Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
31-12-2018
Mind control SHOCK: How Soviet Union achieved ‘great success’ with PARANORMAL warfare
Mind control SHOCK: How Soviet Union achieved ‘great success’ with PARANORMAL warfare
THE Soviet Union took UFOs seriously with the KGB and the Soviet Defence Ministry dedicating units collecting and analysing information about paranormal activity, a bombshell documentary has revealed.
Military experts even claimed to know how to "summon" UFOs and make contact with them during the height of the Cold War and amid an arms race with the US. For many years, reports of UFO sightings were treated in the Soviet Union as non-science, or fiction not worthy of attention from serious scientist In Amazon Prime’s “The Secret KGB Files”, the documentary reveals that under Nikita Khrushchev, former Premier of the Soviet Union had great success had been achieved in the Soviet Union with the paranormal. Some of the first bio generators and machines to alter human minds came to the scene.
The narrator explains that the Americans were “worried about Soviet research programs because they knew that the Soviet Union would not use it for peaceful means”.
And that “the Soviet Union was there to conquer and to overtake the United States”. Another area of deep interest was UFOs.
It is claimed that the Kremlin hoped investigating reports of alien spacecraft could advance aeronautical design.
The former Soviet Union was an ideal location for the study of unidentified flying objects as Russia had more UFO sightings than any other nation.
Mind control SHOCK: How Soviet Union achieved ‘great success’ with PARANORMAL warfare
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One reason for the multitude of UFO cases is that Russian borders surrounded the largest land mass in the world.
Of the reported UFO sightings, the most compelling case is known as the Dalnegorsk Incident in January of 1986.
“It’s the best documented crash because we do not have the fragments they have been analysed”, said a research scientist.
Beginning in 1917 and continuing until 2003, the Soviets poured up to $1billion into developing mind-controlling weaponry to compete with similar programs undertaken in the United States.
The battle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, for technological and scientific one-upmanship, included a costly effort that involved the two superpowers' attempts to develop mind-control weapons.
A blog post at the Physics arXiv Blog, citing a new paper by researcher Serge Kernbach, said that both the U.S. and the Soviet Union experimented with parapsychology, mind control and remote influence.
And, while some of the work conducted by the US on these topics is now public, much less is known about the Soviet body of knowledge, which reportedly cost about a billion dollars to gather.
The blogpost said: “The Soviets had a similar program. This included experiments in parapsychology, which the Soviets called psychotronics.
“The work built on a long-standing idea in Soviet science that the human brain could receive and transmit a certain kind of high frequency electromagnetic radiation and that this could influence other objects too.”
Was UK’s most notorious UFO sighting a REVENGE PRANK played on US airmen by SAS commandos?
Was UK’s most notorious UFO sighting a REVENGE PRANK played on US airmen by SAS commandos?
Reported in detail by ranking military personnel, the 1980 UFO sightings in Sussex’s Rendlesham Forest, spawned their own cottage industry of speculation. But now a leading ufologist says it was all just a vengeful prank.
Thirty-eight years ago, on three nights between December 26 and 28, different sets of US Air Force personnel stationed at the RAF Woodbridge base, which reportedly housed nuclear warheads, witnessed bright orange, red, blue and white lights in the sky.
Sent out to further investigate, one serviceman on patrol reported a “smooth, opaque, black glass” craft on the forest floor, covered in incomprehensible hieroglyphs, while on another night a different team encountered an object the size of a basketball turn into a spaceship, and had a “silent standoff” with what appeared to be a humanoid alien. The team, some of whom have since been diagnosed with PTSD, said that indentations in the ground, damage to the forest, and abnormal radiation readings proved that these were not mass hallucinations.
Original recorded live report by USAF colonel Charles Holt.
But now, Dr. David Clarke, a researcher at Sheffield Hallam University, who once managed Britain’s national UFO sightings archive, says that he has found a less far-fetched explanation. Courtesy of a Special Air Service “insider”named “Frank,” who personally contacted the academic who has spent the past three years trying to get to the bottom of the mystery, which has been labeled Britain’s own Roswell.
According to the source the root of the incident goes back to August 1980, when British SAS commandos made a practice landing inside the USAF base, in a live exercise intended to challenge their American allies – a rare but known practice during the Cold War.
But instead of receiving a friendly telling off, the team was allegedly hauled off into cells, mauled, and interrogated at length by US officers, who referred to them as “unidentified aliens.”
“After their release, the troopers made no complaint at their rough treatment but were determined to get their own back on the USAF for the beating that they had received,” said Clarke, quoted in the Daily Mail.
“In particular, their repeated characterization as ‘aliens’ sowed the seeds of a plan. They said: ‘They called us aliens. Right, we'll show them what aliens really look like.’”
So come Christmas, the British supposedly created several contraptions using the materials at hand, such as remote-controlled kites, helium balloons, and colored flares, and launched them into the sky.
If anything, the prank purportedly worked too well – when the US side sent an official report to the UK Ministry of Defence.
“Someone in London recalled the events of the previous August and questions were asked. A few red faces – but also some satisfaction and amusement – followed,” said Clarke.
The USAF was ‘reassured’ at a very senior level and no UK investigation was undertaken – for obvious reasons.”
According to Clarke, who says that he followed up the claims with several officials from the era, this is the reason for what some say appears to have been a continuously blasé reaction from the UK authorities to the incident.
While “Frank’s” yarn is interesting in itself, for determined conspirologists – several men present on the nights of the sightings – who have claimed that the case has been deliberately hushed up by the military, this will likely be treated as a new red herring, put out by the government to throw them off the scent.
Rise in mysterious 'TR-3B UFO sightings' sparks PANIC over 'top-secret US military plans'
Rise in mysterious 'TR-3B UFO sightings' sparks PANIC over 'top-secret US military plans'
THERE has been a shocking rise in alleged TR-3B triangular UFO sightings across the world - with the most recent footage showing the bizarre aircraft close to a US airbase in Ohio.
A recent jump in the number of sightings of alleged TR-3B aircrafts has sparked a panic amongonline conspiracy communities. Experts fear that there “is something going on” amid concern over top-secret US military experiments or the involvement ofextraterrestrials. Michael, of the YouTube channel MrMBB333, posted the latest sighting of the alleged TR-3B in Toledo, Ohio.
Has the mystery of 'Britain's Roswell' finally been solved? Rendlesham Forest UFO 'landing' was a prank SAS tricksters played on US Airmen, insiders claim
Has the mystery of 'Britain's Roswell' finally been solved? Rendlesham Forest UFO 'landing' was a prank SAS tricksters played on US Airmen, insiders claim
Rendlesham Forest incident in Suffolk, has intrigued UFO enthusiasts since 1980
Military personnel said they saw lights flying in the woods in December that year
The group was largely convinced they had witnessed an alien spacecraft
Yet it has now been claimed that the extraterrestrial sighting was a hoax
Dubbed ‘Britain’s Roswell’, the Rendlesham Forest incident in Suffolk, has intrigued UFO enthusiasts since taking place in December 1980.
On three separate nights just before the New Year, military personnel said they saw lights flying in the sky and descending into the woodland - the group was convinced they had seen an alien spacecraft.
Yet it has now been claimed that the extraterrestrial sighting was a hoax, played on the US air force by the SAS in revenge for capturing a squad and subjecting them to a brutal interrogation.
Since the incident in 1980, Rendlesham Forest has become a site of endless speculation for UFO chasers
The SAS were said to have regularly tested US security by probing the perimeters of RAF Woodbridge in the English county, which allegedly stored Nuclear warheads and was believed to be a key target for Soviet agents.
But when an SAS troop parachuted into the complex one night in August 1980 they were unaware the guards had upgraded their radar system.
Their black parachutes were immediately detected and the British were hauled off for questioning.
They claimed they were beaten up by their captors who refused to believe who they were and repeatedly referred to as ‘unidentified aliens’, before being released 18 hours later after the British authorities intervened.
On three separate nights just before the New Year, military personnel said they saw lights flying in the sky and descending into the woodland (pictured)
Staff Sergeant Jim Penniston sketched the craft he says he saw at the time of the incident
Seething from the interrogation, SAS soldiers were keen to take revenge.
British X-Files expert Dr David Clarke, who has been researching the story for three years, revealed: ‘After their release, the troopers made no complaint at their rough treatment but were determined to get their own back on the USAF for the beating that they had received.
‘In particular, their repeated characterisation as “aliens” sowed the seeds of a plan. They said: “They called us aliens. Right, we'll show them what aliens really look like.”’
As December approached, lights and coloured flares were rigged in Rendlesham Forest. Black helium balloons were also coupled to remote-controlled kites to carry suspended materials into the sky, activated by radio-controls.
Taking place over three nights between 26 and 28 December in 1980, military personnel from nearby RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge witnessed strange lights in the woods and hovering above the airbases which were on high alert as the Cold War was at its peak.
Pictured is the east gate at RAF Woodbridge, near where the incident is alleged to have occurred
‘A great deal of nocturnal Christmas fun was had at the expense of the USAF - and the matter should have ended there,’ according to a letter written to Dr Clarke by an alleged SAS source.
‘Unfortunately, a senior US officer (Lt Col Halt) led the US contingent out into the forest on the second night and took along his tape recorder.
‘The hovering and whizzing lights were sufficiently impressive for him to send a report to the MoD.
‘Someone in London recalled the events of the previous August and questions were asked. A few red faces - but also some satisfaction and amusement - followed.
Military personnel from nearby RAF Bentwaters (pictured) and RAF Woodbridge witnessed strange lights in the woods and hovering above the airbases
‘The USAF was 'reassured' at a very senior level and no UK investigation was undertaken - for obvious reasons.’
Dr Clarke said he was first contacted three years ago by ‘Frank’ who claimed to be a SAS insider.
He had seen Dr Clarke talking about Rendlesham on a TV documentary and felt ‘it was about time that the truth was revealed about the incident’.
Dr Clarke, of the Centre for Contemporary Legend at Sheffield Hallam University, said: ‘I investigated his incredible story by talking to trusted and open sources in the British military, including some high profile former SAS troopers.
‘What happened in the forest, according to Frank, would be bread and butter for special operation soldiers trained to deceive and misinform whilst remaining invisible.’
RENDLESHAM FOREST INCIDENT
In December 1980, strange lights were reported by servicemen in Rendlesham Forest near RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, in Suffolk.
The incident came to be known as 'Britain's Roswell'; named after the supposed UFO sightings in New Mexico.
Soldiers investigated what the lights were, including Staff Sgt Jim Burroughs, Airman First Class Edward Cabansag and Airman First Class Larry Warren.
The disputed sightings, over three nights between December 26-28, occurred when Britain and the West were on high alert during the Cold War.
Retired US Air Force officer Steve Longero broke a 36 year silence in December 2016, to reveal he also saw something in the night sky.
Mr Longero said the UFOs looked like red and green fluorescent lights hovering over treetops.
He also dismissed one theory that the lights had been caused by a lighthouse.
The incident became a topic of fascination in the UK after a group of servicemen went into Rendlesham Forest to investigate the mysterious lights and came out convinced they had seen seen an alien spacecraft.
The Suffolk sightings resurfaced claims from those living in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, when an unexpected crash was alleged to have been the remains of a spacecraft and alien bodies.
But this was rejected by the U.S. military following a close investigation into the wreckage.
The British Ministry of Defence has also dismissed the claims regarding Rendlesham.
It said there was no threat to national security and the UFOs were likely to be caused by a series of nocturnal lights.
The company announced Dec. 18 that it completed a milestone in its Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) 2 contract called Integrated Review 4. With that milestone, the company is cleared to move ahead into assembly of the Dream Chaser vehicle that will deliver cargo to the station.
"NASA's acknowledgement that SNC has completed this critical milestone and its approval of full production of the first Dream Chaser spacecraft is a major indication we are on the right path toward increasing vital science return for the industry," John Curry, CRS-2 program director at the company, said in a statement announcing the milestone. [In Pictures: Dream Chaser Space Plane Aces Glide Flight]
SNC was one of three companies, along with incumbents SpaceX and Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems), to receive CRS-2 contracts from NASA in January 2016. Each company is guaranteed at least six missions to the ISS under the contracts.
To carry out the missions, SNC proposed a cargo version of the Dream Chaser spacecraft it had been developing for NASA's commercial crew program. Although the vehicle was not selected by NASA when it awarded contracts instead to Boeing and SpaceX in 2014, SNC adapted the design with foldable wings, allowing it to fit within many existing payload fairings, and a cargo module.
While many elements of Dream Chaser were already in production, this review confirmed the overall design was ready for full-scale assembly and testing.
"IR4 was a series of reviews, documentation, and data deliverables that are the culmination of many years of design work, analysis and development testing," said Fatih Ozmen, co-owner and chief executive of SNC, in a statement. "This comprehensive review approved moving the Dream Chaser program into the production phase so we can get Dream Chaser to market as a critical space station resupply spacecraft as soon as possible."
The cargo version of Dream Chaser can carry up to 5,500 kilograms of cargo to the International Space Station and return 1,850 kilograms to Earth in a runway landing. The cargo module, which burns up on reentry, can dispose of an additional 3,400 kilograms of cargo.
The first Dream Chaser launch, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V, is planned for no earlier than late 2020, a date that will depend on the status of vehicle development and cargo needs for the ISS.
SNC, though, is keeping its launch options open for future Dream Chaser missions. "We're looking at all launch vehicles out there," Steve Lindsey, vice president for space exploration systems at the company, said during a panel discussion Oct. 11 at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Competition in the launch market has helped drive down costs for SNC. "When those launch vehicle prices come down — which, by the way, is about 80 percent of our costs on every mission we fly — that opens up the commercial market," he said. That includes other applications of Dream Chaser, such as a free-flying experiment platform.
At that conference, Lindsey said he expected to be "the majority of the way through" assembly and testing of the first Dream Chaser by next October, while planning "changes and upgrades" for a second vehicle.
This story was provided by SpaceNews, dedicated to covering all aspects of the space industry.
blasphemy??? i think not... its just another version of the story.....
personally....i see many bible stories as an alien intervention..like the exodus and the strange happenings surrounding it......the parting of the red sea for example........do u know they found evidence that the sea did in fact part??? and what was the arc of convenant anyways.........it sure did a lot of cool things........sounds like some kinda advanced tech to me?? anyways......ill go off about moses and mount sinai ...the exodus and other weird stuff some other time.............this one heres about Ezekiels wheel........some of the verses in Ezekiel....can easily be interpretted as an ufo experience.........which appears to describe a metallic object descending from the sky......everyone is gonna cry that von daniken started this theory but the bible verse is in the link below........read it for yourself....it is quite compelling.......Ezekiel also describes the faces of the E.T. as well...........or is it just some more ambiguous bible verse.............
The story of Ezekiel is perhaps one of the most fascinating stories found in the Bible, especially if you look at the story from a modern, technological point of view. When ancient texts, legends, and stories are viewed and interpreted through modern eyes, we start to understand that Earth’s ancient past is far more exciting …
Zechariah and the flying scroll...........20 cubits long??? dude saw something huge in the sky ...looked like a cigar-shape
Zechariah 5
I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.
2 He asked me, “What do you see?”
I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.[a]”
then theres the ascension of Elijah ...he was taken up in a "chariot of fire"
and what kind of tech did the "angels" at sodom and gomorrah use to blind the unruly mob that was after Lot???...the whole destruction reads like a nuclear event as well.............
these are just a few stories that cross my mind......there are others....i am totally convinced moses was an alien hybrid of sorts.........he was thutmose im sure ....akhenatens brother........u know......the alien looking pharoah.......anyways......
btw.....thutmose means son of thoth...........the wisest of the egyptian gods who came from u guessed it....the stars........
The part starting at 19:00, about it turning white with fear, then red with anger, then suddenly, instantly taking on the camouflage of its surroundings. how in the world does it do that? Seriously, how does 'science' explain it altering its appearance instantly in such a drastic way? how does it possess the creativity to basically paint it's body the same pattern, of camouflage as it's surroundings?
UFO sighting in San Diego? Shock claim ‘cloaked’ alien spaceship seen monitoring US city
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
One resident of San Diego managed to capture an image of what he believes is a UFO – or at least a spaceship which is under a cloaking device. The image shows a strange circular, low-lying cloud which resembles a classic flying saucer. While many have claimed this is just an odd cloud formation, some UFO experts believe it is an alien spaceship which is trying to keep a low profile.
Conspiracy theorists believe that UFOs sometimes resemble clouds, as this way they can monitor the public without making them aware that they are being watched.
Prominent alien hunter Scott C Waring uploaded the picture to his blog, UFO Sightings Daily, writing: “This UFO photo was sent in by a Twitter follower in San Diego today. They noticed a UFO shaped cloud floating overhead unusually low compared to other clouds.
“The fact that this cloud was so low was clearly suspicious, however its shape totally gives away the true shape of the UFO.
“It is a huge disk as you can see from the lines at the bottom of the craft.
“UFOs often create cloud cover around them when they want to fly unusually low to scan the residence below.
“This way they do not frighten anyone and people who see the cloud only shrug their shoulders and ignore it.
“However occasionally a person can sense being watched and will notice the cloaked UFO and take its photo to share with others.”
However, it would seem that the most likely explanation would be apophenia – where the brain recognises specific patterns in things.
If someone has hinted something looks like a UFO for example, the brain will try to picture it in that way.
New Horizons is the spacecraft that sent back those amazing images of Pluto in 2015. Ultima Thule is its next target, a billion miles beyond Pluto. The encounter is New Year’s Day, but start watching now!
Ultima Thule is the bright yellow spot in the middle. The 2 possible flyby distances for New Horizons are indicated by the 2 concentric circles. The mission has decided to fly along the closer path, toward the target point marked by an X.
New Horizons – the same craft that made humanity’s first-ever visit to Pluto in 2015 – is now just days away from its next target, aKuiper Belt objecta billion miles beyond Pluto, nicknamed Ultima Thule. NASA said before Christmas that – after a three-week search – it found no apparent obstacles in the spacecraft’s optimal path, no rings, no small moons, no potential hazards. Thus New Horizons is now aimed on that optimal path for its January 1, 2019, encounter with Ultima Thule. And you can start watching now!
It will be another first for New Horizons, the farthest planetary flyby in human history.
NASA TV and the NASA New Horizons social media channels are now online. The New Horizons mission will also provide coverage of live activities on this website and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory YouTube channel. Click here for a schedule of events. You’ll find several on December 31 and more on January 1.
Follow the New Horizons mission on Twitter and use the hashtags #UltimaThule and #UltimaFlyby to join the conversation.
Live updates will be also available on the mission Facebook page.
There are a couple of more links to events in the tweets below:
The spacecraft’s path will take it about 2,200 miles (3,500 km) from Ultima Thule, instead of a hazard-avoiding detour that would have pushed it three times farther out. The last opportunity to maneuver the spacecraft onto another trajectory was December 18.
As New Horizons gets closer to Ultima Thule (which is officially designated 2014 MU69) the mission’s science team is puzzling over the light reflected from this object.
The spacecraft has been taking hundreds of images to measure Ultima’s brightness, but these recent measurements appear to be at odds with a 2017 observation, made when Ultima Thule covered (occulted) a star as seen from Earth. That 2017 observation suggested that Ultima Thule might be not one, but two bodies orbiting around each other. If there aren’t two objects there, the science team said in 2017, then this little Kuiper Belt object might have apronounced elongated shape.
Now scientists aren’t sure what to think, since repeated observations over the past three months haven’t revealed the variations in brightness they’d expect from two bodies, or from a spinning elongated body. Those variations in brightness are what scientists call a light curve. New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, commented in a statement:
I call this Ultima’s first puzzle – why does it have such a tiny light curve that we can’t even detect it? I expect the detailed flyby images coming soon to give us many more mysteries, but I did not expect this, and so soon.
There are various possible explanations, including that Ultima Thule’s rotation pole may be aimed right at or close to the incoming spacecraft. Or Ultima Thule may be surrounded by a cloud of dust that obscures its light and makes the observations difficult to read. University of Virginia’s Anne Verbiscer, a New Horizons assistant project scientist, suggested an even stranger possibility:
Ultima [may be] surrounded by many tiny tumbling moons. If each moon has its own light curve, then together they could create a jumbled superposition of light curves that make it look to New Horizons like Ultima has a small light curve.
While that explanation is also plausible, she added, it has no parallel in all the other bodies of our solar system.
New Horizons will make its historic close approach to Ultima Thule at 05:33 UTC (12:33 a.m. EST; translate UTC to your time) on January 1, 2019. Stern commented:
The spacecraft is now targeted for the optimal flyby, over three times closer than we flew to Pluto. Ultima, here we come!
The fast-moving New Horizons spacecraft launched from Earth in 2006 and had its historic encounter with Pluto in 2015. Now the craft is in the Kuiper Belt, preparing to encounter its 1st object in this region, Ultima Thule, on January 1, 2019.
Bottom line: New Horizons spacecraft is just days away from its January 1, 2019, encounter with its next target, a Kuiper Belt object known as Ultima Thule. This post contains links to schedules for events and social media.
Dr. David Jacobs, a retired university professor, and Young-Hae Chi, from the University of Oxford have both hypnotically regressed people who claim to have had ET abduction experiences. After thousands of people, they all share the same story.
Reflect On:
How is this possible? How can thousands of people from all over the world share the same experience? Something is going on here, it's time we begin looking at that. Is there justification for the secrecy that exists in this space?
Yeah, the title of this article can seem quite scary, but this is one perception and there is a lot to talk about here.
To even contemplate the idea that (some) intelligent extraterrestrials are taking human beings against their will for unknown reasons, subjecting them to several different experiences that will be elaborated on later in this article, and then (in most cases) returning them from where they were taken, can completely destroy one’s worldview paradigm.
It seems like something out of a horror movie, perhaps it would be best to take the perspective of all the animals that we take for our own entertainment and scientific purposes, that animal would most-likely have a difficult time comprehending what exactly is going on and would probably assume there is nothing but malevolent forces at work. Furthermore, we ourselves, have a difficult time communicating with that animal, and cannot get through to it due to the fact that it’s so extremely panic ridden.
Is this what’s going on in abductions? Perhaps there is something greater at play, even for our own good? Perhaps not. Many abductees, although subjected to much trauma, have had a sense of comfort and also telepathic communications letting them know that they’ll be alright. What’s going on here? Some sort of science experiment? Genetic manipulation? Human/alien hybridization?
Abductees vs Contactees
Watch our free screening on CETV with contactee Susan Manewich.
Before we get into it, it’s also important to mention the fact that when it comes to extraterrestrial contact, of which millions of people have claimed to have had, there are multiple categories. There are abductees, as described above, and there are contactee’s, those who are not taken forcefully but rather have encounter(s) with supposed intelligent extraterrestrials, sometimes friendly, and other times a quite fearful experience as well. Then there are those who claim to be ‘channeling’ extraterrestrial beings, but have not experienced physical contact.
An example of a ‘contactee’ experience would be when more than 60 school children in Ruwa, Zimbabwe witnessed the landing of a spacecraft by their schoolyard. Two beings apparently came out of the craft and were seen by the children. These beings were also conveying telepathic messages to the children. The messages included the care-taking of our planet, and what would happen if we don’t turn it around. Many of them had disturbing visions, and are still speaking about the encounter today, which was made public by Harvard psychiatrist John Mack. You can read more about that story in detail, here.
Mack, now deceased, is a great source for information when it comes to abductees and contactee’s, another great one is Dr. David Jacobs a recently retired Professor and historian at Temple University who makes a very interesting point,
Now, let us suppose it is not happening, all those things still remain, and yet it’s not happening, there is no such thing as the abduction phenomenon. If that is the case, we have found the most important thing ever in the history of neurology, brain function, cognition…all these people are saying the same thing at their risk, this is not going to bring applause to them , that they say they’ve been abducted by aliens from outer space. High functioning people say this knowing full well it could destroy their careers, and they say this around the world…And it’s not happening then what? (source)
Why Are They Abducting Humans?
Some of what people report as UFOs are extraterrestrial (ET) vehicles. Some of those extraterrestrial vehicles actually have ET crews, and some of those ET crews catch and release humans
– Don Donderi, Retired McGill University professor, Department of Psychology (source)
There are multiple theories based on the abductees and those who are actively involved with the research. One common theme seems to be an alien/human hybridization program. Many abductees claim to have been subjected to strange procedures, from having their sperm or egg extracted from the body, sometimes for males this occurs through forced orgasm. Others report being forced to breed with a human-like extraterrestrial.
Many women who are abducted and subjected to these procedures become pregnant shortly after they are returned, and during their pregnancy they experience another abduction event where they are returned without their fetus inside of them. After this, the next abduction usually occurs years later, and involves the abductee inside of a ‘meet and greet’ with their hybrid child, or children. They spend time together aboard the craft, and are observed during this type of activity by the extraterrestrials.
This is extremely common for women, women have these experiences all the time.
– Jacobs
According to Dr. Jacobs, in a recent interview he gave with UFO researcher and historian Richard Dolan (see below), there is some type of ‘take-over agenda.’ Some of these hybrids return to Earth with their mother, and are, according to Jacobs, currently living amongst us. They do not know our ways, have many questions, and seem to be in ‘observation’ mode. Dolan describes them as lacking emotion, Jacobs feels that they are very logical and very curious about our ways. He’s even been in contact with a supposed hybrid, via the parent. He hypothesizes that “this planet will be theirs.” These hybrids also apparently have the ability to neurologically control humans to some extent, from a close distance of a few feet.
When they come here, I’m making very large claims of course, when they come here, as people have told me, they are naive . There is only so much they can learn being on board a UFO, once they come here to live in human society, they learn that there is a lot more to learn. So, the abductee takes them to the supermarket, and teaches them how to buy food etc…They are amazingly good at remembering things…all information is remembered…Their brains are different than ours. They can control us, from a few feet away, and that control is, that’s a bad one.
– Jacbos
Keep in mind, we are talking about the typical Gray alien here. It’s important to mention that abductees and contactees have reported multiple beings, from the grey alien, to reptilian beings, insect and animal like beings all the way to human looking extraterrestrials of various sizes, and obviously, hybrid looking type of humanoids as well.
The ability to neurologically control others, is indeed scary, and for a being of those capabilities, you would hope that they are nothing but service to others, as I am sure we all do.
Furthermore, we are talking about regular people, doctors, lawyers, university professors, people who are struggling, living in poverty etc. These abductees are located all over the world, from all walks of life, and all share practically the exact same story when they are hypnotically regressed. We’ll get to that point shortly as I want to elaborate on it more.
It does not matter what country they come from, they all say the same thing. -Jacbos
This is amazing, considering the fact that thousands of these people have been regressed by researchers.
It’s also interesting to note that hybrids are not only composed of half human, and half alien, but there are also exchanges between hybrids with humans as well. There are multiple generations with varying amounts of alien/human, based on the research of those mentioned in this article.
Are They ‘Good’ or ‘Bad?’
Obviously, we don’t know the answer to this question, but the overall gist from most researchers is that the main idea is the preservation of our planet. This comes from experiences like the one mentioned earlier in the article about the 60 school children in Zimbabwe. Not only that, this narrative comes from multiple credible ‘insiders’ with very interesting backgrounds.
There is what seems to be a lot of benevolence when it comes to examining the intention of these supposed beings, but there are also hints of malevolence as well.
Colonel Ross Dedrickson is one of many examples I’ve used in the past. He was assigned to the US Atomic Energy Commission and has had a long service there between 1950-1958 made him privy to some very sensitive information. He eventually decided to go public and tell the world that the “preservation of the planet is their main concern.” He did so in this interview with Dr. Steven Greer.
He was not talking about hybrids, but simply extraterrestrials. Who knows if the group he was referring to is the same group involved with the hybridization program?
Again, we are talking about what could be multiple groups visiting our planet, others with perhaps some benevolent intent, and others, unfortunately, with some malevolent intent. It seems that the Gray alien is most involved with the abduction phenomenon, along with insect like beings and reptilian type beings as well.
But what about this hybridization program? Is it benevolent or malevolent? There are differing opinions here among those who are involved with this research. In the interview with Jacobs, Dolan compares these hybrids to psychopaths who don’t seem to have any empathy, at least that’s the way it can look sometimes. He claims that some of them are “faking their way,” simply to find out more about what’s going and how we operate here, or at least this could be a possibility.
This goes along with Jacobs’ hypothesis, that the purpose here is the colonization of the Earth.
I’m not sure if I agree with the empathy comments by Dolan. These are things we do not know, we do not know how they feel towards others, how they would react if they saw someone in a helpless situation. It’s also important to keep in mind that Dolan could be correct, they are after all half alien, and an important part of some sort of unknown agenda that’s going on that’s been conducted by this ET group. How do we know if ET’s have the same emotional capacity as us? Does that make them bad or good? It’s our human perception in the end that filters what we see.
Perhaps the ‘abductors’ are ‘working’ for someone else? Another group? Who knows.
Are they seeding the planet with a hybrid population? Is this simply another step in our evolution and how it’s happened all along? Is this some sort of take over agenda for self serving purposes, or have human beings messed up so much that the preservation of the planet requires a completely new race? We don’t really have many answers yet to be honest. At this point, we can’t really draw any conclusions.
I do not believe feelings and intuition should be used to decipher mass truth about the phenomena at this point, but I personally feel there is an important role to play for hybrids, and that they will know this role when the time comes. But again, who knows, everything at this point, for the most part, is speculation, except for the fact that they are here and that they are increasing in numbers.
Perhaps all of us are some sort of hybrid?
We don’t know enough yet, and there is still a lot to find out as time goes on. It seems that there is simply a hybridization program taking place and that these hybrids have been walking amongst us for quite some time. If something overly sinister was supposed to happen, I feel it already would have. But then again, there is a possibility that this phenomenon did not start until after World War 2, at least Dr. Jacobs seems to believe that based on his research (he mentioned that in the interview).
If this is the case perhaps we are looking at some type of military component? I say this because based on my research, some ‘alien’ abductions may be military abductions that utilize psychotronic weapons.
In the interview, Jacobs mentions a colleague of his who is also heavily engaged in abduction research. He does not seem to share the same ‘grim’ type of perspective, despite the fact that he is getting the exact same results.
The colleagues name is Young-hae Chi, who also engages in abduction research. He is a professor at the University of Oxford.
Below is a link to the entire interview with Dolan and Jacobs if you’d like to listen to it in its entirety. Later on you will find a lecture from Young-hae Chi.
The Findings Are The Exact Same
We know that the phenomenon is very, very widespread around the world. People think that this is an American phenomenon, it is not. I’ve worked with people from Africa, and Asia, and Latin-America, and Europe and so forth… All say the same thing all around the world, it does not matter where they’re from. People often ask me whether there’s any consistency in abduction accounts, the consistency is mind-boggling.
Chi, Jacobs, and others before them, have regressed and researched thousands of people. Chi, in Korea, and Jacobs in the United States. They correspond with each other, as virtually all abduction researchers have found. They’ve found that the stories coming out of hypnotic regressions are the same, with very similar but unique differences, for practically everyone.
How jaw-dropping is this? Either there is some sort of new mental condition, or some type of psychosis happening that’s not looked at or mentioned, or, something is really going on here.
Susan has been involved in extensive contactee research and shares EXACTLY what is similar in contactee experiences. We interviewed her on CETV.
It seems the latter, especially given all of the evidence that already exists for the existence of UFOs that are piloted by an extraterrestrial being.
Jacobs believes that the purpose for these programs is the colonization of Earth, as mentioned. But Young, however, based on his research, believes in the benevolent theory, that this is being done to spark a more compassionate and environmentally aware citizenry who actually care about the planet they live on.
Interesting isn’t it?
Below is a full lecture by Chi discussing his conclusions.
The Takeaway
The UFO phenomenon is no longer taboo, and the idea that some of these craft may be piloted by intelligent extraterrestrial beings has, in my opinion, strong evidence behind it. We have statements from thousands of credible people from within the military, intelligence agencies, governments, academia and more that has all been complimented by physical evidence and electro-optical data. The conversation gets deeper into why they are here, what are they doing, how their craft work etc…It leaves no area of humanity untouched.
The abduction phenomenon in particular can be quite ‘scary,’ but as you can see based on the information provided within this article, there are many unknowns, and it’s still hard to determine what exactly is going on. To be honest, I still believe it’s something far greater than we may be able to comprehend at this moment.
Based on witness testimony, and the fact that many of these craft have taken, as former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer once said, “corrective measures to avoid our aircraft,” it seems they are not here to harm. That being said, the protocol still seems to “shoot first and ask questions after,” which is how, possibly, Dr. Edgar Mitchell knew that “there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered.”
One thing is for certain, we are not alone, and we’ve never been alone.
Perhaps the preservation of the planet is something more important than WE are…
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De planeet zal van hen zijn. Gepensioneerde hoogleraar trekt verrassende conclusies over buitenaardse ontvoeringen
De planeet zal van hen zijn. Gepensioneerde hoogleraar trekt verrassende conclusies over buitenaardse ontvoeringen
In onderstaande video gaat de Amerikaanse historicus Richard Dolan in gesprek met de gepensioneerde hoogleraar David Jacobs van de Temple-universiteit in Philadelphia. Ze praten met elkaar over buitenaardse ontvoeringen.
Jacobs spreekt van een gevaarlijke ontwikkeling.
Volgens hem zijn er buitenaardse wezens op onze planeet aanwezig die de aarde willen overnemen.
Meer dan een miljoen
De gepensioneerde hoogleraar deed tientallen jaren wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar buitenaardse ontvoeringen en kwam tot de conclusie dat mensen al eeuwenlang contact hebben met buitenaardse wezens, die zich onopgemerkt onder ons begeven.
Hij interviewde zo’n 150 mensen die naar eigen zeggen zijn ontvoerd door aliens.
Jacobs verwees naar peilingen waaruit blijkt dat meer dan een miljoen Amerikanen zijn ontvoerd door buitenaardse wezens.
Vreemde tekens
Hij merkte op dat mensen meestal in groepen worden meegenomen; vreemden die elkaar op aarde nog nooit hebben ontmoet herkennen elkaar van hun ervaringen in de ruimte.
Mensen keren terug met vreemde tekens of littekens. “Ik heb dat met mijn eigen ogen gezien,” zei hij.
Geheim programma
Uit onderzoek van Jacobs blijkt dat buitenaardse hybrides betrokken zijn bij een geheim programma om de menselijke samenleving te infiltreren.
“Die hybrides trainen om hier te leven,” merkte hij op. “En zij worden getraind door de ontvoerden.”
Dr. Jacobs doceerde meer dan 25 jaar een vak over UFO’s aan de Temple-universiteit.
Taiwanese vissersboot haalt buitenaards schip uit het water. Bekijk dit tv-item
Taiwanese vissersboot haalt buitenaards schip uit het water. Bekijk dit tv-item
Een dag nadat dr. Steven Greer vorig jaar te gast was in het tv-programma van de Amerikaanse oud-gouverneur Jesse Ventura, onthulde de New York Times dat het Pentagon jarenlang in het geheim onderzoek had gedaan naar UFO’s.
Ventura besloot hem dit jaar opnieuw uit te nodigen om dieper in te gaan op dit gevoelige onderwerp.
Greer, oprichter van het Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, denkt dat de overheid af en toe doelbewust wat informatie lekt, nu er zo ontzettend veel informatie naar buiten komt via onder andere documentaires.
Topje van de ijsberg
Hij zei dat het programma waar de New York Times over schreef, slechts het topje van de ijsberg is.
“Er zou ieder jaar 22 miljoen dollar naartoe zijn gegaan, maar het gaat hier om bedragen in de orde van grootte van 200 tot 300 miljard dollar,” zei hij.
Greer merkte op dat er in de afgelopen maanden informatie naar buiten is gekomen over vreemde gebeurtenissen rond de Marianentrog, de diepst bekende plek in de oceaan, met name het eiland Guam, een afzonderlijk territorium van de VS.
Buitenaards schip
Een Taiwanees vissersschip had een schijf met een doorsnee van zo’n 10 meter gevangen. Het bleek volgens dr. Greer te gaan om een buitenaards schip.
De Amerikaanse marine werd erbij betrokken en één van de bemanningsleden van een Coast Guard Cutter, een schip van de Amerikaanse kustwacht, besloot naar buiten te treden.
De getuige zei dat meerdere Navy Seals door de jaren heen vreemde objecten in en uit het water hadden zien gaan nabij de Marianentrog.
Illegale operaties
Greer voegde toe dat zich inmiddels zo’n 900 getrainde waarnemers – militairen, piloten, wetenschappers, enzovoorts – bij hem hebben gemeld met soortgelijke verhalen.
Het gaat hier volgens hem om illegale operaties, aangezien bijvoorbeeld de president of de CIA-directeur er geen weet van hebben.
“Dit vormt een enorme bedreiging voor onze democratie, omdat mensen geen idee hebben hoe gevaarlijk deze operaties zijn,” klonk het.
BUITENAARDSE ONTMOETINGEN KOMEN WEL DEGELIJK VOOR...
BUITENAARDSE ONTMOETINGEN KOMEN WEL DEGELIJK VOOR...
Wanneer we vandaag de dag een ufo zien vliegen, dan moeten wij ons eigenlijk altijd afvragen of het een buitenaards of misschien toch een aards object is.
Misschien zullen veel mensen die een vreemde ervaring hebben en misschien een stukje tijd kwijt zijn, simpelweg hun mond dicht houden uit angst dat ze belachelijk gemaakt zullen worden. Want, dat schijnt nu eenmaal de standaard reactie te zijn in mainstreamland wanneer iemand iets overkomt wat niet één-twee-drie te verklaren is.
Wanneer je doorsnee mensen op straat vraagt wat ze vinden van ufo’s en/of buitenaardsen, dan begint 99 procent spontaan te giechelen. Dat schijnt nu eenmaal de reactie te zijn die bij mensen ingebakken zit. Want, stel je voor dat ze serieus zouden reageren, dan denkt men misschien wel dat ook zij een aluhoedje zijn die ze ziet vliegen. Vandaar de lacherige reactie, want daarmee zit je altijd goed voor het geval vrienden, bekenden of collega’s jouw antwoord zouden horen.
Daarom kennen we misschien maar een fractie van contact het dat er is geweest tussen buitenaardsen en mensen. En toch zijn er gelukkig die wel hun mond hebben open gedaan.
Er is een groot verschil tussen ontvoeringen door buitenaardsen en "normaal" contact, waarbij men al of niet wordt uitgenodigd om een kijkje te nemen in hun ruimteschip.
Vandaag twee voorbeelden van dergelijke ontmoetingen waarbij beiden gemeen hebben dat het ruimtevoertuig dat ze beschrijven veel gelijkenissen vertoont en dat het beiden vrijwillige ontmoetingen betreft zonder een ontvoering.
Schirmer was politieman in Ahsland in de Amerikaanse staat Nebraska en vroeg in de ochtend van 3 december 1967 op patrouille in zijn politieauto toen hij een vreemd object gewaar werd. In eerste instantie dacht hij dat het een soort pickup truck met pech was, maar toen hij dichterbij kwam en het object in het licht van de koplampen kreeg werd het heel duidelijk dat hier geen sprake was van een auto.
Het was een soort eivormig object dat net boven de grond leek te zweven. Hij zag flitsende rode lichten en plotsklaps verdween het object in de lucht, vloog recht over de politieauto en was vertrokken. Schirmer reed als een speer terug naar het politiebureau en schreef wat er gebeurd was in het logboek op het bureau. Daar stond letterlijk: Geloof het of niet, maar ik heb een vliegende schotel gezien op de kruising van snelweg 6 en 63.
Het was pas later dat hij besefte dat er tijd "kwijt" was. Een uur waarin hij geen weet had van wat er gebeurde. Pas na zes jaar besloot Schirmer er wat aan te gaan doen en ging onder hypnose.
De hypnose sessies werden uitgevoerd door Dr. Leo Winkle uit Colorado en daarna werd bekend wat er precies gebeurd was in het uur dat ontbrak.
Het begint weer als het object opduikt in het licht van de koplampen van de politieauto, maar dit keer ziet hij drie mensachtige wezens die uit het object tevoorschijn komen. Ze waren niet groot, tussen de 1 meter 20 en 1 meter 50 misschien.
Ze liepen op de politieauto af en kwamen naar de zijkant waar zich raam aan de bestuurderskant bevond. Schirmer had zijn raam geopend en degene van de drie van wie Schirmer aan nam dat dit de leider was, leunde naar binnen en vroeg of hij de nachtwaker van de plaats was. Dit werd door Schirmer bevestigend beantwoord en het was toen ook dat hij zag dat ze uniformen droegen met daarop de afbeelding van een gevleugelde slang. Schirmer werd vervolgens uitgenodigd om een kijkje te komen nemen aan boord van het object en kreeg wat hij later noemde een “tour”.
De alien die klaarblijkelijk de leiding had zei tegen Schirmer: “We willen dat je in ons gelooft, maar niet al teveel”. Daarna werd Schirmer teruggebracht naar zijn auto en werd zijn geheugen gewist zodat hij zich niets kon herinneren over de ontmoeting. Tot het moment dat hij onder hypnose ging uiteraard.
Een tweede geval, waarbij geen sprake was van een ontvoering, maar een ontmoeting, vond plaats in Polen. Het overkwam de Poolse boer Jan Wolski op 10 mei 1978 in het dorpje Emilcin in het oosten van Polen.
Het verhaal zoals Wolski dat vertelde begon die dag toen hij met zijn boerenkar door de bossen reed in de buurt van Emilcin. Opeens zag hij twee figuren in de verte. Toen hij hen naderde sprongen ze op zijn wagen en begonnen te praten in een voor hem vreemde en onbekende taal.
Ze hadden een soort dunne stemmetjes en bleven maar praten terwijl Wolski er helemaal niets van begreep van wat ze eigenlijk probeerden te zeggen. Ondertussen bleef hij verder rijden met zijn boerenkar en toen hij vanachter wat struikgewas vandaan kwam, zag hij een object waarvan hij dacht dat het een auto was.
Maar, het vreemde was dat wat Wolski dacht dat een auto was, een meter of zo boven de grond zweefde en dan weer wat omhoog kwam en weer terug daalde. Het object had de grootte van een bus met allerlei elementen die een soort zoemend geluid maakten en was geheel wit.
Wolski had toch op de één of andere manier begrepen dat hij werd uitgenodigd om aan boord te komen en was blij dat er een soort lift scheen te zijn die hij kon gebruiken. Eenmaal binnen kon hij ook de wezens beter bekijken en deze hadden een groene huid, met vingers die eruit zagen als vinnen en droegen een strak zittende zwarte overall.
Binnen was het een vrij kale bedoening en Wolski begreep dat hij werd gevraagd zich uit te kleden. Dit deed hij en vervolgens werd hij door de aliens onderzocht die daarbij gebruik maakten van een soort kleine platen. Vervolgens mocht hij zijn kleren weer aantrekken en kreeg iets aangeboden wat leek op een soort voedsel, wat voornamelijk uit honing bestond. Wolski weigerde dit beleeft omdat hij zei geen honger te hebben.
Onderweg naar buiten zei Wolski beleefd “tot ziens” en de aliens knikten beleefd terug. In het krantenknipsel hierboven een afbeelding van het object zoals dat werd beschreven door Wolski.
Jan Wolski is altijd bij zijn verhaal gebleven ondanks dat de mainstream media uiteraard alles gedaan hebben om deze man weg te zetten als iemand die de weg kwijt is. Tot op de dag van vandaag is het de meest bekende ontmoeting met buitenaardsen in Polen en is er op de plek waar dit alles gebeurde zelfs een monument geplaatst.
Mensen zoals Herbert Schirmer en Jan Wolski hadden natuurlijk geen enkel belang om zomaar een verhaal te verzinnen. Daar komt bij dat het verhaal van Schirmer onder hypnose is bevestigd en het zou ons ook niet verbazen dat dit misschien de reden is dat ze regressiehypnose niet langer vergoeden via de aanvullende zorgverzekering. Stel je voor dat er veel meer verhalen boven water komen die men liever niet wil horen.
Wij zijn heel benieuwd of er mensen zijn in Nederland of België, elders mag ook natuurlijk, die een ontmoeting hebben gehad met buitenaardsen. Als die er zijn, stuur ons het verhaal en wij beloven er discreet mee om te gaan en bij toestemming eventueel (anoniem) te publiceren.
While the scientist who reportedly created the first gene-edited babiessits locked up under house arrestin an undisclosed location, other Chinese researchers are hard at work making clones of pets for fun and profit. Did you get a cute kitten for Christmas? Would you like a few (or a few hundred) more in case it runs away? Got $55,000? A company in Beijing announced its first batch of kitten clones will be ready in March 2019 and it’s looking for new customers. Are they getting their funding from a kitty litter manufacturer?
“This project is unlikely to be of great scientific interest, but we see great potential in it for the PCR cloning market.”
The Global Times interviewed Zhao Jianping, deputy general manager of the biotech company Sinogene which is doing the cat cloning after successfully (and profitably) cloning pet dogs. “PCR cloning” refers to the Polymerase Chain Reaction technique, which is a rapid method for cloning genes in large quantities. This is needed because the eggs of dogs are the most difficult to replicate due to their sensitivity to environmental changes.
“We have about 20 clients, in order to create an animal for them, we need from six months to 10 months.”
Those clients will be getting their kittens in March after plunking down their 380,000 yuan ($55,117) for each one and providing Sinogene with their dearly departed cats. While it’s not specified whether the first clients requested it or what the additional fee might be, Sinogene also offers gene editing to correct birth defects. That poor misguided and now incarcerated scientist who edited human genes for the same purpose must be kicking himself … if he’s still alive and still has kneecaps.
We know what you’re thinking (especially you non-pet lovers) … do we really need to clone kittens? The article agrees, pointing out that China has more than 73 million pet owners and 91 million cats and dogs. On the other hand, many Chinese couples, like their American counterparts, would prefer to have a cat to a child. In addition, pet cloning, while new, has a huge profit potential in China – from January-August 2018, the market for cats and dogs exceeded 170 billion yuan ($24 billion), a 27% increase in the annual rate.
What could possibly go wrong? The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reports that each year, approximately 1.4 million cats are euthanized in the U.S. alone. That doesn’t count those killed in traffic or by other animals or by means other than euthanization. Those numbers are likely to be the same in China, adjusted proportionately for its larger population. That $55,000 could save a lot of really cute kittens in need of a loving home, especially since Zhao Jianping points out that cloning isn’t perfect because, while looking like the original, it lacks its memory and emotions.
While one gene scientist remains under house arrest, others are free to get rich by unleashing expensive cats on a world already overflowing with millions whose humans abandoned them.
As the guys who just became thefirst and second humans ever to cross the continent on a solo expeditioncan attest, Antarctica is one quiet place to be. Besides hearing a pin drop to the ice at your feet, that eerie silence means sounds carry, allowing one to hear a pin drop or a glacier break from miles away. It’s hard enough to identity those sounds being picked up on the horizontal plane … it can be nearly impossible and sometimes scary when they’re coming down from space. Aliens? The researchers aren’t completely sure of the cause, but while they study the sounds, they’re also selling the mysterious recordings to the makers of video games to blast us with them too. Wait … what? WHAT?
“The new exploration gameplay, gives players the chance to experience the amazing ‘sounds of space’ for themselves. The players, who already have an interest in exploration and space, will hopefully enjoy the new space ‘sounds’ and be tempted to find out a little more about them.”
Dr. Nigel Meredith is an (evil?) scientist working for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) at the Halley Research Station on the Brunt Ice Shelf for four years (too long?) revealed that the sounds he and the team have been recording and trying to identify were packaged together and given to game developers Frontier Developments who this month released them onto the general public in a new exploration game called Elite Dangerous with the hope that the eerie sounds will somehow draw others to Antarctica to study them (is he lonely?).
“Our planet produces a wonderful variety of radio emissions. As we know, we can’t hear things in space. Since sound waves are vibrations, typically of air molecules. But the emissions we’re talking about are mainly electromagnetic waves and they cannot be heard directly.”
So, the mysterious space sounds picked up by the Halley VLF receiver at the station are beyond the range of normal human hearing and suspected to be the sounds of all manners of electromagnetic disturbances, from lightning strikes to geomagnetic space storms. Once isolated, Meredith gives them descriptive names such as “spherics” (these sound like hail hitting cement and are from lightning activity), “whistlers” (high-pitched sounds like radio feedback caused by lightning energy trying to escape Earth’s atmosphere) and the “chorus” (caused by solar storms, these sound like birds and insects in a rainforest. In addition to being in the Elite Dangerous game, the sounds can be heard on the British Antarctic Survey’s website (here’s the link … if you want to risk being pulled to spend time in Antarctica with Dr. Nigel some day).
“It’s mind-blowing that you get such fascinating (and baffling) audio from listening to nature throwing a ton of solar wind at a magnetic ball.”
Joe Hogan, lead audio designer for Elite Dangerous, explained in an interview with Gizmodo why he was attracted to Dr. Nigel’s mysterious sounds for the game. The money he’s making at Frontier Developments has probably kept him from being pulled to Antarctica … for now. Maybe he can do us all a favor and give Dr. Nigel a job at the company – Cambridge UK is a little warmer than Antarctica and Frontiers Development has plenty of people to keep the scientist from being lonely.
Otherwise, he’s going to continue to sit next to the Halley VLF receiver, recording mysterious space sounds and messing with our minds and our hearing. I SAID, HE’S GOING TO CONTINUE TO SIT NEXT TO THE HALLEY VLF RECEIVER, RECORDING MYSTERIOUS SPACE SOUNDS AND MESSING WITH OUR MINDS AND OUR HEARING.
The discovery of seven virgins is big news, although it would be bigger if the virgins were men instead of women. In this case they’re women but their discovery after a massive flooding is huge in both archeological and Hindu religious contexts because they may be terracotta religious statues of a long-lost civilization that once lived along the Pamba River in southern India. Why were these Seven Virgins significant enough to honor with statues? It may not be what you think.
The Hindu reports that the terracotta statues of “male and female figurines, snakeheads, bust of a man and a twin female terracotta figurine” were found in late September in Edayaranmula, a town in the south western state of Kerala, when the banks of the Pamba (also referred to as the Pampa) river collapsed after a recent heavy deluge and destructive flash flooding. Fishermen in the area found the artifacts amongst uprooted trees and did the right thing by contacting the local Kerala Department of Archeology.
Pamba River (Wikipedia)
“Mostly, the idols had seven faces. A group of seven women sitting close together was a prominent kind of figurine. We also found male figurines and Naga (serpent) figurines. The idols look like they belonged to a place of worship — like a sacred grove for the naga gods (pambin kavu). The concept of Sapta Kanya (seven virgins) or Sapta Matrika (a group of mother goddesses) is a common theme in the idols. Votive sculptures or shilpams used for idol sacrifice was also excavated from the region.”
Krishnaraj K, a professor in the Department of Archaeology, told The News Minute that a few terracotta figures had been found in this region before so he knew immediately this was not a hoax. Teams descended upon the area and began careful excavations which unearthed the exposed statues and found many more. (Photos here.)
Sapta Matrikas unearthed from Aranmula
Naga idol found in Aranmula
Cist burial site discovered on the opposite banks of the Pamba during excavations
“We are going to send them for Thermoluminescence dating, a process used to determine the exact age of the figurines by identifying the time elapsed since the material was exposed to sunlight or heat. We will be sending the samples to Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology in Dehradun.”
It is hoped that the artifacts will shed light on the long-lost Pamba River Civilization, a Bronze Age (3300 to 1200 BCE) culture significant to the beginnings of the Hindu religion but whose early history is a mystery. In the old Hindu Epics, Pampa was Lord Brahma’s daughter and later married Lord Shiva. Lord Ayyappan (Sri Dharmasastha), son of Lord Shiva, appeared as a child on the banks of the Pamba River and it is considered to be the southern equivalent of the Ganga, drawing devotees of Lord Ayyappan to bath in it and build temples on its banks. It’s suspected that the artifacts are from one of more such temples.
“Saying that is a bit much. A civilization stands as a huge era in history, consisting of many generations of people and their progress. Here we are talking about small tribes living close to the river. The idols found are mostly used for worship.”
Krishnaraj hesitates to say that these are terracotta missing links of the Pamba River Civilization, but they’re definitely religious artifacts used by a small group of its members. Archeologists know that when there’s a few there’s probably more so they will continue to excavate the area and research the statues.
And the Seven Virgins? The Sapta Kanya (seven virgins) or Sapta Matrika (seven mother goddesses) are still worshiped in southern India. More significant are the Naga figurines which represent a race of half-men and half-serpents (cobras) that are believed to be guardians of the water. All point to this being the likely site of an ancient temple of an ancient lost civilization.
Floods take away but they sometimes give back too.
A few days ago, I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe on the matter of so-called alien-human “hybrid babies.”It should be noted, though, that it’s not always just hybrid babiesthat are shown to abductees and with whom they are encouraged to bond. It’s very often hybrid children, too. As bizarre as it may sound abductees report being taken to rooms that are in stark contrast to the sterile and clean, and almost obsessively so, environments aboard UFOs. In these particular cases, abductees enter a far from tidy environment in which hybrid children are given toys to play with – as if a concerted attempt is being made to humanize the hybrids even more. Whether this is done from a positive perspective of inter-species cooperation and inter-breeding, or if it’s done to ensure that the hybrids can more successfully infiltrate human society in a sinister, hostile fashion, very much remains to be seen, and is dependent on which side of the fence you stand. You may even be of the opinion that this is nothing less than the results of bad dreams and wild tales of a very dubious kind. But, try telling that to those who claim to have encountered the hybrid children. They are convinced that what they encountered were nothing less than something half-human and half-something-else.
Take, for example, the story of Jennifer, a life-long resident of New Jersey. Now in her mid-thirties, she has conscious recall of encounters with the Grays going back to her early childhood, as does her mother. Even her grandmother has vague recollections of encountering a group of “little men” in New Jersey woods, during the summer months, at some point in the 1940s – something which emphasizes the ongoing, multi-generational aspect of these events. As well as her consciously recalled interactions with the Grays, Jennifer has been able to pull further recollections out of the depths of her mind and subconscious via hypnosis. One recollection, in particular, stands out, in terms of relevancy.
Although Jennifer has no memories of interactions with hybrid babies, she does have memories of being taken, in 2009, to what she described as looking like “an old military base, but shut down,” where she encountered hybrid children. Jennifer’s hypnotically-recovered recollections begin with her stepping out of what she first thought was a large, black sedan. With hindsight, however, she came to believe that the “car” was actually a landed UFO – the image of the car, then, being a screen-memory designed to mask, or at least confuse, the true nature of the event. She then recalls being guided, in a somewhat groggy and hazy state, to an elevator by three dwarfish figures that she found it difficult to recall, in terms of their physical appearances. What she had no trouble remembering, however, was what happened next.
After what she perceived as an incredibly long descent in the elevator, Jennifer was taken to a large room which was filled with two things: (1) a group of five or six hybrid children, all but one female; and (2) a multitude of toys. Strewn across the floor were teddy-bears, dolls, and a large amount of fluffy, toy dogs. The hybrids, who were skinny, sickly-looking, yellow-haired, and seemingly completely disinterested in the toys, were sitting on chairs placed in a row against one of the walls. It was Jennifer’s “job” – as she worded it – to try and encourage the children to play with the toys, something she was only partially successful in doing. Two of them actually smiled and even laughed when Jennifer gently tossed teddy-bears in their direction. The others offered little more than disinterest.
Time and again, Jennifer was urged to interact with the hybrids. And on each occasion, the response was far from being encouraging. Evidently, Jennifer’s abductors realized that things were not proceeding well and she was finally motioned to the door. Once again, her mind was filled with images of sitting in a black sedan, and being driven back to her home. Yet, as with her arrival at the facility, she had deep suspicions that the car imagery was, effectively, “implanted” in her mind and did not tell the true story of how she found herself deep underground. Jennifer’s encounter is of a type that many abductees – and, particularly so, female abductees – have reported.
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BABA VANGA And Nostradamus PREDICTIONS FOR 2019 REVEALED! Dec 31, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
BABA VANGA And Nostradamus PREDICTIONS FOR 2019 REVEALED! Dec 31, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Grandmother Vanga, popularly known as Baba Vanga is a blind Bulgarian mystic who had allegedly predicted the rise of Islamic State (ISIS), the 9/11 World Trade Centre attack and Brexit. Now, several people have started claiming that Baba Vanga had envisioned a series of incidents that will take place in 2019. Baba Vanga believed that the year 2019 will be loaded with a series of natural disasters in all nooks of the globe. The mystic added that the lives of two top world leaders will be in trouble in the upcoming year, and she predicts that one of the members in Vladimir Putin's security team will try to assassinate the Russian president. It should be noted that Vladimir Putin himself had admitted that he is the hot target of assassins, and as a result, he had recruited a team of elite snipers for his protection. Baba Vanga also predicts that Donald Trump, the United States president will fall ill in 2019.
Amazing UFO filmed over Mojave Desert, California – December 2018
Amazing UFO filmed over Mojave Desert, California – December 2018
Strange bright orbs were filmed in the sky above Mojave Desert, California. Filmed in December 2018.
Witness report:
Major sighting… clear video footage of light orbs in desert, disappear into thin air. They appeared suddenly, out of the blue after a group meditation at Crystal Hill at Giant Rock. This is the last few seconds caught just before they disappeared. It was stunning, and beautiful. Following a group meditation, as we walked down Quartz Crystal Hill at Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert, these light orbs suddenly appeared.
Triangle UFO flying over Birmingham, Alabama 28-Dec-2018
Triangle UFO flying over Birmingham, Alabama 28-Dec-2018
Check out this amazing footage of a triangular-shaped craft hovering above Birmingham, Alabama on 28th December 2018.
Witness report:
Saw a light that was hovering in a spot I have never seen before and when I went close to it was when it started moving in a path. It was shaped like a triangle.
I was sitting at a stop light on my way home, waiting for the light to turn green when instead I saw a different light in the distance that was just in one spot. This light had never been in that area before, the light was a bright white color. I did not know what to think at first but I finally turned at the light and it was still in the same spot hovering so I drove up to it, well I got really close to it. It still had not moved until I think it may have noticed me sitting there trying to figure out what it was. It started moving towards my direction but in a straight line/path. This object was shaped like a triangle with three white lights and one red light somewhere near the middle. I first thought it was an airplane but as it got closer I realized it was not an airplane but I could not describe what it was. It was smaller than an airplane big bigger than a drone. Airplanes make noise and this did not, it was so strange. I was in shock because I knew it was something I had never seen before, I was not scared but more so interested because I could not figure out what it was, but I had an idea. This object when on its path and completely disappeared. A garbage truck I noticed pulled over when it was just leaving, they had pulled over to look at this as well but I do not think they saw it until the very last second.
from deleted duplicate case 97316/CMS/dr: saw bright light over parking lot as I was traveling south on highway 280. Pulled into parking lot and object started to move and I took a video. Changed from one bright light to lights showing up under the object in a triangular shape. No sound and object suddenly disappeared. In still picture object is to the left of the bright light (street light) and show up as a triangle pattern of lights. Garbage truck also stopped to view. It was clear with some fog starting to form in some areas.
It does give the impression to be the source of many ideas. But if this is really written in that time, I dare not claim. What do you guys think about it?
Scientists Find All Humans Descend from One Couple That Lived 200,000 Years Ago
Scientists Find All Humans Descend from One Couple That Lived 200,000 Years Ago
not your typical Adam and Eve story..........
a new study has found that all humans descend from a single couple.........and 9 outta 10 animal species also spawn from one specific couple....says a new study published by scientists from the university of Basel in Switzerland and the Rockefeller university in the good ole U.S.A....
according to experts.....all modern humans are related and descend from a unique pair that lived 100 000 - 200 000 years ago.........
well there ya have it folks........we are all brothers and sisters whether u like it or not............peace......
A new, revolutionary scientific study has discovered that all modern humans were spawned from a single couple, hundreds of thousands of years ago. Furthermore, researchers also found that 9 out of 10 animal species also descend from one specific couple, according to a new study published by scientists from the University of Basel (Switzerland) and …
A weird weather phenomenon was recorded over Barru, South Sulawesi in Indonesia on Dec 28, 2018. There are multiple videos on YouTube. Just search for "Sky Barru Indonesia". I've never seen something like this before. If not for the light, it looks like a water spout.
– Le 8 septembre 2018, alors que le véhicule aérien sans pilote Space X d’Elon Musk, surnommé ” Dragon “, livrait sa charge utile à la Station spatiale internationale, à 400 km au-dessus de l’océan Pacifique, une caméra de surveillance du Dragon a capté un autre vaisseau en arrière-plan. D’après l’apparence de l’embarcation, elle avait la forme d’un triangle et pouvait être une embarcation ” TR3B Astra“. (voir la vidéo de 10 h 24 d’une embarcation triangulaire passant devant l’ISS).
– La rumeur dit que le TR3B appartient à l’US Air Force et qu’il a été construit à l’aide d’une technologie avancée secrète des années 1990, bien que beaucoup moins avancée que certaines des technologies extraterrestres en cours de développement. Selon des initiés du programme spatial secret comme Corey Goode, le TR3B sert principalement au transport du fret et du personnel entre les bases terrestres et la douzaine de stations spatiales de la Force aérienne, qui sont beaucoup plus avancées sur le plan technologique que la Station spatiale internationale. Peut-être que toutes ces stations et embarcations secrètes seront absorbées par la nouvelle Force Spatiale du Président Trump et qu’elles seront ensuite révélées au public.
Les médias étrangers ont rapporté que l’équipage de l’ISS avait réussi à capturer la cargaison livrée par le drone “Dragon”. L’appareil appartient d’ailleurs à la société “SpaceX”.
Le chef de l’équipage Alexander Gerst a utilisé une “main” mécanique pour livrer des “colis” à bord de la station spatiale. Au moment de l’opération de poinçonnage, les astronautes ont couru à une altitude de 400 km au-dessus de l’océan Pacifique.
Le drone était équipé d’une caméra de surveillance qui filmait tout ce qui se passait. Comme vous pouvez le deviner, c’est sur la vidéo et j’ai remarqué un étrange objet de forme triangulaire. Comme le suggèrent certains individus, les OVNI réfléchissent la lumière ou émettent leurs propres rayons.
Les ufologues ont décidé que “Dragon” était une machine volante mythique filmée appelée “TR-3B Astra”. Dispositif si vous croyez les histoires, créé aux États-Unis avec l’utilisation de la technologie étrangère.
Cependant, beaucoup de gens sont d’accord pour dire que le cadre est équipé du vaisseau spatial extraterrestre habituel. Est-ce que la compagnie Ilona Mask vous ne pouvez pas couper un morceau de vidéo pour montrer la vérité aux gens ?
10:24 minutes – vidéo YouTube d’un TR3B passant par le ‘Dragon X’ dans l’espace (le segment se termine à 5h30)
Was Project Blue 'DEW' Beam Just Used on Kenner, Louisiana, and Astoria, New York?
Was Project Blue 'DEW' Beam Just Used on Kenner, Louisiana, and Astoria, New York?
On Thursday December 27th in mid-evening, New Yorkers reported a strange blue light over Queens and power outages after a transformer explosion at a Con Edison power plant.
Blue lights were seen around the city and in New Jersey, according to WPIX. NYPD Chief Nilda Hofmann said police were investigating a transformer explosion at Astoria East and North Queens Con Ed power plant.
Multiple fires are taking place because a “couple of transformers tripped offline” at the intersection of 20th Avenue and 32nd Street, a Con Edison spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, the previous night in a quiet little Louisiana city was getting ‘zapped’ by their own Laser Beams and lost several transformers. The raw video of that incident looks like something right out of the Transformers movies.
Then five hours after New York City had their own ‘Project Blue Beam’ the Emergency ’911′ system run by CenturyLink based out of Monroe, Louisiana, crashed in the Northwest United States, taking out several ’911′ systems in various cities.
Something very strange and evil is happening in the good old United States of America.
Look What Happened Before the Strange Blue Lights of NYC!
Look What Happened Before the Strange Blue Lights of NYC!
If you’re sitting there and you’re still allowing your critical thinking to sit on a shelf while you continue to believe everything government controlled media tells you, there’s plenty of video evidence to prove that you do that to your own peril. The official story from media outlets and state funded authorities is that an electrical fault caused an “arc flash, at a Con Edison substation at 20th Avenue and 32nd Street in Astoria.
This may or may not be true. There is video from a private individual around this area. But what Mainstream news isn’t telling you is that something very similar happened 18 hours before about a thousand miles away in Kenner Louisiana Check this out…(clip)
And the only other thing these two places have in common other than transformers turning the night sky bright blue is that both areas were enveloped by this same storm that ran a consecutive 1200 mile strip from the gulf of mexico to the northern tip of maine.
And I don’t know about Kenner but in the Boston area, according to eyewitnesses who filmed it including Richie from Boston, there was an abnormal amount of all-day chemical spraying hours before the new york light show.
The moral of this is that to believe the official story from government or mainstream media sources is to believe proven liars. Am I claiming to know what this is? No…but well all know, who have done our research, that the government is very much for running covert test operations on the American people on American soil. Tests which end up leading to the harm of many. And to believe government or mainstream sources is to believe proven liars.
It’s time to take your critical thinking off the shelf, open your eyes, start asking questions and live your life as a free-thinking member of the human race.
Links are in the description. Leave your thoughts about this for the world and the google thought police in the comments section below.
EPAEen NASA-illustratie van de ruimtesonde New Horizons, die al jaren door de buitenste gebieden van ons zonnestelsel vliegt. Na Pluto in 2015, komt hij op Nieuwjaarsdag bij zijn volgende bestemming: de ruimterots Ultima Thule.
WETENSCHAPEr is nog een wereld te ontdekken, ook in onze eigen uithoek van het heelal. Daarom vliegt een Amerikaanse sonde, de New Horizons, al jaren door de buitenste gebieden van ons zonnestelsel, een regio waar we eigenlijk heel weinig van weten. In juli 2015 kwam hij langs de dwergplaneet Pluto en op dinsdag, Nieuwjaarsdag, komt hij aan bij zijn volgende bestemming: de ruimterots Ultima Thule.
Ultima Thule is een asteroïde die pas in 2014 is ontdekt. Hij is ongeveer dertig kilometer in doorsnee. De rots staat op zo’n 6,6 miljard kilometer afstand van de aarde in de zogeheten Kuipergordel. Dat is een zone vol ruimterotsen voorbij de planeet Neptunus. De gordel is vernoemd naar de Nederlandse sterrenkundige Gerard Kuiper. Nog nooit is een object op zo’n grote afstand van dichtbij onderzocht.
Dinsdagochtend om 6.33 uur Belgische tijd staat de New Horizons het dichtst bij Ultima Thule. De afstand tot de asteroïde is dan ongeveer 3.500 kilometer. Maar de bevestiging dat alles goed is verlopen, komt pas zes uur later op aarde aan.
AFPNASA-illustratie van de New Horizons bij de ruimterots Ultima Thule.
De New Horizons moet onder meer uitzoeken waar het rotsblok uit bestaat. Dat kan wetenschappers meer leren over onze eigen planeet, omdat de rots miljarden jaren geleden werd gevormd in de tijd dat ons zonnestelsel ontstond.
Piano
De eerste plannen voor de missie ontstonden rond 1990. In januari 2006 volgde de lancering van de New Horizons, een apparaat dat zo groot is als een piano. Toen hij in juli 2015 langs Pluto vloog, ontdekte de New Horizons onder meer scheuren in het oppervlak van de planeet. Mogelijk worden die veroorzaakt door een ondergrondse oceaan. Ook zag hij bergen tot 6.200 meter hoog.
Pluto was het hoofddoel, Ultima Thule is een onverwacht extraatje. Na het bezoek aan Pluto was de New Horizons nog in zo’n goede staat, dat de vluchtleiding besloot de reis te verlengen met een extra bestemming. Met een snelheid van 1,2 miljoen kilometer per dag vloog de sonde naar Ultima Thule, ongeveer 1,5 miljard kilometer voorbij Pluto.
As van ontdekker
Voor de oude Grieken en Romeinen was Thule een mythisch eiland in het hoge noorden. Ultima Thule, wat ‘voorbij Thule’ betekent, geeft aan dat de sonde “voorbij de grenzen van de bekende wereld gaat”, aldus de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA.
Mogelijk komt er nog een tweede extraatje. Als de sonde het volhoudt, wil de vluchtleiding over een paar jaar weer langs een ruimterots scheren, nog verder weg. Die bestemming is nog niet geselecteerd. Rond 2047 bereikt de New Horizons de rand van ons zonnestelsel, maar dan werkt hij waarschijnlijk niet meer.
Aan boord van de sonde is ook de as van de man die in 1930 Pluto heeft ontdekt, sterrenkundige Clyde Tombaugh (1906-1997).
REUTERSDe planeet Pluto, in 2015 gefotografeerd door de New Horizons.
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New York heeft donderdagavond bezoek gekregen van UFO’s, van buitenaardsen, stelt deze populaire radiopersoonlijkheid
New York heeft donderdagavond bezoek gekregen van UFO’s, van buitenaardsen, stelt deze populaire radiopersoonlijkheid
Inwoners van New York keken donderdagavond geschrokken op, toen ze de lucht plotseling blauw zagen kleuren.
Het lichtspektakel leek mysterieus te zijn, waarna de geruchtenmolen over aliens al snel viral ging op social media.
Volgens de mainstream media was de oorzaak van de gloed te vinden bij een energiecentrale in de wijk Queens, waar een transformator zou zijn ontploft.
Iets heel anders
De populaire radiopersoonlijkheid Lionel stelt dat de blauwe gloed te maken had met buitenaards leven.
“De ontploffing van een transformator in Queens? UFO’s. Buitenaardsen. Hoe ik dat weet? Omdat de overheid zei dat het niet zo was,” zei hij in een video op YouTube, die inmiddels ruim 60.000 keer bekeken is.
“Denk jij echt dat de autoriteiten van de Verenigde Staten of van New York je de waarheid gaan vertellen over UFO’s of buitenaards contact?” vroeg hij.
“Heb je al die beelden gezien die mensen hebben gemaakt met hun telefoons? Het was volgens mij iets heel anders dan een ontplofte transformator,” aldus Lionel, die geregeld op RT te zien is.
Propaganda-afdeling
De overheid en de media, die de propaganda-afdeling van de overheid vormen, liegen constant en vertellen je niets, klonk het.
Hij merkte op dat de media nooit kritische vragen stellen. “Ze praten niet over 9/11, zelfs niet in New York.”
Journalisten stellen geen vragen over 9/11 of die blauwe lichten in de lucht afgelopen donderdag, omdat ze doodsbang zijn hun baan te verliezen, zei Lionel.
Hij merkte op dat op YouTube allerlei beelden staan van UFO’s en lichtbollen in New York, onder meer in de buurt Chelsea.
Multidimensionaal
“Maar de media willen het daar niet over hebben.”
De media hoeven volgens Lionel niet te achterhalen of de UFO’s afkomstig waren van bijvoorbeeld Zeta Reticuli, hoeveel lichtjaren ze afgelegd hadden en of ze al dan niet multidimensionaal waren.
Ze hoeven er alleen maar over te berichten.
Vijf redenen
“Zodra ze zeggen dat er niks te zien is, is er iets te zien,” zei hij.
In een tweede video noemt Lionel vijf redenen waarom de mainstream media de opdracht hebben gekregen om te liegen over UFO’s en buitenaardsen.
In de beschrijving van zijn video citeerde hij wijlen Apollo-astronaut Edgar Mitchell, die gezegd heeft dat de aarde is bezocht door aliens, dat er schepen zijn gecrasht en dat er lichamen zijn geborgen.
Human rights? Always worth fighting for. Animal rights? We’re far too cruel to the creatures we share this planet with, but some limits are needed. Robot rights? The debate has just begun and it will be a long and confusing one, as evidenced by a new discussion led by a machine ethics researcher who believes that reverse cyborgs – robots that are given human parts such as brains – deserve at least partial human rights as well. How many human parts does it take for a robot to become a person? Which parts? What about the vice versa? Will the brave new world be a litigious one as well?
These questions are prompted by, as many discussions about future technology often are, sex. Specifically, the sex robots or sexbots that in 2018 became the center of attention in Vancouver, Canada and Houston, Texas, where an organization called KinkySdolls wanted to open (and was already taking appointments for) sex robot brothels like the one it operates in Toronto. These “dolls” – both female and male — allegedly provide a realistic sexual experience and are said to contain the artificial intelligence needed to respond to cues and recognize both their client’s needs and what would be considered abusive behavior of the dolls were human. How could these sexbots be made even more realistic? Why not add real human parts – possibly grown in a lab or even right on the cyborg itself?
In an interesting discussion in, of all places, the Daily Star, Dr. Oliver Bendel, professor of information systems at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts and a consultant to the German Bundestag, says sex robots able to read “every wish from our eyes” will be among the most advanced androids within the next 20 years, but should only be considered as “electronic persons” with “moral rights” if they have can feel or suffer, if you have a consciousness or a will to live.” And then he describes the way that will happen.
“One could at best develop ‘reverse cyborgs’, i.e. let brain and nerve cells grow on technical structures or in a robot. Such reverse or inverted cyborgs might at some point feel something.”
And then? Computing philosopher and scientist at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Dr. Jordi Vallverdú, joins the discussion.
“Under the current cultural western evolution, which has recognized rights to all kinds of men and women, it is feasible and normal to affirm that the robot’s rights will be someday into the agenda.”
“Feasible and normal.” Do you consider giving human rights to a robot feasible and normal? If you don’t, it may be too late to stop it. In early 2017, the European Parliament issued a reportwhich suggested that self-learning robots could be granted “electronic personalities” status, which would in a sense make them “legal persons” in a manner similar to corporations. Many see this move not so much as a way to give protective human rights to robots but to relieve manufacturers from legal responsibility should the AI robot commit crimes or kill someone. However, “legal persons” have the right to make campaign contributions and could conceivably “buy” politicians who would give them the rights they want. Buying politicians – how much more human can they be?
What am I?
Human are getting more robotic parts. At what point will these cyborgs lose their humanity? Robots can grow human cells that develop into human parts. At what point will these reverse cyborgs lose their robotity? Is the crossover line the same? Who should decide? Scientists? Politicians? Religious leaders? Philosophers? The cyborgs themselves?
Is everything now feasible and normal? Is anything? Are we?
The unusual practice of eating dirt, mud, clay and other soils is known as geophagy, which is considered by the medical community to be an abnormal, albeit fairly harmless and non-beneficial, compulsive behavior, while the folk medicine community touts benefits such as toxin-absorption and promoting gut health. Then there’s the soil found in the townland of Toneel North in Boho, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, which is said to heal toothaches, throat infections, neck problems and other ailments. That list of “other ailments” has just been expanded to include “four of the top six superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics” Is Boho dirt the next medical marijuana or just another fake ‘miracle cure’ product peddled by snake soil salesmen?
“In an effort to stem the rising tide of multi-resistant bacteria, researchers have turned to niche environments in the hope of discovering new varieties of antibiotics. We investigated an ethnopharmacological (cure) from an alkaline/radon soil in the area of Boho, in the Fermanagh Scarplands (N. Ireland) for the presence of Streptomyces, a well-known producer of antibiotics.”
Researchers from the UK’s Swansea University Medical School and the Ulster University School of Biomedical Sciences and Croatia’s Laboratory for Molecular Genetics at Ruđer Bošković Institute were searching for unusual “niche” ways to combat the rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria like the “hospital superbug” MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) and decided to look at the ancient soil found in Boho after hearing what seemed to be legitimate accounts of it’s healing powers. “Boho” comes from an ancient Irish word meaning hut or booth which befits its ancient history dating back to the Neolithic late Stone Age/early Bronze Age 4000 years ago. It was later home to the Druids and has a long spiritual history of both conventional religions and unconventional beliefs in faeries, faerie bushes, banshees and ancient monoliths like the Reyfad stones.
Those ancient tales might cause one to think the Boho soil stories are folklore as well, but the study, published in Frontiers in Microbiology, proved otherwise. The researchers found that it contains a previously unknown strain of Streptomyces, a bacteria that has already shown themselves to be effective against some of the superbugs. This new strain, named Streptomyces sp. Myrophorea, was proven effective in inhibiting growth of four of the top six multi-resistant pathogens (Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Klebsiella pneumonia, and Carbenepenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumanii), a list that includes the notorious MRSA.
“We will now coentrate on the purification and identification of these antibiotics. We have also discovered additional antibacterial organisms from the same soil cure which may cover a broader spectrum of multi-resistant pathogens.”
While the power of the Boho soil has been proven, the actual component of Streptomyces sp. Myrophorea which gives it this super-antimicrobial strength has not, so Dr. Gerry Quinn and the rest of the researchers are now working to identify, isolate and possibly replicate it as well as work on determining what else this magic mulch can treat or cure.
Does this mean it’s time to book a trip to Boho to eat dirt and wash it down with Irish stout? A better idea would be to definitely visit to enjoy the beauty and ancient history of the area while scientists figure out a more palatable way to partake of the protective soil. In the meantime, start working on a proper Irish toast for the occasion. Here’s one:
May your heart be light and happy, May your smile be big and wide, And may your pockets always have Some Boho dirt inside!
Watch a fox’s reaction as a bright orb approaches captured by wildlife cam
Watch a fox’s reaction as a bright orb approaches captured by wildlife cam
A wildlife camera in the Catskill mountains, Shandaken, New York captures a bright orb at high speed.
The footage captured on December 13, 2018 shows a wild fox when suddenly a bright orb comes out out of nowhere.
The orb phenomenon is surrounded with mystery and is not yet understood.
Maybe it is an alien probe, built by extraterrestrial intelligence, but some people believe seeing orbs of light is visible evidence of spirits connected to a higher source.
Whether an alien probe or a spiritual entity it seems that those that appear to have their own light source and patterns of travel like the orb in the footage below.
Four Glowing UFOs Seen During Day Over Majave Desert, California, Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Four Glowing UFOs Seen During Day Over Majave Desert, California, Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: December 2018
Location of sighting: Giant Rock, Mojave desert, California, USA
The eyewitness said the group was meditating and then the UFOs appeared. Meditation does work, but only if its done with 100% relaxed mental state. Its hard to achieve for me, but has worked.
I have seen a similar sighting long ago here in Taiwan. Seen from the mountain my son goes to school on. Its called Yuming Mountain in Taipei, Taiwan. Back in 2004 a similar sighting occurred, glowing UFOs were seen in a similar formation, but for a longer amount of time. Watch the videos and compare. They are the same craft in both videos.
It is my belief that these UFOs appeared from above at high speed and stopped in their position. Waiting...for the underground base to bring them in. Which happens so fast, that the UFOs seem to shrink and vanish. But in reality, they were transported underground to the alien base 4-6km below. So, we now know there is an alien base below Giant Rock.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
These light orbs suddenly appeared following a large group meditation at Giant Rock, in the Mojave desert.
BELOW IS THE 2004 UFO SIGHTING SEEN DURING A WEDDING ON TOP OF YUMING MOUNTAIN, TAIPEI, TAIWAN.
UFO Hovers Over Homes In San Diego, California Dec 27, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Hovers Over Homes In San Diego, California Dec 27, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 27, 2018
Location of sighting:San Diego, California, USA
This UFO photo was sent in by a Twitter follower in San Diego today. They noticed a UFO shaped cloud floating overhead unusually low compared to other clouds.
The fact that this cloud was so low was clearly suspicious, however its shape totally gives away the true shape of the UFO. Its a huge disk as you can see from the lines at the bottom of the craft.
UFOs often create cloud cover around them when they want to fly unusually low to scan the residence below. This way they do not frighten anyone and people who see the cloud only shrug their shoulders and ignore it. However occasionally a person can sense being watched and will notice the cloaked UFO and take its photo to share with others.
We hear about mysterious trumpet blasts, mysterious hums and other mysterious sounds all of the time. Perhaps you’ve heard them yourself. What we rarely hear is what the causes of any them are. Leave it to an intrepid New Jersey police chief who had heard enough from angry citizens in his jurisdiction to do some real investigative work and find the cause of the recent mysterious Jersey sounds. Is it a pilot for “Law & Order: Noise Victims Unit”?
“It was like a sickening pulsing heartbeat. We turned up our television, but could not overpower the throb. The thumping came straight through our front porch to the back of our home in the kitchen. It went on until the wee hours of the morning until around 3 a.m.”
Monica Morris Lind, who lives on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River, told nj.com back in October about the strange sound keeping her and her neighbors up at night. At the time, Penns Grove, NJ, Police Chief John T. Stranahan Sr. was one of many police chiefs in New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania who were getting reports of the loud and annoying sounds who sent officers on patrol and were unable to find the source. While they suspected a massive moving stereo system, possibly on a river barge, the sound would stop by the time they got to the possible origin point. Residents began questioning the police commitment and even suggested paranormal causes, but Chief Stranahan is a Jersey cop and Jersey cops don’t take “It’s aliens” for an answer.
“On December 24, 2018, the Salem County Call Board received over 100 call concerning the phantom music. Calls were transferred to multiple agencies within the State of Delaware, as it was believed to be the origin of the music. Unfortunately, it appeared as though no action was taken by the respective agencies. For this reason, Chief John Stranahan took it upon himself to investigate.”
The Penns Grove police department Facebook page reported that Chief Stranahan had had enough – no one – human, alien or otherwise – was going to disrupt his precinct’s Christmas Eve. He jumped into his sleigh car and followed the sound over the river and through the woods to … Delaw.are! Stranahan entered the City of Wilmington and traveled down Seventh Street to a skatepark at the confluence of the Christiana River and Brandywine Creek where he found … aliens.
OK, they were alien to him because he’s from New Jersey. What he closely encountered was a big van with a massive set of speakers pointing across the Delaware River at his town. The four beings (apparently humans) near the van panicked when the saw the police car and took off in the van … but not before Chief Stranahan quickly took pictures and managed to get two numbers off of the license plate, which he dutifully turned over to the Wilmington Police Department. As loyal viewers of cop shows know, that’s more than enough evidence to find the perps, which Wilmington Police … didn’t.
That’s right. As of this writing, the boom-boomers are still on the loose. However, the long arm (and ear) of the law is closing in. they can run but they can’t hide … especially when they’re addicted to bass.
In the world of UFOs and the paranormal there are very often reports from witnesses that seem to traverse the line between the strange and the utterly bizarre, lodging themselves firmly into the domain of the downright absurd. Such accounts can be so completely surreal that they are hard to really fit into any clear category, and exist on a plane unto themselves. I have written much of such accounts in the past, and indeed quite recently here at Mysterious Universe, and here I delve once again into accounts of encounters with all manner of absurdly strange beings, that seem to elude and defy any easy classification.
The earliest of these completely bonkers accounts we will look at supposedly occurred back in the summer of 1955, in the normally quiet Casa Blanca neighborhood of Riverside County, California. On this day, a young boy named Kermit Douglas was playing with some other children on the lawn of his home when they noticed a large, glowing semi-transparent dome-like structure floating through the air over their heads before vanishing, only to reappear shortly after that with a musical chiming sound. This time the object was surrounded by myriad small orb-like things of different colors orbiting it, and all of them seemed to vanish and reappear in different places as if they were teleporting, each time emanating a distinctive “ping” sound.
At first it seemed to be a wondrous and almost playful display, as if these orbs of light were sentient and just playing around for their amusement, but things would quickly graduate to alarming, when a truly massive of of the orbs “about as large as three houses put together” came down into a nearby football field to land and a series of completely absurd events would begin to play out. As the children gazed in wonder at this sight a very outlandish being suddenly appeared near the Douglas home, hovering and translucent just as the mysterious spheres were. The creature was described as being around 4 feet in height, with “a big red mouth, big red eyes, and four round objects on his face which sparkled like diamonds where his nose should be.” Instead of legs it had merely a rounded, tapering bottom, and its belt cast a blinding glare that caused the children to become steadily more panicked, shouting and screaming, yet adults who came to investigate what was going on would later claim that they could not see any of the strange lights or the being that the children described.
In the meantime things went weird at an alarming rate, starting when one of the youngest of the group of kids purportedly became somewhat entranced and hypnotized by the pulsating, multicolored sphere that had come to rest in the football field, and started mindlessly shambling towards it like a zombie, to the point that he had to be restrained by two of the other boys. Things only got steadily trippier from there, as there were also other spheres starting to descend now to hover over or land on the ground or even trees and the roofs of houses, and at one point a metallic arm was seen to materialize out of thin air to beckon one of the children, just the arm, unattached to any body, floating there in the void. Still another one of the boys said he also saw a small man marching about clad all in silver and clenching in his hands two “ray guns.”
As all of this assorted and surreal weirdness was going down, the largest of the orbs, that one in the center of the football field, suddenly opened to disgorge another of those diamond-faced, red-eyed entities, this one with four legs, and two arms that each branched off at the forearms into separate appendages each with its own hand, for a total of four hands. This eight-limbed abomination then put two of the boys into a trance-like state and telepathically commanded them to climb a tree, which they did. Some 15 minutes later, the two tree-bound boys were approached by a “Saturn shaped” UFO and its crew of tiny beings, which tried to get the two entranced boys aboard the vessel but were thwarted by some of the other boys shooting a, I am not making this up, a garden hose at it. The water snapped one of the boys out of his daze, and the other simply remained in his trance and jumped off the roof. Both boys were uninjured, and would later claim to have no memory of what had happened while they were in their stupor.
Soon after the garden hose incident, the UFOs in all of their shapes and sizes suddenly just left, shooting up straight into the sky to vanish, leaving behind a group of very frightened and intensely confused children. Subsequent interviews with these witnesses have shown that they at least seem to truly believe that this is all true, but what exactly they saw remains unknown. Indeed, it is such a chaotic, varied, and incredibly, almost ridiculously odd and harrowing sequence events that it is hard to even know what to think of it or whether this really had anything to do with “aliens” at all. What were these creatures, where did they come from, and why did only the kids see them? Why is the case so insanely bizarre, almost dream-like? There is no way to know.
In the 1960s we have several very deeply strange encounters, some of them quite sinister even. A common phenomenon related to UFOs and alien encounters is the mutilation of cattle or other livestock, which are found minus organs or all of their blood, and often displaying strange punctures or precise surgical cuts. Often the actual perpetrators of these mutilations are not seen, but for our first bizarre account we have a case in which the entity responsible was actually encountered, and which has become one of the weirdest alien sightings there is.
In April of 1967, a young woman named Valentina Flores was out tending her flock of sheep and llamas out in a rugged mountainous region of Opoco province, Bolivia, near a small town called Potosi. On this day Valentina was out tending her modest shack out int the wilds, along with her husband Gumersindo and their baby daughter, Theodosia. The day started out like any other, but she noticed at some point that the llamas had wandered off. It was not really all that uncommon, as the creatures had a deep case of wanderlust, so she went about gathering all of her sheep into one place and going off to find the llamas, which she was fairly sure were not far and would be retrieved quickly.
Valentina headed out over the rough terrain, her baby strapped to her back with a traditional carrying blanket, not unusual for the people of the region, and she found the animals in a clearing not far away, as expected. What she did not expect was that when she returned to where she had started that all of her sheep would be nowhere to be seen, leaving a trail of tracks off into the wilderness. After undoubtedly letting out a frustrated sigh, Valentina dutifully followed the trail left by the animals through the mountains, eventually coming to a sort of stone corral used as a temporary holding area for sheep, and this was where things would begin to take a turn for the deeply odd.
The Bolivian mountains
The woman noticed that something was attached to the corral, which upon closer inspection seemed to be a meshed, sticky substance not unlike a giant spider web, which all seemed to splay forth from an inscrutable pole-like structure in the middle. This was all rather unsettling enough, but Valentina would be struck with terror when she looked past the weblike substance to see the ground below littered with the bodies of her sheep, which appeared to have been cut open and disemboweled. Before she even really had time to process this macabre sight, she noticed that she was not alone, and there standing not far away was a small, child-sized being who was wearing some kind of one-piece suit with red straps in an X-pattern across the chest, brown boots, a helmet with “a propellor” on it, and a backpack with knobs and dials. It was very pale, with a face that was described as having an ample red mustache, blonde hair atop the head, and bright blue eyes.
It seemed to be hunched over one of the sheep, in the process of inserting a siphon-like device with a hooked end into the still struggling and terrified animal. Beside the entity was a satchel of some sort that was covered with blood and seemed to be filled with organs and parts from the dead animals, which all angered Valentina enough to snap her out of her daze of fear. She began to shout at the being and throw rocks at it, and the odd little entity retreated to what was described as some box-like device like “a radio,” which had a crank on the side that the little creature began to furiously wind to reel in the webs that covered the corral. It then became apparent that there was another of the creatures standing nearby, and this one ran up a hill to sit within a chair-like device that let out a humming sound and hovered off. Valentina was left alone with the original creature that she had seen butchering her sheep, and she lurched towards it with a wooden club she always carried with her. The little man at this point was said to be the one who was terrified now, and Valentina would say of what happened next:
He spoke to me, but I did not understand it. It was not Quechua or Spanish. He was as upset as I was. Oh my God! My animals! He had killed them one by one. I became crazy. I hit him with all my strength. I hit him in the face and he started to bleed. The guy was still screaming but I did not understand it.
Unfortunately for Valentina, the being was not completely helpless, and he produced a strange tool similar to a curved, razor sharp boomerang to lash out at her, cutting her chest and arms. It must have been quite a sight to see, this shepherd woman with a club and a baby strapped to her back, locked in an apparent fight to the death with this alien sheep-killer and his otherworldly weapon, and after a few moments of combat the injured entity retreated with his device containing the webs and his bag of sheep entrails. Valentina chased the little man, but he soon sat atop another of those chair-like contraptions and shot off into the sky much as his companion had done, leaving the woman standing there with her unharmed baby, exhausted and bleeding.
According to the rather spectacular account, Bolivian military would later examine the scene to find 63 dead sheep missing various organs and swaths of fat, as well as every drop of blood. Other ranchers in the area would also tell of finding mutilated sheep carcasses devoid of blood, and of having seen miniature beings lurking about the animal pens at night. The account would come to public attention with an interview conducted with the witness in 2001 by Spanish UFO researcher J. J. Benítez, and what made it all the more interesting was that Valentina had never even heard of UFOs or aliens before and did not seem particularly interested in that line of questioning.
Also from the 1960s we have a curious account from the U.S. state of Oregon. In 1965, an unidentified witness says he was staying at his parents’ house near Madras, Oregon, when one evening his attention was drawn by loud noises coming from right outside the house. When he looked outside, the witness says that he saw strange lights outside and a “UFO coming down,” but what was even stranger than that was a very large, hulking form that suddenly appeared from the night to stand looking in the doorway of the house, of which he would say, “I saw an alien creature standing outside the front door looking at me. It had the face of an ape, and chain across the chest area.”
The massive creature then lumbered off and the lights disappeared, allegedly leaving a mark upon the ground where the UFO had landed but no other physical evidence at all such as tracks. Considering the strange chains and the proximity to the UFO sighting, it seems that this creature must have surely had some connection, but it is strange that except for the chain this thing’s appearance makes it seem like it could have been a Bigfoot. Interestingly, Bigfoot and UFOs are often sighted together, oddly enough, making an already weird phenomenon even weirder.
The 1960s seem to have been a rather odd time for extraterrestrial encounters, because our next case is every bit as bizarre and occurred in 1968 in the province of Tarragona in Spain, and concerns a humble farmer by the name of John Mateu. According to a report contained within the Barcelona Tele-Express, in the summer of that year, Mateu was out doing his usual farm work like any other day, when he caught sight of what appeared to be something glinting in the morning light some distance down the dirt road that went past the property. His first impression was that it was someone who might be lost or even worse broken down, and so he walked off down the dusty road with his dog in tow to see what was going on. It would soon become quite clear that this was no car, nor any sort of vehicle he recognized.
As he approached, Mateu could see that rather than a car the source of the glinting light was actually some sort of oval, metallic object that was glowing and hovering several feet off of the ground. As the dumbfounded farmer stared on in amazement, he noticed three small creatures that looked vaguely octopoid, moving along swiftly on tentacles towards the craft. When they reached it, the weird entities were described as piling into the spheroid object and shooting off into the sky and leaving Mateu there to faint and lose consciousness. Indeed, he’d go on to remain missing for a full day as friends and family searched for him, after which he wandered home, unable to account for his missing time. Mateu and his brother would go on to find several patches of scorched earth where it was surmised that the alien craft had landed, and oddly enough their watches were also reported as stopping when they entered the vicinity. Interestingly, Spain was subjected to a spate of sightings and encounters of strange, octopoid creatures all over the country, although what connection any of them have to this case or each other remains unclear.
Moving on to the 1970s we have the extraordinarily odd account of 9 year-old José Cantu, of the town of Harrah, in Washington state. On January 19, 1977, Cantu was up early in the morning making himself breakfast when he looked outside to see a strange, diminutive “little men” out in the yard. He tried to wake his mother, but she told him to leave her alone and that he was imagining things, so he went out to take a look for himself, soon coming face to face with a pair of 3-foot-tall beings with greenish skin and no legs, instead sitting atop rotating bases with various tubes and small wheel-like protuberances attached to them. The heads of the things were monstrous, with pig-like snouts, odd mushroom-shaped caps, and only a single eye placed within the center of their heads, as well as tiny, useless looking forearms jutting out from the middle.
Cantu immediately hid behind a shed, and it was here where he would notice two brightly lit metallic crafts parked nearby which had ramps leading to the ground and seemed to be piloted by more of the same cyclops beings. The two beings he had seen earlier then boarded these “spaceships” via the ramps, after which the crafts hovered into the air and vanished into puffs of smoke. The boy ran back inside, woke his sleeping mother, and told her all about what he had seen, but she would not believe him and sent him on his way to school. There he would tell anyone who would listen about what he had seen, and two classroom aides ended up being so enthralled by his sincerity that they went home with him after school to take a look at the scene themselves.
In the yard, the aides would find circular indentations within the earth, apparently caused by the bases that the two aliens had sat upon, and neighbors would say that they had also found enormous depressions in the ground where Cantu said the craft had been resting. An examination of these depressions showed that they had strange patterns of swirled grass within them, and this was all big enough news that the following day a a police officer for the Indian Reserve of Yakima by the name of Willard J. Vogel came to investigate, seeing the evidence and interviewing the boy, and he became convinced that the boy at least truly believed that he was telling the truth. What did he see, aliens, UFOs, or some kind of inter-dimensional interlopers? Who knows?
Here we hve looked at a selection of some of the oddest encounters with beings beyond our comprehension. Although it is easy to simply write these off as delusions or overactive imaginations, it is also intriguing to think about whether there is any chance at all that any of it was true, and if so, what these entities could have possibly been. If they are real, then what are the origins of such things? Are these creatures from another star that have travelled here upon nuts and bolts spacecraft? Or are they perhaps thigs from beyond our reality, interdimensional travellers not traversing space, but rather the space between spaces, punching through some curtain between dimensions? Whatever the answer may be, one thing is for sure, and that these accounts are pretty much as truly, spectacularly weird as they get.
If the September 1961 alien abduction incident reported byBarney and Betty Hillhad been a one-off, singular event, then there might be at least some justification in suggesting that the whole event was born out of some strange, shared psychological event. The important thing to note, though, was that it was not a singular event. Quite the contrary, in fact. It was just the start of what eventually became a veritable deluge of reports that continues to this very day. Take, for example, the strange and thought-provoking case of a mannamed Herbert Schirmer. It was in the early hours of December 3, 1967, when Schirmer – who was, at the time, a policeman in Ashland, Nebraska – was driving around town, checking that all was normal. It turns out, however, that things were not normal; they were far from being normal. As he scoured the deserted, quiet streets, Schirmer was suddenly confronted by what, at first glance, he thought was a broken-down truck at the edge of one particular road. When his headlights hit the object with full force, however, it became instantly clear to Schirmer that this was no truck. It was much stranger, maybe even a vehicle from another world.
What Schirmer was confronted by was a fairly compact, egg-shaped craft, floating around eight to ten feet above the surface of the road. An amazed Schirmer could only stare as the UFO – there really was no other way for Schirmer to describe it – rose further into the sky. Flashing, red lights could be seen and a wailing, banshee-like sound filled Schirmer’s ears. The UFO then exited the area by taking a course directly above Schirmer’s vehicle. He sat there, astounded, for a few moments and then quickly headed back to the police station. He even recorded the details of the affair in the logbook: “Saw a flying saucer at the junction of highways 6 and 63. Believe it or not!”
Just like Betty and Barney Hill back in 1961, Schirmer – six years later – very soon came to realize that certain portions of that extremely weird night were gone from his mind and his memory – specifically, an hour or so of time. Also paralleling the experience of the Hills, Schirmer elected to undergo hypnosis to try and figure out what on earth (or off of it) had happened to him on that dark night. The hypnotic sessions were carried out by a Boulder, Colorado-based Dr. Leo Sprinkle. While under hypnosis, Schirmer provided an incredible account of what happened during that absent period of time.
Hypnosis revealed that as he sat in his police car, and as he stared in awe at the hovering craft directly before him, Schirmer was confronted by three humanoid beings. All of them were wearing tight-fitting, one-piece outfits. They exited the craft and walked towards Schirmer. All were around four-and-a-half to five-feet in height. Approaching the driver’s side window, one – that Schirmer perceived to be the “leader” of the alien pack – leaned in, in a slightly menacing fashion, and asked: “Are you the watchman of this place?” Schirmer replied that, yes, he was. As the aliens stood around his squad-car, Schirmer couldn’t fail to notice that their uniforms displayed the image of a winged serpent. Schirmer was reportedly then taken aboard the craft, and given what we would call “a tour.”
In somewhat puzzling and enigmatic words, the alien who seemed to be in charge said to Schirmer: “We want you to believe in us, but not too much.” After which, Schirmer was returned to his vehicle, with his mind wiped clean of the events – until, that is, definitively bad dreams finally forced him to undergo hypnosis, and the startling saga came tumbling out in spectacular fashion. It should be stressed that the Schirmer incident seemed to straddle two camps: that of the abductee and that of the contactee. For example, there was the issue of missing time, which certainly is a staple part of just about all alien abduction incidents on record. But, the entities that Schirmer saw were most definitely not the Greys of abduction lore. Their short statures aside, they were not too dissimilar to us. And, we can hardly say that Schirmer was kidnapped. He was, after all, invited on-board the UFO for that fairly quick tour. While the Schirmer case was not unique, it certainly remains a definitive part of alien abduction/alien contact lore.
Sometimes, science may turn stranger than fiction, and the year 2018 witnessed a handful of such incidents which may make people think whether these happenings are real or not.
International Business Times, India presents you five such science stories which are weirdest to the core, and pretty difficult for the conscience of a normal man to digest.
1. The bizarre story of the human head transplant
People have seen stories of human head transplant in Hollywood sci-fi flicks. However, Ren Xiaoping, a Chinese orthopedic surgeon is spending his complete productive time to materialize the world's first human head transplant. Xiaoping is allegedly working on these experiments with Italian scientist Sergio Canavero.
Even though the duo claimed to have conducted the first human head transplant in 2017, they failed to provide any evidence to substantiate their deed. In 2018, Canavero and Xiaoping conducted head transplanting experiments on rats. Interestingly, out of the 60 head transplanted rats, only 14 lived for at least 36 hours.
Even though with this high failure rate, Canavero and Xiaoping strongly believe that human head transplant will become a success in future, and this technology will be used widely by rich business tycoons to live forever.
2. The unending mysteries of Oumuaua
It was in 2017 that space experts initially discovered Oumuamua, the first ever interstellar visitor to reach our solar system. Initially, space scientists speculated that Oumuamua could be either a meteor or an asteroid. However, in 2018, a study report from Avi Loeb, a top Harvard researcher raised many questions about the origin of Oumuamua.
In the study report, Loeb suggested that Oumuamua could be an alien probe. As per Loeb, the space body gained an unexpected acceleration as it passed through the inner solar system, and he believes that no natural object could achieve this gain in momentum.
However, Don Lincoln, a senior scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory argued that the sudden change in acceleration could be the result of a natural process called outgassing.
3. Green UFO above the surface of Jupiter
On October 25, 2018, conspiracy theorists spotted a bizarre anomaly in one of the Jupiter images released by NASA. In the first glance, the image looked normal, but upon closer analysis, a green UFO can be seen hovering just above the surface of the planet.
The image released by NASA soon went viral, and many people started arguing that this photo is an authentic proof of alien existence. They also alleged that space agencies like NASA are well aware of extraterrestrial aliens living in the dark nooks of the universe.
However, after analyzing the image, some experts suggested that that the green UFO-like object spotted in the image could be the result of an imaging sensor anomaly.
4. Necrophilia among crows
Necrophilia can be described as the fascination of a person towards dead bodies. In some cases, people with this psychological disorder may often try to engage in sexual acts with deceased bodies. However, in 2018, a woman named Kalie Swift photographed the image of a living crow engaging in sexual acts with a dead one.
It is still unclear how the crow got sexually fascinated with the recently deceased. Some experts believe that it might be a confused response mingling aggression with sex.
5. The unusual story of Mad Mike
The concept of flat earth has gained popularity in recent days, and many eminent personalities including former English cricket captain Andrew Flintoff believes that the earth is a flat disc. However, to prove this, a man named Mike, popularly known as Mad Mike, propelled himself to 1875 feet using a rocket made with scrap materials.
After the self-tuned launch, Mike had a hard landing in the Mojave desert causing him minor injuries. Now, Mike is apparently planning to build a space vehicle called Rockon, which will help him to reach an altitude of 68 miles. He believes that the real shape of the earth will be unveiled in front of him at such a high altitude.
Puzzling Palpa Lines In Peru Made By The Paracas Culture Are Even Older Than The Nazca Lines
Puzzling Palpa Lines In Peru Made By The Paracas Culture Are Even Older Than The Nazca Lines
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPage.com - The enigmatic Palpa lines in Peru are not as famous as the Nazca lines, but these puzzling lines and geoglyphs that can only be properly viewed from the air are equally interesting.
Archaeological examinations reveal the Palpa lines are older than the Nazca lines and were most likely created by the Paracas culture, an Andean society that existed about 800 BCE and 100 BCE, in what today is the Ica Region of Peru.
The Palpa lines are located in between the towns of Sacramento, Pinchango, and Llipata. The purpose of the lines and geoglyphs is unknown. There are as many as 600 geoglyphs of giant size and they represent a series of human and animal zoomorphic figures, including the Familia Real (Royal Family), a group of eight figures on a hillside.
The purpose of the Palpa lines and geoglyphs is unknown and just like the Nazca lines, these ancient carvings are regarded as one of archaeology's greatest enigmas because of their quantity, nature, size and continuity. Scientists suggest the geoglyphs had ritual astronomical functions
Over The Palpa Lines: The Sun Star
- Credit: gloetzner.net
These giant geoglyphs and lines must have been of great importance to our ancestors and they were undoubtedly not easy to create. Many consider the figures to be extraordinary example of the traditional and millenary magical-religious world of the ancient Pre-Hispanic societies which flourished in Peru.
The mysterious Candelabrumlocated about 130 miles from the Nazca Plain is one of the most enigmatic ancient giant ground drawings in the world
The Candelabra is 595 feet long and resembles a candlestick. It can be seen from as far as 12 miles out to sea. Who made it and why? This is a question no-one has been able to answer so far. Obviously, its creators believed it was important that the ground drawing must be clearly visible from the air.
It’s important to note that similar geoglyphs have been found In North America as well. As we here at Ancient Pages wrote earlier, in the American Southwest and adjacent Mexico there are over 300 remarkable intaglios.
The most famous of those are the Blythe Intaglios, located west of the Colorado River about 15 miles north of Blythe, California.
Mastamho, the Creator of Earth and all Life.
Here we come across gigantic human and animal figures carved on the ground. Just like the Peru’s wonderful and intriguing Nazca lines, these figures can only be seen properly from the air, which is the reason they weren’t discovered by white man until the 20th century.
According to the stories told by modern-day Mohave and Quechan Indians the human figures represent Mastamho, the Creator of Earth and all Life, while the animal figures represent Hatakulya, one of two mountain lions who helped in the Creation.
The orca geoglyph in southern Peru.
GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
The geoglyphs are giant in size, but this doesn’t prevent them from being undetected for year. Just recently, researchers found a new giant geoglyph of orca with mysterious symbols and a ‘trophy head’ in the Nazca Desert. The figures are difficult to discovered because they can only be seen properly from the air. We can only wonder how many more giant geoglyphs are still hiding just in front of our eyes.
Written by Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com
About the author: Ellen Lloyd – is the owner of AncientPages.com and an author who has spent decades researching ancient mysteries, myths, legends and sacred texts, but she is also very interested in astronomy, astrobiology and science in general
It's been called theWelsh 'Roswell'- a cold, dark January night in 1974 when the ground shook and bright lights appeared in the sky above the Berwyn Mountains.
An incident which has remained surrounded by mystery ever since, many explanations have been given for what went on in that part of North Wales that evening, from meteor shower and earthquake to downed plane or even lamp-wielding poachers on the hillside.
But, for many, the belief that a UFO crashed high above Bala Lake - its alien inhabitants quickly spirited away in a military cover-up - has proved hard to shake.
And, according to NorthWalesLive, that belief has resurfaced again following a fresh appeal for information earlier this year by a researcher looking to make a documentary about the phenomena for American TV.
Bala Lake was said to be the epicentre in the supposed earthquake theory(Image: Daily Post Wales)
North Yorkshire UFO investigator Russ Kellett, who has been researching the Berwyn Mountains enigma for 25 years, has received a further four extraordinary claims by people from in and around the affected villages of Llandderfel and Llandrillo who say they were either close to the incident or knew officials involved.
One woman, who said she lived very near by, told Kellett her dad worked for the Ministry of Defence and on that night she heard an enormous bang - the tremor from which measured 3.5 on the Richter scale - and that she and her brother were told to go back to bed.
Later in the evening she could hear people talking in the house about making calls and when she looked out of the window she saw something large being loaded onto the back of a truck, although she did not know what it was. She claimed there were a lot of soldiers in the area.
Years later, her dad told her a Russian ship in the Irish Sea had fired a missile "in the wrong direction" and hit something which came down and was taken away by the military.
UFO investigator Russ Kellett has been obsessed with the Berwyn Mountains mystery for years(Image: @russkellett)
Meanwhile, retired nurse Pat Evans who believed an aircraft had crashed drove to the site and saw a pulsating orange and red glow on the hillside and other lights.
In addition, one ex-military man recalled how he'd been working in a team at one end of the A5 and claimed something "catastrophic" had gone wrong with an underground base "that was not manned by people of this world."
Finally, Kellett's findings also included a pensioner with links to the RAF and NASA who stated the organisations had been developing a new weapon to bring down unidentified flying objects and it had been used successfully that night.
And there are those in other parts of Wales who also want to believe:
The X-Filer says he is keeping an open mind on the latest extraordinary claims in his continued attempts to try and piece together what happened that night.
"You have to be careful with any new claims that it may be what people have heard or read being repeated back to you," he said.
"Sometimes there are people who just like to be involved in an event such as this and want to say they were there.
"On the other hand, why would these people in their 50s, 60s and 80s contact me to give me these stories. The people who contacted me appeared to be genuine.
"I have been researching this for 25 years now and am still trying to get to the bottom of what happened that night."
‘Oumuamua: Hunk of interstellar rock or sun-powered alien UFO?
‘Oumuamua: Hunk of interstellar rock or sun-powered alien UFO?
As a mysterious flying object exits our solar system, we asked experts to speculate on its origins
by Sarah Niedoba
An artist’s impression of `Oumuamua
(European Southern Observatory )
Last year, astronomers spotted an unusual interstellar object moving through the solar system at the breezy pace of 26 km per second.
Named ‘Oumuamua—from the Hawaiian for “scout”—various theories emerged as to what it could be. A comet was the first thought, but it lacked the trademark gaseous tail. Then it was posited to be an asteroid, but it began to accelerate at a pace that scientists were unable to explain.
This month, a pair of Harvard scientists published a paper suggesting that the object might be an abandoned alien spacecraft pushed forward by a “solar sail”—a device using energy from the sun to propel the vessel through space. In January 2019, it will travel beyond Saturn’s orbit on its way out of our solar system. In the interest of scientific rigour, Maclean’s has rounded up the hottest takes from Canada’s leading experts on what they believe ‘Oumuamua might be.
It is a small asteroid ejected (probably billions of years ago) from another planetary system, that has by chance flown close to our star and the Earth. Trillions of objects must be freely wandering interstellar space, and every now and then one falls through a stellar system (ours, in this case). This object’s flyby properties—its speed and direction—are exactly what was expected for such freely wandering objects.
—Brett Gladman, physics & astronomy professor, UBC
In my opinion, ‘Oumuamua is most probably an atypically shaped, slightly icy “planetesimal” that was ejected from another solar system long ago. A planetesimal is any space rock that is left over from the process of planet formation, such as asteroids or comets. Now, something needs to explain ‘Oumuamua’s excess acceleration, as is the focus of the Harvard paper. The solar sail theory is a fun piece of science, and there is nothing from what I can see that is incorrect in the calculations. Light carries momentum and does indeed provide pressure that can push a thin sheet. Can ‘Oumuamua’s acceleration be explained by radiation pressure? We now know it can. But is it likely an alien light sail? That is an extreme leap. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the Harvard paper does not provide any evidence to prove that ‘Oumuamua is artificial in origin.
—Ben K. D. Pearce, physics & astronomy Ph.D. student, McMaster University
Science fiction has a long history of stories about malfunctioning spaceships or derelicts; if this is an alien vessel, it’s probably precisely that: a derelict, since in a functioning vessel, any solar sail—a fragile construct—would be retracted this far from a star. How tragic it would be if aliens had indeed decided to pay us a friendly visit only for them to have died en route. My own theory? Actually, science-fiction writers are a highly skeptical bunch; we’re the least likely to take an outlandish interpretation to heart. Almost certainly, ‘Oumuamua will turn out to be an entirely natural phenomenon. Still, anything that gets people thinking about our place in the universe is all to the good.
—Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning science-fiction novelist
The most reasonable explanation is that this object is a small body (like an asteroid) that was ejected from another planetary system, and that our solar system intersected with its path, causing the object to become visible from Earth. Astronomers and planetary scientists have long predicted such objects would exist and that we would detect them when our telescopes became capable enough. The proof will come when additional such bodies are discovered. When planetary systems form, many billions of bodies about the size of this one would be created. We already know that dust particles from other planetary systems impact the Earth; ‘Oumuamua is a very large example of such an event, but not a highly unlikely event.
—J.J. Kavelaars, head of the CanadianAstronomy Data Centre
Conspiracy theorists all around the world strongly believe that UFO sightings are the concrete evidence of alien existence.
Last year, Pentagon admitted that they conducted a secret UFO investigation program named AATIP (Advanced Arial Threat Identification Program) to unveil the mysteries surrounding unidentified flying object sightings. Even though the project was scrapped around six years ago, several conspiracy theorists argue that the project is still on, and the United States secret forces are still on the hunt to unravel the real truth behind these unknown flying objects.
In 2018 too, several UFO sightings were reported from various parts of the globe. Upon closer analysis, many UFO videos released by conspiracy theorists seem fabricated, but there are a handful of reports which still remain unanswered by experts.
Here, we present the list of five UFO sightings happened in 2018, that continue to perplex conspiracy theorists and space experts alike.
1. The Ireland UFO incident
On November 9, a British Airways pilot contacted the Shannon air traffic control and reported seeing a UFO flying above the skies of Ireland. The British pilot also asked whether there were any military exercises going on in Ireland on the same day. However, authorities clarified that there were no such exercises organized on November 9.
During the time of the UFO sighting, the flight was traveling from Montreal to Heathrow. The pilot revealed that UFO initially came up along the left side of the airplane, and later traveled to the north in skyrocketing speed.
Soon after the UFO sighting, the Irish Aviation Authority kickstarted an investigation, and the probe is still going on.
In the meantime, some space experts suggested that the UFO spotted in the skies could be a meteor. However, alien enthusiasts believe that a change in trajectory is not a characteristic often showed by meteors.
2. The return of the black triangle
Triangle-shaped UFOs are very popular among conspiracy theorists for years. In 2018 too, these black triangles made a return, and the eerie video was released by popular extraterrestrial researcher Tyler Glockner who runs the YouTube channel 'Secureteam10'.
In a video uploaded with the title, 'CHECK THE SKY: The Silent Triangles Are Back', a triangle-shaped flying object can be seen hovering in the skies above Pennsylvania. Glockner suggested that the bizarre object spotted in the skies could be either alien vessels from deep space or secretive military vehicles like TR-3B.
Conspiracy theorists believe that TR-3B is a reverse-engineered anti-gravity military vessels developed by the United States Air Force during the cold war. As per these theorists, the US forces had built this spacecraft with the help of aliens whom they detained in Area 51.
3. The Green UFO spotted above the surface of Jupiter
This is perhaps the most perplexing UFO reporting which happened in 2018. The green UFO was initially spotted by conspiracy theorists after analyzing an image of Jupiter released by NASA. At first glance, the image seems pretty normal, but upon closer analysis, a green structure was seen hovering above the surface of Jupiter.
International Business Times, India too checked that image, and we were also literally shocked to see a giant green structure above the giant planet's surface.
However, experts dismissed the UFO angle and suggested that the bizarre green structure could be the result of an image sensor anomaly.
4. Strange UFO landing marks in Argentina
The newly spotted UFO marks in Argentina seem fresh, and there are now footprints in the surrounding snow.
This incident is not exactly a UFO sighting but can be considered as an indication of extraterrestrial arrival on earth. The bizarre marks were initially spotted by a man named Rodrigo in Moquehue, a small Argentinian village.
The prints were apparently left by a flying vehicle in snow, and interestingly, there were no footprints surrounding the snow.
5. TV news anchor spots UFO during live show
A few months back, anchors of c5n news channel in Argentina were busy hosting program with a clear Buenos Aires sky in the background. Surprisingly, the news anchor spotted a metallic object in the skies, and she was literally shocked to see the object climbing up in the atmosphere.
The video soon went viral on the internet, and it made many conspiracy theorists believe that alien life is a reality.
Space Oddity: 10 Bizarre Things Earthlings Launched into Space in 2018
Space Oddity: 10 Bizarre Things Earthlings Launched into Space in 2018
By Laura Geggel, Live Science Contributor
Photo Credit: Rocket Lab
Strange space launches
This past year, engineers launched many oddities into space, including a Tesla Roadster, a gold-plated canopic jar and a cosmic disco ball. The total list of launched objects is lengthy, so here are the top 10 coolest objects (in our opinion) that blasted spaceward in 2018.
Virgin Galactic's spaceliner reached space, at least as defined by U.S. standards. Once the program is up and running, this spaceship — the VSS Unity suborbital spaceliner — will carry space tourists toward the heavens. There, they'll experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see Earth's curvature, all for $250,000 a ticket.
On Dec. 13, the VSS Unity reached 51.4 miles (82.8 km) over the Mojave Desert in California. While this is below the Karman line, it's above the 50-mile (80 km) boundary that the U.S. Air Force uses to award astronaut wings.
Photo Credit: LACMA/U.S. Air Force via collectSPACE.com
2. Canopic jar
In December, SpaceX launched a 24-karat-gold canopic jar in the shape of Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., NASA's first African-American astronaut. For those who aren't ancient-Egypt buffs, a canopic jar is a container that holds a mummified person's organs.
In 1967, the U.S. Air Force chose Lawrence for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, which was designed to help the U.S. spy on the Soviet Union and other rivals. But Lawrence died in a jet crash less than six months later, meaning the 32-year-old never made it to space.
To honor Lawrence, SpaceX shot his gold bust, along with more than 60 tiny satellites, into space atop the company's Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX also shot about 36,000 tiny worms into space. The wriggly load left Earth on Dec. 5 and landed at the International Space Station, where astronauts are now studying the C. elegans worms. These worms have similar muscle structures to those of people, so analyzing the critters can help scientists understand why and how astronauts lose muscle mass in space.
Photo Credit: Leo Fonsaka and Robert Scott/Airads.com
4. "The Expanse
When the Syfy show "The Expanse" was canceled, its fans rallied to save it. To raise awareness, they launched a model of the Rocinante (nicknamed Roci), a spaceship from the series. The Roci model was attached to a balloon that lifted the ship up to nearly 110,700 feet (33,732 meters) above sea level.
That's below the Karman line, which, at 62 miles (100 kilometers), is used to define the start of outer space in space treaties. But the Roci model still reached great heights. You can see the video on this Reddit thread.
In February, SpaceX launched its first Falcon Heavy rocket, lofting the craft from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. This powerful rocket carried the ultimate payload: a cherry-red Tesla Roadster that had a mannequin dubbed Starman behind the wheel. Starman and the Tesla are now in an elliptical orbit around the sun, and they recently passed beyond the outer bounds of Mars.
Got an urge to dance some disco? This past year, you had the opportunity to do it under the cosmic disco ball, which was launched into orbit on Jan. 21 by the U.S. company Rocket Lab.
The 3-foot-long (1 m) reflective ball's official name is the Humanity Star, and it was created to reflect the sun's rays and serve as "a bright symbol and reminder to all on Earth about our fragile place in the universe," said Peter Beck, the founder and chief executive of Rocket Lab.
However, just like the 1970s, the cosmic disco ball is now dead. It fell back into Earth's atmosphere in March.
The days of space junk are limited, at least if the space net takes off. In September, the European RemoveDebris mission used a net to snare a piece of space junk. Actually, the "junk" was a small cubesat, but it was a good target for the demonstration.
In early 2019, RemoveDebris will use a pen-size harpoon to pierce and seize space junk.
On May 5, NASA launched the Mars InSight, a rover that uses a seismometer (SEIS) to measure "marsquakes" and gather more information about the Red Planet's geology. After zooming through space for months, InSight landed on Nov. 26.
The same December mission that launched the canopic jar also carried up a piece of shining artwork. The masterpiece, called "Orbital Reflector," is by Trevor Paglen, who created the artwork in collaboration with the Nevada Museum of Art. The Orbital Reflector is made out of a Mylar-like material that can reflect light. Stargazers will be able to see the 100-foot-long (30 m) balloon for the next few months before it falls and burns up in Earth's atmosphere. (The orbital reflector doesn't have a tracking number yet, but check here for updates.)
Photo Credit: China Manned Space Engineering Office
10. Chinese space station
As an honorary mention, here's an oddity that fell out of space this past year. In March, China's first space station, Tiangong-1 (which means "heavenly place"), fell back to Earth in a fiery streak. China knew that Tiangong-1 was heading Earthward, but scientists weren't exactly sure where it would land during its uncontrolled entry.
The world breathed a collective sigh of relief when Tiangong-1 crashed into the south Pacific Ocean near American Samoa.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will ring in the new year with an epic flyby at the edge of the solar system, and the stage is set for a truly historic encounter. And it's happeningamid a partial government shutdownthat initially threw a curveball into how the New Horizons team will share the flyby with the public.
On New Year's Day (Jan. 1), New Horizons will fly by the distant object Ultima Thule in the Kuiper Belt, a realm of icy objects at the edge of the solar system that includes Pluto. The flyby is a second for New Horizons, which flew by Pluto in July of 2015, and will mark the first-of-its-kind close look at a Kuiper Belt object forged during the birth of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.
"It's electric, across the whole team," New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) said in short flyby preview webcast today (Dec. 28) on YouTube and Facebook Live hosted by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel Maryland. JHUAPL oversees the New Horizons mission for NASA. "The people are ready. We can't wait to go exploring."
Because of a partial U.S. government shutdown that began Dec. 22, some of NASA's public outreach feeds were initally silenced. JHUAPL has taken over mission briefings (like today's webcast) and will provide live updates via the JHUAPL YouTube page for flyby events on Monday and Tuesday (Dec. 31 and Jan. 1). You can see a full schedule here.
