Hungary have confirmed the existence of two dust cloud formations orbiting Earth at right about the same distance as the Moon.
One of Kordylewski dust clouds in relation to Earth, the moon, and the sun (not to scale).
Credit: Gabor Horvath.
In 1961, Polish astronomer Kazimierz Kordylewski caught a glimpse of glowing clouds in Earth’s orbit. Ever since then, his findings proved controversial as no one else was able to replicate them. But, nevertheless, Kordylewski’s intriguing observations inspired astronomers to be on the lookout for more natural satellites besides the obvious glowing bulb everyone knows as the Moon.
Some might find it odd, to say the least, that scientists have trouble identifying objects just outside Earth’s orbit when today’s technology is capable of imaging galaxies billions of light years away or even the atmospheres of exoplanets. The truth is that it’s very difficult to image dust clouds, which are comprised of tiny micrometric particles, over a backdrop of galactic lights, starlight, skyglow, and so on.
Gábor Horváth, a physicist at Eötvös Loránd University, and colleagues used special camera filters and were able to make out two structures of dust, each about nine times as wide as the Earth. The formations, aptly called Kordylewski clouds, orbit the Earth at a distance of about 400,000 km (250,000 miles).
The Hungarian researchers didn’t just plainly aim a telescope at the night’s sky, but rather targeted Lagrange points. These are locations in space where the combined gravitational forces of two large bodies, such as Earth and the sun, or Earth and the moon, equal the centrifugal force felt by a much smaller third body.
Lagrange points are very useful because the interaction of forces creates a point of equilibrium, allowing objects there to remain stationary. For instance, the first point (L1) offers a perfect vantage point of the sun and is currently occupied by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and the Deep Space Climate Observatory. L2 — which like L1 lies a million miles from Earth — is currently occupied by NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), tasked with measuring the cosmic background radiation.
Horváth and colleagues found the two dust formations at L4 and L5, the most stable of all Lagrange points, as reported in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The dust ‘moons’ constantly lose and replenish material, drawing from sources of interplanetary particles, such as the annual Perseid meteor shower.
Seeing how these Lagrange points are swamped with dust particles, the findings carry great significance for the safety of future space missions. For instance, the much anticipated James Webb Telescope will be deployed at L2 in 2020. It would’ve been a catastrophe if the multi-billion-dollar telescope was surrounded by dust.
More importantly, it’s fascinating to learn that the Moon is not alone. Besides these two large bodies of dust, astronomers believe that Earth also captures ‘mini-moons’ from time to time — objects about 2-3 meters across. Discovering these so-called mini-moons could help scientists come to a better understanding of how asteroids form, and of the Earth-moon system dynamic.
WETENSCHAPHet mysterieuze, sigaarvormige ruimteobject genaamd Oumuamua geeft sinds de ontdekking ervan in oktober 2017 aanleiding tot allerlei speculaties. Volgende week verschijnt een paper van twee astronomen van de beroemde Harvard University die niet uitsluiten dat de ‘vliegende sigaar’ een heuse ruimtesonde van aliens betreft.
Het object kreeg de naam Oumuamua mee, Hawaïaans voor “een boodschapper die de hand reikt vanuit een ver verleden”. Het was de telescoop Pan-STARRS 1 in Hawaï die het bizarre voorwerp in de ruimte op 27 oktober 2017 spotte. Meteen vielen een aantal bijzonderheden op. De uitzonderlijke vorm, die plat en langwerpig is, en op een sigaar lijkt. Het donkerrode ding is verder tien keer langer dan het breed is. Het verplaatst zich bovendien aan snelheden van 315.000 km/uur, niet op dezelfde manier als gewone kometen en asteroïden.
Oumuamua is het eerste in ons zonnestelsel waargenomen voorwerp dat daarbuiten ontstaan is. Aanvankelijk dachten onderzoekers wel degelijk aan een gewone komeet of asteroïde uit ons zonnestelsel, maar uiteindelijk werd het voorwerp gecatalogeerd onder een nieuwe klasse “interstellaire objecten”.
Kunstmatige oorsprong
Om de vreemde voortbeweging van Oumuamua te verklaren, werpen twee wetenschappers van het Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Abraham Loeb en Shmuel Bialy, in hun artikel enkele potentiële scenario’s op. Zoals de mogelijkheid dat het voorwerp een “kunstmatige oorsprong” heeft. Ze baseren een van hun theorieën op de “overmatige versnelling” van het object, of de onverwachte snelheidsverhoging tijdens en na het verlaten van ons zonnestelsel in januari 2018. Ze suggereren dat het object afkomstig kan zijn van technologisch geavanceerde apparatuur, mogelijk voortgestuwd door zonnestraling: “een lichtzeil, zwevend in interstellaire ruimte”. De auteurs wijzen erop dat vergelijkbare lichtzeiltechnologie ook op aarde al bestaat. De hoge snelheid en het ongewone traject van het object zouden kunnen betekenen dat het niet langer operationeel is.
Maar in hun paper, die volgende week verschijnt in Astrophysical Journal Letters, schuiven Abraham Loeb en Shmuel Bialy nog een “exotischer scenario” naar voren. “Oumuamua zou weleens een volledig operationele sonde kunnen zijn die bewust richting Aarde is gestuurd door een buitenaardse beschaving”, schrijven ze. Het is inmiddels te laat om dit nog te bewijzen aan de hand van waarnemingen met telescopen, omdat het object na drie dagen uit ons zonnestelsel verdwenen was. Bewijs zal moeten komen van andere gelijkaardige zwevende objecten.
WETENSCHAPWereldberoemde piramides waaronder die van Gizeh en Cheops spreken al jaren tot de verbeelding. Mede doordat de manier waarop ze gebouwd werden een mysterie blijft. Maar een toevallige ontdekking in een Egyptische albastgroeve licht nu een tipje van de sluier.
Een Brits-Frans team archeologen bestudeerde oude inscripties op de hellingen van de groeve. Tot ze een reeks paalgaten ontdekten die allicht gebruikt werden om de grote en zware stenen sneller te verslepen. Daardoor zouden de piramides sneller gebouwd zijn dan eerst gedacht werd.
De ontdekte structuur van openingen suggereert dat de bouwers in beide richtingen konden sjouwen. In plaats van de stenen blokken achter hen aan te slepen, zouden de oude Egyptenaren een katrolsysteem gebruikt hebben. Zo kon iemand de stenen vooruit trekken, terwijl anderen boven aan het touw trokken. Dat leek voor de recente vondst onmogelijk.
“Zo’n systeem laat toe dat meerdere mensen samen kracht uitoefenen. Zo kunnen de stenen veel sneller verplaatst worden dan eerst gedacht werd”, aldus onderzoeksleider Roland Enmarch.
Grote Piramide Nadat de onderzoekers de openingen ontdekten, verschoof hun aandacht al snel van inscripties naar de manier waarop de piramide geconstrueerd was. Toch voegt het oorspronkelijke studieobject nog een belangrijke waarde toe aan het onderzoek. De inscripties dateren immers van de regeerperiode van farao Cheops (2604-2581 voor Christus). Diezelfde periode werd de Grote Piramide of de Piramide van Cheops gebouwd, waarschijnlijk met hetzelfde katrolsysteem.
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LICHTGEVEND "WEZEN" GESIGNALEERD OP MARS ( VIDEO )
LICHTGEVEND "WEZEN" GESIGNALEERD OP MARS ( VIDEO )
De planeet Mars heeft ons in de afgelopen jaren telkens weer verbaasd door de vele vreemde dingen die daar zijn aangetroffen aan het oppervlak.
Maar, voor zover ons bekend, is er nog nooit eerder iets gespot dat lijkt op een soort licht- of engel-achtig wezen.
Waarschijnlijk is Mars de meest besproken planeet van ons zonnestelsel en dat is misschien niet zo vreemd, want al heel lang worden daar onverklaarbare dingen aangetroffen.
Niet alleen zijn er veel vreemde voorwerpen aangetroffen, ook zeggen een aantal mensen op Mars te zijn geweest. Zelfs de naam van de vroegere Amerikaanse president Obama kwam daarbij in 2012 in beeld:
In zijn jonge jaren zou Barack Obama naar Mars zijn geteleporteerd als onderdeel van een geheime operatie van de CIA om de rode planeet te verkennen. De huidige Amerikaanse president zou samen met de directeur van Darpa naar Mars zijn gestuurd.
Dat is althans de bewering van de tijdreizende overheidsagenten Andrew D. Basiago en William Stillings, zo schrijft het wetenschappelijke blad Wired.
De ‘chrononauten’ waren naar eigen zeggen in de zeventiger jaren werkzaam voor Darpa, een instituut van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie dat verantwoordelijk is voor de ontwikkeling van militaire technologie, waarbij ze de grenzen van tijd en ruimte overstegen. Ze zweren: een jonge Barack Obama was één van hen.
Volgens Basiago en Stillings was Obama onderdeel van een intergalactisch programma van de CIA dat in 1980 werd opgezet aan het California community college.
Het Witte Huis laat in een officiële verklaring weten dat Obama nooit naar Mars is geweest. “Alleen als je het kijken van de film Marvin the Martian meetelt,” zei woordvoerder Tommy Vietor van de National Security Council tegenover Wired.
Obama maakte de reis naar een andere planeet niet alleen. Als ‘Barry Soetero’ werd de 19-jarige Obama samen met 10 anderen geselecteerd om in het geheim naar Mars en terug te teleporteren. Directeur Regina Dugan van Darpa zou een ander lid van het team zijn geweest.
Bovenstaande verhalen zijn natuurlijk heel moeilijk te verifiëren, maar bij door NASA gemaakte foto's is dat makkelijker.
Zoals de volgende, waarop je in de verte "iets wits" ziet wat er eigenlijk niet thuis hoort.
In eerste instantie zou je misschien denken aan een afwijking van de camera, maar omdat ditzelfde beeld voorkomt op verschillende foto's lijkt dat onwaarschijnlijk. Ditzelfde beeld is te zien op een drietal verschillende NASA foto's, genomen door één van de NASA rovers, deze foto's zijn hier, hier en hier te zien.
Wanneer je het wat dichterbij haalt, krijg je een soort engelachtig wezen:
Deze ontdekking komt op naam van de alsmaar speurende ufoloog Scott Waring die ervan overtuigd is dat we hier met een levend energiewezen te maken hebben.
Hij dacht in eerste instantie aan een reflectie, maar dat is niet mogelijk omdat er geen lichtbron is om te reflecteren. Scott zegt dat er op Mars wel degelijk wolken zijn en dat hier sprake is van een bewolkte dag.
En omdat het witte object op verschillende foto's voor komt gelooft hij dat het hier gaat om een levend energiewezen.
Hij stelt dan verder de vraag waarom NASA zelf dit soort dingen niet bekendmaakt en klaarblijkelijk niet op onderzoek is gegaan naar wat het zou kunnen zijn. Het antwoord van Scott is duidelijk: ze zijn bang om dit soort dingen te onderzoeken omdat ze dan misschien controle over hun Rover kwijtraken aan iets onbekends.
Voorlopig hebben we er weer een Mars mysterie bij.
Er is iets gaande en als de voortekenen niet bedriegen staan we wellicht dichter bij Disclosure dan ooit te voren.
Wederom is de bijzondere UFO die regelmatig wordt waargenomen in verschillende delen van de wereld opgedoken en dit keer niet alleen.
Er is wat bijzonders gaande op het gebied van UFO's, oftewel niet geïdentificeerde vliegende objecten. Iets dat je een gevoel geeft dat buitenaardsen (we noemen ze voor nu even buitenaards, maar het zouden ook onderdelen van de geheime ruimtevloot kunnen zijn) nu toch op een vrij indringende manier contact proberen te krijgen met de mensheid.
Dit bijzondere verhaal vangt eigenlijk begin oktober aan in de Amerikaanse staat Minnesota, waar verschillende mensen hetzelfde soort object in de lucht zien hangen.
Zoals blijkt uit het eerdere artikel en de update blijkt het vreemde ringvormige object op meerdere plaatsen te zijn waar genomen.
We zijn nu inmiddels een week verder en weer is er een waarneming van hetzelfde object.
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.
Vervolgens bleek uit meldingen van lezers dat dit type UFO eerder was gezien en ook in ons land. Ook doken er eerdere beelden op van deze zelfde UFO boven Minnesota.
En nu verschijnt hetzelfde ruimteschip boven één van de absolute UFO hotspots ter wereld, de regio rondom de Mexicaanse stad Tijuana, vlakbij de Amerikaanse grens (waar toevallig nu een karavaan Mexicanen naartoe onderweg is).
Een jongeman die zo te zien met zijn moeder in de auto zit, stopt omdat hij in de lucht enkele felle lichten ziet. Hij begint te filmen en het object dat hij filmt ziet er zo uit:
Volkomen identiek aan de eerdere gefilmde en waargenomen ruimteschepen.
Dit keer is het er ook niet één, maar minimaal drie die in een soort losse formatie bewegingsloos in de lucht hangen. De beelden zijn zo goed als zeker echt en waarom dat zo is wordt door Tyler uitgelegd in de volgende video waar je ook de beelden kunt zien van de man uit Mexico.
Wat heel mooi is in deze opname is dat je de sfeer proeft. Alsof je naar een Hollywood productie zit te kijken waarbij de aliens contact proberen te maken met de mensheid. (tekst gaat verder onder de video)
Voor zover ons bekend heeft niemand nog de verbanden gelegd tussen al deze afzonderlijke waarnemingen, maar wanneer je dat wel doet dat is er geen ontkomen meer aan de overeenkomsten. Het betreft overal hetzelfde type ruimteschip.
De plaats waar bovenstaande opname is gemaakt, heet Rosarito en ligt net ten zuiden van Tijuana. In april dit jaar werden er door verschillende mensen in Rosarito opnames gemaakt van een grote ufo die veel overeenkomsten vertoonde met de beroemde Phoenix Lights.
En dan naar 12 april 2018, de dag waarop een aantal mensen objecten in de lucht zagen die heel veel lijken op de beroemde Phoenix Lights uit 1997.
Een dame, Sarah Adams, zit die avond met enkele vrienden net ten zuiden van de Amerikaanse grens in Mexico, niet ver van plaatsen zoals San Diego en Tijuana, waar heel regelmatig UFO's worden waargenomen.
Ze heeft een livestream op Facebook en daarin verschijnt er eerst één licht, dan nog één en zo door totdat er op een gegeven moment negen lichten te zien zijn.
Sarah geeft een soort commentaar op de achtergrond waarbij ze laat weten er heilig van overtuigd te zijn dat Disclosure nu gaat beginnen, dat de buitenaardsen hier zijn om ons te helpen en dat ze echt niet zullen toestaan dat er met bommen zal worden gegooid die de planeet zullen vernietigen.
Dan, dezelfde avond en iets verder naar het noorden gebeurt er iets in Carlsbad dat even ten Noorden ligt van San Diego in Californië.
Net voor negen uur 's avonds loopt Haley Higgins daar en ziet vreemde lichten boven de oceaan. Ze heeft een opname gemaakt door een verrekijker en met een iPhone. Door de korte afstand en omdat het op dezelfde avond gebeurde, is het waarschijnlijk dat dit dezelfde lichten zijn als die die ze werden gezien door Sarah.
En mocht er nog enige twijfel bestaan, dan maakt de volgende video daaraan een einde. Het is een opname gemaakt op wederom 12 april en dit keer in Rosarito, Mexico, net ten zuiden van Tijuana.
Wederom hetzelfde soort lichten en wederom geldt ook hier dat gezien de afstand en het tijdstip deze lichten dezelfde zijn als die van de twee bovenstaande waarnemingen.
Heeft Sarah gelijk en is dit een boodschap van de buitenaardsen aan ons of is het een geheime menselijke constructie die deze fascinerende lichten veroorzaakt?
Staat Disclosure nu eindelijk voor de deur en zullen we nog veel meer van deze bijzondere schepen zien verschijnen, of is het allemaal een truc van de mensheid en zien we hier exemplaren van de geheime ruimtevloot, misschien wel ter voorbereiding van de nep alien invasie?
While doing a radio show a couple of nights ago, I was asked a question that pops up from time to time. It went something like this: “Have any UFOs ever crashed in the U.K.?” Well, I’m hardly a fan of tales of crashed saucers (see my 2017 book, The Roswell UFO Controversy). My view is that the majority of such stories really involve (a) classified, military vehicles; or (b) are the creations of disinformation/counterintelligence personnel. But, that doesn’t mean there haven’t been any intriguing cases in the U.K. There certainly have been some. And here’s one such example.
It was at around 4:00 p.m. on 26 October 1996, near the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, when something strange fell from the skies. “At first, I thought it was a firework,” commented one of the witnesses, a man named Norman MacDonald. He was a joinery contractor at the Port of Ness. MacDonald expanded: “Then I saw three flashes and heard two further bangs. I rushed into a local shop and took the staff and customers outside. They also saw the dense smoke spiral. That was about 4:10 p.m.” The Scotsman newspaper covered the story on November 4, 1996. Over the following few hours, both the Royal Air Force and the local police received numerous telephone calls from anxious Lewis residents, all of whom had either witnessed an aerial explosion or had seen peculiar flashes of light followed by debris plunging into the sea. The response of officialdom was immediate.
Isle of Lewis, Cliff Beach
In a search that cost the equivalent of nearly $400,000 and that covered an area of 300 square miles, an armada of ships and numerous aircraft were hastily dispatched to the scene. A Royal Air Force Nimrod aircraft packed with sophisticated detection equipment scoured the vicinity for no less than ten hours on two sorties; the Coast Guard helicopter from Stornoway flew two four-and-a-half-hour operations; a Royal Air Force helicopter from Lossiemouth conducted an intensive search; and a flotilla of ships and boats, including the Stornoway-based tug the Portosalvo, numerous lifeboats from Lochinver, and a variety of fishing boats also lent assistance to the military.
In addition, both the Coast Guard and the police mounted shore patrols in Ness, on the Butt of Lewis. Officially, nothing was found. However, officialdom was not discounting the more exotic theories that had been postulated. “We have not ruled out space debris,” said Simon Riley, District Staff Officer for Stornoway Coast Guard. Riley elaborated: “Part of the problem has been to get a fix on where this accident happened. All the people involved in the search have worked very hard, some around the clock, and extensive inquiries have been made, but nothing has been found to give a positive explanation. It is very puzzling.”
The Northern Police Constabulary was equally baffled. “Officers were busily involved in the investigation,” a spokesperson commented. “But it’s a real mystery. It’s very, very odd.” Matters took an even stranger turn only days later when the press revealed that inquiries concerning the nature of the crash had been made to British authorities by the Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, USA. Sandia’s interest ran deep––staff at the facility even contacted the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland for assistance––and chiefly centered upon ascertaining the time at which the incident had occurred.
Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis
Nick Pope, who investigated UFO reports at an official level for the British Ministry of Defense between 1991 and 1994, stated (in the now-defunct U.K. magazine Sightings): “The [Sandia] facility operates spy satellites, and their line of inquiry strongly suggested that they were trying to search back through spy satellite imagery to see whether the UFO had been captured on film.”
Commenting on the crash report and the subsequent military maneuvers, which involved no fewer than thirty-two warships, seven submarines and eighty aircraft, Nick Pope stated at the time: “Rumors began to circulate that the whole incident might center on the crash and recovery of a top-secret prototype aircraft or unmanned aerial vehicle such as the rumored Aurora or HALO.”
The event was never fully resolved. The final official word went to the Ministry of Defense, who informed journalist Jonathan Dillon: “As you are aware, following reports to the authorities of an alleged explosion in the air, an extensive search of the area was carried out by the RAF and the Coastguard. This search was later called off after it became clear that no aircraft had been reported overdue.” That is where the matter rests today.
One of the most intriguing astronomy stories of the past year has been the discovery of ‘Oumuamua, the first-known interstellar object to visit our solar system. The object was first discovered around a year ago and has since been the source of endless speculation and study. While there are still those both within and without the astronomical community who believe ‘Oumuamua could be an alien probe, the prevailing theory states that ‘Oumuamua is likely an asteroid, comet, or possibly even a sliver of a planet blown apart by its dying host star.
Our first glimpse at ‘Oumuamua, the small dot in the center of this image.
‘Oumuamua is back in the headlines this week as Harvard researchers have published a study claiming that the strange object exhibited anomalous behavior as it approached our Sun which could bolster the theory that the object could be artificial in nature after all. According to Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the object increased in velocity as it passed our Sun without changing its spin, something abnormal for a comet.
Comets often experience a process known as outgassing when they warm and release gases trapped inside their icy bodies. When this occurs, the sudden release of gasses causes comets’ spins to change in either speed or direction. ‘Oumuamua, on the other hand, did neither. The researchers claim this could be due to the fact that the interstellar object might actually be a light sail, a spacecraft which uses solar radiation as its primary mode of propulsion:
We explain the excess acceleration of `Oumuamua away from the sun as the result of the force that the sunlight exerts on its surface. For this force to explain measured excess acceleration, the object needs to be extremely thin, of order a fraction of a millimeter in thickness but tens of meters in size. This makes the object lightweight for its surface area and allows it to act as a light-sail. Its origin could be either natural (in the interstellar medium or proto-planetary disks) or artificial (as a probe sent for a reconnaissance mission into the inner region of the solar system).
Of course, other astronomers and scientists have raised objections to this new study, arguing that these two astronomers have “taken advantage of [their] institution’s brand to over-amplify results that are unverified or highly speculative.” Still, given that scientists here on Earth are looking into the same technology as a means of exploring distant areas of the universe, it’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility.
‘Oumuamua’s path through our Solar System.
Ultimately, while this new study is far from conclusive, it shows that ‘Oumuamua still presents one of the most fascinating astronomical mysteries of our time. Have we witnessed the first signs of extraterrestrial life? Could future generations look back on this discovery as first contact?
“If we were to successfully close a handshake and start to communicate, we could flash a message, at a data rate of about a few hundred bits per second, which would get there in just a few years.”
And in a few years later? Will a hungry, precious-metal seeking, conquest-minded band of extraterrestrials show up with their weapons, drills and recipe books ready to take over our planet … after first thanking MIT for letting them know we’re here? That’s one scenario that could play out if a Massachusetts Institute of Technology project goes from drawing board to reality. Do we really want to send up a bat-signal for what might be real bat people? What else could possibly go wrong?
“The kinds of lasers and telescopes that are being built today can produce a detectable signal, so that an astronomer could take one look at our star and immediately see something unusual about its spectrum. I don’t know if intelligent creatures around the sun would be their first guess, but it would certainly attract further attention.”
That’s the proposal of James Clark, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and author of the study, “Optical Detection of Lasers with Near-term Technology at Interstellar Distances,” published this week in The Astrophysical Journal. He even has some targets in mind for the signal – Proxima Centauri b, the exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of nearby Proxima Centauri; and TRAPPIST-1, an ultra-cool red dwarf star just 40 light years away which has seven temperate planets capable of hosting life forms that may have evolved astronomers who could be scanning the skies looking for flashing “Come and get us!” signs. In fact, the beam James has in mind could be picked up by ET astronomers making even minor brief scans of the Milky Way.
Artist’s impression of Proxima Centauri b
As his final project for the MIT class 16.343 (Spacecraft, and Aircraft Sensors and Instrumentation), James proposes pairing a conventional infrared laser with a large telescope whose mirror would be used to intensify the beam to up to ten times the infrared brightness of sun, thus identifying it as something out of the ordinary. In the MIT press release, he speculates that either a 2-megawatt laser pointed through a 30-meter telescope or a 1-megawatt laser reflected by a 45-meter telescope could be seen by TRAPPIST-1 or Proxima Centauri planets. Equipment now in existence that could meet those would include the U.S. Air Force’s Airborne Laser (designed to down ballistic missiles) and, while still under construction, the 24-meter Giant Magellan Telescope and the 39-meter European Extremely Large Telescope in Chile.
What could possibly go wrong? One thing you may not have considered is that such a beam would be extremely dangerous to those working and living around it.
“Such a beam would produce a flux density of about 800 watts of power per square meter, which is approaching that of the sun, which generates about 1,300 watts per square meter. While the beam wouldn’t be visible, it could still damage people’s vision if they were to look directly at it. The beam could also potentially scramble any cameras aboard spacecraft that happen to pass through it.”
Not a problem, says James. Just build it on the dark side of the Moon. That would put it in a place where it can’t hurt any humans or their spacecrafts and would make Pink Floyd very happy.
If we can send such a signal to ETs, can we see if they send one back? Not yet, says James. Current imaging technology would require that a telescope be aimed directly at the beam source when it is sent.
So, they can see us with their superior technology, which could be used for spaceships as well, but we can’t see them. What could possibly go wrong?
“Whether or not this is a good idea, that’s a discussion for future work.”
I found a few alien bodies on the surface of Mars in a gigapan photo today. One alien, I colored it green...above...looks semi human like, reptilian with arms and legs and similar head to some degree.
However I also found Jabba the Hutt from Star Wars. The Jabba body laying down as if it had died and layed down. The eyes, head, mouth, nose are all similar to that of the character in Star Wars. Also the body is equally long and shaped. But what really sends me is that there is a hand...that looks exactly like the hand in the photo of Jabba the Hutt. It sounds to me like the person who wrote Star Wars had some inside information.
Oh, sometimes the link says error...just renew the page a few times until its visible. Is just fine.
The term “Flying Saucer” was coined in June 1947. On the 24thof the month, an American pilot named Kenneth Arnold encountered a squadron of strange-looking aircraft flying near Mt. Rainier, Washington State, USA. It’s a fact, however, that UFOs were seen long before Kenneth Arnold’s historic sighting occurred. In the latter part of the 19th century, numerous people across the United States reported sightings of what were termed “mystery airships” and “phantom airships.” During the Second World War, pilots reported close encounters with small balls of light that appeared to be under intelligent control. They became known as “Foo Fighters” (they had nothing to do with Dave Grohl…). Then, in the summer of 1946, Scandinavia was targeted by numerous UFOs. They were referred to as “Ghost Rockets.” Reports surfaced from Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden and caused brief, but worrying, situations for those countries.
On July 11, the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, prepared a secret memo that, in part, reads as follows: “For some weeks there have been numerous reports of strange rocket-like missiles being seen in Swedish and Finnish skies. During [the] past few days reports of such objects being seen have greatly increased…Military Attaché is investigating through Swedish channels and has been promised results of Swedish observations. Swedes profess ignorance as to origin character or purpose of missiles but state definitely they are not launched by Swedes.”
Newspaper photo of Swedish “ghost rocket”, photographed July 9, 1946, by Erik Reuterswärd, Guldsmedshyttan, Sweden.
Although the most obvious – and likely – explanation was that the Ghost Rockets were Soviet in origin, such a theory was never proved. Equally intriguing, midway through July a number of alleged crashes of Ghost Rockets were reported, even though certain facts were withheld; something which leaves the stories open-ended, but still highly thought-provoking. On July 19, 1947, the Oslo-based Aftenposten newspaper ran an article titled “Did two rocket bombs go down in Mjosa?” The article included the following, notable words:
“From a man in Feiring we received this morning a sensational report that two rocket bombs crashed into Mjosa last night. They were shaped like ordinary planes, but quite small with only a 2½-meter wing-span and came between 24 and 0:30 this morning from the west at low height over the southerly part of Feiring, where they were observed by many persons, among them at the Hasselbaken Inn and at the Arnes. The forward one was not lighted. People noticed them because they heard a loud whistle and directly after they came flying into sight at terrific speed. They went so low that trees were left swaying after they passed. Nearly midway out in Mjosa, nearer the Feiring side, the water took a big splash and the spray stood many meters high in the air where the objects disappeared.”
Less than twenty-four hours later, Aftenposten ran a follow-up article, “Are experiments with Flier X underway over Norway?” It told a fascinating story: “Up till now it has not been possible to get any certain corroboration for all the reports which have arrived that rocket planes or rocket projectiles have been observed both in this country and in Sweden. Meanwhile reports recently have been so numerous and definite that they can no longer be rejected as products of people’s lively imaginations. It is far from impossible that one or more foreign powers is conducting secret experiments with new weapons of the V-like type.”
Despite intensive investigations on the part of several countries, the Ghost Rocket phenomenon was never solved to the satisfaction of everyone and it came to a sudden end before 1946 was over. Indeed, like so many UFO encounters that post-dated the 1946 incidents in Scandinavia, the Ghost Rockets incidents had a distinct “here one minute and gone the next minute” aspect to them.
Strange and traumatic dreams that occur after someone has encountered the UFO phenomenon up close and personal are nothing new. The September 1961 alien abduction affair of Betty and Barney Hill is a perfect example. Many, however, might not be aware of the sheer scale of such weird and stressful situations. So, with that latter point in mind, I thought I would share with you a few examples from my old files. They are a few of what amount to many. Today, the phenomenon of so-called Shadow People is very well known. Their name is most apt: these shadow-like entities are dark, human-like in appearance, and dangerous. Theories for who, or what, they may be range from aliens to demons, and shapeshifters to time-travelers. Whatever their point of origin – or maybe even multiple origins – an early encounter with one of these wretched things was encountered in Boston, Massachusetts by a young woman named Sally Salisbury, in early 1961.
In the early hours of a winter’s morning, Salisbury was woken from a deep sleep by the terrifying sight of one of the Shadow People looming over her and oozing negativity and hatred, senses that Salisbury immediately picked up on. Paralysis set in – also immediately – and which lasted for around two minutes, after which the entity vanished. Interestingly, and very likely directly connected, on the following night Salisbury had a graphic dream – if that is all it was – of being taken on-board a UFO and subjected to traumatic and intrusive procedures of a medical and gynecological nature.
There is also the May 1962 report of Leonard Murray, of Beckenham, Kent, England. In the early hours of the morning in question he was awakened from a dead sleep by a “spaceman” wearing a “fishbowl”-style “space helmet” and a light blue outfit. The other-world character warned Murray that a Third World War was on the horizon and that he and his family should prepare to try and survive the looming Apocalypse. Cold War-era anxieties? Or a real encounter with an extraterrestrial concerned about our future as a species? More than half a century later, the chances are we will never find out the truth of this odd encounter.
British Royal Air Force Provost and Security Services files – now officially in the public domain – tell a strange story of the Morris family that was driving near the Staffordshire, England village of Barton-Under-Needwood, at some time after 11:00 p.m. on October 4, 1972. They claimed to have seen a small, metallic-looking UFO that was hovering in the road in front of them at a height of about three or four feet. They were forced to bring their car to a quick halt, and stared, amazed, as the object silently floated before them – at least, for around twenty seconds, after which the UFO shot into the sky. Notably, all of the family had strange dreams the night following the incident – George Morris having dreamed of being taken aboard a UFO and his wife, Sheila, having a nightmare of seeing a creepy, small, humanoid creature standing by the car. Deeply repressed memories of an alien abduction? Very possibly.
After attending a gig in Austin, Texas in April 1982, Sally, Jen, and Mary drove back to their home-city of Waco – also situated in the Lone Star State. On the way back, however, something strange happened around 2:00 a.m.: the three teenage friends had a period of what in UFO/alien abduction research circles is known as “missing time.” Austin to Waco is not a particularly long journey; however, all three girls were shocked to find there was a period of around three hours that could not be accounted for when they got home. They soon began having nightmarish dreams of being taken on-board a UFO by dwarfish creatures that had faces “like frogs.” All three stated they were subjected to intrusive medical procedures and all were told they would forget the experience – which, as it transpires, they clearly did not.
Now, we have to take a trip back to the very early hours of Christmas Day 1985. Only hours after briefly seeing a cigar-shaped UFO hovering near Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England, Sandra Green – who was driving home after a late night Christmas Eve party, in the English city of Bath – had a bizarre dream in which three Men in Black warned her to keep her nose out of UFOs. That the dream was so graphic led Sandra to believe that the MIB had the ability to literally get inside her dreams, manipulate those very same dreams, and issue a bone-chilling warning – one she has not forgotten.
Although skeptics might be inclined to suggest that a dream is just a dream and nothing else, just maybe that’s not always the case.
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Mars: The Entire Planet is a Smoking Gun, Lets Break It Down, Nov 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Mars: The Entire Planet is a Smoking Gun, Lets Break It Down, Nov 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Here is a great video talking about why there are so many Mars artifacts in rover photos and why people are programed to not believe their own eyes. Excellent video by TheRealJimmyRoberts1 of Youtube. It it just me or does Jimmy have a Disney narrative voice happening? Cool. Scott C. Waring
Filer’s Files #44 -2018 Astronaut Donald Slayton Chased UFOs - PART I
Perrysville, Ohio captured photo of triangle on September 3, 2018.
Filer’s Files #44 -2018 Astronaut Donald Slayton Chased UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Astronaut Donald Slayton Chased UFO, Dogon Tribe Claims Aliens were here in the Past, and The Big Lie.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Indiana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Belgium, Canada, Portugal, Reuion Island, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
Astronaut Donald Slayton Chased UFO
Donald Slayton, a Mercury astronaut, revealed in an interview he had seen UFOs in 1951: “I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is going to fly that high.” As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, grey and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn’t look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk. About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me – and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.”
Dogon Tribe Claims Aliens were here in the Past
Dogon Tribe– In Mali, West Africa, lives a tribe of people called the Dogon whose astronomical lore goes back thousands of years to 3200 BC. According to their traditions, the star Sirius has a companion star which is invisible to the human eye. This companion star has a 50 year elliptical orbit around the visible Sirius and is extremely heavy. It also rotates on its axis.
This legend might be of little interest but the two French anthropologists, Marcel Griaule and Germain Dieterlen, who recorded it from four Dogon priests in the 1930’s. How did a people who lacked any kind of astronomical devices know so much about an invisible star? The star, which scientists call Sirius B, wasn’t even photographed until it was done by a large telescope in 1970.
Nommos
The Dogon oral traditions claim a race people from the Sirius system called the Nommos visited Earth thousands of years ago. The Nommos were ugly, amphibious beings that resembled mermen and mermaids. If we examine the Ubaid figures at left, we see these Nummo figures were uncovered in Ur, in southern Iraq, and date from around 4500 BCE. According to Gordon Childe, they came from prehistoric villages of the Ubaid culture that was named after a site near Ur explored in 1922. Childe said they reappeared in northern Mesopotamia, where they were found at many sites from the Kurdish foothills in Assyria east of the Tigris River to the bend of the Euphrates near Carchemish, and even further west.13
The British Museum also exhibits other figures that look almost identical to these. One is a terracotta figure of a lizard woman suckling a lizard child. She is described by the museum as a lizard figurine. The museum’s description reports the child’s head as being coffee-bean shaped and elongated, with slanted eyes. Leonard Woolley found the figure, along with a few bones and a clay vessel, in a poorly preserved grave in the cemetery at Ur.
What is interesting is that these figures show horizontal lines that stretch from one side of the belly to the other. They also show the vertical lines that appear in two rows of short slanting incisions forming a series of Vs without points. Another terracotta figure in the British Museum shows these lines extending from just below the figure’s breasts to below the navel, just as Dogon women were tattooed. It is significant that these lines appear on all of the figures.
The lizard figurine from the British Museum clearly reveals the creature has a fish tail. The circular markings at the shoulder joints of these figures may represent the circular bones that distended from the skin of the Nummo at the joints and which were mimicked by the Dogon in wearing copper arm and wrist bracelets. The fact that statues resembling descriptions of the Nummo have been uncovered in the Middle East would suggest the Nummo travelled to other places on Earth besides Africa.
A similar figure, on display in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, is referred to as a serpent goddess or mother goddess and is from the Proto-Literate period 4000 BCE.
They lack ears and have slanted eyes with a protruding nose that almost resembles a cow’s nose. This is significant because in Egyptian mythology, the Nummo were associated with Isis, who is sometimes known as the “cow of heaven.” The Nummo were amphibious, living both on land and in water. It is evident from the Dogon religion that the Nummo preferred water to land, as their fish-like tails would have been more useful in moving in water than on land.
The Nommos, according to the Dogon legend, lived on a planet that orbits another star in the Sirius system. They landed on Earth in an “ark” that made a spinning decent to the ground with great noise and wind. It was the Nommos that gave the Dogon the knowledge about Sirius B.
The legend goes on to say the Nommos also furnished the Dogon’s with some interesting information about our own solar system: That the planet Jupiter has four major moons, that Saturn has rings and that the planets orbit the sun. These were all facts discovered by Westerners only after Galileo invented the telescope.
The story of the Dogon and their legend was first brought to popular attention by Robert K.G. Temple in a book published in 1977 called The Sirius Mystery. Sirius B’s existence was suspected as early as 1844 and seen was through a telescope in 1862. It doesn’t seem to explain a 400-year old Dogon artifact that apparently depicts the Sirius configuration nor the ceremonies held by the Dogon since the 13th century to celebrate the cycle of Sirius A and B. It also doesn’t explain how the Dogons knew about the super-density of Sirius B, a fact only discovered a few years before the anthropologists recorded the Dogon stories.
It is also important to remember that although many parts of the Dogon legends seem to ring true, other portions are clearly mistaken. One of the Dogon’s beliefs is that Sirius B occupied the place where our Sun is now. Physics clearly prohibits this. Also, if the Dogon believe that Sirius B orbits Sirius A every 50 years, why do they hold their celebrations every 60 years?
Sirius A is the brightest star in our sky and can easily be seen in the winter months in the northern hemisphere. Look for the constellation Orion. Orion’s belt are the three bright stars in a row. Follow an imaginary line through the three stars to Sirius which is just above the horizon. It is bluish in color.
Sirius is only 8.6 light years from Earth. Astronomer W.Bessel was the first to suspect that Sirius had an invisible companion when he observed that the path of the star wobbled. In the 1920’s it was determined that Sirius B, the companion of Sirius, was a “white dwarf” star. The pull of its gravity caused Sirius’s wavy movement.
White dwarfs are small, dense stars that burn dimly. Sirius B is, in fact, smaller than the planet Earth. One teaspoon of Sirius B is so dense that it weighs 5 tons.
So did alien fish-men pay a visit to ancient Earth and give the Dogon their knowledge? Or was the Dogon’s culture contaminated by western visitors? Or could the Dogon’s have had ancient technical or non-technical means to find this information out? Or is the whole thing just a matter of coincidence?
The question maybe settled as larger and more powerful telescopes take a look at the Sirius system. According to the legend there is a third star: Sirius C, and it is around Sirius C that the home planet of the Nommos orbits. Most scientists do not consider any part of the Sirius system a prime candidate for life, though.
When Temple first issued his book in the 1970’s there was no solid evidence of a Sirius C. In 1995, however, two French researchers, Daniel Benest and J.L. Duvent, authored an article in the prestigious journal Astronomy and Astrophysics with the title
Is Sirius a Triple Star? and suggested (based on observations of motions in the Sirius system) there is a small third star there. They thought the star was probably of a type known as a “red dwarf” and only had about .05 the mass of Sirius B.
Ancient Civilizations Possessed Exceptional Knowledge 5500 BC.
Note space ship carved on mountain at upper left
In recent years an increasing number of researchers in astronomy have come to the conclusion that most of the ancient civilizations possessed an exceptional astronomical knowledge. Not only did various advanced cultures across the globe determine the length of the solar year and developed reliable calendar systems, but they were also aware about a certain celestial phenomenon, such as ‘Precession of the Equinox’.
While many of the famous archeological sites offer us solid evidence that ancient temple, pyramids and other buildings were designed and oriented towards the rising and culmination of certain constellations or specific stars like Sirius. Many cultures had a fascination with the stars and their cyclical motion. References to Sirius can be found in early Egyptian and Greek texts. Ancient Sumerian, Babylonian, Indian, Chinese, and Mesoamerican records tell of visitors to Earth from other planets.
French Professor Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen began, over a period of several decades starting in 1931, undertook an extensive field study of the Dogon tribe in West Africa. Dogon elders revealed secrets of their religion and extraordinary knowledge of the universe.
Later Robert Temple wrote the book “The Sirius Mystery” that truly popularized the knowledge of the Dogon tribe of Mali, Africa. A fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, Temple earned a degree in Oriental studies and Sanskrit at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Temple claims civilization on earth resulted from contact with inhabitants of a planet in the Sirius star system prior to 3,000 B.C. Sumerians and several other African tribes claim they were visited by extraterrestrials who came from a watery planet.
They were given great knowledge by visitors from a planet within Orion’s Belt near Sirius. The tribal cultures and most sacred traditions are based on special knowledge of the Sirius system is astounding in its accuracy and detail, including information only recently known to modern science. The Dogon legends about two companion to Sirius are claimed to originate before any terrestrial astronomer could have known of the existence of Sirius B, let alone its 50-year orbit or its nature as a tiny, condensed white dwarf star, all of which the Dogon allegedly knew.In the information imparted to the French anthropologists, the Dogon referred to a small and super-dense companion of Sirius, made of matter heavier than anything on Earth, and moving in a 50-year elliptical orbit around its parent star and a third outer orbiting star. The white dwarf companion of Sirius which answers to this description was not seen until 1862, when the American optician Alvan Graham Clark spotted it while testing a new telescope; the superdense nature of white dwarfs was not realized until the 1920s. A Dogon legend, similar to many other tales by primitive people of visits from the sky, speaks of an “ark” descending to the ground amid a great wind. The Dogon claim the ark brought to Earth an amphibious group of beings, known as the Nommo. “Nommo is the collective name for the great culture-hero and founder of civilization who came from the Sirius system to set up society on the Earth,” The Sumerians also claim they were visited by similar being called Oannes who brought writing, organization and education.The Dogon’s cosmogonic legend explains the structure of the universe and the origin of life. It appears that long before empirical science established their facts, the Dogon already knew that “the sun turns on its own axis, as if propelled by a huge spiral spring. The Earth turns on its axis, around its center, and makes a great circle like a top its spinning. The moon turns like a conical spiral around the Earth.” The Dogon elders not only possess an accurate astronomical understanding of our solar system, but they also have an astonishing clear perception of mankind’s place in the universe.gon believe Amma is the supreme God, the creator of the universe. The starting point of creation. Amma means: to hold tight, embrace strongly and keep in the same place”.
The Nommo Monitors are the “ancestors” of men, to whom Amma entrusted a part of the management of the universe. Genesis in the Bible tells a similar account of the Nephilim, “Those Who Have Come Down, from the Heaven to Earth.” The Dogon describe an ark raising a whirlwind, presumably a spaceship. The impact roughened the ground and the flame went out when it touched the earth. The ark moved to a hollow that was filled with water, whereupon the aliens emerged.According to Berossus, a Babylonian historian the whole body of the alien was like a fish; and had under fish’s head another head, and also feet below, similar to a man, subjoined to the fish’s tail. His voice was articulate and provided advanced technology to the Babylonians, how to build cities and temples, develop laws and taught mathematics to create civiization, etc build.He was similar to the stories of mermen and mermaids. He jumped into the water at sunset. Astronomers have speculated that many planets water planets where life could have developed. The Dogon have a 400 year old artifact that shows the three star system.These aliens combined their DNA with the animals of Earth to create humanity. According to the Dogon, there wasn’t any intelligent life on the planet when the Nummo first came here.. According to the Dogon, the Nummo were perceived as being immortal; that is, when they died and were reborn, they were able to remember their previous existence. Because the Nummos’ world was dying, they planned to incorporate their consciousness into the Earth beings they created and then live here on the planet.The beings were technology superior to humans. I suspect the idea of human superiority was the main reason why the existence of the Nummo has been historically denied.The Nummo, also referred to as the Serpents, were amphibians that were often compared to serpents, lizards, chameleons. They were also identified as fish capable of walking on land; while they were on land, the Nummo stood upright on their tails. The Nummos’ skin was primarily green.The fingers of the Nummo were likewise unusual and differed from humans. The physical appearance of the Nummo could be seen in the jeweler and other styles of the tribe. Copper rings were only worn on the first finger, ring finger, or little finger because on the Nummos’ webbed hands circular swellings appeared on these fingers in the place of joints, which these rings imitated. He said people of the tribe didn’t wear rings on the thumb or third finger because on the Serpent those fingers were smooth and supple so that rings wouldn’t stay in place. Because the Nummo only had a tail instead of feet, no one in the tribe wore jeweler on his or her toes. They did however wear a copper ring or a row of beads on the right ankle to replicate the circular bone found at the end of the Nummo’s tail.In other examples of the Dogon mimicking the appearance of the Nummo, members of the tribe wore a circlet of green beads on their temples to mimic the Nummos’ glittering forehead and necklaces to represent the wrinkles of the Serpent’s neck. This circlet of green beads on the Nummos’ temple and the Nummos’ wrinkled neck are also characteristics of iguanas. The two red beads members of the tribe wore on their nostrils signified the Nummos’ red eyes. Other tribal members wore copper bracelets on their wrists and elbows to represent the circular bones that extended from the skin at that part of the Serpent’s arms.Women also filed their teeth to a point to mimic the sharp teeth of the Serpent and had tattoos on their bodies that resembled the lines found on the Nummos’ belly.
These figures were uncovered in Ur, in southern Iraq, and date from around 4500 BCE. According to Gordon Childe, they came from prehistoric villages of the Ubaid culture that was named after a site near Ur explored in 1922. Childe said they reappeared in northern Mesopotamia, where they were found at many sites from the Kurdish foothills in Assyria east of the Tigris River to the bend of the Euphrates near Carchemish, and even further west.A terracotta figure in the British Museum shows these lines extending from just below the figure’s breasts to below the navel, just as Dogon women were tattooed. On the figures, the lines only appear below the navel. It is significant that these lines appear on all of the figures.The fact that statues resembling descriptions of the Nummo have been uncovered in the Middle East would suggest the Nummo travelled to other places on Earth besides Africa.A similar figure, on display in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, is referred to as a serpent goddess or mother goddess and is from the Proto-Literate period 4000 BCE. The statue in the Baghdad museum has been damaged, and the bottom is missing, but it does have the same lines on the belly.They are snake-, fish-, and lizard-like. The Nummos’ eyes were slanted, just as they are on these figures. They have shapeless necks and have unusual somewhat protruding nose that almost resembles a cow’s nose. This is significant because in Egyptian mythology, the Nummo were associated with Isis, who is sometimes known as the “cow of heaven.” The Nummo were amphibious, living both on land and in water. It is evident from the Dogon religion that the Nummo preferred water to land, as their fish-like tails would have been more useful in moving in water than on land.Amphibians best known to us are frogs, toads, and salamanders, species which have survived for hundreds of millions of years. Dogon mythology tells that the Nummo preferred dark, cool caves and liked to move about at night rather than in the daylight. It is possible that they might have been affected by sunlight in the same way as these modern long-toed salamanders were. Thanks to Robber TempleThe Big LieNew York Times bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza is out with a new book aimed at exposing what he calls “The Big Lie” of the progressive Left. 3 to 5 million Democrats in 1930 were in the KKK”Ever since Trump, the Left has been accusing him of being a fascist; the Republican Party is the party of Neo-Nazis — all of this is based on the assumption that fascism is on the Right, (that) it’s a ring-wing thing,” D’Souza told CBN News. “What I do in the book is kind of a deep history of fascism and National Socialism. I show, “These have always been on the Left.'”
In his new book, The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, D’Souza says it is not the GOP that is the party closely aligned with fascism, but the Democratic Left.He makes the claim that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger inspired Nazi racial theorists. “Margaret Sanger was part of a community in the United States and they were the community of eugenics. Eugenics means you sort of encourage the people you think are fit or successful to have children, and you try to prevent the people you consider to be inferior from breeding at all,” explained D’Souza.”So Margaret Sanger supported forced sterilization, and these forced sterilization laws that were promoted in the United States were copied by the Nationalist Socialist Party (Nazis) in 1933 for the notorious Nazi-forced sterilization program,” he continued.”And similarly American progressives were advocating what one guy called lethal chambers to kill off people. And the Nazis again established a euthanasia program using lethal chambers to kill 6 million Jews with carbon monoxide gas,” he said.
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Planned Parenthood even now aborts some 50o,000 babies a year at a public government cost of 500 million dollars. Since seven members of the Supreme Court passed Roe vs Wade 60,000.000 (sixty million) babies have been killed. The abortion pill costs a $1000.00. Thousands of Americans go to foreign countries to adopt babies that could be born here.If you go to the college campuses you see these groups called anti-fascist, and yet if you look at them they’re wearing costumes; they wear masks; they carry bike locks and baseballs bats as weapons,” D’Souza told CBN.”They intimidate. They terrorize. They use violence yet they’re doing it supposedly to fight fascism — except they look like the fascists, they talk like the fascists and they behave like fascists.Article III | Constitution Section 3 states. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. The main US news media broadcasts over 90% of the stories that are strongly against the government and elected President giving aid and comfort to the enemies of this country nightly. Because treason involves the betrayal of allegiance to the United States, a person need not be a U.S. citizen to commit treason under the Constitution. Persons who owe temporary allegiance to the United States can commit treason. Aliens who are domiciliaries of the United States, for example, can commit traitorous acts during the period of their domicile. A subversive act does not need to occur on U.S. soil to be punishable as treason. For example, Mildred Gillars, a U.S. citizen who became known as Axis Sally, was convicted of treason for broadcasting demoralizing propaganda tallied forces in Europe from a Nazi radio station in Germany during World War II. Each night I hear demoralizing propaganda from the news media concerning the President who has given us jobs and comparative prosperity. MSNBC claims Trump is a Nazi. The media is pushing people apart and creating the likelihood of insurrection. Treason is punishable by death. If a death sentence is not imposed, defendants face a minimum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine (18 U.S.C.A. § 2381). A person who is convicted of treason may not hold federal office at any time thereafter. I recommend not buying any product advertized on the evening news. Thanks to Dinesh D’SouzaNote: The lady who claimed she was raped by Judge Kavanaugh has admitted making false claims. Judy Monro Leighton has been referred to the Department of Justice authorities by the Senate for lying. Brett Kavanaugh and his wife received death threats for alleged rape.. ABC reports Kavanaugh Accuser ADMITS She’s NOT SURE if Assaulter Was on internet. Note fake news such as NBC, CBS did not cover story on national TV news.
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report – for October 2018:
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe.
In October 2018 there were 750 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;
US-515,
United Kingdom – 51,
Canada – 49,
Chile -26,
Australia – 17,
France -11,
Brazil -8.
and Turkey -5.
Rock Show with NJ Field Investigators Glen Green and Ken Pfeifer on November 3, 2018
Maricopa — I was taking video of the moon as I do 3-4 times a week. It was cloudy on the 22nd. I finally got a brief break in the clouds. At 6:07 I started to record. At 1 minute and 7 seconds #1 comes from the 2 o’clock position to the 8 o’clock position.#2 comes out at the 1:20 time frame. it comes out at 9 o’clock. #3 passes right by #2.. #4 comes in at 2:40 from the 4 o’clock position to the 7 o’clock position. #5 2:50 the cigar shape comes from 2 o’clock to 5 o’clock. #6 comes in at 3:40. He is traveling from the 8 o’clock position to the 5 o’clock position. #7 comes in at 3:48 and is traveling from the 2 ‘clock position. #8 comes in a 5:32. it is just visible for a minute at the very top of the moon. The video is on Youtube on Moonshot 23 channel. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Arkansas Orb
Hot Springs — My husband and I were on vacation in on October 27, 2018, at around 7:15 pm, we were leaving our cabin which was in a remote area about 10 minutes outside of Hot Springs. I looked up above I saw an object wasn’t moving. I grabbed my cell phone and began taking pictures. My husband asked me what the heck was taking so long, so I had him get out of the car and look to see what he thought. He was as baffled as I was. I then took a video. I was wondering how close they were to the object, but it was too hard to tell. Unfortunately, I did not get that on video. We watched it for another minute or two, and then left. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California object
Monrovia– On October 17, 2018, my father was driving on the 210-W Freeway when he noticed a dark object hovering in the sky. At first he thought it was a cloud so he pulled his phone to take pictures, thinking it was strange to see such a tiny cloud floating along by itself.He witnessed it for about 10-minutes during the drive, a hotel that blocked his view. When he came around the other side of the bend the object was just gone. The object was just hovering there.
Florida Lights
Alys Beach – My wife and I were biking west/northwest to our house on 30A from dinner at Rosemary Beach (1 mile to the east/southeast at 8:00PM. We noticed two orbs at 45-degree elevation in the sky that appeared to be less than a mile away at ~2,000 feet. One orb was white and appeared to be rotating slowly. The other orb would alternate between green and red. The light emission slowly pulsated in a somewhat irregular. I moved to the western edge of Alys Beach along 30A and observed the craft for 20 minutes. Each moved in a different oblong pattern circling away from Alys Beach while changing altitude and then both would circle back. I observed the orbs for another ten minutes. Eglin Air Force Base is located 25 miles to the west. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Star
Portage — It is getting dark at 6:30 PM this time of year on October 15, 2018, so I am observing my UFO friends earlier. I first noticed one in July of this year. I observed UFO/Drones out the front and back windows with my 10×50 binoculars, the front one being more distant and thus less interesting. About 6:48 PM, I noticed a brightly lit small plane approaching the UFO from behind and above. I estimate the UFO to be about 10 feet in diameter, and 1,000 yards away and about 450 feet high.I went out into the backyard with my “iPad” camera to get a better view and took 13 pictures that turned out dim and fuzzy, but do show a circle of lights. Note: The witness likely took a photo of an out of focus planet or star. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
New Jersey Triangle
Cape May — We were at my kids soccer game when silver/metallic object appeared above the soccer game with many witnesses. Some of the kids say a triangular object came out of the bottom of the object.Monroe — I was watching TV it had just turned October 7th my sisters birthday, when I felt an extreme “telepathic like” urge to go onto the balcony.My uncle recorded this and noticed the alien later watching the video. It appeared as if there was a plane downing in the farm field at 12:36 am! I ran back to the deck to find two brilliant extremely bright lights cloaking a gigantic triangular craft 40 yardx40yardx40yarda 120 feet.It was only 75feet above me and was silent. It observed me for 5 minutes but could have been hours. 3 separateGreen, red, green-white randomly flashing around the craft! the center of the triangle was circular of a power force looking orange. Tithe bottom of the craft was made of a metallic alloy, grayish black that was ultra smooth looking,it had finally left from a hovering position to a slow non earthly drag crossing right over the trees! After the event occurred all I remember is waking up on the couch.I would be subject to an array of powerful, divine, intriguing addiction of different dimensional dream states each night surviving on other planets. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Cylinder
Utica— My uncle recorded this and didn’t notice the alien until later watching the video. the video in Slow Motion.The video of the cylinder was taken on October 29, 2018. Note: No alien was observed except cylinder. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Triangle
Perrysville — While taking pictures of a local drill site with my dad, we did not notice anything strange on September 3, 2018. We also did not hear a jet engine or anything to indicate a craft was nearby. Before leaving the site, I took a series of photos and then rolled up the windows and left the site. After looking back at the pictures obtained, we noticed a symmetrical craft extremely detailed in the photo. My dad is a private pilot and former Army and I am retired from the Marine Corps and we both have never seen a delta shaped craft like this. My dad has reached out to other pilots to help identify without any help. We cannot figure out if the craft is descending towards us or ascending away from us. The vector the craft is flying towards Mansfield LAM where the 179th Air Wing is located. My dad has asked 12 airmen from the wing and non have confirmed to know anything about this craft. It looked just like a Sting ray and was all black. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Lights
Kensington — On Tuesday 6:02 am, I noticed an aircraft on October 30, 2018. As the object turned towards me. I said, “That’s not an airplane or helicopter”. .And as it got closer, I did not hear a sound. .I recorded the object to the best of my ability..I caught a triangular shape as it moved over me with a red and 2 white lights blinking. If someone can track this thing on October 30, 2018, at 6:02 am over and Allegheny Avenue. Northeast Philadelphia. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Triangle
San Antonio — I was looking at the southern sky I turned around to look north and noticed 3 meteors falling they were falling like a feather nm July 7, 2018. It was an angular fall. I began to wonder what it was. I was on my drive way. It was heading to the center of city it continued to fall. The tips of triangle are burning hot bright white yellow. Just as I thought it was going to crash land it pulled up ventral side up I noticed the pink burning atmosphere around the sides. It had 3 bright green lights on its sides. It looked as large as a jet airliner. As it pulled up to avoid a crash it flew over the area it appeared to head to downtown area or a base. Following parallel to Fredericksburg road. I did not hear a sound. There were no planes helicopters or jets before or after. It was a very quiet night. As I stool there focusing on it as it became more clear it was a triangle with big bright green lights burning through the atmosphere just as I was losing sight over neighbors roof. I knew what I saw. I my hairs all over rose up my eyes opened wider and I said oh my God e times . no one was awake. At the time or on the street. I saw was not terrestrial. Or it had been a test and all air traffic was halted for it. Unless they USA air force had seen it and cleared traffic. It pulled up and flew against the air flat and burned pink along with the tips burning white very bright. It was the most exciting sighting I have. I have seen 2 other things in the past. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
Burien— My boyfriend and I were driving North on Highway 509 at 8:30, on November1, 2018. He commented on these bright lights ahead of us, There were 5 very bright, round lights in a horse-shoe formation not moving- they held their position and distance apart from one another. After a couple of minutes we lost sight of them because we were going slightly downhill and the dense trees to our right blocked them from view. I was anxious for the trees to clear to get another look. I looked behind us and all around to try to see where they had gone- it seemed that they would still be visible since they were so big. Even though there is an airport in the vicinity, they were not airplanes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Belgium Lights
Hulpe— On the evening of September 29, 2018, after watching the film I decided to perform my nightly ritual before going to sleep. My ritual is to go and observe 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 phone (Samsung s6). during the capture of the video, we see a luminous ball flying over without moving. This ufo emitted a continuous light and was later joined with two other objects. i decided to cut the video to show my parents the ufos. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Lights
Winnipeg — Richmond west near the Kirkbridge Railroad Crossing facing Pembina. On the way to the store which is visible on the far right corner of image (brick building). I recently wanted to try out the new camera, It recently rained so everything was wet and I thought that spot looked nice with the very slight elevation and light reflections. I did not notice anything that night. I didn’t notice the photo. until a few days later and instantly noticed, lights, shape, of a ufo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Reunion Island Lights
Saint Pierre — On October 27th, 2018, when we finish eating, an information circulates on the social networks. We go up to the top floor of our house to observe the Panoramic view on the horizon .At 20:50 exactly, we saw a light about 12/15 km from our position. A flash catches my attention, so I took my camera to capture two objects. The light made a brutal descent and then remained static .Some seconds later, another luminous point made a descent and one can observe that this second light turns around the first one which after a few seconds later disappeared (see videos). It is not the first time that one observes strange things in this sector. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Portugal Lights
Albufeira — I was walking my dog, and saw two big balls flying by at different speeds.. I stopped the video to take a picture. I thought immediately it was an UFO, I am near the Faro Airport and know exactly what are planes and helicopters. When I got home I showed the video to everyone and they say it was really weird. I tried to get answers online in Portuguese, and nobody could explain anything. Recorded with Samsung Galaxy S5 Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Africa Object
Monterey — At Laguna Race track on August 12, 2018, my wife pointed out the very bright pinpoint of hovering light in the sky. I was taking photos of race cars – with a 300mm lens and took the attached photo. We took a print with us to Sutherland, the giant telescope center in the Cape in South Africa. They said they’d forward my original to the ‘heavies’ in Cape Town. The scientists/astronomers at the center in Cape Town said they circulated the picture, and no-one had a clue as to what it might be. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Object
London— I was recently moved to north London to relax I had been watching airplanes for a good 10 minutes and saw a dark object that appeared to be moving in tight curves. It was ascending through several layers of a smattering of small rainclouds, appearing and disappearing through the clouds as it quickly rose in altitude. I first thought perhaps it was a bird of prey riding thermals before realizing it would have to be an impossibly large bird to be visible at such a distance. At this point I wasn’t listening to my partner anymore as this dark object stopped it’s steep and random twisting ascent and rapidly approached in a straight line towards us. I pointed it out to my partner as I was taken aback by its sudden approach, After pointing it out and exclaiming ‘what is that!?’ They also saw it and were confused and used their phone to try zoom in on the object. It descended as it now appeared much larger as a pitch black curved chevron shape very flat with no visible engines or body, just two large spiked and curved wings. I had never seen a plane simply stop and hover before. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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“A Dangerous Game?” MIT Proposes Laser Signaling Astronomers in Nearby Star Systems
“A Dangerous Game?” MIT Proposes Laser Signaling Astronomers in Nearby Star Systems
“If you wanted to build this thing on the far side of the moon where no one’s living or orbiting much, then that could be a safer place for it,” says MIT’s James Clark.