Today, NASA began carrying the JHUAPL briefings on its NASA.gov/live page and posting Twitter announcements via @NASANewHorizons and other accounts. But the agency's website continues to point visitors to JHUAPL for the latest mission updates and photos.
"The primary effect has been a loss of NASA public affairs, which has made our public engagement much more challenging," Stern told Space.com in an email. But, he added, the mission team isn't distracted. "We're focused."
An artist's illustration of NASA'scNew Horizons spacecraft as it flies by Ultima Thule (2014 MU69) in the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto on Jan. 1, 2019
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redit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
That focus is key because Stern and the New Horizons team are attempting something that's never been done before: the farthest flyby of an an object in history, a record last set by the same team in 2015 at Pluto.
Ultima Thule —officially known as 2014 MU69— is 4.1 billion miles (6.6 billion kilometers) from Earth. That's about 1 billion miles beyond Pluto, Stern said in the webcast.
If all goes well, New Horizons will zip by Ultima Thule on New Year's Day at 12:33 a.m. EST (0533 GMT) at a whopping 39,000 mph (62,764 km/h). At its closest point, New Horizons will be 2,200 miles (3,540 km) from Ultima Thule. That's about the distance between Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., with Ultima Thule appearing about as large to New Horizons as the full moon does to observers on Earth, Stern said.
The stakes are high. It takes 6 hours and 8 minutes for a signal to reach Earth from New Horizons. A roundtrip for a signal is just over half a day: 12 hours and 15 minutes. So New Horizons will have to work on its own during the actual rendezvous, just as it did at Pluto.
"Because this is a flyby mission, you only get one chance to get it right," Alice Bowman, mission operations manager for New Horizons, said in the webcast.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft launched on its initial mission to Pluto in 2006, making a flyby of the dwarf planet on July 14, 2015. A year before that historic encounter, astronomers discovered Ultima Thule, giving the mission team a tantalizing second target to visit.
"Very few teams have had this experience and this privilege of crossing the entirety of our solar system on a mission," Stern said in the webcast. "Really only the Pioneers and the Voyagers that came before us."
Not a lot is known about Ultima Thule. It is much smaller than Pluto, but its exact size and shape are unknown. It may have a reddish tint, but it isn't reflecting light like scientists initially expected, raising eyebrows ahead of Tuesday's flyby.
"We don't have a lot of information on the composition," said mission co-investigator Kelsi Singer of SwRI. "That's one of the things we're really excited to learn."
That reddish tint of Ultima Thule? Scientists aren't sure what causes that either, Singer added.
Stern said any new discoveries from Ultima Thule will help unlock mysteries of the solar system's history.
"This is a time capsule that we've never seen before that's going to take us back four and a half billion years to the birth of the solar system," he added.
Editor's note:This story was updated Dec. 29 to include the correct description of the Kuiper Belt region, which includes Pluto.
L’apparition du mystérieux OVNI “TR-3B” provoque la panique au sujet de “Plans Militaires Américains Top-Secrets”
L’apparition du mystérieux OVNI “TR-3B” provoque la panique au sujet de “Plans Militaires Américains Top-Secrets”
L’apparition du mystérieux OVNI “TR-3B” provoque la panique au sujet de “Plans Militaires Américains Top-Secrets”
Il y a eu une augmentation choquante du nombre d’observations présumées d’OVNI triangulaires de type TR-3B dans le monde entier – avec les plus récentes images montrant l’avion près d’une base aérienne américaine dans l’Ohio.
Une augmentation récente du nombre d’observations d’avions de type TR-3B présumés a déclenché une panique dans les milieux complotistes en ligne. Les experts craignent que “quelque chose ne se prépare” au cœur des inquiétudes suscitées par les expériences militaires américaines top-secrètes impliquant potentiellement des extraterrestres. Michael, de la chaîne YouTube MrMBB333, a publié sur Youtube la dernière observation du présumé TR-3B à Toledo, Ohio.
Il a dit :
“D’après le type qui a filmé ça, il avait fait au moins trois fois le tour de son quartier.”
“On dirait un triangle parfait. On ne voit rien d’autre que les lumières.”
“J’ai essayé de mettre différents filtres de lumière pour obtenir une image plus claire, mais tout ce l’on voit sont les lumières vives.”
“Nous en voyons beaucoup ces derniers temps, surtout dans l’Ohio.”
“Il se passe quelque chose.”
La vidéo montre que l’objet possède une grande lumière au centre du triangle, une lumière plus petite à l’avant et trois autres à l’arrière.
Les spectateurs ont remarqué que les “vaisseaux en forme de triangle sont partout de nos jours”.
Un utilisateur a dit : “J’ai l’impression que j’allais commencer à voir beaucoup plus de ce genre de choses bientôt.”
L’observation a eu lieu à quelques kilomètres seulement de la base aérienne de Wright-Patterson, ce qui soulève des inquiétudes quant à la participation militaire américaine.
Les TR-3B sont fréquents dans les observations d’OVNI en tant qu’objets triangulaires noirs, silencieux et de grande taille, souvent observés la nuit.
Selon des fonctionnaires du gouvernement, le TR-3B “n’existe pas”.
La théorie autour de ces vaisseaux prétend qu’ils sont fabriqués dans des bases militaires top-secrètes comme la Zone 51 dans le Nevada, via la rétro-ingénierie des technologies extraterrestres.
D’autres prétendent qu’il s’agit de vrais OVNI pilotés par des extraterrestres en visite sur Terre.
Il y a eu d’autres observations d’OVNI triangulaires récemment en Russie et en Caroline du Nord.
Multiple Scientists Publish Papers Suggesting The Moon Is Hollow & Artificially Made
Multiple Scientists Publish Papers Suggesting The Moon Is Hollow & Artificially Made
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
In 1962 Gordon MacDonald, a NASA scientist, published a paper stating it's more likely that the moon is hollow than not. Columbia's Sean C. Solomon furthered this statement citing knowledge of the moon's gravitation field as evidence.
Reflect On:
What do we truly know about the moon? Why is it that there is always such a great deal of evidence that challenges the mainstream truths about various things? Are we truly aware of the truth of the world around us?
It is not out of the question that artifacts of these visits still exist, or even that some kind of base is maintained (possibly automatically) within the solar system to provide continuity for successive expeditions. Because of weathering and the possibility of detection and interference by the inhabitants of the Earth, it would be preferable not to erect such a base on the Earth’s surface. The Moon seems one reasonable alternative. Forthcoming high resolution photographic reconnaissance of the Moon from space vehicles – particularly of the back side – might bear these possibilities in mind.
Controversy has surrounded the Moon for a very long time, we have leaks, research, and information from some very credible sources who have, over a span of decades, been relaying to the public that our Moon is not what we think it is, and that there’s also some type of extraterrestrial presence on the Moon.
One example would be the testimony of Colonel Ross Dedrickson, who was responsible for maintaining the inventory of the nuclear weapon stockpile for the United States, he had a long stint with the US Atomic Energy Commission, you can view his obituary here.
Shortly before his passing, Dedrickson told the world that the US tried to detonate atomic weapons on the Moon for scientific purposes, measurements, and whatnot and that this project was halted by extraterrestrials, who would not allow us to detonate any nuclear weapons in space. These were some interesting comments because he is one of the hundreds of high ranking military people who have alluded to such things, and we also have a declassified report by the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center from June 1959 that shows how seriously they were considering the plan, the report is called Project A119.
We know for a fact that the US wanted to investigate the capability of weapons in space, and if they did, we also know that we would never be told, similar to the testing that goes on here on planet Earth.
Then, we have remote viewers from the STARGATE program who have ‘seen’ strange structures and humanoid creatures on the Moon, like Ingo Swann (from his book, titled Penetration), for example. He wasn’t the only one from the program who did, I have personally had conversations with Dr. Paul Smith, a retired army veteran who spent a decade in that program, he also relayed to me that something strange is happening on the Moon. Many from within that program have been very outspoken about an extraterrestrial presence.
We’ve published numerous articles about it and you can read more about the remote viewing program here.
Multiple whistleblowers have also spoken of strange structures on the Moon, and it’s become so obvious that some academicians are trying to do what they can to bring attention to it. For example, a recently published paper in the Journal of Space Exploration about certain features on the far side of the Moon that appear in the crater Paracelsus C. Titled “Image Analysis of Unusual Structures on the Far Side of the Moon in the Crater Paracelsus C,” argues that these features might be artificial in origin, meaning someone other than a human being built them and put them there.
It’s not just the Moon, a physicist from the University of Tennessee Space Institute, Dr. Horace Crater, recently published a paper in The Journal of Space Explorationthat, along with the NASA Viking images, hints “strongly at artificial surface interventions.”
The list is long, and the idea that somebody else is on the moon is nothing new, even the Deputy Manager for the Clementine Mission to the moon in 1995 said it was really a photo reconnaissance mission to check out structures on the far side of the Moon that wasn’t put there by humans.
But this article is not about what’s on the moon, it’s about what exactly the Moon is.
It’s also noteworthy to mention that the United States has been criticized by Russia for concealing artifacts they collected from the Moon.
I thought it was important to provide that brief overview before we get into it, so if you’d like to go more in depth you can check out the articles below:
Perhaps strangest of all the anomalies are the many indications that the moon may be hollow. Studies of moon rocks indicate that the moon’s interior differs from the Earth’s mantle in ways suggesting a very small core or none at all. A 1962 study found the interior of the moon to be less dense that the exterior.
– Jim Marrs, from his, Our Occulted History
Is the moon hollow? Many intellectual minds seem to think so, but despite what’s really being talked about, these theories are still considered unconventional by the mainstream, who like to push their own theories and teach them as fact.
Perhaps the reason why the US has not disclosed their artefacts from the moon, including all of the rocks, is because from what we do have, studies of moon rocks have shown that the Moon’s interior is far different from the Earth’s mantle which suggests a very small core, or, no core at all.
In 1962 Gordon MacDonald, a NASA scientist, published a study that stated, “Indeed, it would seem that the Moon is more like a hollow than a homogeneous sphere.”
According to Sean C. Solomon, “The Lunar Orbiter experiments vastly improved our knowledge of the Moon’s gravitational field… indicating the frightening possibility that the Moon might be hollow.” (Our Occulted History)
Solomon is the director of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. He is also principal investigator on the NASA MESSENGER mission to Mercury.
Here is a paper by Solomon on the topic published in 2014 discussing how, after decades of data, they still have no idea about the moons inner core and what it’s comprised of. There are multiple theories out there that’ve developed from this supposed uncertainty, including a fluid core.
Marrs elaborates in his book:
“The most startling evidence that the moon could be hollow came on November 20, 1969, when the Apollo 12 crew, after returning to their command ship, sent the lunar module (LM) ascent stage crashing back onto the moon, creating an artificial moon quake. The LM struck the surface about forty miles from the Apollo 12 landing site, where super sensitive seismic equipment recorded something both unexpected and astounding – the moon reverberated like a bell for more than an hour. Frank Press of MIT stated, “…none of us have seen anything like this on Earth. In all our experience, it is quite an extraordinary event. That this rather small impact… produced a signal which lasted 30 minutes is quite beyond the range of our experience.”
How Did The Moon Get To Where It Is?
Conventional wisdom tells us that yes, the Moon may have originated elsewhere and at some point came to orbit our planet. It tells us that it was formed from debris after a space object smashed into Earth, while another theory states that Earth captured the Moon via its gravitational pull when it was wandering through the solar system.
Despite that, our current theories are accepted as fact, there is absolutely no evidence for the conventional hypothesis. According to Isaac Asimov, an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University,
It’s too big to have been captured by the Earth. The chances of such a capture having been effected and the Moon then having taken up nearly circular orbit around our Earth are too small to make such an eventuality credible.
Asimov also emphasized that,
We cannot help but come to the conclusion that the Moon, by rights, ought not to be there. The fact that it is, is one of those strokes of luck almost too good to accept.
Other members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (Vasin and Scherbakov, 1970), run by the Russian Government, published an article titled, “Is the Moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence?” This article offered another explanation for how the Moon may have been created. This seems to be a better hypothesis because there is actually a considerable amount of evidence that points towards something suspicious happening on the Moon.
It’s easier to explain the non-existence for the Moon, than it’s existence
– NASA scientist Robin Brett
The best explanation for the Moon is observational error – the Moon doesn’t exist
– Irwin Shapiro, Harvard Astrophysicist
Think about it… the Moon is in a nearly perfect circle, when it comes to its origin, all the while being synchronized with its period of revolution, so one side always faces the Earth.
As Marrs points out,
This circular orbit is especially odd, considering that the moon’s center of mass lies more than a mile closer to the Earth than its geometric center. This fact alone should produce an unstable, wobbly orbit, much as a ball with its mass off-center will not roll in a straight line.
Were The Sumerians On To Something?
Many within this field are really into ancient Greek and ancient Sumerian lore. Take Apollo 12 astronaut, Al Worden, for example, who made some very interesting comments about the Sumerians as well as extraterrestrial life in a live interview you can watch here.
In the late 1960’s, a senior scientist from the Planetary Science Institute, William Kenneth Harmann, stated he believes that the Moon results from a collision between Earth and another body at least the size of Mars. This became known as the Big Whack theory, and it correlated to the story told in ancient Sumerian tablets.
According to several interpretations of Sumerian tablets, most notably from Zacharia Sitchin, more than 4 billion years ago, a large watery world called Tiamat was in orbit between Mars and Jupiter. Nibiru, a planet that supposedly enters into our solar system once every 3,600 years, caused Tiamat to crack under gravitational stress. Tiamat was cracked in half when one of Nibiru’s moon’s knocked into it, which also knocked a large portion of Mars.
This is very interesting because recently scientists have confirmed that Mars used to be a very watery world, an Earth-like planet. There is even large amounts of evidence for ancient life on Mars before what appears to be a dramatic climate shift. Scientists hypothesize that the climate shift was a result of a large collision, the larger chunk of Tiamat became planet Earth.
So, it’s interesting to make that connection.
Back to the Moon!
“It’s important to remember that something had to put the moon at or near its present circular pattern around the Earth. Just as an Apollo space-craft circling the Earth every 90 minutes while 100 miles high has to have a velocity of roughly 18,000 mies per hour to stay in orbit, so something had to give the moon the precisely required velocity for its weight and altitude…The point – and it is one seldom noted in considering the origin of the moon – is that it is extremely unlikely that any object would just stumble into the right combination of factors required to stay in orbit. ‘Something’ had to put the moon at its altitude, on its course and at its speed. The question is: what was that ‘something?”
– Marrs
It’s hard to believe that the precise and stationary orbit of the moon is simply a coincidence…
“Is it also a coincidence that the moon is at just the right distance from Earth to completely cover the sun during an eclipse? While the diameter of the moon is a mere 2,160, miles against the sun’s gigantic 864,000 miles, it is nevertheless in just the proper position to block out all but the sun’s flaming corona when it moves between the sun and Earth.
- Marrs
According to Asimov,
“There is no astronomical reason why the Moon and the sun should fit so well. It is the sheerest of coincidences, and only the Earth among all the planets is blessed in this fashion.”
With all of the evidence that has surfaced showing an extraterrestrial presence on the Moon, to me, the spaceship theory proposed by Michael Vasin and Alexander Scherbakov (mentioned above) makes the most sense.
According to Marrs,
The spaceship-moon theory may come closer than any other in reconciling the contradictions inherent in the origin and amazing orbit of the moon. However, such a consideration is supposed to be outside the discussion of educated and rational people. The circular logic of conventional science regarding the origins of the moon runs something like this: We know that extraterrestrials don’t exist, but we do know that the moon exists and has been mentioned throughout human history. We humans did not create it nor place it in orbit around Earth, it must have been done by extraterrestrials. But because we know they don’t exists, we will simply call it an anomaly and will not publicly say any more about.
So after I saw this footage and found out there are two sources I was pretty impressed...until I saw the dates when the channels have been created and the uploading date....I'm quite sure a youtube channel created both accounts, plus if there was a huge UFO over the Pentagon don't you think probably more people would record it?
Just a week before NASA’s New Horizons mission is scheduled to arrive at the most far-flung object ever studied, mission scientists have noticed something that raised their eyebrows. The object they’re planning to approach around New Years Eve is behaving strangely — and at this point, they can only guess as to why.
The New Horizons mission was first launched in 2006, as part of NASA’s plan to study the remote, icy regions of our solar system. In 2015, New Horizons completed a 6-month study of dwarf planet Pluto, but New Horizons has always had its sights set on probing deeper regions of the Kuiper Belt — an area beyond Neptune which NASA calls “a region of leftovers from the solar system’s early history.” In December the team behind the project revealed that they are headed deeper they intend to approach an object called KBO 2014 MU69, or “Ultima Thule” which is roughly 4 billion miles from the sun.
But on Sunday, the project scientists noticed something weird about Ultima Thule: it wasn’t reflecting light the way you would expect from an object of that nature.
An artists rendering of Ultima Thule, the object that New Horizons will fly by just after midnight on January 1, 2019.
Earlier images of Ultima Thule revealed that it’s actually two objects that are either joined at the hip or very closely orbiting one another. These objects reflect sunlight, you would expect light to pulsate as the strangely shaped object rotates and the light reflects differently off of it — these changes are also called a light curve. But Ultima Thule’s isn’t getting brighter or dimmer as it rotates.
So far, scientists have posed three potential explanations behind the missing light curve. Marc Buie, Ph.D., an astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute who collaborates on the New Horizon missions, suggested that it might just be a matter of orientation. He proposed that the rotational pole of Ultimate Thule is just pointed at New Horizons, which would affect how much light actually reaches the spacecraft.
Mark Showalter, Ph.D., a senior research scientist at the Seti Institute suggested that the object might simply be obscured by a dust cloud. And finally, in a more out-there explanation, a New Horizons assistant project scientist Anne Verbiscer, Ph.D., added that Ultima Thule could potentially be surrounded by “many tiny tumbling moons,” which could interfere with Ultima Thule’s light curve.
Which one of these three ideas might it be? Alan Stern, Ph.D., the project’s principal investigator tells Inverse isn’t ready to throw his weight behind any of the ideas just yet.
“We don’t know which is more likely or whether something else is up. Ultima is guarding her secrets well, but we’re getting closer and flyby is only a week away.”
How To Watch The Flyby During A Government Shutdown
Stern expects to get some answers once the probe actually gets close enough to see Ultima Thule for itself. New Horizons will pass 2,200 miles from Ultima Thule at approximately 12:33 a.m. EST on New Years Day. In the meantime, he added that the team is hard at work — even during Christmas Eve — preparing for their flyby. But largely as Stern indicated, the mission is proceeding as planned.
The Kuiper belt, a donut shaped area of the outer solar system
The only change will be that we won’t be able to watch the live coverage of the event on NASA TV because of the government shutdown, which commenced at midnight on December 21st. Instead, Stern added that they will be streaming their coverage on the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Youtube channel.
“The pace of activity here at mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is intense and exciting,” Stern says. “Mission operations, encounter operations, navigation operations, and science team operations are all proceeding in parallel. We will soon know.”
Investigation Reveals Hole In Soyuz 'Was Drilled From The Inside'
Investigation Reveals Hole In Soyuz 'Was Drilled From The Inside'
Neither spacedebris nor a meteorite caused the hole in the Soyuz capsule. It was drilled from the inside. Now a Russian investigation is in progress.
On Thursday last week, the three ISS crew members Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Alexander Gerst and Sergej Prokopjew returned safely to Earth on board the Soyuz MS-09. Prokopiev has now confirmed that the hole was drilled from the inside, according to theAssociated Press. On the inside of the hole, there were traces of a drill. However, it is not yet clear when and by whom it was drilled.
The most probable cause of the leak is a minor accident during the construction of the space capsule. Instead of reporting the incident, a worker could have taped the hole. In the cold of space, the glue could have shrunk and finally been pushed out by the internal pressure of the space station.
Michael Tellinger Exposes the Hidden Controllers of Mankind (Video)
Michael Tellinger Exposes the Hidden Controllers of Mankind (Video)
Wars and conflicts continue to rage across the planet to the determent of anyone caught in the crossfire. No one would willingly live in a war-torn section of the world, yet so many people do.
Despite the greater detriment, there are those who do benefit from the world being in a constant state of conflict.
With a live audience, Michael Tellinger reveals the trinity of global control by explaining the origin of money and how it is used by the banking syndicates to control governments and populations.
Iets meer dan negen jaar geleden werd de wereld vlak voor Kerst opgeschrikt door een niet te verklaren piramidevormige ufo boven het Kremlin in Moskou.
Nu, bij deze gebeurtens, is het weer vlak voor Kerst en dit keer wordt er door talloze getuigen een piramidevormige ufo waargenomen boven het Pentagon.
Ondanks dat de waarneming boven Moskou negen jaar geleden plaatsvond, is niemand er nog is geslaagd om hier een verklaring voor te vinden.
Om te zien hoe het er in Moskou destijds uitzag, hierna nog eens de opname:
Nu zijn we negen jaar verder en wordt er boven het Pentagon in Amerika een vergelijkbaar object waargenomen.
Een lezer schrijft daarover het volgende:
Het is op 19 december al gebeurd, en ik dacht: jullie rapporteren er ook wel over, maar dat hebben jullie nog niet gedaan. Het gaat om een piramidevormige UFU boven het Pentagon. Eerder, in 2009 en opnieuw in 2013, is eenzelfde object ook al uitgebreid gefilmd boven het Kremlin in Moskou.
Omdat er meerdere opnames zijn, ook van de UFO boven het Kremlin, lijken filmbewerkingen in deze gevallen uitgesloten. Ook een Russische politicus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey_Pushkov ) heeft de UFO boven het Kremlin dus besproken in zijn politieke praatprogramma op de Russische televisie, en hij heeft het zeer serieus genomen.
De opname vanuit een auto, op 19 december, is naar mijn mening echt spectaculair. Ze rijden vlak langs het Pentagon en ze zeggen op een gegeven moment dat de UFO verdwenen is, terwijl op hetzelfde moment op hun opname, boven in beeld, je de gigantische UFO nog gewoon kan zien, maar ze kijken er onder door of ze herkennen de vorm even niet.
Volgens mij zijn deze beelden net zo spectaculair als indertijd de UFO boven de Rotskoepel op de Tempelberg in Jerusalem, alleen gaat het nu om een veel groter object dat ook veel langer is blijven hangen, met name indertijd in Moskou boven het Kremlin, en dit object is kennelijk geïnteresseerd in de beleidsmakers/machtscentra van de twee grootste kernmachten.
Tot zover de lezer.
Hier volgt een derde opname gemaakt van de vreemde ufo boven het Pentagon:
Zijn er lezers de gedachten hebben aangaande een verklaring van al het bovenstaande? We horen dat graag!
Videos of the UFO over Gatwick London Airport that caused closure discovered, Dec 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Videos of the UFO over Gatwick London Airport that caused closure discovered, Dec 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 2018 Location of sighting: Gatwick Airport, London, UK Photos of a UFO over Gatwick have been circulating the web, but no videos seemed to exist...until now. I found two video that show video fo Gatwick Airport on the day of the closure due to drones. The footage has a classic disk UFO about the size of two 727s in the sky on the far right of the screen. The UFO is big, but also seems to blend into the overcast clouds well. There is no doubt in my mind that this UFO was seen on Gatwick radar and that they panicked and made up the excuse of drones being seen. The size and shape of the UFO is very similar to the one that was seen over the Chinese airport back in 2010 that closed that airport too. Clearly the control tower didn't want to cause panic and instead decided to make up an excuse for the closure that the public would more easily accept. Scott C. Waring
I don't recognise the shape of these UFOs. I searched for the videos they spoke of and managed to find one. The UFOs travel in triangle formation and hang over an area. Its possible that aliens are trying to make themselves known to people slowly without causing fear. Helping people get use to the fact that aliens exist.
Scott C. Waring
News states:
On the evening of December 9th, Christian Jaramillo, traveling along Tijuana, baja California's Bulevar 2000, came across three highly luminous flying objects, of considerable dimensions, flying at low altitude. He was surprised by the scene, and did not hear the objects issue any noise whatsoever. "The witness pulled over to the side of the road, turned on his blinking lights, got out of the vehicle and started taking photos of the mysterious objects. There are two videos and three photographs altogether," said researcher Dino de Labra, who shared these image. The objects are above the public street lighting and were in the same place for nearly 15 minutes, according to the witness, prior to disappearing.
Rise in mysterious 'TR-3B UFO sightings' sparks PANIC over 'top-secret US military plans'
Rise in mysterious 'TR-3B UFO sightings' sparks PANIC over 'top-secret US military plans'
THERE has been a shocking rise in alleged TR-3B triangular UFO sightings across the world - with the most recent footage showing the bizarre aircraft close to a US airbase in Ohio.
A recent jump in the number of sightings of alleged TR-3B aircrafts has sparked a panic amongonline conspiracy communities. Experts fear that there “is something going on” amid concern over top-secret US military experiments or the involvement ofextraterrestrials. Michael, of the YouTube channel MrMBB333, posted the latest sighting of the alleged TR-3B in Toledo, Ohio.
Twitter: @jdillahuntVan veraf zag het licht er zo uit en deed het veel mensen aan ufo's en aliens denken.
New Yorkers keken even vreemd op toen ze ineens een felblauw licht zagen verschijnen boven de stad. Het vreemde licht bleek afkomstig te zijn van een explosie in een energiecentrale in het noorden van Queens en níet de aankondiging van een buitenaardse invasie, zoals sommige bezorgde burgers dachten.
De politie van New York bevestigt dat het licht afkomstig is van de explosie van een transformator bij energiecentrale Con Ed in Queens. Volgens een woordvoerder van het bedrijf Con Edison waar de explosie plaatsvond, waren er verschillende branden, maar heeft de brandweer die intussen onder controle. Er zouden volgens de politie geen gewonden gevallen zijn.
En voor de bezorgde burgers voegt ze er op Twitter nog even aan toe dat er “geen aliens geland zijn in de Bronx.”
ADVISORY: The lights you have seen throughout the city appear to have been from a transformer explosion at a Con Ed facility in Queens. The fire is under control, will update as more info becomes available. Follow @fdny, @NYPD114pct and @conedison.
Op de internationale luchthaven van LaGuardia, die in Queens ligt, was er volgens NBC kort stroomuitval als gevolg van het incident. Ook het treinverkeer ondervond hinder.
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The Unexplained Min Min Lights Of The Outback (VIDEO)
The Unexplained Min Min Lights Of The Outback (VIDEO)
Although the Min Min Lights are witnessed throughout the Australian outback, they take their name from a small settlement near the town of Boulia where they were witnessed by a stockman traveling through the area in 1918. These glowing orbs, of a variety of colors of red, blue, green, yellow, and white have been witnessed since the early years of the twentieth century. And they very much continue today.
These strange lights can also be found in the myths and folklore of indigenous Aboriginal tribes of the area. This suggests they have been present long before the early-1900s. Interestingly, many other tribes around the world have traditions and legends, untampered with for thousands of years, that speak of similar lights. What’s more, they, like the tribes of the outback, believe these strange lights are spirits of their descendants. Is this simply an ancient belief used to make sense of strange sightings going back thousands of years? Or might these legends contain more truth than most would think? Might they, if only in part, help explain this strange phenomenon?
“Approached But Never Identified!”
Sightings of these strange lights are quite literally in their hundreds. Indeed, as you approach, a sign declares “For the next 120 km you are in land of the Min Min Light”. These lights, according to this large orange sign at the roadside, “at times follows travelers for long distances”. And just to add more mystery to these very real sightings it states the lights have “been approached but never identified”.
While many in the UFO community have an interest in these strange aerial shows for obvious reasons, indigenous tribes state they are the “spirits of their ancestors” who roam the outback. As European “settlers” encroached on these areas more and more in the early decades of the twentieth century, it would appear sightings of these strange glowing orbs began to increase. This is an interesting point. Did they actually increase? Or were there simply more reports because of the increase of European settlers who were not at all familiar with these strange glows? Or, if we accept the beliefs of the Aboriginal tribes of the area, that these lights are the spirits of long-deceased tribes’ people, is the increase in sightings a sign of a disturbance of their realm by the modern world?
Perhaps a side-note point of interest here would be the similar case of Clifford Muchena, who in La Rochelle near Mutare, Zimbabwe, appeared to have an extremely close-up experience with a glowing orb. One that the witness would describe as a “ball of fire” that went on to climb the side of the buildings as if inspecting them. Interestingly, local legends – themselves passed down from long-established tribes of the area – state these orbs are “shavi”, a spirit who is lost.
The Encounter Of Henry Lamond
There are several specific accounts worth looking at. The case of Henry Lamond, for example, who in 1937 claimed to have been riding his horse through the region when what he believed to be a car approached him out of the distance. It was a little after 2 am, which caused him to wonder what someone would be doing this far out at this time of night. He continued on regardless. Although cars “were not rare” you still didn’t see too many out in the harsh environment of the outback. Then, however, things changed.
“Suddenly, I realized it was not a car light” he would state years later. The object was one obvious ball of light which “didn’t divide into two headlights” as he had expected it to do as it came closer and into focus. Furthermore, the light was much too high from the ground to be a car light. There was, he would state, “something eerie about it”.
It was moving around ten miles per hour and hovered at around ten feet. From his perspective, the light was approximately the size “of a new-risen moon”. He continued in the direction he was heading, and the mystery light did likewise. Then, at a distance of around 200 yards, “it just faded and died away”. He would describe its disappearance akin to “the gradual fading of the wires in an electric bulb”.
Does this suggest a physical object, for sake of argument, a large bulb-type object that simply “switched off” leaving the previously glowing “elements” still in sight for several seconds? Or might the strange light have a more otherworldly explanation?
Remnants Of Alien Abduction Cases? A similar incident, although more in the modern age is that of James Birch. Birch, from the nearby town of Kimberley, would experience the incident while driving back home one evening. He would claim that local legends, like that of the tribes of the area, stated the strange lights were “old people’s spirit’s looking after the country”.
This particular evening following a hunting trip, a strange light appeared in the distance. He, along with his fellow hunters were all in instant awe of the enchanting light. What happened next, though, has echoes of alien abduction cases.
Without realizing it, having been heading into town only moments earlier, they were now following the strange light “going back into the bush”. It isn’t clear if there was any missing time, although there must have been at least some minimal unaccounted-for moments as they couldn’t recall turning their vehicle around. What might have happened to cause their memories to blank out? And why were they suddenly heading in the opposite direction? Was their change of direction a conscious decision? Or was it a result of some kind of close contact?
Our next account is altogether more spine-tingling with definite hints of the paranormal. And adds yet another layer of mystery and dark intrigue to these most bizarre glowing orbs.
The “Near Miss” Of Bill Bowyang
If we go back to 1937 for a moment, there is another strange incident from Bill Bowyang, a newspaper columnist of his day. He and several others were on a camping expedition in the area when they had a most bizarre encounter. One evening, a strange light was visible ahead of them. It moved around slightly, as though “someone were waving a lantern” in the distance. However, the higher this strange light would rise into the air, the more obvious it was that whatever was behind the glow, it was unlikely a person.
Bowyang, now extremely intrigued got up and urged his group that they should follow the light. However, several of them suddenly grew frightened, refusing to go with him. They would claim it to be a “ghost light” that would “lead them to their doom”, possibly to the depths of a rocky chasm. However, despite this, and despite being the only person wishing to do so, he went ahead to investigate what was behind these mysterious glows.
He continued on into the darkness, eager to see what the cause of the light was. When he got to around twenty yards of the “huge ball of glowing embers” it suddenly moved to one side.
That’s when a voice called to him from behind warning that a huge fall was only yards away. He did indeed stop himself. However, in front of him he could see “the strange light had drifted out over the great chasm”. If he had taken just several more steps, he would have fallen to his death. The light would float back to him several times, as if enticing him to follow. When he began to move away, the light suddenly “dropped from sight”.
A Dark Intelligence From Elsewhere Or A Natural Phenomenon? Such encounters as those experienced by Bill Bowyang and James Birch would suggest a definite intelligence surrounding the lights. Particularly in Birch’s case, who would completely turn his vehicle around. And followed the lights with no memory of having done so. If we accept there is an intelligence of sorts behind these lights, then, what kind of intelligence are talking of? Is it an entity that we would describe as an extraterrestrial? And are these lights some kind of strange vehicle unknown to us? Or are they a “spiritual intelligence”, perhaps an entity from another realm or even dimension?
There are several explanations for the strange lights, although none of them addresses the apparent “mental control” they can assert over those who see them. Perhaps unbelievably to some, the “swamp gas” theory makes an appearance as an alternative explanation. As do “bioluminescent insects” or “a flock of fireflies”. Perhaps one of the most interesting theories comes from neuroscientist, Jack Pettigrew. He believes the Min Min Lights could be a “nocturnal form of the rare Fata Morgana”. This is a natural phenomenon. In specific conditions, it sends light traveling over huge distances, essentially, making objects appear closer than they actually are. It can also make things appear to float.
Pettigrew’s theories make a lot of sense. Other than the strange mental control mentioned earlier. Is this simply the pure fright in people, meaning their mind’s shut out such memories? Or is there really more to the Min Min Lights than just simple illusion?
Check out the short video below. It looks at this most fascinating phenomena a little further.
Earlier this month, scientists announced that dwarf planet Ceres has more carbon-rich organics than previously thought, both on and below its surface. Here’s why that’s exciting.
False-color image of dwarf planet Ceres – largest body in the asteroid belt – from the Dawn spacecraft. The image shows Ceres’ famous bright spots, and the false color highlights differences in surface materials.
Carbonis one of the most common elements in the universe and is the basis of organic biology on Earth. It can be found throughout the solar system, even in meteorites that bounce to Earth’s surface from other parts of space. Now scientists have found that another body in the solar system – the dwarf planet Ceres– is much richer in carbon that previously thought. Those results werepublishedin apeer-reviewedarticle in Nature Astronomy on December 10, 2018.
Astronomer Simone Marchi at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) was the lead author of the new paper. He said:
Ceres is like a chemical factory. Among inner solar system bodies, Ceres has a unique mineralogy, which appears to contain up to 20 percent carbon by mass in its near surface. Our analysis shows that carbon-rich compounds are intimately mixed with products of rock-water interactions, such as clays.
Why is the presence of carbon so intriguing? Carbon isn’t by itself necessarily the product of or connected to life, although it does serve as the basis for organic chemistry and biology on Earth. When combined with oxygen and hydrogen, carbon can form many groups of important biological compounds including sugars, alcohols and fats. Its presence on Ceres is evidence that the basic ingredients for life – including carbon – can be found in many different places, not only in our solar system but throughout the universe.
More specifically, the new findings show that Ceres was, and still is, rich in amorphous carbon – a carbon-rich organic material – which is significant in terms of how carbon is distributed throughout the solar system. (Organic materials are any molecules that contain carbon – they can be formed on their own without life but are also building blocks of life). The new data suggests that Ceres contains several times more amorphous carbon on its surface and in its subsurface than even the most carbon-rich meteorites.
While Ceres contains more carbon than meteorites, the study also shows that 50 to 60 percent of Ceres’ upper crust may have a composition similar to primitive carbonaceous chondrite meteorites – some of the most complex of all meteorites.
Close-up view inside Urvara crater on Ceres. The 6,500-foot (1981-meter) central ridge is made from materials uplifted from deep below the surface, which experienced rock-water chemical interactions.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA.
As Marchi explained:
Our results imply that either Ceres accreted ultra-carbon-rich materials or that carbon was concentrated in its crust. Both potential scenarios are important, because Ceres’ mineralogical composition indicates a global-scale event of rock-water alteration, which could provide conditions favorable to organic chemistry.
In other words, the carbon on Ceres may originate from when Ceres first formed or from incoming impacts of other asteroids. Scientists don’t know yet which scenario is correct. But regardless, the evidence for chemical reactions with water is intriguing, since that can eventually lead to the formation of the building blocks of life, even if not life itself.
Ceres is classified as a dwarf planet but is also the largest asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft recently finished its mission at Ceres on November 1, 2018, studying its geology and sending back incredible high-resolution images of its surface from orbit. One big surprise was the “bright spots” – light-colored deposits, now determined to be sodium carbonate salts – on the darker rocky surface. Scientists think they were formed when when water came up to the surface from deeper below and then evaporated in Ceres’ extremely tenuous and sporadic water vapor “atmosphere.”
The best-known bright spots are those in Occator Crater, which stand out starkly against the darker rocky surface.
High-resolution view of Cerealia Facula – a sodium carbonate (salt) deposit – in Occator Crater.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/Roman Tkachenko.
Whether Ceres ever had conditions suitable for life to evolve is still unknown, although there is also evidence that it has, or at least once had, water below the surface – maybe even a subsurface ocean. This water produced chemical reactions when it came in contact with minerals in rocks. There is also evidence for past cryovolcanic activity – cryovolcanoes, which erupt water, ammonia or methane rather than molten rock. It’s even possible that the subsurface environment was once warm and wet enough for basic biological chemistry to actually begin, although no direct signs of that have been discovered yet.
Bottom line: As the largest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres is a fascinating world, and has been more geologically active than previously thought. The fact that Ceres is rich in organic carbon is a big part of its geological history and now scientists are beginning to understand what that means not only for the widespread presence of carbon in the solar system but also how organic chemistry can – at least sometimes – lead to the development of life itself.
A Massive City And Several Pyramid-Shaped Structures Found Beneath Lake Fuxian In China
A Massive City And Several Pyramid-Shaped Structures Found Beneath Lake Fuxian In China
Archeologists have recently discovered the remains of a group of large ancient buildings at the bottom of Fuxian Lake in Yunnan Province, China.
Also found were placed stones with carvings that can be classified as mysterious. These findings question previous assumptions by experts. According to Chinese newspaper outlets, recorded in historical documents was a city named Yuyuan. Yuyuan was founded in the Fuxian Lake demographic during the Western Han Dynasty from 206 BC to 24 AD. Yuyuan disappeared from the historical record during the Sui and Tang Dynasty from 589 AD to 907 AD. Urban legend claims the city sank to the bottom of Fuxian Lake.
An Ancient Undocumented City
These recent findings suggest otherwise since the remains of the buildings were made of stone. Yuyuan buildings were found to be mostly built with wood.
Through Sonar surveys, it was revealed that the architecture found at the bottom of Fuxian Lake covered around 2.4 square kilometers. This constitutes a large city that was never documented in history.
A Pyramid and Enigmatic Carvings
Also found at the bottom were the remains of a pyramid thought to be more complex than the famous Egyptian pyramids.
One of the many stones found has gathered some special attention. On the top right section of the stone is a small circle that was carved with seven radial lines surrounding it. This carving resembles the sun. A smaller circle is carved on the left side of the same stone, but with only four radial lines. These types of carvings are considered rare by experts and are estimated to be over 1,800 years old. No such similar carvings are known in that time frame.
Carvings found on one of the stones in the underwater ruins in Fuxian Lake
Also found on the stones were carvings resembling masks. These masks do not resemble masks that were made for humans based on the teeth marks.
Experts are stumped as to what these findings mean, as more research is needed.
A Massive City And Several Pyramid-Shaped Structures Found Beneath Lake Fuxian In China
A Massive City And Several Pyramid-Shaped Structures Found Beneath Lake Fuxian In China
Archeologists have recently discovered the remains of a group of large ancient buildings at the bottom of Fuxian Lake in Yunnan Province, China.
Also found were placed stones with carvings that can be classified as mysterious. These findings question previous assumptions by experts. According to Chinese newspaper outlets, recorded in historical documents was a city named Yuyuan. Yuyuan was founded in the Fuxian Lake demographic during the Western Han Dynasty from 206 BC to 24 AD. Yuyuan disappeared from the historical record during the Sui and Tang Dynasty from 589 AD to 907 AD. Urban legend claims the city sank to the bottom of Fuxian Lake.
An Ancient Undocumented City
These recent findings suggest otherwise since the remains of the buildings were made of stone. Yuyuan buildings were found to be mostly built with wood.
Through Sonar surveys, it was revealed that the architecture found at the bottom of Fuxian Lake covered around 2.4 square kilometers. This constitutes a large city that was never documented in history.
A Pyramid and Enigmatic Carvings
Also found at the bottom were the remains of a pyramid thought to be more complex than the famous Egyptian pyramids.
One of the many stones found has gathered some special attention. On the top right section of the stone is a small circle that was carved with seven radial lines surrounding it. This carving resembles the sun. A smaller circle is carved on the left side of the same stone, but with only four radial lines. These types of carvings are considered rare by experts and are estimated to be over 1,800 years old. No such similar carvings are known in that time frame.
Carvings found on one of the stones in the underwater ruins in Fuxian Lake
Also found on the stones were carvings resembling masks. These masks do not resemble masks that were made for humans based on the teeth marks.
Experts are stumped as to what these findings mean, as more research is needed.
Hubble spots a strange new type of celestial object
Hubble spots a strange new type of celestial object
Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of celestial object: an active binary asteroid, meaning it's made of two rocks orbiting each other while leaving a trail of gas like a comet
(Credit: ESA/Hubble, L. Calçada)
Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of object in our solar system: an active binary asteroid. That means the object, named Body 288P, is the first known hybrid of two rare types of asteroid: a binary that's made up of two rocks orbiting each other, and an active asteroid that acts more like a comet, leaving a trail of gas and dust in its wake. Traditionally, the line between asteroids and comets was fairly clear: asteroids are chunks of rock and metal, while comets are icier, causing them to leave a vapor tail when the Sun heats them up. But the more we study these objects, the more that line blurs. Active asteroids kick up clouds of dust and gas, giving them the appearance of comets, but these are rare, with currently only about 20 known examples. When they orbit within the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter, these objects are called main-belt comets. Body 288P was discovered in 2011, and images captured by the Hubble Telescope back then indicated that it was active. But at that time, the asteroid was too far from Earth to get a good look. In September 2016 the asteroid was on its closest approach to the Sun, and as it passed within 200 million km of Earth, astronomers from the Max Planck Institute used Hubble to peer closer. And that's when it became clear that it was made up of not one, but two separate pieces. That makes 288P the first binary main-belt comet.
These observations revealed some of 288P's many quirks. Most binary asteroids are made up of one larger body with a smaller "moon" orbiting it, but 288P's pieces are roughly the same size, each measuring about 1 km (0.62 mi) wide. And they're much further apart than usual, orbiting each other at a distance of about 100 km (62 mi). According to the Max Planck astronomers, rapid rotation may have caused 288P to break up in the first place, but the fact that the object is still active suggests that this would be a relatively recent development, occurring around 5,000 years ago. Then, the gases it spews likely drove the two pieces apart to their current distant orbit. "288P's activity probably played a decisive role in its further evolution," says Jessica Agarwal, main author of the study. "The most probable formation scenario of 288P is a breakup due to fast rotation. After that, the two fragments may have been moved further apart by sublimation torques." Among the many thousands of pieces of debris floating around out there, Body 288P is a completely unique object. Further study is required to figure out how common binary main-belt comets might be, and what clues they can reveal about the origins of the Solar System. The research was published in the journal Nature. Check out 288P in action in the video below.
If we can compare a rock to a virus - which appears to come alive when infecting a cell, and appears to be dead when doing nothing - then we must begin to suspect that there is something life-like in non-biological things like clouds and hills.
According to two papers published in Cell on January 11, 2018, the making of memories and the processes of learning resemble, of all things, a viral infection Viruses are tiny infectious agents that invade cells, bringing foreign genetic material with them.
One question raised - Are viruses really the border between life and non-life?
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A transformer explosion in Queens sent an eerie blue light flooding the night sky over New York City on Thursday evening as the power in the houses flickered and LaGuardia Airport was plunged into darkness.
Con Edison says a brief electrical fire with transformers broke out at the substation on 20th Avenue and 32nd Street in Astoria, leading to a drop in transmission in the area.
The explosion lit the sky so brightly that it seemed for a short time that it was daytime in neighborhoods like Astoria and Woodside, the residents reported. Smoke originated from the source of blue light, visible all the way to Manhattan.
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The skies over New York City turned bright blue Thursday night after a transformer explosion in Queens.
"The lights you have seen throughout the city appear to have been from a transformer explosion at a Con Ed facility in Queens," NYPD posted on Twitter. https://abcn.ws/2ERthJq
The Mars Express orbiter has taken some stunning photos of Korolev Crater, an ice-filled crater near the Martian north pole. It looks from a distance like a snowy winter landscape on Earth.
A stunning perspective view of the ice-filled Korolev Crater, as seen by Mars Express.
Image via ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
Mars is famous for its polar ice caps – composed of both water ice and carbon dioxide ice – which stand out starkly against the surrounding rust-colored terrain. But plentiful ice can be found outside of Mars’ main ice caps as well, including underground. One image in particular shows a beautiful example of such a Martian icy landscape – an “ice pond” in a crater near the north pole – very fitting for this time of year in the northern hemispheres of both Earth and Mars. That’s right … it’s winter in Mars’ northern hemisphere now, too. The Martian northern winter solstice came on October 16, 2018 (Mars seasonal calendar here).
The European Space Agency (ESA) acquired the image at top, and several other images on this page, via its Mars Express orbiter. The one above shows what at first looks like a scenic view of an untouched patch of Martian snow, but the brilliantly white feature is actually water ice, filling Mars’ Korolev Crater. The roundish mound of ice is captured in exquisite detail; notice the smaller patches of ice filling in crevices on the rugged edge of the crater rim. ESA posted the image on December 20, 2018.
Korolev Crater is about 51 miles (82 km) across and is located in the northern lowlands of Mars, just south of Olympia Undae – an expanse of dune-filled terrain that partially surrounds the north pole. The image shows a stunning oblique view of the crater, composed of five different “strips” combined to form a larger single image. Each strip was obtained during a different orbit by Mars Express. There are also context and topographic views of the crater.
The ice that fills the crater largely persists year-round – the central mound of ice maintains a thickness of 1.1 miles (1.8 km). The crater acts as a cold trap, where the air cools down and sinks as it moves over the ice deposit, creating a layer of cold air that sits directly above the ice itself. That cold layer keeps the ice stable and prevents it from evaporating or sublimating. The crater itself is quite deep, with the crater floor lying some 1.2 miles (2 km) beneath the crater rim.
Korolev Crater was also recently imaged – partially – by ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), part of the ExoMars mission. TGO arrived at Mars last spring, and is designed to search the Martian atmosphere for trace gases – tiny amounts of certain gases such as methane.
Ice is common on Mars – both on the surface and in the subsurface – including both water ice and carbon dioxide ice. NASA’s Phoenix lander dug into the frozen surface near the north pole back in 2008 and sampled some of the water ice directly, just a few inches below the surface. Phoenix also observed snow falling high up in the atmosphere, although it didn’t reach the ground. So there is snow on Mars as well, but it never accumulates enough to go skiing or sledding, unfortunately. On the other hand, ice-filled craters like Korolev might make somewhat-ideal skating rinks for some future Martian settlers!
An overhead view of Korolev Crater. Image via ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
Color-coded image showing the topography of Korolev Crater. Lower parts of the surface are shown in blues and purples, while higher-altitude regions are shown in whites, browns and reds, as indicated on the scale to the top right.
Image via ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
Part of the rim of Korolev Crater, as seen by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) on Mars Express.
Image via ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS.
Korolev Crater was named after Sergei Korolev, a chief rocket engineer and spacecraft designer who was dubbed the father of Soviet space technology.
Mars Express was launched way back in 2003 and entered Mars orbit on December 25 of the same year – 15 years ago this week!
More information about Mars Express is available on the mission website.
Bottom line: The “frozen pond” in Korolev Crater is a beautiful example of how the cold, icy terrain on Mars can be reminiscent of similar places on Earth – a Martian winter wonderland.
An artist's illustration of the surface of the "super-Earth" planet candidate detected around Barnard's star, which lies just 6 light-years from the sun.
Credit: M. Kornmesser/ESO
In 2018, exoplanet scientists feasted on data from a nearby ice ball, the first exoplanet baby picture, a majority-metal blob the size of Earth and the home planet of a "Star Trek" fan favorite — not to mention the possible first-ever exomoon spotted. And a major exoplanet hunter sent back its first newfound planets. Read on for the strangest and most intriguing exoplanets found in the past year.
1. Frigid neighbor
An artist's impression of the newfound "super-Earth" world and its host star, the red dwarf Barnard’s star.
Credit: M. Kornmesser/ESO
Researchers spotted a likely super-Earth-size planet orbiting one of our nearest stellar neighbors — the dim, red Barnard's Star. The icy world, named Barnard's Star b, appears to be 3.2 times Earth's mass and orbits its star every 233 Earth days — because of this long orbit and the dimness of the star, it took a massive amount of data from seven different instruments to notice the tiny stellar wobble that indicates an orbiting planet. The planet's surface temperature is probably about minus 275 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 170 degrees Celsius).
This isn't the closest exoplanet to Earth, but it's nearly there — the only known closer planet is Proxima b, orbiting the star Proxima Centauri just 4.2 light-years from Earth. Besides Proxima Centauri and the binary stars of Alpha Centauri, Barnard's Star is the closest star to Earth — and it's coming closer to us every day. In about 10,000 years, Barnard's Star will have moved closer to the solar system than the Alpha Centauri system. [Icy 'Super-Earth' Exoplanet Spotted Around Nearby Barnard's Star]
2. Baby picture
This photo from the SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope is the first clear image of a planet caught in the act of formation, around the dwarf star PDS 70. The planet is clearly visible as a bright point to the right of center, which is blacked out by the coronagraph mask used to block the blinding light of the star.
Credit: A. Müller et al./ESO
Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, researchers snagged a glimpse of a huge alien world forming from the disk of dust and debris surrounding a dwarf star — the first-ever confirmed direct observation of an exoplanet this young.
The baby planet is growing up around a dwarf star called PDS 70, which is 370 light-years from Earth and is just 5.4 million years old. The planet is shaping up to be a big one — it's a gas giant, and it's already two or three times the size of Jupiter, researchers said. It orbits its star about the distance Uranus orbits from the sun. The planet's a toasty 1,800 degrees F (1,000 degrees C), still hot with the energy of its formation. [It's a Beautiful Baby Exoplanet! Historic Photo Is 1st View of Alien World Being Born]
3. Evaporating target
Artist's illustration of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA's newest planet-hunting mission, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), returned its first exoplanet find: A super-Earth that's probably evaporating from the heat of its star. TESS works by analyzing tiny changes in stars' brightness that indicate a planet is passing by. It's first planet discovery is circling the star Pi Mensae, also known as HD 39391, which is about 59.5 light-years from Earth.
Researchers had already found a gas giant with about 10 times Jupiter's mass, called Pi Mensae b, in the star's system, circling in an eccentric orbit that brings it up to three times as far from its star as Earth is from the sun. Now, it has a sibling: Pi Mensae c, which orbits 0.07 times the distance from Earth to the sun, or 1/50th the distance between Mercury and the sun. This newfound super-Earth is 2.14 times Earth's diameter and 4.82 times Earth's mass, and it likely has a rocky core and extended hydrogen and helium atmosphere, evaporating under its star's harsh radiation. (The researchers noted its density could also allow for a world made of water.) [NASA's New Planet Hunter Just Found Its 1st Alien World — an Evaporating 'Super-Earth']
4. Epic cannonball
A Mercury-like planet the size of Earth orbits 100 times closer to its star, K2-229, than Earth does the sun.
Credit: L. Calçada/ESO
This planet, called K2-229 b, is a metal-heavy, Mercury-like world a hair bigger than Earth. While planets like Earth, Venus and Mars have metallic cores that make up about a third of their masses, Mercury — and K2-229 b — have oversize metal cores taking up two-thirds of their masses. Researchers found the planet orbiting a star slightly cooler and smaller than the sun, 339 light-years from Earth.
K2-229 b orbits its star at 1/100th the distance between Earth and the sun, and its dayside temperature can reach 3,737 degrees F (2,058 degrees C). (Mercury, which orbits much farther out, reaches only 801 degrees F, or 427 degrees C.) K2-229 b was first spotted by the telltale wobble of its star, and then observed passing in front of the star, making it possible for researchers to glean its size. By studying the planet, researchers can learn more about where such worlds can form in star systems, or how rocky planets might evolve into cannonballs. [Newfound Alien Planet is a Metal-Heavy Cannonball]
5. (Very) distant kin
A central "lens" galaxy and four projections of the background quasar RX J1131-1231.
Credit: Xinyu Dai/Eduardo Guerras/University of Oklahoma
The relativistic bending of light around massive objects revealed the potential signature of trillions of free-floating planets between the size of the moon and Jupiter in a distant galaxy, marking the first evidence of planets outside the Milky Way. If that data holds true, it would suggest there might be 2,000 free-floating planets for every star in a galaxy.
When they spotted that signature, the researchers were relying on a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, where light from a background galaxy with a bright quasar at its core, 3.8 billion light-years from Earth, was bent around a foreground galaxy on its way past. By the way the light was bent — and the slight differences in four copies of the background galaxy seen ringing the foreground galaxy due to that bending — researchers were able to detect signs of the possible planets. [Einstein's Theory Helps ID First Exoplanets Outside Milky Way]
6. Spock's home
An artist's depiction of what the newly discovered planet orbiting 40 Eridani A, a star made famous by the series "Star Trek," might look like.
Credit: Don Davis
The beloved "Star Trek" character Spock canonically hails from the planet Vulcan, which series writers once placed at the real star 40 Eridani A (also called HD 26965), 16 light-years from Earth. This year, researchers found at least one planet around the star, about twice the size of Earth — a real-life Vulcan orbiting the star. The planet takes 42 days to whip around its star, and it's probably too close in to retain liquid water on its surface.
The star HD 26965 can be seen by skywatchers in the night sky, and it's an orange-ish star a bit smaller and cooler than the sun, but with a similar age and sunspot pattern. The star shares its system with two other stars, which would be visible from this newfound planet's surface. [Hey, Spock! Real-Life 'Planet Vulcan' Orbits Sun Featured in 'Star Trek']
7. Big brothers
An artist's illustration of the very young CI Tau system, which appears to harbor four gas-giant planets.
Credit: Amanda Smith, Institute of Astronomy
Researchers have spotted four gas giants circling the young star Cl Tau, which is about 500 light-years from Earth. The star is just 2 million years old, and one planet, called Cl Tau b — 10 times the mass of Jupiter — was already known to circle it once every nine days. But as it turns out, bulk runs in the family: New views from the ALMA telescope array in Chile have spotted evidence for three more planets circling the young star, with one at Jupiter's mass and the other two at Saturn's. Those three additional planets have created gaps in the star-forming disk of dust revealing their presence.
This is the first time astronomers have seen evidence of four gas giants around such a young star, and the planets are unexpectedly widely spread in their orbits — the farthest is 1,000 times farther from its star than the closest. It raises questions of how planets so far away could accumulate material quickly enough to get that big, and whether the innermost planet, Cl Tau b, was pushed inward by jostling relatives. [Record Breaker: 4 Huge Alien Planets Spotted Around Baby Star]
Honorary mention: First exomoon?
An artist’s illustration of the exoplanet Kepler-1625b with its large hypothesized moon. The pair have a similar mass and radius ratio to the Earth-moon system, but scaled up by a factor of 11.
Credit: Dan Durda
It isn't a planet, but we had to include this likely Neptune-size object — what seems to be the first-ever exomoon! The object, orbiting a Jupiter-size planet called Kepler-1625b, first showed itself in a strange signature in how its star dimmed when the planet passed by, as recorded by the Kepler Space Telescope. A follow-up view with the Hubble Space Telescope followed another transit, noticing something tugging gravitationally on the planet and dimming the star a little bit extra.
Could they just be a binary pair of planets? It depends on how you define it, the researchers said. The object has about 1.5 percent the mass of the planet it orbits, which is similar to the ratio of masses between our moon and Earth (1.2 percent). This object, though, orbits 1.9 million miles (3 million kilometers) from its planet, which is about eight times the Earth-moon distance. The moon is probably gaseous, and looms about twice as big as Earth's moon in Kepler-1625b's sky. [First Exomoon Found? Neptune-Sized World Possibly Spotted Orbiting Alien Planet]
Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her @SarahExplains.
For the precocious hunter of off-Earth life, theDrake equationis the ever-ready, go-to toolkit for estimating just how (not) lonely humans are in the Milky Way galaxy. The equation was developed by astronomer Frank Drake in 1961 in a slight hurry so that attendees of an upcoming conference would have something to confer about, and it breaks down the daunting question "Are we alone?" into more manageable, bite-size chunks.
The equation starts with some straightforward concepts, such as the rate of star formation and the fraction of stars hosting planets. But it quickly moves into tricky terrain, asking for numbers like what fraction of those planets that could host life actually end up evolving intelligent species and what fraction of those planets blast out friendly signals into the cosmos, inviting us Earthlings to a nice little chat. [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]
The end result is supposed to be a single value (or, at worst, a range of values) that predicts the total number of intelligent and conversation-ready species in the galaxy. And if that seems a little unsettlingly bold, then at the very least, the Drake Equation serves as a philosophical device for instigating conversation. It also frames a proper scientific discussion about the ultimate question of finding and talking to alien species in the galaxy.
Except that it fails on both counts.
Know thine errors
The Drake equation is simple, but deceptively so. Frank's original recipe had only seven ingredients, and further enhancements from other researchers haven't drastically changed that number. So, you might naively think you need only measure or guess a heavy handful of parameters and you're good to go.
But reality isn't that simple. Estimates and measurements always have uncertainties. This concept is absolutely critical for scientific inquiry: What you know is far less important than how well you know it. The real meat of any scientific discussion is digging into the uncertainties and how they're estimated. To justify a bold claim, you need a very tight knowledge of the uncertainty. And to overthrow the claim, you don't have to attack it directly; you can simply call into question a statement's precision.
For the Drake equation, we simply have no idea about the uncertainties attached to any of the parameters. What fraction of planets where life could get started eventually develop life? Zero percent? 100 percent? Somewhere in between? Is it 50 percent plus or minus 5 percent? Or plus or minus 25 percent? Or plus 5 percent and minus 25 percent?
And it takes only one unknown uncertainty to sink the whole enterprise. You may chip away at the Drake equation over the course of decades, taking careful observation after careful observation, measuring star-formation rates, hunting for liquid water on planetary surfaces, the works. You may think you're making good progress on nailing down this prediction, but as long as a single parameter still has unknown uncertainty, you haven't made any progress.
That single unknown can undo the hard work poured into the entirety of the rest of the equation. Until you know all of it, you know none of it.
To produce a proper estimate using the Drake equation, you can't just plug in guesses; you have to provide ranges for each guess, essentially doubling your work. And because most of the parameters aren't even based on measurable quantities, the best you can do is throw your hands up in the air. [The Drake Equation Revisited: Interview with Planet Hunter Sara Seager]
Missing the point
Every few months, a new paper involving some variant of the Drake equation claims to put some "reasonable" estimates on the parameters and produce an answer. Sometimes, the papers claim that the galaxy is teeming with thousands of intelligent civilizations. Sometimes, the research says we're completely alone. When Drake and colleagues first turned the crank, they tossed out estimates of anywhere between 1,000 and 100,000,000 such civilizations. That's … not very helpful.
The Drake equation is simply a way of chopping up our ignorance, stuffing it into a mathematical meat grinder and making a sausage-guess. It doesn't have any predictive power greater than randomly pulling a number out of a hat. What if you didn't accurately estimate one of your uncertainties? The answer isn't reliable. What if you missed a parameter, some crucial element in the steps from stars to sentience? The answer isn't reliable. What if you had too many parameters, introducing an element that turned out not to matter? The answer isn't reliable.
The Drake equation makes a significant number of assumptions, and until those assumptions are verified, we can't trust the calculation's results.
Let's talk
OK, we can't treat the Drake equation as a physics equation; that is, we can't use it the same way we can handily use something like Newton's second lawor the equations from general relativity or Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism. That's fine. Perhaps the Drake equation's power is more as a philosophical treatment, to help guide our thinking and help us navigate the murky waters of a deep and fundamental existential question.
But what is the utility of introducing the Drake equation into such philosophical discussions? Do we really advance or sharpen our thinking? What is the advantage to replacing one big unknowable (the number of intelligent species Out There) with many smaller unknowables that aren’t easier to solve? Yes, breaking down a big problem into smaller ones is a common tactic in science. But that only works if the smaller problems are all individually easier to tackle.
There's a risk we will spend more time unhelpfully discussing the parameters of the model and less time gainfully trying to go out there and actually search for life. Debating over the particular value of, say, the number of life-bearing planets that will give rise to intelligence (a number which must be 100 percent made up) will not give us a clearer picture of the chances of chatting with another intelligent species — instead, we just end up clouding our perspective through an intrinsically warped formulation.
There are, today, ongoing searches to hunt for life outside the Earth. Planned missions to sample the icy moons of the outer worlds, moons which harbor vast liquid water oceans. Exoplanet hunters developing the technology to tease out the hints of biosignatures in alien worlds. Did the Drake equation, in any of its formulations, help frame or advance or assist those missions?
While the Drake equation may have spurred the early scientific discussion of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, it doesn't have much value beyond that. We can't use to it further our understanding, and we can't use it to properly guide our thinking. The huge uncertainties in the parameters, the unknown ways those uncertainties mix, and the absolute lack of any guidance in even choosing those parameters robs it of any predictive power. Prediction is at the heart of science. Prediction is what makes an idea useful. And if an idea isn’t useful, why keep it around?
Eerie Blue Light Explosion In New York Sky from Power Plant Explosion (Video)
Eerie Blue Light Explosion In New York Sky from Power Plant Explosion (Video)
An explosion at a Con Edison facility in Queens turned the sky blue above New York.
A transformer explosion at a power plant in the New York City neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, led to a blue light filling up the night sky.
CBSN managing editor Robert Gifford discusses what he saw in Manhattan, and CBS Newspath senior producer Heather Scott joins CBSN from Astoria, Queens.
I heard it, it sounded like a long buzz and the sky was shining bright neon colors. Ghost1142
Not a conspiracy theorist or anything but how would a ‘fire’ create that much light I understand like just 10-15 miles but 20 that just seems fishy. Ohame A.
WAT GEBEURDE ER WERKELIJK BOVEN HET VLIEGVELD VAN GATWICK ( VIDEO )
WAT GEBEURDE ER WERKELIJK BOVEN HET VLIEGVELD VAN GATWICK ( VIDEO )
Het drukke Engelse vliegveld lag enkele dagen volledig plat doordat een drone boven het vliegveld vloog, waardoor er niet meer kon worden geland of opgestegen.
Er werden een man en een vrouw gearresteerd die onschuldig bleken en dat is niet zo vreemd, want zo te zien was het helemaal geen drone...
Dagenlang was het vliegverkeer van en naar het Engelse vliegveld Gatwick volkomen in de war en waren duizenden passagiers gestrand in de vertrekhal.
Woensdagavond en donderdag was het vliegveld doelwit van een nog niet eerder geziene soort actie, waardoor de luchthaven compleet stilgelegd werd. Rond de start- en landingsbanen vlogen voortdurend onbemande drones, die een gevaar vormden voor de vliegtuigen.
Speciale legereenheid ingezet Wie er achter die actie zat, is niet duidelijk. Het bleek voorlopig onmogelijk om de bestuurders te lokaliseren. Inmiddels is ook een speciale eenheid van het Britse leger ingezet om de bestuurders op te sporen.
Vanmorgen leek het eindelijk rustig en kwam het vliegverkeer weer op gang, maar rond zes uur vanavond was het opnieuw raak. Alle inkomende vluchten moesten uitwijken en vertrekkende vliegtuigen werden tot nader order aan de grond gehouden. Rond half acht werd het verkeer weer vrijgegeven.
Het bovenstaande verhaal klinkt een beetje onwerkelijk. Je kunt je voorstellen dat een drone in de buurt van een vliegveld komt, maar meestal zijn ze dan weer heel snel verdwenen, want de eigenaar weet dat hem een forse straf staat te wachten als hij of zij wordt gepakt.
Maar, dat is niet het geval boven Gatwick. Daar is sprake van een voortdurend rondvliegen van drones, hetgeen vreemd is. Dat wijst dan niet in de richting van een particulier die wat te dicht in de buurt is gekomen met zijn of haar hobby, maar eerder op een soort gecoördineerde actie.
Vervolgens wordt er na ongeveer het meest uitgebreide speurwerk ooit in de Britse geschiedenis niemand gevonden die verantwoordelijk zou zijn voor die drone aanvallen. Men komt niet verder dan dat een man en een vrouw worden gearresteerd en vervolgens weer vrijgelaten omdat ze onschuldig zijn en een beschadigde drone die ergens gevonden zou zijn.
Dan duikt er het volgende beeld op:
Dat lijkt toch echt op iets heel anders dan een drone.
De volgende clip is opgenomen door Chris Waite vanuit één van de passagiersterminals op Gatwick:
Daarnaast werd de volgende opname gemaakt net buiten het vliegveld. Niemand weet wat het object is dat daar vliegt. Het is geen helikopter en volgens kenners is het object veel te lang in de lucht gebleven om een drone te kunnen zijn.
De maximale vliegduur verschilt per drone. Sommige mini-drones houden het enkele minuten vol, andere toch zeker 10 minuten en bij de grotere exemplaren tot 25 kg mag je rekening houden met een vliegtijd van 20 – 25 minuten.
Wat in dit kader ook niet moet worden vergeten is dat er ongeveer een jaar geleden eenzelfde soort ufo werd waargenomen boven vertrekkende vliegtuigen op Schiphol. Aan dit incident werd toen verder door niemand uit mainstreamland aandacht besteed, maar misschien doen ze dat alsnog naar aanleiding van het voorval in Gatwick.
Maar, wat klaarblijkelijk niemand is opgevallen, behalve een oplettende lezer van deze website (dank!), is dat er net voor vertrek van vlucht KL743 een onbekend "iets" over de baan vloog. Wij ontvingen het volgende bericht:
Op VKmag zag ik een interessant filmpje, namelijk dat er een vliegtuig getroffen wordt door de bliksem. Op zich niet heel spannend maar in het filmpje zie je een object vliegen wat niet echt op een vliegtuig lijkt als je het filmpje pauzeert. Misschien verklaarbaar misschien niet.
En dat klopt helemaal.
In de volgende vier opnames die zijn gemaakt vanuit de video zie je linksboven een object verschijnen dat over de gereedstaande vliegtuigen vliegt en rechts weer uit beeld verdwijnt.
Wanneer je het object wat vergroot, dan lijkt het veel op een klassieke vliegende schotel.
Hieronder zijn de beelden te bekijken en de UFO verschijnt rond de 45 seconden links in beeld.
Mocht iemand meer weten over wat dit is, laat het ons weten. En dan liefst een beetje fatsoenlijk en niet zoals we vaak krijgen in de trant van: "Hé stelletje door de AIVD gecontroleerde koekenbakkers, hadden jullie dat zelf niet kunnen zien?".
When experts and persons of authority say, “We’re just looking around – nothing to worry about,” it’s probably time to worry … at least a little. When what they’re looking for is linked to one of the most destructive meteor impacts in recorded history, it’s probably time to worry a little more. June 30, 2019, is the 111th anniversary of the Tunguska event when what was believed to be a meteor exploded over a remote part of Siberia and destroyed 2,000 square km (770 square miles) of forest, making it the most destructive event of its kind in recorded history. June 2019 is also the month when the Taurids annual meteor shower returns. In a recent presentation, two well-respected physicists said that the Earth will be passing through a dense patch of space rocks during the June 2019 Taurids and their model shows it matches the Taurids shower of June 1908. As a result, they plan to look through it for Tunguska-sized objects. NOW are you worried?
Tunguska event aftermath
“If the Tunguska object was a member of a Beta Taurid stream … then the last week of June 2019 will be the next occasion with a high probability for Tunguska-like collisions or near misses. While we are not predicting another Tunguska airburst, an enhanced population of small NEOs [near-Earth objects] in the Beta Taurids would increase the probability of another such event on or near next year’s Tunguska anniversary”
In a presentation at the American Geophysical Union 2018 fall meeting, physicists Mark Boslough from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Peter Brown of Western University in London, Ontario, showed their evidence that the 2019 summer or Beta Taurids (they also occur every October) look strongly similar to their 1908 version and called for a special observation campaign to search for Tunguska-class or larger objects embedded in the Beta Taurids. That swarm will be the densest since 1975 when seismometers placed on the moon by Apollo astronauts recorded a spike in impacts on the lunar surface.
“This is not something that should be keeping you up at night.”
Mark Brown’s comment would be more comforting if it weren’t for the fact the Beta Taurids only occur during the daylight hours. Boslough sounds more like someone who has a reason to watch the skies in June 2019.
“It’s one of those very low-probability but potentially high-consequence-type risks, which is hard to quantify and hard to talk about. The probability of a lot of people dying from an asteroid impact is super, super low, but it’s not zero. There are so many other hazards that are greater risk.”
If we really paid attention to probabilities, there would be no Powerball lottery. The space object that caused the Tunguska event was estimated to be about 40 meters 130 feet) in diameter – which makes it a small-to-medium-sized rock that could exist in the Taurids. To spot one, Boslough and Brown say the best time to watch is when the Beta Taurids are heading away from the Earth into the night sky when they’re more visible. That’s right – they won’t be able to identify the killer space objects before they hit … only after they miss.
Worried yet? Go buy a lottery ticket and, if you win, spend it all by May 2019 … just in case.
On November 21, 2008, UFO researcher-authorGreg Bishop wrotethe following words: “The Reverend Frank Stranges, author of such contactee classics as Stranger at the Pentagonand Flying Saucerama, has returned to his permanent home with the space brothers, according to an email today from Tim ‘Mr. UFO’ Beckley. Stranges founded the National Investigations Committee on Unidentified Flying Objects (NICUFO) in 1967.” Stranges’ organization was very much inspired by the much bigger, and far more visible, NICAP, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, which was created in 1956. NICAP focused, for the most part, on studying reports involving sightings of UFOs in the skies above, analyzing photographs, and collecting flying saucer-themed data from military personnel and the public. Stranges, however, had a far more controversial claim to fame.
Stranges maintained that, from 1959 onward, he had extensive – and secret – contact with an extremely human-looking extraterrestrial. The “man” in question claimed his name was Valiant Thor. He was a strange and mysterious figure who, reportedly, had an untold number of clandestine meetings with several U.S. presidents, and numerous, high-ranking military personnel. The result of all this? Thor had the ability to effortlessly move throughout the inner circle of nothing less than the Pentagon itself. Thor’s message was – like so many of the messages of the 1950s-era Space Brothers – one of a warning nature. Namely, a warning that our warlike ways just might lead to the end of our civilization. That, in Stranges’ story, Valiant Thor both sounds and looks like actor Michael Rennie’s alien character, Klaatu, in the 1951 sci-fi movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still, has quite naturally led many to believe that Stranges made up the whole, controversial saga. A case, maybe, of Hollywood inspiration. As I noted in an earlier article, Stranges was indeed a controversial character, and that’s putting it mildly. Very mildly, in fact.
In relation to that alleged meeting with Thor in the Pentagon in 1959, Stranges, himself, offered the following: “Being a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as well as a student of the Bible for many years, coupled with my experience as an special investigator, I felt as though my senses were functioning properly and that I knew exactly what I was about to do. I was on my guard for fakes and frauds. In walked a man, about six feet tall, perhaps 185 pounds, brown wavy hair, brown eyes. His complexion appeared normal and slightly tanned. As I approached him and he looked at me it was as though he looked straight through me. With a warm smile and extending his hand, he greeted me by name. His genuineness astonished me, but quickly I understood. As I gripped his hand, I was somewhat surprised to feel the soft texture of his skin, like that of a baby but with the strength of a man that silently testified to his power and intensity.”
Strange World state: “Thor had been working with the government since 1937. His physical traits included six fingers, an oversized heart, one huge lung, copper oxide blood like that of an octopus, and possessed an incredibly high IQ measuring around 1200, and a lifespan of approximately 490 years.” There’s no doubt that the story of Valiant Thor and Frank Stranges peaked – in terms of both popularity and visibility – in the 1960s. Undeniably, for the vast majority of figures within the field of Ufology, the issues of Contactees, Space Brothers, and human-looking aliens are perceived as being very much historical in nature, rather than contemporary, which, to a high degree, is true. Like so many cases such as that of Valiant Thor and Frank Stranges, there really are just two possibilities: that the story was true or it was complete bullshit. A part of me would like to go with the former, but I’m totally, 100 percent fine going with the latter.
Within the world of the paranormal there are often very strange things that people claim to see. Ghosts, angels, aliens, and others, these things have long served to elude understanding and leave us to wonder just what is going on. Among these anomalous reports there are often true oddities, which stand out as the bizarre of the bizarre, and which don’t seem to fit into any sort of known category, their pure oddness propelling them right out past the fringe and into some new territory of the weird. These reports seem to be of things beyond aliens, ghosts, or anything else that populates the paranormal world, and indeed perhaps come from whole other universe entirely.
A really quite bizarre encounter that is hard to classify allegedly occurred in 1973, at the coastal town of Sandown, on the Isle of Wight, in the south east region of England. In May of that year, a 7-year-old girl and another child were exploring the wild areas around a place called the Shanklin & Sandown Golf Club, when they began to hear a shrill piercing, wailing sound off in the distance, reminiscent of an ambulance siren — only off kilter and eerier. Curiosity would get the better of them, and the two kids excitedly ventured off to find the source of the odd noise, a trek that would bring them through brush and trees to a clearing abutting the nearby Sandown Airport, where the sound just suddenly stopped to send silence crashing down upon them.
The two bewildered youngsters took a look around, still trying to figure out where that haunting sound had come from, and as they crossed a footbridge over a creek they soon found it. From the shadows beneath the rickety old wooden bridge under their feet there emerged an outlandish being the likes of neither of them had ever seen before, which crawled out from the dark to stand before them. In an article on the encounter published in a 1978 edition of the British UFO Research Association’s Journal author Norman Oliver described what they saw as follows:
He was nearly 7 feet tall and had no neck, for his head appeared to be wedged straight onto his shoulders. He wore a yellow pointed hat, which interlocked with the red collar of a tattered green tunic. A round, black knob was affixed to the top of his hat, and wooden antennae were attached to either side. The face had triangular markings for eyes, a brown square of a nose, and motionless yellow lips. Other round markings were on his paper-white face, and a fringe of red hair fell down onto his forehead. Wooden slats protruded from his sleeves and from below his white trousers.
Also rather oddly, this clown-like entity was reportedly holding what appeared to holding what looked like just a regular paper book, which he proceeded to thumb through clumsily before losing his grip on it and dropping it into the creek below. The being then jumped into the water, found his book, and crawled up sopping wet back out of the water to go bounding off in a series of leaps that seemed to defy gravity. The bewildered children watched as it bounded towards what appeared to be a small metallic hut and disappear within, after which it emerged once again with what looked like some sort of microphone in its hand that was attached to a black box with a button or knob on it. It was from this odd device that the wailing siren they had heard began to pour out once again, and at this distance it was so incredibly loud that the terrified children began to run away as the monotonous drone reverberated through the forest and their very bones.
As they started their retreat into the woods, the blaring roar of noise abruptly stopped again, followed a few moments later by a voice that tentatively asked “Are you still there?” The kids were scared, but still very much curious, and they warily made their way back to the clearing to see what the surreal entity was up to. When they did he seemed to be almost happy to see them, and excitedly produced his wet book to write within it a message, which it held up for them to read and which said in childishly scrawled letters, “Hello and I am all colors Sam.” He then began speaking with them, although eerily without ever moving his mouth, and since his voice seemed calm and nonthreatening the children drew closer to talk with him.
A sketch of the strange entity
During the conversation the being calling itself Sam claimed that he was not human, and when asked whether he was a ghost he merely replied “Not really, but I am in an odd sort of way.” When pressed on what he was he simply and cryptically said “You know.” He went on to explain how there were others of his kind, and that they were mostly shy and scared of humans, usually staying away from them, and this all culminated with the entity inviting the children into his metal hut, which was completely windowless and seemed to have some sort of flapped opening. Inside there were seemingly two floors, and the place had a metal floor, some sort of dials and knobs on the wall, and simple ratty wooden furniture scattered about. It was more or less a dump. Perhaps seeing the look on the children’s faces he was apparently quick to point out that this was just a temporary dwelling, and that he had a much bigger, more luxurious permanent place in mainland England.
It was here in this strange little hovel where Sam would finally remove his odd hat and produced a berry, which he stuck into a rounded white ear, only to have it suddenly appear in his eye socket and then appear within his mouth with a couple of flicks of his head, like some kind of magic trick. This delighted the children, and now they were fully calmed down, eventually staying in the hut for around an hour before saying goodbye and heading back home. When the girl told her father, rather than outright dismiss it he would actually go to the area to investigate, partly out of concern that there was perhaps some weirdo dressed as a clown lurking out there. Unfortunately, there was no trace of Sam or his weird hut, and no one else in the area had seen anything like what was described, although the children were adamant that the metal dwelling had been right there and that their story was completely true. The so-called “Sandown Clown” has not been seen since. Was Sam an alien, a ghost, a sicko in a freaky clown outfit, or what? We will probably never know.
It is interesting to note that this was a one-off sighting, with the creature not seen by anyone else, and this can also be said about some other equally bizarre accounts, such as one from the site The Crypto Crew. In 1983, a woman known only as Patty was driving along in broad daylight on a rural part of Highway 94, about 11 miles from the town of Murray, Kentucky, in the United States, when she too saw something that defies classification. It made its appearance by leaping out into the road from an adjacent field and then loping across, its movements described as being “like a gorilla,” but this was no gorilla.
Perhaps foolishly, Patty stopped her car and got out to yell after it, which caused the thing to stop and turn around to give her a better look at it and make her sorry she had ever left the car. It was described as standing at least 7 feet tall, and totally devoid of any hair, instead covered with rough pink skin and possessing a long neck, a smallish head, pointy ears, and a snout like that of a pig, with the witness saying, “I would describe it as a cross between a primate, a pig, and a human.” The face of the thing was what made the most impact on her, as she said it stared at her with intelligent, remarkably human eyes. Patty was so unsettled by this sight and its piercing gaze that she backed back into her vehicle and locked the doors as it loomed out on the road in front of her, just staring with inscrutable intent. She got out of there and soon told her husband about it but he wouldn’t believe her.
Another intriguing account was related to Lon Stickler of the site Phantoms and Monsters, and was told by a witness calling herself “Jeni.” The encounter apparently happened at in Hampton Bays, New York in 2006, where one evening she had driven out with her fiancée to show him the majestic spectacle of phosphorescent shrimp glittering in the dark water and upon the beach like stars in the sky. The area was described as rather remote, and they had been alone at the beach at the time, the moon full and bright in the sky. It would have normally been a romantic place to be, but the couple were about to have the shock of their lives, and Jeni would say of what happened next:
As soon as we stepped onto the beach I had a feeling of general unease; that instinctive fear that one would experience in the presence of a predator. I chose to ignore it; occasionally peeking over my shoulder at the long, empty stretch of beach behind me but mostly focusing on the tiny glowing shrimp beneath our feet. At one point I felt a presence and again, chose to ignore it as I’ve dealt with that quite a bit in my 30 years. I had not voiced my unease to my fiancee, so he was completely unaware. About 5 – 10 minutes into our short walk we were both hunched over, his back facing the jetty, mine facing the stretch of empty beach when he started peering over my shoulder, up into the sky. Perplexed, he’d look for a second, then look away – at this point I was still trying to retain my composure and not look. Finally, after a few minutes, he looked over my head and yelled “oh my god! What *is* that?!” – I turned to look and ‘flying’ directly over my head was this huge creature I’d never seen!
It appeared translucent/transparent; no color whatsoever – no visible structure outside of the motion which indicated what it looked like; now, I myself am a visual artist, so this left a very distinct impression on me. This ‘creature’ was shaped and moving in the way a Manta Ray would; yet completely transparent! No color at all; I could see the stars through this thing; the only thing to allow the structure any appearance was the moonlight shining somehow on its’ exterior!
It was larger than a standard sedan. It’s wingspan was at least, from what I could estimate, 10′ in width; while it was ‘flying’, its wings moving up and down. The movement seemed familiar, like that of a gull swooping down and hovering over the shoreline. It was approximately 10 – 15′ over my head; it had no visible ‘head’ or ‘tail’; no discernible limbs or appendages of any kind. It appeared and moved exactly as a Manta Ray without the ‘Cephalic Lobes’ or tail. I was completely awe-struck, but that fear took over and after about 30 seconds of staring at this thing we both turned and bolted toward the car. While running, we both simultaneously jerked our heads to the right in response to a glowing green light which seemed to flash twice (it was not the light from the tower on the jetty, nor was it from any boat; that water was clear).
I never looked behind me. We started heading back on Dune Road when we saw what I could only describe as two, smaller ‘rays’ which moved more like a bat would, flying together from right to left overhead past the car. These two were translucent and had a grayish color to them… strange. They were flying in the direction of the beach, where the larger, more transparent creature was. It was so beautiful and strange! It reminded me of a sea creature more than anything else, maybe our air is like water to them.
What in the world was this thing? Who is to say? If weird clown phantoms, pig-men, and glowing sky mantas aren’t strange enough for you yet, then how about a humanoid apparently made of jelly? That is what was purportedly seen at the mountainous region of Cáceres, Spain in the summer of 1965. In August of that year, a Juan Dominguez and his sister Isabel were out one afternoon walking along in the countryside near the farming village of Fragosa on an errand to bring some bundles of peaches back to their home. As they approached a low wall to a garden they allegedly noticed a dark humanoid figure pacing about in front of it.
Curious, the two siblings approached, and as they drew nearer could hear that there was some sort of humming sound coming from it, which was odd, but not nearly as weird as what they saw as they got closer still. It soon became apparent that the pacing figure was exceptionally tall, nearly 7 feet in height, and that the arms were inhumanly long and thin, but even more bizarre it seemed to be somewhat opaque, and made up of what appeared to be some sort of gelatinous material that pulsated and glistened. Unsettlingly, the thing did not have any discernable face on what should have been its head, yet they still sensed that it was intently watching them. As the two startled witnesses looked on, the strange jelly-man stopped to stand for a moment, before striding right towards them, its intent unknown but not something they wished to find out. The two dropped their peaches and ran away as fast as they could, and the otherworldly gelatinous entity was never seen again.
Joining the ranks of all of this bizarreness is an encounter originally published in the October 8, 2017 edition of Strange Magazine, that supposedly occurred back in 1948 at the shipbuilding port city of Bremerton, in the U.S. state of Washington. One day, a young woman named Virginia Staples was just going about her usual daily household chores, carrying a load of laundry down to the washing machines in the basement of her run-down apartment building. It was a mindless chore she had done countless times before, and there would have been no reason for this time to be any different, but it was to prove to lead to a shocking experience, indeed.
The dim basement was described as enormous, its volumous floor constantly covered with a sheen of water that leaked from the walls and was rumored to come from passageways leading to the nearby sea, but although it all had a rather creepy foreboding atmosphere, Virginia was used to working in this dark and dank place. Yet on this day something was not quite right, as she felt an undefinable sense of unease and dread, as if she were being watched from the ample shadows clinging to everything in there. She tried to cast the odd feeling out of her head, chalking it up to nerves, but it would not abate, indeed becoming stronger the longer she lingered there, graduating to sheer terror for no discernable reason. She would say of what happened next:
It was such a creepy feeling I finally turned around and looked toward the back of the basement and froze. I was so scared I can still feel it. I couldn’t move. In one of the huge holes in the basement there stood this thing. It was horrible! I stand five feet tall and this creature was as tall as I was. It had a bright orange colored body and little spidery thin legs and antennae on its head that kept moving back and in and out. That thing started towards me. I backed out of the basement and got up to my apartment and packed up all my things and moved. I was so scared. I moved over to Seattle to my cousin’s. Really no one would really believe this, but as God is my witness it really happened.
She would say that it looked to her almost like a humanoid shrimp, and that for years afterwards she says she had potent, chronic nightmares. The interesting part of this tale, other than the sheer outlandishness of the entity described, is that this was in the basement of an apartment complex, and not even a remote one out in the boondocks. At the time Bremerton was a bustling Naval port city home to around 80,000 people, so it makes no sense at all that there should be this thing, even if there were passageways to the sea. Where did it come from and why didn’t anyone else see it? The strange abomination was only seen this one time and we are left to wonder just what it could have possibly been or whether it ever really happened at all.
It is difficult to know just how to categorize accounts such as we have looked at here. Are we looking at aliens, ghosts, demons, spirits or something else entirely? They dwell in such a fringe realm of surreal oddness that no clear explanation seems to really stick, and since they were witnessed by so few people one is left scratching their head in bafflement. Obviously these could have been tall tales spun by the witnesses, but what if they aren’t? If they by any chance did indeed see what they claim, then what could these things be? Could they perhaps be visitors from beyond reality as we know it?
One possible answer could be that these fleeting, isolated encounters with the truly bizarre could be the result of some form of interdimensional interlopers from another reality or parallel dimension, who have for whatever reasons managed to phase through the veil that typically separates us to materialize in our world, be it intentionally or otherwise. Such theoretical entities are often referred to as “ultraterrestrials,” and are theorized as being behind sightings of all manner of paranormal phenomena, but they especially seem pertinent to these particular absurdly odd encounters. If they were from some parallel reality then they would possibly be freakishly strange in appearance and beyond what normally exists in our world, and their tenuous hold on existence on our plane of existence could explain why they are only encountered briefly and go on to never be seen again, blinking away. It is easy to imagine an entity from another reality falling through the cracks into ours, only to fall back out again to leave nothing behind but puzzlement, wonder, and fear.
Is that what has happened here? Are these perhaps glimpses of something beyond the curtain between realities somehow bleeding through into our own? It is uncertain to be sure, of course firmly in the realm of pure speculation, but if there is any chance at all that these witnesses really did observe and even interact with these creatures we are left with no other solid clues or connection to anything we know of, and this is certainly an interesting avenue of thought within which might lie the key. In the end there is no way to really know, and when reading these truly weird accounts we are each left to make up our own minds on just how this all fits into our reality, or whether it is even from our reality at all.
Travelers in the UK encountered one of the worst holiday occurrences imaginable last week: a completely closed airport just days before Christmas. All flights in and out of Gatwick Airport in southeast England were halted on December 20 and again on December 22 due to what was initially described as “mysterious drones”flying dangerously nearby.
Multiple unidentified small aircraft were seen in the skies above the airport, and they seemed to reappear each time the airport attempted to open. While dangerous drone activity near airports is nothing new, the investigation following these incidents has only led to more questions which make me suspect something stranger may be in the skies over England.
While drone sightings at airports are increasing dramatically, there are too many loose ends in this case to write it off as another errant civilian-level drone.
The UK Ministry of Defence immediately began searching for the aircraft after the airport closures, bringing in specialized equipment to help defend the airport and identify what the drones may be. Soon after, Sussex Police issued a statementclaiming the drones witnesses described seemed to be “of an industrial specification.” In other words, these aren’t some kid accidentally losing control of a $30 quadcopter – these drones appeared to be large, sophisticated aircraft.
On December 23, Sussex Police arrested a couple they believed were related to the drone sightings, but those individuals were shortly after released and exonerated, leaving no other suspects to be found. Perhaps most curiously of all, the lead investigator on the case then publicly questionedwhether there has been any drone incursions into the airport’s airspace at all. If they weren’t drones, then what exactly was seen in the skies near Gatwick Airport?
Or, what type of unknown drone might these objects have been?
While it might be easy to write this off as a case of amateur drone operators flying unintentionally near an airport – and it very well may be – there have been several other curious cases of unidentified flying objects in the skies over the UK lately. The Royal Air Force scrambled fighters just a few weeks ago to intercept an unidentified aircraft above eastern England, and multiple pilots reported strange objects in the skies over Ireland just a few months back. Could they be related to this airport closure?
Whether they are or not, this incident highlights the growing security threat drones pose. Gatwick Airport’s chief executive Chris Woodroofe called the incident an “unprecedented issue,” adding that “this isn’t a Gatwick Airport issue. It’s not even a UK issue. It’s an international issue.” Anti-drone systems have become a chief priority for both civilian and military airports, and even government installations and buildings aren’t safefrom the inexpensive, tiny aircraft. How can we keep the skies safe from these minuscule nuisances?
Maybe it’s best we all just start shooting indiscriminately at anything flying overhead.
More importantly, what exactly happened in England this week? With no answers to go on, it makes me think something fishier than just a few wayward quadcopters was responsible for this airport closure.
In the bizarre clip, what appears to be a giant black triangle can be seen hovering over the US Department of Defence.
Although the footage is dark, changes to the exposure of the video show the mysterious shape as it looms eerily above the Pentagon.
The footage recorded on December 19, 2018 has sparked much debate. While some say it is just a reflection in the camera others are convinced that it is the infamous black triangle TR-3B craft.
There have been multiple witnesses to a Triangle Shaped UFO floating above the Pentagon for a bit on Dec 19th. This would ahve been around the same time the launches were cancelled at Vandenburg base the other day. Is there something bigger happening in the UFO WORLD?
Dozens of eyewitnesses to this event uploaded videos and photos onto twitter today. It appears to be a giant UFO over New York City was so powerful that it overloaded transformers below it on the ground. UFOs are known for causing lightning, storms, tornados and even earthquakes as seen from past UFO video reports raw footage. Here is another example of such an occurrence. You can clearly see the glowing UFO in the sky above New York City. How is it possible to deny this? You surly have heard of UFOs that caused cars to stop, watches to stop, radios, lights and cameras to stop working? Well this is similar, but instead of shutting it down...it overpowered it. I believe that the UFO was attempting to monitor communications moving through the power lines and inadvertently overloaded the whole area causing the transformers to explode. Scott C. Waring News states:
Users posted video and photos of a bright light flashing and changing colors in the sky. Smoke arose from the source of the blue light, visible from as far as Manhattan. NYPD is investigating a possible transformer explosion at the ConEd plant in Astoria. CBS New York reports NYPD said a transformer exploded at the utility company’s facility in Astoria shortly after 9 p.m.
This UFO seems to have a square shape in its center. I believe that the circular shape is not the true shape of the UFO, but actually is smaller, but due to the bright pulsing light of the craft, the camera makes it an orb. The UFO itself seems to be square shape at the center of the glowing orb. This object seems way to big to be a drone and is probably very huge. I wish we has a shot of the area during the day so we can get a layout of the setting its in. Scott C. Waring
News states:
Debra Thomson, who lives on the water near the golf course, stepped outside to disconnect her outdoor Christmas tree when she looked up and saw the bright object in the sky. “It’s not unusual to see strange things in the skies out here,” she said. But this felt different. “For a second I thought it was Venus, but it was way too large and in the wrong place in the sky.” She said it was located in the northwest sky, moving at a rather fast clip, sometimes stopping as if it was observing. “It was moving toward my direction and seemed intelligently in control,” she said. “I felt as if it knew I was filming it.” “I don’t think it’s some kid’s toy, and I know it’s not an airplane,” she said in the video.
In fact, Thompson even called the airport to see if they knew of anything in the area. They told her they didn’t see anything on the radar. She described the object as very bright, red in color with a bit of orange. “It seems to be getting smaller,” she said, perhaps because it was moving further into the night sky. “It moved around a bit and disappeared into a pinhole, then it reappeared back to its same size in a few minutes,” she said. “With the naked eye, it was much more brilliant to see.” She discovered the object at about 9:30 p.m. The sky was clear – no wind, no clouds – and the night was extraordinarily quiet. In the video, the only thing you can hear is the curious commentary from Thomson as she watched the object move across the sky. “I just wanted to know if anyone had any experiences in the last few days or the following days,” she said.
“They’re Parked on The Side of the Crater – They’re Watching Us!” – When Neil Armstrong Landed On The Moon
“They’re Parked on The Side of the Crater – They’re Watching Us!” – When Neil Armstrong Landed On The Moon
“There are great ideas undiscovered, breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of truth’s protective layers. There are places to go beyond belief”
It wasn’t long ago that the Russian government called for an international investigation into the U.S. moon landings regarding missing samples and photos not released to the public. This created a new wave of interest into what really happened when the U.S. went up there, and led some to question if they even went there at all. The topic is filled with a number of interesting facts and statements from credible people that make one thing abundantly clear: Something fishy is happening on the moon, and we’re not being told about it.
This uncertainty has been made apparent by various sources, which include multiple Apollo astronauts, academicians, and high ranking military whistleblowers, not to mention official photos taken by NASA. According to Bob Dean, an United States Army Command Sergeant Major who also served at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) of NATO as an intelligence analyst, more footage exists, erased and hidden all these years, which we have never been told about:
Ladies and gentlemen, my government, NASA, which many of us in the United States say stands for Never A Straight Answer, proceeded to erase 40 rolls of film of the Apollo Program — the flight to the Moon, the flight around the Moon, the landings on the Moon, the walking guys here and there. They erased, for Christ’s sake, 40 rolls of film of those events. Now we’re talking about several thousand individual frames that were taken that the so-called authorities determined that you did not have a right to see. Oh, they were ‘disruptive,’ ‘socially unacceptable,’ ‘politically unacceptable.’ I’ve become furious. I’m a retired Command Sergeant Major. I was never famous for having a lot of patience.(source)
We will get into more intriguing facts from sources that would be considered credible later in the article. More points will be made as to why so many people are starting to wonder if there is actually, or was, an alien presence on the moon. These points make it easier to consider the lore that surrounds the moon landing. Perhaps one of the most interesting is what Neil Armstrong communicated to Houston when we landed on the moon.
According to multiple sources, after landing, the Apollo astronauts transmitted that they were being watched by very large extraterrestrial vehicles.
Where Does This Claim Come From?
One source is Dr. Steven Greer, founder of The Disclosure Project and The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). Greer was responsible for bringing forth high level military whistleblowers from all ranks to testify about the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon. He’s also had high level meetings within the Pentagon about this issue, which was verified by Apollo 14 astronaut and 6th man to walk on the moon, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, in Greer’s filmSirius Disclosure.
Edgar is one of multiple NASA astronauts who have made some eye-opening comments about the extraterrestrial presence.
According to Greer, from a blog post a couple years ago: If this link doesn’t work, you can check out a video of him speaking about the experience here.
Close friends and very close family members of both Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have separately told me that indeed there were numerous, large UFOs around the crater where the Lunar Module landed and that these were seen by both Armstrong and Aldrin. I have also spoken to military officers that have seen the footage of this event- but it has never been made public. One close family member of Buzz Aldrin told me “It is not my place to out Buzz on this- someday if he can speak about it, he will…
Neil Armstrong became somewhat of a recluse after the moon landing, and rarely spoke of the historic event. His friends and family have told me that this is because he was a man of such integrity that he simply did not want to be put in a position to lie to the public about such a momentous encounter. How tragic that our heroes have been placed in this untenable situation!
When we were organizing The Disclosure Project a few years ago, I asked one of Neil Armstrong’s friends if Armstrong would come to Washington to brief members of Congress at the 1997 Congressional briefing we organized in April of that year. I was told that Armstrong wished he could –but that if he spoke about what really happened during the moon landing, that Neil Armstrong, his wife, and children would all be killed. It was put to me this bluntly. (additional source)
Another source is a former NASA employee, Ken Johnston. Johnston was a Boeing engineer and a former fighter-jock and test pilot for Grumman Aerospace. He was also a marine and an F-4 pilot, as well as a NASA employee, working as the chief Lunar Module test pilot at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. According to James Oberg, a U.S. space journalist, UFO skeptic, and space historian, “Johnston seems to be a sweet human being who did honorable service to his country in the military and in the Apollo program.”
Above is a picture of him wearing his gear, taken from a documentary in which he appeared that also featured Buzz Aldrin and other notable NASA colleagues. In the documentary, he reveals:
“While Neil and Buzz were on the Lunar surface, Neil switched to the medical channel, and spoke directly with the chief medical officer saying, they’re here, they’re parked on the side of the crater, they’re watching us.”
“There are great ideas undiscovered, breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of truth’s protective layers. There are places to go beyond belief”
It wasn’t long ago that the Russian government called for an international investigation into the U.S. moon landings regarding missing samples and photos not released to the public. This created a new wave of interest into what really happened when the U.S. went up there, and led some to question if they even went there at all. The topic is filled with a number of interesting facts and statements from credible people that make one thing abundantly clear: Something fishy is happening on the moon, and we’re not being told about it.
This uncertainty has been made apparent by various sources, which include multiple Apollo astronauts, academicians, and high ranking military whistleblowers, not to mention official photos taken by NASA. According to Bob Dean, an United States Army Command Sergeant Major who also served at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) of NATO as an intelligence analyst, more footage exists, erased and hidden all these years, which we have never been told about:
Ladies and gentlemen, my government, NASA, which many of us in the United States say stands for Never A Straight Answer, proceeded to erase 40 rolls of film of the Apollo Program — the flight to the Moon, the flight around the Moon, the landings on the Moon, the walking guys here and there. They erased, for Christ’s sake, 40 rolls of film of those events. Now we’re talking about several thousand individual frames that were taken that the so-called authorities determined that you did not have a right to see. Oh, they were ‘disruptive,’ ‘socially unacceptable,’ ‘politically unacceptable.’ I’ve become furious. I’m a retired Command Sergeant Major. I was never famous for having a lot of patience.(source)
We will get into more intriguing facts from sources that would be considered credible later in the article. More points will be made as to why so many people are starting to wonder if there is actually, or was, an alien presence on the moon. These points make it easier to consider the lore that surrounds the moon landing. Perhaps one of the most interesting is what Neil Armstrong communicated to Houston when we landed on the moon.
According to multiple sources, after landing, the Apollo astronauts transmitted that they were being watched by very large extraterrestrial vehicles.
Where Does This Claim Come From?
One source is Dr. Steven Greer, founder of The Disclosure Project and The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). Greer was responsible for bringing forth high level military whistleblowers from all ranks to testify about the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon. He’s also had high level meetings within the Pentagon about this issue, which was verified by Apollo 14 astronaut and 6th man to walk on the moon, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, in Greer’s filmSirius Disclosure.
Edgar is one of multiple NASA astronauts who have made some eye-opening comments about the extraterrestrial presence.
According to Greer, from a blog post a couple years ago: If this link doesn’t work, you can check out a video of him speaking about the experience here.
Close friends and very close family members of both Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have separately told me that indeed there were numerous, large UFOs around the crater where the Lunar Module landed and that these were seen by both Armstrong and Aldrin. I have also spoken to military officers that have seen the footage of this event- but it has never been made public. One close family member of Buzz Aldrin told me “It is not my place to out Buzz on this- someday if he can speak about it, he will…
Neil Armstrong became somewhat of a recluse after the moon landing, and rarely spoke of the historic event. His friends and family have told me that this is because he was a man of such integrity that he simply did not want to be put in a position to lie to the public about such a momentous encounter. How tragic that our heroes have been placed in this untenable situation!
When we were organizing The Disclosure Project a few years ago, I asked one of Neil Armstrong’s friends if Armstrong would come to Washington to brief members of Congress at the 1997 Congressional briefing we organized in April of that year. I was told that Armstrong wished he could –but that if he spoke about what really happened during the moon landing, that Neil Armstrong, his wife, and children would all be killed. It was put to me this bluntly. (additional source)
Another source is a former NASA employee, Ken Johnston. Johnston was a Boeing engineer and a former fighter-jock and test pilot for Grumman Aerospace. He was also a marine and an F-4 pilot, as well as a NASA employee, working as the chief Lunar Module test pilot at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. According to James Oberg, a U.S. space journalist, UFO skeptic, and space historian, “Johnston seems to be a sweet human being who did honorable service to his country in the military and in the Apollo program.”
Above is a picture of him wearing his gear, taken from a documentary in which he appeared that also featured Buzz Aldrin and other notable NASA colleagues. In the documentary, he reveals: “While Neil and Buzz were on the Lunar surface, Neil switched to the medical channel, and spoke directly with the chief medical officer saying, they’re here, they’re parked on the side of the crater, they’re watching us.” (Source: 34 second mark)
Johnston is referring to a story put out by former NASA employee Otto Bender. According to Dr. Michael Salla, PhD., on a post written on his website, Bender confirmed that HAM radio operators had intercepted these VHF signals that were transmitted from Apollo 11, the ones that were kept from the public.
Apparently, this is how it went:
Mission Control: What’s there ? Mission Control calling Apollo 11.
Apollo 11: These babies are huge, sir … enormous….Oh, God, you wouldn’t believe it! I’m telling you there are other space craft out there… lined up on the far side of the crater edge… they’re on the moon watching us. (source)
To the right you will see a picture of William Tompkins and Admiral Larry Marsh. As a teenager Tompkins had an eye for detail and loved to create Navy ship and submarine models. The Navy took interest in his capabilities and recruited him to do work on advanced technology projects. Recently, he has come forward with claims, as many others have, about clandestine Black Budget operation programs.
According to Tompkins:
The Landing Module (LEM) actually impacted the Moon surface in the Sea of Tranquility Crater, which had tremendous size vehicles parked around part of its rim. When astronaut Neil Armstrong made that First Step for Man on the Moon he looked up to the edge of the crater and said to mission control: “There are other ships here, they are enormous. The public did not hear that statement or see the massive alien starships. Armstrong panned his camera in a 360 degree motional all around the crater and the CIA then classified the information as way above top secret.
Another source for this story comes from Timothy Good, one of the world’s leading UFO researchers, who has lectured at universities, schools, and many organizations, including the Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences, the Royal Canadian Military Institute, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Naval Air Reserve Branch, the House of Lords All-Party UFO Study Group, and the Oxford and Cambridge Union societies.
He says that a former member of MI6 revealed her conversation with Neil Armstrong at a NASA conference, when he confirmed that there were “other” spacecraft on the Moon when Apollo 11 landed in 1969. Armstrong also confirmed that the CIA was behind the coverup. He also goes into more detail about it in thisinteresting lecture from 2013.
So you see, this story has many different sides to it, and given all of the information that’s now available in the public domain regarding UFOs and extraterrestrial life, it’s really not hard to believe, especially when we already have some compelling information about the moon.
Why The Above Story Could Very Well Be True
Maurice Chatelain, whose expertise allowed him to invent radio equipment used to go to the moon (here is an example of one of his twelve patents), has revealed that, “at no time when the astronauts were in space were they alone. They were under constant surveillance by UFOs.”
This statement has been packed up by several astronauts, one of them being Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon:
“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. . . . We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time. I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.”
It’s not only agency astronauts, but agency insiders as well. For example, Dr. John Brandenburg, the Deputy Manager of the Clementine Mission to the Moon, which was part of a joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defence Organization (BMDO) and NASA, has also made some fascinating revelations. The mission discovered water at the Moon’s poles in 1994. (Source: page 16 of 18)(source)(source) But, according to Brandenburg, the Clementine Mission had an ulterior agenda:
[The Clementine Mission was] a photo reconnaissance mission basically to check out if someone was building bases on the moon that we didn’t know about. Were they expanding they expanding them? . . . Of all the pictures I’ve seen from the moon that show possible structures, the most impressive is a picture of a miles wide recto-linear structure. This looked unmistakably artificial, and it shouldn’t be there. As somebody in the space defence community, I look on any such structure on the moon with great concern because it isn’t ours, there’s no way we could have built such a thing. It means someone else is up there.
George Leonard, a NASA scientist and photo analyst, has obtained a number of official NASA photographs of the Moon which he published in his book Somebody Else Is On The Moon. Although the photos are small in size and their resolution is not up to today’s standards, they show details of original, massive prints. Far more compelling than these photos, then, are his verified NASA credentials and his statements about what was found on the Moon. And he’s not the only one with a credible background trying to tell the world the truth about the Moon and the photos that were taken from the Apollo missions.
Dr. Norman Bergrun, a mechanical engineer who worked for Ames Research Laboratory, NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, now known as Lockheed Martin, has accused the agency of “garbling” photos that the agency does not want the public to see. He has also stated that there are a number of large UFOs out there. You can view some of his publications for NASA, where he worked for more than a decade, here, and watch that interview here.
There are also studies to consider. Members of the Society For Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) have recently published a paper in the Journal of Space Exploration about certain features on the far side of the moon that appear in the crater Paracelsus C. Titled “Image Analysis of Unusual Structures on the Far Side of the Moon in the Crater Paracelsus C,” it argues that these features might be artificial in origin, meaning someone other than a human being built them and put them there. You can read more about that here.
“Shortly after I retired from the Air-Force, and I still was maintaining contacts with friends and associates at the various bases and one Col Parker in the Air Defence Command, the Space Command . . . mentioned an incident which I later confirmed. A spacecraft went to the rescue of Apollo 13, and they accompanied Apollo 13 on their voyage around the moon and back to Earth, and on two occasions they thought they might have to transfer the crew to their spacecraft. But they saw them safely back to the Earth.”
The quote above comes from Colonel Ross Dedrickson, who, in the 1950s, was responsible for maintaining the inventory of the nuclear weapon stockpile for the AEC and accompanying security teams checking out the security of the weapons, among many other duties throughout his career. It was taken from the interview below.
He is one of the hundreds of military whistleblowers to give some very interesting testimony
An artist's impression of Ultima Thule, which is already turning out to be quite mysterious before New Horizons even arrives
(Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Steve Gribben)
NASA's New Horizons probe is just days away from its historic flyby ofUltima Thule, a mysterious object on the fringe of the solar system. Since it awoke fromhibernationback in June, the craft has been making observations of the object, and that has raised the first puzzle – Ultima seems to be an unexpectedly "dark" world, and while there are a number of possible explanations, none of them have any precedent in the solar system.
One of the main techniques astronomers use to figure out the shape of small objects, like asteroids and minor planets, is to observe their light curve. Basically, that means watching how the sunlight reflecting off the object's surface changes over time, which can reveal how fast it's spinning and what shape it may be. A perfectly round object, for example, would have a relatively flat light curve, since the same amount of light bounces off it from every side, while the cigar-shaped asteroid 'Oumuamua has a much more variable light curve.
But Ultima Thule has completely defied expectations. Previous observations have indicated that the object should be a fairly irregular shape, and may even be two separate objects orbiting each other very closely. That means it should have a pretty erratic light curve, but so far that hasn't been the case. And it's not that Ultima has turned out to be surprisingly round either – the New Horizons team so far has not detected any light curve at all.
"It's really a puzzle," says Alan Stern, New Horizons Principal Investigator. "I call this Ultima's first puzzle – why does it have such a tiny light curve that we can't even detect it? I expect the detailed flyby images coming soon to give us many more mysteries, but I did not expect this, and so soon."
The researchers have a few possible explanations in mind, but none of them are particularly likely. For one, New Horizons might be approaching Ultima from exactly in-line with its rotation pole, which is possible but requires quite a coincidence. A second theory suggests that Ultima is shrouded in a thick cloud of dust, similar to the coma of a comet. The problem there is that this only forms when comets pass close to the Sun and the heat begins to vaporize material. Ultima is much too far from the Sun for that, so unless another heat source is at work, that doesn't seem likely.
"An even more bizarre scenario is one in which Ultima is surrounded by many tiny tumbling moons," says Anne Verbiscer, an assistant project scientist on New Horizons. "If each moon has its own light curve, then together they could create a jumbled superposition of light curves that make it look to New Horizons like Ultima has a small light curve."
Again, while that's technically possible it would make Ultima Thule unlike any other body in the solar system. Plus, these moons would have to be very tiny and very close to the surface – last week NASA gave the probe the green light to approach the object on its optimal path after months of observations found no sign of any potentially hazardous moons or debris.
Whatever the answer is, we don't have long to wait. New Horizons is due to buzz Ultima Thule on New Year's Day 2019 – next Tuesday. High-resolution images will be streamed back to Earth over the few days following that, giving us an up-close look at the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft.
WETENSCHAPOp deze laatste ‘Throwback Thursday’ van het jaar 2018 delen we een van de mooiste foto’s van de ruimte. Dankzij organisaties zoals de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht (ESO) en ruimtevaartcentrum NASA kunnen we af en toe een glimp opvangen van de oneindige schoonheid van de ruimte. Van deze vijf foto’s viel onze mond alvast open.
1. NGC 2467
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In oktober deelde ESO een merkwaardige foto. Op die foto zijn twee sterrenhopen te zien die verdacht veel lijken op een schedel, alsof een piraat de sterrenhemel teistert. Het stervormingsgebied kreeg dan ook de toepasselijke bijnaam ‘Doodshoofd-met-gekruiste-beenderen-nevel’. Het kiekje werd gemaakt met het FORS-instrument van de Very Large Telescope van de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht.
Een van de meest adembenemende foto’s toont de mooie Lagunenevel. Die is in werkelijkheid 4.000 lichtjaren van de aarde verwijderd. In het midden van de afbeelding straalt een jonge ster die ongeveer 200.000 keer helderder is dan onze zon.
Met het blote oog is de nevel helaas niet zichtbaar, maar met een krachtige ruimtetelescoop kunnen zulke plaatjes gelukkig wel vastgelegd worden.
3. Dode ster
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Zelfs de dood is prachtig in de ruimte. Zo maakte de Very Large Telescope van ESO nogmaals een wondermooie foto van gloeiende gaswolken in de Kleine Magelhaense Wolk. Daar ontstond nevel nadat er zo’n 2.000 jaar geleden –gezien van de aarde- een supernova-explosie plaatsvond. In werkelijkheid vond de explosie veel eerder plaats want het restant van de explosie is al zo’n 200.000 lichtjaar verwijderd van de aarde. In het midden van de nevel troffen astronomen een dode verborgen neutronenster aan: minstens één foto waard.
4. RCW 38
ESO/NASA
Het stervormingsgebied RCW 38 dat zo’n 5.500 lichtjaar verwijderd is van de aarde werd eveneens door de handige telescoop van het ESO in beeld gebracht. Niet alleen maakten ze foto’s, ze filmden de beweging van het stervormingsgebied zelfs. Intussen komt het sterrenbeeld Vela (Zeilen) in beeld. Dat is een sterrenbeeld in de Melkweg, rijk aan heldere sterren, zoals duidelijk te zien op de foto.
5. Kosmische botsing
ESO/NASA
Bovenstaand beeld is afkomstig van de Hubble telescoop. Het toont een botsing tussen verschillende sterrenstelsels wat voor heel wat spektakel zorgt. Als twee sterrenstelsels botsen, ontstaat er een soort kosmische knoop. Dat is nog niet duidelijk te zien op deze foto omdat het nog maar de aanloop van de botsing is.
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Een planeet die rood en blauw glanst: nieuwe superaarde met mogelijk robijnen en saffieren ontdekt - HLN.be
Een planeet die rood en blauw glanst: nieuwe superaarde met mogelijk robijnen en saffieren ontdekt - HLN.be
Thibaut RogerOok 55 Cnc e komt in aanmerking voor de nieuwe exotische klasse van superaardes
WETENSCHAPPlaneten die opgebouwd zijn uit fonkelende edelstenen? Ze bestaan mogelijk. Onderzoekers van de universiteiten van Zürich en Cambridge hebben een nieuwe, exotische klasse van planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel ontdekt. Die superaardes, met een massa minstens vijf keer zo groot als onze planeet, werden gevormd bij hoge temperaturen dicht bij hun moederster en bevatten een grote hoeveelheid calcium en aluminium. Daardoor zou alvast één planeet voor een groot deel bestaan uit robijnen en saffieren.
“Wellicht glinstert de planeet rood en blauw”, stelt astrofysicus en hoofdonderzoeker Caroline Dorn. Ze heeft het over HD219134 b, een planeet die zo dicht bij zijn moederster staat, dat op het hemellichaam een jaar slechts drie dagen duurt. De planeet heeft een massa die bijna vijf keer zo groot is als onze planeet en wordt daarom een superaarde genoemd.
Dorn leidde een team van wetenschappersen die een blik wierpen op de mysterieuze superaardes. Die beschrijven nu een nieuwe soort die compleet anders is dan de meeste planeten, die op onze aarde lijken. Daarom spreken ze van een “nieuwe, exotische klasse” planeten die gevormd zijn bij zeer hoge temperaturen en dicht bij hun moederster staan.
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In tegenstelling tot onze aarde heeft HD219134 b zeker geen massieve kern van ijzer, maar bestaat deze waarschijnlijk uit calcium en aluminium. Die samenstelling zorgt ervoor dat de planeet mogelijk voor een groot deel bestaat uit robijnen en saffieren. Deze edelstenen zijn namelijk aluminiumoxiden. Om het object te kunnen bewonderen zal u wel wat tijd moeten nemen: de planeet die in het sterrenbeeld Cassiopeia staat, is 21 lichtjaren van ons verwijderd.
‘Diamantplaneet’ ook saffierplaneet?
Ook twee andere planeten, 55 Cancri e en WASP-47 e, zouden tot de nieuwe klasse horen. Ook deze superaardes cirkelen dicht bij hun ster, waardoor het aan de oppervlakte zelfs ongeveer 3.000 graden Celsius is. Exoplaneet 55 Cancri e kwam in 2012 al in het nieuws, omdat die voor een groot deel uit diamant zou bestaan. Deze theorie werd al in 2013 ontkracht, omdat de planeet hiervoor te weinig koolstof herbergt. Maar wie weet herbergt ook deze superaarde prachtige edelstenen en is het een glinsterende saffierplaneet.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Het is december en in het noorden van Europa is de zon bijna niet te meer te zien is. Gekmakend, zou je kunnen denken, maar in het noorden van Finland denken ze daar anders over. Daar wordt de ‘poolnacht’ als de mooiste tijd van het jaar gezien. Wij kunnen thuis nu ook meegenieten.
Er zijn namelijk heel veel webcams die 24 uur per dag, zeven dagen per week uitzenden. Toegegeven, soms ligt er een dik pak sneeuw op de lens of is het zo mistig dat er maar tien meter ver te zien is, maar de rest van de tijd worden geduldige kijkers beloond met een prachtig schouwspel. Denk aan een hemel met tinten en lichten van paars, groen en geel. En wie echt geluk heeft, kan zelfs een glimp opvangen van Aurora Borealis, oftewel het noorderlicht.
Vanaf begin december tot begin januari gaat de zon ‘permanent’ onder in Noord-Europa. Door de ligging van de aarde tegenover de zon is er weinig tot geen zonlicht mogelijk. “De mensen hier zijn er dol op. De hemel heeft de prachtigste kleuren. In de zomer zijn die nooit zo intens. Nee, winterblues en doktersadvies, dat is meer voor zuiderlingen”, zegt een inwoner van Enontekiö tegen De Standaard.
Ook de Borealis zien? Dat kan je nog proberen tot ongeveer maart, maar december en januari zijn de beste maanden, aldus de expert.
Hieronder een overzicht van de mooiste webcambeelden.
Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza—one of the wonders of the ancient world, and a dazzling feat of architectural genius—contains a hidden void at least a hundred feet long, scientists announced on Thursday.
The space’s dimensions resemble those of the pyramid’s Grand Gallery, the 153-foot-long, 26-foot-tall corridor that leads to the burial chamber of Khufu, the pharaoh for whom the pyramid was built.
However, it remains unclear what lies within the space, what purpose it served, or if it’s one or multiple spaces.
The void is the first large inner structure discovered within the 4,500-year-old pyramid since the 1800s—a find made possible by recent advances in high-energy particle physics. The results were published in the journal Nature.
“This is definitely the discovery of the century,” says archaeologist and Egyptologist Yukinori Kawae, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. “There have been many hypotheses about the pyramid, but no one even imagined that such a big void is located above the Grand Gallery.”
NG STAFF. SOURCE: MORISHIMA, K. ET AL. DISCOVERY OF A BIG VOID IN KHUFU’S PYRAMID BY OBSERVATION OF COSMIC-RAY MUONS. NATURE
BUILT TO LAST
The findings mark the latest in a millennia-long quest to understand the Great Pyramid of Giza, long an object of mystery and intrigue.
The pyramid was built some 4,500 years ago during the Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom. At that time, Egypt was a powerful, highly centralized monarchy, wealthy from trade and Nile-nourished agriculture.
The Great Pyramid is arguably the ultimate expression of that power. The pharaoh Khufu, who reigned from 2509 to 2483 B.C., built for himself a pyramid whose base spreads across more than 13 acres and originally towered 479 feet tall. The monument consists of about 2.3 million limestone blocks, which had to be quarried, transported, cut to size, and moved into place. (Read more about the extraordinary Pyramids of Giza.)
“These sorts of pyramids are the major product, so to speak, of the kings who built them,” says Kate Spence, a University of Cambridge archaeologist who studies ancient Egypt. “An awful lot of Egyptian society is probably geared toward building pyramids at this particular time.”
Ever since, the Great Pyramid has drawn in the curious; today, tourists enter the pyramid through a tunnel created in the ninth century A.D. The National Geographic Society has helped conduct two explorations of the pyramid, including a 2002 exploration of the “air shafts” extending out one of the pyramid’s three chambers.
3-D TECHNOLOGY OFFERS CLUES TO HOW EGYPT’S PYRAMIDS WERE BUILTArcheologist Yukinori Kawae is leading an interdisciplinary approach to studying the Egyptian pyramids by combining computer science, 3-D data, and the latest technology to help decode how and why the pyramids were built.
SEEING THE INVISIBLE
The new discovery comes out of the ScanPyramids project, an international mission under the authority of Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities. Launched in October 2015, the project aims to non-invasively peer into Egypt’s largest pyramids using a battery of technologies.
Previously, ScanPyramids had announced the detection of some intriguing voids and anomalies, which didn’t come necessarily as a surprise. Spence says that the pyramids’ interiors are far more pockmarked and rubbly than people usually imagine.
But the new void definitely came as a surprise—and arguably marks the biggest-ever discovery yielded by muon radiography, an imaging technique first demonstrated in Giza’s pyramids.
“It’s a striking discovery,” says Chris Morris, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and expert on muon imaging techniques. “This makes another muon radiographer jealous, I’m jealous. These guys have discovered a remarkable thing.”
The technique, which has been used to peer through cathedral walls, Mayan pyramids, and even volcanoes, relies on the natural drizzle of subatomic particles called muons.
These particles shower Earth all the time, flung off when cosmic rays—high-energy particles racing through our galaxy—collide with Earth’s upper atmosphere. (If you’re reading this story on your smartphone, six muons will have harmlessly passed through this screen by the time you finish this sentence.)
While we can’t see muons with the naked eye, scientists can spot them with special films and detectors that trace their 3-D paths. Since muons pass more easily through empty space than through solid materials, arranging multiple muon detectors in and around a structure lets scientists map the structure’s solid and empty parts.
“What’s so delightful is that [muons] are like Goldilocks: They lose enough [energy] to detect them but not so much that they just get absorbed in the target,” says University of Texas at Austin particle physicist Roy Schwitters, who uses muons to study Belize’s Mayan pyramids. “They’re really a fabulous treat from nature.
In the Great Pyramid’s case, a team led by Nagoya University physicist Kunihiro Morishima placed muon detectors inside the pyramid starting in December 2015, letting them collect data for months.
Morishima’s first results came in March 2016—and to researchers’ surprise, they suggested that a region deep in the pyramid’s interior let many more muons through than they had been expecting. These “excess” muons seemed to trace a 100-foot-long cavity with a cross-section resembling the Grand Gallery.
Two additional teams from KEK, a Japanese particle-physics research group, and CEA, France’s Atomic Energy Commission, worked from August 2016 to July 2017 to confirm Morishima’s work. Each team used a different method for spotting muons.
In each experiment, the researchers saw a signal for the void that achieved at least a five-sigma level of statistical significance, which means that there’s less than a one-in-a-million chance that any one experiment was a fluke. This same level of evidence is required when discovering new subatomic particles like the Higgs boson.
BIG VOID, BIGGER QUESTIONS
The seemingly empty region, which the researchers neutrally call “the void,” is at least a hundred feet long. Its purpose remains unclear; researchers are cautiously avoiding the word “chamber” for the time being.