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists somewhere in our galaxy, a new MIT study proposes that laser technology on Earth could, in principle, be fashioned into something of a planetary porch light—a beacon strong enough to attract attention from as far as 20,000 light years away.
But, are we just asking for trouble? In his later years, Stephen Hawking repeatedly warned about the dangers of humankind meeting alien civilizations. In his 2010 documentary series Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking, he suggested that alien civilizations sufficiently advanced to visit Earth may be hostile.
“Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they could reach,” he said. “Who knows what the limits would be?”
China’s philosopher of alien contact, Liu Cixin, China’s preeminent science-fiction writer warns that the “appearance of this Other” might be imminent, and that it might result in our extinction. “Perhaps in ten thousand years, the starry sky that humankind gazes upon will remain empty and silent,” he writes in the postscript to one of his books. “But perhaps tomorrow we’ll wake up and find an alien spaceship the size of the Moon parked in orbit.”
“Any society with the capability to threaten Earth is overwhelmingly likely to already have the kit required to pick up the leakage we’ve been wafting skyward for seven decades,” Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, wrote in a 2016 opinion piece for the Guardian. “And since we’ve been busy for a lifetime filling the seas of space with bottled messages marking our existence and position, it’s a bit silly to fret about new bottles.”
“There’s a possibility that if we actively message, with the intention of getting the attention of an intelligent civilization, that the civilization we contact would not necessarily have our best interests in mind,” says Lucianne Walkowicz, an astrophysicist at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. “On the other hand, there might be great benefits. It could be something that ends life on Earth, and it might be something that accelerates the ability to live quality lives on Earth. We have no way of knowing.”
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The research, which Clark calls a “feasibility study,” appears today in the Astrophysical Journal. The findings suggest that if a high-powered 1- to 2-megawatt laser were focused through a massive 30- to 45-meter telescope and aimed out into space, the combination would produce a beam of infrared radiation strong enough to stand out from the sun’s energy.
Such a signal could be detectable by alien astronomers performing a cursory survey of our section of the Milky Way—especially if those astronomers live in nearby systems, such as around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth, or TRAPPIST-1, a star about 40 light-years away that hosts seven exoplanets, three of which are potentially habitable. If the signal is spotted from either of these nearby systems, the study finds, the same megawatt laser could be used to send a brief message in the form of pulses similar to Morse code.
“If we were to successfully close a handshake and start to communicate, we could flash a message, at a data rate of about a few hundred bits per second, which would get there in just a few years,” says Clark, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and author of the study.
The notion of such an alien-attracting beacon may seem far-fetched, but Clark says the feat can be realized with a combination of technologies that exist now and that could be developed in the near term. “This would be a challenging project but not an impossible one,” Clark says.
“The kinds of lasers and telescopes that are being built today can produce a detectable signal, so that an astronomer could take one look at our star and immediately see something unusual about its spectrum. I don’t know if intelligent creatures around the sun would be their first guess, but it would certainly attract further attention.”
Clark started looking into the possibility of a planetary beacon as part of a final project for 16.343 (Spacecraft, and Aircraft Sensors and Instrumentation), a course taught by Clark’s advisor, Associate Professor Kerri Cahoy. “I wanted to see if I could take the kinds of telescopes and lasers that we’re building today, and make a detectable beacon out of them,” Clark says.
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He started with a simple conceptual design involving a large infrared laser and a telescope through which to further focus the laser’s intensity. His aim was to produce an infrared signal that was at least 10 times greater than the sun’s natural variation of infrared emissions. Such an intense signal, he reasoned, would be enough to stand out against the sun’s own infrared signal, in any “cursory survey by an extraterrestrial intelligence.”
He analyzed combinations of lasers and telescopes of various wattage and size, and found that a 2-megawatt laser, pointed through a 30-meter telescope, could produce a signal strong enough to be easily detectable by astronomers in Proxima Centauri b, a planet that orbits our closest star, 4 light-years away. Similarly, a 1-megawatt laser, directed through a 45-meter telescope, would generate a clear signal in any survey conducted by astronomers within the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, about 40 light-years away. Either setup, he estimated, could produce a generally detectable signal from up to 20,000 light-years away.
Both scenarios would require laser and telescope technology that has either already been developed, or is within practical reach. For instance, Clark calculated that the required laser power of 1 to 2 megawatts is equivalent to that of the U.S. Air Force’s Airborne Laser, a now-defunct megawatt laser that was meant to fly aboard a military jet for the purpose of shooting ballistic missiles out of the sky. He also found that while a 30-meter telescope considerably dwarfs any existing observatory on Earth today, there are plans to build such massive telescopes in the near future, including the 24-meter Giant Magellan Telescope and the 39-meter European Extremely Large Telescope, both of which are currently under construction in Chile.
Clark envisions that, like these massive observatories, a laser beacon should be built atop a mountain, to minimize the amount of atmosphere the laser would have to penetrate before beaming out into space.
He acknowledges that a megawatt laser would come with some safety issues. Such a beam would produce a flux density of about 800 watts of power per square meter, which is approaching that of the sun, which generates about 1,300 watts per square meter. While the beam wouldn’t be visible, it could still damage people’s vision if they were to look directly at it. The beam could also potentially scramble any cameras aboard spacecraft that happen to pass through it.
If you wanted to build this thing on the far side of the moon where no one’s living or orbiting much, then that could be a safer place for it,” Clark says. “In general, this was a feasibility study. Whether or not this is a good idea, that’s a discussion for future work.”
Taking E.T.’s call: Having established that a planetary beacon is technically feasible, Clark then flipped the problem and looked at whether today’s imaging techniques would be able to detect such an infrared beacon if it were produced by astronomers elsewhere in the galaxy. He found that, while a telescope 1 meter or larger would be capable of spotting such a beacon, it would have to point in the signal’s exact direction to see it.
“It is vanishingly unlikely that a telescope survey would actually observe an extraterrestrial laser, unless we restrict our survey to the very nearest stars,” Clark says.
He hopes the study will encourage the development of infrared imaging techniques, not only to spot any laser beacons that might be produced by alien astronomers, but also to identify gases in a distant planet’s atmosphere that might be indications of life.
“With current survey methods and instruments, it is unlikely that we would actually be lucky enough to image a beacon flash, assuming that extraterrestrials exist and are making them,” Clark says. “However, as the infrared spectra of exoplanets are studied for traces of gases that indicate the viability of life, and as full-sky surveys attain greater coverage and become more rapid, we can be more certain that, if E.T. is phoning, we will detect it.”
The image at top of the page shows laser and star trails over Gemini North Observatory at Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Image below is the Keck Observatory laser.
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Unexplained: Pieces Of A UFO Have Been Falling From The Sky
Unexplained: Pieces Of A UFO Have Been Falling From The Sky
Imagine waking up one morning to find that metal is falling out of the sky.
That is exactly what happened in Preah Vihear Province located in Cambodia. Those living there one day found metal fragments literally falling out of the sky, creating a dangerous and puzzling situation where individuals had to duck for cover and where houses were damaged due to the falling debris. Once the fragments had all fallen to earth it was now time to determine where the large fragments of metal came from. Could these be from a plane that crashed in mid-flight or as some now suspect the remains of something else? As one villager was quoted as saying the remains led to an even bigger puzzle in which to solve.
A villager said:
''I heard a big noise in the morning. I was shocked and thought something bad had happened. 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.”
Once the fragments were gathered by local authorities it was time to figure out where the metal came from, but the investigation led to more question then answers. It would seem that no one has been able to pinpoint exactly where the metal came from, and it certainly was from nothing on this earth. So, the question now seems to be could this be an actual piece of a UFO and all that is left of an alien spaceship? Some believe now that this could very well be the case, but the local authorities want to know for sure where all this heavy metal came from and the wreckage has now been turned over to specialists for further investigation as Yin Chamnan, police chief of Preah Vihear explained in a statement to the public.
''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 went on to further try to explain what it could be. 'Maybe these fragments are parts of a drone that someone flew. The parts were not relatively big, ”
Despite this public statement, there are those in the village who believe that the wreckage is what is left of an alien spaceship and one of them was quoted a saying.
''Now I think that it has come from space and landed in our village. It's confusing because nobody knows what it is, ”
So, the question now is could this be further proof of visitors from another planet coming to the earth? We may never actually know for sure unfortunately, history has documented situations where people on earth have witnessed either UFO' in the sky and even witness what they believe was a UFO crashing on earth many of us remember or heard of the incident at Roswell.
Bottom line is although we suspect these incidents have happened the government and authorities seem to always give us a story that they believe is feasible to explain what ha happened. Apparently, the same thing is already happening in Cambodia, but like Roswell, there will be those who will always believe this is further proof that we aren't alone in the universe.
Former NASA employee warns: we saw a fleet of unknown ships heading to Earth
Former NASA employee warns: we saw a fleet of unknown ships heading to Earth
Dr. Eric Norton” has worked as a consultant for the National Security Agency (NSA) and NASA for about 12 years. He has worked on many projects for the government, most recently with the Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) which is involved in several research projects with the underlying goal of gaining a better understanding of the meteoroid environment so that the MEO models can be improved. They basically monitor the skies, track meteors and other objects in space.
On January 22, Dr. Eric Norton (who was a NASA consultant who was in charge of doing all the monitoring work for possible celestial threats, such as comets or asteroids that might impact the earth) was called. He went to the MacDonald Observatory located in Texas.
AT THAT MOMENT They used a wide range of installation tools so that Dr. Norton could detect a group of unidentified spacecraft with a somewhat threatening appearance. Apparently they saw a series of large structures of large dimensions in space that formed a straight line that was moving towards the planet Earth.
DURING A PERIOD OF THREE MONTHS Dr. Norton monitored the spacecraft, following the direction of the coordinates. These objects moved millions of kilometers but did not go so far as to enter the planet earth. According to the doctor, the boats had a level of technology far superior to that of our spacecraft.
He also said that the spectroscopy data suggested that unknown objects were constructed with different materials, millions of times more energetic than any of the ones we have on earth.
Of course, this hypothesis has caused great concern between Dr. Norton and his colleagues at NASA, since in addition to this, the ultraviolet spectrum images showed that the cosmic particles that adjoin the alien space diverted what must be a field of different energy the magnetic field that protects the planet Earth.
In the last ten years, the techniques have advanced a lot, especially the techniques of camouflage. Therefore, it should not surprise us if an alien civilization much more advanced than us possesses a technology that makes them become physically invisible … What do you think? Discuss your thoughts always with the respect that characterizes us. Thank you for reading this article. Don’t forget to comment below and say your opinion on this article.
To study what is accelerating our universe's expansion, scientists will use a new experiment with choreographed robots to watch millions of galaxies every 20 minutes.
In a video released Oct. 4 by the Berkeley Lab (managed by the University of California), engineers explained the ingenuity behind the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). They described DESI as a crazy machine made up of mechanical flower petals that, together, can do a grand survey of the cosmos.
The footage gives viewers a behind-the-scenes peek at the hardware's assembly. "It's really exciting to work on it," DESI Focal Plane Lead Engineer Joseph Silber said in the video. [Bringing Dark Energy Out into the Light]
Star trails surround the Mayall Telescope dome in this long-exposure image. The telescope is found at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Ariz. DESI, or Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, will be installed within this dome.
Credit: P. Marenfeld and NOAO/AURA/NSF. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, copyright 2010 the Regents of the University of California, through the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Galaxies are like the streetlights of the universe, dark energy researcher Peter Behroozi said in an earlier Berkeley Lab video about DESI. Neither dark energy nor dark matter emit light, though, so looking at objects that generate optical points will help researchers learn about the unseen, Behroozi said.
DESI will create a 3D celestial map to "pin down the nature of dark energy," Stéphanie Juneau, project scientist at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) Data Lab, said in the earlier video.
Claire Poppett, lead fiber scientist for DESI, works with a team of engineers to prepare fibers for future data rmeasurements. This is a still from an Oct. 4 Berkeley Lab video in which she explains the lab's fusing technique.
Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab
DESI is a rapidly cycling survey, and Silber said the instrument's speed is possible thanks to the 5,000 individual fiber-positioning robots. Each one views the position of a galaxy, and after 20 minutes, all 5,000 of these robots move on to new targets.
Ten wedge-shaped sections called petals hold 500 of these robots each. An individual wedge covers 36 degrees, and together, the petals make up DESI's 360-degree focal plane. The instrument will be mounted near the top of the Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona.
The observations obtained by the fibers need a way to carry that information along, so they get fused to a larger cable that takes the information to the spectroscopes that measure the light.
"We expose the bare strands of glass, and then we heat them up in a very precise way to make that connection without any losses in terms of optical quality … or any degradation of the light," said Claire Poppett, DESI lead fiber scientist.
And to further ensure the pristine quality of the instrument, the air flowing into the assembly area comes in parallel lines. Known as laminar air flow, this type of air movement keeps contamination and dust at bay by preventing them from swirling around in the room.
High-definition video has a new home: the International Space Station. A new video from NASA shows the astronauts working on their experiments, recorded in 8K imagery so clear that it makes it feel like you're floating right alongside them.
"Microgravity unlocks new worlds of discovery," reads text in the video, which was a joint project of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). "The science being conducted aboard the International Space Station is answering questions that hold the keys to our future in space and on Earth."
The rest of the video shows the Expedition 56 crew busily working on experiments aboard the orbiting complex. ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, NASA's Serena Auñón-Chancellor and NASA's Drew Feustel (who has since returned to Earth) feature prominently in the video.
These astronauts look really busy, but they also look like they're having a lot of fun. In between their work tasks, which are often scheduled down to 5-minute increments, the astronauts flash quick smiles to the camera before intensely concentrating again on the task at hand.
And there's a lot of NASA research on offer in the video, in part because the agency advertises opportunities for research in the accompanying video text on YouTube. For instance, Auñón-Chancellor tends to the plants as part of the Plant Habitat-1 experiment, which "comprehensively compares differences in genetics, metabolism, photosynthesis and gravity sensing between plants grown in space and on Earth," according to NASA.
Gerst is shown surrounded by floating objects as part of the SPHERES Tether Slosh experiment. NASA says this investigation "combines fluid-dynamics equipment with robotic capabilities aboard the space station to investigate automated strategies for steering passive cargo that contain[s] fluids."
Feustel, in between commanding the increment, performs work on the ground (or, because there is no up in space, is that the ceiling?) next to Kibo (the Japanese Experiment Module airlock), a facility that can shoot small satellites into space or put experiments out into the vacuum.
In between the astronaut activities, attentive viewers can also catch views of the Cupola — a wraparound window perfect for Earth observations — and the Canadarm2, which is routinely used to capture robotic spacecraft. There also are stunning views of our planet, including a jaw-dropping image of a hurricane.
One of humanity's newest spacecraft faced a harrowing test late Monday night (Nov. 5), darting just 15 million miles (24 million kilometers) of the surface of our sun.
That spacecraft is NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which launched in August with a daring mission to study the star that shapes our lives. To do so, it is flying a course of 24 close loops around the sun, the first of which reached what scientists call perihelion — the moment of closest approach — Monday at 10:28 p.m. EST (0328 GMT Nov. 6).
But there won't be much of anything to watch or listen to during the daring approach, even for the scientists and engineers who run the mission. [The Greatest Missions to the Sun of All Time]
All throughout the few days surrounding perihelion, the spacecraft is essentially on its own. That's because the sun is such a powerful source of radio-wave light that it drowns out the spacecraft's communications with Earth.
An orbital diagram of the Parker Solar Probe's progress to date and the spacecraft's planned path.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL
And the spacecraft isn't just responsible for independently taking measurements during that time — it also needs to protect itself from the overwhelming heat of the sun. To do so, it will continuously tilt itself to keep its thermal protection shield between the star and the instruments.
Parker Solar Probe's first report back to Earth will be just a beep, according to a statement from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which manages the spacecraft. It has a repertoire of four different options, one of which means everything is fine. Once the engineers behind the spacecraft hears that first beep, they'll have a better sense of what to expect from the first delivery of detailed science data, due in early December.
By that time, the spacecraft will already be well on its way out from the sun as it prepares for its next orbit. It will achieve two more perihelions in 2019, one in April and one in September. Then, next December it will complete the second of seven Venus flybys, which nudges the spacecraft's trajectory gradually closer to the star.
During tonight's maneuver, the spacecraft will be traveling at more than 213,000 mph (343,000 km/h). (At the end of October, the Parker Solar Probe broke world records for fastest speed and closest approach to the sun.)
As the $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe mission unfurls over the course of seven years, each perihelion will sneak closer to the surface of the sun, with the spacecraft in the end dancing less than 4 million miles (6 million kilometers) above our star. Those approaches will also become faster, with its final perihelion clocking in at 430,000 mph (700,000 k/h).
THE truth is out there, or so a video posted to Facebook appears to reveal.
In a series of photos, edited to appear as a video, posted to Solar Sonic Solutions business Facebook page, a white, circular light can be seen in different locations around Lake Perseverance, near Toowoomba.
"We aren't sure what it was, but it's definitely on our strange and unusual list," a spokesperson for Solar Sonic Solutions said.
"On Friday (October 26) a truck driver named Garry was travelling over the Lake Perseverance bridge when he noticed a blinding light hovering and darting around in the air.
"Garry pulled his truck over and took out his mobile snapping some photos.
"Due to the bright light moving around unpredictably, it was hard to take the photos but Garry managed to snap three decent quality photos before the strange ball of light shot off up into the sky."
The ball of light then disappeared.
"Is this a UFO, or some strange bright ball of energy. It definitely wasn't a drone or aircraft," the spokesperson said.
"Garry isn't sure what the ball of light was, but it's like nothing Garry has ever seen before. It was bright and strange enough for him to want to pull his truck over and attempt to capture the moment on his mobile phone."
Several commenters on the Facebook post reported seeing the light several times in the past.
Daleks, Klingons, Wookiees and Predators have been contacted to see whether they were conducting any flybys on October 26.
What do you think? Was it an alien? Let us know in the comments below.
The 'UFO' circled as it appeared to fall to Earth over Toowoomba.
A U.S.-Japanese interceptor successfully shot down a test ballistic missile over Hawaii. It was the second-ever success for the joint missile defense program, and a stunning technological accomplishment. Also, the whole thing was captured on video.
The interceptor, called the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA, destroys targets with sheer force, rather than an explosive warhead, and according to its manufacturerRaytheon, the interceptor's "kill vehicle" (a projectile) rams into a ballistic missile with the force of a 10-ton truck traveling 600 mph (965 km/h).
But does any of this make the U.S. (or Japan) any safer? Are American cities less likely to be struck by nuclear missiles now? [The 22 Weirdest Military Weapons]
That's a much tougher question to answer.
The USS John Finn launched an SM-3 Block IIA guided missile, which successfully intercepted a fake nuclear missile in space on Oct. 26, 2018, over Hawaii.
Credit: U.S Department of Defense
This second-ever success for the SM-3 missile interceptor follows two public (and embarrassing) failures for the program, during which the interceptors failed to hit their targets. As Defense News reported, the first test in February 2017 was successful, but a second test in June 2017 failed after a sailor "accidentally triggered the missile’s self-destruct feature." A third test, in January, failed to hit the target.
As Jefferey Lewis, a nuclear expert and Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, has noted several times on his podcast, this track record isn't particularly inspiring for a program tasked with protecting cities from nuclear fireballs.
The task of hitting a nuclear missile that's shooting through space with an interceptor is incredibly difficult. The missile itself moves at blistering speeds and is relatively tiny in the vastness of space. The SM-3 must move even faster, and travel at a near-perfect trajectory, to smash into its target. It's often compared to shooting a bullet with a bullet. The interceptor, theoretically capable of being launched from sea or land, uses radar data transmitted to it from land to home in on its target.
Lewis has noted previously that even the low success rate of defense systems like the SM-3 makes them look more capable than they may really be. In the real world, a nuclear attack probably wouldn't involve just one missile. It probably wouldn't occur in the ideal weather conditions during which these tests are scheduled. And it might come from an unexpected location or travel along an unexpected trajectory. It's unclear how an interceptor that has a 50-percent or so success rate during tests would perform in that sort of real-world scenario.
Folks involved with the SM-3 program have a more optimistic take on the tests. Missile Defense Agency Director Lt. Gen. Sam Greaves told reporters in March that even failures represent learning opportunities for the program, and that it will ultimately make the U.S. safer. The goal is to eventually station SM-3s in Poland, Romania and Japan. A May 2018 report from the Government Accountability Office put the interceptor's price tag at $39 million.
Meanwhile, as Live Science has reported previously, some experts believe that efforts to expand U.S. missile defenses have triggered Russian investment into bizarre new forms of nuclear weapons designed to avoid such defenses.
Is dit een buitenaards schip? Ruimtedeskundigen breken hun hoofd over mysterieus object in ons zonnestelsel
Is dit een buitenaards schip? Ruimtedeskundigen breken hun hoofd over mysterieus object in ons zonnestelsel
Ruimtedeskundigen breken hun hoofd over een bizar object dat in ons zonnestelsel is verschenen. Dat meldt De Telegraaf.
Een jaar geleden werd de asteroïde voor het eerst gespot met een telescoop vanaf Hawaï.
Nu komen Harvard-astronomen met de suggestie dat het weleens een ruimteschip van aliens kan zijn dat ons zonnestelsel onderzoekt.
Heel opmerkelijke suggestie
Het object heeft iets weg van een reusachtige sigaar en is 10 keer zo lang als breed. Het heeft zeker de lengte van een voetbalveld.
Onderzoekers komen nu met deze heel opmerkelijke suggestie omdat er simpelweg genoeg serieuze aanwijzingen voor zijn.
Zo is het voor het eerst dat een asteroïde vanuit een ander planetenstelsel ons zonnestelsel is binnengekomen. Daarnaast beweegt het object vreemd en leek het ervandoor te gaan toen de onderzoekers het wilden bestuderen.
Radiosignalen
De enorme sigaar gebruikt wellicht zonlicht als energiebron.
De astronomen van Harvard doen al een jaar onderzoek naar dit ruimtefenomeen. Ze keken onder meer of het object radiosignalen afgeeft.
Contact
Het heeft de naam Oumuamua gekregen en dat betekent zoiets als: een boodschapper die contact met ons zoekt.
Of het echt een buitenaards schip is komen we misschien nooit te weten. Het object is inmiddels te ver van ons verwijderd om er goed onderzoek naar te kunnen doen.
Niet ver bij ons vandaan, in Italië, was het de afgelopen dagen noodweer en spreekt de overheid over Apocalyptische weersomstandigheden.
En in Californië houdt men het hart vast omdat er zich daar 39 aardbevingen in 24 uur voor deden.
We kunnen dagen praten over de werkelijke oorzaken van het vreemde weer dat zich overal ter wereld voordoet, maar feit is dat het gebeurt.
Feit is ook dat we een periode tegemoet gaan met heel weinig zonneactiviteit, wat voor allerlei nare gevolgen gaat zorgen op aarde. Al lange tijd schrijven wij dat we een periode tegemoet gaan waarbij het flink kouder zal gaan worden. Nu, uiteindelijk, beginnen ook de eerste berichten daarover door te sijpelen in de MSM.
Natuurlijk, het is pas november, maar voor weerman Piet Paulusma is het zo klaar als een klontje: de winter van 2018/2019 wordt een strenge.
Dat zegt hij tegen Omroep Friesland. Volgens Paulusma kan het zomaar -20 graden worden deze winter. De maand december zal zich kenmerken door veel sneeuw, januari wordt een beetje kwakkelen, maar in februari gaat het los: ijzige kou met een langere periode waarin schaatsen op natuurijs mogelijk is.
Wetenschappelijk onderzoek heeft aangetoond dat er tijdens perioden van weinig of geen zonnevlekken ook iets gebeurt met de jetstream, in ons land bekend als straalstroom.
De onderzoekers kwamen tot de conclusie dat ten tijde van lage of geen zonneactiviteit er regelmatig blokkades ontstaan van de jetstream, waardoor je het zogenaamde “polar vortex” verschijnsel krijgt. In de praktijk betekent dit dat de jetstream wordt afgebogen naar het noorden, waarbij wij dan niet langer onder invloed staan van de relatief zachte en vochtige lucht uit het westen zoals we gewend zijn, maar te maken krijgen met lucht die via de poolstreken naar ons land stroomt. Met andere woorden, langere periodes met wind uit een noordelijke of noordoostelijke richting.
Door veranderde stromingen in de bovenste luchtlagen wordt niet alleen bij ons het weer anders, maar ook in landen zoals Italië waar de afgelopen week talloze doden zijn gevallen:
Hevige wind en regen hebben de afgelopen week in Italië al twintig doden geëist. Ook zijn meerdere hectaren bos met de grond gelijkgemaakt. Italiaanse media spreken van 14 miljoen gesneuvelde bomen. ,,Het weer neemt apocalyptische vormen aan”, klinkt het vanuit het ministerie in Italië.
Naast het weer zijn er natuurlijk ook nog de andere aardveranderingen zoals de alarmerende toename van het aantal aardbevingen op aarde die vooral aangetroffen worden op de zogenaamde Ring van Vuur.
De Amerikaanse staat Californië bevindt zich ook op die beruchte Ring van Vuur en men verwacht daar nog altijd The Big One. De grote aardbeving(en) die alle voorgaande aardbevingen zal doen verbleken.
Wanneer er zich dan ook 39 aardbevingen in dat gebied voor doen in een tijdsbestek van 24 uur en wetenschappers zeggen dat dit komt door bewegingen van de San Andreas breuklijn, doet niet echt veel voor de gemoedsrust van de inwoners. Mede omdat The Big One volgens wetenschappers "overdue" is, met andere woorden die had eigenlijk al moeten gebeuren.
We hebben het dan over een krachtige aardbeving op of rond de San Andreas breuklijn die als volgt door de staat Californië loopt.
En hoewel het voorspellen van aardbevingen altijd riskant is, denken wetenschappers nu toch dat de kans op deze Big One toeneemt. De laatste keer dat dit gebied werd getroffen door een zware aardbeving was in 1857 door een beving met een kracht van 7,9 op de schaal van Richter.
Sinds die laatste beving zijn de tektonische platen daar constant in beweging geweest, waarbij de zogenaamde Pacific plaat tegen die van het Amerikaanse continent beweegt. Door dit bewegen wordt de druk op de rotsen onder het aardoppervlak groter en bouwt de druk steeds verder op, totdat er een punt komt dat het knapt.
Aardbevingen, vulkaanuitbarstingen en overstromingen zijn aan de orde van de dag. Als je gewoon alleen even kijkt naar de afgelopen paar dagen naar wat er zoal gebeurt op aarde, dan zie je dat er "iets" gaande is en als je video tot aan het eind bekijkt, dan zie je ook dat er zich niet alleen op de grond vreemde dingen voordoen.
When it comes to revealing the gender of your soon-to-be-born baby to your family, friends and other who-cares-where’s-the-food people, appropriately-colored balloons floating out of a box works well for most parents. However, when your baby is a film, you have to think bigger, especially when it’s a reveal about one of the most famous films of all time … the grainy-yet-realistic Roswell autopsy film which is purported to show someone slicing-and-dicing an alien who allegedly crashed in Roswell on that fateful day in 1947. Spyros Melaris did just that last year when he wrote and starred in aone-man show on London’s East Endwhich revealed how he created the fake aliens and other special effects in one of the greatest hoaxes in history. Now he wants people outside of London to hear his reveal. How does he top the one-man show? A Broadway musical? A holographic display? A documentary starring Betty White?
“For me, ‘The alien autopsy’ film was a challenge. Could it be done? As a magician, I wanted to create the biggest illusion ever performed on a global stage. It was never meant to be anything else for me. Once it was created, and it achieved worldwide acclaim, experts saying it was real, others said it was not, no one proved it either way.”
As in the one-man show, Melaris points out in an interview with the Daily Star that the original film — show to him by Ray Santilli, a filmmaker who claimed to have the only copy – was an obvious fake. What Melaris offered to create was a better fake that would be used in a ‘documentary’ about it that was eventually shown in 1995 on the Fox network, causing great excitement and controversy. Santilli got all of the credit and Melaris’ work was largely ignored, even when Santilli and fellow producer Gary Shoefield finally revealed that, while the documentary was a fraud as was the film shown in it, there was once a real black-and-white alien autopsy that he claimed to still have a few frames of. Melaris’ one-man show last year was supposed to settle the controversy once and for all.
“I have repeatedly challenged Santilli and Shoefield to produce just one frame of genuine 1947 film with the alien’s image on it.”
Santilli hasn’t, although he did reveal a photograph of the autopsy last year that he claimed was from the film, which he claims is now in terrible shape. Melarius’ new ‘big reveal’ was an appearance on the BBC’s The One Show, a disappointment in more ways than just not being a Broadway musical or anything with Betty White. He does give a lot of credit to another member of the crew: his ex-girlfriend.
“My girlfriend at the time did all the intensive and detailed research, made the costumes, and played the part of the nurse as well. You should not underestimate the importance of this role. It was she who taught John (note: John Humphreys was the sculptor for the film) how to do an autopsy, as if done by a surgeon in America in 1947. To say she is a genius is an understatement.”
Appropriate for an alien autopsy film reveal?
The second disappointment was in the magic trick Melaris attempted to perform. He claims to be a world-class magician but he killed his chances to appear on “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” when he asked a fellow guest to pick out the one envelope from a set of three that contained the picture of an alien (how cute). She picked the wrong one and he blamed her!
Could Melaris’ trick about the fake alien film be failing too? That all depends on whether he shows up again next year with new information and a better reveal. Betty White … stay close to your phone!
“Dear Mr. Redfern,” the letter began, “I have read several of your articles in UFO Magazine and thought you would be interested to know that my father was in the RAF [British Royal Air Force] in the 1950s and 1960s and I always remember him telling me that at RAF Farnborough there was supposed to be a top-secret office where the RAF carried out all its flying saucer investigations.” Rumors abound that, for years, the sprawling thousand-acre-plus Royal Aircraft Establishment(RAE) at Farnborough, Hampshire, England, housed a covertly operated unit that investigated UFOs in the 1950s and 1960s.
According to Cyril Townsend-Withers, a senior scientific officer with the Air Ministry who specialized in radar development and deployment and who rose to the rank of wing commander, during the 1960s he had a number of discussions with people at the Air Ministry at Whitehall, London, and was informed of the existence of a specialist UFO investigation team that operated out of Farnborough. Townsend-Withers further stated that the project comprised largely RAF Intelligence people who viewed the UFO subject “very seriously.” For more information on the Townsend-Withers story, see Jenny Randles’ 1987 book, The UFO Conspiracy.
There was also the woman whose husband was stationed at Farnborough for a twelve-month period in the mid-1960s and who was directly implicated in a strange event involving the monitoring of an unidentified radio “signal” or “language” that had been detected by staff at the base. “They could not decode or decipher [the signal],” said the woman. “[My husband] told me that it definitely was not of human origin, and he could say no more. I think he keeps a lot to himself about his true feelings. I know he has been sworn to secrecy by the RAE––the Official Secrets Act, no doubt––but something of great importance happened that day they snatched those special signals from space, I feel sure.” It’s an account that was told in the pages of Arthur Shuttlewood’s book, UFO Magic In Motion(Sphere Books, 1979).
Then there is “Hannah Green,” who lives practically on Farnborough’s doorstep. “I’ve got one hell of a view; I live in a very high spot and can see the roofs of the hangars at the base,” she stated in a 1996 interview with me. Furthermore, she had a remarkable UFO account to tell. On a clear, bright evening in July 1977, Green and her family were driving through the nearby Minley Manor Woods when their attention was drawn to two “coach-loads of troops” who were entering the woods.
“We had to reverse and go back, and as we did so, I noticed just to the left what looked like a small, man-made valley with steep sides about fifteen feet deep. But inside this little valley, there were two clear burn marks, which looked like something had either landed or crashed.” Green added that the presence of so many soldiers in the area concerned her family to the extent that they swung their car around and drove back in the direction from which they had just come. All was normal until they approached a bend in the road.
Standing on a gentle slope around the corner were two of the “strangest-looking men” Green had ever seen. Both were of an impressive height but exceedingly thin and dressed in “all-in-one, white, tight-fitting suits with headgear like the astronauts in the Apollo missions wore.” For a moment the two “men” remained still; however, as Green and her family watched transfixed, both suddenly broke into a run and headed for a clearing. Most bizarre of all, as Green continued to follow the path of the two men, they literally disappeared before her eyes. “They vanished; simply vanished,” she explained. “I never forgot that. I came home, drew a picture of the two men, and wrote an account of it because it really shook me up. And I’ve never been in the woods since.”
Green continued that a number of unusual events occurred shortly afterwards that she felt were potentially related. First, she learned that, under cover of darkness, an inordinate amount of digging was going on deep within the woods. Who was doing the digging? None other than the Army. Precisely what they were looking for, Green never found out; but the mere fact that the Army’s activities were undertaken late at night aroused her suspicion that it was somehow connected with the curious “burn-marks” seen in the woods, not to mention the two strange-looking “men” who fled the area.
Green recalled a second curious event that occurred not long after: “It was October 1977, in the mid-evening. There was what I call a ‘large black cigar’ over the cornfields to the back of our houses. It traveled up on to Fernhill and then headed down towards the woods. By this time I was hanging out of the window, binoculars at the ready. I waited for about five minutes and could then see it above the trees: a white light on the back and a green light on the front. It then headed in my direction, and I could see that it was about sixty feet long, very black; but there was no sound whatsoever. It came right over me, and within a few minutes I was feeling very sick and dizzy. I couldn’t stand up, and it was all I could do to get myself into bed fully dressed. I couldn’t even undress myself. In those days we had many sightings, all of which happened as the work was going on in the woods.”
This unresolved case raises important questions. Is it possible that the unusual scorch marks seen within Minley Woods were the result of some form of UFO crash-landing? What was occurring within the woods that required the attendance of “two coach-loads” of Army troops? Who were the two tall “beings” dressed “like astronauts” that seemed intent on exiting the area with the utmost haste? And what of the odd digging that went on after dark? Had the military discovered “something” in Minley Woods that they were attempting to retrieve?
Judy Doraty wassomeone who, on the night of May 23, 1973, most definitely found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. On the star-filled night when her world was ripped apart, Doraty was driving home from a bingo game, outside of the Texan city of Houston. Also along for the game and the drive home were Doraty’s teenage daughter, her brother-in-law, her sister, and her mother. They had a great time. But, something was about to intervene in a terrifying way. As the drive progressed, the family caught sight of a strange, large and bright light in the sky. They were all perplexed – and even a bit concerned – by the fact that the object seemed to be shadowing them: wherever they drove, the light seemed to follow. At first, they thought it might have been a helicopter heading for Galveston’s airport, Scholes International Airport. But, a careful look revealed it was not a helicopter, after all. It was…something else. This was not a good sign. It only proceeded to get worse.
As Judy reached a darkened pasture in a rural part of the area, she brought the car to a stop and got out. The light in the sky – seemingly responding to her actions – suddenly came closer; much closer. In seconds, and to their complete amazement and shock, the light could now be seen for what it really was: a massive, circular-shaped craft which swooped silently and effortlessly over them. It then headed towards a nearby field and, as the group looked on, shot vertically into the sky and vanished in seconds. Or, that’s what seemed to have happened. Like so many people who have been subjected to the alien abduction experience, in the days that followed what was clearly a very close encounter, Judy began to realize that there had been more to the encounter than she consciously realized. Her dreams became outright nightmares. They were filled with terror and graphic images of UFOs. Fragments of disturbing memories were fighting to be freed from Judy’s subconscious. For years, though, Judy suffered in silence, with pummeling headaches and those awful dreams.
It wasn’t until 1980 – when Judy Doraty was hypnotized by Professor Leo Sprinkle of the University of Wyoming – that the full picture became clear. Just like Betty and Barney Hill more than a decade earlier, Doraty’s mind had been wiped to a huge degree. At least, until Sprinkle was able to retrieve some of that missing time. In her hypnotized state, Doraty recalled getting out of the car and then seeing a spotlight hit the trunk. This was no normal spotlight, however. Doraty said that the light seemed to have what she called “substance” to it. Somehow, the light lifted a struggling, squirming, brown and white calf into the air and from the same field near to where the family had stopped. Then, something very weird happened.
Although, under hypnosis, Doraty recalled being outside of her vehicle, and on the ground, it was as if her mind had somehow been relocated to the craft. She seemed to have recall of two very different things, but which were going on simultaneously. She told a horrific story: the calf was rapidly and systematically dissected and its body was dropped backed to the ground with a thud. Doraty also had vague memories under the hypnosis of her daughter having been abducted and examined, but by whom and why remained unclear. It was a trauma-filled experience which may have given Doraty a significant number of answers, but which hardly made her feel relaxed.
Under the hypnosis, and in terms of the violent mutilation and killing of the calf, Doraty said of the aliens that, “They’ve been testing, they’ve been here for quite some time and they test the soil as well as our water, as well as our animal life and vegetation. There’s a lot involved. More than just pollution. Their concern is loss of life. There is going to be a big loss of life due to this.” When questioned further, Judy answered that the loss of life would be due to “nuclear waste or testing.”
I found some strange things in this new HD photo of Asteroid Bennu. First off, NASA deliberately made the asteroid look farther away, smaller so the public could not see the details. I show this in the above gif. Just add light and focus and we clearly see the actual photo is much smaller! They lied to us! Are you surprised, because if you are, then you its because you don't visit my site enough.
Second I found a pyramid that has a triangle shadow.
Third, near the edge of the asteroid is a square structure with window or entrance openings along its sides.
Fourth there is a tall structure in the upper right side of the asteroid.
So...why did NASA want to make asteroid Bennu look smaller and farther away than it really was? Because they didn't want the public to know that alien structures exist on it.
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Grey Metallic UFO Hovers Over Trees In Florida Baffling Eyewitnesses, Nov 3, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Grey Metallic UFO Hovers Over Trees In Florida Baffling Eyewitnesses, Nov 3, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 3, 2018
Location of sighting: Florida, USA
Source: MUFON #96128 This awesome video was submitted by Youtuber UFO Institute. The video shows a military helicopter and a strange grey metallic object. The UFO does hover in place and seems unafraid that people can see it. Although I wonder if the eyewitness tried to get closer or not. Excellent video. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
White cloud turning into gray black object milliary helicopter super quiet flies by seconds afterwards. White cloud turning and moving fast turning rising then slowly moving down then disappears after military helicopter fly's by very quiet.
Something weird appears in the sky over Nebraska during thunderstorm
Something weird appears in the sky over Nebraska during thunderstorm
The video below shows something weird in the sky during a thunderstorm over Nebraska.
A black object stays relatively motionless in the sky when it suddenly shooting up into the sky.
Since the military has technology way ahead of our time, it is possible that they are testing a new flying device in the storm or could it be a UFO charging its batteries?
It is very odd, does anyone have a decent explanation?
One of the best UFO sighting filmed lately! Flying saucer over Rosarito, Mexico 31-Oct-2018
One of the best UFO sighting filmed lately! Flying saucer over Rosarito, Mexico 31-Oct-2018
This amazing UFO video of a disc-shapd UFO was filmed over Rosarito in Baja California, Mexico. This was filmed on 31st October 2018.
Witness report:
Today October 28, 2018 I witness 5 UFOs hovering over Rosarito, Baja California MX. At around 4:23am I was driving back to San Diego, California with my grandmother. We were having a normal conversation when she suddenly went mute and all she could do was point at the sky. I look up and see 5 of these things hovering over homes and the beach. I pulled over and immediately went live on instagram to avoid speculations of video editing and such.
The world was shocked when a video shows the alleged government pathologists’ gruesome autopsy of an alien in 1995. The said pathologists are seen wearing protective suits in the film.
The former magician and film-maker behind it revealed how the Alien Autopsy film fooled people around the world and inspired a classic film starring Ant and Dec.
Spyros Melaris said they used a foam body filled with cow and lamb organs from a local butcher to show an alien body being examined in 1947.
Melaris told in an interview that he considered using raspberry jelly for the brain, but it was too dark as he filmed in a north London flat in 1995. To fool experts at Kodak, he spliced his film footage onto a 1947 Pathe newsreel. A documentary about the film aired three times on Fox, and 11.7 million people viewed it.
Channel 4 brought in a company with deep pockets that could provide the broadcaster with a stronger future to privatised the effort, said the Culture Secretary John Whittingdale.
Melaris said that while the entire film was made up, they hung it on little elements of truth.
They associated the body with the Roswell crash incident. Ray Santilli claimed to have obtained the film from a cameraman who worked at Roswell.
Melaris sourced the outfits and medical instruments of the 1940s surgeons from prop providers in the US and UK.
His brother and then-girlfriend played as government pathologists dissecting the pale, potbellied corpse of the alien being in the Camden apartment.
Santilli admitted it was fake in 2006 but said that it was a staged reconstruction of a real extraterrestrial dissection film he had been shown in 1992.
Melaris said that it was a giggle and it wasn’t supposed to last 22 years as it was supposed to last only a week or 10 days.
Melaris said that it took him years to realise that the financer of the film Ray Santilli had made millions from it. He is now planning to write his own book telling all about the film.
The 1950s, 60s, and 70s were perhaps the golden age of UFO sightings in the United States. Futuristic advances in technology, thought-provoking science fiction, deep government distrust, and copious psychedelic drugs all combined to produce widespread visions of otherworldly airborne objects.
But this wasn't the first time that thousands of Americans were astonished by strange events in the sky. Between the 1880s and early 1900s, Americans from California to Boston were convinced they saw "airships" and flying "machines" buzzing the skies. Mind you, many of these accounts came out well before the Wright brothers flew the world's first powered aircraft over a distance of just 120 feet. Some airship sightings described great dirigibles with passengers onboard. Others simply reported moving lights in the night sky. One even told of an alien craft more than 150-feet long, completely featureless apart from its rudder.
Some journalists and newspapers were skeptical, but many more published the accounts uncritically to captivated readers. In the winter of 1909, during what can only be described as an "outbreak" of airship sightings in New England, tens of thousands of people claimed to see all manner of flying objects performing feats no aircraft of the day came close to accomplishing.
"It all began on 12 December, when prominent Worcester businessman Wallace Tillinghast told a Boston Herald reporter he had invented the world's first reliable heavier-than-air flying machine," Stephen Whalen and Robert E. Bartholomew recounted in the New England Quarterly.
Over the ensuing weeks, airship sightings flooded in, which newspapers gleefully reported with little skepticism. The reports in turn prompted even more sightings. It was a chain reaction of delusions.
"The great airship episode peaked in a frenzy on Christmas Eve," Whalen and Bartholomew described. "On that night there were thirty-three separate reports, spreading from Massachusetts southward to Rhode Island and Connecticut, northward to Vermont and Maine, and as far west as New York. In Boston, 'thousands upon thousands of people... stood on sidewalks, street corners and squares... hoping for a glimpse of the flying machine.'"
But just days later, sanity returned. Astronomers debunked a number of reports, explaining that the airship lights people thought they saw were really stars, meteors, or planets. Journalists also uncovered that many accounts were simply lies.
"Newspaper editors, drawing on the popular theories of French psychologist Gustave Le Bon, began to attribute the sightings to individual primitive impulses activated in emotional, group situations and producing a form of temporary irrationality or madness," Whalen and Bartholomew wrote.
Le Bon was absolutely right.
"We now know that all these incidents were hoaxes and mass delusions," Yale neurologist Steven Novella wrote in his recent book The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe. "There were no airships. Drawings of the alleged 'aeroplanes' by eyewitnesses resemble quaint notions of contraptions with flapping wings, not the planes that were eventually developed."
Notice also how all of the sightings were affected by culture and the technologies of the day. In the late 1800s, Americans were hearing of inventors feverishly working to create flying machines. Thus, they saw airships. One of the few reported alien spacecraft supposedly had a rudder, which would have been useless for space travel! Years later, influenced by science fiction and the nuclear age, Americans saw flying saucers, instead.
"What these and many other similar incidents reflect is the constructed and unreliable nature of perception, memory, and belief. They are the products of expectation, cultural influence, and psychology," Novella wrote.
This post was inspired by the recently-released book The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, by Steven Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella, Bob Novella, and Evan Bernstein. Those uninitiated to scientific and skeptical thinking will find Skeptics' Guide to be an engaging and in-depth introduction, while current practitioners will get their BS detectors honed and feel their love for rationality reinvigorated. Both groups will undoubtedly return to the Guide again and again to help navigate a world increasingly ignorant to fact.
The European Service Module – eventually to be used to power and propel NASA’s Orion spacecraft in the 1st manned moon mission since the 1970s – leaves Europe today and arrives in the U.S. tomorrow.
NASA’s Orion spacecraft – built to carry humans – is one step closer to its first mission to fly around the moon and back, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on October 30, 2018. It said its European Service Module – which will be used to power and propel the Orion spacecraft – will be shipped this week from Bremen, Germany, to the United States on an Antonov An-124 aircraft. It’ll depart in the early hours of November 5 and arrive at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 6. The ESM, designed in Italy and Germany, is a crucial European component of NASA’s ambitious Space Launch System or SLS; the Orion spacecraft part of SLS is designed to take astronauts back to the moon for the first time since the 1970s.
The European Service Module will hold fuel in large tanks, as well as water, oxygen and nitrogen for the astronauts, while radiators and heat exchangers will help keep the module at comfortable temperatures.
The module itself resembles ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle, which has been used to bring supplies to the International Space Station. The structure is the backbone of the entire vehicle, something like a car chassis. Three types of engines will help propel Orion during its excursions, and can turn the spacecraft in all directions. The module will be built by Airbus Defence and Space, and many other companies across Europe will also supply components.
The European Service Module is an integral part of the Orion spacecraft, depicted here. Orion is designed to take astronauts back to the moon for the 1st time since the Apollo missions of the 1970s.
Image via NASA.
This is the first time that a European-built system will serve as a critical element to power an American spacecraft; this is thanks largely to ESA’s existing Automated Transfer Vehicle program, mentioned above.
So what happens next?
At Kennedy Space Center, the European Service Module will be connected to the Orion crew module and its adapter in preparation for Exploration Mission-1. This mission is planned as an initial test flight without astronauts that will travel farther into space than any human-rated spacecraft has ever ventured before. This mission is expected to launch sometime in 2020.
A second European Service Module, similar to the first, is also now being developed. This one will be able to take a human crew on a trip around the moon. All of this activity is leading up to launches with components of the Gateway – a planned human-tended outpost in lunar orbit, designed to be used for both human and robotic exploration of the moon.
Orion is similar in design to ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle, which takes supplies to the International Space Station.
Orion is the crewed capsule part of NASA’s Space Launch System, which, when completed, will be the most powerful rocket ever built. It will be able to take astronauts back to the moon, and more advanced versions of SLS will be capable of taking astronauts deeper into space, including to Mars. As outlined on the mission website:
After the first flight, the next step is to start sending people on bold missions to the moon and beyond. As SLS evolves over future missions to unprecedented accommodation of payload mass and volume and unrivaled performance, the rocket will allow NASA to send missions to deep space and reach distant destinations faster than ever before. On its second mission carrying Orion and astronauts, Exploration Mission-2, SLS will send Orion and its crew farther than people have traveled before around 250,000 miles from Earth, 10,000 miles beyond the moon.
SLS and Orion are America’s space vehicles and the foundation for missions carrying explorers to deep space. This new era of discovery requires all of humanity, including international and commercial partners, to help make these ventures possible and sustainable. Partners can help provide routine delivery of supplies and equipment needed to live and work on the moon and in deep space. SLS and Orion are planned to fly once or twice a year and will focus on dependable, safe flights for humans and large cargo.
Once operational, SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built, and will be able to take a crewed Orion to the moon and beyond
. Image via NASA.
Bottom line: The delivery of the European Service Module is another step toward the first launch of NASA’s Orion spacecraft – part of the Space Launch System – which is designed to take astronauts back to the moon for the first time in several decades. Human missions back to the moon are still some ways off, but the first launch of Orion will be a significant step closer.
Released in 2011 and said to have been taken by the KGB these images and details are strikingly similiar to the reports from the 1947 Roswell UFO crash.
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‘Oumuamua Was Alien ‘Reconnaissance Mission' Harvard Researchers Suggest
‘Oumuamua Was Alien ‘Reconnaissance Mission' Harvard Researchers Suggest
The mysterious interstellar object known as Oumuamua has a lot of uncertainty around it in the scientific community. The latest theory has suggested a new possible origin. This origin refers to Oumuamua being part of a reconnaissance mission that was started by an alien civilization looking to explore other galaxies.
This latest theory comes from a recently published study by a couple of astronomers from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Data from the Pan-STARRS-1 survey in September of 2017 revealed that Oumuamua gained speed. This was surprising, as scientists predicted the mysterious rock would be slowing down. Researchers at the time claimed this increased speed was due to the outgassing, which is the release of gas trapped or frozen in the interior of the rock.
This explanation was faulty, according to astronomers Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb. Bialy and Loeb argued that outgassing could not be correct because Oumuamua would have gone into a spin if this was the case. With no spin observed, Bialy and Loeb explain the increased speed of Oumuamua away from the sun as the result of the force the sunlight exerts on its surface. Loeb explained that this will make the object lighter in weight for its surface area and allows the object to act like a light sail.
Loeb and Bialy explain the origin could be natural or artificial. It would be natural in the interstellar medium or proto-planetary disks. It would be artificial if it was to act as a probe sent for a reconnaissance mission into the inner region of the solar system.
So, it is possible that Oumuamua is actually from an alien civilization. Bialy and Loeb explain that the reason for considering the reconnaissance mission possibility is the assumption that Oumuamua following a random orbit requires the production of a certain number of objects per star in our galaxy. Loeb explains this number represents a higher abundance than expected, unless Oumuamua is a targeted probe and not part of a random population of objects.
This new theory requires much more study, which will be difficult since Oumuamua is no longer in our solar system and too far away at the present time for more observation.
An MIT study proposes that laser technology on Earth could emit a beacon strong enough to attract attention from as far as 20,000 light years away. Credit: MIT News
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists somewhere in our galaxy, a new MIT study proposes that laser technology on Earth could, in principle, be fashioned into something of a planetary porch light—a beacon strong enough to attract attention from as far as 20,000 light years away.
The research, which author James Clark calls a "feasibility study," appears today in the Astrophysical Journal. The findings suggest that if a high-powered 1- to 2-megawatt laser were focused through a massive 30- to 45-meter telescope and aimed out into space, the combination would produce a beam of infrared radiation strong enough to stand out from the sun's energy.
Such a signal could be detectable by alien astronomers performing a cursory survey of our section of the Milky Way—especially if those astronomers live in nearby systems, such as around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth, or TRAPPIST-1, a star about 40 light-years away that hosts seven exoplanets, three of which are potentially habitable. If the signal is spotted from either of these nearby systems, the study finds, the same megawatt laser could be used to send a brief message in the form of pulses similar to Morse code.
"If we were to successfully close a handshake and start to communicate, we could flash a message, at a data rate of about a few hundred bits per second, which would get there in just a few years," says Clark, a graduate student in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and author of the study.
The notion of such an alien-attracting beacon may seem far-fetched, but Clark says the feat can be realized with a combination of technologies that exist now and that could be developed in the near term.
"This would be a challenging project but not an impossible one," Clark says. "The kinds of lasers and telescopes that are being built today can produce a detectable signal, so that an astronomer could take one look at our star and immediately see something unusual about its spectrum. I don't know if intelligent creatures around the sun would be their first guess, but it would certainly attract further attention."
Standing up to the sun
Clark started looking into the possibility of a planetary beacon as part of a final project for 16.343 (Spacecraft, and Aircraft Sensors and Instrumentation), a course taught by Clark's advisor, Associate Professor Kerri Cahoy.
"I wanted to see if I could take the kinds of telescopes and lasers that we're building today, and make a detectable beacon out of them," Clark says.
He started with a simple conceptual design involving a large infrared laser and a telescope through which to further focus the laser's intensity. His aim was to produce an infrared signal that was at least 10 times greater than the sun's natural variation of infrared emissions. Such an intense signal, he reasoned, would be enough to stand out against the sun's own infrared signal, in any "cursory survey by an extraterrestrial intelligence."
He analyzed combinations of lasers and telescopes of various wattage and size, and found that a 2-megawatt laser, pointed through a 30-meter telescope, could produce a signal strong enough to be easily detectable by astronomers in Proxima Centauri b, a planet that orbits our closest star, 4 light-years away. Similarly, a 1-megawatt laser, directed through a 45-meter telescope, would generate a clear signal in any survey conducted by astronomers within the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, about 40 light-years away. Either setup, he estimated, could produce a generally detectable signal from up to 20,000 light-years away.
Both scenarios would require laser and telescope technology that has either already been developed, or is within practical reach. For instance, Clark calculated that the required laser power of 1 to 2 megawatts is equivalent to that of the U.S. Air Force's Airborne Laser, a now-defunct megawatt laser that was meant to fly aboard a military jet for the purpose of shooting ballistic missiles out of the sky. He also found that while a 30-meter telescope considerably dwarfs any existing observatory on Earth today, there are plans to build such massive telescopes in the near future, including the 24-meter Giant Magellan Telescope and the 39-meter European Extremely Large Telescope, both of which are currently under construction in Chile.
Clark envisions that, like these massive observatories, a laser beacon should be built atop a mountain, to minimize the amount of atmosphere the laser would have to penetrate before beaming out into space.
He acknowledges that a megawatt laser would come with some safety issues. Such a beam would produce a flux density of about 800 watts of power per square meter, which is approaching that of the sun, which generates about 1,300 watts per square meter. While the beam wouldn't be visible, it could still damage people's vision if they were to look directly at it. The beam could also potentially scramble any cameras aboard spacecraft that happen to pass through it.
"If you wanted to build this thing on the far side of the moon where no one's living or orbiting much, then that could be a safer place for it," Clark says. "In general, this was a feasibility study. Whether or not this is a good idea, that's a discussion for future work."
Taking E.T.'s call
Having established that a planetary beacon is technically feasible, Clark then flipped the problem and looked at whether today's imaging techniques would be able to detect such an infrared beacon if it were produced by astronomers elsewhere in the galaxy. He found that, while a telescope 1 meter or larger would be capable of spotting such a beacon, it would have to point in the signal's exact direction to see it.
"It is vanishingly unlikely that a telescope survey would actually observe an extraterrestrial laser, unless we restrict our survey to the very nearest stars," Clark says.
He hopes the study will encourage the development of infrared imaging techniques, not only to spot any laser beacons that might be produced by alien astronomers, but also to identify gases in a distant planet's atmosphere that might be indications of life.
"With current survey methods and instruments, it is unlikely that we would actually be lucky enough to image a beacon flash, assuming that extraterrestrials exist and are making them," Clark says. "However, as the infrared spectra of exoplanets are studied for traces of gases that indicate the viability of life, and as full-sky surveys attain greater coverage and become more rapid, we can be more certain that, if E.T. is phoning, we will detect it."
More information: Optical detection of lasers with near-term technology at interstellar distances, Astrophysical Journal (2018). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae380
YouTube "outage"... was it to quarantine and erase a video of something hitting the moon?
For Close-Knit Planets, Sharing Life Could Be Easy
By Starre Vartan, Astrobiology Magazine
An artist's impression of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system.
Credit: SETI Institute
How could life be shared between planets in close proximity to one another? This question has received a greater insight thanks to new analytics based on previously known and new calculations.
The findingsfrom this new research are helping scientists understand how likely life would be on a given planet in such tight-knit systems if that world shows signs of habitability.
This approach began with a blasphemous-at-the-time idea: that life exists throughout the universe and can travel without supernatural interference. Anaxagoras, a 5th-century B.C. Greek philosopher, called this concept "panspermia." Kelvin, Helmholtz and Arrhenius advanced the idea in the 19th and 20th centuries by examining how life could be carried to and from Earth. In 2009, Stephen Hawking went beyond our solar system with the idea when he suggested that "life could spread from planet to planet or from stellar system to stellar system, carried on meteors." [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
Dimitri Veras, an astrophysicist at the University of Warwick in England and lead author of a recent paper on the subject, said, "Within the last century, [panspermia] has been focused on life transport within the solar system, including Earth."
The TRAPPIST-1 solar system, which is 39 light-years from Earth and includes seven planets packed into an orbit smaller than Mercury's, changes this Earth-centric idea. This system's sun is an ultracool red dwarf. So, even though the seven nearby planets orbit closely, they are possibly all still in the habitable zone, to varying degrees depending upon the makeup of their atmospheres. That makes this system a perfect model for exploring the idea of panspermia, per Hawking, anywhere in the universe.
The orbits of the planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system are tightly arranged, especially when compared to the worlds in our solar system or even the moons of Jupiter. That increases the chances that life could be shared between them.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Three stages
But back to our solar system, where the "foundation for panspermia-related processes has been established," Veras' paper said. That includes evidence that life can survive the three stages of traveling from one planet to another: initial ejection, the journey through space between planets and impact onto a new planet. Each stage presents challenges to the survival of life.
Veras wanted to create an analytical system to quantify each of these parts to create a better understanding of the probability of the whole process occurring.
He had some information to start with: Microbes can survive ejection from a planet with life on it, as per previous studies, and even a voyage through interplanetary space, if shielded from the radiation and cold. Less is known about how well a microbe that endured space travel could survive impact on a new planet, which would be necessary for life to complete the voyage from one planet to another.
Because impact includes more unknowns than ejection and transit between planets, Veras had less-detailed information to work with in this area of his calculations.
"The physics of re-entry features complexities that are not present with the ejection and voyage phases through space," he said. "For example, frictional heating during re-entry can lead to the formation of a fusion crust [the outer layer of the meteorite that melts and ablates during atmospheric entry] on the surface of the meteorite."
To figure out how to calculate the tricky physics of atmospheric entry onto a new planet, Veras turned to some already-available math. He told Astrobiology Magazine that "Equations regarding the physics of impact have already been established and used for solar system applications, [so] we converted those for use in a general extrasolar system."
To understand the probability of ejected material traveling from one planet to another, Veras combined his equations into analytics. This way, he could figure out the whole system of panspermia, not just parts of it.
"Usually, the dynamics of panspermia is studied with numerical simulations. However, these can be slow to run and must be tailored to an individual system," Veras said. "Alternatively, analytics are much faster to use and are general enough to be applicable to a wide variety of systems." [Exoplanet Discovery: The 7 Earth-Size Planets of TRAPPIST-1 in Pictures]
Sharing life
These days, scientists know of an observable multiplanet system, TRAPPIST-1, with more than one world in the habitable zone. So, astrobiologists can use Veras' analytics to understand the probability of life being shared between planets in these extrasolar locales.
The closeness of the planets in this new system means that the chance that they can share material is high. If life began on one of the planets, can Veras' analytics tell us whether that life may have traveled to another given planet, thanks to panspermia? His equations are not meant to do that, he said. Veras said that they are "not exact" but instead "provide a sufficiently good approximation." Rather, their aim is to give astrobiologists another tool with which to assess new planetary systems.
Amaya Moro-Martin, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland who has published a paper on the probability of panspermiabetween different planetary systems, said Veras' analytics are "An impressive piece of work." This analytic approach "takes into account a wide range of physical processes that are involved in panspermia," Moro-Martin said.
Looking forward, Moro-Martin said Veras' work will be useful for when new exoplanet systems are discovered. "The framework that it establishes will help others assess whether, from the dynamical point of view, panspermia could have been feasible, given the system characteristics," said Moro-Martin, who was not involved in the Veras-led study.
Astrobiologists need to ensure that they are not limiting life to what's already known; aliens could look very different from what we expect, Moro-Martin said.
"The difficulty here is that the experiments that test survival against the hazards of outer space and atmospheric entry will be based on the organisms we are familiar with, and we have no clue what extrasolar organisms might be like," said Moro-Martin, "which opens a fascinating world of possibilities."
Nearly three years since NASA's Dawn mission arrived at Ceres, the spacecraft has run out of fuel. Is it time to start thinking about sending another mission to the dwarf planet?