“We don’t know for the moment if it’s horizontal or inclined, [or] if it is made from one structure or several successive structures,” said study coauthor Mehdi Tayoubi, president and cofounder of the Heritage Innovation Presentation (HIP) Institute, in a press briefing. “What we do know is that this void is there, that it is impressive, [and] that it was not expected by any kind of theory.”
Tayoubi and his colleagues stress that they don’t know what the void is—but already, Egyptologists have some initial ideas for what it might be.
Spence, the Cambridge archaeologist, says that the void may be a leftover from the Great Pyramid’s construction. She points out that massive blocks weighing tens of tons form the roof of the chambers above the King’s Chamber, the central room where Khufu was laid to rest.
Since the void aligns with the Great Pyramid’s upper chambers, which were put there to relieve pressure on the King’s Chamber below, Spence suggests that the void may have been an internal ramp used to move the massive roof blocks into place. As construction continued, she says, this ramp could have been left empty or loosely backfilled.
“It’s the position of [the void] that to me makes this interpretation the most likely,” says Spence. “It’s too well placed for getting blocks into place up there.”
Salima Ikram, an Egyptologist at the American University in Cairo, says that the void’s location directly above the Grand Gallery might imply its involvement in that corridor’s construction. That said, she wryly suggests taking current interpretations with a grain of salt.
“I don’t think it’s ever too early to speculate, but you might be widely wrong,” she says.
Time will tell whether these or other ideas about the void’s purpose pan out. Tayoubi and other ScanPyramids collaborators say that work is only beginning.
And to those fantasizing about personally exploring the void, a word of caution. No known corridors connect to the space, and researchers and outside experts alike stress that there are no future plans to drill into the void. Instead, they say that in the near-term, they will do whatever they can to peer into the space non-invasively.
“There’s lots of heavy, thick rock, and by drilling something, you don’t know how you will affect the entire thing,” says Ikram. “If there’s something behind the Mona Lisa, would you want to wipe her clean and see what’s behind her? You really have to preserve the integrity of the monument.”
Raadselachtige ruimte ontdekt in Grote Piramide. Wat was het doel ervan?
Raadselachtige ruimte ontdekt in Grote Piramide. Wat was het doel ervan?
Met de hulp van kosmische straling hebben wetenschappers een minstens 30 meter lange ruimte in de grootste van de drie piramides in Gizeh ontdekt.
Het resultaat betekent een doorbraak om de interne structuur van de piramide van Cheops beter te begrijpen, schrijven de onderzoekers in een verslag dat door het vakblad Nature werd gepubliceerd.
“We weten niet wat de bedoeling van deze holle ruimte is,” zei Mehdi Tayoubi van het internationaal wetenschappelijk team. “Daarom willen we ook niet van een kamer spreken.” Maar de omvang van de ontdekte ruimte is groot.
Honderden meters
Drie teams van verschillende instituten en universiteiten uit Frankrijk en Japan onderzochten gedurende twee jaar de 4500 jaar oude piramide in Gizeh.
Daarbij gebruikten de wetenschappers een scan met muonen, een bijproduct van kosmische straling.
Net zoals röntgenstraling bij het menselijk lichaam kunnen die elementaire deeltjes honderden meter steen doordringen, aldus de wetenschappers.
Geheimen
De piramide van Cheops is de oudste en de grootste van de drie piramides van Gizeh en is één van de zeven wereldwonderen uit de Oudheid.
De piramide is 139 meter hoog en 230 meter lang. Het bouwwerk werd tijdens de regeerperiode van Cheops (2509 tot 2483 v. Chr.) opgericht en heeft nog steeds niet al zijn geheimen prijsgegeven.
Using detailed computer models of asteroidal-type objects between the Sun and Jupiter, two Harvard University researchers find that at least four known objects are likely to have origins from outside our solar system.
This artist’s impression shows the first interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, `Oumuamua.
CREDIT: ESA/HUBBLE, NASA, ESO, M. KORNMESSER
After becoming gravitationally-trapped, the four potentially interstellar objects --- 2011 SP25, 2017 RR2, 2017 SV13, and 2018 TL6 --- are thought to spend most of their time between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune. However, during their closest approaches to the Sun, they do pass through Earth’s neighborhood.
In a paper submitted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Harvard co-authors Amir Siraj and Abraham Loeb, compare the orbital characteristics of theoretical high-inclination objects to those of the centaurs, the most similar population of known asteroids.
“We find that there should be hundreds of Oumuamua-size interstellar objects identifiable by Centaur-like orbits,” write the authors. 1I/2017 U1 Oumuamua, the first bona fide interstellar object, was discovered Oct. 19, 2017 by the University of Hawaii’s Pan-Starrs telescope. But the authors note that there should be at least 66 possible other interstellar objects in their calculations, ranging in diameter from roughly 100 meters to 10 kilometers in size.
And all of these potential interstellar interlopers should be detectable by the LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope), currently under construction in Chile.
Our paper, says Loeb, shows that by focusing on objects at high inclinations to the plane of the solar system and on counter-rotating orbits to the planets, we can isolate interstellar objects.
As for the four that the authors have thus far identified as potential interstellar objects?
“We do not know if they are comets, asteroids, or artifacts ,” Amir Siraj, a Harvard University undergraduate in astrophysics, told me. Until these objects pass close to earth again, he says we won't be able to know. Siraj notes that of the four, object 2018 TL6 will make a close Earth approach in another twenty years.
Could they be artificial in origin?
“We do not have any evidence that these [four] objects are unnatural at this point,” said Siraj.
They pass near Earth on timescales of some 20 to 120 years so it will be another 20 years until we can photograph one of them, he says. That is, unless someone designs a flyby mission that will visit one or more of them. The most likely source of interstellar objects is planetary systems that eject them during formation and development processes.
And as for Oumuamua which NASA classifies as a highly-elongated, rocky, cigar-shaped object with a somewhat reddish hue?
NASA’s Spitzer infrared telescope data rules out typical cometary activity, says Loeb. And he says it also sets an upper limit on Oumuamua's size, which in turn implies a shiny surface, which is at least ten times more reflective than a typical asteroid.
"These results are at odds with the properties of comets and asteroids in the solar system are fully consistent with an artificial origin,” said Loeb.
I'm a science journalist and author of "Distant Wanderers: the Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System" who writes about over-the-horizon technology, primarily astronomy and space science. I’m a former Hong Kong bureau chief for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine and former Paris-based technology correspondent for the Financial Times newspaper who has reported from six continents. A 1998 winner in the Royal Aeronautical Society's Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards (AJOYA), I’ve interviewed Nobel Prize winners and written about everything from potato blight to dark energy. Previously, I was a film and arts correspondent in New York and Europe, primarily for newspaper outlets like the International Herald Tribune, the Boston Globe and Canada's Globe & Mail. Recently, I've contributed to Scientific American.com, Nature News, Physics World, and Yale Environment 360.com. I'm a current contributor to Astronomy and Sky & Telescope and a correspondent for Renewable Energy World. Twitter @bdorminey
Astronomen volgen vier mysterieuze ruimtesigaren in ons zonnestelsel. Nog meer interstellaire bezoekers?
Astronomen volgen vier mysterieuze ruimtesigaren in ons zonnestelsel. Nog meer interstellaire bezoekers?
In ons zonnestelsel bevinden zich tenminste vier objecten die waarschijnlijk uit de interstellaire ruimte komen. Dat zeggen twee onderzoekers van de Harvard-universiteit op basis van computermodellen.
De objecten – 2011 SP25, 2017 RR2, 2017 SV13 en 2018 TL6 – staan meestal ergens tussen Jupiter en Neptunus.
Als ze de zon het dichtst naderen, komen ze ook bij de aarde in de buurt.
Honderden
Harvard-wetenschappers Amir Siraj en Abraham Loeb hebben hun onderzoek gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
“Er zouden honderden interstellaire objecten ter grootte van Oumuamua [in het zonnestelsel] moeten zijn,” schrijven ze.
1I/2017 U1 Oumuamua, het eerste interstellaire object, werd op 19 oktober 2017 ontdekt met behulp van de Pan-Starrs-telescoop van de Universiteit van Hawaï.
Visnet
Er zouden volgens de onderzoekers tenminste 66 andere interstellaire objecten moeten zijn met een doorsnee die varieert van 100 meter tot 10 kilometer.
De LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope), die momenteel wordt gebouwd in Chili, moet al deze objecten kunnen spotten.
“De zon en Jupiter fungeren als een visnet dat interstellaire objecten vangt,” zei Loeb. “Op ieder moment bevinden zich enkele duizenden gevangen objecten in het zonnestelsel.”
20 jaar
Over de vier objecten die de onderzoekers tot dusver hebben geïdentificeerd als mogelijke interstellaire objecten zei Siraj: “We weten nog niet of het kometen, asteroïden of artefacten zijn.”
Hij merkte op dat één van de vier, 2018 TL6, over 20 jaar opnieuw dicht in de buurt van de aarde komt.
“We hebben geen bewijs dat deze vier objecten onnatuurlijk zijn,” zei Siraj.
Kunstmatig iets
Ondertussen heeft NASA’s infraroodtelescoop Spitzer uitgesloten dat Oumuamua normale kometaire activiteit vertoont, aldus Loeb.
Daarnaast is het oppervlak van de mysterieuze ruimtesigaar 10 keer zo reflecterend als een doorsnee asteroïde.
Volgens Loeb gaat het dan ook niet om een komeet of asteroïde, maar om een kunstmatig iets.
For advice about living on Mars, who would you turn to? Elon Musk? Jeff Bezos? Matt Damon? How about someone who has actually lived beyond the orbit of the Earth? That small and sadly diminishing list includes Bill Anders and Frank Borman, two of the first three astronauts to leave Earth’s orbit and circle the Moon on the Apollo 8 mission – an event whose 50th anniversary we’re now celebrating. While Anders and Borman never set foot on the lunar surface, they certainly have more experience with living far from Earth than an electric car driver or a cardboard box mailer, right? So, what does former astronaut Bill Anders think about living on Mars?
“What’s the imperative? What’s pushing us to go to Mars? I don’t think the public is that interested.”
That was one of the nicer things Anders said about sending humans to Mars in a recent interview with the BBC celebrating the Apollo 8 anniversary. He was referring more to the exorbitant costs of human space exploration versus less expensive and safer missions using robots, rovers and other remote exploring machines. He’s probably right about the public’s predicted reaction to the costs, but he saves his stronger words for his assessment of sending humans to work and live on Mars in general, calling it “stupid” and “almost ridiculous.”
“NASA couldn’t get to the Moon today. They’re so ossified… NASA has turned into a jobs program … many of the centers are mainly interested in keeping busy and you don’t see the public support other than they get the workers their pay and their congressmen get re-elected.”
Apollo 8 crew: James Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman
(NASA)
Anders obviously isn’t happy with the organization he worked for as an astronaut and later worked with as the Executive Secretary for the National Aeronautics and Space Council. He knows firsthand the scientific progress that has been made since then and the challenge of dealing with the politics of space, having worked for the Atomic Energy Commission, the joint U.S./USSR technology exchange program for fission and fusion power, General Electric’s Aircraft Equipment Division and as Textron’s Executive Vice President for aerospace. It’s no wonder he says that “I’m not a very popular guy at NASA for saying that.”
“I’m not as critical of NASA as Bill is. I firmly believe that we need robust exploration of our Solar System and I think man is part of that. I do think there’s a lot of hype about Mars that is nonsense. Musk and Bezos, they’re talking about putting colonies on Mars, that’s nonsense.”
Fellow Apollo 8 crew member Frank Borman – experienced in the politics of space as the only astronaut on the Apollo 1 fire review board and experienced in both the costs and benefits of air travel as the CEO of Eastern Airlines – is less critical of NASA than Anders but agrees that the costs of human habitation on Mars far exceeds the benefits to the point of “nonsense.”
Earthrise from the Moon
(NASA)
While he didn’t comment on the Martian colony controversy, third Apollo 8 crew member Jim Lovell – one of only three humans to visit the Moon twice – waxed philosophical about the real purpose of space exploration:
“When I looked at the Earth itself… I started to wonder why I was here, what’s my purpose here … it sort of dawned me. And my perspective is that God has given mankind a stage on which to perform. How the play turns out, is up to us.”
It’s up to us. Who are you going to listen to for advice on living on Mars – the battery and cardboard box guys or three experienced space travelers?
No humans will live on Mars These astronauts guarantee Even if Jeff and Elon Build a fancy B-and-B
The 387-mile (623 km) Bureya River flows southward in the Khabarovsk region of far-eastern Siberia – well, ‘used to flow’ might be a more appropriate description today. At some point in early December, an unexplained force from space slammed into a one-kilometer hill, pushing 800 tons of dirt, debris and vegetation into a mound that now dams the Brureya River. Its remoteness has made the cause a mystery – there are no witnesses to the explosion that some investigators now at the site say could not have been caused by a meteorite. With the usual government denial that it was a wayward rocket or a bomb test, some people are beginning to believe far-fetched claims that it was the result of a UFO crash. Is it possible?
“It cannot be man-made.”
Locals who have nothing to hide have already decided that any explanations other than a meteorite or UFO are impossible, based on what they’ve found at the site that hunters Anton Ivanov and Alexander Makan stumbled onto on December 14th. They have good reason to be suspicious, since the massive and violent event took place in early December, was not found (at least officially) until December 14th and was not revealed to the public until December 24th. Who or what wants this event kept under such tight wraps?
“The height is from 80 to 160 metres above the ice level. There is no radiation. An object entered at a sharp angle, pulled down a mound and spread it along the river bed. It is not clear what it is: maybe an explosion, a bomb, or a falling airliner.”
Local government official Alexey Maslov described the mound of dirt created by something to the Siberian Times. (Photos and video here and here.) There were no official reports of airline crashes, bombs or other manmade events that could have caused such carnage. However, Evgeny Zubko, a cosmic dust expert (nice work if you can get it) from the School of Natural Sciences of the Federal University of the Far East, talked to local residents who had noticed “the arrival of a blast wave” and to the two hunters, who said they arrived to find that:
“It smells like hydrogen sulphide and vapour comes out in some places. We even found a spot on the very top where there are warm stones, we used them to keep our hands warm. It looks like it was very hot there. The ice edges are slim as if they were in boiling water.”
All of that says “meteorite” to cosmic dust expert Zubko, but not to Aleksei Makhinov, regional chairman of the Russian Geographic Society, who believes this was a “seismic landslide” caused by an earthquake.
‘It happens very often in the (Russian) Far East. The entire coast of the Sea of Okhotsk is covered with these landslides when half a mountain falls down.”
However, there’s no record of an earthquake in the matching time-span. Nor is there a record of a meteorite either, says Boris Shustov, the head of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who says nothing was picked by Russia’s extensive network of ground-based tracking systems and thinks it was “just a landslide.”
The mysterious river-blocking mound of dirt is keeping water from this power plant
As of right now, there’s no crater and no debris –just an 800-ton mountain of dirt that wasn’t there a few weeks ago and is now blocking a river that drives the downstream Bureyskaya hydro power station. That means it’s costing someone money – which means it won’t be blocking the river much longer. Will it be cleared before the mystery of its cause is solved? A cause that experts and witnesses say can’t be manmade, can’t be a meteorite, but could be a UFO?
It’s a lightly-populated area in Siberia and the secretive government and big money are involved … what do you think?
Is NASA getting ready for some kind of disclosure of what it and the U.S. government know about aliens, UFOs and the other stuff conspiracy theorists believe is hidden in real X-files? Here’s a sign the answer may finally be yes – the agency announced last week the hiring of a communications department executive whose mother claims to be an alien abductee and recently ran for Congress. Couple that with her connection to another announcement last week that the Pentagon is putting plans in place for the president’s Space Force and the Christmas wishes of conspiracy theorists may be coming true … whether they believe in Santa or are just marginal about it.
On December 17th, Bettina Inclán was named by Administrator Jim Bridenstine to be NASA’s Associate Administrator for Communications. Inclán definitely has the right background for the job with over 15 years of experience as a communications specialist and strategist working with major technology firms and non-profit organizations, and has held senior roles with government leaders at the federal, state and local levels, including one who said this:
“I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship — not like airplanes.”
That’s Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, who Bettina Inclán calls ‘Mama’, describing the alien spaceship she was taken to at age 7 by “three blond, big-bodied beings — two females, one male” who continued to communicate with her telepathically at various times later in her life. While she readily admitted to her extraterrestrial encounters earlier in life, she denied them at first when they came out during her recent campaign for a Congressional seat in Florida. Although she finally admitted to the abduction and later encounters, they didn’t prevent her from being endorsed by the Miami Herald but didn’t help her get elected.
Did her mom’s revelations help Inclán get her job with NASA? It didn’t hurt … nor did the fact that her brother-in-law is Jarrod Agen, Deputy chief of staff and communications director for Vice President Mike Pence …
… who last week announced at the Pentagon that President Trump will sign a new space policy directive in the coming days that will lay out plans and a timeline to create a U.S. Space Force as a sixth branch of the armed forces. Pence then received a briefing on space operations and cyber defense and on the proposal the Pentagon is drafting to establish the Space Force.
Is Bettina Inclán, with her family ties to aliens and the Space Force and her new job in NASA’s communications department, the long-awaited focal point for full disclosure of government secrets about aliens and UFOs? Will she introduce her mother’s alien friends to the Space Force or will she warn them to leave town before they start shooting?
To conspiratorially paraphrase a famous Star Wars quote — the dots are close together with this one.
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.
Piotr Cielebiaś was born in 1986 in Czestochowa, Poland. he holds an MA in history and a BA in political sciences. He is a well known Polish writer and journalist specializing in fringe science and paranormal phenomena. He is co-founder of the infra.org.pl website, which collects UFO reports. He is a ufological publisher and contributor to English-language UFO magazines and websites. He writes regularly for Onet.pl–the most popular Polish web portal–and for “Nieznany Świat,”the oldest Polish monthly publication devoted to fringe science and paranormal phenomena. He is the author of “The True UFOs,” a book in Polish summarizing the UFO phenomenon as a whole, and UFOs Over Poland (2016, Flying Disk Press)
RG:Who have been the defining figures in Polish UFOlogy over the past 70 years (for better or for worse), and why?
PC: UFO studies in Poland emerged in the 1950s, but the most influential researchers began their work in 1970-80s in a time of heightened UFO activity. Krzysztof Piechota and Bronisław Rzepecki are worthy of mention. The former was one of the most prolific UFO writers in Poland; the latter partnered him and co-authored one of best Polish books in the field: “UFOs over Poland” (1996). Originally, Piechota and Rzepecki leaned toward the ET hypothesis, as did Kazimierz Bzowski, another well-known ufologist from Warsaw who assumed that UFOs are “energetical” and informational in nature and that they use “channels” or portals which could be detected by means of radiesthesia (in other words, aliens would be sending their crafts as galactic e-mails). The late Zbigniew Blania-Bolnar, another prominent ufologist, criticised Bzowski’s views and applied more scientific methods.
Among present day researchers I would include Arek Miazga, Damian Trela and Robert Leśniakiewicz. They differ considerably in their opinions about UFOs but they remains the most experienced and prolific ufologists.
Warsaw, Poland.
RG: What do you consider to be the most compelling Polish UFO incident on record, and why?
PC: It’s hard to choose one particular case. Many UFO enthusiasts in Poland would surely say that the most compelling close encounter is the famous Emilcin case of 1978 when a farmer from Eastern Poland met olive-skinned aliens who took him onboard their strange craft. Others think that the most compelling cases are those witnessed by military pilots. Bronisław Rzepecki wrote a book about such encounters in Poland that were quite frequent, and former pilots often speak about their experiences publicly. The openness ended after Poland joined NATO in 1999. Another case that is worthy of special attention is a close encounter from Bedzienica-Nockowa (described by Arek Miazga) when a family from a small village in South-Eastern Poland observed a strange “screen” with huge, greenish aliens peering from inside. Also quite unique is the 1979 case from the Tropy Sztumskie area when an ambulance was stopped by spherical UFO blocking the road.
An artist’s impression of the alien from the Emilcin UFO case of 1978.
RG:What is the Polish government’s official stance on UFOs? When was the last time it issued a statement on the subject?
PC: To be honest, I have no idea what Polish special services or military agencies know about UFOs. Politicians have never touched the problem, though I’m sure they’re interested. It’s hard to believe that they don’t bother about cases involving unauthorised intrusions in Polish aerospace. The government remains silent about UFOs and that’s a continuation of Eastern, post-Soviet mentality assuming that society shouldn’t be interested what’s going on behind the official curtain. I think that something really unusual must happen for the Polish government to issue a statement about UFOs. But years of research has shown that even the most concerning cases were swept under the carpet. For example, in 2013 flying saucers appeared several times in vicinity of civilian and military airport in Cracow. In 2013-2015 many sightings of flying triangles/boomerangs took place in Poland and there was a suggestion that they were connected with US Army or USAF activity. No one from the government or from the mainstream media seemed interested.
RG:Does the Polish Ministry of National Defence have an official UFO investigations unit?
PC: No, but reports about encounters with UFOs circulated amongst Air Force officials. Under the socialist regime, any information about unexplained activity in airspace above Poland was shared with Moscow. One man called Ryszard Grundman—who was once a chief of staff in Air Force—gathered reports about unexplained events on his own. It wasn’t an official unit but rather a “private X files.” He collected reports from pilots and military counterintelligence. For example, in the 80s, two counterintelligence agents received reports from concerned locals of Kobyłka (Warsaw region) of strange lights coming out of the forest. Two agents entered the trees encountering a huge flying saucer over a clearing that soon shot up and disappeared.
The Presidential Palace, Warsaw, Poland.
RG:Has the Polish government shown more or less transparency on the UFO subject than the US government?
PC: The Polish political system and culture is closely related with political parties and their members are mostly interested with holding power and sponging from the state budget. They don’t bother with such things as UFOs, or even the future of the country. Crucial for them is to look after their own private interests. Sad but true.
RG:Does Poland have a national UFO investigations organisation today, and how many smaller Polish UFO groups are you aware of?
PC: We have currently a few organizations, but I don’t think they are comparable to professional groups from the past (or to those from abroad, like MUFON, for example). Most Polish ufologists work independently and they get on. Also, our magazine “Nieznany Swiat,” has been gathering reports about anomalous phenomena (involving UFOs) for nearly 30 years.
Rural Poland.
RG: What are the most active regions of Poland for UFO sighting reports (hotspots)?
We tend to call them “anomalous zones.” They can be both local and regional. For example, regions of two big cities in southern Poland—Wrocław and Rzeszów—abound with reports about UFOs, while there are also areas with virtually no sightings. The Rzeszów area is especially interesting because lot of high strangeness events have occurred there which were researched by Arek Miazga—author of very interesting book, “UFOs over Subcarpathia.” Inside the Rzeszow anomalous zone there is a smaller zone in Glinik village where very unusual sightings have taken place (people reported small, atypical UFOs and strange flying beings). I’m also living in some kind of “UFO hotspot” because Częstochowa and the Jura region are known from various incidents, including high strangeness events. A long history of encounters with balls of light and other strange phenomena is connected with Osson’s Hill (Częstochowa). For many years also Warsaw was a prominent UFO hot spot with very interesting cases involving the landing of a saucer in Czerniaków district (1982) witnessed by police officer.
RG: Have you personally had any UFO sightings?
PC: Of course, and so therefore I’m sure that the phenomenon exists. I was 6 years old. I woke up (probably to get something to drink) and soon noticed a funny flying saucer amongst the clouds. It wasn’t big and was probably quite close. I still remember its colourful lights and distinct shape. It just hovered in mid-air and then flew away. I saw it very clearly but at that time I wasn’t a UFO expert and I just took it for a funny aircraft. As an adult I also saw several interesting things as well as some phenomena that can be easily mistaken for UFOs. But the earliest sighting was the trigger for my interest in paranormal.
Piotr’s latest book, UFOs Over Poland (2016, Flying Disk Press), is available at Amazon.
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?
PC: I entered the UFO field in 2005, but it must be said that I’m more a journalist than ufologist, focussing on other “fringe phenomena” too. Since then I’ve interviewed many UFO witnesses. Some were interesting but the best part of it involved just lights/things in the sky. For me, the most interesting aspect of the phenomenon is the high strangeness. I think that cold analysis of those bizarre, grotesque and sometimes funny cases could tell us much more about the nature of real, paranormal UFOs than any military-funded projects. The biggest mystery of the phenomenon is the connection between those objects and human consciousness. But in my opinion there’s no simple answer to the question about nature of the phenomenon which is also probably evolving with us. UFO is just like a huge river consisting of various tributaries.
RG:How can Polish UFOlogy better itself?
PC: Very hard to say. UFOs are elusive and, in fact, all we can do is to describe and analyse their appearances the best we can. Polish ufology would be better if refrained from disinformation and bullshit, but the fact is that for decades we’ve dealt with the same theories and approaches. Ufology is in stagnation and it’s hard to say anything about the future.
While going through some old photos the photographer found an interesting photograph taken 35 years ago.
The photo taken on November 14, 1983 outside Anchorage Alaska near Portage Glacier shows a huge flying saucer and near the disc-shaped UFO another unknown flying object.
Since it is unclear of these objects are man-made or real UFOs, the photographer has submitted the unaltered image to Mufon registered under file 97092 for further investigation.
I found another face on Mars again. The face is similar to the one I reported yesterday, similar species but the younger version. The forehead shape appears to be the same, as well as the nose, mouth, chin, and eye. Very strange I know, but there it is. Its not like I have only reported one face found on Mars, but in reality its more like I have reported hundreds of faces...which makes this no longer a coincidence but instead makes it evidence.
British Government Goes Into Emergency Session After Failure To Keep Gatwick UFO Attack Secret, UFO Sighting News.
British Government Goes Into Emergency Session After Failure To Keep Gatwick UFO Attack Secret, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 2018 Location of sighting: London, UK Here is an important question...were UFOs seen over the Gatwick Airport and down played as drones to control the situation? It happened at a China airport back in China back in 2010 when a huge glowing UFO shut down their airport and with many eyewitnesses getting great photos of this glowing UFO, it was hard to deny. However I cannot find any photos of a drone or UFO over the Gatwick Airport, which is strange. I believe that people at the airport did not see the UFO. That it was only seen on radar zooming around the airport. That would cause them to panic, especially if it was cloaked causing them to panic from not being able to see it. Scott C. Waring Video states:
A gripping new Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) report circulating in the Kremlin today chiding London for “never missing an opportunity” to hinder Russian media in the United Kingdom, states that the British clampdown on press reporting is because they have become so unnerved over the UFO attack on Gatwick Airport this past week—and that has now sees Prime Minister Theresa May having gone into emergency session with her government after the “drone story” first put out by the propaganda mainstream media was shot down by police, thus causing the innocent couple arrested to be set up as patsies having to be released without charge.
Computerchips kunnen een pak sneller worden gemaakt als de signaaltransmissie gedeeltelijk zou gebeuren met licht.
De binaire informatie die wordt gegenereerd in de transistors op een computerchip, wordt via elektronen getransporteerd naar andere chips, en eventueel ook processors. Deze transmissie gaat al heel snel, maar volgens computerwetenschappers nog niet snel genoeg. Zij zoeken niet alleen naar methoden om chips nog kleiner te maken (en processors dus nog sneller en geheugens krachtiger) maar ook om de snelheid van deze signaaloverdracht te verhogen.
Een team van Amerikaanse, Britse en Franse ingenieurs1 heeft nu een begin gemaakt met een doorbraak, en wel door een manier te ontwikkelen waarop de elektronische informatie wordt overgezet op lichtstralen. Fotonen hebben immers het voordeel dat ze (nog) veel sneller reizen dan elektronen. Helaas zorgde de signaaloverdracht tussen elektronen en fotonen (en vice versa) tot nu voor problemen.
De onderzoekers lijken dat probleem te hebben opgelost, en wel door gebruik te maken van een nieuwe soort metamaterialen. Dat zijn materialen die eigenschappen van licht ingrijpend kunnen veranderen. Tot voor kort werden ze enkel gebruikt om lichtstralen om te buigen en af te leiden, maar de vorsers hebben ze nu ingezet om licht snel in een andere kleur (frequentie) om te zetten. Dat zorgt voor een vlottere transmissie tussen elektronen en lichtdeeltjes.
Als de signaaloverdacht via fotonen kan verlopen, hoeven chips ook niet meer voorzien te worden van minuscule koperen draadjes, waardoor ze ook nog eens een pak kleiner kunnen worden gemaakt.
Back in August, the crew on the International Space Station (ISS) repaired a small leakthat was allowing air to escape the orbiting outpost — damage that Russia speculated could have been the result of intentional sabotage.
Now, the Associated Pressreports that a Russian cosmonaut who helped investigate the damage during a spacewalk earlier this month has said that whoever drilled the hole appeared to do so from the interior of the station — though he’s far from convinced the drilling was an act of sabotage.
The controversy surrounding this hole has revealed that international tensions on Earth can reach outer space, which has long been a haven for international scientific cooperation — but the cosmonaut’s comments are a heartening example of how public figures in the research community can push back against the use of space as a proxy battleground for terrestrial conflicts.
Space Talk
On Monday, the AP reported, cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev — who took part in the spacewalk to investigate the damage — said at a press conference after returning to Earth that the hole appeared to originate from inside the capsule.
But Prokopyev also “scoffed” at the idea that an ISS crew member drilled the hole, according to the AP.
“You shouldn’t think so badly of our crew,” he said. He also cautioned that “it’s up to the investigative organs to judge when that hole was made” — an apparent suggestion that the hole could have originated in a manufacturing facility on Earth.
Fresh Air
When the leak was first discovered, Russia’s space agency said the damage was probably caused by a micrometeorite. But in a startling about-face, the director of the agency suggested days later that the leak was the result of intentional sabotage — even specifically mentioning evidence of “several attempts at drilling” with a “wavering hand.”
Prokopyev, though, is behaving like a scientist: reporting the facts, but withholding judgment until after the collection of all data — a comforting approach during an era characterized by knee-jerk reactions.
This year’s report shows that the Arctic region experienced the 2nd-warmest air temperatures ever recorded, the 2nd-lowest overall sea-ice coverage, and lowest recorded winter ice in the Bering Sea.
NOAA released its2018 Arctic Report Cardon December 11. This year’s report shows – once again – how the climate of Earth’s north polar region is changing. Measurements include warmer air and ocean temperatures and declines in sea-ice that are driving shifts in animal habitats.
The annual Arctic Report Card – now in its 13th year – is a peer-reviewed report that provides an update on the region and compares these observations to the long-term record. The 2018 report was compiled from the research of 81 scientists working for governments and academia in 12 nations.
This year’s report shows that the Arctic region experienced the second-warmest air temperatures ever recorded; the second-lowest overall sea-ice coverage; lowest recorded winter ice in the Bering Sea; and earlier plankton blooms due to early melting of sea ice in the Bering Sea.
NASA’s Operation Icebridge captured this image of the town of Narsaq in Greenland in April 2018.
– Surface air temperatures in the Arctic continued to warm at twice the rate relative to the rest of the globe. Arctic air temperatures for the past five years (2014-18) have exceeded all previous records since 1900.
– Atmospheric warming continued to drive broad, long-term trends in declining terrestrial snow cover on land, melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet and lake ice, increasing summertime Arctic river discharge, and the expansion and greening of Arctic tundra vegetation.
– Despite increase of vegetation available for grazing, herd populations of caribou and wild reindeer across the Arctic tundra have declined by nearly 50 percent over the last two decades.
– In 2018, Arctic sea ice remained younger and thinner, and covered less area than in the past. The 12 lowest extents in the satellite record have occurred in the last 12 years.
– Warming Arctic Ocean conditions are also coinciding with an expansion of harmful toxic algal blooms in the Arctic Ocean, threatening food sources.
– Microplastic contamination is on the rise in the Arctic, posing a threat to seabirds and marine life that can ingest debris.
Declining Arctic sea ice: The 2018 Arctic Report Card found the Arctic region had the second-lowest overall sea-ice coverage on record. The map shows the age of sea ice in the Arctic ice pack in March 1985 (left) and March 2018 (right). Ice that is less than a year old is darkest blue. Ice that has survived at least 4 full years is white.
The Report Card is intended for a wide audience, including scientists, teachers, students, decision-makers and the general public interested in the Arctic environment and science. You can read the 2018 Arctic Report Card here.
In addition to annual updates on ocean temperature, snow cover, tundra greenness and melting on the Greenland Ice Sheet, the report card also includes reports on multi-year environmental changes, including a long-term population decline of the region’s iconic wildlife species, the caribou. Other multi-year essays focused on the expansion northward of toxic harmful algae and significant concentrations of microplastic pollution that are transported by ocean currents into the Arctic Ocean from other parts of the global ocean.
Caribou and wild reindeer numbers drop 56 percent in 20 years: Arctic caribou and wild reindeer populations dropped sharply from 4.7 million to 2.1 million grazing animals in two decades, with the largest declines in Alaska and Canada. Scientists attribute the declines to Arctic warming, which is increasing the frequency of drought, affecting the quality of forage. Longer, warmer summers also increase flies, parasites and disease outbreaks in the herds. These caribou were spotted in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve.
They Came from the Sky is how Ancient Aliens links asteroids, meteroids, and meteorites to terraforming, exploration, and colonization.
How are meteorites sent to Earth? Are they examples of alien technology? Why were they sent here by aliens? What’s up with Giorgio’s hair? All these questions (except the last one) are answered on this episode of Ancient Aliens.
As far as episodes of Ancient Aliens goes, this one provides more examples than most. Ultimately it leads to how humans have started to consider using asteroids and meteoroids for our own space exploration efforts.
What’s the purpose of meteroites?
During the intro of this episode, David Hatcher Childress frantically asks, “Was this black stone supposed to interact with humans on Earth?” Interesting he considers this question, because the answer on Ancient Aliens is always a resounding yes. Or as is often said, “Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.”
There is, however, a secondary possibility. They could just be meteorites that floated through space, yanked and pushed at the whim of celestial gravity, mathematically destined to hit Earth. A third possibility exists.
Theme #1: Creating life
First, Ancient Aliens suggests aliens used asteroids and meteoroids to send life throughout space. They created life. A NASA biologist named Richard Hoover posited in 2011 that nine meteorites he examined had micro-fossils of bacteria capable of creating life. A different Australian meteorite possesses the building blocks for DNA & RNA, everything required to start life. The Aztecs – as well as some other ancient civilizations – even have a mythology about mother god and father god giving birth to flint stone, a knife of some kind, cast down to Earth, where many gods came forth to create human life.
There’s a real-life NASA concept called RAMA directly related to the concept of repurposing asteroids, because of their composition and cost-savings, for space exploration. Furthermore, the question as to whether an alien race would actually use asteroids to spawn new life throughout the universe is answered by not only The Genesis Project but also those bastards from Klendathu. Rico’s Roughnecks!
Theme #2: Communication
Were the meteorites sent to Earth by gods? Were they meant as a means of communication? In 1902, an Oregonian farmer named Ellis Hughes found a huge boulder which rang like a bell when hit with a pickaxe.
It was later unearthed as the Willamette meteorite, the largest on the planet. Composed of elements like iridium, germanium, gallium, and nickel, it became a shrine to locals, and was known by the Clackamas Indians long before Hughes’s version of Manifest Destiny grabbed headlines. Indeed, the Clackamas believed the meteorite had special powers and came from their gods.
One aspect of this communication is how some stones signify communication a deeper meaning than others. The Black Stone of Islam, situated in the Kaaba at Mecca, has profound meaning and supposedly allows a connection to the Prophet Muhammad. A 135lb meteorite comprised of nickel and iron was found in Camp Verde, Arizona in 1915, and it was buried like a human. Ancient Greece, of course, has the Temple of Apollo, where a meteorite named Omphalos was sent to Earth by Zeus as an indication of where life began.
The source of these meteorites is part of the mystery. The Hypatia stone in South Africa is non-chondritic, which means it came from outside the solar system. The Mundrabilla meteorite is a superconductor of uncharacteristic nature. There are also quasicrystals, which are only remotely discussed.
All of the above primarily comes from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, which, according to Ancient Aliens, could be debris of a planet destroyed during a cosmic battle in Sumerian and Babylonian lore. Or it could be those bastards from Klendathu.
Whether or not meteorites are actually sent here by aliens is left completely wide open in one of the least convincing Ancient Aliens episodes ever. If hundreds (thousands?) can enter our atmosphere every year, then surely a few of those will be bizarre or unique. Whether they could be used is a different issue.
Ancient Aliens Season 13 returns to the History Channel on January 4th.
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26-12-2018
Viruses, ET and the octopus from space: the return of panspermia
Viruses, ET and the octopus from space: the return of panspermia
A major paper revives the oft-mocked theory that life on Earth began in a rain of cosmic microbes. Stephen Fleischfresser reports.
The search for ET, say researchers, could start and end with the octopus. VIZERSKAYA/GETTY IMAGES
The peer-reviewed journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology recently publisheda most remarkable scientific paper. With 33 authors from a wide range of reputable universities and research institutes, the paper makes a seemingly incredible claim. A claim that if true, would have the most profound consequences for our understanding of the universe. Life, the paper argues, did not originate on the planet Earth.
The response?
Near silence.
The reasons for this are as fascinating as the evidence and claims advanced by the paper itself. Entitled Cause of the Cambrian Explosion – Terrestrial or Cosmic?, the publication revives a controversial idea concerning the origin of life, an idea stretching back to Ancient Greece, known as panspermia.
The scientific orthodoxy concerning the origin of life is called abiogenesis. This suggests that at some point in the earth’s early history, conditions were favourable for the creation of complex organic chemistry that, in turn, led to the self-organisation of the first primitive life forms.
Much is understood about the process, but exactly how information came to be coded in nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) to form the system of genetic inheritance and expression, and how this transformed into life itself, remains unknown. The other slightly uncomfortable aspect of the abiogenic account is that it seems to take place in a surprisingly short amount of time. The theory requires that the "primordial soup" from which self-replicating RNA emerged formed within an 800 million year period following the stabilisation of the Earth's crust, a timeframe some researchers think is too narrow.
Despite its drawbacks and lack of detail, abiogenesis is the consensus, the only plausible hypothesis for the origin of life.
The panspermia hypothesis, however, disputes nearly every aspect of this story.
Of the 33 authors, Edward Steele and Chandra Wickramasinghe are the most well-known.
Steele, an Australian immunologist, has a history as something of a maverick. He has long championed the idea of inheritance of acquired characteristics, a theory first aired by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the French evolutionist prior to Darwin.
Although the latter much admired Lamarck’s work, most scientists have since discarded it. In 1979, Steele took a contrary position, advocating a neo-Lamarckian idea known as “somatic selection hypothesis", published in 1979. The later advent of epigenetics, and the discovery of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in numerous microbial organisms have somewhat restored Lamarck’s tarnished reputation, with some biologists suggesting HGT represents "a form of (quasi)Lamarkian inheritance".
Wickramasinghe is a famed astronomer and astrobiologist with an illustrious career. He has held a string of professorships at Universities in both England and Sri Lanka, and has more than 70 publications in Nature.
One of his more notable contributions, along with his long-time collaborator, the late Sir Fred Hoyle, was the hypothesis that interstellar dust was partly made up of organic molecules, which Wickramasinghe went on to confirm experimentally. This finding prompted him to become a lifelong advocate of the panspermia hypothesis, publishing numerous papers on the topic.
Hoyle thus exerts a posthumous influence over the new paper. Originally Wickramasinghe’s PhD supervisor, he was an odd mix of genius and far-out ideas: he formulated the notion of stellar nucleosynthesis, the now well-established theory that says all elements heavier than helium are created through fusion in the hearts of stars. He also thought that the famous Archaeopteryx fossil, transitional between dinosaurs and birds, was a manufactured fake.
Astronauts working on the exterior of the International Space Station, which research has found to be covered in bacteria.
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Hoyle and Wickramasinghe developed the model of panspermia at the centre of the recent study. The new paper is a review of “the key experimental and observational data gathered over the past 60 years”, write the authors, “consistent with or predicted by the Hoyle-Wickramasinghe (H-W) thesis of Cometary (Cosmic) Biology”.
The H-W model holds, the authors state, “that life was seeded here on Earth by life-bearing comets as soon as conditions on Earth allowed it to flourish (at or just before 4.1 billion years ago); and living organisms such as space-resistant and space-hardy bacteria, viruses, more complex eukaryotic cells and organisms, … perhaps even fertilised ova and plant seeds, may have been continuously delivered ever since to Earth helping to drive further the progress of terrestrial biological evolution.”
In other words, the researchers suggest that abiogenesis did not happen on Earth and the main source of genetic novelty is not caused by the selection of naturally occurring advantageous mutations, but rather comes from a rain of extra-terrestrial living matter that integrates itself, via neo-Lamarckian mechanisms such as horizontal gene transfer, into the genomes of terrestrial life.
Beyond this, the model also postulates that various epidemics are caused by the arrival of viruses from space and that extra-terrestrial retroviruses drove the Cambrian explosion.
Not to mention that the octopus might well be an alien.
One might be tempted to laugh, if it weren’t for the volume of titillating evidence they present, and the nagging worry that the naysayers have been wrong before. For decades everyone knew, for example, that continents didn’t just go drifting about the place. Until they did.
But just because theories seen as crackpot by the scientific establishment have later been vindicated does not necessarily mean that is the case here.
The proof advanced “would support an extra-terrestrial origin of life,” writes commentator and evolutionary scientist Keith Baverstock from the University of Eastern Finland, puts it in the same issue of the journal, but is “not evidence that could not be explained in any other terms." In other words, the argument advanced by Steel and colleagues in plausible, but not convincing.
Nonetheless, the paper has withstood a year of intense peer review. As Steele points out to Cosmos, “It has thus passed some severe and tortuous tests already.” The tension between the evidence and the claims based on it make for uneasy reading.
Just as the field of Alzheimer’s research ponders if its main theory of many decades is wrong, perhaps it is worth entertaining a quaint notion: what if panspermia is right?
The paper is remarkable in tone. Far from the cautious claims of normal scientific literature, it is almost triumphant. “The consistency with panspermia of a vast swathe of new data,” Wickramasinghe tells Cosmos, “often entailing new and unexpected developments of technology, over the past four decades have given us the confidence to adopt this tone.”
The evidence is enough to back their confidence, fascinating and detailed. Central to their paper, and indeed their model of panspermia, is the action of viruses, retroviruses, in particular, and much of the evidence presented revolves around them.
Retroviruses are fiendishly clever. They are the foremost practitioners of horizontal gene transfer, integrating their own genetic material into the genome of the infected host to produce more viruses.
Intriguingly, if they infect germline cells, sperm or ova, for example, then the organism will transmit the integrated retrovirus, known as a provirus, to their descendants. In other words, the acquired genetic material becomes part of the offspring’s inheritance. It’s a solidly Lamarckian mechanism and Steele’s own somatic selection hypothesis is based on such viral capacities.
This ability to affect the genetic makeup of their hosts makes viruses a force to be reckoned with. As a group of researchers, led by microbiologist Matthew B Sullivan, wrote in 2016, “viruses modulate the function and evolution of all living things, but to what extent remains a mystery.”
And the truth is there are a lot of viruses around.
Virologist Curtis Suttle from the University of British Columbia in Canada and his colleagues last year published the first research into the number of viruses being deposited from the atmosphere. The amount is staggering, possibly billions a day for every square metre of the earth. Viruses are puissant and ubiquitous.
Steele and colleagues seem to have been finally spurred to action by new virological data connecting viruses and evolution.
In 2017 Pakorn Aiewsakun and Aris Katzourakis from the University of Oxford in the UK published a paper in Nature Communications that concluded that “retroviruses emerged together with their vertebrate hosts in the ocean” at least 460 million years ago. They also established that the two entities demonstrate patterns of co-speciation: as the host organisms transform into new species, their viral counterparts similarly transform. This, claim Steele and colleagues, is a key prediction of the H-W panspermia hypothesis.
Steele and colleagues derive two points from Aiewsakun and Katzourakis’ findings.
The first is that viruses are successful only because they have evolved to make use of the host’s cellular machinery and genetic regulatory make-up – that is, they are “in touch with the whole of the cell’s very ability to grow and divide to produce progeny cells and to evolve”. Given this, evidence that retroviruses emerged at the same time as, and co-speciated with, their hosts, simply doesn’t add up. Retroviruses are carefully adapted to the stable make-up of their target hosts and such co-variance just shouldn’t happen.
The second point is that the emergence of these retroviruses barely predates the Cambrian Explosion, a period in which sudden and unparalleled biological diversity and complexity appeared on Earth. They also emerge not long after a mass extinction event at the end of the Ediacaran period, 542 million years ago.
Panspermia accounts for all this, the authors explain, thus: the Ediacaran extinction was most likely brought about by comets that brought with them complex retroviruses. The retroviruses were the main driver of the Cambrian explosion. They integrated themselves into the genomes of countless terrestrial species, introducing novel genetic material which resulted in an explosion of diversification of living forms.
They integrated so quickly and easily, without the need or time to evolve to the target host’s genetic make-up, because they arrived already primed to do so. This is because the H-W panspermia hypothesis posits a cosmic biology, in which, write the researchers, “the entire galaxy (and perhaps a local group of galaxies) constitutes a single connected biosphere”. All life, both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial, is related, according to this view, as all life comes from the greater biosphere in which genetic material in the “cosmic gene pool” is readily shared. There is an underlying biochemical unity of all life, differing only in which isotopes of essential elements life from different parts of the universe might use.
One of the loudest champions of panspermia theory, the late astronomer, Fred Hoyle.
DAVID LEVENSON/GETTY IMAGES
As Wickramasinghe puts it, “Our point of view is that in the context of an interconnected cosmic biosphere involving at least 100 billion habitable exoplanets in our galaxy alone, and with continuing exchanges of biomaterial, large scale HGT including exchanges of complex genetic packages in the form of viruses, seeds, bacteria is unavoidable.”
One of the reasons for adopting panspermia, he explains, is the “superastronomically improbable transition from non-life to life”.
The idea that abiogenesis occurred on the cosmically insignificant earth in an awkwardly short amount of time strikes him as improbable, at best.
“The choice between life originating on Earth against manifestly insuperable odds,” he says, “and an origin in the connected volume of a large part of the almost infinite universe is a simple binary choice. We chose the most probable.”
Steele and colleagues argue that abiogenesis is deeply unlikely here on earth and that “it is many orders of magnitude more likely that it emerged in one of the trillions of comet-like incubators or water-bearing planets (cosmic-wide versions of Darwin's 'warm little ponds') at a very early time in the growth of this universe”.
Despite this, Wickramasinghe, Hoyle and Steele have all entertained the notion that there is no need for such a creation story. When asked if there must be abiogenesis at some point, somewhere in the universe, Steele replies, “Actually no. If the universe is steady state infinite there is no formal abiogenesis! I am not saying I agree with that. But Big Bang or steady state are so mind-boggling I find both incredible!”
The reason for this, and a common factor amongst the three scientists, is a commitment to, or interest in, the steady state theory of cosmology.
The idea, first put forward by Hoyle and two colleagues in 1948, holds that the universe has no beginning or end and remains the same size. As matter at the outer reaches of the universe loses energy and goes dark, new matter is created.
In this view, biology is as timeless and without origin as the universe itself. Hoyle famously lost the fight over cosmological models to George Gamow and the advocates for the Big Bang. Despite the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964, something predicted by Big Bang theory, Hoyle never recanted his beliefs, and the steady state universe seems an underlying presence in the H-W model of panspermia.
The background theories and characters may be unsettling, but they don’t detract from the evidence upon which the paper rests, which must be taken on its own terms. Much of it is peer reviewed, but it is not always as persuasive as billed. Nonetheless, there is a good deal that gives one pause for thought.
For example, when asked why we haven’t found obvious signs of microbial life elsewhere in the solar system, both Steele and Wickramasinghe seem adamant that such evidence has, in fact, been found. Both point to the work of Gilbert Levin, the principal investigator of the 1976 Viking mission to Mars and his colleague Patricia Straat. Viking’s results pointed to something with a metabolism in the Martian soils, but then couldn’t detect any organic material. The result is interesting, but inconclusive.
The authors also insist fossil microbes have already been found in various meteorites, including the famous Murchison meteorite that fell in Victoria, Australia, in 1969. While they point to refereed journal articles for support, it seems the jury is still out. Once again, the evidence is tantalising but not conclusive.
More recently, traces of seemingly biological carbon deposits have been found in rocks predating the emergence of life, during a period of heavy comet and asteroid bombardment. The authors see this as evidence of life carried to earth, but, as Baverstock suggests, there are other reasons such carbon might be there.
More intriguing is the discovery of bacteria and microbes in unlikely places, such as the stratosphere, 30 to 40 kilometres above the surface of the planet, and more excitingly on the outside of the International Space Station. In the case of the ISS, contamination has been ruled out and the physics suggests that it is not possible for the microbes to have been lofted up from the earth’s surface.
Just as fascinating are suggestive astronomical findings, such as the Rosetta mission’s discovery of organic compounds on and around the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This finding coincides nicely with Hoyle and Wickramasinghe’s demonstration that interstellar dust is partly made of organic molecules.
Perhaps the most intriguing astronomical evidence of all is that which converted Steele to the panspermia hypothesis.
A development from the research into organic interstellar dust, the spectrum of light produced as infra-red radiation passes through cosmic dust turns out to have the exact same spectral signature as freeze-dried E. coli bacteria. Steele’s frustration with the scientific community’s indifference to this staggering result is palpable.
“All our knowledge of the universe,” he says, “has been built this way – get the spectrum (emission, absorption) in the laboratory on Earth, then focus the telescope on a cosmic source/object and ask, What is the spectrum or signature? Does it match that found in the Earth-based laboratory?”
The answer? “It is an exact match – you cannot get better than that in science.”
So why has the result largely been passed over as a curiosity? Steele muses, “The situation is reminiscent to the problem Galileo had with the Catholic priests of his time – most refused to look through his telescope to observe the moons of Jupiter.”
Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the new paper concerns the origins of the octopus. The discussion begins, as it so often does in the paper, with some intriguing evidence.
Cephalopods (the group comprising squid, cuttlefish, nautilus and octopus) have a somewhat confusing evolutionary tree, first appearing in the late Cambrian period and seemingly descending from an ancestral primitive nautiloid.
Of these, the octopus is the most striking, with features, such as a complex nervous system, sophisticated eyes and a capacity for camouflage, that appear quite suddenly in its evolution. The genes necessary for this transformation, the authors suggest, are not present in its ancestry. Thus, they hold that “it is plausible then to suggest they seem to be borrowed from a far distant ‘future’ in terms of terrestrial evolution, or more realistically from the cosmos at large.”
Interestingly, the octopus has some real and pervasive biochemical differences from the nautilus, presumably the closest living relative of the former’s ancestor. In particular, there is evidence of extensive changes in the RNA, and thus proteins, found in the neural structures of cephalopods.
These changes have been evolutionarily preserved and are not found to this extent elsewhere in nature, not even in the nautilus. This indicates that a qualitative evolutionary transformation occurred relatively recently and abruptly in behaviourally complex cephalopods. The sheer scale of these changes leads the authors to conclude that it cannot be explained by normal neo-Darwinian processes. Or even Lamarckian processes. And they may have a point.
But here things get weird. “One plausible explanation, in our view, is that the new genes are likely new extraterrestrial imports to Earth – most plausibly as an already coherent group of functioning genes within (say) cryopreserved and matrix protected fertilised octopus eggs,” write the authors. This would “be a parsimonious cosmic explanation for the octopus' sudden emergence on Earth [about] 270 million years ago.”
It’s moments like this that point to the source of the paper’s unease. It lies not with the evidence it presents, but rather the larger conclusions drawn.
The evidence is nonetheless provocative. Taken together it indicates, if nothing else, that there is much we don’t know and that our prevailing scientific orthodoxies will undergo transformations, as all scientific theories do.
The orthodox scientific response is encapsulated in the commentary from the decorated virologist Karin Moelling of the Max Planck Institute Molecular Genetics, in Berlin, and Institute of Medical Microbiology, Zürich, published in the same journal issue.
“So this article is useful, calling for attention, and it is worth thinking about,” she says, “yet the main statement about viruses, microbes and even animals coming to us from space, cannot be taken seriously.”
These kinds of pronouncements have led to the near-radio silence from the media, except for the occasional piece riffing on the theme of space octopuses. Scientific commentary is muted, confused by the tension between the outlandish claims and the peer-reviewed status of the paper.
Maybe we should side with sage advice of the journal’s editor, the renowned British biologist Denis Noble. “The usual mantra ‘further research is needed’ applies even more than usual,” he writes. “In the future, the ideas will surely become testable.”
The authors, too, think this the best course of action. “The whole issue is on the verge of being decided by decisive evidence of extra-terrestrial life being found elsewhere in our solar system,” they conclude.
Instead of dismissing panspermia out of hand, perhaps then, we should just wait for the discoveries that future space probes might bring. Evidence, as always, will be the ultimate decider.
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The Terrafugia Transition could end the long wait for flying cars
The Terrafugia Transition could end the long wait for flying cars
The car-plane hybrid goes on sale in 2019, but experts say air taxis might steal its thunder.
Terrafugia's Transition vehicle looks like a cross between a car and a miniature airplane — and can fit right in your garage.
Courtesy Terrafugia
By Tom Metcalfe
It might not the most elegant-looking thing on the road or in the sky, but an automobile-airplane hybrid that’s being called the world's first practical flying car is almost ready to spread its wings.
The two-passengerTransitionwill go on sale in the U.S. next year atan estimated price of $400,000, according to Terrafugia, the Woburn, Massachusetts-based firm that makes it.
The Transition has four wheels, folding wings and a rear-mounted “pusher” propeller. Powered by a four-cylinder hybrid-electric engine, it can fly 100 miles an hour at altitudes of up to 9,000 feet, with a flying range of 400 miles. There are controls for both flying and driving: for the roads, conventional brake and accelerator pedals and a steering wheel; for flying, the usual yoke and rudder pedals.
The vehicle converts from driving to flying mode in less than a minute, according to Terrafugia. But don’t expect it to get you out of a traffic jam. Though it’s the first vehicle certified to drive on U.S. roads and fly in U.S. skies, it can take off and land only at airfields — and you’ll need a pilot's license.
Many flying car prototypes have been built in recent decades, but none has proven practical enough to become a full-fledged production vehicle. The Transition is designed mainly for light aircraft owners who don’t want to get stuck when bad weather makes flying impossible, or who want to avoid airfield parking fees and fuel costs, according to Terrafugia. The vehicle runs on ordinary premium gasoline and can be kept in a garage at home.
But the company, now owned by Chinese car maker Geely, also hopes the Transition will attract people who are new to private aviation. “We would like people who never thought of becoming a pilot before to consider it because, hey, it’s a flying car,” Carl Dietrich, Terrafugia’s founder, told Smithsonian Air and Space magazine.
Terrafugia was founded in 2006 with a plan for a “flying SUV” that earned Dietrich a prestigious technology prize. But with recent advances in autonomous passenger drones — electrically powered “air taxis” that take off and land vertically without a runway — experts say vehicles like the Transition are likely to be a niche product.
“The world changed while they were working on that vehicle,” says Richard Anderson, an aerospace engineering professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Investors worldwide are pouring billions of dollars into the development of air taxis, with manufacturers like Airbus and Germany’s Volocopter claiming to be well on the way to bringing the vehicles to market. “The business case is absolutely crystal clear, and the technology is here,” Anderson said.
Terrafugia said it is developing its own vertical-takeoff-and-landing passenger vehicle, dubbed the TF-2, that could take to the skies as a piloted aircraft in 2023. That’s likely to be several years before the first self-piloted air taxis get approval from the Federal Aviation Administration, Anderson said.
“These vehicles are things that were never seen before, so there's a learning process,” Anderson said of the FAA. “Even if they are willing to embrace the technology, they have to understand it before they're going to let it fly over our heads in a city.”
(Credit: Sergio Larripa, Asier Marzo and Bruce Drinkwater)
These tiny particles are being lifted with sound — no magic tricks required! Scientists have harnessed the physical force of sound waves before, but for the first time acoustic levitation has been successfully used on multiple objects independently.
The breakthrough was achieved by Asier Marzo Pérez of the University of Navarra in Spain and Bruce Drinkwater of the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their results were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The researchers developed a new algorithm that uses an array of sound emitters to create an acoustic field complex strong enough to trap multiple objects, like these one millimeter plastic beads.
They imagine the system being used to create mid-air displays using physical pixels, and “acoustic tweezers” that can be used for noninvasive surgery, noting “acoustic devices are 100,000 times more efficient than optical systems.”
The current experimental setup can simultaneously handle 25 tiny particles in 3-D space. It’s precise enough that the scientists were able to attach a thread to two of the spheres and “sew” it onto a piece of cloth using nothing but sound. They hope to be able to adapt the technique to use in water over the next year.
UFOJane shares her favorite Texas UFO sightings from 2018, which include spooky triangles and plane-following orbs. What are your favorite UFO and alien stories and sightings from the year? Do you think we are getting closer or farther to UFO and Alien Disclosure?
Stephen Hawking's Final Theory About Our Universe Will Melt Your Brain
MICHELLE STARR
Groundbreaking physicist Stephen Hawking left us one last shimmering piece of brilliance before he died: his final paper, detailing hislast theory on the origin of the Universe, co-authored with Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven.
The paper, published in the Journal of High Energy Physics in May, puts forward that the Universe is far less complex than current multiverse theories suggest.
It's based around a concept called eternal inflation, first introduced in 1979 and published in 1981.
After the Big Bang, the Universe experienced a period of exponential inflation. Then it slowed down, and the energy converted into matter and radiation.
However, according to the theory of eternal inflation, some bubbles of space stopped inflating or slowed on a stopping trajectory, creating a small fractal dead-end of static space.
Meanwhile, in other bubbles of space, because of quantum effects, inflation never stops - leading to an infinite number of multiverses.
Everything we see in our observable Universe, according to this theory, is contained in just one of these bubbles - in which inflation has stopped, allowing for the formation of stars and galaxies.
Visualisation of the inflating multiverse.
(A. Linde/Stanford University)
"The usual theory of eternal inflation predicts that globally our universe is like an infinite fractal, with a mosaic of different pocket universes, separated by an inflating ocean," Hawking explained.
"The local laws of physics and chemistry can differ from one pocket universe to another, which together would form a multiverse. But I have never been a fan of the multiverse. If the scale of different universes in the multiverse is large or infinite the theory can't be tested."
Even one of the original architects of the eternal inflation model has disavowed it in recent years.
Paul Steinhardt, physicist at Princeton University, has gone on record saying that the theory took the problem it was meant to solve - to make the Universe, well, universally consistent with our observations - and just shifted it onto a new model.
Hawking and Hertog are now saying that the eternal inflation model is wrong. This is because Einstein's theory of general relativity breaks down on quantum scales.
"The problem with the usual account of eternal inflation is that it assumes an existing background universe that evolves according to Einstein's theory of general relativity and treats the quantum effects as small fluctuations around this," Hertog explained.
"However, the dynamics of eternal inflation wipes out the separation between classical and quantum physics. As a consequence, Einstein's theory breaks down in eternal inflation."
Hawking's last theory is based on string theory, one of the frameworks that attempts to reconcile general relativity with quantum theory by replacing the point-like particles in particle physics with tiny, vibrating one-dimensional strings.
This illustration shows the evolution of the Universe, from the Big Bang on the left, to modern times on the right.
Image: NASA
In string theory, the holographic principle proposes that a volume of space can be described on a lower-dimensional boundary; so the universe is like a hologram, in which physical reality in 3D spaces can be mathematically reduced to 2D projections on their surfaces.
The researchers developed a variation of the holographic principle that projects the time dimension in eternal inflation, which allowed them to describe the concept without having to rely on general relativity.
This then allowed them to mathematically reduce eternal inflation to a timeless state on a spatial surface at the beginning of the Universe - a hologram of eternal inflation.
"When we trace the evolution of our universe backwards in time, at some point we arrive at the threshold of eternal inflation, where our familiar notion of time ceases to have any meaning," said Hertog.
In 1983, Hawking and another researcher, physicist James Hartle, proposed what is known as the 'no boundary theory' or the 'Hartle-Hawking state'. They proposed that, prior to the Big Bang, there was space, but no time. So the Universe, when it began, expanded from a single point, but doesn't have a boundary.
According to the new theory, the early Universe did have a boundary, and that's allowed Hawking and Hertog to derive more reliable predictions about the structure of the Universe.
"We predict that our universe, on the largest scales, is reasonably smooth and globally finite. So it is not a fractal structure," Hawking said.
It's a result that doesn't disprove multiverses, but reduces them to a much smaller range - which means that multiverse theory may be easier to test in the future, if the work can be replicated and confirmed by other physicists.
Hertog plans to test it by looking for gravitational waves that could have been generated by eternal inflation.
These waves are too large to be detected by LIGO, but future gravitational wave interferometers such as space-based LISA, and future studies of the cosmic microwave background, may reveal them.
How the Oumuamua mystery shook up the search for space aliens
How the Oumuamua mystery shook up the search for space aliens
The interstellar visitor made it respectable to talk about alien spaceships.
Oumuamua likely traveled through space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system.
M. Kornmesser/European Southern Observatory / NASA
By Corey S. Powell
Last year, an enigmatic object named Oumuamuastartled astronomers when it came streaking past the sun, giving humanity its first close-up look at an object from beyond our solar system. This year, the interstellar visitor did something even more remarkable: It made it respectable to talk about alien spaceships.
The turning point came in November, when Avi Loeb, the head of the astronomy department at Harvard University, co-wrote a paper saying that Oumuamua is so unusualthat scientists should consider the possibility that it’s not a far-out comet or asteroid, as his colleagues assumed, but rather an artificial structure.
Some of Loeb’s colleagues were intrigued. Others were disconcerted. But suddenly mainstream scientists were talking about how to tell if Oumuamua is a natural object or — as Loeb raised as a possibility in his paper — an alien spacecraft designed to capture the force of sunlight (a so-called lightsail).
Theoretical physicist Avi Loeb co-authored a controversial paper that raised the possibility that Oumuamua is an alien spacecraft.Jemal Countess / Getty Images file
Loeb is well aware that most scientists recoil from anything that sounds like UFO craziness, but he believes an overabundance of skepticism has cut them off from out-of-the box ideas. “The point of doing science is not to have a prejudice,” he says. “A prejudice is based on the experience of the past, but if you want to allow yourself to make discoveries, then the future will not be the same as the past.”
Jason Wright, a Penn State astronomer who recently launched a graduate program in SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence), shares Loeb’s desire for open discussion — and offers an upbeat assessment of the field’s growing respectability. “There’s a real culture change. SETI is becoming a serious scientific discipline,” he says.
STRANGE VISITOR FROM THE STARS
It was clear from the start that Oumuamua (pronounced oh-MOO-uh-MOO-uh) would shake up astronomy’s status quo. Shortly after its discovery, scientists realized that the object’s unusual trajectory meant it had to have come from outside the solar system — and that it could have been traveling for millions of years. They quickly dubbed the mysterious object Oumuamua, a Hawaiian word meaning “messenger from the past.”
There were more surprises. Oumuamua was too far away for astronomers to observe its shape directly, but they could tell by the extreme way its brightness shifted as it tumbled through space that it wasn’t like any space rock they had ever seen.
“It’s very elongated, with an axis ratio of at least 7 to 1,” astronomer Karen Meech of the University of Hawaii said in an email. In other words, it’s at least seven times as long as it is wide — shaped like a cigar, perhaps. Or, as Loeb proposes in his paper, maybe a flattened disk.
The relative size of 'Oumuamua, the first extra-solar asteroid discovered. #ScaleOfThings Original images: M. Kornmesser/ESO, Daniel Schwen http://ift.tt/2zekLOR
Astronomers’ models predict that most of the small bodies wandering in interstellar space are comets. But when Meech and others examined it,Oumuamua showed no sign of the expected comet-like tail. It’s also quite small, on the order of 1,000 feet long, and it seems to be much more reflective than the comets we know.
Scientists said Oumuamua must be a highly elongated object because it varied dramatically in brightness over every seven- to eight-hour periods.NASA/JPL-Caltech
Intrigued by its oddities, several groups of SETI researchers listened for possible radio transmissions from Oumuamua — and heard nothing.
AN INVISIBLE PUSH
The biggest puzzle about Oumuamua was the way it moved. As it zoomed away from the sun, it sped up slightly, as if given an invisible push. “It doesn’t take much to provide the little acceleration we see,” says Michele Bannister, a comet expert at Queens University Belfast, “but the effect is definitely there.”
This artist's illustration shows Oumuamua racing toward the outskirts of our solar system, with annotations showing the locations of the planetary orbits.JPL / NASA
Comets often accelerate that way when gases boil off their surface under heat from the sun. But observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope showed no such material coming off of Oumuamua.
At this point, Loeb thought it was time to consider a more radical interpretation and, with a post-doctoral student, Shmuel Bialy, wrote the provocative paper. In it, the scientists consider the possibility that Oumuamua lacks a tail because it isn’t a comet at all, and that the acceleration was caused not by boiling gases but by the pressure of sunlight against a very wide, thin lightweight structure.
“The Spitzer data are consistent with a sail about 20 meters [60 feet] across,” Loeb says. He and Bialy suggest that such an object could be technological debris or even “a fully operational probe.”
STIRRING THE SETI POT
Loeb anticipated a harsh reaction to his paper, and his expectation was soon fulfilled. Twitter buzzed with snide comments. “A new paper, which claims Oumuamua is an alien probe, is full of poop,” one skeptic tweeted. “The Loeb paper says WHAT IF ALIEN LIGHT SAILS? Occam says no,” tweeted another in a reference to Occam’s Razor (a philosophical principle that when there are two competing explanations for an occurrence, the simpler one is usually better).
One researcher, who asked to remain anonymous, disparaged the Bialy and Loeb paper as “irresponsible,” and said it was “just out to grab attention.”
Loeb shrugs off the reflexive dismissals, but partly embraces that last critique, saying his lofty academic position actually obligates him to be a pot-stirrer: “I can say these things other people can’t because I have tenure at Harvard. The whole idea of getting tenure is to allow you to be free in your mind. I used the opportunity of Oumuamua to make a statement.”
In his view, searching for evidence of alien artifacts is no more outrageous than physicists exploring higher dimensions or astronomers invoking dark matter to explain the motions of galaxies. Or, more to the point, no more outrageous than searching for microbes on Mars.
“All I’m doing is following the standard scientific process, looking for explanations,” Loeb says.
What’s different is that the stakes are so high. Finding evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization would be far more profound than finding extraterrestrial microbes. It would tell us that humans aren’t the only intelligent species around.
A UNIVERSE OF QUESTIONS
Wright believes the excitement over Oumuamua, combined with the other recent developments in the field, is breathing new life into SETI research.
“There’s a popular misperception that it’s just people listening for radio signals and coming up with one null result after another,” he says of SETI. He counters that there are actually a tremendous number of ways to search for alien life once scientists broaden their horizons.
Wright raises the possibility that a now-defunct alien civilization left behind artifacts on the moon, where they could have survived even if deposited there billions of years ago. His colleague Paul Davies at Arizona State University has enlisted students to comb through archival images of the lunar surface to see if they can find evidence of any alien “technosignatures.”
Wright has participated in studies of Tabby’s Star, whose intermittent dimming had some scientists wondering if it was encased within a vast artificial structure built by aliens. While the latest results show that’s not the case, Wright is undeterred. Almost all such searches are destined for failure, he says, and all it takes is one success to change the world.
This is exactly the sort of unfettered curiosity that Loeb says he wanted to spark with his Oumuamua hypothesis. “Why have a prejudice? Why argue that it must be natural? What do we gain, other than putting blinders on our eyes?” he asks. “We should examine each and every interstellar object entering the solar system to check if it’s natural or not. Even if most of the time it’s natural, every now and then we might be surprised.”
David Wilcock: The Man Who Worked at Are 51 Underground Facilities (Video)
David Wilcock: The Man Who Worked at Area 51 Underground Facilities (Video)
David Wilcock introduces us to David Adair, an insider from the original Disclosure Project lineup who has worked for most of his life developing secret rocket technology.
He was an exceptional child who developed a strong interest in the future of space travel after devouring countless books in his local library.
As he started launching rockets in a cornfield in Ohio, the military took an interest in his unusual hobby.
Once they realized that his technology was far in advance of theirs, he was brought in to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and eventually to descend into the depths of Area 51.
Het is een traditie: de jaarlijkse militaire parade in Moskou, waarmee Rusland de zege van het Sovjetleger over nazi-Duitsland viert. Een uitgelezen kans voor Vladimir Poetin om met zijn militaire macht te pronken. Zoals gewoonlijk was het Rode Plein gisteren het decor voor marcherende troepen, ronkende pantserwagens en grote raketten. Een overzicht van de Russische legersnufjes die de revue passeerden.
De Russische president pakte voor het eerst uit met zijn beruchte hypersonische raket, de Kinzhal (“de dolk”), gedragen door een intercepteerjet van het geavanceerde type MiG-31K. Een primeur. De raket die volgens Rusland “geen gelijke in de wereld kent”, behoort tot de nieuwe soort wapens waar Poetin al uitgebreid mee pronkte tijdens zijn gespierde militaristische beleidsverklaring in maart. De Kinzhal zou een reikwijdte van 2.000 kilometer hebben en vuurt vanuit de lucht nucleaire of conventionele kernkoppen af. Volgens Moskou vliegt het projectiel tot tien keer sneller dan het geluid en is het daarmee nauwelijks te intercepteren. “Onoverwinnelijk”, besluit Poetin.
In totaal scheerden voor de Victory Day Parade liefst 75 vliegtuigen, jets en helikopters door de blauwe lucht. Zo ook het ultieme Russische paradepaardje, de geavanceerde vijfde generatie Su-57 straaljager. Opnieuw een primeur. Het gevechtsvliegtuig raasde over het Kremlin, vers uit de oorlogsgebieden van Syrië - waar de Su-57 uitgebreid werd getest.
EPAEen Su-57.
“Robottank”
Verder rommelden 159 militaire voertuigen over het Rode Plein, met de nieuwe onbemande Uran-9 “robottank” als ster van de show. Gewapend met onder meer een 30 mm automatisch kanon, een machinegeweer en anti-tankraketten, lijkt de kwieke Uran-9 recht uit een sciencefictionfilm te komen. De vanop afstand bestuurde snelle tank - een multifunctioneel robotsysteem - kan bestuurd worden vanop een afstand tot zo’n 3 kilometer. Het onbemande tuig onderging eveneens testen in Syrië. Ook de ontmijningstank Uran-6 maakte zijn opwachting. Het onbemande vehikel wordt in de Syrische steden Palmyra, Aleppo en Deir Ezzor ingezet om vanop veilige afstand mijnen te laten ontploffen.
APEen Uran-9.
The Terminator
Daarnaast maakte ook het door de makers ‘The Terminator’ gedoopte gevaarte zijn debuut. Het gaat om een gepantserd voertuig ontworpen om tanks op het slagveld te ondersteunen. Het gevechtsvoertuig is (nucleair) explosiebestendig en bewapend met raketwerpers, kanonnen, granaatwerpers en een machinegeweer.
APDe 'Terminator'.
Ook enkele exemplaren van de nieuwste generatie YARS intercontinentale ballistische raketten denderden voorbij. Dit type raket zou 10 nucleaire kernkoppen kunnen dragen over een afstand tot wel 12.000 kilometer. Rusland heeft naar verluidt 73 van de projectielen in voorraad; 63 op mobiele platformen en 10 in silo’s. “De raket kan tijdens de vlucht manoeuvreren en zowel actieve als passieve afleidingen inzetten, waardoor de Yars in het voordeel moeten zijn tegen moderne raketdefensiesystemen”, klinkt het.
EPADe nieuwe generatie Yars.
De Buk-M2, een middellang afstandsraketsysteem ontworpen voor luchtverdediging, kon niet ontbreken op de parade. Het systeem zou tot 24 luchtlandingsdoelen tegelijk kunnen volgen en vier daarvan neerhalen met een bereik tot 25 kilometer hoogte en 45 kilometer grondafstand. Het is ook inzetbaar tegen doelen op de grond en op zee.
AFPBuk-M2 luchtverdedigingsraketsystemen.
Drones
En dan waren er onder meer ook de allernieuwste militaire drones, zoals de Korsar en de helikopterachtige variant Katran. De Korsar kan aan luchtverkenning doen, maar ook raketaanvallen uitvoeren en middelen aanleveren. De drone kan tot 10 uur lang in de lucht blijven, op een maximale hoogte van 6.096 meter en heeft een range van meer dan 160 kilometer.
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Een Korsar-drone.
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Een Katran-drone.
Ook de Berkut, een militaire sneeuwscooter uitgerust met een machinegeweer en gebouwd om de Arctische ambities van Moskou te ondersteunen, was erbij. De sneeuwmobiel heeft een metalen frame en een speciaal hittesysteem waardoor de temperatuur binnenin te allen tijden een aangename 18 graden Celsius blijft, zelfs bij buitentemperaturen tot -50°C. In hetzelfde thema rolden ook verschillende wit gecamoufleerde luchtafweersystemen voorbij.
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Tot slot marcheerden een slordige 13.000 troepen over het plein. ”Het is belangrijk dat alle landen en mensen erkennen dat de wereld breekbaar is en dat de stabiliteit alleen sterker wordt als we bereid zijn naar elkaar te luisteren, elkaar te vertrouwen en te respecteren”, sprak het Russische staatshoofd tussen al het oorlogsgeweld verzoenend tot de manschappen en de rest van de wereld.
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Su-25 jets zorgden voor een Russisch kleurenspektakel.
De Russische president Vladimir Poetin heeft vandaag een succesvolle test van een nieuw Russisch hypersonisch raketsysteem gevolgd. Het raketsysteem, ‘Avangard’ genaamd, kan volgens het Kremlin nucleaire en conventionele wapens afschieten.
Poetin kondigde in maart een aantal nieuwe wapens aan, waaronder de Avangard, tijdens een van zijn meest oorlogszuchtige toespraken in jaren. Poetin zei dat het “onoverwinnelijke” raketsysteem bijna elk punt in de wereld kan raken en een in de VS gebouwd raketschild kan ontwijken.
De raket werd vanop een basis ten zuiden van het Oeralgebergte gelanceerd en trof haar doel op een zowat 6.000 kilometer verder gelegen testsite in Kamtsjatka. De Russische president bekeek de test op afstand vanaf het Russische ministerie van Defensie in Moskou.
Poetin noemde het Avangard-systeem een “groot succes” voor het leger en liet weten dat de raket “twintig keer sneller dan de geluidssnelheid kan vliegen”. Nog volgens de Kremlinleider zal het raketsysteem volgend jaar in dienst wordt genomen. Hij benadrukte dat dit “nieuw type van strategisch wapen” de komende decennia de veiligheid van Rusland zal garanderen.
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Drone captures Flying Humanoid above Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand Dec 2018, Video UFO Sighting News.
Drone captures Flying Humanoid above Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand Dec 2018, Video UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 6, 2018
Location of sighting: Auckland, New Zealand
This UFO looks a lot like a giant flying whale. UFOs are not always in disk shape, but come in many other strange shaped that you may have never imagined could exist before. The object is flooding long ways, and rotates a little bit. So I am wondering if this UFO was searching for something or someone? I only wish the drone had flown closer to the UFO rather than just recording it from a distance.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I saw this over Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand on 6 December 2018. It was traveling about 5 to 10,000 feet up, moving across the sky from the east, in a northerly direction. I lowered the camera for about 3 seconds while keeping my eye on the object. Before I could raise the camera again, the object disappeared. I have included slow motion, close-up views of the object in the video at 200 percent and 400 percent magnification.
Today I found a blue tiles on a broken pillar in a Mars gigapan photo. The tiles are very similar to small blue tiles that are seen on bathroom floors, ancient roman walls and such. The pillar itself seems to be made of a cement type of material, with corners and edges broken off, but the rectangle design of the pillar still intact. Near it is a hollow object that looks like an airplane wing, but its probably part of a structure that was once in this location. I also found a few other interesting objects and placed the photos below for you to check out.
This day in UFO history: The 1980 UFO Landings In Rendlesham Forest
This day in UFO history: The 1980 UFO Landings In Rendlesham Forest (25-12-1980)
England holds one of the most compelling UFO landing accounts. In late December 1980, invasion of unidentified flying objects over a period of several nights took place in the joint air bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge, situated within the vast Rendlesham Forest in late December.
Description of alien beings added to the controversial stories of the twin air bases. The hype took into another level with anomalous radar readings, electromagnetic effects, and surrealistic atmospheric conditions. Professionals, deemed to be credible, have been coming forward revealing their knowledge of the real alien event on the Bentwaters and Woodbridge Air Force Bases.
Uncorrelated object showed on the radar screens at RAF in Norfolk shortly after midnight on December 27, 1980. The thing then suddenly vanished in the area of the Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk. Bentwaters RAF radar also picked up the object.
The bases were allegedly housed a large stockpile of nuclear weapons, and the Woodbridge was the base of the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron.
The radar operator that night, Mal Scurrah, said that they did not have any idea of what they captured on their radar. They checked the air traffic agencies and found out that there should have been nothing in the vicinity at the time. They sent a jet aircraft to investigate, and the pilot reported seeing a dazzling light in the sky in front of them after getting within about a quarter of a mile.
They saw on radar the object was stationary and it moved off in seconds. In just five minutes the UFO reached 90,000 feet and higher, and they had lost it in the radar scope.
The Woodbridge/Bentwaters started their extraordinary events with the sighting of a massive glowing object by three security guards of the twin bases. They followed the lights into the forest with initial thought that it was a commercial or military aircraft that crash landed.
The patrol was stunned to see a saucer-like craft with small beings with large heads suspended by a type of beam from the bottom of the craft. The beings reportedly performing a repair to their craft unaware of the three men watching their activities.
The guards radioed the base headquarters and requested emergency help. Assistance reportedly arrived headed by senior officers of the base. Later, there would be off record reports that they encountered strange anomalies, such as reality-bending, time displacement, and surreal atmospheric conditions.
Some of the senior officers allegedly communicated with the alien beings.
Called out on the second night of the sightings was then the now famous Colonel Halt. The group of Colonel Halt was reportedly one of the groups to chase the glowing UFO in the forest. He made an audio recording of the details of his trek into the woods.
Patrolmen Jim Penniston, John Burroughs, and Larry Warren later co-wrote a book about the incident, titled Left at East Gate.
Other men who were present during the encounter later revealed that there was an underground theater where soldiers were interrogated, sworn to secrecy and threatened. They also revealed that they were shown several films featuring UFO recoveries around the world. It was also reported that an alien being was there in one of the meetings.
Fisherman At Outer Banks Captures Video Of Multiplying Lights Over Atlantic
Fisherman At Outer Banks Captures Video Of Multiplying Lights Over Atlantic
A minute and a half video credited to a night fisher in Outer Banks is making the rounds on social media with wild speculations, including a possible UFO sighting off the coast in North Carolina.
ViralHog posted the clip to YouTube on November 9 and reported that it was made in mid-November at Cape Lookout, situated in the southernmost point of the Core Banks. It has since gained around 100,000 views.
Cape Lookout National Seashore’s National Park Service officials said that they weren’t certain what the set of mysterious lights might be, but considered them to be peculiar.
One Outer Banks resident said the mysterious lights have been making appearances off the cape for over 20 years and they have come to believe these lights are harmless. Derek Maxey said the strange lights are not a concern, but he offered no guess at the source of the lights.
ViralHog did not name the angler who recorded the video, but someone named C.R. Larkin posted a similar video on November 24. Larkin wrote that the clip was recorded on November 13 off Cape Lookout, between 9 pm and 10 pm.
Larkin said in his post with the YouTube video that he rebaited his hooks around 9 pm and cast them out into the surf before he walked back to his chair. When Larkin turned back to the ocean, he spotted a light in the sky. Larkin described it as a very bright light, silent and stationary. After around an hour, Larkin stated that the light faded in and out and several times became multiple lights.
The strange lights disappeared at one point for almost 20 minutes and then reappeared much closer to Larkin’s position, according to the witness report.
Scientists Found a Mysterious 'Boiling' River Straight Out of Amazonian Legend
(Devlin Gandy)
Scientists Found a Mysterious 'Boiling' River Straight Out of Amazonian Legend
FIONA MACDONALD
For centuries, Peruvian locals have talked about a river in the Amazon that burns so hot it can kill.
According to legend, Spanish conquistadors foolishly ventured into the rainforest in search of gold, and the few men that returned told stories of poisoned water, man-eating snakes, and a river that boiled from below.
For Peruvian geoscientist, Andrés Ruzo, the myth had fascinated him since childhood. But it wasn't until he was completing his PhD project on geothermal energy potential in Peru that he began to question whether the river could actually be real.
According to the experts he spoke to, the answer was a unanimous "no" - after all, hot rivers do exist, but they're generally associated with volcanoes, and there are no volcanoes in that part of the country.
But when Ruzo went home over the holidays and asked his family where the myth had come from, his mother told him that the river didn't just exist, she and his aunt had actually swum in it before.
It sounded pretty ridiculous, but in 2011, Ruzo took a chance and hiked into the Amazon rainforest with his aunt, and saw the famed river with his own eyes.
Much to his disbelief, it was steaming hot.
"When I saw this, I immediately grabbed for my thermometer," said Ruzo in a TED talk back in 2014. "The average temperature in the river was 86 degrees Celsius [187 degrees Fahrenheit], not quite boiling but definitely close enough ... It's not a legend."
The most puzzling part was the sheer size of it.
Hot springs aren't uncommon, and thermal pools get to these temperatures in other parts of the world, but nothing even comes close to the scope of the river - it's up to 25 metres (82 feet) wide and 6 metres (19.6 feet) deep, and runs burning hot for an incredible 6.24 km (3.87 miles).
Add that to the fact that the river is around 700 km (435 miles) from the closest volcanic system, and the temperature just didn't make any sense. In fact, it's the only river of its kind anywhere in the world that we know of.
With the permission of the local Shaman, Ruzo has spent recent years studying the river, its surrounding ecosystem, and its water in the lab, in the hopes of figuring out what's going on.
(Devlin Gandy)
To be clear, Ruzo obviously wasn't the first to discover the river, and as suggested by its indigenous name - Shanay-timpishka, which means "boiled with the heat of the Sun" - he also wasn't the first to wonder what made it so hot.
But his research - backed in part by a National Geographic Young Explorers grant - is finally revealing some of its secrets. It turns out, it's not the Sun that boils the water, but fault-fed hot springs.
Imagine Earth is like a human body, with fault lines and cracks running through it like arteries. These 'Earth arteries' are filled with hot water, and when they come to the surface, we see geothermal manifestations - like the boiling river.
Chemical analysis has revealed that the water in the river originally fell as rain.
Ruzo now hypothesises that this happens far upstream - perhaps as far away as in the Andes - and along its journey seeps down into the ground, where it's heated up by Earth's geothermal energy. It eventually emerges in the Amazon, at the bubbling river.
This means the system is part of an enormous hydrothermal system, the likes of which haven't been seen anywhere else on the planet.
Even more exciting, Ruzo has worked with biologists Spencer Wells and Jonathan Eisen to sequence the genomes of the microbes living in and around the river, and discovered brand new species that are able to survive the heat.
Of course, as fascinating as the river is, it can also be deadly. The water gets so hot that Ruzo has regularly seen animals fall in and slowly start boil to death.
Eventually, the animals can no longer swim, and water fills their mouths and lungs, causing them to be cooked from the inside out. Gruesome.
Still, people do actually swim in the river, as his mother claimed, but only after heavy rainfalls when it's diluted with cold water. More often, the water is used to make tea and for cooking.
Ruzo continues to study the river and its source. But his main focus now is how to protect the river and its surrounding land - while his results are ready for publication, he's refusing to release many of them until the Peruvian government will guarantee they'll put appropriate conservation measures in place.
"In the middle of my PhD, I realised, this river is a natural wonder," Ruzo told Maddie Stone over at Gizmodo in 2016. "And it's not going to be around unless we do something about it."
He's released a book called The Boiling River on his adventures, and is hoping that by spreading the news about the unique system, people might take on the cause themselves and decide that the site significant enough to save from loggers and developers.
"I don't like the concept of one person leading this charge - I think it's about building a community on an international scale," said Ruzo. "The planet's gotten small, and natural wonders like this are few and far between."
A version of this article was first published in February 2016.
WE JUST FOUND OUT SOMEONE IS TRYING TO MANIPULATE OUR ATMOSPHERE
WE JUST FOUND OUT SOMEONE IS TRYING TO MANIPULATE OUR ATMOSPHERE
While you were sleeping, drinking coffee, binging on Netflix or otherwise unaware of what was happening in the atmosphere, China and Russia were experimenting with it behind your back.
Nobody knows why scientists from the two countries joined forces to perform those tests. There is speculation that the experiments, which involved heating the ionosphere (the layer of the upper atmosphere with a high concentrations of ionized plasma) had something to do with the military, but the real reason remains unknown. Their results were recently published in Earth and Planetary Physics.
Is it really that easy to keep this kind of operation a secret when you’re using a super-transmitter like Russia’s Sura Ionospheric Heating Facility to pump the ionized plasma into the ionosphere full of radio energy in order to manipulate it? Maybe it is when the real action is going on 310 miles above your head.
After Russia had released enough energy to stimulate the ionosphere, the China Seismographic Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES) Zhangheng-1 used its sensors to observe the whole thing from orbit and record what exactly was going on up there. At least most of the tests didn’t set off plasma disturbances — except one.
That problematic test triggered a spike in electricity that was 10 times more loaded with negatively charged ions than the sky surrounding it — never mind that it covered 49,000 square miles.
There was another test that, while not sounding quite as sci-fi-horror as the previous one, still shot the temperature of ionized gas up by 212 degrees Fahrenheit in one area.
What can experiments like this tell us? If you’ve ever seen an aurora, you’ve seen a phenomenon that happens because of charged particles in the ionosphere getting too close to Earth’s magnetic field. More important, the ionosphere bounces radio waves off the surface, and free electrons in this layer of the atmosphere affect many types of communications that are prone to being cut off by space weather like solar storms.
This is where the military speculation comes in. It is highly possible that Russia and China were trying to manipulate the ionosphere to figure out how to prevent their communications getting cut off. Communications can also be blocked by structures that scatter radio waves or an increase in plasma, whether natural or artificial.
Ionospheric research is conducted right here in the US. The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) has been plagued by so many conspiracy theories that there was an open house in 2016 to clear false rumors of everything from weather manipulation to mind control.
If all this is still freaking you out, scientists have also managed to create an aurora in the ionosphere, which is so much cooler than fireworks.
“Wat een cadeautje op kerstochtend”: Nederlanders getrakteerd op prachtig zeldzaam weerfenomeen- HLN.be
“Wat een cadeautje op kerstochtend”: Nederlanders getrakteerd op prachtig zeldzaam weerfenomeen- HLN.be
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WEERNIEUWS Parelmoerwolken. Wie in het noorden van Nederland naar boven keek, kon deze zeldzame wolken met wonderachtige kleurenpracht aanschouwen. Enkele weerfotografen maakten prachtige beelden van het schouwspel.
Parelmoerwolken ontstaan op 20 tot 30 kilometer hoogte. Het kleine beetje vocht dat hier aanwezig is, condenseert pas bij temperaturen beneden -80 graden Celsius. Als het zo extreem koud is, ontstaan dunne wolkenflarden. Doordat die wolken bestaan uit zeer kleine ijskristallen, wordt het zonlicht sterk gebroken en ontstaat bij de juiste omstandigheden, vooral net na zonsondergang of even voor zonsopgang, een kleurenspel. En dan is het genieten geblazen:
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Testruimteschip van Elon Musk voor missie naar Mars krijgt vorm. Lancering voor maart of april volgend jaar. In 2024 moeten eerste mensen vertrekken - HLN.be
Testruimteschip van Elon Musk voor missie naar Mars krijgt vorm. Lancering voor maart of april volgend jaar. In 2024 moeten eerste mensen vertrekken - HLN.be
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET SpaceX – het ruimtevaartbedrijf van Teslabaas Elon Musk – is volop bezig met de bouw van een testruimteschip voor een missie naar Mars. Dat blijkt uit beelden die afgelopen weekend de ronde deden op sociale media en genomen werden in Boca Chica (Texas), waar SpaceX een lanceringsbasis optrekt. Musk zelf deelde vanmorgen intussen ook beelden vanop de site.
Het testruimteschip is een basisversie van de Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), die 100 passagiers en 150 ton cargo naar Mars zou moeten brengen. Volgens Elon Musk zou het prototype – dat hij de ‘test hopper’ noemt – in maart of april van volgend jaar al gelanceerd kunnen worden.
De tweets kwamen zaterdag in de aanloop naar de lancering van een militaire satelliet door SpaceX. De Falcon 9 met een GPS-satelliet van een half miljard aan boord vertrok zondag - succesvol - vanop de lanceringsbasis Cape Canaveral in Florida.
Musk liet eerder al verstaan dat tests met het prototype - ‘hops’, want het gaat om lanceringen, de raket wordt niet in een baan om de aarde gebracht - een grote stap zijn in de richting van de bouw van de Big Falcon Rocket. Die zal bestaan uit een Starship van 55 meter hoog en 9 meter breed, dat gelanceerd zal worden met de Super Heavy-raketbooster van 67 meter hoog.
SpaceX
SpaceX
“Ik zal een volledige technische presentatie geven van Starship als het testruimteschip dat we bouwen in Texas succesvol gelanceerd is, hopelijk in maart/april”, tweette Musk zaterdag. “De ‘test hopper’ heeft dezelfde breedte als het Starship, maar is alleen niet zo hoog.” De Super Heavy zal meteen gebouwd worden zoals die er in de definitieve versie moet uitzien.
In Boca Chica werden foto’s genomen en gedeeld op sociale media van wat eruit ziet als onderdelen van de ‘test hopper’ die aankomen op de site en geassembleerd worden. Een Twitteraar maakte zelfs een simulatie van waar de onderdelen in de raket moeten komen.
Musk gaf daarop uitleg over het materiaal waaruit het ruimteschip is opgebouwd, materiaal dat moet weerstaan aan extreme druk- en temperatuurverschillen en trillingen. Het ruimteschip moet namelijk verder dan ooit een mens geweest is: naar Mars en terug.
Het is de vraag of SpaceX de timing zal halen voor de testraket. In november verklaarde Musk nog dat er radicale wijzigingen aangebracht zouden worden in het design van het ruimteschip en deze maand kwam het nieuws dat SpaceX samenwerkte met de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA voor de bouw van een nieuw type hitteschild voor het Starship.
Mensen
Musk blijkt er duidelijk in geloven. Meer nog. Op 31 oktober kondigde hij aan dat de eerste mensen naar Mars zouden moeten kunnen vertrekken over 6 jaar. “We mikken nog altijd op 2024”, vertelde hij tijdens een interview voor de podcast Recode Decode.
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25-12-2018
MYSTERIOUS TRIANGULAR OBJECT FLOATS PAST SPACEX DRAGON CAPSULE
MYSTERIOUS TRIANGULAR OBJECT FLOATS PAST SPACEX DRAGON CAPSULE
During a livestreamed rendezvous between SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule and the ISS, viewers spotted a glowing, triangular object appearing to float by, before the camera feed switched to display another angle. Many were quick to point out similarities in its appearance to the alleged TR-3B “black triangle” UFO – a type of reverse-engineered alien technologybelieved to be secretly possessed by the government.
Skeptics say the alleged UFO is actually just the lights from a city on Earth as the camera footage comes from the ISS looking down toward the Dragon coming to meet it. Though others say this doesn’t explain the second pass-by of the same triangular shape just three minutes later.
Others said the distinct, linear shape as well as reflection of light on the object as it bounces off the Dragon’s solar panels provide evidence that there was something physically flying past the Dragon capsule (scrub to 00:54 seconds in the below video to see the reflection in question).
No comments have been made to question or dispel speculation on the mysterious object from either Elon Musk or SpaceX, despite the multitude of comments on the official YouTube video and Musk’s propensity for tweeting often.
Of course, conspiracies from every angle have been proposed – some serious and others not so much.
Others claimed the triangular object was proof that the entire mission was being faked and the product of a complex studio production.
But the majority of comments focused on the possibility the lights were in fact the aforementioned TR-3B technology of ufological legend. This mysterious craft has allegedly been observed at clandestine military bases and hovering in the skies across a number of countries.
Once believed to be merely conspiracy, a patent for the TR-3B recently appeared on Google Patents before being virally spread across the internet. The invention was credited to a mysterious John St. Clair, of whom little is known.
About five years ago, a strange, blurry video showed two of these craft airborne, conducting peculiar maneuvers, through what is allegedly anti-gravity technology. According to reports, the TR-3B uses highly pressurized mercury to produce a plasma that creates a field of anti-gravity around the ship.
Mysterieus driehoekig object gezien bij Dragon-capsule. Was het de TR-3B?
Mysterieus driehoekig object gezien bij Dragon-capsule. Was het de TR-3B?
Op het moment dat een SpaceX Dragon-bevoorradingscapsule aanmeerde bij het internationale ruimtestation ISS, zagen mensen die naar de livestream keken een vreemd, driehoekig object in beeld verschijnen.
Al snel draaide de camera en was het object niet meer te zien.
Sommigen wezen op overeenkomsten tussen de TR-3B en het mysterieuze object. Sceptici zeiden dat het ging om lichten van een stad op aarde die werden gereflecteerd.
Opnieuw
Anderen zeiden dat dit niet kan verklaren waarom het driehoekige object zo’n drie minuten later opnieuw in beeld verscheen.
Geclaimd wordt dat het object zelf ook licht reflecteerde en dat er dus iets fysieks langs de Dragon-capsule is gevlogen.
Ondanks vele reacties onder de video die op het officiële YouTube-kanaal werd geplaatst, hebben Elon Musk en SpaceX zich nog niet uitgelaten over de speculaties rond het mysterieuze object.
Antizwaartekrachtveld
De TR-3B zou onder meer zijn gezien bij verschillende legerbases en in de lucht boven een aantal landen.
Een patent voor de TR-3B verscheen recentelijk op Google Patents. De uitvinding staat op naam van ene John St. Clair, waar verder weinig over bekend is.
Volgens bronnen maakt de TR-3B gebruik van samengeperst kwik zodat er een plasma ontstaat dat een antizwaartekrachtveld rond het schip genereert.
Located atop Mount Padang in West Java, the structure is topped by an archaeological site that holds rows of ancient stone pillars.
Credit: Danny Hilman Natawidjaja.
WASHINGTON — An enormous pyramid-like structure in Indonesia that may represent the remains of anancient templehid underground for thousands of years.
Scientists presented evidence of the remarkable construction Dec. 12 here at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Located atop Mount Padang in West Java, the structure is topped by an archaeological site that was discovered in the early 19th century and holds rows of ancient stone pillars. But the sloping "hill" underneath isn't part of the natural, rocky landscape; it was crafted by human hands, scientists discovered. [The 25 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds on Earth]
"What is previously seen as just surface building, it's going down — and it's a huge structure," said Andang Bachtiar, an independent geologist from Indonesia who supervised core drilling and soil analysis for the project.
The pyramid-like structure remained hidden for so long because it has been obscured by foliage and so looks like a hill (red circle), with a megalith exposed at the top (yellow circle).
Credit: Danny Hilman Natawidjaja
Though the buried structure may superficially resemble a pyramid, it differs from similar pyramids built by the Mayans, Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, lead project researcher and a senior scientist with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, told Live Science. While Mayan pyramidstend to be symmetrical, this structure is elongated, with what appears to be a half-circle in the front.
"It's a unique temple," Natawidjaja said.
He and his colleagues suspected that the exposed megalith might be more than it appeared, because some partly exposed features in the existing archaeological site didn't quite match the standing stones. The "peculiar" shape of the hill also stood out from the landscape, he said.
"It's not like the surrounding topography, which is very much eroded. This looks very young. It looked artificial to us," Natawidjaja explained.
Using an array of techniques to peer underground — including ground-penetrating radar surveys, X-ray tomography, 2D and 3D imaging, core drilling, and excavations — the researchers gradually uncovered several layers of a sizable structure. It spread over an area of around 15 hectares (150,000 square meters) and had been built up over millennia, with layers representing different periods.
Using various techniques to peer underground, the researchers found several layers of the pyramid-like structure, with each layer representing a different period of time.
Credit: Danny Hilman Natawidjaja.
At the very top were pillars of basalt rocks framing step terraces, with other arrangements of rock columns "forming walls, paths and spaces," the scientists reported at AGU. They estimated this layer to be about 3,000 to 3,500 years old.
Underneath the surface, to a depth of about 10 feet (3 m), was a second layer of similar rock columns, thought to be 7,500 to 8,300 years old. And a third layer, extending 49 feet (15 m) below the surface, is more than 9,000 years old; it could even date to 28,000 years ago, according to the researchers. Their surveys also detected multiple chambers underground, Natawidjaja added.
Today, local people still use the exposed site at the top of the structure as a sacred destination for prayer and meditation, and this could also be how it was used thousands of years ago, Natawidjaja said.
Nieuw bewijs voor lang verborgen piramide in Indonesië. Dit troffen wetenschappers diep onder de grond aan
Nieuw bewijs voor lang verborgen piramide in Indonesië. Dit troffen wetenschappers diep onder de grond aan
Een enorm piramidevormig bouwwerk op het Indonesische eiland Java blijkt door mensen te zijn gemaakt.
Boormonsters hebben bewijs geleverd voor een verborgen, ondergrondse tempel onder vele lagen van vegetatie en bodemmateriaal.
Het bouwwerk is mogelijk duizenden jaren ouder dan het oudste megalithische monument op aarde, Göbekli Tepe.
Verloren beschaving
Bij de lokale bevolking staat de piramide al enige tijd bekend als Gunung Padang. De archeologische gemeenschap spreekt van een ‘mogelijke oude tempel’.
De piramide bevindt zich bovenop een berg in West-Java en is in de loop der tijd bedekt geraakt onder een dikke laag vegetatie.
Geoloog Danny Natawidjaja van het Indonesische Instituut van Wetenschappen doet al jaren onderzoek naar de piramide en denkt dat het bouwwerk is achtergelaten door een verloren beschaving.
Rotskolommen
Naast boormonsters werd gebruikgemaakt van bodemradar en tomografie om de piramide te dateren, zo liet Natawidjaja aan website Live Science weten.
“Op een diepte van ongeveer drie meter vonden we een tweede laag rotskolommen, die vermoedelijk 7500 tot 8300 jaar oud zijn,” zei hij.
Meerdere kamers
En een derde laag, 15 meter onder het oppervlak, is volgens de onderzoekers mogelijk zelfs 28.000 jaar oud.
Het onderzoek onthulde daarnaast meerdere kamers onder de grond.
De studie is te lezen op de preprint-server ESSOAr.
NASA VERKENNER KRIJGT MYSTERIEUZE ONTMOETING IN DE RUIMTE ( VIDEO )
Op 1 januari vindt er iets bijzonders plaats in de ruimte, want dan zal de NASA ruimteverkenner New Horizons vlak langs een object in de Kuipergordel vliegen.
Een object dat formeel een asteroïde schijnt te zijn, maar zich allesbehalve gedraagt zoals een asteroïde dat zou moeten doen.
Aangezien het soms moeilijk is voor te stellen waar zich de planeten precies bevinden in ons zonnestelsel, hierna een afbeelding waarop je kunt zien waar zich (formeel) wat bevindt.
Zoals je kunt zien bevindt de dwergplaneet Pluto zich aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel en wanneer je nog verder gaat, dan kom je terecht in de zogenaamde Kuipergordel.
De Kuipergordel is een gordel van vele miljarden komeetachtige, uit steen en ijs bestaande objecten, transneptunische objecten genoemd, voorbij de baan van de achtste planeet van ons zonnestelsel, Neptunus. De gordel bevindt zich op 30 tot 50 AE van de zon.
New Horizons is de eerste missie van een ruimtesonde naar de dwergplaneet Pluto. NASA lanceerde deze onbemande missie met een Atlas V-raket. De lancering vond plaats op 19 januari 2006. Doel van New Horizons was het onderzoeken van het uitzicht, de samenstelling en de atmosfeer van de dwergplaneet Pluto met zijn manen en andere Kuipergordelobjecten (waar Pluto en zijn manen deel van uitmaken). Dit laatste gebeurde na een ontmoeting met, en onderzoek van, Pluto.
Na het bezoek aan Pluto is de sonde verder gegaan en staat nu op het punt om kennis te maken met een object uit de Kuipergordel, genaamd Ultima Thule.
Op 1 januari a.s. om precies 18.33 uur Nederlandse tijd – schrijf ‘t in je agenda! – zal de Amerikaanse ruimteverkenner New Horizons met een snelheid van 50.700 km/uur (14 km/s) op een afstand van 3500 km langs het Kuipergordelobject Ultima Thule vliegen. Dat object is pakweg 30 km groot, dus in een paar tellen is ‘ie er langs gevlogen. Maar nu al zijn de verwachtingen erg hoog, zeker nu bekend is dat er iets eigenaardigs aan de hand is met Ultima Thule. Gebleken is namelijk dat Ultima Thule, die we eerder kenden onder de naam KBO 2014 MU69, geen periodieke helderheidsverschillen vertoont. Met New Horizons zijn al vele foto’s van Ultima Thule gemaakt, maar uit geen ervan blijkt een variatie in de helderheid.
En dat is vreemd, heel vreemd, want dat is iets dat een onregelmatig gevormd object zoals een asteroïde wel zou moeten doen door de weerkaatsing van het zonlicht.
In plaats daarvan lijkt het alsof het object zelf een lichtbron is, in plaats van dat het zonlicht weerkaatst, hetgeen dan natuurlijk weer de vraag oproept wat voor object dit eigenlijk is.
Er werden al eerder vreemde objecten bekend die niet waren wat ze leken zoals Oumuamua en komeet P67.
Een asteroïde die zich niet gedraagt als een asteroïde is het meest verre object ooit in ons zonnestelsel dat nu door NASA onderzocht zal worden. Uiteraard zal het formeel op toeval berusten dat ze een object aan de rand van het zonnestelsel hebben uitgekozen om aan een nader onderzoek te onderwerpen dat zich niet gedraagt zoals het zou moeten doen.
“It’s up to the investigative organs to judge when that hole was made.”
That would sound like a standard police statement if made by a department spokesperson when discussing an orifice made by a bullet in a wall or a corpse, but it takes on an eerie and mysterious aura when referring to a mysterious hole in the International Space Station that was found months ago but whose cause has yet to be identified … at least officially. Cosmonaut Sergei Valeriyevich Prokopyev, who returned to Earth this week with fellow crew members Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency,said in an interviewthat tiny opening he eyeballed himself from both inside and outside the docked Soyuz capsule they returned in – minus the part where the hole was – appeared to have been drilled from the inside. He’s the best eyewitness yet he can’t answer the question … who was behind this inside job?
“You shouldn’t think so badly of our crew.”
That’s what Prokopyev said this week and months ago when the hole was first discovered and Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin speculated that it could have been drilled by a homesick crew member looking to create a reason for an early return. Rogozin backed off on that but kept open the possibility that the hole could have been made during the Soyuz manufacturing process as an accident which was hastily plugged to pass inspection or as an act of deliberate sabotage. Prokopyev’s eyewitness assessment that it was made in space shakes things up considerably.
Unfortunately, the ‘CSI: Space’ team is missing a key component that would help in their investigation … the crime scene itself. NASA, Roscosmos and the crew were not concerned for their safety on the ISS nor on their trip home because the tiny hole was patchable and in a part of the Soyuz capsule that would be jettisoned before they reached the re-entry stage where it could put them in real danger. All that the “investigative organs” have to work with are the statements of the crew, the photos and videos taken by Prokopyev both from inside and on his spacewalk outside, and the mysterious yellow gunk that was scraped off from the outer hull. Sabotage on the ground might be the explanation if the hole were drilled from the outside, but Prokopyev’s statement puts the cause back inside the station.
“Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Oleg Artemyev will be questioned by the investigators as witnesses in the probe into a microfracture which was found on the body of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft, while it was docked to the International Space Station (ISS).”
Sputnik News reports that Prokopyev and cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, who was on the ISS when the hole was discovered and returned to Earth in October, will be questioned by Russian investigators as they attempt to find the cause of the hole and why Prokopyev believes it was an inside job yet defends his crew. This raises more unanswered questions. Is he just referring to his fellow cosmonauts? There is no report of there being any NASA representatives on the investigative team. Can the results be trusted without NASA participation? We haven’t heard anything from the NASA or ESA crew members. Why not?
While ‘CSI: Space’ might be an entertaining TV show, the real thing is sadly still showing signs that this could be the first real crime in space. TV criminal mysteries are resolved in an hour. Will this one ever be?
.Wherever there is ample jungle and large swaths of uncharted wilderness we tend to get the occasional accounts of what can only be described as living dinosaurs, still existing beyond civilization as they have for millions of years. Of course the most famous place for such accounts are the jungles of Africa, as I have written of here recently, but such creatures also pop up in South America, the United States, and others. Joining the ranks of supposed real life Jurassic Parks are the wildernesses of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, which have long had their own reports of dinosaurs lurking in the wilds
From within the uncharted interior jungles of the Indonesian island of Nusakambangan come reports of some sort of bipedal dinosaurian monstrosity known locally as the Kawuk. The habitat itself is incredibly isolated, sparsely populated and choked with tangles of impenetrable jungle, and among the thrumming myriad wildlife to be found here is something quite strange indeed. The Kawuk is said to be a giant lizard, around 5 feet in height when standing and similar in appearance to a massive monitor lizard or Komodo dragon, with the difference being that this creature travels about on two legs. The mostly nocturnal creatures are said by locals to favor raiding fresh graves, feasting upon the corpses before scurrying back into the wilderness, and they are renowned as being very aggressive, quick to attack even unprovoked.
Although sightings of these mysterious denizens of the jungles have been going on for ages, they were pushed into prominence in 2014 with a sighting made by a fisherman guide on the island. The guide, known only as Heri, ws out with a group of friends when they purportedly saw a pack of the creatures circling the corpse of a recently deceased friend. There were allegedly around ten of the creatures moving in, which prompted Heri and company to have the corpse moved so that it wouldn’t be devoured. Some of the theories as to what the Kawuk could be include that it is some very large undiscovered monitor lizard or even a remnant population of some sort of theropod dinosaur such as the velociraptor. The problem with this explanation is that it has been surmised that these types of dinosaurs were probably feathered, whereas the Kawuk are never mentioned as having feathers. Is this just legend and lore or something else? Who knows?
Another possible living dinosaur of Indonesia is what is called the Orang Bati, a flying creature said to inhabit the wilds of the island of Seram. Frightened locals here have long told of winged beasts often described as looking sort of like apes with wings. The creatures are said to spew forth from their volcanic cliff lairs at night to descend upon the land and carry off infants, small children and livestock. The creatures reportedly have black, leathery wings and glowing eyes, and have been seen cruising the skies by outsiders as well, with missionaries to these jungles reporting them since the 15th century.
One famous modern eyewitness account was made in 1987 by English missionary Tyson Hughes, who at the time was living amongst the local Moluccan tribe and claimed to have seen one of the fierce creatures himself. It has been speculated that these are nothing more than large flying foxes, which the island teems with, but the tribes-people say the bats are different than the Orang Bati, and that they are not the same. One theory is that they could be some sort of remnant population of flying dinosaurs such as Pterosaurs, but the area is so remote and so secluded from civilization that it is difficult to really get access to new sightings and expeditions into the region are rare.
Another island area with its share of supposed living dinosaur reports is Papua New Guinea, also a primordial land of unexplored forests and thick wilderness. Apparently the region called West New Britain has long had some sort of mysterious semi-aquatic dinosaur creature prowling its jungles and waterways, called the Kaiaimunu. There have supposedly been some rather recent sightings of the beast, such as the 2005 account from a witness called Robert, who said it had a long neck and tail, a turtle-like head, and as being around 40 to 50 feet in total length, with smooth brown skin and walking on two legs. The creature was observed to be eating vegetation and when it was finished it entered the water and swam away. The witness would later be shown a book of dinosaurs and point out the picture of a “Therizinosaurus” as most resembling what he saw, although he said the head looked different.
Also in 2005 was a sighting made by a couple named Margaret and Simon Patolkit as they were visiting on the beach at the uninhabited Dililo Island when they spotted a reptilian creature estimated as being around 65 feet long and having a long neck and a head “like a dinosaur with an oval face.” The creature’s skin was described as being reminiscent of that of a crocodile, and it possessed some sort of dermal frill down its length, as well as something “protruding from the back of the creature’s head.” The monster was seen briefly before retreating into the water and sinking down into the depths. The Kaiaimunu has been by other witnesses as well, including on one occasion swimming between Ambungi Island and Alage Island with its head above the water, and on another lounging about on some rocks near the water. Is this some sort of surviving sauropod dinosaur?
Therizinosaurus
Also from British New Guinea is a curious account from explorer C. A. W. Monckton, who in 1910 saw something rather bizarre as he was ascending the remote Mount Albert Edward. As he travelled his perilous route he purportedly came across humongous tracks from what appeared to be an enormous reptilian creature of some kind, which he would call the Gazeka. He would later allegedly come across a village of pygmies under attack by some sort of monstrous beast, which spurred him into action, firing upon it. One newspaper account of the encounter reads:
The huge Gazeka at once turned upon him. As it reared upon its hind legs and pawed the air it looked to the hunter as big as a house, standing fully 25 feet high. Two of Monckton’s bullets seemed to take effect, as a stream of blood flowed freely from the animal’s shoulder, but before Monckton was able to reload the animal turned and fled. By that time it was too dark to follow him, and Monckton never had another opportunity to renew his pursuit.
Interestingly this spectacular account does not appear to be mentioned in any of Monckton’s own journal entries, leading one to suspect that the newspaper report was perhaps being a bit creative on a slow news day. In all of these cases we are left with really no evidence to go on, and it merely further propels cases of living dinosaurs into the realm f speculation. Can any of these be real? Is it at all possible that dinosaurs could still exist in the most remote realms of our planet? Whatever one may think, the reports come in, and leave us scratching our heads.
Drone captures Flying Humanoid above Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand
Drone captures Flying Humanoid above Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand
Jeff Lyons wonders whether the object captured by his drone could be a UFO, Jet Suit, Balloon or another drone.
But could it be that it is something extraordinary, a flying humanoid attached to a device suitable for flying through the skies?
Although there is much controversy about the existence of these mysterious flying human-like beings, they are often described as being black humanoid figures that are capable of flight without visible wings or riding in strange vehicles like the being in the video below.
These flying humanoids are extraterrestrial or interdimensional travelers? We don’t know but it is a fact that they are sighted worldwide and often by multiple people at a time.
Jeff: I saw this over Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand on 6 December 2018. It was traveling about 5 to 10,000 feet up, moving across the sky from the east, in a northerly direction.
I lowered the camera for about 3 seconds while keeping my eye on the object. Before I could raise the camera again, the object disappeared.
I have included slow motion, close-up views of the object in the video at 200 percent and 400 percent magnification.
Here is a cool sighting just in. The eyewitness was taking some photos and when looking them over at home realised there was a flying saucer in one of them. This happens more than you might think. The digital eye is perfect and will not miss any detail, where the human eye is flawed and can only focus on a small area in front of us. This is a lucky catch. The UFO probably came from an underwater base nearby. It must have been traveling pretty fast for it to have not been seen by the eyewitness.
Scott C. Waring
News states:
Former Sydney resident Andrew Isaacson was visiting his mother on Australia’s Kangaroo Island when he inadvertently captured an unidentified flying object on camera while taking a scenic photograph near Cape Willoughby Lighthouse at 4:25 p.m. on Wednesday, December 5th. Isaacson told The Islander that he noticed something out of the corner of his eye just after taking the picture.
“Just when I stopped taking photos and moved the camera down, I saw something out of the corner of my eye,” he said. “Whatever it was moved silently and exceptionally quickly.” However, it wasn't until Isaacson viewed his photos from that day that he realized he had captured something unusual. Isaacson suspected the object might be some sort of unmanned drone based on its movements, which did not match that of a plane or helicopter. Furthermore, he estimated the object was approximately a "football field" in distance from the shoreline below the lighthouse. “I’d be interested to know if anyone else reported a sighting that day,” he said.
‘Not of this earth’ Did ALIENS make daggers found in Tutankhamun’s tomb?
‘Not of this earth’ Did ALIENS make daggers found in Tutankhamun’s tomb?
IRON daggers found in the tomb of ancient Egyptian Pharoah Tutankhaman which have baffled scientists for generations are made from metal “not from this earth” – sparking suggestions they could have been made using alien technology.
A documentary aired on Quest TV focuses on a pair of knives found by Howard Carter when he discovered the tomb of the famous “boy king” in 1922. The documentary, featuring interviews with a range of experts, examines the possibility that the daggers were gifts by the Mittani, a people allied with the ancient Egyptians who were based at a site now know as Tell el Hameh, and who were renowned metalworkers. It refers to satellite photography which appears to show an ancient smelting works dating back to a time when most of mankind could not work the metal.
However, the documentary concludes the timeline does not match, with them only becoming proficient in the smelting techniques required to produce iron in 1000BC, too late to have supplied the knives to Tutankhamun.
Archaeologist Dr Mark Altaweel asked: “How did King Tutankhamun obtain iron when iron basically did not exist?
“The quality of this dagger is fantastic.
“It’s pure, almost, made using the kind of technology that would happen only centuries later, when people became experts in creating iron.”
Were Tutankhamun's daggers made by aliens
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In all likelihood this metal is not from earth
Dr Hendrik van Gijseghem
Dr Jassel Majevadia, a material scientist, adds: “This particular dagger does not rust and that’s what makes it special.
Archaeologist Dr Hendrik van Gijseghem says: “No-one in the world is capable of producing that kind of metal in pre-modern times.
“This iron was not mined by man.
“There’s a high content of nickel and traces of cobalt which indicates in all likelihood that this metal is not from earth."
Dr Henrik van Gijseghem said the metal is "not from this Earth"
(Image: Quest TV)
The ancient Egyptians were fascinated by the stars, and the film postulates that an iron-rich meteor may have crashed to Earth which could be the source of the unusually pure metal.
However, even though one such site is uncovered in the region, investigations have ruled it out as the source, further deepening the mystery of where the metal came from.
Dr Aidan Dodson pointed to ancient hieroglyphs suggesting iron was the “bones of the gods”, suggesting any metal which fell from the stars was likely to have been regarded as a “gift”.
And some following the documentary went one step further, suggesting the artefacts really could be the product of alien contact.
Dr Mark Altaweel described the quality of the dagger as "fantastic"
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Several commenting on the documentary made references to “alien technology”, while another said: “This is from the Nephilim”.
The Nephilim were the supposed offspring of the “sons of God” and the “daughters of men” referred to in the book of Genesis.
Some have postulated the Nephilim were actually spacefaring aliens who made contact with ancient civilisations thousands of years ago.
There has also been speculation that ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs show contact with aliens.
EN IMAGES. Cratère et spirales de glace, canyon long de 4 000 km... Sept photos à couper le souffle de la planète rouge capturées par la sonde Mars Express
EN IMAGES. Cratère et spirales de glace, canyon long de 4 000 km... Sept photos à couper le souffle de la planète rouge capturées par la sonde Mars Express
L'Agence spatiale européenne a fait sensation en publiant, le 21 décembre, des clichés d'un lac de glace à la surface d'un cratère de la planète Mars. Mais d'autres clichés de la sonde Mars Express valent le coup d'œil.
Le canyon d’Hebes Chasma sur Mars.
(ESA / DLE / FU BERLIN)
Il y a surMarsdes robots de la Nasa. Mais la planète rouge est aussi étudiée de près par l'Agence spatiale européenne (ESA). Cette dernière a publié, le 21 décembre,l'étonnant clichéd'un cratère recouvert de glace. Cette photo a été prise par la sonde Mars Express. L'occasion de revenir sur sept paysages immortalisés par cette mission en service depuis 2003.
1. Korolev : un cratère de glace
Ce cratère se nomme Korolev, du nom de Sergueï Korolev, le père de la technologie spatiale soviétique. Il mesure 82 kilomètres de diamètre, soit environ la distance entre Paris et Dreux. Il s'agit d'un exemple particulièrement bien préservé de cratère martien. Son centre abrite une couche de glace de 1,8 km d'épaisseur toute l'année.
Photo du cratère martien Korolev prise par la sonde Mars Express de l'Agence spatiale européenne. (ESA)
Photo du cratère martien Korolev prise par la sonde Mars Express de l'Agence spatiale européenne. (ESA / DLE / FU BERLIN)
2. Nili Fossae : des failles gigantesques
Nili Fossae est un "vaste système de failles à la surface de la planète Mars dans le quadrangle de Syrtis Major, s'étendant sur 667 km", décrit Sciences et avenir. Ces failles sont profondes de 500 mètres par endroit, précise le Centre national des études spatiales (CNES). Il s'agit d'"amorce de failles tectoniques", rappelle sur son blog Pierre Brisson, président de la Mars Society Switzerland.
Le système de failles de Nili Fossae, à la surface de la planète Mars. (ESA / DLE / FU BERLIN).
3. Pô. e Nord : des spirales de glace
Cette image a été composée à partir des nombreux survols réalisés par la sonde Mars Express et des données altimétriques laser de la mission Mars Global Surveyor de la Nasa. Les dépôts de neige du pôle Nord martien "sont les plus grands réservoirs d'eau présents à la surface de Mars. Leur volume total représente 2 à 3 millions de km3", remarquait le CNRS en 2009. La forme en spirale de la calotte glaciaire est causée par le vent, indique Futura Sciences.
De la neige au pôle Nord de Mars. (ESA / DLE / FU BERLIN)
4. Mawrth Vallis : une vallée fluviale
Cette vallée fait plus de 600 km de long et 2 km de profondeur. Elle est composée de nombreux cratères. Agé de quatre milliards d'années, le ravin pourrait avoir abrité un cours d'eau. Cette vallée est particulièrement étudiée par les agences spatiales occidentales.
5. Aurorae Chaos : un canyon haut comme le mont Blanc
Ce canyon mesure environ 710 km de large et fait environ 4,8 km de haut, l'altitude du mont Blanc. L'Agence spatiale européenne explique(en anglais) qu'en des temps très anciens de l'eau y coulait.
Le canyon Aurorae Chaos, sur Mars. (ESA / DLE / FU BERLIN)
Le canyon Aurorae Chaos vue par la sonde Mars Express. (ESA / DLE / FU BERLIN)
6. Hebes Chasma : un canyon presque aussi haut que l'Everest
Il fait quelque 8 000 mètres de haut (l'Everest culmine à 8 840 m), 315 km de long et 125 km de large. Il se situe près de l'équateur martien. Le site spécialisé Futura-Sciences attire l'attention sur "la longue coulée de matériaux sombres terminée, en contre-bas, par une étrange flaque d'encre noire". Et de relever : "Il n'est pas exclu qu'une fonte brutale de glace ou l'épanchement de réservoirs souterrains en soient à l'origine."
Le canyon d’Hebes Chasma sur Mars. (ESA / DLE / FU BERLIN)
Le canyon d’Hebes Chasma sur Mars. (ESA / DLE / FU BERLIN)
7. Valles Marineris : un canyon long de 4 000 km
Il est quatre fois plus long et profond que le Grand Canyon américain : 4 000 km de long, c'est la distance entre Paris et Ouagadougou, la capitale du Burkina Faso, ou deux fois celle entre Paris et Kiev, la capitale de l'Ukraine. Valles Marineris est un centre d'intérêt majeur. En 2015, lorsque Space X a dévoilé trois posters touristiques de la planète Mars, Valles Marineris était mis à l'honneur.