The $467 million Dawn spacecraft launched in 2007 on a mission to study the two largest objects in the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres. After studying the asteroid Vesta from orbit for about a year, it moved on to Ceres, the smallest dwarf planet in the solar system and the largest space rock orbiting in the asteroid belt.
While in orbit at Ceres, Dawn discovered that the dwarf planet sports hundreds of weird bright spots, contains plenty of water ice and has organic molecules (the basic building blocks for life) on its surface. By the mission's end, however, scientists were still left with some big questions about Ceres and what it can teach us about the possibilities of life beyond Earth — questions that could be answered with a follow-up trip to the surface. [Photos: Asteroid Vesta and NASA's Dawn Spacecraft]
One of the last images of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows bright spots in Occator Crater. Dawn captured this view on Sept. 1, 2018, from an altitude of 2,340 miles (3,370 kilometers) above the dwarf planet's surface.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
"I think the kinds of questions that we are going to be left with will probably require going down to the surface, because there's only so much you can tell from orbit," Paul Schenk, a participating scientist for the Dawn mission with the Universities Space Research Association at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, told Space.com.
Specifically, Schenk said he would like to see a mission sent to explore Occator Crater, a 57-mile-wide (92 kilometers) crater containing the biggest and brightest of Ceres' spots. Like the other bright spots on Ceres, Occator Crater contains salty deposits that were left behind when briny water sprayed up from underground and then froze on the surface. This discovery by the Dawn mission revealed that the interior of Ceres is warmer than scientists previously thought. In the case of Occator Crater, a recent impact was likely the source of that heat, Schenk said.
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the bright spot in Occator Crater on Ceres. This region is officially known as Cerealia Facula.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
The most prevalent mineral at Occator Crater is sodium carbonate, which also happens to be prevalent in places on Earth that show hydrothermal activity — places like Yellowstone National Park "where certain types of bacteria are known to thrive," Schenk said. However, he said that it's "rather unlikely" that microbial life exists on Ceres, because the heat generated from impacts doesn't last long enough for life to evolve. "The impact generates enough heat to melt the ice and create the groundwaters that can then circulate in a central area," he said, but "the zone of heat contracts until the water goes away and freezes up" over the course of tens of thousands to a few million years. Here on Earth, the earliest forms of life arose 700 million years after the Earth formed.
Regardless of whether Ceres is capable of hosting life — a possibility that scientists have neither ruled out nor confirmed at this point — the hydrothermal processes seen on the dwarf planet could help scientists understand similar processes on other bodies in the solar system, like Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus — two of the top contenders for hosting possible life beyond Earth. Features resembling dried-up hydrothermal vents on Mars could also have sustained life sometime in the planet's history. Like the bacteria that live in deep-sea hydrothermal vents on Earth, organisms living in similar geological features on other world don't need sunlight to survive. Instead, they would rely on geothermal energy, like hydrothermal vents and plate tectonics.
A full-color image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows how the dwarf planet Ceres would appear to the human eye.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
In the case of Ceres, getting hit with other large space rocks appears to be the source of its geothermal energy. "Hydrothermal reactions with the water are clearly bringing up minerals to the surface," Schenk said. "In order to understand how that process works on other planets, including Mars, going back and understanding that chemistry and that physics — the physical process of what actually happens, how those materials delivered to the surface and what reactions are taking take place — are going to be important to understanding hydrothermal processes throughout the solar system. We have a lot of that information here on Earth, but the chemistry of Earth's crust is very different than it is on Ceres."
Landing and roving on Ceres
Because Occator Crater holds some tantalizing clues about the conditions necessary for life to arise on other worlds, scientists are hoping to send a lander to further explore Ceres' most fascinating feature, Schenk said. Ideally, any future missions would involve a small rover like the ones that landed on the asteroid Ryugu in September.
"It would have to be able to take some instruments that can tell you some diagnostic information about the composition, so it would have to survive the landing, and it probably would need to be able to move around to get to the specific site of interest, because you have to land safely but then you have to go to the area that's interesting, which could be complicated," Schenk said. (For example, Japan's Hayabusa2 mission to Ryugu has had a difficult time finding a safe landing site on the asteroid's surprisingly rocky surface.)
While Dawn could only study Ceres from orbit, reaching a closest altitude of 22 miles (35 km), a spacecraft on the surface could learn more about the dwarf planet's composition by scooping a sample and analyzing it in situ, or inside the spacecraft itself. Dawn used spectrometers to determine what elements are on the dwarf planet's surface, but those measurements are "dominated by those materials that are spectrally active, those that reveal absorption bands at particular wavelengths," and carbonaceous materials don't show up well in those measurements, Schenk said. "Carbonaceous materials often are pretty bland, so we probably have to go down to the surface to find it."
Scientists have been working on preliminary plans for the next mission to Ceres since as early as 2008, or seven years before Dawn would become the first spacecraft to visit the dwarf planet. A proposed mission called the Ceres Polar Lander would send an orbiter-lander combo to Ceres, dropping the lander at its north pole to search for clues about life. The mission would use the same kind of soft-landing techniques NASA has used to land spacecraft on Mars.
A team of researchers with the European aerospace manufacturing company Thales Alenia Space and the University of Nantes in France presented the Ceres Polar Lander mission concept at the European Planetary Science Congress in 2008.
When the Ceres Polar Lander was first proposed, scientists thought that Ceres' north pole would be the most interesting place to study. However, this was long before Dawn discovered Occator Crater, which is now arguably the most interesting place on Ceres.
Currently, no space agencies have plans to send another mission to Ceres, but that could change now that the Dawn mission has ended. Any proposed NASA missions will have to go through a lengthy review process before they can be selected to go to Ceres, but in the meantime, scientists have plenty of data from Dawn to sift through, Schenk said. "We're only starting to understand Ceres … it's going to take a while to figure out what we're actually seeing."
Email Hanneke Weitering at hweitering@space.com or follow her @hannekescience.
It forms at speeds of more than 1,000 mph (1,600 km/h), it lies deep beneath our feet, it could destroy hopes for alien life, and — finally — scientists understand how it works.
Back in March, researchers writing in the journal Science revealed that they have found the first evidence for this ice, called "Ice VII." Scientists had predicted its existence beforehand. Under the right conditions, it was believed, ice could form in a pool of water without a layer of heat at the leading edge of its growing surface. That — along with super-intense pressures and temperatures — would allow the ice to form without most of the usual brakes that slow its growth, Science Alert reported. It would also have a different crystal structure, or arrangement of atoms. Now, scientists say they've found that elusive ice for the first time in the frozen-water cores of diamonds that bubbled up from deep inside the Earth.
The diamonds, which contained Ice VII, had come from a point inside the planet known as the mantle's "transition zone," between 255 miles and 410 miles (410 and 660 kilometers) deep. (The mantle is the rocky layer between Earth's crust and core). And they knew that it had a crystal structure very different from the sort of ice that forms in clouds or lakes or in your freezer. [9 Strange, Scientific Excuses for Why We Haven't Found Alien Life Yet]
But they didn't know precisely how it formed, or what caused it to form that way.
New research, published Oct. 10 in the journal Physical Review Letters, found that there are particular combinations of temperature and pressure at which Ice VII forms. The mysterious Ice VII begins to form at 20,700 times Earth's atmospheric pressure at sea level and 40.7 degrees Fahrenheit (4.9 degrees Celsius), and the pressure/temperature combinations get only more intense from there.
This could pose problems for the hunt for alien life, Physics Central reported. Pressure spikes — say, from meteor impacts — could cause the explosive formation of Ice VII on watery planets otherwise suited to alien life. But the mass formation of this cubic ice at ripping speeds would likely prevent any such life from forming or surviving. On worlds where this happens, life could get snuffed out before it really began.
Starman has put a lot of miles on his Tesla Roadster in the last nine months.
The red electric car and its spacesuit-clad mannequin driver, which launched on the maiden mission of SpaceX's huge Falcon Heavy rocket in February, have made it beyond the orbit of Mars, company representatives said Friday night (Nov. 2).
The second sentence of that tweet, of course, is a nod to the late, great writer Douglas Adams. "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" is the second novel in Adams' five-part "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series.
SpaceX's Starman mannequin is seen inside Elon Musk's red Tesla Roadster with Earth in the background, shortly after launch on Feb. 6, 2018. As of Nov. 2, the duo were beyond the orbit of Mars.
Credit: SpaceX
Like many of us, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is a big "Hitchhiker's Guide" fan, as Starman's Roadster shows. The car's entertainment display was programmed to read "Don't Panic!" — the phrase that adorns the cover of the eponymous electronic guidebook in Adams' beloved series.
"Starman" is a cultural reference as well; it's the title of a1972 song by David Bowie. And Musk said before launch that the Roadster would play Bowie's 1969 hit "Space Oddity" at full blast during its deep-space trek (though Starman cannot hear the famous tune in the airless void). Ultimately, Musk opted for Bowie's "Life on Mars" as parting music for Starman and the Tesla.
Diagram showing the orbit and current location (as of Nov. 2, 2018) of the dummy Starman and his Tesla Roadster, which SpaceX launched on the first flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket in February 2018.
Credit: SpaceX via Twitter
Musk has said that he launched the Roadster and Starman because the duo is a lot more fun than the typical inert-mass dummy payload (pun intended; sorry). Launching a satellite or other valuable spacecraft wasn't an option, given the risks inherent in maiden flights. (Musk also runs Tesla, so publicity was probably a factor as well.)
Starman and his ride — which once belonged to Musk — won't stay beyond Mars forever. As you can see in the diagram, the pair will loop back on their heliocentric orbit, eventually coming about as close to the sun as Earth does.
The Roadster and Starman will come within a few hundred thousand kilometers of our planet in 2091, according to an orbit-modeling study. The authors of that study determined that the car will slam into either Venus or Earth, likely within the next few tens of millions of years. They give the space car a 6 percent chance of hitting Earth in the next 1 million years, and a 2.5 percent chance of smacking Venus in that span. [In Photos: SpaceX's 1st Falcon Heavy Rocket Test Launch Success!]
You can track the space mannequin and cosmic Tesla at whereisroadster.com, a website created by Ben Pearson, founder of Old Ham Media.
The Falcon Heavy's second mission, which will launch the Saudi Arabian communications satellite Arabsat-6A to geostationary orbit, is scheduled for January 2019.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There," will be published on Nov. 13 by Grand Central Publishing.
Waar zitten ‘Starman’ en zijn Tesla eigenlijk? Mars voorbij - HLN.be
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WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Er zweeft een auto in de ruimte, weet u nog? Het is intussen ook al even geleden dat ‘Starman’ aan zijn grootse ruimteavontuur begon in zijn rode Tesla Roadster. Waar hij nu ergens zit? Voorbij Mars, zo blijkt.
6 februari 2018. Ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX lanceert met succes de Falcon Heavy, de krachtigste raket ter wereld. Aan boord, dummy ‘Starman’ in een rode Tesla Roadster, waar SpaceX-oprichter Elon Musk voordien mee rondtoerde. Geestige omkaderingen voor een onvergetelijke ruimtereis alom: denk aan een Don’t Panic-bordje op het dashboard en muziek van David Bowie die uit de speakers knalt. Een stunt van formaat én volgens Musk het ultieme startschot van ooit ruimtetoerisme naar de maan en Mars.
Fans konden heel even de ruimtetocht van Starman live volgen en zagen de dummy bevreemdend sereen in zijn elektrische cabrio door de ruimte zweven, met onze aardbol op de achtergrond. Maar sinds 14 februari was hij niet langer zichtbaar en verdween hij in de duisternis. Klaar voor een lange baan rond de zon.
Uit een update van SpaceX over de locatie van de meest veelbesproken raketballast ooit, blijkt dat Starman intussen voorbij Mars is gevlogen. “Volgende halte, het restaurant aan het einde van het universum”, grapt het ruimtevaartbedrijf in een tweet. Niet toevallig (naast de Don’t Panic-grap) een nieuwe knipoog naar de befaamde ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’-boekenserie van auteur Douglas Adams, waar Elon Musk grote fan van is.
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99.000 keer ‘(Is There) Life on Mars’
In de ruimte is de Tesla Roadster alvast de snelste auto ooit, met een snelheid van ongeveer 42.000 kilometer per uur. Hij heeft nu al ver genoeg gereisd om alle wegen op aarde 16,4 keer te hebben gereden, schrijft fansite whereisroadster.com. Als de batterij aan boord nog werkt, heeft Starman ook al bijna 74.000 keer het nummer ‘Space Oddity’ beluisterd en meer dan 99.000 keer ‘(Is There) Life on Mars’, hoewel daar in het luchtledige van de ruimte niet veel van te horen zal zijn.
Op 8 november zal hij dit jaar ongeveer zijn verste punt tegenover de zon bereiken (249 miljoen kilometer), op 21 februari 2019 het verste punt tegenover de aarde (365 miljoen kilometer). Dan brengt zijn baan hem opnieuw dichter bij zijn thuisplaneet. Op 5 november 2020 nadert hij ‘dicht’ bij de aarde (51 miljoen kilometer). Voor een echte nabije passage is het waarschijnlijk wachten tot 2091. Dan is de Tesla vermoedelijk enkele honderdduizenden kilometers verwijderd van de aarde. Als het niet tot een ongeval komt of er zich geen ander probleem voordoet, blijft Starman nog vele jaren eenzaam rond de zon toeren, mogelijks miljoenen jaren. Volgens een studie zouden zijn restanten uiteindelijk kunnen crashen op Venus of op de aarde.
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Oumuamua: Harvard researchers suggest strange interstellar object may be alien light sail
Oumuamua: Harvard researchers suggest strange interstellar object may be alien light sail
ASTRONOMERS have spotted something really odd. And a professor suggests it was an alien solar sail sent in search for life.
Jamie Seidel
Hawking, Billionaire Announce Spaceflight to Alpha Centauri
IT WAS our first known interstellar visitor when it was detected flashing past the Sun in October last year. Dubbed ‘Oumuamua’ — Hawaiian for messenger — it was quickly determined to be not of this solar system.
Its trajectory had been traced. And the track it was on could not have possibly been an orbit around our Sun. So it must have come from deep space.
Follow-up observations after the Pan-STAARS-1 telescope in Hawaii announced its discovery revealed the object to be odd.
It was elongated. It was about a kilometre long. It was a strange reddish colour. And it appeared to have properties that belong to both comets and asteroids.
Naturally enough, some speculated it could be an alien spacecraft. SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) was interested enough to turn one of its electronic ears in its direction.
It found nothing. There were no observable omissions from the tumbling interstellar visitor.
And, as Oumuamua was moving so fast as to already whip it into the outer reaches of our Solar System, interest waned.
There just wasn’t much more we could do to check it out.
now, a new study by two Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics astronomers has postulated that it may, after all, have been an alien object.
Professor Loeb is a committee member of the Breakthrough Starshot committee — a project announced by the late astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner that seeks to speed up our search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Any examination of the unusual nature of Oumuamua must include “the possibility that it might be a lightsail of artificial origin,” he writes
An artist’s depiction of the IKAROS space probe with solar sail in flight.
Oumuamua was found to have a high density. Normally, this would indicate it was an object made of rock and metal.
This seemed to be supported as it skimmed past the Sun. No comet-like clouds of gas spun out as a tail in the solar wind.
But a spectral analysis — where light is broken down into its components to identify the chemicals influencing its colours — indicated it was much icier than expected.
After passing the Sun, it actually sped up. It should, by all accounts, have slowed down …
Unless it was a comet, venting gas from the warmer face closest to the Sun. This could give it the boost needed to increase its velocity.
So, where was that comet-like tail?
It’s still not been found.
The Harvard astronomers also point out that any such ‘outgassing’ would have quickly changed the nature of Oumuamua’s spin.
This also was not observed.
With these anomalies, Bialy and Loeb suggest there is only one other viable alternative: that it is a mechanical light sail, designed to use starlight to propel it through space.
“The first artificial relic might have just been discovered over the past year when the Pan STARRS sky survey identified the first interstellar object in the solar system, ‘Oumuamua,” Professor Loeb writes.
“We explain the excess acceleration of `Oumuamua away from the Sun as the result of the force that the Sunlight exerts on its surface,” they write. “For this force to explain measured excess acceleration, the object needs to be extremely thin, of order a fraction of a millimetre in thickness but tens of meters in size. This makes the object lightweight for its surface area and allows it to act as a light-sail. Its origin could be either natural (in the interstellar medium or proto-planetary disks) or artificial (as a probe sent for a reconnaissance mission into the inner region of the Solar System).”
This handout photo released by the European Southern Observatory on November 20, 2017 shows an artist's impression of the first interstellar asteroid: Oumuamua.
Picture: AFPSource:AFP
RETROENGINEERING OUMUAMUA
The Harvard astronomers attempted to compute the probable shape, size and mass any such interstellar light-sail would need.
It would need to survive the intense cold and extreme radiation of deep space. It would also need to be structurally rigid enough to cope with the stresses of its spin.
Their calculations state it could be achieved by an incredibly thin — just a fraction of a millimetre — thick sheet of metal.
“For a thin sheet this requires a width of ≈ 0.3−0.9 mm,” the study reads. “We find that although extremely thin, such an object would survive an interstellar travel over Galactic distances of about 5 kpc, withstanding collisions with gas and dust-grains as well as stresses from rotation and tidal forces.”
Professor Loeb states similar lightsails have already been designed and built here — such as the Japanese IKAROS and his own Starshot Initiative.
Why would such an alien ship be here?
Bialy and Loeb speculate it could be flotsam — a jettisoned solar sail floating at the whim of the interstellar winds. That would explain the lack of transmissions, they say.
“This opportunity establishes a potential foundation for a new frontier of space archaeology, namely the study of relics from past civilisations in space,” Loeb recently wrote in Scientific American.
“Finding evidence for space junk of artificial origin would provide an affirmative answer to the age-old question “Are we alone?” This would have a dramatic impact on our culture and add a new cosmic perspective to the significance of human activity.”
Equally, Loeb said, Oumuamua could be a space probe.
“The alternative is to imagine that `Oumuamua was on a reconnaissance mission,” he told Universe Today. He said the objects path was simply too convenient.
It passed within 0.25 AU (Astronomical Units, the distance of the Earth from the Sun) of the Sun which avoided the worst of its solar radiation. It then crossed within just 0.15AU of Earth.
Both astronomers concede we simply know too little about Oumuamua to reliably guess its nature. But, at the very least, for it to have the observed characteristics it has it must be an entirely new type of material or object.
EmDrive: US military research group DARPA want space drive that needs no fuel
EmDrive: US military research group DARPA want space drive that needs no fuel
A SIMPLE copper cone appears to pull propulsion out of nowhere. Now the US is betting $1.4m on this “impossible” space drive.
Jamie Seidel
Breakthrough Technology
EVERY action has an equal and opposite reaction. Or it should. It’s how rockets work: they accelerate forward by burning fuel and ejecting exhaust in the opposite direction. Now, 20 years after its was first demonstrated, the US military is interested in a drive that generates thrust from nowhere.
If it works.
Something else may be at play.
Many physicists believe it is a simple — but minuscule — error.
It’s an error that has been consistently reduced since the Shawyer EmDrive was first run in 1998.
It’s tiny. And every time someone applies new checks and balances to the process, it seems to get tinier.
But, it’s still there.
Tests by the worlds most advanced propulsion engineers, including NASA, still end up producing measurable thrust.
And, in the frictionless environment of space, that thrust accumulates. Over time, even the pressure equivalent to that of a piece of paper on your hand can accelerate a vehicle to interplanetary speeds.
It’s a prospect that has the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sinking a speculative $1.4 million into the idea.
“Given the number and diversity of claims about EmDrive and other exotic physics, my opinion then and now is that DARPA should invest modest sums to experimentally assess such claims, albeit only where credible experimental evidence exists,” former DARPA researcher Jess Sponable told Popular Mechanics.
The EM drive positioned inside a vacuum chamber for testing.
Picture: NASA/EagleworksSource:Supplied
PURSUING THE IMPOSSIBLE
It’s just a cone of copper. One end is sealed. The other is opened.
It’s then pumped full of microwaves — generated from an electrical source that could include simple solar arrays.
Microwaves do produce pressure. Just not much of it.
The idea goes that the microwaves striking the closed end of the copper cone produce pressure — in essence giving it a ‘push’. Those that go out the back produce none.
This is where physicists have a problem.
They argue this is exactly the same as someone trying to push a car by leaning on the steering while sitting in the driver’s seat.
To get thrust, basic physics means there must be a reaction to drive the process.
Problem is, the copper cone experiment is producing a measurable force.
“The DARPA mission is to embrace and advance transformational change in the US military, but … we must strive to beat the other guy to the punch line and ensure there will never again be another Sputnik moment,” Sponable told Popular Mechanics, referring to the success of the Soviet Union in getting the first satellite into space.
This illustration made available by NASA depicts the Dawn spacecraft orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres. If it was able to suck fuel from the void of space, it would not have been forced to shut down as it did this month.
Picture: NASASource:AP
NASCENT LIGHT MATTER INTERACTIONS
The science is entirely speculative. And utterly unfounded.
But DARPA has kicked off an initiative it calls NLM (Nascent light matter interactions).
It’s re-examining the properties of electromagnetic and light waves.
Specifically, it wants to test the highly theoretical proposal that it can interact with spontaneous quantum ‘bubbles’ that pop in and out of existence.
Known as Unruh radiation, it is speculated this could be the unaccounted for ‘fuel’ that provides the EmDrive’s thrust.
Called Quantised Inertia, it’s a radical concept. It would also go against existing theories of the nature of dark energy and dark matter. But these remain highly speculative, too.
Most physicists believe the ‘thrust’ being recorded by the EmDrive is an unaccounted for external influence — such as the impact of the Earth’s magnetic field on the copper making up the cone.
So DARPA will attempt to recreate this thrust through a new kind of experiment.
Instead of microwaves and copper, they will fire lasers through a loop to see how they interact. And another test will bounce lasers off assymetric mirrors.
Theoretically, these should produce the same effect as the EmDrive.
If successful, the results would be revolutionary.
Satellites would not need to carry heavy fuel into orbit. Instead, they could coast around at will. Rockets could launch much larger space probes, as these probes also won’t need to carry their own energy source.
It would also make interplanetary travel much easier.
Mostly, it would gut modern physics. Einstein’s theories of general relativity and special relativity would have to be revisited. As would Newton’s third law.
IT WAS a normal Monday morning in February 1989 when Alec Newald set off on a three-hour drive to Auckland from Rotorua in New Zealand’s volcanic heart.
However, what the 70-year-old Kiwi claims to have experienced on that journey changed his perception of the universe forever.
Mr Newald says he was taken by extraterrestrials to an advanced civilisation and stayed there for 10 days.
After passing through a winding, foggy mountain route, he arrived in Auckland feeling tired and confused.
However, he was even more confused to learn that Monday was now Thursday — 10 days later — and he had no idea how he had lost those days.
Mr Newald said he spent 10 days in the alien world.
Picture: Alec NewaldSource:Supplied
Authoring a book called Co-Evolution and talking to global UFO media outlets since his experience in 1989, the Kiwi has set out what he experienced.
Speaking on American UFO and paranormal radio show As You Wish talk radio, he recalled the moment he was “plucked” from that winding mountain road.
“I was like what the hell is going on here?” he said. “I was driving the car and it felt like a tonne of bricks had landed on me, like someone had poured cement on me. I felt like I was pushed into the seat of that car.
“I was paralysed, I couldn’t turn the wheel or apply the brakes or do anything.”
He says he was zooming down the road at 100km/h towards a cliff face at the time and he braced for the impact.
Then he said he woke in a “cavernous” space filled with flashing neon blue lights. He was convinced he was dead, as he believed he was in spirit form and he was experiencing the afterlife.
He claims to have never even thought about UFOs before that point and to have never taken drugs.
“I’m just like a wispy ghost with no form at all,” he said. “I found I could manoeuvre myself by moving my consciousness forward or sideways.”
Mr Newald says he woke in spirit form and guided by extraterrestrials.
Picture: Alec NewaldSource:Supplied
The Kiwi said UFOs couldn’t have been further from his mind before 1989.
Picture: YouTubeSource:Supplied
Surrounded by other “spirit forms”, it was then that he claims to have felt a “tap on the shoulder”.
Here’s how Mr Newald describes what happened next in his book.
“Looking up, I realised we were being approached by three aliens, the tallest of them looking like my escort from earlier on,” he wrote.
“The second one was just a little shorter and was male as far as I could tell. The third was smaller, much smaller, and walked ahead of the other two.
“He, for want of a better word was slightly built with a roundish head and rather unusual, squinty eyes which were well spaced and placed rather lower down than are our own.
“He had a very small mouth, but I did not notice any ears or much of a nose. His physical appearance, however, was of almost no consequence, for I was immediately struck with an almost overpowering feeling of his presence.
“I cannot say it was hypnotic, if anything, the opposite. It was as if his energy was being projected and absorbed by my body.”
As he moved further, he claims to have seen physical objects emerging which looked like buildings and the entities which guided him there started to take physical form.
He claims they then told him to step into a machine, which would “build a body for him” and he saw his body forming beneath him.
On As You Wish talk radio he said the aliens were trying to reconstruct themselves so they could exist on earth.
As if his alleged experience was not strange enough, he started receiving visits from officials wanting to know more about his experiences and especially about the capabilities of this extraterrestrial race once he was back on earth.
Ahead of his Sydney talk, he told extraterrestrial enthusiasts UFO Research (NSW) Incorporated the experience was a “very hard pill to swallow” and one which has dominated his life ever since.
“Try absorbing that and continue to live your life as if nothing has changed,” Mr Newald said.
“Perhaps an even bigger surprise was, with the exception of a few, the more I tried to share this information the harder my life became.
“I was ostracised by people you might have expected support from. In fact, even before I tried to share any of the things I’d learnt, my life started to become more than difficult. It became impossible to continue on as before.”
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Ik bracht 10 dagen door bij een buitenaardse beschaving. Dit is wat er gebeurde
Ik bracht 10 dagen door bij een buitenaardse beschaving. Dit is wat er gebeurde
De Nieuw-Zeelander Alec Newald zegt dat hij werd meegenomen door aliens en 10 dagen doorbracht bij een buitenaardse beschaving, zo meldt nieuwssite News.com.au.
We schrijven februari 1989. Newald is op weg van Rotorua naar Auckland. Wat er tijdens die reis gebeurde zou zijn kijk op het universum voor altijd veranderen.
Eenmaal aangekomen in Auckland voelde hij zich moe en verward. Hij kwam tot de ontdekking dat het geen maandag meer was, maar donderdag; 10 dagen later.
Verstrekkende gevolgen
Hij had geen idee wat er in de afgelopen 10 dagen was gebeurd.
Langzaam maar zeker kwamen de herinneringen terug. Newald zegt dat zijn ervaringen met vriendelijke aliens verstrekkende gevolgen hebben voor alle mensen op aarde.
Tijdens een uitzending van de Amerikaanse radioshow ‘As You Wish’ sprak hij over het moment dat hij van de weg werd geplukt.
“Ik reed in mijn auto en opeens voelde het alsof er een enorme lading bakstenen op me neerkwam, alsof iemand cement op me had gegoten,” zei hij. “Het voelde alsof ik in de stoel werd gedrukt.”
Verlamd
“Ik was verlamd en kon niet aan het stuur draaien of op de rem trappen,” vervolgde hij.
Hij werd wakker in een ruimte met blauwe knipperende lichten. Hij was ervan overtuigd dat hij dood was en in het hiernamaals was aanbeland.
“Plotseling tikte er iemand op mijn schouder,” klonk het. “Ik keek op en werd benaderd door drie aliens.”
Ze hadden volgens hem een rond hoofd, samengeknepen ogen en een hele kleine mond. Hij kon geen oren of neuzen zien.
Machine
Hij zag fysieke voorwerpen ontstaan, die leken op gebouwen en de entiteiten die hem begeleidden.
De aliens vroegen hem om in een machine te stappen, die ‘een lichaam voor hem zou bouwen’.
Newald zei dat hij na deze vreemde ervaring bezoek kreeg van functionarissen die meer wilden weten over het incident, met name over dit buitenaardse ras.
Verstoten
Hij zei dat hij het allemaal moeilijk kon geloven, omdat hij nog nooit had nagedacht over UFO’s.
“Probeer dan maar eens te doen alsof er niks gebeurd is,” zei Newald.
Hoe meer informatie hij begon te delen over zijn ervaring, hoe meer hij werd verstoten door zijn omgeving.
“Perhaps an even bigger surprise was, with the exception of a few, the more I tried to share this information the harder my life became. I was ostracised by people you might have expected support from. In-fact, even before I tried to share any of the things, I’d learnt my life started to become more than difficult. It became impossible to continue on as before.”
And yet, he keeps on trying to tell the world about his experience of being abducted by aliens and living amongst them for ten days before being dropped back in New Zealand, struggling to remember what he saw so he could tell the world – a different experience that he found far worse than his abduction. The abductee is Alec Newald and he was recently in the news as he shared his story once again, 30 years later, to an audience in Australia.
“I was driving the car and it felt like a tonne of bricks had landed on me, like someone had poured cement on me. I felt like I was pushed into the seat of that car.”
In an interview prior to his talk to the UFOR (UFO Research) group in West Ryde, New South Wales, Newald recounts how in February 1989 he was spared from what would certainly have been a fatal drive off of a cliff by aliens who transported him to their world where he found himself in what he describes as a spirit form with others in the same condition. Newald says he assumed he was dead and in the afterlife until he was approached by small beings – four-feet tall, large round heads, squinty eyes – with one as the obvious leader.
“Welcome”, he said. “I am the designated Guardian of this section. Anything that you feel you might need to make your stay with us more pleasant, ask and I shall do my best to supply it. The suit you have been given will make it possible for you to understand us, and us you”.
On his website and in his book, “Coevolution: The True Story of a Man Taken for Ten Days to an Extraterrestrial Civilization,” he describes being given a body and watching as the ship he was on descended into a huge city with various buildings that were pyramid-shaped, tubular or round. He was given a tour in a floating car described as “a stealth fighter cockpit without wings” controlled by “part mind power, part magnetic repulsion.” Newald says he was given more technical and historical information (including how these aliens affected the evolution of the planet and humans) during his stay, which lasted until he suddenly found himself back in Auckland 10 days later, confused and struggling to figure out what happened.
Newald claims he knew something big had happened to him because “some governmental agency knew about his “off world” experience, and wanted to get as much information out of him as humanly possible.” He says he was visited by “two New Zealand DSIR (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) scientists” who knew more about him than he expected … enough to convince him they were not from the DSIR. He claims to have been threatened and his flats were broken into.
Newald wrote his book to share his story and his interpretation of these experiences and has periodically tried to tell it in public, only to be “ostracized.” Some complaints are that it’s too brief and his accounts are less of a first-hand memory than an interpretation of what he thinks happened. Now Newald is back again. The world and its desire for disclosure on UFOs and aliens has changed. However, his message has not.
“In relating the details of my own experience, I hope I can somehow convey to you that the unknown need not to be something to be feared. Personally, I am looking forward to whatever the future has to offer the human race.”
A good message, whether you believe the rest of Alec Newald’s account of a 10-day alien abduction or not.
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What is behind the decline in UFO sightings?
Mystery surrounds purple lights in the sky over the US
At first I thought it was just an incidental case but the fact that these purple lights are showing up more and more in the sky over the US is a reason for concern.
Below eyewitness reports of the strange purple light in the sky reported over the past weeks:
Oct 13 – Location: Cuyahoga River, Ohio - : I went outside to be sure it wasn't a lamp light and noticed the purple sky was only in one area.” Video
Oct 13 – Location: Cleveland, Ohio – “I was heading to the gas station when I see this different color in the sky that have never been seen with my own two eyes.” See below video.
Oct 26 – Location: Dayton, Ohio – “Just recorded this on my way to work, I saw a glowing light on the highway. It looked like it was over the clouds rather than under it and it was stationary. Weird but thought you folks might like it. Could be anything and I may be just a crazy loon but whatever.” Video
Oct 27 – Location: Cleveland, Ohio – One day later another person witnessed the purple light in the sky. He said “I keep seeing this strange purple color clouds hmmm what causes this to happen?” Video
Oct 31 – Location Bellevue, WA – Witness said “Most peoples have seen this, and it is not from the skyscrapers, nor from any buildings.” Video
Nov 4 – Location: Wisconsin – “I had never seen the sky like this before - Just driving home and there it was.” Video
It is difficult to say what makes these lights appear, but it seems to me that something is going on in the atmosphere what we don’t know.
Is This The Best Video Footage Ever Filmed of the Mysterious Triangle-Shaped ‘UFO’?
Is This The Best Video Footage Ever Filmed of the Mysterious Triangle-Shaped ‘UFO’?
The mysterious triangle-shaped ‘unidentified flying object’ is perhaps one of the most famous of UFOs.
Seen on countless occasions all around the world, the triangle-shaped UFO is perhaps the ultimate proof that UFO does not necessarily mean Extraterrestrial.
All evidence currently seems to support the idea that the mysterious object is in fact nothing other than an ultra-secret flying vehicle belonging to the government of the United States.
Did the Government really reverse-engineer Alien technology and build a triangle-shaped man-made UFO? Image Credit: The Object Report.
Dubbed as the TR-3B, the triangle shaped UFO was spotted by a driver who was returning home from work when he managed to record using his mobile, one of the best videos of the mysterious flying object.
Upon reviewing the recording, he observed that he had, in fact, spotted something inexplicable, a bright triangular object, flying in the distance.
The video has already accumulated thousands of ‘Likes’ after the source, who spoke to The Daily Star on condition of anonymity, published the footage online.
What do you think, is this the actual TR-3 Black Manta?
“It looks like a TR-3B surveillance plane with the circles under each corner of the triangle, if that makes sense,” said one viewer, who was supported by others who seemed to share his view. Another commentator, curisouly, even recalled helping build such ships “in a secret governemnt base in the 1960s.”
Many UFO experts are conviced that the Tirangle-Shped UFO is in fact the so-called the TR-3 Black Manta, a surveillance aircraft of the United States Air Force, speculated to be developed under a black project.
The only evidence we currently have for such an aircraft is based largely on speculations about several reported sightings of mysterious flying wing aircraft over Antelope Valley, an area of desert in southern California.
This stretch of desert draws people interested in supernatural phenomena as well as UFO sighintgs and “black project”-related aircraft sigthings, since it is located in vicinity to several known military research and testing areas, such as Edwards Air Force Base in California, and United States Air Force Plant 42.
Several ufologists maintain that this type of stealth aircraft (the TR-3 Black Manta) is the result of decades of research and reverse engineering applied to alien spaceships that crash landed on Earth decades ago.
Rumors suggest that the TR-3 was said to be a subsonic stealth spy plane with a flying wing design. It was alleged to have been used in the Gulf War to provide laser designation for Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk bombers, for targeting to use with laser-guided bombs. The TR-3 was claimed to have been manufactured by Northrop.
Curiosuly, there have been several reports of tiernagle shaped flying pbjects in Russia, Europe, and Australia.
UFO experts as well as alien hunters argue that these events are not isolated and that the strange tirangle—shaped aircraft is real, and is the result of reverse-engineered alien technology.
However, there are those who believe that the footage filmed over Texas is not the actual TR-3 Black Manta, but most likely a reflection of light caught on the window of the car.
Anyway, let me know what you think, and post your comments below!
While the world is busy launching spacecrafts into the unknown universe its amazing that the ancient people have already developed these technologies thousands of years ago.
“The Kingdom Temple” at Egypt near the great pyramid of Giza holds numerous carvings on its roof and ceiling which resembles modern day spacecraft.
The Kingdom Temple
Vimanas In India
The Chinese discover something in the mountains of Tibet and Lhasa. They are the bundle of strange documents!
The documents are sent to Dr.Ruth Reyna, University of Chandigarh, for translation and special comments. Dr.Reyna’s findings are eye opening. She declares that the manuscripts contain the following.
Directions for building interstellar spaceships with a method of propulsion that are essentially anti-gravitational. The method was similar to that of laghima, the power of man’s ego. It is described as ‘a centrifugal force strong enough to counteract all gravitational pull’. Hindu Yogis claim it is a man’s laghima that allows for his body to levitate (rise defying gravity).
These machines are called astras.
The text also contains claims that ancient Indians could have sent detachments of men on to any planet.
The secrets of antima (cover of invisibility) and of garima (method of making one’s body as heavy as a mountain of lead) are revealed. The Chinese are including certain parts of this data in their space program research and study.
It has mentioned a planned trip to moon.
ANCIENT VIMANAS
In the Sanskrit epics of ancient India, aerial vehicles were known as Vimanas, and the knowledge of aeronautics was termed Viman Vidya.
Reference to ancient Indian flying vehicles comes from ancient Indian sources, many are the well known ancient Indian Epics, and there are literally hundreds of them. Most of them have not even been translated into English yet from the old Sanskrit.
The Sanskrit documents found at Lhasa, Tibet explains that the method of propulsion, was “anti-gravitational” and was based upon a system analogous to that of “laghima,” the unknown power of the ego existing in man’s physiological makeup, “a centrifugal force strong enough to counteract all gravitational pull.”
According to Hindu Yogis, it is this “laghima” which enables a person to levitate. Dr. Reyna said that on board these machines, which were called “Astras” by the text, the ancient Indians could have sent a detachment of men onto any planet, according to the document, which is thought to be thousands of years old. The manuscripts were also said to reveal the secret of “antima”; “the cap of invisibility” and “garima”; “how to become as heavy as a mountain of lead.”
Indian Flying Machines
Shivkar Bapuji Talpade born in 1864 was a Sanskrit scholar. His birth place is Chirabazar at Dukkarwadi in Bombay. From his young age was attracted by Vaimanika Sastra (Aeronautical Science) expounded by the great Indian sage Maharishi Bharadwaja.
One western scholar of Indology Stephen-Knapp has tried to explain what Talpade did. According to Knapp, the Vaimanika Shastra describes in detail, the construction of what is called, the mercury vortex engine the forerunner of the ion engines being made today.
Shivkur Bapuji Talpade’s unmanned aircraft flew to a height of 1500 feet before crashing down and the historian. Knapp adds that additional information on the mercury engines can be found in the ancient Vedic text called Samaranga Sutradhara. This text also devotes 230 verses, to the use of these machines in peace and war.
Rukma Vimana
The Indologist William Clarendon, who has written down a detailed description of the mercury vortex engine in his translation of Samaranga Sutradhara quotes thus ‘Inside the circular air frame, place the mercury-engine with its solar mercury boiler at the aircraft center. By means of the power latent in the heated mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in a most marvelous manner’.
Four strong mercury containers must be built into the interior structure. When these have been heated by fire through solar or other sources the vimana (aircraft) develops thunder-power through the mercury. It is also added that this success of an Indian scientist was not liked by the Imperial rulers. Warned by the British Government the Maharaja of Baroda stopped helping Talpade. His efforts to make known the greatness of Vedic Shastras was recognised by Indian scholars, who gave him the title of Vidya Prakash Pra-deep.
Anti-Gravity Studies
The Indian Emperor Ashoka started”Secret Society of the Nine Unknown Men” great Indian scientists who were supposed to catalogue the many sciences. Ashoka kept their work secret because he was afraid that the advanced science catalogued by these men, culled from ancient Indian sources, would be used for the evil purpose of war, which Ashoka was strongly against, having been converted to Buddhism after defeating a rival army in a bloody battle. The “Nine Unknown Men” wrote a total of nine books, presumably one each.
Carving of Vimanas in Indian Templses
Book number was “The Secrets of Gravitation!”This book, known to historians, but not actually seen by them dealt chiefly with “gravity control.” It is presumably still around somewhere, kept in a secret library in India, Tibet or elsewhere (perhaps even in North America somewhere). One can certainly undertand Ashoka’s reasoning for wanting to keep such knowledge a secret, assuming it exists. If the Nazis had such weapons at their disposal during World War II, Ashoka was also aware devastating wars using such advanced vehicles and other “futuristic weapons” that had destoryed the ancient Indian “Rama Empire” several thousand years before.
The ancient Indian epic describes a Vimana as a double-deck, circular aircraft with portholes and a dome, much as we would imagine a flying saucer. It flew with the “speed of the wind” and gave forth a “melodious sound.” There were at least four different types of Vimanas; some saucer shaped, others like long cylinders (“cigar shaped airships”).
In 1875, the Vaimanika Sastra, a fourth century B.C. text written by Bharadvajy the Wise, using even older texts as his source, was rediscovered in a temple in India. It dealt with the operation of Vimanas and included information on the steering, precautions for long flights, protection of the airships from storms and lightening and how to switch the drive to “solar energy” from a free energy source which sounds like “anti-gravity.”
Tripura Vimana
The Vaimanika Sastra (or Vymaanika-Shaastra) has eight chapters with diagrams, describing three types of aircraft, including apparatuses that could neither catch on fire nor break. It also mentions 31 essential parts of these vehicles and 16 materials from which they are constructed, which absorb light and heat; for which reason they were considered suitable for the construction of Vimanas.
This document has been translated into English and is available by writing the publisher: VYMAANIDASHAASTRA AERONAUTICS by Maharishi Bharadwaaja, translated into English and edited, printed and published by Mr. G. R. Josyer, Mysore, India, 1979. Mr. Josyer is the director of the International Academy of Sanskrit Investigation located in Mysore. There seems to be no doubt that Vimanas were powered by some sort of “anti-gravity.” Vimanas took off vertically, and were.
Vimanas were kept in a Vimana Griha, a kind of hanger, and were sometimes said to be propelled by a yellowish-white liquid, and sometimes by some sort of mercury compound, though writers seem confused in this matter. It is most likely that the later writers on Vimanas, wrote as observers and from earlier texts, and were understandably confused on the princible of their propulsion. The “yellowish white liquid” sounds suspiciously like gasoline, and perhaps Vimanas had a number of different propulsion sources, including combustion engines and even “pulse-jet” engines.
It is interesting to note that when Alexander the Great invaded India more than two thousand years ago, his historians chronicled that at one point they were attacked by “flying, fiery shields” that dove at his army and frightened the cavalry. These “flying saucers” did not use any atomic bombs or beam weapons on Alexander’s army however, perhaps out of benevolence, and Alexander went on to conquer India.
It is interesting to note, that the Nazis developed the first practical pulse-jet engines for their V-8 rocket “buzz bombs.” Hitler and the Nazi staff were exceptionally interested in ancient India and Tibet and sent expeditions to both these places yearly, starting in the 30’s, in order to gather esoteric evidence that they did so, and perhaps it was from these people that the Nazis gained some of their scientific information! According to the Dronaparva, part of the Mahabarata, and the Ramayana, one Vimana described was shaped like a sphere and born along at great speed on a mighty wind generated by mercury.
It moved like a UFO, going up, down, backwards and forewards as the pilot desired. In another Indian source, the Samar, Vimanas were “iron machines, well-knit and smooth, with a charge of mercury that shot out of the back in the form of a roaring flame.” Another work called the Samaranganasutradhara describes how the vehicles were constructed. It is possible that mercury did have something to do with the propulsion, or more possibly, with the guidance system. Curiously, Soviet scientists have discovered what they call “age-old instruments used in navigating cosmic vehicles” in caves in Turkestan and the Gobi Desert.
Sundara Vimana
The “devices” are hemispherical objects of glass or porcelain, ending in a cone with a drop of mercury inside. It is evident that ancient Indians flew around in these vehicles, all over Asia, to Atlantis presumably; and even, apparently, to South America. Writing found at Mohenjodaro in Pakistan (presumed to be one of the “Seven Rishi Cities of the Rama Empire”) and still undeciphered, has also been found in one other place in the world: Easter Island! Writing on Easter Island, called Rongo-Rongo writing, is also undeciphered, and is uncannily similar to the Mohenjodaro script.
In the Mahavira of Bhavabhuti, a Jain text of the eighth century culled from older texts and traditions, we read: “An aerial chariot, the Pushpaka, conveys many people to the capital of Ayodhya. The sky is full of stupendous flying-machines, dark as night, but picked out by lights with a yellowish glare-“
The Vedas, ancient Hindu poems, thought to be the oldest of all the Indian texts, describe Vimanas of various shapes and sizes: the “ahnihotra-vimana” with two engines, the “elephant-vimana” with more engines, and other types named after the kingfisher, ibis and other animals.
Unfortunately, Vimanas, like most scientific discoveries, were ultimately used for war. Atlanteans used their flying machines, “Vailixi,” a similar type of aircraft, to literally try and subjugate the world, it would seem, if Indian texts are to be believed. The Atlanteans, known as “Asvins” in the Indian writings, were apparently even more advanced technologically than the Indians, and certainly of a more war-like temperment. Although no ancient texts on Atlantean Vailixi are known to exist, some information has come down through esoteric, “occult” sources which describe their flying machines. Similar, if not identical to Vimanas, Vailixi were generally “cigar shaped” and had the capability of manuvering underwater as well as in the atmosphere or even outer space. Other vehicles, like Vimanas, were saucer shaped, and could apparently also be submerged.
According to Eklal Kueshana, author of “The Ultimate Frontier,” in an article he wrote in 1966, Vailixi were first developed in Atlantis 20,000 years ago, and the most common ones are “saucershaped of generally trapezoidal cross-section with three hemispherical engine pods on the underside.” “They use a mechanical antigravity device driven by engines developing approximately 80,000 horse power.” The Ramayana, Mahabarata and other texts speak of the hideous war that took place, some ten or twelve thousand years ago between Atlantis and Rama using weapons of destruction that could not be imagined by readers until the second half of this century. The ancient Mahabharata, one of the sources on Vimanas, goes on to tell the awesome destructiveness of the war: “…(the weapon was) a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe.
“ANCIENT VIMANA AIRCRAFT” – a Contribution by John Burrows Sanskrit texts are filled with references to gods who fought battles in the sky using Vimanas equipped with weapons as deadly as any we can deploy in these more enlightened times. For example, there is a passage in the Ramayana which reads: “The Puspaka car that resembles the Sun and belongs to my brother was brought by the powerful Ravan; that aerial and excellent car going everywhere at will …. that car resembling a bright cloud in the sky.” “.. and the King [Rama] got in, and the excellent car at the command of the Raghira, rose up into the higher atmosphere.”
In the Mahabharatra, an ancient Indian poem of enormous length, we learn that an individual named Asura Maya had a Vimana measuring twelve cubits in circumference, with four strong wheels. The poem is a veritable gold mine of information relating to conflicts between gods who settled their differences apparently using weapons as lethal as the ones we are capable of deploying. Apart from ‘blazing missiles’, the poem records the use of other deadly weapons. ‘Indra’s Dart’ operated via a circular ‘reflector’. When switched on, it produced a ‘shaft of light’ which, when focused on any target, immediately ‘consumed it with its power’. In one particular exchange, the hero, Krishna, is pursuing his enemy, Salva, in the sky, when Salva’s Vimana, the Saubha is made invisible in some way. Undeterred, Krishna immediately fires off a special weapon: ‘I quickly laid on an arrow, which killed by seeking out sound’.
Many other terrible weapons are described, quite matter of factly, in the Mahabharata, but the most fearsome of all is the one used against the Vrishis. The narrative records: “Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three cities of the Vrishis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousands suns, rose in all its splendour. It was the unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas.” It is important to note, that these kinds of records are not isolated. They can be cross-correlated with similiar reports in other ancient civilizations.
The after-affects of this Iron Thunderbolt have an ominously recognizable ring. Apparently, those killed by it were so burnt that their corpses were unidentifiable. The survivors fared little etter, as it caused their hair and nails to fall out. Perhaps the most disturbing and challenging, information about these allegedly mythical Vimanas in the ancient records is that there are some matter-of-fact records, describing how to build one. In their way, the instructions are quite precise. In the Sanskrit Samarangana Sutradhara, it is written: “Strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with its iron heating apparatus underneath. By means of the power latent in the mecrcury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky. The movements of the Vimana are such that it can vertically ascend, vertically descend, move slanting forwards and backwards. With the help of the machines human beings can fly in the air and heavenly beings can come down to earth.”
The Hakatha (Laws of the Babylonians) states quite unambiguously: “The privilege of operating a flying machine is great. The knowledge of flight is among the most ancient of our inheritances. A gift from ‘those from upon high’. We received it from them as a means of saving many lives.” More fantastic still is the information given in the ancient Chaldean work, The Sifrala, which contains over one hundred pages of technical details on building a flying machine. It contains words which translate as graphite rod, copper coils, crystal indicator, vibrating spheres, stable angles, etc.
Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology from the Anti-Gravity Handbook by D. Hatcher Childress Many researchers into the UFO enigma tend to overlook a very important fact. While it assumed that most flying saucers are of alien, or perhaps Governmental Military origin, another possible origin of UFOs is ancient India and Atlantis. What we know about ancient Indian flying vehicles comes from ancient Indian sources; written texts that have come down to us through the centuries. There is no doubt that most of these texts are authentic; many are the well known ancient Indian Epics themselves, and there are literally hundreds of them. Most of them have not even been translated into English yet from the old sanskrit.
The town of Levelland, Texas may have been the location of a UFO sighting that took place on November 2, 1957. It was around 11 pm when the police station received an onslaught of calls from panicked residents who rattled on about a mysterious object in the sky. More than 15 calls came in that described a “flash of light” that flew overhead. A “rush of wind” accompanied the object. The incident was blamed for the dead lights and engines of area trucks. Witnesses ranged from the typical housewife to a veteran from the Korean War. Another account described the sighting as a blue-green craft that was shaped like an egg. It was said to have quickly transformed into a fireball before lifting into the air and vanishing without a trace.
Stephensville, Texas
Amongst the 40 local residents of Stephensville, Texas to report seeing a UFO, a local amateur civilian pilot and a police officer were some of the witnesses who believed something unknown took to the sky on January 8, 2008. Some believe that a UFO hovered over the farming community for close to five minutes before streaking away into the night sky. When National Public Radio spoke to police officer Lee Roy Gaitan, he told them that he was walking to his car when he saw a “luminous object that reminded him of pictures of erupting volcanos.” The object was reported to have reached 3,000 feet in the air. Another witness said the UFO was larger than a Wal-Mart and measured at least a mile long.
Wilmington, Delaware
When Wilmington, Delaware residents looked into the evening sky on July 13, 1860, they spotted a pale blue light that just didn’t look right. In the sky, they saw something that measured 200 feet long that streaked along on a level course around 100 feet above the ground. Behind the unexplainable sight, three “red and glowing balls” trailed in 100-foot intervals. In time, a fourth object quickly joined the trio after closing in out from the rear of the main object. People described the sight as releasing sparkles that resembled the way a rocket moved. The object in the front of the pack turned towards the southeast direction and passed over the Delaware River. It then headed straight east until no one could see it again. The entire sight was thought to have lasted one minute. News of the incident appeared in the Wilmington Tribune on July 30, 1860.
Madisonville, Kentucky
It was early in the afternoon on January 7, 1948, when dozens of residents living in Madisonville, Kentucky, placed phone calls to the police regarding something strange seen in the sky. A news account to follow would describe the sight as “a circular object hovering overhead and giving off a brilliant glow.” The state police felt compelled to notify Air Force officials at Goodman Field, which was an air base located at Fort Knox. After fifteen minutes, the tower crew at the airfield may have seen the UFO as well. They radioed a squadron of P-51 fighters that had already taken to the air for an investigation of the reported object.
The Squadron leader, Capt. Thomas Mantell, Jr., was an expert pilot who had earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery during the Second World War. He reported back to the base that he had seen the UFO and was in pursuit of the unexplainable object. His last radio transmission had come in at 3:15 pm, where he said, ” I’m closing in now to take a good look.” He described the sight as appearing metallic and that it was quite large in size. Three minutes had passed and Matrell crashed. He was killed on site. Official reports state that the pilot had run out of oxygen, but UFOlogists believe the explanation has something more to do with what he saw in the sky.
Los Angeles, California
It was early in the morning of February 25, 1942, when radar detectors picked up on an unidentified object situated 120 miles west of Los Angeles. The operators of the radar paid close attention to the action of this object as it quickly came within a few miles of the southern California coast. All of a sudden, the unexplainable object vanished from the screens. Time passes and an artillery officer situated along the coast reported what he believed was 25 aircraft flying at 25,000 feet.
A few minutes later, other witnesses in Santa Monica saw a balloon-like object that seemed to be carrying what appeared to be flares. Other witnesses started to report a multitude of unknown flying objects that reached speeds of up to 200 miles per hour. The sightings were so great that it causes residents in the city to fear an attack by the Japanese. This caused the firing of 1,400 rounds of ammunition at the unexplainable objects. The bullets did not seem to hit anything because no wreckages were ever uncovered. Officials believed that the incident was a blend of mass hysteria and a false alarm, but UFOlogists would like to attribute the flying craft to extraterrestrials.
A deformed sensor caused the harrowing Soyuz rocket launch abort that forced its American and Russian crew to perform a emergency landing last month, Russia's space agency Roscosmos announced Thursday (Nov. 1).
Roscosmos also released dramatic video footage from the onboard camera this morning, showing a calm ascent into space interrupted by a booster separation and sudden tumbling motion.
During the conference, officials said that the abnormal separation of one of the rocket's four strap-on boosters, which hit the core booster, was caused by a nozzle cover on the oxidizer tank failing to open. According to the press statement, that impact occurred because the separation contact sensor was deformed during assembly at its Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site in Kazakhstan. [Soyuz Space Crew Launch Failure 2018: Full Coverage]
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Just now, @roscosmos released an official cause of the emergency landing of Soyuz-2! The reason turned to be operational, due to a failed opening of the cap of the block D on 118th second. Soyuz-FG with cosmonauts on board will be launched on 3rd of December from Baikonur. #GK
"The launch ended up with a launcher failure caused by abnormal separation of one of the strap-on boosters (Block D) that hit with its nose the core stage (Block A) in the fuel tank area," Oleg Skorobogatov, chair of the investigation committee, confirmed in the translated statement. "It resulted in its decompression and, as a consequence, the space rocket lost its attitude control."
During the aborted launch Oct. 11, the crew capusle carrying NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin was able to safely separate from the rocket after getting a warning signal during separation, firing engines to gain distance from the booster, according to NASA spokesperson Reid Weisman. The two took about a half hour to parachute down to Earth, where they were met by a search-and-rescue team.
A view of the Soyuz MS-10 booster separation as well as NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, on their way to the International Space Station when they experienced a dramatic launch abort Oct. 11, 2018.
Credit: Roscosmos
Russian officials said during the press conference that they'd created measures to avoid the issue happening again, and that resuming Soyuz launches was a priority.
They added that the uncrewed Progress MS-10 cargo ship, which launches on a Soyuz-FG rocket, will fly to the space station Nov. 16, and that the next crew launch, Soyuz MS-11, will fly Dec. 3. That flight is scheduled to carry three more crewmembers to the space station, bringing the total back up to six.
Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her@SarahExplains.
Op UFO gebied gebeuren er nogal eens dingen die niet te verklaren zijn volgens de gangbare mainstream opvattingen.
Zoals een bijzonder waarneming in Colombia, waarbij je het gevoel krijgt naar de bekende film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" te kijken.
Via Tyler van Secureteam komt er een hele bijzondere opname naar buiten van een aantal onbekende ruimteschepen boven het Zuid Amerikaanse Colombia.
Een voordeel dat de beelden via hem komen is dat hij bedreven is in het onderscheid maken tussen een echte en een nepopname, waardoor we er vrij zeker van kunnen zijn dat de opname echt is.
In zijn onderstaande video een drie minuten durende opname die is gemaakt door iemand op zijn balkon, ergens in Colombia. Je ziet het dak van het huis aan de overkant en op een gegeven moment verschijnen daar een viertal lichten in formatie, met daarboven nog vaag een vijfde licht zichtbaar.
De man blijft rustig door filmen en de lichten bewegen niet alleen, ze gaan ook soms uit of aan. Dan, op een gegeven moment, hoor je het geluid van een helikopter. De man draait de camera en filmt ook deze. Het schijnt echter niet één helikopter te zijn die op onderzoek is gegaan, het zijn er zelfs twee.
Wanneer je de beelden ziet, dan lijkt het heel veel op de beroemde film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, waarbij buitenaardsen contact maken met de mensen op aarde. Ook net zoals in de film gebeurt met de auto van Richard Dreyfuss, gaat ook de camera van de filmer in Colombia dood wanneer de lichten zich weg bewegen.
Enige tijd later kan de man wel weer filmen en dan komen er steeds meer lichten. Niet alleen rode, maar ook witte.
De gebeurtenis vond plaats net ten noorden van Bogota en het bijzondere is ook dat de UFO's schijnen te reageren op het moment dat de helikopters verschijnen.
Kijk en oordeel zelf wat het is dat daar in de lucht boven Colombia verscheen.
NASA'S BOODSCHAP AAN BUITENAARDSEN GEDECODEERD ( VIDEO )
NASA'S BOODSCHAP AAN BUITENAARDSEN GEDECODEERD ( VIDEO )
Het leven is soms vrij gecompliceerd met twee soorten ruimteprogramma's; de openbare en de verborgen.
Binnen de verborgen/geheime ruimtevaartprogramma's gebeuren dingen die we eigenlijk buitenaardse sciencefiction zouden moeten noemen, maar wat gewoon realiteit is. Binnen het openbare ruimteprogramma doen we, voor de bühne, onze uiterste best om buitenaards leven op te sporen.
Wie meer wil weten over de geheime ruimteprogramma's verwijzen wij naar een aantal eerdere artikelen, zoals deze en deze.
Formeel bestaan deze programma's niet en zijn we zogenaamd nog steeds op zoek naar het eerste buitenaardse contact. Iets waar men zich in het midden van de jaren zeventig ook al mee bezighield.
In 1977 worden een aantal ruimtesondes gelanceerd die gebieden moeten gaan verkennen die tot dan nog nooit zijn bezocht, althans in het openbare ruimtevaartprogramma.
Voyager 1 is een onbemande ruimtesonde die op 5 september 1977, kort na de lancering van Voyager 2, vanaf Cape Canaveral Lanceerplatform 41 door middel van een Titan IIIE-draagraket gelanceerd werd. Met een afstand tot de zon van 125 AE (18,7 miljard kilometer) heeft Voyager I in augustus 2013 het zonnestelsel verlaten en, als eerste door mensen vervaardigd object, de interstellaire ruimte bereikt. Op 5 september 2017, precies 40 jaar na de lancering, bevond de Voyager 1 zich op een afstand van 20,88 miljard kilometer van de Aarde. De snelheid ten opzichte van de zon was op dat moment 17,00 km/sec.
Op dit moment zweven de beide Voyagers nog steeds door de ruimte, maar aangezien de lancering plaatsvond op een moment dat CD's en dergelijke nog niet bestonden, besloot men om in beide ruimtesondes een speciale LP (langspeelplaat) mee te geven, genaamd de Gouden Plaat, met daarop allerlei essentiële informatie over de aarde en haar bewoners.
De bedoeling is dan uiteraard dat een verre buitenaardse beschaving deze plaat ooit in handen krijgt en daarmee weet van ons bestaan en misschien pogingen zal doen om contact met ons op te nemen.
Beide Voyagers zullen nog blijven communiceren tot 2030 en hoewel ze daarna niet meer met de aarde zullen communiceren, zullen ze hun reis door de ruimte voortzetten.
Uiteindelijk zal er misschien toch een buitenaards ras zijn wat deze gouden LP in handen krijgt, maar daarmee zijn ze er nog niet. Niet alleen moeten ze er dan achter zien te komen dat ze een LP horen af te spelen met een bepaalde snelheid. Bovendien is ook de informatie op de LP gecodeerd; niet alleen de informatie, maar ook de afbeeldingen.
Je praat over een tijdperk waarbij geen JPG afbeeldingen en dergelijke konden worden vastgelegd op een schijf en de beschikbare ruimte die je had was minder dan 100 KB. Eén plaatje is al snel een paar MB en dus kun je je voorstellen dat ze hebben moeten puzzelen om toch meer dan 100 afbeeldingen op die LP op te slaan.
Wat je ziet op het plaatje hierboven zijn in feite de instructies voor de buitenaardsen over hoe ze die LP moeten decoderen om de inhoud te kunnen bekijken.
NASA has released a satellite photo of a strange thermal anomaly in the Atlantic Ocean that shows just how much we’re affected by other objects and phenomena in the solar system. A red spot hundreds of kilometers off the coast of Brazil couldn’t be a fire (it’s in the water) nor a volcano (nor in the area) nor a natural gas flare (too deep). What is it? An underground base? Aliens?