Valles Marineris, sur Mars. (ESA / DLE / FU BERLIN)
Technosignatures and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Technosignatures and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
A rendering of a potential Dyson sphere, named after Freeman A. Dyson. As proposed by the physicist and astromomer decades ago, they would collect solar energy on a solar system wide scale for highly advanced civilizations. IMAGE CREDIT: SENTIENTDEVELOPMENTS.COM.
The word “SETI” pretty much brings to mind the search for radio signals come from distant planets, the movie “Contact,” Jill Tarter, Frank Drake and perhaps the SETI Institute, where the effort lives and breathes.
But there was a time when SETI — the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence — was a significantly broader concept, that brought in other ways to look for intelligent life beyond Earth.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s — a time of great interest in UFOs, flying saucers and the like — scientists not only came up with the idea of searching for distant intelligent life via unnatural radio signals, but also by looking for signs of unexpectedly elevated heat signatures and for optical anomalies in the night sky.
The history of this search has seen many sharp turns, with radio SETI at one time embraced by NASA, subsequently de-funded because of congressional opposition, and then developed into a privately and philanthropically funded project of rigor and breadth at the SETI Institute. The other modes of SETI went pretty much underground and SETI became synonymous with radio searches for ET life.
But this history may be about to take another sharp turn as some in Congress and NASA have become increasingly interested in what are now called “technosignatures,” potentially detectable signatures and signals of the presence of distant advanced civilizations. Technosignatures are a subset of the larger and far more mature search for biosignatures — evidence of microbial or other primitive life that might exist on some of the billions of exoplanets we now know exist.
And as a sign of this renewed interest, a technosignatures conference was scheduled by NASA at the request of Congress (and especially retiring Republican Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas.) The conference took place in Houston late last month, and it was most interesting in terms of the new and increasingly sophisticated ideas being explored by scientists involved with broad-based SETI.
“There has been no SETI conference this big and this good in a very long time,” said Jason Wright, an astrophysicist and professor at Pennsylvania State University and chair of the conference’s science organizing committee. “We’re trying to rebuild the larger SETI community, and this was a good start.”
At this point, the search for technosignatures is often likened to that looking for a needle in a haystack. But what scientists are trying to do is define their haystack, determine its essential characteristics, and learn how to best explore it. IMAGE CREDIT: WIKI COMMONS.
During the three day meeting in Houston, scientists and interested private and philanthropic reps. heard talks that ranged from the trials and possibilities of traditional radio SETI to quasi philosophical discussions about what potentially detectable planetary transformations and by-products might be signs of an advanced civilization. (An agenda and videos of the talks are here.)
The subjects ranged from surveying the sky for potential millisecond infrared emissions from distant planets that could be purposeful signals, to how the presence of certain unnatural, pollutant chemicals in an exoplanet atmosphere that could be a sign of civilization. From the search for thermal signatures coming from megacities or other by-products of technological activity, to the possible presence of “megastructures” built to collect a star’s energy by highly evolved beings.
All but the near infrared SETI are for the distant future — or perhaps are on the science fiction side — but astronomy and the search for distant life do tend to move forward slowly. Theory and inference most often coming well before observation and detection.
So thinking about the basic questions about what scientists might be looking for, Wright said, is an essential part of the process.
Indeed, it is precisely what Michael New, Deputy Associate Administrator for Research within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, told the conference.
He said that he, NASA and Congress wanted the broad sweep of ideas and research out there regarding technosignatures, from the current state of the field to potential near-term findings, and known limitations and possibilities.
“The time is really ripe scientifically for revisiting the ideas of technosignatures and how to search for them,” he said.
He offered the promise of NASA help (admittedly depending to some extent on what Congress and the administration decide) for research into new surveys, new technologies, data-mining algorithms, theories and modelling to advance the hunt for technosignatures.
Crew members aboard the International Space Station took this nighttime photograph of much of the Atlantic coast of the United States. IMAGE CREDIT: NASA.
Among the several dozen scientists who discussed potential signals to search for were the astronomer Jill Tarter, former director of the Center for SETI Research, Planetary Science Institute astrobiologist David Grinspoon and University of Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank. They all looked at the big picture, what artifacts in atmospheres, on surfaces and perhaps in space that advanced civilizations would likely produce by dint of their being “advanced.”
All spoke of the harvesting of energy to perform work as a defining feature of a technological planet, with that “work” describing transportation, construction, manufacturing and more.
Beings that have reached the high level of, in Frank’s words, exo-civilization produce heat, pollutants, changes to their planets and surroundings in the process of doing that work. And so a detection of highly unusual atmospheric, thermal, surface and orbital conditions could be a signal.
One example mentioned by several speakers is the family of chemical chloroflourohydrocarbons (CFCs,) which are used as commercial refrigerants, propellants and solvents.
MeerKAT, originally the Karoo Array Telescope, is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas now being tested and verified in the Northern Cape of South Africa. IMAGE CREDIT: SOUTH AFRICAN RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY.
These CFCs are a hazardous and unnatural pollutant on Earth because they destroy the ozone layer, and they could be doing something similar on an exoplanet. And as described in the conference, the James Webb Space Telescope — once it’s launch and working — could most likely detect such an atmospheric compound if it’s in high concentration and the project was given sufficient telescope time.
A similar single finding described by Tarter that could be revolutionary is the radioactive isotope tritium, which is a by-product of the nuclear fusion process. It has a short half-life and so any distant discovery would point to a recent use of nuclear energy (as long as it’s not associated with a recent supernova event, which can also produce tritium.)
But there many other less precise ideas put forward.
Glints on the surface of planets could be the product of technology, as might be weather on an exoplanet that has been extremely well stabilized, modified planetary orbits and chemical disequilibriums in the atmosphere based on the by-products of life and work. (These disequilibriums are a well-established feature of biosignature research, but Frank presented the idea of a technosphere which would process energy and create by-products at a greater level than its supporting biosphere.)
Another unlikely but most interesting example of a possible technosignature put forward by Tarter and Grinspoon involved the seven planets of the Trappist-1 solar system, all tidally locked and so lit on only one side. She said that they could potentially be found to be remarkably similar in their basic structure, alignment and dynamics. As Tarter suggested, this could be a sign of highly advanced solar engineering.
This is exciting – the next phase Square kilometer Array (SKA2) will be able to detect Earth-level radio leakage from nearby stars. IMAGE CREDIT: SOUTH AFRICAN RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY. Grinspoon seconded that notion about Trappist-1, but in a somewhat different context.
He has worked a great deal on the question of today’s anthroprocene era — when humans actively change the planet — and he expanded on his thinking about Earth into the galaxies.
Grinspoon said that he had just come back from Japan, where he had visited Hiroshima and its atomic bomb sites, and came away with doubts that we were the “intelligent” civilization we often describe ourselves in SETI terms. A civilization that may well self destruct — a fate he sees as potentially common throughout the cosmos — might be considered “proto-intelligent,” but not smart enough to keep the civilization going over a long time.
Projecting that into the cosmos, Grinspoon argued that there may well be many such doomed civilizations, and then perhaps a far smaller number of those civilizations that make it through the biological-technological bottleneck that we seem to be facing in the centuries ahead.
These civilizations, which he calls semi-immortal, would develop inherently sustainable methods of continuing, including modifying major climate cycles, developing highly sophisticated radars and other tools for mitigating risks, terraforming nearby planets, and even finding ways to evolve the planet as its place in the habitable zone of its host star becomes threatened by the brightening or dulling of that star.
The trick to trying to find such truly evolved civilizations, he said, would be to look for technosignatures that reflect anomalous stability and not rampant growth. In the larger sense, these civilizations would have integrated themselves into the functioning of the planet, just as oxygen, first primitive and then complex life integrated themselves into the essential systems of Earth.
And returning to the technological civilizations that don’t survive, they could produce physical artifacts that now permeate the galaxy.
The NIROSETI team with their new infrared detector inside the dome at Lick Observatory. Left to right: Remington Stone, Dan Wertheimer, Jérome Maire, Shelley Wright, Patrick Dorval and Richard Treffers. IMAGE CREDIT: LAURIE HATCH.
While the conference focused on technosignature theory, models, and distant possibilities, news was also shared about two concrete developments involving research today.
The first involved the radio telescope array in South Africa now called MeerKAT, a prototype of sorts that will eventually become the gigantic Square Kilometer Array.
Breakthrough Listen, the global initiative to seek signs of intelligent life in the universe, would soon announce the commencement of a major new program with the MeerKAT telescope, in partnership with the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO).
Breakthrough Listen’s MeerKAT survey will examine a million individual stars – 1,000 times the number of targets in any previous search – in the quietest part of the radio spectrum, monitoring for signs of extraterrestrial technology. With the addition of MeerKAT’s observations to its existing surveys, Listen will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in parallel with other surveys.
This clearly has the possibility of greatly expanded the amount of SETI listening being done. The SETI Institute, with its radio astronomy array in northern California and various partners, have been listening for almost 60 years, without detecting a signal from our galaxy.
That might seem like a disappointing intimation that nothing or nobody else is out there, but not if you listen to Tarter explain how much listening has actually been done. Almost ten years ago, she calculated that if the Milky Way galaxy and everything in it was an ocean, then SETI would have listened to a cup full of water from that ocean. Jason Wright and his students did an updated calculation recently, and now the radio listening amounts to a small swimming pool within that enormous ocean.
Participants in the technosignatures conference in Houston last month, the largest SETI gathering in years. And this one was sponsored by NASA and put together by the NExSS for Exoplanet Systems Science (NExSS,) an interdisciplinary agency initiative. IMAGE CREDIT: DELIA ENRIQUEZ.
The other news came from Shelley Wright of the University of California, San Diego, who has been working on an optical SETI instrument for the Lick Observatory.
The Near-Infrared Optical SETI (NIROSETI) instrument she and her colleagues have developed is the first instrument of its kind designed to search for signals from extraterrestrials at near-Infrared wavelengths. The near-infrared regime is an excellenr spectral region to search for signals from extraterrestrials, since it offers a unique window for interstellar communication.
The NIROSETI instrument utilizes two near-infrared photodiodes to be able to detect artificial, very fast (nanosecond) pulses of infrared radiation.
The NIROSETI instrument, which is mounted on the Nickel telescope at Lick Observatory, splits the incoming near-infrared light onto two channels, and then checks for coincident events, which indicate signals that are identified by both detectors simultaneously.
Wright of Penn State was especially impressed by the project, which he said can look at much of the sky at once and was put together with on very limited budget.
Wright, who teaches a course on SETI at Penn State and is a co-author of a recent paper trying to formalize SETI terminology, said his own take-away from the conference is that it may well represent an important and positive moment in the history of technosignatures.
“Without NASA support, the whole field has lacked the normal structure by which astronomy advances,” he said. “No teaching of the subject, no standard terms, no textbook to formalize findings and understandings.
“The Seti Institiute carried us through the dark times, and they did that outside of normal, formal structures. The Institute remains essential, but hopefully that reflex identification will start to change.”
Un tunnelier nucléaire pour chercher la vie sur Europe, lune de Jupiter
Un tunnelier nucléaire pour chercher la vie sur Europe, lune de Jupiter
Céline Deluzarche
Journaliste
Avec son océan souterrain, Europe serait la candidate idéale pour accueillir la vie extraterrestre. Des chercheurs américains ont imaginé un tunnelier géant pour percer sa croûte de glace et explorer ses profondeurs à la recherche de traces de vie.
Selon les différentes mission d'observations menées autour d'Europe, la quatrième plus grosse lune de Jupiter, celle-ci possèderait un océan liquide sous sa croûte de glace. Europe est donc la candidate idéale, susceptible d'accueillir une vie microbienne, espèrent les scientifiques. « Malheureusement, la banquise, d'une épaisseur comprise entre 2 et 30 kilomètres, constitue une barrière majeure pour toute sonde voulant accéder aux zones dont nous pensons qu'elles pourraient contenir des biosignatures», explique Andrew Dombard, professeur associé des sciences de la Terre et de l'environnement à l'université de l'Illinois de Chicago. Certains ont bien envisagé de se contenter d'analyser l'eau des geysers dont on suppose l'existence. Mais il lui faudrait plusieurs centaines, voire millions d'années pour remonter à la surface, ce qui nous donnerait peu d'indications sur la vie actuelle de l'océan (lire article ci-dessous).
Une représentation du tunnelier pour percer la banquise d’Europe.
Chercher des bactéries dans les biofilms sous la calotte glaciaire
Andrew Dombard et ses collègues du Nasa Glenn Research Center ont donc imaginé un tunnelier nucléaire pour percer la glace et explorer la surface de l'océan souterrain. L'objectif n'est pas d'y effectuer une plongée, ce qui serait trop compliqué, mais d'essayer de trouver des traces de biofilms microbiens à l'interface eau-glace sous la banquise. «Il ne sera d'ailleurs peut-être même pas nécessaire de descendre jusqu'à l'océan si l'on découvre des lacs intermédiaires à l'intérieur de la glace », avance Andrew Dombard, qui a présenté son concept de tunnelier lors de l'assemblée annuelle de l'American Geophysical Union.
L'engin récolterait d'abord des échantillons à la base de la lithosphère, où de la glace ancienne aurait pu se mélanger à la glace plus récente par convection. Plusieurs autres échantillons seraient prélevés à différentes profondeurs, jusqu'à l'interface glace-eau où l'on espère trouver les micro-organismes.
Deux systèmes de propulsion envisagés
Pour faire fondre la glace et propulser le tunnelier, les scientifiques misent sur des « sources de chaleur universelle » (GPHS en anglais), des sortes de « piles radioactives » alimentées au dioxyde de plutonium-238, déjà utilisées par les sondes Cassini ou Galileo. Une autre option envisagée est d'alimenter le tunnelier avec « un mini réacteur nucléaire perfectionné », mais Andrew Dombard reconnaît qu'il faudrait dans ce cas un blindage assez épais pour ne pas risquer d'irradier les échantillons et les instruments scientifiques. La communication avec la surface serait assurée grâce à trois répéteurs, à 5, 10 et 15 kilomètres reliés au tunnelier par fibre optique. Autre souci : éviter à l'appareil de tomber à travers la glace à l'approche de l'océan. Un câble flottant serait donc déployé pour le suspendre au-dessus de l'eau lorsque celui-ci aurait atteint sa profondeur finale.
Tout cela reste, bien entendu, très théorique. Les chercheurs avouent «ne pas du tout s'être préoccupés de savoir comment acheminer le tunnelier sur Europe». Une mission nommée Europa Clipper est bien programmée pour 2023 afin notamment d'y repérer les endroits où la glace est la plus fine. Mais la sonde se contentera de survoler le satellite. La lune glacée de Jupiter risque de garder ses mystères pendant encore un bout de temps.
CE QU'IL FAUT RETENIR
Europe, l'une des lunes de Jupiter, renfermerait un océan liquide sous sa surface glacée.
Des scientifiques ont imaginé un tunnelier propulsé au nucléaire pour y rechercher des traces de vie.
Exobiologie : une carte pour chercher la vie sur Europe
Les glaces d'Europe, la lune de Jupiter, pourraient contenir des biosignatures des formes de vie qui existent peut-être dans son océan. Une carte de l'exposition aux radiations de ces glaces a été dressée, indiquant là où ces biosignatures seraient le moins dégradées et donc où les chercher.
Tous ceux qui ont vu le film 2010 : L'Année du premier contact, tiré du roman d'Arthur Clarke faisant suite à 2001, l'Odyssée de l'espace, rêvent probablement du jour où une mission consacrée à Europe, la lune glacée de Jupiter, permettrait à la réalité de rattraper la fiction. En l'occurrence, il s'agirait au moins de la détection à la surface de la banquise d'Europe - dont il n'est pas douteux qu'elle recouvre un océan - de molécules organiques qui seraient des biosignatures incontestables de l'existence de forme de vie dans cet océan. Dans l'idéal, il faudrait même que ce soit des formes de vie.
Malheureusement, il y a plusieurs obstacles pour le succès de cette mission et il se pourrait bien, comme Futura l'expliquait dans l'article précédent ci-dessous, que les glaces que l'on trouve en surface ne puissent être que des échantillons vieux de quelques centaines de milliers d'années, voire de quelques millions d'années, de ce qui se trouve dans cet océan. Nous n'aurions donc accès qu'à des fossiles, dans le meilleur des cas.
Une vue d'artiste de la banquise d'Europe. Des geysers pourraient provenir directement de l'océan d'Europe, éjectant en surface des molécules biologiques et pas simplement organiques. Ces molécules seraient malheureusement détruites en surface à cause des radiations.
Des électrons tueurs de satellites et destructeurs d'acides aminés
Le gros problème avec une mission sur Europe, c'est le niveau de radiation qui est très élevé avec notamment la présence de ce que l'on appelle des électrons tueurs. Nous le savons depuis 1973, quand la sonde spatiale Pioneer 10 passa près de Jupiter et y détecta un énorme champ magnétique ainsi qu'une intense ceinture de radiation. On s'en doutait depuis que deux jeunes radioastronomes, Ken Franklin et Bernie Burke, découvrirent par hasard que Jupiter était une intense source de rayonnement radio, en 1955. Peu de temps après, en 1959, suite à la découverte de la ceinture de radiation terrestre par Van Allen, Frank Drake - que l'on connaît pour sa célèbre équation et qui est à l'origine du programme Seti - étudia les émissions radio de Jupiter. À partir de leur spectre, il en conclut que ces ondes étaient probablement émises par des électrons capturés dans un puissant champ magnétique.
Or, ces électrons ne sont pas tendres avec l'électronique embarquée à bord des sondes, et même en durcissant cette électronique, comme on dit, ces engins ne peuvent pas travailler longtemps dans les régions où ils se trouvent. Même la sonde Europa Clipper, qui devrait spécifiquement étudier Europe au cours des années 2020, sera obligée de décrire des orbites très elliptiques de sorte que les survolsrapprochés d'Europe alterneront avec des moments ou la sonde sera loin de la lune.
En mauve, les régions d'Europe les plus exposées aux radiations.
Mais imaginons que l'on décide d'envoyer en mission suicide un atterrisseur sur Europe. On aura tout intérêt à ce qu'il se trouve dans une région la moins exposée possible aux radiations et pas simplement là où l'on peut penser que la banquise est la plus à même de laisser passer des échantillons le plus directement liés à l'eau liquide de l'océan d'Europe.
Une équipe de chercheurs états-uniens vient justement de publier un article dans Nature Astronomy qui apporte des éléments à la résolution de ce problème. Les astronomes se sont pour cela servis de données collectées par les missions Galileo et Voyager 1 pour dresser une carte des régions les plus intensément bombardées par les radiations. Ils en ont déduit aussi la profondeur de la glace à laquelle des acides aminés, des molécules à la base de la vie telle que nous la connaissons et qui forment les protéines, pourraient rester intactes.
Il s'avère que les régions les plus propices à la recherche de biosignatures sont aux pôles d'Europe et qu'un centimètre de glace serait une protection suffisante alors qu'il faudrait chercher de 10 à 20 centimètres de profondeur dans la glace au niveau de l'équateur par exemple.
Exobiologie : trouver des traces de vie récentes sur Europe, une mission impossible ?
Article de Laurent Sacco publié le 15/07/2018
Les surfaces d'Europe et Ganymède pourraient ne se renouveler qu'à l'échelle du million d'années, de sorte que la glace à la surface de leurs banquises ne serait qu'un échantillon fossile de l'eau contenue dans les océans de ces lunes glacées de Jupiter. Fouiller dans cette glace pourrait donc ne nous donner accès qu'à des fossiles de la vie éventuellement présente dans leurs océans.
Voilà 10 ans cette année, le 19 mars 2008 pour être précis, décédait Arthur Clarke. Au début des années 1980, dans son fameux roman 2010 : Odyssée deux, l'inventeur du concept de satellite géostationnaireprenait déjà au sérieux l'idée que des formes de vie pouvaient peut-être exister dans l'océan sous la banquise d'Europe, la lune glacée, de plus en plus célèbre, de Jupiter. Il ne faisait que reprendre en partie, pour son roman de hard SF, les résultats que l'on venait juste d'obtenir après le succès des missions Voyager 1 et 2 lors de leurs visites des lunes de Jupiter. La découverte du volcanisme de Io avait alors été faite et les premières images rapprochées de la banquise d'Europe avaient été obtenues. Inspirés par celle des formes de vie au voisinage des sources hydrothermales dans les abysses au cours des années 1970, certains avaient spéculé qu'il pourrait en exister de similaires dans l'océan d'Europe, avec un volcanisme provenant, comme dans le cas d'Io, des forces de marée du système jupitérien. C'est peut-être ainsi que la vie sur Terre est née, dans les parois des cheminées de sources hydrothermales similaires pendant l'Hadéen ou au début de l'Archéen.
Les exobiologistes du XXIe siècle sont de plus en plus convaincus que l'idée est raisonnable et qu'il serait du plus haut intérêt d'envoyer des missions pour regarder Europe d'un peu plus près, voire même d'essayer de faire pénétrer un engin dans cet océan. Cela n'est malheureusement pas sans poser un certain nombre de problèmes.
Déjà, le niveau de radiations au voisinage d'Europe est considérable de sorte qu'une sonde devrait posséder une électronique particulièrement durcie, comme on dit dans le jargon, pour supporter ce niveau de rayonnement suffisamment longtemps pour espérer faire des découvertes en orbite autour d'Europe voire en se posant carrément sur la surface de la lune. C'est d'ailleurs en partie pour cette raison que la mission Juice de l'ESA va plutôt étudier Ganymède et Callisto, qui possèdent elles aussi un océan souterrain, bien que moins spectaculaire, mais qui sont surtout exposées à bien moins de radiations. On ne connaît pas vraiment non plus l'épaisseur de la banquise d'Europe, qui pourrait peut-être être trop importante pour assurer le succès d'une mission.
Des traces de vie dans des échantillons de glaces d'Europe ?
Heureusement, il existe des moyens de contourner ces problèmes. Déjà, nous disposons d'observations de plus en plus solides démontrant l'existence de geysers, s'élevant parfois de la surface d'Europe. Il suffirait peut-être d'un passage avec des détecteurs adéquats à l'intérieur de ces geysers pour mettre en évidence la présence de molécules organiques complexes, incontestablement liées à la vie telle que nous la connaissons. Dans le cas contraire, on ne pourrait tirer aucune conclusion. Enfin, comme Futura l'expliquait dans un précédent article (voir ci-dessous), il nous suffirait peut-être d'aller chercher, pas trop loin d'Europe, des blocs de glace provenant de sa surface et qui auraient été éjectés dans l'espace par la chute d'un petit astéroïde sur cette lune.
Une simulation en 2D de la convection dans la banquise de l'océan d'Europe. La région de couleur rouge-orange est moins convective et est composée d'une glace cassante.
Il y a toutefois un petit bémol à ces deux techniques comme l'illustre bien les travaux du planétologue états-unien Robert Pappalardo (que l'on peut voir dans la première vidéo ci-dessus) et qu'il a publiés avec son collègue Samuel M. Howell, du 24-12-2018 om 23:54
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Er is nog steeds geen sluitend bewijs dat er vorige week drones actief waren in de buurt van de luchthaven Londen Gatwick. Maar daaruit concluderen dat er geen drones waren, is volgens de politie voorbarig.
Jason Tingley van de politie van Sussex wees er gisteren nog op dat er nog steeds geen beeldmateriaal is van drones nabij de luchthaven. ‘Het is altijd een mogelijkheid’ dat de waarnemingen een vergissing zijn, voegde hij er aan toe.
Er kwamen wel 67 meldingen binnen van mensen die beweren een drone te hebben gezien. Maar beeld van een vliegende drone in het luchtruim rond Gatwick is ontbreekt. De speurders gaan dus volledig af op getuigenissen.
Maar meedelen dat er dus mogelijk geen drones waren, noemt de politie nu een communicatiefout. Dat zouden politiebronnen aan de regering hebben toegegeven, aldus The Guardian maandag. De Britse ministers zijn maandag ingelicht over de situatie.
Maar ten gronde is er niets veranderd: er is nog steeds geen opheldering over de aanwezigheid van drones nabij de start- en landingsbanen van de luchthaven.
Kapotte drone
Speuracties van de politie leverden ook niets op. Britse media melden wel dat er in de omgeving van de luchthaven een vernielde drone is aangetroffen. Maar of die iets te maken heeft met de problemen van vorige week is vooralsnog niet duidelijk. Het is niet duidelijk aan wie de drone toebehoort, en wie met het toestel vloog.
Arrestatie
Dit weekend werd een koppel opgepakt in verband met de zaak. Na ondervraging bleek echter dat zij zeker niets met drones op Gatwick te maken hadden. Ze werden zondag al vrijgelaten. Andere verdachten zouden er voorlopig niet zijn.
Sabotage
Na de meldingen van de aanwezigheid van een drone werd uitgegaan van een gerichte storingsactie. Omdat een botsing met een vliegtuig ernstige gevolgen zou hebben, werden van woensdag tot vrijdag een groot deel van de vluchten afgelast. Zo’n 140.000 passagiers moesten daardoor hun vakantieplannen aanpassen.
Beloning
Het bestuur van de luchthaven blijft verveeld zitten met de zaak. Voor wie een gouden tip heeft in de zaak, heeft Londen Gatwick een beloning van 50.000 pond veil.
As many as 60 soldiers and civillians were killed as extra-terrestrial GREYS, armed with PLASMA GUNS went toe-to-toe with US Delta Forces in the so-called Dulce Battle.
The jaw-dropping revelations were made by a civil engineer called Phil Schneider who worked on secret military projects deep underground in Dulce, New Mexico.
Mr Schneider, whose dad Philip was involved with the development of the early atomic bomb, said he was made to sign official secrets documents but later went on to reveal the American military was working with an alien race of Greys building joint subterranean bases.
Grey aliens, also referred to as Zeta Reticulans, Roswell Greys, Greys, or Grays, have become the accepted face of aliens on Earth - almost half of all alien sighting claims in the USA refer to this type of grey alien.
Artist's impression: What Phil Schneider came face to face with under new Mexico
(Image : NA)
Alien invaders: Claims extra-terrestrials have lived in underground bunkers in New Mexico
Shades of grey: Did Alien Greys live in subterranean bunkers specially built by US military?
(Image: YT)
The Alien Grey is also linked directly to the Roswell Incident in which a UFO containing live aliens was allegedly seized by the military at Roswell, which is also in New Mexico.
But Mr Schneider’s story took a jaw-dropping turn when he described one occasion when things turned nasty and resulted in what has become known in UFO circles as The Dulce Battle.
Dulce Battle expert Anthony Sanchez, author of the UFO Highway, and the founder of Umbra Research, a group dedicated to understanding the hidden aspects and mystery behind the UFO/ET phenomenon, said: “In 1979 he says when they sunk a shaft during some mining exploration to see if they could build a similar subterranean base they discovered a very old cavern system where Greys extra-terrestrials had a base.”
Schneider says he was confronted by Alien Greys and was forced to draw his sidearm and fire.
He said he killed two before being hit with some kind of plasma weapon. He escaped and the military immediately called in special forces.
Keep watching the skies: Four unexplained balls of light recorded over New Mexico
(Image: YT)
Mr Samchez added: “Military units - Seals and Delta Forces – went down there and engaged in a fire-fight with these tall Greys.
“In all 60 military personnel and scientists were killed.
“During the altercation Mr Schneider was hit with some sort of plasma weapon which sheared off a portion of his hand.”
But he added the engineer escaped with data and information which would subsequently form the basis of stealth cloaking technology.
Alien whistleblower: Phil Schneider claims US forces battled aliens in Dulce Battle
(Image: YT)
The story however has a grisly end which has fuelled conspiracy theories for decades.
In 1996 Mr Schneider was found strangled to death in his apartment.
Bizarrely the cause of death was officially said to be suicide.
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Amerikaanse speciale troepen vochten met aliens in ondergronds grottencomplex, aldus deze getuige
Amerikaanse speciale troepen vochten met aliens in ondergronds grottencomplex, aldus deze getuige
Amerikaanse speciale troepen zijn betrokken geraakt bij een vuurgevecht met aliens die een ondergrondse basis hadden gebouwd in de woestijn van New Mexico, zo heeft een ooggetuige geclaimd.
Tot wel 60 soldaten en burgers zouden bij Dulce zijn gedood door buitenaardse Greys, die bewapend waren met plasmawapens.
Phil Schneider werkte aan geheime legerprojecten onder de grond bij Dulce en was naar eigen zeggen getuige van het incident.
Roswellincident
Schneider, wiens vader Philip was betrokken bij de ontwikkeling van de atoombom, zei dat hij een geheimhoudingsverklaring moest ondertekenen, maar onthulde later toch dat het Amerikaanse leger met de Greys werkte aan de bouw van ondergrondse bases, zo meldt de Daily Express.
Foto: Potrosays Wikimedia Commons
De Grays worden ook in verband gebracht met het Roswellincident.
Anthony Sanchez, die zich uitgebreid heeft verdiept in de zogeheten Dulce Battle, zei: “In 1979 stuitten Schneider en zijn collega’s tijdens bouwwerkzaamheden op een oud grottenstelsel waar de Greys een basis hadden.”
Hand
Schneider zei dat hij oog in oog kwam te staan met de Greys en besloot zijn wapen te trekken en te vuren.
Hij zei dat hij er twee had doodgeschoten toen hij geraakt werd door een soort plasmawapen.
Daarbij raakte hij een deel van zijn hand kwijt.
Ontsnappen
Hij wist te ontsnappen en het leger riep gelijk de hulp in van de speciale troepen, klonk het.
“De Navy Seals en Deltra Force waren betrokken bij het vuurgevecht met deze Greys,” zei Sanchez. “Zestig soldaten en wetenschappers kwamen om het leven.”
In 1996 werd Schneider dood aangetroffen in zijn appartement. Hoewel hij was gewurgd, werd verklaard dat hij zelfmoord had gepleegd.
Er is opnieuw grote belangstelling voor de maan, want niet alleen ziet hij er in sommige delen van de wereld vreemd uit, ook buitenaardsen zijn er druk in de weer.
Zo is er nu een opname die laat zien dat er een enorm ruimteschip voor de maan langs schuift.
Enkele dagen geleden publiceerden wij een artikel waarin door verschillende mensen werd opgemerkt dat de maan heel erg vreemd uit zag.
Naar aanleiding daarvan kregen wij diverse reacties, waaronder de volgende van Evert Jan Poorterman die schrijft:
met een naderende ster in aantocht is het denkbaar dat de planeten daar op reageren... en dat is ook zo! De kleintjes zoals Mars, Maan, Gaia, Venus en Mercurius zullen gaan zwalken en daarvoor al ietwat uit hun bestaande positie geraken. Aangezien de Maan een dood object is kan het ook zo zijn dat moeder Gaia (met haar ijzerkern/spoel) van positie is veranderd! En niet persee de Maan. Dat is een kleiknikker...
Een andere lezer zegt dat het heel normaal is dat de maan op zijn rug ligt en dat dit betekent dat het koud gaat worden:
Aangaande Uw artikel over de maan, dd. 21-12, kan ik U meedelen dat de maan wel vaker "op de rug ligt". Dit heeft niets te maken met verschuiving van de aard/maan, maar is altijd een voorbode voor een koudere periode. (oude boerenwijsheid)
Bert denkt er weer heel anders over en schrijft:
Vorige week moest ik mijn dochter s'avonds ophalen en zag de maan ook hier plat liggen, geweldig gezicht maar niet beseffende dat er eigenlijk niks van klopte.
De voor mij wel bekende youtube site heeft helemaal gelijk, de enige logische conclusie is dat de hoogte positie van de maan fors is veranderd.
Een logisch gevolg zou zijn dat er zwaardere aardbevingen zouden moeten komen en ook dat is gebeurd. Sinds deze unieke stand van de maan zijn er maar liefst 4 zeven plus bevingen geweest. Bereid je voor op nog meer ongein, ook dit gebeuren past allemaal precies in het eind plaatje. Ook in Yellowstone zijn er nu andere magma stromingen gesignaleerd, stromen die suggereren dat het magma een weg heeft gevonden naar het oppervlak.
Een reden voor de terug trekking van de Amerikaanse soldaten zou ook kunnen zijn dat men een binnenlandse ramp verwachten, Yellowstone?!
Dit is wat een andere lezer denkt:
Even naar aanleiding van jullie artikel over de maan; wat als niet de maan maar de aarde van positie aan het veranderen is? En kan dat (ALS het aan de hand is) niet ook een verklaring zijn voor het veranderende weer/klimaat en het toenemen van natuurrampen?
Tis zo maar een "losse" gedachte........ hoewel ik een paar jaar terug al eens iemand sprak die altijd 's morgens op dezelfde tijd zijn straat uit reed en opmerkte dat de opkomende zon volgens hem iets opgeschoven was. Nou denk ik dat de zon waarschijnlijk niet zo makkelijk van plek wijzigd maar wij misschien wel (toen al)?
Ik ben benieuwd of er nog meer soortgelijke reacties zijn.
En die zijn er, getuige de volgende reactie:
Als reactie op jullie artikel van Vrijdag, 21 december 2018 ‘Wat is er aan de hand met de maan’ en jullie oproep aan lezers om te reageren:
‘De enige conclusie volgens Mr. MBB333 mogelijk is, is dat de maan ten opzichte van de aarde van positie is veranderd. En als hij gelijk heeft, dan is natuurlijk de grote vraag wat ervoor zou kunnen zorgen dat een hemellichaam zoals de maan van positie verandert? Als er lezers zijn met ideeën dan horen we dat natuurlijk graag’,
heb ik hier een aantal links die verhelderend kunnen werken. Uit deze webpagina’s blijkt dat niet de maan ten opzichte van de aarde van positie is veranderd, maar de positie van de aarde en dus ook van de waarnemer, verandert voortdurend van positie, als gevolg van de gekantelde aardas. Door de gekantelde aardas onstaan niet alleen de verschillende jaargetijden, maar zal vanuit b.v. Nederland gezien, de aarde meer of minder naar de maan toe ‘buigen’. Dit ‘buigen’naar de maan toe of van de maan af zal het sterkst zijn op de kortste nacht/dag of langste nacht/dag, wanneer de kanteling van de aarde maximaal is. Dat is rond (indien de maan rond deze data überhaupt zichtbaar is) 21 juni, wanneer de zomer begint, of rond 21 december, wanneer de winter begint. Dit verklaart waarom de maan op haar rug lijkt te zijn gevallen.
Op deze link wordt uigelegd hoe de verschijningsvormen van de maan op het noordelijk en zuidelijk halfrond van elkaar verschillen.
Op deze link is een gif te zien die duidelijk maakt hoe het uiterlijk van de wassende/afnemende maan op het noordelijk halfrond precies het tegenoverstelde is van die op het zuidelijk halfrond.
Op deze link zie je een plaatje die verduidelijkt hoe een waarnemer op het noordelijk halfrond en een waarnemer op het zuidelijk halfrond de maan zien. Tevens is dit een sterke aanwijzing/bewijs dat de aarde niet plat is maar bolvormig is.
Op deze link zie je een foto van de maan vanuit de evenaar genomen. De maansikkel ligt volledig op haar rug of m.a.w. de maan is hier horizontaal i.p.v. verticaal afgesneden.
En dan komt er weer iets bijzonders met betrekking tot de maan en dit keer is het een opname die is gemaakt door ene Charlotte uit de Amerikaanse staat Ohio.
Een enorm object dat langzaam van rechts naar links voor de maan langs schuift.
In de volgende video wordt door Mr. MBB333 uitgelegd dat deze waarneming wel degelijk echt schijnt te zijn, ook omdat er een getuige bij aanwezig was.
De opname wordt bekeken langs diverse filters en het lijkt op een enorm ruimteschip dat even wordt “gevangen”, terwijl het voor de maan langs schuift.
Get your jokes ready, all of you “your-anus” mispronouncers. Your favorite planet to pun is back in the news with the announcement that its odd shape, lopsided position, lack of core heat and out-of-whack magnetic field may have all been caused by a (here comes one) major impact. Not only that, the impactor may have been the mysterious rumored Planet X that could be on a path to eventually come back and pound Uranus again (that’s the last one for now – it’s your turn).
“We have performed a suite of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations to investigate in detail the results of a giant impact on the young Uranus. This cataclysmic event could explain Uranus’ remarkable 98° obliquity and we also study the internal structure, atmospheric retention, and orbiting debris of the post-impact planet.”
A 2004 infrared composite image of the two hemispheres of Uranus obtained with Keck Telescope adaptive optics.
Credit: Lawrence Sromovsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison/W.W. Keck Observatory.
“Most of the material from the impactor’s rocky core falls in to the core of the target. However, for higher angular momentum impacts, significant amounts become embedded anisotropically as lumps in the ice layer. Furthermore, most of the impactor’s ice and energy is deposited in a hot, high-entropy shell at a radius of 3 R. This could explain Uranus’ observed lack of heat flow from the interior and be relevant for understanding its asymmetric magnetic field.”
“Core into core” means it was a catastrophic direct hit, resulting a disruption in Uranus’ center that allowed the surface to be covered with enough ice that little or no heat escapes, making it the solar system’s most frigid planet. The simulations show that somehow the impactor managed to survive and, if it’s the rumored Planet X, may someday return, possibly on the same disastrous path. (Side comment from Beavis and Butthead: “He said anisotropically — hee-hee!”)
NASA wants a better look at Uranus
This latest update on the history and status of Uranus points out one more thing as space scientists lobby for budgets to send another robotic probe to get a better Horizon-to-Pluto-style look at the icy planet. To do that requires putting an end to the jokes, says NASA chief scientist Jim Green in his comments on the study – pointing out that it’s pronounced “YUR-uh-nus” like the Greek god of the sky.
“No one laughs when I say Uranus. They have to mispronounce it to get the chuckles.”
Sorry … not!
Uranus is a lopsided oddity, the only planet to spin on its side. Scientists now think they know how it got that way: It was pushed over by a rock at least twice as big as Earth.
Tales of so-calledhybrid children and hybrid babiesare well known in the field of Ufology. They are overwhelmingly controversial and, for many, disturbing. Most definitely, there is a greater percentage of female abductees who are said to have had interactions with the hybrids than there are male abductees. Under hypnotic regression, numerous women have reportedly been taken on board a UFO, or, on more than a few occasions, to an underground installation, where they are introduced to the hybrids. In such situations the woman will either be laying on something akin to an operating-room table, or sitting in a chair that resembles a dentist’s chair. It’s then that something remarkable happens – although, admittedly, many might call it utterly terrifying. As the abductee looks on, a group of theblack-eyed Grayswill approach, with one of them holding in their hands a tiny baby that is clear not entirely human, even though it exhibits certain, physical, human traits. The abductee is then encouraged to take the baby from the Gray and to cradle it. Researchers of the phenomenon have suggested that this procedure is undertaken to try and instill an emotional bond between the abductee and the hybrid. If this all sounds very calm and tranquil, it very often is the precise opposite. All too often, it’s said to be a downright trauma-filled situation.
Those same abductees, when presented with a hybrid baby, sometimes develop sudden and unexplained suspicions that what they are being shown is the baby they were once carrying, but which they assumed had tragically miscarried. In this scenario (which is – very understandably – extremely controversial, offensive and insensitive to many), abduction researchers suggest that the abductees are impregnated during an earlier abduction, they then carry the fetus for a number of months, and then it is removed from the mother during a later abduction, and essentially “grown” in what we might call an artificial womb. An outrageous scenario, to be sure, but could there be some reality attached to it? I ask that question for a specific reason: we, the Human race, are now working – and working hard and fast – to develop artificial wombs.
The process of growing a fetus, and bringing it to full term in an artificial womb, is called ectogenesis. Much of the research is still at a theoretical stage, predominantly because of restrictions and regulations that govern the ethical, or non-ethical use, of human embryos in experimentation. But, not all of the work is theoretical. As one perfect example, we have to turn our attentions to Japan, and experimentation undertaken in 1997, at the Bunkyo, Tokyo-based Juntendo University. The program was led by Yoshinori Kuwabara – the Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics at the university – who was successful in growing goat embryos that were contained in a machine filled with amniotic fluid, a yellow-colored liquid contained in the amniotic sac, and which surrounds the growing fetus. Such research is still continuing, right now.
Some might say that the process of effectively leaving the mother out of the equation, and having the nine-month-long process of development handled in an artificial womb, may offer notable advantages. There is, however, one potential disadvantage, and it may prove to be a big one, should we ever decide to go down this cold and emotionless pathway. It is the matter of the deep and important bonding between the mother and the unborn fetus that quickly develops when pregnancy begins. Or, in the future, what might very well be a distinct lackof that bonding.
Might we see a 23rd Century, or a 28th Century, in which, as a result of a factory-like environment in which babies are created to order, specification, and design, that the bond is completely lost? Might we see the Human race, hundreds of years from now, reduced to nothing but cold, emotionless entities – in fact, just like the Grays, rather ironically – that will have no understanding of, or even any care for, the emotional angle of what it means to be pregnant? Such a thing, given that research in this field is pressing ahead, is not at all out of the question. It may be sadly inevitable. This same situation may also explain why the Grays are allegedly forced to present hybrid children to human mothers, in an effort to induce bonding: the Grays are utterly incapable of comprehending how to make that bond themselves.
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Orange UFO Over Povoa de Varzim, Portugal Burning In Night Sky, Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Orange UFO Over Povoa de Varzim, Portugal Burning In Night Sky,Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: December 20, 2018
Location of sighting: Povoa de Varzim, Portugal
Source: MUFON
I first wanted to see what was in the dark background of the video, so I took some screenshots and added some light. I found that it was just the roof of the buildings and a glowing UFO far above. Also the video is over 8 minutes long, which means to make a fake that long would literally take 2-4 weeks of solid work without breaks. Because of that, most fakes fall into the 15-45 second mark. So now I do believe that this sighting is real, that something was seen glowing over buildings and its burning so bright orange that no LED or light could produce that sort of light.
I have however seen this light in a few others sightings. One of which was recorded by Carlos Diaz back in 1981 over Mexico. I will place the video at the bottom of this post for you to compare.
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I was smoking on the porch of my house, as usual when I see a strange light of orange color and pulsating and with an apparent diamond shape, in that same location is usually the landing route of planes from the international airport of sa Porto – Portugal, what caught my attention was the time parked and its slow movements, I searched for my camera that was stored and I captured some images and made some videos for your analysis, the visualization of the object occurred on the last day 20 from December 2018 from 11:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
HERE IS A SIGHTING FROM 1981 THAT WAS PROVEN TO BE REAL. TEPOZTLAN, MEXICO.
Fisherman At Outer Banks Captures Video Of Multiplying Lights Over Atlantic
Fisherman At Outer Banks Captures Video Of Multiplying Lights Over Atlantic
A minute and a half video credited to a night fisher in Outer Banks is making the rounds on social media with wild speculations, including a possible UFO sighting off the coast in North Carolina.
ViralHog posted the clip to YouTube on November 9 and reported that it was made in mid-November at Cape Lookout, situated in the southernmost point of the Core Banks. It has since gained around 100,000 views.
Cape Lookout National Seashore’s National Park Service officials said that they weren’t certain what the set of mysterious lights might be, but considered them to be peculiar.
One Outer Banks resident said the mysterious lights have been making appearances off the cape for over 20 years and they have come to believe these lights are harmless. Derek Maxey said the strange lights are not a concern, but he offered no guess at the source of the lights.
ViralHog did not name the angler who recorded the video, but someone named C.R. Larkin posted a similar video on November 24. Larkin wrote that the clip was recorded on November 13 off Cape Lookout, between 9 pm and 10 pm.
Larkin said in his post with the YouTube video that he rebaited his hooks around 9 pm and cast them out into the surf before he walked back to his chair. When Larkin turned back to the ocean, he spotted a light in the sky. Larkin described it as a very bright light, silent and stationary. After around an hour, Larkin stated that the light faded in and out and several times became multiple lights
The strange lights disappeared at one point for almost 20 minutes and then reappeared much closer to Larkin’s position, according to the witness report.
UFO caught on tape over Povoa de Varzim, Portugal 20-Dec-2018
UFO caught on tape over Povoa de Varzim, Portugal 20-Dec-2018
This bright unidentified flying object was filmed in the sky above Povoa de Varzim in Portugal on 20th December 2018.
Witness report:
I was smoking on the porch of my house, as usual when I see a strange light of orange color and pulsating and with an apparent diamond shape, in that same location is usually the landing route of planes from the international airport of sa Porto – Portugal, what caught my attention was the time parked and its slow movements, I searched for my camera that was stored and I captured some images and made some videos for your analysis, the visualization of the object occurred on the last day 20 from December 2018 from 11:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Treasure hunter claims he’s found an ALIEN spaceship while exploring ancient shipwrecks under the Bermuda Triangle
Treasure hunter claims he’s found an ALIEN spaceship while exploring ancient shipwrecks under the Bermuda Triangle
Intrepid shipwreck explorer Darrell Miklos stumbled across the huge structure in the Bahamas using maps designed by an ex-NASA astronaut
By Neal Baker
A TREASURE hunter has made an "astonishing" discovery in the depths of the Bermuda Triangle that he believes is evidence of aliens landing on Earth.
Darrell Miklos uses secret maps created by his ex-NASA astronaut pal Gordon Cooper to unearth shipwrecksin the briny deep.
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The mystery structure was found 300ft below the Caribbean Sea in the Bermuda Triangle
But during one of these trawls, intrepid explorer Darrell stumbled across huge mysterious structures that he thinks could change how we view our place in the universe forever.
The huge unidentified submerged "spaceship" is covered in 15 unusual "protrusions" — which Darrell describes as "unlike anything I have ever seen".
Darrell, who will show off his other-worldly find on his Discovery Channel show Cooper's Treasure, told MailOnline: "It was also something that was completely different from anything that I've seen that was made by nature."
The mystery objects were found lying on the seabed near the Bahamas — within the notorious 1.3million km watery grave known as the Bermuda Triangle.
GETTY - CONTRIBUTOR
Darrell Miklos stumbled across the astonishing structure during a hunt for shipwrecks related to Sir Francis Drake
DISCOVERY CHANNEL The team used submersible craft and special breathing gear to reach the unidentified submerged object
DISCOVERY CHANNEL
The mystery objects lie on the seabed near the Bahamas
It is the scene of countless strange disappearances of planes and ships — attached to which are curious tales that some discredit as myth but others say point to extra-terrestrial or even paranormal happenings.
Veteran diver Darrell made his mammoth discovery during a hunt for the wreck of English ships related to the 16th century Brit sea captain Sir Francis Drake.
INSTAGRAM / DARRELL MIKLOS Miklos insists the structure appeared other-worldly
DISCOVERY CHANNEL At the time of the mysterious discovery Miklos was looking for a shipwreck
He claims Cooper gave him the detailed maps after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's, before his death in 2004 at the age of 77.
In the first season of the show Miklos and his team used them to track down a centuries-old anchor thought to come from one of Christopher Columbus’ ships.
Cooper's maps also led Miklos to dozens of other significant ship wrecks across the Caribbean worth millions.
Describing his approach to his latest find, Darrell said: "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."
DISCOVERY CHANNEL The experienced adventurer says he has been shocked by his find
This map shows where the bizarre discovery was made
GETTY - CONTRIBUTOR Miklos used maps designed by ex-NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper, pictured
He said the object has the appearance of a "battleship" with a steep wall from which five protruding arms stick out like cannons.
Using special breathing apparatus to reach the 300ft-deep "spaceship", Darrell said he and his fellow divers noticed that it did not appear to be man-made.
And the fact it was covered in thick coral suggested the object — if it landed there from beyond our planet — did so hundreds if not thousands of years ago.
GETTY - CONTRIBUTOR Cooper was also a keen treasure hunter who believed aliens may have visited our planet
GETTY - CONTRIBUTOR Miklos will unveil his epic discovery on his Discovery Channel show Cooper's Treasure
Darrell added: "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."
Looking back at the Cooper charts, Darrell came across a puzzling note left by the former spaceman at the site of the structure — "unidentified object".
Now, Californian Darrell wants to investigate the mysterious site further — despite the risk he faces of being dubbed an alien conspiracy theorist.
What is the Bermuda Triangle and why is it so infamous?
The Bermuda Triangle lies in a section of the North Atlantic Ocean which covers a vast area of 440,000 miles of sea.
It's one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, with vessels crossing through to get to ports in America, Europe and the Caribbean.
Nicknamed the Devil's Triangle it has been blamed for the disappearance of dozens of planes and ships over the past 100 years.
When Columbus sailed on his first voyage to the New World, he reported a great flame of fire crashed into the sea one night and that a strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later.
However, reports of unexplained disappearances did not really capture the public’s attention until the 20th century when the USS Cyclops, a 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship with over 300 men on-board, sank somewhere between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay.
One of the most famous mysteries was the disappearance of Flight 19 when five Avenger Torpedo Bombers vanished over the Triangle on December 5, 1945.
All 14 men on the flight disappeared without a trace and a Martin Mariner Flying Boat also vanished during the search with 13 men on board.
At least 1,000 lives have been lost in the last 100 years. On average, four aircraft and 20 yachts go missing in the area every year.
Theories about the Trinagle's strange occurences include UFO abductions, a shield to guard the lost city of Atlantis and sinister secret government testing.
He wants to remain "neutral" until he can dig up more evidence on what the structure could be and is hoping to have a third series of his Discovery show commissioned to help tell the story.
Hopeful Darrell added: "I want to see what it is, because it may be nature-made, just a freak of nature.
"But given its placement in this particular part of the Caribbean and given what Gordon has told me about visitors from another planet and the things that I've seen, I think it's definitely worthwhile investigating".
Two peculiar 'crop circles' have recently been spotted in Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture. Viewable only from above, they were formed by sugi (Japanese cedar) trees.
Conspiracy theorists will be disappointed to learn that there is a very practical explanation for how these shapes emerged: science. Specifically, it was the result of a scientific experiment that spanned close to 50 years.
According to documentation (PDF) we obtained from Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, in 1973 an area of land near Nichinan City was designated as "experimental forestry" and one of the experiments was to try and measure the effect of tree spacing on growth. The experiment was carried out by planting trees in 10 degree radial increments forming 10 concentric circles of varying diameters.
Part of what makes the crop circles so alluring are their concave shape, which was an unexpected result of the experiment that would suggest tree density does indeed affect growth. The trees are due to be harvested in about 5 years but officials are now considering preserving the crop circles.
Below is an image from Google Earth, which is unfortunately a bit dark. For those who are interested, here are the exact coordinates.
Gatwick CONSPIRACY: Drone expert CONVINCED object is UFO or 'plastic bag with lights on'
Gatwick CONSPIRACY:Drone expert CONVINCED object is UFO or 'plastic bag with lights on'
A DRONE expert has claimed that the closure of Gatwick Airport has nothing to do with an errant drone but is in fact either a UFO or a conspiracy hatched in order to ban drone use once and for all.
The editor of Drone User magazine, Steve Timewell, made the astonishing claims on TalkRadio this afternoon. The drone efficianado said: “The sensationalist media love this type of story. And who knows - it could be a conspiracy to force the total banning of all drones.
Radio host Jamie East paused for a moment, as if struggling to know how to respond.
He began slowly: “Gatwick airport would shut down for a day just to get rid of drones?”
Mr Timewell continued: “The first thing we need to clarify in this situation is if this test incident is an alleged drone incident.
“As with all drone reports, we’ve yet to see any photographic evidence of a drone involved.”
Gatwick Airport: A drone expert suggested the 'drone' could be a 'plastic bag with lights'
(Image: Sky)
Mr East questioned: “What else could it be?”
His guest explained: “So basically, at the moment, this is a UFO sighting which is an unidentified flying object and it should be described as that until we know otherwise.
“It could be a carrier bag with lights on, who knows?”
Mr East didn’t look entirely convinced by this suggestion.
But his guest used his own logic to unravel the situation: “There are two types of drone user - the first is the type that sees the benefit of drones and uses them responsibly.
“The second one is the person who buys a cheap diesel drone off eBay and just flies it wherever he likes.
“However, no matter how stupid this person is, I don’t believe that they would fly it over Gatwick Airport.
“So basically, this is either a deliberate attempt to cause disruption to the airport or a deliberate attempt to discredit drones.”
Gatwick Airport: The Sussex airport has been closed for over 24 hours after a drone was spotted over
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Gatwick Airport has been closed after drones flew over the runway forcing all flights in and out to be suspended, leaving hundreds and thousands of travellers hoping to get away for Christmas stranded.
Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman stated that those flying the drones were “irresponsible and completely unacceptable” and voiced sympathy for people having their travel plans upset just days before Christmas.
Theresa May herself later made a statement saying: “I feel for all those passengers whose travel plans have been disrupted by this drone activity and the action that has had to be taken in response to it. At this particular time of year this is particularly difficult for people.
“We have already passed legislation in relation to the use of drones. As it has been made clear, the activity we have seen is illegal and those who are caught endangering aircraft can face up to five years in prison. And we’re consulting on further aspects of this including further police powers.
“We will continue to work with the Gatwick authorities in order to bring this to a close such that people will be able to get on to the travel that they were expecting over the Christmas.”
Police say they are considering trying to shoot down the drone that has shut Gatwick Airport for more than 24 hours.
Sussex Police has received about 50 reports of a drone being flown around the airport since Wednesday evening.
Det Ch Supt Jason Tingley said shooting the drone was discounted earlier but is a "tactical option" and something which is being "continually reviewed".
"We have got some estimations around the size of the drone, what it looks like.
"We haven't yet identified the specific make and model of the drone. That will influence our tactical options."
"We have a number of persons of interest that we are following up.
“We are following all lines of inquiry and that would include particular groups.
“The military are here completely as a supportive role, it’s a police lead investigation and operation, and they are here to provide that additional support.
“We have to work on the assumption that this is a professionally prepared drone with the intent of causing the disruption that it has.”
An Easyjet spokesperson said: "We are making every effort to get people to their destination at this important time of the year, but following reports of drones flying over Gatwick Airport, the runway remains closed and all flights are currently suspended."
Mars Volcano, Earth’s Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time
Mars Volcano, Earth’s Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time
New NASA research reveals that the giant Martian shield volcano Arsia Mons produced one new lava flow at its summit every 1 to 3 million years during the final peak of activity. The last volcanic activity there ceased about 50 million years ago—around the time of Earth’s Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction, when large numbers of our planet’s plant and animal species (including dinosaurs) went extinct.
Located just south of Mars’ equator, Arsia Mons is the southernmost member of a trio of broad, gently sloping shield volcanoes collectively known as Tharsis Montes. Arsia Mons was built up over billions of years, though the details of its lifecycle are still being worked out. The most recent volcanic activity is thought to have taken place in the caldera—the bowl-shaped depression at the top—where 29 volcanic vents have been identified. Until now, it’s been difficult to make a precise estimate of when this volcanic field was active.
This digital-image mosaic of Mars' Tharsis plateau shows the extinct volcano Arsia Mons. It was assembled from images that the Viking 1 Orbiter took during its 1976-1980 working life at Mars. Credits: NASA/JPL/USGS
“We estimate that the peak activity for the volcanic field at the summit of Arsia Mons probably occurred approximately 150 million years ago—the late Jurassic period on Earth—and then died out around the same time as Earth’s dinosaurs,” said Jacob Richardson, a postdoctoral researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “It’s possible, though, that the last volcanic vent or two might have been active in the past 50 million years, which is very recent in geological terms.”
Richardson is presenting the findings on March 20, 2017, at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas. The study also is published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Measuring about 68 miles (110 kilometers) across, the caldera is deep enough to hold the entire volume of water in Lake Huron, and then some. Examining the volcanic features within the caldera required high-resolution imaging, which the researchers obtained from the Context Camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The team mapped the boundaries of the lava flows from each of the 29 volcanic vents and determined the stratigraphy, or layering, of the flows. The researchers also performed a technique called crater counting—tallying up the number of craters at least 330 feet (100 meters) in diameter—to estimate the ages of the flows.
Using a new computer model developed by Richardson and his colleagues at the University of South Florida, the two types of information were combined to determine the volcanic equivalent of a batting lineup for Arsia Mons’ 29 vents. The oldest flows date back about 200 million years. The youngest flows probably occurred 10 to 90 million years ago—most likely around 50 million years ago.
The modeling also yielded estimates of the volume flux for each lava flow. At their peak about 150 million years ago, the vents in the Arsia Mons’ caldera probably collectively produced about 1 to 8 cubic kilometers of magma every million years, slowly adding to the volcano’s size.
“Think of it like a slow, leaky faucet of magma,” said Richardson. “Arsia Mons was creating about one volcanic vent every 1 to 3 million years at the peak, compared to one every 10,000 years or so in similar regions on Earth.”
A better understanding of when volcanic activity on Mars took place is important because it helps researchers understand the Red Planet’s history and interior structure.
“A major goal of the Mars volcanology community is to understand the anatomy and lifecycle of the planet’s volcanoes. Mars’ volcanoes show evidence for activity over a larger time span than those on Earth, but their histories of magma production might be quite different,” said Jacob Bleacher, a planetary geologist at Goddard and a co-author on the study. “This study gives us another clue about how activity at Arsia Mons tailed off and the huge volcano became quiet.”
Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates the Context Camera. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
But now recent atmospheric surveys call into question the presence of the gas, according to research presented last week by American and European astronomers at the 2018 Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Just The Facts
Here’s what we know: The ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter(TGO) reached its orbit around Mars in 2016, when it began its mission to monitor and analyze the Red Planet’s atmosphere. Though scientists expected the TGO’s extremely sensitive sensors to pick up on atmospheric methane, it has yet to detect any at all.
The orbiter is capable of detecting trace amounts of methane — concentrations as low as 50 parts per trillion — at any elevation in Mars’ atmosphere. And yet it came back with bupkis.
However, the scientists working on the project concede that these are preliminary results. There’s still plenty of noise to clean out of the data and more analysis to be done.
Developing Case
These preliminary findings demonstrate a classic example of how the absence of evidence is not the same as the evidence of absence. It is far too soon to throw out all of the evidence for Martian methane. The scientists behind this TGO research are confident that the orbiter’s sensors are working correctly and that NASA and the ESA’s previous methane findings couldn’t all be incorrect, according to Universe Today.
It’s possible, according to the scientists, that methane seeps out of Martian soil rather than originating in the atmosphere, which would make it easier to detect with a rover than an orbiter like the TGO.
Needless to say, this is far from an open-and-shut case, and we’re likely to learn more about Mars’ atmosphere as the TGO team finalizes its results.
This is the first time multiple gas giant planets have been observed orbiting a "toddler" star. Our Milky Way galaxy is filled with stars that have been around for billions of years; our sun is about 4.5 billion years old.
It's also the first time such extreme variation has been observed in the orbits of planets within a star system. The astronomers found that the outermost of CI Tau's known planets orbits at a distance 1,000 times greater than the orbit of its innermost planet, which is designated a "hot Jupiter" because of its size and its tight orbit around its host star.
CI Tau's hot Jupiter, known as CI Tau b, was first observed in 2016with help from the ALMA radio telescope in Chile. But when the international team of astronomers used ALMA to take a fresh look at CI Tau in the fall of 2017, they detected three gaps in the star's protoplanetary disk — the vast swirling cloud of ice and dust that surrounds it. The gaps are considered strong evidence of the presence of three additional gas giant planets around CI Tau.
Antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes.ESO/C. Malin
The discovery led the astronomers to question existing ideas about how long it takes large planets to form.
"This is telling us that giant planets must form rapidly in the protoplanetary disk — which is in contrast to the most common model for planet formation, which involves a slow growth of a solid core followed by gas accreting onto it to form a gas giant planet," Farzana Meru, an astrophysicist at the University of Warwick in England and a co-author of a paper about the research, told NBC News MACH in an email.
Cathie Clarke, a University of Cambridge astronomer and the paper's lead author, said in an email that it was unclear just how common systems like CI Tau are. But she said the research shows that "planetary systems are even more diverse than we thought," adding that the past two decades of exoplanetary discoveries "have shown us time and time again that we need to adjust our theories in light of new data."
New ideas about planetary formation could lead ultimately to new ideas about the origins of life.
"You want to know how planets form because that's the source of life in the universe," said Jackie Faherty, an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, who wasn't involved in the new research. In light of the new discovery, she said, "the pathway to getting life in the universe" may be more varied than we have realized.
Bob Lazars Fatal Scientific Flaw. Why His Science Does NOT Work.
Bob Lazars Fatal Scientific Flaw. Why His Science Does NOT Work.
I have mixed feelings as I write this article. I liked Bob Lazar when I was younger. When I heard of Bob Lazar for the first time in early 1990 I was initially fascinated by his story. I was fresh out of high school and had a wide-eyed fascination for the story of Area 51 and the alien enigma. Bob Lazar appeared like the average science nerd. You could just picture him in a lab coat with a pocket protector full of Bic’s. I knew many of those pocket protector types through the years and all were good people. Couldn’t talk to the ladies or match their socks but decent folk nonetheless.
It pains me but I have to be truthful in what I know about physics and the Bob Lazar story. His science does not work! His whole explanation of how the alien crafts propulsion functions make NO scientific sense at all. Especially since in the last few years we have been able to synthesize element 115 and have been able to detect gravitational waves thanks to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
Background
On November 11 and 13, 1989, viewers of KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada, heard an incredible story from news reporter George Knapp: A scientist had come forth to reveal that the U.S. government possesses the remains of extraterrestrial vehicles. From these vehicles have come extraordinary technological breakthroughs.
The scientist, Robert Scott Lazar, said he had worked in the S-4 section of Area 51, a corner of the Nevada Test Site. There, he had read documents indicating the existence of ongoing research on an “anti-gravity reactor” for use in propulsion systems. He was astonished, he said, but he was even more shocked to be shown nine flying discs “of extraterrestrial origin” stored in a hangar. As part of the gravity-harnessing propulsion, the craft used an element, 115, unknown on Earth, because it is “impossible to synthesize an element that heavy here on Earth. The substance has to come from a place where super-heavy elements could have been produced naturally.” From the recovered craft the U.S. government had allegedly collected some 500 pounds of element 115.
He supposedly came forward with his story despite death threats because he thought the public has a right to know.
Here is the video where he lays out his knowledge on how alien spacecraft propulsion allegedly works. If you have not seen it before watch it now:
Reality
Ununpentium (element 115 | symbol: Uup) is the temporary name of a super-heavy element that was first synthesized in 2003 by a joint team of Russian and American scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia. With the atomic number 115 in the periodic table, the synthetic element is also known as element 115, or eka-bismuth. In December 2015, it was recognized as one of four new elements by the Joint Working Party of international scientific bodies IUPAC and IUPAP. In June 2016, the IUPAC suggested the element be named moscovium /mɒsˈkoʊviəm/ (element symbol: Mc), a name to be formally accepted by the end of 2016.
It has a very short half-life so there is no way to accumulate pounds of it. It has a verifiable half-life of only 220 milliseconds. They now known half-life of the element destroys any childish idea of the “Island of Stability” hypothesis. That was one of Bob’s conjectures during his video.
Element 115 is an extremely unlikely candidate for interstellar fuel, having a half-life of milliseconds; furthermore, it is even less likely that proton bombardment would transmute it into element 116, as the cross-section of that reaction would be ridiculously small.
I can even give you a physical analogy. When a pebble hits a car it bounces off; when a car hits another car they can frequently merge into a combined wreck. That is why the synthesis of superheavy elements usually involve smashing one heavy atom into another – element 115 was produced by firing calcium at americium – rather than starting with an already heavy and unstable atom and “working your way up”.
Furthermore, element 115 or any other active element doesn’t decay by emitting antiprotons. Superheavy nuclei dribble out nucleons like a spitting baby, and that takes the form of alpha particles. Not only is that what we would theoretically predict, that is what we actually observe.
Even if there were an element that decayed by emitting antiprotons, those antiprotons couldn’t possibly produce gravitational waves. The gravitational waves detected by LIGO emitted more power than the entire universe, for a brief moment. On Earth, they rung the LIGO instrument with vibrations smaller than a fraction of the width of a proton. Now imagine how big a gravitational wave you could get from a proton annihilating an antiproton.
Wait, you can’t imagine anything? Exactly.
In General Relativity, gravity is described as a distortion of space-time, not as a particle or a wave. There are phenomena known as “gravitational waves” which exist in General Relativity, but this does not seem to be what Lazar is talking about. Lazar says that gravity IS a wave. It isn’t a wave. The “gravitons” which he speaks of are a feature of quantum gravitational theories.
All physicists realize that the theories of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are incomplete because they are mutually incompatible. In order to have a complete theory, theoretical physicists are looking to combine the two into a unified theory which will involve a quantum theory of gravity. There are currently no quantum theories of gravity that work. But even though a satisfactory theory does not yet exist, there is nothing at all nonsensical about gravitons. When an adequate quantum theory of gravity IS formulated, the energy of the gravitational field will be quantized. This quantum of the gravitational field is what physicists call the graviton. It is no more nonsensical than the photon – which is the quantum of the electromagnetic field.
If the alien spacecraft somehow had a functioning gravitational wave emitter which could power flight, it would affect the gravitational behaviour of the Solar System. Yes, even if the alien spacecraft can somehow shield itself from gravity and such, but the planets can’t. The gravitational wave detected by LIGO issued across billions of light-years with barely any absorption. Do you want to run an alien spacecraft with gravitational wave power high enough to counteract the gravity of an entire planet? Those same gravitational waves would propagate throughout the Solar System, rendering any precision space travel trajectories unusable each time the spacecraft was fired up.
Soooooooooo, nope.
Bob invented two different types of gravity to suit his hypothesis. He stated in his video that there are two types of gravity. He coined them gravity (A) and gravity (B). He stated that the gravity (A) wave in element 115 extended past the nucleus into the intra-atomic structure. Thus it could be amplified (like any other signal? Completely meaningless statement) to produce a gravity field in which you could control and manipulate. The whole concept of amplifying a gravity wave breaks ALL laws of thermodynamics and common sense. It is just as ridiculous as the idea of amplifying matter would be.
Gravity (A) is what is currently being labelled as the “strong nuclear force” in mainstream physics. This is the place where Lazar begins to get himself in real trouble.
As it is understood now, the strong nuclear force has NOTHING TO DO WITH GRAVITY. Such a statement shows either a complete lack of understanding of the physics of the Standard Model of particle interactions, or a BLATANT attempt at deception. The equations and coupling strengths which describe the two forces are totally different and unrelated. The strong force couples only to quarks and gluons. The gravitational force couples to all particles with mass. The strong force is an extremely short range. The range of gravity is infinite. The gravitational coupling constant is orders of magnitude smaller than that of the strong interaction. There is NO BASIS for using the word “gravity” to describe the strong interaction IN ANYWAY AT ALL.
Nonsensical in the extreme.
Conclusion
It is clear to me that Bob Lazar is a fraud. The question is was he a knowing fraud or not. The video presentation of the science by Lazar is troubling from a scientific standpoint. Mr Lazar on many occasions demonstrates an obvious lack of understanding of current physical theories. I feel that there is a good reason why his credentials cannot be identified and corroborated. Because they are made up and do not exist. I know a paycheck stub has been presented as proof of his employment. That in itself may prove something but it does not prove the legitimacy of his claim in totality. I have never heard Lazar talk like a scientist would. He never uses scientific lingo…Ever! As far as I could find online he has never had a debate or a panel with real physicists. To me, the reason is glaringly obvious.
I am going to be kind and go with the hypothesis that he was an unwitting dupe. Some young schmuck that was brought into the bowls of disinformation who subsequently ate it all up. If he was a dupe he played the role very well. One thing I can say about Lazar is that over the past 25 years he did not act like other fraudsters in UFOlogy. He never made the rounds of all the conferences. Or published book after book of scientific gibberish. He just kind of disappeared for a few decades. Sure he got busted in a brothel scandal but that is a completely different issue.
He has been acting in my opinion like someone that after a time realized that he was duped. His 20-year disappearance could support that. Or, he is a gigantic UFO fraudster who’s lie got totally out of hand. Hard to say. I’m going with an unknowing dupe. Either way, there is absolutely no reason to believe any of his story at all.
The spacecraft has been given a “go” to take the optimal path past Ultima Thule, which is a Kuiper Belt object, a billion miles beyond Pluto. The encounter will be January 1, 2019.
Ultima Thule is the bright yellow spot in the middle. The 2 possible flyby distances for New Horizons are indicated by the 2 concentric circles. The mission has decided to fly along the closer path, toward the target point marked by an X.
NASA said last week it has given a “go” to its New Horizons spacecraft, the same craft that made humanity’s first-ever visit to Pluto in 2015. The craft is still speeding outward in our solar system. It’s now approaching its next target, aKuiper Belt objecta billion miles beyond Pluto, nicknamed Ultima Thule. NASA said that – after a three-week search – it has found no apparent obstacles in the spacecraft’s optimal path, no rings, no small moons, no potential hazards. Thus New Horizons is now aimed on that optimal path for its January 1, 2019, encounter with Ultima Thule.
It will be another first for New Horizons, the farthest planetary flyby in human history.
And now we know the spacecraft’s path will take it about 2,200 miles (3,500 km) from Ultima Thule, instead of a hazard-avoiding detour that would have pushed it three times farther out. The last opportunity to maneuver the spacecraft onto another trajectory was December 18.
New Horizons was launched in 2006 and had its historic encounter with Pluto in 2015. Now the craft is in the Kuiper Belt, preparing to encounter its 1st object in this region, Ultima Thule, on January 1, 2019.
In the meantime, as New Horizons gets closer to Ultima Thule (which is officially designated 2014 MU69) the mission’s science team is puzzling over the light reflected from this object.
The spacecraft has been taking hundreds of images to measure Ultima’s brightness, but these recent measurements appear to be at odds with a 2017 observation, made when Ultima Thule covered (occulted) a star as seen from Earth. That 2017 observation suggested that Ultima Thule might be not one, but two bodies orbiting around each other. If there aren’t two objects there, the science team said in 2017, then this little Kuiper Belt object might have a pronounced elongated shape.
Now scientists aren’t sure what to think, since repeated observations over the past three months haven’t revealed the variations in brightness they’d expect from two bodies, or from a spinning elongated body. Those variations in brightness are what scientists call a light curve. New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, commented in a statement:
I call this Ultima’s first puzzle – why does it have such a tiny light curve that we can’t even detect it? I expect the detailed flyby images coming soon to give us many more mysteries, but I did not expect this, and so soon.
There are various possible explanations, including that Ultima Thule’s rotation pole may be aimed right at or close to the incoming spacecraft. Or Ultima Thule may be surrounded by a cloud of dust that obscures its light and makes the observations difficult to read. University of Virginia’s Anne Verbiscer, a New Horizons assistant project scientist, suggested an even stranger possibility:
Ultima [may be] surrounded by many tiny tumbling moons. If each moon has its own light curve, then together they could create a jumbled superposition of light curves that make it look to New Horizons like Ultima has a small light curve.
While that explanation is also plausible, she added, it has no parallel in all the other bodies of our solar system.
New Horizons will make its historic close approach to Ultima Thule at 05:33 UTC (12:33 a.m. EST; translate UTC to your time) on January 1, 2019. Stern commented:
The spacecraft is now targeted for the optimal flyby, over three times closer than we flew to Pluto. Ultima, here we come!
Ultima’s shape was measured in July 2017 as its silhouette passed in front of a star – what’s known as a stellar occultation. View an animated version of this occultation.
Scientists Struggle To Explain Green Glow Thunderstorm Over Sidney
Scientists Struggle To Explain Green Glow Thunderstorm Over Sidney
A recent hailstorm in Sydney, Australia resulted in the skies turning green.
Pictures were posted online of the storm, which featured a sky with acreepytint of green. The pictures have sparked some debate as to the reason for the green glow.
There are many theories as to why the clouds turned green. Doctor Joshua Soderholm, a scientist at Monash University, has tried to clear up much of the debate surrounding the mystery.
Thursday's storm looked like something out of a horror story
Many people at first thought that it was light coming off green grass that was reflected through the storm and back into the eyes of humans. Soderholm explained that this was not accurate.
Soderholm dismisses another popular theory that claims the green clouds developed because of the difference between warmer afternoon light colors and the cloud.
Soderholm claims that the clouds may have appeared green due to the thunderstorms acting as a filter. The light going through the thunderstorm is filtering out specific wavelengths. One of the wavelengths that made it through the storm was green in color, according to Soderholm.
Soderholm also claims that many meteorologists, as well as himself, believe that green clouds symbolize a future hailstorm. The more severe the storm, the more pronounced the color of green in the clouds.
Also observed was colored lightning in relation to the recent storm in Sydney. Soderholm explains that this relates to the moisture content of the air. Dry air will produce different colored lightning than humid air for example. Also affecting the color of lightning in the presence of dust in the air, which typically turns the lightning a color in between red and orange.
Kuiper Belt Object "Ultima Thule" Does Not Behave Like An Asteroid, Scientists Are Confused
Kuiper Belt Object "Ultima Thule" Does Not Behave Like An Asteroid, Scientists Are Confused
The NASA aircraft New Horizons is bearing down on Ultima Thule. Ultima Thule is the New Year’s target in the distant Kuiper Belt. New Horizons has taken hundreds of pictures over the past few months in order to measure the brightness of Ultima Thule and to study how it rotates.
New Horizons Rendezvous with Ultima Thule On Jan. 1, 2019
These pictures have revealed a mystery surrounding Ultima Thule. This mystery is related to the assumption that the Kuiper Belt is not shaped like a sphere but rather shaped as elongated or as two objects. Observations through New Horizons have not seen repeated pulsations in brightness they would expect if the object were shaped as elongated or as two objects. This is called a light curve.
Ultima Thule isn’t changing its brightness at all
The light curve of Ultima Thule is classified as undetected which is not what the New Horizons team would expect.
New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern said:
"I call this Ultima's first puzzle – why does it have such a tiny light curve that we can't even detect it? I expect the detailed flyby images coming soon to give us many more mysteries, but I did not expect this, and so soon."
There are a few explanations regarding these findings. One explanation is that Ultima Thule is surrounding by a cloud of dust that obscures its light curve. Another explanation is that Ultima Thule is highly populated with tiny tumbling moons. The assumption is that each moon may contain a light curve of its own. Together, the light curve and its moon would create a chaotic superposition of light curves that make it appear to New Horizons as a small light curve. This explanation is also plausible but would be the first of its kind in our solar system.
There are other explanations as well to add to the uncertainty. Scientists are studying each possible theory, as well as trying to come up with new theories in order to solve this mystery. New Horizons will fly by Ultima Thule on January 1, and should give us high-resolution photos of the entire system. With any luck, those photos will solve the mystery.
This is one for the books as a UFO Mothership is filmed releasing what looks like a metallic sphere or drone over the sea. There are many amazing things going on with this and it looks like it could be the real deal? As far as information goes, there is hardly any other than the video itself. But let's face it the most important part of this story is there. It's like having a book without the cover. I will continue to update this story as and when the information becomes available. I really expect that we'll come across some more information about this as it's just so good. The metallic sphere or drone released by the Mothership is definitely spinning as it drops so why is that? It seems like it is not under any control at the point of it been dropped so that would suggest it is remotely controlled?
It's videoed actually releasing a metallic drone or in my opinion a capsule to maybe gather some sort of information which ties in with common beliefs that these UFOs are here to spy on us or to just observe and send information back to the Aliens planet. For what reason, well that's just pure speculation (also this video is speculation). Is this real or is this just another Hollywood style CGI video released to make people think this is a real Mothership. Overall it might be part of a bigger picture of getting the public ready for disclosure so by releasing fakes "still" could be part of the disclosure?
There could be people out there tasked with getting people ready or used to the idea that Aliens are here and UFOs are real? So these could be so real looking and it's part of the disclosure project.
Again we have to evaluate every scenario, we have to look at every possible answer and no matter how silly it sounds. This is because sometimes the more crazy it is, well that demands a crazy answer.
Believing in Aliens is considered crazy! Believing you saw a UFO is considered crazy!
So to get an answer, we need to go there - otherwise we wont get an answer and it's as simple as that. So there is no such thing as a crazy answer unless one is intentionally made up. Sourceufolovers Instagram.
Tsunami & Volcanic Blast in Sumatra Indonesia - Mt. Krakatau 55,000 ft Explosion (Video)
Tsunami & Volcanic Blast in Sumatra Indonesia - Mt. Krakatau 55,000 ft Explosion (Video)
December 22-23, 2018 – An extremely large seismic event has taken place in Sumatra Indonesia, including a large blast + region wide tsunami originating from Mount Krakatau.
This week , a 7 day warning was issued on December 17, 2018 for Sumatra and Mt. Krakatau -
Indonesia’s disaster management agency says the death toll from a tsunami believed to be triggered by a volcanic eruption has climbed to 222, with 843 others injured and 28 missing.
That was an amazing feed from you. So much information you were showing us. I really enjoyed it, well sort of because it’s bad news so it’s not enjoyable but important that you identify it first!!!! Bravo to you. Yes, you get an appreciation from me to say well done!! Everyone should be following you. Alpha Omega
CARITA BEACH, Indonesia (AP) — A tsunami believed to be triggered by a volcanic eruption killed at least 222 people in Indonesia during a busy holiday weekend, sweeping away hotels, hundreds of houses and a group of people attending a beach concert.
More than 800 were reported injured and 28 missing after the tsunami hit around the Sunda Strait on Saturday night, the Disaster Management Agency said. The toll could continue to rise because some areas had not yet been reached. USNews
The fairies of times long gone were very far removed from what one might be accustomed to seeing on a modern day Christmas card. Contrary to the belief that fairies grow to barely five to six inches tall, the creatures of old reached heights similar to those of young children – that’s to say roughly around three feet tall. They were most often described as looking very old, wizened, and even sinister. They lived deep underground, in darkened hollows, in mounds that opened up into vast, cavernous, winding regions, and in magical domains where aging was non-existent, disease was unknown, and, for all intents and purposes, life seemed to go on forever.
In addition to that, the little people – like fairies all across the planet – had an obsession with human reproduction: they stole newborn babies from their cradles, sometimes replacing them with one of their own, magical kind. It was a creature termed a “changeling,” most often a fairy baby, but sometimes an ailing, very old fairy. On other occasions, the fairies left effigies, often carved out of wood, and known as the “stock’ or the “fetch,” which were designed to resemble a baby. In mere days, however, the effigy would degrade, revealing it to be nothing more than the rotted wood of an old tree. It hardly needs saying that none of these replacements offered any kind of comfort to the distraught parents, who just wanted their children returned as soon as possible. Unfortunately, they seldom were – if ever.
There was a very good reason why the fairies were so intent on kidnapping human babies: a staple part of fairy lore tells of how the creatures were very often blighted in their attempts to reproduce, with miscarriages and deformities leading the pack when it came to fairy births. So, they would try and strengthen their stock via the introduction of new blood: ours, to be precise. Generally, the stolen baby would, as an adult, marry into fairy nobility.
On this same path of improving the fairy stock, there are numerous tales in centuries-old Celtic lore of men becoming dazzled and entranced by fairies – very often late at night on lonely roads, or in the depths of silent, enchanting woods – and taken to the fairy kingdom where they would engage in sex with female fairies, and usually with fairy queens. In 1886, F.S. Wilde, a noted historian on Celtic folklore and mythology, said: “The queen [of the fairies] is more beautiful than any woman on earth, yet Finvarra [the king of the fairies] loves the mortal woman best, and wiles them down to his fairy palace by the subtle charm of the fairy music, for no one who has yet heard it can resist its power, and they are fated to belong to the fairies ever after. Their friends mourn for them as dead with much lamentation, but in reality they are leading a joyous life down in the heart of the hill, in the fairy palace with the silver columns and the crystal walls.”
Then there is the matter of what we might call “missing time.” One thing, more than any other, confirmed an encounter with the fairies: when the person – or, perhaps, “the victim” is a better term to use – who had encountered these magical beings returned to our world, they typically found that days, weeks, or even years, had gone by, despite being absolutely certain in their own minds that the passage of time was no more than scarcely a few hours.
A classic example of this is the 13th Century story of one Thomas the Rhymer, a bard of Berwickshire, Scotland. While strolling, alone, one night, on the banks of the Leader Water, Thomas is confronted by the most beautiful woman he has ever encountered in his life, sitting atop a huge, white, horse. Her hair is golden, and her green cloak is adorned with priceless, sparkling jewels. She introduces herself as none other than the queen of the fairies. Thomas, practically, hypnotized by her beauty, asks for a kiss. The queen agrees, but demands that, in return, Thomas must travel with her to the fairy kingdom, where he will serve her – meaning sex. He eagerly agrees. For Thomas, it seems that no more than three days has passed by, when he is returned to our world. He is, however, terrified to find that no less than seven years have elapsed. So smitten is he by the queen – who has given him the gift of prophecy – Thomas eventually returns to the fairy realm to live out the rest of his days, perhaps no longer able to relate to our world, after seeing what lies beyond the veil.
A similar story, from the 19th century, tells of two Welshmen, Llewellyn and Rhys, who were walking to their homes late one night when they heard the sound of enchanting, hypnotic music. While Rhys was entranced by it, Llewellyn was not: he knew it was the chilling calling-card of the fairies, and that listening to the music for too long would lead one to fall under the spell of the little people. Rhys refused to budge; Llewellyn fled. On the following day, Llewellyn tentatively returned to the scene and found, to his amazement and concern, Rhys wildly dancing in what was termed “a fairy circle.” Despite the passing of a day, Rhys was sure he had only been dancing for mere minutes.
There is another factor that comes into play here: the issue of small, diminutive entities, of a supernatural nature, displaying a somewhat morbid obsession with newborn babies and human reproduction, and who have the ability to leave the targeted individual with a distinct sense of “missing time,” are staple factors of what have become known, today, as “alien abductions.” Of course, there is nothing new about any of this at all: check out the work of Jacques Vallee, particularly so Passport to Magonia, a book that I think gets closer to the truth of the UFO phenomenon than most.
In the world of UFO truth-seeking, one of the most significant events in recent memory was last year’s apparent disclosure of a secretive research project within the Pentagon. That project, known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, was created to analyze evidence of anomalous aerial activity gathered by the U.S. military. The disclosure of the program was accompanied by several videos which were reported to show U.S. aircraft being easily out maneuvered by strange objects capable of speeds and acrobatics far out of reach of current military aircraft. While those “disclosures” have been great fodder for headlines over the last year, the man who formerly headed the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program recently made comments suggesting more, bigger disclosures are in store for 2019.
Luis Elizondo recently sat down with legendary journalist George Knapp to discuss all that’s happened in the year since the initial disclosure of the program. In the interview, Elizondo suggests that while last year was a big one, 2019 could be even bigger:
Data is forthcoming. So, that’s a good thing. Data is beginning to flow in the direction that it’s supposed to flow in. Decisions can now finally be made that need to be made. From my perspective, that is a huge accomplishment. But at the same time, we also have to respect these individuals’ privacy. We have to respect their professional positions and allow them to collect as much data as they can before they do anything with it.
Of course, as a career intelligence officer, Elizondo parses his words carefully and doesn’t reveal anything specific. Of course, you have to wonder: does he actually have anything specific to disclose? If the AATIP program Elizondo headed was as steeped in actual evidence as was reported, then probably so.
At another point in the interview, Elizondo hints that while the videos that have been released so far help shine light on all of the strangeness going on in our skies, there’s plenty more where they came from:
I think we have a much better understanding in the depth and scope that the Department of Defense has played in recent times, not historical 40s and 50s. I’m talking very recent regarding the UFO phenomenon. I think people will be surprised just how frequent and the volume in which these things are apparently recorded and observed by active duty military people on missions, around the world, by the way.
Of course, given DeLonge’s announcement of a new television series, could all of this merely be a clever multi-year campaign to build the “To The Stars Academy” brand? Along those same lines, could all of this talk of disclosure be another smokescreen to conceal what’s really going on in the skies? Just because these aircraft (or whatever they are) are highly advanced doesn’t necessarily mean they’re aliens, after all. What’s really going on in those Pentagon videos? Will we ever know, or is all of this a distraction?
The following footage was submitted to YouTube channel Mrmb333 and was shot by an amateur photographer taken a video of the Moon on December 21, 2018.
While filming the full Moon a huge dark object comes into view crossing the moon without changing speed. It looks like it flies slightly behind the Moon at the top.
A remarkable detail; the full Moon occurred at the first day of the winter solstice late Friday afternoon and coincides with the Ursids meteor shower which is visible between December 17 and 25, 2018. A full moon coincides with the first day of winter solistice is a unique event given that the next time a full moon lines up with the winter solstice will be 2094.
The next footage shows the dark circular object at the moment it crosses the moon at the first day of the winter solstice.
What's That Weird Cloud That's Been Looming Over Mars for Weeks?
What's That Weird Cloud That's Been Looming Over Mars for Weeks?
A 930-mile-long cloud is suspended over one of Mars' volcanoes.
Image: ESA/GCP/UPV/EHU Bilbao
For over a month, Mars orbiters have been watchinga weird Martian cloud that resembles a booger and is so large that it can be seen with telescopes on Earth.
Suspended over the western slope of Arsia Mons, an enormous volcano near the red planet’s equator, the elongated cloud stretches for about 930 miles, and was first spotted by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express orbiter on September 13. Though the cloud looks like the kind of volcanic plumes huffed out by Earth’s active volcanoes, Arsia Mons is long extinct—its last eruption is estimated to have occurredaround 50 million years ago.
The volcano still plays a role in shaping the water-ice cloud, though, along with atmospheric dust levels and the Martian seasons.
Image: ESA/GCP/UPV/EHU Bilbao
With its 12-mile-high peak and diameter of nearly 400 miles, Arsia Mons is 30 times more voluminous than the largest volcanoes on Earth. Its humongous bulk condenses and cools air currents as they pass over the summit, creating this “orographic cloud”—a nephologic formation that tend to form over leeward (downwind) slopes—on the western flank of the volcano.
Similar clouds observed in 2009, 2012, and 2015 coincided with the winter season, so it’s not surprising that this one showed up a few weeks before the Martian winter solstice on October 16. Plus, Mars was recently gripped by a dust storm that encircled the planet in June and July that likely boosted the cloud’s visibility and size.
Maybe one day, we’ll be able to view this rare event from the the surface through the eyes of a rover, lander, or even a human crew near Arsia Mons, which has inspired science fiction stories due to its possible cave system. In the meantime, Mars Express will continue snapping raw images of the cloud until it fades away, so you can follow its progress safely from Earth.
These three radar images of hippo-shaped near-Earth asteroid 2003 SD220 were captured between Dec. 15-17, 2018 using NASA's Goldstone antenna, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR/NSF/GBO
If only a hippopotamus will do this Christmas, Santa has the space rock for you.
A small asteroid will fly safely by Earth Saturday (Dec. 22) and according to the folks at NASA, it looks just like the mighty hippo in new radar images. The asteroid, called 2003 SD220, is also making its closest approach to Earth in more than 400 years and won't be any closer until 2070, NASA officials said. Itlast flew by Earth on Christmas Eve of 2015.
"Do you want a hippopotamus for Christmas?" officials with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory wrote on Twitter Friday (Dec. 21). "You're in luck. Hippo-shaped #asteroid 2003 SD220 will fly safely past Earth on Saturday, Dec. 22, at a distance of ~1.8 million miles (~2.9 million km)." (If you're wondering about the Christmas-hippotomas connection, watch this adorable music video of "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" as sung by a 10-year-old Gayla Peevey in 1953.)
The new radar images revealed that asteroid 2003 SD220 is nearly 1 mile long (1.6 kilometers) and has a shape "similar to that of the exposed portion of a hippopotamus wading in a river," JPL officials said in a statement. The asteroid's size and close flybys of Earth make it potentially hazardous asteroid to watch for NASA, but it poses no impact threat to our planet, agency officials said. [Potentially Dangerous Asteroids in Pictures]
The radar images were taken between Dec. 15 and Dec. 17 by scientists with NASA's JPL, Goldstone antenna in California, Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. The Goldstone and Arecibo instruments bounced microwave signals off the asteroid that were then picked up by the Green Bank Telescope to create detailed radar images of the rock's size and shape.
These two radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2003 SD220 were obtained on Dec. 18-19, 2018 using the Arecibo Observatory and Green Bank Telescope. The asteroid looks much like a hippo wading in a river, NASA says.
Credit: NASA/Arecibo/USRA/UCF/GBO/NSF
"The radar images achieve an unprecedented level of detail and are comparable to those obtained from a spacecraft flyby," said Lance Benner of JPL in Pasadena, California, lead scientist for the Goldstone observations, in the JPL statement. "The most conspicuous surface feature is a prominent ridge that appears to wrap partway around the asteroid near one end."
The ridge rises 330 feet (100 meters) above its surroundings, and the asteroid is pepperd with bright spots that may be reflections from boulders, Benner said. "The images also show a cluster of dark, circular features near the right edge that may be craters," he added.
The new observations are about 20 times more detailed than those taken in 2015, when asteroid 2003 SD220 last flew by Earth. At the time, it was much farther away than on its current visit, NASA officials said.
The new images also confirm key details about asteroid 2003 SD220, NASA added. They show that the asteroid rotates just once every 12 days - an oddly slow spin for a space rock. It also has a wobbly motion that NASA officials likened to a badly thrown football (or perhaps a meandering hippo?).
Older images of asteroid 2003 SD220 taken by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico during a previous flyby in December 2015.
Credit: Arecibo Observatory/NASA/NSF
"Known as 'non-principal axis' rotation, it is uncommon among near-Earth asteroids, most of which spin about their shortest axis," NASA officials said of the asteroid's motion.
By refining asteroid 2003 SD220's rotation, size and shape, the new radar images will help scientists understand how it formed and evolved over time, researchers said. The observations were funded by NASA's Near-Earth Object Observations Program, which regularly tracks potentially dangerous asteroids for the Planetary Defense Coordination Office that oversees the agency's Planetary Defense Program.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took this composite image of Ultima Thule at around midnight EST on Dec. 2, 2018, from a distance of 24 million miles (38.7 million kilometers). In the right-hand frame, the region within the yellow box has been expanded and the background stars subtracted out.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
There's something weird going on with Ultima Thule, the distant object that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will fly by just 10 days from now.
New Horizonsteam members don't think the 23-mile-wide (37 kilometers) Ultima is spherical; rather, the available data suggest that it's elongated or is perhaps even composed of two close-orbiting bodies. So, mission scientists were expecting to see a substantial "light curve" from Ultima: significant changes in brightness corresponding to different orientations of the object as it rotates.
But that's not what New Horizons observations in the lead-up to the epic New Year's Day encounter have shown. Instead, Ultima's brightness is relatively constant, like that of a spherical body. [NASA's New Horizons Mission in Pictures]
"It's really a puzzle," New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said in a statementyesterday (Dec. 20). "I call this Ultima's first puzzle — why does it have such a tiny light curve that we can't even detect it? I expect the detailed flyby images coming soon to give us many more mysteries, but I did not expect this, and so soon."
Team members have come up with several possible explanations. For example, maybe Ultima's pole of rotation just happens to be pointed directly at New Horizons, minimizing the brightness variations seen by the spacecraft.
It's also possible that Ultima, which lies more than 4 billion miles (6.4 billion km) from the sun, is surrounded by a light-blocking cloud of dust, like the coma around a comet's nucleus. But an energy source would be required to generate such a feature, and it's unclear what that source would be. (The sun couldn't do the trick way out in Ultima's cold, dark environs, mission team members said.)
"An even more bizarre scenario is one in which Ultima is surrounded by many tiny, tumbling moons," Anne Verbiscer, a New Horizons assistant project scientist at the University of Virginia, said in the same statement. "If each moon has its own light curve, then together, they could create a jumbled superposition of light curves that make it look to New Horizons like Ultima has a small light curve."
If this is what's going on, it would be unprecedented. No solar system body is known to have such a satellite setup, Verbiscer said.
"It's hard to say which of these ideas is right," Stern said. "Perhaps it's even something we haven't even thought of. In any case, we'll get to the bottom of this puzzle soon — New Horizons will swoop over Ultima and take high-resolution images on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1, and the first of those images will be available on Earth just a day later. When we see those high-resolution images, we'll know the answer to Ultima's vexing, first puzzle. Stay tuned!"
The flyby will peak at 12:33 a.m. EST (0533 GMT) on Jan. 1, when New Horizons zooms within a mere 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of Ultima's reddish surface. That's more than three times closer than the probe got to Pluto during a historic encounter with the dwarf planet in July 2015.
Ultima, which is officially known as 2014 MU69, has been in a deep freeze in the far outer solar system for more than 4.5 billion years. So, studying the object up close should reveal key insights about the solar system's earliest days, mission 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.
Christmas is traditionally a time for travelling and visiting family and friends – and probably for dropping in on the neighbours to wish them well.
The National Archives holds Ministry of Defence (MOD) files concerning reports of Unidentified Flying Objects [UFOs] from the general public. These reports are mainly in the series DEFE 24 and DEFE 31 (redacted files are available to download from Discoveryfor a fee). They give the date, time, location and – more importantly – a description of what the witness saw. The sightings are from across the country, with the details of the person reporting the sighting redacted.
Of course, a few dark, cloudless evenings, a festive drink or two, and a dose of seasonal good cheer, may explain this selection of Christmas lights and star sightings…
6 December 1993
The UFO reports relate to a fireball, catalogue ref: DEFE 24/1955/1
There were approximately 20 sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects – now referred to as unexplained aerial phenomena – across the South East; from Minster, Kent to Basildon and Luton. The sighting over Ashford (Kent) reports ‘like a shooting star, but not a shooting star’.
When the report came from Five Oak Green, near Tonbridge, Kent, the object was pencil-shaped, with three areas of lights. As the object moved over West Dulwich, it was a saucer-shaped white light, and very bright. In Luton the object was star-shaped, and in Basildon, four objects were seen.
The file in DEFE 24/1959/1 confirms these sightings as a ‘fireball’.
19 December 2002
Sighting of a very bright object on 19 December 2002, catalogue ref: DEFE 24/2035/1
During the evening, two reports – one from London and one from Surrey – concerned a very bright / large object with a burning tail / orange yellow triangle. Falling like a shooting star, the object was later confirmed as the re-entry of space or satellite debris.
From Brighton, the report was of a cylindrical object, with flowing light from the front, and flames from the rear. [DEFE 24/2035/1].
Christmas
15 lights seen coming from the Downs: Catalogue ref DEFE 24_2627_1
Over the years, Christmas Eve has brought out an array of reports of strange lights and objects. On Christmas Eve 2002, while stopping at a service station on the A418, a member of the public saw an orange object with lighter coloured tail (DEFE 24/2035/1).
Someone switched the Christmas lights on in 2008 – well, 15 lights, red and flickering were reported from Wycombe; from Rottingdean, Sussex, 15 bright lights were reported coming from the Downs (DEFE 24/2627/1).
In 2009, a letter reported an orange-red ball over Suffolk. In 1990, a star-sized bright, white object was seen over Cannock. Over Shepperton, two large round shapes – bright with red, white and blue lights – were reported (both DEFE 24/1940/1).
On Christmas Day, perhaps some people are contemplating the stars, and end up seeing various sights. In 2008 over Perth, Scotland, someone simply reported seeing a UFO (DEFE 24/2627/1), while over Coventry an orange light with a tail flame effect was reported. Glastonbury, famous for its annual music festival, saw two reports of very bright red lights (DEFE 31/172/1).
In 1983 there was a report of three single orange lights in the shape of a triangle over Groombridge (DEFE 31/173/1). In 1985, a pyramid shape with two bright headlights was reported over Newport (DEFE 24/1924/1). The report from 1995 over Otley, Yorkshire was of a round object, like a satellite dish, bright like a star, with white lights around the edge. In Loose, Kent, the object was larger than the moon, spherical elongated, and very bright (both DEFE 24/1974/1).
MOD standard reply concerning a Christmas Day sighting over Strathclyde, catalogue ref: DEFE 24/1969/1
Boxing Day
On Boxing Day, apparently people are still looking towards the stars. A report in 1996 from Blackheath mentioned three separate lights, formed at high speed, before separating. In 1990, a motorist reported bright orange and red lights at 01:45 on the M23, Junction 9 for Gatwick (DEFE 24/1930/1). The report of a cigar shape, with blue and green light at the rear, came from Hull in 1990 (DEFE 24/1940/1).
In 1991, Inverness, the sighting of a circular object, green-blue with white light, very bright, and the size of an aircraft was spotted (DEFE 24/1956/1). In 2008, someone in Yorkshire saw two parallel UFOs.
4 January 1988 and a Christmas tree sighting over Worcester [DEFE 24/1927/1].
Unusually, the Christmas tree didn’t come came down on 4 January 1988 in Worcester, but was instead seen in the sky overhead (DEFE 24/1927/1)
We cannot leave another Christmas without mentioning the unique festive illuminations from 26 to 28 December 1980 in Rendlesham Forest, and the report from Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, United States Air Force. I will leave you to read the only record of those events for yourself… but allow me to reassure you that the Ministry of Defence states there is no threat to UK air space, nor is there any evidence to substantiate the existence of extra-terrestrial life – not even at Christmas.
Report by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt concerning the lights seen around Rendlesham Forest in December 1980, catalogue ref: DEFE 24/1948/1
She stands at the lectern, looking down at her notes. Her face is grim. She appears shaken.
“At a top robotics company in Japan this week,” she says into the microphone, “four robots being developed for military applications killed 29 humans in the lab.”
Gulp! And it gets worse.
“The scariest part is that lab workers deactivated two of the robots and took apart the third.” The woman’s voice is quavering now. She manages to continue: “But the fourth robot began restoring itself, and somehow connected to an orbiting satellite to download information about how to rebuild itself even more strongly than before.”
The teller of this tale isn’t a Hollywood screenwriter. Linda Moulton Howe’s background is in journalism.
A Stanford graduate, as well as a former Miss Idaho, Howe won awards in the 1970s and ’80s for her work at Denver, Atlanta and Boston TV stations.
But somewhere along the line she became fascinated by UFOs and conspiracy theories.
“She is probably the most preeminent UFO investigator in the world,” fellow ufologist Ike Bishop said of Howe in 1998.
Howe believes space aliens have visited Earth many times, but right now she’s more concerned about robots created by Earthlings. She says the massacre of the scientists has been hushed up because “the robotics company has too much to lose, and the government wants AI robot soldiers.”
Her speech took place back in February, but it’s only just taken off online. The Independent reports that the video of Howe’s talk has been viewed more than 100,000 times on Twitter this week. The very same week, it so happens, that a mysterious drone (or drones) repeatedly dive-bombed London’s Gatwick Airport, forcing the airport to close for more than a day.
To be sure, Howe’s robot-massacre story is a tough one for any rational person to buy into. It’s apparently based on a phone interview she conducted with someone allegedly from the CIA, who told her: “This is serious s—t, Linda, but you’re not going to hear about this in the news.” When you’re a prominent conspiracy theorist like Howe, you’re going to be the target of pranksters and nuts.
None of which means we don’t have anything to worry about. Robots might not have secretly murdered a clutch of scientists in Japan – but that could change.
Entrepreneur Elon Musk, for one, believes AI one day could be a very real “threat” to humankind.
“As AI gets probably much smarter than humans, the relative intelligence ratio is probably similar to that between a person and a cat, maybe bigger,” Musk said recently. “I do think we need to be very careful about the advancement of AI.”
While driving late in the evening on December 19th in Arlington County, Virginia friends recorded an enormous object in the sky, shaped like an Egyptian pyramid. Seen in the distance is the Pentagon, which is located across from the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
This remains unexplained in its entirety, yet these guys may have captured one of the most spectacular sightings ever in history. The exact time this was recorded isn’t known. Their explanation for recording through their window is, it was cold outside. Perhaps they weren’t thinking clearly either…
Apparently a giant UFO has been spotted over the Pentagon. Is it a hoax or real or what is it? Definitely interesting and no msm seems to be reporting it.
What is the context of the video? How did you guys endup in front of the pentagon? Why were you filming? Why only this video? Was this the only person who had a phone? Just curious as to the context of the video. Thanks in advance. Dizzy A
The Pentagon, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense. As a symbol of the U.S. military, the phrase The Pentagon is often used as a metonym for the Department of Defense and its leadership. Wikipedia
Alert! Aliens in a Pyramid UFO Were Just Seen Visiting Washington D.C.; Here Comes 911 Number Two
Alert! Aliens in a Pyramid UFO Were Just Seen Visiting Washington D.C.; Here Comes 911 Number Two
A large pyramid UFO was seen over Washington D.C. on Dec. 19, 2018. This UFO was recorded by many individuals from different parts of the city. I believe this was a sign that 911 number two is in the works and is imminent. First the videos and then I will explain why this event points to 911 number two.
Ok; those are the videos, now for the analysis and why this incident is pointing to the imminence of 911 number two. First I would like to get this straight from the beginning. UFOs are of demonic origin and will play a large part in the great end times deception that will lead to the world installing the antichrist/UFO man as the leader of the world.
Jesus spoke of this; For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Mt 24:24.
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 1 Thes 2:9
For more information about the UFO/demon connection see the post: The God Proof.
Ok, with those facts in mind let’s get back to the Washington D.C. pyramid UFO incident. The sightings were recorded about 4 AM on 12/19/2018.
There was a similar pyramid UFO incident over Moscow on Dec 9, 2009 which is detailed at The Big The One.
If you take into account time zones the events were 9 years and 11 days apart. That is a sign that 911 number two is imminent. The reason that I can this is because of a lot of other data is telling me that 911 number two is imminent, which I will show you now.
There was a huge amount of predictive programming pointing to 911 number two and was associated with the date 11/1/18.
Many were watching this date, but it came and went with nothing major happening. In light of the huge amount of 11/1 signals/predictive programming/signs I theorized that the 911 number two 11/1 event was for another calendar system, of which there are many in the world.
The next 11/1 date in an alternative calendar system—the Hebrew religious calendar—falls on 1/7/2019 of which I issued a watch for on 12/3/2018. Since then new information has come to the forefront that warranted the issuing of a major prophecy watch for 1/7-8/2019 for the possibility of a 911 number two nuclear event. Here is the post;
One of the data points brought forth in that post shows several decodings from the nefarious I Pet Goat II film that point to 1/7-8/2019 as the day of 911 number two.
It is interesting to note that in the original full version of the I Pet Goat II film that a pyramid UFO was shown many times hovering over an urban location after which one of its appearances the destruction of the USA was shown.
Another data point in that post highlights the esoteric decoding of the 2018 Economist cover of which 28 events have already come to pass. The last one being 5G mobile which went live on 12/21/2018. One of the events coming up that may align near 1/7-8/2019 is #31—enough said.
Hmm…a UFO is seen hovering over Washington D.C. and a few hours later our troops are being pulled out of Syria over which Defense Secretary Mattis has just resigned because he believes it is a big mistake.
I find this to be a bit beyond coincidence—did the UFO aliens communicate some information that caused this sudden troop withdraw? Will this decision play a role in 911 number two? Remember UFO/aliens are demonic so they may present information which appears good but will lead to destruction—think Adam and Eve.
Now take a look at this piece of data concerning our aircraft carriers reported by The Big The One;
In light of all the data we ask the following questions; was the Pyramid UFO seen over Washington D.C. 9 years and 11 days past the pyramid UFO seen over Moscow a sign that the highly signaled 911 number two is imminent? And more specifically is the date of the 911 number two 1/7-8/2019?
As always, time will tell. No one knows the future except God, but we are to watch and prepare, for eventually 911 number two as a precursor to WW3 will one day occur.
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. Luke 21:36
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ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGODe Korolevkrater op Mars.
WETENSCHAPDe Korolev-krater op Mars is 82 km breed en over een diameter van zo’n 60 km ligt er een dikke waterijslaag van een geschatte 2 km in. Goed voor een volume van maar liefst 2.200 km³. Fantastische foto’s van ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA tonen de indrukwekkende ijskrater. Bij ons is een witte Kerst niet voor dit jaar, maar op de rode planeet is daar dus wél sprake van.
De ruimtemissie Mars Express heeft spectaculaire beelden opgeleverd van de krater op Mars. Het Europees Ruimte Agentschap (ESA) gaf de beelden gisteren vrij. “Dit beeld lijkt een grote vlakte ongerepte sneeuw af te beelden – een droom voor elke liefhebber van de eindejaarsperiode”, klinkt het in de bijgevoegde mededeling van de ESA. In werkelijkheid gaat het om een gigantische krater op Mars, gevuld met ijs, niet met sneeuw.
De beelden van de Korolev-krater zijn gemaakt door de ruimtesonde Mars Express Orbiter. Die bevindt zich sinds Kerstmis 2003 in een baan rond de rode planeet. De ESA noemt deze beelden dan ook “een fantastische viering van die belangrijke mijlpaal” van vijftien jaar geleden. Eigenlijk gaat het om vijf foto’s die samen werden gevoegd tot één beeld, verduidelijkt de organisatie nog.
De krater is maar liefst 82 kilometer breed en het diepste punt zou zo’n 2 kilometer moeten zijn. Volgens de ESA gat het om een “uitzonderlijk goed bewaarde Marskrater”. De ruimteorganisatie legt ook uit dat de krater gevuld is met ijs door een zogenaamde ‘koudeval’. De lucht die over de krater waait, wordt door het ijs naar beneden getrokken en daalt in temperatuur. Daardoor vormt er zich een permanente koude luchtlaag boven het ijs dat zo nooit kon smelten. Ook niet in de zomer - Mars kent net als de Aarde seizoenen - omdat lucht een slechte warmtegeleider is en als een soort van beschermend schild werkt.
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Bovenaanzicht van de Korolevkrater op Mars.
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Topografie van de Korolev-krater. De kleuren geven de hoogteverschillen aan, die in de omgeving oplopen tot 3,5 km.
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VIDEO. Beangstigende beelden tonen ravage die drone kan aanrichten bij vliegtuig - HLN.be
VIDEO. Beangstigende beelden tonen ravage die drone kan aanrichten bij vliegtuig - HLN.be
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WETENSCHAP & PLANEETDe beslissing om de luchthaven London Gatwick meer dan 30 uur te sluiten nadat er drones waren gespot, lijkt niet overdreven. Onderzoekers van de universiteit van Dayton in de Amerikaanse staat Ohio deden eerder dit jaar tests om te zien welke schade een drone kon aanrichten bij een vliegtuig. En de beelden zijn vrij beangstigend.
De onderzoekers van het Impact Physics Lab wilden eigenlijk weten wat het verschil was tussen de impact van een vogel en die van een drone op de vleugel van een vliegtuig. Ze gebruikten daarvoor een vogel uit gel, een doorsnee hobbydrone en de vleugel van een standaard passagiersvliegtuig. Uit de test bleek dat zelfs een kleine drone een ernstig risico vormde voor een vliegtuig.
“De drone spatte niet uiteen toen hij de vleugel in volle vlucht raakte”, aldus onderzoeker Kevin Poormon van het Impact Physics Lab. “In de plaats scheurde hij de vleugel open, dreef hij zich naar binnen en beschadigde hij de interne structuur aanzienlijk.”
Het lab doet al 40 jaar tests met vogels en bracht de schade die de dieren kunnen toebrengen al uitgebreid in kaart. “Drones wegen ongeveer evenveel als sommige vogels. Het aantal hobbydrones neemt fors toe en dat betekent dat ook het risico op een rampzalig ongeval stijgt. Het is een kwestie van tijd eer een drone eens aanzienlijke schade aanricht bij een bemand vliegtuig.”
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NASA vreest dat het gehackt is maar “gelooft niet” dat ruimtemissies in gevaar zijn - HLN.be
NASA vreest dat het gehackt is maar “gelooft niet” dat ruimtemissies in gevaar zijn - HLN.be
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WETENSCHAP & PLANEETDe Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA onderzoekt een mogelijk informatielek op een van haar servers met persoonlijke gegevens van haar personeel. Dat blijkt uit eeninterne memo. “Het is een topprioriteit van ons agentschap om uit te zoeken wat er precies aan de hand is”, klinkt het. “NASA gelooft niet dat er een ruimtemissie in gevaar is door het cyberincident.”
Het onderzoek begon al op 23 oktober, maar de nota aan het personeel werd pas deze week rondgestuurd. “Na een eerste analyse heeft NASA vastgesteld dat informatie van een van haar servers met persoonlijke informatie van huidig en voormalig personeel mogelijk gehackt is”, klinkt het. “Toen het incident ontdekt werd, heeft onze afdeling internetbeveiliging onmiddellijk onze servers en de informatie erop extra beveiligd.”
De NASA is nu aan het onderzoeken hoe groot het potentiële lek is en wie er allemaal nadeel van ondervonden kan hebben. Het kan gaan om personeel dat bij de NASA gewerkt heeft tussen juli 2006 en oktober van dit jaar. Ruimtemissies zouden niet in gevaar zijn.
“We nemen de bescherming van persoonlijke informatie heel ernstig. De NASA doet er alles aan om ervoor te zorgen dat haar servers afdoende beveiligd zijn en herbekijkt alle processen en procedures om na te gaan of die nog wel toereikend zijn”, klinkt het nog.
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Researchers Discover An Eyeball & Teeth Inside The Face on Mars
Researchers Discover An Eyeball & Teeth Inside The Face on Mars
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
Several peer-reviewed articles regarding the Face on Mars have shown strong evidence for "artificial surface intervention." The researchers mentioned here are convinced that artificially made structures exist on the surface of Mars.
Reflect On:
What comes to mind when you think that giant structures built on planet Earth may also have been built on other planets? Mars used to be Earth-like, could an intelligent Bronze-Aged civilization have lived there in the past?
Dr. Horace Crater was the Professor of Physics at the University of Tennessee Space Institute, who recently retired after 40 years and, unfortunately, also recently passed away due to natural causes. He was an assistant professor of physics at Vanderbilt before joining the Space Institute in September 1975. He was promoted to professor of physics in September 1987 and has been making breakthroughs in theoretical participle physics ever since.
According to the University of Tennessee Space Institute, “He has a deep commitment to the study of very fundamental problems in relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, including the relativistic two and three body problem as it applies in atomic, nuclear, and particle physics. Over the years he has taught a wide variety of advanced courses including quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, solid state physics, and general relativity. He has published numerous refereed papers in the most prestigious physics journals. He enjoys teaching new things as he learns new branches of physics.”
Why am I writing about him? Perhaps because he’s one of the most recent examples (out of many throughout the years) who has been pushing the boundaries of false information published in science, something we see too much of today. For a reputable academician to even take on the ‘face on Mars’ subject is quite brave, but far from foolish. Dr. Crater, along with his research colleagues professor Stanley McDaniel and Ananda Sirisena, published a paper not long ago in the Journal of Space Exploration titled “The Mounds of Cydonia: Elegant Geology, or Tetrahedral Geometry and Reactions of Pythagoras and Dirac.”
A study that’sadded to the already robust evidence pointing to “artificial surface interventions” on Mars as the study states. The main premise of the article is that these structures, if indeed artificial, “provide an elegant and concise way for an intelligent species to transmit to another intelligence evidence that it understands the basics of tetrahedral geometry, prime numbers, and the quantum mechanics of the electron’s spin, thereby giving additional evidence for the possibility of intelligent intervention.”
They found that the odds against change that these mounds were simply natural formations were hundreds of millions to one…in some cases, billions to one. What really stands out is the fact that they also point out to the existing information which is already available suggesting artificial surface interventions on Mars.”
We (Joe Martino, Founder of CE & Arjun Walia, Senior Writer) recently sat down and did a podcast (access our podcasts here and our Explorers Lounge here) with Ananda Sirisena, who is one of the others of this study, as well as the new one shown below. You can listen to and access that podcast in its entirety, here.
The study above primarily dealt with the mounds in the Cydonia region on Mars, and it was published. The one below was sent to me by one of the researchers, and unfortunately, Dr. Crater passed away before they could attempt to have this one published as well, as a follow-up to their first one. Anytime something like this is published in a mainstream scientific journal, by such credible and scholarly minds, it’s going to raise a few eyebrows. No matter how true something is, or how much evidence exists to at least entertain the hypothesis, if something goes against the grain or defies the current accepted framework of knowledge, it may not be published.
New Face On Mars Study
This is why I think it’s important to present to you what Dr. Crater was working on after he published the paper above because it no doubt captured his heightened interest. The new paper was called The “Face on Mars” – Four Decades Later.
“The anomalous characteristics of the so-called “Face on Mars” feature, as seen in the 1976 Viking image, was debunked 20 years ago by reference to a 1998 image taken by the Mars Global Surveyor. However ten years later, in 2008, a far superior image was obtained that shows details consistent with the original of 1976. By means of side-by-side comparisons, we show how this 2008 image gives an improvement in identification of the allegedly anomalous details.”
The picture below was taken in 1976, by NASA
This one below was taken by Mark Carlotto, an image scientist with 30 years of experience in satellite remote sensing and digital image processing, who studied optics, signal, and image processing at Carnegie-Mellon University from 1972-1981, where he received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering. He’s had several positions in academia and industry. Here are some of the peer-reviewed papers he’s authored and c0-authored prior to this one.
It was published in Applied Options, reference: Digital Imagery Analysis Of Unusual Martian Surface Features – Applied Optics, Volume 27, No. 10
Members of the Society For Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) have, Mark, being one of them, also recently published a paper in the Journal of Space Exploration about certain features on the far side of the moon that appear in the crater Paracelsus C. Titled “Image Analysis of Unusual Structures on the Far Side of the Moon in the Crater Paracelsus C,” it argues that these features might be artificial in origin, meaning someone other than a human being built them and put them there.
What’s so special about the image below is that, upon enhancement, it should teeth like structures within the mouth. Keep in mind that we’re looking at a structure that’s approximately 2 miles thick.
Below is a screenshot of a section of the study sent to me, describing what took place with the image that was released in 1998…
Here’s a great quote from the paper itself regarding the 1998 image above:
The effect of the 1998 image of the facial feature, released by MSSS, has been to draw mainstream attention away from a feature on Mars that could be of great cultural value to humanity and to our future search for extraterrestrial intelligence. SETI will have to expand away from only a radio signal search to searching for planetary artifacts as a standard procedure. Perhaps our discovery of ETI may be closer to home than we ever thought possible.
The study then goes on to compare a picture from a decade later, which seems very strange because they look so different. What’s really going on here? Is NASA changing/airbrushing their pictures?
Shown below is the MRO CTX image: B01_010143_2216, acquired on 24th September 2008, from a distance of just over 311 km. This image has not been processed and is presented here as obtained from the MRO HiRise website. (The incidence and emission angles are shown in Table 1.)
According to the authors, the image below “shows clearly an ‘eyeball’ in the eye cavity and ‘teeth’ in the mouth area.”
As you can see, they, among many others, are quite convinced…
Corroborating Information That Puts The Nail In The Coffin
The study makes a good point with its conclusion, outlining how the focus of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has primarily been in terms of radio SETI. On a side note, that thought reminded me of this document, showing possible interception of communications from extraterrestrial intelligence by the National Security Agency (NSA). SETI should be considering a lot more than simple radio signals.
Despite not getting any mainstream attention, the idea that this debate was put to rest, as told by the mainstream decades ago, is simply not true at all.
The Journal of Scientific Exploration, in 1991, published a paper by Vincent DiPietro, Greg Molenaar and John Brandenburg espousing The Cydonia Hypothesis. The abstract read, “Evidence suggesting a past humanoid civilization has been found at several sites on Mars. In particular, what appear to be large carved faces, with similar details, have been found at two separate sites. Together with geochemical and geological evidence that suggests Mars was once more Earth-like in climate, the images of the objects support the Cydonia Hypothesis: that Mars once lived as the Earth now lives, and that it was once the home of an indigenous humanoid intelligence.”
That’s just one example, there are also those who have been quite outspoken, and you can see more examples with regards to this in the articles linked below, written earlier, but also go into great detail on the subject. So, if interested be sure to check them out and give them a read.
When contemplating topics as such, we always have to keep in mind that, as NASA astronaut and Princeton physics professor Brian O’Leary once told the world, “there is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us, for a very long time.” He is one of the hundreds of people considered “credible” who have testified to the idea that intelligent beings have been visiting us. On top of that, we also have verified footage recently released from the Pentagon, and millions of pages of UFO released by dozens of governments worldwide.
We may not know what’s going on, but it’s quite clear that what we are told is happening, is not. There is a lot of information to consider here beyond the study, and when contemplating extraterrestrial life in general. It seems that there are a lot of people out there who believe without a doubt that we are being visited, have been visited and that this is being covered up. Human beings aren’t stupid, and all of these people aren’t simply believing this for no reason.
The truth is out there, and it has huge perceptual, consciousness, spiritual, historical, and scientific consequences. This type of thing really does leave no aspect of humanity untouched.
Onderzoekers ontdekken tanden en oogbal in gezicht op Mars. Toch geen berg?
Onderzoekers ontdekken tanden en oogbal in gezicht op Mars. Toch geen berg?
Het gezicht op Mars werd in 1976 vastgelegd door de Vikingsondes. Ruim 20 jaar later, in 1998, werd het gedebunkt nadat de Mars Global Surveyor er foto’s van had gemaakt.
Tien jaar later, in 2008, werd er een nog betere foto gemaakt en die lijkt weer heel erg op de foto uit 1976, schrijven Ananda Sirisena, Horace Crater, Stanley V. McDaniel en Mark Carlotto in hun paper ‘The ‘Face on Mars’ – Four Decades Later’.
De onderzoekers hebben op basis van de foto een 3D-reconstructie gemaakt van het gezicht, waarin duidelijk afzonderlijke ‘tanden’ in het gebied rond de mond kunnen worden gezien. Ook is de oogholte opvallend gedetailleerd.
Oogbal
Als de linkerkant van het gezicht niet beschadigd zou zijn, zou de mond nog verder doorlopen, schrijven ze.
Vincent DiPietro en Greg Molenaar wezen in 1982 voor het eerst op details van de oogstructuur van het gezicht op mars.
Aan de hand van de technieken die indertijd voorhanden waren stelden ze vast dat er een oogbal in de oogholte van het gezicht aanwezig was.
Onder het tapijt
We moeten volgens de onderzoekers niet alleen speuren naar radiosignalen van aliens en buitenaardse microben, maar ook uitkijken naar mogelijke artefacten die zijn achtergelaten door intelligente levensvormen.
Ze wijzen erop dat de Vikinglanders sporen van leven hebben gevonden op Mars, maar dat die zorgvuldig onder het tapijt zijn geveegd.
High-powered brain scanner may find the human ‘soul’
High-powered brain scanner may find the human ‘soul’
By Jon Lockett, The Sun
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Chinese scientists are developing a $126 million state-of-the-art brain scanner to try and find the human soul.
They will use powerful magnetic forces to observe the structure and activities of every neuron in a living brain.
The aim is to build the world’s most powerful MRI device — which may one day be able to help answer one of life’s big questions.
The mystical soul, according to many religious, philosophical and mythological traditions, is the true essence of a living being.
Simply stated, it’s said to be the part of a person that is not physical and lives on long after the body experiences death.
The scanner “will revolutionize brain studies,” said a senior scientist working on the top-secret project in Shenzhen.
The total budget for the state-backed facility will even exceed that of FAST, the world’s largest telescope in Pingtan.
“It will show us a different world with phenomenon unseen before…maybe even the soul,” one scientist told the South China Morning Post.
“We may for the first time capture a full picture of human consciousness or even the essence of life itself,” said another physicist.
“Then we can define them and explain how they work in precise physical terms – just like Newton and Einstein defined and explained the universe,” he said.
The Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology revealed the first phase of the project has been given the green light.
The technology can also help study or diagnose neurodegenerative conditions including Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s.
Current MRI scanners can only visualize objects larger than 1 mm, but the new device is aimed to visualize objects 1,000 times smaller.
However, professor He Rongqiao, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, was skeptical about the project.
He said: “What is consciousness? There is not even a scientific definition.
“If you can’t even define it, how do you know what you see is what you are looking for?”