If your guess was a poke by one of the Van Allen radiation belts, you’re either up on your atmospheric phenomena or you work for NASA on the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) watching the surface of the Earth from the Suomi NPP (National Polar-orbiting Partnership), a weather satellite operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The VIIRS’s mission is to collect “visible and infrared imagery and radiometric measurements of the land, atmosphere, cryosphere, and oceans” and use the data to “measure cloud and aerosol properties, ocean color, sea and land surface temperature, ice motion and temperature, fires, and Earth’s albedo.” A VIIRS photograph taken by on July 14, 2017, and recently released to the public caught the attention of scientists because it showed a fire where there’s no possibility that a fire could exist … in deep waters of the South Atlantic.
“Each night, the sensor was detecting several dozen thermal anomalies over the Atlantic Ocean in places that didn’t make sense.”
It wasn’t a volcano
Like just about everything else we use these days, Wilfrid Schroeder, principal investigator, says the VIIRS has an algorithm … this one is supposed to filter out false readings, stray pixels and other anomalies. However, this one wasn’t designed to deal with all of these strange signals that looked like ocean fires, especially the big one on July 17. Fortunately, they saved the receipt and took it back to Patricia Oliva, a scientist at Universidad Mayor (a private university in Santiago, Chile) who agreed that it’s not a fire. So, what is it?
“It is almost certainly SAMA.”
That’s the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly. You’ve never heard of it? The Earth’s magnetic field is weak over the South Atlantic, allowing one of the Van Allen radiation belts (the pair of energetic charged solar wind particles held by Earth’s magnetic field anywhere from 310 to 36,040 miles (500 to 58,000 km) to poke through and create a radiation hotspot. The SAMA is strong enough to affect satellites passing through them – the Hubble telescope is shut down when passing through them and Space Shuttle astronauts reported them frying their laptops. Boy, it’s a good thing that hole is over the ocean, right? Right?
“As a result, much of South America and part of the South Atlantic Ocean get an extra dose of radiation.”
All together now, in Spanish and Portuguese: “We’re all gonna die!”
The anomaly
(NASA photo)
Well, not really, at least not in the opinion of NASA. The algorithm was fine-tuned to identify them and … eliminate them from the data! Wouldn’t you want to know about radiation poking through the atmosphere from the Van Allen Radiation Belt at an intensity strong enough to fool a satellite into thinking it’s a fire?
There is no doubt that the rise of the black/phantom helicopterphenomenon began in earnest in the early-to-mid years of the 1970s – and they weren’t just seen in the United States. The familiar, beating sounds of helicopters were also heard above the homes of people in the U.K. Although those helicopter-based incidents began to be reported in the U.K. around September 1973, it wasn’t until shortly after a new year began – 1974 – that word got out regarding what was afoot. It was thanks to the media that the story reached the public domain.
An insider source in the British Government quietly informed the press that an arm of the British Police Force – called Special Branch – was secretly investigating reports of unidentified helicopters, and all across the U.K. Initial fears were that the helicopters were flown by terrorists who were getting ready to launch attacks across the country. No wonder, then, that Special Branch quickly got involved. It quickly turned out, though, that there was no data at all to support the idea that terrorists were the culprits. So, who was responsible? When the story hit the nation’s media, Special Branch released a statement which confirmed their officers were deeply involved in an investigation of the mysterious helicopters, but, admittedly, had very few answers.
One of the areas which was hit by the helicopter invasions was the English county of Cheshire. In response to this onslaught of sightings, the Cheshire Police Force released the following statement: “We don’t know of any reason why the helicopter should make these trips at night. Obviously we are anxious to find out. Apart from anything else, the helicopter crosses one of the main flight paths to Manchester Airport. There is an obvious danger to the aircraft going into the airport. We are very interested to know what is happening. We hope to be able to trace the pilot and put some suggestions to him. It would appear the pilot is in breach of civil aviation laws. A special license is needed to fly a helicopter at night.”
Within days, the Derbyshire Police Force circulated its own statement to the press and the BBC: “All sorts of things spring to mind but we have pretty much ruled out that it is anything to do with illegal immigrants, and nothing appears to have been stolen in the areas where the aircraft has been sighted.”
At the time, not much more was known about the strange helicopters. Today, however, it’s a very different situation. In the 2000s, and as a result of the provisions of the U.K.’s Freedom of Information Act, Special Branch finally released its dossier on the mysterious helicopters. One of the most intriguing files in the large collection of material was titled Alleged Unauthorized Helicopter Flights in Derbyshire and Cheshire.
A Special Branch officer whose name is deleted from the now-declassified files wrote: “The machine was observed on a number of occasions over a period of two weeks to be apparently practicing landings in the vicinity of the sites of quarries and explosive stores in the Derbyshire countryside. Special Branch Constable [Deleted] has made numerous inquiries to discover the ownership and reasons for the flights from various sources but has yet to establish any positive facts. He has contacted an experienced Royal Air Force helicopter pilot with night flying experience who explained that night flying in the Derbyshire areas would be extremely dangerous due to the nature of the terrain and to the number of overhead pylons in the area.”
Roughly eight weeks after Special Branch began to dig further into the Derbyshire-based encounters, a clandestine meeting was held in the heart of London, which was attended by representatives of Special Branch, MI5 – which is the U.K.’s equivalent of the United States’ FBI – and the Ministry of Defense. Further into 1974, ambitious plans were made to have military fighter-planes pursue the helicopters and force their pilots to land their craft. Rather notably, in the immediate aftermath of this decision, the wave of helicopter encounters in the U.K. came to a sudden end. Hmmmm…
Our world seems to be growing smaller day by day. There sometimes seems to be no frontier left on this planet of ours that has not been mapped, explored, and conquered in our constant, inexorable push into what was once in ancient times just vast expanses of black nothingness on our maps, the void of the unknown. It may seem that we have now shone a light into every crack and crevice of the world, yet for all of our discovery there are still places that have managed in a sense to remain in that realm of the black unknown, hiding away from the modern world that hovers on the periphery, growing ever closer. One such place is a legendary lost city entombed within one of the wildest places left on earth, and which holds both ancient mysteries, a mysterious history, and ancient curses.
Carpeting roughly 20,000 square miles of the Central American countries Honduras and Nicaragua is a vast sea of green called the rain forest of La Mosquitia. It is a forbidding, inhospitable land full of impassable mountains and steep ravines, raging rivers, impenetrable thick jungle full of thorny, flesh tearing vines called cat claw vines, deadly diseases, clouds of hungry mosquitos, and other dangerous insects, and wildlife such as snakes, jaguars, and others. It seems in many ways to be a vicious place not meant for us, a land of danger that almost willfully protects and shields itself from the eyes of mankind. Yet there is said to have once been a grand city buried within this perilous domain, a place of grand plazas, soaring elegant buildings, and wide, smooth roads, all supposedly laborious carved within the hostile landscape by a people intent on taming the land, and by many accounts imbued with a deadly and sinister ancient curse.
The mysterious lost city is called Ciudad Blanca, meaning “The White City,” based on the heavy use of gleaming white stone supposedly used in its construction, and according to legend there was a gargantuan statue of a Monkey God buried beneath the sprawling streets, earning it its other nickname “The City of the Monkey God.” In the 1500s, the inhabitants of this mysterious place suddenly abandoned it to be reclaimed by the jungle, and the main reason was said to be a series of calamities and catastrophes that the people believed came from a curse brought down upon them by their wrathful angry gods. Indeed, the people who of this once great city vanished quite suddenly, with many of their belongings left behind, never to return. The curse was said to remain there amongst the trees and what once was, and there were over the years many tales of explorers venturing to it and never coming back.
Rainforest in Honduras
The once magnificent city went on to become legendary, spurring numerous expeditions into these uncharted rain forests in search of it, sometimes coming back with amazing tales of a city full of white stone and even gold and silver but never with any real evidence, sometimes never coming back at all. Perhaps one of the most exciting findings was in 2012, when filmmaker Steve Elkins used state-of-the-art technology in the form of a groundbreaking mapping system called LIDAR, which employs lasers fired from the air that help to gauge the contours of the land and provide a video image of any structures even if they are obscured by the thick canopy above. After scouring the jungle for years they found evidence of what might be manmade ruins out there, including mounds, plazas, terraces, and even what looked like a pyramid, all surrounded by untouched, unexplored wilderness. This was without a doubt an exciting discovery, lending credence to the ancient legend, but considering the formidable terrain surrounding the site, it was not until 2015 that a team would actually attempt to venture out there to the spot to see what it was.
This time along for the ride was explorer, journalist, and world famous author Douglas Preston, who despite the spooky legends and pleas from the locals to stay away from the cursed city trekked out through the gloomy jungle along with a team of archeologists, filmmakers, and soldiers, equipped with the most of-the-line equipment and technology. The journey into the interior of this lost world was fraught with danger, the expedition avoiding lawless drug cartels, fending off poisonous snakes and avoiding myriad other perils. When they finally reached their destination they were amazed by what they found. There, out in the middle of this sea of trees and death in its many forms, were the remarkably well-preserved ruins of some unknown lost civilization, different from the Mayans who had long ruled the region. Here they found the remains of streets, walls, foundations, and an enormous earthen pyramid surrounded by 52 intricately carved stone sculptures depicting monkeys, jaguars, vultures, and snakes. Preston would say of the sight of this lost city:
I can recall the very moment when we stumbled over the cache of sculptures at the base of an earthen pyramid. I first saw a carved jaguar head coming out of the ground. Gleaming with rain, it rose up snarling, as if struggling to escape the earth. It was an image that spoke directly to me across the centuries — forging an immediate, emotional connection to these vanished people. What had been theoretical for me became real: this spirited image had been created by people who were confident, accomplished, and formidable. Standing in the gloom among the ancient mounds, enveloped in the mist, I could almost feel the presence of the invisible dead.
The stone artifacts are beautifully preserved. The great temples and public buildings of this lost civilization, however, were built out of adobe, beautifully polished tropical hardwoods, and draped with spectacular textiles — all perishable materials. Their buildings and cities may well have been just as magnificent as the cut-stone temples of the Maya. But once abandoned, they dissolved in the rain and rotted away, leaving behind unimpressive mounds of dirt and rubble that were swallowed by vegetation. In the acidic rain forest soils, no organic remains survive — not even the bones of the dead. So in that sense it is not well preserved. However, the city was pristine and unlooted, which is exceedingly rare for any site in Central America. We found millions of dollars’ worth of gorgeous artifacts lying on the ground. They were lying where they were left 500 years ago. This ruin is so untouched. It’s like Pompeii. It’s frozen in time.
The remains and fragments of over 500 stone sculptures would eventually be found with further examination of the site, a veritable treasure trove of relics, and many of them held inscriptions as well, and most of which are speculated to have been intentionally broken in a mass ritual before the people’s departure from these lands. There were many other artifacts found as well, all dating to around 1000 and 1500 AD and left behind by the vanished inhabitants. As to what in fact happened to this lost civilization, the answers remain murky, and considering that only a small portion of the city was explored there are still many questions. It is thought that they were driven out by some undefined catastrophe, but what that may have been remains unknown. This has led to talk that perhaps the legendary curse was real, and oddly the expedition would encounter a mysterious calamity themselves.
Upon returning home from the rain forest around half of the entire expedition would come down with a flesh-eating parasitic infection known as leishmaniosis, which is contracted through the bites of insects they had encountered during their journey. Preston has described the symptoms rather graphically, saying, “The parasite migrates to the mucous membranes of your mouth and your nose and basically eats them away. Your nose falls off, your lips fall off, and eventually your face becomes a gigantic, open sore.” Although the team had access to advanced hospital treatment and were able to survive, it is disfiguring and fatal without attention, and it is thought that perhaps in ancient times this terrifying disease in the area of the ruins could have been seen as a sort of mysterious curse. Preston himself said of the curse of the Monkey God City:
I’m not really a superstitious person, and I dismissed the legend that the city was cursed. However, after getting out of the area and becoming ill, it made me think maybe the stories were based in reality. The valley is a terrible hot zone of disease, and that fact may have been the source of the legend of the curse.
One of the statues found at the mysterious city
Preston would go on to publish an article on the find in National Geographic, after which he wrote a whole book on his amazing journey and discovery, called The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story. The Honduras government has since swooped in to close the site off from the outside world, ostensibly to protect it from vandals, and considering that the area is so difficult and dangerous to get to in the first place it is quite possible that it may remain an enigma, with only a fraction of its mysteries uncovered. It still isn’t even known if what they found out there in that uncharted wilderness is even the real Ciudad Blanca of legend, but it is definitely the remains of some as yet unknown, unnamed civilization that existed in this harsh environment, and it shows how there are still such places lying undiscovered in this ever advancing world. Preston would say of this:
It is incredible to think that a lost city could still be found in the 21st century, but that is precisely what happened. People feel the world has shrunk. We have trodden upon, mapped, photographed, and exploited every place on Earth to the point where it feels like we’ve robbed the world of its mystery. But this discovery puts some of that mystery back. It proves we don’t know everything, and it shows us there are still places on Earth that are indifferent, hostile, or even inimical, to human beings. Mosquitia is one such place.
Indeed, it is alluring to think that off in the far, unexplored corners of the world that there could still be such amazing discoveries lurking beyond our relentless push to tame and conquer this planet. It is not known if there ever really was a cursed city of the Monkey God, or if Preston and his team actually managed to uncover it, but it is exciting to know that such lost cities and even whole civilizations can remain hidden from us even in these modern times. Whether this new lost city really is the one of legend or not, there is also quite the possibility that the ancient ruins uncovered by the Preston expedition will stay that way, forever sequestered away from our attempts to understand it, an elusive cipher stuck in time in its jungle lair and defying the encroaching modern world around it.
UFO Found Hidden In NASA Photo on Ryugu Asteroid, Nov 2018, UFO Sighting Daily News.
UFO Found Hidden In NASA Photo on Ryugu Asteroid, Nov 2018, UFO Sighting Daily News.
The UFO is between two tall canyon walls, hidden there for a long time, since we can clearly see two areas on each side where landslides took place on the front top of the UFO.
Former NASA Employee Discovers Some Very Strange Buildings on the Moon, UFO Sighting News.
Former NASA Employee Discovers Some Very Strange Buildings on the Moon, UFO Sighting News.
This is Ken Johnson who worked for NASA long ago and is trying to tell people about the photos and film he saw before they were edited. He saw bases and UFO on the moon in photos...no news to me since Streetcap1 and I have been doing this same research for over 9 years. Still...he has some interesting things to hear and describe to us. One being a particular crater on the moon...Tsiolkovsky crater. I'm on it now and will get back to you soon.
Scott C. Waring Video states:
A former NASA employee found something he shouldn't have when he discovered photos showing a module of the mission “Apollo” on the lunar surface and base of aliens on its surface. The picture was taken by astronauts during the separation of the module and classified as many other photographs taken during the program “Apollo”, which were recorded mysterious structures and UFO. These photos were later ordered destroyed, however, the employee retained some of them and published them online. Among the released images are photos originating from NASA that depicts various different artificial structures on the moon.
Ancient "Eye of Horus” appears in the sky over West Phoenix, Arizona!
A very strange cloud formation that depicts “The Eye of Horus” has been photographed over West Phoenix, Arizona on November 2, 2018.
The Eye of Horus is an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection, royal power, and good health.
The eye is personified in the goddess Wadjet while Horus was the ancient Egyptian sky god who was usually depicted as a falcon, most likely a lanner or peregrine falcon; his right eye was associated with the sun god, Ra.
Daytime video of a UFO flying near a plane over Moorenbrunn, Germany 31-Oct-2018
Daytime video of a UFO flying near a plane over Moorenbrunn, Germany 31-Oct-2018
Here’s one new footage of a bright unidentified flying objects flying near a plane over Moorenbrunn, Germany. This was filmed on 31st October 2018.
Witness report:
Sphere, Long cigar shaped and “oo” Double UFOs.
As usual, I´ve been filming Chem-trail Planes go by and before these UFOs appeared, lots and lots of Chemtrail Planes came by clouding in the sky above before …. Even with the Chemtrail Planes, these UFO close Fly bys beside, underneath, over or length size ahead of the Plane raced by them.
In my clips below, i even made slow motion clips and still pics in that Each Clip of mine.
At one of those clips, i even followed up that one UFO go past the plane, i didn´t expect it to catch it with my camera but it worked as i could see.
Cross-shaped UFO caught on tape over San Antonio, Texas
Cross-shaped UFO caught on tape over San Antonio, Texas
Here’s one new footage of a bright cross-shaped unidentified flying object in the sky above San Antonio, Texas. This was filmed on 1st November 2018.
Witness report:
Nov-01-2018 a strange unknown was captured traveling overhead..In all my yrs of skywatching never seen anything like this..what could this be Planet / ISS / Drone / Lantern or U.F.O?..
SAUFOTX
Also, check out this one of the most amazing triangle-shaped UFO videos that was also recorded in Texas!
INTERVIEW - Dans son ouvrage Comment parler à un alien, Frédéric Landragin, directeur de recherche au CNRS et spécialiste en linguistique, explore les œuvres de science-fiction qui mettent en scène le «premier contact». L'objectif : vulgariser les différentes théories linguistiques à la lumière des idiomes imaginés par les écrivains.
Ça y est! Le jour que les plus grands rêveurs, scientifiques, artistes ont tant de fois imaginé, est arrivé. Les extraterrestres nous ont fait l'honneur de visiter la planète Terre. Songez donc! Sont-ce de petits hommes verts? Des créatures informes? Viennent-ils en paix? Et si oui, comment le savoir?
Pour cela, il faudrait les comprendre et donc, leur parler. Mais comment? Dans son ouvrage Comment parler à un alien? (Bélial'), Frédéric Landragin, directeur de recherche au CNRS et spécialiste en linguistique, explore les œuvres de science-fiction qui mettent en scène le «premier contact». L'objectif: vulgariser les différentes théories linguistiques à la lumière des idiomes imaginés par les écrivains.
1. LE FIGARO. - La science-fiction éclaire-t-elle la science de la linguistique?
Frédéric LANDRAGIN. - Ce qui est certain, c'est que la science-fiction est une espèce de laboratoire dans lequel on teste des choses. Il n'y a ni de précautions à prendre ni de questions éthiques à se poser. On peut aller jusqu'au bout d'une expérimentation et explorer différents principes. C'est le cas du film Premier Contact qui explore la théorie Sapir-Whorf qui explique que notre langue détermine la façon dont nous percevons notre réalité. Dans ce film, la linguiste Louise Banks, tente de communiquer avec deux aliens heptapodes (sortes de pieuvres à sept tentacules) dont l'idiome diffère totalement du nôtre. Cela amène à se questionner: que se passerait-il si jamais, nous humains, nous découvrions une langue extraterrestre?
«Désigner revient à nommer»
2. Imaginons donc! Si nous rencontrons un jour un alien, quelle méthodologie linguistique faudrait-il suivre?
C'est la grande question! Bien sûr, il y a peu de chances que cela arrive. Mais l'imaginer nous encourage à faire un exercice linguistique intéressant. D'abord, il faudrait que les aliens aient un corps qui nous ressemble un peu. Et cela ne va pas de soi! Il ne faudrait pas que leur biologie soit équivalente à celle des fourmis, des abeilles ou encore, des dauphins. Ce sont des espèces qui ont un langage et avec lesquelles nous sommes pourtant incapables d'échanger. On peut les côtoyer, c'est tout.
Alors, si le corps des extraterrestres ressemble au nôtre, cela signifie que ce sont des êtres capables de faire des gestes. C'est essentiel lorsqu'on veut apprendre une langue inconnue, le geste de pointage. Prenons cet exemple: je pointe mon doigt vers une chaise et prononce le mot «chaise». En faisant ce geste et en y associant un son en même temps, je donne du sens. Je nomme cet objet. C'est exactement ce que fait la linguiste dans Premier Contact. Elle inscrit «humain» sur un écriteau, le prononce et se désigne elle-même.
3. Est-ce ce que les linguistes de terrain font lorsqu'ils rencontrent des populations aux langues inconnues?
C'est exactement cette méthodologie qu'ils adoptent quand ils débarquent chez une peuplade. Ils établissent une base, grâce au geste de pointage, qui leur permet de communiquer. Désigner revient à nommer. Ce qui vient ensuite, c'est le «oui» et le «non».
Reprenons l'exemple de la «chaise». On le voit dans la nouvelle «L'Histoire de ta vie» écrite par Ted Chiang et dont est tiré le long-métrage Premier Contact. Une fois que les heptapodes pointent et apprennent les mots, il faut s'assurer que c'est bien «table» ou «chaise» qui sont indiquées par le mot. C'est un principe qu'un philosophe du langage, Willard Von Oorman Quin, a décrit sous le terme de «gavagai».
«Le premier contact le plus crédible se trouve dans les histoires où ça ne se passe pas bien»
4. Quelle œuvre de science-fiction a le mieux imaginé un «premier contact»?
Si on étudie les films faits à ce sujet, on peut citer Rencontre du troisième type de Steven Spielberg qui n'est pas le plus crédible mais qui reste un exemple intéressant: c'est la musique qui établit le lien entre les scientifiques et les extraterrestres. Mais finalement, on observe que la musique ne permet pas d'exprimer ce que l'on veut dire. C'est plus une intention de communiquer qu'un échange véritable.
Quant aux romans, le premier contact le plus crédible se trouve dans les histoires où ça ne se passe pas bien. C'est-à-dire celles où l'on n'arrive pas à échanger avec une entité extraterrestre. Prenons Solaris de Stanislas Lem dans lequel les humains arrivent sur une planète et où il y a un océan qui prend des formes étranges. On soupçonne que c'est une entité intelligente. Mais malgré de multiples tentatives, les humains ne parviennent pas à dialoguer avec. Ils ont pourtant élaboré des dictionnaires, des encyclopédies complètes qui décrivent la science «solaristique». En vain. Tout le roman décrit à quel point les humains aiment catégoriser les choses, décrire un système pour en parler entre eux sans jamais dialoguer avec l'autre duquel émane le langage.
5. Cette manie de la catégorisation nous a-t-elle déjà empêchés de décrypter une langue?
Oui, temporairement avec la Pierre de Rosette et le déchiffrement des hiéroglyphes égyptiens. On retient que c'est Champollion qui a tout décodé mais il y a eu une multitude de tentatives, avant lui. Prenons le cas de Thomas Young, médecin et physicien anglais, qui est parti d'un postulat faux, en croyant que les hiéroglyphes forment une écriture alphabétique. Pour la caractériser, il a fait cette hypothèse: tel caractère équivaut à un terme de grec ancien. Résultat: il n'a pas réussi à décoder le système. C'est arrivé à cause de la confiance que l'Homme porte à un fonctionnement qu'il connaît trop bien.
«Il faut connaître la culture de l'autre pour comprendre sa langue»
6. Quelle théorie linguistique la science-fiction n'a-t-elle pas encore explorée?
Prenons la théorie «good-enough» qui dit que quand on écoute une phrase, on ne comprend pas forcément tout mais cela ne nous empêche pas de continuer à écouter et comprendre la teneur globale de ce qui est dit. Un linguiste classique, lui, va au contraire regarder tous les mots, tous les bouts de mots et être dans une approche très fine. La théorie du «good-enough» revient à dire que nos cerveaux humains ne sont pas capables de tout déchiffrer mais assez développés pour permettre le dialogue.
7. Vous parlez de l'importance d'un point de départ pour comprendre une langue: des mythes, des dictionnaires... En 1977, les sondes Voyager 1 et Voyager 2 se sont envolés dans l'espace pour aller à la rencontre de planètes lointaines. À leur bord, on trouve un disque contenant des images, de la musique et des voix humaines. Est-ce un point de départ efficace pour que l'alien nous comprenne?
Non. Imaginez que vous vouliez apprendre le chinois et que la seule chose que vous ayez, c'est tout un stock de pages web écrites en chinois. Comment faire? Vous n'avez ni dictionnaire ni interprète. La seule chose que vous pouvez faire, c'est fouiller ces données-là, essayer de voir où il y a des répétitions, trouver des motifs, des régularités... En somme, vous ne pouvez que faire des conjectures sur les données que vous avez. Non, ce qu'il faut, c'est un point de départ où il y a un consensus des deux côtés. Il faut des archives, des mythes, des poèmes qui disent la culture d'un peuple. Sans cela, on ne peut pas se poser de questions.
Il faut connaître la culture de l'autre pour comprendre sa langue, c'est essentiel. C'est cela qui prend un temps fou. Prenons l'exemple d'une peuplade amérindienne ou issue des îles en Australie. Ils n'ont jamais eu de contact avec le monde occidental. Si on veut comprendre leur langue, il faut qu'on s'imprègne de leurs modes de vie qui est le reflet de leur culture. Et cela, la science-fiction le montre.
8. Comment?
Il y a un roman en science-fiction intitulé En terre étrangère de Heinleine. Résumons: un groupe d'humains est envoyé sur Mars. Tous meurent sauf un bébé qui est élevé par un alien. Éventuellement, une mission de sauvetage permet son extraction. Mais une fois sur Terre, il est perdu. Il a un cerveau humain mais une culture martienne. Et même s'il parvient à communiquer avec les humains, il a ses propres mots. En l'occurrence, le verbe «gnoquer» qui signifie «comprendre pleinement» et «ne faire plus qu'un avec l'objet de sa réflexion». C'est typiquement un mot qui vient de la culture des Martiens que les humains ne comprennent pas. Et pourtant, l'enfant ne peut pas ne pas dire ce terme-là. C'est un pilier de sa culture.
THE private Israeli jet that is supposed to have flown to Islamabad last week caused as much excitement as a flying saucer with flashing red and blue lights.
This is the tweet from Avi Scharf, editor of the English version of Haaretz, the leading liberal daily in Israel, that set the cat among the Pakistani pigeons: “Israeli bizjet flew from TLV to Islamabad #Pakistan, on the ground for 10 hours, and back to TLV.”
A Bombardier Global Express jet -
Wikimedia Commons
More interesting than the account of the flight is the reaction it triggered in Pakistan: political parties across the spectrum condemned the event while the government denied the possibility of an Israeli plane entering Pakistani airspace. However, if an Israeli representative did pay our capital a covert visit, it would be part of the country’s policy of reaching out to Muslim states.
Recently, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, visited Oman where he was given the full red carpet treatment by Sultan Qaboos. A couple of days later, Miri Regev, the Israeli culture minister, was in Abu Dhabi for the award of medals for a judo championship. As the Israeli team had won the contest, the country’s national anthem was played in the UAE for the first time.µ
Israeli bizjet flew from TLV to Islamabad, #Pakistan, on the ground 10 hours, and back to TLV. Cleared flight-plan with usual 5min groundtime trick in Amman M-ULTI glex
2:14 AM - 25 Oct 2018
Govt denies Israeli journalist’s assertion but opposition seeks ‘convincing’ explanation
And Israel’s growing convergence of interests with Saudi Arabia, and the developing alliance between the two anti-Iran states, is no secret. Could the mystery Israeli visitor have been part of a deal for the $6 billion dollar bailout recently extended to Pakistan by the Saudis? Remember there is no such thing as a free lunch…
Many Arab states have recognised Israel.
But while this is speculative, it is a fact that many Arab states have either recognised Israel and have embassies in Tel Aviv, or deal with it fairly openly without formal ties. They realise that with the US and Israel in total harmony over Palestine, there is no chance of an independent state. As it is, younger Arabs have little time or sympathy for the Palestinian cause.
In a recent issue of Haaretz, Kunwar Khuldune Shahid writes: “Should Islamabad choose to overcome its rampant anti-Semitism and its related and abundant conspiracy theories, it might be able to realise that in addition to an array of geopolitical interests, Pakistan and Israel share a key characteristic: They are the only post-colonial states founded on religious nationalism.”
So why are we allergic to Israel? Recognition is not accorded as a reward for good behaviour, but as acknowledgment that a state fulfils the norms of statehood as defined by the UN. Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian land, and its abhorrent treatment of subjugated people, has been the subject of much international condemnation. I have lost count of the columns I have written against Israel’s arrogant and brutal attitude towards Palestinians.
But I have also argued that in order to engage Israel over its policies, we first have to have a diplomatic presence in Tel Aviv. And if recognition is regarded as an award for decency, why do we not withdraw our embassy from Myanmar over its ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims?
If our refusal to acknowledge Israel is supposed to show solidarity with Arab states, let me remind readers that Egypt and Jordan signed peace treaties with the Zionist state long ago. Others have followed suit, directly or indirectly. Only Iran has stuck to its pro-Palestinian policy. So the question remains: if neighbouring Arab states have come to terms with the existence of Israel, why can’t we? We have no territorial disputes with it, nor have we the means or the intent to militarily help the Palestinians. Or do we consider ourselves better Muslims than Turks and Arabs?
So why this hysteria over a corporate Israeli jet that may have landed in Islamabad recently? It is certainly true that most Pakistanis are anti-Semitic, even though few have actually met a Jew. And Palestine is a cause that resonates deeply, even among Pakistanis who are not otherwise very religious.
In fact, I suspect that the creation of Israel was yet another reminder of how enfeebled the ummah had become when several Arab armies were defeated by a ragtag Israeli militia in 1948. Now the Israeli Defence Force is a formidable regional superpower that has repeatedly exposed the weakness of the Arabs.
I have little doubt that any Pakistani government that recognises Israel would face violent demonstrations by religious parties. In fact, this is probably what has kept previous rulers, both military and civilian, from extending recognition to Israel.
But policy should not be subject to blackmail, especially when national interests are involved. Currently, Israel manufactures some of the most advanced weapons systems in the world, with China and India as its biggest customers. And it is a world leader in the optimal use of water. So clearly, we have much to learn from a state we consider our foe.
Les déclarations des scientifiques sur les Ovnis - PART I
Les déclarations des scientifiques sur les Ovnis - PART I
Il est mensonger de prétendre que l'ensemble de la communauté sérieuse rejette le phénomène OVNI. Les scientifiques qui osent risquer le ridicule et se plongent dans le sujet finissent par conclure que l'hypothèse extraterrestre ne peut pas être exclue et qu'elle est même probable, pour ne pas dire évidente en examinant les faits.
Les déclarations des scientifiques sur les Ovnis
Jean-Pierre Petit, chercheur au CNRS est l'un des pionniers dans la recherche
En public, les astronomes rient, pour la plupart; en privé, ils voient des OVNIS comme tout le monde. En 1997, une assemblée de scientifiques de haut niveau a conclu au colloque de Pocantico ( New-York ), au vu des nouvelles évidences au niveau mondial " à la légitimité de l'étude des OVNI ".
Jusqu’au milieu du 19ème les silex, pointes de flèches et autres pierres taillées étaient appelés pierres de foudre. On croyait qu’ils naissaient de l’impact des éclairs sur les rochers enfouis dans le sol. On n’écoutait pas les paysans lorsqu’ils disaient avoir vu des météorites tomber du ciel. Le savant français Lavoisier, fondateur de la chimie moderne, démontra la non-existence des météorites en déclarant : «Il ne peut pas tomber des pierres du ciel parce qu’il n’y a pas de pierres dans le ciel». Cette bizarrerie du raisonnement, parfois surnommée «méthode de Lavoisier», survit encore chez les scientifiques lorsqu’ils affirment que les ovnis n’existent pas parce qu’ils ne peuvent pas exister. Vous trouverez d'autres exemples dans ce dossier
A la veille du XX ème siècle, Simon Newcomb fit la démonstration mathématique de l’impossibilité du vol pour les objets plus lourds que l’air. Quelques jours après les frères Wright réussissaient leur premier vol en aéroplane. Qui fut reconnu cette fois alors que la réussite antérieure de Clément Ader avait été ignorée. De son côté Auguste Comte, autre grand savant français, affirmait que nous ne connaîtrions jamais la composition chimique des étoiles. Quelques décennies plus tard nous la connaissions avec une grande précision grâce à l’astronome Hubble. «L’ironie c’est la haine qui s’amuse», dit-on.
Mais la plus grande erreur est sans doute celle qui consiste a considérer que le phénomène ovni ne mérite pas d’être étudié sérieusement pour la simple raison qu’il n’est pas digne d’être soumis à la rigueur du raisonnement scientifique. Sans doute a-t-on définitivement oublié la pensée de Karl Popper :
«Il n'y a pas de sujets indignes en sciences, il n'y a que les méthodes qui le sont.»
Le phénomène OVNI a tellement été ridiculisé, qu'il est de bon ton de sourire dès que l'on en parle pour paraître savant et non crédule, rationnel et intelligent. Le corollaire de cette attitude est que si l'on en parle sérieusement, on est un naïf ou un imbécile. Dans quelle catégorie classerez-vous les hommes qui ont fait ces déclarations ?
Jean-Jacques Vélasco (1946)
Technicien (brevet de technicien supérieur d'optique), Velasco vit avec son épouse sur Paris.
Direction du Geipan (1983)
En 1983, le GEPAN ne correspond plus à l'image que le CNES souhaite donner de ses services. Plutôt que de risquer une confrontation ouverte avec le public et les médias, traditionnellement assez attachés aux ovnis, les autorités choisissent la douceur. Après avoir subit ne vives critiques, une réforme du groupe est menée.
Un jour, un physicien de renom, qui deviendra président du CNES, s'enferme avec Esterle dans son bureau. Lorsque Alain me demande de le rejoindre, après cet entretien, je le trouve livide. Sans ambages, il m'explique que son auguste visiteur lui à tout simplement "fortement déconseillé" pour la "poursuite de sa carrière", d'en finir avec le GEPAN. Il n'a pas le choix. A cet instant, se joue doublement le sort du Service. Si Esterle s'en va, le bureau sera purement et simplement fermé, ce que souhaite visible son aimable visiteur (le CNRS et les militaires avaient clairement fait savoir qu'ils ne souhaitaient pas servir de tutelle). Mais Alain Esterle n'entend pas passer par pertes et profits ces années de recueil d'information et de création de méthodologie. Il me pose la question : "Veux-tu me succéder ?" Je lui demande 24 h de réflexion. J'étais au GEPAN responsable d'enquêtes, je ne me sentais pas les épaules assez larges pour poursuivre le travail de mes 2 précédesseurs. Pourtant, la conviction scientifique que les PAN cachaient une réalité à découvrir m'a fait accepter le pari [Vélasco 2004, p. 32]. A la fin de l'année, Vélasco est donc nommé directeur à la place d'Esterle. Il passe à l'occasion d'un grade de technicien à "ingénieur-maison".
Sous la direction de Velasco, le GEPAN, va tenir profil bas : qui entre en phase de sommeil : le Conseil Scientifique n'est plus convoqué, les Notes Techniques ne sont plus publiées, non plus que les résultats des recherches et des études. Velasco se livre seulement à quelques interviews dans les médias. Vélasco obtient une équivalence d'ingénieur, et affiche en cette occasion, et après avoir travaillé durant 2 ans au sein du GEPAN, une attitude plus ouverte à l'égard du phénomène ovni, insistant sur sa réalité et n'excluant pas l'hypothèse extraterrestre.
Au fil du temps, les cris d'alarme des ufologues hostiles au GEPAN se multiplient en France. Même le milieu scientifique manifeste de l'ostracisme : en Juillet 1988, la revue Science et Nature conteste l'existence-même du GEPAN, vu les maigres résultats obtenus en 11 années. Le CNES craint le scandale.
SEPRA (1988)
Le GEPAN disparaît, mais Vélasco se retrouve à la tête de son successeur : le SEPRA, un nouveau groupe dont les activités ne sont pas jugées prioritaires par le CNES, et vont devenir plus réduites : selon sa plaquette de présentation, l'objectif du SEPRA n'est plus d'engager lui-même des études scientifiques, mais de prendre en compte le suivi des objets satellisés rentrant dans l'atmosphère. Les Notes Techniques sont arrêtées et il n'est plus dans ses attributions d'informer le public.
En 1989 Vélasco est élu maire de Montgiscard (Haute Garonne). Une de ses communications de Vélasco, lors de la conférence tenue cette année-là par la SSE, indique que pas moins de 38 % des cas étudiés en France par le CNES n'ont pu être réduits à des phénomènes naturels. En 1991, suite à l'intervention de la SOBEPS et de députés européens belges après les observations en Belgique, la Commission de l'Energie européenne décide d'instruire le dossier et parvient à la conclusion qu'une étude européenne des ovnis pourrait être envisagée avec quelque intérêt. Velasco surfe sur la vague et se place en première ligne, de sorte que c'est tout naturellement un élargissement des compétences du SEPRA que proposent les députés européens chargés du dossier.
Quelques années plus tard, pour son ouvrage OVNI, la science avance, c'est encore avec Jean-Claude Bourret que le CNES collabore : cette fois, c'est Vélasco qui s'y colle, non pas en tant que représentant officiel du CNES, mais au titre de "témoin-enquêteur". A sa sortie en 1993, on y trouve notamment une tentative de réduire l'affaire Ummo à une manipulation émanant de l'ex-Union Soviétique, sans argumentation vraiment crédible, et des déclarations très ouvertes du responsable du SEPRA qu'est alors Vélasco, telles que celle-ci :
Parmi les nombreux phénomènes aériens non identifiés qui sont rapportés en France, mais aussi dans le monde entier depuis plus de 40 ans, la plupart peuvent être ramenés à des phénomènes naturels, plus ou moins bien connus, ou à des manifestations de la technologie humaine. Un nombre infime correspond à des canulars ou des hallucinations. Il reste un nombre important de cas non élucidés : parmi ceux-ci quelques-uns sont très surprenants. Les témoignages sont crédibles et les détails nombreux. Lorsqu'on essaie d'interpréter au moyen de la science actuelle leurs aspects étranges, on est parfois conduit à imaginer des objets réels, en fait des engins utilisant des techniques plus évoluées que les nôtres, supposant l'intervention d'intelligence.
Les explications sur l'origine de ces engins avaient jusqu'à une date récente fait appel au paranormal ou à la science-fiction, ce qui donnait aux ovnis une odeur de souffre et détournait de leur étude beaucoup de scientifiques. Deux astronomes, Jean-Claude Ribes et Guy Monnet, ont présenté en 1990 une hypothèse qui n'utilise que les données de la science d'aujourd'hui, une hypothèse rationnelle. Les ovnis proviendraient d'une ou de plusieurs civilisations actuellement implantées dans notre système solaire, dans des planètes creuses artificielles. Elles y seraient parvenues à des dates indéterminées, après un long voyage hors de leur système solaire.
(...) Mon opinion qui, je le souligne, n'engage que moi, est la suivante : il existe dans notre espace des objets qui échappent à tout contrôle de la part des autorités civiles et militaires et qui utilisent des technologies qui dépassent les nôtres.
En 1995 il n'est plus maire de Montgiscard.
Dernière évidence (2004)
En 2004 Vélasco publie Ovnis, l'évidence, où il propose une corrélation du phénomène ovni avec l'activité nucléaire sur Terre et présente sans détours sa préférence pour l'HET. L'acte paraît courageux à nombre de tenants de cette hypothèse qui le soutiennent. Cependant, bien que faite en son nom personnel et non pas en tant que responsable du SEPRA au CNES, cette prise de position fait des vagues. On apprend peu après que, début 2004, une réorganisation du CNES à dissout le SEPRA, mais que Vélasco continue à travailler sur le sujet, en tant que chargé de mission. Par la suite, l'enthousiasme d'une partie des supporters de Vélasco s'émousse lorsqu'ils lisent dans une interview qu'il n'accorde pas grand crédit aux histoires d'abductions et aux implants.
Education: A partir de juillet 2005, Vélasco rejoint le service "Culture Spatiale" du CNES [Espace & Culture Infos n°7, juillet-août 2005]. Jean Jacques Velasco
Jean Jacques Velasco ancien directeur du SEPRA, cellule du CNES, nous donne ses conclusions pour la nature des OVNI. Voir:http://rimarchives.free.fr/ddp.htm
A propos de "Ovnis, L'Evidence" de Jean-Jacques VELASCO, Directeur du SEPRA, avec Jacques Costagliola, Gildas Bourdais, Jean-Jacques Yvars, Gérard Deforge, Didier Gomez, Thierry Wathelet, Jean-Marc Roeder, Joël Mesnard, Bernard Bidault, le Général Dotte-Charvy, Bernard Thouanel, le Contre-amiral Gilles Pinon... - 3h30.mp3 : 1er juin 2004
Vous trouverez d'autres informations sur Mr Velasco sur cette pageµ
Le Dr. Maurice Anthony Biot (1905-1985)
Physicien, mathématicien et aérodynamicien, une des premières autorités mondiales en matière d'aérodynamique.
Maurice Anthony Biot (B. le 25 mai, 1905, Anvers, Belgique - D. le 12 septembre, 1985, New York City) était un physicien Belge-Américain et le fondateur de la théorie de poroelasticity.
Il a étudié au catholique d'Université de Louvain en Belgique où il a reçu les licences en philosophie (1927), la technologie d'exploitation (1929) et l'électrotechnique (1930), et docteur de la Science en 1931. Il a obtenu son PhD en la Science aéronautique de la California Institute of Technology En 1932.
En quelques années 30 et années 40 Biot a fonctionné à Harvard, Louvaine, Colombie et universités brunes, et plus tard pour un certain nombre de compagnies et d'organismes gouvernementaux. Dans la période entre Biot 1935 et 1962 a édité un certain nombre de papiers scientifiques qui créent les bases de la théorie de poroelasticity (maintenant connu sous le nom de théorie de Biot), qui décrit le comportement mécanique des médias poreux fluide-saturés. Il a également apporté un certain nombre de contributions importantes dans les domaines de l'aérodynamique, la thermodynamique irréversible et le transfert thermique, la visco-élasticité et le thermoelasticity, entre d'autres.
Biot était intéressé par les rapports des objets non identifiés de vol, et dans 1952 une entrevue a jeté son appui derrière l'hypothèse extraterrestre.
Il a déclaré dans un article :
"L'explication la plus probable est que les OVNI sont artificiels et contrôlés. Mon opinion depuis quelque temps est qu'ils sont d'origine extraterrestre."
Oberth naît le 25 Juin 1894 dans la ville transylvanienne de Hermannstadt. Adepte de Jules Verne et des mathématiques, Oberth énonce le premier les fondements théoriques du fonctionnement d'une fusée dans le vide spatial. La route des voyages spatiaux reste son livre de référence. Fritz Lang l'engage comme conseiller technique en 1928 pour son film Une femme sur la lune. Il est le père des fusées allemandes V-2 aux côtés de Wernher von Braun, puis un des fondateurs de l'astronautique américaine. Il est aussi l'un des rares témoins de l'existence du V-7 [Lore et Harold, 1968].
En juin 1954, Oberth déclare à une conférence de presse :
Ces objets sont conçus et dirigés par des êtres intelligents d'un très haut rang, et sont propulsés en distordant le champ gravitationnel, convertissant la gravité en énergie utilisable. Pour moi il ne fait aucun doute que ces objets sont une sorte d'appareil interplanétaire. Moi et mes collègues sommes convaincus qu'ils ne proviennent pas de notre système solaire, mais nous pensons qu'ils pourraient utiliser Mars ou un autre corps comme une sorte de station relai. Ils ne viennent probablement pas de notre système solaire, peut-être même pas de notre galaxie. (...) Ma thèse est que les soucoupes volantes sont réelles et qu'elles sont des vaisseaux spatiaux d'un autre système solaire [American Weekly, 24 octobre 1954].
Peenemünde, collègue du Dr Oberth, déclara dans "Life Magazine" du 7 avril 1952 :
"Je suis parfaitement convaincu qu'ils ont une base en dehors de la Terre."
Le 31 octobre 1958, Oberth écrit : Je suis convaincu que les soucoupes volantes sont pilotées par des formes de vie supérieures, des êtres intelligents qui observent la Terre depuis longtemps. En 1960 après sa retraite, il déclare à un groupe de journalistes : On ne peut accepter seul le crédit de notre avancée dans certains domaines scientifiques. Nous avons été aidés. Lorsqu'on lui demande par qui, il répond : Les peuples d'autres mondes. En 1967 Oberth participe au 7ème Congrès Mondial des Scientifiques et Enquêteurs sur les ovnis qui se tient à Mainz (Allemagne), du 3 au 8 Novembre. Il y discute avec divers interlocuteurs, dont Coleman von Kevinczky.
Oberth décède à Nuremberg en 1989.
Wernher von Braun (1912-1977)
Le Dr. Von Braun, directeur du centre de vol spatial de la NASA, mai 1964
Wernher von Braun, ou Werner von Braun suivant les sources, (23 mars 1912 à Wirsitz, Prusse orientale (aujourd'hui Wyrzysk en Pologne) - 16 juin 1977 à Alexandria, Virginie) est un ingénieur allemand.
L'un des plus célèbres scientifiques issus de l'Allemagne nazie, il est l'inventeur du V2, premier missile utilisé au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il est le père de la fusée Saturn V, qui a permis de développer de façon significative le programme spatial américain. Il est aussi très connu pour avoir participé à des films éducatifs de Walt Disney entre 1955 et 1957, dans lesquels il présentait le programme spatial américain.
Biographie
Von Braun, le 2 février 1970
Il fait ses études aux instituts technologiques de Zurich et de Berlin, tout en consacrant ses loisirs, à partir de 1930, à construire et à expérimenter de petites fusées au sein d'une équipe réunie par Hermann Oberth (Verein für Raumschiftfahrt).
À partir de 1932, il est responsable de la station de Kummersdorf-West, où il entreprend une série d'expériences sur les moteurs-fusées pour le compte de l'armée allemande. En 1934, il remet sa thèse de doctorat sur la propulsion des fusées.
En 1937, il intègre le NSDAP et est nommé directeur du centre d'essais de Peenemünde et assure la mise au point de la V2, dont 4000 exemplaires furent lancés principalement sur l'Angleterre et les Pays-Bas en 1944 et 1945.
Von Braun devant les moteurs du premier étage de la fusée Saturn V.
En 1940, il intègre la SS comme Untersturmführer. Il fut promu trois fois par Himmler, la dernière fois comme Sturmbannführer. En 1943 la construction des V2 commence à utiliser des déportés des camps de Dora-Mittelbau et Buchenwald comme esclaves. Von Braun appartient à l'équipe dirigeante des spécialistes des fusées, supervisant les ingénieurs, les travailleurs civils et les détenus de Dora. La fabrication des V2 fit plus de morts que leur utilisation comme armes.
Cependant Wernher Von Braun n'a jamais admis sa responsabilité dans son livre autobiographique, minimisant sa position dans le camp et ne reconnaissant pas les crimes commis sous ses yeux. Il est exfiltré aux États-Unis suite à l'opération Paperclip, en 1945. Pour contrebalancer les efforts russes dans le domaine des fusées balistiques, il est nommé chef des projets des missiles guidés de l'armée à Fort Bliss au Texas.
En 1950, il est nommé directeur technique de l'arsenal Redstone à Huntsville (Alabama) pour la mise au point de missiles guidés. Il est à l'origine du missile Redstone, premier missile balistique guidé de l'armée américaine, et qui servit en 1961 au lancement des premiers astronautes américains.
Il est naturalisé Américain en 1955.
Durant le milieu des années 1950, il collabore avec Walt Disney sur un grand nombre de films éducatifs ayant pour thème le programme spatial américain : Man in Space et Man and the Moon en 1955, puis Mars and Beyond en 1957. Ces films attirèrent l'attention non seulement du public, mais aussi du Programme spatial de la Russie.
Il est nommé directeur des recherches de l'Agence pour les missiles balistiques de l'armée américaine en 1956. Il assure la mise au point des missiles Pershing et Jupiter, tout en prenant une part décisive au lancement du premier satellite artificiel lancé par les États-Unis (Explorer 1) en 1958.
En Janvier 1959, von Braun commente les événements mystérieux intervenus durant la phase de rentrée de la fusée Juno 2 lors d'un vol d'essai : Nous nous trouvons face à des puissances bien plus fortes que ce que nous avons jusqu'ici supposé, et dont la base est à ce jour inconnue de nous. Je ne peux en dire plus aujourd'hui. Nous sommes maintenant engagés dans une entrée à un contact plus proche avec ces puissances, et dans un intervalle de 6 à 9 mois il pourrait être possible de parler avec une certaine précision du sujet [News Europa, 1959].
Il entre à la NASA en 1960 et devient directeur du Centre spatial de vol Marshall de 1960 à 1970. Il devient administrateur adjoint de la NASA en 1970, et responsable des programmes jusqu'en 1970. Il dirige les programmes de vols habités Mercury, Gemini et Apollo.
Il quitte la NASA en 1972 et devient directeur adjoint de la société Fairchild Industries.
Les déclarations des scientifiques sur les Ovnis - PART II
Les déclarations des scientifiques sur les Ovnis - PART II
Le Dr. Dino Dini
Le Dr. Dino Dini, ingénieur spatial de la NASA fit une révélation assez étonnante lors d'une émission télévisée en Suisse, en 1997, au sujet des Ovnis aperçus au cours du vol Apollo 11 :
« Ces séquences furent effacées parce qu'il y avait là beaucoup de points qui ont surgi et qui faisaient partie de ce fameux Blue Book qui aurait dû être publié, avant qu'on change d'avis. En fait, la réalité est la suivante : ce qu'Armstrong a vu était réel. Car Partout où règne la confusion, au cours de la dernière guerre, pendant la guerre du Golfe, partout où le chaos se déclenche, apparaissent ces disques volants. Ceux-ci proviennent de stations postées près de la Terre [...] Neil Armstrong (le premier astronaute à poser pied sur la lune) a vu des objets qui le suivaient, des vaisseaux spatiaux qui suivaient Apollo, et aussi des êtres vivants. Des vaisseaux ont également suivi les autres missions Apollo. C'est là une réalité attestée. C'est nous qui en avons entravé le discours global, car nous avions reçu des instructions en ce sens. Nous étions effrayés au plus haut point lorsque nous avons compris l'énorme différence qu'il y avait entre notre technique, notre science et celle des Ovnis. Il est donc évident que cela nous a amené à donner des avis négatifs, dans leur globalité. Indéniablement, le fait décevant est que nous n 'avons pas d'explications car notre science est encore pratiquement primitive en comparaison de celle de ces planètes d'où proviennent ces vaisseaux spatiaux ».
Hidoo Itokawa, scientifique japonais
Le père de la science spatiale au Japon déclare:
"Les soucoupes volantes viennent d'un autre monde."
Dr J. J. Kalizkewsli
Il est spécialiste des rayons cosmiques :
"Nous avons, moi et d'autres savants, observé deux OVNI en forme de cigare. Ils étaient étranges, terriblement rapides. Je pense que le gouvernement devrait établir un réseau d'alerte 24h/24, équipé de radars, télescopes, caméras et autres instruments."
Le Dr. James E. McDonald
Professeur en physique atmosphérique à l'Université d'Arizona.
McDonald naît le 7 Mai 1920 à Duluth (Minnessotta). Il obtient un B. A. en Chimie de l'Université de Omaha (Nebraska) en 1942. Membre de l'American Meteorological Society (AMS) à partir de 1944, il intègre le renseignement et l'aérologie navals jusqu'en 1945, où il entre au MIT, où il obtient un M. A. en Météorologie. A partir de 1946 il intègre l'Université d'Etat de l'Iowa. Il y enseigne la Physique jusqu'en 1949, puis à partir de 1950 est professeur assistant en physique jusqu'en 1953 (il obtient un doctorat en la matière en 1951).
Observation
McDonald et sa femme font une observation alors qu'ils roulent dans le désert de l'Arizona, mais McDonald ne va pas s'en préoccuper plus que cela.
A partir de 1953 il entâme des travaux de recherche sur la physique des nuages à l'Université de Chicago, jusqu'en 1954 ou il obtient un poste de professeur assistant en Physique à l'Université d'Arizona. Il y enseigne jusqu'en 1957, devenu professeur à part entière un an plus tôt.
A partir de 1961 il participe au Comité sur les Resources de l'Eau, jusqu'en 1965 où il intègre un autre Comité, celui sur les Changements Météorologiques du NAS. En 1966, il intègre également le Comité Conseil sur les Tempêtes de la Marine.
James McDonald (1966)
McDonald ne commance à s'intéresser vraiment aux ovnis qu'à partir du printemps 1966. Cette année-là il se rend à la base de l'USAF de Dayton pour collecter parmi les rapports d'observations d'ovnis des informations ayant un intérêt météorologique. Il en sort boulversé et fou de rage. En 1958 il intégère l'Institut des Etudes Atmosphériques de l'Arizona, en tant que doyen.
Spécialiste des ovnis authentiques et non expliqués McDonald déclare que :
Si chaque journal quotidien, dans chaque grand ville, donnait un compte-rendu adéquat de tous les rapports américains sur les ovnis, envoyés durant les dernières 24 h, les citoyens, au bout d'une semaine, seraient en révolte, demandant au Congrès d'enquêter sur ce qui se passe !
D'autre part, dans une brochure éditée par le GEPA, McDonald démontre la réalité du problème, preuves à l'appui, et s'étonne que les journaux se taisent.
Il reçoit de la part des docteurs Levine et Saunders, 2 membres du projet Blue Book, une copie d'un mémo de Robert Low, coordinateur du projet, exposant comment organiser le projet afin d'aboutir à la conclusion de la non-inexistence des soucoupes volantes. MacDonald vocifère sur le directeur du projet Edward Condon, mais commet l'erreur de donner les noms de ses indicateurs. Saunders et Levine sont renvoyés du projet. Il enquête durant toute l'année sur le terrain, entend les témoins.
Le 10 Octobre, il intervient pour une étude objective et publique des ovnis. Le 19 octobre, devant la Société Météorologique Américaine, déclare :
Les recherches passées du programme Blue Book sont entièrement superficielles, à un niveau de compétence scientifique très bas, suivant la politique de la CIA d'étouffement systématique des soucoupes volantes. Il y a 5 à 10 fois plus de cas inexpliqués qu'on en indique.
En 1967, il intègre le Comité des Changements Météorologiques de la NSF (sur l'Histoire des Sciences Atmosphériques jusqu'en 1970). Cette année-là il déclare :
Je n'ai absolument aucune idée d'où viennent les ovnis ni de comment ils sont manoeuvrés, mais après 10 années de recherches, je sais qu'ils viennent d'au-delà notre atmosphère. Le 22 Avril, il déclare devant l'Association Américaine des Directeurs de Journaux que la Commission Robertson a été réunie par les services de renseignement de l'Air et la CIA dans le but avoué de tarir la source publique des informations de manière à réduire le bruit de fond susceptible de couvrir les informations nécessaires aux services de renseignement : Il semble particulièrement important pour les gens de la Sécurité de réduire le bruit pouvant couvrir les véritables signaux provenant de véritables canaux de renseignement.
En décembre 1969 il participe au symposium de l'AAAS sur les ovnis.
McDonald contredira les thèses (plasmas, etc.) de sceptiques comme Donald Menzel et Philip Klass.
Références :
Clark, Evert, "Physicist Scores 'Saucer' Status", The New York Times, 21 octobre 1966 — McDonald critiquant l'attitude scientifique jusqu'alors envers le problème des ovnis, et le rejet de l'HET. McCarthy, Paul E., Politique et changement de paradigme : James E. McDonald et l'étude du problème ovni, décembre 1975 Druffel, A. Firestorm: Dr. James E. McDonald's Fight for UFO Science - Biographie de McDonald. Avant-propos de Jacques Vallée Vaughan, Valerie, UFOs and Science: The Collected Writings of Dr. James E. McDonald, FUFOR, 1995 - Compilation d'articles de McDonald publiés par lui-même, auparavant non disponibles. Les articles incluent plusieurs des présentations de McDonald devant des audiences de scientifiques, traitant de science atmosphérique et d'ovnis.
Auguste Meessen, physicien Belge
Auguste Meessen naît en 1932 près de la frontière belgo-allemande. Il fait des études de physique à l'Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL, Belgique) et après son doctorat, est pendant 2 ans associé de recherche au MIT. En 1962, il a été engagé à l'UCL, où il devient professeur ordinaire. Il y enseigne la mécanique quantique, la physique théorique et mathématique, la physique de l'état solide et la didactique de la physique.
SOBEPS (1972)
En 1972, lors de la fondation de la SOBEPS, il s'engage dans la recherche d'une solution rationnelle du problème des ovnis, en partant des faits observés et des lois physiques connues. Conseiller scientifique de la SOBEPS, il émet ses conclusions un an plus tard, dans un article d'Inforespace n° 8, Réflexions sur la propulsion des ovnis : une évaluation globale du problème.
MHD
En 1976 Meessen rencontre Jean-Pierre Petit lors des 2èmes journées internationales d'information sur les ovnis à Poitiers. Il est très intéressé par les travaux de Petit ssur la MHD.
Conférence sur la vague Belge
Meessen fait partie du comité de conseil du RIAP. Il effectue une série de missions d'enseignement à l'étranger et devient professeur émérite en 1996. Il s'intéresse surtout aux problèmes qui concernent les fondements de la physique (tels que la quantification de l'espace-temps) et se préoccupe de problèmes de société qui impliquent la responsabilité des scientifiques (tels que la course aux armements).
Le 9 Juillet 1992, de passage en Europe, Meessen rencontre Richard d'Amato par l'entremise de Lucien Clerebaut, un après-midi dans les locaux de la SOBEPS pour discuter des observations de la vague belge et l'intervention des F-16 de l'armée de ce pays. Meessen lui décrit les observations fondamentales, précise avoir mené des enquêtes personnelles, puis déclare à d'Amato être convaincu que les USA ont plus que probablement conclut à la thèse préférée de Meessen, la thèse extraterrestre. D'Amato écoute impassiblement.
PEMP (1994)
En 1996 il est invité sur Arte pour discuter avec d'autres scientifiques, dont Jean-Pierre Petit. Peu après, le 2 Février, Meessen lui écrit pour lui signaler des problèmes scientifiques dont il souhaiterait discuter avec lui.
Le 8 septembre 2004, Meessen se rend dans le cadre du GIRA à une conférence-débat sur la théories des universons de Poher.
[Meessen 1996] Analyse critique des théories cosmologiques de J. P. Petit (Inforespace N°94, Novembre 1996, SOBEPS). La propulsion des ovnis et les thèses de Claude Poher (Inforespace n° 109, 42-64, 2004) - Suite à la réunion du GIRA du 8 septembre
Jean-Jacques Vélasco, ingénieur, responsable du SEPRA/CNES
Sillard naît le 5 janvier 1936 à Coutances (France). Après ses études à l'Institut Polytechnique et à l'Ecole Supérieure d'Aérotechnique il entre, en 1960, comme Ingénieur général de l'Armement au Centre d'Essais en Vol. En 1964, il est nommé au Secrétariat général à l'Aviation Civile comme responsable du programme Concorde.
L'année suivante, il devient responsable de la construction du CSG (Centre Spatial Guyanais, travaillant notamment avec Jean Gruau), puis du développement du programme du lanceur Ariane. Il dirige le CSG de 1969 à 1971. En 1976, il prend la Direction Générale du CNES, sous la présidence Curien, jusqu'en 1982. Là il participe à la création du GEPAN.
De 1982 à 1988, il est Président Directeur de l'Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer. Il devient ensuite d'abord Délégué Général pour l'Armement (1989-1993) puis Président Directeur Général de "Défense Conseil International" (1994-1997). Depuis avril 1997 il est chargé de mission pour la politique spatiale auprès du ministre de la Défense.
Sillard est pilote breveté militaire de l'Armée de l'Air (1200 h de vol).
Le Secrétaire général de l'OTAN, M. Javier Solana, annonce la nomination de Sillard au poste de Secrétaire général adjoint pour les Affaires scientifiques et l'Environnement avec effet au 19 janvier 1998.
En septembre 2005, Sillard prend la tête du comité de pilotage du GEIPAN.