Chinese wetenschappers gaan op zoek naar de menselijke ziel. Lees alles over dit geheime project
Chinese wetenschappers gaan op zoek naar de menselijke ziel. Lees alles over dit geheime project
Chinese wetenschappers hebben 126 miljoen dollar gestopt in een project om de menselijke ziel te vinden.
Met behulp van magnetische krachten gaan ze de structuur en activiteiten van iedere zenuwcel in een levend brein onderzoeken.
Het doel is om ’s werelds krachtigste MRI-scanner te maken.
Topgeheime project
De ziel is volgens veel religieuze, filosofische en mythologische tradities de ware essentie van een levend wezen.
Het is het onderdeel van een persoon dat niet fysiek is en voortleeft op het moment dat het lichaam sterft.
De scanner zal volgens een wetenschapper die betrokken is bij het topgeheime project ‘een revolutie teweegbrengen op het gebied van hersenstudies’.
Groen licht
“Hij zal ons een andere wereld laten zien met fenomenen die nog nooit eerder zijn waargenomen, mogelijk zelfs de ziel,” vertelde een wetenschapper van het Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology aan de South China Morning Post.
“Vervolgens kunnen we die definiëren en uitleggen hoe hij werkt, net zoals Newton en Einstein het universum definieerden en uitlegden,” zei hij.
De wetenschappers hebben groen licht gekregen voor de eerste fase van het project.
1000 keer kleiner
De technologie kan ook helpen om neurodegeneratieve aandoeningen waaronder Parkinson en Alzheimer te bestuderen.
Huidige MRI-scanners kunnen alleen voorwerpen laten zien die groter zijn dan één mm, maar het nieuwe apparaat kan voorwerpen laten zien die 1000 keer kleiner zijn.
Bewustzijn
Professor He Rongqiao van de Chinese Academie van Wetenschappen in Peking reageerde sceptisch.
“Wat is bewustzijn?” vroeg hij. “Er is niet eens een wetenschappelijke definitie. Als je het niet eens kunt definiëren, hoe weet je dan waar je naar zoekt?”
De maan is een object aan de hemel die door iedereen over de hele wereld wordt gezien en vreemde dingen vallen dan ook al snel op.
We weten hoe normaal gesproken dit hemellichaam eruit ziet, maar wat als dat opeens verandert?
Als er één hemellichaam is dat we allemaal van dichtbij kennen, dan is dat wel de maan. Ook al kijken we niet zo erg veel naar de lucht misschien, we weten toch wel ongeveer hoe de maan eruit moet zien.
Het beeld verandert natuurlijk ook met de verschillende fases van de maan, van bijna onzichtbaar tot de bekende volle maan. Wat je dan ziet vanaf de aarde is te zien op de volgende afbeelding.
Maar wat als dat beeld opeens verandert?
De afgelopen dagen heeft de Youtube gebruiker Mr. MBB333 diverse e-mails ontvangen van abonnee's die zeggen dat de maan er heel anders uitziet dan normaal.
Zoals bijvoorbeeld op de volgende afbeelding die genomen is ergens in Amerika:
Het lijkt wel alsof de maan op haar rug is gevallen. Iets dat ook blijkt uit de volgende opname, eveneens genomen in Amerika.
Daar tegenover staat een opname die is gemaakt aan de andere kant van de wereld en wel in Australië waar je precies het omgekeerde ziet.
Mr. MBB3333 heeft gecontroleerd via bestaande sterrenprogramma's hoe de maan er op die locaties en die tijden uit had moeten zien en dat is niet zoals te zien op de afbeeldingen.
De maan had normaal gesproken verticaal "afgesneden" dienen te worden en niet horizontaal zoals nu het geval is.
De enige conclusie volgens Mr. MBB333 mogelijk is, is dat de maan ten opzichte van de aarde van positie is veranderd. En als hij gelijk heeft, dan is natuurlijk de grote vraag wat ervoor zou kunnen zorgen dat een hemellichaam zoals de maan van positie verandert? Als er lezers zijn met ideeën dan horen we dat natuurlijk graag.
Once they’re far enough away from Earth, space probes often turn around and take a photo of out planet to show off its blue sapphire-like sparkle. Those of is living here know it’s nice but not a gem. However, it turns out other planets really are. Astronomers have recently discovered exoplanets formed in high temperatures that caused them to be covered with sapphires, rubies and other gemstones. Does this abundance of precious stones let guys living on these planets off the hook in Valentine’s Day?
“Perhaps it shimmers red to blue like rubies and sapphires, because these gemstones are aluminium oxides which are common on the exoplanet.”
Caroline Dorn, astrophysicist at the Institute for Computational Science of the University of Zurich and co-author of a report on the discovery published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, is describing HD219134 b – a super-Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia making tight three-day orbits around a star just 21 light years from Earth. That three-day year means HD219134 b formed in a much hotter environment than Earth, causing it to have a different density and a different abundance of elements. In a University of Zurich press release, Dorn explains that computer models give a good picture of HD219134 b,
“Many elements are still in the gas phase there and the planetary building blocks have a completely different composition.”
Instead of rock-forming elements like iron, magnesium and silicon, they found no iron but plenty of calcium and aluminum, along with lesser quantities of magnesium and silicon. That explains why the planet should be covered with sapphires –these are the crystallized form of the mineral corundum, which consists of aluminum oxide (α-Al2O3) and trace amounts of other elements that give them their distinctive blue color. If the dominant trace element is chromium, the combination with aluminum oxide forms rubies instead, which HD219134 b could also be covered with.
Sapphires
Will the first flight for HD219134 b be leaving before your upcoming anniversary? Even if it did, HD219134 b is not a hospitable place to be. Dorn estimates that it and two other similar super-Earths orbiting other stars could have a surface temperature of up to 3,000 degrees F. If you can stand the heat, you may sink in its low density (20% lower than Earth) and won’t be able to stand the cosmic radiation – lacking any iron ore means HD219134 b has no magnetic field to protect the atmosphere which, if it is there at all, will have a different composition than Earth’s.
However, any guy who has forgotten a wife or girlfriend’s birthday or anniversary will be willing to put up with those inconveniences to bring back a cargo bay full of sapphires and rubies, right? Unless it’s the diamond anniversary. Then you might want to visit super-Earth 55 Cancri e, the so-called “diamond planet” discovered in 2012. Except … Dorn’s study also looked at 55 Cancri e and determined it probably is covered with sapphires and rubies instead of carbon-based diamonds.
For those on a budget or who can’t wait for the first HD219134 b mission, perhaps Dorn can start looking for closer super-Earths covered with chocolate.
The anomalous sights and sounds in Americas skies continue this week as a strange light appeared in the air over California, prompting the Air Force to cancel a rocket launch and thoroughly freaking out Californians. According to local news reports, the light appeared at around 5:30 p.m. local time and persisted for several seconds. Dozens of motorists and residents caught the strange streak on camera, blowing up social media with posts of the curious apparition.
NORAD immediately announced they were investigating the event, while the National Weather Service released a statementproposing that the light was a unique atmospheric phenomenon known as a noctilucent cloud. These cloudlike formations are caused by ice crystals and dust particles left behind by rocket launches, aircraft activity, or meteor explosions in the upper atmosphere. At dusk, the low angle of the sun can illuminate these streaks and create the breathtaking phenomena similar to what was seen above California.
Noctilucent clouds left behind by a SpaceX launch.
While the streak was certainly similar in appearance to a meteor impact or space debris burning up in the atmosphere, the coincidental timing with a nearby rocket launch is somewhat odd. The U.S. Air Force and United Launch Alliance were set to launch a Delta IV rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base at the exact same time the lights appeared over California. That rocket was supposed to carry an undisclosed spy satellite into orbit – a spy satellite that has been delayed on three previous launch attempts.
A SpaceX Falcon launching from Vandenberg AFB in 2017.
ULA says the launch was scrubbed due to a hydrogen leak in one of the fuel tanks, but something about the timing of these two events is just a bit too coincidental. With all of the intrigue and chest-thumping going on in space right now, there’s no telling if the lights were part of some sort of sabotage or surveillance attempt by a rival state or non-state actor. On the other hand, could the Air Force have tried to say this launch was cancelled when it in fact put another eye in the sky?
Of course, it very likely could have been exactly what the National Weather Service said it was. Several other events suggesting meteor impacts have occurred in California lately, although the verdict is still out on some of those too. I’ve been saying for a while now that all of the mysterious booms and recent suspicious satellite activity are likely related; could this incident be another hint that a shadow space war is already being waged?
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The Delta IV rocket launch was scrubbed this evening at Vandenberg AFB. Did anyone else see this beautiful sunset and light in the western sky? This is a view from the Diamond Peak @NVSeismoLab AlertTahoe camera.
Here is an amazing photo I found in the NASA index of Saturn. Its an unaltered perfect view of the infrared light hitting Saturn from the sun. The sun produces lots of infrared...thus the shadow behind Saturn, however the human eye cannot see in the infrared spectrum, so only with cameras with special filters can we get these amazing shots. Also IR cameras are great for hunting UFOs in our skies. The infrared filter makes day time hunting easy because anything cloaked from our eyes will be visible in the infrared spectrum. Such a beautiful photo of Saturn. Scott C. Waring
UFO over Australia produces small drones seeding our planet with them on night vision, Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO over Australia produces small drones seeding our planet with them on night vision, Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 21, 2018 Location of sighting: Melbourne, Australia This UFO was caught by Youtube UFO Lou who was using a night vision camera. Something that everyone seemed to miss about the video is that it is dropping seeds. What I mean is that at 50 seconds into the video I notice this UFO starts dropping smaller drones across our planet. Its also being protected by a smaller drone that is flying in front of the main UFO. Cool catch. I haven't seen a UFO seeding in a long time. About ten years ago there was a video of a daytime sighting of a UFO large metal orb dropping out similar size orbs over Tokyo, I will include the 2010 video below. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I've yet to confirm what this could be. Here are the ISS Melbourne flyover times - ISS Melbourne Flyover 22.12.2018 -3.3 (mag) 04.16 - 0420
NASA WEIGERT VERKLARING TE GEVEN VOOR VREEMD OBJECT NABIJ DE ZON ( VIDEO )
NASA WEIGERT VERKLARING TE GEVEN VOOR VREEMD OBJECT NABIJ DE ZON ( VIDEO )
De afgelopen paar jaar is er via de NASA telescopen al meer dan 50 keer een vreemd object te zien geweest nabij de zon.
Het lijkt op een enorme engel met gespreide armen en ondanks de vele vragen, komt er geen officiële uitleg over wat dit zou kunnen zijn en nu verschijnt het opnieuw.
Er doet zich een vreemd verschijnsel voor in de buurt van onze zon. Een verschijnsel dat regelmatig terugkeert en waar nooit geen officiële verklaring voor is gegeven door NASA.
Het is een object dat regelmatig op afbeeldingen van de NASA ruimtetelescopen verschijnt en eruit ziet als een soort engel met gespreide armen.
Voor de één is het een gigantisch groot moederschip dat regelmatig de zon bezoekt om bijvoorbeeld energie te tanken enanderen denken weer in een heel andere richting. Het zal niemand verbazen dat dit de mening is van ufoloog Scott Waring en ondanks dat NASA weigert om antwoord te geven op de vraag wat dit zou kunnen zijn, waagt Scott opnieuw een poging.
Voor anderen vertoont het veel overeenkomsten met de afbeeldingen van een gevleugelde planeet zoals die voorkomen op de Sumerische kleitabletten.
Ook in april van dit jaar verscheen hetzelfde object en toen schreven wij daarover onder andere het volgende:
Enkele dagen geleden verscheen de volgende afbeelding op de SOHO ruimtetelescoop van NASA. Iets dat heel erg lijkt op een gevleugelde planeet.
Wat opvalt in de laatste foto is dat de rode planeet Nibiru er inderdaad uitziet als een soort gevleugelde planeet. Volgens sommige onderzoekers worden deze “vleugels” veroorzaakt door de magnetosfeer van onze zon, waardoor de passage van Nibiru in de oudheid werd omschreven als een monsterlijke rode vuurbol die het pad van een komeet volgt. De gevleugelde planeet, tevens de thuisbasis van onze verre voorouders.
Een vreemd regelmatig terugkerend object dat eruit ziet zoals onze verre voorouders de planeet Nibiru uitbeeldden en NASA die weigert om enige uitleg te geven.
Wanneer die uitleg dan misschien toch ooit komt, dan zal het waarschijnlijk worden verklaard als een "technisch mankement" aan de camera.
There are some stories that just scream “Wait, what?” This is one of them. A high school biohacker in France claims he created a DNA sequence out of passages from the Bible and the Koran, converted them into previously unknown proteins and injected himself with them. Did he break any commandments?
A biohacker injected himself with DNA sequence made from Bible and Koran verses
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“Since it is possible to convert digital information into DNA, I wondered whether it would be possible to convert a religious text into DNA and to inject it in a living being. It is the first time that someone injects himself [with] macromolecules developed from a text. It is very symbolic even if it does not have much interest.”
Not much interest? Adrien Locatelli of Grenoble, France, has the Internet’s attention with his self-published paper on what has to be the most creative, if not dangerous, experiment of the year. DNA code is represented by a linear, non-overlapping sequence of the nitrogenous bases Adenine (A), Guanine (G), Cytosine (C) and Thymine (T). The four letters are used to create three-letter words strung together to represent a single amino acid in a polypeptide chain. Locatelli claims he created a new DNA sequence using letters he got from the Bible and the Koran.
How? He started at the beginning – Genesis. Locatelli claims he replaced every character in the Hebrew Book of Genesis with a word using the characters AGCT (there are 64 possible combinations). He says he left out Genesis 2:10-14, 5, and 7:1-5 because they were “controversial.” (Genesis 2:10-14 mentions the unknown rivers Pishon and Gihon; Genesis 5 is the family tree from Adam to Noah; and Genesis 7:1-5 is the story of Noah building an ark.) Locatelli then did the same thing with the Arabic letters from the 13th chapter from the Koran, the Surah Ar-Ra’d.
With this new DNA sequence, Locatelli says he used a home gene engineering kit (possibly like this one) to edit the DNA provided into the new proteins (it’s not clear if he created two or one), then inject the proteins into his legs. And the results? Did he see God? Adam? Noah?
“The subcutaneous injection of the vector VB180513-1026kbp in my left thigh only caused at the injection site a minorinflammation which persisted a few day and the subcutaneous injection of the peptide RS27 12-16 in my right thigh provoked nothing.”
Despite that, even with the religious overtones, experts and Internet commenters give Locatelli’s strange experiment a big “Kids – for God’s sake — DON’T try this at home.” Did he take a huge risk? Definitely. Did he break any commandments by taking God’s name in vein? Probably not. (Hopefully that pun doesn’t either.) Did he break any laws of nature? Well, he’s still here.
Will he win the award for the Dumbest Thing Anybody Did in 2018? He’s definitely in the running.
China and Russia are working together to create something similar to the officially-released purpose of the American High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP). Five experiments launched in June with the purpose of modifying the ionosphere above the Earth for both communication and military purposes. They were able to modify a zone more than 310 mile above a small Russian town in Eastern Europe called Vasilsursk, according to Chinese media. During the modification, the small town experienced an electric spike, which carried 10 times more negatively-charged subatomic particles than other regions.
A second experiment heated that portion of the atmosphere – a portion roughly half the size of Great Britain – more than 200 degrees Fahrenheit, due to particle flux. Those particles were shot into the ionosphere from a Soviet-Era atmospheric heating station in the small town called Sura. It was also utilized during the Cold War. This was done by an array of high-power antennae designed to spike the higher levels of the atmosphere with a large amount of microwave radiation. According to the Chinese report, the peak power of these waves was 260 megawatts, which is enough juice to light a small city.
China, which does not make a habit of working on new technology and military projects with other foreign powers, declared the results of the experiment were “satisfactory.” Measurements of it were taken by an orbiting Chinese electromagnetic surveillance satellite called Zhangheng-1. It was able to switch to a “burst mode” to collect data samples every half-second. This was to ensure the data had a high resolution.
While this experiment has raised a lot of controversy, the facility from which it was launched was built in 1981 for this expressed purpose. Control of the ionosphere and for clandestine communications and detection of things ranging from submarines to natural resources, according to a Popular Mechanics article, which called the Chinese chase for a HAARP of their own a chase for weapons instead of science.
High-energy microwaves, such as those recently discharged by Russia and China in Russia allow the controller to manipulate communications. The Soviets used it to enhance submarine communication, the Americans were accused of using it for everything from manufactured earthquakes and tsunamis to weather manipulation – but these claims have been heavily disputed by official sources as “conspiracy theories.” In reality, they can penetrate ground or water as deep as 328 feet and even disrupt satellite communication.
HAARP was likely built by the Americans for the purpose of submarine and satellite communications when it was constructed in the 1990s in Alaska. It was able to produce about one gigawatt of power, which is four times more than the Sura experiment in June.
Not to be outdone, however, China is building its own – and much bigger – facility in Sanya inside the Hainan Province. Critics of this believe such a facility will be disruptive to international air travel from China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and other nations flying over that city.
Tales of what have become known as the Black Eyed Childrenhave now been circulating for a couple of decades. The witnesses are many. The cases are creepy and bizarre. But, it’s fair to say that we still don’t have a solid answer as to what they are or what they want. So, today I’m focusing on the extraterrestrial/UFO theory. It’s worth noting an intriguing UFO connection to the very strange saga of the Black Eyed Children: they have deep parallels to the notorious Men in Black, who have, for decades, terrorized and intimidated into silence numerous witnesses to UFOs. Just like the BECs, the Men in Black have a propensity for knocking on doors late at night. The two mirror each other in other fashions, too: like their child counterparts, the MIB will not enter a home until they are specifically invited to do so (shades of vampire lore, legend and very often movies). Both the MIB and the BEC wear black. Both wear head-gear: hoodies for the Black Eyed Children, and 1950s-era fedoras for the MIB. And there is another intriguing issue: very often the Men in Black wear thick, wraparound, black sunglasses.
I have to wonder if this MIB/sunglasses angle is done not just to provoke a menacing atmosphere, but to mask a pair of emotion-free, solid, black eyes of the type that the Black Eyed Children are described as having. In that sense, and just perhaps, the Men in Black and the Black Eyed Children are one and the same: one in adult form and the other in child form, but both following the same secret agenda – whatever that may really be. So, where does that all leave us? Well, it admittedly leaves us with a lot of questions and not a great deal else. But they are questions that a certain, acclaimed and dedicated researcher of the Black Eyed has done his very best to resolve.
Undoubtedly the leading investigator in this field, and the author of the book, The Black Eyed Children, David Weatherlyhas collected and studied dozens of such cases, demonstrating the sheer scale of these weird and unsettling events. David’s work has addressed a variety of theories for the origins and presence of the BECs: that they might be demonic in nature, or predatory spirits, or possibly even products of the human mind, given some semblance of physical life in the real world. Notably, David has also spent much time researching the theory that the Black Eyed Children have nothing less than an alien lineage. David cites the case of two women, Ann and Marcia, who have both had alien abduction experiences and who have also both encountered the BECs – and, in Marcia’s case, in the now-typical “knocking on the door and demanding to be let in” situation.
Of strange cases such as these, David says: “Why would an alien race want, or need, to create hybrid beings? There are a number of proposed theories to explain why such an experiment may be taking place. These theories range from a dying race that needs an injection of fresh DNA in order to survive, to time travelers attempting to correct a mistake made in their past (which is our present).”
I will leave the final words on this issue UFO-Black Eyed Children controversy to David. They are words that fit comfortably with what we have seen so far: “An even more sinister theory that has followers, postulates that the grays are actually attempting to take over our world by slowly breeding us out and phasing in beings with alien DNA. Over time the human race will fade away to be replaced by the ‘superior’ DNA of the gray aliens, adherents say.”
UFO or Drone shut down Gatwick Airport London - 750 flights being cancelled
UFO or Drone shut down Gatwick Airport London - 750 flights being cancelled
Complete chaos at Gatwick Airport in London since a Drone/UFO flown over the airport. The military have been deployed in the hope of bringing an end to the drone/UFO chaos at Gatwick airport.
One passenger took a video showing what appears to be the Unidentified Flying Object at the airport.
Gatwick airport has been closed since Wednesday night when an unidentified flying object repeatedly flown over the airfield.
Despite several methods they were unable to localize the source from where the unknown flying object came from.
Even they brought in snipers, hight-tech jammers, tracking devices to catch up signals, laser-laded drones to find the source but till now without success which leads to the question whether it is indeed a Drone or could it be a UFO?
The mystery enters the third day (Friday) and still they cannot solve the Drone/UFO incident. The airport remains closed and the chaos is complete. Tens of thousands of travelers have been affected after 750 flights being cancelled.
Update:
Gatwick drone/UFO chaos: Source drone/UFO not yet found but flights resume as airport reopens.
Here is a figure I found int the Carina Nebula. Its a appears male with its short hair and rugged facial features. Its wearing a rob that has a high collar and long sleeves. Its holding up a hand with a single finger sticking up...perhaps giving the bird to the rest of the universe or maybe its a message less angry, like a come hither and meet us finger, or even a...we originated from that planet pointing finger. Whatever its doing, one thing is clear, it was made by a type 5 civilization. If you look carefully at the back of the person, you will see the many creases of the robe he is wearing.
Ever wanted to send a message out into space to aliens? I have...using some three different giant radio telescopes in different parts of the world. My four books and dozens of letters are now shooting across the universe at the speed of light. But that was about 5 years ago, the radio telescopes no longer do that for people. But the aliens that made this are sending a message to the rest of the universe with something so incredibly big that they would have to literally be blind not to notice it...or in early stages of evolution.
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.
Triangle UFO filmed over Warren, Michigan 20-Dec-2018
Triangle UFO filmed over Warren, Michigan 20-Dec-2018
This interesting footage of a triangular-shaped UFO was filmed over Warren, MI on 20th December 2018.
Witness report:
Witnessed a slow moving hovering triangular craft with 3 distinct lights at each corner and a red bliinking light in the center. Driving south on Hoover road just south of 11 mile service drive when i witnessed a craft moving slowly in the sky; at first i thought this was a helicopter because of how slow it was moving through the sky. As it hovered slowly i stopped my car and took out my phone to video record what i was actually seeing. It was NOT a helicopter, did not hear any noise. It wasnt fast like a passenger aircraft. At hoover road it appeared to have changed direction and the craft flew towards the western sky. The direction change wasnt sudden or onset. The flight path of the object seemed to match the paths of other jets landing at Detroit Metro Airport but i can say for certain this was not a plane. Look at the video, it’s dark, yes, but you can see that it does not appear to be a plane. This is my second time witnessing a flying triangular craft. The first one was witnessed in Birmingham, MI.
ORIGIN STORY The frigid and radiation-rich conditions in stellar nurseries like the Eagle Nebula, shown here in an image from the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Telescope, could have created the sugar that makes up DNA.
For the first time, scientists have made 2-deoxyribose, the sugar that makes up the backbone of DNA, under cosmic conditions in the lab by blasting ice with radiation. The result, reported December 18 in Nature Communications, suggests that there are several ways for prebiotic chemistry to take place in space, and supports the idea that the stuff of life could have been delivered to Earth from elsewhere.
“It tells us that this process happens everywhere, at least in our galaxy,” says astrochemist Michel Nuevo of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.
Nuevo and his colleagues cooled ices of frozen water and methanol to about –260° Celsius inside a vacuum chamber and blasted the ice with ultraviolet light, mimicking the conditions found in interstellar clouds. Warming the irradiated ices simulated what happens when a young star is born. After analyzing the ice’s contents, the team identified 2-deoxyribose, as well as several other kinds of sugars made in similar experiments in the past (SN: 4/30/16, p. 18).
Experiments that had made ribose, the sugar of RNA, suggested that the sugars could be built up from reactions involving the simple molecule formaldehyde, which has been found in comets (SN Online: 10/23/14). But those reactions always lead to sugars with more oxygen molecules than deoxyribose has, Nuevo says. “The fact that we made deoxyribose points to another kind of mechanism.”
Nuevo and his colleagues also found simple deoxy sugars in meteorite samples, but not deoxyribose. That could suggest that, although deoxyribose can form in ices that predate stars, the sugar is not stable in the rocks that ultimately form planets.
Two ongoing asteroid missions might be able to help figure out why. Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission (SN Online: 6/27/18) and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission (SN Online: 12/10/18) will bring samples back to Earth, where scientists can search them for signs of deoxyribose and other biologically important molecules.
After reports about Ireland UFO sighting, a passenger plane encounters a bright flying object above San Francisco.
Conspiracy theorists think that the glowing unidentified flying object observed in the skies of San Francisco is substantial evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Just a few days after three pilots reported observing a UFO in the skies above Ireland, a passenger airplane has now seemingly spotted a mysterious flying object over San Francisco.
YouTube user Joel Cardoso originally uploaded the clip of the strange sighting to YouTube and the video gained popularity after conspiracy theory YouTube channel Mavi777 shared it.
The video shows a glowing orb hovering in the skies and staying static throughout the running time of the clip. The witness who took the video claimed that it was shot during the journey from Miami to California.
However, experts argue that the UFO in the video could be either reflection from the airplane window or ball lightning.
Extraterrestrial enthusiasts were into a frenzy a few days back when three pilots reported their UFO sightings while in contact with the Shannon Air Traffic Control.
A female British pilot first reported the bizarre event involving a speeding UFO that came up along the left side of the airplane before it quickly moved to the North.
Another pilot claimed to have witnessed somewhat the same thing stating that the UFO was speeding at twice the speed of sound.
The Newest Mars Base Concept Is a Giant Igloo at the Martian North Pole
The Newest Mars Base Concept Is a Giant Igloo at the Martian North Pole
A team of scientists at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne outline plans for a nine-month surface mission to the Martian North.
Image: EPFL
The dream of establishing a human colony on Mars goes back decades, and it will likely be at least many more decades before anything comes to fruition. But the immense technical challenge presented by human exploration of Mars has not deterred scientists from sketching out optimal strategies for long-term habitation on the Red Planet.
The latest iteration of the long tradition of speculative Mars bases is now in development at the Swiss university École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). This concept focuses on constructing an igloo-like structure at the planet’s north pole. Forthcoming research in Acta Astronautica led by Anne-Marlene Rüede, a student at EPFL’s Space Engineering Center (eSpace), describes how ice and dust at Mars’s poles could be harvested to supply water, fuel, and building materials for a future base.
“The poles may pose more challenges in the beginning, but they are the best location for the long term since they harbor natural resources that we may be able to use,” said Rüede in a statement.
The modular structures of the EPFL design—a core, capsules, and a dome—would be constructed in advance by robots from onsite materials. The pressure-sealed dome would be coated in an ice shell three-meters thick for insulation and protection from radiation and meteorite impacts, which are common on the Martian surface.
Image: EPFL
Once living spaces and life support systems are in place, the EPFL team envisions a six-person human crew voyaging to the planet during the six-month-long Martian northern summer, when sunlight is abundant for solar power production (the Martian calendar has longer seasons than Earth’s calendar, because the Martian year lasts 687 Earth days).
The crew would spend around nine months further developing the artificial habitat. Some supplies would have to be sent from Earth, and would be intercepted in Mars orbit by a local base spacecraft fueled by Martian resources.
Much like Lockheed Martin’s Mars Base Camp design or SpaceX’s Mars colony concept, the EPFL habitat aims to anticipate the best procedures to establish a long-term human presence on Mars. Whether any of these concepts will ultimately get road-tested on Mars remains up in the air, however, so don’t get too attached to the idea of kickin’ it like some Martian Santa Claus in an igloo at the planet’s north pole.
The true identity of Arabia Terra’s dark, oasis-like patches.
This morning, the European Space Agency (ESA) releaseda fascinating satellite imageof Mars, taken by the agency's Mars Express orbiter. It depicts the planet's Arabia Terra region, which may ring a bell with fans of Andy Weir's The Martian.
This densely cratered tract of land, which isabout 4,500 kilometers wide, made for a handy plot device in Weir's novel. Now the ESA picture demonstrates that its literary cred is far from the only interesting thing about it.
For instance, take the two bluish patches located in Arabia Terra's craters which, at first glance, look almost like water-rich oases in the Martian desert. Alas, this is only a mirage effect of the orbiter's perspective and image processing—in reality, the spots are windswept accumulations of dark, basalt-rich sediments. These minerals are deposited into the craters by the planet's colossal dust storms, which can enshroud the entire planet for weeks at a time, kicking up massive amounts of debris and eroding Martian surface features.
Arabia Terra is a great place to study the geological fallouts of these stormy ragers, because it is among the most ancient regions on the planet. Billions of years of cumulative dust erosion and sedimentary deposits are laid bare across this battered landscape, providing a comprehensive window into Arabia Terra's tumultuous past.
Wider view of the Mars Express image of Arabia Terra.
The region's more recent craters—like the one created by a meteorite impact about 12 years ago—boast sharper edges than older impact scars that have been sanded down over time. This diverse collection of young and old surface features distinguishes Arabia Terra as one of the most geologically distinct regions on Mars.
According to a 2007 paper published in the journal Icarus, Arabia Terra boasts mysterious outflow channels with no obvious origins, and evidence of a rich paleotectonic history, while more recent studies suggest it was home to supervolcanoessome 3.7 billion years ago, further upping the region's mystique. In short: Arabia Terra is a bizarre jumble of geological oddities that contextualize Mars's past in ways that few other regions can.
As weird as the area is, however, images like this one from Mars Express hit home that alien worlds are subject to much of the same natural processes as Earth, just with altered parameters. Indeed, Mars isn't the only extraterrestrial environment that has been visibly shaped by winds and storms—Saturn's moon Titan is also sculpted by these processes.
While neither of these worlds are hospitable to humans (for now), the fact that scientists continue to observe familiar phenomena in our own solar system bodes well for finding Earthlike environments elsewhere in the universe.
And though at this point, only fictional astronauts have visited Arabia Terra, that may soon change given NASA's recent ambitious commitments to putting a human on Mars in the 2030s. The region is tantalizing enough from the Mars Express's perspective in outer space. Perhaps it's time we took a closer look.
The Martian North Pole Is a 'Winter Wonderland' Right Now, New Photo Shows
The Martian North Pole Is a 'Winter Wonderland' Right Now, New Photo Shows
Korolev crater contains a permanent ice field that stretches over a mile deep.
Mars Express image of Korolev crater.
Image: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
The Mars Express orbiter has sent a festive postcard back to Earth just in time for the holidays. On Thursday, the European Space Agency (ESA)released the spacecraft’s viewof a “winter wonderland” of ice inside Korolev crater.
The crater is located at the Martian north pole, so it may as well be the imaginary headquarters for the Martian Santa Claus. It may also be a not-so-imaginary home for humans one day, asigloo-like domes at the Martian north polehave been floated as one possibility for inhabiting the planet.
The image is especially timely because Mars Express will celebrate its 15th anniversary in Martian orbit on Christmas Day.
Named for the influential Soviet rocket engineer Sergey Korolev, the impact crater is 82 kilometers (50 miles) in diameter and contains a permanent ice field that stretches over a mile deep. Mars Express captured its view with its High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), creating a composite image out of five orbital passes over the region.
Korolev crater was also recently imaged by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), which is jointly operated by ESA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
Topography of Korolev crater.
Image: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
The TGO’s Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) instrument captured a topographical view of the formation on April 4, which shows the slope of the crater in blues and purples.
The ice field is chilled by a “cold trap” of air that insulates the crater and keeps it perennially filled with frozen water. It would be a great place to go for a skate, so long as you don’t mind low gravity, unbreathable air, and high doses of radiation.
Cool crater portraits aren’t the only seasonal gifts we’re getting from our Martian robots this week. NASA also announced that its InSight lander, which touched down on Mars on November 26, successfully placed its seismometer on the surface with its robotic arm on Wednesday.
InSight’s seismometer on the Martian surface, December 19, 2018.
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This marked the first time that a seismometer has been placed on an alien world. This instrument is designed to pick up “Marsquakes” caused by geological faults or asteroid impacts, like the one that formed Korolev crater.
"InSight's timetable of activities on Mars has gone better than we hoped," said InSight project manager Tom Hoffman in a statement. "Getting the seismometer safely on the ground is an awesome Christmas present."
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET De Amerikaanse Marssonde InSight heeft een eerste meetinstrument op de bodem van de rode planeet neergezet. Dat heeft het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA vandaag meegedeeld.
Een robotarm van de stationaire lander zette op zowat 1,6 meter afstand van de sonde een seismograaf neer. Die moet “Marsbevingen” meten, wat meer moet leren over het binnenste van onze buurplaneet.
Er dient nog een en ander te gebeuren vooraleer de metingen echt kunnen beginnen. Van zodra alles volgens plan verloopt, kan eind januari een tweede instrument in positie worden gebracht, zegt de NASA.
De 360 kilo wegende InSight is op 26 november geland. De Koninklijke Belgische Sterrenwacht neemt deel aan het onderzoek.
SEIS Deployed on Mars: NASA's InSight lander placed its seismometer on Mars on Dec. 19, 2018. This was the first time a science instrument had ever been placed onto the surface of another planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Full image and caption ›
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Whew – winding down after a long day, but I’ve done it: I’ve placed my seismometer on the surface of Mars! With SEIS, I’ll be able to listen in for marsquakes and help reveal the heartbeat of #Mars. http://go.nasa.gov/2QGBeYX
The curse of the pharaohs is an alleged spell said to be cast upon any person who disturbs the mummy of a powerful Egyptian. This curse, which apparently does not differentiate between thieves and archaeologists, is said to cause bad luck, illness or even death. Since the mid-20th century, many historians have even argued the curse is real, due to the unexplainable circumstances that occur after the ancient coffin.
Soon after the discovery mysterious deaths were reported among the team of archaeologists
Netflix’s Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries
For many years, pharaohs were buried in the Valley of the Kings on the banks of the River Nile in Egypt, with 64 tombs already opened.
However, Netflix documentary series "Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries" series revealed how one discovery left researchers both baffled and terrified.
“The famous tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered in 1922,” the 2017 documentary detailed.
“Soon after the discovery, mysterious deaths were reported among the team of archaeologists who found the tomb.
“The deaths were ascribed to a curse cast by the pharaohs to ward off grave-robbers.
The tomb of Tutankhamun being extracted
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Tutankhamun was discovered in 1920
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The Valley of the Kings has uncovered 64 tombs to date
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“Most of the deaths can be explained medically, however, of the 12 people present during the opening of the sarcophagus, six died mysteriously within a few months.”
Today, archaeologists wear protective masks when entering such resting places.
They are aware that bacteria active in the decomposed organic material can enter open wounds and spread infection.
However, not all deaths can be accredited to this, in addition to the bizarre experiences some researchers still have following the openings.
Some have detailed how they experienced very vivid dreams, claiming to be “haunted” by the mummies they apparently disturbed.
Egyptische vloek? Zes archeologen sterven onder mysterieuze omstandigheden na openen sarcofaag
Egyptische vloek? Zes archeologen sterven onder mysterieuze omstandigheden na openen sarcofaag
Zes archeologen zijn op mysterieuze wijze om het leven gekomen kort nadat ze een oude Egyptische grafkist hadden geopend, zo blijkt uit een documentaire die op Netflix te zien is.
De vloek van de farao is het volksgeloof dat beweert dat diegene die het graf van een farao opent, hiervoor gestraft zal worden.
In graven van vooral de koningen van het Oude Rijk zijn inscripties gevonden die verwijzen naar het afschuwelijke lot dat grafschenders zou treffen bij betreding van de tombes.
Onverklaarbare gebeurtenissen
De vloek zou leiden tot pech, ziekte of zelfs sterfte.
Al sinds halverwege de 20e eeuw zeggen historici dat de vloek echt bestaat. Ze verwijzen naar onverklaarbare gebeurtenissen die soms plaatsvinden nadat tombes worden geopend.
Jarenlang werden farao’s begraven in de Vallei der Koningen aan de Nijl, waar inmiddels 64 tombes geopend zijn.
Toetanchamon
De documentaire ‘Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries’ onthult wat er gebeurde nadat één zo’n tombe werd geopend.
De tombe van Toetanchamon werd in 1922 ontdekt. Kort na de ontdekking werden er mysterieuze sterftegevallen gemeld onder archeologen die de tombe hadden gevonden.
Zeer levendige dromen
Van de 12 mensen die aanwezig waren bij de opening van de sarcofaag, stierven er zes binnen enkele maanden onder mysterieuze omstandigheden.
Sommige onderzoekers maakten na het openen van tombes melding van zeer levendige dromen waarin ze achterna werden gezeten door de mummies die ze hadden gevonden.
Pentagon weet allereerste audit niet te doorstaan, kan 21 biljoen dollar aan uitgaven niet verantwoorden. Wat is er met al dit geld gebeurd?
Pentagon weet allereerste audit niet te doorstaan, kan 21 biljoen dollar aan uitgaven niet verantwoorden. Wat is er met al dit geld gebeurd?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, die op 3 januari aantreedt als jongste vrouwelijke congreslid ooit, kreeg de grote media over zich heen nadat ze op Twitter had geschreven dat het Pentagon 21 biljoen (ja, biljoen) dollar aan uitgaven niet kan verantwoorden.
Alleen al in 2015 lijkt een bedrag van 6,5 biljoen dollar in rook te zijn opgegaan.
Meer dan 16.000 documenten waarin iets zou kunnen staan over de bestemming van al dat geld, waren ‘verwijderd’.
Zwegen in alle toonaarden
Econoom Mark Skidmore kwam tot de ontdekking dat heel, heel, heel veel geld bij het Pentagon in een zwart gat lijkt te belanden en schreef er een artikel over voor Forbes.
Het artikel ging viral, maar het Amerikaanse Congres en de overige mainstream media zwegen in alle toonaarden.
Iets opvallends
Enkele weken geleden gebeurde er iets opvallends. Tijdens een persconferentie in het Pentagon merkte onderminister van Defensie Patrick Shanahan terloops op dat het Pentagon zijn allereerste audit niet heeft doorstaan.
Het was voor het eerst dat het Pentagon werd onderworpen aan een audit, hoewel dit eigenlijk al sinds de jaren negentig wettelijk verplicht is.
Opnieuw bleef het oorverdovend stil. Pas twee weken na de persconferentie schreef de New York Times er iets over.
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$21 TRILLION of Pentagon financial transactions “could not be traced, documented, or explained.”
$21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T.
That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon.
And that’s before our premiums.
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Medicare for All: But how will we pay for it?
Military: We actually have no idea what we’re even paying for
Donald Trump may have launched US Space Force army after learning about America’s UFO secrets, expert claims EXCLUSIVE
Donald Trump may have launched US Space Force army after learning about America’s UFO secrets, expert claims
EXCLUSIVE
By Emma Parry, Digital US Correspondent
PRESIDENT Donald Trump must know America’s UFO secrets - and it may have contributed to his plans for a military Space Force, according to a defence insider.
Nick Pope, who used to run the Ministry of Defence’s UFO project, said it would be “nonsense” to suggest the President is being kept in the dark about potential UFO threats, as some conspiracy theorists believe.
Donald Trump must know about America's UFO secrets, according to Nick Pope
Pope - often dubbed the real-life Fox Mulder for his official UFO research - says Trump must know about the Pentagon’s secret UFO research project - AATIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program), which was uncovered earlier this year.
He will be aware that the influential US Armed Services Committee has been investigating the money spent on the shadowy AATIP project, according to Pope.
Trump will also know that a Senate committee is currently investigating a 2004 incident in which US Navy pilots chased and filmed an unidentifiable white “tic-tac” shaped object which travelled at “balistic missile speed” off the coast of Mexico, Pope said.
Pope believes that this knowledge may have contributed towards the president's plans to create a Space Force, a new military branch dedicated to fighting wars in space.
The Space Force is due to be created by 2020, and has been championed by Trump, who tweeted in August: "Space Force all the way!"
Pope used to run the MoD's UFO programme which was axed in 2009
Pope told Sun Online: “There are conspiracy theories suggesting President Trump's plans for a Space Force reflect a need to protect Earth against hostile aliens. There were similar conspiracy theories about President Reagan's Star Wars plan.
“While there may not be an alien connection, President Trump surely knows all of America's UFO secrets - some of which were released earlier this year as part of the AATIP project - and this may have contributed to his keenness to develop a military Space Force.
“And of course he knows that the two key battlespaces in any future conflict are going to be cyberspace and outer space, so it's vitally important for the US to dominate those battlespaces.
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US Navy pilots chased and filmed an unidentifiable white “tic-tac” shaped object in 2004
“In the 2016 Presidential campaign both Hillary Clinton and her campaign chairman John Podesta made some fairly strong 'pro-UFO' statements, but we don't know what President Trump knows or thinks about the issue.
“He'll know that the House Armed Services Committee is taking an interest in the Pentagon's AATIP project, which looked at the UFO phenomenon, and he'll know that the Senate Armed Services Committee is looking into the 2004 incident where US Navy pilots chased and filmed a UFO around the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.
“But we don't know - for example - whether he supports the move to hold formal Congressional hearings on this.”
Pope says that despite the conspiracy theories it was unbelievable to think that Trump would not know about any UFO secrets the US may be keeping from the public.
And he even suggested that those conspiracy theorists currently waiting for full disclosure of the US government's extra-terrestrial knowledge
“Many people in the UFO community believe in a conspiracy so vast, shadowy and deep that even the president doesn't know,” he said.
“They use phrases like 'need to know' and 'plausible deniability' to suggest POTUS is out of the loop.
“This is nonsense. If the US had proof that aliens have visited Earth, the President would have to know, because in his role as Commander-in-Chief he might have to make immediate top-level strategic decisions, if the situation suddenly became hostile.
Many conspiracy theorist believe that even the US president wouldn't know if aliens had visited earth or not
“The President needs to know all the big, important things, as part of a culture of no surprises. If anyone in the military industrial complex is keeping UFO secrets from President Trump, or suggesting he keep quiet about things, they may be in for a rude awakening.
“He's a particularly forceful and strong-willed president, and won't take kindly to being kept in the dark or told how to play the UFO issue.
“The UFO community fantasize about 'Disclosure' - maybe President Trump will just Tweet it one evening.”
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Donald Trump signing his Space Policy Directive calling on the Pentagon and Department of Defence to begin plans to set up a Space Force
Pope, who ran the UK’s now defunct UFO project from 1991 to 1994 said he hopes the president takes an interest in the issue - and would be happy to use his expertise to help him.
“I hope President Trump takes a personal interest in this and I'd be happy to get involved,” he said.
“The UK government axed its UFO project in 2009, so there's no current subject matter expert, but having done this job in the Nineties I'm happy to help in any presidential briefings and Congressional hearings, to explain what some of us in the MoD concluded about the threats and opportunities that arise from the UFO phenomenon, whatever its true nature.”
The Pentagon and US Department of Defence have been tasked with creating the new force to ensure what Trump called "American dominance" of space.
Trump said he wants to counter Russian and Chinese developments in space tech.
And he said he wants US agencies to "implement a state-of-the-art framework for space traffic management".
Announcing the decision on 18 June 2018, Trump said: "We are going to have the Air Force, but we are going to have the Space Force — separate but equal."
Vice President Mike Pence later said Space Force was needed to ensure America's dominance in space amid heightened competition and threats from China and Russia.
He added that while space was once peaceful and uncontested, it was now crowded and adversarial.
Heeft Trump een ruimtemacht opgezet omdat hij achter de Amerikaanse UFO-geheimen is gekomen? Ingewijde spreekt zich uit
Heeft Trump een ruimtemacht opgezet omdat hij achter de Amerikaanse UFO-geheimen is gekomen? Ingewijde spreekt zich uit
President Trump moet weet hebben van de Amerikaanse UFO-geheimen, die mogelijk direct verband houden met zijn plannen voor een militaire ruimtemacht. Dat stelt een voormalige defensieambtenaar.
Nick Pope, die jarenlang het UFO-bureau van het Britse ministerie van Defensie runde, zei dat de president op de hoogte moet zijn van het geheime UFO-project van het Pentagon.
Trump moet ook weten dat een Senaatscommissie momenteel een incident uit 2004 onderzoekt waarbij marinepiloten een onbekend vliegend object in de vorm van een tic tac filmden en achtervolgden, aldus Pope.
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Hij meent dat dit alles heeft bijgedragen aan de plannen van de president om een ruimtemacht in het leven te roepen.
Die ruimtemacht moet in 2020 gereed zijn.
“President Trump kent vast en zeker alle Amerikaanse UFO-geheimen,” zei Pope tegen de Sun Online.
Vijandige aliens
“Er zijn complottheorieën in omloop die suggereren dat de ruimtemacht nodig is om de aarde te beschermen tegen vijandige aliens,” vervolgde hij.
“Tijdens de presidentsrace in 2016 deden zowel Hillary Clinton als haar campagnemanager John Podesta enkele stevige ‘pro-UFO’ uitspraken, maar we weten niet hoe president Trump hierover denkt,” aldus Pope.
Disclosure
“We weten bijvoorbeeld niet of hij voorstander is van congressionele hoorzittingen over dit onderwerp,” klonk het.
De UFO-gemeenschap fantaseert over ‘Disclosure’. Misschien zet Trump er op een dag wel iets over op Twitter, besloot Pope.
Baseball has its Oldtimers games. Golf has its Seniors Tour. Dancing with the Stars brings back past champions. Perhaps the Fortean world needs a place for those classic old sightings that keep coming back and baffling many – even when the cause of the event is usually known or easy to explain. The best example of this creatures falling from the sky. While cows, elephants, pythons and other large or strange animals would certainly warrant attention, fish falling from the sky have become more common and even an annual event in some locations. Yet the overnight or sudden appearance of thousands of flopping fish still gets people excited. That was the case this week in India, where yet another classic fish fall was reported.
“According to sources, a resident of Amalapuram captured the video of the “fish rain” at around 4pm and circulated it among his friends.”
Fortean phenomena are a lot more fun now that we have cell phones and social media. The WhatsApp video quickly made it to the Times of India, which interviewed the unnamed videographer from Amalapuram, a town in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh located in the delta of Konaseema, which places it between two tributaries of the Godavari River and the Bay of Bengal. Do you need a bigger hint as to where the fish may have come from? (Photos and video here.)
It’s happened before.
“A meteorologist from Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said that strong winds of the storms like Cyclone Phethai sometimes carry displaced fish, frogs from the water bodies and drop on the land.”
The news was big enough to be picked up by the Weather Channel, which just happened to have reporters hanging on to lampposts as they covered the (hint alert) Cyclone Phethai,which made landfall in Andhra Pradesh on December 17, destroying over 10,000 farm and, even worse, damaging an estimated total of 12,094 mobile towers, which could explain why there was only one video circulating of the fish rain.
While no greater source than the Weather Channel said it, all good Forteans know that there’s still never been scientific observation of fish rising out from a body of water due to a cyclone, waterspout, hurricane or other phenomena – only their falling from the sky or mysteriously appearing on the ground. And it’s often the case that they were brought by flooding, not rain. Still, there are times when there seems to be no weather explanation for falling fish, frogs, snakes and other non-flying creatures. Thus, they continue to be reported.
Stay tuned to Legends of Forteana for future coverage of fish rain, spontaneous human combustion, alien big cats, levitation and much, much more.
Mysterious Light Seen In Skies Across Northern California
Mysterious Light Seen In Skies Across Northern California
A mysterious light was spotted in the sky on December 19, 2018 after 5:30 p.m., a time when most are making their way home from work.
ABC7 News interviewed several witnesses of the strange phenomenon in the sky:
Dathao Becker was visiting the Bay Area from San Diego and said "I just thought it was a kind of weird formation."
"I thought somebody was trying to spell something out in the sky, but I couldn't read what it was, so, I just moved on with the rest of my night" said Aparna Sarna.
Palo Alto resident, Ransom "I saw a moving cloud, then it formed into a question mark. I don't know, maybe it's a sign."
In the next video an official from the California Academy of Sciences explains why the strange light that glowed across California Wednesday night was likely a meteor but Elizabeth Matuzak who is a big believer in UFO phenomenon told ABC7 News; "I definitely think it's a UFO."
I found a really nice resolution moon photo of IO. Its one of the moons of Jupiter. IO has a lot of evidence of intelligent life on it which I determined from the massive structures strewn across its surface. I found a really cool long black spaceship with bat-like back fins. Kinda looks like something Batman might fly around, but this thing is huge, about 10-15km across or more. Thats a hell of a ship. Also I found a round thick disk structure that appears to be sinking into the surface of the moon at an angle. The disk is large and probably parked on the surface but was too heavy and began sinking over thousands of years. IO has is an inhabited moon of Jupiter. Scott C. Waring
Mysterious Light Seen In Skies Across Northern California Likely A Meteor
Mysterious Light Seen In Skies Across Northern California Likely A Meteor
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Social media was filled with photos, videos and questions Wednesday night about the bright light and strangely illuminated smoke contrail seen in the skies that were visible across the Bay Area and California.
Dozens of people called and emailed the KPIX 5 newsroom asking what the phenomenon was, but the reason behind the light and smoke initially was a bit of a mystery.
“It was far too big to be a firework,” said Gus Graves of San Francisco. “I’m thinking it’s some sort of high-tech rocket that they’re working on, possibly? Or aliens. One of the two.”
“I was thinking it was a jet or something,” said Kira Bulger of Oakland. “Like a fighter pilot that was leaving a crazy streak in the sky.”
Bing Quock, assistant director of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences, said that the Lick Observatory determined the mysterious light trail was a bright meteor.
“A very bright meteor that fell through the atmosphere, and it took place shortly after sunset so that the contrail that was left behind was still lit by the sun,” Quock said.
He said that the reason for the meteor trail’s question mark shape was high level wind in the atmosphere.
“And when upper winds in the atmosphere blew the contrail into nicely contorted shapes that looked like a strange glowing curlicue in the air that baffled a lot of people. But very likely just a bright meteor.”
A bright meteor was visible in the skies over the Bay Area shortly after sunset this evening, leaving a bright trail that was visible for many minutes in the western sky. Elinor Gates got a few photos showing how the trail was illuminated by the Sun after sunset and changed shape with the upper level winds in the atmosphere. Update: From Dr. Peter Jenniskens (SETI) "CAMS@Lick Observatory detected the flash of the meteor at 01:34:48 UTC (17:34:48 PST). At least three flares."
Shortly before 7 p.m., the National Weather Service posted on Twitter that, while not 100 percent confirmed, the object seen was probably a meteor.
A key ingredient for 'night shining clouds' comes from outer space. Scientists have detected bits of 'meteor smoke' imbedded in them.
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Many took to social media to post pictures of the phenomenon. Reports of the sightings were made as far away as Sacramento, the Tahoe area and Southern California.
In some photos, a large illuminated circle was visible on the top of the smoke plume. There appeared to be an increasing likelihood that the object was a meteor burning up in the atmosphere.
There was some initial speculation that the lights could be related to a scheduled rocket launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base, but that launch was scrubbed early Wednesday evening.
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Launch Alert: we have declared a scrub for today's launch of the #DeltaIVHeavy. We will set up for a 24 hour recycle and the next launch attempt will be 12/20 at 5:31pm PST.
Astronomers used the giant dish to spot a pair ofpulsarsthousands of light years away, heralding big things for what is now the world’s largest single dish radio telescope.
The stars, called PSR J1859-01 and PSR J1931-01, were detected by the telescope back in August, but it took a few extra months until the Parkes telescope in Australia could confirm them as the real deal.
Both objects are dense, rapidly spinning stars surrounded by strong magnetic fields. These fields channel electromagnetic radiation into a beam that describes a circle with every rotation, much like a cosmic lighthouse.
Seen from Earth, the stars seem to pulse with every sweep, giving them their name pulsar. Their positions and timing make for useful landmarks in space, not to mention handy cosmic clocks for testing general relativity.
The pair discovered by FAST – also dubbed FP1 and FP2 – don’t stand out in terms of size, speed, or distance.
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“FP1 is a pulsar with a spin period of 1.83 second and an estimated distance of 16 thousand light-years, and FP2, is a pulsar with a spin period of 0.59 second and an estimated distance of 4,100 light years,” says deputy chief engineer of FAST, Li Di.
For a comparison, the fastest pulsar turns on its axis an insane 642 times per second.
In February the European Space Agency found a pulsar that was a thousand times brighter than ever thought possible, 50 million light years away.
But give it a chance – FAST exceeds the 305 metre wide Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico as the largest dish of its kind, so far more impressive discoveries are surely yet to come.
“The two new discovered pulsars symbolise the dawn of a new era of systematic discoveries by Chinese radio telescopes,” says Yan Jun, director of the National Astronomical Observatories of China.
The US$185 million facility was built to collect radio waves washing over the planet from the far reaches of deep space, allowing researchers to pick up faint traces of radiation from ancient clouds of hydrogen gas, distant black holes, pulsars, or … just maybe … alien wifi.
The dish sits inside a giant sinkhole in Guizhou Province, southwest China, where limestone has dissolved away to leave a massive depression.
The stats are impressive; 4,450 panels give the dish a collection area of 196,000 square metres (about 2,109,700 square feet), more than doubling Arecibo’s coverage.
A bigger dish can collect more radio waves, which means detecting fainter signals; just the thing we need to see deeper into space, and therefore further back in time.
This hollow amid the surrounding hills provides a natural shelter from more Earthly radio waves, giving FAST a quiet spot to stare at the heavens.
Closer to home, the giant dish could also be used to track spacecraft travelling to Mars as part of China’s burgeoning space program.
China has been making extraordinary leaps in space-based technology in recent years, such as facilitating the first quantum-encrypted satellite link-up just a few weeks ago.
Earlier this year the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation announced it would be conducting a record 30 launches into space this year, maintaining a trend in recent years that could see it meet its goal of landing technology on Mars by 2020.
FAST is just one more example of the nation’s rapid progress in space technology. While it still has a few more tests to conduct to fine tune its processes, it won’t be long before the facility is available to astronomers all over the globe.
Scientists have long said that Saturn’s glorious rings may be only temporary. New research confirms a “ring rain” onto Saturn that’ll leave the planet ringless in 300 million years, or sooner.
Saturn’s wide, iconic rings make this planet the telescopic showpiece of the solar system, but new research confirms the planet’s rings are only temporary. The new work was publishedDecember 17, 2018, in the peer-reviewedjournal Icarus. It describes a process whereby ice particles from the rings are being pulled by gravity onto Saturn, falling as a dusty ring rain.
James O’Donoghue of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is lead author of the new study. O’Donoghue said in a statement:
We estimate that this ‘ring rain’ drains an amount of water products that could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool from Saturn’s rings in half an hour.
Saturn’s rings consists of countless separate particles with sizes ranging from pea-sized to that of giant boulders. These particles are composed mainly of water ice, with a trace of rocky material. There are two basic possibilities for how Saturn got its rings. It is conceivable that Saturn formed with the rings from the great cloud of gas and dust that also formed our sun and the other planets, 4 1/2 billion years ago. Or – as now seems more likely – the rings started out as moons for Saturn that collided, or a moon that came too close (within Saturn’s Roche limit) and was shattered by tidal forces.
The new research favors the idea that the rings are recent and temporary. Like some previous studies, it suggests a much younger age for the rings than 4 1/2 billion years. The ring rain alone indicates that the rings will last no more than 300 million years, these scientists said. Earlier research suggested an even shorter timeframe for the rings, giving them less than 100 million years to live. O’Donoghue said:
We are lucky to be around to see Saturn’s ring system, which appears to be in the middle of its lifetime. However, if rings are temporary, perhaps we just missed out on seeing giant ring systems of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, which have only thin ringlets today!
Artist’s concept of how Saturn might look in the next hundred million years. According to this scenario, the innermost rings would disappear first as they rain onto the planet. They’d be followed more slowly by the outer rings.
The first hints that a ring rain existed came from Voyager spacecraft observations in the early 1980s. Now, according to a statement from NASA:
Ring particles are caught in a balancing act between the pull of Saturn’s gravity, which wants to draw them back into the planet, and their orbital velocity, which wants to fling them outward into space. Tiny particles can get electrically charged by ultraviolet light from the sun or by plasma clouds emanating from micrometeoroid bombardment of the rings. When this happens, the particles can feel the pull of Saturn’s magnetic field, which curves inward toward the planet at Saturn’s rings. In some parts of the rings, once charged, the balance of forces on these tiny particles changes dramatically, and Saturn’s gravity pulls them in along the magnetic field lines into the upper atmosphere.
Once there, the icy ring particles vaporize and the water can react chemically with Saturn’s ionosphere. One outcome from these reactions is an increase in the lifespan of electrically charged particles called H3+ ions, which are made up of three protons and two electrons. When energized by sunlight, the H3+ ions glow in infrared light, which was observed by O’Donoghue’s team using special instruments attached to the Keck telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Their observations revealed glowing bands in Saturn’s northern and southern hemispheres where the magnetic field lines that intersect the ring plane enter the planet. They analyzed the light to determine the amount of rain from the ring and its effects on Saturn’s ionosphere. They found that the amount of rain matches remarkably well with the astonishingly high values derived more than three decades earlier …
The Cassini spacecraft – which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017 – scanned across Saturn on April 25, 2016, capturing three sets of red, green and blue images to show the planet and its main rings. Cassini was approximately 1.9 million miles (3 million km) from Saturn at the time.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.
The team also found that one region in the south of Saturn was receiving most of ring rain.
And they discovered a glowing band at a higher latitude in Saturn’s southern hemisphere. This is where Saturn’s magnetic field intersects the orbit of the Saturn moon Enceladus, which was discovered by the Cassini spacecraft to be shooting geysers of water ice into space.
It’s been thought for some years that some of this material from Enceladus rains onto Saturn as well, and this new work confirms that moon rain exists as well.
Saturn’s moon Enceladus drifts before the rings and the tiny moon Pandora in this view that NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured on November 1, 2009. The entire scene is backlit by the sun, providing striking illumination for the icy particles that make up both the rings and the jets emanating from the south pole of Enceladus, which is about 314 miles (505 km) across. Pandora, which is about 52 miles (84 km) wide, was on the opposite side of the rings from Cassini and Enceladus when the image was taken. This view looks toward the night side on Pandora as well, which is lit by dim golden light reflected from Saturn.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.
Bottom line: New research confirms the idea that the iconic rings of the planet Saturn are only temporary. A ring rain is apparently falling onto Saturn, which, within some 100 to 300 million years, should cause the rings to disappear.
Extremely bright meteor has lit up the sky over the Bay Area
Extremely bright meteor has lit up the sky over the Bay Area
A series of pictures and videos that were shared in the social media show a large trail of smoke. Initially, it was not clear what caused it. Over time, more photos and videos of the incident were posted.
It was a meteor, according to the University of California's Lick Observatory near San Jose:
A bright meteor was visible in the skies over the Bay Area shortly after sunset this evening, leaving a bright trail that was visible for many minutes in the western sky. Elinor Gates got a few photos showing how the trail was illuminated by the Sun after sunset and changed shape with the upper level winds in the atmosphere. Update: From Dr. Peter Jenniskens (SETI) "CAMS@Lick Observatory detected the flash of the meteor at 01:34:48 UTC (17:34:48 PST). At least three flares."
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"A bright meteor was visible in the skies over the Bay Area shortly after sunset this evening, leaving a bright trail that was visible for many minutes in the western sky"
I wasn't too sure where to put this video... I mean it's kinda 'Nature', kinda would be 'Preppers' but allegedly coming from the CIA, I guess it could be a 'Conspiracy Theory'
People have been 'doomin' and gloomin' since the global floods last receded.... People talk about polar flips, tidal waves and killer bees.... This allegedly comes right from the CIA's website, but I wasn't clickin no links or going to their site.... Says it's from a report that was eventually released but is heavily redacted...
What sayeth thou Disclose.tv? Just another stupid annual prediction of death? Or is the end nigh?
DNA sugars may form in the interstellar medium, which is seeded with vital molecules from nebulae
(Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/Getman et al, Optical: DSS, Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
So far, Earth is the only place in the universe that we know for sure is home to life, but there's evidence that its chemical building blocks may start stacking up in space. Now, NASA astrophysicists have managed to create DNA sugars in a vacuum chamber that simulates interstellar space, and in follow-up studies found other sugar derivatives in meteorite samples.
Exactly how life got started on Earth remains a mystery, particularly the leap from non-living matter to living cells. The current leading theory is that surface hot springs or deep-sea hydrothermal vents provided the right conditions and ingredients to give birth to simple life, but there are still some plot holes to be patched up.
An emerging alternative is that Earth was merely the "oven" for the cake of life – the batter may have been mixed in space. It may sound far-fetched, but the evidence for this is growing. Light signatures of sugars and molecules with the right structure and geometry for life have been detected out in space, while water and compounds essential for life have been found in meteorites.
The new study adds to that evidence. Scientists from NASA's Ames Research Center set out to see whether DNA sugars could be created in interstellar space. To do so, they cooled an aluminum substance almost to absolute zero, and placed it in a vacuum chamber that recreated the conditions of deep space. Then, the team added a gas mixture of water vapor and methanol – components of the interstellar medium – and finally they beamed UV light into the chamber to mimic radiation from stars.
Thanks to the extremely cold temperature, an icy layer was found to form on the aluminum, which was then warmed up by the UV radiation. The team then analyzed the substance and found that the sugar molecule 2-deoxyribose – which puts the D in DNA – had been created, along with several other sugar derivatives.
NASA Ames Research Center scientists Michel Nuevo, Christopher Materese and Scott Sandford
(Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Dominic Hart)
But just because these vital molecules can be created in the lab while simulating a deep space environment, doesn't necessarily mean that the process does happen in nature. To investigate, the team examined several carbonaceous meteorite samples and found traces of more simple deoxysugar acids and alcohols. Nothing as complex as 2-deoxyribose was found, but the team says this could be because they haven't checked many samples yet.
"For more than two decades we've asked ourselves if the chemistry we find in space can make the kinds of compounds essential to life," says Scott Sandford, an author of the study. "So far, we haven't picked a single broad set of molecules that can't be produced. The universe is an organic chemist. It has big beakers and lots of time — and the result is a lot of organic material, some of which is useful to life."
Finding these vital molecules in meteorites could help explain the origin of life on Earth, as well as ramping up the likelihood of it being widespread throughout the universe. Asteroids and comets could be exposed to this cosmic dust, going on to seed planets and moons with life as they crash to the surface.
"We don't yet know whether life is common in the universe, but we're pretty sure the presence of life's building blocks is not a limiting factor," says Michel Nuevo, lead author of the study.
So I thought, totally unrelated to disclosure .....I was looking at camera zoom lense options out there and I came across this guys video on YouTube.
The video goes through different magnification strengths using this particular Leica lens.
Being that this video is purely about this guys lense I don't think he maybe even knows this but if you jump to the 2:55 mark in the video and watch the moon at the right side of the screen you'll see a shadow fly from bottom to top. Very clear and easy to spot.
Is there something easy to explain away this shadow? Some common phenomenon that I may not know about?
Google Earth: Are these the secret S4 UFO hangars of Area 51?
Google Earth: Are these the secret S4 UFO hangars of Area 51?
Pictures on Google Earth show something that could be a hangar for aircraft.
The video shows an area that Lazar called S4 or Site 4 at the time - and which he said was a hangar hidden in a mountain where the UFOs were located. The place looks like a huge construction site, and you see at least three big hangar gates.
Yes, I know Tyler has a questionable reputation, but the Google Earth discoveries are still interesting:
Robbert Van Den Broeke – Real Alien Proof, Harassment From the Dutch media, Psychic Ability Demonic? Natalee Holloway’s Location, the Incredible Story of Robbert
Robbert Van Den Broeke – Real Alien Proof, Harassment From the Dutch media, Psychic Ability Demonic? Natalee Holloway’s Location, the Incredible Story of Robbert
Robbert van den Broeke was born in Breda, Holland, and grew up in a small West-Brabant village, with an older and a younger sister. At a very young age, he found he had psychic ability and ‘saw’ things which his parents were unable to comprehend.
Because of this lack of understanding about what he could see and feel his growing up was difficult and he developed traumas, phobias, and insecurities plus anxiety syndromes. It was not until he was 13 years old that his gifts and talents were recognized and under the excellent professional guidance of psychologist Rens Hendriks he was able to develop consciously in paranormal and spiritual areas.
It was in February 1996 that Robbert first found he was able to predict exactly where crop circles would appear. Once with his naked eye (and later also in company with others) he saw a crop circle as it was actually forming.
These experiences brought him a unique understanding and inspirations but sometimes the events were so extreme that, to avoid misunderstandings, his parents kept it all to themselves.
During this time Robbert’s perceptions and senses were becoming more acute and heightened and he found he was able to give information and statements to others about things he could not normally have known about.
He also began seeing energetic phenomena such as glowing spheres and streaks of light in and above crop circles.
The conversation turned to photographs and Video, of an encounter with octopus-like Aliens. They have left tentacles in a field and he would like them to be studied scientifically. He is not asking for money, he simply wants them to be studied.
Robbert is a controversial figure in his homeland, the media has not taken too kindly to him. The conversation takes a turn when the topic of Natalee Holloway, was mentioned. Robbert van de Broeke says he knows where the body of the missing Natalee Holloway lies. Van den Broeke indicates that Van der Sloot admitted in a skype conversation that Holloway is indeed in a grave of the Sint Anna cemetery. “I am particularly glad that he has told us on video that he did not want to say anything about Sint Anna and that I believe that it is correct, and of course we also pass this on to the police, but they do not take us seriously.”
“someone sent us to the police station in Aruba, we called and we have mailed, but they say that there are so many psychics who say they know where they are, that they do not even investigate it anymore, which is embarrassing and enormously frustrating. you know that another medium, without me knowing it, has appointed the same place. This cemetery, also grave 15 “, says Van den Broeke. The Hoevens medium now exclusively informs the editors of the Halderbergse Bode that he very recently also received a precise location; cemetery Saint Anna, grave 15. He is convinced that the police will meet the remains of Natalee Holloway there.
EPADe Russische Sojoez-gezagvoerder Sergej Prokopjev wordt uit de capsule geholpen.
WETENSCHAPEen Russische Sojoez-capsule is vandaag veilig geland in een dorpje in Kazachstan. Met de capsule keerden drie ruimtevaarders terug op aarde na een verblijf van bijna 200 dagen in het Internationaal Ruimtestation ISS.
De Sojoez-capsule was om 2.40 uur Belgische tijd afgemeerd van het ISS en landde net na 6 uur in Kazachstan, een minuut eerder dan gepland. De terugkeer werd van zeer nabij gevolgd, want in augustus was er drukverlies ontstaan in het ISS door een gaatje in de wand van de leefmodule van de bewuste Sojoez. Het euvel werd snel verholpen, maar de oorzaak is nog niet bekend. Mogelijk gaat het om sabotage.
Aan boord van de capsule zaten de Duitser Alexander Gerst namens het Europese ruimtevaartbureau ESA, de Russische Sojoez-gezagvoerder Sergej Prokopjev en de Amerikaanse astronaute Serena Aunon-Chancellor. De Duitser was na Frank De Winne de tweede Europeaan om gezagvoerder van het ISS te zijn. Hij heeft tijdens zijn twee missies 363 dagen in het complex doorgebracht, aldus ESA.
In het ISS blijven de Rus Oleg Kononenko, de Amerikaanse Anne McClain en de Canadees David Saint-Jacques achter.
Mislukte Sojoez-lancering in oktober
Sergej Prokopjev en Alexander Gerst moesten normaal op 13 december al terugkeren. Maar in oktober mislukte de lancering van de Sojoez MS-10, waardoor de Rus Aleksej Ovtsjinin en de Amerikaan Nick Hague niet in het ISS, maar weer in Kazachstan belandden. Pas toen de Russische ruimtevaartautoriteiten er zeker van waren dat de Sojoez-draagraket alsnog betrouwbaar was, kon de huidige bemanning van het ISS vertrekken.
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Riskante ruimtewandeling
Twee kosmonauten hebben vorige week tijdens een riskante ruimtewandeling ook in de buitenwand van de Sojoez gekerfd om stalen te vergaren. Die stalen vlogen met de Sojoez mee voor analyse bij de geheime dienst FSB. De Sojoez ondergaat tijdens de terugkeer in de atmosfeer temperaturen tot 2.500 graden Celsius.
Columbia
Op 1 februari 2003 verging het Amerikaanse ruimteveer Columbia, doordat tijdens de lancering een brokje piepschuim een gaatje in een vleugel had geslagen en waardoor tijdens de duik in de dampkring hete gassen het ruimteveer konden binnendringen. De zeven inzittende astronauten kwamen toen om het leven.
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De Duitse ISS-astronaut Alexander Gerst vanmorgen na de landing.
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Het ISS gefotografeerd vanuit de ruimte.
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De Russische kosmonaut Oleg Kononenko doet een ruimtewandeling bij het Internationale Ruimtestation ISS.
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De Russische kosmonaut Oleg Kononenko doet een ruimtewandeling bij het Internationale Ruimtestation ISS.
Drie astronauten zijn vandaag na een missie van bijna 200 dagen terug op aarde aangekomen. De drie verbleven op het ISS om er onderzoek en oplapwerken te doen.
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The Origin Of Humankind – The Big Historical Cover-Up [2018]
The Origin Of Humankind – The Big Historical Cover-Up [2018]
Is everything we learned in school, including science and scientists along with everything else just a big lie?
Many unsolved mysteries around ancient structures like the Egyptian pyramids or the Sphinx suggest alternative timelines of history.
Is there a cover-up of the true origin of humankind?
Timeliness are drastically skewed to align with the life of Jesus ,which no matter which story you believe humans have been here far longer than the writers of the biblical story would have you believe ,and even though a lot of it is to keep the believers in line and giving to the church ,there is a god a master creator that even other life forms would tell you , but we as a race are far older than than any of the established experts will admit !
The problem with modern science is that government pays for the vast majority of it. When you are funded by the government you say what the government tells you to say. Otherwise you lose your career. No true science can be had under those circumstances.
As one would come to realise, while traversing such fields of research as we do, you will inevitably come face to face with a worthy adversary.
That foe, of course, is modern paradigm. Often scoffed at when discussing the possible existence of a highly trained, highly secret group of worldwide individuals, who are tasked with the protection of a profitable lie.
Often labelled a conspiracy theorist due to the vast array of missing evidence and stolen relics. Yet alas, regardless of this, we feel it is our duty to vindicate all those who have suffere, for doing nothing more than tell the truth.
Many thanks to will hart over at nexus magazine in Spain for his exhaustive research. Let’s start with a familiar friend, The great sphinx.
In 1993, NBC aired a show titled, The Mysteries of the Sphinx, during the show, geological evidence was shown which indicated that the Sphinx was vastly older than Egyptologists currently claim. This evidence, has subsequently become popularly known as the “water erosion controversy”. The Self-taught Egyptologist John Anthony West, first brought the evidence to the attention of geologist Dr Robert Schoch.
Now, after thoroughly studying the Sphinx first hand, numerous geologists share West’s conclusions, and many have announced their findings to the world… Dr Zahi Hawass, along with the Egyptian antiquities, have launched a barrage of public criticism at this new evidence.
Renowned Egyptologist Dr Mark Lehner, who is regarded as the world’s foremost expert on the Sphinx, also joined this attack. Publicly declaring West and Schoch as “ignorant and insensitive”.
The smear campaign was ultimately a success, and squashed any further exploration of the theory. This, regardless of the overwhelming evidence supporting their claims. And this intellectual “mudslinging” is unfortunately, quite common.
The case of author Michael Cremo, could be seen as a well-documented example of this, and it also exposes just how the scientific establishment, openly uses pressure tactics on the media and government to stifle historical truths. In Michaels book, Forbidden Archaeology, he examines many artefacts that prove modern man’s antiquity, far exceeds the age currently accepted by academia. In 1996, when NBC broadcasted a special programme called The Mysterious Origins of Man, they covered material from Cremo’s book.
The reaction from the scientific community could be seen as verging on ridiculous. NBC was deluged with letters from furious scientists and others within certain fields, who all called the producer “a fraud” and the whole program “a hoax”.
Even attempting to force NBC to not rebroadcast the popular program ever again. They went to the tremendous effort of presenting a case to the federal government, requesting that the Federal Communications Commission step in and bar NBC from airing the program again.
This was not only an apparent infringement of free speech and a blatant attempt to thwart commerce, but up until that point, it was an unprecedented effort to censor intellectual discourse.
During the 1970’s, Dr Virginia Steen-McIntyre would also feel the cold hands of the conspiracy, a geologist working for the US Geological Survey, she was dispatched to an archaeological site in Mexico, with the task of dating a group of artefacts .
This particular case, again, perfectly illustrates just how far this illusive establishment, is willing to go to guard orthodox tenets. McIntyre used state-of-the-art equipment to date the relics, but her results were off the charts. The lead archaeologist expected a date of 25,000 years or less, yet she found dates of 250,000 years or more on multiple occasions.
A dating of 25,000 years, is conveniently critical to the Bering Strait crossing theory. Once her results were realised, the head archaeologists decided to dispose of Steen-McIntyre’s results, subsequently asking for a new series of dating tests. Steen-McIntyre was given a chance to retract her conclusions, but she graciously refused.
She has since found it hard to get her papers published, and she also lost a teaching job at an American university. These sorts of scenarios from these particular types of people, is what drives us to expose the truth. No one should lose their career because they do are doing it correctly.
Unfortunately however, unless there is a dramatic shift within our own society, stories such as these are likely to continue.
Scientist: “The Soul Enters The Fetus 49 Days After The Formation Of The Pineal Gland”
Scientist: “The Soul Enters The Fetus 49 Days After The Formation Of The Pineal Gland”
Dr. Rick Strassman finds fascinating coincidences between the development of the human fetus and the descriptions of the Book of Death Beta: Does the soul enter the human body through the pineal gland?
Dr. Rick Strassman suggests in his book DMT: The Spirit Molecule, a fascinating hypothesis: that the human soul is incarnated in the body in the seventh week after conception, using the pineal gland as a spiritual channel and the molecule dimethyltriptamine ( DMT) as a Catalyst.
Strassman is an American doctor specializing in psychiatry with a research fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology.
The DMT
It is a powerful psychedelic substance that occurs naturally in the pineal gland, something that has recently been shown, and that could also be linked to near-death experiences (NDE).
In fact, the research published in the journal Biomedical Chromatography documents the presence of DMT in the glands of living rats.
According to the researchers, the discovery of the pineal gland as a source of DMT “reinforces the idea of the enigmatic stellar role in unusual states of consciousness”.
Dimethyltryptamine
It has been related to the generation of images in dreams, with the states of consciousness that generate near-death experiences and all kinds of mystical experiences.
The curious thing is that the pineal gland becomes visible in the human fetus at 49 days, which is the number of days that a soul takes to reincarnate according to the Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book of the Dead). These coincidences have led Strassman to affirm that the soul is incarnated in the body in the seventh week of pregnancy.
Following the reports of near-death experiences in which moments of awareness outside the body are described, Strasslarizes that it is the DMT that makes these states of consciousness accessible.
In his opinion, the pineal gland could act as an antenna or lightning rod for the soul.
Although many people do not believe in the existence of the soul, others consider it to be immaterial: Plato and the Neoplatonists believe, for example, that the soul creates the body. And there are those who have managed to photograph him.Rene Descartes, located the seat of the soul, in the pineal gland, something that could now be tested. Anyway, the coincidence found by Strassmannos surprises.
Russia knows about extraterrestrial civilizations over several decades, so for many it is not surprising that such rumors are circulating for many years.
Russia’s first contact with the gray aliens allegedly occurred in 1942. At that time, were planned series of diplomatic visits to discuss issues of mutual interest – by alleged Russian documents and agreements that have been created.
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According to the document, the 1961 incident that occurred involved three entities for breach of contract officers army base, when they discovered that their arrival was filmed with hidden devices without their consent. Based on the agreement were 23/04 confidential meetings and filming or taking pictures that were not allowed.
In 1969, in the State of Sverdlovsk was reported the crashed UFO and it was acquired by the Russian army. Video film shows rescue and shots from close range UFO itself. The boat was found and dead alien. The remains of an alien UFO wreckage and were taken to some safe place in Russia, where it was analyzed and the plate on an alien autopsy. In the photos appeared little alien.
Alleged event was broadcast on TNT special “The Secret UFO Files of the KGB.” The agenda featured the former actor depicting James Bond, Roger Moore. In support of the event was shown compelling video and photographic evidence.
According to the Truth KGB allegedly special unit designed to collect and monitor all kinds of information regarding the mysterious and unexplained phenomena that report back inside the Soviet Union.
In compliance with the order, General A. G. Ponomarenko, chief military command Ural area, had to take care to ensure that the KGB agents involved in work related to the UFO at all stages. Reporting agents were immediately undertaken with Colonel A. I. Grigoriev, chief of the KGB.
There are substantiated reports that a UFO crashed or was shot down near the city Prohlandnyi in Russia, on 10th of August 1989, the Soviet military radar watched an unidentified flying object and Russia attempted unsuccessfully to establish a vessel contact. UFO was evaluated as “hostile”. We were alerted to the Soviet defense and that UFO found and identified, were sent MIG-25.
On the outside of the ship were noticeable damage. Rehabilitation team, having dressed in protective suits, arrived at the site. Was measured smaller amounts of radiation and some members of the team were contaminated. At the scene came the helicopter and UFO were transported to the air base of Mozdok (North Ossetia-Alania). The Russians entered the UFO and found two dead alien bodies, one still alive. A team of doctors and other employees tried at all costs to keep the alien alive but failed.
All three creatures were about 90 to 120 centimeters tall, with gray-tight suit. Beneath it were the skin blue-green color with a reptilian texture. They had hair, big black eyes were covered with a protective cap and finger-like flotation membrane were finished long, slender arms.
Alien bodies were stored in glass containers and the UFO was transported to the spaceport Kapustin Yar (Volgograd). This information was first announced three Russian investigators – it howled: Anton Anfalov, Lenur Azizov and Alexander Mosolov, but who did not have to support these claims, no documents.
Should we be worried about the creation of artificial intelligence? For me, this is a simple question with an even simpler, three letter answer: yes. Many people, including the late physicist Stephen Hawking, have raised concerns that the rise of powerful AI systems could spell the end for humanity.
In the video below, I delve into a few reason technology should concern us all. Especially when scientists entertain the idea of giving machines their own ‘reasonings skills’ and the ability to deny a direct order from humans.
The polar vortex could sweep across the east coast this winter, bringing with it harsh conditions, climate scientists have warned.
Climate researchers are sounding the alarm on a polar vortex that’s predicted to sweep through the U.S.’ east coast later this month and inflict one of the harshest winters in years, The Washington Post reported.
Judah Cohen, a researcher from Atmospheric and Environmental Research, told the outlet his climate models indicate a vortex is likely to hit in late December or early January. A polar vortex disruption occurs when the stratosphere – which is above the troposphere where weather occurs – suddenly warms, causing winds to decrease or change direction. The vortex will then be displaced and split apart, spilling cold air into the mid-latitudes.
“Confidence is growing in a significant PolarVortex disruption in the coming weeks. This could be the single most important determinant of the weather this winter across the Northern Hemisphere,” Cohen wrote on his blog and Twitter feed last week.
Last year a vortex that originated in Eurasia swept eastern North America, causing windstorms that lasted weeks.
“We were still feeling the impacts into the end of April,” Cohen said.
This Jan. 6, 2014 photo shows a satellite image of a polar vortex pushing southward over the U.S.
(nasa.gov)
Still, models are notoriously unreliable. American models and European models, for instance, yield different conclusions on when exactly a disruption will occur.
Amy Butler, a scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, tweeted: “[N]ot all other models on board yet so still reason to be cautious.”
Confidence is growing in a significant #PolarVortex disruption in the coming weeks. This could be the single most important determinant of the weather this #winter across the Northern Hemisphere. Likely impacts discussed in today's blog: https://bit.ly/2DVbhhg
Bittere kou in aantocht? Wetenschappers waarschuwen voor aanstaande poolwervel
Bittere kou in aantocht? Wetenschappers waarschuwen voor aanstaande poolwervel
Het kan wel eens bar koud worden. Wetenschappers waarschuwen dat een zogenoemde poolwervel later deze maand de oostkust van de Verenigde Staten zal bereiken en daar gaat zorgen voor één van de strengste winters in jaren, schrijft de Washington Post.
Judah Cohen, een onderzoeker van Atmospheric and Environmental Research, zei tegen de krant dat uit zijn klimaatmodellen blijkt dat de poolwervel eind december of begin januari aankomt.
Een poolwervel is een verschijnsel hoog in de atmosfeer dat invloed heeft op het weer aan het oppervlak.
Belangrijkste bepalende factor
Een poolwervel was ook de oorzaak van de koudegolf van 2013-2014 in Noord-Amerika.
Door een plotse opwarming van de stratosfeer verzwakte de poolwervel snel en zakte deze uit over het continent.
Steeds meer aanwijzingen voor een aanzienlijke verstoring van de poolwervel in de komende weken. Dit zou wel eens de belangrijkste bepalende factor kunnen zijn voor het weer deze winter op het noordelijk halfrond, schreef Cohen afgelopen week op zijn blog en op Twitter.
Judah Cohen@judah47
Confidence is growing in a significant #PolarVortex disruption in the coming weeks. This could be the single most important determinant of the weather this #winter across the Northern Hemisphere. Likely impacts discussed in today's blog: https://bit.ly/2DVbhhg
A new body discovered in the Solar System has beengiven the nickname “Farout” by the international team of astronomers who discovered it. The name seems to be fitting – as it is currently the most-distant body known in the Solar System at this time. It is around 100 times farther from the Sun than the Earth is. In fact, it is around 120 astronomical units (AU) away from the Sun. For reference, each AU is a measurement of the Earth’s distance from the Sun. Fallen-from-grace former planet Pluto – once considered the farthest planet from the Sun (when its orbit did not go inside Neptune’s) – is a mere 34 AU from the sun.
The previous holder of the farthest-known object in the Solar System was Eris at 96 AU. Farout was discovered as part of the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center’s search for the mysterious Planet X, or as it is more appropriately known with the (historically) recent demotion of Pluto from ninth planet to dwarf planet, Planet Nine.
Previous discoveries made by the team include a distant Solar System object discovered around Halloween in 2015, nicknamed The Goblin to keep with the holiday spirit. The Goblin is around 80 AU and has a strange orbit, which gives some credence to a theory many astronomers hold that there is a yet-to-be-discovered ninth planet whose gravity is affecting it.
This team first proposed the theory of a ninth planet (formerly theorized to be Planet X) in 2014 when they discovered another distant object (nicknamed Biden) around 84 AU. While these objects are far enough not to be directly influenced by the gravity of gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, they are still having their orbits influenced by what seems to be an object of immense gravity. It is too soon to state whether or not Farout, or 2018 VG18 as it is scientifically known, is influenced by the same mysterious pull.
Farout may be a dwarf object with a pinkish hue and icy consistency, similar to the former planet Pluto seen here
A scientist working on the discovery stated Farout is not only more distant, but also slower than other similar objects found in that area of space. However, it was found in a similar location and, while calculating its orbit may take a few years, scientists are expecting it to have similar orbital anomalies to its (somewhat close-by) neighbors. It is around 500km in diameter and is theorized to be spherical like other dwarf planets. It is assumed to have a pinkish hue like other ice-rich objects.
This discovery, coupled with the other discoveries leading back to Biden, or 2012 VP113, have given astronomers a more detailed look at the once vague and mysterious Oort Cloud thought to surround the Solar System. These discoveries are illustrating the cloud as full of rocky and icy orbs. If the gravitational influence on the orbits are proven to be from a yet-unknown ninth planet, however, that planet is most likely 10 times the size of the Earth – and potentially just as rocky. But, it is most likely not Nbiru.
It seems like there is no end to the videos of strange lights and objects reported in clips of live feeds from the International Space Station. All the usual sensational YouTube channels (you know the ones) are full of videos trying to make much ado about lens flares, small pieces of orbital debris, or video artifacts and glitches all in the name of The Truth is Out There. I usually barely even watch a few seconds of them before I move on. This one, though, feels somehow different. This week, a live stream from the ISS caught a mysterious, seemingly triangular object float by a SpaceX Dragon capsule as it arrived at the space station. Was this the elusive TR-3B caught on camera, or did something stranger make a Christmas cameo?
The Dragon capsule was there to deliver candied yams, green bean casserole and Christmas cookies to the astronauts. Plus the usual nerd stuff, of course.
As always, it’s difficult to tell. The object in the video is blurry as all unidentified objects in videos are, so it’s ultimately unclear what was captured on the live stream. However, it’s undeniable that the video is eerie. In the footage, the SpaceX Dragon capsule floats serenely against a total black backdrop before something dark floats quickly in and out of the frame behind the craft. The object is barely discernible in the darkness, but something is clearly there. Since the object is behind the capsule, it’s impossible to judge its size, but it sure seems to be as big as if not much bigger than the Dragon capsule.
Several UFO-themed YouTube channels have published videos in which filters have been added to the raw footage, enabling the object’s unmistakably triangular shape to emerge. While several news reports and press releases claim the live stream could have captured the long-rumored TR-3B aircraft or another one of the world’s innumerable triangular UFOs, the footage isn’t anywhere near high-quality enough to make out any details on the object. Space rock? Hunk of space garbage? Telepathic manta ray creature? Black knight satellite? Could be any of the above.
The triangular UFO is one of the most commonly reported types, perhaps second only to the saucer and the ambiguous light-in-the-sky.
Of course, while those theories are great fodder for the imagination, an explanation requiring less speculation is probably far more likely. With tens of thousands of known pieces of orbital debris floating around in orbit, there’s no telling what might float by the ISS cameras from time to time. In all likelihood, this footage shows nothing more than a piece of dumb space junk which happened to drift listlessly by the ISS at an opportune time. Given all of the unusual activity around the space station lately, there’s no telling what debris could be floating around up there.
Of course, when we do finally catch an alien spacecraft or other space-borne strangeness on camera, will we be able to tell it apart from a piece of dumb space junk? How do we know alien spacecraft don’t look exactly like our space junk (if they exist at all)? Don’t even get me started on camouflage. If the Millennium Falcon can cling to the side of a Star Destroyer undetected, an alien craft advanced enough to make it to Earth in the first place could definitely cloak or disguise itself.
With so many unknowns, there’s no telling what the object in the video could be – which is why we all can’t call this video proof of anything extraterrestrial or otherwise. While we’d all love it to be aliens, other explanations are far more probable.
What Navajo Rangers Saw on Patrol is Way To Strange for Words
What Navajo Rangers Saw on Patrol is Way To Strange for Words
These rangers are assigned the most inexplicable cases that come through their station, meticulously investigating each one with an scrutiny that is unheard of with these types of topics.
From Bigfoot and UFO’s, to haunting and Navajo witchcraft, they are exposed to some of the most unbelievable phenomenon known to man.
This is a land of legend and mystery, and often it seems that the police here are firsthand witnesses to some very bizarre things indeed.
'Stay Back From The Ocean Or Risk CERTAIN DEATH', NWS Warns People In San Francisco
'Stay Back From The Ocean Or Risk CERTAIN DEATH', NWS Warns People In San Francisco
The NWS is not exactly known for a sensational and exaggerated choice of words. The more striking is the urgent warning that is spread through social media. Residents of Sonoma and Monterey counties are warned to stay away from the Ocean, otherwise, they would risk their "certain death".
HIGH SURF WARNING continues in effect along the coast from Sonoma County through Monterey County 9 AM Sun to 9 PM Mon. STAY WELL BACK FROM THE OCEAN OR RISK CERTAIN DEATH.
The storms forecast to pummel the Bay Area this weekend—one Friday night and a second, much larger one anticipated Sunday—will bring a particularly dangerous element to San Francisco’s coastline, as the National Weather Service [NWS] warns of huge and potentially deadly waves.
A UFO The Size Of Planet Earth Seen Hovering Near Saturn
A UFO The Size Of Planet Earth Seen Hovering Near Saturn
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
The picture here comes from a long time NASA scientist, one of many photos covered-up and hid from the public from the Voyager mission in 1980. That mission was tasked with photographing Saturn, its rings and its moons.
Reflect On:
What does this mean for humanity? Why the cover-up? Are we ready to accept that this may be a reality? What kinds of implications are there from the realization that we are not alone, and that highly advanced, intelligent beings are out there?
The pictures NASA got back from the Voyager mission to Saturn in 1980 were apparently so mind-altering that they locked them up–at least that’s what retired U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Bob Dean said in this lecture. He also showed numerous photographs from the Apollo missions that were never released to the public. You can view some of those photographs here. Multiple governments, like Russia, have been calling for an international investigation as to where photographs, footage and Moon rocks disappeared to.
The picture above does not come from Dean, it comes from one of his good friends Norman Bergrun, a scientist and engineer who was part of NASA’s voyager program. He worked at NASA for decades at the Ames Research Centre. He also worked at Lockheed Martin where he managed the Polaris missile tests. Unfortunately, he recently passed. You can view his obituary here.
He is a legend for going public.
Luminous Source
What is the picture of? It’s a “luminous source,” that comes from Bergrun’s Book, “The Ringmakers of Saturn.” He had to go through a lot of trouble to publish it, and had to leave the country in order to do so, as Dean explained in the lecture linked above.
According to Bergrun, there are several large craft “proliferating” out around Saturn and its moons. His book goes into much greater detail, and although it’s hard to find and costs thousands of dollars, it is linked online, here.
Frustrated By Non-Disclosure
According to Dean, Bergrun got frustrated later in life that the decision was made not to tell the public what they had photographed at Saturn. My previous article Long-Time Nasa Scientist Blows The Whistle On Tall Black Extraterrestrial Beings describes Bergrun exposing the existence of what he calls extraterrestrial ‘vehicles’ that were responsible for making the rings around Saturn.
In a rare interview he gave with Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot (below), he expressed his great concern of the UFO cover-up and stated with enthusiasm that “people have got to be made aware that those things are real.” I’ve presented this video in multiple articles, but you cannot present this interview if you’re writing an article about Norman Bergrun!
The Takeaway
In his book, Norman makes it a clear point to emphasize that these objects have probably been around much longer than we have. He also states that if there was any ill intent towards our planet, something probably would have happened by now and there is a reason that these objects (which he stated are intelligently controlled, not by us) have not come in close proximity to our planet. By coming closer than they already are they may, and already probably do have some effects on our own weather. This is something Norman also mentions in his book.
A lot of ridicule and fear exists behind this topic, and today it’s no longer taboo as mainstream disclosure has begun. We are becoming more aware, and despite mainstream media and the global elite having a lot to lose from the disclosure of this type of information (propulsion systems, oil, etc..), the truth is leaking out. It’s a field filled with information and disinformation, so one has to be cautious and remain skeptical. At the end of the day, we know that we are not alone, and it has huge implications for all areas of humanity–not the least of which is that it will ultimately force humanity to look within.
More awareness of this presence is coinciding with a massive ‘spiritual’ awakening that’s happening on the planet, and this is not by coincidence. It seems that a growing awareness of what’s out there will serve to help humanity better understand itself.
Long-Time NASA Scientist Blows The Whistle On Tall Black Extraterrestrial Beings
Long-Time NASA Scientist Blows The Whistle On Tall Black Extraterrestrial Beings
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
Dr. Bergrun has had a long career with Ames Research Laboratory, NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company & NASA. In one interview, he mentioned tall black extraterrestrials.
Reflect On:
With all of the information coming out, how many species/beings do you think those who control this subject have catalogued? Could there be trillions of races doing star travel?
“There are great ideas undiscovered, breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of truth’s protective layers. There are places to go beyond belief” – Neil Armstrong (source)
Princeton physics professor and NASA astronaut, Dr. Brian O’Leary, once said that “there is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time.” Apollo 14 Astronaut, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, told the world that “yes, there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered” and that “there is no doubt that we are being visited.” One of the original seven astronauts for Project Mercury, Gordon Cooper, has also been quite outspoken regarding extraterrestrial vehicles that are spotted and tracked, not only in space – but in our own atmosphere. Clark C. McClelland, a former technician of the Space Shuttle fleet claimed he personally observed an 8-to-9-foot tall extraterrestrial. Dr. Jacque Valle co-developed the first computerized map of Mars for NASA in 1963, and he continues to create awareness today. Buzz Aldrin has spoken multiple times regarding a UFO that followed them for the majority of their mission, as well as a monolith on the moon of Mars. Maurice Chatelain, a former NASA communications expert has also been quite outspoken.
I recently wrote an article about a high ranking Ex-USAF Colonel (ret), Ross Dedrickson, who claimed that the technical failure experienced during Apollo 13 forced extraterrestrials to assist them with their trip home. Story Musgrave, an American physician and retired NASA member, has been making his rounds at UFO conferences for years, and Eugene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17 has stated publicly that he thought “UFOs were somebody else, some other civilization.” John Brandenburg, the Deputy Director for the Clementine Mission to the Moon as spoken about the known extraterrestrial presence, publicly, many times. He did so in a documentary called Aliens on the Moon.
These are just American astronauts and NASA personnel, and it’s not even the full list of employees who have made such comments and remarks, not to mention that there are just as many, if not more, from the space programs of other countries. This doesn’t even represent the tip of the iceberg. Retired Soviet Air Force colonel and cosmonaut trainee named Marina Popovic, for example, expressed that one of the last photographs received by the Russians from Phobos II showed “the silhouette of an odd-shaped object approaching the spacecraft.” Popovich said the picture was taken on March 25th, 1989, in deep space near Phobos (moon of Mars) shortly before contact with the craft was lost. She said the object very well may have been an alien spacecraft.” Her belief that this happened was also poorly expressed by the New York Times. You can read more about this story here.
The point is, there are uncountable amounts of people from within these space agencies, not to mention high ranking political, military and intelligence personnel who have all provided their testimony and experiences. Now that the UFO phenomenon is no longer taboo, and ‘officially’ declassified in the mainstream world, it’s time to bring attention to the extraterrestrial hypothesis.
Perhaps the biggest point I want to get across by mentioning all of the above is that the majority of astronauts and employees within multiple space programs have openly spoken up and out about this issue, yet none of them ever get or have received any mainstream air-time and attention. It seems those segments are reserved for astronauts like Chris Hadfield, who are placed on the most popular platforms only to debunk what all of the above are saying. If there are 50 astronauts saying yes, we are not alone and this is known, but one of them saying no, that’s the one that is the one who receives all of the attention.
Perhaps they are part of the “official campaign of secrecy and ridicule” that the very first CIA director, Roscoe Hiellenkoetter referred to regarding this subject.
Tall Dark Black Extraterrestrials
The video below is a clip of Project Camelot’s Kerry Cassidy interviewing Dr. Norman Bergrun about what’s really going on in space. A mechanical engineer, Dr. Bergrun has worked for Ames Research Laboratory, NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, now known as Lockheed Martin. He then went on to found Bergrun Engineering and Research.
You can view some of his publications for NASA, where he worked for more than a decade, here.
Bergrun revealed a lot in this interview, which centered around what appear to be giant extraterrestrial spacecraft that are situated around the rings of Saturn. He called them, “The Ringmakers,” and also spoke of evidence regarding this entire subject. He spoke of (not the first to do so), extraterrestrial vehicles that appear to be even bigger than our own planet.
People have asked me about…I call them vehicles. I do not call them objects…They have all of the qualities of a vehicle, so that much we can say about them, for sure, so I’m calling them vehicles.
Norman is a scientist and doesn’t like to speculate at all. What he is saying comes from the evidence he has been privy to.
He is then asked by the interviewer, “Are you not posting the idea that they, those vehicles contain beings who are, you know, maybe like us?”
In his response, he refers to images that he’s seen:
If you want to know about people kind of thing, um, there is the ship that picked up the Voyager Capsule at Alameda Naval Shipyard. And they have a picture there of, uh, I think it’s the Apollo flight that Buz and Niel were on, uh but anyway, there’s one image there that shows Black People getting off…
He described them as very tall, stating that “7 feet would be a conservative estimate.”
You can watch the full interview below.
It’s interesting that he mentions the Buzz and Neil. According to Ken Johnston, a Boeing engineer and a former fighter-jock and test pilot for Grumman Aerospace who was also a marine and an F-4 pilot, as well as a NASA employee, working as the chief Lunar Module test pilot at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.
He has publicly stated, “While Neil and Buzz were on the Lunar surface, Neil switched to the medical channel, and spoke directly with the chief medical officer saying, they’re here, they’re parked on the side of the crater, they’re watching us.” You can read more about those comments in the article linked below.
Apparently, this is how it went:
Mission Control: What’s there? Mission Control calling Apollo 11.
Apollo 11: These babies are huge, sir … enormous….Oh, God, you wouldn’t believe it! I’m telling you there are other space craft out there… lined up on the far side of the crater edge… they’re on the moon watching us. (source)
Below is a picture that comes from Corey Goode, a supposed ‘whistleblower’ from the Secret Space Program. It’s the only other source I’ve come across to mention black extraterrestrials. Bergrun is the only source with a verified, incredible, background that mentioned these beings.
The Takeaway
The takeaway here is to ask ourselves, with all of the evidence, documentation and credible witness testimony, it’s easy to see how much power and ability those who are in control of this topic have with regards to keeping it hidden from humanity. This subject is now at the forefront of many peoples minds, and that’s clear if you browse through the most popular Google searches. Interest in this subject is going to keep growing, and more people are going to continue to ask questions. As we engage, and as we continue our interest, more information will continue to leak out. The truth is, it’s all out there for any independent researcher or critical thinker to see.
The implications of this are huge, and the cover-up might not have been for humanities best interest, but to serve those who profit off of this type of secrecy, like oil companies.
The main thing to think about is the implications of this, it would leave no aspect of humanity untouched. If all of this is true, it’s quite clear that they’ve been around quite a long time, I think we can rule a real “alien invasion” out, but perhaps a fake alien invasion isn’t out of the question.
Volgens de Britse miljardair Richard Branson is het nog maar een kwestie van maanden voor de eerste toerist de ruimte in vliegt. We blikken terug op de allereerste privé-vlucht, vijftien jaar geleden.
Welke wetenschappelijk nieuwsgierige tiener heeft er nooit van gedroomd? Zelf een raket in elkaar knutselen met de spreekwoordelijke spuug en plakband, en die vervolgens het ruime ruimtesop zien kiezen richting sterren, wow! En het kan nog volmaakter: daarna zelf het artikel mogen schrijven bij het lemma van je project in het meest prestigieuze naslagwerk ter wereld, de Encyclopedia Brittannica. En het kan niet op: er ook nog eens een wedstrijd mee winnen die je 10 miljoen dollar oplevert, de felbegeerde Ansari X Prize.
Heel binnenkort zal het voor iedereen mogelijk zijn een ruimtereis te maken voor een betaalbare prijs
Te mooi om waar te zijn? Toch niet, want bijna 15 jaar geleden, op 21 juni 2004, krijgt de Amerikaanse vliegtuigbouwer Elbert Leander ‘Burt’ Rutan het voor elkaar met zijn SpaceShipOne (SS1). Een experimenteel ruimtevaartuig voor sub-orbitale vluchten dat – een primeur – uitsluitend gefinancierd is met privékapitaal. Rutan krijgt namelijk geen financiële steun van een overheid maar van Microsoft-medeoprichter Paul Allen.
De eerste privé-ruimtevlucht, met andere woorden. Of nog anders gesteld: het begin van de commerciële ruimtevaart. Met betaalbare prijzen voor iedereen, zelfs. Zo lijkt het toch, op dat moment.
Rubber en lachgas
Vlaams ruimtevaart-blogger Kris Christiaens (Spacepage): ‘Rutan had als vliegtuigbouwer in 1996 al eens een opmerkelijk record gevestigd met zijn Rutan Voyager: het eerste vliegtuig dat non-stop en zonder bijtanken rond de wereld vloog. SS1 was trouwens niet alleen het eerste privé-ruimtetuig dat een bemande ruimtevlucht uitvoerde, het was ook het eerste privévliegtuig dat Mach 2 en Mach 3 haalde. Deze hoge snelheden kon men bereiken dankzij een hybride raketmotor, achteraan het ruimtetuig.’
SpaceShip One
Waarbij, en dat brengt ons bij de spuug en plakband uit de doe-het-zelversdroom, onder meer gebruik gemaakt werd van rubber en vloeibaar… lachgas. In de cabine konden naast de piloot twee passagiers plaatsnemen, en verder kon de stand van de vleugels aangepast worden. Christiaens: ‘Op deze manier gleed de SS1 als het ware terug naar de aarde, waarna hij landde op dezelfde landingsbaan als vanwaar hij enkele uren eerder was vertrokken.’
Puur vormelijk heeft de SS1 wel iets van een kleine Space Shuttle, maar er is een essentieel verschil. Hij wordt namelijk door een vliegtuig tot op een hoogte van 15 km gebracht. Zelfstandig landen kan wel, zoals gezegd, maar het lukt niet om voldoende snelheid te halen om een baan rond de aarde te maken. Wat nochtans wel de bedoeling was. Hoe dan ook, waar de SS1 wel in slaagt is de ambitie waarmaken die vereeuwigd is in zijn registratienummer bij de Amerikaanse Federal Aviation Administration (FAA): N328KF.
‘KF’ is een afkorting van de Angelsaksische maateenheid kilofoot (1000 voet). In combinatie met het getal legt het de link naar de zogenoemde Kármánlijn, die door wetenschappelijke consensus op een hoogte van 328 kilofeet is getrokken. Op 100 kilometer hoogte in onze vertrouwde lengtematen, als een grens tussen enerzijds het luchtruim van de aarde en anderzijds de ruimte. Het punt bijgevolg waarop de luchtvaart eindigt en de ruimtevaart begint, en de SS1 overschrijdt die grens.
Christiaens: ‘Piloten Mike Melville en Brian Binnie voerden (elk apart en solo, dus zonder passagiers; red.) met succes drie bemande sub-orbitale ruimtevluchten uit en mochten zichzelf dus officieel “astronaut” noemen. Alle vluchten van SS1, inclusief de eerste testvluchten, vonden plaats vanop het Mojave Airport Civilian Flight Test Center, in Californië. Dit vliegveld werd na de SS1-ruimtevluchten omgedoopt tot Mojave Air & Space Port en werd de eerste plaats in de Verenigde Staten die een vergunning kreeg voor het uitvoeren van commerciële ruimtevluchten.’
En daarvoor ligt de weg in 2004 op het eerste gezicht breder open dan ooit. Burt Rutan is zelfs nog vóór de eerste vlucht van de SS1 al bijzonder zeker van zijn stuk. Op de laatste persconferentie voor het vertrek voorspelt hij een schitterende toekomst voor de commerciële burgerruimtevaart. ‘Ons project zal bewijzen dat zelfs kleine bedrijven, zoals het onze, mensen in de ruimte kunnen sturen. Dat besef doen doordringen is het belangrijkste doel van deze missie. Haar succes zal investeerders aantrekken, en heel binnenkort zal het voor iedereen mogelijk zijn een ruimtereis te maken voor een betaalbare prijs.’
‘Money, money, money…’
Vandaag, 15 jaar later, kun je niet meteen zeggen dat die voorspelling uitgekomen is. Waar is het fout gelopen met de grote droom? Over die vraag buigt de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartspecialist Jeff Foust zich in juni 2017. ‘Op het moment dat Rutan die uitspraak deed, was zijn bedrijf een van de meer dan twee dozijn kandidaten die de Ansari X Prize wilden binnenhalen. De prijs die was uitgeschreven voor het eerste privé ontwikkelde, herbruikbare ruimtevaartuig. De verwachting was dat tenminste een paar van die bedrijven zouden doorgaan met hun inspanningen. Een logische kwestie van inspelen op een marktvraag die alleen maar leek te zullen groeien. Maar de meeste deemsterden stilletjes weg. Vaak net bij gebrek aan belangstelling bij investeerders.’
Foust gaat het rijtje af. Rocketplane? Genekt door de financiële crisis van 2008 en intussen failliet. Armadillo Aerospace, gefinancierd door gamemiljonair John Carmack (Doom, Quake…)? In permanente winterslaap bij gebrek aan fondsen. XCOR Aerospace? On hold gezet in afwachting van nieuwe investeerders. Enzovoort.
‘Misschien had Rutan het gewoon aan de basis fout’, stelt Foust. ‘Het is niet omdat hem één keer gelukt is, dat anderen dat zomaar én meermaals over zouden kunnen doen. Ik kan verder ook alleen maar vaststellen dat SS1 – of welk ander bemand privé-ruimtetuig ook, overigens – tot nog toe nog een vlucht heeft gemaakt nadat de Ansari X Prize binnen was. Volgens mij was het hem alleen dààrom te doen.’
’23.000 euro per minuut’
Jazeker, er kwam een vervolgtraject. ‘SS1 werd opgevolgd door SpaceShipTwo (SS2)’, schreef Burt Rutan zelf bij zijn lemma in de Encyclopedia Brittannica, ‘dat ontworpen is voor twee piloten en zes passagiers. SS2 werd voorgesteld in 2009 en de planning voorzag het begin van sub-orbitale toeristische ruimtevluchten in 2015.’ Onder de vlag van Richard Bransons Virgin Galactic, prijskaartje 200.000 dollar voor drie uur in de ruimte en zegge en schrijve zeven (7!) minuten gewichtloosheid. Omgerekend zo’n 23.000 euro per minuutje zweven. Veel werd er al bij al niet meer van vernomen. Of in elk geval toch weinig concreets over waar u een reis kunt boeken.
Toch nog even advocaat van de duivel spelen. Vorig jaar in september was er toch dat in enorme schijnwerpers badende nieuws over de eerste maanreiziger-tegen-betaling? Ja, en dat was inderdaad ook met een privébedrijf, SpaceX van Elon Musk. Over het prijskaartje werd behoorlijk mysterieus gedaan. Maar zou het louter toeval zijn dat de uitverkorene, Yusaku Maezawa, een miljardair is die eerder met de glimlach een kleine 90 miljoen euro aftikte voor een schilderij van Jean-Michel Basquiat? En in het kielzog van SS1 ging het zeer nadrukkelijk om ruimtetoerisme voor ieders beurs, nietwaar?
According to Sue Ann Penn, an astronaut who is a candidate to be part of the first human settlement on Mars, has detailed some of the ways humans are expected to evolve in the not-too-distant future.
Speaking to the History Channel for its Ancient Aliens series, she said: “One of the most amazing things about the human body is its ability to adapt.”
Sue explained humans grow two or three inches when they travel to space due to a drastic change in gravitational pull.
She continued: “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.”
As a result, author Mike Bara believes humans will start to resemble the big-eyed aliens which have been starring in sci-fi films for decades.
He said: “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.”
Mike also claims as we move further from the Sun, humans may have larger eyes in order to see better in the dark.
Academic Jonathan Young explained these changes would be similar to the angels depicted in the Bible – backing up the theory fallen angels were actually from Mars.
THE RED PLANET: Experts claim humans will evolve to life on Mars (Pic: YOUTUBE/HISTORY)
Jonathan noted: “The fallen angels were giants – they were at least 10 feet tall, very striking to look at, [with] enormous eyes and no wings.”
He continued: “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.”
Academic Jonathan Young explained these changes would be similar to the angels depicted in the Bible – backing up the theory fallen angels were actually from Mars.
Jonathan noted: “The fallen angels were giants – they were at least 10 feet tall, very striking to look at, [with] enormous eyes and no wings.”
This comes just weeks after claims humans “must escape to Mars” in order to avoid extinction.
New episodes of Ancient Aliens are on free to air channel BLAZE™ every Wednesday at 9pm, Freeview Channel 63.
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Is NASA hiding something? Live ISS space feed CUT moments after mysterious orb appears
Is NASA hiding something? Live ISS space feed CUT moments after mysterious orb appears
THE live ISS space feed cut out just seconds after a mysterious unidentified object appeared in its camera field sparking wide-ranging conspiracy theories over what NASA "is hiding".
Online users have accused NASA of "lying" after the US space agency appeared "to cut" its live space feed on the International Space Station (ISS) cameras. Moments before the live feed was interrupted, a mysterious bright blue orb came into view on the screen. In a video posted to YouTube, one of the cameras on the side of the ISS record a huge bright blue object emerging behind one of the space station's solar panels.
Footage of the UFO was captured: "UFO? NASA Live shuts down right after this object appears next to the ISS."
The video feed follows the object for a few seconds, even zooming in on the orb, which is hovering above the planet.
The live space feed then cuts off promptly, asking viewers to "Please stand by".
A message appeared on the screen reads: "The High Definition Earth Viewing experiment is either switching cameras, or we are experiencing a temporary loss of signal with the International Space Station."
The US space agency appeared "to cut" its live feed on the International Space Station (ISS)
(Image: GETTY)
We are experiencing a temporary loss of signal with the International Space Station
NASA
Viewers have speculated that the incredible blue UFO could be an alien spacecraft.
One user wrote: "NASA is lying."
A viewer added: "That was a weird looking blob next to the space station?”
Another noted the peculiarly blurred object, explaining: "If the European Space Agency can manage to film beautiful, ultra-high-def footage of things outside the space station, why can't NASA?"
One person claimed the footage proved that NASA was "hiding" something extraterrestrial from the public.
People desperately tried to explain the strange orb, saying the object could be a “space ice ball".
Other users claimed the object looked like “a drop of water in zero gravity".
UFO Appears On Live TV Newscast In Buenos Aires, Argentina
UFO Appears On Live TV Newscast In Buenos Aires, Argentina
Two reporters were surprised during a live news broadcast when a box-shaped UFO started to cross the top of the giant TV screen. As the two are talking, a UFO on the far right appears at 16 seconds into the video, but they fail to notice the UFO until 36 seconds into the video.
The size and shape of the UFO can be likened to the one that was spotted over New York a few days ago. The box shape UFO is somewhat more common than most of us think. The boxy UFO has no wings and propellers but moving across the sky at a very high speed, much faster than a balloon.
Several UFO enthusiasts believe the video is a remarkable proof that space aliens are slowly trying to get in the minds and hearts of the public.
Unknown lights filmed over Kite, Georgia 17-Dec-2018
Unknown lights filmed over Kite, Georgia 17-Dec-2018
These strange flashing objects were seen and filmed over Kite, Georgia on 17th December 2018.
Witness report:
Orange spheres moved across sky in line. They disappeared and reappeared in various spots, lighting up and replicating themselves. We were driving home on Pinetucky Rd when we saw orange spheres move across the sky together in a line that seemed to swish. We stopped the car to watch them. They disbanded and disappeared.
Then they began to reappear one by one in different parts of the sky and started replicating themselves. When they lit up another light would appear then another. 3 times every time this process started.
Then the objects would disappear and others would light up in other places. Sometimes the replicated objects were in a straight line, sometimes in an arc. This continued for a few minutes, but then just seemed to move farther away until they just appeared as glitter in the sky.
This daytime UFO video was filmed over San Antonio, Texas on 16th December 2018.
Witness report:
Dec 2018 a UFO was captured on video following an Aircraft over San Antonio Texas..While scanning the Sky a bright light was seen..No FAA strobe was observed as i zoom in,another object in front of it came into view..I continue to follow them until loosing sight of them….
APIn de tunnel zouden auto’s en voetgangers met snelheden tot 240 kilometer per uur vervoerd kunnen worden op elektrisch aangedreven sledes.
AUTODe eerste tunnel van Elon Musks bedrijf The Boring Company is vannacht feestelijk geopend in Los Angeles. De techniek moet een revolutie brengen in het stadsverkeer. “Mooi dat er mensen als Musk zijn die hierin geloven.”
De beelden hebben iets futuristisch: een auto die op een slede op straatniveau gaat staan, verdwijnt en in een ondergrondse tunnel op hoge snelheid binnen vier minuten van de ene kant van de stad naar de andere kant vervoerd wordt. Bij de bestemming aangekomen, wordt de auto weer met een lift op straatniveau gebracht. Met de Dugout Loop van The Boring Company lijkt het realiteit te worden.
Afgelopen nacht gaf initiatiefnemer Elon Musk een demonstratie in een proeftunnel van bijna 2 kilometer voor journalisten. De tunnel in Los Angeles loopt onder deelgemeente Hawthorne, waar SpaceX en The Boring Company hun hoofdkantoor hebben. Eens in de tunnel zouden de voertuigen veilig kunnen rijden aan een snelheid van meer dan 240 kilometer per uur, met een tussentijd van een seconde.
“Aan die snelheid voelt het alsof je binnen een stad teleporteert”, schreef Musk voor de lancering op Twitter. “Ik vond het episch”, zei Musk achteraf. “Het werkt.” Twee jaar geleden tweette hij nog dat het verkeer in Los Angeles “hem gek maakte”. “Ik ga een boormachine voor tunnels bouwen en gewoon beginnen graven”, schreef hij op 18 december 2016.
Elon Musk✔@elonmusk
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Tesla in @boringcompany tunnel with retractable wheel gear that turns a car into a rail-guided train & back again
Elon Musk✔@elonmusk
Capable of traveling safely at over 150mph. At that speed, it will feel like teleporting within a city.
De Dugout Loop van Musk is een alternatief voor autovervoer in de stad. Innovatief en ambitieus, vindt de Nederlandse verkeersdeskundige Sjoerd Nota. “Het is mooi dat er mensen als Musk bestaan die het geloof en de financiën hebben om dit gewoon te gaan doen. Hij is een echte durfinvesteerder. Als je het niet een keer doet, weet je ook nooit of het wel of niet werkt.” Ook heeft The Boring Company sledes ontwikkeld waar voetgangers gebruik van kunnen maken.
Het is echter nog maar de vraag of mensen het dúrven te gebruiken. Denk aan de Kanaaltunnel, waarmee je met de auto vanuit Frankrijk naar Engeland kunt komen. “Veel mensen gaan alsnog met de boot, omdat ze onder het water rijden eng vinden. Dat is een heel dure oplossing, als er niet meer mensen gebruik gaan maken van die tunnel. En dat kan met de Dugout Loop ook zo zijn. Durven mensen zichzelf en hun auto’s toe te vertrouwen aan zo’n elektrische lift en tunnel?”
AP
Het succes van de Loop hangt af van veel factoren: werkt het goed? Is het veilig? Durven mensen het aan? “Gaat het vlekkeloos en is het comfortabel en snel, dan kan het zeker toekomst hebben”, aldus de expert.
Rendabel?
Voor een ritje betaalt de reiziger straks in ieder geval amper één dollar (0,88 euro). “Ik ben heel benieuwd hoe het businessmodel hierachter eruit ziet”, voegt Nota toe. “Want die tunnel moet wel heel veel mensen van A naar B vervoeren om rendabel te zijn en om voor minder verkeer op de weg te zorgen.”
The Boring Company sloot eerder dit jaar een contract met de gemeente Chicago om een tunnel te bouwen van vliegveld O’Hare naar het stadscentrum.
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when someone says Neptune? Mercury? Pluto? Nothing exciting. Saturn? RINGS! Everyone knows about the rings. It’s the first planet anyone who gets a telescope for Christmas looks for. It’s the planet that’s hardest to make for a school project, but no one complains because those rings are so darned cool! Bad news, ring fans. NASA just announced that the planet is suffering from something called “ring rain” which is causing the rings to disappear and Saturn will soon be just another Uranus without the funny name jokes.
“We estimate that this ‘ring rain’ drains an amount of water products that could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool from Saturn’s rings in half an hour.”
James O’Donoghue, NASA researcher and lead author of a new study published in Icarus, puts the ring rain in terms anyone who has been in a swimming pool or collected rainwater in a can can understand. The ring rain was first detected by the Voyager I and II fly-bys. The Cassini probe, which crashed through Saturn’s rings in a blaze of mission-ending glory last year, found that Saturn’s rings, which surprisingly are made of water ice chunks ranging from microscopic to yards in diameter, are actually dropping onto to the planet’s surface in massive hail-like downpours.
“From this alone, the entire ring system will be gone in 300 million years, but add to this the Cassini-spacecraft measured ring-material detected falling into Saturn’s equator, and the rings have less than 100 million years to live.”
While 100 million years seems like a long time, NASA says it’s a blink of an eye in planetary terms. Saturn is estimated to be 4 billion years old and the current condition of the rings suggests they’re in the second half of their lifespan. That means there was most likely a time when Saturn had no rings at all. What’s more, it implies that other planets may have also had rings at one point.
“However, if rings are temporary, perhaps we just missed out on seeing giant ring systems of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, which have only thin ringlets today!”
Rings around Uranus! (We’ll pause while you insert your favorite joke here.) Thomas Cravens, University of Kansas professor of physics and astronomy and co-author of a second study on rain rings, waxes sentimental on the fact that we should be grateful we’re alive at a time we can enjoy Saturn’s rings … while they last.
“If it’s not being replenished, the rings aren’t going to last — you’ve got a hole in your bucket. Jupiter probably had a ring that evolved into the current wispy ring, and it could be for similar reasons. Rings do come and go. At some point they gradually drain away unless somehow they’re getting new material.”
Is anything replenishing Saturn’s rings? It doesn’t appear that way, and the wispy rings around Jupiter, Neptune and (here it comes again) Uranus show what future astronomers and explorers can expect to see. However, there’s one ray of hope … if Saturn acquired those rings later in life, perhaps Earth can too.
If there’s life on Uranus, they should start writing their revenge jokes now.
We keep finding things that remind us our view of history has a lot of holes in it. We seem to be findinglost cities, hidden temples, and the remains of civilizations that completely re-frame how we think of them at an ever increasing rate. Recently, the megalithic site Gunung Panang in West Java, Indonesia was confirmed to be an enormous “pyramid” structure possibly as old as 28,000 years.
According to Live Science, The finding was presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union on December 12. Gunung Padang has been on archaeologists radar for a long time, and embroiled in controversy. A hilltop archaeological site first discovered by archaeologists in the 19th century in West Java, Indonesia, Gunung Padang was long thought to hold more secrets than the assortment of stone columns visible at the top of the site. A imaging and excavation effort that begun in 2014 has now proved that it’s not a hilltop site at all, but in fact the entire hill is an artificial structure, which scientists believe to be a ancient temple. The structure is over 150,000 square meters big, and the the layers of construction date from 3,000 to over 9,000 years ago, with the deepest layer of construction possibly as old as 28,000 years.
According to Andang Bachtiar, an independent geologists who supervised core drilling and soil analysis:
“What is previously seen as just surface building, it’s going down — and it’s a huge structure”
Gunung Padang
Scientists began to suspect something was off about the site when they saw that the standing stones on the hill didn’t match some of the exposed features of the previous archaeological site. They also noticed that the hill stood out from the rest of the topography on Mount Padang. Lead researcher Danny Hilman Natawidjaja explained:
“It’s not like the surrounding topography, which is very much eroded. This looks very young. It looked artificial to us.”
Site at the top of Gunung Padang. Credit : Mohammad Fadli CC BY-SA 3.0
Using ground-penetrating radar, X-ray tomography, core samples, and excavation, researchers began to put together what this huge pyramid looks like. Unlike the symmetrical Mayan pyramids, this is an elongated structure rounded in a half-circle in on the front. Different layers make up the pyramid, representing different periods of construction across the millennia. The first layer consists of basalt terraces, walls and paths. Ten feet below the surface is a second layer of stone columns thought to be 7,500 to 8,300 years old. Below that, a third layer stretches 49 feet below the surface and could be anywhere from 9,000 to 28,000 years old. Researchers also detected multiple underground chambers but those have yet to be excavated or imaged.
The site is still in use as a place of prayer and meditation serving the local people, and researchers think that this may have been its function since it was first built thousands of years ago. Yet, it will be some time before the temple, or whatever it is, will be fully unearthed and researchers know its true purpose or scope.