Déclaration:
Alors si vous voulez, officiellement, les américains ont abandonné toutes recherches sur les ovnis après le dépot d'un rapport qui s'appelle Rapport Condon en 1969. Alors, si j'ai encore 1 mn, je peux dire simplement que ce rapport, curieusement, qui faisait apparaître dans le corps du rapport 30 % de phénomènes observés qui étaient complètement inexplicables, il concluait en disant que la poursuite de l'étude ne présentait pas d'intérêt. Il y avait une anomalie profonde entre les conclusions et le reste. Alors en réalité, moi je pense que les américains pratiquent sur le sujet — auquel ils consacrent, j'en suis persuadé, des efforts d'investigation très supérieurs à ceux de tout autre pays — ils pratiquent une politique délibérée et savamment orchestrée de désinformation. C'est la désinformation totale... Alors dans quel but ? Est-ce que c'est une crainte de voir leur suprématie remise en jeu si un jour on se trouvait face à une civilisation extérieure beaucoup plus avancée... Est-ce que c'est un soucis de garder pour eux un acquis potentiel de technologie... on en... ou toute autre explication, on en sait rien.
Les déclarations des scientifiques sur les Ovnis - PART III
Les déclarations des scientifiques sur les Ovnis - PART III
Claude Poher, Ingénieur français, docteur en astronomie. (1936)
Un intérêt pour les ovni qui débute en (1969)
En 1969, Poher est Directeur de la Division Fusées-Sondes du CNES. En voyage aux USA pour une mission préparatoire à un programme spatial d'astronomie réalisé par le CNES en collaboration avec la NASA, Poher fait la connaissance de J. Allen Hynek au cours d'un dîner professionnel. Ce dernier lui fait part de plusieurs anecdotes étranges qui intriguent Poher, et tous deux se retrouvent le week-end suivant, en compagnie de Fred Beckman à examiner les archives d'Hynek chez ce dernier. Poher repart avec l'intention de travailler sur le sujet sur son temps personnel, et examiner les cas français. Il lit le rapport Condon qui paraît cette année-là, et en ressort d'autant plus motivé quand il constante le nombre de cas restant non-identifiés. Il recueille des données, prend des contacts avec différents groupes d'étude du phénomène, et entre dans le Collège Invisible, et collabore avec le GEPA.
A partir de 1970, il se constitue des archives et commence une étude statistique afin de tenter de déterminer les caractéristiques du phénomène. Le résultat est un fascicule de plus de 200 pages (étude portant sur cas 1000 informatisés en Fortran sur cartes perforées), bourré de tableaux et graphiques.
Les conclusions de Poher sont que :
il existe une similitude des observations faites dans le monde les récits présentent les caractéristiques d'événements réels (non inventés) le phénomène observé reste inexplicable, se distinguant nettement des phénomènes connus des experts.
A partir de 1971, Poher commence à informer sa hiérarchie au CNES. Il tient également informé l'Etat-Major de l'Armée en l'air, en retour des rapports d'observations qu'elle a bien voulu lui communiquer. A partir de 1972, L'étude statistique de Poher commence à circuler sous le manteau.
En 1974, alors qu'a lieu une vague d'observations, Poher élabore une 2ème étude sur les corrélations entre les visions d'ovnis et les perturbations électromagnétiques. En Février, le ministre de la défense Robert Galley reconnaît la nécessité d'une étude officielle et cite l'étude de Poher que lui a communiqué l'armée.
En mars se tient aux USA une réunion de scientifiques et universitaires intéressés par le problème ovni, auquel se rend Poher.
A cette même époque, Poher participera à une série d'entretiens radiophoniques sur les ovnis à France Inter, animée par Jean-Claude Bourret :
Bourret : Qui avez-vous rencontré aux USA ?
Poher : J'ai rencontré une trentaine de scientifiques. Les plus connus sont le docteur Hynek, Jacques Vallée, le docteur Saunders, etc. Ils excercent tous une activité classique, en consacrant toutefois une partie de leurs loisirs au phénomène ovni, appelé là-bas phénomène U.F.O. (Unidentified Flying Objects). J'ai rencontré également des représentants de l'American Institution for Aeronautics and Astronautics. Cette institution a créé un sous-comité U.F.O., qui publie des articles dans les revues de l'AIAA - pour que la communauté scientifique prenne conscience du phénomène. Ces personnes ne travaillent pas personnellement sur la question. Il s'agit de juges extrêmement impartiaux, extrêmement prudents. Néanmoins, ils ont publié des cas fort intéressants et continueront de le faire.
Bourret : Où en est la question des ovnis aux USA ? Y a-t-il une meilleure approche du problème qu'en France ?
Poher : Non. Il semble qu'en France les ovnis soient plus facilement acceptés par la communauté scientifique qu'aux Etats-Unis. Cela résulte de l'action de la commission Condon, qui a été négative et continue à produire des effets improductifs aux Etats-Unis. En France, nous n'avons pas eu de retombées négatives : la plupart des scientifiques ne connaissent pas le rapport Condon.
Bourret : Le rapport Condon n'est pas négatif pour celui qui veut bien le lire jusqu'au bout (1000 pages). Il renferme des cas d'observations d'ovnis et de photos jugées authentiques par la commission qui, pourtant, n'était pas favorable aux ovnis, pusiqu'elle avait reçu pour mission de réduire le phénomène ovni à des mauvaises interprétations de phénomènes connus.
Poher : Oui, c'est le moins que l'on puisse dire. J'ai rencontré le docteur Saunders, qui faisait partie de la commission Condon, et qui a démissionné, il reste la personne qui, dans le monde, possède le plus gros catalogue informatique d'observation d'ovnis. Aux dernières nouvelles, il a 85000 cas d'observations dans son ordinateur.
Bourret : Pouvez-vous rappeler pourquoi le docteur Saunders a démissionné de la commission Condon ?
Poher : Tout simplement parce qu'il n'était pas d'accord avec les méthodes de travail et les conclusions apportées par la commission Condon.
Bourret : Vous dites 85000 cas, Claude Poher. S'agit-il de cas d'atterrissage ou d'observations et d'atterrissages ?
Poher : Non, c'est un mélange de toutes les observations. 10 % des cas portent sur des atterrissages. Aux USA, il existe une certaine spécialisation des scientifiques s'occupant du problème UFO. Le docteur Saunders réunit toutes les informations sur la question et, à partir de ce travail, dresse des statistiques à la demande des autres scientifiques. Par exemple, je lui ai demandé un certain nombre de travaux qu'il eu l'amabilité d'exécuter. Bourret : Quels travaux ? Poher : Par exemple, on obtient facilement l'ensemble des cas français. Des témoins étrangers ont vu des ovnis en France ; ils ont rapporté leurs observations en retournant dans leur pays. Ce genre d'observations est intéressant : on peut comparer celles-ci avec ce que décrira un témoin français. Ces comparaisons apportent une confirmation de la description du phénomène identique - quelle que soit la nationalité du témoin.
Bourret : Et les atterrissages ?
Poher : Il existe actuellement 546 cas d'atterrissage avec des traces où les scientifiques américains ont réalisé une enquête poussée. En comparant les traces de ces atterrissages avec celles qui ont été analysées en France, on trouve exactement les mêmes caractéristiques.
Bourret : Lesquelles ?
Poher : Par exemple, la répartition temporelle des instants d'atterrissages suit une loi strictement la même aux USA et en France : c'est troublant. Parce que s'il s'agit d'un phénomène sociologique ou psychologique, il n'y a aucune raison pour que les français et les américains soient amenés à établir des rapport coïncidants sur tous les points alors que leur mode de vie diffère sensiblement.
Bourret : Tout au long de cette émission, j'ai rencontré beaucoup de scientifiques. Les uns étaient "contre", d'autres étaient "pour" les ovnis. J'emploie à dessein ce vocabulaire simpliste : il a le mérite de définir les attitudes. Or, je n'ai jamais rencontré un scientifique qui, s'étant penché sérieusement sur la question ovni en réalisant notamment des enquêtes sur le terrain, figure dans les "contre" après une étude approfondie du dossier. Et aux USA ?
Poher : Une importante étude a été menée, aux USA, sur cette question. Les résultats en sont récents. Sur 195 scientifiques, mêlés de près ou de loin à l'étude des ovnis aux USA, 40 % étaient "pour" au début ; 60 % étaient "contre". Après une étude du dossier plus ou moins longue (de quelques jours à plusieurs années) on trouve 95 % des scientifiques qui sont "pour" ! Le reliquat de 5 % tient plus des "réservés" que des "contre". Il s'agit d'ailleurs de ceux qui ont étudié le problème le moins longtemps : quelques jours ou quelques semaines. Cela résulte d'une analyse portant sur 15 ans. Cette statistique est donc intéressante. Les scientifiques eux-mêmes ont répondu à un questionnaire qui leur a été envoyé. Par conséquent, c'est bien la réponse et la position des scientifiques eux-mêmes.
Bourret : Claude Poher, nous sommes à l'heure du bilan. Nous tournons les dernières pages de ce dossier ovni. Pouvez-vous dire quelles hypothèses sont retenues par les scientifiques américains pour tenter d'expliquer le phénomène ovni.
Poher : A peu près les mêmes que celles avancées au cours de votre émission. L'hypothèse extra-terrestre est loin d'être la seule capable d'expliquer le phénomène. Il y en a d'autres, difficiles à vérifier. Des hypothèses qui concernent la manipulation de l'espace-temps. On en est encore, à l'heure actuelle, à essayer de connaître les caractéristiques du phénomène. On ne les jauge qu'à travers le témoignage humain - avec tout ce que cela comporte d'inexactitudes. L'approche faite aux Etats-Unis, comme en Europe, est multiple. Nous essayons d'améliorer notre connaissance en poussant des enquêtes plus approfondies, plus sérieuses, en utilisant des compétences plus appropriées, en particulier dans l'interrogation des témoins. Les enquêtes concernant les atterrissages sont mieux exploitées. On approche aussi le phénomène par des méthodes d'analyse statistique. On s'est aperçu en effet que, lorsqu'on dispose de milliers de témoignages, des caractéristiques apparaissent. Lorsque les enquêtes sérieuses seront à notre disposition en très grande quantité, par le seule étude statistique, on obtiendra une connaissance du phénomène ovni beaucoup plus précise.
Bourret : C'est l'avenir de l'étude sur les ovnis ? Poher : Il n'y a pas seulement cela. On peut espérer que, dans un avenir assez proche, on pourra implanter un certain nombre de stations de mesures automatiques capables de fournir des données plus objectives du phénomène. Actuellement, on ne sait pas si l'émission lumineuse que les témoins affirmetn apercevoir reste limitée ou non au visible. Cette émission lumineuse peut très bien s'étendre dans l'infrarouge et dans l'ultraviolet.
Bourret : Qui dit station scientifique automatique dit "crédits" ?
Poher : C'est le noeud du problème ! Pourtant, les sommes dépensées ne seraient pas considérables. Avec quelques millions de francs anciens, on pourrait faire progresser la connaissance objective du phénomène. Pour des stations élaborées, il faudra évidemment des sommes plus importantes que la Recherche Scientifique ne veut pas débloquer - pour l'instant du moins !
En 1978, dans le rapport de Juin GEPAN au Comité Scientifique, Poher indique (volume 1, chapitre 4) :
En prenant en compte les élements collectés sur les témoins et les lieux de leurs observations, nous pouvons affirmer que les cas d'observation impliquent généralement un phénomène matériel. Dans 60 % des cas cités, la description du phénomène correspondant à celle d'une machine volante dont l'origine, les modes de déplacement et/ou de propulsion sont totalement en-dehors de notre champ de connaissance.
Universons
En 2001, Poher contacte Auguste Meessen pour lui proposer de faire partie d'un groupe de scientifique travaillant sur sa théorie des universons. Cependant Meessen n'est pas convaincu par les fondations de cette théorie.
Le 7 septembre 2003, Poher revient publiquement sur le devant de la scène, avec la 1ère publication de sa théorie des universons. Le lendemain il participe à une conférence-débat du GIRA sur sa théorie, à laquelle assiste notamment Meessen, qui fait part de ses objections.
Auteur de :
Etudes statistiques portant sur 1000 témoignages d'observations d'UFO, publication privée (1971) Etudes et réflexions à propos du phénomène OVNI, L'Aéronautique et l'Astronautique n° 52 (1975), pp. 69-74 Repris dans LDLN n° 152 (février 1976) pp. 3-7 Repris dans [Bourret 1976-2, pp. 242-258] "Basic patterns in UFO observations" avec Jacques Vallée, 13ème Convention Annuelle de l'AIAA sur les Sciences Aérospatiales à Pasadena, Californie, 20-22 Janvier 1975 [Poher 2003] Les Universons, énergie du futur (Editions du Rocher, 2003)
Références :
[UFO-Revue Information Ufologique n° 11 juillet 1992 (C) CISU] Rencontre avec Claude Poher, "La Vague d'OVNIs" - Radio Ici & Maintenant !, 7 septembre 2004 La propulsion des ovnis et les thèses de Claude Poher (4 janvier 2005) - Suite à la réunion du GIRA du 8 septembre 2004 http://rr0.org/personne/p/PoherClaude/
Josef Allen Hynek (docteur) (1910-1986)
Hynek naît le 1er mai 1910 à Chicago (Illinois) de parents tchécoslovaques. Il obtient un B.S. de l'Université de Chicago en 1931, puis un doctorat en astrophysique en 1935, où il rejoint l'équipe de l'observatoire McMillin. Travaillant avec N. T. Babrovnikhoff, Hynek observe Nova Herculis en 1934 et Nova Lacerta en 1936. En 1946 la direction assurée par Emerson McMillin est reprise par Hynek jusqu'à la retraite du professeur Manson. Il occupe à cette époque une double fonction, en assurant également la direction de l'Observatoire Perkins.
Au début, Hynek était sceptique quant à l'existence réelle des OVNI. Il pensait que toute ces apparitions pouvaient s'expliquer par des confusions avec des canulars et des phénomènes naturels ou avec des avions. En 1948 il déclara même que "ce sujet entier semble ridicule" et qu'il s'agit d'un phénomène de mode qui s'eteindra bientôt.Cependant, après avoir examiné des centaines de témoignages, dont beaucoup émanaient de témoins crédibles (astronomes, pilotes de chasses, policiers, offiers militaires, etc.), sa croyance s'effrita et il commença à douter et à réviser son opinion. Il déclara : "En tant que scientifique, je dois être conscient du passé; trop souvent, des sujets d'une grande importance scientifique ont été négligés car le nouveau phénomène sortait de la norme scientifique du temps".
Dans une interview donnée en 1985, quant on lui demanda ce qui lui avait fait changer d'opinion, il répondit : "Deux choses, en fait. La première était l'attitude complètement fermée de l'Air Force. Ils ne donnaient pas aux OVNIs une chance d'exister, même si ils volaient au-dessus d'une rue en plein jour. Tout doit avoir une explication. Je commençais à m'énerver, même si à l'origine je ressentais la même chose qu'aux, je savais maintenant qu'ils n'étaient pas sur la bonne voie. Vous ne pouver supposer qu'une chose n'existe pas si vous n'avez pas de preuve. Deuxièmement, la qualité des témoins a commencé à me troubler. Quelques cas ont par exemples été rapportés par des pilotes militaires, et je savais qu'ils avaient été bien entrainés, c'est donc là que pour la première fois j'ai pensé que peut-être il y avait quelque chose derrière tout cela."
Un autre changement dans l'opinion d'Hynek est venu après qu'il ai fait un sondage chez ses collègues astronomes (dont Clyde Tombaugh, le découvreur de Pluton). Sur 44 astronomes, 5 d'entre eux (c'est à dire un peu plus de 11%) avaient déjà vu des phénomènes aériens qu'ils n'avaient pu expliquer avec la science conventionelle. La plupart n'avait rien rapporté avant par crainte du ridicule et de répercussions sur leurs carrières. Hynek à également noté que cette proportion de 11% de phénomènes non-identifiés était plus importante que dans les études portant sur les observations faites par la populations générale. C'est donc que contrairement à la croyance entretenue par les sceptiques, les astronomes ne voient non pas moins, mais plus d'OVNI inexplicables.
J Allen Hynek got the call October 4 1957
De plus, les astronomes sont normalement plus informée que le grand public au sujet de l'observation celeste, ainsi leurs observations en sont d'autant plus crédibles. Hynek était par ailleurs scandalisé par l'attitude arrogante et prétentieuse de certains scientifiques sceptiques à l'égards des OVNIs et des témoins.
Hynek reviendra plus tard sur Blue Book :
J'étais là au [Projet] Blue Book et je sais quel était leur travail. On leur disait de ne pas exciter le public, de ne pas faire de houle... A chaque fois qu'arrivait un cas qu'ils ne pouvaient pas expliquer — et il y en avait quelques uns — ils y faisaient particulièrement attention, et laissaient çà aller aux médias... Pour les cas très difficiles à expliquer, ils faisaient des pieds et des mains pour en laisser éloignés les médias. Ils avaient un travail à faire, que ce soit bien ou mal, empêcher le public de s'exciter.
La 1ère fois que je fus impliqué dans ce domaine, j'étais particulièrement sceptique à propos des gens qui disaient avoir vu des ovnis à diverses occasions et complètement incrédule quant à ceux qui déclaraient avoir été à bord de l'un d'eux. Mais j'ai dû revoir mon jugement.
Je me souviens de l'époque de Galileo lorsque j'essayais d'amener les gens à regarder les tâches solaires. Ils se disaient que le Soleil était le symbole de Dieu; Dieu est parfait; donc le Soleil est parfait; donc les tâches ne peuvent exister: donc il n'y a pas à regarder [10].
Une interview du docteur J. ALLEN HYNEK
Par Dennis Stacy Une interview With The Dean 1985 Re-Edited for CUFON by Dale Goudie 1991, traduction française par l'auteur de ce site:
Cette interview nous expose les vues d'un scientifiques éminemment respecté qui n'accepte pas que la recherche au sujet du phénomène OVNI continue à être ridiculisée. Le dr. J. Allen Hynek nous dit:
"Le fameux "gaz des marais" qui a été cité plus tard finalement m'a poussé à bout. A partir de ce moment, j'ai commencé à regarder les rapports d'un oeil différent, et cela m'a amené à dire que certains d'entre eux pourraient être des OVNIS réels."
Pendant plus de deux décennies, de 1948 à 1969, le dr. J. Allen Hynek était un conseiller en astronomie de l'Armée de l'Air des Etats-Unis. Le domaine ou il devait conseiller les militaires, cependant, n'était pas le programme spatial à ses débuts ni même la lune et les étoiles mais les objets volants non identifiés. A cette occasion ses recherches l'ont amené à changer sa conviction initiale qui était un scepticisme total.
STACY: Dr. Hynek, en tant que scientifique, vous avez une vue globale du phénomène OVNI qui remonte à plus d'années en arrière que probablement n'importe qui vivant aujourd'hui. Comment votre contact avec ce phénomène a-t-il précisément commencé?
HYNEK: C'est une histoire facile à raconter. Au printemps de 1948, j'enseignais l'astronomie à l'Université d'Etat de l'Ohio, à Columbus. Des trois hommes se sont présentés un beau jour, et ils n'étaient pas habillés en noir, eux, (I), ils sont venus pour me voir depuis la base aérienne de Wright Patterson à Dayton pas très loin. Ils ont commencé par parler de la pluie et du beau temps, pour autant que je me le rappelle, et d'autres sujets futiles, et alors finalement l'un d'eux m'a demandé ce que je pense des soucoupes volantes. Je leur ai dit que je pense qu'elles n'étaient que des racontars et des non-sens et ainsi de suite, ce qui a semblé leur faire plaisir, et alors ils en sont venu au motif de leur visite. Ils ont dit qu'ils ont besoin d'une certaine consultation en astronomie parce que c'était leur travail de découvrir ce qu'il en était vraiment de ces histoires de soucoupe en volantes.
Certains étaient des météores, pensaient-ils, d'autres des étoiles et ainsi de suite, et ils pouvaient donc avoir besoin des compétences d'un astronome. Et bien chiche, ai-je dit, cela semble amusant, et en outre, je recevrai une habilitation "top secret". A ce moment-là, cela s'appelait le Projet Sign (II), et une partie du personnel au moins prenait le problème tout à fait sérieusement. En même temps un grand schisme se produisait dans l'Armée de l'Air entre deux écoles de pensée. L'école sérieuse a préparé une évaluation de la situation qui fut envoyée au Général Vandenburg, mais l'autre côté par la suite a remporté la partie et les gens sérieux ont été réaffectés à d'autres tâches en d'autres lieux. Les "négationnistes" ont gagné la bataille, en d'autres termes.
Mes propres investigations pour le projet Sign m'ont ajouté à ce fait également, je pense, parce que j'étais tout à fait négatif dans la plupart de mes évaluations. J'ai utilisé toute l'élasticité possible pour donner une explication naturelle à chaque cas, même quand cette explication naturelle ne pouvait pas vraiment s'appliquer. Je me rappelle un cas au Snake River Canyon, je pense, où un homme et ses deux fils ont vu un objet métallique venant en tourbillonnant du bas de la gorge et qui a fait osciller le haut des arbres. Dans ma tentative de trouver une explication normale à cela, j'ai dit que c'était une certaine sorte de remous atmosphérique. Naturellement, je n'avais jamais vu un remous comme cela et je n'avais aucune vraie raison de croire qu'une telle chose puisse seulement exister. Mais j'étais si impatient de trouver une explication normale parce que j'ai été convaincu qu'il devait y en avoir une, que naturellement, j'en avais inventé une, et ce n'est que bien plus tard que j'ai commencé à changer d'avis.
STACY: Arriva-t-il que l'Armée de l'Air elle-même fasse pression pour que proposiez-vous une explication conventionnelle à ces phénomènes?
HYNEK: Il y avait une pression implicite, oui, c'est absolument certain.
STACY: En d'autres termes, vous vous êtes trouvés piégé, comme la plupart d'entre nous, dans une situation ou vous devez plaire à votre chef?
HYNEK: Oui, vous pouvez aussi bien le dire de cette façon, bien qu'en même temps je ne sois pas allé à l'encontre de mes préceptes scientifiques. En tant qu'un astronome et physicien, j'étais d'avis simplement a priori que tout a dû avoir une explication normale en ce monde. Il n'y avait pas de "si" ou de "mais" è ce sujet. Les cas que je ne pouvais pas résoudre, pensai-je, seraient résolus si nous essayions juste un peu plus, et que si nous faisions une meilleure recherche plus appropriée nous trouverions probablement une explication naturelle. Ma moyenne de rapports expliqués était d'environ 80 pour cent et je pensais que c'était largement suffisant. Cela laissait environ 20 pour cent de cas non résolu pour moi, mais seulement environ trois ou quatre pour cent pour l'Armée de l'Air, parce qu'ils ont employé des statistiques d'une manière que je n'aurais jamais considérée comme valide moi-même. Par exemple, les cas marqués "information insuffisante", étaient considérés comme "résolus"! Ils avaient encore d'autre manières de nous duper. Si une lumière était vue, ils disaient, "les avions ont des lumières, donc, c'est probablement un avion." Puis, à la fin de l'année, quand les statistiques ont été calculées, ils on simplement laissé tomber les "possible" ou "probable" et les ont comptés comme "avions".
STACY: Qu'est-ce qui vous a conduit à changer votre propre perception du phénomène?
HYNEK: Deux choses, en fait. L'une était l'attitude complètement négative et intransigeante de l'Armée de l'Air. Ils ne donneraient aux OVNIS aucune chance d'exister, même s'ils volaient à travers la rue en plein jour. Tout devait avoir une explication. J'ai commencé à trouver cela dérangeant, quoique j'aie fondamentalement mené les choses de la même manière, parce que je pensais toujours qu'ils n'abordaient pas le problème de la bonne manière. Vous ne pouvez pas supposer que tout est toujours explicable. Deuxièmement, la qualité des témoins a commencé à me préoccuper. Un certain nombre de cas ont été rapportés par les pilotes militaires, par exemple, et je les connais pour être assez bien entraînés, ainsi c'est comme cela que j'ai commencé pour la première fois à penser que, peut-être bien, il y a là quelque chose de vrai.
Le fameux "gaz des marais" qui a été cité plus tard finalement m'a poussé à bout. A partir de ce moment, j'ai commencé à regarder les rapports d'un oeil différent, et cela m'a amené à dire que certains d'entre eux pourraient être des OVNIS réels.
STACY: Alors que votre propre attitude changeait, l'attitude de l'Air Force envers vous a-t-elle changé, elle aussi?
HYNEK: Certainement, tout à fait, en fait. Dans le fond, je pourrais ajouter que le défunt dr. James E. McDonald, un bon ami à moi qui était alors météorologiste atmosphérique à l'Université de l'Arizona, avait eu quelques échanges assez vifs avec moi à ce sujet. Il avait l'habitude de beaucoup m'accuser en disant "vous êtes le conseiller scientifique de l'Armée de l'Air, vous devriez marteler les portes des généraux et insister pour obtenir qu'un meilleur travail soit entrepris." Je lui disais, "Jim, je suis du sérail, vous ne connaissez pas leur mentalité". Ils étaient soumis aux instructions du Pentagone, suivant les recommandations du Robertson Panel de 1953, qui étaient que le sujet entier doit être discrédité, un point c'est tout, sans aucune question à ce sujet. C'était l'attitude régnante. Le Panel avait été assemblé par la C.I.A, (III), et j'y avais été invité, mais je n'ai pas été invité à signer la résolution. Si on me l'avait demandé, je ne l'aurais pas signé, parce qu'ils ont pris une attitude complètement négative au sujet de tout. Ainsi quand Jim McDonald m'accusait de commettre une sorte d'injustice scientifique, j'ai dû lui dire que si j'avais fait ce qu'il me demandais, les généraux ne m'auraient pas écouté. Ils écoutaient déjà le dr. Donald Menzel et les autres gars du département d'astronomie de Harvard.
STACY: Avez-vous pensé qu'ils vous auraient montré la porte et invité à ne pas revenir?
HYNEK: Dans les 15 jours, j'imagine. Vous êtes familier avec le cas de Tycho Brahe et de Johannes Kepler dans l'histoire de l'astronomie? Brahe effectué des observations et n'a pas su quoi en faire, et Kepler, qui était myope, ne pouvait pas faire ces observations. En fait, j'ai joué le rôle de Kepler en face de Tycho Brahe au sein de l'Air Force. J'ai su que l'Armée de l'Air obtenait des données et j'ai voulu y jeter un oeil, alors j'ai fait usage intensive des photocopieuses à Wright-Patterson. J'ai gardé pratiquement un double de leurs dossiers parce que je savais qu'un jour ces données seraient utiles. Vers la fin, cependant, je parlais à peine avec le Major Quintanilla qui était responsable (IV). Nous avions commencé en tant qu'amis vraiment proches et alors les choses se sont vraiment gâtées parce qu'il a avait un lieutenant qui était un vrai "pisse-en-lit", je trouvais. Tout devait être soit "Jupiter ou Vénus" ou ceci ou cela. Vous n'avez aucune idée de quelle fermeture d'esprit, de quelle attitude fermée il s'agissait. J'ai continué maladroitement dans ces conditions, mais je puis sans risque dire que le pendant toute la durées ou j'étais avec l'Armée de l'Air nous n'avons jamais eu quoi que ce soit qui pouvait même ressembler de loin à un dialogue scientifique le sujet.
STACY: Ils n'étaient pas vraiment intéressés par une recherche véritable sur ce sujet à ce moment?
HYNEK: Ils ont dit qu'ils étaient intéressé sérieusement, naturellement, mais ils auraient fait des mains et des pieds pour empêcher qu'un cas valable puisse parvenir à "l'attention des médias". Pour tous les cas qu'ils avaient résolus, ils n'avaient aucun problème pour en faire communication aux média. C'était vraiment très regrettable... Je pense leur plus grande erreur au départ, fut de ne pas confier l'affaire aux universités ou à certain groupes scientifiques. Ils ont considérée que c'était une question relevant du renseignement militaire et se trouvaient de plus en plus embarrassés par l'affaire. Après tout, nous payons l'Armée de l'Air en Dollars sonnants et trébuchants pour qu'ils assurent la sécurité de notre espace aérien et cela aurait été de mauvaises relations publiques pour eux d'avouer qu'il y a quelque chose là haut là, mais qu'ils sont impuissants. Ils ne pouvaient pas faire cela, et ainsi ils ont pris des mesures, c'est humain, pour protéger leurs propres intérêts. Ce qu'ils ont dit était que nous avons résolu 96 pour cent des cas et que nous pourrions avoir résolu les quatre autres pour cent si nous avions juste essayé plus sérieusement.
STACY: Étaient-ce les fameuses observations du Michigan de 1966, expliqués après comme étant des "feux follets" qui finalement mené l'Armée de l'Air à demander la caution d'une université honorable?
HYNEK: Oui, cela, comme vous le savez, c'est devenu une sorte de plaisanterie nationale et le Michigan fut bientôt connue comme "l'état des feux follets." Par la suite, cela a eu comme conséquence une audition congressionnelle réclamée par un membre du Congrès d'Etat, Gerald Ford, qui naturellement plus tard est devenu Président des Etats-Unis. La recherche a été confiées au Comité de Brian O'Brien qui a fait un très bon travail. Si leurs recommandations avaient été suivies, les choses se seraient améliorées. Ils avaient recommandé que les OVNIS ne soient plus l'affaire de l'Armée de l'Air mais confié à un groupe d'universités, pour étudier la chose aussi bien que possible. Et bien, elles ne sont pas allées à un groupe d'université, elles sont allées à une université et un homme dont ils étaient sur, à savoir, le dr. Edward Condon à l'Université du Colorado. C'était ainsi que le Comité Condon et par la suite son rapport ont été réalisés.
STACY: Avez-vous été jamais invités à témoigner avant, ou à conseiller le Comité?
HYNEK: Dans les premiers jours ils m'ont invité à leur parler, à leur donner des informations, mais ce fut tout. Ils n'ont certainement pas eu l'intention de prendre conseil auprès de moi ou utilisé quelque conseil que ce fut de ma part.
STACY: En 1968, le rapport généralement négatif de Condon a été rendu public et l'Armée de l'Air a utilisé ses conclusions pour se tirer d'affaire en ce qui concerne les OVNIS. Etiez-vous encore un consultant ou un conseiller officiel à ce moment-là?
HYNEK: Ah, oui, j'étais avec l'Armée de l'Air du début jusqu'à la fin, mais c'était juste sur le papier. Personne n'avait encore coupé la tête du poulet, mas le poulet était mort. Les derniers jours du Projet Blue Book, c'était juste du rangement de paperasse.
STACY: Au sujet du phénomène OVNI lui-même, où en était-on à ce moment?
HYNEK: Et bien, comme vous le savez, le rapport Condon déclara qu'un groupe de scientifiques avait étudié les OVNIS et que le sujet était clos. Les OVNIS, naturellement, n'ont pas pris la peine de lire le rapport et pendant la vague de 1973, ils sont revenus en force.
Edward J. Ruppelt, le premier chef de Blue Book, déclara à propos de Hynek : " Le Dr. Hynek fut l'un des scientifiques les plus impressionnants que j'aie rencontré en travaillant sur le projet ovni, et j'en ai rencontré un bon nombre. Il évita de faire deux choses que certains d'entre eux faisaient : vous donner la réponse avant de connaître la question ; ou immédiatement commencer à exposer ses réalisations dans le domaine de la science"
Auteur de :
"Rapport spécial sur les conférences avec des astronomes sur les objets aériens non-identifiés à l'ATIC", Projet Stork, 6 août 1952 "Unusual Aerial Phenomena", Journal of the Optical Society of America, avril 1953 "UFO's merit scientific study", Science n ° 154, 21 octobre 1966 "Are flying saucers real ?", magazine Post, 17 décembre 1966 "How to photograph a UFO", Popular Photography, mars 1968, pp. 69-110-112-114 "Statement of Dr J. Allen Hynek", Symposium sur les ovnis du Congrès US, 29 juillet 1968 "The Condon Report and UFOs", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, avril 1969, pp. 39-42 "Twenty-one years of UFO reports", AAAS, 134ème Conférence, 27 décembre 1969 The UFO experience - A Scientific Inquiry, Henry Regnery, Chicago, 1972, ISBN 0-345-27361-3 — Hynek y décrit sa classification, son audition devant le comité O'Brien, sa critique du Rapport Condon et du projet Blue Book, la justification que lui demande l'USAF de cette critique. traduit Les Objets Volants Non-Identifiés : mythe ou réalité ? Robert Laffont, 1974, ISBN 2-7144-0206-2 "The Emerging Picture of the UFO Problem", 13èmes Rencontres des Sciences Aérospatiales de Pasadena (Californie), 20-22 janvier 1975 The Edge of Reality avec Jacques Vallée, Henry Regenry, IL, 1975 (Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-13226) — Approche philosophique pour examiner le status de l'ufologie, sa relation avec la communauté scientifique, et les perspectives pour résoudre le problème. traduit Aux limites de la réalité, Belfond, 1978, 197 The Hynek UFO report, New York, Barnes & Nobles, 1977 / New York, Dell Publishing Co., 1977 traduit Nouveau rapport sur les ovnis, Belfond 1979, ISBN 2-277-51384-9 "The UFO phenomenon: laugh, laugh, study, study", Technology Review, Vol. 83, n° 7, Juillet 1981, pp. 50-58 Night siege, The Hudson Valley UFO sightings avec Bob Pratt et Philip J. Imbrogno, Ballantine Books, 1987 The spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS, Chicago 1988
Références :
"Scientists Accused on 'Flying Saucers'", The New York Times, 18 septembre 1966 "UFO's for Real?", Newsweek, 10 octobre 1966 Un nouveau démarrage pour l'ensemble du problème ovni ? par Joachim P. Kuettner (Aeronautics and Astronautics, journal de l'AIAA, Novembre 1973) — Critique de [12] Close encounter with Dr. J. Allen Hynek - An interview with the dean avec Dennis Stacy (1985) réédité pour le CUFON par Dale Goudie (1991) Cohen, Jerry, Dr. J. Allen Hynek - Capsuled Biographical information Webb, Walter (1993), Allen Hynek as I knew him, IUR 1/93
Smith naît en 1910 à Lethbridge (Alberta). Il est diplômé de l'Université British Columbia en 1933 avec un Bachelor of Science en ingéniérie électronique, puis obtient une Maîtrise de Science Appliquée en 1934 dans la même université. Après ses études il devient ingénieur en chef à la station radio CJOR à Vancouver.
Il fait beaucoup pour Smith encourager des améliorations techniques dans les installations d'émission au Canada, et prend personnellement part à la formation de l'association Canadienne des Consultants en Emission, qui conseillera souvent le Departement du Transport (DOT) sur les questions d'allocation de fréquence et autres sujets. Il joue également un rôle important dans le lien entre ce département et le Comité de Planification Technique Radio Canadien. En 1939, il rejoint le Département du Transport fédéral. Il est engagé dans le service de surveillance d'ingéniérie du Canada en temps de guerre et, en 1947, est responsable de l'établissement d'un réseau de stations de mesures ionospheriques, dont quelques unes se trouve dans des régions isolées du Nord. A sa mort, il est de l'Ingéniérie de Règles Radios avec le Département du Transport (DOT), responsable des aspects ingéniérie pour toutes les questions concernant l'utilisation de la radio au Canada, y compris les équipements standards, les systèmes-relais radio (micro-ondes), les installations de diffusion et les études d'interférences. Dans un mémorandum déclassifié par le gouvernement canadien et daté du 21 novembre 1950, Wilbert Smith a écrit : "Le sujet est de la plus haute confidentialité pour le gouvernement des Etats-Unis, plus secret même que la bombe H. Les soucoupes volantes existent. Leur mode de fonctionnement est inconnu mais des efforts intenses sont faits par un petit groupe dirigé par le Dr Vannevar Bush."
Premiers intérêts ufologiques
La curiosité de Smith va donner le meilleur de lui-même lorsqu'il lit un magazine sur les "soucoupes volantes" à la fin des années 1940s et à partir de ce moment développe un grand intérêt dans l'étude des soucoupes volantes ou ovnis. Au DOT, il effectue des recherches sur la réduction du champ magnétique terrestre en tant que source d'énergie. Comme Smith pense que les soucoupes volantes exploitent les principes du magnétisme, il semble que ce travail du DOT pourrait expliquer leur mode opérationnel. Il pense que nous sommes sur la piste de quelque chose qui pourrait bien se révéler être l'introduction d'une nouvelle technologie. (... ) [Ceci] est né des études menées actuellement en rapport avec les soucoupes volantes [Memorandum pour le Contrôleur des Télécommunications, W.B. Smith, 21 Novembre 1950, p. 2].
Visite à Washington, D.C. (1950)
Les études auxquelles il fait référence sont celles menées par le gouvernement US à l'époque. Fin 1950, Smith assiste à la North American Radio Broadcasting conference à Washington DC, et alors qu'il est là, émet des requêtes via le personnel de l'Ambassade Canadienne qui est capable de l'informer que :
la question ovni est le sujet le plus hautement classifé aux USA, plus encore que le bombe H ; les ovnis existent ;
leur modus operandi [mode opératoire] est inconnu, mais des efforts concentrés sont menés par un petit groupe dirigé par le docteur Vannevar Bush ;
le sujet dans son ensemble est considéré par les autorités US d'une importance considérable [Memorandum pour le Contrôleur des Télécommunications, W.B. Smith, 21 Novembre 1950, p. 3].
Smith sent que les résultats préliminaires de ses travaux en géomagnétisme correllent les données disponibles sur le comportement rapporté des ovnis, et qu'ils sont très proches des réponses. L'officier de liaison du DRB à l'ambassade canadienne de Washington est évidemment d'accord avec Smith pour qu'il puisse contacter le docteur Solandt, président du DRB à son retour à Ottawa, pour discuter avec lui de futures études au sujet de la diffusion d'énergie géomagnétique.
A son retour au Canada, Smith rencontre donc Solandt le 20 Novembre, et obtient son soutien. Solandt est d'accord sur le fait que le travail sur l'énergie géo-magnetique devrait être mené aussi rapidement que possible et offre la collaboration du DRB au travers de la mise à disposition de ses laboratoires, les équipements et le personnel spécialisé nécessaires [Memorandum pour le Contrôleur des Télécommunications, W.B. Smith, 21 Novembre 1950, p. 4].
Le mémo de Smith
Le 21 Novembre il décrit sa proposition dans un mémorandum au Contrôleur des Télécommunications, faisant mention du soutien du DRB et demandant la mise sur pieds d'un projet et s'en occupe à temps partiel jusqu'au moment où des résultats suffisants pourront permettre une action plus définitive [Memorandum pour le Contrôleur des Télécommunications, W.B. Smith, 21 Novembre 1950, p. 4]. Le proposition décrit 7 axes d'étude, tous liés à la recherche géo-magnetique et non au sujet des ovnis [Project Magnet, program, W.B. Smith, p. 2]. Il propose que les travaux soient classifiés, considèrant que les aspects les moins connus et peu explorés du magnétisme pourraient contenir la clé d'une nouvelle technologie importante, dont l'impact sur notre civilisation devraient être évalué si ses intuitions se révèlent correctent. Le commandant C. P. Edwards, alors Ministre Délégué aux Transport pour les Services Aériens, donne son aval au projet, demandant à être régulièrement informé à son sujet. Le 19 mai 1952 ils se rencontrent pour la seconde fois et, au passage, se renomment en "Project Second Storey", "Theta" n'étant apparemment pas sur la liste des noms valides pour les projets de ce type. Le 25 juin 1952, Smith soumet un rapport préliminaire sur le projet Magnet :
Si, comme cela semble évident, les Soucoupes Volantes sont les émissaires d'une autre civilisation, et opèrent en fait sur des principes magnetiques, il y a avant nous le Fait que nous avons manqué quelque chose dans la théorie magnetique mais avons une bonne indication de la direction dans laquelle rechercher les quantités manquantes. Il est donc fortement recommandé que le travail sur le Projet Magnet soit poursuivi et étendu pour inclure des experts de chacun des divers domaines impliqués dans ces études [Interim Report on Project Magnet, W.B. Smith, 25 Juin 1952].
Quoi qu'il en soit, Smith reste occupé durant quelques années suivantes. Des indices permettent de considérer que ses expériementations ne s'étaient pas interrompues pour autant :
(...) il devint rapidement apparent qu'il existait un fossé réel et relativement grand entre cette science alien et la science à laquelle j'avais été formé. Certaines expérimentations cruciales avaient été suggérées et menées à bien, et à chaque fois les résultats confirmèrent la validité de la science alien. Au delà de cà la science alien semblait simplement incomprehensible [Déclaration concernant les expérimentations supposément suggérées par les EBEs (Extraterrestrial Biological Entities), 31 Mar 1958].
Le Dr Walter Riedel, ex-directeur de la base
Il déclara également qu'il n'avait jamais vu lui-même un OVNI, mais que pendant plusieurs années, il avait accumulé des rapports d'observations d'OVNI du monde entier.
Il développa son argumentation en quatre points :
"Premièrement, aucune structure terrestre ne pourrait supporter la température induite par les conditions de vol observées. A de telles vitesses et altitudes, l'échauffement du revêtement ferait fondre n'importe quel métal ou métalloïde connu."
"Deuxièmement, considérez les grandes accélérations auxquelles ils opèrent... Si vous songez à la force centrifuge qui dans les quelques minutes de ces évolutions rejetterait l'équipage vers l'extérieur, et ferait de même avec le sang, vous voyez ce que je veux dire."
"Troisièmement, dans de nombreux cas, ils ont fait des choses que seul un pilote pourrait faire, mais qu'aucun pilote humain ne pourrait supporter."
"Quatrièmement, dans la plupart des rapports, il y a absence d'émission visible. La plupart des observateurs relatent des engins sans flamme ni traînée. S'il s'agissait de n'importe quel type connu de réacteur, fusée, moteur à piston, ou moteur à réaction en chaîne, il y aurait une traînée à haute altitude très visible. C'est un moteur inconnu.
L'astrophysicien Bernard Haisch
Haisch naît à Stuttgart (Allemagne). Il obtient son doctorat en 1975 et devient astronome professionnel. Il publie un nombre respectable d'articles dans des journaux scientifiques (dont Science et Nature), est Enquêteur Principal dans plusieurs études de la NASA, sert comme referee et examinateur de proposition pour la NASA et la NSF, appartient à une demi-douzaine de sociétés professionnelles, préside des conférences internationales.
Haisch est rédacteur-en-chef bénévole du Journal of Scientific Exploration (JSE) pendant 12 ans, spécialisé dans les articles sur les ovnis.
« Nous sommes dans une situation curieuse aujourd’hui, là ou nos meilleurs théories physiques et astrophysiques prédisent que nous devrions faire l'expérience d’une visite extra terrestre, toute preuve possible d’une telle menace dans le phénomène des OVNIS est l’objet de risée à l'intérieur de notre communauté scientifique. »
Auteur de :
"Fermi's Paradox and the Preparation for Contact Hypothesis" "UFO's and Mainstream Science", MUFON UFO Journal n° 335, mars 1996, pp. 14-16 "A Retrospective on the Journal of Scientific Exploration" avec Marsha Sims, JSE, vol. 18, n° 1, pp. 15–25, 2004
Les déclarations des scientifiques sur les Ovnis - PART IV
Les déclarations des scientifiques sur les Ovnis - PART IV
Stanton T. Friedman
Stanton T. Friedman, consultant en physique nucléaire pour le MUFON
Friedman naît à Elizabeth dans le New Jersey le 29 juillet 1934. Il est nommé valedictorien de sa classe de lyçée du New Jersey en 1951, et passe 2 ans à l'Université de Rutgers à New Brunswick (New Jersey), avant d'aller à l'Université de Chicago en 1953. Il obtient une licence et une maîtrise de physique en 1955 et 1956, où Carl Sagan est un de ses caramades de promotion.
C'est à cette époque qu'il se passionne pour les ovnis. Il achète par correspondance le livre d'Edward Ruppelt [1] dont l'aspect "officiel" le stimule. Il lit une quinzaine d'autres ouvrages sur le sujet dont celui de son ami d'Indianapolis Frank Edwards [2]. En 1967, sur le conseil de ce dernier il appelle KDKA, une station radio Clear Channel de 50,000 watts, non loin de chez lui, pour parler au producteur du talk show Contact, qui promettent poliment de le rappeler. Quelques semaines plus tard cependant il est bien rappelé, pour remplacer un invité annulé à la dernière minute. Une des auditrices, technicienne du Laboratoire Astronucléaire de Westinghouse près de Pittsburgh (Pennsylvanie) où il travaille comme physicien nucléaire, l'appelle peu après, pour faire une conférence sur le livre Edwards que couvre son club littéraire [3].
En tout Friedman travaillera ensuite 14 ans comme physicien nucléaire pour des compagnies telles que General Electric, General Motors, Westinghouse, TRW, Aerojet General Nucleonics, et McDonnell Douglas sur des projets avancés, hautement classifiés, finalement abandonnés tels qu'un appareil nucléaire, des fusées à fission et fusion, et des centrales nucléaires pour l'espace :
J'ai passé 14 ans dans l'industrie à travailler sur des programmes financés par le gouvernement qui ont tous été abandonnés : avions nucléaires, fusées à fission, fusées à fusion nucléaire, centrales nucléaires spatiale. J'ai travaillé pour de grosses sociétés : General Electric, Westinghouse, General Motors, TRW, Aerojet General [4].
En effet à la fin des années 1950s, les USA avaient l’intention de construire des vaisseaux spatiaux propulsés par l’énergie nucléaire. Il en sortira 2 projets, Orion et Daedalus mais tous deux seront abandonnés 10 ans plus tard faute de support politique, face à la concurrence des propulseurs chimiques et surtout suite au moratoire interdisant les explosions nucléaires dans l’espace.
J'ai été très tôt intéressé par les techniques de pointe, les technologie avancées, les voyages dans l'espace et des choses comme cela... et j'ai travaillé sur des programmes comme... on a fait fonctionner des fusées nucléaires d'une puissance de 4000 mégawatts, dit-il en souriant, on a fait tourner des moteurs d'avions à l'énergie nucléaire dit-il en écarquillant les yeux.
Et vers 1961, à la bibliothèque de l'Université de Californie à Berkeley, une très grande bibliothèque, je suis tombé sur une version publiée à titre privé du "Project Blue Book, special report number 14", la plus grande étude scientifique officielle jamais entreprise pour l'US Air Force. Il y avait des informations sur 3200 sites prospectés par des professionnels à plein temps : classement par catégories, mesures qualitatives, tableaux, graphiques, cartes... 240 documents ! J'étais au paradis ! Car vous savez, les informations, c'est mon truc, j'aime les rassembler et leur donner du sens. [5]
Friedman rassemble énormément de données et de magazines, parfois des canulars, et devient convaincu de la réalité du phénomène ovni, et commence à donner ses premières conférences à partir de 1967, sur le sujet invariable "Les ovnis sont réels", dans plus de 600 collèges et plus de 100 groupes professionels dans 50 états, 9 provinces canadiennes, l'Angleterre, l'Italie, l'Allemagne, la Hollande, la France, la Finlande, le Brésil, l'Australie, la Corée, le Mexique, la Turquie, l'Argentine et Israel. Il a publié plus de 70 articles sur les ovnis en plus de douzaines d'articles conventionnels et apparaît sur des émissions radio et télévisées (TNT Larry King UFO Special le 1er Octobre 1994; Nightline; Sally Jessy Raphael; Unsolved Mysteries; Entertainment Tonight; Leeza; Sightings; Canada AM; Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell et bien d'autres).
Déjà en 1978 Friedman est convaincu, fort de ses nombreuses preuves, que la planète Terre est visitée par des véhicules contrôlés intelligemment à distance.
Reprenant ses propres mots, en d’autres termes, certains ovnis sont des vaisseaux spatiaux appartenant à quelqu’un. Il est de plus convaincu qu’il existe un intérêt énorme de la part du public, couplé à une grande angoisse d’ignorance :
En tant que scientifique, je me sens obligé de dire ce qui est. On est sûr de 4 choses, au bout de 38 ans d'études et d'enquêtes.
Premièrement, il est évident que la Terre est visitée par des vaisseaux extraterrestres intelligents. En d'autre termes, certains, "certains" souligné 27 fois, certains ovnis sont des vaisseaux extraterrestres, la plupart n'en sont pas. La plupart des isotopes ne sont pas fissiles, et ne m'intéressent pas...
Deuxièmement, les soucoupes volantes sont une sorte de "Watergate" cosmique. Par là je veux dire qu'il y a un petit nombre de personnes dans les gouvernements des Etats-Unis, de France, de Grande-Bretagne, du Canada, d'Allemagne, qui savent sans aucun doute depuis 1947 - et je ne parle pas du 2nd crash qui a eu lieu un peu à l’ouest d'ici (Nouveau-Mexique) ni de la raison pour laquelle je m'y suis intéressé - quelques personnes donc, dans ces gouvernements, ont su que la planète était visitée. On ne garde pas un secret en le divulguant. Le besoin de savoir est incoercible.
Troisièmement, aucun des arguments hostiles aux 2 premières conclusions émis par les grands "démystificateurs", comme Carl Sagan, mon camarade de l'Université de Chicago, ne résiste à un examen scrupuleux. Leur argument sonnent très bien, mais face aux preuves, ils s'écroulent.
Et enfin, quatrièmement, c'est la plus grande histoire du millénaire : la visite de la Terre par des vaisseaux extraterrestres, la dissimulation réussies des preuves majeures, épaves et corps, depuis presque 50 ans. [6]
Friedman reste convaincu que la dissimulation d'un incident extraterrestre dans le cas de Roswell. Lorsqu'un journaliste lui fait part de ses doutes, il répond :
Confronté à des dizaines de témoignages concernant l’incident de Roswell, on ne peut nier qu’un certain nombre d’entre eux se recoupent. Il est donc impossible d’ignorer cette problématique ou de considérer froidement, sans prendre la peine d’enquêter, que tout cela n’est qu’un immense canular (...)
Je suis totalement incapable de comprendre votre remarque considérant que Roswell est un énorme canular. Sur quelle base vous fondez-vous pour proposer cette étrange conclusion. Oui, certaines personnes ont menti mais cela ne signifie pas que toutes l’on fait. Il y a des preuves accablantes selon lesquelles 2 soucoupes se sont écrasées et dans lesquelles ont a retrouvé des corps... [8].
Friedman déclare sans ambiguités que :
Certains ovnis sont des appareils extraterrestres Le sujet des soucoupes volantes représente une forme de Watergate Cosmique Aucun des arguments anti-ovni ne résiste à un examen minutieux Nous sommes face à la plus grande histoire du millénaire Les visites de la planète Terre par des vaisseaux extraterrestres sont réelles Il existe une dissimulation des meilleures données par les gouvernements Des épaves et des corps furent récupérés au Nouveau-Mexique il y a 54 ans
Auteur de :
"Flying saucers are real", Aeronautics and Astronautics (journal de l'AIAA), février 1968, p. 16 Déclaration au symposium sur les ovnis de la Chambre des Représentants U. S. (1968) "More on UFO's", Physics Today, janvier 1971, pp. 97-99 — Prolongement de l'article de William T. Powers rejettant l'argument des non-identifiés comme "manque d'information", avec référence à l'étude statistique du projet Bear (Stork) "UFO reports available", Aeronautics and Astronautics (journal de l'AIAA), avril 1971, p. 4 Avec B. Ann Slate, ""Secret" Air Force Study Says UFOs Are Real", Rapport ovni Saga, p. 28, vol. 1, n° 5 — Sur le rapport spécial n° 14 du Projet Blue Book, étude statistique préparée par le BMI (1974) Crash at Corona avec Don Berliner (1992) "The Case for the Extraterrestrial Origin of Flying Saucers", 1995 - Argumentaire pour l'HET, exploitant notamment l'étude statistique du projet Bear mené par le BMI pour l'ATIC en 1952
Professeur d'ingénierie aéronautique au Collège Parks à St. Louis.
Il a passé 8 ans dans l'Air Force à la base de Wright-Patterson, et a travaillé 30 autres années pour McDonnell-douglas sur les technologies exotiques. Lorsqu'il fut à la base de l'Air Force de Wright-Patterson, il a été impliqué dans le pistage d'OVNI au-dessus du Missouri, de l'Ohio et du Michigan. Ces OVNI ont été vus par beaucoup de gens: militaires, police locale, civils, et ont été chronométrés à des vitesses avoisinant 20'000 MPH (30'000 km/h, Ndt) en faisant des manoeuvres inhabituelles, silencieuses. Le Dr Czysz a passé plus de la moitié de sa carrière chez McDonnell-Douglas, travaillant sur des projets classifiés et fragmentés, et il témoigne du secret maintenu autour de ces projets. Il dénonce la tendance humaine à faire de chaque nouvelle technologie une arme, soulignant que la mise en place d'armements dans l'espace ne vise pas la menace des terroristes, et l'idée d'utiliser ces armes contre des cibles extraterrestres serait suicidaire.
Diverses déclarations
Dr. Vladimir Azhazha :
Neil AMSTRONG annonça à la base de contrôle que deux grands mystérieux objets les surveillait après qu'ils ait alunis près du module . Mais ce message ne fut jamais entendu par le public, parce que la NASA l'a censuré.
Dr. Aleksandr Kasantsev :
Buzz ALDRIN filma les OVNI sur pellicule couleur de l'intérieur du module, et continua à les filmer après que AMSTRONG sortit. AMSTRONG ne réfuta jamais tous ces fait, mais ne donna pas de détails plus précis en précisant que la CIA couvrait l'évènement.
Le Dr. Lee Katchen, physicien, expert atmosphérique de la NASA, déclara le 7 juin 1968 qu'il était persuadé que les Ovnis étaient d'origine extra-terrestres et prononça les propos suivants « Les observations d'Ovnis sont si communes que les militaires n'ont pas le temps de s'en occuper. Donc, ils les effacent de leurs écrans. Les principaux systèmes de défense (réseau SAGE) ont des filtres Ovni intégrés et quand un Ovni apparaît, ils l'ignorent simplement ».
Le célèbre physicien Stephen Hawking, qui fut invité à la Maison Blanche, déclara à la télévision américaine le 6 mars 1998 :
« Bien sûr, il est possible que les OVNIS contiennent réellement des extraterrestres comme le pensent beaucoup de gens, et que le gouvernement le cache ».
Mark McCandlish
US Air Force, décembre 2000
Mark McCandlish est un expert illustrateur de l'industrie aérospatiale et a travaillé pour beaucoup de grandes compagnies aérospatiales aux Etats-Unis. Son collègue, Brad Sorensen, avec qui il a étudié, est allé à l'intérieur d'une installation à la base de l'Air Force de Norton, où il a vu des reproductions de véhicules extraterrestres, ou ARV (Alien Reproduction Vehicule, Ndt), qui étaient pleinement opérationnels et volaient. Dans son témoignage, vous apprendrez que les Etats-Unis ne disposent pas seulement d'engins opérationnels à propulsion antigravitationnelle, mais que c'est le cas depuis très, très longtemps, et qu'ils ont été développés en partie à travers l'étude de véhicules extraterrestres pendant les cinquante dernières années. En plus, nous avons les dessins des engins que l'inventeur en aérospatiale Brad Sorensen a vu, aussi bien que le schéma d'une de ces reproductions de véhicules extraterrestres, avec des détails remarquables.
Docteur Hal Puthoff
novembre 2000
Le Dr Hal Puthoff, un scientifique en physique théorique et expérimentale, est diplômé de l'Université de Stanford. Il a publié plus de quarante documents techniques dans les domaines des appareils à rayons d'électrons, des lasers, des effets quantiques de l'énergie du point-zéro, et possède des brevets dans les technologies lasers, les communications, et les champs d'énergie. Le Dr Puthoff a passé plus de trente années chez General Electric, Sperry, l'Agence Nationale de Sécurité (NSA), l'Université de Stanford, SRI International, et, depuis 1985, est directeur de l'Institut des Etudes Avancées à Austin, Texas, et président de EarthTech International, Inc. Dans son témoignage, le Dr Puthoff souligne que nous avons découvert les technologies rendant le voyage spatial possible, nous devons considérer la possibilité qu'il y ait d'autres civilisations qui ont suivi le même chemin que nous, avant nous. Cela rend crédible la possibilité de visites extraterrestres. Considérant que notre technologie électromagnétique est vieille d'un siècle, nous devons réaliser qu'il pourrait y avoir des civilisations avancées qui seraient des millénaires en avance sur nous, et que leurs technologies pourrait dépasser totalement notre imagination; de ce fait, le sujet Extraterrestre/OVNI devrait être pris au sérieux par les scientifiques modernes.
David Hamilton
Département de l'Energie, octobre 2000
David Hamilton travaille pour le Département de l'Energie dans le domaine des systèmes de propulsion de nouvelle génération. Il explique que nous avons presque épuisé les réserves mondiales de carburants fossiles, juste au moment où l'Asie et la Chine subissent une "révolution industrielle" et deviennent de plus grands consommateurs de ces carburants que les pays occidentaux ne le sont. Pour alléger les crises courantes de pollution environnementale, réchauffement global, etc. et avancer comme une société technologique soutenable, nous devons développer des technologies qui ne causent pas les mêmes problèmes.
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas E. Bearden
US Army (retraité), octobre 2000
Le Colonel Bearden est conceptualiste dans les technologies d'énergie alternatives, les effets biologiques électromagnétiques, les concepts dans la théorie des champs unifiés, et dans d'autres domaines parallèles. Il est Lieutenant Colonel à la retraite de l'US Army et possède un doctorat de physique et un M.S. en ingénierie nucléaire de l'Institut de Technologie de Géorgie. Il est en ce moment CEO du CTEC, Inc, Directeur de l'Association des Scientifiques Distingués de l'Amérique, et "Fellow Emeritus" de l'Alpha Foundation's Institute for Advanced Study. Dans le témoignage du Colonel Bearden, il parle largement sur la manière de tirer de l'énergie utilisable du vide sans violer aucune loi physique connue. Lui et d'autres ont construit des appareils électromagnétiques qui démontrent actuellement cette technologie. Il explique aussi comment certaines puissances préfèrent garder cette technologie secrète au lieu qu'elle se répande en dehors des petits cercles ésotériques. Le temps tourne cependant car notre Terre n'a pas assez de réserves de pétrole et de charbon, même pour cette génération. Il explique comment nos meilleurs cerveaux doivent d'abord reconnaître le problème avant de se rallier pour résoudre ce problème énergétique pour 2004.
Docteur Eugene Mallove
octobre 2000
Le Dr Eugene Mallove est en ce moment rédacteur en chef du magazine "Infinite Energy" et directeur du Laboratoire de Recherche sur la Nouvelle Energie au New Hampshire. Il possède deux diplômes du MIT en Ingénierie Aéronautique-Astronautique et un doctorat à Harvard sur les Sciences de la Santé de l'Environnement (Ingénierie de Contrôle de la Pollution de l'Air). Il a acquis une large expérience en ingénierie de haute-technologie dans des compagnies comme Hughes Research Labs, TASC (The Analytic Science Corporation), et le MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Le Dr Mallove fut le "Chef écrivain science" au MIT lorsque l'histoire de la fusion froide est apparue en mars 1989, et il a démissionné en 1991 après que sa demande d'investigation sur les données de la fusion froide au MIT (ce qui a aidé à discréditer le sujet entier) n'ait pas été faite correctement. La marginalisation par l'establishment scientifique du sujet de la fusion froide offre une forte ressemblance avec la marginalisation similaire du sujet extraterrestre/OVNI: les deux ont été ridiculisés parce qu'ils rompaient les paradigmes établis. Comme le fait état le Dr Mallove dans son interview, "Il n'y a rien de pire… que suggérer aux physiciens académiques en particulier, et aux académiciens en général, qu'ils n'ont pas seulement faux; qu'ils sont totalement dans le faux, qu'ils ont catastrophiquement torts." Dans son magazine, le Dr Mallove nous demande de nous souvenir des sentiments de Michael Faraday: "Rien n'est plus magnifique que d'avoir raison."
Docteur Paul La Violette
octobre 2000
Le Dr Paul La Violette a écrit quatre livres et a publié beaucoup d'études originales de physique, d'astronomie, de climatologie, de théorie des systèmes et de psychologie. Il a reçu son BA de physique de Johns Hopkins, son MBA de l'Université de Chicago, et son doctorat de physique de l'Université d'Etat de Portland, et il est en ce moment président de la Fondation Starburst, un institut de recherche scientifique interdisciplinaire. Il est le développeur de la cinétique subquantique, une nouvelle approche de la microphysique qui rend compte d'électricité, de magnétisme, de gravitation et de forces nucléaires d'une manière unique et qui résout beaucoup de problèmes physiques de longue date. Basée sur les prédictions de cette théorie, il a développé une cosmologie alternative qui remplace effectivement la théorie du big-bang.