For centuries, Scottish folklore and legend have both been filled with tales of a wild and deadly beastknown as the Kelpie. The terrible beast, which has the ability to transform itself into numerous forms – even that of people – was greatly feared throughout the 1600s and 1700s, when reports of the Kelpie were at their height. As for its curious name,“Kelpie” is an ancient Scottish term meaning “water-horse.” There is a very good reason as to why that particular name was applied to the beast, as will soon become very clear. As its name strongly suggests, the water-horse spent much of its time lurking in the waters of Scottish lochs – specifically in the shallower, marshy areas of such locales. It would coldly and callously wait for an unwary passer-by to appear on the scene and then strike, mercilessly and without any hint of a warning. The beast’s mode of attack was, admittedly, ingenious, even if the end result for the victim was not a good one. In fact, it was almost always downright fatal.
Very much creatures of the night, Kelpies were said to dwell in the waters of literally dozens of Scottish lochs. As creature-seeker Roland Watson demonstrated in his book The Water Horses of Loch Ness, however, the vast majority of reports of such beasts emanate from none other than Loch Ness. We may never know, for sure, the real form of the Kelpie; only the guise that led to the creation of its name. But, what we can say for certain is that the small number of witnesses who encountered the beast, and who lived to tell the tale, described it as a large black or white horse. In most cases, the victim was a late-night traveler, walking along an old, well-known pathway near the water’s edge of the relevant loch. Suddenly, the huge horse would rise out of the water, dripping wet, and make its way to the shore, with its coat shining under the light of the Moon.
Under such strange circumstances, many might be inclined to make a run for it immediately. There is, however, a very strange aspect to many of the Kelpie stories. Namely, that the people who crossed its path felt as if their free will had been taken from them and that they were deliberately prevented from fleeing the scene. Today, we might justifiably suggest that the beast had the power to control the minds of those in its deadly sights. Perhaps, even by a form of supernatural hypnosis. Those fortunate enough to escape the icy clutches of the Kelpie described how they felt driven to climb on the back of the horse and grab its reins. Despite having a sense of dread and a fear of doing so, that’s exactly what so many did – and, in the process, failed to survive and tell their tale. It was at that point that the Kelpie made its move – an incredibly fast move.
With the entranced person now atop the monster, it would suddenly launch itself into the deep and cold waters of the loch, with the poor soul unable to let go of the reins. Death by drowning was all but inevitable, aside from that very lucky, aforementioned body of people who were fortunate enough to have survived and who related their stories – hence why we know of the creature and its terrible modus operandi. As for the reason behind these deadly attacks, it was said that the creatures sought one thing more than any other: the human soul.
Although the Kelpie was very much a monster of centuries long gone, there is a thought-provoking case which suggests a Kelpie may have been on the loose in England in the mid-1970s. In the summer of 1976, an encounter with the much-feared and legendary “Man-Monkey”of Bridge 39 on the Shropshire Union Canal occurred; a supernatural creature first reported in January 1879. It was a strange, spectral, ape-like beast. The 1976 witness was a man named Paul Bell, a keen fisherman and someone who, in July and August 1976, spent several Saturdays out at the canal with his rods, reels, bait, his cans of beer and his favorite beef and onion sandwiches,. Bell told me that, on one particular Saturday afternoon, he was sat near the water’s edge on a small wooden stool that he always carried with him, when he was “literally frozen solid” by the sight of “what at first I thought was a big log floating down the cut, about sixty or seventy feet away.” According to Bell, however, it was no log; it was something else entirely. As it got closer, Bell was both astonished and horrified to see a large “dark brown and black-colored’ eel or snake-like creature – possibly ten feet in length or a little bit more – moving slowly in the water, with its head – that “looked like a black sheep” – flicking rapidly from side to side.
Although he had an old Polaroid camera with him, said Bell, he never even thought to take a photograph. Instead, he merely stared in both awe and shock as the animal cruised leisurely and blissfully past him, before finally vanishing out of sight. Bell stressed that the creature apparently did not see him (“or, if it did, it never attacked me”), and did not appear to exhibit any outright hostile tendencies. What elevated Bell’s story to a far stranger level was the fact that he claimed, in quite matter of fact fashion, that the following Saturday he was fishing in practically the same spot when he had a sudden, out of the blue feeling of being watched. He was not wrong. Peering across the width of the canal, Bell was both horrified and petrified to see a dark, hairy face staring intently at him out of the thick, green bushes. It was the Man-Monkey. The head of the animal was unmistakably human-like, said Bell, who added that “as soon as it saw me looking at it, up it went and ran right into the trees and I lost it.” He further explained: “That was it; a second or two was all at the most. But as it got up and ran I knew it was a big monkey. There’s nothing else it could have been.”
The chances of two strange and unidentified creatures being seen in the same location, and only a week apart, are slim to absolute zero. In fact, we can forget the “slim” angle. The chances are 100 percent zero. My conclusion? That what Paul Bell saw was nothing less than a 1970s incarnation of an ancient Kelpie. Bell was lucky to leave the site alive.
I found a giant three sided pyramid on Mars in a gigapan photo today. They pyramid has one smooth side, which is probably the original outer coating that was made for it, but the other two sides have severely eroded. I also found a lot of unique and ancient structures and placed the screenshots below.
Pyramids have been found all over the world on many continents and most of them were created at about the same time. They mystery of pyramids have lead to speculation that they were created by extra terrestrials that were trying to settle in an area and follow their cultural beliefs. Much like the religious group Quakers that prefer not to include technology or todays modern advancements into their lives.
Two UFOs Caught Over Snowy Mountains In Anchorage, Alaska, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Two UFOs Caught Over Snowy Mountains In Anchorage, Alaska, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 11-14-1984 but reported today
Location of sighting: Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Source: MUFON #97092
Mountain base are actually more common than other locations for alien bases due to the difficulty to reach those areas and the lack of people in the area. Low populated areas were important to creating bases thousands of years ago due to the local populations of humans often mistaking UFOs and aliens as gods and angels or even demons.
So imagine this...the base exists below anchorage, after a few years they have children born...lets say 50-150 at least. Since these beings were born on Earth, that makes them earthlings. So now we have an ethical dilemma about what these begins...this new race born on Earth should be called. Not to mention, many bases have upwards of 56 or more species sharing the base. Perhaps calling earth born beings aliens would be scientifically wrong. But without contacting them directly, it would be impossible to find out their species preferred name to be called. So...now we have earth born aliens to consider living in underground, underwater bases around the globe, some so similar to us that they can walk, work, live, shop among us without anyone thinking anything of it.
Have I ever met one before? Yes, once here in Taiwan about ten years ago when I was practicing my telepathy more frequently...everyone has it, but it takes practice and focus and calm to effectively use it. His telepathy was very strong. I asked an impossible question in my head while sitting at a museum table in a cafeteria with my family. I felt the presence of the person...and the person walked over to my table and answered the question precisely. Then we got into a conversation about where he was from...he said he lived and worked in the tech area of Silicon Valley, California. He worked for a large company we have all heard of but I will not name. Changing the world by helping humanity advance it technology. Sounds like a worthy person to know, don't you think?
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
While going through some old photos I found one I had forgot I even had. The pic was taken outside Anchorage AK near Portage Glacier about 35 years ago.
A still from NASA's Experience InSight app shows the instrument deck with the seismometer's cover still over the pressure sensor inlet; eventually that metal shield will be placed over the seismometer on the Martian surface.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA's new Mars lander isn't quite ready to probe the Red Planet's interior yet, but it's starting to get the lay of the land on the surface — and in the atmosphere. The InSight lander is already deploying its powerful meteorology package to monitor the Red Planet's weather.
InSight touched down on the Martian surface Nov. 26, and since then it has been carefully analyzing its environment and setting up its sensitive suite of instruments. The mission's seismometer still sits on the lander's deck, measuring InSight's vibrations rather than the planet's, and the heat-sensing mole remains undeployed as well. But the lander's meteorology suite is already gearing up to measure the pressure, temperature and three-dimensional wind patterns on the Red Planet.
Part of that suite — the pressure sensor — played a starring role in new "sounds from Mars" recently released by the InSight team. That sensor and the seismometer both caught the vibrations of wind rushing across the instrument deck and the seismometer's protective cover. [NASA's InSight Mars Lander: The Mission in Photos]
"We're still getting our feet underneath us on this mission, but it's fun to put out some of this early stuff that keeps us excited," said Don Banfield, a co-investigator on InSight's science team and researcher at Cornell University.
"It's actually a bit surprising how much science you can extract from these instruments, even when they're in a configuration they aren't finally intended to be," he told Space.com.
When the sensors are out in their final configurations, the pressure sensor and other weather measurements will play a critical role measuring atmospheric "noise" that needs be removed from the seismometer readings. And as they do, they will provide top-notch measurements of weather patterns at the Martian surface.
"This is a pretty extreme pressure sensor compared to anything we've sent to Mars before," Banfield said.
On Earth, changing pressure heralds changing weather systems, and even though the overall pressure is much lower on Mars — about 0.75 percent Earth's pressure at sea level — the effect is similar. "Mars has seasons, just like Earth, and it has high-pressure and low-pressure systems that roll around the planet, just like Earth," he said.
Even though the pressure systems are less intense near the equator, where InSight is situated, the lander's gear is sensitive enough to eventually pick up faraway changes, Banfield said. And it's already picking up evidence of something closer to home: The dust devils and vortices that spin up as sunlight heats the ground, which also occur on Earth. Eventually, the pressure sensor should also be able to pick up something called infrasound — the low-frequency sound waves that propagate through the air due to different atmospheric phenomena, which is also how the pressure sensor captured the sounds of the planet's wind in those early-released results.
But there are more intriguing things to be measured that way, as well: "If we get lucky and a meteor enters Mars' atmosphere close to above the lander, it will probably explode and make a shockwave, and we may be able to detect that shockwave with the pressure sensor," Banfield said.
Another instrument that is already returning data is the Temperature and Wind for InSight (TWINS) tool, which extends two long booms facing in opposite directions to sense wind and temperature. Each has a little heated die surrounded by sensors, which measure the heat loss and the direction the wind pulls the heat, as well as attachments that measure the air temperature.
"They're kind of like, you lick your finger and the cold side is the windy side — it's the same sort of physics," Banfield said. "Except on Mars, it has to be a very sensitive measurement, because the air density is down by this factor of 100 or more, and so the air doesn't actually drag away that much heat from your wet finger or the probe. It has to be very carefully calibrated." [NASA's New Mars Lander Takes 1st Selfie, Scopes Out Workspace]
As those calibrations take place, TWINS is slowly gaining the capability to measure winds at all hours of the Martian day and night. At the moment, the data is only usable for part of the day. But eventually, it will be able to return readings constantly.
Continuous reporting is standard for weather stations on Earth, but this is a rare chance for such consistent data from the Martian surface.
"This may not be obvious to everybody, but because of data-volume limitations, in the past, to understand the climatology of Mars and meteorology of Mars well enough, we have usually measured 10 to 15 minutes every hour or two, and we have just turned the instruments off for the time between that," Banfield said. "That's great, if what you want to do is get an overview picture of what the meteorology's doing, but if you want to, say, understand exactly what wind speed it took to move some sand grains on the surface, or kick up some dust, you need to be measuring the winds all the time."
While Earth's weather and climate are dominated by the effects of water through humidity and clouds, Mars' are tied to the planet's dust storms reflecting sunlight and trapping radiation, Banfield said — and this precise measurement can help researchers understand the wind power needed to kick up dust, or why small dust storms grow bigger or even go global.
InSight's weather measurements can also be compared to those of the Mars Science Laboratory on the Curiosity rover, just about 350 miles (560 kilometers) away on the Martian surface, to get a more accurate picture of how high- and low-pressure systems move across the planet. They can also add depth to measurements from the Mars Climate Sounder instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which directly measures weather systems but can only see down to about 5 or 10 km above the surface, missing "where most of the action is," Banfield said. InSight can provide a view of what's happening right on the ground.
When Space.com spoke to Banfield Dec. 11, the team had just gotten the first data back when the short-period seismometer and pressure sensor were on at the same time. "We were able to see the pressure signature of a dust devil and the ground-tilt signature of that same dust devil," he said. "It's working as the theory would predict, but I guess I didn't expect it to be quite so clear or dramatic — it's pretty cool."
"Nature usually surprises you one way or another — the first time we hear one of these weird infrasound sources, I'm going to be very excited," he added.
Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her @SarahExplains.
There was a cluster of orb UFOs spotted nearMilwaukee, Wisconsin today 12/16/2018. These UFOs were spotted at around 6:15pm. A freak thunderstorm occurred during the same time as the UFOs were seen flying through the skies in the Milwaukee Suburbs.
What is an Orb UFO?
UFOlogists use different terms to describe UFOs. One of the more common terms is “orb” shaped UFOs. People often ask what an orb UFO is. How are they different from sphere shaped UFOs?
Orb UFOs Seem to Have No Mass
Both Orb UFOs and sphere shaped UFOs can be round or ball shaped. They can both look like balls of light at times. The main thing that separates the two types of UFOs is that orb UFOs don’t seem to have any mass. Instead of looking like a physical object that light appears to be coming from, these UFOs seem to be made out of light.
It is really hard for us humans to understand how an object can seem to exist but not exist at the same time. Don’t feel bad if you have a hard time understanding this concept. Even the smartest physicists can’t understand how advanced some alien technology is. The best explanation of how these UFOs exist is that they are probably from another dimension that we humans can’t fully see. It is possible that these aliens can move between different dimensions as easily as we can drive down the road in our cars.
The “Orb” Could be a Cloaking Device
Another possibility about what makes orb UFOs appear the way that they do is that the aliens are using some kind of cloaking device. Mind manipulation is a common way that aliens use to keep humans from seeing them. It is impossible to know if they do this with a mechanical deviceor if they just use some form of advanced alien telepathy. Either way, what looks like an orb UFO to us may in fact be something completely different. You can’t trust your eyes when dealing with aliens.
The group of orb UFOs that appeared near Milwaukee today were accompanied by a freak lightning storm. Lightning often accompanies UFO sightings. These UFOs appeared to come out of nowhere. The witness said that the UFOs didn’t seem to fly in from any direction but came out of nothing. He was sitting on his back porch relaxing when lightning started flashing and then the UFOs appeared. The UFOs flew around the sky for what he estimates was three minutes. They seemed like they changed in size. The UFOs ranged in size from small cars to multiple football fields. The UFOs would also vanish and return across the sky. They didn’t make any sound that the man could hear. After a few minutes of flying around the sky the UFOs and the sudden lighting storm disappeared instantly.
UFOs are No Joke!
People visit our website an other websites like ours often thinking that they are some kind of a joke. Aliens visiting Earth is no joke! People in power want you to believe that UFOlogy is a joke. They want you to stay in the dark. We have devoted our lives to getting to the truth of these matters. UFOlogist don’t live in big houses and drive nice cars. We spend our lives being the butt of jokes and not taken seriously. Most of us have had our own authentic alien experiences which drove us to study this field. Having an alien experience will change anyone’s life forever.
BIG BLOW South Africa’s Vredefort crater, which formed an estimated 2 billion years ago, is the largest known crater on Earth.
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When it comes to impact craters, Earth is the pauper of the solar system.
Even with a recent, still-to-be-confirmed crater discovery under Greenland’s ice, there are fewer than 200 known impact craters on the planet. Mars, for comparison, has hundreds of thousands.
Produced by falling space rocks, most impact craters on Earth have been wiped away over time by wind, rain, shifting ice and the crawl of tectonic plates. Here are the 190 confirmed survivors, as recorded in the Earth Impact Database, maintained by the University of New Brunswick in Canada — plus the newcomer in Greenland.
Identifying and studying such features could give scientists clues about the history of Earth, including the evolution of life itself. Researchers have tried to link various craters to the five known mass extinctions, for example. But only the space rock that created Chicxulub, hidden under Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico, is widely accepted as causing a major die-off. That space rock left a crater 150 kilometers wide and may have done in the dinosaurs and many other creatures about 66 million years ago (SN: 2/4/17, p. 16).
Popigai, in Siberia, which measures about 90 kilometers from rim to rim, might be connected to a smaller die-off of mostly marine creatures about 34 million years ago. But that’s far from settled.
Chicxulub and Popigai are the largest craters dating to the last 100 million years. But the roughly 160-kilometer-wide Vredefort crater in South Africa edges out Chicxulub as the largest known ever. Estimates put Vredefort’s origin around 2 billion years ago, making it the oldest known impact crater too.
Time tested
The circles below show the rough sizes,and ages of Earth’s 190 confirmed impact craters, as recorded in the Earth Impact Database, plus a newly discovered crater in Greenland. All crater diameters are estimates from rim to rim.
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It’s too early to put a precise date on the 31-kilometer-wide crater recently found in Greenland. Scientists think it probably formed from 11,700 to 2.6 million years ago, but narrowing down that estimate could be tricky. Like many of Earth’s impact craters, the Greenland crater is not exposed at the surface; it’s buried under nearly a kilometer of ice. Try drilling through that to get a good sample.
More impact craters may yet be found. A study in 2015 estimated that as many as 350 craters between 0.25 and 6 kilometers in diameter remain undiscovered on Earth (SN: 7/25/15, p. 5).
Atlas of impact
This map shows the locations of Earth’s known impact craters along with a newly discovered, but yet to be confirmed crater, in Greenland.
Hangar 18, The Story behind Extraterrestrialconnection with the Mormons
Hangar 18, The Story behind Extraterrestrial connection with the Mormons
Throughout the mission of launching the satellite, 3 astronauts get in touch with a UFO. The dish collides with him but it disappears right after an explosion. It lands south west of the United States. This is where he is grabbed and moved by the federal government to a concealed air base, the Hangar 18.”
We found that, after the crash, the UFO made the controlled landing in the Illinois desert. There the US Army grabbed it. They soon moved the actual ship to Hangar 18, Onboard, researchers make a number of surprising breakthroughs:
The actual alien fliers, although lifeless, are not bodily damaged and also have a nearly human physical appearance.
A human female is additionally on board within stasis. Once the doctors take her away, the lady wakes up terrified.
In the ship’s files, researchers find glyphs much like all those used by historic civilizations on our planet. Scientists also find extensive oxygenous surveillance pictures of Earth’s vegetation, military bases as well as cities.
Before all of this information gets the chance to submerge, federal government officials transport the remote-controlled aircraft to Hangar 18. Nevertheless, with no knowledge of the actual government’s attack squad, a number of NASA’s researchers, along with Bancroft, are in the alien craft while the suspension explodes. The actual ship happens to be invincible.
Deciphering ancient jet pilots and a brand new religion
The actual detailed description of Hangar 18 along with the aliens is fascinating. These identical facts would show up 3 years later within a “secret” statement from the Military pilot shown to the actual UFO author and reporter Linda Moulton Howe. On April 9th, 1983, during a conference at Kirtland Air Force Base in Mexico, Doty, Unique Investigations Police officer introduced Howe with a record whose cover stated:
“INFORMATIVE FILE FOR THE PRESIDENT WITHIN THE ISSUE ASSOCIATED WITH UNIDENTIFIED AIR VEHICLES”
Doty informed Howe he would see the document in the request associated with his managers. However, this individual emphasized he was unacceptable to take the actual document along with him and also to take information of any sort.
Most impressive to Howe was a passage that said the actual aliens had altered DNA into a type of developing primates to generate Homo sapiens. Howe was astonished: “We’re referring to Jesus Christ, ” he explained to Doty, who mentioned absolutely nothing in response. However who, he says, appeared deeply unpleasant.
The actual Mormon Reference to the Hangar 18
Sun Classic Photos has recognized as a company operate by Mormons. Many of the authors, producers as well as studio owners were likewise Mormons, such as Robert Starling, as well as Charles Sellier. The greatest credits for the studio were ‘The Bermuda Triangle’ as well as ‘Hangar 18’. It seems sensible that a movie studio managed by Mormons shows a desire for UFOs. Mormon cosmology retains that the Planet is not distinctive. However just one of the many lived on planets, every created by our God for the purpose of generating immortality as well as everlasting life. Mormon frontrunners have trained that the residents of these planets are nearly identical in character to people, just as the actual alien creatures in Hangar 18 are incredibly human.
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Bizarre 'Dark Fluid' with Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe
Bizarre 'Dark Fluid' with Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe
By Jamie Farnes, University of Oxford
Dark fluid bubbles
Credit: Mike Lewinski/Flickr, CC BY-ND
It's embarrassing, but astrophysicists are the first to admit it. Our besttheoretical modelcan only explain 5 percent of the universe. The remaining 95 percent is famously made up almost entirely of invisible, unknown material dubbeddark energy and dark matter. So even though there are a billion trillion stars in the observable universe, they are actually extremely rare.
The two mysterious dark substances can only be inferred from gravitational effects. Dark matter may be an invisible material, but it exerts a gravitational force on surrounding matter that we can measure. Dark energy is a repulsive force that makes the universe expand at an accelerating rate. The two have always been treated as separate phenomena. But my new study, published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, suggests they may both be part of the same strange concept — a single, unified "dark fluid" of negative masses.
Negative masses are a hypothetical form of matter that would have a type of negative gravity — repelling all other material around them. Unlike familiar positive mass matter, if a negative mass was pushed, it would accelerate towards you rather than away from you.
Negative masses are not a new idea in cosmology. Just like normal matter, negative mass particles would become more spread out as the universe expands — meaning that their repulsive force would become weaker over time. However, studies have shown that the force driving the accelerating expansion of the universe is relentlessly constant. This inconsistency has previously led researchers to abandon this idea. If a dark fluid exists, it should not thin out over time.
In the new study, I propose a modification to Einstein's theory of general relativity to allow negative masses to not only exist, but to be created continuously. "Matter creation" was already included in an early alternative theory to the Big Bang, known as the Steady State model. The main assumption was that (positive mass) matter was continuously created to replenish material as the universe expands. We now know from observational evidence that this is incorrect. However, that doesn't mean that negative mass matter can't be continuously created. I show that this assumed dark fluid is never spread too thinly. Instead it behaves exactly like dark energy.
I also developed a 3D computer model of this hypothetical universe to see if it could also explain the physical nature of dark matter. Dark matter was introduced to explain the fact that galaxies are spinning much faster than our models predict. This implies that some additional invisible matter must be present to prevent them from spinning themselves apart.
My model shows that the surrounding repulsive force from dark fluid can also hold a galaxy together. The gravity from the positive mass galaxy attracts negative masses from all directions, and as the negative mass fluid comes nearer to the galaxy it in turn exerts a stronger repulsive force onto the galaxy that allows it to spin at higher speeds without flying apart. It therefore appears that a simple minus sign may solve one of the longest standing problems in physics.
Is the universe really this weird?
One may argue that this sounds a little far fetched. But while negative masses are bizarre, they are considerably less strange than you may immediately think. For starters, these effects may only seem peculiar and unfamiliar to us, as we reside in a region dominated by positive mass.
Whether physically real or not, negative masses already have a theoretical role in a vast number of areas. Air bubbles in water can be modelled as having a negative mass. Recent laboratory research has also generated particles that behave exactly as they would if they had negative mass.
And physicists are already comfortable with the concept of negative energy density. According to quantum mechanics, empty space is made up of a field of fluctuating background energy that can be negative in places — giving rise to waves and virtual particles that pop into and out of existence. This can even create a tiny force that can be measured in the lab.
The new study could help solve many problems in modern physics. String theory, which is our best hope for unifying the physics of the quantum world with Einstein's theory of the cosmos, is currently seen as being incompatible with observational evidence. However, string theory does suggest that the energy in empty space must be negative, which corroborates the theoretical expectations for a negative mass dark fluid.
Moreover, the team behind the groundbreaking discovery of an accelerating universe surprisingly detected evidence for a negative mass cosmology, but took the reasonable precaution of interpreting these controversial findings as "unphysical."
The theory could also solve the problem of measuring the universe's expansion. This is explained by the Hubble-Lemaître Law, the observation that more distant galaxies are moving away at a faster rate. The relationship between the speed and the distance of a galaxy is set by the "Hubble constant," but measurements of it have continued to vary. This has led to a crisis in cosmology. Fortunately, a negative mass cosmology mathematically predicts that the Hubble "constant" should vary over time. Clearly, there is evidence that this weird and unconventional new theory deserves our scientific attention.
Where to go from here
The creator of the field of cosmology, Albert Einstein, did — along with other scientists including Stephen Hawking — consider negative masses. In fact, in 1918 Einstein even wrote that his theory of general relativity may have to be modified to include them.
Despite these efforts, a negative mass cosmology could be wrong. The theory seems to provide answers to so many currently open questions that scientists will — quite rightly — be rather suspicious. However, it is often the out-of-the-box ideas that provide answers to longstanding problems. The strong accumulating evidence has now grown to the point that we must consider this unusual possibility.
The largest telescope to ever be built — the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) — will measure the distribution of galaxies throughout the history of the universe. I'm planning to use the SKA to compare its observations to theoretical predictions for both a negative mass cosmology and the standard one — helping to ultimately prove whether negative masses exist in our reality.
The Square Kilometre Array may provide answers.
Credit: SKA Project Development Office and Swinburne Astronomy Productions, CC BY-SA
What is clear is that this new theory generates a wealth of new questions. So as with all scientific discoveries, the adventure does not end here. In fact, the quest to understand the true nature of this beautiful, unified, and — perhaps polarised — universe has only just begun.
A new video gives a bird's-eye view of the ancient lake bed that NASA's next Mars rover will scour for signs of long-dead life.
Last month, NASA officials announced that the 2020 Mars rover will touch down inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater, which lies about 19 degrees north of the Red Planet's equator.
NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars.
Jezero hosted a deep lake the size of Lake Tahoe long ago, when the Red Planet was a warmer and wetter place — which explains why the six-wheeled robot is going there. [NASA's Mars Rover 2020 Mission in Pictures (Gallery)]
"An ancient lake is a fantastic place to pursue our goal of looking for possible Martian life," Mars 2020 project scientist Ken Farley, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in the flyover video, which was constructed using imagery collected by Mars orbiters and released Thursday (Dec. 13).
An overhead view of Jezero Crater, the landing site for NASA's 2020 Mars rover. This image is a screengrab from a new animation created using imagery from NASA Mars orbiters.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
"On Earth, lakes are filled with living creatures. Evidence of that life is often preserved in the mud and sand deposited on the bottom of the lake," he added. "So, we'll use the rover's instruments to explore the rocks of the ancient lake bed."
The current plan calls for the car-size Mars 2020 to land near the rim of Jezero, which was blasted out by an ancient impact, Farley said. The six-wheeled robot will work its way over to a nearby delta, which preserves sediments that were delivered to the ancient lake by a river. The rover will likely then trundle over to explore the ancient lake's shoreline, navigating its way around present-day sand dunes to get there.
After that, the mission team plans to explore the rocks of Jezero's rim.
"These rocks would have been hot shortly after the impact and may have hosted hot springs," Farley said. "Deposits from these springs would be another target in our search for possible ancient life on Mars."
Mars 2020 is currently scheduled to launch in July of 2020 and touch down in February of 2021. The robot's body is based heavily on that of NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been exploring the 96-mile-wide (154 km) Gale Crater since August 2012.
Like Curiosity, Mars 2020 — which will get a more original and inspiring namebefore launch — will land with the aid of a rocket-powered sky crane. This device will lower the heavy rover onto Jezero's floor on cables, then fly off and crash-land intentionally a safe distance away.
(NASA's considerably lighter InSight Mars lander didn't need a sky crane to ace its touchdown last month; that craft's final landing sequence instead employed onboard descent engines.)
Mars 2020 will carry seven scientific instruments, including ground-penetrating radar, high-resolution cameras and several spectrometers. The rover will also tote both a mini-helicopter, which will serve as a scout, and a technology demonstration that will generate oxygen from the carbon-dioxide-dominated Martian air. This latter gear could help pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, NASA officials have said.
Mars 2020 will also cache samples for eventual return to Earth, though there is no mission currently on NASA's books to go grab this material.
Another life-hunting rover is also slated to launch toward the Red Planet in 2020: the ExoMars rover, which is a joint effort of Europe and Russia.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), is out now.
NASA Research Reveals Saturn is Losing Its ings at “Worst-Case-Scenario” Rate
NASA Research Reveals Saturn is Losing Its Rings at “Worst-Case-Scenario” Rate
New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 & 2 observations made decades ago. The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field.
This video explores how Saturn is losing its rings at a rapid rate in geologic timescales and what that reveals about the planet’s history.
Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/David Ladd
“We estimate that this ‘ring rain’ drains an amount of water products that could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool from Saturn’s rings in half an hour,” said James O’Donoghue of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “From this alone, the entire ring system will be gone in 300 million years, but add to this the Cassini-spacecraft measured ring-material detected falling into Saturn’s equator, and the rings have less than 100 million years to live. This is relatively short, compared to Saturn’s age of over 4 billion years.” O’Donoghue is lead author of a study on Saturn’s ring rain appearing in Icarus December 17.
This image was made as the Cassini spacecraft scanned across Saturn and its rings on April 25, 2016, capturing three sets of red, green and blue images to cover this entire scene showing the planet and the main rings. The images were obtained using Cassini's wide-angle camera at a distance of approximately 1.9 million miles (3 million kilometers) from Saturn and at an elevation of about 30 degrees above the ring plane.
Scientists have long wondered if Saturn was formed with the rings or if the planet acquired them later in life. The new research favors the latter scenario, indicating that they are unlikely to be older than 100 million years, as it would take that long for the C-ring to become what it is today assuming it was once as dense as the B-ring. “We are lucky to be around to see Saturn’s ring system, which appears to be in the middle of its lifetime. However, if rings are temporary, perhaps we just missed out on seeing giant ring systems of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, which have only thin ringlets today!” O’Donoghue added.
Various theories have been proposed for the ring’s origin. If the planet got them later in life, the rings could have formed when small, icy moons in orbit around Saturn collided, perhaps because their orbits were perturbed by a gravitational tug from a passing asteroid or comet.
An artist's impression of how Saturn may look in the next hundred million years. The innermost rings disappear as they rain onto the planet first, very slowly followed by the outer rings.
Credits: NASA/Cassini/James O'Donoghue
The first hints that ring rain existed came from Voyager observations of seemingly unrelated phenomena: peculiar variations in Saturn’s electrically charged upper atmosphere (ionosphere), density variations in Saturn’s rings, and a trio of narrow dark bands encircling the planet at northern mid-latitudes. These dark bands appeared in images of Saturn’s hazy upper atmosphere (stratosphere) made by NASA’s Voyager 2 mission in 1981.
In 1986, Jack Connerney of NASA Goddard published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters that linked those narrow dark bands to the shape of Saturn’s enormous magnetic field, proposing that electrically charged ice particles from Saturn’s rings were flowing down invisible magnetic field lines, dumping water in Saturn’s upper atmosphere where these lines emerged from the planet. The influx of water from the rings, appearing at specific latitudes, washed away the stratospheric haze, making it appear dark in reflected light, producing the narrow dark bands captured in the Voyager images.
Saturn’s rings are mostly chunks of water ice ranging in size from microscopic dust grains to boulders several yards (meters) across. Ring particles are caught in a balancing act between the pull of Saturn’s gravity, which wants to draw them back into the planet, and their orbital velocity, which wants to fling them outward into space. Tiny particles can get electrically charged by ultraviolet light from the Sun or by plasma clouds emanating from micrometeoroid bombardment of the rings. When this happens, the particles can feel the pull of Saturn’s magnetic field, which curves inward toward the planet at Saturn’s rings. In some parts of the rings, once charged, the balance of forces on these tiny particles changes dramatically, and Saturn’s gravity pulls them in along the magnetic field lines into the upper atmosphere.
Once there, the icy ring particles vaporize and the water can react chemically with Saturn’s ionosphere. One outcome from these reactions is an increase in the lifespan of electrically charged particles called H3+ ions, which are made up of three protons and two electrons. When energized by sunlight, the H3+ ions glow in infrared light, which was observed by O’Donoghue’s team using special instruments attached to the Keck telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Their observations revealed glowing bands in Saturn’s northern and southern hemispheres where the magnetic field lines that intersect the ring plane enter the planet. They analyzed the light to determine the amount of rain from the ring and its effects on Saturn’s ionosphere. They found that the amount of rain matches remarkably well with the astonishingly high values derived more than three decades earlier by Connerney and colleagues, with one region in the south receiving most of it.
The team also discovered a glowing band at a higher latitude in the southern hemisphere. This is where Saturn’s magnetic field intersects the orbit of Enceladus, a geologically active moon that is shooting geysers of water ice into space, indicating that some of those particles are raining onto Saturn as well. “That wasn’t a complete surprise,” said Connerney. “We identified Enceladus and the E-ring as a copious source of water as well, based on another narrow dark band in that old Voyager image.” The geysers, first observed by Cassini instruments in 2005, are thought to be coming from an ocean of liquid water beneath the frozen surface of the tiny moon. Its geologic activity and water ocean make Enceladus one of the most promising places to search for extraterrestrial life.
Saturn’s moon Enceladus drifts before the rings and the tiny moon Pandora in this view that NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured on Nov. 1, 2009. The entire scene is backlit by the Sun, providing striking illumination for the icy particles that make up both the rings and the jets emanating from the south pole of Enceladus, which is about 314 miles (505 km) across. Pandora, which is about (52 miles, 84 kilometers) wide, was on the opposite side of the rings from Cassini and Enceladus when the image was taken. This view looks toward the night side on Pandora as well, which is lit by dim golden light reflected from Saturn.
The team would like to see how the ring rain changes with the seasons on Saturn. As the planet progresses in its 29.4-year orbit, the rings are exposed to the Sun to varying degrees. Since ultraviolet light from the Sun charges the ice grains and makes them respond to Saturn’s magnetic field, varying exposure to sunlight should change the quantity of ring rain.
The research was funded by NASA and the NASA Postdoctoral Program at NASA Goddard, administered by the Universities Space Research Association. The W.M. Keck Observatory is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and NASA, and the data in the form of its files are available from the Keck archive. The authors wish to recognize the significant cultural role and reverence that the summit of Mauna Kea has within the indigenous Hawaiian community; they are fortunate to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain.
Bill Steigerwald / Nancy Jones
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET De planeet Saturnus staat al eeuwen bekend om zijn ringen. Maar die zijn beetje bij beetje aan het verdwijnen. Over 300 miljoen jaar zijn ze weg, en misschien al over 100 miljoen jaar. “Dat is vrij kort als je kijkt naar de leeftijd van Saturnus van ruim 4 miljard jaar”, aldus onderzoekers van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA.
New NASA research indicates that Saturn’s iconic rings are not only younger than previously thought, but are disappearing at an extremely fast pace, compared to Saturn’s age. https://go.nasa.gov/2Ex7J5z via @NASASolarSystem
De ringen van Saturnus bestaan uit waterijs, stof en stenen. De zwaartekracht van de planeet trekt aan ze, maar tegelijk draaien ze met zo’n hoge snelheid rond dat ze er aan weten te ontkomen. Dat evenwicht wordt echter soms verstoord.
Dan valt een deel naar Saturnus, een fenomeen dat ‘ringenregen’ wordt genoemd. “We schatten dat er elk half uur een olympisch zwembad aan water uit de ringen wordt gehaald”, zeggen de onderzoekers.
De Voyager-sondes hadden rond 1980 al ontdekt dat het ijs regent bij Saturnus. De sonde Cassini heeft vorig jaar ook onderzoek gedaan tijdens zijn laatste duikvluchten, voordat hij zelf werd verzwolgen door Saturnus.
EPAConceptbeeld van de sonde Cassini bij Saturnus.
De ringen zijn volgens de onderzoekers ongeveer 100 miljoen jaar oud. Dat zou betekenen dat ze nu ongeveer halverwege hun bestaan zijn. Mogelijk zijn het de resten van uiteengevallen manen.
Saturnus is niet de enige planeet met ringen. Ook Jupiter, Uranus en Neptunus hebben een dunne band van stenen en stof om zich heen draaien.
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KOMT ER EEN ZWARE KERST-AARDBEVING? ( VIDEO )
KOMT ER EEN ZWARE KERST-AARDBEVING? ( VIDEO )
De cijfers over 2018 laten nu al zien dat dit een recordjaar gaat worden voor zowel aardbevingen als grote vuurbollen in de lucht.
En in een dergelijk jaar, met een bepaalde uitlijning van planeten in het vooruitzicht, is het geel goed mogelijk dat de aarde rond kerst zal worden getroffen door een grote aardbeving.
In een opvallend groot artikel besteedt de Telegraaf aandacht aan Frank Hoogerbeets en zijn capaciteiten om (grote) aardbevingen correct te kunnen voorspellen.
En dat doet hij, zeker de laatste tijd, met succes. De bevingen in Lombok (augustus) en Palu (september) bijvoorbeeld pasten precies in zijn verwachtingen. In het geval van zware bevingen zit hij sinds vorig jaar zelfs in ruim 80 procent van de gevallen goed. Zijn gemiddelde succespercentage ligt ruim boven de 60 procent. Iets wat internationale media opviel, maar in Nederland gebeurde er niets. „Mijn website Ditrianum en mijn video’s zijn in het Engels. En in Nederland leeft het onderwerp niet zo. We hebben hier geen zware aardbevingen”, concludeert Hoogerbeets nuchter.
De theorie achter de voorspellingen van Frank is dat planeten in een bepaalde uitlijning grote krachten op elkaar uitoefenen, waardoor wij als resultaat (zware) aardbevingen kunnen verwachten.
„In 2015 durfde ik het voor het eerst aan een waarschuwing te geven. Volgens mij zou zich tussen 22 en 27 april een kritieke periode aandienen, met kans op een zware beving. Op 25 april vond de beving in Nepal plaats. Wauw, dacht ik toen”, vertelt hij. Toch ging het in datzelfde jaar ook mis, toen hij ietwat overmoedig aan de westkust van de Verenigde Staten een zware beving voorspelde. Die video werd een hit en toen het rustig bleef, maakten de internationale media gehakt van Hoogerbeets.
Frank denkt dat de elektromagnetische krachten tussen planeten enorm worden versterkt als er een aantal op een rij staan en als daar dan ook de aarde bij zit, dan lopen wij een veel groter risico op een zware aardbeving dan normaal. Het is in feite een variant van "the electric universe" theorie, waarover wij al eerder schreven.
En nu, in de aanloop naar kerst, hebben we weer een bijzondere situatie aan de hemel:
De ogen van de internationale media die Hoogerbeets volgen, zijn echter op de dagen voor kerst gericht. Hoogerbeets vreest dan voor een grote aardschok en dat zou wel eens een lakmoesproef kunnen zijn, klinkt het. „Dan staan Mars, Mercurius en Uranus op één lijn. En Mercurius staat ook nog eens op één lijn met Maan, Jupiter en Aarde. Dat is een heel kritieke stand. Maar let wel, het is een verwachting, geen voorspelling.
Echter, de ontwikkelingen van de aardveranderingen laten zien dat er waarschijnlijk ook nog andere krachten aan het werk zijn dan alleen de uitlijning van planeten.
Toen de mainstream wereld zich kostelijk vermaakte op 21 december 2012 omdat er niets zou zijn gebeurde, was er wel degelijk sprake van iets heel bijzonders. Vanaf dat moment zijn het totaal aantal aardbevingen in een gegeven periode op aarde als een raket omhoog geschoten en blijven ze stijgen, tot op de dag van vandaag.
Zoals je in het volgend staatje kunt zien dat is bijgewerkt tot en met vorige maand november, is het jaar 2018 voor wat betreft aardbevingen opnieuw een record. Klik op het plaatje voor een grotere weergave,
Je ziet in 2013 dan ook ongeveer een verviervoudiging van het aantal bevingen en 2018 is al weer op weg naar een verdubbeling van het aantal in 2013.
Voor wat betreft vuurballen in de lucht doet zich eenzelfde verschijnsel voor; ook daar na 2012 een heel sterke groei, hoewel minder prominent dan in het geval van aardbevingen.
Naast de "normale krachten" die hun invloed op aarde uitoefenen zoals dat gebeurt tijdens bepaalde uitlijningen van hemellichamen, is er nog een andere, veel grotere kracht werkzaam.
Forget horsepower, Stonehenge was built with COW-power: Cattle that lived 8,000 years ago were used as 'animal engines' to lug around heavy objects for Neolithic people
Forget horsepower, Stonehenge was built with COW-power: Cattle that lived 8,000 years ago were used as 'animal engines' to lug around heavy objects for Neolithic people
Stonehenge's bluestones originate from Wales and ended up in Wiltshire
It has long been a mystery as to how they completed this 160 mile journey
Archaeologists have found wear patterns on the feet of bovines from 6,000 BC
This is 2,000 years before cattle was previously thought to be used as 'engines'
Stonehenge may have been built with the assistance of cows who helped carry the enormous rocks across the British Isles.
It could help explain how the fabled bluestones managed to complete the journey from Wales to Wiltshire, where Stonehenge still sits today.
Previous research has claimed the movement of glaciers deposited the huge slabs of rock 160 miles away from their original location.
New research has found evidence of cattle being used by humans to pull and carry heavy loads for 8,000 years.
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Archaeologists at University College London discovered that the bones in the feet of Neolithic cattle demonstrated distinctive wear patterns, indicative of exploitation as 'animal engines' (pictured)
Archaeologists at University College London discovered that the bones in the feet of Neolithic cattle demonstrated distinctive wear patterns, indicative of exploitation as 'animal engines'.
Neolithic cattle in the Balkans were therefore being used for our purposes two millennia earlier than previously thought.
It is believed that the use of bovines stemmed from a need to create settlements from felled wood and move it to different locations.
The use of the animals during this period of neolithic history opens up the possibility they were used to transport Stonehenge's rocks, which was erected at around 5,000 BC.
Research has revealed that cattle were being used for traction – to pull loads – from the earliest Neolithic habitation sites in the Balkans.
Stonehenge may have been built with the assistance of cows who carried the enormous rocks. It could help explain how the fabled bluestones managed to complete the journey from Wales to Wiltshire, where Stonehenge still sits today (Stock)
WHO BUILT STONEHENGE?
Stonehenge was built thousands of years before machinery was invented.
The heavy rocks weigh upwards of several tonnes each.
Some of the stones are believed to have originated from a quarry in Wales, some 140 miles (225km) away from the Wiltshire monument.
To do this would have required a high degree of ingenuity, and experts believe the ancient engineers used a pulley system over a shifting conveyor-belt of logs.
Historians now think that the ring of stones was built in several different stages, with the first completed around 5,000 years ago by Neolithic Britons who used primitive tools, possibly made from deer antlers.
Modern scientists now widely believe that Stonehenge was created by several different tribes over time.
After the Neolithic Britons - likely natives of the British Isles - started the construction, it was continued centuries later by their descendants.
Over time, the descendants developed a more communal way of life and better tools which helped in the erection of the stones.
Bones, tools and other artefacts found on the site seem to support this hypothesis.
'Traction was not an 'all-or-nothing' situation; we need instead to reconsider it as a more complex process, with animals used as engines in multiple ways,' Lead author Dr Jane Gaastra writes in the study.
'Our repeated identification of the exploitation of cattle for pulling heavy loads calls into question the current scope of the analysis and interpretation of the use of animals in prehistoric Europe.'
Experts say that if these practices can be found to have been used elsewhere it will have major ramifications on our understanding of animal use in the Neolithic.
Dr Gaastra writes: 'A firm understanding of the nature of early traction evidence in prehistoric Europe has significant implications for our knowledge of both management practices and the nature of labour and movement in prehistoric societies'
HOW WAS STONEHENGE BUILT?
Stonehenge is one of the most prominent prehistoric monuments in Britain. The Stonehenge that can be seen today is the final stage that was completed about 3,500 years ago.
According to the monument's website, Stonehenge was built in four stages:
First stage: The first version of Stonehenge was a large earthwork or Henge, comprising a ditch, bank and the Aubrey holes, all probably built around 3100 BC.
The Aubrey holes are round pits in the chalk, about one metre (3.3 feet) wide and deep, with steep sides and flat bottoms.
They form a circle about 86.6 metres (284 feet) in diameter.
Excavations revealed cremated human bones in some of the chalk filling, but the holes themselves were likely not made to be used as graves, but as part of a religious ceremony.
After this first stage, Stonehenge was abandoned and left untouched for more than 1,000 years.
Second stage: The second and most dramatic stage of Stonehenge started around 2150 years BC, when about 82 bluestones from the Preseli mountains in south-west Wales were transported to the site. It's thought that the stones, some of which weigh four tonnes each, were dragged on rollers and sledges to the waters at Milford Haven, where they were loaded onto rafts.
They were carried on water along the south coast of Wales and up the rivers Avon and Frome, before being dragged overland again near Warminster and Wiltshire.
The final stage of the journey was mainly by water, down the river Wylye to Salisbury, then the Salisbury Avon to west Amesbury.
The journey spanned nearly 240 miles, and once at the site, the stones were set up in the centre to form an incomplete double circle.
During the same period, the original entrance was widened and a pair of Heel Stones were erected. The nearer part of the Avenue, connecting Stonehenge with the River Avon, was built aligned with the midsummer sunrise.
Third stage: The third stage of Stonehenge, which took place about 2000 years BC, saw the arrival of the sarsen stones (a type of sandstone), which were larger than the bluestones.
They were likely brought from the Marlborough Downs (40 kilometres, or 25 miles, north of Stonehenge).
The largest of the sarsen stones transported to Stonehenge weighs 50 tonnes, and transportation by water would not have been possible, so it's suspected that they were transported using sledges and ropes.
Calculations have shown that it would have taken 500 men using leather ropes to pull one stone, with an extra 100 men needed to lay the rollers in front of the sledge.
These stones were arranged in an outer circle with a continuous run of lintels - horizontal supports.
Inside the circle, five trilithons - structures consisting of two upright stones and a third across the top as a lintel - were placed in a horseshoe arrangement, which can still be seen today.
Final stage: The fourth and final stage took place just after 1500 years BC, when the smaller bluestones were rearranged in the horseshoe and circle that can be seen today.
The original number of stones in the bluestone circle was probably around 60, but these have since been removed or broken up. Some remain as stumps below ground level.
The mystery of how the ancients travelled 160 miles across the British Isles from Wales to Wiltshire with the extremely heavy stones that we now know as Stonehenge may have finally been solved. Cattle were used as “animal engines” to help the Neolithic people carry around large objects. And while it is known that cattle were used as “engines”, this new information brings the dates back 2,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Earlier research indicated that the movement of glaciers brought the huge rocks to their current location, but now it seems as though it was actually cows that helped the ancients make the long journey. For approximately 8,000 years, cattle were used to carry heavy loads and this was proven by the discovery of foot bones in ancient cattle.
Archaeologists from the University College London found that the foot bones from Neolithic cattle from the Balkans showed specific wear patterns that could only come from being used as “animal engines”. The cattle were used to haul wood to help create settlements; therefore, it’s very possible that they were also used to carry Stonehenge’s large rocks – which weighed several tons each – to the location where the monument resides to this very day.
Dr. Jane Gaastra, who is the lead author in a study published in Antiquity about this discovery, said, “We have been able to provide the first conclusive evidence that farmers were using cattle for ‘traction’ almost 2,000 years earlier than the previous consensus date. There has only been one other foot sample from the Neolithic period found in Syria but this was inconclusive. The part of the Balkans where we found the bones was heavy forested in the Neolithic period, so chopping trees to create settlements would have required a lot of man power. Cattle would therefore have been a vital asset helping to transport items such as timber for housing.”
The study, which was conducted in the central and western Balkans, indicated that the earliest farmers from Europe used cattle for dairy and meat, but also as a type of power engine. And this happened two thousand years earlier than what they had initially thought.
Dr. Marc Vander Linden, who is the co-author of the study, said, “Until now it has generally been considered that traction only emerged by the 5th and 4th millennium BC, parallel to the introduction of the plough and the wheel, but our study demonstrates that this is not the case. We reveal that when the wheel and the plough became available farmers were already experienced in using cattle for traction, and this could have facilitated the spread of these innovations.”
Researchers studied twelve cattle foot bone samples that came from males and females from eleven Neolithic sites in the central and western Balkans between the years 6,000 and 4,500 BC. They also plan to conduct more studies across Europe in order to determine whether this form of traction happened only in a few Neolithic groups or if it was a popular practice across the continent.
Stonehenge is an incredible and mysterious site, and now that new information has been discovered suggesting that cows helped in the process of constructing the monument, that makes it even more fascinating.
Seriously: what is causing all of the mysterious booms heard and felt throughout the nation lately? Residents of Chicago and surrounding suburbs are wondering that this week as a series of unexplained and otherwise mysterious noises have been perplexing and worrying residents. On Tuesday, December 11, the northwest Chicago suburb of Elgin was awakened by a series of mysterious booms in the early morning hours. The noises were so loud thatwindows and walls shook, according to some homeowners. The city of Elgin is investigating the noise, but has yet to produce an explanation.
A few nights later on December 13, residents of Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood began hearing a “mysterious hum in the air.” The sound is described by some residents as a subtle hum, while others say it sounds more high-pitched like an alarm sound or siren. The sound is made even more curious by the fact that only some residents hear it, while others are oblivious to the anomalous noise.
Another mysterious boom was reported just south of Chicago in Paxton, Illinois this week, so loud it could be heard 30 miles away. Paxton Mayor Bill Ingold says he thinks the sound was a sonic boom, while other residents think it might have been a meteorite impact. “Others think it was some kind of creaking noise,” Paxton adds.
Meanwhile, Ford County Board member Tom McQuinn described the sound as “the loudest-hitting thunderbolt I ever heard” despite there being not a single cloud in the sky. A few residents reported hearing several smaller explosion-like sounds before a much larger one. No anomalous fires or craters have been reported as in the case of other mystery booms which turned out to be the work or burgeoning bomb makers. Curiously, some residents reported seeing a green streak in the sky at the same time.
Could any or all of these sounds be connected? Are meteorite impacts getting more frequent, or could these booms be man-made? That is, as more nations test hypersonic aircraft and weapons, might there be activity overhead we don’t know about? Could some unknown phenomenon or event be behind these unexplained booms? Any guess is as good as any at this point.
Egypt’s oldest pyramid was built almost 5,000 years ago but a similar structure hidden beneath rubble could be up to four times older.
If true, the claim could rewrite prehistory and shed light on an obscure yet powerful and advanced ancient civilisation.
Geologist Dr Danny Hilman believes that a site in West Java is revered because it hides an ancient temple built between 9,000 and 20,000 years ago.
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A geologist claims that the world's oldest pyramid is hidden under rubble (pictured) in West Java, which if true, could re-write pre-history in the region and shed light on a powerful and advanced ancient civilisation
The Megalithic site of Gunung Padang was discovered in 1914 and is the largest site of its kind in Indonesia.
It is nestled among volcanoes, banana palms and tea plantations, at 2,903 ft (885 metres) above sea level some 75 miles (120km) south of Jakarta.
Chunks of volcanic rubble jut out up from the stepped hillside, which is considered sacred by the Sundanese people who live locally.
Geologist Dr Danny Hilman believes the site is culturally important is because it is an ancient pyramid which was built between 9,000 and 20,000 years ago.
He suggests that it may have been built for worship or astronomy.
The megalithic site of Gunung Padang (pictured) was discovered in 1914 and is the largest site of its kind in Indonesia. It's nestled among volcanoes banana and tea plantations, at 2,903 ft (885 metres) above sea level
Chunks of volcanic rubble stick up from the stepped hillside (pictured), which is considered sacred by the Sundanese people who live locally. Geologist Dr Danny Hilman thinks the reason the site is so revered is that it is an ancient pyramid which was built between 9,000 and 20,000 years ago
THE WORLD’S OLDEST PYRAMIDS
If the structure in West Java is revealed to be a 20,000-year-old pyramid, it will be the oldest on Earth.
In 1996, archaeologists discovered pyramids on the Atlantic coast of southern Brazil that sate to around 3,000 BC, making them a few hundred years older than Egypt's oldest pyramid.
But both civilisations built them for religious reasons.
The Brazilian pyramids are made from shells and were probably built in phases over decades or even centuries, The Independent reported.
For years, experts thought the pyramids were simply piles of domestic rubbish.
Egypt’s oldest known pyramid is the step pyramid of Djoser, which was built in around 2,700 BC.
It was built by a master builder called Imhotep for the burial of Pharaoh Djoser and is composed of six steps.
the ancient structure was rocked by a pyramid in 1992, leaving it unstable with a large hole in its domed roof, but restoration is underway.
If this is true, prehistoric people would have had to manoeuvre chunks of volcanic rock onto terraces built on the mountainside and stack them on top of each other to create a pyramid – a considerable feat of ancient engineering.
Dr Hilman, a senior geologist at Indonesia’s Centre for Geotechnical Research, says that proof of the structure’s organisation lies underground.
His excavations have been backed by the Indonesian government, which recently decreed that the upper part of Gunung Padang is 'the largest megalithic structure in south-east Asia,' The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
President Yudhoyono dubbed the dig a ‘task of history…of important value to humanity.' and it has yielded some ancient artefacts.
Dr Hilman said: ‘People think the prehistoric age was primitive, but this monument proves that wrong.’
He believes such a pyramid would be proof of an advanced ancient civilisation in Java and said that the majority of the stepped site is man-made, perhaps built by generations over a matter of centuries.
The geologist is now working to establish the authenticity of the site.
Some rocks were originally stuck together with a form of ancient glue and have been carbon dated to be around 7,000 BC.
Dr Hilman said that the ruins hide walls and rooms with steps and terraces below, which are evidence of a complex building.
Dr Hilman said: ‘People think the prehistoric age was primitive, but this monument proves that wrong.’ Some rocks were originally stuck together with a form of ancient glue and have been carbon dated to be around 7,000 BC. The site is thought to have been built for worship or astronomy
The site (marked on the map) is nestled among volcanoes, banana palms and tea plantations, at 2,903 ft (885 metres) above sea level some 75 miles (120km) south of Jakarta, and south east of Sukabumi City (marked)
The terraces are bordered by retaining walls of stone that can be accessed by 400 steps rising around 311 ft (95 metres).
The structure is covered with massive rectangular stones of volcanic origin.
It has been subjected to multiple geoelectric surveys, where ground penetrating radar and samples have been used.
From this, he believes the terraced hill is 328 ft (100 metres) thick and is made up of a number of layers.
He said that so far man-made structures have been detected 49 ft (15 metres) underground.
Experts dated rock between nine and 13 ft (three and four metres) below the surface as 6,500 years old and 12,500 years old below the surface.
However, Dr Hilman’s controversial findings are disputed and 34 Indonesian archaeologists and geologists have submitted a petition criticising the projects’ methods and motives.
They say that the excavation threatens the preservation of the site as it is and are annoyed at the prospect of involving civilian archaeologists in the excavation.
Volcanologist Sutikno Bronto believes that the structure isn’t a pyramid at all, but the neck of an old volcano and that the stones surveyed have been weathered by nature instead of being cut by humans.
Another anonymous expert is sceptical that such an ancient civilisation could have been advanced enough to build a pyramid so many thousands of years ago, when tools recovered from a nearby cave, dating to 7,000 BC were very primitive.
The terraces are bordered by retaining walls of stone (pictured) that can be accessed by 400 steps rising around 311 ft (95 metres). They date to at least 5,000 BC
A Scientist Claims The World's Oldest Pyramid Is Hidden in an Indonesian Mountain
(Danny Hilman Natawidjaja)
A Scientist Claims The World's Oldest Pyramid Is Hidden in an Indonesian Mountain
PETER DOCKRILL
When Dutch colonists became the first Europeans to discover Gunung (Mount) Padang in the early 20th century, they must have been awestruck by the sheer scale of their ancient stone surroundings.
Here, scattered across a vast hilltop in the West Java province of Indonesia, lay the remnants of a massive complex of rocky structures and monuments – an archaeological wonder since described as the largest megalithic site in all of Southeastern Asia.
But those early settlers couldn't have guessed the greatest wonder of all might lay hidden, buried deep in the ground below their feet.
(Danny Hilman Natawidjaja)
In controversial new research presented at the AGU 2018 Fall Meeting in Washington, DC last week, a team of Indonesian scientists presented data to make their case that Gunung Padang is in fact the site of the world's oldest known pyramid-like structure.
Their research, which has been conducted over the course of several years, suggests that Gunung Padang is not the hill we think it is – but is actually a layered series of ancient structures with foundations dating back some 10,000 years (or even older).
"Our studies proves that the structure does not cover just the top but also wrap around the slopes covering about 15 hectares area at least," the authors write in the abstract for their new poster.
"The structures are not only superficial but rooted into greater depth."
Using a combination of surveying methods – including ground penetration radar (GPR), seismic tomography, and archaeological excavations – the team says Gunung Padang is not just an artificial structure, but a series of several layers built over consecutive prehistoric periods.
The topmost, megalithic layer made up of rock columns, walls, paths, and spaces, sits above a second layer some 1-3 metres below the surface.
(Danny Hilman Natawidjaja)
The researchers suggest this second layer has previously been misinterpreted as natural rock formation, but is actually another arrangement of columnar rocks organised in a matrix structure.
Below this, a third layer of arranged rocks - containing large underground cavities or chambers - extends as far as 15 metres deep, and this sits upon the lowest (fourth) layer, made of 'lava tongue' basalt rock, somehow modified or carved by human hands.
According to the researchers, preliminary radiocarbon dating suggests the first layer could be up to approximately 3,500 old years old, the second layer somewhere around 8,000 years old, and the third layer in the vicinity of 9,500 to 28,000 years old.
As for the purpose of these ancient, vast structures, the researchers – led by geophysicist Danny Hilman Natawidjaja from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences – suggest the ancient pyramid could have had a religious basis.
"It's a unique temple," Natawidjaja told Live Science.
For now, that's speculation, but if the researchers' other claims about the structures turn out to be right, it's a major finding that could challenge notions of what prehistoric societies were capable of.
'It's huge,'' Natawidjaja told The Sydney Morning Herald in 2013. ''People think the prehistoric age was primitive, but this monument proves that wrong.''
(Danny Hilman Natawidjaja)
Still, not everybody is convinced. Natawidjaja's research has been the subject of much controversy in Indonesia and elsewhere, with a large number of archaeologists and skeptics criticising the team's methods and findings.
The latest research presentations – which, for now, remain non-peer-reviewed – will probably add fuel to the fire, but they also give the world a closer glimpse at what could be one of the world's most ancient and mysterious structures.
As for what that structure really is, only time will tell.
APEen artistieke impressie van de rozige dwergplaneet ‘Farout’
WETENSCHAP Sterrenkundigen hebben met de Japanse Subaru-telescoop op Hawaï een nieuw hemellichaam ontdekt. Het gaat om het verste object dat tot nu toe in ons zonnestelsel is waargenomen en kreeg daarom de bijnaam ‘Farout’ (‘Ver weg’). De rozige dwergplaneet is ongeveer 18 miljard kilometer van de Aarde verwijderd - dat is ongeveer 3,5 keer de afstand naar Pluto.
De Amerikanen Scott Sheppard en Chad Trujillo hebben de ontdekking gisteren bekendgemaakt. Veel is er over het nieuwe hemellichaam met officiële benaming ‘2018 VG18’ nog niet geweten behalve dan dat de dwergplaneet eerder roze lijkt (wat op een oppervlakte van ijs zou kunnen wijzen) en een doorsnede van ongeveer 500 km heeft.
Duizend jaar
Farout doet er ongeveer duizend jaar over om een keer rond de zon te draaien. De afstand van de zon naar de dwergplaneet komt overeen met 120 keer de afstand van de zon naar de Aarde. Het zal nog jaren duren vooraleer sterrenkundigen de precieze vorm van zijn omloopbaan zullen kunnen vaststellen omdat hij zich erg traag verplaatst.
Al jaren zijn wetenschappers op zoek naar een negende planeet die zich aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel zou bevinden. Het is in dat kader dat uiteindelijk ‘Farout’ werd ontdekt. Astronomen vermoeden namelijk dat de objecten aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel - die trouwens allemaal in een grillige baan cirkelen - onder invloed staan van een groter hemellichaam. Maar die zogenoemde ‘Planeet X’ is nog steeds niet gevonden.
Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Egyptian tomb near Cairo which lay untouched for 4,400 years. Footage from the site reveals stunning colorful hieroglyphics and intricately carved figures throughout the complex.
The tomb at the Saqqara necropolis is in good condition and its walls are lined with images depicting the tomb owner, a high priest, and his family, according to Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities, Dr. Khalid Al Anani.
Numerous colorful statues have also been found at the site, which dates back to the reign of King Neferirkare of the Fifth Dynasty, and archaeologists hope to find the sarcophagus of the high priest himself. Neferirkare was in power around the 25th century BC.
Excavations continue at the site, with archaeologists cleaning and restoring their finds as they continue deeper into the cemetery.
The discovery is “one of a kind in the last decades,” according to Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities.
4400 jaar oud graf van Egyptische hogepriester onthuld. Archeologen doen spectaculaire, unieke vondst
4400 jaar oud graf van Egyptische hogepriester onthuld. Archeologen doen spectaculaire, unieke vondst
Egyptische archeologen hebben nabij de hoofdstad Caïro een meer dan 4400 jaar oud graf van een hogepriester blootgelegd.
Het werd ontdekt in de dodenstad van Saqqara, zo maakte het ministerie van Oudheid bekend.
Het graf van de priester, ‘Wahtye’, dateert van de Vijfde Dynastie van de farao’s (tussen 2500 en 2300 voor Christus).
Unieke vondst
Het is volgens minister Khaled el-Enany ‘uiterst goed bewaard’. Op de muren zijn scènes afgebeeld van de priester en zijn familie, en er staan in 18 nissen 24 gekleurde standbeelden.
Mostafa Waziri, secretaris-generaal van de Egyptische Hoge Raad voor Oudheden, sprak van een ‘unieke vondst’.
Reeks
Egypte heeft de voorbije maanden een reeks van antieke ontdekkingen aangekondigd, in de hoop het toerisme weer te kunnen aanwakkeren.
De toerisme-industrie, van levensbelang voor de Egyptische economie, heeft klappen gekregen sinds de opstand in 2011 tegen dictator Hosni Moebarak.
Mysterieuze krater gespot bij topgeheime Amerikaanse legerbasis. Wat kan dit zijn?
Mysterieuze krater gespot bij topgeheime Amerikaanse legerbasis. Wat kan dit zijn?
Twee YouTube-bloggers zijn op Google Earth op iets vreemds gestuit in de buurt van Area 51. Blake en Brett Cousins hebben een mysterieus object gevonden middenin een krater nabij de geheime basis.
Het lijkt te gaan om een hoog en smal object, meldt persbureau Sputnik.
“Het zou een soort ventilatieschacht of een toren kunnen zijn,” zei Blake.
Ondergrondse installatie
Een video van het tweetal over de vondst is op 13 december op YouTube geplaatst en inmiddels al bijna 70.000 keer bekeken.
“Het zou me niet verbazen als er een ondergrondse installatie is bij Area 51,” schreef iemand. Een ander wees op de afwezigheid van sporen.
Area 51, een onderdeel van Edwards Air Force Base, wordt al decennialang omgeven door complottheorieën.
Maanlanding
Sommigen geloven dat de NASA de maanlanding in 1969 heeft gefilmd in één van de hangars van de basis.
In de jaren vijftig werd het spionagevliegtuig U-2 getest in het gebied, waarna de UFO-waarnemingen binnenstroomden.
OPNIEUW AANVARING TUSSEN VLIEGTUIG EN UFO ( VIDEO )
OPNIEUW AANVARING TUSSEN VLIEGTUIG EN UFO ( VIDEO )
Steeds vaker zien we vliegtuigen die uiteindelijk wel landen, maar met een forse beschadiging aan de neus van het toestel.
Zo ook een Boeing 737 van Aeromexico die met een enorme deuk in de neus landde op het vliegveld van Tijuana.
Meestal gebeuren onverklaarbare aanvaringen van vliegtuigen met vreemde objecten op grote hoogte, maar dit keer gebeurde het tijdens de nadering van het vliegveld.
Op 13 december was een Boeing 737-800 van Aeromexico bezig met de nadering van het vliegveld van Tijuana toen de bemanning een forse dreun hoorden. Zij hadden geen flauw benul wat dat geweest zou kunnen zijn, maar aangezien alles nog normaal functioneerde hebben ze de landing doorgezet en het vliegtuig veilig aan de grond gekregen.
Na de landing bleek sprake van een fikse deuk in de neus van het toestel.
Alhoewel niemand weet wat er tegen het vliegtuig botste en de schade veroorzaakte, wordt er eigenlijk automatisch vanuit gegaan dat het een drone geweest is.
Met de fenomenale stijging van het aantal drones neemt natuurlijk ook de kans toe dat er ééntje een keer een vliegtuig raakt en zeker als het vliegtuig zich op een lagere hoogte bevindt:
Echter, het is helemaal niet zeker dat het Aeromexico toestel is geraakt door een drone. Het zou, voor zover ons bekend, de eerste keer in de geschiedenis zijn dat een drone dergelijke significante schade veroorzaakt.
Er zijn maar heel weinig voorvallen waarbij echt een passagierstoestel en een drone betrokkenzijn en de keren dat dit gebeurt is de schade heel erg beperkt gebleven en zeker niet zo ernstig als bij het toestel hierboven.
Het zou uiteraard ook een ufo geweest kunnen zijn die tegen het toestel is gebotst, zeker als dat gebeurt in een land als Mexico, waar ongeveer net zoveel ufo's rondvliegen als dat er auto's rond rijden. En binnen Mexico is Tijunana ook nog eens een plaats die regelmatig in het nieuws komt vanwege de vele vreemde lichten die daar in de lucht worden waargenomen.
Een ander argument waarom hier sprake geweest zou kunnen zijn van een ufo is dat er meerdere van dit soort schades zijn voorgevallen, maar alleen op grote hoogte. Op een hoogte waar geen drones vliegen, maar waar de betreffende vliegtuigen er na de landing net zo uit zien als hierboven.
Daarom hierna een deel uit een eerder artikel waarin wordt ingegaan op de risico's voor het vliegverkeer van ufo's en een aantal praktijkvoorbeelden van aanvaringen tussen vliegtuigen en ufo's.
Er doen zich een aantal vreemde verschijnselen voor en één daarvan is dat er in het mainstream nieuws steeds vaker op wordt gehamerd dat we UFO’s nu toch echt een keer serieus moeten gaan nemen.
Zoals bijvoorbeeld in de volgende uitzending van Fox News, waar de Engelsman en ufoloog bij uitstek, Nick Pope, te gast is om te praten over het steeds groter wordende gevaar dat UFO’s opleveren voor de burgerluchtvaart.
In de uitzending wordt uiteraard ingespeeld op de eerdere vrijgave van ufobeelden en wordt enkele keren herhaald dat we, al was het alleen maar voor de veiligheid van het vliegverkeer, nu toch echt UFO’s serieus moeten gaan nemen.
Dit alles lijkt weer een beetje op het verdere hersenspoelen van de bevolking richting het in de nabije toekomst bekend maken van de geheime ruimtevloot.
En toch, er gebeuren regelmatig vreemde dingen met vliegtuigen.
Zoals afgelopen week toen een An-24 van Polar Airlines tijdens een vlucht boven het Russische Siberië volgens de officiële berichten letterlijk in zwaar weer terechtkwam.
Wat dat dan precies geweest zou zijn is niet duidelijk, maar wel dat dit vliegtuig met iets in aanraking is geweest tijdens de vlucht.
Het zag er als volgt uit na de landing.
Volgens Polar Airlines was het geen blikseminslag en zij suggereren dat het misschien hagel geweest zou kunnen zijn. Echter, er wordt nogal geheimzinnig gedaan en men zegt niet dat het toestel in een zware hagelbui terecht is gekomen, dus wie weet hebben we hier wel een aanvaring met een UFO.
Dit is niet de eerste keer dat vliegtuigen aan de grond komen met dit soort schade. Wij hebben hier al vaker over geschreven en hier volgt een deel uit een eerder artikel waar wellicht ook sprake is van een botsing tussen een UFO en een vliegtuig:
Volgens de onderstaande video uit Zuid Amerika gaat het wel degelijk af en toe mis.
Zo vertellen ze het verhaal van wat er gebeurde op 15 mei 2015 met een Boeing 777 van Aeromexico.
Dit toestel vertrok die dag om half acht ’s avonds voor een vlucht naar Madrid in Spanje. Ongeveer anderhalf uur na vertrek besloot de bemanning onverwacht een noodlanding te maken in Cancun omdat ze zeiden dat er storingen optraden in het elektrische systeem.
Na de landing in Cancun nam een passagier een foto van het toestel dat er toen zo uit zag:
Volgens de onderstaande video heeft dit vliegtuig een botsing gehad met een onbekend vliegend object; een UFO dus.
De officiële versie van het verhaal is dat ze al direct na vertrek een blikseminslag hadden waardoor de schade ontstond en er eveneens problemen waren met het elektrische systeem.
De botsing van de 777 met een onbekend object lijkt veel op die die een vliegtuig van Air China twee jaar geleden had en waar wij toen het volgende over schreven:
De vlucht was in de vroege ochtend van 4 juni vertrokken van Chengdu naar Guangzhou. Het vertrek van de Boeing 757 verliep zonder problemen. Twintig minuten na take-off, terwijl ze zich op een hoogte bevinden van 26.000 voet, krijgt de verkeersleiding een noodoproep van het toestel en wordt besloten een noodlanding te maken in Shunagliu.
Deze verliep zonder problemen en er werd de passagiers meegedeeld dat een en ander het gevolg was van een technisch mankement. Echter, direct na het incident had één van de passagiers de tegenwoordigheid van geest om enkele foto’s te maken.
De officiële verklaring kwam al vrij snel daarna: het was een vogel geweest. Als we dan kijken naar de grootte van de toegebrachte schade, dan moet het wel een enorme vogel zijn geweest. Een die bovendien iets van een soort verfstrepen heeft achtergelaten.
Een vogelaanvaring bij deze vlucht is uitgesloten omdat én het vliegtuig daarvoor te hoog vloog én omdat er geen sporen zijn gevonden op het vliegtuig zoals bloedspetters of veren.
Er zijn nog talloze verhalen over bijna botsingen tussen vliegtuigen en UFO’s. Hebben we hier daarom toch te maken met buitenaardsen die niet goed uitkijken met hun snelle UFO’s of is er een andere verklaring?
Weird sky creature caught on camera in Mairipora, São Paulo, Brazil
Weird sky creature caught on camera in Mairipora, São Paulo, Brazil
On December 16, 2018 during a walk in a park located in Mairipora, São Paulo Brazil at 10 o’clock in the morning the photographer saw a very strange white object in the sky. Although the object was very far away or very small, yet it stood out greatly.
At the time he thought it was strange, but he continued his walk and did not give much importance to it.
But when he got back to his house at about 13 o'clock, he looked up at the sky again and the object was apparently still in the same place.
His house is about 3-4 kilometers from the park where he first saw it. As he could not identify the object, he has photographed it with his camera that has a zoom of 50x, in addition also he made a video.
Did the photographer caught something “Unnatural” or there is a logical explanation for this bat-like shaped phenomenon in the Brazilian sky?
UFO Sighting In Taiwan of 6 UFO Crafts near Mountain. Oct 25, 2010 UFO Sighting News.
UFO Sighting In Taiwan of 6 UFO Crafts near Mountain. Oct 25, 2010 UFO Sighting News.
I had to make this post again since it was deleted for unknown reasons. so here it goes. SCW Sighting location: Alishan Forest Recreation Area, Taiwan Date of sighting: Oct 25, 2010 Mr. Nien was in the Alishan Forest Recreation Area when he decided to snap a few pictures. The pictures he took were only 7 seconds apart. This means that the crafts speed was faster than the human eye could see it. This fits with what we believe alien tech is capable of. Mr. Nien took the photos at 9:41 AM and did not notice anything unusual when he had taken it. It was when he uploaded the photos to his computer that he noticed the UFO. Another UFO sighting in Taiwan back in Jan of 2004. It was all over every TW news station and newspaper. I (Scott C. Waring) even talked to an F-16 Teacher in the Taiwan Air Force and he said it looks like they are in flight formation and getting ready for something. Then he noted that they seem to shoot off one by one, then are replaced by another glowing UFO from below. I have seen had a similar sighting personally when I was in South Dakata, Rapid city. Very similar in appearance, except we saw the glowing balls fly away quickly one by one.
One of the most promising spots to find life in the solar system beyond Earth is Europa, Jupiter’s fourth-smallest moon. But even though scientists suspect the moon’s liquid ocean might harbor living organisms, it’s protected by a solid layer of ice that could be as much as 30 kilometers (18 miles) deep.
Now, researchers at with NASA’s Glenn Research COMPASS team have devised an idea for a probe that could access that ocean: a nuclear-powered tunneling bot that could burrow through the moon’s icy shell to probe its composition and, potentially, access the watery darkness under it.
Ice Limit
The researchers dreamed up two versions of the “tunnelbot,” one of which would use a small nuclear reactor and the other of which would use a “radioactive heat source module.” In both cases, the tunnelbot would use excess heat from its reactors to melt the ice as it traveled down.
As it went, the tunnelbot would analyze the ice and search it for signs of current or extinct life, reporting back to Earth with a fiber optic cable connected to communication equipment at Europa’s surface. It would even be equipped to explore lakes buried in the ice before it reached Europa’s oceanic depths.
Tunnel Vision
The NASA-sponsored research is just a concept study. Deploying it would require years of work and extensive precautions against damaging any potential ecosystem on Jupiter’s moon — not to mention figuring out a way to transport the heavy bot to Europa.
“We didn’t worry about how our tunnelbot would make it to Europa or get deployed into the ice,” said Andrew Dombard, a professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago who worked on the concept. “We just assumed it could get there and we focused on how it would work during descent to the ocean.”
It’s official: astronomersfound a new dwarf planetin our solar system — and it’s the most distant object ever observed in our solar system.
“I said ‘far out!’ when I discovered it, and it’s a very far out object,” said astronomer Scott Shepard from the Carnegie Institution for Science, asquotedby New Scientist.
The tiny planet is called 2018 VG18 — later nicknamed “Farout” by the team that discovered it — and it’s about 3.5 as far away as Pluto, some 18 billion kilometers (11.2 billion miles) away. That’s more than 100 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun — and about the same distance as Voyager 2, the NASA probe that launched in 1977 and reached interstellar space this month.
Farout was spotted by the Japanese Subaru telescope in Hawaii on November 10 by Shepard and several colleagues, according to a statement on Carnegie Institution for Science’s website.
(Illustration by Roberto Molar Candanosa and Scott Sheppard, courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science.)
Unusual Orbits
So far, Farout is still deeply mysterious. But one aspect already attracting scientific interest is its unusual orbit. Farout orbits at an unusual angle, along with other so-called “trans-Neptunian objects.” There’s been a lot of speculation in recent years about what might be causing those astronomical bodies’ unusual trajectory.
One of the most popular explanations is the possible existence of a ninth planet, or Planet X. In fact, the astronomers discovered Farout while searching for the existence of a ninth planet, according to the statement. Most recent data suggests it could also be a group of objects within the same gravitational field.
Slow And Pinkish
But we can glean at least some details about Farout. Farout is estimated to be 500 km in diameter, and to take more than 1,000 years to orbit the Sun. It also has a pinkish hue, according to the researchers.
“With new wide-field digital cameras on some of the world’s largest telescopes, we are finally exploring our Solar System’s fringes, far beyond Pluto,” said Chad Trujillo, astronomer from Northern Arizona University.
The discovery shows that even though researchers are now routinely finding planets orbiting other stars, there are still planet-sized undiscovered objects in our own solar system. It really goes to show how much there still is to learn about our relatively small corner of the galaxy.
Does anyone worry about Egyptian curses guarding ancient tombs anymore? Apparently not since the country’s tourism ministry figured out how much money can be made by holding big ‘tomb opening‘ media extravaganzas as soon as they’re found. The curses don’t even seem to be scaring away tourists who are actuallyclimbing up the Great Pyramid to take nude selfies— unless you count getting arrested as a curse). Whatever the case, any and all curses were ignored over the weekend as a 4,000-year-old “exceptionally well-preserved” tomb belonging to a royal purification priest under the reign of King Nefer Ir-Ka-Re was opened and exposed to the harsh lights of the world media.
Shouldn’t there be a “No climbing or nude selfies” sign?
“It is the most beautiful tomb discovered this year.”
If anyone should know, it’s Antiquities Minister Khaled Anany, who announced the opening of yet another tomb at the Sacred Animal Necropolis in Saqqara to Egypt Today and other media sources. “Royal purification,” a description found in the tomb’s hieroglyphics, means high priest “Wahtye” was a supervisor for the king whose duties included inspecting the holy boat, which is most likely the funerary vessel used for taking the king to the afterlife. Wahtye had no boat in his own tomb, but the fact that it has apparently never been looted or even opened since its sealing meant that the writings and paintings on the walls were in great shape (see the beautiful photos here) and told the stories of his life, his wife ’Weret Ptah’, his mother ‘Merit Meen’ and the rest of his family participating in activities such as making wine and pottery, religious ceremonies, sailing and hunting. Royal purification priest was obviously a pretty good gig during the reign of King Nefer-Ir-Ka-Re, who ruled during the fifth dynasty of the Old Kingdom, a period from the early 25th century BCE until the mid 24th century BCE.
Sailing on the Nile
“The color is almost intact even though the tomb is almost 4,400 years old.”
Secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri really didn’t need to put any more spin on the announcement. The tomb is a rectangular shape measuring 10 meters (33 feet) long, 3 meters (10 feet) wide and 3 meters high, with a basement with a basement, five burial shafts and two false doors. The colors are brilliant for being 4,000 years old and the statues carved into wall niches are in great shape. It’s no wonder the Antiquities Ministry opened the tomb just days after its discovery and is already preparing to open another one nearby that was just found.
Are the curses gone? Did they ever exist to begin with? Perhaps the only people being cursed by these ancient Egyptian tombs are the ones who were planning new mummy horror movies.
A Garden In The Afterlife - Woman struck by lightning tells her Near Death Experience
A Garden In The Afterlife - Woman struck by lightning tells her Near Death Experience
When Elizabeth Krohn headed to her Houston synagogue to attend a memorial service for her beloved grandfather, she couldn’t have known that her life would be changed forever.
As she drove the pleasant weather gave way to a downpour and fierce thunder and lightning soon followed.
She arrived at the synagogue and, with her young son in tow, started to make her way from the car to the building.
It was then that she was struck by lightning.
Elizabeth saw herself lying on the asphalt as she floated up to what she describes as a garden electrified with vivid, unearthly colors and infused with a sense of unconditional kindness and love.
She felt herself communing with a spiritual being, while her sense of time was upended.
She was given the choice of returning to her earthly life or remaining in the otherworldly paradise.
When she was told that if she went back she would have a third child—a girl who had already selected her and her husband as parents—she rejoined her body and the temporal world.
Then it got even stranger.
After the lightning strike her life was changed forever. She began to have dreams about future events, developed synesthesia, started seeing auras, and sometimes had a sense of inanimate objects radiating a life force.
A bizarre video apparently shot in Ireland and released online by conspiracy theory YouTube channel 'UFOmania' is now the hottest debating point among conspiracy theorists and extraterrestrial enthusiasts. The video shows a luminescentUFO, in the shape of a doughnut hovering across the night skies, and at the first glance, it literally looks otherworldly.
A doughnut in the skies?
The strange object in the skies seems static, and at no point in time, it makes any manoeuvres in the atmosphere. In the initial moments of the footage, the unidentified flying object spotted in the skies looked spherical in shape, but when the camera gets zoomed in, the real shape of the UFO becomes evident.
The video has been now submitted to MUFON (Mutual UFO Network), and their team is now apparently checking the authenticity of the video.
Alien spaceship or manipulated hoax?
The video uploaded by 'UFOmania' soon became viral on online space, and most people who watched the video argued that alien life is a reality, and extraterrestrials from deep space have been visiting the earth for many years.
Some of these people believe that aliens from deep space are very advanced, and they have all kinds of multifarious vehicles in different shapes; triangular flying saucers, cigar-shaped flying objects, and now these doughnut flying crafts.
"I guess the aliens have as many vehicle options as we humans do on earth. If we repeatedly saw one or two different types of craft I might buy into some of the sightings but with thousands of different shapes and lighting configurations, I find it hard to believe. Don't get me wrong...I know intelligent life far more advanced than we exist.....I just don't have proof," commented pushrod49, a YouTube user.
However, sceptics have already classified this video as a manipulated hoax. As per these people, the object spotted in the video could be either the trick of the lens or a computer power button shot in darkness. Some other sceptics argued that the doughnut shape of the UFO indicates this object is actually a night vision security camera.
"I can tell you exactly what it is. It is a security camera with night vision. I know because I have taken photos of one in 2014 while incredibly stoned, thinking it was a UFO," commented Rowan The First, another YouTuber.
In the Bible, Ezekiel marvelled as four angels (with wings and several faces) appeared to him, travelling in “something like a wheel within a wheel”.
But while historians claim Ezekiel was speaking symbolically, a NASA scientist believes the early Christians were visited by a UFO.
Daily Star Online has exclusively obtained footage from Blaze's Ancient Aliens episode to air tonight, which explores the theory.
In 1974 NASA scientist Josef Blumrich – who worked on the first manned lunar landing programme in the US – set out to disprove theories of a biblical-era UFO.
However, in book “The Spaceships of Ezekiel” Blumrich came to the conclusion Ezekiel was describing some sort of alien craft.
The scientist even went as far as to create a model of the ship, based on measurements and descriptions from the book of Ezekiel.
Similarly, a German engineer called Hans Herbert Bayer decided to create blueprints based on Ezekiel’s open-top building – which was made as a landing spot for the Bible's mythical chariot.
And astonishingly, Blumrich’s ship managed to fit “perfectly” into Herbert Bayer’s to-scale temple.
VISITORS: Ezekiel claimed to be visited by angels with wings (Pic: GETTY)
On the topic, Ancient Aliens host Giorgio A. Tsoukalos notes: “What we have here is a proof by indication.
“Here we have a NASA engineer and a structural engineer who didn’t know of each other’s work and both pieces fit together like a puzzle.
“In any court of law, that’s evidence that would hold up.”
ALIENS: Ezekiel recalled the moment "angels" visited earth (Pic: GETTY)
This belief is also held by Jonathan Young, curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives, who argues the “flames” of the craft could have been misinterpreted by Ezekiel as “angels”.
Speaking of the groundbreaking theory, he said: “If we thought of the word “angel” as representing something like celestial energy, it sounds much more like a spacecraft.”
New episodes of Ancient Aliens are on free to air channel BLAZE every Wednesday at 9pm on Freeview Channel 63.
Some Apollo conspiracy theorists believe Stanley Kubrick filmed the Apollo moon landings for NASA.
It happens every year. One or more students ask me if I think the Apollo moon landings were a hoax. I teach critical media studies at Temple University in downtown Philadelphia, where the diverse collection of urban students are street smart, open-minded, and hard-working. This is not an indictment of students in my classes. I’m sure it happens at other colleges and universities. Frankly, it’s not surprising that some American college students wonder about the Apollo 11 moon landings, given that polls and surveys show 24% of Americans and 25% of British citizens believe NASA faked the moon landings. Some people believe that NASA paid director Stanley Kubrick to film the fake footage.
The internet and YouTube are littered with zillion of claims that NASA masterminded an Apollo hoax. Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) depicts this issue in the scene where Matthew McConaughey confronts the future educators who deny NASA landed humans on the moon. Why are there so many attacks on the great achievements of Apollo? One reason is because of the rise of pseudoscience in popular culture.
In the masterpiece Interstellar, McConaughey (playing a former NASA pilot) confronts an educator who believes the moon landing was a NASA hoax perpetrated to bankrupt the Soviet Union.
Pseudoscience in the Guise of Skepticism
The students skeptical of the Apollo moon landings are often those who fashion themselves as rebels, anti-authoritarians, and challengers to the American cultural orthodoxy. Of course, being skeptical of the US government is understandable in general. Like all other political systems throughout history, the US government has lied, currently lies, and will lie again in the future. Governments are always lying about something. It’s obvious the US government is still lying about the Kennedy assassination, but there is zero doubt NASA sent humans to the moon.
It saddens me that youthful rebellion and much-needed government skepticism are channeled into pseudoscientific nonsense—not unlike the “ancient astronaut theorists” celebrated in the long-running Ancient Aliens (2010-) series, which is repeatedly aired on the History Channel in the United States.
Hijacking the space narrative from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Ancient Aliens series perfectly illustrates the rising tide of pseudoscience and conspiracy theory in American culture.
Like those who deny the Apollo moon landings, the ancient astronaut theorists present themselves as rebels against the mainstream orthodoxy of modern science and archaeology. They offer nothing other than an endless stream of bogus “evidence” for the scientifically illiterate and well-intentioned skeptics, like the students who ask me about Apollo. My debunking of the “ancient astronaut theorists” is (by far) my most read essay in Medium. It has thousands of readers, who I assume agree with the ancient astronaut theory because the essay also has very few likes and little applause. Yet not one reader has even remotely challenged any of my arguments. There are reasons why this particular version of pseudoscience exists, but I’ll save that for the end of this essay.
In 1969, the video and television technologies weren’t advanced enough to stage and fake the moon landing in any plausible way. NASA didn’t have anything like CGI or Photoshop back then. The TV cameras were primitive compared to the cameras of 2017, with HD and 360-degree perspectives. Though the fake moon-landing claims have been debunked on the internet, here are some of the most obvious reasons the Apollo moon landings could not have been faked.
1. 842 pounds of Moon Rocks
The astronauts on the six Apollo missions retrieved 842 pounds of moon rocks that were brought to Earth and shared with scientists around the world. If the rocks were from our planet and not from the moon, the scientists would surely have realized that and called NASA on its trickery. NASA still loans out sample moon rocks to educators and scientists from around the world. Could they all be in on the hoax across 50 years?
NASA still loans lunar samples to scientists and educators. Image from NASA website, October 20, 2017.
2. The Soviet Union Knew Apollo 11 Happened
The United States and former Soviet Union were in a “space race” to get to the moon first, supposedly to show the superiority of their socioeconomic systems. The Soviet Union easily tracked the Apollo spacecraft to the moon with its telecommunications satellites and picked up both the Apollo radio transmissions to Mission Control and all of the television broadcasts. The Soviets possessed such technologies because they too sent spacecraft to the moon in the 1960s (sans cosmonauts). If NASA didn’t really send astronauts to the moon, the Soviet Union would have certainly known and taken the opportunity to embarrass the United States on the “world stage” at the height of the Cold War. The possibility of the Soviets going along with such a hoax is far below zero (lower than the winter temperatures in Siberia!). Moscow’s Pravda newspaper even acknowledged the Apollo 11 moon landing with a front-page story.
News story of Apollo 11 moon landing. Pravda, July 22, 1969.
3.Reflectors Left on the Moon
The Apollo 11 and 14 astronauts left behind mirror-like prisms on the moon (the lunar laser-ranging retroreflector array) that are targeted with lasers by scientists at the McDonald Observatory in Texas and other observatories around the world. The lasers accurately determine the distance from Earth to the moon, which is moving away from the Earth by about 3.8 cm per year. Could all the astronomers and scientists at the McDonald Observatory be in on the NASA hoax? What about astronomers from other observatories in other nations?
4. Tracks on the Moon
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images of the Apollo landing sites, including astronaut tracks, moon buggies and their tracks, and the descent part of the lunar modules. In the 21st century, could the world’s scientists and astronomers be fooled by trick photos from NASA?
From the NASA website, October 20, 2017.
5. Could 400,000 Scientists Be Tricked?
Approximately 400,000 scientists, engineers, and technicians worked on the Apollo project for over a decade. They came from many countries and all over the US. It is patently absurd to think they all were all somehow tricked or part of a NASA hoax.
NASA’s Mission Control during the Apollo program. For Apollo 11 conspiracy theorists, these scientists and technicians were creating the hoax or were all tricked.
6. Why Land on the Moon 5 More Times?
The United States made six visits to the moon. Let’s consider for a moment that they were all staged. If the first “hoax” were successful, the United States would have defeated the Soviets in the race to the moon. Why risk faking five more visits and thus increase the chances of slipping up and getting caught by 500%? NASA would have had to fake the famed Apollo 13 mission, which was aborted on the way to the moon because of an on-board explosion; it was freaking scientific genius that enabled the Apollo 13 astronauts to orbit the moon and return safely to Earth. If NASA faked the moon landings, one time would have been enough. Along with the other reasons listed above, that’s why we can be certain Apollo landed on the moon and returned to Earth six times.
Patches for the Apollo flights 12–17. Why fake five more moon landings and fake the near-disaster of Apollo 13?
Apollo and the Attacks on Human Achievement
To me, it’s mind-blowing that pseudoscience and antirationalism are widespread in the global culture of the 21st century.Let’s be very clear what is stake here: truth, sanity, human achievement, and our place in the universe.The Apollo missions were incredible achievements, perhaps the greatest in the history of the human species. The Apollo program dramatically illustrated the incredible things humans can do when reason, science, creativity, cooperation, ambition, and bravado are applied to the pursuit of genuine achievement and enlightenment. Claiming Apollo was a conspiracy is not merely an attack on NASA, it’s an attack on human reason, achievement, and aspiration. What’s the underlying reason for the Apollo conspiracy theorists? Here’s my take.
The original perspective of Earthrise, the famed image captured by Apollo 8. Earth amid the cosmic void, the concept most people can’t handle without relying on a Creator or some other story to make us feel special and secure. The reason we can’t see the stars in the image is because of the camera settings to capture both the Earth and the bright lunar landscape in a clear image.
NASA’s grandest achievements (Apollo and the Hubble Space Telescope) have collectively destroyed the pre-Copernican narratives humans use to explain their origins and destinies. In the wake of Apollo and the views of Earth from space, the tribalism (racism, sexism, homophobia, nationalism, etc.) and narcissistic delusions of cosmic centrality and our super-specialness are bogus beliefs and can no longer be taken seriously. Yet these views are running amok on Earth. NASA and Apollo have rocked our worldviews and much of society has yet to accept what it means, still clinging to sacred texts and YouTube videos claiming the moon landings were filmed by Kubrick. Even the Apollo 8 astronauts contributed to the rise of anti-science culture by reading from Genesis while orbiting the moon in 1968—an intellectual collapse of epic proportions, a crash on global TV. We are not special, not significant, not the center of the universe, and there’s no evidence that super-beings are looking after us and controlling our destiny, be they deities or ancient aliens.
To keep the dominant narratives alive back on Earth, the achievements and discoveries of NASA, Apollo, and the Hubble telescope must be neutralized, marginalized, or flat-out discredited. It’s like Galileo and Edwin Hubble never existed. In the end, those who deny the moon landings are waging an assault on sanity—an assault on logic, science, and basic rationality. More importantly, the deniers are attacking and undermining the great human achievement of Apollo, precisely because the real meaning of Apollo challenges the dominant narratives to which they are desperately clinging to out of sheer existential dread. The hoax was not perpetrated by NASA or Kubrick, but in the minds of the deniers and their pre-Copernican narratives. It’s not even remotely sane.
In the wake of Apollo and the Hubble telescope, we face the paradox of our greatest achievement. We humans have ventured to the moon and peered into a vast and ancient cosmos, a universe of two trillion galaxies stretching across 100 billion light years, a universe in which our species is not central or significant and perhaps even meaningless. As seen in the Apollo 8 photo above, the blackness of space shows there is no self-evident meaning or purpose to human existence. This poses the greatest intellectual challenge for humanity: to ground human purpose and meaning in something external to our existence, in a vast universe of which we are insignificant and inconsequential. Pseudoscience and Apollo conspiracy theorists have no answer for this challenge.
NASA’s great achievements suggest we practice a bit of cosmic humility along with developing a new philosophy for human existence. It’s like we need an Apollo program for secular philosophy. It’s time to abandon the superstitions and pseudoscience. It’s time to grow up.
Water plumes on Europa: Tasting an extraterrestrial ocean
Water plumes on Europa: Tasting an extraterrestrial ocean
Credit: Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Computer simulations of the plumes of liquid water that stream out of Jupiter's moon Europa show that the forthcoming space mission JUICE may offer an answer to the question as to whether the Jovian moon's subsurface ocean could harbour life. Hans Huybrighs comes to this conclusion in the doctoral thesis he has recently completed at the Max-Planck Institute of Solar System Physics and the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, in collaboration with the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Kiruna.
A deep ocean of liquid water is hidden under the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. Life might have developed here, shielded from sunlight and curious observers from planet Earth. Peeping through the ice to find traces of this hypothetical life is easier said than done, especially when you realize that the ice could be several kilometres thick. In 2022 the European Space Agency (ESA) will launch its space mission JUpiter ICy moon Explorer (JUICE). The JUICE spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter and its icy moons in 2030 and on board will be the Particle Environment Package (PEP) developed at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF). New research shows that PEP, an instrument consisting of several particle detectors, will be able to "taste" the plume in different ways and shed some light on the contents of Europa's ocean.
Observations from the Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiter's moon Europa, made in recent years, have shown that water is erupting from Europa's surface.
"Europa's plumes are the most straight-forward way to taste its subsurface ocean," says Hans Huybrighs. "Flying through one of the plumes of water and taking samples of the material could be the easiest way to study Europa's ocean. JUICE will be the first mission that might be able to do this."
After its arrival at the Jupiter system in 2030, JUICE will make two flybys of Europa. To figure out if JUICE will indeed be able to sample the plumes, Hans Huybrighs and his colleagues made computer simulations of the plume eruptions. By calculating the trajectories of millions of particles launched by the eruption, it is possible to determine if the particles can reach the spacecraft and, if enough of them do, to detect them. The simulations show that though most of the particles fall back to the surface after the eruption, enough of them can reach the JUICE spacecraft as long as a plume is active near the spacecraft's orbital footprint. Interestingly, some of particles won't fall back. They become electrically charged after being bombarded by radiation particles moving in Jupiter's strong magnetic field. These newly-charged particles are no longer bound by gravity and will move away from Europa, guided by electromagnetic fields. Even though only a fraction of the plume particles become electrically charged, enough of these particles can still be detected by the PEP instrument.
"Our simulations show that JUICE will be able to detect the plume eruptions in at least two different ways," says Hans Huybrighs. "It might even be possible to detect not only the water of the plume, but other substances that tell us more about the contents of the sub-surface ocean and its habitability as well."
Hans Huybrighs defended his doctoral thesis, "A search for signatures of Europa's atmosphere and plumes in Galileo charged particle data", at the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, on 5 December 2018.
SCIENCE BEHIND THE FICTION: CAN WE BELIEVE THE AREA 51 WITNESS OR WAS HE A LIAR?
SCIENCE BEHIND THE FICTION: CAN WE BELIEVE THE AREA 51 WITNESS OR WAS HE A LIAR?
Anyone familiar with the UFO community has probably heard the name Bob Lazar. He’s something of an infamous character among skeptics and UFO enthusiasts, alike. He’s largely responsible for bringing Area 51 to the attention of the public in 1989.
Lazar emerged, first shrouded in anonymity and a fake name, later in the light of day as himself. He claimed to have been hired as a physicist working at S-4, a site near the now famous Area 51, to reverse-engineer captured alien technology.
Interviews conducted at the time, with TV reporter George Knapp, detail Lazar’s alleged experiences at S-4 involving several disk-like craft, antigravity engines, and little gray aliens.
Soon after, however, Lazar mostly faded into obscurity, working at his own company, United Nuclear, selling scientific materials. Now he’s back as the star of a recent documentary about his life and experiences with extraterrestrial technology entitled Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers.
Directed by Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, the documentary has been criticized for offering no new information on the decades-old story. Supporters of Lazar say that’s because there’s no new information to tell. Lazar has remained largely steadfast in his claims and willing to admit his ignorance when questioning strays into territory outside of his experience or expertise. These are qualities that lend credibility to believers. It is, after all, how a person would react were they telling the truth.
It’s also clear that Lazar has some level of scientific literacy, speaking in a way that sounds to many as though he knows what he’s talking about. It’s easy to see why his story captured the imaginations of so many. It’s a good story. But is it any more than that?
Whether or not Lazar believes his own story, whether it’s true to him, is something that will likely never be known. But we can scrutinize his individual claims and see if they stand up to examination, in this world or any other.
Education and Training
Prior to beginning work at the mysterious S-4 facility, Lazar claims to have earned degrees in physics from MIT and electronic technology from Caltech. A subsequent investigation revealed that neither institution has any record of him as a student, let alone a graduate.
This level of education would likely be required of anyone hired by the government for a secret project dissecting alien crafts for duplication. Yet, Lazar himself admits to not understanding why he was chosen, stating he was not the most qualified person. Lazar seems to be at least as bewildered by his own story as anyone listening to it.
The question of Lazar’s education threatens to erode the very foundation of his claims. Without these degrees, it’s hardly believable he’d attain such a position on a secret project of any kind.
But he passed Polygraph Tests…
Another piece evidence Lazar has in his favor is the couple of polygraph tests he’s taken and passed. Supporters are quick to point at this as iron-clad proof that Lazar is telling the truth, despite the common knowledge that polygraphs are inconsistent and unreliable.
Polygraphs, or lie-detectors as they are commonly known, rely on physiological responses to detect deception. The common polygraph measures subjects for changes in heart rate or blood pressure, respiration, and skin conductivity. It all seems very scientific. You know the difference between when you’re lying and telling the truth. Surely there is some measurable physiological difference taking place when a person lies.
But there’s no good evidence to suggest that current polygraphs, as they are designed and implemented, effectively measure deception. Moreover, there is no standardized method of questioning.
What these machines seem to really be measuring is fear or anxiety. And there are any number of reasons an innocent person might feel fear or anxiety and a guilty person might not.
In short, Lazar may very well be telling the truth to the best of his ability, but a polygraph doesn’t prove that one way or another. Even if we give him the benefit of the doubt, that only indicates that Lazar is not intentionally being deceitful. It wouldn’t be the first time an individual believed something patently untrue.
What’s more, there are even those within the UFO community itself who believe that Lazar is being truthful despite being wrong.
No conspiracy theory is complete without a second layer of additional conspiracy. Some believe that Lazar was, in fact, hired by the government and intentionally placed in situations that would foster a belief in extraterrestrials and their technology for the express purpose of exposing that narrative to the public. All of this was done, according to some, in order to cover up the real truth about aliens on Earth.
Mysterious Element 115
During the course of Lazar’s interviews he’s discussed the various alien crafts he witnessed while working at S-4, supposedly originating from Zeta Reticuli, some 39 light years away. According to Lazar, the crafts move by use of engines capable of manipulating gravity using an, at the time, unknown element.
Element 115 was used in reactors to create a field of gravity waves which allowed the crafts to counteract the Earth’s gravity or create an artificial downhill in any direction they chose.
It’s Lazar’s explanation for the seemingly erratic behavior of alien crafts. It’s a neat explanation which is, on its face, internally consistent.
Lazar also suggested that Element 115 could not be synthesized on Earth, as it is simply too heavy. Lazar claimed instead that the substance could only be made in very large stars. Though the powers that be at S-4 had pounds and pounds of the stuff.
Despite his claims, scientists in Russia did succeed in synthesizing a material which fits in the appropriate slot on the periodic table.
Moscovium, as element 115 was named after its confirmation, is incredibly radioactive, with a half-life of less than a second. To date, approximately 100 atoms of the stuff have been observed.
Lazar, however, was wrong in more ways than one. Moscovium can’t be manufactured in a star, no matter the size. Sun-like stars fuse hydrogen into helium and, depending on the size of the star, that process can continue up the periodic table to iron. That’s where fusion ends. Heavier elements can be made during supernova events but it’s unclear if that’s what Lazar meant. In any event, so far as we know, Moscovium only exists artificially in a laboratory setting.
Even if Moscovium does occur naturally, Zeta Reticuli, the binary star system from which Lazar’s aliens supposedly originate, is similar in character to our sun. There’s no good reason Moscovium should occur naturally there.
The Motion of Flying Saucers
At one point in Lazar’s interviews, he explains the cause for the erratic motion of flying saucers, saying it is a result of interference between Earth’s gravity and the gravity-engines of the crafts.
Lazar explains that gravity is variable near the surface of the Earth and implies that these variations in gravitational force makes flying near the surface unwieldy in a way that isn’t so when maneuvering through empty space.
It’s true that gravity is not wholly constant throughout the whole of the planet. Because of the world’s spheroid shape, the effects of gravity differ depending on latitude. There is also altitude to consider as well as the density of nearby material.
Moving from the equator to one of the poles will result in roughly half a percent of change in the impact of gravity on an individual or object. Local changes based on material density (the factor which would influence a flying craft) account for less than a tenth of a percent. It’s difficult to imagine beings capable of traversing interstellar distances and being tripped up by something so trivial. And not just once or twice but all the time. Erratic movements are a hallmark of UFO sightings.
Conclusions
We can’t prove a negative. Maybe Bob Lazar really did work at a secret government facility in Nevada, reverse engineering secret extraterrestrial technology.
Maybe the government has undertaken a vast conspiracy to discredit him by erasing his educational records. Maybe he is an unfortunate genius caught up in the greatest scandal in all of human history.
Maybe the government has messed with his mind, accounting for his inability to remember clearly when he started working at S-4 or when he first encountered a craft from another world, things the average person would likely never forget.
Maybe there’s a good explanation for why beings from another star system should look so similar to human beings in body structure.
These are questions that will likely be the focus of controversy for a long while yet. There are far more down-to-Earth explanations for UFO sightings and tales of alien visitation.
What we can say for certain is the available evidence doesn’t support Lazar’s claim. Whether that means he’s lying, confused, or the victim of an elaborate interplanetary conspiracy -- we’ll leave that up to you.
Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers is available on demand now.
very short clip of a ufo ....in the last 10 seconds
little bit dubious of the title ....nasa motion detector footage?? I didn’t know of motion detecting cameras pointed at the moon? But it may be a thing, don’t know
Nasa shows first image from inside the solar atmosphere
Nasa shows first image from inside the solar atmosphere
The Nasa spacecraft "Parker Solar Probe" has transmitted the first image from the inside of the solar atmosphere - the corona. This was reported by the US space agency on its website, on which the spectacular image was also published.
The image was taken on November 8. During the photograph, the probe was 27 million kilometers away from the solar surface. The picture shows two strong particle streams of the sun at close range. They shine brightly into the image from the left.
The bright object to the left of the center of the image is the planet Mercury, the dark points are the result of image corrections.
The solar wind, the Sun’s outflow of material, along with one-off eruptions of solar material called coronal mass ejections carry the Sun’s magnetic field out through the heliosphere, producing space weather effects on Earth and other worlds.
Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio/Greg Shirah via NASA Newsroom
This video clip shows actual data from NASA’s Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory Ahead (STEREO-A) spacecraft, along with the location of Parker Solar Probe as it flies through the Sun’s outer atmosphere during its first solar encounter phase in November 2018. Such images will allow us to provide key context for understanding Parker Solar Probe’s observations.
Deep biosphere beneath the seafloor explored at American Geophysical Union fall meeting Scientists present recent findings on 'dark energy' in the subsurface biosphere
Deep biosphere beneath the seafloor explored at American Geophysical Union fall meeting
Scientists present recent findings on 'dark energy' in the subsurface biosphere
Scientists have found that rocks beneath the seafloor are teeming with microbial life.
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"Who in his wildest dreams could have imagined that, beneath the crust of our Earth, there could exist a real ocean...a sea that has given shelter to species unknown?"
So wrote Jules Verne almost 150 years ago in A Journey to the Center of the Earth. Verne probably couldn't have imagined the diversity of life that researchers observe today under the ocean floor.
Scientists affiliated with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI) will discuss recent progress in understanding life beneath the seafloor at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting, held in San Francisco from Dec. 3-7, 2012.
Once considered a barren plain dotted with hydrothermal vents, the seafloor and the crust beneath it are humming with microbial life--with "dark energy," says Katrina Edwards of the University of Southern California, director of C-DEBI.
Seafloor and subseafloor bacteria not only exist, they're more abundant and diverse than previously thought. The bacteria "feed" on the planet's oceanic crust, posing questions about ocean chemistry and the co-evolution of Earth and life.
"We now know that this remote region is teeming with microbes, more so than anyone guessed," says David Garrison, program director in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funds C-DEBI.
While scientists have estimated that microbes living in deep ocean sediments may represent as much as one-third of Earth's total biomass, the habitable part of the ocean crust may be ten times as great.
Dark environments appeared to offer little energy for sustaining life. But the abundance of microbes in the subseafloor causes scientists to wonder how long life may have thrived there.
Researchers are working to answer such questions as:
What is the nature of subseafloor microbial communities, and what is their role in the alteration of young ocean crust?
Are these communities unique, especially in comparison with seafloor and sedimentary communities?
Where do microbes in the ocean crust come from--sediment, rock, seawater or another source?
"Dark energy" is found in ocean depths: life abounds above and below the seafloor.
Credit: WHOI
C-DEBI-related sessions at AGU include:
InterRidge Session: The Deep Subseafloor Biosphere
Understanding the subseafloor biosphere and its relationship to energy and material fluxes transported by fluid flow has the potential to answer questions about the evolution of life on Earth. This session provides an opportunity to hear results and ideas from various scientific disciplines.
OS13A. InterRidge Session on: Deep Subseafloor Biosphere I Posters Monday 12/3/12 1:40 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.; Hall A-C (Moscone South)
OS22A. InterRidge Session on: Deep Subseafloor Biosphere II Tuesday 12/4/12 10:20 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.; 3024 (Moscone West)
OS23B. InterRidge Session on: Deep Subseafloor Biosphere III Tuesday 12/4/12 1:40 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.; 3024 (Moscone West)
OS24B. InterRidge Session on: Deep Subseafloor Biosphere IV Tuesday 12/4/12 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.; 3024 (Moscone West)
The Deep Biosphere: Recent Progress in Understanding Life in the Deep Subsurface
This interdisciplinary session brings together researchers studying the size, distribution, activity and consequence of a microbial deep biosphere in the Earth's subsurface. Scientists involved in recent ocean drilling program expeditions and other deep biosphere programs will take part.
B42C. The Deep Biosphere: Recent Progress in Understanding Life in the Deep Subsurface I Thursday 12/6/12 10:20 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.; 2004 (Moscone West)
B43G. The Deep Biosphere: Recent Progress in Understanding Life in the Deep Subsurface II Posters Thursday 12/6/12 1:40 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.; Hall A-C (Moscone South)
InterRidge Session: Fast Moving Research at Slow Spreading Ridges
The range of processes that occurs at slow and ultra-slow spreading ridges has stimulated several multi-national research programs. The findings are relevant for understanding tectonic plate accretion, marine minerals, and chemosynthetic life. With an emphasis on previously overlooked ridge systems in the Northern Hemisphere (Arctic Ridges, Red Sea, Mid-Cayman Rise), and on new findings in the Southern Hemisphere, this session highlights recent results in the geophysical, geological, ocean and life sciences.
OS11E. InterRidge Session on: Fast Moving Research at Slow Spreading Ridges I Monday 12/3/12 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m; 3011 (Moscone West)
OS12A. InterRidge Session on: Fast Moving Research at Slow Spreading Ridges II Monday 12/3/12 10:20 a.m - 12:20 p.m.; 3011 (Moscone West)
OS13B. InterRidge Session on: Fast Moving Research at Slow Spreading Ridges III Posters Monday 12/3/12 1:40 p.m - 6:00 p.m.; Hall A-C (Moscone South)
OS22B. InterRidge Session on: Fast Moving Research at Slow Spreading Ridges IV Tuesday 12/4/12 10:20 a.m - 12:20 p.m.; 3022 (Moscone West)
Rocks made of basalt on and under the ocean bottom harbor abundant deep-sea bacteria.
Credit: NOAA/WHOI
The drillship JOIDES Resolution, used to take samples of life far beneath the sea-floor.
Credit: IODP/USIO, Jennifer Magnusson
A recovery tool for sea-floor equipment rises through the ship's moonpool. Credit: IODP/USIO
JOIDES Resolution crew members prep an instrument that will remain under the sea-floor.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. In fiscal year (FY) 2018, its budget is $7.8 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 colleges, universities and other institutions. Each year, NSF receives more than 50,000 competitive proposals for funding and makes about 12,000 new funding awards.
In a monumental archaeological discovery, whose magnitude hasn’t been seen in decades, an aerial survey over northern Guatemala revealed tens of thousands of Maya structures, including pyramids, palaces, temples, fortifications, highways, houses, and farms, which had been hidden for centuries amidst the thick vegetation of the Guatemalan jungle. This incredible discovery indicates that the Mayas had an enormous, interconnected network of ancient cities, which revised estimates now say may have been home to as many as 7 to 11 million people some 1,200 years ago.
Archaeologists are Hitting the Ground Running
In February, National Geographic exclusively revealed that the previously unknown ancient structures were spotted using LiDAR (“Light Detection and Ranging”) technology, which can ‘see through’ the jungle canopy to identify monuments below . The aerial scanning technique is revolutionizing the field of archaeology as it quickly reveals man-made sites, which would be near impossible to discover through ground searches due to the dense vegetation and harsh conditions of the jungles of Central and South America.
Now the full study from Tulane University has been published in Science magazine and confirms the extent of the Maya civilization in the region.
Francisco Estrada-Belli, a researcher from Tulane commented:
“Seen as a whole, terraces and irrigation channels, reservoirs, fortifications and causeways reveal an astonishing amount of land modification done by the Maya over their entire landscape on a scale previously unimaginable.”
In a statement , Marcello Canuto, director of the Middle American Research Institute at Tulane listed some of the highlights, including 61,480 ancient structures in the survey region; an estimated population of 7-11 million; 362 square kilometers of terraces or otherwise modified agricultural terrain and another 952 square kilometers of viable farmland; 106 square kilometers of causeways within and between urban centers.
An earlier LIDAR scan that revealed a network of roads, canals, corrals, pyramids, and terraces at El Mirador.
Credit: Archaeological Project Cuenca Mirador.
“LiDAR is revolutionizing archaeology the way the Hubble Space Telescope revolutionized astronomy,” said Francisco Estrada-Belli , a Tulane University archaeologist and National Geographic Explorer [via National Geographic]. “We’ll need 100 years to go through all [the data] and really understand what we’re seeing.”
Now that the location of tens of thousands of monuments have been identified, archaeologists are hitting the ground running to begin excavations and explorations of some of the sites.
The project mapped a 2,100 square kilometre (800 square mile) area around the popular tourist site of Tikal in the Petén region of Guatemala. The results of the aerial survey, which produced a series of 3D images of the landscape below the jungle canopy, revealed an enormous network of cities, which is being hailed as a ‘megalopolis’.
The images showed over 60,000 previously unknown structures, including complex agricultural systems with canals, dikes, and reservoirs for irrigation, and terracing for supporting food production for the masses. Also discovered was a huge highway network – raised to prevent flooding issues in the rainy season – which connected the cities and quarries, and had been constructed by hand, without the use of the wheel or ‘beasts of burden’.
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The interconnected network of ancient Maya cities was home to millions more people than previously thought http://on.natgeo.com/2BNpYgW
Another surprising finding was the sheer scale of the defensive structures, including walls, ramparts, terraces and fortresses, which indicate that warfare was happening on a much larger-scale than previously realized.
“Warfare wasn’t only happening toward the end of the civilization,” said Thomas Garrison, an Ithaca College archaeologist and National Geographic Explorer. “It was large-scale and systematic, and it endured over many years.” [via National Geographic].
Population Estimates Dramatically Revised
One of the implications of the discovery is that archaeologists must now revise their estimates of the size and extent of the Maya civilization.
“The results suggest that Central America supported an advanced civilization that was, at its peak some 1,200 years ago, more comparable to sophisticated cultures such as ancient Greece or China than to the scattered and sparsely populated city states that ground-based research had long suggested,” reports National Geographic.
More generous population estimates had been around the 5 million mark, but the recent finding suggests that 7-11 million people had been living in the jungle cities at the peak of the Maya civilization Late Classic Period (approximately 250 – 900 AD).
Artist’s representation of what the Maya world may have once looked like (artist unknown)
This is Only the Beginning
The survey is just the first stage of a project spearheaded by the PACUNAM Foundation , a Guatemalan non-profit that fosters scientific research, sustainable development, and cultural heritage preservation. Only 16% of the total area that the project will eventually map has been completed. Over the next three years, more than 14,000 square kilometres (5,000 square miles) of Guatemala’s lowlands will be scanned with the LiDAR technology, leaving open the question of just how many more thousands of monuments will be discovered.
It is an exciting time in archaeology as so much of the ancient world, which has been buried beneath sands, hidden below vegetation, or submerged by the sea, now has the potential to re-emerge from the pages of history.
Top image: LiDAR image revealing Maya structures beneath the jungle canopy in Guatemala
How Would You Describe Life On Earth To An Extraterrestrial?
How Would You Describe Life On Earth To An Extraterrestrial?
You are out one afternoon minding your own business. Not really thinking about anything in particular. As you walk through the underbrush near the edge of the forest you look up. Did you just hear a theremin? Weird!
After a while, you are in a dense forest. You can just smell the pine needles and wood ticks. There is that sound again. A totally unnatural sound. Metallic? Nooooope? You walk a little further and through the canopy, you can see that the sun has almost set, the forest lights up with oranges and red tones. You keep walking…
With no slip or break in time, your forest views change to gray metal walls. It was as if time stopped and you were transferred to a weird office room. No windows, no sounds, no explanation. Just a table platform with one chair on one side and what looks like a concave mirror the size of a large chair on the other side. You wonder if you have fallen and hit your head and now are strapped into a hospital bed with brain damage experiencing a hallucinatory nightmare. Panic kicks in and you can taste copper in your mouth.
With no warning, a panel in the wall opens up and a twelve-legged, nine-eyed, semi-transparent creature undulates in. You hope you are strapped into a hospital bed drooling on yourself. Your not!
A hammer-like blow hits you straight between the ears. It impacts again. There is a sound with no obvious direction. It’s coming from somewhere but you can’t detect from which direction. After a while of introspection and thought you realize the hammer is not a hammer but words. English?
It seems to be coming from the multi-eyed, multi-limbed polyp looking creature. It repeats the message:
“As a being of Earth please tell us what Earth is like. All living creatures consciousness is important to us. Tell us how you see your planet.”
You sit in stunned silence as you believe you can feel the vague straps on your wrists and a blunt feeding tube, but no luck you are here in a dank little room with an alien life form. What can be said, what should not be said? Are there wrong answers? Is this creature some kind of interstellar scientist, or does it just like to play with his food before devouring it?
You think for a long while then stammer out…
In some ways, life here, humanity I mean…is morbid and repugnant. In some ways, you would be better skipping town and arrive at the next planet. Our planet lays claim to bloody warfare and inhuman methodologies. Through our history, we have attacked and dehumanized others based on their appearance, and even now we judge them for their outwards beauty or lack thereof. We pretend that others don’t exist due to their way of life, and we commit horrific atrocities because we are blinded by the false truth of our gods.
But, if we wanted it, we can do anything. We can make language, cities, and culture. We can make stories that last centuries and can make discoveries that last the test of time. We can advance our sciences and knowledge of them to an infinite degree.
More important than that, though, is our bonds with each other. When we stand tall and brave, no tyranny can topple us. Our wills are steel and our morals iron, and our ideals are stronger than any metal. We can overcome any tragedy when we set our strength to it, and each one makes us stronger. Our arms wrapped around one another can mend any tear in our heart, and our tears for another will heal our damage.
You don’t know exactly why but you infer that the creature looks bored at your answer. You change gears on a dime. You put on your imaginary lab coat.
I believe that the single most astonishing attribute of life on Earth is that it is ALL related.
This is entirely counter-intuitive because on a macroscopic level, a bird is clearly not the same as a dolphin, or a spider the same as an octopus or a cabbage, and yet ALL of life uses the same basic cellular molecular processes, divided into three domains. Roughly 50% of our DNA is shared with cabbage and bananas.
Most of what we think of as “life” is just in that tiny three-pronged branch on the far right, including all animals and plants. Charts and images from bygone days of school materialize in the centre of the table.
If you look at the evidence at a molecular level, analyzing the structure of the DNA that life shares on Earth, you will find that EVERY living thing on Earth is related by descent. Our tree of life looks like this…
If you look at it over time, you can see how all of life branched out from a solitary surviving branch 3.8 billion years ago.
There is a long silence in the room. Is the thing thinking? Does it sleep?
A single wave of the creatures lower right tentacle and you are back in the forest. It is past midnight now and you are cold and shaken up. You go home eat a cold dinner and consider if what just happened really happened or not.
You hope you gave useful answers.
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people and I am just one of them.
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What Lies Beneath Area 51 + Man Who Spoke Out About Area 51 Has An Invention (Video)
What Lies Beneath Area 51 + Man Who Spoke Out About Area 51 Has An Invention (Video)
MYSTERIOUS crater-shaped hole in the ground near to Area 51 is “unlike anything ever seen” and has prompted theories that the bizarre crater could be an entrance to an underground military base.
A bizarre crater appeared on Google Earth earlier this week close to Area 51 and appears man-made with a strange tower emerging out of the huge ditch. The incredible discovery was revealed by Blake and Brett Cousins – of YouTube channel thirdphaseofmoon – who captioned the footage: “We Found Something Underneath Area 51.” In the footage, a large, thin object can be seen poking out of the middle of a large circular hole in the ground.
The shock revelaton has sparked a frenzy of theories, including that the huge tower inside the vent is the tower of a new top-secret underground military base.
Speaking about his discovery, Blake Cousins says: “Conspiracy theorists are going wild right now.
“This could be some sort of vent or a tower embedded within a crater close to Area 51. This not a natural phenomenon, it is quite a mystery.
He said: “It doesn’t relate to any of the other craters in the area – this one looks like a tower or a vent.
“It is a massive crater – the tower looks like it is dozens of feet tall.
“This crater doesn’t relate to any of the other craters. There is no measuring device coming out of it.
“There might be a base or something underneath. It has been dug out, carved out by humans. You hear about Area 51 as a massive city underneath the ground. This could be linked.
“It shouldn’t be there, it shouldn’t exist.
The crater is just miles from the top-secret military base Area 51, which has previously been linked to various alien experiments.
The Man Who Spoke About Area 51 And Was Ridiculed, Now He Invented A Car That Runs With Water,
Did a UFO Buzz Over the Paradise Camp Fire On The Day in Question? (November 8th)
Did a UFO Buzz Over the Paradise Camp Fire On The Day in Question? (November 8th)
The UFO that flashed before my eyes while watching this YouTube video only took 24/100th of a second to cross the parking lot sky. He was filming the Paradise Camp Fire that were burning behind the KMart/DollarTree Stores parking lot. so i decided to slow it down and have a screen by screen look. It definitely looks like a cigar shape and it definitely is an unidentified object and it was moving. Once again use your own discernment when looking for your own answers to these interesting events.
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.
Paul Stonehill was born in Kiev, USSR, in 1959 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1972. In his youth, Paul helped smuggle people out from behind the iron curtain, aided dissidents, and smuggled banned literature into the USSR. He graduated from California State University with a BA in Political Science and wrote a thesis on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Paul has worked as journalist covering warfare as well as freelancing on stories about anomalous phenomena. He created the Russian Ufology Research Center in 1991.
Paul Stonehill.
After the fall of Communism, his articles were published throughout Russia and the Ukraine. Since 1989, Paul has consulted for American television and motion picture production companies, as well as corporate entities.
RG: Who have been the defining figures in Russian UFOlogy over the past 70 years (for better or for worse), and why?
PS: Alexander Kazantsev, the former military engineer, administrator, and later sci-fi writer in the USSR. He was never persecuted or purged, even though he participated in the New York Expo in 1939. He came up with the hypothesis that the Tunguska Event was actually an E.T. spaceship, and he helped the early efforts of Soviet civilian UFOlogists propel their ideas to the Soviet public in a totalitarian state.
Alexander Kazantsev.