Le Dr La Violette a aussi développé une nouvelle théorie de gravité qui remplace la théorie profondément imparfaite de la relativité générale. Prédit de la cinétique subquantique, cela rend compte du phénomène de couplage électrogravifique découvert par Townsend Brown et pourrait expliquer la technologie de propulsion avancée utilisée dans le bombardier B-2. En plus de sa compréhension des systèmes de propulsion des OVNI et des engins issus des "projets noirs", incluant la matérialisation et la dématérialisation, il a un profond savoir des travaux réalisés à l'intérieur de l'U.S. Patent Office.
Il déclare dans son interview que, en ce moment, si une invention ne "colle" pas avec le paradigme physique accepté, les examinateurs patentés la rejettent immédiatement en pensant que cela viole le paradigme et que cela doit être une erreur. En effet, les nouvelles technologies de l'énergie sont les perdantes. Elles ne "collent" pas avec le paradigme, de telle sorte qu'elles sont laissées de côté, ou leurs brevets sont refusés, même jusqu'au point où le Patent Office viole la loi. Pour alléger les actuelles crises environnementales de pollution, le réchauffement global, etc. et avancer en tant que société technologique, nous avons besoin de technologies qui ne "collent" pas avec le vieux paradigme.
Fred Threlfell
Royal Canadian Air Force, septembre 2000
M. Threlfell était instructeur en communications dans la Royal Canadian Air Force à la RCAF Station de Toronto en 1953, lorsqu'il a été témoin d'une expérience impliquant le succès d'une dématérialisation et d'une rematérialisation d'un objet. À cause de son autorisation élevée, il a pu vérifier, grâce à la librairie de la base, des films originaux pris depuis les caméras accrochées aux canons des avions de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. A plusieurs reprises, en regardant ces films, il a vu des OVNI, dans différentes positions, de différentes formes, mais définitivement non identifiés. Il a aussi vu lui-même des OVNI manoeuvrant dans le ciel.
Ted Loder
octobre 2000
Le Dr Ted Loder est un scientifique respecté et professeur d'océanographie à l'Université du New Hampshire. Après avoir appris de son cousin, le Brigadier Général Stephen Lovekin, que le sujet extraterrestre/OVNI n'était pas seulement réel mais était aussi la clé pour les technologies qui permettraient de préserver l'environnement de la Terre, en même temps qu'il permettrait l'avancement de l'humanité dans une société planétaire supportable, il est devenu un franc avocat de la fin du secret entourant ce sujet. Durant les quatre dernières années, il a expérimenté ses propres interactions avec des engins extraterrestres comme membre des équipes de recherche sur le terrain du CSETI et il a travaillé à sensibiliser des étudiants, d'autres scientifiques et des législateurs au fait que les humains ne sont pas seuls dans l'univers et qu'une interaction pacifique avec les extraterrestres est nécessaire à la survie de notre planète et de nos habitants.
Les déclarations des scientifiques au sujet des Ovnis
Les déclarations des scientifiques au sujet des Ovnis
En public, les astronomes rient, pour la plupart; en privé, ils voient des OVNIS comme tout le monde. En 1997, une assemblée de scientifiques de haut niveau a conclu au colloque de Pocantico ( New-York ), au vu des nouvelles évidences au niveau mondial » à la légitimité de l’étude des OVNI « .
Werner Von Braun – Créateur des V2 allemands puis des fusées américaines
Werner Von Braun
« Nous sommes confrontés à des puissances de très loin supérieures à tout ce que nous supposions jusqu’ici, et qui nous sont inconnues. Je ne peux en dire plus pour le moment. Nous sommes maintenant sur le point d’entrer en contact avec ces puissances, et d’ici 6 ou 9 mois, il devrait être possible de parler plus précisément de ce sujet. »
1959
▼ Le Dr Hermann Oberth – Créateur des premières fusées
Dr Hermann Oberth
« Les OVNI sont conçus et dirigés par des êtres de la plus haute intelligence, et sont propulsés par distorsion du champ gravitationnel, convertissant la gravité en énergie. Il n’y a aucun doute dans mon esprit que ces objets soient des sortes de vaisseaux interplanétaires. Mes collègues et moi sommes persuadés qu’ils ne sont pas originaires du système solaire, mais peut-être utilisent-ils Mars ou un autre corps céleste comme poste avancé. Ils ne sont probablement pas originaires du système solaire, ni même peut-être de notre galaxie. Nous ne pouvons pas nous prévaloir des avancées scientifiques dans certains domaines. On nous a aidés. »
Quand on lui demanda par qui, il répondit : « Les êtres des autres mondes. » Et il rajouta : « Je crois que des Intelligences Extra-terrestres observent la Terre et nous visitent depuis des milliers d’années. »
1960- A la retraite à un groupe de journalistes
▼ Dr Walter Riedel – Ex-directeur de la base allemande de Peenemünde
Walter Riedel
« Je suis parfaitement convaincu qu’ils ont une base en dehors de la Terre. » 7 avril 1952 dans « Life magazine »
Il développa son argumentation en quatre points :
– « Premièrement, aucune structure terrestre ne pourrait supporter la température induite par les conditions de vol observées. A de telles vitesses et altitudes, l’échauffement du revêtement ferait fondre n’importe quel métal ou métalloïde connu. »
– « Deuxièmement, considérez les grandes accélérations auxquelles ils opèrent… Si vous songez à la force centrifuge qui dans les quelques minutes de ces évolutions rejetterait l’équipage vers l’extérieur, et ferait de même avec le sang, vous voyez ce que je veux dire. »
– « Troisièmement, dans de nombreux cas, ils ont fait des choses que seul un pilote pourrait faire, mais qu’aucun pilote humain ne pourrait supporter. »
– « Quatrièmement, dans la plupart des rapports, il y a absence d’émission visible. La plupart des observateurs relatent des engins sans flamme ni traînée. S’il s’agissait de n’importe quel type connu de réacteur, fusée, moteur à piston, ou moteur à réaction en chaîne, il y aurait une traînée à haute altitude très visible. C’est un moteur inconnu. »
▼ Dr. Maurice Biot – Physicien, mathématicien et aérodynamicien
Dr. Maurice Biot
« L’explication la plus probable est que les OVNI sont artificiels et contrôlés. Mon opinion depuis quelque temps est qu’ils sont d’origine extraterrestre. » Dans « Life magazine »
▼ Maurice Chatelain – Programme Apollo – Responsable des communications de la NASA
Maurice Chatelain
« Tous les vols Apollo et Gemini furent suivis, à distance et quelquefois de très près, par des vaisseaux spatiaux d’origine extraterrestre. A chaque fois, les astronautes en informaient « Mission Control », qui leur enjoignait de garder le silence le plus complet. »
En 1979, il déclara que la durée de transmission du dialogue entre le contrôle au sol et Apollo 11 permettait techniquement à la NASA de censurer des informations. Il soutient par ailleurs que tout le monde à la NASA savait que les astronautes observaient des OVNI, mais que la consigne était stricte : ne jamais en parler.
▼ Dr Dino Dini – Ingénieur spatial de la NASA
Dr Dino Dini
Au sujet des OVNI aperçus au cours du vol Apollo 11 : « Ces séquences furent effacées parce qu’il y avait là beaucoup de points qui ont surgi et qui faisaient partie de ce fameux Blue Book qui aurait dû être publié, avant qu’on change d’avis.
En fait, la réalité est la suivante : ce qu’Armstrong a vu était réel. Car partout où règne la confusion, au cours de la dernière guerre, pendant la guerre du Golfe, partout où le chaos se déclenche, apparaissent ces disques volants. Ceux-ci proviennent de stations postées près de la Terre. C’était donc juste de le dire, et nous avons dû le faire.
Neil Armstrong a vu des objets qui le suivaient, des vaisseaux spatiaux qui suivaient Apollo, et aussi des êtres vivants. Des vaisseaux ont également suivi les autres missions Apollo. C’est là une réalité attestée. C’est nous qui avons entravé le discours global, car nous avions reçu des instructions en ce sens. Nous étions effrayés au plus haut point lorsque nous avons compris l’énorme différence qu’il y avait entre notre technique, notre science et celle des OVNI.
Il est donc évident que cela nous a amenés à donner des avis négatifs, dans leur globalité. Indéniablement, le fait décevant est que nous n’avons pas d’explications, car notre science est encore pratiquement primitive en comparaison de celle de ces planètes d’où proviennent ces vaisseaux spatiaux. »
1997 – Lors d’une émission télévisée suisse
▼ Dr Lee Katchen – Phisicien, expert atmosphérique de la NASA
« Les observations d’OVNI sont si communes que les militaires n’ont pas le temps de s’en occuper. Donc, ils les effacent de leurs écrans. Les principaux systèmes de défense ( réseau SAGE ) ont des filtres OVNI intégrés et quand un OVNI apparaît, ils l’ignorent simplement. » puis : « Les filtres éliminent tous les objets ou cibles non conventionnels et ne font aucun enregistrement d’OVNI. Les cibles non conventionnelles sont ignorées parce qu ‘ apparemment, seules les cibles russes, potentiellement ennemies, nous intéressent. Quelque chose qui vole en stationnaire, puis qui « se tire » à 8 000 km/h, ne nous intéresse pas, car ça ne peut pas être l’ennemi. Les OVNI sont détectés par des radars au sol et en l’air et ils ont été filmés par des caméras embarquées. »
7 juin 1968
▼ Dr. James E. McDonald – Professeur en physique atmosphérique à l’Université d’Arizona
Dr. James E. McDonald
« Je n’ai absolument aucune idée d’où viennent les OVNI ni comment ils fonctionnent, mais après 10 ans de recherche, je sais qu’ils viennent d’au-delà de notre atmosphère. »
1967
▼ Hidoo Itokawa, scientifique japonais
Hidoo Itokawa
« Les soucoupes volantes viennent d’un autre monde. »
Accuracy was essential to the filmmakers of First Man, and one of the reasons the film has been met with so much critical acclaim. To create the realism seen in the spaceflight portions of the film, the moviemakers relied on experts, such as former astronaut Alfred Worden who served as a technical consultant. Worden was the command module pilot for Apollo 15, and his work on the mission garnered him two Guinness World Records, including one for being “the most isolated that any human has been.”
Worden was not at work when the famous Apollo 11 mission was underway. He was in California preparing for a flight of his own. However, this time, he was not flying to space.
“As a matter of fact, I was heading back home,” Worden recently told Den of Geek. “I was sitting in my airplane at the airport, getting my flight plan to go back home, and Ground Control called me and said, ‘Hey, we know who you are and where you're going, and Apollo 11 is about to land on the moon. We've got the air-ground conversation going on. Would you like us to pipe it in so you can hear it?’ I said, ‘Absolutely, hold my fight plan.’ So, I sat there in the airplane and listened to them make their landing.”
Two years later Worden made his trip to the moon on Apollo 15. The mission broke several records and was hailed by NASA as its most successful mission at the time. Although Worden took a trip to the moon, he never set foot on its surface. He was the command module pilot, which is the only crewmember to stay behind as the others head to the surface.
However, Worden had no problem being alone. In an interview with the BBC in 2014, he said he thoroughly enjoyed it. He got used to flying alone as a fighter pilot.
He said it was much harder being cooped up in the module with two other guys.
“It is pretty small,” Wordon explained. “It's about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. If you want to get a kick, get two guys, two friends, and get in a Volkswagen Beetle and live there for two weeks. I think you'd find very quickly that it's something that you have to get over, and all the training that we went through did that for us. We were very ready for that close environment that we were in during the two weeks of flight.”
During his time alone in the module, Worden was as far as 2,235 miles away from his crewmates on the surface. That is according to his Guinness World Record certificate for being “the most isolated that any human has been from another person.”
That wasn’t the only Guinness World Record he won for that trip. The second was for “the first spacewalk in deep space.” Worden was the first to perform a spacewalk outside of low earth orbit.
Despite having achieved these milestones in human achievement, Worden is humble about his accomplishments. He says he is no Neil Armstrong. While being humble himself, Worden also says humility was a virtue he admired in Armstrong. Armstrong’s humility is a prominent characteristicportrayed in the movie.
“He didn't go out looking for publicity,” says Worden. “He didn't market himself. He was so iconic. He followed what Charles Lindbergh had advised him. He stayed out of the limelight, but he did major appearances and talks where they were important.”
A proud moment for Worden was during a 40th-anniversary event for Apollo 11 when Armstrong talked about Worden’s work as a command module pilot.
“His talk was all about me as a command module pilot because he realized that command module pilots did most of the flying and were responsible for staying in orbit while they were on the surface,” says Worden. “He appreciated the value of that to the flight. Comparing, of course, to what Mike Collins [command module pilot for Apollo 11] did on 11. Neil was a good friend.”
Worden’s experience with the Apollo program made him a perfect technical consultant for First Man.
“When you convert a book to a movie, there are a lot of things in the movie that never show up in the book,” Worden explained. “For instance, when the crew gets in the clean room, and they're getting inserted into the spacecraft, the book never describes the clean room or the spacecraft or how they get in or anything like that.”
Worden says he helped the filmmakers on details such as how to strap into seatbelts, attach oxygen hoses, and get the communications right, among other things.
“My part was helping the film crew understand what goes on during a launch like that or even what goes on during flight,” says Worden.
Fortunately, Worden feels his work on the film paid off, and he likes the results. Worden says the film’s accuracy was his favorite part. However, it wasn’t the technical accuracy which impressed him the most.
“What I liked about this movie that you don't see in other movies is the personal side of the space program,” explained Worden. “It takes Neil Armstrong from before he gets in the program — he's flying X-15s out in California — then he gets in the program, and he flies Gemini. Then when he gets assigned to an Apollo flight, he flies the Lunar landing training vehicle in which he had to parachute out of, on up to Apollo 11. That's something that none of the other movies have done is show the personal side of what it takes to make a flight; to get ready for a flight, all the training and all the steps you go through before you finally get assigned to a flight like Apollo 11, which Neil did. That's the part of the movie that I think is really good.”
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Melkweg slokte in zijn jonge jaren een ander sterrenstelsel op
Melkweg slokte in zijn jonge jaren een ander sterrenstelsel op
Vivian Lammerse
Maar liefst 33.000 sterren in onze Melkweg blijken van een ander sterrenstelsel afkomstig.
Dankzij observaties met de Gaia-satelliet zijn onderzoekers erachter gekomen dat ons sterrenstelsel niet in zijn eentje gevormd is. In zijn vroege jeugd is onze Melkweg namelijk samengesmolten met een ander groot sterrenstelsel. De aanwijzingen hiervoor lagen eigenlijk zo voor het oprapen, al was hier wel de expertise van de Gaia-satelliet voor nodig. Toen de telescoop 25 jaar geleden werd gebouwd, werd het onderzoek naar de ontstaansgeschiedenis van de Melkweg al als één van de kerndoelen genoemd. En die visie werpt nu zijn vruchten af.
Gaia-satelliet De ruimtetelescoop speurt sinds 2013 de hemel af, in een poging de positie, afstand en bewegingen van meer dan 1 miljard sterren vast te leggen met een betere nauwkeurigheid dan ooit tevoren. Behalve de 2D-bewegingen van 1,3 miljard sterren heeft Gaia van de 7 miljoen helderste sterren ook de 3D-bewegingen gemeten, oftewel vastgesteld hoe snel ze zich van ons vandaan of naar ons toe bewegen. De onderzoekers bestudeerden 22 maanden aan waarnemingen. En van de 7 miljoen sterren, blijken 33.000 tot een opvallende collectie te behoren.
Beelden uit een simulatie die laat zien hoe Gaia-Enceladus (rood) in de Melkweg (wit) is opgegaan.
Afbeelding: H.H. Koppelman, A. Villalobos en A. Helmi
Sterren Hoewel deze groep sterren zich ‘vermengt’ met de andere sterren in onze Melkweg, vallen ze toch een beetje buiten de boot. Zo hebben deze sterren langgerekte banen in precies de tegenovergestelde richting dan de andere honderden miljarden sterren in de Melkweg. Dit afwijkende gedrag deed de onderzoekers vermoeden dat dit wellicht iets te maken heeft met de ontstaansgeschiedenis van ons sterrenstelsel. Daarom besloten ze de fusie van twee grote sterrenstelsels te vergelijken met de waarnemingen van Gaia. En wat blijkt? “De verzameling sterren die we met Gaia hebben gevonden heeft alle kenmerken die horen bij de overblijfselen van een galactische versmelting,” zegt onderzoeksleider van de studie Amina Helmi.
De video hierboven toont een simulatie van de versmelting van een Melkweg-achtig sterrenstelsel (sterren in blauw) en een kleiner stelsel dat in massa lijkt op de Kleine Magelhaense Wolk (sterren in rood). Aanvankelijk zijn de stelsels duidelijk van elkaar gescheiden, maar de zwaartekracht trekt ze naar elkaar toe wat leidt tot het opslokken van het kleinere stelsel.
Gaia-Enceladus De sterren behoorden dus ooit tot een ander sterrenstelsel, dat is opgeslokt door onze Melkweg. Het opgeslokte sterrenstelsel is tot Gaia-Enceladus gedoopt, vernoemd naar een van de Giganten in de Griekse mythologie, zoon van Gaia (de oermoeder, de aarde) en uranus (de personificatie van de hemel). Als ondersteunend bewijs vonden Helmi en haar team ook nog honderden variabele sterren en dertien bolvormige sterrenhopen die dezelfde banen volgen, wat erop wijst dat ook zij deel uitmaakten van Gaia-Enceladus.
Afmetingen Dat er zoveel bolhopen in verband kunnen worden gebracht met het sterrenstelsel wijst erop dat dit ooit een groot sterrenstelsel was. Zo denken de astronomen dat de afmetingen ongeveer vergelijkbaar moeten zijn geweest met een van de Magelhaense Wolken. Dit is ongeveer tien keer zo klein als de huidige Melkweg. Echter was de Melkweg zelf tien miljard jaar geleden ook veel kleiner, daarom wordt de verhouding ten tijde van de versmelting geschat op 4:1.
Op dit moment vormen de door Gaia gedetecteerde sterren het grootste deel van de binnenste halo – een bolvormige wolk met sterren die rond de centrale schijf te vinden is. De schijf zelf bestaat uit twee delen: een dunne en een dikke schijf. De dikke schijf bevat ongeveer 20 procent van de Melkwegsterren. “Het was een heftige ontmoeting waarbij Enceladus de Melkweg behoorlijk heeft opgeschud,” zegt Helmi. “Dit heeft geleid tot de vorming van een dikkere schijf, waarvan de oorsprong tot nu toe onbekend was.”
NASA’s Mission to Jupiter’s Trojans Given the Green Light for Development
NASA’s Mission to Jupiter’s Trojans Given the Green Light for Development
NASA's mission to perform the first reconnaissance of the Trojans, a population of primitive asteroids orbiting in tandem with Jupiter, passed a critical milestone today. NASA has given approval for the implementation and 2021 launch of the Lucy spacecraft.
The confirmation review, formally known as "Key Decision Point C," authorized continuation of the project into the development phase and set its cost and schedule. The confirmation review panel approved the detailed plans, instrument suite, budget and risk factor analysis for the spacecraft.
The next major mission milestone, the Critical Design Review, will examine the detailed Lucy system design. After a successful critical design review, the project team will assemble the spacecraft and its instruments.
“Up until now this mission has entirely been on paper,” said Lucy Principal Investigator Hal Levison of the Southwest Research Institute at Boulder, Colorado. “Now we have the go ahead to actually cut metal and start putting this spacecraft together.”
Lucy, the first space mission to study the Trojans, takes its name from the fossilized human ancestor called “Lucy” by her discoverers whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity's evolution. Likewise, the Lucy mission will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system.
Lucy is planned for launch October 2021. During its 12-year journey, the spacecraft will visit seven different asteroids - a Main Belt asteroid and six Trojans. The spacecraft and a remote-sensing instrument suite will study the geology, surface composition, and bulk physical properties of these bodies at close range.
“Today’s confirmation of Lucy is a key step towards better understanding the role that small bodies played in the formation of the Solar System and life on Earth,” said Adriana Ocampo, Lucy’s program executive at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. “We congratulate the entire team for their hard work.”
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado is the principal investigator institution and will lead the science investigation. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will provide overall mission management, systems engineering and safety and mission assurance. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver, Colorado, will build the spacecraft. Instruments will be built by Goddard, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and Arizona State University in Tempe.
NASA's Lucy spacecraft
(Image: Getty)
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Ruimtevaartuig Lucy moet in 2021 al het luchtruim kiezen.
Dat heeft NASA bekend gemaakt. Het wordt een primeur; nog nooit heeft een ruimtevaartuig een bezoek gebracht aan de Trojanen, een verzameling planetoïden die zich in dezelfde baan als Jupiter beweegt.
Traject NASA werkt al geruime tijd aan de missie naar Jupiters Trojanen. Nieuwe missies zoals Lucy doorlopen een langdurig traject waarin stap voor stap onderzocht wordt of deze missies het uitvoeren waard zijn. Zo werden recent bijvoorbeeld nog de kosten en risico’s van de Lucy-missie in kaart gebracht. Ook is er al nagedacht over welke instrumenten het ruimtevaartuig mee moet torsen en wanneer er gelanceerd kan worden. Tot op heden verloopt het traject duidelijk naar tevredenheid, want NASA heeft de Lucy-missie nu het volgende stadium – aangeduid als Critical Design Review – in geloodst. Hierbij wordt er een gedetailleerd ontwerp van Lucy gemaakt. Als alles goed gaat, is de volgende stap het bouwen van Lucy.
Zeven Zoals het er nu naar uitziet, wordt Lucy in oktober 2021 gelanceerd. Tijdens een twaalf jaar urende reis zal het ruimtevaartuig maar liefst zeven verschillende planetoïden bezoeken: een planetoïde uit de planetoïdengordel en zes Trojanen.
Gehoopt wordt dat onderzoek naar de Trojanen meer inzicht geeft in hoe ons zonnestelsel – en dan met name de planeten in ons zonnestelsel – zijn ontstaan. In aanloop naar 2021 is er aan planetoïden-onderzoek overigens geen gebrek. Op dit moment onderzoekt Hayabusa2 de planetoïde Ryugu en in december meert OSIRIS-REx aan bij planetoïde Bennu.
4500 jaar oud transportsysteem ontdekt in Egyptische steengroeve
4500 jaar oud transportsysteem ontdekt in Egyptische steengroeve
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De geweldige vondst kan mogelijk verklaren hoe de oude Egyptenaren hun piramides bouwden.
De onderzoekers ontdekten het transportsysteem in de steengroeve Hatnub, gelegen ten zuidoosten van de stad Minya. Uit de groeve haalden de oude Egyptenaren gesteente dat ze gebruikten om beelden, grafkisten, tegels en vazen van te maken.
De steengroeve en helling van bovenaf.
Afbeelding: Egyptisch Ministerie van Oudheden.
Helling Al sinds 2012 wordt er nabij de steengroeve onderzoek gedaan. Bij het verwijderen van puin nabij de ingang van de steengroeve stuitten wetenschappers onlangs op een uniek systeem dat gebruikt werd om grote en zware stenen uit de groeve te trekken en te verplaatsen. Het systeem bestaat uit een vrij steile centrale helling met aan weerszijden een trap. Beide trappen worden gekenmerkt door talloze gaten waarin ooit stevige houten palen moeten hebben gestaan. Wanneer mijnwerkers een groot stuk steen uit de groeve moesten halen, legden ze het op een soort houten slee die op de centrale helling stond. Aan die slee zaten touwen vast die rond de houten palen op de trappen werden geslagen en de kracht die de mannen die de slee trokken, uitoefenden, vergrootten. Zo waren de oude Egyptenaren in staat om zware, grote stukken gesteente de steile helling op te trekken.
Uniek Volgens het Egyptisch Ministerie voor Oudheden is het voor het eerst dat er zo’n grootschalig transportsysteem in een Egyptische steengroeve is teruggevonden. De ontdekking geeft meer inzicht in hoe de Egyptenaren die leefden in de tijd dat de machtige piramides gebouwd werden, duizenden kilo’s zware blokken een steile helling op konden trekken. Het lijkt aannemelijk dat vergelijkbare transportsystemen werden gebruikt om die piramides te kunnen bouwen.
Afbeelding: Egyptisch Ministerie van Oudheden.
Het unieke transportsysteem van Hatnub zou stammen uit de regeringsperiode van farao Cheops. Hij regeerde tussen 2604 en 2581 voor Christus over Egypte en liet onder meer één van de zeven wereldwonderen bouwen: de piramide van Gizeh.
This could be a scene out of a spooky movie. But reality is just as morbid for this coffin-shaped iceberg. After 18 years at sea, B-15T has entered a region where Antarctic icebergs go to die.
On September 23, 2018, when an astronaut on the International Space Station shot this photograph, iceberg B-15T had already left the Southern Ocean. It was spotted in the South Atlantic between South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The second image shows a wide view, acquired the same day by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. Icebergs like this are known to melt rapidly as they make their way north into warmer waters.
B-15T’s journey to this iceberg graveyard has been a long one. Its parent berg (B-15) first broke away from the Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000. It fractured over time into smaller bergs, many of which continued riding the Antarctic Coastal Current (counter-clockwise) around Antarctica.
By late 2017, the Weddell Sea gyre had redirected B-15T from its near circumnavigation and sent the berg drifting north. This third image was acquired in October 2017 by MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite. It shows the iceberg when it was near Elephant Island, an icy bit of rock located a few hundred kilometers north-northeast from the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which funnels through the Drake Passage, then steered the iceberg toward the east and its current location. Water at this latitude—about 54 degrees South—is generally warmer than the Southern Ocean and deadly for icebergs. NASA/UMBC glaciologist Chris Shuman noted that Southern Hemisphere winter was just ending when the astronaut spotted the berg, so the return of abundant sunlight could further warm the water around it. The lack of sea ice in the vicinity of B-15T implies that the water was above the freezing point.
The spooky shape of B-15T was acquired long before it moved into this iceberg graveyard. For more than a decade, B-15 had numerous collisions—smashing back into the Ross Ice Shelf where it originated, hitting bedrock along the coast, and bumping into other tabular icebergs. Such collisions can be strong enough to abruptly fracture the crystalline ice and produce linear edges—similar to the rectangular iceberg that debuted this month near the Larsen C ice shelf and iceberg A-68. That iceberg is visible in the photograph below, acquired October 16 during an Operation IceBridge science flight.
“This fracturing is akin to ‘cleaving’ a mineral crystal with a sharp tap of hammer,” Shuman said. Of course, the edges are not always so linear. Other bergs have edges that are curved. Some become jagged when the pull of gravity or the cutting action of waves causes ice to irregularly splinter.
“The coffin shape is an accident of time and space, given the approximately 18.5-year voyage of B-15T,” Shuman said. “We can only guess at the forces that have acted on this remnant of B-15 along the long way around Antarctica.”
Astronaut photograph ISS056-E-195042 was acquired on September 23, 2018, with a Nikon D5 digital camera using a 800 millimeter lens and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 56 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin and Jeff Schmaltz, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Airborne photograph by NASA/Jeremy Harbeck. Story by Kathryn Hansen.
References & Resources
Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth (2018, September 23) ISS056-E-195042. Accessed October 30, 2018.
NASA kiekt bejaarde ijsberg met een wel heel bijzondere vorm
NASA kiekt bejaarde ijsberg met een wel heel bijzondere vorm
Vivian Lammerse
De ijsberg is na achttien jaar aangekomen op een plek waar ijsbergen ‘sterven’. En de vorm? Puur toeval, aldus NASA.
Astronauten op het Internationaal ruimtestation ISS hebben wel een heel bijzondere ijsberg gespot. Zo zagen ze een groot brok ijs in de vorm van een doodskist over de oceaan dobberen. De ijsberg drijft op dit moment steeds warmer wordend water in en is – na bijna twee decennia verdwaald te zijn op zee – onderweg naar zijn laatste rustplaats.
IJsberg B-15T die in de vorm van een doodskist over de oceaan drijft.
Afbeelding: NASA
B-15T De stervende ijsberg heeft de naam B-15T en drijft op dit moment op de Zuid-Atlantische Oceaan, tussen Zuid-Georgia en de Zuidelijke Sandwich eilanden. De winter op het zuidelijke halfrond loopt op dit moment ten einde. Hierdoor bereikt meer zonlicht het oppervlak, waardoor de zon het omliggende water verder opwarmt. Ook is er rondom de ijsberg geen zee-ijs te zien, wat inhoudt dat de watertemperatuur al boven het vriespunt is uitgekomen.
De plek waar ijsberg B-15T ronddobbert.
Afbeelding: NASA
Reis De reis van B-15T naar het ijsbergkerkhof is lang geweest. Zo begon het allemaal in maart 2000, toen de Ross-ijsplaat op Antarctica een record brekend groot stuk ijs kwijtraakte. Nog nooit hadden satellieten zo’n groot stuk ijs van Antarctica los zien komen. Het ging om de ijsberg B-15 die een oppervlak van ongeveer 11.000 km2 besloeg. In de jaren die volgden, brak B-15 in meerdere stukken, waaronder B-15T. De ijsberg doolde vervolgens voor achttien jaar rond op zee.
Botsingen De eigenaardige vorm heeft B-15T te danken aan de talloze botsingen die hij in zijn leven onderging. Zo smashte hij terug tegen de Ross-ijsplaat en klapte vervolgens tegen andere ronddobberende ijsbergen aan. Hierdoor zijn er telkens stukken van het ijs afgebroken, waardoor er lineaire randen en lijnen ontstaan. Dit zagen we onlangs ook nog gebeuren bij een ijsberg die voor de Larsen C-ijsplaat ronddreefen wel hele scherpe en rechte hoeken had.
Dat ijsberg B-15T de vorm van een doodskist heeft aangenomen, is “een ongeluk van tijd en ruimte,” stelt onderzoeker Chris Shuman. “We kunnen alleen maar gissen naar alle processen waaraan dit overblijfsel van B-15 is blootgesteld tijdens zijn lange tocht rond Antarctica.”
UFO filmed over Réunion Island near Madagaskar 27-Oct-2018
UFO filmed over Réunion Island near Madagaskar 27-Oct-2018
This UFO (possible TR-3B) video was filmed over Saint-Pierre, a port town on the southwestern coast of Réunion Island, a French department in the Indian Ocean. This happened on 27th October 2018.
Witness report:
On SATURDAY, October 27th, 2018 at 8:40 pm when we finish eating, an information circulates on the social networks and local radio like what a meteorite crossed the West in EAST .. Followed by that by curiosity us we go up to the floor of our house to observe the sky by curiosity having a 180 ° Panoramic view on the horizon .At 20:50 very exactly, a light very far to the horizon has about 12/15 km from our position catches my attention, it’s like a flash.After taking my camera, we zoom in, because the 2 objects were visible and observable only in zooming with my camera that this light made a brutal descent then remained static. A few seconds later, another luminous point made a descent and we can observe that this second light turns around the first one. Which after a few seconds has disappeared (see videos). Following this, the first bright spot remaining on the spot began to move and make a very slow climb full WEST.We can distinguish very clearly on the videos and photos the shape of the object with at his place a white and blue / green light. We had been very surprised me and my family by observing this. It is not the first time that one observes strange things in this sector.I am informed to you of a previous observation in May 2018 which has been updated is always without réé answer .. I did research on air and sea traffic, and nothing, nothing was at this time if in the area. I attach you 3 videos, the 1st one can distinguish the 2nd object on the right doing a descent, .. on the 2nd one finds the 2nd object on the left of the 1st and the 3rd video one observes only the 1st object moving full West. Hoping to have explanations please
LAS VEGAS - A global scramble is underway to identify and perhaps replicate unidentified mystery materials that have been collected at multiple sites around the world.
A few of the samples have defied analysis by leading scientists, who say they don't know how the material was engineered, or why, or by whom?
Some of the metamaterial was allegedly collected in connection with UFO incidents, which gives the whole endeavor an otherworldly glow.
For years, the Pentagon secretly studied the seemingly impossible abilities of unknown craft captured in military videos.
Scientists now want to know if the materials used in these mystery aircraft allow them to do what they do. For years, one of the secret studies was carried out by BAASS (Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies), a Las Vegas operation hidden within Bigelow Aerospace.
Documents first reported by the I-Team show that BAASS landed a contract with the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency), and one of the objectives was to study so called metamaterials, as well as futuristic technologies.
"It was a multilayered bismuth and magnesium sample. Bismuth layers less than a human hair. Magnesium samples about 10 times the size of a human hair, supposedly picked up in the crash retrieval of an advanced aerospace vehicle. It looks like it's been in a crash," said Dr. Hal Puthoff, with the Institute for Advanced Studies during a presentation in Las Vegas.
In June, physicist Hal Puthoff came pretty close to saying that the weird wedge of metamaterial came from a crashed saucer, but he can't know for sure. Puthoff and his colleague Dr. Eric Davis are on the cutting edge of attempts to identify an assortment of bits and pieces that are seemingly beyond anything we can create.
This one sample is engineered in layers thinner than microns, through a process unknown on earth, and for a purpose we can only guess.
"Nowhere could we find any evidence that anybody ever made one of these when we talked to people in the materials field who should know, they said we don't know why anybody would want to make anything like this," Dr. Puthoff said.
Astrophysicist Dr. Jacques Vallee has been analyzing mystery materials since the 80s, often using the technical expertise of Stanford University and Silicon Valley to unravel unknown samples acquired from all over the world. Vallee pointedly steers clear of any military funding and he's shared his findings at public conferences.
"We have multiple samples from multiple sources, a wide range of variety and integrity," said Lue Elizondo, To The Stars Academy.
These days, former intelligence officer Lue Elizondo helps to collect and protect unknown chunks for To The Stars Academy. Before that, he ran AATIP (Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program), the Pentagon's secret UFO study. The same one which released the now famous videos of encounters between Navy pilots and the mystery machines dubbed the Tic Tac and Gimbal UFOs.
This summer, To The Stars launched ADAM, its own effort to find and study pieces of material that may have been stashed for decades after being retrieved from the sites of close encounters. Elizondo says there are legitimate reasons why the military, and now private groups, are now in a race to figure out these materials.
"What our international efforts are to potentially -- and I say potentially, I'm not saying we're doing this, maybe to replicate that technology or to reverse engineer that technology. Now you're getting into sensitivities you don't necessarily want everyone to be privy to," Elizondo said in a June 2018 interview with the I-Team.
When the New York Times broke its story last year about the Pentagon's UFO story, it reported that a sample of mystery material was secretly stored at Bigelow aerospace. Managers of that program told the I-Team that while they are familiar with some of the metamaterial samples, none were ever stashed in Las Vegas.
Dr. Jacques Vallee invites the public to send inquires and samples of mystery metal to him at the following address: P.O. Box 641650, San Francisco, CA 94109
YouTube "outage"... was it to quarantine and erase a video of something hitting the moon?
Het mysterie van de buitenaardse legeringen. Deze bizarre, onbekende materialen werden uit UFO’s gehaald
Afgelopen jaar werd onthuld dat de Amerikaanse overheid jarenlang in het diepste geheim onderzoek deed naar UFO’s. Zo zouden er onder meer onbekende materialen, zogeheten metamaterialen, zijn verzameld.
Eén van die voorwerpen blijkt hoogstwaarschijnlijk rechtstreeks uit een UFO afkomstig te zijn.
Het voorwerp werd in juni dit jaar onthuld door dr. Hal Puthoff, die zei dat het materiaal uniek was en dat experts geen idee hadden wat het was en door wie het was vervaardigd.
Onbekend
“Het was een meerlagig monster bestaande uit bismut en magnesium,” zei hij. “De lagen bismut waren dunner dan een menselijke haar. De lagen magnesium ongeveer 10 keer zo dik als een menselijke haar.”
“Het monster zou zijn verzameld na de crash van een geavanceerd luchtvaartuig,” voegde hij toe.
Het materiaal is ontstaan tijdens een proces dat op aarde onbekend is.
Meerdere bronnen
Het lijkt erop dat we in de toekomst meer van dit soort voorwerpen gaan zien. Luis Elizondo, die aan het hoofd stond van het geheime UFO-programma van het Pentagon, liet doorschemeren dat hij de beschikking heeft over ‘meerdere monsters afkomstig van meerdere bronnen’.
Wetenschappers willen zien te achterhalen waar de materialen die uit de UFO’s zijn gehaald voor dienden.
You will not believe this, but a few followers may see this and a lot of followers noticed my account disappeared. My UFO account has been silenced, probably by the NSA and their hacking skills, but maybe by the Russians. My account got on world news hundreds of times but is muted, impossible to find on phone under keywords or name but only through mentions I’m not sure why the NSA would think this would silence me, but lucky for me I have another account.
I messaged the CEO of twitter @Jack and we will see if he can fix things up or make them worse...but who knows. By silencing my UFO account, it makes be wonder if a gov is preparing to make a hit on me to get rid of me? Smart of them...mute my accounts so I don't know that no-one can see my tweets other than my followers...cut my communication lines...figures. Well if I am a target and get confronted by an agent face to face with a gun, I'm not begging, I'm not going to negotiate with them, I'm just going to look them in the eyes and tell them to "Go f@#$ themselves!" Live and die like a man. Been in this business too long to have any fear. Now...I have anger which drives me to find answers...and I'm just warming up!
Classic UFO Disk Seen Over Lake Tahoe, Nevada On Oct 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Classic UFO Disk Seen Over Lake Tahoe, Nevada On Oct 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: October 28, 2018
Location of sighting: Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA
Source: MUFON 95950
Here is the most detailed UFO I have seen all week. This is a classic flying saucer...a beautiful metallic disk with a raised upper dome area. This is 100% proof that aliens are monitoring human up close and personal. Makes you wonder if they are so interested in us...when are they going to make their presence known by landing and having a meet and greet session with people? Right, I get that too, but they have rules and one of the rules was that they cannot disclose too much to too many humans without that countries president given consent. (That info is found in the book Stranger in the Pentagon, by a priest who met an alien from just such a disk, the priest worked side by side with several US presidents when greeting other countries VIPs and presidents.)
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Eyewitness states:
We went to Lake Tahoe for vacation we got a tour on a boat to ride on the lake. I don't see the object in till we got home I was checking the videos this object appeared on the video with tremendous speed at 00.07 seconds of the video I short the video only for that section the video is 10 minutes long. also, it seems that one person sees the object and took off his hat.
UFO Sighted From from Gödöllő to Visonta, Hungary ( October 30, 2018 ) Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Sighted From from Gödöllő to Visonta, Hungary ( October 30, 2018 ) Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: October 30, 2018
Location of sighting: Visonta, Hungary
Source: MUFON
These UFOs seem to be able to form a single craft, and yet break apart when they want to fly off on their own. This is really an extraordinary catch and I would love to see the aircraft radar data on this location for that day.
This is a great sighting in Hungary this week. Many UFOs appear as glowing balls together...which has also been noted in thousands of past UFO reports. The video was posted today by UFO Institute of Youtube.
Eyewitness states:
Vajon UFO-t láttak Magyarországon? Mi lehet ez a jelenség az égen? TRANSLATED : Did they see UFOs in Hungary? What can this be like in the sky?
'War of the Worlds': Fake news that spawned ugly fake news — and holds lessons for today
'War of the Worlds': Fake news that spawned ugly fake news — and holds lessons for today
The purported mass panic tied to the 1938 broadcast is a myth that won't die. While some newspapers reported responsibly at the time, others sensationalized and put forth harmful stereotypes.
By Jefferson Pooley and Michael J. Socolow
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Orson Welles, center, spoke to reporters on Oct. 31, 1938, the day after his dramatization of “War of the Worlds” aired on radio. Recent scholarship indicates that, contrary to popular belief, few people were panicked by the broadcast.
Eighty years ago this week, CBS broadcast Orson Welles’ adaptation of “War of the Worlds,” and mass panic ensued. Or did it?
We know today that the popular story of the mass panic sparked by “War of the Worlds,” a radio drama staged as a normal news broadcast interrupted by breaking reports of an alien invasion, was far overblown. In a nation of about 130 million people, fewer than 50 Americans were panicked enough to flee outside. That number emerges from recent scholarship by historian A. Brad Schwartz and others who have explored the scope of the panic in the past decade.
But the myth that thousands mobbed the streets remains powerful. Sensationalist journalism at the time was later validated by social scientists and relayed by historians, creating a myth that just won’t die. Efforts to debunk this myth reveal that fake news doesn’t just distort the historical record but also often spreads damaging racial and gendered stereotypes.
Newspapers that reported on the panic did so in ways that advanced ideas of racial inferiority. “Harlem was shaken by the ‘news,’ ” read one subhead in the New York Times. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle offered a similar, if more fanciful, account. “Sugar Hill in Harlem was transformed from a gay neighborhood into one in which sober, frightening thoughts were uppermost. Excited Negroes rushed into the parlor congregations they had ignored for years to join in singing spirituals. They were welcomed by their more pious brothers and sisters with ‘I told you so,’ as they changed their tune from swinging and swigging to hymning and praying,” the newspaper reported.
The racism in these reports was often coupled with gender stereotypes. Frightened mobs of women and children made appearances in newspapers throughout America. One famous example emerged from Providence, R.I., when “women in hysterical tears … besieged the switchboard of the Providence Journal.”
As with the mobs of frightened African-Americans, none of these women were identified or quoted. Even the policemen involved apparently preferred to withhold their identities. Everyone remained nameless. When researchers from Princeton University later analyzed approximately 12,000 news articles about the panic, the review “failed to produce more than a half dozen interviews” for a follow-up study. That’s because, with few exceptions, real names of actual people weren’t published — but racist and misogynistic stereotypes were.
Some newspapers, however, searched for facts, not tropes. And quite a few discovered little actual panic. “Maine Refused to Get Excited,” read the headline of a piece in the Lewiston Daily Sun. “The nationwide wave of hysteria generated by the Sunday night broadcast … apparently failed to affect Dubuque,” noted the Telegraph-Herald in Dubuque, Iowa. In Chicago, Salt Lake City and elsewhere, some newspapers relayed the lack of any detectable local panic.
Perhaps the most professional reporting to occur that evening came out of the Long Island Daily Press newsroom. Once the phone started ringing, the Press’ reporters and editors got an idea. They decided to conduct a telephone poll of 50 people, and found only four were tuned into the broadcast but “none of them were upset.” More than half of the people telephoned weren’t even listening to the radio, thus confirming the findings of the C.E. Hooper nationwide ratings survey. The Hooper survey established that the ratings for “War of the Worlds” were tiny, and it concluded that 98 percent of Americans were listening to something else, or not listening to the radio, when “War of the Worlds” was on the air.
The Daily Press telephone survey was excellent journalism. Once alerted to a rumor, the newspaper’s staff investigated its reality and reported results. Yet nobody has cited their work. It was forgotten until Tom Tryniski digitized the defunct newspaper’s front page and put it on the Web, where we found it.
The discovery of this forgotten reporting, when compared with the cultural memory inspired by the media’s sensationalism, pinpoints the issues arising when historians inadvertently rely on the fake news from the past. In this case, the mass panic as commonly understood didn’t happen — but newspaper journalists believed that readers would pay for stories about huge mobs of panic-stricken citizens. Their unethical and sensational journalism was a response to economic and social incentives. (Today’s fake news is responsive to these same incentives.)
This episode provides a clear example of the process by which fake news can quickly become ingrained deeply in American culture. Political decisions, governmental administrative moves and even social theory in the United States were made based on the idea that masses of panicked listeners fled their homes, terrorized by the radio — even though it didn’t happen that way.
The lesson is clear. Both journalists and scholars need to be more self-aware and skeptical whenever sensational stories about media manipulation arise. Today’s fake news can just as easily inform tomorrow’s social psychology and history textbooks.
Jefferson Pooley is associate professor of media & communication at College in Allentown, Pa. Michael J. Socolow teaches journalism at the University of Maine.
Where there’s water, there’s usually life — at least on Earth — and we just got confirmation that there used to be far more water on the surface of Mars than scientists previously believed.
The news comes courtesy of a team of researchers from the SETI Institute and NASA’s Ames Research Center. They’ve identified dozens of potential “paleolakes” — lakes that existed when the climate of a region was different than it is today — in the southern hemisphere of Mars. And the finding could forever change the hunt for extraterrestrial life.
On The Map
We already knew of one potential paleolake located in the northeastern part of Hellas, a massive basin in the southern hemisphere of Mars. In a study published in the journal Astrobiology on Tuesday, the researchers detail their discovery of 33 more.
The team conducted a detailed hydrogeographic analysis of the region, mapping its channels and depressions to suss out where additional Martian lakes may have once existed. This turned up the 33 new paleolakes.
By looking at each paleolake’s distinct characteristics, the team was even able to identify its most probable source of water: precipitation, groundwater, or rivers and streams.
Life On Mars
The discovery of these paleolakes is about more than just mapping the geology of Mars. It could also inform our search for life on the Red Planet.
As the researchers note in the paper, the former Martian lakes could contain the biological record of what, if any, life once existed on the planet, so as we plan future missions to Mars, we might want to consider devoting significant time to exploring this once-wet region of its surface.
Harvard Researchers Suggest ‘Oumuamua Was Alien ‘Reconnaissance Mission'
Harvard Researchers Suggest ‘Oumuamua Was Alien ‘Reconnaissance Mission'
‘Oumuamua, the mysterious interstellar object that has caused much head scratching in scientific circles, now has a new possible origin: part of a reconnaissance mission initiated by an alien civilization wanting to check out other galaxies.
The latest theory on ‘Oumuamua comes from a study published on Thursday by Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb, a pair of astronomers with the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
When scientists reviewed data collected by the Pan-STARRS-1 survey of ‘Oumuamua's closest flyby of the sun on September 9, 2017, they noted that the mysterious rock gained speed, rather than slowing down. Researchers at the time explained that the increase in ‘Oumuamua's velocity was likely explained by outgassing, the release of gas trapped or frozen inside the rock. The object itself was later classified as a cometby officials.
However, this explanation didn't sit right with Bialy and Loeb, who argue that had outgassing been the cause of ‘Oumuamua's increased velocity, it would've sent the interstellar object into a spin, which wasn't observed.
The pair suggested that ‘Oumuamua could actually be a light sail, a spacecraft that relies on radiation pressure for power, that's been sent from an alien civilization looking for signs of life in our solar system.
"We explain the excess acceleration of ‘Oumuamua away from the sun as the result of the force that the sunlight exerts on its surface. For this force to explain measured excess acceleration, the object needs to be extremely thin, of order a fraction of a millimeter in thickness but tens of meters in size," Loeb told Universe Today via email.
"This makes the object lightweight for its surface area and allows it to act as a light sail. Its origin could be either natural (in the interstellar medium or proto-planetary disks) or artificial (as a probe sent for a reconnaissance mission into the inner region of the solar system)."
Bialy and Loeb later explained in their work that should their theory prove true, there is the slight possibility that the light sail could even just be a "defunct sail floating under the influence of gravity and stellar radiation."
"The alternative is to imagine that ‘Oumuamua was on a reconnaissance mission. The reason I contemplate the reconnaissance possibility is that the assumption that ‘Oumumua followed a random orbit requires the production of ~10^{15} such objects per star in our galaxy. This abundance is up to a hundred million times more than expected from the solar system, based on a calculation that we did back in 2009," Loeb wrote.
"A surprisingly high overabundance, unless ‘Oumuamua is a targeted probe on a reconnaissance mission and not a member of a random population of objects."
Questions remain regarding the origin of ‘Oumuamua, and considering the rock is no longer in our solar system and is much too far away for researchers to observe, the lab coats might be in the dark for some time on the matter.
UFO proof? Hovering rock on Mars ‘remnants of an alien aircraft or spacecraft'
UFO proof? Hovering rock on Mars ‘remnants of an alien aircraft or spacecraft'
A STRANGE ‘levitating’ rock has been found on Mars which is the “remnants of an alien aircraft or spacecraft of long ago”, according to a conspiracy theorist.
UFO proof? Hovering rock on Mars ‘remnants of an alien aircraft or spacecraft'
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The rock was picked up by images from NASA’s rovers on the Red Planet, prompting speculation from alien hunters.
It looks as if the rock is hovering above the ground of Mars, casting a dark shadow over the surface as it does.
Conspiracy theorists quickly picked up on the image, claiming that it is proof that a once highly advanced species either existed or visited Mars in the distant past.
The image was picked up by prominent alien hunter Scott C Waring.
Mr Waring wrote on his website UFO Sightings Daily: “Now here is something you don't see everyday. I found a hovering rock on the surface of Mars in a NASA photo.
“The thick rectangle shaped rock has a rectangle shape shadow below it. The object is about 10-12 inches from the surface, just hovering in place.
“This could indicate that this is some ancient technology, not a mere rock after all.
“Still filled with power, still hovering on its own, even though the rest of its craft no longer exists
“Probably remnants of an alien aircraft or spacecraft of long ago.”
However, sceptics and NASA would say the hovering rock and other similar findings are just the effects of pareidolia – a psychological phenomenon when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar objects or shapes in patterns or textures such as a rock surface.
This is not the first time that evidence of aliens on Mars has allegedly been discovered.
Earlier this year, an "alien face" was found in a NASA satellite image of Mars, according to more bonkers claims.
Mr Waring was convinced it could be a rock carving, done by a Martian race, in the same way ancient Britons carved out the chalk figures in hillsides like the giant of Cerene Abbas in Dorset and the Long Man of Wilmington in East Sussex.
This could indicate that this is some ancient technology, not a mere rock after all"
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However, NASA insisted the rock is just a meteorite impact crater that has been left in the unusual form by later erosion.
When NASA released the image under the "alien head" caption, it said: "The image shows an impact crater in Chryse Planitia, not too far from the Viking 1 lander site, that to seems to resemble a bug-eyed head.
"The two odd depressions at the north end of the crater (the ‘eyes’) may have formed by wind or water erosion.
"This region has been modified by both processes, with water action occurring in the distant past via floods that poured across western Chryse Planitia from Maja Valles, and wind action common occurrence in more recent history.”
NASA has enjoyed a nice run of Mars-landing success lately, but that doesn't mean the agency is getting cocky ahead of next month's touchdown of its $850 million InSight mission.
NASA's twin Spirit and Opportunity rovers both aced their landings in January 2004, as did the Phoenix lander in May 2008 and the car-size Curiosity rover in August 2012. Regardless, InSight team members will doubtless be on tenterhooks as their spacecraft barrels into the Martian atmosphere at around 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) on Nov. 26.
"Although we've done it before, landing on Mars is hard, and this mission is no different," Rob Manning, chief engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a newly released video. "It takes thousands of steps to go from the top of the atmosphere to the surface, and each one of them has to work perfectly to be a successful mission." [NASA's InSight Mars Lander: 10 Surprising Facts]
Manning walked viewers through some of the most important steps, starting with the separation of InSight's capsule from the "cruise stage" that has guided the lander through deep space since liftoff on May 5.
An artist's illustration showing NASA's InSight lander about to touch down on Mars. InSight's landing will take place on Nov. 26, 2018
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This separation will occur 7 minutes before InSight hits the Martian atmosphere, if all goes according to plan. InSight must then realign itself precisely, so that it enters the atmosphere at a 12-degree angle.
"Any steeper, the vehicle will hit the thicker part of the atmosphere, and it will melt and burn up," Manning said. "Any shallower, the vehicle will bounce off the atmosphere of Mars."
As the InSight capsule plows through the air, its heat shield will experience temperatures well over 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius) — hot enough to melt steel, Manning said. After 2 minutes of such Martian air travel, InSight's speed will drop from 13,000 mph (20,900 km/h) to about 1,000 mph (1,600 km/h), he added.
It will then be time for InSight to deploy its big supersonic parachute. This milestone should occur at an altitude of about 10 miles (16 kilometers) above the Martian surface. Shortly thereafter, six pyrotechnic devices will fire simultaneously, jettisoning InSight's heat shield.
Ten seconds later, three more mini-explosions will deploy InSight's landing legs. About 1 minute after that, the lander will begin beaming out radar pulses to gauge its altitude and speed.
When InSight is just 1 mile (1.6 km) above the Martian surface, the lander will fall away from its parachute-toting backshell and light its descent engines, Manning said. InSight will have to rotate out of the way very quickly after it does this, to avoid being beaned by the parachute and backshell.
And then comes the landing itself, on a broad, flat plain just north of the Martian equator known as Elysium Plantitia.
"The last thing that has to happen is that, on the moment of contact, the engines have to shut down immediately," Manning said. "If they don't, the vehicle will tip over."
As this rundown indicates, all of this will happen in rapid succession: InSight's entire journey through the Martian air, from atmospheric entry to touchdown, will take just 6 minutes, NASA officials have said. (Curiosity team members dubbed that rover's entry, descent and landing sequence "7 minutes of terror," but InSight will get down a bit faster. And, unlike the heavier Curiosity, InSight won't need a sky crane.)
Then it will be time for the lander to get to work. InSight (whose name is short for "Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport") carries two main science instruments, a burrowing heat probe and a suite of superprecise seismometers.
The measurements made by this gear over about two Earth years will help mission team members better understand Mars' internal composition and structure, as well as how rocky planets form and evolve. InSight will also use its communications gear to perform a radio-science experiment, which should reveal key details about Mars' core, NASA officials have said.
InSight launched with twin, briefcase-size spacecraft, which together comprise a JPL demonstration mission known as Mars Cube One (MarCO). MarCO's main goal is to show that tiny cubesats can indeed explore interplanetary space.
The two spacecraft, known as MarCO-A and MarCO-B, will also attempt to beam home data from InSight during the latter's landing attempt on Nov. 26. But this is not a vital task; other NASA craft, such as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, will do this work as well.
MarCO-A and MarCO-B will not attempt touchdowns of their own. They'll zoom past Mars on Nov. 26, and their mission will come to an end shortly thereafter.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There," will be published on Nov. 13 by Grand Central Publishing.
The 25 Greatest Spaceships of Science Fiction - PART I
The 25 Greatest Spaceships of Science Fiction - PART I
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Sci-Fi Ships
So many discussions of ships in science fiction fall into the same tired debates. Who goes faster, the Millennium Falcon or the USS Enterprise? How big of a planet would the Death Star blow up — and how much would that ship cost, anyway? This slideshow takes things a step further. We talk about the most creative ships of science fiction. Yes, you'll see some familiar names on here, but we hope there will be at least a couple of surprises. Enjoy! [Best Space Movies in the Universe]
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1. UNSC Infinity ('Halo' franchise)
The beautiful Infinity base in Halo is not only pretty to look at, but also a useful vessel for getting places. It's equipped with sublight and translight power, and able to avoid enemy attacks with the use of energy shields, according to Halopedia. The crew on board has the latest in entertainment, including a biosphere (said to rival natural parks on Earth) and a bar, called the Full Moon. To communicate with allies across long distances, Infinity even has superluminal communications capabilities. Now, if only there wasn't a war to fight, we could really enjoy a nice vacation on this ship.
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2. TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space)
Pick your favorite Doctor Who — there's probably going to be a TARDIS story in there sometime. This ship appears like a phone booth, but once you get inside the magic really starts to happen. At first glance, TARDIS appears like a mere time-travel machine, whisking characters back to chat with people like artist Vincent Van Gogh. But it's much more innovative than that. It not only can travel through time, but also space. First-time visitors are always surprised at how big the interior is — "It's bigger on the inside", is the famous line — as well as the ability of TARDIS to blend into its surroundings. It can withstand gunfire, falling from great heights or even entering a planet's atmosphere; indeed, it appears the only thing that will easily kill a TARDIS is to have another TARDIS interfering with it nearby.
In a TV series filled with amazing ships, it's hard to pick just one. But there's something special about the Battlestar Galactica. Sure, it's not a networked ship and yes, it takes some heavy damage against the Cylons when attacked. But it's adaptable and flexible; during one memorable episode when the ship's computers are networked to solve a complicated problem, crew members use the ship's to stave off a Cylon virus. And Battlestar manages to stay one step ahead of the Cylons in many cases, safely using its faster-than-light drive to escape.
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4. Elysium ship (2013)
While Elysium is fundamentally a sad story, its ship is a marvel of technology. This is a massive space station that actually looks like another world. Sadly, only the ultra-rich get to live and party here, but for what it's worth, Elysium looks a lot like a paradise. Glimpses of the ship reveal a world of verdant green — natural enough to make you feel relaxed, but close enough to civilization to whisk you to a Med-Bay to cure your worst illnesses. The best part is what happens once you are registered as an Elysium citizen. The space station is automatically programmed to deploy rescue ships to pick you up and bring you back home, even if you're stuck on the stinking hell that is Earth in this film.
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5. Reapers ('Mass Effect' franchise)
The Mass Effect game franchise features characters valiantly trying to protect our home galaxy from baddie aliens; in a later game, a new fight begins in the Andromeda galaxy. For ship innovativeness, it's hard to beat the villain Reapers. They blend biology and machine, lurking in the space between galaxy for up to 50,000 years, according to the Mass Effect wiki. While they're mainly portrayed as intruder chasers, we can't forget how smart these Reapers are. They created the mass relay network that all ships use to jump locations. They also made the Citadel, a massive space station.
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6. USS Enterprise line ('Star Trek' franchise)
This isn't the time to quibble about whether the NCC-1701-A or NCC-1701-D was the better U.S.S. Enterprise, but keep in mind that the entire ship line has an impressive history. If we take the movie and television franchises as a whole, the U.S.S. Enterprise not only performs, but outperforms in most situations. It regularly operates well beyond safe speed limits (to the chagrin of Scotty), some versions have the ability to split in two independent parts, and it can deal with extreme environments (like burning up in Earth's atmosphere or lurking under the ocean.) Some of the more advanced versions can even cloak, taking away the element of surprise that Romulans and Vulcans previously enjoyed.
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7. Millennium Falcon ("Star Wars" franchise)
Coming in close behind the U.S.S. Enterprise — sorry, "Star Wars" fans — is the amazing Millennium Falcon. It's a bit of a nice contrast to the sleek Enterprise, because there's no huge crew running this ship; instead, it's a bunch of ragtag heroes who need to use whatever they have on hand to keep this ship going. The Falcon, though, is surprisingly adept and adaptable. Yes, it's got fast travel capabilities, but there's more to it than that. The ship is able to fit into small cracks, to engage in epic fights on- and off-planet, and even survive in weird environments like an alien mouth. Like any jet fighter worth its name, it also has great weaponry on board to help fight the evil Empire. [Building the Fastest Hunk of Bricks in the Galaxy (Video)]
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8. Serenity ('Firefly' franchise)
Sure, Serenity doesn't have the trappings of more elegant spaceships. There's no warp drive or fast travel. There are very clearly toilets on board, counteracting the old "Star Trek" myth about their starships. It looks a bit like a warehouse inside, and it always seems to be breaking down. But fans don't gorram care, because Serenity is built to last. The ship's modest appearance means it's easy to miss when the crew members take on their main job of scrapping other starships for supplies. If it takes a bad hit, usually it can be fixed with scavenged parts. And above all, it just works. No high-fuss mechanical work needed here; just put a capable mechanic on the crew, and Serenity will give you all you need.
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9. Alien ships in 'Arrival' (2016)
"Arrival" is one of those films where you would love to know much more about the aliens, the beautifully named "Heptapods" who communicate with special symbols representing full sentences or concepts. One of the questions we barely get answered is how their amazing ships work. The ships suddenly arrive on Earth and appear to be synchronized across locations, instantly reacting to events that just one of the ships is privy to. They hover in mid-air with no apparent propulsion system, and they appear to use some sort of warp drive that involves visual dissolution on-site. Inside these ship entrances, gravity is a bit uncertain; the interior is filled with some sort of atmosphere that may alter how humans experience the environment. These ships, in a word, are beautiful — but we wish we knew more about how they worked.
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10. Spaceball One ('Spaceballs,' 1987)
We love Spaceball One for showing all the plot holes that other spaceships missed. The ship has a number of speeds to choose from: Light Speed, Ridiculous Speed, Ludicrous Speed, Plaid Speed. As the crew quickly shows in the film, if you hit a speed that is too fast, you'll easily overshoot your target. It also has an unusual cloaking mechanism, demonstrating there are other uses to a costume besides hiding; Spaceball One can change into huge robotic maid with a vacuum cleaner, capable of sucking air off of planets.
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11. Death Star and its successor, Starkiller Base ('Star Wars' franchise)
The Death Star and successor Starkiller Base are pure cool, but they're a few ranks behind the Millennium Falcon because well, people keep finding ways to destroy them. But let's ignore that and focus on the positives. First of all is the pure power — the Death Star can easily kill a single planet, while the Starkiller Base can wipe out entire planetary systems. They also have a bit of a stealth aspect, despite being so big; one famous line compares the Death Star to a moon, at least because it's so huge and has a crater on it. And let's not forget that Starkiller Base somehow broke the laws of physics and got its power from "quintessence," a sort of dark energy that is everywhere in the universe.
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12. Ha'tak ('Stargate' franchise)
Ha'tak looks like a lumbering pyramid in space, but even a newbie to the Stargate universe can see it's a powerful force to be reckoned with. The Stargate fan wiki notes that Ha'taks use an advanced form of propulsion that allow the ship to get as fast as 5 percent of lightspeed. Its shields are so powerful that they can hold off the heat of the corona — the atmosphere — of a huge star for many hours. Some Ha'taks even include cloaking devices, although that's not standard issue in the fleet. It sure was enough of a threat to worry the humans in the Stargate program, however.
The 25 Greatest Spaceships of Science Fiction - PART II
The 25 Greatest Spaceships of Science Fiction - PART II
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13. Event Horizon ship (1997)
In terms of pure terrifying innovation, it's hard to beat the after-effects of the Event Horizon. As recounted in the eponymous 1997 film, a crew of astronauts from the future set out on a rescue mission. They're after the Event Horizon, which had suddenly appeared in orbit around Neptune. The crew boards the ship in search of any of their missing crewmates.
Unfortunately, they find out that Event Horizon's experimental engine caused a few problems — namely, it ripped a hole in space-time and a nasty homicidal alien was on board the ship. While we (unfortunately) don't get to see the ship at full health during this terrifying movie, we do learn it's capable of generating black holes. Talk about power.
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14. 'Independence Day' mothership (1996)
Hovering ominously over Earth in the original 'Independence Day,' this ship is huge — some 600 kilometers (roughly 370 miles) long. As viewers saw in the film, there are a bunch of tunnels that lead to the inside of the ship; two brave crew members from Earth managed to make their way into the control center, where they saw an eerie blue mist surrounding the zone. The Independence Day wiki also mentions a "beehive-like structure" that serves as the ship's transportation center. Little is known about this ship's capabilities, but it's downright scary.
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15. USCSS Prometheus ('Prometheus,' 2012)
This black beauty is the most advanced and expensive faster-than-light ship ever made, according to the "Alien vs. Predator" wiki. It's got all the comforts you'd expect for a spaceship going long distances — a hypersleep chamber, a series of on-board ATVs for planetary exploration, escape modules and even intergalactic communications antennas. It even — improbably, for its size — can do vertical takeoffs and landings, which makes it ideal for landing on a planet. Well, that's if the planet doesn't have homicidal aliens living there already.
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16. The Rocinante ('The Expanse' franchise)
The Rocinante is a comfortable, yet fast warship — the designers even took into account the preference for humans to have g-forces similar to normal gravity (at least, while the ship is under thrust). It's a pretty awesome workhorse ship, in that it can fire torpedoes or help with boarding parties. Besides which, it goes fast through space. Perfect for dodging any incoming missiles. [Jeff Bezos Saves 'The Expanse']
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17. Heart of Gold ('Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' franchise)
This is a fun, zippy ship, thanks to its unique use of the Infinite Improbability Drive — an engine that provides for near-instantaneous travel with "tedious mucking about in hyperspace," according to the Hitchhiker's fan wiki. The designers gave a lot of attention to creature comforts, even including doors who say (in the books) how glad they are to help you. While the shape of the ship varies between the book, movie and TV series, a common theme in all three media is how white and clean the ship looks
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18. Icarus II ('Sunshine,' 2007)
We love this spaceship because it shows just what humans can do if they are desperate enough. Basically, Earth is in crisis because the sun's power is fading a lot earlier than expected (in the year 2057, to be precise.) The point of Icarus II is to carry a huge nuclear bomb towards the sun. The crew faces many problems and saboteurs along the way, but somehow this ship just keeps on running — mostly as it's supposed to. That makes it worthy of a mention.
We're more intrigued by Superman's spaceship than able to say much about it, but that said, there are some cool unanswered questions to consider when thinking about Superman was shipped to Earth. Kal-El, as the infant was called, somehow stayed in a small space and was fed, cleaned, kept warm and kept entertained on his trip to Earth. That's some mean sort of automation. Also, the ship was relatively small — where did all of these systems fit? Goes to show you that planet Krypton residents were really smart.
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20. The Valley Forge ('Silent Running,' 1972)
We applaud the constructors of the Valley Forge for somehow figuring out how to build a closed ecosystem. Inside of this (somewhat large) spaceship is a forest filled with animal and plant life, tenderly cared for because Earth's planet life has somehow gone extinct; this ecosystem should give our planet a kick-start, once the time is right. There's a flaw with this forest, though, in that it needs a source of light to survive. This ends up being crucial to the plot. Alas, the forest is shown drifting into deep space at the end of the film, so it's not clear how the lights will be generated once the ship's power source runs out.
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21. Moonraker space station ('Moonraker,' 1979)
The Moonraker space station is kind of a one-trick pony, but it's still a neat place to visit — as long as you aren't worried about suffocation or anything. According to the Evil fan wiki, the space station was located above Earth and was ready to drop 50 nerve gas globes to kill all the residents. However, our heroes James Bond (Roger Moore) and Dr. Goodhead (Lois Chiles) discover a crucial flaw in the radar-jamming system on board. As a point of interest, it's fun to see all the space shuttles flying around this station; the real NASA space shuttle didn't make its first flight until 1981.
22. The Resolute ('Lost In Space,' 2018)
While the Resolute looks cool, there definitely are some issues with this ship. There's the not-so-small matter that a single alien robot could cause a lot of damage, which makes us wonder how the ship was expected to make the jump from Earth to Alpha Centauri if it was so delicate. Also, the Resolute seems to have a lot of problems picking up small transport ships on the surface, unless the ships are able to communicate directly with a strong enough signal. What about away missions? Otherwise, though, the ship is comfortable and large and even open to families, which is more than can be said for some of the other ships in this group.
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23. E.T. spaceship ('E.T.,' 1982)
If only we knew more about this cute little spaceship. The movie shows that it's capable of bringing alien botanists to Earth, in search of learning more about our planet's organisms. But we only catch glimpses of this extraterrestrial technology as it touches down on Earth and flies away again. Its whimsical shape is supposed to look like a hot air balloon from the pages of a Dr. Seuss book, according to artist Ralph McQuarrie, quoted in Mental Floss.
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24. District 9 alien ship ('District 9,' 2009)
The story of "District 9" unfortunately doesn't tell us much about its mothership, but in terms of sheer terror factor, seeing this behemoth hovering over Johannesburg is one of the most memorable parts of the film. Perhaps its most interesting feature is it can be activated remotely. But the ship certainly isn't a perfect design, because its inhabitants were basically starving to death at the beginning of the film. Hopefully there's a Mothership 2.0 being developed for this alien species.
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25. The Hermes ('The Martian,' 2015)
While most of the action in "The Martian" takes place, naturally, on Mars, the Hermes appears like a pretty capable interplanetary starship. First of all, it's surprisingly hackable; the crew is able to get into the mainframe to redirect its path at a crucial point in the film. Second, it's super-reliable. The Hermes was only supposed to take one Mars-Earth trip at a time, but in this film it actually takes on two. And finally, it's resilient; the crew literally uses a bomb aboard the ship to slow down its speed at Mars. There's a wicked explosion, but the ship appears (incredibly) to suffer no permanent devastating damage.
WETENSCHAPOnderzoekers hebben een nieuw soort superijs ontdekt, eentje dat de hoop op buitenaards leven kan vernietigen. Het vermenigvuldigt zich met een snelheid van meer dan 1.600 kilometer per uur en het bevindt zich diep onder onze voeten. En wetenschappers begrijpen nu eindelijk hoe het precies in zijn werk gaat, vermoedelijk ten koste van buitenaards leven.
Afgelopen jaar in maart onthulden onderzoekers dat ze voor het eerst het dodelijke ijs hadden teruggevonden. En dat in diamanten die in Zuid-Afrika en China werden opgediept. De ijsachtige substantie was er diep ingekapseld en bleef vloeibaar omwille van de extreme druk en hitte.
Voor de vondst van zulke diamanten hadden ze het bestaan van zulk ijs voorspeld, maar dat wist niemand met staalhard bewijsmateriaal aan te tonen. De vondst in de diamanten bevestigde het vermoeden dat de aarde een vloeibare mantel -tussen de aardkorst en de kern- bezit. Die mantel bestaat uit een kristalstructuur zoals die van diamanten. Nu pas begrijpen de onderzoekers hoe die mantel precies gevormd wordt.
Bepaalde combinaties van temperatuur en druk zorgen ervoor dat het dodelijke ijs, dat de naam Ice Vll kreeg, ontstaat. Hoe intenser de temperatuur en drukcombinatie wordt, hoe sneller het ijs gevormd wordt. En dat zo’n 600 kilometer onder onze voeten.
Het vormingsproces van dat ijs is wel problematisch voor eender welk buitenaards leven. Bepaalde drukpieken, bijvoorbeeld door een meteoorinslag, zorgen immers voor een explosieve groei van het ijs, dat zich voortbeweegt met een snelheid van 1.600 kilometer per uur. Dat zou elke vorm van leven, op levensvatbare planeten zoals Aarde, al doen uitdoven voordat het echt kan beginnen. De mens heeft het geluk dat het proces zich diep onder onze voeten afspeelt.
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SOMS ZIE JE TOCH ECHT MOOIE UFO'S VLIEGEN ( VIDEO )
SOMS ZIE JE TOCH ECHT MOOIE UFO'S VLIEGEN ( VIDEO )
Alhoewel de laatste tijd misschien wat minder in het nieuws, ze zijn er nog steeds die ufo's, oftewel de niet geïdentificeerde vliegende objecten.
Nu is er bij beelden van UFO's veel kaf onder het koren, maar soms duiken er beelden op die wel degelijk echt lijken te zijn.
We zouden graag zeggen: opnames die echt zijn, maar dat kan eigenlijk niet meer tegenwoordig, omdat er zo ontzettend veel wordt geknoeid met beeldmateriaal.
Wel zijn er bepaalde dingen waaruit je soms kunt afleiden dat beelden waarschijnlijk echt zijn. Youtube is wat dat betreft een hele slechte bron, omdat 99 procent van wat daar wordt geplaatst totale nep is. De filmpjes worden gemaakt in de hoop dat ze viraal gaan, er veel mensen naar kijken en dan op een advertentie klikken, wat dan inkomsten oplevert.
Opnames die gemaakt zijn door privé mensen die bij Mufon worden ingeleverd om onderzocht te worden, zijn een ander verhaal. Men heeft er niets bij te winnen door daar nepbeelden te deponeren en wat je dan bij Mufon tegenkomt is vaak echt.
Lake Tahoe is een groot zoetwatermeer in de Amerikaanse Sierra Nevada, op de grens tussen Californië en Nevada, ten westen van Carson City. Lake Tahoe is het grootste alpiene meer in Noord-Amerika.[1] Met 501 meter diepte is het tevens het op een na diepste meer van de Verenigde Staten, na Crater Lake in Oregon. Bovendien is Tahoe qua volume het zesentwintigste meer in de wereld.
Een UFO die van rechts naar links met hoge snelheid voorbij vliegt aan een groep vakantiegangers.
Het object heeft de klassieke of retro vorm en ziet eruit zoals je zou verwachten dat een vliegende schotel eruit ziet.
Degene die de opname heeft gemaakt en ingediend bij Mufon zegt dat ze in die streek met vakantie waren en helemaal niets hebben gemerkt van de UFO. Pas toen ze thuis waren en de beelden rustig bekeken, verscheen daar de vliegende schotel.
Bij Ufocasebook hebben ze de volgende video gemaakt met vertraagde beelden en ook een aantal foto's zodat de UFO goed zichtbaar is. Deze verschijnt voor het eerst in beeld rond 18 seconden in de video en wel aan de rechterkant.
Dawn is dead. Kepler is dead. Rover is missing and presumed dead. This is not the opening scene of a new murder mystery … it’s the news coming out of NASA as it reports the recent demise of many of its most famous and productive spacecrafts and space equipment. Why do they seem to be dying all at once? Something is killing the great crafts of NASA … and it may not necessarily be old age.
“Following an analysis of the progress of the listening campaign, NASA will continue its current strategy of attempting to contact the Jeep-rig Opportunity during the foreseeable future. The winds may increase over the next few months on Opportunity’s location on Mars, resulting in dust being torn from the vehicle’s solar panels. The agency will reassess the situation in January 2019.”
The Opportunity rover has been on Mars since January 2004 and its original 90-day mission has been constantly and surprisingly extended annually as it broke the record for the longest distance driven by any sort of wheeled vehicle on a space body other than Earth. Then the dust storm hit. While Opportunity has obviously survived plenty of Martian dust storms, this on in June was apparently the Mother of all Martian Dust Storms and the thick layer of particles on its solar panels have prevented it from recharging its batteries. Even though NASA is giving its overachieving rover until January 2019 in hopes that another dust storm will blow off the panels, the first people on Mars may be looking over their dead dog rover.
An even bigger loss is the death of another overachiever – the Kepler space telescope. Launched in March 2009, Kepler outlasted its original 3.5-year mission and solidified its place in the space hall of fame by discovering 2,681 exoplanets. It also survived devastating injuries that would have ended the season of other space players (get ready … more football references coming) – Kepler lost two of its four orientation-maintaining reaction wheels and was put on the disabled list. NASA’s team doctors got it back in the game by using the remaining wheels and gave it a new playbook called K2 where it found more confirmed exoplanets and 2,900 waiting for likely confirmation. Unfortunately, Kepler finally ran out of fuel and NASA forced its retirement this week, shutting everything down but leaving it on the playing field in a safe orbit around Ceres.
Vesta photographed by Dawn
Running out of gas has also put Dawn out of commission. After missing two scheduled check-ins this week, NASA announced that Dawn is now a sunset and its asteroid-visiting days are over. After being launched in September 2007, Dawn traveled 4.3 billion miles (6.9 billion km) on its cosmic road trip, stopping first at Vesta, the second largest rock in the main asteroid belt, and then taking on the belt’s #1 asteroid and dwarf planet Ceres, where it will now orbit in perpetuity. Mission Director and Chief Engineer Marc Rayman pointed out in a press release/obituary that Dawn leaves behind a huge collection of data still to be examined.
This mosaic of a bright spot on the dwarf planet Ceres known as Cerealia Facula combines images captured by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft from altitudes as low as 22 miles (35 kilometers) above Ceres' surface. The mosaic is overlain on a topography model based on images obtained during Dawn's low-altitude mapping orbit (240 miles, or 385 km altitude). No vertical exaggeration was applied.
Credit: NASA
“The demands we put on Dawn were tremendous, but it met the challenge every time. It’s hard to say goodbye to this amazing spaceship, but it’s time.”
So, these three space stalwarts may have been senior citizens but they acted more like the cosmic version of “60 is the new 40,” outperforming their younger counterparts and turning up their nose cones at retirement. That explains why Dawn and Kepler ran out of fuel – no one expected them to be around this long. On the other hand, Opportunity was more like they guy who says “If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself” when he realizes he should have exercised enough to run behind a rock and out of the dust storm. They’re all proof that NASA can and does build some really good stuff.
Over the course of the last few years, here at Mysterious Universe, I have written far more than a few articles on the Men in Black. And, as I have noted in some of those articles, there’s no doubt that encounters with the MIB can range from puzzling to downright terrifying. With this issue in mind – namely, the way in which the witness/victim can be severely affected by such an encounter – I thought I would share with you the words of a good friend of mine – Kimberly Rackley – who has encountered the Men in Black on a number of occasions. Kim is a gifted psychic and her trauma-filled experiences with the MIB serve to demonstrate just what it really feels like to come face-to-face with these black-suited things. Put it this way: it’s not good. In the summer of 2016 (specifically June 22), Kim shared the following with me:
“Had an experience last night / morning. A little drained this morning. Freaked me out. I was awoken by what seemed like thousands of voices that were excited and upset. I sometimes hear the astral plane at night but this was crazy. I need to make it stop so I lift into astral and all these entities are everywhere in agitated state.
“I ask what’s wrong and they all circle me and then this being very tall and slender all in black suit but with a long coat and gray eyes comes straight for me. The entities circling me close in tighter. They are trying to protect me. But he pushes them away with flick of his hand and I’m suddenly back in my body. There in my room was the man. He had same non-aura energy, like MIB. He pointed at me and the place in my wrist where the previous MIBs always try to place a chip in me started burning. Then I passed out. I feel electric inside, like I’m going to jump out of my skin and I’m nauseated. Kind of frightened. I look like death.”
Kim continued: “If you feel like death warmed-over then you most definitely look like death warmed-over as I discovered this morning when I ungraciously made my way to the bathroom. You would feel and look the same if you experienced the more than unnerving events I had. Yours truly is still trembling, not quite certain if it is from the panic of the frightening encounter or the electrical jolt received. Being a medium I am not fearful of the supernatural or unearthly, but there is one thing that has filled me with terror since I was a child and that is the MIB. I’ve told the story of my repetitive MIB encounters before but it suffers repeating because I believe it is significant to the most recent encounter.
“From the time I was 8 and witnessed a glowing figure slightly similar to a grey walking down the hallway of my home, I have been subject to frequent MIB visits. These visits are always from the same two men, mostly in my dream state until I began realizing my abilities as a medium and then the visits would occur in meditation or altered states of consciousness. Never before this newest encounter has one been a physical encounter. The two men come to me, usually appearing through my bedroom window. My normal MIB’s resemble ninja’s or soldiers, always in black skin-tight clothing or fatigue uniforms, and always with the aura of intense panic. They will point at me and say ‘No, Kya, not yet.’ I have no idea why they call me Kya. Is it too much to hope for that they have me confused with someone else? I also have no inkling of what ‘not yet’ signifies. They then pull up a holographic ball where they show me that I will be taken away and put in this metal room, underground. The room has one single chair and surrounding me is a bluish force field. Sounds like a science fiction movie, right? Then they point at my right wrist, and a chip appears under my skin. They vanish, leaving me always in full panic mode.
“I know you are wondering about the chip. I have yet to discover its purpose but each occasion that they place the chip, I immediately remove it. Alien or dimensional implants are more common than you might imagine and can be detected when you are in the theta state. These implants have an etheric vibration which means they can be removed etherically as well. Lucky for me I am a Theta Facilitator.”
Kim had much more to say: “This newest encounter was much different than the above so let me get on with the story. I was awoken around 4am to a thousand voices in my head. It is quite common for me to hear the astral plane but this was like a war going on. I know I have to stop the voices before I end up on Zany Street with men in white coats chasing me. I lift up to the astral where I find the entities in an agitated and anxious state. Curiously they are all gathered in a very close proximity to each other.
“I ask what is wrong and the entities immediately circle me. I am not afraid as I have been to the astral many times and have friends here. Suddenly, a very tall man comes from the mist. He is in a black suit and wearing a long coat. The man is whitish-gray, bald, and no facial hair, yeah not even an eyelash. I’m filled with immediate panic because I see no aura or residual of life force energy. The same non-energy I see with the MIB. However, there was an electrical charge around him which is something I always see around the MIB of my past encounters. The entities attempt to tighten the circle around me but the being in black swipes them away with a flick of his hand. I fall back into my body, sit up and to my horror the being is standing in my room. He raises his arm, palm out and I am jolted with a shot of intense energy. I pass out.
“When I awaken, it all comes flooding back to me. My body feels as if I am going to jump out of my skin and I am nauseated. I realize that the astral voices may have been attempting to warn me and certainly they were trying to protect me. This indicates that whatever MIB are, even the astral plane is aware and afraid of them. Could it be that my recent talk with friend and author Nick Redfern on this very subject have triggered this encounter? I believe the MIB have every account of who attempts to reveal them. I’m always left with sheer panic and more questions after an encounter with the MIB. The panic I experience however, won’t stop me from seeking the truth nor will it stop me from being who I am or doing what I do.”
The Future of Cryptocurreny and the UFO Crash in Antarctica Time Cross
The Future of Cryptocurreny and the UFO Crash in Antarctica Time Cross
Interesting information about the future of Cryptocurrency, and the UFO crash in Antarctica. Full disclosure, I have a sizable investment in Ripple for the reasons stated in video.
A CHILLING WARNING! (UFOs) are just a tip of the ICEBERG!
A CHILLING WARNING! (UFOs) are just a tip of the ICEBERG!
If I haven’t had a direct experience with a highly evolved technology, I would have never believed such claims for any reason. And even after I having had this experience, it took a couple of days for me to digest the fact that this is real, there’s a highly evolved technology out there. Not only that this bizarre experience literally challenged me to rethink my fundamental beliefs about the world in a way that I have never expected. So I started deeply researching into various fields, fields including neuroscience, future physics, ancient stone structures, specifically the Giza Pyramids, ancient advanced knowledge, our religions, ancient high-tech tool marks, mental illnesses, demonic possessions and various other phenomena like channeling of alien beings, channeling of deceased people, dancing mania, witchcraft etc.. to make sense of the world and end of the day, I came to a conclusion that the highly evolved technology belongs to a group of human beings on Earth and your destiny has been planned long ago than you can possibly imagine.
Unless a person carries out a massive research with an open mind and gains the right knowledge and the right worldview, such a conclusion will not make sense to another human being. Your time is limited on Earth. Not being able to understand this complicated truth, we have been ridiculing our fellow human beings for quite a long time, however, I must say that these unidentified flying objects or extremely advanced flying machines and its related phenomena are actually a humongous crime against humanity that is being committed by a group of human beings who are living in Switzerland today. Again, there’s a complicated reasoning behind this claim and I urge you to take this warning seriously and give your utmost attention to research and understand the truth behind UFOs and its related phenomena without a delay. Someone could say that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, however, it is just a bunch of words only, let’s be realistic, if someone uses a technology that is 1000+ years or 10000+ years ahead of ours to commit a crime, is it possible for us to prove it unless we giving an extraordinary effort? Is it possible for us to understand and classify a particular phenomenon as a crime against humanity with our current scientific understanding? That said, let me unfold the complicated story of the planet Earth.
1). Anecdotal Evidence For the Existence Of the Phenomenon. Highly educated and intelligent people are coming forward to expose the truth today.
2). Is it possible to hide an advanced technology on Earth? Yes, it’s entirely possible, we just need to master 3 things only.
3). Is it possible to remove the evidence for the existence of highly advanced global societies from the face of the Earth? Yes, it’s entirely possible, again, we just need to master 3 things only. A reply that a theoretical physicist and a neuroscientist would understand. After all, this is a mind-boggling technology, and the related phenomena cannot be understood by every human being on Earth, experts in neuroscience, theoretical physics, and other experts must dig into the issue without a delay. These people must be open minded and trust pure logic, not beliefs.
4). Which means, this could be a technology that belongs to a group of human beings on Earth? Yes, that’s correct and that’s the truth. Which also means, they are secretly ruling the world for quite a long time using their high-tech toys and that’s why the UFO phenomenon can be traced back to ancient times too. Not only that this is why an extremely high number of yearly UFO activities on Earth.
5). Which means, the perpetrators behind the UFO phenomenon are trying to establish the ET visitation belief among human beings? That’s correct, by using a highly evolved technology, it’s quite easy to establish such a belief in human beings. From a highly evolved technological standpoint, we only need genetically modified beings and 2 high-tech toys to establish this belief on human beings and roam the Earth freely using their extremely advanced machines. And this has raised the unidentified flying object phenomenon in the world.
6). So extraterrestrial beings (ET’s) visitation is a deception? A misunderstanding? A false claim? Yes, that’s correct, we could further analyze the following hypothesis to make sense of this further.
Extraterrestrial Hypothesis
Terrestrial Hypothesis
7). The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis. Its related phenomena are a carefully constructed narrative to deceive the society.
8). The Terrestrial Hypothesis. A staggering amount of evidence is in plain sight but we must think out of the box to understand the evidence that supports the terrestrial hypothesis.
Extremely high number of UFO-related activities per year. Clues for the use of high-tech toys on a daily basis by a group of human beings on Earth.
The UFO phenomenon can be traced back to ancient times. A clue that a group of human beings using the technology for quite a long time on Earth.
From a highly evolved technological standpoint, UFO-related phenomena show the existence of a highly advanced neuro/psychotronic weapon on Earth and this can be traced back to ancient times too.
I). The missing time phenomenon II). Alien beings channeling phenomenon III). Deceased people channeling phenomenon IV). Multiple personality phenomenon. This is a quite new phenomenon and it’s history goes back to 15th century only. A personality reflecting sophisticated human actions cannot be seen prior to the 15th century in MPD/DID cases V). Psychic Phenomenon VI). Automatic writing phenomenon VII). “Targeted Individuals” phenomenon VIII). The voice of God phenomenon IX). Prophets and the Prophetic phenomenon
(This evidence is not yet recognized. When you closely look into the above cases, you would understand that these cases are due to a mind-boggling AI-based applications only. A global satellite grid has been deployed to create these phenomena on Earth and this grid monitors brain activities of human beings 24/7. After all, is there an element of truth behind all-seeing eye? or is it just a myth?)
Highly advanced knowledge can be seen in some unique ancient books clearly supporting the terrestrial hypothesis.
A ton of evidence can be seen in ancient stone structures revealing an advanced knowledge and an advanced technology supporting the terrestrial hypothesis.
9). Other supporting evidence for the terrestrial hypothesis.
10). The Crop circle phenomena, its connections to UFOs and ancient Egypt.
11). Who are the perpetrators and where do they stay?
12). Final thoughts & the future of humanity.
Anecdotal Evidence For the Existence Of the Phenomenon:
There is overwhelming anecdotal evidence from people all over the world, supporting the existence of the phenomenon and they claim that the technology is highly advanced. On top of this, today, there's a staggering number of highly educated, credible and respected people are coming forward to expose the phenomenon and this group including astronauts, pilots, scientists, military personnel, police officers, doctors etc... Here are some of their testimonies related to the UFO phenomenon:
1). Cliff Stone – Army UFO Consultant, US Military – Retired:
“As a result of my involvement, I was able to ascertain that the united states government knew a lot more about UFOs and it wasn’t telling the American public, that there was an intelligence involved, that there was a highly evolved technology. I learned that to a degree, we were carrying on a dialogue with this intelligence”
Further, Cliff Stone says:
“We also had an officially sanctioned deception program. This was in total disregard as to the impact this would have on the individual witnesses and also on their families”
2). Robert Dean – NATO intelligence analyst, US Military – Retired:
“I read first-hand reports, verifiable NATO military material that indicated that the UFOs were not only real that they represented something far beyond anything that I had ever imagined before. When the study was concluded in 64 they concluded that they were four different groups apparently coming and visiting us. Out of those four different groups one group looked exactly like we do. So much so that they could sit beside you in a restaurant, there in an airplane or in a theatre and you would never know and that particular point bothered the military guys a lot”
3). Further testimonies: Citizen Hearing On Disclosure 2013:
“40 researchers and military/agency/political witnesses to the National Press Club in Washington to testify for 30 hours over 5 days before 6 former members of the U. S. Congress regarding events and evidence for extraterrestrial related phenomena since 1947”
Earth is not the only ocean world in the solar system. In fact, there are several. A new paper just published in Astrobiology seeks to plan out the best ways to explore these alien oceans.
Jupiter’s moon Europa is the best known of the ocean worlds in the solar system – apart from Earth of course.
Not all that long ago, it was thought that Earth was the only place in the solar system with liquid water. Other planets and moons were either too hot or too cold. But now, thanks to various spacecraft sent out to explore these worlds, we know that is not the case. Water is actually abundant throughout the solar system, and some moons even have more water than Earth does. We just can’t see it on their surfaces – the water is, instead, below ground.
Hendrix and Hurford co-chair the Roadmaps to Ocean Worlds (ROW) team of NASA’s Outer Planets Assessment Group. The ROW team wants to see emphasis placed on not just studying known water worlds, but also other candidate ones, as explained by Hendrix:
The overarching goal of an ocean worlds program, should be to identify ocean worlds, characterize their oceans, evaluate their habitability, search for life, and ultimately understand any life we find.
The investigation “roadmap” for the exploration of ocean worlds.
The charter of ROW includes the following recommendations:
Identify and prioritize science objectives for ocean worlds over the next several decades.
Design roadmap(s) to explore these worlds to address science objectives (including mission sequences, considering a sustained exploration effort).
Assess where each ocean world fits into the overall roadmap.
Summarize broad mission concepts (considering mission dependencies and international cooperation).
Recommend technology development and detailed mission studies in support of the next Decadal Survey.
Currently, the moons Europa, Enceladus and Titan are considered to be the highest priority for further study. Neptune’s moon Triton is the highest priority of still-unconfirmed ocean worlds.
Saturn’s moon Enceladus is a high-priority target for further study. It not only has an underground ocean, but also huge plumes of water vapor that erupt through cracks at the south pole.
As the paper also notes, the foundation for studying these alien oceans should be our own oceans here on Earth, as outlined by Hendrix:
Progress needs to be made in the area of collaborations between Earth ocean scientists and extraterrestrial ocean scientists. In addition, to map out a coherent ocean worlds program, significant input is required from studies here on Earth; rigorous research and analysis studies are called for to enable some future ocean worlds missions to be thoughtfully planned and undertaken. The overarching goal of an ocean worlds program should be to identify ocean worlds, characterize their oceans, evaluate their habitability, search for life, and ultimately understand any life we find.
So just what are ocean worlds, according to the paper? Basically any moon or other body in the solar system (since Earth is the only planet to have one) that has a current liquid water ocean. The ocean does not need to be global although it does seem to be in most cases, in particular on Europa and Enceladus. The big difference is that Earth’s ocean is on the surface while all the other ones are subsurface.
As well as the methane/ethane seas and lakes on the surface, Saturn’s moon Titan is also thought to have a global subsurface water ocean.
Image via A. D. Fortes/UCL/STFC.
Even Neptune’s moon Triton, in the far outer solar system, may have an underground ocean.
Image via NASA/JPL/USGS.
Exploring these otherworldly oceans is exciting because, of course, our own oceans are teeming with life. Could the same be true for some of these other oceans as well? Scientists certainly see the potential, which is a major reason to study them to begin with. Everywhere on Earth there is water, there is life. There is growing evidence that the oceans on Europa and Enceladus have conditions favorable for some kinds of life, even if only microbial (but perhaps more), such as hydrothermal activity on the ocean floors. On Earth, even in the deepest waters, such environments are oases for a wide range of life, where vents provide heat and nutrients. Titan may also be of particular interest. From the paper:
Although Titan possesses a large subsurface ocean, it also has an abundant supply of a wide range of organic species and surface liquids, which are readily accessible and could harbor more exotic forms of life. Further, Titan may have transient surface liquid water such as impact melt pools and fresh cryovolcanic flows in contact with both solid and liquid surface organics. These environments present unique and important locations for investigating prebiotic chemistry and, potentially, the first steps toward life.
Bottom line:The new paper makes a strong case for why the ocean worlds in our solar system should be explored as thoroughly as possible, using knowledge about our own oceans as a roadmap. And maybe – just maybe – that exploration will result in the discovery that Earth’s oceans are not the only ones to be inhabited.
St. Elmo’s Fire is a colorful discharge of atmospheric electricity that typically occurs during a thunderstorm. When a sharp object (such as a ship’s mast) comes in contact with an extraordinarily high electrical field and a large number of electrons, the electrons can glow in various colors, like a neon sign, resulting in this rare phenomenon. St. Elmo is a derivation of St. Erasmus of Formia, one of the two patron saints of sailors.
At first glance, this jarring sight looks like a giant tsunami rolling in from the ocean, but it’s actually a massive amount of fog. When conditions are just right in late spring or early summer, the condensation from warm air merging with cool ocean water can create this dramatic effect.
Weather system that caused a meteotsunami in New Jersey, June 2013. Image via Buddy Denham.
3. Meteotsunami
Meteotsunamis have characteristics similar to earthquake-generated tsunamis, but they are caused by air-pressure disturbances often associated with fast-moving weather systems, such as squall lines. These disturbances can generate waves in the ocean that travel at the same speed as the overhead weather system. Development of a meteotsunami depends on several factors, such as the intensity, direction, and speed of the air pressure as it travels over a water body. Like an earthquake-generated tsunami, a meteotsunami affects the entire water column and may become dangerous when it hits shallow water, which causes it to slow down and increase in height and intensity. Semi-enclosed water bodies like harbors, inlets, and bays can greatly intensify a meteotsunami.
A waterspout is a spinning column of air and mist that forms on lakes, rivers, and at sea. Waterspouts fall into two categories: fair weather and tornadic. Tornadic waterspouts are tornadoes that form over water, or move from land to water. They are associated with severe thunderstorms and are often accompanied by high winds and seas, large hail, and dangerous lightning. The tornadic variety are more dangerous than fair weather waterspouts, which generally are not associated with thunderstorms, and usually form along the dark flat base of a line of developing cumulus clouds. While tornadic waterspouts develop downward in a thunderstorm, a fair weather waterspout develops on the surface of the water and works its way upward. Fair weather waterspouts form in light wind conditions so they normally move very little.
A maelstrom is a strong whirlpool that forms when opposing currents meet to form swirling water. Its name comes from the Dutch words malen (to whirl or grind) and strom (stream). A maelstrom can be dangerous due to powerful currents that occur below the surface, which can pull surrounding objects into its vortex.
There's one problem, though. It's about something I don't believe exists. Let me explain: I don't believe that aliens exist, but let's say I did and they come in UFOs — and let's assume you believe in them, too. This map is one of the best data visualizations I have seen in my entire life.
If aliens have visited Earth, this is the greatest map of all time
Metrocosm compiled more than 90,000 reports of UFO sightings in the United States since 1905 into an impressively detailed, interactive map:
The map uses data from the National UFO Reporting Center and Mutual UFO Network; the Inquisitr called it "credible." And 1905 was a long time ago — it's the year Albert Einstein presented his theory of relativity. The philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre was born in 1905. There are more than 90,000 stories collected, so let's dig into some of them. Assuming all of the reported sightings are credible is an important part of enjoying this. The dots represent witness reports. They come in three sizes: small (individual report), medium (small group reports), and large (multiple witness reports).
Fire balls in the sky, form triangle, lasted 5 minutes.
Second Sighting 45 minutes later lasted 5 minutes. There were 3 Fire balls at 8:20pm they formed in a straight line in the east sky, then they formed into a triangle, one then moved quickly out of sight traveling North then the other two disappeared. What was strange about 45 minutes later another fireball appeared South east, just one , it also lasted about 5 minutes. I took pictures on my digital camera and have night vision video on both sightings , In the video it appears as a white ball, when you look in the sky it looks as tho they barely move, but when researching the video it is moving all over the place at at times it looked as tho it was right on top of the screen. In the pictures the camera captured the light movement which is very interesting. I blew the photos up on the computer and in some it looks like they wrote something. My daughter and I had the chills. I never experienced anything like this.
Fishers Island, Long Island Sound there was a large lamp shade/flashlight light in the sky for 10 seconds+ it fadded away into the sk
Beach party early in the night. 20+ people saw most of the event. 10+ saw it "turn on" and then called out to the rest. There was a light in the sky like a huge lamp or a flash light. It was turned on over Long Island Sound and very obvious light. We saw it and then it faded slowly UP outward away from us. It did not go right, left or down, it just faded away. the light lingered in the sky for 20-30 seconds and everyone sort of got over it. It still bothered some of us. It was nothing like anyone had ever seen not a plane or satalite or anything people who live on an island and looking at the sky had ever seen.
It is dark and boring here, we all look at the sky all the time.
It was the night of Thursday, March 13, 1997. I was living in an apartment in Phoenix Arizona at the time and had some friends over that night. We all went outside and I noticed several lights in the sky over Phoenix. Soon my friends and I were all staring at these lights in the sky. There was no noise at all coming from these lights. They were yellowish-orange in color. As I focused my eyes on the lights I could make out the shapes of actual solid craft in the sky. It wasn’t one large craft, it was several craft which made a large triangle shape, then a large oval shape! My friends also could see the shape of these craft in the sky. These craft would move up and down, and left to right but didn’t move all that much. They didn’t shoot across the sky or anything like that. But I could see the shape of these craft in the sky. This lasted for about 30 minutes and the lights turned off and the craft disappeared. I have spent 8 years in the Army and I know what flares look like and how they act. These were not flares. I can say this with confidence.
The U.S. Government stone walled the people of Phoenix.
Thousands of people had to have witnessed this event that night.
3 craft sighted by several witnesses in clear daylight conditions. Timepiece anomoly also occured
At the annual UFO Conference put on by the UFO Watchtower in Hooper, CO several people had the opportunity to witness UFOs. About 2:00 PM Stan Romanek (one of the featured speakers at the event) was near the parking area outside the presentation building and was excited as he told me about the UFO he had just witnessed and taken some pictures of. He was really excited that he got pictures of it. He pointed out a spot above a patch of clouds near where the object was about 4 fingers (at arms length) above the distant mountain horizon in the northwest sky.
He mentioned what he saw to a couple other people earlier and walked across the field to the RV he was staying in about 1:30 PM. He was going to put the image on his laptop computer and bring it back so we could all see what the picture looked like. He returned and set the laptop up on a table outside under the shade of a canopy of an RV set up to serve food. As he got the computer set up I continued to scan the skies, especially in the area he had seen the object. We were excited to see that he did get a picture of it. It was white in color and although it was a digital image at a distance you could make out the classic saucer shape with a bubble protrusion on top. A few of us were taking turns looking at the image because the brightness of reflection of the sky in the monitor made it difficult to see well unless you stood directly in front of it.
While about 5 or 6 people were marveling at the picture Stan had just taken (with a Nikon Coolpix 6 mega pixel digital camera) I saw what appeared to be the same object in the same location off in the distant N/W horizon. I would guess the distance to be at least 35 miles away based on the distance of the mountain range it appeared to be over. It was very white and was dramatically accentuated by the darker blue sky background. It was also about 4 fingers (arms length) above the distant mountaintop to the northwest about the width of my pinkie finger above the white cloud bank below.
I described the location as I pointed to the object for the others to identify also. They were as excited as I was to realize for themselves how fascinating it was to watch. You could easily see that the object was not a cloud, balloon or plane. It stood perfectly still and the distinct sharpness of the edges eliminated it being a cloud as you could compare it to other clouds in the area.
We all watched as the stationery object defied cloud movement and all other rational or logical cross references we could use. Someone noticed an identical object about a pinkie width directly above the one we were watching. The one above slowly moved downward toward the original object until it was directly over the other nearly touching it.
After watching the object for a minute or two to eliminate any plausible explanation for what I was witnessing I went to get my camera and took 3 pictures. The 5 mega pixel Kodak photos were not distinct as the ones Stan took and only showed a white spot with no definition. At that time I left to tell others in the nearby building attending the conference about what was happening outside. By the time I returned both objects had left in different directions according to those watching it.
I served in the military in the mid- late 1960s in Naval Air Intelligence and was trained in aircraft identification. I am confident this was a physical object and not any kind of natural phenomenon. I have attached the 2 photos I took even though they are very poor quality compared to what we were visibly seeing.
Another odd note is that 6 individuals’ cell phones or watches were 1 hour off that morning plus another was 2 hours and another was off by 3 hours. The cell phone services were provided by at least 3 different services. No one had any explanation for this oddity.
Stayed and talked with my family and noticed orangish to red lights appear in the sky 3-4 times, no more than two at a time..
Asked my father-in-law who was in the Navy to pay attention to see if they were flares.
Then the lights appeared again but began to make multiple lights (6-8) forming a straight line in the SE to S sky.
He looked at me and said "that was no flare".
Indeed.
2002: Palo Alto, California
This is an interesting one. Metrocosm's map includes 10 stories, all with an AP wire writeup corresponding to the event, which describes a US Air Force missile test. Who do you believe?
white light and gaseous tail resembling a comet tracking through upper atmosphere, which exploded like a firework
I swear I saw this, and I was an Astronomy student, and I have no idea what the hell this was, but here it is. I was looking out my window to watch the sky darken (it was a little before dusk) and I saw what looked like light resembing what you would see when a plane comes in to land in the fog. Judging by the height (it seems as high as a jetliner would fly while cruising) I saw a light with a fog seeming to trail behind it, but I found it strange that if it were an aircraft with a light on in the upper atmosphere the "fog" would be opposite the direction it was moving. Anyway, as it travelled along, I was waiting for what I thought would be where the light would be pointed directly in my direction, when all of the sudden, it exploded into a faint, white fireball, that resembled what looks like a firework burst. All white, with symmetric white arms - just like what you'd see on July 4. Then they fissled out and it was gone. I have never seen anything like this. I'm guessing that it was a meteor, but it was moving so slow, and I have seen those before. There was no "fire trail" or sparks, and it was moving as if it were a jetliner. MAN, I wish I knew.
((NUFORC Note: Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB. Please see article. PD))
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Air Force Test Missile Out West
Fri Sep 20, 1:25 AM ET
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - An Air Force missile test Thursday provided a spectacular light show seen over California and much of the West, as far away as Utah and New Mexico.
The colorful contrail was seen soon after the unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile blasted off at 7:36 p.m. from an underground silo at the Vandenberg military base north of Santa Barbara.
"The smoke went up in spirals as the sun was setting and turned into an orange, amber color. It was like a flower going into bloom pretty quickly," said Simon Cox, who saw it from a restaurant terrace in Santa Barbara.
The missile traveled about 4,200 miles in about 30 minutes, striking a predetermined target at the Kwajalein Missile Range in the western chain of the Marshall Islands, the Air Force said.
Vandenberg spokeswoman Kelly Gabel said clear conditions were responsible for the spectacular light show.
"We do this two or three times a year, but because the weather was so perfect we decided to launch it early," Gabel said. As a result, people were still awake to see it, and although the sun had set, sunlight below the horizon glinted off unspent fuel particles and water droplets.
"Suddenly we're getting calls from people as far away as New Mexico who saw it and want to know what it is," Gabel said.
The mission was directed by the 576th Flight Test Squadron at Vandenberg and the 341th Space Wing and the 341st Space Wing, from Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.
The purpose was to test launch systems and the missile's accuracy and reliability.
If you answered that you believe the AP — we do, too. For now.
Although a modest shower, perhaps offering 5 meteors per hour, the Taurid shower is known for producing some dramatic fireballs.
Taurid fireball through light clouds – November 1, 2018 – by Eliot Herman in Tucson, Arizona. Notice the moon, just rising, on the left.
The South and North Taurid meteor showers aren’t known for their large numbers of meteors, but they do offer a high percentage of fireballs, or exceptionally bright meteors. This shower made a huge splash three years ago, in 2015, when there were many, many reports and photos featuring Taurid fireball sightings. Higher rates of Taurid fireballs appear to happen in seven-year cycles. Grand fireball displays did indeed take place in 2008 and 2015. No elevated levels of fireballs are expected in 2018, but the absence of moonlight will make this a fine year for watching the South Taurid shower on and around its expected peak date of November 5.
So watch out for Taurid meteors – and possible fireballs – starting now and throughout the weekend.
Taurid fireball on the evening of October 21, 2017 – 10:27 p.m. – from Joanne West at Gold Canyon, Arizona. Eliot Herman in Tucson caught this same meteor. Read more about the 2 photos.
The prime time viewing hours are from late night until dawn, with the peak viewing coming just after the midnight hour. In general, the South Taurids offer about five meteors per hour at their peak, but the North Taurid shower may add a few more meteors to the mix. How many you’ll see will depend on how far from city lights you are … and how bright the meteors are. If they’re bright enough, they’ll overcome skies beset by light pollution.
Taurid meteors radiate from the constellation Taurus, but they’ll appear in all parts of the sky.
The Taurid meteor stream consists of an extremely wide roadway of far-flung debris left behind by Comet 2P/Encke. When Earth travels through this belt of comet debris, bits and pieces of Comet 2P/Encke smash into the Earth’s upper atmosphere to vaporize as rather slow-moving Taurid meteors (28 km/17 miles per second).
Apparently, the original Taurid stream has been perturbed by Jupiter into two branches: South and North Taurids.
Bottom line: With no moonlight to ruin the show, we’re hoping to see at least a smattering of Taurid fireballs in 2018! It’s time to start watching for them. What to expect from the South Taurid shower, and when to watch.
The GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has discovered new details about the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole. This illustration visualizes some of them, chiefly newfound hot clumps of gas that orbit the black hole at 30 percent the speed of light. Credit: ESO/Gravity Consortium/L. Calçada
Just in time for Halloween, astronomers have delivered the best-yet view of a real-life cosmic monster—Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way. Or, rather, a view of hot clumps of gas that orbit it, teetering on the edge of oblivion. The results reveal new, previously unknown properties of our galaxy’s largest black hole and point the way toward a deeper understanding of gravity.
Black holes, like all truly terrifying monsters, can scarcely be comprehended, let alone seen. Even Einstein doubted they existed, despite his theory of general relativity predicting that they must. They are knots of gravitation bound so tightly that within them spacetime dissolves; spectral shadows so voracious they devour light itself. Yet they can be glimpsed indirectly, like apparitions at the corner of your eye. Most spectacularly, when they eat stars or other black holes they can give off gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of reality that scientists first directly detected in 2016. Scientists can also measure a black hole’s mass through swarms of stars orbiting around it—showing, for example, Sagittarius A* has somehow swallowed the equivalent of four million suns. (Those in other galaxies can be far larger, tipping the scales at billions of solar masses.) And, ironically, although black holes do not shine, the gas and dust that piles up in spinning accretion disks around their maws can be heated to billions of degrees, becoming hundreds of times more luminous than a star and occasionally ejecting even brighter sprays of radiation. When they come from supermassive black holes, those outbursts can shape and perhaps even sterilize a galactic host—and such black holes seem to squat at the center of every large galaxy. For more than 40 years astronomers have warily studied such circumstantial evidence like bones and ashes scattered at the threshold of a dragon’s lair.
Now, an international team of scientists has studied the Milky Way’s monster using an instrument called GRAVITY to combine the infrared light from four eight-meter telescopes at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. Combining light from multiple telescopes is a technique called interferometry, and can dramatically boost the sensitivity and precision of astronomical observations. The results appeared October 31 in Astronomy & Astrophysics. “This is a major breakthrough,” says Reinhard Genzel, an astrophysicist at Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and leader of the group. “We have observed the galactic center by using four telescopes as a gigantic single telescope with an effective 130-meter diameter to make interferometric images about a thousand times fainter than what has been done before.” This is not the first breakthrough from GRAVITY: In May of this year the team successfully measured the relativistic distortion of light from a star, S2, during the its closest approach to Sagittarius A* in its 16-year-orbit around the monstrous black hole.
This latest discovery unfolded during and shortly after those same observations of S2, when GRAVITY team members Oliver Pfuhl and Jason Dexter, both study co-authors at Max Planck, noticed three flares, or “hot spots,” that emanated from Sagittarius A*’s accretion disk between mid-May and late July. To appreciate the GRAVITY team’s feat, imagine looking up at the moon from the Earth and discerning on the lunar surface a quarter coin (Sagittarius A*—or at least its shadow) sitting on a beach ball decorated with Christmas lights (Sagittarius A*’s accretion disk and accompanying flares).
These hot spots are thought to be “magnetic thunderstorms” that occur when intense magnetic fields form filaments that snap apart and reconnect, releasing copious energy to heat nearby gas within a black hole’s accretion disk. Each hot spot is akin to a short-lived, 10-million-kilometer-wide lightbulb—after perhaps an hour, it cools and shears apart in the whirling, turbulent maelstrom. That would make studying them exceedingly challenging—particularly if their emissions were being warped and occluded by various extreme relativistic effects predicted to arise in the vicinity of a black hole. Those same effects, in turn, could be studied to put Einstein’s theory of gravity to increasingly stringent tests, potentially leading to new physics.
Such outbursts have been detected before, but for the first time GRAVITY allowed the astronomers to precisely measure the flares’ positions and motions before they dissipated, showing each one moved at 30 percent light-speed in a roughly 45-minute orbit around some unseen central object weighing four million suns. GRAVITY’s data also measured each flare’s polarization, which shifted in accordance with each spot’s motion through the disk’s powerful magnetic fields, further reinforcing the orbital interpretation. “When we saw the first one, we had to ask ourselves, ‘Is this real or not?’ but then we found two more,” Pfuhl says. “They all showed the same rotation, the same orientation and the same scale, which reassured us.”
When first presented with the data, Genzel initially reacted with shock. “I couldn’t believe my eyes,” he says. “No one believed we could do this—we didn’t really think we could do it, either—but there it was, this beautiful orbital motion.” Besides being fortunate enough to catch multiple flares in the act, the GRAVITY team also seems to have been blessed with a quirk of geometry—their best estimates of the hot spots’ orbits suggest Sagittarius A*’s accretion disk is coincidentally oriented almost face-on rather than edge-on to Earth, allowing astronomers to study its swirling hot spots much like meteorologists use satellite views to track thunderstorms in a hurricane. “This is like winning the lottery, because the a priori probability that you would see something like this face-on is very low,” Genzel says. “It almost seems that somebody has arranged this for us; I guess the galactic center is a place for lucky people.”
One person relatively unsurprised by the result is Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard University who was not directly involved with GRAVITY’s studies. More than a decade ago, while working with then-postdoc Avery Broderick (now at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada), Loeb developed models of hot spots around Sagittarius A* and suggested methods for observing their orbital motion. “Seeing is believing,” he says. “This is fully consistent with what we expected…. Most everyone I talked to about this back then regarded our hot spot model as naive, but amazingly enough nature has proved kinder than many of my colleagues.”
The most important overlap between such predictions and GRAVITY’s observations is that Sagittarius A*’s hot spots seem to be perched just above a long-predicted point of no return—an “innermost stable orbit” for material at the accretion disk’s inner cusp. Beyond this boundary any object will precipitously plunge down through the black hole’s event horizon—the proverbial end of the line past which even light cannot escape—effectively passing out of the observable universe and into the unknown. Because the exact location of any black hole’s innermost orbit depends on its most basic properties, GRAVITY’s measurement is telling us something profound and new about Sagittarius A*. “By themselves, black holes are simple objects—mass, spin and [electric] charge is all you get,” says Andrea Ghez, an astronomer at the University of California, Los Angeles, who leads a team that has used the twin Keck telescopes in Hawaii to compete with Genzel’s group for more than a decade. “The innermost stable orbit is tied to the black hole’s mass and spin—and we already know [Sagittarius A*’s] mass—so if you believe the hot spot is emitting from there, you could pin this black hole’s spin and measure this fundamental property. That fundamental property is tied to how these things grow, which tells you how they form and evolve over time. Black holes are basic constituents of our universe, so when you study them, you are asking about the building blocks of the cosmos.”
Unfortunately, for now further empirical validation of GRAVITY’s result may be limited to that instrument alone. In 2012 NASA pulled the plug on an initiative to give the Keck telescopes an interferometric capability similar to that used by GRAVITY on the Very Large Telescope; without it, independent observations—and confirmation—from Ghez’s team will likely have to wait until sometime in the 2020s when two as-yet-unbuilt 30-meter-class U.S. observatories, the Giant Magellan Telescope and the Thirty Meter Telescope, are slated to debut.
In the meantime, GRAVITY will observe the galactic center for more flares beginning next spring, and additional corroboration may come from the realm of radio astronomy. The Event Horizon Telescope, which seeks to image the enigmatic shadow of Sagittarius A* by interferometrically linking radio observatories from around the world, should soon publish early results from its first full-scale observing run performed last year. That work probes much closer to the black hole, where gravity traps light in a revolving ring just outside the event horizon. But according to the project’s director, Sheperd Doeleman, those observations might also reveal radio blips produced by the circulation of hot spots farther out.
“Whether you’re looking at them in infrared or radio or gravitational waves, black holes really are the crux, one of the universe’s deepest and most profound mysteries,” Doeleman says. “How can there be a one-way doorway out of our universe? What does that even mean? Right now we are still just seeing bones outside the dragon’s lair—we haven’t seen the dragon.”
WETENSCHAPVlak na de ruimtetelescoop Kepler verliezen de Verenigde Staten een tweede verkenner. De ruimtesonde Dawn zit zonder brandstof en doet het niet meer.
De Dawn is in 2007 gelanceerd. Hij onderzocht de grote rotsblokken Vesta en Ceres. Die liggen tussen Mars en Jupiter en draaien in een baan rond de zon. Het onderzoek moest wetenschappers meer leren over het ontstaan van ons zonnestelsel. Anders dan de aarde zijn de rotsblokken nooit uitgegroeid tot echte planeten.
Sinds 2015 draait de sonde rond Ceres. Die rots bevat mogelijk ingrediënten voor het ontstaan van leven. Die mogen niet vervuild worden en daarom is ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA heel voorzichtig. De vluchtleiding laat de sonde niet crashen op de rots, maar laat hem nog zeker twintig en mogelijk vijftig jaar lang eromheen draaien. Eerder deze week maakte de NASA het einde van de ruimtetelescoop Kepler bekend. Ook daar is de brandstof op. De Kepler heeft sinds het begin van de missie in maart 2009 ongeveer 2.600 planeten ontdekt buiten ons zonnestelsel.
En er dreigt nog een derde Amerikaanse missie af te lopen. De Opportunity, een karretje dat veertien jaar lang op Mars rondreed, heeft al tijden niets meer van zich laten horen. Sinds een maandenlange stofstorm is het stil. Misschien is de wagen onherstelbaar beschadigd of is de accu leeg.
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Could Oumuamua Be an Extra-Terrestrial Solar Sail?
Could Oumuamua Be an Extra-Terrestrial Solar Sail?
On October 19th, 2017, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System-1 (Pan-STARRS-1) in Hawaii announced the first-ever detection of an interstellar asteroid, named 1I/2017 U1 (aka. ‘Oumuamua). In the months that followed, multiple follow-up observations were conducted that allowed astronomers to get a better idea of its size and shape, while also revealing that it had the characteristics of both a comet and an asteroid.
Interestingly enough, there has also been some speculation that based on its shape, ‘Oumuamua might actually be an interstellar spacecraft (Breakthrough Listen even monitored it for signs of radio signals!). A new study by a pair of astronomers from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has taken it a step further, suggesting that ‘Oumuamua may actually be a light sail of extra-terrestrial origin.
The study – “Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain ‘Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?”, which recently appeared online – was conducted by Shmuel Bialy and Prof. Abraham Loeb. Whereas Bialy is a postdoctoral researcher at the CfA’s Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC), Prof. Loeb is the director of the ITC, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, and the head chair of the Breakthrough Starshot Advisory Committee.
Artist’s impression of the first interstellar asteroid/comet, “Oumuamua”. This unique object was discovered on 19 October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
To recap, ‘Oumuamua was first spotted by the Pan-STARRS-1 survey 40 days after it made its closest pass to the Sun (on September 9th, 2017). At this point, it was about 0.25 AU from the Sun (one-quarter the distance between Earth and the Sun), and already on its way out of the Solar System. In that time, astronomers noted that it appeared to have a high density (indicative of a rocky and metallic composition) and that it was spinning rapidly.
While it did not show any signs of outgassing as it passed close to our Sun (which would have indicated that it was a comet), a research team was able to obtain spectra that indicated that ‘Oumuamua was more icy than previously thought. Then, as it began to leave the Solar System, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped some final images of ‘Oumuamua that revealed some unexpected behavior.
After examining the images, another international research team discovered that ‘Oumuamua had increased in velocity, rather than slowing down as expected. The most likely explanation, they claimed, was that ‘Oumuamua was venting material from its surface due to solar heating (aka. outgassing). The release of this material, which is consistent with how a comet behaves, would give ‘Oumuamua the steady push it needed to achieve this boost in velocity.
To this, Bialy and Loeb offer a counter-explanation. If ‘Oumuamua were in fact a comet, why then did it not experience outgassing when it was closest to our Sun? In addition, they cite other research that showed that if outgassing were responsible for the acceleration, it would have also caused a rapid evolution in ‘Oumuamua’s spin (which was not observed).
Basically, Bialy and Loeb consider the possibility that ‘Oumuamua could in fact be a light sail, a form of spacecraft that relies on radiation pressure to generate propulsion – similar to what Breakthrough Starshot is working on. Similar to what is planned for Starshot, this light sail may been sent from another civilization to study our Solar System and look for signs of life. As Prof. Loeb explained to Universe Today via email:
“We explain the excess acceleration of `Oumuamua away from the Sun as the result of the force that the Sunlight exerts on its surface. For this force to explain measured excess acceleration, the object needs to be extremely thin, of order a fraction of a millimeter in thickness but tens of meters in size. This makes the object lightweight for its surface area and allows it to act as a light-sail. Its origin could be either natural (in the interstellar medium or proto-planetary disks) or artificial (as a probe sent for a reconnaissance mission into the inner region of the Solar System).”
Based on this, Bialy and Loeb went about calculating the likely shape, thickness, and mass-to-area ratio that such an artificial object would have. They also attempted to determine whether this object would be able to survive in interstellar space, and whether or not it would be able to withstand the tensile stresses caused by rotation and tidal forces.
What they found was that a sail that was only a fraction of a millimeter thick (0.3-0.9 mm) would be sufficient for a sheet of solid material to survive the journey through the entire galaxy – though this depends greatly on ‘Oumuamuam’s mass density (which is not well-contrained). Thick or thin, this sail would be able to withstand collisions with dust-grains and gas that permeate the interstellar medium, as well as centrifugal and tidal forces.
Artist concept of lightsail craft approaching the potentially habitable exoplanet Proxima b. Credit: PHL @ UPR Arecibo
As for what an extra-terrestrial light sail would be doing in our Solar System, Bialy and Loeb offer some possible explanations for that. First, they suggest that the probe may actually be a defunct sail floating under the influence of gravity and stellar radiation, similar to debris from ship wrecks floating in the ocean. This would help explain why Breakthrough Listen found no evidence of radio transmissions.
Loeb further illustrated this idea in a recent article he penned forScientific American, where he suggested that ‘Oumuamua could be the first known case of an artificial relic which floated into our Solar System from interstellar space. What’s more, he notes that lightsails with similar dimensions have been designed and constructed by humans, including the Japanese-designed IKAROS project and the Starshot Initiative with which he is involved.
“This opportunity establishes a potential foundation for a new frontier of space archaeology, namely the study of relics from past civilizations in space,” Loeb wrote. “Finding evidence for space junk of artificial origin would provide an affirmative answer to the age-old question ‘Are we alone?’. This would have a dramatic impact on our culture and add a new cosmic perspective to the significance of human activity.”
On the other hand, as Loeb told Universe Today, ‘Oumuamua could be an active piece of alien technology that came to explore our Solar System, the same way we hope to explore Alpha Centauri using Starshot and similar technologies:
“The alternative is to imagine that `Oumuamua was on a reconnaissance mission. The reason I contemplate the reconnaissance possibility is that the assumption that `Oumumua followed a random orbit requires the production of ~10^{15} such objects per star in our galaxy. This abundance is up to a hundred million times more than expected from the Solar System, based on a calculation that we did back in 2009. A surprisingly high overabundance, unless `Oumuamua is a targeted probe on a reconnaissance mission and not a member of a random population of objects.”
IKAROS spaceprobe with solar sail in flight (artist’s depiction) showing a typical square sail configuration. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Andrzej Mirecki
According to Loeb, that there’s also the fact that ‘Oumuamua’s orbit brought it to within 0.25 AU of the Sun, which is a good orbit for intercepting Earth without experiencing too much solar irradiation. In addition, it came to within 0.15 AU of Earth, which could have been the result of orbital corrections designed to facilitate a flyby.