Also, Felix Zigel, Soviet scientist and active UFO researcher and a target of attention of the KGB and CIA. Zigel and his colleagues studied UFOs in the 1960s-1980s in the face of great adversity—in spite of informants, lack of funds and belittlement from the official media and the Communist Party ideologues; in spite of the books of American debunkers eagerly published in the USSR; in spite of inability to respond to arrogant and sly opponents who published articles against their efforts in the Soviet newspapers; in spite of the inability to spread their ideas through public lectures when available facilities would be shut and access denied.
Also worthy of mention are: Mikhail Gershtein, the tireless author and researcher in Russia—a scientist, journalist, and collector of UFO lore of his country; Vadim Chernobrov of the KOSMOPOISK—scientist, author, philosopher who passed away in 2017; and Vladimir Ajaja, who has contributed greatly to his nation’s UFO-and USO-research, despite some problems with the ideologues. Also, Kolchin, Villinbakhov, Petukhov, Smirnov, Dvuzhilni, Arkhipov, Popovich, as well as a number of others, most of whom have passed away but who helped shape Soviet/Russian/Ukrainian Ufology.
RG: What do you consider to be the most compelling Russian UFO incident on record, and why?
PS: There are two: the 1908 Tunguska Event, and 1986 Dalnegorsk Crash. The 1908 event was possibly an intercept of an alien/ET spaceship by an Earth-based projectile or missile. Despite the research that has been going on for 110 years—some of it quite secretive and mysterious—we know little about the actual event. But its impact at the time was quite tremendous.
Aftermath of the Tunguska event. Photograph from Kulik’s 1929 expedition taken near the Hushmo River.
The 1986 event was the destruction of a UFO—most likely self-destruction—in a remote (and off-limits to foreigners) mining town in the Soviet Far East. The debris left behind is considered by a number of scientists to be something that our current technology is unable to manufacture. Others disagree and consider the object to have been a foreign spy apparatus, but the Soviet government remained uncharacteristically quiet about the “intruder.” The event took place one day after the Challenger Disaster. What is the connection? Why were the Chinese ufologists (and some Korean) so very interested in the debris? Why did a whole school or group of UFOs visit the area in 1987, one year after the crash? Why are there more interesting UFO sightings in the Russian Far East? All this is covered in the books co-authored by Philip Mantle and myself. There are some other cases I consider to be important, despite the lack of more information and continuous secrecy: the Monchegorsk Object of 1987; the Dodin observation and sinister UFO of 1953; and the SETKA (top secret Soviet academic-military UFO research program) cases.
RG: What is the Russian government’s official stance on UFOs? When was the last time it issued a statement on the subject?
PS: The current government does not discuss them. But of course they are engaged in their own research—more sophisticated, more enhanced, quiet, and comprehensive. And it is done in cooperation with the United States and the People’s Republic of China. As to official statements on the subject, Russia’s leaders like to make wry jokes about “aliens.” They are a very sarcastic bunch, full of humor.
The Russian Presidential building.
RG: Does the Russian Ministry of National Defence have an official UFO investigations unit?
PS: Of course they do—more than one, and under inconspicuous names, too. They also have very sophisticated space forces. I discuss their current developments and some old but persistent secrets in my videos.
RG: Has the Russian government shown more or less transparency on the UFO subject than the US government?
PS: About the same. The government just does not discuss UFOs. It’s different than under the Soviets when UFOs were often explained as bourgeois inventions. The current government is rebuilding Russia’s military might. As such, they encounter UFOs and USOs in their exploratory quests, and, of course, in the testing of advanced weaponry, missiles, and submarines; in the development of the Arctic; and in the oceanic expeditions. But the Russian military are silent too. Some news leak out. We check our sources daily. There are a lot of interesting developments—sightings, encounters in the Russian Federation, in Central Asia and China.
RG: Does Russia have a national UFO investigations organization, today, and how many smaller Russian UFO groups are you aware of?
PS: KOSMOPOISK was very active under Vadim Chernobrov. Alas, he passed away in 2017. They are still active all over Russia and beyond. Mikhail Gerstein is very active and knowledgeable. Konstantin Khazanov is a skeptical and insightful Russian researcher. Igor Kalityuk Artyom Bilik in Ukraine. Sergey Yefimov in Central Asia. Some old UFO researchers, from the Soviet times, like Vladimir Ajaja, are still alive.
RG: What are the most active regions of Russia for UFO sighting reports (hotspots)?
PS: Wherever the secret, new, powerful missiles are tested. They are often mistaken for UFOs. But, in my research, I would say the Russian Arctic, the Russian Far East, including the Kurils; Siberia; North-West Russia; and the magnificent, ever mysterious, Urals.
Siberia, Russia.
RG: Have you personally had any UFO sightings?
PS: Yes. 1990, Northridge, Southern California—a fiery sphere in the sky.
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?
PS: I have been involved since my early youth, in Kiev (Kyiv) USSR. Since then, I have investigated a number of Russian/Soviet cases, and you can find them in our books. I have particular interest in USOs; “Russian” and Chinese “ancient aliens” or paleocontact; as well as international research, based on the hypotheses of Russian/Soviet scientists and thinkers. I visited Southern Africa in the 1980s and Mexico’s Yucatan several times. I explored ideas and hints found in books of Yefremov, Gorbovsky, others. But, also, as an American, and one who grew up in the tumultuous and fascinating Los Angeles, I have researched the mysterious tunnels and ancient civilizations in the area; local paranormal lore; and also some areas in the Pacific Northwest (i.e. Mount Shasta, 40 years ago, based on findings and publications of the Russian Australian writer and researcher, Andrew Tomas).
My conclusions are that we are dealing with an international phenomenon when it comes to USOs and UFOs, and that governments (major world and regional powers) know the issues and work together, albeit in almost complete secrecy, to deal with the phenomenon. As such, the areas of key international research and cooperation are: the Marianas Trench; Antarctica; the Arctic; and some other sites in our oceans. But China, Russia, and United States also have their own peculiar paranormal phenomena, strategic interests, and goals.
Depiction of a USO.
RG: How can Russian UFOlogy better itself?
PS: Russian UFOlogy would better itself through an influx of enthusiastic, energetic people. Much like those in the Soviet period, who had to overcome the ideological obstacles from the Soviet government and Communist ideologues—lack of funds and equipment, extreme secrecy and betrayals—and yet persisted in trying to find out what UFOs really are. But life is different now, and our perceptions and ability to record information is much different than 50 years ago. But the secrecy remains, albeit more sophisticated. And now there are tabloids, the Internet, and many other developments that would have been considered science-fiction. The debunkers, though, have remained, and are as unpleasant as before.
I believe there should be more international cooperation among ufologists. I have done as much as possible to generate such cooperation. OMNI Magazine had an article about my efforts in its October 1993 issue, and I continue to enhance such cooperation. I discussed Russian/Eurasian UFO and USO cases in Brazil and Hong Kong, and in a number of U.S. conferences. We all see the same mysterious unidentified flying and submersible objects. We (civilian researchers) need to start comparing data and information, and make necessary conclusions. And that is what I have been doing. It’s not easy; I have no sponsors, and have to fund my own work, but I persist.
For more information on the topics discussed in this interview, see Paul Stonehill’s many books, as well as his YouTube channel.
UFO orb scares fox on animal cam footage, Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO orb scares fox on animal cam footage, Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 2018 Location of sighting: Unknown Animals are very sensitive to alien orbs. Also a lesser known fact is that these orbs are telepathic and fast movements frighten them. The orb was probably interested in the fox but some how the fox sensed the UFO and darted away. If you doubt that orbs are telepathic, the search on Youtube for "meditation, UFO." Loads of UFO videos will appear, some of them are made my local TV news agencies who recorded the event. Needless to say, I tried the meditation and it only worked the first time but never again. Saw an soft ball size orb 2 meters in front of me. I only regret that I didn't approach it and touch it before it shot off. Scott C. Waring Video states:
This security camera catches a strange scene. From out of the darkness comes an orb which scares a fox to run for cover. These balls of light have also been seen near crop circles. In World War 2 they were seen in the sky. Pilots called them "Foo Fighters".
Jellyfish UFO seen in blue sky over Brazil Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Jellyfish UFO seen in blue sky over Brazil Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 2018 Location of sighting: Mairipora, Brazil Source: MUFON This is a jellyfish type UFO seen over Brazil this week. The UFO appears to be like a cloud, but has a definite shape of a jellyfish to it. The UFO trees to move slowly in order to confuse people into having doubt...causing people to ask themselves if its their imagination or is it real? Self doubt is a tool of alien...humans fall into it a lot. So..the UFO just drifts across the sky, no hurry to leave, because doubt often wins. Scott C. Waring
'Area 51 worker’ reveals CODENAME ‘used to describe ALIENS by US government'
'Area 51 worker’ reveals CODENAME ‘used to describe ALIENS by US government'
A MAN who claims to have worked on alien technology at the notorious Area 51 base has revealed a secret codename used by workers to describe extraterrestrial life.
Bob Lazar gained international infamy back in 1989 when he claimed he was working on reverse engineeringalienspacecrafts insideArea 51. In 1989, with the help of journalist George Knapp, Lazar detailed a story claiming he was stationed at a base known as S-4, south of the USAF’s Homey Airport. He speculated the auxiliary facility in the Nevada desert was home to a number ofUFOs that were being tested by the US government to be reverse engineered.
'Third Phase of Moon', a popular conspiracy theory channel run by the Blake and Brett cousins has recently uploaded a strange video that shows a mysteriousUFO near Elon Musk led SpaceX Dragon spacecraft which was en route the International Space Station (ISS).
In the recently released video, a large triangular object was seen flying past the SpaceX spacecraft at a mind-blowing speed. The conspiracy theorists also argued that the live feed was interrupted soon after the object was spotted.
After uploading the video, the Blake and Brett cousins speculated that the object could be TR-3B, an alleged secretive military vessel developed by the US Air Force using anti-gravity technology.
"Could this be the infamous TR-3B up in space visiting up close? This is really a stunning footage. This thing is huge. Please notice the portals of the UFO underneath. It really matches the characteristics of TR-3B," said the conspiracy theorists in the video.
Conspiracy theorists also ruled out the possibility of this object being a reflection from the ISS, as the object even moved behind SpaceX Dragon's solar panel.
As the video went viral, viewers of the Third Phase of Moon alleged that Elon Musk and NASA are intentionally covering up some sinister activities which are happening in space for unknown motives.
Some other viewers argued that these UFO sightings are an irrefutable proof of alien existence. As per these people, friendly aliens used to visit astronauts at the International Space Station, and they even believe that extraterrestrials are now gearing up for a disclosure.
This is not the first time that UFOs similar to the alleged TR-3B in appearance are getting caught in the hawk eyes of conspiracy theorists. A few days ago, Tyler Glockner, a popular UFO researcher who runs the YouTube channel 'Secureteam10' released a footage that shows a black triangle hovering in the skies of Pennsylvania.
This Huge Pyramid emerges in Bermuda Triangle with Glowing UFO
This Huge Pyramid emerges in Bermuda Triangle with Glowing UFO
Bahamas, Bermuda Triangle. Huge Pyramid has emerged in the ocean with glowing UFO seen over the beach / Great Abaco Island.
Recently American and French scientists as well as other countries that are conducting surveys in areas of the seabed of the Bermuda Triangle, claim to have found a pyramid standing upright on the seabed that has never been discovered. The length of the base of this pyramid reached 300 meters, 200 meters height, and distance from base to the tip of the pyramid is about 100 meters above the sea floor.
When talking about size, this newly re-discovered pyramid is larger in scale than the pyramids of ancient Egypt. On top of the pyramid there are two very large holes, sea water at high speed move through the second hole, and therefore the raging waves roll by forming a giant vortex that makes the waters around this cause a massive surge waves and mist on the sea surface. This new discovery makes scientists wonder if this is having an affect on passing boats and planes and could be the reason for all the mystery surrounding the area.
There are several Western scholars who argue that the pyramid on the seabed may have been initially made on the mainland, after which a devastating earthquake struck and changed the landscape completely. Other scientists argue that a few hundred years ago the waters of the Bermuda Triangle area may have as one of the cornerstone activities of the people of Atlantis, and Pyramids on the sea floor may be a supply warehouse for them. Perhaps it is related to the underwater race of humanoids discovered in Washington State in 2004 – the so called “aquatic ape” beings? (See last article titled “Animal Planet: Navy Cover-Up Of Intelligent Beings Found in Ocean”)
A more detailed study over time will give results that are difficult to imagine. Scientists have processed all of the data and concluded that the surface is perfectly smooth for it to look like glass or ice. The size of the pyramids are nearly three times the size of the pyramids of Cheops. This news was sensational, and was discussed at a conference in Florida and even reported to local Florida newspapers.. The journalists present in it, have a lot of pictures and high resolution computerized data, which show three-dimensional pyramids perfectly smooth, without being covered with a surface free of debris or algae or cracks.
There is also a suspicion that the Bermuda triangle and the area where this pyramid was supposedly located may be some sort of “holy grounds” that is being protected by the fabled Atlanteans – that whatever crosses over the location is considered an offering… Others hypothesize that the pyramid can attract and collect cosmic rays, from the so called “energy field” or “quantum vacuum” and that this may have been used as an Atlantean power plant (or whoever was around at the time). With the mystery still surrounding the Egyptian pyramids and the fact that the pyramidal structures seems to be found in almost all ancient cultures – its going to be hard to tell for certain the origin of this structure or if it truly exists.
Calvin Jones of the Florida state Division of Historical Resources said if it is a genuine archaeological find, the pyramid would have to have been built between 10,000 B.C. and 6,000 B.C., when the continental shelf was not covered by water, said Chisholm.
Florida archaeologists agree with him on the time span, but disagree with many other of his group`s claims.
Florida State University anthropologist Glen Doran professor said the earliest Near East pyramids are dated to about 4,000 B.C. and all New World pyramids are dated after 1 A.D. So any such structure off the coast of Florida would be at least 2,000 years older than all other known pyramids.
Other Underwater Pyramids are Found
In 1977, a mysterious discovery was made on the floor of the Atlantic concerning an unknown technology. A 650-foot pyramid was mysteriously lit up, with sparkling white water surrounding it that turned deep green, a shocking contrast to the dark black waters at that depth. The discovery was photographed by Arl Marshall’s expedition off Cay Sal.
Another huge pyramid, in 10,000 feet of Atlantic water, was reported to have been found with a pulsating crystal on top of it, by Tony Benik’s expedition. The group also found an opaque crystal tablet there, and reported that when a light was beamed through it, mysterious inscriptions became visible.
More underwater pyramids were found off Central America, Yucatan, and Louisiana, where domes were found in the Straits of Florida. A marble Greek style building was found between Florida and Cuba. And what about the column that radiated energy Dr. Zink found in the Bahamas and Zink also brought up other artifacts from his dives over Atlantis, and he was interviewed by Mind International agent Steve Forsberg.
Other pyramids have been explored by a Dr. Ray Brown on the sea floor off the Bahamas in 1970. Brown was accompanied by 4 divers who also found roads, domes, rectangular buildings, unidentified metallic instruments, and a statue holding a “mysterious” crystal containing miniature pyramids. The metal devices and crystals were taken to Florida for analysis at a university there. What was discovered was that the crystal amplified energy that passed through it. Perhaps this is the reason for the glass-like pyramid !
THE EARTH SOUNDED LIKE A BELL FOR 20 MINUTES AND SCIENTISTS CAN NOT EXPLAIN IT
THE EARTH SOUNDED LIKE A BELL FOR 20 MINUTES AND SCIENTISTS CAN NOT EXPLAIN IT
On November 11, something really strange happened that he learned from scientists.
The scientific instruments detected unexplained earthquakes that originated about 15 miles off the coasts of a French island between Africa and Madagascar.
The strange thing is that it was not an earthquake.
In fact, scientists have no idea what happened.
Was it a meteorite impact? A submarine volcano? Did a secret nuclear test happen? Was it extraterrestrial?
Nobody seems to have an answer.
Waves collected by seismic instruments rippled far from the banks of Mayotte, the French island where everything began. Soon after, seismic sensors located in Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia detected the same.
The fact that the seismic sensor detected seismic activity in Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia may not seem strange at first.
However, shortly thereafter, the seismic wave continued to travel until it was finally picked up by researchers as far away as Chile, New Zealand, Canada and even Hawaii, approximately 11,000 miles away.
It becomes even stranger.
The mysterious phenomenon made our planet sound like a massive bell for a period of about twenty minutes, and while all this was going on, not a single human felt anything out of the ordinary.
It is one of the strangest things that happens, so the experts are not fully prepared.
Göran Ekström, a seismologist at the University of Colombia, explained that while our planet sounded like a bell, the waves maintained a monotonous tone of low frequency as it propagated.
Accelerated course on earthquakes
When earthquakes occur, scientists usually detect a short, sharp crack.
Due to the tensions that exist in the terrestrial cortex as it is released, scientists can pick up pulses of identifiable seismic waves that radiate outward from where earthquakes occur.
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Atlantis Discovered in the Bermuda Triangle – The Sunken City Features Giant Pyramids and Sphinxes [Complete]
Atlantis Discovered in the Bermuda Triangle – The Sunken City Features Giant Pyramids and Sphinxes [Complete]
Two scientists, Paul Weinzweig and Pauline Zalitzki, working off the coast of Cuba and using a robot submersible, have confirmed that a gigantic city exists at the bottom of the ocean.
The site of the ancient city — that includes several sphinxes and at least four giant pyramids plus other structures — amazingly sits within the boundries of the fabled Bermuda Triangle.
According to a report by Arclein of Terra Forming Terra, Cuban Subsea Pyramid Complex, the evidence points to the city being simultaneously inundated with rising waters and the land sinking into the sea. This correlates exactly with the Atlantis legend.
Huge UFO Crashed into a remote area of the Zambezi River
Huge UFO Crashed into a remote area of the Zambezi River
Africans were shocked when they noticed a wrecked flying saucer in the waters of the Zambezi river.
The UFO hunters from Africa was informed that recently, near the banks of the Zambezi river struck the giant flying object, fragments of which all went under water. Ufologists suggest that UFOs crashed in the air and unable to land successfully. It is reported that nothing living around a strange metal object was found.
According to socialists, the length of the alien flying machine is about 69 meters, while the width is 23 meters. We will remind that earlier the experts in Antarctica also noticed a broken UFO, which could belong to the aliens.
On May 30, 2018, at 21:00, an automobilist was driving on highway 24 in the evening. Suddenly, he noticed a bright disk-shaped UFO…
Witness report:
“I was driving home one evening heading west on hw 24 near lake george, colorado. the time was approximately 9:00 pm. i noticed a bright, disk-shaped object hovering in the sky above some clouds in the distance. i observed the object for about 10 minutes while driving. the object remained stationary above the clouds and was approximately 1 mile west of my vehicle. i then pulled to the side of the road and got out of my car to observe the craft. as soon as i was outside of my car and observing the craft, it began to flash its lights erratically and seemingly change shape. i observed the craft for about 5 minutes standing on the side of the road by my car. i snapped a few pictures and took a short video. the object continued to hover stationary while flashing its lights rapidly. for some reason, i felt uneasy in the presence of the craft and decided to get back in my car and continue heading west to hartsel (where i lived at the time). as i continued west the object remained stationary (however the lights were constant and not erratically flashing as they were when i was on the side of the road outside of my car)and eventually i lost sight of the craft once i was on the other side of the clouds. the experience was quite remarkable and yet disturbing as well. i am not exactly sure what i saw that evening, but i am convinced that it was something very strange and likely not of this world. earlier that day i had a discussion with my co-worker daniel. he told of some ufo experiences that he had earlier in his life. i told dan that i had never seen a ufo before or experienced a sighting of any kind. interestingly enough, that very evening i encountered a ufo.”
The most mind-blowing, life-altering scientific discoveries of 2018 - PART III
The most mind-blowing, life-altering scientific discoveries of 2018 -PART III
25. This was a banner year for scientists in US politics: Americans elected at least 10 new science pros to Congress.
Foto: Congressional candidate Kim Schrier addresses the crowd at an election night party for Democrats on November 6, 2018, in Bellevue, Washington.sourceElaine Thompson/AP
Researchers hope it’ll give men and their families more male birth control options than the standard condoms and vasectomies.
The year-long trial just got underway, but no pharmaceutical companies have stepped forward yet to fund the drug.
28. A Paris-sized impact crater was discovered under Greenland’s ice. The meteorite responsible may have have weighed 5 billion tons.
Foto: An illustration of asteroids careening toward northern Greenland.sourceNatural History Museum of Denmark/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
A study published in November described thecrater, which was made by a half-mile-wide iron asteroid that slammed into Greenland between 12,000 and 3 million years ago.
A giant meteor could still slam into us today, which is why one retired astronaut is urging NASA to send a telescope up into space to spot the threats.
“For God’s sake, fund it,” retired NASA astronaut Russell “Rusty” Schweickart told Business Insider.
29. There’s a lot more fascinating science to look forward to in 2019. For one, there’s a new lander on Mars.
Foto: Scientists and engineers inside mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory celebrate the landing of the InSight Mars probe on November 26, 2018.sourceAL Seib/AP
The NASA InSight lander spent more than six months careening through space before it landed safely on Martian soil in November.
The quake-hunting robot could reveal new secrets about why Earth became such a nice place for us to live, while Mars wound up a cold desert planet.
30. People will continue striving to push human limits on Earth, too. At the bottom of the world, two men are attempting to become to travel across Antarctica unaided — which would be a first for humanity.
Foto: sourceCourtesy of Colin O’Brady
“Everyone has reservoirs of untapped potential inside of themselves and can achieve really incredible things,” 33-year-old adventurer Colin O’Brady said in November, before starting his 70-day trek.
The most mind-blowing, life-altering scientific discoveries of 2018 - PART II
The most mind-blowing, life-altering scientific discoveries of 2018 - PART II
12. The FDA also approved a new drug that targets cancers based on DNA instead of tumor location.
Foto: sourcektsdesign/Shutterstock
The drug, called Vitrakvi (larotrectinib), was developed by pharmaceutical company Loxo Oncology and approved by the FDA in November. Vitrakvi has already been tested on patients with lung, colon, breast and thyroid cancers.
Rather than going after certain types of cancer, the drug targets cancers based on genetically similar features (biomarkers).
“This new site-agnostic oncology therapy isn’t specific to a cancer arising in a particular body organ, such as breast or colon cancer,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a release. “Its approval reflects advances in the use of biomarkers to guide drug development and the more targeted delivery of medicine.”
According to data released in October, Loxo said that 81% of patients who tried the drug saw their tumors shrink, while 17% of patients had their tumors disappear entirely.
The drug comes with a steep price tag, though: $393,000 a year.
13. Researchers have also been developing medical robots that are 1,000 times smaller than a human hair and can suffocate tumors.
Foto: sourceJason Drees/Arizona State University
This IV-injectable robot has been successfully deployed inside mice and pigs with breast, skin, ovary and lung cancers. After five years of research, the team of scientists behind the nanorobot published their work in February.
The killer robot attacks the tumor by blocking off its supply of fresh blood. Scientists haven’t tested it out in humans yet, though.
14. Cancer researchers also found new evidence that high-fat, low-sugar diets might help kill cancer cells when used in tandem with a certain type of drug.
Foto: sourceAfrica Studio/Shutterstock
Researchers are zeroing in on potential ways to make cancer drugs more effective by changing patients’ diets.
In July, a team of doctors published the results of a study in which they put mice with cancer on low-carb, high-fat ketogenic diets while administering a treatment called a PI3K inhibitor that’s designed to kill tumors. The results showed that the diet-treatment combination improved the medication’s effects.
Scientists are now moving forward with a human trial.
“We hope very much that we would see, in the future, a much more careful assessment of what diet means and how diet can affect chemotherapy,” Siddartha Mukherjee, the study’s lead co-author and an oncologist at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center, told Business Insider.
15. Scientists figured out a way to grow meat in a lab without relying on any products from slaughtered animals.
Foto: sourceShutterstock
A handful of startups are racing to create real pieces of meat out of animal cells in a lab.
But for the most part, the food that’s used to coax those cells to proliferate is an animal product called fetal bovine serum, which comes from slaughtered cows. That means the lab-grown meat isn’t yet cruelty-free.
However, the Dutch startup Meatable claims to have solved that problem by using only stem cells from animals’ umbilical cords.
“This way, we don’t harm the animals at all, and it’s material that would otherwise get thrown away,” Krijn De Nood, Meatable’s CEO, told Business Insider in September.
The company aims to begin serving its slaughter-free burgers and sausages to restaurants in roughly four years.
16. In Egypt, archaeologists opened a 30-ton black sarcophagus and found three skeletons.
Foto: Archaeologists unearth coffin containing three mummies in Alexandria, Egypt on July 19, 2018.sourceREUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
The 2,000-year-old sarcophagus was discovered in July by a construction crew working in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria.
“I was the first to put my whole head inside the sarcophagus,” Waziri said. “Here I stand before you … I am fine.”
The three skeletons found in the sarcophagus were most likely soldiers, according to Egypt’s antiquities ministry, and one skull showed signs of fractures caused by a sharp instrument.
17. Egyptian excavators also found a 3,200-year-old dairy product: the world’s oldest cheese.
Foto: sourceUniversity of Catania and Cairo University
The cheese was found in the tomb of a 13th-century BCE mayor of Memphis, Egypt, excavators announced in August.
Investigators think it’s either cow- or goat-milk cheese.
Cheese-lovers on social media quickly exclaimed that they wanted to eat the ancient curd, even though it might contain deadly bacteria.
18.Chinese scientists announced in January that they’d cloned monkeys, thereby breaking the “technical barrier” for cloning humans.
Foto: Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, two cloned macaque monkeys at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai.sourceThomson Reuters
The scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience cloned the monkeys using the same technique that produced Dolly the sheep two decades ago. But it’s still very difficult to clone primates: it took 127 eggs to produce two live macaques. (Scientists named the baby monkeys Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua.)
The researchers said they do not intend to clone people any time soon. Instead, they want to use the scientific breakthrough to better study diseases and potential new drugs.
19. Researchers also figured out other advanced new ways to make babies. But a recent announcement about genetically edited babies drew questions and criticism from scientists around the world.
But a more controversial announcement came from Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who claims to have successfully edited the genes in a pair of twins born in China in November. By using a cut-and-paste DNA-editing technique called CRISPR, he said, the babies were born immune to HIV.
Jiankui hasn’t produced any evidence to back up his claims, though, and it’s not clear why anyone would need to genetically edit babies to ward off HIV, since life-saving drugs already exist for the auto-immune disease.
Scientists also worry that if Jiankui’s claims are true, the changes he made could have far-reaching consequences, since any genetic mutations the babies may have would get passed on to their offspring.
20. Scientists also learned more about our human ancestors this year. It turns out that early humans didn’t hesitate to get freaky with other species, and interbred with hominins like Denisovans and Neanderthals.
Foto: Neanderthal paintings can be seen in a cave in Pasiega.sourceThomson Reuters
A genetic study published in March revealed that as early Homo Sapiens made their way out of Africa, they had sex and interbred with Denisovans on numerous occasions.
21. A female scientist won the Nobel Prize in physics this year for only the third time ever.
Foto: sourceCole Burston/Getty Images
Donna Strickland, an associate professor of physics at the University of Waterloo in Canada, shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics with a French scientist for her work on lasers.
“All this tremendous beauty and complexity of the biological world all comes about through this one simple, beautiful design algorithm,” Arnold said after she won half of the 2018 prize. “What I do is use that algorithm to build new biological things.”
The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to 210 people. Strickland, whose Wikipedia entry had previously been rejected because she wasn’t famous enough, was surprised to learn that out of all those winners, she was only the third woman.
“Is that all, really? I thought there might have been more,” she said.“We need to celebrate women physicists, because we’re out there.”
This year, a female chemist won the Nobel Prize, too. Frances Arnold became the fifth womansince 1901 to get it. The award recognized her work in using directed evolution to produce enzymes for new chemicals and pharmaceuticals. The Nobel Prize in chemistry prize has been awarded to 181 people since 1901.
22. Scientists discovered two new kinds of giant dinosaurs.
Foto: Here’s how the Ingentia Prima dinosaur may have looked.sourceJorge A. Gonzales
A study about one new species, which was discovered in Argentina, was published in July. The creature is called Ingentia Prima, a name derived from the Latin words for “huge” and “first.” The dinosaur weighed as much as three African elephants when it roamed 210 million years ago (that’s 30 million years earlier than scientists previously thought giant dinosaurs existed).
Another dinosaur, called Ledumahadi mafube, was discovered in South Africa, according to research published in September. It’s believed to have lived roughly 200 million years ago. That means both creatures would’ve been around at the time of Pangea, when the world’s land was still one supercontinent.
23. Climate scientists learned more about how our warming planet is hurting us.
Foto: Augustin Dieudomme looks out at the flooded entrance to his apartment complex near the Cape Fear River as it continues to rise in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Fayetteville, North Carolina on September 18, 2018.sourceAP Photo/David Goldman
The heat-trapping gas that’s been added to Earth’s atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels also means that a trillion dollars in coastal real estate could be threatened by the end of this century. That’s according to a recent report released by the Trump administration, which also found that thousands more people will die each year from heat-related conditions if we keep up business-as-usual.
24. Investigators cracked the Golden State Killer case using DNA matching. The implications of that strategy are huge.
Foto: Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, who authorities said was identified by DNA evidence as the serial predator dubbed the Golden State Killer, appears at his arraignment in Sacramento, California on April 27, 2018.sourceFred Greaves/Reuters
A study released in October estimates that 60% of white Americans- who are the biggest consumers of DNA testing services- could now be identified up to a “third cousin or closer” using available DNA data.
Foto: REUTERS/Gregg Newton Spectators at Cocoa Beach watch SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket launch from the Kennedy Space Center on February 6, 2018.
These and other accomplishments were an encouraging reminder that every day, scientists across the globe are learning more about how life and the universe work.
As the new year approaches, take a look back at some of the most marvelous, life-altering, and astonishing scientific discoveries and feats from 2018.
1. In February, SpaceX nailed an impressive feat: the company launched its re-usable, 27-engine Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time. It’s the company’s most powerful yet.
Foto: sourceThom Baur/Reuters
After Falcon Heavy launched on February 6, 2018, two of the rocket’s three reusable boosterslanded safely on the ground in Florida.
The core booster, however, missed its landing pad on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
“Apparently it hit the water at 300 miles an hour and took out two of the engines on the drone ship,” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said. That loss was relatively minor in the context of the launch’s overall success, though.
2. The payload on that Falcon Heavy rocket was Musk’s red Tesla Roadster, complete with a dummy driver and a note on the dash: “DON’T PANIC!”
Foto: sourceYouTube / SpaceX
The car is still cruising the solar system today. In November, SpaceX announced it had sailed past Mars.
3. In March, scientists at NASA revealed new findings about how living in space can mess with your eyes and immune system.
Foto: NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, left, and his identical twin brother Mark Kelly.sourceGetty Images/Bill Ingalls/NASA
When NASA astronaut Scott Kelly left his identical twin brother Mark on Earth and spent a year in space, scientists seized on the opportunity to learn more about out how life away from our home planet can change a person.
Researchers found that up to 7% of Scott’s gene expression hasn’t returned to its Earthly “normal” state since he came back. Those changes may be part of the body’s response to the stress of living in space, and they could lead to lasting consequences for Kelly’s immune system and retinas.
4. Star-gazers spotted a new kind of aurora that travels farther south than most. Its name is STEVE.
Foto: STEVE (Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement) and the Milky Way at Childs Lake, Manitoba, Canada.sourceKrista Trinder/ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
The strange lights were first reported by citizen scientists in Canada in 2015. The amateurs formed a group and started working with researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The result of that collaboration – the discovery of a new kind of aurora – was published in the journal Science Advances on March 14.
STEVE (which stands for Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancementcan be tough to see, though, because the display typically lasts for less than an hour.
5. After three years of studying Mars, Italian scientists determined in July that it’s possible the red planet has a 20-kilometer-wide lake of liquid water at its polar ice cap.
Foto: This artist’s impression shows how Mars may have looked about four billion years ago, when it had an ocean of water.sourceESO/M. Kornmesser
“If these researchers are right, this is the first time we’ve found evidence of a large water body on Mars,” Cassie Stuurman, a geophysicist at the University of Texas told the Associated Press.
Other parts of Mars are too cold for water to stay liquid.
6. Astronomers found a ghost particle in Antarctica, revealing a source of some of the most high-energy radiation in the universe.
Foto: An illustration of a blazar, or spinning black hole that gobbles up matter and shoots out jets of high-energy radiation and particles.sourceDESY/Science Communication Lab
Researchers found the particle, a neutrino, in September using IceCube, an array of sensors embedded in Antarctic ice.
“When scientists tracked the particle back to its source they found a galactic monster called a blazar: a rapidly spinning black hole, millions of times the mass of the sun, that’s gobbling up gas and dust,” Business Insider’s Dave Mosher reported.
7. Humans came closer to touching the sun than ever before, after the Parker Solar Probe launched in November.
Foto: The Parker Solar Probe will come closer to the sun than any other probe before it.sourceNASA Goddard / Youtube
Solar experts hope that by traveling through scorching-hot areas of the sun, which can be 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit, the robot will help unlock mysteries about how our star works.
8. Back on Earth, a bountiful pirate’s booty worth as much as $17 billion was discovered off the coast of Columbia.
Foto: This photo reveals a key distinguishing feature of the San José—its cannons.sourceREMUS image, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The wreck was first found in 2015, and engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts sent a submarine drone down to explore it in more detail. In May 2018, they finally revealed the details of their discovery.
The sunken bounty may include gold, silver, and emeralds.
9. A 24-year-old Dutch man invented and launched a plastic-trapping pipe that he hopes will help heal our oceans. (But it’s running into some technical issues.)
Foto: sourceThe Ocean Cleanup
Boyan Slat hopes that his Ocean Cleanup device, which launched in September, will help make a dent in the growing plastic pollution problem. Plastics in the ocean are killing sea turtles and other life in the water at alarming rates.
But as the device combs through plastic stuck in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, it’s letting some of that plastic waste escape back out into the ocean, Slat wrote in November.
“We are positive we are close to making it work,” he said.
10. Drugmakers scored some wins this year, too. There’s a new pill for peanut allergies, but it can come with nasty side effects.
Foto: Two new therapies use peanuts to desensitize those with the allergy, in hopes of protecting people from accidental exposure. These products could be the first peanut allergy therapies approved in the US.sourceShayanne Gal/BI Graphics
New allergy drugs like the one from Aimmune aim to re-train people’s immune systems to tolerate allergens like peanuts. Promising data from a trial, which was published in November, showed that after a year on the treatment, 67% of kids with peanut allergies were able to tolerate about two peanuts, compared to only 4% of those who got the placebo.
But the results aren’t always finger-licking good – because the drug includes peanuts, people can have severe reactions. More than 50 people in that trial had to get a shot of epinephrine after they had an allergic reaction.
11. Drugmaker Eli Lilly created a new kind of migraine drug, but it costs $575 a month.
Foto: sourceSamantha Lee/Business Insider
The treatment, which got the green light from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September, is the first drug that’s been approved to treat migraines. Previously, migraine treatment involved tools or medications originally created to serve a different purpose, like Botox and anti-seizure medicines.
How many galaxies are now known to lie within our Local Group of galaxies? How does our Milky Way rank, size-wise? And what about the vast superclusters beyond?
Artist’s concept showing our Milky Way galaxy, its satellite galaxies, and other galaxies in our Local Group. The Milky Way isn’t really the center of anything; that’s just the way the image is drawn. The 3 largest galaxies in the Local Group are, in descending order, the Andromeda galaxy, the Milky Way, and M33 also known as the Triangulum Galaxy.
We know where our galaxy is located, but only locally speaking. The Milky Way galaxy is one of more than 54 galaxies known as the Local Group. The three largest members of the group are our Milky Way (second-biggest), the Andromeda galaxy (biggest) and the Triangulum Galaxy. The other galaxies in the Local Group are dwarf galaxies, and they’re mostly clustered around the three larger galaxies.
The illustration above is a bit misleading because it suggests our Milky Way galaxy lies at the center of the Local Group. It doesn’t, of course, but the image is organized that way, presumably to honor our human perspective.
On the other hand, the Local Group does have a gravitational center. It’s somewhere between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy.
The Local Group has a diameter of about 10 million light-years.
Astronomers have also discovered that our Local Group is on the outskirts of a giant supercluster of galaxies, known as the Virgo Supercluster.
Distances from the Local Group for selected groups and clusters within our local supercluster, called the Virgo Supercluster.
Another artist’s concept of the Virgo Supercluster, via Wikimedia Commons.
At least 100 galaxy groups and clusters are located within the Virgo Supercluster. Its diameter is thought to be about 110 million light-years.
The Virgo Supercluster may be part of an even-larger structure that astronomers call the Laniakea Supercluster. It consists of perhaps 100,000 galaxies stretched out over some 520 million light-years.
The Laniakea Supercluster is one of many such vast structures in space known to astronomers at this time.
Map of superclusters within the nearby universe, with Laniakea shown in yellow.
Er zijn twee verschillende soorten ruimteprogramma's; de ene is de aan het publiek verkochte programma van NASA en de andere is de geheime ruimtevloot. Normaal gesproken zie je weinig van die geheime ruimtevloot, maar soms maken ze een foutje, zoals enkele dagen geleden gebeurde bij het ISS.
Voor de bevoorrading van het Internationaal Ruimte Station (ISS) wordt gebruikt gebruik gemaakt van de Dragon:
Dragon, ook bekend als Dragon 1 of Cargo Dragon is een herbruikbaar onbemand ruimtevaartuig ontwikkeld door het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX als bevoorradingscapsule. Met zijn eerste onbemande vlucht in december 2010 werd Dragon het eerste commerciële ruimtevaartuig dat succesvol op aarde terugkeerde. Op 25 mei 2012 voltooide een Dragon als eerste commerciële ruimtevaartuig een rendez-vous met het ISS.
Op 8 december 2018 vond er weer een dergelijk rendez-vous plaats. Echter tijdens het streamen van de beelden van deze koppeling, kwam er nog iets in beeld dat eigenlijk verborgen had moeten blijven.
Want achter de Dragon zie je op een gegeven moment een driehoekig ander ruimtevoertuig langs vliegen.
De beelden zijn echt en te zien in de complete live stream die hier staat. De volgende korte video laat zien hoe het driehoekig ruimteschip achter de Dragon langs vliegt.
Het ruimteschip dat achter de Dragon passeert zou natuurlijk heel goed buitenaards kunnen zijn, maar er zijn een aantal argumenten waaruit je zou kunnen afleiden dat je hier te maken hebt met een schip van aardse makelij.
Ten eerste is het belangrijk om te weten dat er naast het ruimtevaartprogramma van NASA een ander programma is. Een programma dat tot op de dag van vandaag geheim is. Voor wat meer achtergrond, hierna een deel uit een eerder artikel:
Aan het eind van de Tweede Wereldoorlog verzamelden zowel de Russen als de Amerikanen niet alleen de wetenschappers die werkten aan conventionele raketten, maar ook de vliegende schotel wetenschappers samen met veel van hun uitrusting, om tegelijkertijd zowel een conventioneel als een niet conventioneel ruimteprogramma te kunnen beginnen.
Het duurde niet zolang voordat de conventionele aandrijving begin jaren '60 overbodig werd. De aanwezige raketprogramma’s waren niets meer dan een dure propaganda-operatie voor publieke consumptie, om een fantasieverhaal levend te houden, een die al heel snel sterk afweek van het werkelijke verhaal.
Het geheime ruimteprogramma kwam onder de toenemende invloed van de wereldelite die georganiseerd was in de Bilderbergconferentie, een groep van machtige industriëlen, bankiers en Europese koninklijke families.
Het legerproject uit 1959, Project Horizon, werd in het geheim ingevoerd om zowel bases op de Maan als op Mars te bouwen. Volgens een aantal betrouwbare klokkenluiders worden deze bases gebruikt en onderhouden door de Bilderbergvloot.
Uit een vrijgegeven document van Wright Patterson kunnen we zien dat men in 1956 al bezig was met het plaatsen van nucleaire aandrijving in schotels. De senior wetenschapper van Lockheed, Boyd Bushman, liet in een interview in 1959 technische tekeningen zien van een operationele vliegende schotel, aangedreven door een nucleaire centrale.
Een technicus uit Area 51, Bill Uhouse, claimde dat hij al vroeg in de jaren '60 samengewerkt heeft met een Grey Alien in vliegende schotel simulators waarin piloten leerden vliegen met deze objecten.
In dezelfde tijdsperiode werkte een luchtmacht technicus, Charles Hall, bij Nellis en had contact met de Tall White Extraterrestrials (Grote Witte Buitenaardsen). Zij lieten hem een TW shuttle schotel van binnen zien waarmee je naar de Maan en naar Mars kon reizen, maar niet dieper de ruimte in. Deze schotel had logo’s van alle grote lucht- en ruimtevaartbedrijven in het interieur van de schotel.
Er was een ongeluk met een door kernenergie aangedreven schotel in 1980 waarbij een lekkage ontstond in een reactorvat. Terwijl de schotel was omringd door drie militaire helikopters kregen drie personen de volle laag straling over zich heen. Deze zaak is uiteindelijk tot in het Congres gekomen, zonder enige vorm van compensatie voor de slachtoffers.
Ongeveer 10 jaar geleden slaagde de Engelsman Gary McKinnon erin om de computers van NASA te hacken en ontdekte de code naam “Solar Warden” en roosters voor alle buitenaardse officieren en lijsten met rompnummers van de grote ruimteschepen, groter dan twee voetbalvelden, en hun kleinere beschermers. Maar, vier jaar voordat McKinnon zijn ontdekking deed werd er op het Open Mind Forum al gesproken over Solar Warden en ook dat de Bilderbergers eigenaar zouden zijn van die bewuste ruimtevloot.
Alle bestaande ruimteprogramma’s dienen om de bevolking zand in de ogen te strooien. De Solar Warden vloot bestond in 2005 uit acht grote ruimteschepen, vergelijkbaar met vliegkampschepen, en 43 “beschermers”, wat natuurlijk ook ruimteschepen zijn.
De driehoekige vorm van een ufo wordt vaak in verband gebracht met het geheime TR-3B project, waarover we in een eerder artikel het volgende schreven:
Officiëel is er uiteraard weinig te weten te komen over dit toestel, maar op de website WijWordenWakker vonden wij de volgende uitleg:
Veel mensen verwarren dit vliegend object met een UFO, terwijl het dat niet is, wel zit er UFO technologie in verwerkt. Van de TR-3B wordt algemeen aangenomen dat het een product is van het "Aurora" zwart-project. Volgens verschillende bronnen is dit de top van de geheime projecten. Dit geheime project van de V.S. kost $ 3 miljard per object en onlangs zijn er 3 TR-3B Astra’s aan Israel verkocht.
De TR-3B is een nucleair aangedreven vliegende driehoek, in staat tot fenomenale snelheden. Het toestel kan door reactieve elektrische stimulatie van kleur en van uiterlijk veranderen en een andere vorm aannemen of onzichtbaar worden voor het menselijk oog. De TR-3B Astra bevat een plasmaveld versneller annex magnetisch veld verstoorder ('disruptor') , waardoor de massa van het toestel incl. inzittenden met 90% verkleind zou kunnen worden, zodat de zwaartekracht nauwelijks invloed heeft op de prestaties van het toestel.
Mede hierdoor zou de snelheid boven Mach 50 uit komen, ter vergelijking: de meeste gevechtsvliegtuigen hebben Mach 2. (Mach 1 is gelijk aan de snelheid van het geluid). Daarnaast zou de Astra uitgerust zijn met een deeltjesversneller/pulselasers, 'scalaire' wapens (waardoor de vijand zo verward wordt, dat men vrijwillig de wapens neerlegt) en tevens 40 neutronenbommen.
Het object bij het ISS vertoont veel overeenkomsten met de TR-3B. Is het dat ook? Of is hier sprake van een totaal ander al dan niet buitenaards ruimteschip?
Het gebeurt niet vaak dat Tyler van Secureteam met zijn mond vol tanden staat, maar dit keer wel. Hij heeft ook geen flauw idee wat het zou kunnen zijn. Hij noemt ook de TR-3B, maar denkt door het vreemde oppervlak en de roodachtige kleur dat we hier misschien toch te maken hebben met een buitenaards schip.
Our relationship with methane is complicated. As natural gas, it’s an efficient fuel that that produces less carbon dioxide than other hydrocarbons. As cow farts, it’s a greenhouse gas often blamed for contributing to climate change. As an abundant substance trapped in permafrost, it gets explosively released when said climate change melts the permafrost in Siberia, creating massive holes. And, as a product of microbial methanogenesis, it’s an important sign that a planet may contain life, or at least have the ingredients to support it. The discovery of methane on Mars in 2004 got the scientific and let’s-move-to-Mars worlds excited. Unfortunately, the party may have been premature – new data shows that all of the Martian methane has disappeared. Who lit a match?
The Trace Gas Orbiter arrived at Mars in 2016. Martian methane—spotted in 2004—has mysteriously vanished
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“The presence of methane has been confirmed thanks to the observations of the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) on board Mars Express during the past few weeks.”
That was the news in 2004 when the European Space Agency’s ESA Mars Express orbiter detected methane in the Martian atmosphere. The next question was, “Where does this methane come from?” One possibility is from above when organic carbon from solar system dust falls to the surface and reacts with solar radiation to form methane. Another is from below, produced by chemical reactions or live or decayed microorganisms. In 2014, NASA’s Curiosity rover detected a seasonal spike in methane – unexplained but still confirming the presence of the gas.
Sniff, sniff.
Then came the spoiler. In 2016, the ESA launched the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) which began scanning the Martian atmosphere this year arrived at Mars in 2016, this year began to scan the atmosphere for methane with Belgium’s Nadir and Occultation for Mars Discovery (NOMAD) spectrometer and the Atmospheric Chemistry Suite spectrometer developed by Russia. Designed to detect very low levels of atmospheric methane (about 50 particles per trillion), scientists were confident they would finally get solid gas data.
“But we already know we can’t see any methane.”
There’s no methane showing up on Mars. Ann Carine Vandaele, NOMAD’s principal investigator and a planetary scientist at the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy in Brussels, delivered the disappointing news this week at the semiannual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Washington, D.C. Yes, they gave the TGO a software whack upside its head to make sure it was functioning normally and it was. How bad is this news? It could mean that there isn’t and never was any life on Mars, and there’s no methane that could possibly be used as a fuel by settlers from Earth.
No hot coffee on Mars? Why go?
The researchers aren’t giving up, especially since the Trace Gas Orbiter will be operational until at least 2022. They’re hoping there might be a mistake or they may find a sign this is just a temporary aberration and the methane is hiding somewhere. However, they probably already feel the same way Looney Tunes’ star Marvin the Martian often felt:
One of the more compelling reasons to accept the modern theory of the big bang and what came after it is because of how ridiculous it sounds and, as we all can empirically observe, the universe is ridiculous. Diving into the fundamental processes and epic, majestic, and impossibly old and huge events that started the chain reaction we find ourselves currently embroiled in, we start having to describe our reality with words like “gluon,” “quark,” and “hot soup.” Those are silly words for a silly universe. Yet, with the help of 21st century super-technology, researchers are beginning to see that these aren’t abstractions that only live inside equations, they’re tangible things (with the right measuring devices), and researchers with the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory seem to have cooked up a pot of the hot soup that emerged from the big bang and condensed into all the atoms we know and love.
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
It was a small pot. Subatomic in size, actually, but only slightly less impressive than a fine lobster bisque. The soup in question is called quark-gluon plasma, a “perfect fluid”—meaning that it flows with with essentially zero viscosity, or as opposite from molasses as you can get—that condensates into the protons and neutrons which make up the nuclei of atoms. To do this, researchers smashed different small particles into nuclei of gold atoms at close to the speed of light and a detector recorded what was expelled from the tiny, violent explosions. According to their predictions, a quark-gluon plasma perfect fluid (see? it’s ridiculous) would flow in the exact geometry of the exploded particle, which is precisely what happened. According to PHENIX spokesperson Yasuyuki Akiba:
“If such low viscosity conditions and pressure gradients are created in collisions between small projectiles and gold nuclei, the pattern of particles picked up by the detector should retain some ‘memory’ of each projectile’s initial shape—spherical in the case of protons, elliptical for deuterons, and triangular for helium-3 nuclei.”
This shows the different geometric flows produced by the quark-gluon plasma upon impact.
Credit: Javier Orjuela Koop, University of Colorado, Boulder
Julia Velkovska, deputy spokesperson at PHENIX elaborated on the results:
“The latest data—the triangular flow measurements for proton-gold and deuteron-gold collisions newly presented in this paper—complete the picture. This is a unique combination of observables that allows for decisive model discrimination.”
“In all six cases, the measurements match the predictions based on the initial geometric shape. We are seeing very strong correlations between initial geometry and final flow patterns, and the best way to explain that is that quark-gluon plasma was created in these small collision systems. This is very compelling evidence.”
So what’s the takeaway from all this? Well, it’s another in an increasingly frequent series of steps to the big, previously unassailable questions about the nature of our reality and how it all got here. Also, a step closer to science literally playing God in a way never thought possible when that phrase was coined. Whether you think that’s pretty cool, or pretty scary is another matter entirely. But hey, there have been billions of humans who have lived and died in a time when nobody could even dream of blowing up subatomic particles at the speed of light with huge weird machines, and you’re not one of them. That’s pretty cool.
Mufon submitter 96854 has uploaded a video of a black oval UFO moving through the sky over Utica, New York.
The video was taken in Utica, New York on December 6, 2018. It is a short clip, but worth a look.
We see what appears to be a black object in an oval form moving from right to left. At normal speed it is easy to miss, but the submitter added a slow motion clip which gives us a much better view.
The object moves behind the clouds, but is clearly seen in the cloud breaks. We took the still frame and moved in closer.
Two satellites of the European Galileo network (one illustrated) were launched in incorrect orbits, a mistake that allowed scientists to test Einstein’s theory of gravity.
An orbital oopsie has led to new proof of Albert Einstein’s physics prowess.
In 2014, two satellites intended for Europe’s Galileo network, the equivalent of the United States’ GPS network, were placed into orbit incorrectly, causing them to travel around Earth in ellipses rather than circles. That wasn’t ideal for the satellites’ originally intended navigational use, but scientists realized the wayward satellites were perfect for another purpose: testing Einstein’s theory of gravity, the general theory of relativity.
According to general relativity, gravity affects not just space, but also time. The deeper within a gravitational field you are, the slower time passes (SN: 10/17/15, p. 16). So a clock at a higher altitude will tick faster than one closer to Earth’s surface, where Earth’s gravity is stronger. The satellites’ orbital mishap allowed the most precise test yet of this effect, known as gravitational redshift, two teams of scientists report in a pair of papers in the Dec. 7 Physical Review Letters.
As the two misplaced satellites move in their elliptical orbits, their distance from Earth periodically increases and decreases by about 8,500 kilometers. Using the precise atomic clocks on the satellites, the scientists studied how that altitude change affected the flow of time. The clocks sped up and slowed down by tiny fractions of a second as expected, agreeing with the predictions of general relativity within a few thousandths of a percent, the teams report.
Watch Russian Tu-160s drill with Venezuelan jets from INSIDE strategic bomber’s cockpit (VIDEOS)
Watch Russian Tu-160s drill with Venezuelan jets from INSIDE strategic bomber’s cockpit(VIDEOS)
After Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers performed a rare 10-hour-long practice flight with the Venezuelan Air Force over the Caribbean, the Defense Ministry has released footage showing the drill from a unique perspective.
During the flight mission, which lasted roughly ten hours, two White Swans practiced “interaction” with Venezuela’s Su-30 and F-16 fighter jets which shadowed the nuclear-capable supersonic strategic bombers for part of the exercise, in “full accordance” with international laws, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement accompanying the spectacular footage.
One video shot inside the cockpit shows Tu-160 pilots in orange flight suits and combat helmets taking off from Maiquetia Airport and conducting their drills over the cloudy skies and clear blue waters of the Caribbean.
Other footage released by the MoD features the strategic bombers take-off under the cover of darkness and returning to base hours later in rays of sunlight, accompanied by Venezuelan fighters.
The arrival of two strategic bombers, nicknamed the ‘White Swan’ in Russia and designated as ‘Blackjack’ by NATO, to Venezuela after a 10,000-kilometer flight over the Atlantic, has angered Washington as an apparent ‘projection of power’ in its backyard, even though the Russian military never mentioned anything related to the US.
Caracas in the meantime slammed the US for meddling in its “sovereign right to defense and security cooperation,”especially hypocritical amid Washington’s insinuations about a possible military intervention in Venezuela.
RAKETVLIEGTUIG VOOR TOERISTEN BEREIKT VOOR HET EERST ÉCHT DE RUIMTE
Brecht Herman
EPAHet uitzicht uit SpaceShipTwo, een raketvliegtuig voor ruimtetoerisme.
DE KRANTTwee piloten zijn er gisteren voor het eerst in geslaagd om de ruimte te bereiken met een raketvliegtuig dat bedoeld is voor toeristische ruimtetripjes. Volgens de Britse miljardair Richard Branson is het nog maar een kwestie van maanden voor de eerste toerist de ruimte in vliegt.
Brad Pitt, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Leonardo DiCaprio, Angelina Jolie en zo’n zeshonderd andere doodgewone - weliswaar behoorlijk rijke - stervelingen staan sinds gisteren een stevige stap dichter bij een reis naar de ruimte. Ze boekten jaren geleden voor 175.000 à 220.000 euro een retourtje bij Virgin Galactic, het commerciële ruimtevaartbedrijf dat deel uitmaakt van de Virgin Group van de flamboyante miljardair Richard Branson. Weinigen die geloofden dat het er ooit echt van zou komen, maar intussen zou het vooral verbazen mocht het niét gebeuren.
REUTERSHet uitzicht uit SpaceShipTwo, een raketvliegtuig voor ruimtetoerisme.
Drie keer zo snel als het geluid
Gisteren voerde Virgin Galactic een succesvolle vierde test uit met SpaceShipTwo. Het vliegtuig bereikte een hoogte van 82,7 kilometer. Volgens CEO George Whitesides is dat de ruimte, hij valt daarvoor terug op de 80-kilometergrens die de Amerikaanse luchtvaart hanteert. Nochtans is 100 kilometer een breder aanvaarde grens. Hoe dan ook: gisteren was een belangrijke dag voor het ruimtetoerisme - “een dag waar we al lang op wachtten”, zei Whitesides. Aan boord van SpaceShipTwo bevonden zich, behalve twee ervaren piloten, nog een dummy en ladingen om het gewicht van zes ruimtetoeristen te simuleren. Bij een vorige test had de raket 41 seconden gebrand, goed voor een maximumhoogte van 50 kilometer. Nu lieten de piloten zich 60 seconden lang omhoogstuwen, tot ze bijna drie keer zo snel als het geluid gingen. Even waren ze gewichtloos, voor ze veilig terugkeerden richting begane grond. De data die op hogere hoogte en aan hogere snelheid verzameld werden, moeten Virgin Galactic in staat stellen om hun commercieel ruimtetuig verder op punt te stellen. “Dit is een onwaarschijnlijk gevoel: vreugde, opluchting en goede hoop voor wat er zit aan te komen”, zegt Branson. “We werken nu het resterende deel van ons testprogramma verder af. We gaan de raketmotor nog langer laten branden om nog sneller en hoger te vliegen, zodat we duizenden private astronauten een nieuw zicht kunnen geven op onze planeet en de kosmos.”
APHet raketvliegtuig bij het opstijgen.
Achttien toeristen per week
Veiligheid heeft de hoogste prioriteit in die plannen. Geen overbodige luxe: in 2007 stierven bij een explosie drie technici van een andere firma toen ze een systeem voor het ruimtetuig aan het testen waren. Bij een testvlucht gelijkaardig aan die van gisteren kwam in 2014 een piloot om het leven toen SpaceShipTwo ontplofte. Whitesides: “We denken veel na over mogelijke risico’s en we beseffen dat alles veilig moet zijn. Maar als we geen enkel risico nemen, kunnen we ook geen vooruitgang boeken.” Wanneer precies de eerste toerist richting ruimte gaat, ligt nog niet vast. Maar recent zei Branson dat hij verwacht dat hijzelf binnen enkele maanden, “niet binnen enkele jaren”, een ruimtetoerist wordt. Het plan is om zijn kinderen Holly en Sam, dertigers, mee te nemen. “Snel daarna zullen de eerste ruimtepassagiers volgen.” Het plan is om één vlucht per week te organiseren. Op termijn moeten extra vliegtuigen het mogelijk maken om drie vluchten per week - goed voor 18 toeristen - te organiseren.
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De landing van het raketvliegtuig in de woestijn.
VirginHet uitzicht uit SpaceShipTwo, een raketvliegtuig voor ruimtetoerisme.
A new shape-shifting drone promises to offer rescue teams robotic help even in those hard-to-reach areas.
The drone in it’s T-shape configuration (more on that later). Image credits UZH.
Teams digging through collapsed or damaged buildings are often the only chance of salvation for those trapped after fires, earthquakes, or similar events. It’s obviously dangerous and laborious work. Not only are such structures very unstable, but they’re usually also very hard to navigate (on account of all the fallen rubble).
Needless to say, having drones scour collapsed buildings ahead of human teams would be the safest course of action. However, drones would often have to enter such sites through narrow points — a crack in a wall, a partially open window, through bars — something the typical size of a drone does not allow. A team of researchers from the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich and the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Lausanne Federal Polytechnic School (EPFL) plans to address this issue.
The little drone that folded
“Our solution is quite simple from a mechanical point of view, but it is very versatile and very autonomous, with onboard perception and control systems,” explains Davide Falanga, researcher at the University of Zurich and the paper’s first author.
The drone’s most obvious advantage over counterparts is its ability to morph in shape to tackle cramped environments. and guarantee a stable flight at all times. The team says they’ve drawn inspiration from birds that fold their wings mid-air to navigate narrow passages. In a very similar fashion, the drone can squeeze itself to pass through gaps and then go back to its previous shape while flying. The drone can also transport objects, including during this morphing process.
Both teams collaborated closely to design the drone — a quadrotor with four propellers that rotate independently, each mounted on mobile arms outfitted with servo-motors that can fold around the frame. It also sports a video camera. What really keeps the drone aloft during these foldings is a control system designed and programmed by the team. It keeps tabs on each propeller’s position in real time, adjusting their thrust as the drone weaves and bobs through the air.
The drone’s standard configuration is the traditional quadcopter X-shape (like these drones here), with the four arms stretched out and the propellers at the widest possible distance from each other. When faced with a narrow passage, the drone can morph into an H-shape, with all arms lined up along one axis. It can also take on an O-shape (with all arms folded as close as possible to the body) or a T-shape, which can be used to bring the onboard camera as close as possible to objects that the drone needs to inspect.
“The morphing drone can adopt different configurations according to what is needed in the field,” adds Stefano Mintchev, co-author and researcher at EPFL.
The researchers plan to further improve the structure of their drone so that it can fold in all three dimensions. They also want to develop software that will make the drone truly autonomous, so it can find its own way through rubble and collapsed buildings in real-life scenarios. “The final goal is to give the drone a high-level instruction such as ‘enter that building, inspect every room and come back’ and let it figure out by itself how to do it,” says Falanga.
The paper “The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor that can Squeeze and Fly” has been published in the journal IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
Is Elon Musk HIDING something? Mystery 'object' seen near SpaceX craft before 'feed CUT'
Is Elon Musk HIDING something? Mystery 'object' seen near SpaceX craft before 'feed CUT'
A MYSTERIOUS object has been spotted on the SpaceX Dragon’s live feed bearing similarities to an infamous "spy plane", before the live feed was reportedly "cut".
The cargo spacecraft was on its way to the International Space Station when eagle-eyed viewers noticed something strange on the SpaceX live feed.
Conspiracy duo Blake and Brett Cousins shared the discovery on their YouTube channel thirdphaseofmoon, with Blake claiming the footage “could change history”.
In the video, a large dark triangular object moves past the SpaceX Dragon, floating upwards into the atmosphere at a startling speed.
The Cousins’ report the live feed "was cut" before the camera angles changed just seconds after the object was spotted.
Speaking of the figure, Blake asks: “Could this be the infamous TR-3B up in space visiting up close?
“This is stunning footage,” he continues as he slows down the startling clip.
The TR-3 Black Mamta is the name for a highly-speculated secret surveillance plane used by the US Air Force.
Blake recalls he initially thought the object could be a reflection from the ISS, but this trail of thought was quashed as the object moved behind the Dragon’s solar panel.
CIRCLING BACK? Thee object can be seen again just moments later(Pic: YOUTUBE/ATHIRDPHASEOFMOON)
“This thing’s huge,” he remarks as the object makes its way across the screen.
He continues: “Notice the portals underneath – it definitely matches the characteristics of a TR-3B.”
A similar object is spotted just moments later floating near the SpaceX Dragon, before the feed is cut yet again.
“It’s going be hard to suppress this,” concludes Brett as he marvels at the huge object.
WHAT IS THAT? Viewers spot a strange object on SpaceX live feed (Pic: YOUTUBE/ATHIRDPHASEOFMOON)
The video has already been viewed more than 13,000 times since its upload yesterday (December 12).
And viewers are convinced the object in the video is a top-secret TR-3B craft.
One person wrote: “Can you imagine how Elon Musk must have felt when he saw that?”
Another added: “If you look closely, it looks like you can see it has delta wings.”
For the first time ever, Virgin Galactichas reached space — by one definition, anyway.
Virgin'sVSS Unity suborbital spacelinerreached a maximum altitude of 51.4 miles (82.7 kilometers) during a rocket-powered test flight over California's Mojave Desert today (Dec. 13) after firing its hybrid rocket motor for 60 seconds, company representatives said.
That's above the 50-mile (80 km) boundary that the United States Air Force uses when handing out astronaut wings, but below the more famous "Karman Line" at 62 miles (100 km) up. The Karman Line is perhaps more commonly accepted; for example, it was the target altitude for the Ansari X Prize, which offered $10 million to the first private team to launch a reusable crewed craft to space twice within a two-week span. [In Photos: Virgin Galactic's 1st Trip to Space with SpaceShipTwo Unity]
That prize was collected in October 2004 by the group behind SpaceShipOne, whose design Virgin Galactic adapted for VSS Unity and its other piloted, six-passenger spaceliners (which are collectively termed SpaceShipTwo vehicles).
"SpaceShipTwo, welcome to space," Virgin Galactic representatives said via Twitter during today's flight.
Today's flight began at just past 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT) when VSS Unity took to the skies beneath its WhiteKnightTwo carrier plane, VMS Eve, from the Mojave Air and Space Port. Eve dropped Unity at an altitude of about 50,000 feet (15,000 meters), at which point pilot Mark Stucky and co-pilot Frederick C.J. Sturckow fired up the spaceliner's onboard rocket motor.
The engine burned for 60 seconds, accelerating Unity to a maximum velocity of Mach 2.9, or 2.9 times the speed of sound, Virgin Galactic representatives said. Today's mission ended at 11:15 a.m. EST (1615 GMT), after the spaceliner touched down at Mojave in a runway landing.
The flight was the fourth rocket-powered test mission of VSS Unity, which Virgin Galactic officially unveiled in February 2016. The other three powered tests occurred in April, May and July of this year, and took Unity to maximum altitudes of 16.0 miles, 21.7 miles and 32.3 miles (25.7, 34.9 and 52 km), respectively.
Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo carrier plane takes off with the SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity from Mojave Air and Space Port ahead of the fourth powered test flight of the passenger space plane on Dec. 13, 2018.
Credit: Virgin Galactic
When it's fully up and running, VSS Unity will carry passengers on brief trips to suborbital space, for $250,000 per ticket. These missions will allow customers to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and also see the curvature of Earth against the blackness of space, company representatives have said.
Virgin Galactic envisions SpaceShipTwo as a prolific research vehicle as well, and the spaceliner has already toted scientific experiments on its test flights. Today's mission, in fact, featured four NASA-sponsored research payloads — the first ones to make it aboard SpaceShipTwo via the agency's Flight Opportunities Program.
These experiments are investigating how dust behaves on planetary surfaces; how liquids and gases interact in microgravity; how microgravity affects plant growth; and how to reduce the vibrational loads on scientific payloads during launch, re-entry and landing.
"The anticipated addition of SpaceShipTwo to a growing list of commercial vehicles supporting suborbital research is exciting," Ryan Dibley, Flight Opportunities campaign manager at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, said in a statement. "Inexpensive access to suborbital space greatly benefits the technology research and broader spaceflight communities."
VSS Unity is Virgin Galactic's second SpaceShipTwo vehicle. The first, VSS Enterprise, broke apart during a rocket-powered test flight on Oct. 31, 2014. The tragic accident claimed the life of co-pilot Michael Alsbury and seriously injured pilot Peter Siebold.
Virgin Galactic traced the cause of the accident to Enterprise's "feathering" re-entry system, which was deployed too early in the flight. The company instituted measures to make sure such a problem could not recur on VSS Unity and other vehicles, Virgin Galactic representatives 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.
This artist's illustration shows a giant cloud of hydrogen streaming off the warm, Neptune-size planet GJ 3470b. Intense radiation from the planet's host star is heating the hydrogen in GJ 3470b's upper atmosphere to a point where it escapes into space.
Credit: D. Player (STScl)/NASA/ESA
A gaseous alien world is evaporating at a record rate, shedding considerable light on an exoplanet mystery, a new study reports.
The Neptune-size planet, known as GJ 3470b, orbits close to a young, activered dwarf starthat lies 97 light-years from Earth. The radiation streaming from this star is stripping away GJ 3470b's upper atmosphere so dramatically that the planet likely won't remain a Neptune-size body for much longer, study team members said.
"This is the smoking gun that planets can lose a significant fraction of their entire mass," co-author David Sing, a professor of physics and Earth and planetary sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said in a statement. [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]
"GJ 3470b is losing more of its mass than any other planet we've seen so far; in only a few billion years from now, half of the planet may be gone," Sing added.
The researchers, led by Vincent Bourrier of the University of Geneva in Switzerland, used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study GJ 3470b, which lies 3.7 million miles (6 million kilometers) from its parent star. That's just one-tenth the average distance between Mercury — our solar system's innermost planet — and the sun.
This graphic plots exoplanets based on their size and distance from their star. Planets about the size of Jupiter, planets roughly the size of Earth and so-called super-Earths are found both close to and far from their stars. But planets the size of Neptune (in the middle of the plot) that are close to their star are scarce. This so-called desert of hot Neptunes shows that such alien worlds are rare, or, they were plentiful at one time but have since disappeared.
Credit: A. Feild (STScl)/NASA/ESA
The Hubble data show that the red dwarf's proximity and activity are taking a serious toll on GJ 3470b. The telescope's Imaging Spectrograph instrument detected a vast cloud of hydrogen gas surrounding the planet — hydrogen that was once part of GJ 3470b's atmosphere. Indeed, the planet, which is just 2 billion years old, may already have lost about 35 percent of its mass in this way, the researchers said.
Which brings us to the exoplanet mystery. Over the past decade or so, astronomers have found lots of "hot Jupiters," "hot Earths" and "hot super-Earths" in extrasolar systems — tightly orbiting gas giants, Earth-size worlds and planets just a big bigger than our own, respectively. But there's a surprising dearth of "hot Neptunes."
The new study, along with previous Hubble-based research documenting the (less extreme) evaporation of another roughly Neptune-size world known as GJ 436b, provides a possible answer: Hot Neptunes just don't last very long. They likely lose so much of their mass that they erode into super-Earths, or perhaps even Earth-size worlds. (Note: Both GJ 3470b and GJ 436b don't orbit tightly enough to be considered "hot Neptunes" themselves; technically, they're "warm Neptunes.")
New Steven Greer Huge Alien Disclosure of Close Encounters of the 5th Kind
New Steven Greer Huge Alien Disclosure of Close Encounters of the 5th Kind
Steven Greer shows how advanced trans-dimensional ET technologies interface with the coherent meditative and thought states during Close Encounters of the 5th Kind (CE-5) events. Understand how ET craft and beings can appear around us in ways that are astonishing and very close and very usually overlooked. For many years people have been seeing UFO’s in the skies and in space and it is an undeniable fact that our earth has been visited by extraterrestrial life forms in the past and present. Close Encounters of The Fifth Kind was first coined by Dr. Steven Greer and is the fifth type of contact on the Hynek’s scale.
For NASA astronomers, this was not a good year. In June, a review board found that the agency's prized observatory—the already overdue and vastly overbudget $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—was still years away from taking flight and capturing the faint light of the universe's first stars. The holdup: torn sunshields and loose bolts. Also in trouble was the next big astrophysics mission in line, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), intended to pin down the nature of mysterious dark energy by surveying wide swaths of the sky. Not even off the drawing board, WFIRST was predicted to burst its $3.2 billion budget by $400 million, another review panel found—not a plus for a mission that the administration of President Donald Trump was already thinking of canceling.
Yet astronomers are about to look skyward and dream even bigger dreams. The decadal survey in astrophysics, which sets priorities for future missions by NASA, the Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation, began last month. Dozens of astronomers, broken into committees, will identify science goals and develop a wish list of telescopes, both on the ground and in space, that could best address them. One of the toughest tasks will be to decide which—if any—of four proposed successors to the JWST and WFIRST most deserves to fly as a NASA flagship observatory. It would be launched in the 2030s to L2, a gravitationally balanced spot between the sun and Earth.
In a special online presentation, Science examines those dream telescopes. The Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR), a 15-meter-wide giant with 40 times the light-collecting power of the Hubble Space Telescope, is a bid to look back at the universe's first galaxies, and to answer the question: Is there life elsewhere in the universe? The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) would also focus on that question, but with a smaller mirror. HabEx would fly in tandem with a separate spacecraft carrying a starshade the size of a soccer field. By blocking the glare of a star, the starshade would reveal Earth-like exoplanets, enabling HabEx to scrutinize their faint light for signatures of life. The Lynx Xray Observatory would gather x-rays from the universe's first black holes to learn how they help galaxies form and evolve. And the Origins Space Telescope, with machinery to chill its telescope to just 4° above absolute zero, would study a little-explored kind of infrared radiation emanating from the cold gases and dust that fuel star and planet formation.
Whichever concept rises to the top, researchers hope it has a smoother path to space than the missions chosen in previous surveys. The 2001 survey picked the JWST as its top priority, but that telescope will be lucky to meet its scheduled launch in 2021, 2 decades later. WFIRST was the top pick of the 2010 survey, but it won't fly before 2025. There's a general sense that the initial proposals were immature and unrealistic, says Roger Blandford of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who chaired the 2010 survey. "There's frustration all around."
This time, NASA wants the concepts on a firmer footing. Not only did the agency identify the four flagship concepts early, back in 2015, but it has since funded teams to work up rough designs for each one. In June 2019, the teams will deliver to NASA a report that includes two concepts—one expensive and big, the other constrained and relatively affordable at less than $5 billion in most cases. (Here, Science examines the larger concepts.)
"This prepreparation will put the survey in a better situation to evaluate the possibilities," says Fiona Harrison, a high-energy astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena who was named last month as co-chair of the survey along with Robert Kennicutt of Texas A&M University in College Station. The product of the decadal survey—a prioritized list of missions delivered in 2020—is supposed to be consensual, in part so that agencies and scientists can lobby Congress for funding with a unified voice. But competition among the four flagships will be fierce.
LUVOIR's backers tout its wide appeal as a general-purpose observatory in the mold of Hubble. LUVOIR's instruments cover the parts of the spectrum where the universe is brightest, and the huge size of its mirror means it can peer the farthest, at the faintest objects, with the sharpest vision. "It transcends astrophysics," says Jason Kalirai of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland. Critics argue that LUVOIR's huge mirror will lead to a huge price tag and inevitable delays, as the JWST's 6.5-meter mirror already has.
Proponents of the cheaper HabEx hope it will ride high on surging enthusiasm for exoplanets—and a concern for simplicity and thrift. But flying in formation with a distant starshade is an untested technique. And though HabEx can study a few nearby planets in detail, its smaller mirror—4 meters compared with LUVOIR's 15 meters—means more distant worlds will be out of reach. LUVOIR and HabEx will compete head-to-head for the committee's attention, and HabEx and LUVOIR team member Chris Stark of STScI says there won't be a need to launch both. "There are only so many nearby stars."
A race to the stars
Four NASA space telescope concepts targeting different wavelengths and goals are competing to fly in the 2030s. Astronomers are now picking a favorite.
BICKEL/SCIENCE
Origins would look back in time to see how dust and molecules coalesced to create the first galaxies and black holes and how the disks around young stars clump into exoplanets. But the JWST and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile can capture some of the same wavelengths, squeezing Origins's discovery space.
Lynx would take up the mantle of NASA's aging Chandra X-ray Observatory, zooming in on hot gas swirling into a black hole or jetting from the center of a galaxy. That would placate x-ray astronomers still smarting from the low rating their International X-ray Observatory proposal received in the 2010 decadal survey. "We got robbed at the last decadal," says STScI x-ray astronomer Rachel Osten. "Is it time for x-rays?"
Whichever mission wins the decadal's favor, funders will ask: How do we know it won't be another JWST, swallowing up budgets and delaying other projects? Study director Dwayne Day of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in Washington, D.C., which organizes the decadals, says the survey is taking a sophisticated approach to estimating costs, hoping "to avoid sticker shock, committing to something that is too expensive to afford."
Day says project teams usually estimate costs by tallying labor, materials, and testing. "It's good, but it leaves out unforeseen circumstances, threats." So, for the past decade NASEM has been paying The Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, California, to apply a cost model called CATE (for Cost And Technical Evaluation) to any proposals a decadal wishes to consider.
CATE draws on a database that goes back decades and contains details of cost and performance for more than 150 NASA missions and 700 instruments. When presented with a new mission, CATE can say how similar missions have fared in the past. The model is particularly powerful in assessing the things that can go wrong. "The best forecasters can't have hands on all the unknown unknowns," says Debra Emmons, a senior manager with Aerospace in Chantilly, Virginia. For example, if a sensor takes longer than expected to develop, or if an international partner delivers an instrument late, the project can be delayed and costs can rise. "[CATE] assesses technical threats, monetizes them, and makes a forward projection," she says. Paul Hertz, NASA's astrophysics chief in Washington, D.C., calls it "a great addition to the tool set."
The project teams are wary of the exercise, fearing that if they produce a scientifically bold and technically challenging proposal, CATE might judge it to be risky and expensive, Emmons says. And NASA wants the four project teams to be ambitious. "The missions had better be hard to do because the questions are hard," Hertz says.
But with the still-grounded JWST on everybody's mind, astronomers are eager to ensure that the winner of the great space telescope bake-off is at once dreamy and real. Blandford says: "It gives a rationale for making these terrible decisions."
For NASA astronomers, this was not a good year. In June, a review board found that the agency's prized observatory—the already overdue and vastly overbudget $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—was still years away from taking flight and capturing the faint light of the universe's first stars. The holdup: torn sunshields and loose bolts. Also in trouble was the next big astrophysics mission in line, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), intended to pin down the nature of mysterious dark energy by surveying wide swaths of the sky. Not even off the drawing board, WFIRST was predicted to burst its $3.2 billion budget by $400 million, another review panel found—not a plus for a mission that the administration of President Donald Trump was already thinking of canceling.
Yet astronomers are about to look skyward and dream even bigger dreams. The decadal survey in astrophysics, which sets priorities for future missions by NASA, the Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation, began last month. Dozens of astronomers, broken into committees, will identify science goals and develop a wish list of telescopes, both on the ground and in space, that could best address them. One of the toughest tasks will be to decide which—if any—of four proposed successors to the JWST and WFIRST most deserves to fly as a NASA flagship observatory. It would be launched in the 2030s to L2, a gravitationally balanced spot between the sun and Earth.
In a special online presentation, Science examines those dream telescopes. The Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR), a 15-meter-wide giant with 40 times the light-collecting power of the Hubble Space Telescope, is a bid to look back at the universe's first galaxies, and to answer the question: Is there life elsewhere in the universe? The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) would also focus on that question, but with a smaller mirror. HabEx would fly in tandem with a separate spacecraft carrying a starshade the size of a soccer field. By blocking the glare of a star, the starshade would reveal Earth-like exoplanets, enabling HabEx to scrutinize their faint light for signatures of life. The Lynx Xray Observatory would gather x-rays from the universe's first black holes to learn how they help galaxies form and evolve. And the Origins Space Telescope, with machinery to chill its telescope to just 4° above absolute zero, would study a little-explored kind of infrared radiation emanating from the cold gases and dust that fuel star and planet formation.
Whichever concept rises to the top, researchers hope it has a smoother path to space than the missions chosen in previous surveys. The 2001 survey picked the JWST as its top priority, but that telescope will be lucky to meet its scheduled launch in 2021, 2 decades later. WFIRST was the top pick of the 2010 survey, but it won't fly before 2025. There's a general sense that the initial proposals were immature and unrealistic, says Roger Blandford of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who chaired the 2010 survey. "There's frustration all around."
This time, NASA wants the concepts on a firmer footing. Not only did the agency identify the four flagship concepts early, back in 2015, but it has since funded teams to work up rough designs for each one. In June 2019, the teams will deliver to NASA a report that includes two concepts—one expensive and big, the other constrained and relatively affordable at less than $5 billion in most cases. (Here, Science examines the larger concepts.)
"This prepreparation will put the survey in a better situation to evaluate the possibilities," says Fiona Harrison, a high-energy astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena who was named last month as co-chair of the survey along with Robert Kennicutt of Texas A&M University in College Station. The product of the decadal survey—a prioritized list of missions delivered in 2020—is supposed to be consensual, in part so that agencies and scientists can lobby Congress for funding with a unified voice. But competition among the four flagships will be fierce.
LUVOIR's backers tout its wide appeal as a general-purpose observatory in the mold of Hubble. LUVOIR's instruments cover the parts of the spectrum where the universe is brightest, and the huge size of its mirror means it can peer the farthest, at the faintest objects, with the sharpest vision. "It transcends astrophysics," says Jason Kalirai of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland. Critics argue that LUVOIR's huge mirror will lead to a huge price tag and inevitable delays, as the JWST's 6.5-meter mirror already has.
Proponents of the cheaper HabEx hope it will ride high on surging enthusiasm for exoplanets—and a concern for simplicity and thrift. But flying in formation with a distant starshade is an untested technique. And though HabEx can study a few nearby planets in detail, its smaller mirror—4 meters compared with LUVOIR's 15 meters—means more distant worlds will be out of reach. LUVOIR and HabEx will compete head-to-head for the committee's attention, and HabEx and LUVOIR team member Chris Stark of STScI says there won't be a need to launch both. "There are only so many nearby stars."
A race to the stars
Four NASA space telescope concepts targeting different wavelengths and goals are competing to fly in the 2030s. Astronomers are now picking a favorite.
BICKEL/SCIENCE
Origins would look back in time to see how dust and molecules coalesced to create the first galaxies and black holes and how the disks around young stars clump into exoplanets. But the JWST and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile can capture some of the same wavelengths, squeezing Origins's discovery space.
Lynx would take up the mantle of NASA's aging Chandra X-ray Observatory, zooming in on hot gas swirling into a black hole or jetting from the center of a galaxy. That would placate x-ray astronomers still smarting from the low rating their International X-ray Observatory proposal received in the 2010 decadal survey. "We got robbed at the last decadal," says STScI x-ray astronomer Rachel Osten. "Is it time for x-rays?"
Whichever mission wins the decadal's favor, funders will ask: How do we know it won't be another JWST, swallowing up budgets and delaying other projects? Study director Dwayne Day of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in Washington, D.C., which organizes the decadals, says the survey is taking a sophisticated approach to estimating costs, hoping "to avoid sticker shock, committing to something that is too expensive to afford."
Day says project teams usually estimate costs by tallying labor, materials, and testing. "It's good, but it leaves out unforeseen circumstances, threats." So, for the past decade NASEM has been paying The Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, California, to apply a cost model called CATE (for Cost And Technical Evaluation) to any proposals a decadal wishes to consider.
CATE draws on a database that goes back decades and contains details of cost and performance for more than 150 NASA missions and 700 instruments. When presented with a new mission, CATE can say how similar missions have fared in the past. The model is particularly powerful in assessing the things that can go wrong. "The best forecasters can't have hands on all the unknown unknowns," says Debra Emmons, a senior manager with Aerospace in Chantilly, Virginia. For example, if a sensor takes longer than expected to develop, or if an international partner delivers an instrument late, the project can be delayed and costs can rise. "[CATE] assesses technical threats, monetizes them, and makes a forward projection," she says. Paul Hertz, NASA's astrophysics chief in Washington, D.C., calls it "a great addition to the tool set."
The project teams are wary of the exercise, fearing that if they produce a scientifically bold and technically challenging proposal, CATE might judge it to be risky and expensive, Emmons says. And NASA wants the four project teams to be ambitious. "The missions had better be hard to do because the questions are hard," Hertz says.
But with the still-grounded JWST on everybody's mind, astronomers are eager to ensure that the winner of the great space telescope bake-off is at once dreamy and real. Blandford says: "It gives a rationale for making these terrible decisions."
Factory Robot Went Havoc, Impales Worker With Steel Spikes
Factory Robot Went Havoc, Impales Worker With Steel Spikes
A factory in China had a robot malfunction, which caused a worker to be impaled. The work in question managed to survive being impaled by 10 metal spikes.
49-year-old Mr. Zhou was working a night shift at a porcelain factory in the Hunan province when he was struck by a falling robotic arm. The accident had him impaled with foot long, half-inch thick metal rods. At first, he was taken to a local hospital before he was transferred to the Xiangya Hospital of Central South University to be handled by specialists due to the nature and severity of his injuries. There were six steel rods fixed on a plate that pierces his right shoulder and chest. Four rods pierced other parts of his body. During the operation, doctors found that one of the rods missed an artery by just 0.1mm.
The reds were troublesome during the operation as they prevented doctors from carrying out X-Rays. This meant the surgery was essentially done blind. Surgeons worked throughout the night to remove all the rods. Mr. Zhou's condition is now stabilized and he will be undergoing treatment and physiotherapy to assist his recovery. He is already doing great however and has regained control of his right arm.
Mr. Zhou was lucky not to suffer the same fate as an American factor worker named Wanda Holbrook. The maintenance technician was killed by a rogue robot who had entered the area she was working in and then crushed her head. At the time, she was inspecting an area where components were assembled. This was when the robot entered the section she was working in, much to her surprise.
These are not the only cases of deaths due to malfunctions and robots going rogue. In 2015, another car industry worker in Germany was also killed by a robot. The 22-year-old male, who is unnamed, was part of a team that was set up the stationary robot at a Volkswagen plant when it grabbed and crushed him against a metal plate. Another case last year, was when a construction worker somehow survived after he was electrocuted, the shock throwing him from his workstation, which caused him to be impaled through the anus by a four-feet steel bar.
There was also the case of Tang Ming, 37 years old, who had accidentally touched live wires on a building site and the shock sent him flying backward onto the protruding metal rod. Rescuers wisely left the pole inside of him and rushed him to the hospital where surgeons managed to extract it. Ming had to undergo seven exhausting hours of surgery at the Sichuan University West China Hospital in Chengdu, capital of China's southwestern Sichuan Province.
Real life 'shrink ray' can reduce 3D structures to one thousandth of their original size - and could be used to make the next generation of miniature robots
Real life 'shrink ray' can reduce 3D structures to one thousandth of their original size - and could be used to make the next generation of miniature robots
The 'shrink ray' can reduce 3D structures to one thousandth of their original size
Scientists can put all kinds of materials in the polymer before they shrink it
This could include a variety of materials such as metals, quantum dots or DNA
These tiny structures could be be used in many fields, including in robotics
MIT researchers have created a real life 'shrink ray' that can reduce 3D structures to one thousandth of their original size.
Scientists can put all kinds of useful materials in the polymer before they shrink it, including metals, quantum dots, and DNA.
The process - called implosion fabrication - is essentially the opposite of expansion microscopy, which is widely used by scientists to create 3D visualisations of microscopic cells.
Instead of making things bigger, scientists attach special molecules which block negative charges between molecules so they no longer repel which makes them contract.
Experts say that making such tiny structures could be useful in many fields, including in medicine and for creating nanoscale robotics.
MIT researchers have created a real life 'shrink ray' that can reduce 3D structures (pictured) to one thousandth of their original size
'It's a way of putting nearly any kind of material into a 3-D pattern with nanoscale precision,' said Edward Boyden, an associate professor of biological engineering and of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT.
Using the new technique, researchers can create any shape and structure they want, according to the paper published in Science.
The method can create lots of different shapes, including tiny hollow spheres to microscopic chains.
After attaching useful materials to the polymer 'scaffold', they shrink it, generating structures one thousandth the volume of the original.
The researchers shrank hollow linked cubes and an Alice in Wonderland etching using the method.
Scientists say the technique uses equipment that many biology and materials science labs already have, making it widely accessible for researchers who want to try it.
Currently scientists are able to directly print 3D nanonscale objects.
However, this is only possible with specialised materials like polymers and plastics which have limited applications.
After attaching useful materials to the polymer 'scaffold', they shrink it, generating structures one thousandth the volume of the original. The researchers shrank hollow linked cubes (pictured) using this method
Researchers shrank an Alice in Wonderland etching using the method. Scientists say the technique uses equipment that many biology and materials science labs already have, making it widely accessible for researchers who want to try it
To overcome this, researchers decided to adapt a technique that was developed a few years ago for high-resolution imaging of brain tissue.
This technique, known as expansion microscopy, involves embedding tissue into a hydrogel and then expanding it.
Hundreds of research groups in biology and medicine are now using expansion microscopy as it enables 3D visualisation of cells and tissues with ordinary hardware.
The new technique involves reversing the process.
By doing this, scientists could create large-scale objects embedded in expanded hydrogels and then shrink them to the nanoscale.
They call this approach 'implosion fabrication.'
Just like they did in expansion microscopy, the researchers used a very absorbent material made of polyacrylate. This is a plastic commonly found in nappies.
Scientists can put all kinds of useful materials in the polymer before they shrink it such as metals, quantum dots and DNA. Pictured is the machine used to shrink objects
The polyacrylate forms the scaffold over which other materials can be attached.
It is then bathed in a solution that contains molecules of fluorescein, which attach to the scaffold when they are activated by laser light.
Then, they use two-photon microscopy to target points deep within the structure.
They attach fluorescein molecules to these specific locations within the gel.
These acts as anchors that bind to other types of molecules that are in the structure.
'You attach the anchors where you want with light, and later you can attach whatever you want to the anchors,' Dr Boyden said.
'It could be a quantum dot, it could be a piece of DNA, it could be a gold nanoparticle.'
Researchers think these nanobjects could be used to create better lenses for cell phone cameras, microscopes (stock image), or endoscopes
Once the desired molecules are attached in the right locations, the researchers shrink the entire structure by adding an acid.
The acid blocks the negative charges in the polyacrylate gel so that they no longer repel each other, causing the gel to contract.
Using this technique, researchers can shrink the objects 10-fold in each dimension (for an overall 1,000-fold reduction in volume).
This ability to shrink not only allows for increased resolution, but also makes it possible to assemble materials in a low-density scaffold.
This means it can be easily modified and later the material becomes a dense solid when it is shrunk.
Researchers think these nanobjects could be used to create better lenses for cell phone cameras, microscopes, or endoscopes.
Farther in the future, researchers say that this approach could be used to build nanoscale electronics or robots.
WILL GLOBAL WARMING CAUSE SPECIES TO SHRINK?
A study conducted by the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada found that over the last century, the beetles in the region have shrunk.
By looking at eight species of beetle and measuring the animals from past and present they found that some beetles were adapting to a reduced body size.
The data also showed that the larger beetles were shrinking, but the smaller ones were not.
Around 50 million years ago the Earth warmed by three degrees Celsius (5.4°F) and as a result, animal species at the time shrunk by 14 per cent.
Another warming event around 55 million years ago - called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) - warmed the earth by up to eight degrees Celsius (14.4°F).
In this instance, animal species of the time shrunk by up to a third.
Woolly mammoths were a victim of warming climate, shrinking habitat and increased hunting from a growing early-human population which drove them to extinction - along with many large animals
Shrinking in body size is seen from several global warming events.
With the global temperatures set to continue to rise, it is expected the average size of most animals will decrease.
As well as global warming, the world has seen a dramatic decrease in the amount of large animals.
So called 'megafauna' are large animals that go extinct. With long life-spans and relatively small population numbers, they are less able to adapt to rapid change as smaller animals that reproduce more often.
Often hunted for trophies or for food, large animals like the mastadon, mammoths and the western black rhino, which was declared extinct in 2011, have been hunted to extinction.
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Scientists are able to shrink objects
Scientists are able to shrink objects
For the first time, researchers have produced nano-objects by shrinking. First, they assembled 3D objects in a special hydrogel, then an acid caused the gel and its contents to shrink. The 3D design thus became an object ten to a thousand times smaller - without distortions or defects. The big advantage: this "implosion fabrication" method is feasible with conventional technology and enables completely new nanoconstructs, as the researchers report in the specialist journal "Science".
Many research labs are already stocked with the equipment required for this kind of fabrication. Credit: The researchers
Team invents method to shrink objects to the nanoscale
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a method that, for the first time, produces detailed 3D objects on a nanoscale - by shrinking. To do this, they first position the components of the object in a larger pre-variant. Then they shrink the whole thing and create the desired object in nano format.
This so-called "implosion fabrication" is made possible by a special hydrogel made of polyacrylate/polyacrylamide. If, for example, this gel is exposed to an acid, the water content and the chemical bonds change so that the entire gel contracts evenly.
Complex 3D structures on the nanoscale - produced by shrinking. A 3D pattern created using implosion fabricationCredit: MIT/ Daniel Oran
The new method considerably expands the existing possibilities of nano-fabrication, as the researchers emphasize:
"With implosion fabrication, we can produce all kinds of structures, gradients, unconnected shapes or objects from several materials"
The big advantage is that these 3D structures can be assembled and designed before shrinking with a precision that is hardly possible in nano size.
Basic lab equipment can produce minuscule 3D-printed objects
Ed Boyden and colleagues
Alice in Wonderland created using implosion fabrication before and after shrinking - But Boyden thinks it can go much smaller. In a handful of tests, they were able to expand and shrink the structure by 8000 times.
When David Letterman hosted “The Late Show,” he liked to play a couple of games called “Is This Anything?” and “Will It Float?”. If Dave were back on TV today (and don’t we wish he was), he’d have a field day with the ongoing hole-in-the-space-station controversy which is in the news again this week after two Russian cosmonauts spent eight hours outside the station looking at the hole, scraping off a mysterious yellow substance and trying to come up with an explanation. Was it anything and will the explanation float?
The Soyuz spacecraft hole had to be repaired from outside by two astronauts
(Image: RT question more)
“Yes, we also observe it [the hole].”
Sputnik News covered Russian Mission Control’s conversations with the two cosmonauts on the space walk earlier this week, the latest step in the mystery that began in August when a small leak was found in the Soyuz capsule attached to the Russian side of the ISS – a leak that was initially blamed on a meteorite (and initially plugged with the finger of an astronaut) but later suspected to have been made while the capsule was still on the ground and somehow managed to be patched well enough to pass inspections. While the hole was plugged from the inside with epoxy, its existence and the conspiracy theories surrounding its yet-unexplained cause forced Roscosmos to schedule the spacewalk to observe the hole from the outside.
Spacewalking is a lot harder than it looks
“There’s nothing, that’s the problem.”
The task was easier planned than done, as cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko pointed out that he and Sergei Prokopyev had no handles, handrails or any other things to hold on to as they made their way 30 meters (100 feet) to the capsule and the spot when they thought the hole might be hidden behind insulation … a trip that took nearly four hours. Once there, they used a knife (this isn’t the Starship Enterprise) to cut a 25-by-25 cm (10-by-10 inch) piece from the insulation to expose the 2 millimeter hole and send videos back to Mission Control.
At this point, the plot thickens.
“The photos taken by cosmonauts have been studied, and no drill traces have been detected on the micrometeorite protection plates.”
While the surface inside showed drill marks suggesting that the hole was manmade, there were no such marks on the other side. The cosmonauts were also seen scraping a mysterious yellow substance from the hole to be taken back to Earth for analysis.
“Some kind of double-flowering yellow. And black ones.”
Was this description lost in Google translation or were the cosmonauts puzzled as they tried to figure out for themselves if this was something used to plug the hole on the ground or when it was found in space after the leak? Or is it something else?
“Return home.”
At that point in the live broadcast, Russian Mission Control quickly ordered the cosmonauts to patch the insulation and get back inside – an order that took over three more hours to follow. Roscosmos head Dimitri Rogozin immediately commended them on a spacewalk that was “unprecedented in its complexity” and will “enter the history of space exploration.”
After eight hours, that yellow stuff was probably starting to look good enough to eat
What about the mysterious yellow-black substance? Neither Rogozin nor Roscosmos had any further comments. The substance will be brought to Roscosmos on December 20th, but the part of the capsule with the hole will be discarded before hitting Earth’s atmosphere, which means the only clues to the cause of the hole are the videos and the strange substance.
What will Roscosmos reveal about it? Is it anything? Will it float?
It has already been discussed by experts thathumans may eventually colonize to Mars, but the idea of starting a family there may not be so easy. There is obviously a specific string of events that need to take place in order to conceive a baby – from fertilization to giving birth – but there may be several challenges involving the environments in space that could affect that process.
While rats, mice, frogs, salamanders, fish, and plants have been experimented on to determine the effects of reproduction in space, the results remain inconclusive. Kris Lehnhardt, who is a physician at the Baylor College of Medicine, explains, “All of our big tech gurus out there who want us to be a multi-planet civilization – this is a key question that no one has answered yet.”
Two of the biggest obstacles for reproducing in space are the lack of gravity and the large amounts of radiation, specifically on Mars. The Red Planet only has around 38 percent strength of Earth’s downward gravitational pull. And the radiation in space is much stronger than here on our planet, as Earth’s magnetic field protects us from a lot of the damaging cosmic particles. Those two things alone could severely damage a fetus.
In the 1970’s, the Soviets sent several rats into space on the Cosmos 1129 satellite and when they returned, it was revealed that although they did mate in space, the females never delivered any babies.
Then a NASA scientist named April Ronca sent several pregnant rats into space and studied how the late stages of their pregnancies affected them by not being on Earth. When they returned, the birth process was pretty much normal, although some rat pups that were exposed to microgravity did have some abnormalities such as inner-ear problems that affected their senses of detecting movement orientation and direction. In addition, rats’ sperm count decreased in spaceflight, while abnormalities increased. However, Ronca wrote, “The available data suggest that numerous aspects of pregnancy, birth and early mammalian development can proceed under altered gravity conditions.”
Another experiment showed that two-cell mouse embryos that were sent into space didn’t develop any further. On the other hand, a Japanese-led study revealed that freeze-dried mouse sperm was able to create embryos after being in space for nine months.
While mice and rats have different and inconclusive results, it’s still unclear whether humans will be able to reproduce in a partial gravity environment that’s much different than our planet’s. According to scientists at NASA’s Langley Research Center, “Humans may encounter reproductive challenges in gravity environments different than Earth’s, as gravitational forces may disrupt mammalian life cycle processes and actively shape genomes in ways that are inheritable.”
Experts believe that sending a mouse colony into lunar orbit to be observed by 600 cameras along with telerobotic animal care could give them a better idea on how humans could eventually reproduce on another planet. The experiment would be called MICEHAB (Multigenerational Independent Colony for Extraterrestrial Habitation, Autonomy and Behavior health) and it would study how spaceflight and partial gravity on at least three generations of mice would affect them, including their health as well as birth rates.
These experiments would be conducted around the late 2020s and would hopefully give scientists a better understanding for when humans to eventually make it to Mars, although human reproduction is much different than that of other mammals.
While all of these experiments are being done on mice and rats, the end question is if and how humans will be able to reproduce on Mars. James Nodler, who is a reproductive endocrinologist, asked, “Is our end point to see if we send up a man and a woman, and they have sex, can they have a baby? Or do we want to say, can we take a whole bunch of embryos, freeze them on Earth, send them to Mars and thaw them?”
Needless to say, it would be extremely difficult to study human reproduction in space without actually sending humans to another planet to do so. While experiments are being done, I think it’s safe to say that it will be many years before we see any baby Martians running around the Red Planet.
Man fotografeert UFO in de lucht boven Australië. Wat heeft hij gezien?
Man fotografeert UFO in de lucht boven Australië. Wat heeft hij gezien?
Een man heeft op Kangaroo Island (foto), een eiland bij de zuidkust van Australië, een ongeïdentificeerd object vastgelegd. Andrew Isaacson maakte de foto van de UFO op 5 december om 16.25 uur lokale tijd, schrijft The Islander.
“Precies op het moment dat ik stopte met het maken van foto’s en mijn camera omlaag deed, zag ik iets in mijn ooghoek,” zei hij.
“Het bewoog heel snel en maakte geen geluid,” voegde hij toe.
Soort drone
Pas later ontdekte hij dat het object op één van zijn foto’s stond. Hij dacht dat het een soort drone zou kunnen zijn omdat het zich niet voortbewoog als een vliegtuig of helikopter.
Isaacson komt oorspronkelijk uit Sydney, maar werkt en woont nu in Berlijn. Hij was op Kangaroo Island om de 90e verjaardag van zijn moeder te vieren.
Onlangs publiceerde National Geographic nog een artikel over een vreemde waarneming boven Kangaroo Island in 1969.
Vaak
Door de jaren heen heeft The Islander al vaak over UFO-waarnemingen in het gebied geschreven.
Vorige week claimde NASA-wetenschapper Silvano P. Colombano nog dat de aarde mogelijk al lang is bezocht door buitenaards leven.
Het zou gaan om een extreem kleine en bijzonder intelligente soort die voor mensen niet waarneembaar is.
Temperatures in Greenland and Iceland warmed cyclically until the 1930s, cooled through the 1970s, warmed until about ten years ago – and are now declining again.
During the 1930s, scientists said the Arctic was melting rapidly, glaciers were collapsing, and predicted 50 feet of sea level rise which would “wipe half of England from the map.”
GREENLAND’S GLACIERS MELTING, SAYS SCIENTIST
“It may without exaggeration be said that the glaciers, like those in Norway, face the possibility Of a catastrophic collapse”
NASA and the rest of team climate fraud responded to this quite predictably, by cooling the past and declaring the increase in ice to be the fastest melt on record – and accelerating.
Global warming normally occurs someplace where people don’t live and won’t bother to check. In places where people actually live, experts declare the cold weather to be caused by global warming.
The CIA created remote control dogs by surgically implanting electrodes in their brains in 1963, newly released documents reveal.
US officials have been trying to hide the top secret 'behaviour modification' files for decades, but they have now been released under the country's Freedom of Information laws.
Experimenters implanted devices inside the skulls of six canines and used electrical stimulation to guide them through an open field, making them run, turn and stop.
The top secret experiments were part of the infamous mind control project MKUltra.
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Mind-control experiments using drugs, hypnosis and electronic devices were carried out by the CIA on dogs in 1963. Officials have been trying to hide the documents for decades but have recently been released under the Freedom of Information Act (Stock image)
The top-secret CIA program conducted hundreds of experiments sometimes on unwitting citizens to assess the potential use of LSD.
They also used other drugs for mind control, information gathering and psychological torture.
John Greenewald, founder of The Black Vault, a site specialising in declassified government records spent twenty years trying to obtain the documents.
The files from the infamous project reveal the government agency also tested humans with psychotropic drugs, electrical shocks and radio waves.
'The specific aim of the research program was to examine the feasibility of controlling the behaviour of a dog, in an open field, by means of remotely stimulated electrical stimulation of the brain,' the documents state.
'Such a system depends for its effectiveness on two properties of electrical stimulation delivered to certain deep lying structures of the dog brain: the well-known reward effect, and a tendency for such stimulation to initiate and maintain locomotion in a direction which is accompanied by the continued delivery of stimulation.'
Researchers implanted a device inside six canines' skulls and guided them through an open field (schematic pictured), making them run, turn and stop. The top secret experiments were part of the infamous mind control project MKUltra
John Greenewald, founder of The Black Vault, a site specialising in declassified government records, put in the FOIA request. This document details plans to drug inmates at a prison hospital then interrogate them
The researchers first tried out a plastic helmet but then settled on a new surgical technique that involved 'embedding the electrode entirely within a mound of dental cement on the skull', the documents state.
They ran the leads just below the dog's skin to a point between the shoulder blades, where the leads are brought to the surface and affixed to a standard dog harness.
Some of the dogs suffered side effects from the experiments, including infections caused by the head wound where they embedded the electrode into their brain.
In one letter an individual, whose name had been redacted, writes to a doctor with advice about experiments in animal mind control.
The writer of the letter proved to be an expert in the field of animal mind control and had undertaken the successful creation of six remote control dogs.
'As you know, I spent about three years working in the research area of rewarding electrical stimulation of the brain,' the person writes.
Pictures of dog brain structures indicating where electrodes would be surgically implanted. The researchers first tried out a plastic helmet but then settled on a new surgical technique that involved 'embedding the electrode entirely within a mound of dental cement on the skull', the documents state
Scientists at first used a plastic helmet (schematic pictured) that delivered the stimulation to the dog's brain but then moved on to embedding the electrode within a mound of dental cement into the skull
'In the laboratory, we performed a number of experiments with rats; in the open field, we employed dogs of several breeds.'
The letter writer characterises the work with remote-controlling dogs as a success, describing 'a demonstrated procedure for controlling the free-field behaviours of an unrestrained dog.'
The final report, published in 1965, titled 'Remote Control Behaviour with Rewarding Electrical Stimulation of the Brain', was attached to the letter.
The top-secret CIA program MKUltra conducted hundreds of experiments sometimes on unwitting U.S. citizens to assess the potential use of LSD. They also used other drugs for mind control, information gathering and psychological torture
By 1967, it seems unlikely that remote-controlled dogs were ever used in the field, as the letter writer outlines some of the limitations and challenges to any follow-up program going forward.
The files are not the only 'Behavioural Modification' document released by The Black Vault involving animals.
Numerous other files pertain to budgeting and acquisition for animal experimentation.
One declassified file details, with heavy redactions, the practical possibilities of training and equipping cats for 'foreign situation' field work.
WHAT WAS MKULTRA
In 1953, the then director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officially approved project MKUltra.
The code name MKUltra was given to the illegal program which performed experiments on human subjects.
It was intended to help the US government keep up with experiments they believed the Soviets were conducting during the Cold War.
They hoped to achieve this aim through 'the use of biological and chemical materials in altering human behaviour,' CIA director Stansfield Turner testified in 1977.
The program engaged in many illegal activities; in particular it used unwitting U.S. and Canadian citizens as its test subjects, which led to controversy regarding its legitimacy.
MKUltra used numerous methodologies to manipulate people’s mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as various forms of torture.
Footage has since emerged of experiments conducted into the potential of weaponising LSD as a method of controlling or subduing enemy forces.
Since that time, conspiracy theorists have expanded their claims about the kinds of techniques agencies like the CIA or others may have experimented with.
Who can resist that plea from a child that has befriended and been befriended by a stray dog? How about that soulful face of a pooch in a shelter trying to stave off the inevitable demise that millions of dogs face? It seems relatively safe to accept these canines into your house, especially if they’ve had their shots and a bath. However, that wasn’t the case in 1963 when the CIA experimented with implanting devices in the brains of dogs in order to control their movements, influence their actions and perhaps even surveil on unsuspecting humans. Is this enough to drive dog-lovers to tropical fish, or worse … to cats?
“The specific aim of the research program was to examine the possibility of controlling the behavior of a dog, in an open field, by means of remotely triggering electrical stimulation of the brain.”
Newsweek and other news sources revealed classified documents from 1963 that were received this week by John Greenewald, founder of The Black Vault, the vast repository of secret files on all sorts of subjects obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The long wait attests to both the secrecy of these government projects and the patience required to wait for requests to be processed. In this case, Greenewald spent 20 years attempting to gain access to the files on these canine mind-control experiments conducted in, not surprisingly, Project MKUltra – the infamous project that attempted to manipulate the minds of humans using drugs, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, abuse and other forms of torture.
Dog brain
According to the redacted documents released as file C00021825, six dogs had electrodes embedded “entirely within a mound of dental cement on the skull” (probably pretty sophisticated for 1963) which with leads inserted under the dogs’ skin and attached to an external harness equipped with a battery pack and a brain stimulator.
“Such a system depends for its effectiveness on two properties of electrical stimulation delivered to certain deep lying structures of the dog brain: the well-known reward effect, and a tendency for such stimulation to initiate and maintain locomotion in a direction which is accompanied by the continued delivery of stimulation.”
A letter written in 1967 and included with the 1965 report (titled “Remote Control Behavior with Rewarding Electrical Stimulation of the Brain” and all names redacted) called the canine mind-control project a success, albeit limited due to then range of the control device – “100 to 200 yards, at most” – and the lack of nearby fields suitable for tests (even back then it was tough to find people to pick up dog poop).
Or … did they use mind control on humans to scoop?
What happened to the six dogs? The report states that after they were made to run, turn and stop in response to electrical currents sent to their brains’ reward centers, some suffered side effects, including infections from the incisions. Based on how animals are treated in other experiments, especially in a time long before PETA, their ending was probably not in a good home chewing on old socks.
A trivial experiment? Was anything in MKUltra trivial?
This strange UFO was filmed over Amman in Jordan on 13th December 2018.
Witness report:
It’s a horse shoe like with green lights on one side and red on the other we stable for ten minutes then twisted and turned and flew fast to the other direction. I was heading home with colleagues in the car when I noticed a strange horse shoe like shape in the sky with green and red lights, we stopped the car and defendant it still didn’t move and had a a very low light in the middle 5hat switched on and off it was fixed for 10min and the it started moving and twisting and I could see the round full shape then it flew to the opposite direction and lowered and I lost site.
sherman Records A Video Of Mysterious Lights Over Dark Atlantic
Fisherman Records A Video Of Mysterious Lights Over Dark Atlantic
A 90-second video has made rounds on social media after many viewers raised questions about a possible UFO sighting off the coast of North Carolina.
Video licensing agency ViralHog posted the recording on November 29 stating that it was taken on mid-November at Cape Lookout located in the southernmost point of the Core Banks.
When asked for a comment about the possible UFO sighting, National Park Service officials at Cape Lookout National Seashore said they weren’t sure what the set of mysterious lights might be. All they could say that those lights were peculiar.
Viral Hog did not provide the name of the fisherman, but someone named C.R. Larkin posted the same video on November 24, revealing that it was recorded on November 13 off Cape Lookout, between 9 and 10 pm.
According to the story, he rebaited his hooks at around 9 pm, cast them out in to the surf and walked back to his chair. When he turned back to the ocean, he saw a very bright light in the sky that was stationary and silent. It faded in and out throughout the next hour and sometimes became multiple lights.
The lights disappeared at one point for almost 20 minutes and then reappeared much closer to his position, according to the fisherman.
The Curiosity Rover has been sending back images and information of Mars since 2012, but conspiracy theorists suggest it might not be alone. After looking through some of NASA’s images of the Red Planet, an eagle-eyed conspiracy theorist believes he has spotted and alien robot on Earth’s next door neighbour. If the other ‘probe’ was not sent by aliens to garner information on Mars, then prominent alien hunter Scott C Waring suggests it could equally have been sent by another nation or private company in a top secret mission.
The conspiracy theorist adds that the probe may have been sent by the likes of Elon Musk’s SpaceX to check NASA is reporting everything truthfully.
Either way, Mr Waring believes the new technology he has found is far beyond anything NASA is capable of achieving.
He wrote on his popular blog UFO Sightings Daily: “I just found a mini alien robot wandering around the Mars Curiosity rover.
“This mini robot is shiny metallic and has legs. The object looks like it is clean and stands out.
“This mini robot is shiny metallic and has legs."
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
“So where did it come from and is it really alien at all? It is possible that another nation sent a mini rover to go investigate the NASA craft to make sure they are reporting everything they are supposed to.
“It could be a private company like SpaceX trying to do it in secret so they wont be asked by a foreign country to do it for them too.
“Or it could just be an alien prove that crawls. Whatever it is, it certainly is much smaller than the Curiosity rover – it looks to be only about one foot across.”
Alternatively, it could be NASA’s InSight lander which recently arrived at Mars on November 26 after a seven-month and 300million mile journey.
Alien robot – bottom left – spotted by NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars - shock claim
(Image: NASA • GETTY)
InSight’s mission is to map the deep interior of Mars and Nasa is also planning a rover mission for 2020, to investigate signs of primitive life they believe exists under the surface.
InSight's primary instrument is a French-built seismometer, designed to record the slightest vibrations from "marsquakes" and meteor impacts around the planet.
The device, to be placed on the surface by the lander's robot arm, is so sensitive it can measure a seismic wave just one half the radius of a hydrogen atom.
A second instrument, furnished by Germany's space agency, consists of a drill to burrow as much as 16feet underground, pulling behind it a rope-like thermal probe to measure heat flowing from inside the planet.
In december 1968 wordt Apollo 8 de eerste bemande missie in een baan rond de maan. Inclusief een passage langs de mythische dark side of the moon. ‘De kans dat de missie slaagde was fiftyfifty, een waanzinnig risico.’
Slordige naslagwerken stellen wel eens dat we de eerste blik op de zogenoemde ‘dark side of the moon’ te danken hebben aan Apollo 8. Fout, om een aantal redenen. In 1959 al heeft de onbemande Russische Loena 3-ruimtesonde er de eerste foto’s van doorgestuurd. Die zijn een jaar later door de Academie der Wetenschappen van de Sovjet-Unie zelfs gepubliceerd in een heuse atlas van die kant van de maan. Een kant die bovendien nooit integraal buiten ons gezichtsveld is gevallen. ‘De Sovjet-Unie stond verder dan de Verenigde Staten op het vlak van onbemande ruimtevluchten,’ weet Kris Christiaens. Hij is de bezieler van Spacepage, een koepelnaam voor een aantal populairwetenschappelijke websites die ruimtevaart en sterrenkunde bestuderen.
Zonder Koude Oorlog zou er in 1969 geen maanlanding geweest zijn
Ruimtevaartkenner Kris Christiaens
Christiaens: ‘De Russen bereikten al in 1959 het oppervlak van de maan met de Loena 2. En de Loena 3 stuurde dus die eerste foto’s van de “dark side of the moon” naar de aarde. Mythische beelden van een kant van de maan die we nooit te zien kregen. De mensen dachten nog dat daar aliens leefden, tot ze op die foto’s zagen dat die kant van de maan er hetzelfde uitzag als de andere.’
Een kleine twintig procent van die ‘andere kant’ is sowieso altijd al waarneembaar geweest vanop de aarde. Met het blote oog, zelfs. Een gevolg wat men in de astronomie ‘libratie’ noemt. Heel kort samengevat: een optisch gevolg van de niet-perfecte cirkelvorm van de omloopbaan van de maan om de aarde en van de ook onvolmaakte rechte hoek van de rotatie-as van de maan met het rotatievlak ervan om de aarde. ‘Far side of the moon’, de verre zijde of de zijde aan de andere kant, is bijgevolg correcter dan ‘dark side’. Maar de collectieve fascinatie voor het onbekende en ongetwijfeld ook de gelijknamige legendarische elpee van Pink Floyd hebben daar anders over beslist.
Wat, voor de volledigheid, wel vaststaat is dat de mens, tot vandaag, nooit voet heeft gezet aan die kant van de maan. Voorlopig, althans. Want in mei dit jaar bevestigde astrofysica Leen Decin in het Radio 1-programma De wereld vandaagdat de Chinezen grootse plannen hebben. ‘De grote droom is nu om op de achterkant van de maan een radiotelescoop te plaatsen. Er is daar geen hinderlijke interferentie met de radiosignalen op aarde. Het is een plan dat natuurlijk ook bij de Chinezen op tafel ligt. Maar het echte totaalplaatje is dat de Chinezen bezig zijn met een stevige opbouw van hun ruimtevaartprogramma. Ze hopen tegen 2030 op dezelfde voet te staan als de Russen en de Amerikanen. Vergeet niet, we zijn nog nooit geland op de achterkant van de maan, en daar kunnen de Chinezen het verschil maken.’
Kris Christiaens bevestigt: ‘Wat de Chinezen nu doen, valt een beetje te vergelijken met de Nasa in de jaren 60. Gigantische budgetten. In tien jaar tijd hebben ze grote stappen gezet: eerste ruimtecapsule, eerste ruimtestation, eerste Chinezen in de ruimte. Ze hebben nog geen grote tegenslagen gekend, benieuwd hoe ze daarop zouden reageren.’
‘Suske en Wiske in space’
Het bijzondere aan de ruimtereis van Apollo 8, van 21 tot en met 27 december 1968, is dat astronauten Frank Borman, Jim Lovell en William Anders een viervoudige primeur op hun naam schrijven. Zij gaan, ten eerste, als eerste ruimtereizigers verder dan een baan om de aarde. Of anders gesteld: Apollo 8 is de eerste bemande missie die voldoende kracht en snelheid ontwikkelt om te ontsnappen aan de zwaartekracht van de aarde. Ten tweede: Borman en co gaan als eersten richting maan waardoor zij ook, ten derde, als eersten te maken krijgen met het zwaartekrachtveld van een ander hemellichaam. En door die route zien zij, ten vierde, als eersten met eigen ogen de dark side of the moon.
Dat laatste klinkt wel spectaculair en spannend, maar in werkelijkheid is het niet meer dan een propagandagewijs mooi meegenomen neveneffect. Om te beginnen is wat de drie astronauten concreet te zien krijgen eigenlijk slechts meer van hetzelfde. Meer kraters en vlakten, zoals al bekend van de voorkant. Dus zeker geen sporen van een of andere antropomorfe of andere buitenaardse beschaving, zoals die werd opgevoerd in de meest uiteenlopende sciencefiction. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan het droombeeld waarmee de eerste naoorlogse generatie Vlamingen opgroeit. In De Mottenvanger (1948) ontdekken Suske en Wiske op de achterkant van de maan een oud-Griekse wereld, inclusief goden en tempels.
Earthrise had een even grote impact als de eerste foto van een voetafdruk op de maan. Voordien zagen we de aarde als een gigantisch ding, nu bleek het plots een fragiel plekje in het heelal te zijn. Dat heeft ons nederiger gemaakt
Kris Christiaens
Zelf heeft Kris Christiaens, geboren in 1978, een andere inspiratiebron: ‘Mijn fascinatie voor ruimtevaart is ontstaan door het lezen van Kuifje-strips. Raket naar de maan en Mannen op de maan (1953 en 1954; red.), dat was een openbaring. Ik ben er dan steeds meer over beginnen te lezen. En met de komst van het internet is er een totaal nieuwe wereld opengegaan. Noem het gerust een uit de hand gelopen hobby. Overdag werk ik voor de Vlaamse overheid, buiten mijn werkuren ben ik bijna constant met ruimtevaart bezig. Mijn ouders en grootouders vertelden destijds uitgebreid over het Apollo-tijdperk, dat ik zelf niet heb meegemaakt. Elke vlucht was voor hen het evenement van het jaar. We kunnen ons nu niet meer voorstellen hoe belangrijk die periode geweest is: de wetenschap en de technologie plukken daar ook vandaag nog de vruchten van.’
De verbeelding is heel even aan de macht die jaren. ‘Het waren de gouden jaren 60 en er was de Koude Oorlog, die de militaire en wetenschappelijke wedloop heeft beïnvloed. Daar stond een onbeperkt budget tegenover. President Kennedy had dat op 12 september 1962 in gang gezet met zijn beroemde toespraak We choose to go the Moon, waarin hij de belofte maakte dat tegen het einde van dat decennium een Amerikaanse astronaut op de maan zou wandelen. Het móest wel, politiek gezien, en financieel kón het. Natuurlijk wilde hij zijn eigen populariteit ook opvijzelen. Vandaag durven wereldleiders dat soort beloften niet meer te maken. Zonder Koude Oorlog zou er in 1969 geen maanlanding geweest zijn.’
Voorlezen uit de Bijbel
Er zijn hoe dan ook nog andere nevenaspecten waardoor Apollo 8 de geschiedenis is ingegaan. De missie levert onder meer Earthrise op: de iconische foto waarbij de aarde als een ochtendzon boven de maan lijkt op te komen. Het is ook de eerste door een mens gemaakte foto waarop de aarde in haar geheel te zien is. In betoverend blauw en andere kleurschakeringen, bovendien. En helemaal fascinerend, in een tijd waarin de televisie de huiskamers verovert: met Kerstmis lezen de astronauten live vanuit de ruimte voor uit de Bijbel.
‘Door die foto’s is de mens tot het besef gekomen dat de aarde een kleine, blauwe planeet is,’ zegt Kris Christiaens. ‘Dat heeft een enorme invloed gehad op de maatschappij. Voordien zagen we de aarde als een gigantisch ding, nu bleek het plots een fragiel plekje in het heelal te zijn. Dat heeft ons nederiger gemaakt, we gingen anders denken over onze plek in het heelal. Earthrise had een even grote impact als de eerste foto van een voetafdruk op de maan. En het heeft op korte termijn mede geleid tot de oprichting van organisaties als Greenpeace, het World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) en Earth Day. Met een boutade zou je kunnen stellen dat de mens naar de maan ging om dat hemellichaam te ontdekken, maar dat we uiteindelijk veel meer leerden over onze eigen planeet.’
Astronaut Frank Borman tijdens de Apollo 8-missie.
Wetenschappers bestuderen de donkere zijde van de maan om het klimaat op aarde te kunnen monitoren. Ze observeren daarbij de zogeheten earthshine, een nogal spookachtige gloed. Daardoor kunnen ze, als aanvulling van satellietobservaties, bepalen wat de mogelijkheid van de aarde is om het zonlicht te reflecteren, een belangrijke klimaatparameter. ‘Aardeschijn’ is tijdens de periode van halve maan met het blote oog zichtbaar. Leonardo da Vinci kende het fenomeen al. Hij beschouwde de maan als een gigantische spiegel.
De Nixontapes
Apollo 8 is, zoals al aangegeven, niet los te zien van een wedloop tussen grootmachten. In de jaren 60 alleen nog tussen de Verenigde Staten en de Sovjet-Unie. Het is al de dertigste bemande ruimtevlucht in amper zeven jaar tijd, sinds Joeri Gagarin in 1961 de eerste mens in de ruimte werd. En nog sterker: in 1968 is het de derde bemande missie in minder dan drie maanden, met in diezelfde periode ook nog eens twee onbemande vluchten. Eerst is er Apollo 7 (11-22 oktober), diezelfde maand nog volgen de Sovjets met de Sojoez 3 (26-30 oktober), waarbij enig bemanningslid Georgi Beregovoi tevergeefs een koppeling probeert tot stand te brengen met de gelijktijdig gelanceerde en onbemande Sojoez 2. Een stap richting ruimtestations zoals we die vandaag kennen, dus.
In het kielzog daarvan hebben de Amerikanen te horen gekregen dat de Russen zich opmaken voor een bemande vlucht rond de maan. Foute informatie, want het blijkt om de onbemande sonde Zond 6 te gaan (10-17 november). Maar op dat moment is de Apollo 8-missie al in allerijl bijgesteld en versneld. De voorziene testvlucht in een baan om de aarde wordt een met een aantal maanden vervroegde trip richting maan. Met alle risico’s van dien.
Grootste menselijke ruimte-avontuur eindigde in een wonderbare apotheose!