Alternately, he states that it is possible that hundreds of such probes could be sent so that one of them got close enough to Earth to study it. The fact that the Pan STARRS-1 survey barely detected ‘Oumuamua at its closest approach could be seen as an indication that there are many other such objects that were not detected, bolstering the case for ‘Oumuamua being one of many such probes.
Considering that astronomers recently concluded that our Solar System has likely captured thousands of interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua, this opens the possibility for future detections which could help prove (or disprove) the case for an interstellar light sail.
Naturally, Bialy and Loeb acknowledge that are still too many unknowns to say with any certainty what ‘Oumuamua really is. And even if it does happen to be a piece of natural rock, all other asteroids and comets that have previously been detected have had mass-to-area ratios orders of magnitude larger than the current estimates for ’Oumuamua.
Oumuamua as it appeared using the William Herschel Telescope on the night of October 29th, 2017. Credit: Queen’s University Belfast/William Herschel Telescope
That, and the fact that radiation pressure appears to be capable of accelerating it, would mean that ‘Oumuamua represents a new class of thin interstellar material that has never before been seen. If true, that opens up a whole new set of mysteries, such as how such material was produced and by what (or whom).
While it has been beyond the reach of our telescopes for almost a year now, ‘Oumuamua is sure to remain the subject of intense study for many years to come. And you can bet astronomers will be on the lookout for more of them! After all, “the Ramans do everything in threes”, right?
Is Oumuamua een buitenaards zonnezeil? Deze astronomen suggereren van wel
Is Oumuamua een buitenaards zonnezeil? Deze astronomen suggereren van wel
Is het langwerpige, roodkleurige object van 400 meter lang en 40 meter breed dat in oktober vorig jaar werd gespot door astronomen een buitenaards zonnezeil? Sommige wetenschappers denken van wel.
Sterrenkundigen van het Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) suggereren in een nieuw onderzoek dat het object, Oumuamua geheten, mogelijk een buitenaards lichtzeil is.
Algemeen wordt aangenomen dat Oumuamua een komeet is, maar daar zijn Shmuel Bialy en professor Abraham Loeb het niet mee eens.
Uitgassing
“Als het een komeet was, waarom werden er dan geen sporen van uitgassing waargenomen toen hij het dichtst bij onze zon stond?” vroegen ze.
En als uitgassing verantwoordelijk wordt gehouden voor de versnelling, dan moet Oumuamua ook sneller rond zijn as zijn gaan draaien (iets wat niet is waargenomen), aldus het tweetal.
Bialy en Loeb houden rekening met de mogelijkheid dat Oumuamua een lichtzeil is, een ruimteschip dat voor zijn aandrijving afhankelijk is van stralingsdruk.
Tekenen van leven
Dit lichtzeil is mogelijk door een andere beschaving gestuurd om ons zonnestelsel te verkennen en te zoeken naar tekenen van leven.
Zo’n zeil is volgens de astronomen theoretisch gezien in staat om de reis door het sterrenstelsel te overleven.
Het is mogelijk dat de sonde niet langer werkzaam is en onder invloed van de zwaartekracht en straling door de ruimte vliegt.
Buitenaardse radiogolven
Dit zou kunnen verklaren waarom onderzoekers niets hoorden toen ze het sigaarvormige object scanden op buitenaardse radiogolven.
Het is ook goed mogelijk dat Oumuamua een buitenaardse sonde is die nog wel werkt en die gebruikt wordt door aliens om het zonnestelsel te verkennen, stelt Loeb.
The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. Continuing on their more-than-41-year journey since their 1977 launches, they each are much farther away from Earth and the sun than Pluto.
In August 2012, Voyager 1 made the historic entry into interstellar space, the region between stars, filled with material ejected by the death of nearby stars millions of years ago.
Scientists hope to learn more about this region when Voyager 2, in the “heliosheath" — the outermost layer of the heliosphere where the solar wind is slowed by the pressure of interstellar medium — also reaches interstellar space.
Both spacecraft are still sending scientific information about their surroundings through the Deep Space Network, or DSN.
In 1977, twin golden records (Phonograph records, 12-inch gold-plated copper disks) were sent into space on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.
Still sailing through space at nearly 60,000 km per hour, the records contain sound, songs, and images from earth.
But how did NASA include images on an analog record? Here, we decoded the audio, and see the images the way that aliens were intended to see them.
It’s another Great Pyramid “This could explain everything!” moment. Researchers digging at an alabaster quarry where the Egyptians carved out the stones used for the massive construction project have uncovered the remains of what appears to be a ramp, stairs and pole holes that helped workers move the huge stones to the surface where they were then transported to the pyramid site at Giza. While similar systems have been found at limestone quarries, this is the first in an alabaster mine and shows that this primitive yet effective technology dates back to Cheops.
“The mission successfully discovered a unique system to pull and transfer the stone blocks from the bottom of the quarry after removing the debris used to cover it which can be dated to the reign of King Khufu of the 4th Dynasty. The moving system consists of the central ramp surrounded by two set of stairs contain poles holes which help lifting the alabaster stone block through at least 20% coarse ramp.”
Dr. Yannis Gourdon of the Institut Français d’Archéologie orientale is the co-director, with Dr. Roland Enmarch ot the University of Liverpool), of the Hatnub Epigraphic Projectwhose purpose is “recording texts commemorating pharaonic expeditions to the Egyptian alabaster quarries at Hatnub (in the desert c. 18km south-east of Amarna).” He revealed the new discovery there in the Luxor Times (including photos) and explains in LiveScience that the stones were first placed on a sled before being pulled out at a 20-degree angle. In addition to the ramp system, the researchers also found inscriptions and drawings linking the quarry to Cheops/Khufu.
The ramp system may have been used both at the quarry and the construction site
“There are at least 100 inscriptions discovered commemorating pharaonic expeditions to the alabaster quarries at Hatnub from the Old Kingdom to the New Kingdom. Studying the inscriptions on the detected construction devices, we came to the conclusion that this ramp belongs, at a minimum, to the reign of Pharaoh Cheops, who ordered the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza. This means that even in the times of Cheops, the ancient Egyptians knew how to move huge stone blocks even on very steep slopes.”
While the outside of the Great Pyramid is made of 2.3 metric ton limestone blocks, some alabaster was also used on the exterior but its primary use was for flooring, statues and coffins. Mustafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, confirms that this is the first evidence that shows how heavy blocks were lifted and moved from quarries.
A ramp is so much more elegant
Unfortunately, the discovery is tempered by bad news. The Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale web site points out that the quarry is now known to the general public and is in danger of being turned into a working operation again, eventually destroying this and other evidence of how the pyramids were built. It’s hoped that this can at least be delayed until researchers learn how this ramp system was used to build the Great Pyramid … not to mention what happened in between to get the stones from one location to the other.
For all of the civilizations that have shared this lump of rock we call Earth with us, it is often a sobering thought to realize that a great many of them have actually faded into the oblivion of forgotten history, forever lost to the eternal midnight of vanished knowledge that we can no longer see into. Often these civilizations were magnificent, sprawling, and advanced, yet they have nevertheless managed to melt away into the abyssal depths of time. These are the civilizations that have for whatever reasons become lost to us, invisible to our efforts to gaze upon them and learn more about them, as hard as we try. Whether it be due to a lack of written records, their sudden disappearances, or their often baffling monuments that they have left behind, these peoples have managed to defy understanding, leaving only perplexing clues in their passing. One such civilization once lived upon the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, a once proud people who have left behind mysterious structures and monuments that are as enormous as they are inscrutable.
-Going back into the mists of time, from the Bronze Age of around the 18th century BC, the island of Sardinia, in the Mediterranean Sea, was once ruled by the mysterious Nuragic civilization. This lost culture lasted until the time of the Romans, who came to the island in 238 BC, after which the enigmatic Nuragic faded into obscurity and out of existence. The Nuragic civilization left behind no written history of their people, merely romanticized and exaggerated tales told by the Greeks and Romans, and they largely remain a perplexing mystery. One of the only legacies they did leave imprinted upon the land and its history are the many megalithic stone structures they left behind, such as the nuraghe, which are ancient fort-like structures with their purposes mysterious and long lost to time, numbering in the thousands, scattered all around the Sardinian landscape. There are also the mysterious immense stone tombs that dot the landscape here, called the Tomba dei gigantic, or “The Tombs of Giants,” due to their gigantic size.
Nuragic ruins
These massive funerary monuments were constructed of enormous slabs or blocks that rose up to 13 feet high which were arranged around an even bigger central stele or portal stone with a doorway carved into it, to form corridors and rooms or chambers that can measure as much as 50 feet in length. The most famous one of these giant’s tombs is one that can be found at a place called Coddu Vecchiu, in Arzachena, northern Sardinia, and which was built between the years of 1800 to 1600 BC and first uncovered in 1966. The tomb at Coddu Vecchiu has a forecourt made of eleven granite stones standing in a semi-circle, and is composed of a central stele standing 13 feet high, which marks the entrance to the tomb, and a corridor within measuring 33 feet long.
This tomb and others like it have many legends attached to them. Since they were found to hold within them large numbers of human remains, in past ages they were said to be the leftovers from some wicked giant’s meal of human flesh, and other lore said that they served as the graves or giants or even their residences. Yet in fact they were most likely used as massive public communal graves, with the doorways serving as a passage through the barrier to the afterlife, but this doesn’t make them any less mysterious, as the rituals involved with creating them and the significance of their designs are poorly understood, and we know little about the people who made them.
One interesting idea is that the arrangement of the stones was designed to channel the telluric current and magnetic forces of the surrounding granite and energy lines, possibly for the purpose of rejuvenation and regeneration, or to provide a smoother transition to the afterlife. It is speculated that these tombs were perhaps purposefully built over earth energy lines, that the semicircular layout would focus these powers, and that not only would the dead would come here, but also the sick or wounded, hoping that these mysterious forces would heal them. This has been somewhat supported by the many visitors to such tombs who have reported feeling invigorated while there, or of feeling a thrumming energy in the air and the stone. Did this ancient people understand these forces and seek to harness them through the construction of these gigantic toms It is unclear, and for now the exact nature of the Tombs of Giants remains a mystery.
The Tomb of Giants at Coddu Vecchiu
In addition to Tombs of Giants, Sardinia has another mystery of actual giants, or at least statues of them. In 1974, some random, nondescript farmland near Monte Prama yielded quite an amazing find. There in the earth were found the broken remains of a total of over 40 massive statues, crafted into the likenesses of armored warriors, each around 2 meters in height and fashioned from solid stone, which had been abandoned there to the elements for millennia. Oddly, the statues do not appear human, but rather have outlandish and creepy visages with large concentric circles for eyes and very small, sometimes nonexistent mouths, as well as elongated necks, which along with their fierce weaponry and armor lend them a rather unsettling and formidable appearance.
The statues, which were dubbed the Kolossoi, were most certainly made by the Nuragic civilization, and were thought to have possibly been constructed as intimidating warrior guardians of the dead for a nearby necropolis, but this is uncertain, as is the reason why they look the way they do. At the time, it was quite a groundbreaking discovery, as no other such collection of larger than life sized sculptures had ever been found in Europe, and they were enigmatic in their design and purpose. Despite this, the statues were whisked away and stored in a museum vault, where they would sit in the darkness much as they had for centuries, collecting dust until decades later, when in 2006 researchers sort of rediscovered them and began piecing together some of the broken parts, a daunting task, especially since many of the fragments are missing.
One of the Sardinia giants
The reconstruction work took a total of 4 years, and 25 of the ancient warrior statues were restored to some semblance of the way they might have once looked, complete with bows, shields, swords, armor, and horned helmets. In 2014, these amazing statues were put on display at the national archaeological museum, in Cagliari, in southern Sardinia, much to the awe and amazement of visitors. The statues themselves, although finally brought into the light after so long, still keep their mysteries close. No one is really sure why they were made, how they were once arranged, or even exactly where they originally stood, and they remain another mystery of Sardinia’s lost Nuragic people.
These mysteries have managed to remain elusive and murky, the remnants of a culture who left little in the way of information about themselves except these massive stone structures and statues, practically the only evidence that they ever even existed at all. Yet even though we have these relics of the past to use in order to try and peer through the window of history, that window remains rather foggy, what lies beyond indistinct and fleeting. The Tombs of Giants, giant warrior statues, and other such structures scattered about Sardinia have managed to remain as cryptic puzzles that fire the imagination and offer hints, but no real answers, the people who made them just as mysterious as they ever were, their culture and ways lost to time even as their grand, giant constructions live on.
Massive triangle hovering above Selma, North Carolina 31-Oct-2018
Massive triangle hovering above Selma, North Carolina 31-Oct-2018
Here’s one new video of a massive triangle hovering above Selma in North Carolina. This happened yesterday.
Witness report:
Massive triangle hovered over my house. Was walking my dog and noticed some strange red lights in the sky, they were shaped like a triangle. I had my phone in my hand so I filmed the whole event. It was a massive triangle shaped craft, at first i thought it was a group of planes but i quickly dismissed that. The object was huge and was blocking out the stars as it passed, there was no sound.
Alien discovery: UFO seen WITHDRAWING energy from the sun
Alien discovery: UFO seen WITHDRAWING energy from the sun
A UFO as big as the Earth and shaped like a cube has been spotted near the sun, leading conspiracy theorists to believe it was using the star to refuel.
Alien discovery: UFO seen WITHDRAWING energy from the sun
(Image: NASA)
The strange cube-like object was spotted on NASA cameras, sending alien enthusiasts into a frenzy.
The UFO was spotted on NASA’s SOHO camera Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite by Scott C Waring, author of website UFO Sightings Daily.
The cube-UFO looks as if it has a huge plume coming out of the top, which may be being used to withdraw energy from the sun so that it can propel itself into deep space, according to a theory from Mr Waring.
He writes on UFO Sightings Daily: “The UFO has a yellowish plume as if its been using the sun’s material as a propulsion of some sort.
"It is strange that NASA has not made some kind of announcement about this UFO since every sun camera in the world of astronomy probably caught it.”
This is not the first time an alleged alien spaceship has been spotted near the sun.
In early September, Maria Hill from Salem, Indiana, as snapping images of the sun believes she saw a huge UFO followed by a massive fleet of smaller crafts passing behind.
The UFO is relatively large
(Image: NASA)
Ms Hill wrote on Facebook alongside the images: “This is what showed up in my camera after I took a picture of the sun in the eastern sky this morning. iPhone 8 with a camera lens adapter.
“A green circular door-like object is at the centre of the vortex/worm hole and a serpent snake at the top right above it, by a circular disc. I am sure this has a symbolic meaning with the snake and the disc.”
Two unexplained UFO sightings in Canada in the ’60s still draw tourists to the wilds of Manitoba and the Nova Scotia coast to puzzle over the incidents—and yes, enjoy the scenery.
Jennifer Bain
Jennifer Bain
Driving the Extraterrestrial Highway with a detour to Area 51 is a perfectly legit reason to visit Nevada, and we all know why people go to Roswell, New Mexico. But Canada?
Yes, Canada, too, has a couple of top-tier UFO sites worth checking out, and both also happen to be located in picturesque, tourist-friendly settings.
Horseback riding to a UFO encounter site in the Manitoba woods is a mind-expanding outing. And at a modest interpretive center in a Nova Scotia fishing village, talking to a guy who actually saw an unidentified flying object crash into the ocean makes things real.
“Canada’s UFO guy,” Chris Rutkowski, has a diplomatic take on the polite rivalry between the country’s two best-documented sightings.
The Falcon Lake encounter in Manitoba generated hundreds of official documents, from police and doctors to atomic energy experts. There was only one witness, but he endured bizarre injuries.
The Shag Harbour sighting in Nova Scotia, Rutkowski reasons, didn’t produce as many documents, but the police, coast guard, and air force were involved from the start—and there were multiple witnesses.
Both cases happened in 1967 and remain unexplained. Both deserve the same name recognition enjoyed by Roswell. Neither has aggressively courted attention (it’s Canada) but welcome the curious.
If it feels like UFO sightings are waning, they’re not.
Falcon Lake UFO binder.
JENNIFER BAIN
“There still is a desire to think we’re not alone in the universe,” says Rutkowski, a Manitoba science writer who has helmed the annual Canadian UFO survey since 1989. There were 1,101 sightings in Canada last year—an average of three a day. A tantalizing 8 percent were deemed unexplained.
Still, none have the complexity of Falcon Lake, a case that Rutkowski will go out on a limb and “argue that in some ways it was better than Roswell.”
On May 20, 1967, industrial mechanic Stefan Michalak went amateur prospecting for precious metals in Whiteshell Provincial Park about 90 minutes east of Winnipeg.
As he ate lunch alone in the woods, two “cigar-shaped objects with humps” appeared and one landed nearby. He studied and sketched it, heard muffled voices and figured it was an experimental U.S. military craft. When he touched the craft, the heat burned his glove. The craft took off, knocking him to the ground, setting his shirt and undershirt ablaze and leaving him with significant chest burns from a beam of heat. A bizarre, grid-like burn erupted on his stomach. There are photos of it and of the marks left at the site.
Michalak was treated in a Winnipeg hospital and at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota as strange electrical smells oozed out of his body. Canadian and American police and military authorities conducted extensive investigations.
“No explanation,” they all concluded. Michalak, a Polish immigrant whose story never wavered, died in 1999. It should be remembered that UFO stands for unidentified flying object—the words alien and extraterrestrial aren’t part of the definition.
Flash forward to 2018 and young couple Devin and Kendra Imrie runFalcon Beach Ranch, offering cabin stays and horseback rides, including one that goes to the encounter site.
“Everyone always asks if I’ve seen anything and I always have to say I haven’t, unfortunately,” Devin admits. “It would be better if I had a great UFO story.”
Well, he does. It’s just not his own.
Devin’s dad bought the ranch in 1978 and he grew up on the story. The remote site was long forgotten—or deliberately ignored—until Unsolved Mysteries came calling for a 1992 episode. It’s tough to drive or walk through the dense bush and swampy land to the site, so horses do the best job until you must dismount and walk the final few feet to a flat, rocky area by a quiet pond.
“Even if you’re not into UFOs, it’s a beautiful ride and a beautiful location,” points out Devin on my two-hour ride. “The site itself is totally pristine. Not even a plaque.”
“Well, it would be nice to add a plaque.”
There’s no word on whether the government is game to do that in a provincial park.
For last year’s 50th anniversary weekend, the Imries put on extra rides and attracted “some really keen UFO folks,” including one with a Geiger counter.
Devin brings a tattered black binder full of old clippings, notes andsketches on all UFO rides. He sells some UFO paraphernalia in his western-themed gift shop, but the Laughing Loon in town sells more.
The federal government has taken a recent shine to the Falcon Lake mystery. The Royal Canadian Mint just released a $20 silver collector coin in April. All 4,000 coins quickly sold out—at $129.95 a pop.
“As soon as this one launched, it spread like wildfire,” confirms the coin’s product manager, Erica Maga.
Ontario illustrator Joel Kimmel captures Michalak knocked on his back, one arm pointed skyward, as a saucer-like craft takes off. The ovoid (egg-shaped) coin came with a black light flashlight that makes it glow in the dark with a reddish-purple craft and yellow beam-like blast.
In Canada, collector coins highlight serious things, like anniversaries, natural heritage, history, and achievements, but also interesting unique Canadian experiences. Maga, for one, was “really thrilled” with the UFO coin and the “reception it has received.”
What intrigues me about 1967—Canada’s centennial year—is that it links to two more significant UFO moments.
St. Paul, Alberta built the world’s first UFO landing pad in June that year, correctly betting that it would draw people to the town two hours northeast of Edmonton. Queen Elizabeth and Mother Teresa are among those who have dropped by, though perhaps for other reasons. There is a UFO exhibit and apparently a UFO hotline, although nobody can tell me what the number is.
On Canada’s east coast, two-and-half hours south of Halifax, the fishing village of Shag Harbour makes the most of its Oct. 4, 1967 brush with a UFO.
That evening, a number of people (including a commercial airline pilot) spotted an object with flashing lights hovering over the ocean and feared it was an aircraft in trouble. One police officer even glimpsed the strange object before it crashed, changed shape, and glowed in the water. But rescue boats found only a massive yellow foam slick. Navy divers turned up nothing. No military or civilian aircraft were ever reported missing.
Now one can ponder the case from an ocean-side bench beside an old gazebo and a new lobster sculpture painted as an alien. The volunteer Shag Harbour UFO Incident Society hosts an annual conference that this year drew the diving and filmmaking grandchildren of legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau and boasted hotspot bus tours and crash site boat trips.
Easier to access is the society’s seasonal interpretive center with a $2 entry fee.
“It’s not a museum,” stresses society president and retired fisherman Laurie Wickens. “You’ve got nothing to show people. All you’ve got is a story.”
He called police after spotting something strange in the sky and then in the ocean. The yellow foam was gone by the time his rescue boat pulled up, and “nobody saw any little green men.”
To support the non-profit society, I load up on books about the incident, a retro mug, a hand-painted rock and—best of all—a postcard with an actual postage stamp about the UFO sighting. Wickens promises to pop the card in the mail so the post office can then put the government-sanctioned “Shag Harbour: Home of the ’67 UFO Visit” cancellation stamp on it.
Wickens shows me around the one-room center, with typed witness stories taped to the walls and tables full of newspaper clippings, UFO books, and even a child’s class project on the famous story.
How does Wickens feel about telling the same story for 51 years and counting, I ask.
“Whether you like it or not, you’re part of it,” he replies. “I’ll leave it at that.”
He’s confident that Shag Harbour will soon get its own collector coin like Falcon Lake did. Rutkowski, meanwhile, firmly believes that both UFO encounters “deserve films.”
Mysterious ‘Pterodactyl’ UFO casting shadow over clouds ‘could be cloaked spaceship’
Mysterious ‘Pterodactyl’ UFO casting shadow over clouds ‘could be cloaked spaceship’
Jeff Parsons
A mysterious craft travelling over a US Air Force base in Ohio has drawn comparisons with an extinct flying dinosaur.
Conspiracy theorists are locked in debate over whether the ‘Pterodactyl’ UFO is an alien craft visiting us from another planet.
‘The UFO is also throwing a shadow onto the cloud below…which is 100% amazing, because this means that UFO was freaking huge,’ wrote paranormal expert Scott C. Waring on his website UFO Sightings Daily ‘
I’m talking several times bigger than a 747.
‘This UFO must have been cloaked because something that big would normally stand out.’
(Picture: Scott Waring/ufosightingsdaily.com)
(Picture: Scott Waring/ufosightingsdaily.com)
‘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.’
A video posted to YouTube that dives in to the sighting has racked up over 5,000 views in less than a week.
Weird ufo. The sightings are increasing worldwide. We are definitely not alone,’ commented YouTube user Xavier Perkins.
The original image of the UFO was snapped just after 4pm on September 3 over Mansfield Lahm Air National Guard Base in Ohio, USA. According to the original photographer, who submitted the photo to a US non-profit organisation called the Mutual UFO Network, the craft made no noise as it travelled overhead.
(Picture: Scott Waring/ufosightingsdaily.com)
In fact, it was only discovered when looking back at the original photo. Magnification shows that the craft created a shadow on a cloud it was flying past.
‘I checked with numerous personnel at the 179th Air Lift Wing, the C-130 facility in Mansfield. No one indicated that there were any unusual arrivals of fly-bys at Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport,’ read a caption on the photo.
Some have speculated that it could be some kind of stealth fighter testing conducted by the US Air Force.
Witches, ghosts and ghouls don't just haunt the Earth on Halloween night — such spooky figures exist throughout the universe, too. Here are some of the most spine-chilling space photos to scare your pants off this Halloween. HERE: This glowing, green zombie-like hand reaches through the depths of space to grab a bright-red cloud of light. Is this a giant space zombie grabbing some dinner? Not quite — NASA calls this nebula the "Hand of God." It is actually a pulsar wind nebula, produced by the dense remnant of a star that exploded in a supernova.
Credit: A. Fabian (IoA Cambridge) et al., NASA
2. Screaming Skull
Yikes! This ghastly face in space appears to be screaming while suffering through a miserable, fiery death. But no real skulls were harmed in the making of this photo. It's actually an X-ray image of cluster of galaxies known as the Perseus Cluster.
Credit: Adam Block, NOAO, AURA, NSF
3. Space Ghosts
Ghastly figures appear to be fighting to escape from this cloud of interstellar gas and dust called SH2-136. The illuminated dark nebula is about 1,200 light-years away, towards the constellation Cepheus.
Credit: NAIC-Arecibo/NSF
4. Halloween Skull in Space
How did this skull wind up in space? A radar image of asteroid 2015 TB145, which NASA says is likely a dead comet, was captured using the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico on Oct. 30, 2015. The skull-shaped asteroid flew by Earth last Halloween (Oct. 31).
Credit: Gemini South GMOS/Travis Rector/U. of Alaska Anchorage
5. Zombie Pac-Man Nebula
An ominous-looking nebula named NGC 246 lurks in the constellation Cetus about 1,600 light-years away from Earth. It is nicknamed the "Skull Nebula," but some astronomers call it the "Pac-Man Nebula." It appears to be taking a bite out of space.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
6. Witch Head Nebula
A witch appears to be cackling out into space in this eerie image from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The infrared portrait shows the Witch Head nebula, named after its resemblance to the profile of a wicked witch.
Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Kalas, J. Graham, E. Chiang, E. Kite (University of California, Berkeley), M. Clampin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. Fitzgerald (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), and K. Stapelfeldt and J. Krist (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
7. Eye of Sauron is Watching You
This evil eye-shaped nebula, formally named Fomalhaut, strikes an eerie resemblance to the fearful Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings series. In the books, Tolkien described the eye as being "rimmed with fire... watchful and intent, and the black slit of its pupil opened up on a pit, a window into nothing."
Credit: NASA
8. The Face on Mars
Though we have yet to find any aliens on Mars, NASA did discover this creepy human face on the Red Planet. The original "Face on Mars" image was taken by NASA's Viking 1 orbiter, in grey scale, on July, 25 1976. NASA assures that the face is simply a peculiar pile of rocks — but that doesn't make it any less spooky!
Credit: Mohammad Heydari-Malayeri (Observatoire de Paris) et al., ESA, NASA
9. Ghost Head Nebula
The Ghost Head Nebula's two flaming-hot eyes peer at us all the way from the Magellanic cloud, located about 170,000 light-years away from Earth. Its glowing eyes are star-forming regions with hot blobs of hydrogen and oxygen.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Wisc.
10. Black Widow Nebula
This giant, red space spider is the biggest black widow we've ever seen! But don't worry — it won't bite. It's actually just a nebula, or a cloud of interstellar gas and dust.
Credit: NASA/CXC/Chinese Academy of Sciences/F. Lu et al
11. Zombie Star Explodes Back to Life
This zombie star named Tycho was once a white dwarf, or the remnants of an exploding supernova. The dead star gobbled up too much mass from another nearby star and exploded again in what's called a Type Ia supernova.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
12. Extreme Pumpkin Stars
NASA has discovered 18 strange stars that spin so fast that their spherical shape is squashed into the shape of a pumpkin. These rapidly-spinning stars blast X-rays into space at rates of up to thousands of times as much as our sun.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has had a big week: on Monday (Oct. 29) it broke two world records and on Wednesday (Oct. 31) it began its first close pass over the sun.
That maneuver is the first of 24 planned science encounters with the sun, which will last until 2025. This time around, the spacecraft will reach its closest point to the sun on Nov. 5 at about 10:28 p.m. EST (0328 GMT on Nov. 6), according to NASA.
At that point in its voyage, the spacecraft will be just 15 million miles (24 million kilometers) from the surface of the sun and will be traveling at 213,200 mph (343,000 km/h).
An orbital diagram of the Parker Solar Probe's progress to date and the spacecraft's planned path.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL
During the flyby, the Parker Solar Probe will be unable to communicate with Earth because the sun produces such enormous amounts of radio waves that they will drown out the spacecraft's signals. But the probe is designed to take care of itself, autonomously troubleshooting problems and twisting to stay safe from the sun's overwhelming heat.
And all the while, the spacecraft's instruments will be working to crack the mysteries of the sun that powers our every moment here on Earth. Four different sets of instruments will study the structure of the star's outer atmosphere, which scientists call the corona. We may even get our first image from within that corona, thanks to a camera aboard the spacecraft that's already snapped an incredible picture of Earth during its journey.
There's just one catch: Because of the probe's alignment, scientists won't get the data from this week's observations for a few more weeks.
Mars’ organic carbon was formed in batteries. Huge, naturally-occurring batteries — sort-of.
Image credits Aynur Zakirov.
The organic carbon found on Mars has both excited and perplexed researchers. When it was first discovered, this element reignited our hopes of finding life on the red planet. Later, it became apparent that things aren’t so straightforward. However, that still left us with a question: if not life, then what, exactly, created all this organic carbon?
New research from the Carnegie Institution for Science shows that the answer is even more surprising than you’d have assumed. Mars’ organic carbon may originate from a series of electrochemical reactions between briny liquids and volcanic minerals — in essence, natural batteries.
An electrifying find
“Revealing the processes by which organic carbon compounds form on Mars has been a matter of tremendous interest for understanding its potential for habitability,” says lead researcher Andrew Steele.
The research has roots in Steele’s previous work. Back in 2012, he led a team that found organic carbon in 10 Martian meteorites. The team also established that the carbon content wasn’t due to contamination from Earth and that it didn’t have a biological origin. All organic molecules contain carbon and hydrogen, and some include oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, or other elements. Organic compounds are commonly associated with life, although they can be created by non-biological processes as well, which are referred to as abiotic organic chemistry.
To find out how this organic carbon was generated, the team worked with a trio of Martian meteorites that made their way to Earth — Tissint, Nakhla, and NWA 1950. Chemical analysis revealed that the hunks of rock contain organic carbon. Furthermore, its very similar chemically to the organic carbon found during the Mars Science Laboratory’s rover missions.
After establishing that the rocks did indeed contain organic carbon, and that its very likely originated on Mars, the team looked at their mineral makeup. Using advanced microscopy and spectroscopy, they determined that the organic compounds were likely created through electrochemical corrosion of minerals in Martian rocks by a surrounding salty liquid, brine.
“The discovery that natural systems can essentially form a small corrosion-powered battery that drives electrochemical reactions between minerals and surrounding liquid has major implications for the astrobiology field,” Steele explained.
Such processes aren’t new to science. We’ve seen evidence of them on Earth — particularly early in this planets’ history –, and now, we seem to have found some underway on Mars. That’s actually pretty good news — it means that they should, in theory, be able to take place anywhere igneous (volcanic) rocks are surrounded by brine. This means there’s a chance of seeing such processes unfolding in the subsurface oceans of Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus. If this is the case, they could be used as a source of CO2 to jump-start potential colonies.
The paper “Organic synthesis on Mars by electrochemical reduction of CO2” has been published in the journal Science Advances.
Remember the old cautions to keep magnets away from your computer and use a surge protector? What about exposing it to cosmic rays for a year? That’s what NASA finished testing earlier this year, after running a standard Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) business computer aboard the International Space Station. Instead of bulky shielding, the system used software tricks to monitor dangerous conditions and power down or make other adjustments to survive hazards like radiation spikes and unexpected power outages.
With three or four months before the system gets a ride back to Earth for more testing, NASA decided to put the system, an HPE Apollo 4000-series enterprise server, to work doing real science experiments on the ISS.
“We’ve been scheduled to return to Earth on SpaceX 17, which is in late February or early March,” says Mark Fernandez, lead developer for HPE’s Spaceborne Computer program. “Therefore we can open up the supercomputer on the ISS for advancing other types of space exploration.”
HPE’s computer as equipped for its ISS mission. [Photo: courtesy of HPE]The Apollo 4000 is technically a “supercomputer,” because it can perform one trillion floating-point operations per second–a teraflop. That’s now a routine piece of equipment for corporations on Earth, but it’s more processing power than all the other computers on the ISS combined, says Fernandez. “We’ve got 32 [computing] cores onboard,” says Fernandez. “We could run [at least] 32 virtual machines and address the computational needs of 32 experiments.”
NASA has a lot more computing power on the ground, but it has limited bandwidth between the ground and the ISS. The main benefit of having a powerful computer on the station is to do the initial processing of data from cameras or other sensors, then select, compress, and beam down just the relevant information. Fernandez gives image analysis of the Earth as an example.
“If you’re collecting 4K images and looking for something specific, which you already have the image processing software to find…we could do that on board,” he says.
What he doesn’t say is what those “specific” things might be. “I can’t discuss specifics right now,” he says, other than to say they might involve “climate.” Fernandez doesn’t answer whether those tasks might also include jobs for the military.
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Only so much can happen in a few months, though. Fernandez says that it is “still under consideration” whether the ISS might permanently house its own supercomputer in the future.
That depends in part on further tests of the system once it returns to Earth. Some components–such as the Intel “Broadwell” processors, and RAM, solid state hard drives, and other components from various vendors–will get thorough evaluation by the manufacturers, who will know where they’ve been.
The Apollo 4000 system installed on the ISS [Photo: courtesy of NASA]Others will go into a kind of blind study, submitted as if they were defective components from a regular Earth-based computer. “We’re gonna send them some [components] that didn’t fail and say that they failed,” says Fernandez. “And we’ll see if they come back and say, ‘There’s nothing wrong with this product.'”
Powerful computers become ever more valuable the farther astronauts are from Earth, as the bandwidth decreases and the delay increases–such as up to 24 minutes between Earth and Mars.
“If you head out to Mars with humans,” says Fernandez, “you’re going to want a pretty redundant, self-reliant, self-healing system that’s quite capable of doing some calculations. And you may not know what those are [ahead of time].”
The radiation doses get higher the farther a computer (or astronaut) gets from the Earth’s sheltering magnetic field (which Mars lacks). So next steps will include testing computers farther out, says Fernandez. Future tests might include putting smaller versions of the computer on higher-flying satellites or even piggybacking on possible tourist trips around the Moon. “This is all just blue sky discussions at the moment,” he says. Or rather, black sky.
Ancient Sanskrit Writings Suggest UFO’s Visited Us 6,000 Years Ago
Ancient Sanskrit Writings Suggest UFO’s Visited Us 6,000 Years Ago
Did you know that Ancient India has one of the most extensive histories in the world? Their greatest ancient texts are called the “Vedas” and these writings talk about “flying ships” that visited their continent over 6000 years ago. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism.
So, why has mainstream history ignored these ancient texts? Better yet, does this mean that we are not the only intelligent species inhabiting the Universe? It seems that the ancient “Vedas” will raise more questions in time.
The canonical division of the Vedas is fourfold (turīya) viz.,
According to experts, the Vedas speak about two categories of flying objects that visited ancient India in the distant past. These mysterious objects are described in Sanskrit writing, where you can find incredible devices and technologies that were not supposed to be present on our planet for thousands of years. In the Mahabharata, the Puranas, and the Ramayana, we find more descriptions of mysterious devices that surpass technological understanding of ancient man.
The descriptions of highly advanced vehicles found in ancient texts are both incredible and confusing. In the ancient book of the Vaimanika Shastraor the Science of Aeronautics, there are texts which speak about crafts that are controlled by our minds, made possible because of extremely advanced technology which has been kept away from society in modern times.
Not only do these ancient texts speak of mind-controlled crafts, but these sacred books talk about levitation and anti-gravity, 6000 years ago. Many experts believe that the Vaimanika Shastra is a sacred book that talks about “ships” that could travel to different places on our planet, but could also travel into space.
A manuscript illustration of the Sky Battle of Kurukshetra fought between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, recorded in the Mahabharata Epic
According to Dr. V. Raghavam, a well known a Sanskrit scholar, and musicologist, who authored over 120 books and 1200 articles, ancient Indian texts speak about humans that lived on other planets and alien beings that visited our ancestor’s thousands of years ago. Dr. V. Raghavam won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 1966.
We quote Dr. Raghavan:
“Fifty years of researching this ancient work convinces me that there are living beings on other planets, and that they were visiting the earth as far back as 4000 B.C..”
He further explains:
“There is a just a mass of fascinating information about flying machines, even fantastic science fiction weapons, that can be found in translations of the Vedas (scriptures), Indian epics, and other ancient Sanskrit text”.
According to Dr. Raghavan, there are mentions of numerous technologies in the Mahabharata, and the Ramayana: you can find all sort of advanced tech there, some of these ancient technologies were re-developed by the great Nikola Tesla; Ray weapons, Lasers, etc…
But Dr. Raghavan isn’t the only one who believed this theory. Another scientist who firmly agrees with Dr. Raghavan is Dr. A.V. Krishna Murty, professor of aeronautics at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.
“It is true,” Dr. Krishna Murty says, “that the ancient Indian Vedas and other text refer to aeronautics, spaceships, flying machines, ancient astronauts.”
“A study of the Sanskrit texts has convinced me that ancient India did know the secret of building flying machines-and that those machines were patterned after spaceships coming from other planets.”
One of the most interesting passages in the Ramayana reads:
“The Puspaka car that resembles the Sun and belongs to my brother was brought by the powerful Ravan; that aerial and excellent car going everywhere at will…. that car resembling a bright cloud in the sky.”.. and the King [Rama] got in, and the excellent car at the command of the Raghira, rose up into the higher atmosphere.”
Furthermore, in the Mahabharata we find texts that read the following:
“Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three cities of the Vrishis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousands suns, rose in all its splendor. It was the unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas.”
In the Sanskrit Samaraanganasutraadhaara it is written:
Strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with its iron heating apparatus underneath. By means of the power latent in the mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky. The movements of the Vimana are such that it can vertically ascend, vertically descend, move slanting forwards and backwards. With the help of the machines human beings can fly in the air and heavenly beings can come down to earth.
As you can see, there are numerous texts that speak of technologies that were considered as divine in the distant past. These technologies have not been present only in Ancient India.
Record of similar “phenomena” are recorded in ancient cultures around the globe, from the Ancient American natives to people living in Ancient Egypt and even in Asia.
Everywhere you go and look at ancient texts, you will find pieces of a “forgotten history,” of texts that have been tagged as mythological, and avoided by mainstream archaeologists and researchers.
Astronomers caught a glimpse of Phaethon – the bizarre blue asteroid responsible for the Geminid meteor shower – and found it even more enigmatic than they’d thought.
Artist’s concept of what Phaethon might look like up close.
Blue asteroids are rare, and blue comets are almost unheard of. An international team of astronomers investigated 3200 Phaethon, a bizarre blue asteroid that sometimes behaves like a comet, and found it even more enigmatic than they’d previously thought.
On December 16, 2017, the asteroid made its closest approach to Earth since 1974, passing within 6.4 million miles (10.3 million km). The team analyzed data from the flyby from several telescopes around the world to learn more about the mysterious object which has puzzled astronomers since its discovery in 1983. The researchers presented the results of their study on October 23, 2018, at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Science in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Blue asteroids, which reflect more light in the blue part of the spectrum, make up only a fraction of all known asteroids. A majority of asteroids are dull grey to red, depending on the type of material on their surface.
Phaethon sets itself apart for two reasons: it appears to be one of the bluest of similarly-colored asteroids or comets in the solar system; and its orbit takes it so close to the sun that its surface heats up to about 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit (800 degrees C), hot enough to melt aluminum.
Radar images of 3200 Phaethon generated December 17, 2017, by astronomers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico on. At time of closest approach on December 16 the asteroid was about 6.4 million miles (10.3 million km) away, or about 27 times the distance from Earth to the moon. The encounter is the closest the asteroid will come to Earth until 2093.
Astronomers have been intrigued by Phaethon for other reasons, too. It has the qualities of both an asteroid and a comet based on its appearance and behavior.
Phaethon always appears as a dot in the sky, like thousands of other asteroids, and not as a fuzzy blob with a tail, like a comet. But Phaethon is the source of the annual Geminid meteor shower, easily seen in early-to-mid December.
Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through the trail of dust left behind on a comet’s orbit. When they occur and where they appear to originate from depends on how the comet’s orbit is oriented with respect to the Earth. Phaethon is thought to be the “parent body” of the Geminid meteor shower because its orbit is very similar to the orbit of the Geminid meteors.
The elliptical orbit of 3200 Phaethon crosses the orbits of Mars, Earth, Venus and Mercury.
Until Phaethon was discovered in 1983, scientists linked all known meteor showers to active comets and not asteroids.
Teddy Kareta, a doctoral student at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, led the study. Karate said in a statement:
At the time, the assumption was that Phaethon probably was a dead, burnt-out comet, but comets are typically red in color, and not blue. So, even though Phaethon’s highly eccentric orbit should scream ‘dead comet,’ it’s hard to say whether Phaethon is more like an asteroid or more like a dead comet.
Phaethon also releases 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. This kind of activity has only been seen on two objects in the entire solar system – Phaethon and one other, similar object that appears to blur the line traditionally thought to set comets and asteroids apart.
The team obtained several new insights about Phaethon after analyzing data obtained from NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii and the Tillinghast telescope in Arizona. They think Phaethon might be related or have broken off from 2 Pallas, a large blue asteroid farther out in the solar system. Karate said:
Interestingly, we found Phaethon to be even darker than had been previously observed, about half as reflective as Pallas. This makes it more difficult to say how Phaethon and Pallas are related.
The team also observed that Phaethon’s blue color is the same on all parts of its surface, which they say indicates it has been cooked evenly by the sun in the recent past.
Planetary scientists have discovered some very unusual long straight lines on the surface of Saturn’s moon Dione. What created them?
Distribution of linear virgae on Dione (top) and Rhea (bottom). Image via A) Basemap from Roatsch et al, 2008. B) Image No. N1649318802. C) Basemap from Roatsch et al, 2012. D)
Image No. N1673420688.
There are many dozens of moons in the solar system, and all of them are unique, ranging from tiny asteroid-like bodies to worlds with subsurface oceans and methane seas. The more that we explore these moons, the more surprises that are discovered; another such unexpected discovery was just announced by planetary scientists that has them scratching their heads – long, straight lines on Saturn’s moon Dione which look like they were “painted” on the surface. They are similar to ones on another moon of Saturn – Rhea – but much more numerous.
After the arrival of the Cassini spacecraft to the Saturnian system, unusual linear features were observed across Dione. We also noticed similar features on Saturn’s moon Rhea. We name these features linear virgae(virgae meaning a stripe or streak of color) and report on their distribution and characteristics as they are observed on the surfaces of Dione and Rhea. Our understanding of the distribution of linear virgae across Rhea is incomplete, likely because of data coverage; however, on Dione, we find that linear virgae are parallel to the equator and are confined to the region between 45 degrees north and 45 degrees south. 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.
Saturn’s moon Dione as seen by the Cassini spacecraft. The bright wispy streaks seen here are not the same as the long, straight linear features elsewhere on the moon.
The lines – known as linear virgae – are 10 to 100s of kilometers long, less than 5 kilometers wide, run parallel to each other and the equator, and are brighter than the underlying terrain. Their “painted look” comes from the fact that they overlie surface features and seem to ignore topography. As PSI research scientist Alex Patthoffexplained:
The evidence preserved in the linear virgae has implications for the orbital evolution and impact processes within the Saturnian system. Plus, the interaction of Dione’s surface and exogenic material has implications for its habitability and provides evidence for the delivery of ingredients that may contribute to the habitability of ocean worlds in general.
The lines were discovered by Patthoff and Emily S. Martin of the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the National Air and Space Museum while examining images of Dione sent back by the Cassini spacecraft, which ended its long 13-year mission in September of last year. The features have been difficult to explain, as Patthoff noted:
Their orientation, parallel to the equator, and linearity are unlike anything else we’ve seen in the solar system. If they are caused by an exogenic source, that could be another means to bring new material to Dione. That material could have implications for the biological potential of Dione’s subsurface ocean.
A view of some of the long linear features on Dione.
Image via NASA/Emily Martin/Alex Patthoff.
It is tempting to consider that maybe they are not even natural features at all, although Occam’s Razor would suggest that they are most likely natural in origin. As Patthoff also commented in GeoSpace:
I’ve never seen anything this linear anywhere in the solar system. You can take a ruler to these images and you can trace them along this perfectly straight line for tens of kilometers or more sometimes. You just don’t see these kinds of things in nature.
But since the lines seem to be so unique, what could have made them? The researchers first looked at known mechanisms for creating long linear patterns, such as tectonic faults, rolling boulders, pit/crater chains or comet impacts, but none of those explanations were adequate. According to Martin:
None of those mechanisms fit. If they fit the morphology, they didn’t fit the distribution. If they fit the distribution, they didn’t fit the morphology.
A linear groove on Earth’s moon, created by a rolling boulder.
They’re just really bizarre. It’s really exciting when you see something really strange, and you’re just trying to figure out what the heck it could possibly be.
Since the lines overlie other topography, this also suggests that they are younger than the underlying terrain – they are different from any kind of linear crater/pit chains or grooves, since they lie on top of the terrain, not carved into it.
So what is the most likely explanation? The researchers think that they are most probably due to impacts from dust-sized material with low enough mass and velocity to form long, linear streaks while being deposited onto Dione’s surface, rather than forming craters. That debris may have come from Saturn’s rings, from the two other moons also within Dione’s orbit or from somewhere outside the Saturnian system. This is still just a hypothesis, however, at this point.
Dione is thought to have a subsurface ocean, like the ones on Europa, Enceladus, Titan and Ganymede. It is possible that the material could make its way into Dione’s ocean, perhaps affecting its habitability. According to Martin:
If we as geologists can do a better job of saying where material is coming from and how it is being introduced into these different environments then we can be a little bit more confident about whether or not Dione has an environment that is either habitable or whether or not that environment might be suitable for generating its own life.
Linear rows of pits or craters on Jupiter’s moons Ganymede (left) and Callisto (right).
Bottom line: These weird long straight lines on Dione – like those on Rhea – are unusual and seemingly out of place on their moons’ otherwise desolate surfaces. Scientists have some ideas how they may have formed, but a more definitive solution to the mystery will require further study.
Thousands of Octopuses Are Gathering On The Deep-Sea Ground
Thousands of Octopuses Are Gathering On The Deep-Sea Ground
Actually, the scientists were looking for deep-sea corals and sponges. What they found, however, was the single largest cluster of octopus found by anyone.
Chad King, chiefscientist on the Exploration Vessel Nautilus, said:
"What’s really amazing is we never saw an end to them. And we still don’t know the full extent of how many octopuses are down there. We know there are at least a thousand, there could be a lot more."
It seems they want to take over Earth because humankind has failed.
New UFO documentary "Above Majestic" makes No. #1 on Amazon & Itunes on 1st day
New UFO documentary "Above Majestic" makes No. #1 on Amazon & Itunes on 1st day
The documentary film "Above Majestic" went to number one on Amazon and iTunes documentary section on its release day.
Side note Facebook has banned ads for "Above Majestic" due to “Issues of National Importance”.
For this film to make number 1 while also being banned is a testament to those that believed that we are not alone.
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HISTORIC EVENT FOR UFOLOGY AND THE TRUTH COMMUNITY ABOVE MAJESTIC DEBUT MAKES #1 ON AMAZON & #1 ON ITUNES ALL THE WHILE BEING BANNED BY FACEBOOK ADS!!! YOU CANT STOP THE INFORMATION!! SHARE EVERYWHERE!!!
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Confirmed: The Eye of The Sahara IS the Location of Atlantis
Confirmed: The Eye of The Sahara IS the Location of Atlantis
The evidence is simply overwhelming...the Richat Structure needs to be excavated. The birth of Rome, Egypt, Carthage could all have been former colonies of the Atlantis, even the Mesopotamia people’s. Not only that, but many Mesopotamia civilizations (around 30) write of a massive flood that caused massive damage.
Ontvoeringen door buitenaardsen, een zwarte driehoek en een enorme voetafdruk. Dit maken politieagenten zoal mee
Ontvoeringen door buitenaardsen, een zwarte driehoek en een enorme voetafdruk. Dit maken politieagenten zoal mee
Politieagenten maken geregeld vreemde dingen mee, zo blijkt uit een verslag van de website Officer.com.
Verschillende politieagenten hebben hun paranormale ervaringen gedeeld met de site. Die variëren van een UFO-waarneming of geesten tot spookachtige geluiden in een kelder.
Een agent uit Maine vertelt dat hij een vrouw had gevonden die al drie dagen vermist was. Toen hij haar vroeg waar ze was geweest, zei de vrouw dat ‘ruimtewezens haar hadden meegenomen’.
Medisch onderzoek
Ze zei dat ze aan boord van het ruimteschip was onderworpen aan een medisch onderzoek en vroeg de agent om haar naar het ziekenhuis te brengen, omdat ze heel erg pijn in haar buik had.
Dit klinkt misschien nogal vergezocht, maar kennelijk heeft de vrouw bewijs laten zien aan de agent en de artsen in het ziekenhuis.
Ze haalde een gladde, ovaalvormige steen tevoorschijn, die de agent omschreef als regenboogkleurig en die ze meegenomen zou hebben uit het schip.
Nooit meer
“Toen ik de steen heen en weer bewoog, kreeg hij de kleuren van benzine in een modderpoel,” zei de politieagent.
De agent, die later een juwelierszaak begon, zei: “Ik heb stenen van over de hele wereld gezien, maar ik heb sindsdien nooit meer zoiets gezien.”
Een politieagent uit South Carolina zag naar eigen zeggen een UFO. Het ging om een zwarte driehoek.
Enorme voetafdruk
Een agent uit Georgia ging langs bij een bejaard stel dat op een afgelegen boerderij woonde.
De bewoners hoorden geregeld mysterieus getik op de ramen. De agent ging op het erf op onderzoek uit en stuitte tot zijn verbazing op een enorme voetafdruk.
Vanaf begin oktober neemt de bladval toe in ons land om eind oktober op zijn hoogtepunt te zijn. Daarna houden we de eerste weken van november last van veel bladval. Pas na half november is de grootste intensiteit er uit. Met de bladvalindicator kunnen schommelingen in de bladvalintensiteit van dag tot dag worden weergegeven.
Er is op dit moment echter geen sprake van een hoogtepunt in bladval. De laatste jaren lijkt het alsof de seizoenen met ongeveer een maand naar achter zijn opgeschoven. De zomer en de nazomer duren langer dan normaal en in het voorjaar duurt het ook langer voordat de lente begint.
Zoals wij al heel vaak schreven, gaan we naar een periode van zonneminima, wat weinig activiteit op de zon betekent, met als gevolg aanzienlijk koudere temperaturen op aarde.
En zo kan dat het van een mooie nazomer, zomaar ineens winter wordt. In Engeland spreekt men van de koudste Halloween in 100 jaar en in de volgende korte video zie je de eerste sneeuwval in County Durham.
Ook een normaal vrij gematigd land voor wat temperatuur betreft, Ierland, had te maken met sneeuw. De volgende foto is genomen in Lugnaquilla in County Wicklow waar ook sprake was van temperaturen tot 5 graden onder nul.
In Zwitserland hield de natuur zich keurig aan de wintertijd, want in de nacht dat de klokken een uur achteruit gingen, kwam de sneeuw met bakken uit de lucht. Op sommige plekken, zoals in Arosa, viel wel 70 centimeter sneeuw en de koeien wisten even niet wat hen overkwam. Zo loop je nog in een nazomerzonnetje en zo sta je in de sneeuw.
Ook in het Turkse skigebied Uludag was het raak en is de winter begonnen per eind oktober:
Zelfs Marokko ontkwam niet aan de sneeuw. Afgelopen zondag daalde de temperatuur plotseling en viel in Ifrane, het "Zwitserland" van Marokko, 30 centimeter sneeuw. Dit is ongewoon vroeg, want hoewel daar sneeuw voor komt, is dat meestal pas in januari.
Ook in centraal Frankrijk zorgde zware sneeuwval voor heftige toestanden, waarbij talloze automobilisten gedwongen werden om de nacht in de auto door te brengen en waar meer dan 200.000 gezinnen zonder elektriciteit zaten.
En dat alles terwijl volgens klimaatoplichters zoals Al Gore, sneeuw iets zou zijn uit het verleden.
Naast de sneeuw is er natuurlijk ook nog het noodweer en de overstromingen in Italië en terwijl wij steeds meer moeten betalen om de niet bestaande wereldwijde opwarming tegen te gaan, worden de tekenen van de komende mini ijstijd steeds duidelijker.
On October 20, 2018 a family went to Lake Tahoe for vacation. They got a tour on a boat on the lake.
A family member filmed the lake before the tour begins. After they got home he checked the video and noticed that an object flew with tremendous speed over the lake.
He said that he did not see the object while filming the lake. The video has submitted to Mufon for further investigation.
Earth Size Cube UFO Returns To Sun In SOHO @NASA Photos! Oct 31, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Earth Size Cube UFO Returns To Sun In SOHO @NASA Photos! Oct 31, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 31, 2018 Location of sighting: Earths Sun Source: NASA SOHO images I found the same cube UFO near our sun last night. The UFO is very similar in shape and has a yellowish plume as if its been using the suns material as a propulsion of some sort. The UFO is the same cube shape and about the size of Earth itself. It strange that NASA has not made some kind of announcement about this UFO since every sun camera in the world of astronomy probably caught it. However, SOHO may be one of the few countries with cameras recording the sun, since special filters are needed or the camera would be destroyed instantly. Scott C. Waring
The filmmaker has opened up about how the gruesome scene was made possible
(Image: Spyros Melaris)
Mr Melaris was in charge of the team behind the film claiming to show an alien from the 1947 Roswell UFO crash being dissected by doctors.
The film left UFO hunters convinced it was evidence for the Roswell incident, which was a claim aliens crashed a flying saucer in the New Mexico desert near Roswell in 1947.
Op-shop props, friends and family as the cast and a leg of lamb. All came together as a hoax ‘alien autopsy’.
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The “dead alien” had grey-white skin and was the size of a ten year old boy.
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Footage from the documentary The Roswell Incident: Aliens Revealed purported to show a dead alien| with six toes.
Source:News Corp Australia
The ‘Roswell alien” was supposed to have had six toes.
Source:News Corp Australia
Conspiracy theorists believe the US Government covered up the evidence by storying the flying saucer and dead bodies in a secret military base.
However, the 1995 footage was later exposed as a hoax.
The filmmaker filmed the footage in his former girlfriend’s home in Camden, North London.
The creative artists used a foam alien sculpture filled with animal flesh to mislead viewers.
The famous footage was sold to TV stations in 33 countries.
The 56-year-old said to The Sun: “It was not an easy task and, apart from the look and feel, the film had to be correct in every aspect
The film achieved worldwide acclaim
(Image: Spyros Melaris)
— the props, the costumes, every little detail.
"I was fortunate to have access to professional filming and editing equipment. More importantly, I also had access to a handful of very talented people.
"For me, ‘The alien autopsy’ film was a challenge. Could it be done?
“As a magician, I wanted to create the biggest illusion ever performed on a global stage.
The footage was filmed in Camden, London
(Image: Spyros Melaris)
"It was never meant to be anything else for me. Once it was created, and it achieved worldwide acclaim, experts saying it was real, others said it was not, no one proved it either way.
“The film had a life of its own and Santilli did a very good job of keeping it alive. I am very proud of the film and my team who helped me create it.
"I regret the film created some negativity as well as bewilderment. I am in show business. I only ever wanted to entertain."
The team used animal organs for the alien’s internal organs, which were made using a scalpel and coated with latex.
The film used surgeons’ outfits from the 1940s and medical instruments from prop providers in both the UK and the USA.
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Alien life could thrive on Jupiter's moon Europa: Saltwater and volcanic rock under the distant world's surface 'are all that's needed to form life's key building blocks'
Alien life could thrive on Jupiter's moon Europa: Saltwater and volcanic rock under the distant world's surface 'are all that's needed to form life's key building blocks'
Scientists have shed new light on how the ingredients for life formed Mars
Organic carbon appeared when Martian rock was broken down by a salty brine
This same process could have spawned the chemical on Jupiter's moon Europa
Scientists have shed new light on how the ingredients for life formed on Mars, and it could guide our search for aliens on other distant worlds.
A study of Martian meteorites shows that salt water and volcanic rock were all that was needed to form organic carbon on Mars - one of the key buildings blocks of life.
A similar process could have spawned the chemical at any spot in the solar system where igneous rocks are surrounded by salty brines, researchers said.
This includes the mysterious subsurface oceans of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus - icy worlds that some scientists believe host alien life.
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Pictured is a high-resolution microscopic image of a grain from a Martian meteorite. Organic carbon - one of the key building blocks for life - was found between the intact 'prongs'
Scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC, studied a trio of Martian meteorites that fell to Earth: Nakhla, Tissint and NWA 1950.
Nakhla crashed into Egypt in 1911, while both Tissint and NWA 1950 were found in Morocco in 2011 and 2001 respectively.
Experts showed the rocks contained organic carbon that is consistent with organic carbon compounds detected by the Mars Science Laboratory's rover missions.
This proved the chemicals came from Martian soil, rather than from Earth after they landed.
State-of-the-art microscope imaging revealed the compounds likely formed when Martian rocks were broken down by a surrounding salty liquid brine.
Minerals within the rocks likely corroded when they came into contact with the brine, forming organic carbon.
Researchers say the process that formed organic carbon on Mars could have spawned the chemical anywhere in the solar system where igneous rocks are surrounded by salty brines. This includes the mysterious subsurface oceans of Jupiter's moon Europa (pictured)
Organic carbon is a key building block of life as we know it alongside water and an oxygen and nitrogen-rich atmosphere.
The chemical needs to be present for life to grow, and the new study opens up several spots across the solar system to the possibility of alien life.
These include Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, which are both believed to house igneous rock surrounded by a salty subsurface ocean.
'Revealing the processes by which organic carbon compounds form on Mars has been a matter of tremendous interest for understanding its potential for habitability,' study coauthor Dr Andrew Steele said.
'The discovery that natural systems can essentially form a small corrosion-powered battery that drives electrochemical reactions between minerals and surrounding liquid has major implications for the astrobiology field.'
State-of-the-art microscope imaging revealed organic carbon likely formed on Mars when minerals in Martian rocks were broken down by a surrounding salty liquid brine
WHAT EVIDENCE DO SCIENTISTS HAVE FOR LIFE ON MARS?
The search for life on other planets has captivated mankind for decades.
But the reality could be a little less like the Hollywood blockbusters, scientists have revealed.
They say if there was life on the red planet, it probably will present itself as fossilized bacteria - and have proposed a new way to look for it.
Here are the most promising signs of life so far -
Water
When looking for life on Mars, experts agree that water is key.
Although the planet is now rocky and barren with water locked up in polar ice caps there could have been water in the past.
In 2000, scientists first spotted evidence for the existence of water on Mars.
The Nasa Mars Global Surveyor found gullies that could have been created by flowing water.
The debate is ongoing as to whether these recurring slope lineae (RSL) could have been formed from water flow.
Meteorites
Earth has been hit by 34 meteorites from Mars, three of which are believed to have the potential to carry evidence of past life on the planet, writes Space.com.
In 1996, experts found a meteorite in Antarctica known as ALH 84001 that contained fossilised bacteria-like formations.
However, in 2012, experts concluded that this organic material had been formed by volcanic activity without the involvement of life.
Signs of Life
The first close-ups of the planet were taken by the 1964 Mariner 4 mission.
These initial images showed that Mars has landforms that could have been formed when the climate was much wetter and therefore home to life.
In 1975, the first Viking orbiter was launched and although inconclusive it paved the way for other landers.
Many rovers, orbiters and landers have now revealed evidence of water beneath the crust and even occasional precipitation.
Earlier this year, Nasa's Curiosity rover found potential building blocks of life in an ancient Martian lakebed.
The organic molecules preserved in 3.5 billion-year-old bedrock in Gale Crater — believed to have once contained a shallow lake the size of Florida's Lake Okeechobee — suggest conditions back then may have been conducive to life.
Future missions to Mars plan on bringing samples back to Earth to test them more thoroughly.
Methane
In 2018, Curiosity also confirmed sharp seasonal increases of methane in the Martian atmosphere.
Experts said the methane observations provide 'one of the most compelling' cases for present-day life.
Curiosity's methane measurements occurred over four-and-a-half Earth years, covering parts of three Martian years.
Seasonal peaks were detected in late summer in the northern hemisphere and late winter in the southern hemisphere.
The magnitude of these seasonal peaks – by a factor of three – was far more than scientists expected.
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Aliens may lurk on Europa! Saltwater and volcanic rock 'are all that's needed to form life'
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