Voorpagina Gazet van Antwerpen, 28 december 1968
‘Rond de Apollo 8-vlucht waren er nog wat vraagtekens vooraf,’ stelt Kris Christiaens. ‘De Amerikanen beseften dat het een van de allerlaatste stappen was om op de maan te landen. Ze wisten dat ze de juiste draagraket had, de Saturnus 5. Ze wilden de maanlander testen, maar hadden daar ook alle vertrouwen in. Alleen was de vraag: zullen de astronauten wel kunnen terugkeren? Want aan de andere kant van de maan was geen communicatie mogelijk. Die viel gewoon weg. En dan was het bang afwachten of ze snel iets zouden horen van de bemanning. Een kleine technologische stap, maar wel cruciaal. Stel je voor: een paar jaar voordien was er nog euforie over de eerste man in de ruimte, nu stond er hen nog een veel gigantischer stap te wachten.’
‘Blijkbaar had president Nixon verschillende videobanden ingesproken voor de natie, mocht er iets misgelopen zijn tijdens de bemande missies naar de maan. Het moment dat de communicatie even ophield, lag er eentje klaar. De kans dat de missie slaagde werd op fiftyfifty geacht, dat is een waanzinnig risico. Ook nu nog wordt er met een foutmarge gerekend, maar die is veel kleiner dan toen. Men deed dat vanwege de tijdsdruk. De Nasa ging ervan uit dat het een kwestie van maanden was voor de Sovjets ook een bemande raket naar de maan zouden lanceren.’
De onweerstaanbare drang om de eerste te zijn, kost in de Koude Oorlogs-ruimtevaartjaren mensenlevens. Tussen maart 1961 en juni 1971, de pioniersjaren van de bemande vluchten, sterven vijf kosmonauten en negen astronauten, de meesten tijdens tests op de begane grond.
‘En nu naar Mars, en nog verder!’
Zowel de ruimterace als de eraan verbonden risico’s houden in december ‘68 ook bij ons iedereen bijna dagelijks in de ban met opgewonden krantentitels: ‘Apollo-astronauten zullen enkele benauwende momenten doormaken’, ‘Gezagvoerder Borman: tocht om de maan even gevaarlijk als vlucht boven Vietnam’, ‘Nooit bereikte snelheid: 36.000 km per uur!’, ‘Apollo 8 nu in het aantrekkingsveld van de maan’, ‘Doorbraak van dampkring is nu laatste gevaarlijke fase’, ‘In de dampkring tegen 40.000 km/u’. En dan, oef… ‘GROOTSTE MENSELIJKE RUIMTE-AVONTUUR EINDIGDE IN EEN WONDERBARE APOTHEOSE!’
Maar de blik gaat meteen ook heel fors richting toekomst: ‘Zond 6 maakte geslaagde ruimtefoto’s, Apollo 8 wil nog beter doen’, ‘Amerikaanse geleerden ontdekten nieuwe zee op de maan, Sovjets maken weerkaart van Mars en Venus’… Wernher von Braun, het van alle nazi-zonden witgewassen brein achter eerst het Duitse oorlogswapen V-2 en daarna het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartprogramma, voorspelt zelfs een landing op Mars voor 1985, ten laatste 1990. Sterker nog: ‘Wij kunnen nu al ruimtetuigen ontwerpen waarmee de mens zich buiten het zonnestelsel zal begeven.’
Kris Christiaens verklaart die – nooit gerealiseerde – ambitie om naar Mars te gaan als een gevolg van de eerste maanlandingen. ‘Die vielen wetenschappelijk een beetje tegen, door het dorre oppervlak van die planeet. Mars leek veel interessanter. Maar na de bijna-ramp met de Apollo 13 (17 april 1970; red.) kwamen ze bij de Nasa tot het besef dat ze misschien wel te ver aan het gaan waren en dat de mens dat niet aankon. Sovjetvluchten hebben later uitvoerig aangetoond dat de mens niet gemaakt is om een langdurige periode van gewichtloosheid mee te maken. Achteraf is men trouwens teruggekomen op dat standpunt dat de maan wetenschappelijk oninteressant is. Ze hebben in kraters bevroren water gevonden, afkomstig van meteorietinslagen, waaruit je zuurstof kunt halen om te overleven, zodat je ooit een maanbasis kunt creëren, die dan weer kan worden gebruikt om de rest van de ruimte te exploreren.’
Bizarre UFO Filmed Over Lake Ladoga, Russia. December 5, 2018
Bizarre UFO Filmed Over Lake Ladoga, Russia. December 5, 2018
This footage was captured at Lake Ladoga which is in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia. In this video we first see what this person see as some lights in the sky that don't belong there but in the second where he goes to have a better look we can see the craft in all it glory and what is even more stunning is the footage catches another object move very fast to join up with this UFO...
Many thanks to Рыбалка for allowing me the use of his footage
Un habitant du Nebraska a filmé des images « étonnantes » de quelque chose qui se trouvait dans le ciel. Certains prétendent qu’il s’agissait d’un « avion top secret » planant au-dessus de cet État américain.
Ces curieuses images ont été filmées par Andrew, un homme qui vit à Omaha, dans le Nebraska. Au moment des faits, il roulait à bord de son véhicule sur une route très fréquentée en pleine journée.
La vidéo semble nous montrer un étrange engin se déplaçant à travers le ciel.
En zoomant, il devient évident que cet objet gigantesque ne pouvait pas être un avion ou un dirigeable en raison de sa forme non conventionnelle.
Une lumière à la pointe de l'objet clignote alors qu'il survole une route très fréquentée.
STEALTH BOMBER? A strange object is spotted flying over Omaha
(Pic: YOUTUBE/STARFORCE)
« Il se trame quelque chose», a réagi StarForce, un théoricien du complot sur YouTube, en regardant cette surprenante vidéo.
« Ce n’est pas un hélicoptère typique, c’est un très gros drone. »
Mais dans les commentaires, les internautes ont affirmé que ce mystérieux OVNI était plus susceptible d’être un bombardier B-2.
Ces bombardiers B-2 (ou bombardiers furtifs) peuvent larguer 80 bombes en l'espace de 22 secondes seulement.
Pesant 71 000 kg, le bombardier furtif a souvent été utilisé par l’armée de l’air pour montrer sa force à ses rivaux.
Plus tôt cette année, des spécialistes ont affirmé que les États-Unis utiliseraient probablement des bombardiers B-2 afin « d’anéantirles forces iraniennes, le régime et l'État dans les plus brefs délais».
Ces bombardiers étaient également présents alors que les tensions entre les États-Unis et la Corée du Nord avaient repris de plus belle en janvier 2018.
Comme le note StarForce, ces avions furtifs auraient été observés dans le ciel d'Omaha par le passé. En effet, des habitants avaient filmé « des images étonnantes de bombardiers furtifs passantjuste au-dessus dela cime des arbres».
Au sujet de ces insaisissables bombardiers furtifs, le spécialiste se demande : « L'armée va-t-elle passer à une étape de préparation complètement différente ?»
Bob Lazar’s claims regarding Alien technology at Area 51
Bob Lazar’s claims regarding Alien technology at Area 51
Get over it.
There has never been any Alien technology at Area 51 (or to be more specific, at the alleged S-4 by Papoose Lake claimed by Bob Lazar). Gullible folks believe in fiction rather than in reality.
There has never been any UFO/ET activity at Area 51, despite Bob Lazar‘s proverbial claims.
Yes, Bob Lazar did tell a nice story. In fact, a great story. But the fact is that it simply remains just a story. It appears to be a cleverly made story at that. Needless to say, it is extremely difficult to prove its authenticity.
It is more important to ask why he had to tell his dubious and largely unsubstantiated story which seems to be persistently endorsed by debonair raconteur, George Knapp, who practically made a secondary career promoting Bob Lazar’s story.
There is not one shred of tangible, solid, physical as well as irrefutable documentary evidence whatsoever that conclusively proves that Area 51 had anything to do with Aliens or UFOs.
That is the bottom line.
While open to the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in this vast universe, the overwhelming majority of the world’s astronomers and scientists are skeptical about us ever been visited by any physical, extraterrestrial spacecraft of any kind, maneuvered or manipulated by any physical extraterrestrial biological entities of any kind.
In the meantime, as far as Area 51 is concerned, it continues to be a vital research, development and test conglomerate facility managed by a detachment from Southern California’s Edwards Air Force Base (Air Force Test Center) and supported by our hard-earned tax dollars, for our national defense interest.
PS:
One of the lamest excuses held by fanatic believers of Bob Lazar is that he hadn’t changed his story over the years. It’s not extremely difficult for any highly intelligent person (and Lazar indeed was highly intelligent) to keep telling the same story from the beginning, making sure not to change anything even after many years.
The World Meteorological Organization has said there’s a “75–80% chance” of a fully-fledged El Niño event by February, 2019. Click in for a good video from ESA describing El Niños and their global effects.
The European Space Agency (ESA) posted the video above on December 7, 2018, in response to anEl Niño / La Niña updateon November 27 from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The WMO said in late November there is a “75–80 percent chance” that a fully-fledged El Niño event will be with us by February 2019; however, it is not expected to be a strong event.
Sea surface temperatures are already at weak El Niño levels in part of the tropical Pacific, although the corresponding atmospheric patterns have not yet materialized.
ESA took the opportunity to post the explanatory video above, which describes El Niño and its cooler cousin, La Niña, as opposite phases of what is known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. They are complex, naturally occurring climatic phenomena, occurring at irregular intervals of between two and seven years.
As the animation above shows, the first signs of an El Niño are a weakening of the trade winds and warmer-than-usual sea-surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. This not only affects fisheries off the coast of South America, but leads to a disruption in weather patterns around the world.
These changing weather patterns can cause heatwaves, drought, wildfires and flooding in different places.
But, again, the coming El Niño is expected to be on the weak side, unlike the 1997–98 El Niño event, which was regarded as one of the strongest El Niño events in recorded history, resulting in widespread drought, flooding and other natural disasters occurring across the globe. The 2014-16 El Niño event was also a very strong one.
As for the coming event, the WMO said:
Sea surface temperatures in the east-central tropical Pacific have been at weak El Niño levels since October 2018. However, the atmosphere has not yet responded to this additional warmth, and the upper level winds, cloud and sea level pressure patterns do not yet reflect typical El Niño features.
Model forecasts suggest that this will change within the coming month or two. The chance of a full-fledged El Niño between December 2018 – February 2019 is estimated to be about 75-80 percent, and about 60 percent for it to continue through February-April 2019. Model predictions of the strength of the El Niño range from just a warm-neutral condition through to a moderate strength El Niño event, with sea surface temperatures peaking at approximately 0.8 to 1.2 degrees Celsius above average.
The chance for a strong event (sea surface temperatures in the east-central tropical Pacific rising to at least 1.5 degrees Celsius above average) is currently low.
Maxx Dilley, director of WMO’s Climate Prediction and Adaptation branch, added:
The forecast El Niño is not expected to be as powerful as the event in 2015-2016, which was linked with droughts, flooding and coral bleaching in different parts of the world.
Even so, it can still significantly affect rainfall and temperature patterns in many regions, with important consequences to agricultural and food security sectors, and for management of water resources and public health, and it may combine with long-term climate change to boost 2019 global temperatures.
Bottom line: The World Meteorological Organization said in late November there is a “75–80% chance” that a fully-fledged El Niño event will be with us by February 2019; however, it is not expected to be a strong event. The European Space Agency responded with an excellent video describing El Niño events and their effects.
Why are extraterrestrials here? It’s the most common question I get asked during media interviews, at UFO conferences, and from just everyday people who know I write about the subject.
The answer isn’t easy because Earth humans don’t have a clue regarding the extraterrestrials’ interests. In our own culture we all have different motivations, be it fame, fortune, family life and other influences. We’re certainly not all the same in terms of our needs, desires and pursuits.
Cultural aspects play a big part in our interests and outlook. I’ve met people who have told me they’ve never seen Star Trek or Star Wars. I’ve also known others who have never read Harry Potterbooks or seen the movie adaptations. Just these few dissimilarities alone define a vast difference in western cultural perspective.
So when it comes to extraterrestrials, too many people try to interpret them from a specific human cultural viewpoint.
Why are extraterrestrials here? I tend to think humans are interesting to watch and study. I suppose that might be the extraterrestrial xenoanthropologist’s viewpoint.
If you are a follower of the Ancient Astronaut theory, there seems to be a huge preponderance of evidence to suggest that extraterrestrials have been visiting during human evolution. They seem to have been teaching our ancient forbearers’ arts and sciences, as well as nudging us as a species toward technologically being capable of leaving this planet in the far future.
Then there’s what I call the extraterrestrial protector and nanny caretaker aspect. On the morning of April 14, 1561, the citizenry of the German city of Nuremberg awoke to a massive aerial battle going on in the skies over the city. It happened again five years later in Basel, Switzerland, on July 27 and 28 and Aug. 7, 1566. Was this a clash between an off-world aggressor species and another caretaker species?
Of course, Nuremberg and Basel were long ago, so how about something a bit more modern? In July and August 1945 the United States detonated three nuclear weapons: one in the New Mexico desert, followed by nuclear attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Shortly afterward, strange crafts in our world’s skies became a major topic of discussion.
In June and July 1947, there was a massive wave of “flying saucer-type” craft reported from 39 states via the wire services of the day. There was an exhaustive study in the 1960s by NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) author Ted Bloecher in his book Report on the UFO Wave of 1947.
Did our nanny off-world caretakers realize that our war was like primitive species playing with a box of nuclear matches? Perhaps this set off concerns with the nanny ET caretakers.
Evidence of this is well documented in Robert Hastings’ book UFOs and Nukes. Hastings interviewed more than 80 former Air Force missile officers; he heard accounts that during the Cold War unknown craft hovered over and disabled nuclear missiles and their control facilities at various times during the mid- to late-1960s. But that was 50 years ago, so what are our nanny ET caretakers concerned about these days?
In February 2018 I interviewed intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, the former director of the top-secret Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). He told me that the “UFOs seem to be interested in our most advanced military technology.”
Another answer seems to come from two sources. First, author Thomas Conwell, who has a series of THEY Are Here books, has spent several years studying the cluster patterns of certain types of UFOs, He has noted a trend where the nanny ET caretakers seem acutely interested in our polluted areas, strip mining and waste areas.
Second, studies of abductees and experiancers seem to indicate that the nanny ET caretakers keep telling these humans a common message: “Take care of your planet!”
So why are extraterrestrials here? I think the best answer is to protect the Earth’s human species from aggressor off-world species who would subjugate us or destroy us. The other answer seems to be to protect and guide humans from destroying itself and this lovely blue planet we live on.
ON THE ROAD IN 2019
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 19-20
UFO MEGA CON, Laughlin, Nevada, March 24-30
Ozark Mountains UFO Conference, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, April 12-14
Phoenix MUFON, Tempe, Arizona, May 11
Pine Bush UFO Festival, Pine Bush, New York, May 18
Michigan UFO Con-Tact, Houghton Lake, Michigan, Sept. 20-21
Greater New England UFO Conference, Leominster, Massachusetts, Oct. 4-5
Retelling the Story That First Made Area 51 a Household Name
Retelling the Story That First Made Area 51 a Household Name
In 1989, a man by the name of Bob Lazar's story about working on UFOs at a secret government facility in the desert sparked decades of Area 51 fan fare. Now Lazar is telling his story in full in the new documentary, 'Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers.' The film's director Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell tells Cheddar what first drew him to Lazar's story.
LAS VEGAS - 2018 was a big year for UFO news. It was a year ago this month when the Pentagon admitted it has been secretly studying unidentified flying objects and also released a few videos recorded by military pilots.
The sudden re-emergence of official interest in these unknown aircraft has also resulted in a closer look at older UFO cases and testimony, including one story that started in Las Vegas.
A new documentary film about UFO whistleblower Bob Lazar is out and there's no way I-Team Reporter George Knapp would miss the world premiere.
It was 29 years ago that Lazar came forward, claimed he worked on technology out in the Nevada desert, and suddenly the Area 51 base became known all over the world.
The I-Team has done occasional updates with Lazar over the decades but it is never easy to get him to open up. The premiere of the new film has fired up many of the same arguments about his credibility, but the first audience to see the movie didn't need much convincing.
The line of eager fans stretched around a city block in downtown Los Angeles. A sellout crowd of 1,600 people filed into the historic United Artists theater to see a film narrated by movie star Mickey Rourke and to hobnob with like-minded enthusiasts, some brought their Area 51 saucer model kits. At least one wore an ET mask.
A few famous faces were in the audience when director Jeremy Corbell took the stage and explained why he was inspired to tackle this particular slice of UFO history.
"The reason I made this film is because I wanted to know the truth," said Jeremy Corbell, documentary filmmaker. "People that are haters, debunkers talk smack. Some of you are in this audience. You don't know the story. You didn't get it right."
As the lights dimmed and the projector fired up, the subject of the movie Bob Lazar took a seat alongside other interested parties.
"There are nine flying saucers, flying discs out there..."
That 1989 interview on KLAS TV changed things forever for Bob Lazar, whose identity was made public months later. His story about alleged alien technology being stored and analyzed at S-4, a camouflaged facility built into a mountain south of Groom Lake, the heart of the now infamous Area 51 military base, set off a stampede.
UFO researchers by the busload made the pilgrimage to the Nevada desert, along with major news organizations. The story put Area 51 on the map worldwide, inspired movies, TV shows, and books, led to the creation of the E.T. highway and a namesake professional baseball team.
In our periodic interviews with Lazar over the last 29 years, he expressed regret about ever coming forward. In Corbell's film, Lazar opens up even more.
"I worked at a secret base called S-4 near Area 51. It changed my life, mostly for the negative. At this point in my life, I would probably lean toward not saying anything," Lazar said.
In the film, Lazar goes into specific detail about the technology he says he saw, technology that is remarkably similar to the objects seen in videos released one year ago by the Pentagon and first obtained by the To The Stars Academy.
These craft can generate gravity and bend space-time, Lazar said nearly three decades ago, and now, the topic is once again generating waves of media coverage.
Audience response to the film's premiere was overwhelmingly positive enough to coax a visibly uncomfortable Lazar onto the stage with the director to answer a few questions, including the attacks on his credibility that are a staple on social media. Lazar says he doesn't blame people for their skepticism.
"I understand it is an incredible story and I myself would have a hard time believing it. As I said in the film, the events portrayed occurred just like they were shown. Frankly, I'd prefer that people didn't believe it so I don't get bothered and asked questions at all."
UFO sighting at Cape Willoughby Lighthouse, Kangaroo Island
UFO sighting at Cape Willoughby Lighthouse, Kangaroo Island
Stan Gorton
KI UFO: A cropped and zoomed-in version of Andrew Isaacson's UFO photograph taken at Cape Willoughby Lighthouse on Kangaroo Island.
International visitor Andrew Isaacson inadvertently captured an unidentified flying object while visiting Cape Willoughby Lighthouse on Kangaroo Island.
He took the photograph of the UFO at 4.25pm on Wednesday, December 5 in perfectly clear conditions.
Mr Isaacson now wants to know if anyone else saw anything else unexplained flying around the Dudley Peninsula or Kangaroo Island in the past few weeks.
“Just when I stopped taking photos and moved the camera down, I saw something out of the corner of my eye,” he said. “Whatever it was moved silently and exceptionally quickly.”
He didn’t realise he had captured the object on his camera until he got back to his accommodation and started downloading and going through his photos from the day.
His only thought was that it could have been some kind of unmanned drone, as it did not move like a plane or helicopter.
He said it appeared to be about a “football field” distance off the shoreline below the lighthouse.
“I’d be interested to know if anyone else reported a sighting that day,” he said.
Mr Isaacson was originally from Sydney but now lives and works as an interior designer in Berlin, Germany.
He was on Kangaroo Island with his mother who was celebrating her 90th birthday and were staying with friends at the Seaview Lodge in Penneshaw.
KI UFO: The original version of Andrew Isaacson's UFO photograph taken at Cape Willoughby Lighthouse on Kangaroo Island.
There have been numerous other UFO reports over the years reported in this newspaper.
Have you ever seen any usual activity in the skies above Kangaroo Island?
We would love to hear about it – please contact stan.gorton@fairfaxmedia.com.au
Here are some of our reader comments posted on The Islander Facebook after our previous UFO coverage:
A friend of mine tagged me in article in the National Geographic. I live on the Dudley peninsula not far from antechamber bay, around November last year myself a friend and my 7-year-old son all saw one night what we first thought was just a satellite. But then it became brighter also changing colours from white blue to green and erratically changing direction several times before speeding off and out of sight. – Leonard Deacon
Years ago, driving home- Nth coast road onto Pratt’s Rd, I saw a light in the sky to the west, like a star, but four times as big, and too high to be a house light. I pulled over and watched it for a while, thinking maybe it was a plane coming directly toward me, but it didn’t move. Eventually I went home, but when curiosity got to me I went back out to check it out again, but it was gone. I’ll never know what it was, but it was certainly unusual. – Liz Fogg
There was one time when i was about 10 it was above the hill and shot to ironstone point and back .we watched it for about 2 minutes then it vanished. Others saw it too. About 1975. Never forgotten it . A huge bright light. – Dallys Griffiths
I used to see it quite often at certain times of the year. I think it was a star perhaps Venus low on the horizon to the west over Middle River. – Carol Houston
I had an experience years ago coming back from Kingscote to American River, I was watching a weird light then it disappeared then a minute later this bright light came flat out behind me then shot off was very strange indeed. – Nikki Redman
I also remember Jane Bowering saying in the late 90's she had an encounter on platform highway one night. I don't think Jane is the kind of person to tell lies either. – Daniel Glasson
Yep, and no one believed me, lol. Saw it in Kingscote. Can’t explain it, wasn’t a plane or anything else. – Simone Yvette Halloran
Those are Chinese spy planes. – Anna Mae Junio
Those bloody crossroads at Destree!! – Natasha Jane Kearslake
Extremely rare audio has emerged online that is believed to be of an interview with the only adult known to have spoken out about an infamous 1966 mass UFO sighting in Melbourne.
On April 6, 1966 over 300 students and some staff reportedly witnessed a UFO flying silently in the sky before disappearing behind some nearby trees.
Andrew Greenwood was a teacher at Westall High School when the object was spotted and is one of the only adults to have spoken about his experience.
It has been 52 years since the alleged sighting but there are very few eyewitness details that have emerged in that time.
Though rare audio, believed to be of an interview between Mr Greenwood and American physicist, Dr James E McDonald, may shed some light on what really happened.
The sighting occurred at Westall High School in 1966.
Source:Herald Sun
The audio was recently published by the YouTube channel QUFOSR and claims to be a “huge piece of evidence for the case”.
A link to the audio was sent to news.com.au by the owner of the channel, who believes it may be the first time the interview has been posted online.
A recording of Mr McDonald describing the interview has been posted online before but audio of the actual interview is very rare.
Though news.com.au cannot verify the claims it is Mr McDonald and Mr Greenwood speaking on the tape, it is still brings an interesting perspective on the baffling case.
At the beginning of the interview Mr Greenwood told Mr McDonald that he initially brushed off the girl that ran into his classroom claiming there was a UFO outside.
However, at recess time, he thought he might as well go have a look outside, purely out of curiosity, it was then that he saw about 300 students and a few teachers all gathered on the oval.
“I observed the object everyone was looking at. It was grey against a blue grey sky so I didn’t see it immediately,” Mr Greenwood said.
“The only thing I’ve got to compare it against is some smaller sized cessna aircraft and it was approximately two thirds the length of one of those.”
He said it was hard to make out the exact shape but the best way he could describe it was a big plate with a bulge in the middle.
According to Mr Greenwood, the object moved in a very strange way and was a lot faster than any other aircraft he had ever seen.
“It did hover at times, it seemed to be able to accelerate and disappear out of sight and then someone would see it over in another part of the sky,” he said.
“It moved a considerable distance away very rapidly and then moved back again.”
At one point the object moved towards the crowd, but it moved in such a way that it was impossible to know it was moving until it was right in front of them.
“It came towards us, not that we could see it actually coming towards us, but we could see that it was closer now than it was before. It would go up and down. It could move slowly, but generally it seemed to hover or move really fast,” he said.
The sudden appearance of a light plane made the encounter even more bizarre, with Mr Greenwood noting the UFO seemed to be playing some sort of game with the planes.
“[The plane] approached it and then tried to move around it and [the UFO] moved over to another part of the sky very rapidly. The plane followed it over and it moved back again,” he said.
The sighting sparked a lot of speculation by the local paper.
Picture: QUFOSR/YouTubeSource:YouTube
“It seemed to be playing cat and mouse with the plane.”
More planes started to arrive and by the end Mr Greenwood said there were about five planes in the sky with the object.
According to the teacher the UFO was in the sky for about 25 minutes from when it was first noticed and then suddenly it just disappeared.
“It just vanished. It did one of its accelerations and then no one could pick it up again. It was gone,” Mr Greenwood said.
The incident understandably attracted a lot of attention from the local media, with The Dandenong Journal covering the event in great detail and running two front page stories on it.
The Age also ran a small article about the sighting, writing that the unidentified object may have been a weather balloon.
Even though it is the largest mass sighting in Australia to date, hardly any other newspapers made mention of the event, apart from The Sun and The Herald running a few cartoons poking fun at the claim.
There were no pictures of the Westall UFO but this is a photograph of another sighting that was captured just a year before. The exact location of the photo is unknown.
Source:News Corp Australia
At the time, there were a lot of claims that the government was trying to get people to stop talking about the sighting, along with several; witnesses saying sharply dressed men in black suits visited them and warned them from speaking about the incident.
Despite over 300 people seeing the light planes in the sky with the object, the closest airport, Moorabbin, denied having any planes in the sky at that time.
“I drive past (Moorabbin) several times a day and there is never a time when there’s not planes taking off or coming in,” Mr Greenwood can be heard saying.
“So I think it was rather a silly statement for them to make that at that time there were no planes in the sky.”
People are still trying to figure out what exactly those 300 people saw. Picture: Supplied.
Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied
When Mr Greenwood tried to speak with the physical education teacher who also witnessed the event all she would admit is that she “saw something” but then refused to speak about it anymore.
He also said he was met with complete denial from the headmaster who didn’t want to hear anything about it and even accused him of being hung over and seeing things.
“He is one of these people that runs his school on the book and if it’s not in the book you don’t do it. And there is nothing about how to handle UFO sightings in the book. Therefore you ignore them,” Mr Greenwood said.
He said that after the incident the school received a visit from the Royal Australian Airforce but the headmaster didn’t want to hear anything they had to say and “promptly told them to get lost”.
The interview offers a rare first-hand account of what may have happened that day.
The sighting sparked worldwide interest, with people still debating about what those students and staff actually saw.
Some believe it was definitely an alien encounter while others suspect it may have been new government technology.
Put more succinctly, academia doesn’t put a whole lot of credence in the incessant claims that some of the thousands of UFOs sighted every year are actuallyalien craft. But at least one scientist has recently gone on record suggesting that the clipboard-carrying crowd should be a little less sure.
That scientist is Silvano Colombano, a computer expert and roboticist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in the heart of Silicon Valley. He was a presenter at a conference about new approaches in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) held earlier this year at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. Colombano says the skeptical attitudes of most researchers might be too cramped. They could be throwing the infant out with the bath water.
He cited this example: If you approach your favorite astronomy professor and see what she has to say about interstellar rocketry, chances are she’ll roll her eyes. The energy required to accelerate an Enterprise-size starship to near the speed of light is greater than can be wrung from all the remaining fossil fuel on Earth. Fast travel between the stars is incredibly difficult (or impossible), she’ll say. So forget the idea of little gray guys piloting saucers in our airspace. Their home planet, wherever it might be, is just too far away.
But there’s an assumption here, as Colombano pointed out. Namely, that the aliens are biological, and require a fast transit between star systems to forestall dying en route. This small problem, after all, was the motive for Star Trek’s (fictional) warp drive.
However, there’s a fix for that: Get rid of intelligence that dies. Anyone who’s not a total troglodyte knows that artificial intelligence is on the way. By the end of this century, it’s possible that the smartest thing on Earth will be a machine. Since most star systems are billions of years older than our own, you can be sure that any clever inhabitants out there have long ago relegated biological brains to the history books, and are homes to very smart, and possibly very compact, thinking hardware.
As Colombano says in a new paper, “Given the fairly common presence of elements that might be involved in the origin of life… it is a reasonable assumption that life ‘as we know it’ was at least a common starting point, but our form of life and intelligence may just be a tiny first step in a continuing evolution that may well produce forms of intelligence that are far superior to our and no longer based on carbon ‘machinery.'”
Well, an obvious advantage of non-carbon machinery is that it needn’t be cursed with a short lifetime (this despite the experience you may have had with your laptop). Truly sophisticated devices can be self-repairing. Consequently, they can go great distances simply because they’re in no hurry to get to their destination.
This has a profound consequence. Earth has been trundling around the sun for more than 4 billion years. Even at the modest speed of a NASA rocket, that’s more than enough time to get to our planet from anywhere in the Milky Way Galaxy. If the passengers don’t mind spending billions of years in a middle seat, they could to it. Compact machines wouldn’t take much space, and wouldn’t groan at the long transit time.
So, what should we conclude? Clearly, it’s possible that some alien intelligence has decided to come to our solar system and check Earth off its bucket list. Doing so doesn’t violate physics. This might have happened 100 million years ago or a billion years ago, and we wouldn’t know.
But the more appealing thought for many people is that we’re being visited now. Of course, a scientist would consider such a suggestion of interest only if it could be corroborated by observation. Bright ideas are nice, but evidence rules.
So Colombano suggests that massive computers be applied to finding such evidence among the many thousands of UFO sightings. Maybe there’s a gold nugget in all those reports. As Colombano points out, if there’s something to be discovered, we won’t find it unless we look.
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Filmpje van ‘vrouw met reptielenogen’ gaat viral. Lees wat deze krant erover schreef
Filmpje van ‘vrouw met reptielenogen’ gaat viral. Lees wat deze krant erover schreef
Er circuleert op internet een bizar filmpje waarin een Oekraïense presentatrice te zien is die heel kort haar reptielenogen zou laten zien.
Het gaat om een video van een spirituele beweging die AllatRa heet. De video werd in juli geplaatst en onlangs opgepikt door de Peruaanse krant La Republica.
In de video, die maar liefst zes uur duurt, praten een man en twee vrouwen met elkaar over spiritualiteit en Atlantis.
Reptielenogen
Tijdens het gesprek kijkt één van de presentatrices op een bepaald moment omhoog en terwijl ze knippert zouden haar reptielenogen te zien zijn, aldus de krant.
Het tafereel is te zien in de oorspronkelijke beelden die door AllatRa op YouTube zijn geplaatst.
Sommige kijkers trokken een parallel met de tv-serie V. Sceptici kwamen met verschillende mogelijke verklaringen.
In scène gezet
Sommigen suggereerden dat het in scène is gezet door AllatRa om de aandacht te trekken, terwijl anderen claimden dat de ogen van de vrouw simpelweg licht reflecteren.
Spreker David Icke werd bekend met zijn theorie dat een buitenaards reptielenras naar aarde kwam om zich hier te kruisen met een geselecteerde groep mensen.
Nakomelingen uit dat geslacht zouden nu de aardse elite, waaronder het Britse koningshuis, vormen.
Een paar jaar geleden zag je niet of nauwelijks paarse luchten, nu is dat anders en komen ze uit alle hoeken en gaten tevoorschijn.
Naast die vreemde luchten, lijkt er opeens ook weer een toename te zijn van onbekende objecten die door de lucht vliegen.
We beginnen met het verhaal van een lezer, die eveneens een aantal foto's meestuurt (dank!).
Ik woon al zo lang als ik me herinner in de buurt van kassen en ben gewend aan het licht van de kassen.
Sinds enkele maanden zie ik soms Paars in de lucht.
Goed, het licht van de kassen reflecteert op de wolken, dat weet ik en ik weet ook dat er met paars word gewerkt sinds kort. Het gekke is, kassen zijn statisch en ze vervagen enkel als de wolken minder worden en zijn weer even fel als de wolken terug zijn.
Dit is anders met dit paarse licht. Soms is het er een half uurtje en dan vervaagt het naar weg (zodra de zon helemaal onder is). Dan zie ik het tijden niet en ineens is het er weer. Wel altijd op de zelfde plaats.
Kan iemand mij vertellen wat dit paarse licht is? Ik weet voor een feit dat het geen kas is, aangezien die dan structureel zichtbaar moet zijn.
De foto’s zijn NIET bewerkt.
De foto’s met paars nam ik toen ik ging lopen met de hond, de foto zonder paars toen ik terug kwam op het punt waar ik de foto nam zo ongeveer een half uurtje later. het licht (geel) van de kassen is er nog steeds, het paars is weg en dus geen kas.
Gaarne indien op de website vermeld anoniem.
Ik heb indien gewenst als bewijs dat ze niet zijn bewerkt ook een filmpje gemaakt.
Het volgende voorval betreft eveneens een soort paarse lucht, maar een ander soort paars dan hierboven omschreven.
Niet alleen een vreemd paarsachtige wolk boven Boston in de Amerikaanse staat Massachusetts, maar in of onder die wolk iets wat daar niet thuishoort. Het is een stilhangend object, bestaande uit vier lichten.
Volgens Tyler van Secureteam is dit voorval ingediend bij Mufon, de publieke database waar iedereen waarnemingen kan deponeren, maar werd de uitgebreide beschrijving van het voorval binnen de kortste keren verwijderd. Hij zegt dat deze organisatie misschien helemaal niet is wat het lijkt, maar dat deze wordt gecontroleerd/bestuurd vanuit de overheid en dat dit wellicht de reden is dat die omschrijving zo snel was verdwenen.
Dit betekent dat we van dit voorval verder dan ook vrij weinig weten, maar bijzonder is het wel.
De volgende vreemde gebeurtenis kwamen we tegen bij het Youtubekanaal van een man die regelmatig bijzondere opnames heeft, genaamd The Hidden Underbelly.
De beelden zijn gemaakt in Karelië in de buurt van een meer Ladoga genaamd. Dit alles is weer te vinden in de buurt van Leningrad en degene die dit gefilmd heeft ziet een aantal vreemde lichten aan de hemel.
Op een gegeven moment zakt het enigszins weg achter de bomen en komt er zelfs een tweede object in beeld.
Natuurlijk moet je voorzichtig zijn met deze beelden, zeker ook omdat ze uit Rusland komen en ze daar heel goed weten hoe je nepvideo's maakt. Echter, deze ziet er zo op het eerste gezicht vrij echt uit, ook omdat je op een gegeven moment de takken van de bomen voor het object ziet. De heer Alberda zal het daar wel niet mee eens zijn, omdat hij vindt dat alles op deze website nep en GCI is, maar deze zou zo maar echt kunnen zijn. En als dat zo is, dan is het een heel bijzondere opname.
Echter, het gedroeg zich anders dan een normaal hemellichaam, waaronder het plotseling versnellen. Hierdoor zijn er steeds meer wetenschappers van overtuigd dat het object in kwestie, Oumuamua genaamd en waar wij ook al eerder over schreven, wellicht toch een ruimteschip is dat afkomstig is uit een ander zonnestelsel.
Nu komt er toch wel het verrassende nieuws dat een aantal astronomen aan de Harvard universiteit een onderzoek hebben gepubliceerd waarin zij bekendmaken dat ze in de buurt van Jupiter nog vier onbekende objecten hebben aangetroffen die wel eens uit een ander zonnestelsel afkomstig zouden kunnen zijn.
Objecten die zich net als Oumuamua vreemd gedragen en zich niet houden aan de regels zoals die normaal gesproken gelden voor hemellichamen, zoals plotseling versnellen, afremmen of van richting veranderen.
Grote vraag is dan natuurlijk wie of wat dat zijn.
Tornadoes From the Ground up Not in the Clouds as Once Thought
Tornadoes From the Ground up Not in the Clouds as Once Thought
Historically, scientists assumed tornado rotation began in storm clouds, creating a funnel that travels downwards. This theory matches what storm chasers commonly observe visually in the field. Viewers often report seeing funnel clouds gradually descending until they make contact with the ground.
But new research combining a new type of Doppler radar with photos and videos of tornadoes formed by supercell thunderstorms shows the opposite is true: Tornadoes materialize from the ground up.
Weather forecasters typically issue tornado warnings based on radar observations of strong rotation above the ground, but the new findings suggest forecasters must re-evaluate their warning procedure, according to the researchers.
A tornado in Galatia, Kansas on 25 May 2012 as it was decaying.
Credit: Jana Houser.
“We need to reconsider the paradigms that we have to explain tornado formation, and we especially need to communicate this to forecasters who are trying to make warnings and issue warnings,” said Jana Houser, a meteorologist at Ohio University in Athens who will present the new findings here today at the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting. “You are not going to really ever be finding strong evidence of a tornado descending, so we need to stop making that a priority in our forecasting strategies.”
Research conducted in the 1970s suggested tornadoes form from rotation that starts several kilometers above Earth’s surface. The theory was that this funnel gradually sucked in air from below, descending until it touched the ground.
Most meteorologists have accepted this theory of tornado formation, but a series of new observations from rapidly scanning radars has started to change that.
One of the pivotal cases contributing to the new understanding of tornado formation occurred on May 31, 2013. On this day, the El Reno tornado formed in central Oklahoma and shattered previous tornado records. It was the widest tornado ever recorded, peaking at 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles) wide, and had wind speeds of more than 480 kilometers per hour (300 miles per hour), the second-highest wind speeds recorded on Earth.
Shot of the El Reno, Oklahoma EF-3 tornado near maximum width and peak intensity on 31 May 2013.
Credit: Nick Nolte, CC-BY-3.0.
Houser and a team of researchers from the University of Oklahoma happened to be monitoring the storm with a new type of mobile Doppler radar system that collected tornado wind speeds every 30 seconds. Afterwards, Anton Seimon, a geographer at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina who had chased the El Reno storm, collected hundreds of still photos and videos of the epic twister from citizens and fellow storm chasers.
When Houser compared her radar data with images collected by Seimon, she noticed something odd. The images clearly showed a visible tornado at the ground several minutes before her radar picked it up.
Puzzled, Houser went back through her radar data and analyzed the data taken at the ground. It is typically difficult to get good radar measurements at or near the ground, but Houser and her team had deployed their instrument on a slight rise and there were no obstructions between them and the tornado, so this time, they had data good enough to work with.
Jana Houser standing next to the Rapid X-Pol radar instrument, a new type of rapidly-scanning mobile radar system, during a storm chase on 8 May 2012.
Credit: Jana Houser.
She found clear evidence of rotation at the ground before there was rotation at higher altitudes. Houser then examined other sets of tornado data and found that in many cases, tornado-strength rotation develops at or near the ground first, rather than starting in the cloud itself. In all four datasets she analyzed, none of the tornadoes formed following the classical “top-down” process.
“It emphasizes the fact that we need to have strong, low-level, basically near-ground level rotation, located in the right spot, at the right time, with respect to the larger parent storm circulations in order to form a tornado,” Houser said.
As winter 2018 ensues here in America, the seasonal appearance of one of my favorite unusual natural phenomena–the so-called “mystery booms”–can generally be expected.
Although these unusual “booms” have a wide variety of causes, seasonal appearances in the winter months are sometimes associated with cryoseisms (more commonly known as frost quakes). These are cooler-weather localized phenomena that occur when explosive pressure builds up below ground, often around the time of the first significant freeze of the winter. After groundwater saturation occurs following periods of heavy rain, if temperatures drop below freezing it can result in fractures that result in localized tremors, and sometimes loud “booms” associated with the event.
While these localized “quakes” are an interesting seasonal phenomenon, there are interesting things that are sometimes associated with more conventional seismic phenomena too, such as luminous phenomena known as “earthquake lights.”
Unexplained illumination photographed over Table Rock, North Carolina (image by Bill Fox).
In fact, as of the time I’m writing this, a small 4.4 magnitude earthquake occurred earlier this morning near the Tennessee/North Carolina border, and many residents in my region felt the quake, including yours truly. At approximately 4:16 AM local time, I felt a light, but noticeable shaking that gently rocked my entire home. Presuming it was an earthquake (since my hometown of Asheville, North Carolina is right along the Brevard Fault), I noted the time before attempting to go back to sleep, so that I could gauge whether the timing would be correct if reports the following day indicated that a quake had indeed occurred.
Sure enough, this morning reports from around the region were commenting on the earthquake (the primary 4.4 magnitude quake actually occurred at around 6:30 AM ET, so the light tremblor I felt must have preceded the later, more significant quake). It is not uncommon for lighter quakes to accompany such a seismic event, sometimes occurring before, and after the primary quake.
Here’s where things get a little interesting though; before going back to sleep, the notion struck me to look out the window to see if there were any indications of what might have caused it (apart from my presumption that a small earthquake had just occurred). Looking out the window, I noted a bright light over the horizon in the distance, which was extremely vivid and approximately 1/4 the size of the full moon. Had this been one of the infamous earthquake lights?
Earthquake lights are believed to be natural luminous phenomena that occur around regions where tectonic or seismic activity occur. These little-understood phenomena are a subject of much debate, and theories about their appearances and types of manifestation range from plasmas akin to ball lightning, to the release of gases that become airborne and may ignite, causing illuminations that become visible as they burn.
A famous example of alleged earthquake lights that appear on a recurring basis here in my region are the Brown Mountain Lights, which have been studied a variety of times over the years (to-date, the most comprehensive scientific study occurred decades ago, as undertaken by George R. Mansfield in March and April of 1922; for more on this, see USGS Circular 646, “Origin of the Brown Mountain Light in North Carolina“). Although it was Mansfield’s contention that the distant headlights of locomotives could explain most of the lights, some anecdotal evidence may suggest that the lights are frequently seen in modern times, and often above the horizon (it is this writer’s opinion that a ball-lightning-like plasma may account for at least some of the appearances of the illuminations at Brown Mountain, as potentially documented in this footage obtained by Dr. Daniel B. Caton of Appalachian State University in 2016).
All this to say, in essence, that there is a bit of history of “earthquake lights” around the Brevard Fault area, and coinciding with a small tremblor preceding a 4.4 magnitude earthquake in my region, the thought crossed my mind that I might finally be seeing one of these elusive nocturnal illuminations. It should be noted, of course, that the area over the horizon to the East where the light appeared also happened to be the general area where Venus would be visible in the early morning hours; the problem with the Venus theory, however, was that the sky was completely overcast, with a ceiling at about 36,700 feet (according to accuweather.com). Would Venus, bright though it is, have managed to cut through the dense cloud cover over Asheville this morning?
In short, yes. Venus can appear extremely bright in the early morning sky, and dialing up some stargazing software, I was able to satisfactorily reproduce the conditions of my observation while looking due east at precisely 4:16 AM. Below is a screen grab of what I found:
So at 4:16 AM as I lay awake considering whether I had just experienced an earthquake, I looked out the window and saw no earthquake light, but instead a nearby (and very bright) planet, whose reflected sunlight was cutting through the early morning overcast and giving the distinct impression of an illumination below the cloud ceiling.
What can we learn from this? Well, one of the more interesting takeaways for me was the fact that Venus appeared just as bright in the distance even with a full cloud cover. Thanks to modern star-charting software, I was able to easily determine this (as I could have done even more easily at the time of the observation, by simply using a star watching app on my smartphone, had I not been more intent on trying to go back to sleep at that moment). However, I can see how the unusual brightness of Venus could easily give an observer the impression of a light source at a much lower altitude, due to its ability to cut right through the cloud cover.
Although it’s often said that Venus is mistaken for being a UFO (probably more often than you’d think!), this would be all-the-more understandable considering that its curious brightness can cause it to look like a peculiar light hovering in front of distant clouds. In the meantime, as for any “real” earthquake lights, I suppose I’ll just have to keep looking!
Within the first week of the OSIRIS-REx probe arriving at Bennu, it has already detected water on the asteroid. On December 3, 2018, the probe reached the diamond-shaped asteroid in NASA’s first asteroid-sample return mission.
The scientific team pointed three instruments onboard the spacecraft in the direction of Bennu and started their observations. They received data from the probe’s two spectrometers – OVIRS (OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer) and OTES (OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer) – that showed the existence of molecules that contain oxygen and hydrogen atoms that are bonded together. These molecules, which are called “hydroxyls”, are believed to exist across the entire asteroid in water-bearing clay minerals that would indicate that the rocky material on Bennu connected with water at one point. Since Bennu is too small to have ever had liquid water, it’s very possible that it was present on its parent body which was a much bigger asteroid.
Amy Simon, who is the OVIRS deputy instrument scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said, “The presence of hydrated minerals across the asteroid confirms that Bennu, a remnant from early in the formation of the solar system, is an excellent specimen for the OSIRIS-REx mission to study the composition of primitive volatiles and organics.” She went on to say, “When samples of this material are returned by the mission to Earth in 2023, scientists will receive a treasure trove of new information about the history and evolution of our solar system.”
The surface of Bennu contains a mix of rocky, boulder-filled regions, as well as a few smooth regions that do not have boulders. While there are more boulders than initially thought, there is one in particular that scientists are interested in and it’s located at the asteroid’s South Pole. Initial calculations from the OCAMS (OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite) show that the huge boulder is around 164 feet high by 180 feet wide.
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on Dec. 2 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles (24 km).
Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
The mission is only conducting preliminary surveys of Bennu at this point as it performs flybys over the asteroid’s North Pole, South Pole, and equator at a distance as close as 4.4 miles. Once they determine Bennu’s mass, scientists can then create a plan for the spacecraft to enter its orbit. While performing the surveys, it also gives the Canadian Space Agency’s OLA (OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter) its first chance to make observations.
The OSIRIS-REx probe will enter Bennu’s orbit on December 31st and will stay in orbit until the middle of February in 2019. At that point, it will leave the asteroid’s orbit and conduct more flybys for the following survey phase. The probe will get within one mile of the asteroid’s surface which will set a record for the closest orbit of a planetary body by a spacecraft, as well as another record for the smallest body ever orbited by a spacecraft. The OSIRIS-REx is set to leave the asteroid in March 2021 and head back to Earth.
Triangular Craft filmed during docking procedure SpaceX Dragon Capsule and the ISS?
Triangular Craft filmed during docking procedure SpaceX Dragon Capsule and the ISS?
During the live coverage on Saturday, December 8 International Space Station crew members used the station’s 57.7-foot (17.6-meter) robotic arm to capture SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft and attach it to the orbiting laboratory.
But during the docking procedure of the dragon capsule and the International Space Station suddenly a triangular object comes into the view moving behind the Dragon capsule until it disappears into space.
It is unknown whether the object originated from the ISS or if it was a UFO.
Below the footage of the the triangular object that looks like a typical TR-3B at the moment it passes the Dragon capsule during the streaming of the docking procedure.
You can also see the object around the 1.35 mark at the original SpaceX Live stream.
Gold UFO Seen Observing Astronaut On Spacewalk At Space Station, Dec 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Gold UFO Seen Observing Astronaut On Spacewalk At Space Station, Dec 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: December 2018
Location of sighting: International Space Station
This is a golden UFO that came very close to the space station yesterday. An astronaut was outside during a spacewalk rearing the outer walls insulation when an alien craft flew past observing him on live Internet camera.
The UFO is only visible due to its golden color and the bright light reflecting off the space station onto the UFO. The space station flashes at one point and the entire UFO is visible for a split second.
This is 100% proof that alien craft are closely observing the space station and highly interested in how humans deal with the stress of spacewalks.
UFO in broad daylight over New York makes comet tail to fool public, Dec 2018, UFO Sighting News.
UFO in broad daylight over New York makes comet tail to fool public, Dec 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:December 2018
Location of sighting: New York, USA
This UFO was seen over New York this week and its got people thinking it could be a comet or asteroid that got too close. NASA did say an asteroid shower was expected, but this thing looks huge. The disk like object made a comet like tail behind it to deliberately confuse and fool people into thinking its a comet. However its too far inside our atmosphere and it would be pulled in by gravity.
Sure NASA also said that comet 46P was going to be close this week, however this is within only a few miles from the surface of earth. Look at the detail on the thick disk of the spacecraft in fronton the tail. Its not a comet, NASA just saw an incoming UFO that was huge and asked them to make a tail when entering our atmosphere before they go to their base somewhere below the ocean.
Sunder Thongam filmó este video y dice que salía de su casa camino al hospital alrededor de las 5:30 pm cuando notó esta extraña nube como si estuviera en llamas, así que comencé a filmarla y fue solo cuando aplicó aumento a su teléfono y vio que un objeto negro se movía lentamente entre las nubes.
ORLANDO, Fla. — The discovery of intelligent aliens would be mind-blowing in many respects, but it could present a special dilemma for the world's religions, theologians pondering interstellar travel concepts said Saturday (Oct. 1).
Christians, in particular, might take the news hardest, because the Christian belief system does not easily allow for other intelligent beings in the universe, Christian thinkers said at the 100 Year Starship Symposium, a meeting sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to discuss issues surrounding traveling to other stars.
In other words, "Did Jesus die for Klingons too?" as philosophy professor Christian Weidemannof Germany's Ruhr-University Bochum titled his talk at a panel on the philosophical and religious considerations of visiting other worlds.
"According to Christianity, an historic event some 2,000 years ago was supposed to save the whole of creation," Weidemann said. "You can grasp the conflict." [10 Alien Encounters Debunked]
Here's how the debate goes: If the whole of creation includes 125 billion galaxies with hundreds of billions of stars in each, as astronomers think, then what if some of these stars have planets with advanced civilizations, too? Why would Jesus Christ have come to Earth, of all the inhabited planets in the universe, to save Earthlings and abandon the rest of God's creatures?
Aliens and religion can still coexist
Weidemann, a self-described protestant Christian, suggested some possible solutions. Perhaps extraterrestrials aren't sinners, like humans, and therefore aren't in need of saving. However, the principle of mediocrity — the idea that your own example is most likely typical unless you have evidence to the contrary — casts doubt on this, he pointed out. [10 Wildest Ways to Contact Aliens]
"If there are extraterrestrial intelligent beings at all, it is safe to assume that most of them are sinners too," Weidemann said. "If so, did Jesus save them too? My position is no. If so, our position among intelligent beings in the universe would be very exceptional."
Another possibility is that God incarnated multiple times, sending a version of himself down to save each inhabited planet separately.
However, based on the best guesses of how many civilizations we might expect to exist in the universe, and how long planets and civilizations are expected to survive, God's incarnations would have had to be in about 250 places simultaneously at any given time, assuming each incarnation took about 30 years, Weidemann calculated.
Religious food for thought
If God truly became corporeal and took human form when Jesus Christ was born, this wouldn't have been possible, Weidemann said. [How Astronomy and Religion Intersect]
Rev. Thomas Hoffmann, a protestant pastor in Tulsa, Okla., said that the issues Weidemann raised were "really on target."
"If life is discovered elsewhere, unfortunately we need to have more discussion about it," Hoffmann said. "I think this is a very robust conversation we need to have."
While the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence would likely spur profound soul-searching for people of all faiths, many of the world's religions might have an easier time accommodating the knowledge than Christianity, said theologist Michael Waltemathe, also of the Ruhr-University Bochum.
"It seems to be only a problem of Christianity," Waltemathe said.
In Islam, for example, Muhammad was a prophet, or messenger of God, not God incarnate, so additional prophets could have simultaneously visited other planets to save extraterrestrial species, he said. And Hindus already believe in multiple deities, so accommodating more to guard over alien civilizations may not be difficult.
Ultimately, though, the discovery of intelligent aliens isn't likely to pose a serious crisis for Christianity, either, Hoffmann said. After all, the religion has survived challenging scientific revelations before.
"Religion is essentially conservative," Hoffmann told SPACE.com. "You can put almost anything in its face and it's going to shake out a little bit, and then it's going to drop right back down. We've seen this happen historically."
You can follow SPACE.com senior writer Clara Moskowitz on Twitter @ClaraMoskowitz.
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Fox News published astartling articleMonday (Dec. 3) with the headline "NASA scientist says Earth may have been visited by aliens." Unsurprisingly, that news rocketed around the web, with similar articles soon turning up in the New York Post, Russia Today and The Daily Wire. (Fox appears to have been the first major U.S. news source to run with the story.)
These articles are based on a document on NASA's website by Silvano Colombano, a researcher at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. It really does argue that scientists should at least take seriously the notion that aliens may have visited planet Earth. But Colombano told Live Science that the coverage on Fox News and elsewhere misrepresented what he was trying to say when he wrote it.
"It is not accurately represented," he said. "My perspective was simply that reports of unidentified aerial phenomena should be the object of serious study, even if the chance of identification of some alien technology is very small." [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens]
There's some nuance here. Colombano really does believe, as Fox News wrote, that aliens "may" have visited planet Earth. As in, it's theoretically possible that this has happened, not entirely impossible, and worth looking for evidence that it has. But that's not the same as expecting to actually find any such evidence, or believing that there's a good chance aliens are scuttling around under our noses — an impression you might get if you read Fox News's article.
Though Colombano's name and email address appear right on top of the document, he said Fox News did not contact him before publishing their story. (Live Science has reached out to Fox News to confirm this, but has not yet heard back.) Fox described the document as a "new research paper" — a term usually used to describe formal articles intended for publication in research journals and making conclusions based on evidence and the scientific method.
But that's not what this document is.
"The context was a presentation delivered last spring at a meeting of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute," he said.
"The meeting was to get feedback from scientists as to future directions for the Institute's research program," Colombano said.
The document accompanied a talk he gave in which he suggested that perhaps the notion of aliens visiting Earth isn't quite as ridiculous as most scientists believe, and that SETI might devote some resources to systematically hunting through UFO reports and other data for evidence that this has happened — to hunt for a faint, unlikely signal in a lot of messy noise.
In other words, it was a speculative piece of writing intended to persuade other scientists to spend their resources on a long-shot project — not an argument about whether or not aliens have actually visited Earth. Colombano's position is that it's possible, but not necessarily likely.
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Purple UFO Videotaped over Waterford, Ireland
Purple UFO Videotaped over Waterford, Ireland
unusually colored and shaped object...
Waterford, Ireland - 12-09-18
A recent video has been uploaded to MUFON by submitter 96894. The man's wife Anita filmed two videos during the evening of December 9, 2018.
The object in question was seen over Waterford, Ireland and shows a very unusually colored and shaped object.
What we see is a purple-colored donut shape with several breaks in the circular shape. The object is adorned on top with no less than 18 brightly lit white lights.
The object fades in and out of focus from time to time, but is clearly seen most of the time. The question at hand is what this strange object is.
The UFO could be anything from an unusual drone to an inflated object of some kind, or something more sinister. Take a good look and see if you can identify it.
Open Minds UFO Radio: The holidays are upon us and Karen Brard, the owner of the International UFO Congress, has filled the official International UFO Congress store full of super cool UFO and Alien merchandise that is perfect for holiday gift giving — even if you are giving the gift to yourself. Karen and Open Minds UFO radio host have been traveling around the country promoting the International UFO Congress and selling merchandise and Karen has been learning what people want and offering it at a great price.
In this episode, Karen shares some info and advise about the cool merchandise she is offering. Karen and Alejandro also share some observations and stories regarding some of the events they have attended.
For more information about the International UFO Congress visit:UFOCongress.com
BEAUTIFUL NEW IMAGES SHOW CLOUDS OF DUST FORMING INTO PLANETS
BEAUTIFUL NEW IMAGES SHOW CLOUDS OF DUST FORMING INTO PLANETS
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
KRISTIN HOUSER
Rings Of Fire
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A protoplanetary disk is the ring of dust and gas that surrounds a young star. As time passes, the material in the disk begins to coalesce into larger and larger objects, forming everything from asteroids to entire planets.
Now, thanks to a powerful system of radio antennas in the Chilean desert, we have 20 stunning, high-resolution images of such systems — and they are more than desktop-worthy.
According to the program’s website, its goal is to study the smaller objects in protoplanetary disks to determine how those objects related to planet formation.
These images are helping it achieve that goal. According to a news release, the team was able to theorize based on this ALMA data that large planets can form much more quickly than previously thought. They also determined that the planets typically form far from their host stars.
ALMA Matters
In addition to these gorgeous — and data-rich — images produced by DSHARP, just last week an international team of researchers published the preliminary results of a survey in which it used ALMA to image 32 stars surrounded by protoplanetary disks.
Clearly, ALMA has proven to be one of our most useful tools for studying protoplanetary disks, and it’s only been operational for five years. Who knows what sorts of beautiful and useful data the array might produce in the future?
A Near Earth Object (NEO) is a comet or asteroid that’s path is pulled by gravity causing it to pass close to the Earth. There are around 19,000 NEOs that NASA and other scientific communities keep track of. Theses astronomers try to track all of these objects so that they can warn us if there is an impending collision with the Earth. Unfortunately, there is no way that they can keep track of all of these objects. Many of them aren’t noticed until after they pass the Earth; if they get noticed at all.
The thought of a NEO is already scary enough on its own but now there is a developing theory that some of these objects may contain intelligent, alien life. It is really hard for us to comprehend how this is possible but you have to remember that these alien species are thousands of years (if not more) advanced than us humans.
How Could Aliens Use a NEO as a Space Ship?
When we think about a space ship or UFO we usually think about a metal vehicle with a propulsion system of some kind. A NEO traveling at fifty-thousand miles an hour through the galaxy is the perfect vessel to use for long space flights. Some of these asteroids are big enough to support colonies of aliens. If advanced aliens colonized one of these asteroids then they could easily harness its energy.
Asteroids Are Constantly Passing Earth
NEO’s Are Not Always Predictable
One of the reasons that we think that there might be alien manipulation involved on some of these NEOs is because some of their paths seem to change in ways that are not expected to Astronomers. Astronomy is a very complicated science, that I don’t claim to understand at all, so I will just have to assume that the scientists know what they are talking about.
There are many things that us humans still don’t understand about the Universe, but one of the theories to why these objects change courses unexpectedly is because they are being manipulated, intentionally, by an intelligent alien.
Turning An Asteroid Into a Space Ship or UFO
The process of turning an asteroid into a space ship is more plausiblethan you might think. Catching up to the asteroid would be the hardest part. Once a colony of aliens or alien androids are on the object, they could manipulate its trajectory pretty easily. Turning the object would only take a little nudge of a propulsion device. The aliens could also speed up the asteroid by using the gravity of larger objects. By using these techniques, an alien, asteroid space ship could travel indefinitely through the universe while using almost no power.
Time is Relative
If you are like me then you are probably already poking holes in this theory. It is just a theory after all. So is Theoretical Physics but people act like string theory is a fact. Anyways. One of the problems with this theory is that even though these asteroids are traveling at really high speeds, it would still take them forever to get anywhere. When objects are thousands of light years away, thousands of miles an hour isn’t fast enough to get anywhere.
While time and distance do cause problems with this theory, it doesn’t completely destroy it. This mode of transportation would be useful for long-term missions. You always have to remember that this space ship isn’t full of humans. Aliens life spans could be tens of thousands of years. Or more! A really advanced species of aliens could have learned how to fight off death permanently. Eternal life is already in the works here on Earth, so I am sure that advanced aliens have already thought about it. If aliens could live this long then to them a few thousand years trip would be possible.
Good Ole Suspended Animation
We can’t forget about the old Sci Fi classic idea of suspended animation either. While it is just a movie trick here on Earth, aliens could really be using this method to travel for long periods of space and time. Other ways to get around the slow travel speed of using a NEO as a space ship are wormholes, warp engines and androids. If a typical alien UFO can do it then one of these converted asteroids can too. We can’t comprehend what these advanced alien species are capable of. This is why they were so often confused with Gods in the past.
UFOs Asteroid Air Craft Carrier
I hope that, by reading this, you now realize how possible it is that aliens could be using NEOs as space ships. It doesn’t have to be an object near Earth, of course, but that is probably the only way that we will ever find out about it. At least in our life times. Aliens could be using these asteroids like we use air craft carriers. Maybe one day, a fleet of UFOs will pop out of a passing comet or asteroid. Hopefully they will be friendly. Until then, we will keep speculating and watching the skies.
No, it’s not a Shadow of the Colossus movie. It’s Captive State.
Photo: Focus Features
We hate to be presumptuous, but this new trailer blew us away, so there’s a chance it might do the same for you.
So far, trailers for Captive Statehavebeen good. No better, no worse, just good. The framing of the film, set in a world years after aliens have invaded and won, is excellent, but so far its trailers have focused on the film’s more personal aspects. This new trailer, though? Holy shit. It opens things up in a major, major way. Check it out.
Look at all those aliens! Those spaceships! That political intrigue! The father-and-son dynamics! All of those things and more (like that awesome cast: John Goodman! Vera Farmiga!) make this movie look pretty special. Then again, that’s the job of a trailer—to make anything look good—so there’s always an outside chance the movie won’t live up to all this promise.
But, we don’t think so. That footage and cast are too good, and director Rupert Wyatt is too talented to waste such an incredible premise. If the movie ended up being bad, it would be an awful disappointment.
FIRST LOOK One of the first images NASA’s Parker Solar Probe took during its close encounter with the sun shows a streamer of plasma in the outer solar atmosphere, or corona. The probe took this image November 8 at a distance of about 27 million kilometers from the sun’s surface. The bright dot below the streamer is Jupiter.
PARKER SOLAR PROBE/NASA AND NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has met the sun and lived to tell the tale.
The sun-grazing spacecraft has already broken the records for the fastest space probe and the nearest brush any spacecraft has made with the sun. Now the probe is sending data back from its close solar encounter, scientists reported December 12 at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington, D.C.
“What we are looking at now is completely brand new,” solar physicist Nour Raouafi of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Md., said at a news conference. “Nobody looked at this before.”
Parker launched August 12 (SN Online: 8/12/18) and will make 24 close passes by the sun over the next seven years, eventually going to within about 6 million kilometers of the sun’s surface (SN: 7/21/18, p. 12). The spacecraft made its first close flyby November 6, swooping to within roughly 24 million kilometers of the solar surface. That’s about twice as close to the sun as the previous closest spacecraft, the Helios spacecraft in the 1970s. At peak speed, Parker was racing at about 375,000 kilometers per hour, roughly twice Helios’ speed.
But because the probe was on the opposite side of the sun from Earth during the flyby, Parker didn’t start relaying its observations until December 7.
After the probe emerged from behind the sun, the Parker team got its first up-close look at the wispy outer solar atmosphere, called the corona. One of the first images from Parker’s camera shows unprecedented detail in a solar streamer, a filament of plasma in the corona. The team hopes that Parker’s data will help solve the mystery of why the corona is about 300 times as hot as the sun’s surface (SN Online: 8/20/17).
Only about one-fifth of the data recorded during Parker’s initial flyby will reach scientists before the sun gets between Earth and the spacecraft again. The rest of the data will be downlinked next year, between March and May. Scientists hope to start publishing results soon after.
“If you ask any scientist in the team or even outside what to expect, I think the answer would be, we don’t really know,” Raouafi said. “We are almost certain we’ll make new discoveries.”
Risk of impact! Dangerous asteroid "BENNU" racing towards the earth
The asteroid "Bennu" is still racing towards our planet (TAG24 reported). It weighs 79 million tons and has a diameter of 500 meters. What can save us now?
Or better, who can save us now? Answer: NASA! They already have a "plan" to avert the impact and annihilation of mankind.
NASA has sent the "Osiris Rex" probe into space for this purpose. And now - after two years and over 650 million kilometres covered - it has finally reached "Bennu"!
"We have arrived", was the message from the US space agency Nasa on Monday. The arrival position of the probe, which was launched in September 2016 from the Cape Canaveral spaceport, is about 20 kilometres from "Bennu".
"Osiris Rex" will now spend about a year investigating Bennu and finding a suitable site for taking a sample.
"Osiris Rex" (short for: Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) is the first US missile to set off for an asteroid and send a sample back.
If everything goes according to plan, the probe, which is about six meters long and weighs 2100 kilograms, will approach Bennu in 2020 so far that it can absorb a sample of 60 to 2000 grams.
In 2023, a capsule with the sample is to return to Earth. The NASA scientists hope that the mission, which will cost around one billion dollars, will provide them with insights into the origin of our solar system. According to the scientists, the asteroid is to be destroyed.
For this even nuclear missiles could be used. But then there is also the danger that irradiated asteroid pieces will calculate the earth.
The deep black Bennu with a diameter of 500 meters should soon come very close to the earth. As date for a possible impact the 25th September 2135 was computed.
Thus already in 117 years. And the impact risk exists! Soothing: It is very low, according to NASA. Nevertheless, "Bennu" is one of the most dangerous asteroids currently known.
Triangular Shaped Object Spotted On Night Vision Over Melbourne, Dec. 8, 2018
Triangular Shaped Object Spotted On Night Vision Over Melbourne, Dec. 8, 2018
On December 8, YouTube's "UFO Lou" caught a triangular shaped object, moving quickly with his P8079HP Night Vision Device. Kind of makes me want to build a night scope, to mount somehow on my Nikon Coolpix P900. Definitely, some weird stuff flying overhead in our darkened skies.
A huge lake of liquid water has been found on Mars. The groundbreaking discovery comes after years of evidence of the Red Planet's watery pastandicy present, but this is the first time a significant amount of the life-giving liquid has been detected. Discovered through satellite radar readings, the lake lies beneath the ice caps at the south pole of Mars, and has profound implications for future missions and the search for extraterrestrial life.
According to its discoverers, the lake lies below 1.5 km (0.9 mi) of solid ice, and stretches 20 km (12.4 mi) wide. Although temperatures at that spot plummet to about -68° C (-90° F), the water remains in a liquid form thanks to the heavy presence of sodium, magnesium and calcium salts. This, along with the immense pressure of the ice from above, lowers the freezing point.
The discovery was made by astronomers using the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) onboard the Mars Express orbiter. This instrument beams radar pulses down to the planet's surface and measures how the waves reflect back to the spacecraft, which can tell scientists what kind of materials lie down there, even below the surface.
Using MARSIS to survey a region around the south pole of the Red Planet, the team collected 29 sets of radar samplings between May 2012 and December 2015. A section of this area returned very sharp changes in the radar signals, showing up as a bright spot in the image that's consistent with a water interface. The radar profile, the researchers say, closely matches those of subglacial lakes here on Earth, beneath the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica.
Although it seems like "water found on Mars" headlines have been doing the rounds for years, this discovery is really what it's all been building to. The majority of modern Mars is dry and barren, but plenty of evidence has been found that the Red Planet used to be a much wetter place. NASA studies suggest a vast ocean covered the planet's northern hemisphere some 4.3 billion years ago, and lakes may have filled and emptied repeatedly over tens of millions of years in places like Gale Crater, the landing site of the Curiosity rover.
The discovery of a large, stable reserve of liquid water on Mars is massive, giving us new potential targets for future missions and places to search for signs of past or present microbial life – although the sheer saltiness of it might kill those hopes.
The research was published in the journal Science.
Earth is teeming with life, but a new project shows most of it isn't where you'd expect. A decade-long study has now taken a census of one of the largest and least-understood ecosystems on the planet – the "deep biosphere" that extends several kilometers into the planet's crust. Among the finds are bizarre creatures that can survive at record depths, pressures and temperatures, and even "zombie" bacteria that may live (in a loose sense of the word) for millions of years at a time.
The project, known as the Deep Carbon Observatory, is the result of an international collaboration of scientists over almost 10 years. Data was collected from hundreds of sites across the world, with samples taken on land from mines and boreholes 5 km (3.1 mi) deep and up to 2.5 km (1.6 mi) under the seafloor.
Using that data, the researchers modeled these deep-Earth ecosystems, and estimated the amount of life down there. According to their calculations, up to 6 x10^29 cells (that's a 6 followed by 29 zeroes) live deep beneath the continental landmasses. When you include the life beneath the seafloors, there's approximately 15 to 23 billion tonnes of carbon biomass. The deep biosphere itself likely occupies up to 2.3 billion cubic km, which is almost twice the total volume of the planet's oceans.
"A decade ago, we had no idea that the rocks beneath our feet could be so vastly inhabited," says Isabelle Daniel, of the University of Lyon 1 in France. "Experimental investigations told us that microbes could potentially survive to great depth; at that time, we had no evidence, and this has become real 10 years later. This is simply fascinating and will surely foster enthusiasm to look for the biotic-abiotic fringe on Earth and elsewhere."
So, what kind of creatures live down there? The team says that all three domains of life – the broadest groups on the tree of life – are represented, with a genetic diversity at least as extensive as there is here on the surface. Two of those domains, bacteria and archaea, dominate the deep biosphere, which might contain as much as 70 percent of Earth's total amount of those groups. The vast majority of them are still completely unknown to science.
The creatures found in this deep biosphere consistently break records for the known extremes that life can survive under. The deepest-dwelling lifeforms have been discovered down to 5 km (3.1 mi) below land and 10.5 km (6.5 mi) below the ocean's surface.
But perhaps the strangest of all are bacteria that the researchers describe as "zombies." These organisms have life cycles on almost geologic timescales, millions or even tens of millions of years. But it's not much of a life – they don't really grow or undergo cellular division, instead focusing the little energy on hand into just barely maintaining their existence.
The scientists say we've barely begun to scratch the (sub)surface of the deep biosphere. Not only do most species remain unknown, but it's a mystery how they live, reproduce, move around, affect surface life and are affected by natural events like earthquakes and unnatural ones like fracking.
Researchers on the Deep Carbon Observatory project are presenting their findings at the American Geophysical Union meeting this week, which was described in recent papers published in Geobiology and Nature Geoscience, among others.
In this view of the InSight probe on Mars, the heat mole instrument is the black vertical cylinder toward the left.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
WASHINGTON— NASA's Mars InSight landerhas settled into its new home on Elysium Planitia and is preparing to deploy its instruments — and if all goes well, one device's work should be complete by March.
That instrument is InSight's self-hammering heat probe, nicknamed the "mole," which is designed to measure heat production and flowwithin the interior of Mars. To do that, the instrument has to drill down about 16 feet (5 meters) into the Martian regolith — and that procedure is currently scheduled to begin in January, the mole's principal investigator said yesterday (Dec. 11) during a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Of course, this is space exploration, and that means there's still a chance that something could go wrong. "They're speaking about the seven minutes of terror on landing, now I'm saying we have two months of terror in front of us when we penetrate into the surface," said Tilman Spohn, a planetary scientist at the German space agency, which is known by its German acronym, DLR. [NASA's Mars InSight Lander: 10 Surprising Facts]
In this view of the InSight probe on Mars, the heat mole instrument is the black vertical cylinder toward the left.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The heat probe needs to wait its turn, with the lander's supersensitive seismometer and its protective shielding being deployed first. That process will take about a month and is scheduled to begin next week, Spohn said.
If that goes well, the heat probe will be the next to move, with deployment beginning in mid-January. The drilling process will take about two months, since the probe regularly stops to produce a burst of heat and measure how that heat moves through the rock at its current depth.
What worries Spohn is that a large rock — 3 feet (1 m) in diameter or so — would stymie the probe's drilling mechanism, which relies on pushing aside dirt. Smaller rocks it can either push aside or burrow around, and has demonstrated that ability during tests in rock chambers here on Earth.
If a blockage does occur, how far the probe has managed to travel will determine how helpful the results are to scientists. "The less we penetrate, the worse it will be," Spohn said. If it's just 3 feet (1 m) or so deep, the team will need to rely on more intensive modeling. But if it reaches 10 feet (3 m), which should occur around mid February, the team will be pleased — and if it can reach the full depth of 16 feet (5 m) around March 10 or so, all the better.
Spohn is pleased with InSight's landing site, which is just as flat and rock-free as scientists were hoping for. "We had a lot of luck, we have to say," he said, noting that the robot touched down near — but not inside — a crater. "Had we landed there we would have been in some trouble."
Its main job is to spot the stars, but an ultrasensitive navigation camera onNASA's Juno spacecraftis returning amazing images of Jupiter's rings, auroras, lightning, and even its moonlit dark side.
Scientists discussed the results from the camera alongside other Jupiter revelations during a briefing Dec. 12 at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Juno is approaching the halfway point on its primary mission, with its 16th science pass by the planet set for Dec. 21.
That camera is called the Stellar Reference Unit, or SRU for short. According to Heidi Becker, Juno's radiation monitoring investigation lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, the camera's "day job" is to cut through interference from the intense radiation surrounding Jupiter to spot the stars, comparing them to a database to figure out Juno's precise location and orientation during its 53-day, elongated orbits of the gas giant. [In Photos: Juno's Amazing Views of Jupiter]
"It's really hard to do that engineering job on Juno because we're flying Juno through the most violent planetary radiation environment there is," Becker said during the briefing, which was webcast live online. "Even though we had to shield the SRU more than six times heavier than we've shielded the radiation vault [which protects Juno's main computer and other sensitive components], there still are very high-energy electrons in that environment that will penetrate the SRU shielding and create this static that you see in the star image."
But rather than seeing a disruption, the team at JPL uses that "snow" to make measurements of how intense the radiation is over different parts of Jupiter — they've already noticed that the high-latitude radiation belt is less powerful than models suggested.
"We use noise as data to figure out what the environment is on the outside of Juno, because we're flying where nobody flew before," Becker said.
This is the first view ever taken from inside Jupiter's rings, snagged by Juno's Stellar Reference Unit camera during its first science encounter with the planet on Aug. 27, 2016. The three stars of Orion's Belt can be seen in the lower right, and Betelgeuse shines just above the rings.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI
During its first data-collecting dive past Jupiter in August 2016, SRU grabbed the first-ever view of Jupiter's faint rings from the inside. The image also reflects the navigation side of SRU — Orion's Belt can be seen dotting down the lower right of the image, and the blazing star Betelgeuse can be seen just above the ring.
And that view was only the beginning: "Once we started to get a sense of what else the SRU can do as a low-light camera, my team and I kind of got addicted and kept asking the question: What else can this camera bring back that's new, that's never been seen before, or that's never been seen in the way that only the SRU can see it?" Becker said.
Another view of Jupiter's wispy rings from Juno's Stellar Reference Unit camera.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI
The spacecraft's main visible-light camera, called JunoCam, has been returning spectacular images for the public to process, and has proved useful for science in its own right, researchers said at the briefing. And in the low-light conditions on Jupiter's dark side, Becker said, SRU has returned views that rival that camera's detailed view of the planet's swirls.
This detailed image of Jupiter's dark side, taken during the Juno spacecraft's 11th approach of the gas giant, comes from Juno's Stellar Reference Unit camera. It was taken from just 66,000 miles above the planet's cloud tops.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI
"When we first saw this image, we thought 'did our data get mixed up with JunoCam's?'" Becker said. But, no, it was indeed from the SRU, with the planet's cloud tops lit by sunlight reflected off the volcanic moon Io, taken just 66,000 miles from the cloud tops.
In addition, the researchers spotted two bright dots of lightning — visible to the right of the image — providing the closest view of Jupiter's lightning from any imager. Because the spacecraft's microwave radiometer, which has also proved a good lightning detector, faces the same way as the SRU, researchers can eventually combine their measurements to learn about the phenomenon in more depth.
Perspective of how much of Jupiter the Stellar Reference Unit image covers.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI
Juno's other instruments have provided incredible views of the planet's auroras in ultraviolet and infrared light, but because of its dark-side views SRU has been able to contribute in the visible spectrum, too, showing the ghostly lights circling the planet's pole.
The Stellar Reference Unit camera, which helps Juno navigate during its mission at Jupiter, snapped this close-up view of the northern aurora on the planet's dark side — the closest visible-light view of the phenomenon ever taken.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI
"This is another first: This is the closest view of Jupiter's aurora that has ever been made by a visible[-light] camera," Becker said. "It's an amazing complement to what Juno is already bringing back in the ultraviolet and in the infrared. And, again, we're seeing amazing structure because of the high resolution of the camera and Juno's close flight to the camera."
This image also reveals another dot of lighting, in the lower right, and the squiggles of high-energy electrons beaming off the planet's poles — "so SRU was doing three kinds of science when it took this picture."
"It's really exciting to see what we can see out of an engineering camera, and we're really erasing all the boundaries between who or what can make a contribution to engineering or science or art," Becker added.
The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched toward Jupiter in August 2011 and arrived in orbit around the planet in July 2016. Since then, it's examined the planet during its long, looping orbits to learn about its interior, cloud patterns and weather, magnetic field, radiation and more.
"We have already rewritten the textbooks on how Jupiter's atmosphere works, and on the complexity and asymmetry of its magnetic field," Scott Bolton, principal investigator for Juno and a researcher at Southwest Research Institute in Texas, said in a statement. "The second half should provide the detail that we can use to refine our understanding of the depth of Jupiter's zonal winds, the generation of its magnetic field, and the structure and evolution of its interior."
Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her @SarahExplains.
Linda Moulton Howe Reveals What Extraterrestrials Really Want!
Linda Moulton Howe Reveals What Extraterrestrials Really Want!
Whistleblowers from the military and government explain that Earth is caught in the middle of a battle to retain ownership of our planet, and we are simply pawns in a galactic chess game.
Linda Moulton Howe conveys information she has collected from several insiders who have come forward to reveal what they know about extraterrestrial races, long-term genetic projects involving humans and much more.
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Meer dan 20 jaar maakte de CIA in het diepste geheim gebruik van paranormale vermogens. Deze documentaire doet alles uit de doeken
Meer dan 20 jaar maakte de CIA in het diepste geheim gebruik van paranormale vermogens. Deze documentaire doet alles uit de doeken
Meer dan 20 jaar maakte de CIA tijdens topgeheime missies gebruik van bovennatuurlijke vermogens. De belastingbetaler betaalde hieraan mee en dus heb jij als burger het recht hier alles over te weten te komen.
Tijdens één van de experimenten met paranormale vermogens op het Stanford Research Institute stuitte men per ongeluk op een topgeheime NSA-locatie.
De twee natuurkundigen achter het project werden ingelijfd door de CIA en zwoeren geheimhouding.
Voor het eerst
Toen één van de betrokkenen op mysterieuze wijze om het leven kwam, besloot medeoprichter van het programma Russell Targ alle beschikbare informatie naar buiten te brengen.
De nieuwe documentaire ‘Third Eye Spies’ gaat over het leven van Targ, zijn paranormale spionnen en zijn strijd om deze informatie beschikbaar te maken voor het publiek.
In de film spreken een Nobelprijswinnaar, een Apollo-astronaut en vele voormalige remote viewers en wetenschappers zich voor het eerst uit.
Overweldigend
De documentaire onthult welke experimenten op het Stanford Research Institute werden gedaan voor inlichtingendiensten en welke informatie er via Wob-verzoeken daadwerkelijk naar buiten is gekomen.
Paranormale vermogens werden door de overheid onder meer gebruikt om buitenlandse ambassades te bespioneren en een ontvoerde generaal en een neergestorte bommenwerper terug te vinden.
Russell Targ: “Het bewijs voor buitenzintuiglijke waarneming is overweldigend. We zijn hier allemaal toe in staat en hebben het recht om hier meer over te weten te komen.”
I feel the earth move under my feet I feel the sky tumbling down I feel my heart start to trembling Whenever you’re around
Carole King was obviously referring to a guy in hericonic song, but today those same lyrics might apply to a newly-discovered world of “intraterrestrials” living deep under the feet of virtually every human in a pristine environment that excited researchers are calling a “subterranean Galapagos.” In fact, it’s making them “get hot and cold, all over, all over, all over, all over.” Let’s find out why.
Two types of microbes—bacteria and archaea—dominate Deep Earth. Among them are millions of distinct types, most yet to be discovered or characterized. This so-called microbial “dark matter” dramatically expands our perspective on the tree of life. Deep Life scientists say about 70% of Earth’s bacteria and archaea live in the subsurface.
Deep microbes are often very different from their surface cousins, with life cycles on near-geologic timescales, dining in some cases on nothing more than energy from rocks.
The genetic diversity of life below the surface is comparable to or exceeds that above the surface.
While subsurface microbial communities differ greatly between environments, certain genera and higher taxonomic groups are ubiquitous – they appear planet-wide.”
In a statement released prior to the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting, over 1,000 scientists from 52 countries with the Deep Carbon Observatory unveiled the results of their 10-year project which involved drilling hundreds of deep (up to 3 miles/4.8 km) holes on the surface and under the oceans. They found that 70% of Earth’s bacteria and archaea exist in the subsurface, with many of them being alive for thousands of years, moving only when there are earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or plate shifts.
Not only are these organisms old and diverse, they’re strange. One found 1.5 miles/2.5 km down appears to live on methane instead of sunlight and doesn’t reproduce but instead has just been repairing itself for eons. Another lives in hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor at 250 degrees Fahrenheit (121 degrees Celsius), above the boiling point of water at 212 degrees F (100 degrees C).
And there’s not just a few of them in holes … there’s TONS of them everywhere – an estimated 2 to 2.3 billion cubic km (almost twice the volume of all oceans) with a carbon mass of 15 to 23 billion tons, which is 245 to 385 times greater than the carbon mass of all humans on the surface.
Is your heart trembling at the thought of being outnumbered and outlived by so many subsurface intraterrestrials? Robert Hazen, a mineralogist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, thinks this study is just scratching the subsurface.
“We must ask ourselves: if life on Earth can be this different from what experience has led us to expect, then what strangeness might await as we probe for life on other worlds?”
How would that make Carole King feel?
I feel the sky tumbling down, a’tumbling down, A’tumbling down, a’tumbling down, a’tumbling down, a’tumbling down, tumbling down!
Occasionally, I’m asked for my thoughts on the claims that there’s a huge“alien base” below Dulce, New Mexico. Well, I don’t think such a thing exists, but I can definitely see why people think there just might be. Dulce is a pleasant and inviting town that is situated in New Mexico’s Rio Arriba County. It’s a small town of less than 3,000 people and which is around thirteen square miles in size. It was founded in the latter part of the 19th century and, today, is the home of the Jicarilla Apache Nation. There is nothing particularly unusual or out of the ordinary about Dulce – at least, not at first glance. Look a little bit closer, though, and you’ll find yourself in a world filled with dark secrets and terrifying tales of the cosmic and conspiratorial kind. And, “by closer,” I mean below your feet. Way below your feet; maybe even miles down.
Since the late 1970s, rumors have swirled to the effect that deep within the massive Archuleta Mesa, which dominates the town, there is a secret and futuristic facility that has been out of bounds to the U.S. Government since 1979. Today, it’s said that the installation is under the complete control of hostile and deadly extraterrestrials – the so-called “Greys” of UFO lore, those dwarfish, black-eyed, large-headed entities that are practically part of popular culture. So the story goes, it was in seventy-nine that a violent confrontation between military personnel and the aliens broke out – and we were the losers. The base, which was once a hub of human / alien interaction, is now theirs – and theirs alone. Witnesses talk of people going missing, and of vast, cavern-like rooms in which people are devoured by voraciously hungry aliens. Are the tales true? How did the rumors begin? Let’s take a trip back in time to the mid-to-late 1970s.
Paul Bennewitz was a scientist who, at the time, ran a company in Albuquerque called Thunder Scientific – a company that quite literally backed onto the well-guarded fences of Kirtland Air Force Base. It was around 1978 that Bennewitz – who had a pre-existing interest in UFOs – began to hear of more and more so-called alien abduction events in and around Albuquerque and further up into northern New Mexico. On top of that, strange signals were picked up by Bennewitz on his radio equipment. He saw weird-looking aircraft soaring silently across the skies over Kirtland late at night and in the early hours of the morning. He was given accounts of abductees being secretly taken to Kirtland and grilled by U.S. intelligence agents, who were deeply concerned about the growing number of people seemingly being kidnapped from their homes and subjected to terrifying and bizarre experiments of a genetic nature.
As the weeks and months progressed Bennewitz came to believe something incredible: that deadly ETs were secretly getting ready to take over the planet. They were planning on doing so from their command post deep below the town of Dulce. Worldwide invasion and the enslavement of the human race were lurking just around the corner – as Bennewitz saw it, at least. Suspecting that the end really was possibly getting nearer and nearer, Bennewitz prepared a dossier on his findings and theories. He called it Project Beta. Bennewitz mailed copies of the controversial report to the FBI, to the CIA, to the NSA, to every branch of the military, and even to the White House. People had to be warned – and warned now, Bennewitz said.
Notably, Bennewitz was not written off as a crank, as many might expect him to have been. In fact, quite the opposite was the case: intelligence agents at Kirtland Air Force Base quickly established a secret liaison with Bennewitz. They warned him about digging any further into things that could be dangerous – even to Bennewitz’s life, no less. But, those same agents also confided in Bennewitz something incredible: that he was on the right track. They did all they could to keep Bennewitz quiet, almost to the point of begging him to keep his mouth shut on what he knew. For Bennewitz, though, this was like a red rag to a bull: the somewhat veiled threats to keep his nose out of things only served Bennewitz to push further for answers.
As a result, U.S. intelligence fed Bennewitz more and more horror stories of what was supposedly going on several miles below Dulce, including tales of the aliens using captured people – in their thousands – as food. It’s no wonder – given the nature of the stories and that they were coming directly from the military – that Bennewitz became more and more paranoid. Eventually, he became completely unhinged, and to the point where he ended up spending time in a local medical facility, where he was treated for stress, anxiety, and, finally, what practically amounted to a complete mental collapse. Thankfully, he recovered, but was careful to keep his distance from Ufology.
Today, some UFO researchers dismiss Bennewitz’s theories and conclusions – preferring, instead, to suspect that Bennewitz had stumbled on not alien activity but top secret programs of the U.S. military and intelligence community. By steering Bennewitz down a path filled with fictitious tales of dangerous aliens, the government would be able to divert him away from the far more down to earth truth, so the theory goes. On the other hand, Bennewitz, who died in 2003, still has a huge following of UFO sleuths who are absolutely certain that below Dulce something abominable is going on – and has been for years. Maybe even for centuries.
While Bennewitz’s Project Beta report reads like something straight out of the early years of The X-Files, there is absolutely no doubt that Dulce itself is a very weird place, one where strange activity has been reported for years. For example, in the 1960s the area around Dulce became the site of a classified U.S. Atomic Energy Commission program called Gasbuggy. It was part of a larger operation code-named Plowshare. The plan was to explode a significantly-sized atomic device, underground, deep below the Carson National Forest, which just happens to be only a few miles from Dulce. The reason was to try and access massive and precious supplies of natural gas. The bomb was detonated on December 10, 1967 – more than four thousand feet below the surface. Although the Plowshare program continued in the area until the late 1970s, even today digging underground in the area is strictly forbidden.
In light of all of Bennewitz’s findings, it’s not at all surprising that there are those in the UFO community who believe that the Plowshare program was actually a cover story – one created to mask the fact that the U.S. Government had tried to destroy the alien base under Dulce with a nuclear weapon. That just such a weapon really was exploded, underground, and only a few minutes’ drive from Dulce, only ensures that the rumors of an alien presence in the area continue to thrive. And, that people are warned not to dig underground in the area only adds to the suspicions that there is something very sinister going on below Dulce.
Not only that, in 1989, and thanks to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI declassified into the public domain its extensive files on so-called “cattle mutilations” in the Dulce area, most of which occurred in the 1970s. Such mutilations have been reported all across the county and since 1967, but Dulce is renowned for the huge number of cases in its midst, as the FBI learned. Cattle are found lacking major organs. Blood is removed from the bodies in astonishingly quick time. And, black and unmarked helicopters are seen in the areas of mutilation – as are strange lights in the sky, and UFOs too. Incredibly, all of these issues are discussed at length in the FBI’s official files on the mutilations in and around Dulce, all of which can be read online at the FBI’s website, The Vault. So, yes, there is definitely something strange going on at Dulce – and something which has been going on for an extraordinarily long time. But, that base? I’m saying “No.”
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Virgin Galactic, het ruimtetoerismebedrijf van de Britse miljardair Richard Branson, heeft vandaag naar eigen zeggen zijn SpaceShipTwo, alias VSS Unity, opnieuw succesvol uitgetest. “Wielen staan stil, SpaceshipTwo. Welkom terug op Aarde”, klonk het in een tweet nadat het raketvliegtuig sneller en hoger dan ooit tevoren was gevlogen.
Vanuit de Mojave-woestijn in Californië vertrok het raketvliegtuig met als testpiloten Mark “Forger” Stucky en Rick “C.J.” Sturckow even na 17.00 uur Belgische tijd met het moedervliegtuig VMS Eve. Op 13 km hoogte “dropte” dit het SpaceShipTwo. Na een vrije val steeg dit met zijn eigen motoren tot meer dan 80 km hoog. Die hoogte is voor Virgin Galactic de grens van de ruimte. Daarna keerde het SpaceShipTwo veilig terug.
De geslaagde vierde test met het ontsteken van de raketmotoren is een opsteker voor de plannen van Branson en co om toeristen kort even in de ruimte te brengen. De volgende stap is naar eigen zeggen het simuleren van het gewicht van de passagiers die het ruimtevliegtuig moet meevoeren. Dat zal gebeuren met vier wetenschappelijke nuttige ladingen die deel uitmaken van een programma van het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA.
Virgin Galactic zegt dat reeds meer dan 600 mannen en vrouwen van over de hele wereld een zitje hebben gereserveerd. Het bedrijf wou naar verluidt niets zeggen over mogelijke Belgische reislustigen.
WETENSCHAPStalen van een gaatje in het meteorietenschild van een Sojoez, die aan het Internationaal Ruimtestation ISS hangt, belanden voor analyse in een laboratorium van de Russische geheime dienst FSB, zo heeft een bron bij de inlichtingendiensten vandaag aan het Russische staatspersbureau TASS gezegd. De stalen werden dinsdag vergaard door kosmonauten tijdens een riskante ruimtewandeling.
Op 30 augustus viel even wat druk weg in het ISS ten gevolge van een gaatje in de wand van het “woongedeelte” van de Sojoez MS-09 capsule die voor bemand transport naar en van het ISS zorgt. Het twee millimeter groot gaatje werd snel gedicht en de druk bleef ondertussen stabiel.
Om de nog onbekende oorzaak te achterhalen maakten de kosmonauten Oleg Kononenko en Sergej Prokopjev dinsdag een riskante en controversiële ruimtewandeling die zes uur en 31 minuten heeft geduurd. Ze hadden meer dan een uur langer nodig dan gepland om hun taken af te ronden. Ze namen stalen die met de bewuste Sojoez op 20 december naar de Aarde terugkeren. De container met het materiaal verhuist dan naar een laboratorium van de FSB.
REUTERSDe Russische kosmonaut Oleg Kononenko tijdens zijn ruimtewandeling aan het ISS op dinsdag 11 december 2018.
Naar verluidt beschikt de Russische ruimtevaartindustrie niet over een lab “met de vereiste competentie en technische uitrusting” voor zo een scheikundige analyse. De Russische ruimtevaartindustrie Roscosmos had geen commentaar op deze wending. Zijn hoofd Dmitri Rogozin had gisteren gezegd dat de container naar de “competente diensten” zou gaan.
Rogozin had eerder gezegd dat het gaatje mogelijk bij de bouw van de Sojoez-capsule is geboord. Degene die het gat in de romp heeft geboord, heeft mogelijk meer beschadigd dan alleen de binnenkant. Mogelijk is er sprake van sabotage. Rogozin sluit zelfs niet uit dat iemand in de ruimte het station bewust heeft gesaboteerd.
Drie ruimtevaarders van het ISS moeten op 20 december met die Sojoez MS-09 naar huis terugvliegen.
Twee Russische kosmonauten maken een ruimtewandeling van maar liefst 6 uur om een mysterieus lek op het ISS te inspecteren. De autoriteiten vermoeden dat het lek gemaakt werd met een drilboor, en dus geen ongeluk zou zijn.
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Linda Moulton Howe Reveals What Extraterrestrials Really Want... it's Not Good! (Video)
Linda Moulton Howe Reveals What Extraterrestrials Really Want... it's Not Good! (Video)
Unbeknownst to a vast majority of the population, humanity has a long and complicated history with extraterrestrial beings.
Whistleblowers from the military and government explain that Earth is caught in the middle of a battle to retain ownership of our planet, and we are simply pawns in a galactic chess game.
Linda Moulton Howe conveys information she has collected from several insiders who have come forward to reveal what they know about extraterrestrial races, long-term genetic projects involving humans, what happens to a soul as it reincarnates across many lifetimes, and much more.
The radar signature meandered over southern Illinois for 10 hours on Monday.
It definitely wasn’t precipitation, the National Weather Servicesaid.
But that seemed for days to be the only sure thing about the blob, which floated for nearly 140 miles before scattering into nothing after it crossed into western Kentucky.
So what was it?
Birds? Meteors?
The National Weather Service in Paducah posted this message on Facebook at 1:00 a.m. this morning:
The first volley of a coordinated campaign to distract military aircraft from alien sorties?
Chris Noles, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service outpost in Paducah, Ky., first observed the disturbance.
So when you’re watching severe weather crawl across the radar screen, Noles said, yellow and red typically show hail or snow. Those are strong.
Rain and drizzle are not so solid and appear as weaker signals, in blue and green hues.
This disturbance, then, was puzzling and churned with a core of yellow and red signatures as it pushed along a southeastern wind, producing radar signals from as high as 10,000 feet.
Birds don’t appear that way on radar, Noles said.
So: ̶b̶i̶r̶d̶s̶.
Meteors are pretty solid. But they don’t move at 14 miles an hour.
So: ̶m̶e̶t̶e̶o̶r̶s̶.
North American Aerospace Defense Command, which oversees air sovereignty in the United States, said it was following the incident but did not have information on what the object could have been.
What about aliens then?
“NORAD does not track UFOs or alien aircraft,” spokesman Michael Kucharek said, though he explained that NORAD would be aware of unauthorized aircraft in the United States.
Kucharek referred further questions to the Federal Aviation Administration, which referred back to NORAD.
(NORAD does, however, track Santa’s flight across the world. But it’s too early for Santa to show up on radar.)
Back at the National Weather Service, Noles offered another explanation.
Perhaps the slow-moving band that tracked with wind patterns on that clear day was a countermeasure launched from a military aircraft.
Chaff is a cloud of light aluminum-coated material deployed in the air to fool and overwhelm radar signals that may be tracking the aircraft. An incident in southern Missouri in the 1990s that Noles observed was similar, he said.
But an NWS report on chaff and its impact on weather radar said chaff typically lingers for two to five hours. Monday’s incident was twice as long as the high end of that window.
A longer event is not unprecedented, however.
During a training exercise in 2013, a military aircraft launched chaff over Alabama, where it lingered in the atmosphere for about the same amount of time — 10 hours, according to the NWS report.
Two military installations relatively close to the path of the most recent radar anomaly — Scott Air Force Base in Illinois and Fort Campbell in Kentucky — told the Evansville Courier and Press that their aircraft were not responsible.
An Evansville meteorologist said he was told by an unnamed pilot that chaff came from a military C-130 transport aircraft but did not say where it originated.
The mystery continued Wednesday, even for those who would eventually know what really happened.
It was chaff released from a C-130H aircraft piloted by the 130th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard during a training operation, state guard spokeswoman Capt. Holli Nelson said.
The pilots were required to expend the material, potentially for safety reasons, Nelson said, and received air traffic control permission to do so.
Officials at the National Guard Bureau began to piece together that news by the afternoon.
“I woke up, and I was having my coffee, picking through news and saw the headline myself,” said Army Master Sgt. Mike Houk, a Bureau spokesman. “And I didn’t know what it was.”
In Amerika was urenlang iets vreemds op de radar te zien. Wat was het?
In Amerika was urenlang iets vreemds op de radar te zien. Wat was het?
Experts van de Amerikaanse weerdienst, de National Weather Service, stonden eerder deze week voor een raadsel toen er boven de staten Illinois, Indiana en Kentucky urenlang een vreemde vlek op de radar was te zien.
De vreemde formatie leek op een regenbui, maar het was op dat moment helder.
Op Twitter werd druk gespeculeerd over het 80 kilometer lange spoor. Sommigen dachten aan een zwerm vogels of een explosie in de ruimte.
Antiradarsneeuw
Een lokale meteoroloog suggereerde dat het ging om antiradarsneeuw, wat door het leger wordt gebruikt om vliegtuigen te verbergen door radars te verblinden.
In het gebied bevinden zich enkele legerbases, maar die waren naar eigen zeggen niet verantwoordelijk voor de vreemde ‘wolk’.
Eén van de bases verklaarde ‘niets te maken te hebben gehad met vliegtuigen die antiradarsneeuw hadden uitgeworpen’.
Slaat nergens op
Een woordvoerder van Fort Campbell in Kentucky zei dat het mogelijk te maken had met een ‘geheime oefening van de speciale troepen’.
De National Weather Service in Paducah in de staat Kentucky zei ook te denken dat de radar antiradarsneeuw had opgepikt.
Stormjager Chris Conley, die voor verschillende nieuws- en weerstations werkzaam is, zei: “We weten niet wat het is. Het slaat nergens op dat het antiradarsneeuw zou zijn. Waarom zouden ze antiradarsneeuw boven het zuiden van Illinois dumpen?”
Among the many contentious sub-fields of phenomena associated with UFO research, perhaps none is quite so baffling as animal mutilation. Many of these apparent “mutilations” have been casually dismissed as the simple interventions of scavenging beasts, following the natural or otherwise mundane death of cattle or other livestock. Undoubtedly, this is true in some cases, although there are other instances where physical evidence points to a more complex phenomenon behind the mysterious deaths and mutilations.
The situation is complex enough that, during the 1970s, the FBI became involved in studies aimed at determining the possible factors underlying some of these incidents, although the depth to which they investigated the matter at the time has come under scrutiny. Writing for Skeptoid in 2015, Allison Hudson noted that, “[The FBI’s] investigation amounted to little more than collections of newspaper clippings because of jurisdictional issues, but they concluded that nothing seemed to be amiss in the deaths other than natural causes. This was a conclusion shared by other investigations.”
In a memorandum dated January 21, 1975, sent to the FBI Laboratory by the Special Agent in Charge of the Minneapolis Division, the mutilations were described thusly:
“For the information of the Bureau, animals, mostly livestock, have been reported as mutilated in the three-state area of this division and parts of their bodies missing. The parts listed as missing have been the sexual organs, ears, lips and udders, and in some instances, the blood from the animals was considered ‘completely drained.’ No evidence of value ever located at the scene.”
The briefing goes on to note that state veterinarians who examined the remains “contend dead animals were eaten by other animals or varmints, believed to be foxes due to their sharp side teeth.” However, the notion that “no evidence of value” was ever collected at the scene of such mutilations is particularly curious, as it appears to contrast sharply with some of the law enforcement investigations and lab work conducted on the State and municipal level over the years.
Around the same time the briefing above was issued, mutilations were occurring in other parts of the country, and were under investigation by law enforcement. In his Alien Contact: Top Secret UFO Files Revealed, researcher Timothy Good recounted such an investigation that was underway in early 1975, under the supervision of the Coryell County deputy sheriff and Department of Public Safety. The incident involved the remains of a calf that was discovered at Copperas Cove, Texas, bearing many of what would become staples of the mutilation cases: sex organs had been “bloodlessly” removed with surgical precision, and peculiar impressions were found in the soil approximately forty yards from the calf that formed concentric circles, approximately 30 feet in diameter. Similar markings were found elsewhere in the same field, along with circular dispersals of dried grass which appeared to have been depressed by some object using “tremendous force,” along with the apparent removal of surface soil and stones in some areas.
“The DPS officials speculated that an aerial vehicle had been used in the operation,” Good wrote. “It was later learned that several residents near Copperas Cove and Killeen had observed a yellowish-orange light hovering over the farmland at around the same time as the mutilation.”
As Good notes of the Texas mutilations, the FBI initially was hesitant to become involved (despite memorandums that show Agents in some regions were looking into the matter around the same time, as outlined earlier). With the FBI maintaining a low profile in relation to the mutilations in the mid-1970s, local law enforcement was left to carry out most of the investigations at that time.
Officer Gabriel Valdez of the New Mexico State Police participated in the investigation of a similar incident that transpired on June 13, 1976, at the ranch of Manuel Gomez near Duke, New Mexico. FBI documents pertaining to this incident were later released by the FBI, and detail the incident as follows:
At the scene, writer examined carcass of a three-year-old black White-Faced cow which was lying on its right side. The left ear, the tongue, the udder, and the rectum had been removed with what appeared to be a sharp precise instrument. No traces of blood were left on the skin of the cow. .. . Other evidence on the cow was a small puncture on the brisket. No other evidence was available as to cause of death.
Investigations continued around the area and revealed that a suspected aircraft of some type had landed twice, leaving pod marks positioned in a triangular shape. The diameter of each pod part was 14″. The perimeter around the three pods was 16 1/2′
(6′ x 5′ x 5 1/2′). Emanating from the two landings were smaller triangular-shaped tripods 26″ apart and 4″ in diameter Investigation at the scene showed that these small tripods had followed the cow for approximately 600 feet. Tracks of the cow showed where she had struggled and fallen. The small tripod tracks were all around the cow. Other evidence showed that grass around the tripods, as they followed the cow, had been scorched. Also a yellow oily substance was located in two places under the small tripods. This substance was submitted to the State Police Lab. The Lab was unable to detect the content of the substance. . . .
The details given thus far are interesting, to say the least, in that a very detailed account is given of the appearance and measurements of the “tripods” which Valdez believed had followed the mutilated cow for 600 feet, whereafter forensic evidence apparently indicates she had “struggled and fallen.” The recovery of the oily substance beneath the tripods was also of interest, in that physical traces were left at the scene, despite the State Police Lab’s inability to identify it.
The report continues:
On 06-17-76 writer contacted a Mr. Howard Burgess from Albuquerque, N.M., to proceed to the scene and conduct a radiation test. This was three days after the incident had occurred. His findings were that around the tripod marks and in the immediate tracks, the radiation level was twice the normal background reading. Mr. Burgess’s qualifications may be checked as he is a retired scientist from Sandia Lab, Albuquerque. It is the opinion of this writer that radiation findings are deliberately being left at the scene to confuse investigators. . . .
The above statement is particularly interesting, and little has been said of the assessment Valdez makes in the final sentence: that the presence of radiation, rather than being some hallmark or indicator of the phenomenon itself, had instead been intended to confuse or misdirect any ensuing investigation. This is merely Valdez’s personal opinion; however, it is important to consider its implications on those grounds, since there is an obvious stereotype that often becomes associated with such mutilation reports. This, simply put, is the tried and true assumption that either 1) extraterrestrials did it, or that 2) anyone who suggests that forensic evidence in such cases points to something more complex than simple, natural deaths and predation by scavengers must, therefore, also buy the alien explanation. Neither assumption is valid, although plenty of people—skeptics and believers alike—are guilty of falling into such traps, which are based on bias and presumption, rather than logic.
There were other very important clues obtained during Valdez’s investigation, as Good points out. “Officer Valdez noted that in all the cattle mutilations that had occurred in New Mexico and surrounding states at that time, ‘the object of the mutilations has been the lymph node system’.” This is quite in contrast to the preoccupation many researchers seem to have on the removal of sexual organs and soft tissues in cattle mutilation cases and strongly suggests that the focus of the mutilations (supposing there had been a medical basis for such procedures) had been on the immune system.
The emphasis on lymphatic functions was not all that Valdez noticed. In one instance, a mutilated specimen in New Mexico was examined and found to have high concentrations of a specific chemical agent in the bloodstream. “[A] high dosage of Atropine insecticide was analyzed in the blood system,” Good wrote. “Since Atropine is a tranquilizing drug, this would imply that either government agents or private individuals were responsible in this case, yet the presence of the drug need not necessarily be related to the mutilation, and investigations into later cases failed to confirm the presence of such drugs.”
The significance of this bizarre twist seems obvious, and as Good has already outlined for us, “this would imply that either government agents or private individuals were responsible in this case.” The problem, of course, is that atropine is not necessarily a common feature of cattle mutilations. However, my colleague Nick Redfern, who has looked into such cases for a long time (point in case, his work is referenced by Timothy Good in the aforementioned book, which was published in 1991), notes that the presence of Atropine at least appears to have been discovered in a few other instances of cattle mutilations.
“What are the chances,” Nick asks, “of aliens from some far-away galaxy utilizing atropine to sedate cattle before systematically butchering them? Personally, I’d say the chances are practically zero.”
He further notes:
“In other words, while it is unlikely to satisfy those who so desperately wish to believe that the mutilations are the work of bug-eyed aliens from distant worlds, the presence of atropine in a significant number of the reports coming out of Dulce suggests we may be looking at a definitively home-grown operation – but one that utilizes the alien-motif as a convenient cover – focused on matters relative to biological-warfare and, perhaps, concerns about such worrying, and growing, issues as Creutzfeldt-Jacob-Disease, or Mad-Cow Disease, as it is more commonly known.”
It would be interesting to look through available resource literature and see if similar reports of Atropine in the bloodstream of these cattle might have been noted elsewhere, although there could be simple reasons why, even if it had been present, it may not have been detected in all cases. As Valdez noted in a separate investigative report pertaining to one of the Dulce cattle mutilations from around this time, “Investigation of these strange mutilations has been hampered by an inability to find laboratories which will perform tests and report accurate findings.” Had resources not been so limited to the state and municipal agencies that were investigating the deaths, there indeed might have been more relevant information about the mutilations that could have been obtained.
On a final unsettling note, according to Dr. Howard Burgess, a retired Sandia Laboratories scientist who was investigating cattle mutilations around the same time, splotches of fluorescent material had been found on the backs of some of the live cattle in the region, which was only visible under ultraviolet light.
Burgess wrote:
“To our amazement, three four-year-old cows and two young heifers had bright fluorescent splashes on their backs or top sides, fitting the pattern of animal types being mutilated in that area at that period. No markings were found on their sides, underneath, or lower parts. We were not able to find any liquid or solid in the corral or pasture that glowed with the same color or brilliance as the marks on the animals. The fluorescent marking was not from material picked up locally. If the animals were marked in advance, how was it done? When? By whom?”
The implications of Burgess’s views discussed here are indeed pretty disturbing, especially when compared to the final thoughts of Officer Gabriel Valdez on the subject:
“It is writer’s opinion that these animals have been marked for some time before they are mutilated. . . . It is writer’s theory that these animals are picked up by aircraft, mutilated elsewhere, and returned and dropped from aircraft. This is indicated from bruised marks and broken bones on cattle. Identical mutilations have been taking place all over the Southwest. . . no eye witnesses to these incidents have come forward. . . . One has to admit that whoever is responsible for the mutilations is very well organized, with boundless technology and financing and secrecy.”
As Allison Hudson, writing for Skeptoid noted in 2015, “For many, [the cattle mutilation] scenario is all too believable. They fear that extraterrestrial spaceships are kidnapping unsuspecting ungulates, conducting horrid vivisections, and then dumping the bodies.”
It’s a fair criticism since there are certainly plenty of people in the UFO community who wholeheartedly believe in an “alien” presence behind such reports; if anything, they wouldn’t have it any other way, and remain unwilling to look at other, more down-to-earth explanations. However, to assume that there may be more to some of these cases than mundane predation does not have to equate to belief in extraterrestrial visitation; nor does it require further sad conflagrations between the idea of unconventional aerial technologies that may be involved, and extraterrestrial visits to our planet, which remain unproven.
Whatever was really going on behind those cattle mutilations during the 1970s (and even still today), was probably far from being anything as unusual or “paranormal” as popular literature on the subject would suggest–although that’s not to say that some of the mutilations aren’t downright bizarre. On the other hand, popular skeptical interpretations that chalk the entire affair up to willfully ignorant “UFOlogists” and credulous farmers, who overlooked the telltale signs of foxes, insects, and other natural means by which the mutilations could be explained, fall equally short of the mark. And for all their hours spent clipping articles from newspapers in order to get around jurisdictional constraints, the FBI didn’t seem to notice fluorescent splotches, atropine insecticide in cattle blood, soil disturbances, radiation, and other physical data when they lamented about “no evidence of value ever located at the scene.”
There does seem to be more to some of the cattle mutilations, although getting to the bottom of what that might be would require ideological researchers learning to put aside their own “sacred cows,” and look at what the evidence actually says.
Residents of the Illinois–Indiana–Kentucky tri-state area were treated to a genuine airborne mystery this week when weather radar picked up a strange anomaly, puzzling meteorologists and weather watchers alike. Despite the fact that skies were clear and no storms were reported in the area, several weather stations reported a massive, extremely severe-looking storm on their radar systems. While an official explanation was given in the wake of the incident, we all know how official explanations go. What exactly happened in the skies over Indiana this week?
It all began late on the evening of Monday, December 12 when the National Weather Service office in Paducah, Kentucky reported a large anomaly over Southern Illinois which drifted across Southern Indiana and Western Kentucky. Whatever was on radar appeared to be as dense as a thunderstorm, but with the night clear and temperatures low, that theory was ruled improbable.
With little else to go on, National Weather Service believe the only other explanation is chaff released by a military aircraft. Chaff is a common countermeasure designed to fool radar and consists of small fibers or strands of metallized glass, paper, plastic, or aluminum. Clouds of lightweight chaff released by aircraft float on the air and are commonly picked up by weather radar.
Newer types of chaff in several different diameters.
However, this recent case appears different. National Weather Service meteorologist Greg Meffert says whatever caused this radar anomaly appeared to track as high as 10,000 feet but also at ground level. If it was chaff, Meffert adds, the weather service has “never seen it quite this hot.” Meffert went on to point out that he’s never before seen the Air Force conduct chaff exercises or tests in the Evansville, Indiana area.
A formation of C-130 Hercules aircraft fire off chaff and flare countermeasures over the Nevada Test and Training Range.
Furthermore, whenever nearby air bases have conducted drills with chaff, residents in the area have found the fibers strewn throughout their yards. In this case, no fibers were reported. Still, several news outlets report that air traffic control in Evansville were aware of a C-130 releasing chaff in the area on Monday. If this was chaff, why did it appear so different from prior tests? It could merely be a new type of countermeasure the weather service is unfamiliar with.
Military aviation blog The Drive adds that chaff does not usually stay in such a tight pattern for over 10 hours like this radar anomaly did. The Drive‘s Tyler Rogoway reached out to all nearby Armed Forces bases to see which might have conducted the chaff test, but none claimed responsibility. Rogoway’s theory is that this was likely “a test involving a more exotic type of material that hangs in the air longer” than normal chaff. Why conduct a test in such an usual location over suburban Indiana and not on a test range, though?
Giant Angelic UFO Leaving The Sun In NASA Photo, Dec 13, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Giant Angelic UFO Leaving The Sun In NASA Photo, Dec 13, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 13, 2018
Location of sighting: Earths sun
Source: SOHO LASCO C2 camera
An angelic object flew out of the earths sun today on NASA SOHO images taken by a satellite that records the suns changes. The object has two wings and a long tail, very similar to other such sightings of this angelic space ship leaving the sun. Yes, this has been seen over 50 times over the last few years. Usually its heading to the sun, here its leaving.
After all these years, NASA still refuses to comment on what this object is and why its seen so often entering and exiting our sun. I will try to message them today on twitter to see what they say.
Strange Green Portal Filmed Opening During Storm In Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Strange Green Portal Filmed Opening During Storm In Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
In this truly amazing footage we see this greenish plasma like light just appeared during an electrical storm to which it seem to have been fired up by the light underneath and at a point in this footage it looks like the unknown green light is emitting light downward toward the ground.
NASA releases audio recording: Mars sounds this scary!
NASA releases audio recording: Mars sounds this scary!
A dark humming, dark vibrations. A howl and tremble. Teeth chattering!
Nasa has released sound recordings of Mars - these are the first audio recordings ever that human ears hear of the Martian wind.
Finally, we know: This is what our neighbor planet sounds like. It's nothing for weak minds.
But also nothing for bad ears. The rumble recorded by the sensors of the "InSight" probe, which landed ten days ago, can hardly be perceived unprocessed. Nasa recommends subwoofers and headphones to bring out the full low frequencies.
The Nasa has therefore increased the vibrations registered by the onboard seismograph by two octaves so that they are easier to hear. The "Insight" sensor, which measures the pressure in the lander, is also ghostly: the Martian wind whistles around your ears - impressive at least when the Nasa increases the speed by a factor of 100.
According to Nasa, the recorded wind had a speed of 16 to 24 km/h, blowing from the northwest.
Artist's conception of the Hudson Valley UFO.(Copyright Lee Krystek, 2008)
In a place you would hardly expect, just one hour north of New York City, lies the site of one of the most widely observed and yet most unexplainable set of UFO sightings ever seen. The place is the Hudson Valley, and the story of its strange UFO started on New Years Eve, 1982.
A few minutes before midnight, a retired police officer was out in his backyard in Kent, New York when he observed a group of strange lights off to the south. They were colored red, green and white. At first the former officer thought they belonged to a jet aircraft in trouble, but as the object passed over his house at a height he estimated to be about 500 feet, he realized it was moving much too slowly for a jet and made too little noise. Just a distant humming sound. As he watched, he decided the the lights, which appeared as a "V" shape, were connected by a dark, triangular fuselage.
What the former officer had seen would be observed many times in the Hudson Valley area over the next few years by hundreds of different witnesses: A "V" shaped set of multicolored lights moving slowly and silently across the sky. On March 26th, 1983, a front-page story in the Westchester-Rockland Daily Item proclaimed:
HUNDREDS CLAIM TO HAVE SEEN UFO
The article, which told of sightings of a triangular UFO on Marth 24th, got the attention of a group of UFO researchers in the Valley associated with Dr. J Allen Hynek, founder of the Center for UFO Studies. The group started an investigation of the phenomena which was later documented as a book, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, authored by Dr. Hynek and Philip J. Imbrogno, with the help of Bob Pratt.
The group opened up a UFO hotline and received over 300 calls from people that had seen the UFO on the night of March 24th alone. One witness cited in the book reported that it had moved up the Taconic Parkway in "sort of a Z pattern." He described the object as being triangular in shape with thirty to forty colored lights along the back edge. The object, he stated, was huge, "If there is such a thing as a flying city, this was a flying city."
The object apparently cruised over the community of Yorktown that evening too where the police switchboard became so jammed with reports, officials became concerned that they would be unable to take emergency calls.
On the Taconic parkway people pulled over to watch the object as it moved slowly on its path. One observer estimated it was "as large as an aircraft carrier."
The UFO researchers estimated that over 5,000 people had seen the object over a period of five years from 1982 through 1986. Often the UFO seemed to glide over large areas causing dozens of sightings in one night. It was never spotted during the day.
Most reports came from people who seemed to be reliable witnesses. As the authors put it "ordinary people who have seen something extraordinary." The UFO was seen not just over the Hudson Valley, but as far east as New Haven, Connecticut and as far north as Brookfield, Connecticut.
While most reports described the UFO moving at a very slow speed, hovering, or turning slowly like a wheel, a few reports described the object as suddenly zooming away at fantastic speeds, or just disappearing. In some accounts the shape varied so that the lights appeared as more of a circle than a "V". Often the color and arrangement of the lights changed as the viewers watched. In a few cases reports arrived that put the object at two distant locations at the same time suggesting there might be more than one of them.
One of the most striking reports that the group gathered was from guards at the Indian Point Nuclear Plant. The UFO apparently hovered over an active nuclear reactor for some minutes coming as close to the reactor dome as thirty feet. The security supervisor even considered ordering guards to shoot it down. One guard described it as being the length of three football fields.
The object also seemed to be interested in bodies of water. One observer watched the UFO over Croton Falls Reservoir where it seemed to use a red beam to probe the surface.
The researchers knew that when investigated most UFO reports turn into reports of IFOs: Identified Flying Objects. Often they turn out to be planes, balloons, satellites, or even the planet Venus. They did find evidence that some of the reports of the "V" shape may have been a group of small planes flying out of the Stormville Airport. The pilots seemed to have been flying their planes in a formation in a deliberate attempt at a UFO hoax.
The plane hoax only cleared up a small number of reports, however. Most observers reported that the lights moved together as a solid object. Others could see the body of the UFO between the lights. None of the observers who had seen both the planes and the object thought they were the same phenomenon.
There are few good explanations for most of the Hudson Valley sightings. The only object that moves slowly through the air and hovers almost silently is a blimp. Researchers contacted all blimp operators in the area and could find no matches between the blimp schedules and the UFO reports. It was widely speculated at the time that object was a formation of ultralight planes. This seems unlikely as the UFO was nearly silent, could hover, and carried tremendously bright lights, all things ultralight aircraft are incapable of doing.
The Hudson Valley UFO remains a mystery even today. If you decide to take a trip to the Hudson Valley to try and see the strange UFO for yourself, you may want to stay at one of the excellent local bed and breakfast Inns. One, the Burlingham Inn, has decided to take advantage of the strange nighttime phenomena by featuring a UFO Bed & Breakfast. They welcome UFO watchers and list UFO sighting as one of the activities for which the Inn is especially well located.
A dwarf planet in our solar system is rich in organic matter, a Nasa spacecraft has shown.
Ceres is like a "chemical factory" full of the same ingredients that helped create life on Earth, according to scientists.
And studying it could reveal how those important processes took place on our own planet.
Ceres, a strange world that sits in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is thought to be about 4.6 billion years old, originating at the same time as our solar system.
The Nasa Dawn spacecraft, which sent back the new findings, had already shown the presence of water and other important chemicals such as ammonium.
And now it has found the planet is rich in carbon – far more than even the most carbon-rich meteorites on Earth, and giving it a strange chemical makeup.
"Ceres is like a chemical factory," said the Southwest Research Institute's Simone Marchi, a principal scientist who was the lead author of the research, which is published in Nature Astronomy.
"Among inner solar system bodies, Ceres' has a unique mineralogy, which appears to contain up to 20 percent carbon by mass in its near surface. Our analysis shows that carbon-rich compounds are intimately mixed with products of rock-water interactions, such as clays."
The discoveries could help us understand how planets like Earth came to be – and what laid the foundations for the life that is there today.
"With these findings, Ceres has gained a pivotal role in assessing the origin, evolution and distribution of organic species across the inner solar system," Dr Marchi said. "One has to wonder about how this world may have driven organic chemistry pathways, and how these processes may have affected the make-up of larger planets like the Earth."
THE SEARCH FOR ALIENS MAY DEPEND ON IN-SPACE ASSEMBLY
THE SEARCH FOR ALIENS MAY DEPEND ON IN-SPACE ASSEMBLY
DAN ROBITZSKI
Time To Outsource
If we ever want to find habitable planets far away from Earth, spot whatever extraterrestrial life be out there, or fly crewed missions out into deeper space, we’re going to have to invest heavily in space-based manufacturing operations.
That’s especially when it comes to peering into space that’s farther away from Earth. That reason is that we’re reaching the point where the telescopes that are big enough to improve upon current models are also too big to build on Earth then fly into space. That’s the crux of the argument of a new feature in Scientific American, which listed the in-space assembly and modifications to the Hubble Telescope and International Space Station as examples of how in-space assembly could push forward our understanding of the cosmos.
Size Matters
It’s simple physics: a high-definition image of deep space requires a telescope to have a big lens. Sure, it would be simpler to manufacture these complex apparatuses on Earth, but doing so would require the use of heavier and riskier rockets.
Meanwhile, smaller rocket launches — which could carry all of the parts, but with some assembly required — seem to grow cheaper and more commonplace by the day.
Crossing New Bridges
In-space assembly matters for other reasons, too. Recent progress in the realm of microgravity-environment 3D printing and similar endeavors will be necessary if we ever want people to actually explore deep space.
“Imagine a world where once your car runs low on fuel, instead of driving to the gas station you take it to the junkyard and abandon in,” DARPA program manager Joe Parrish told Scientific American. His message is clear — if we don’t find new ways to become self-sustaining on our journey into space, we will never get very far.
UFO’s en aliens zijn hier en jullie worden klaargestoomd voor de officiële aankondiging. Bekijk deze video
UFO’s en aliens zijn hier en jullie worden klaargestoomd voor de officiële aankondiging. Bekijk deze video
Onlangs stelde computerwetenschapper Silvano P. Colombano dat de aarde mogelijk al bezocht is door buitenaards leven.
Het zou volgens de NASA-wetenschapper gaan om een extreem kleine en bijzonder intelligente soort die voor mensen niet waarneembaar is omdat zij niet op koolstof gebaseerd is.
De uitspraken van Colombano maakten de Amerikaanse radiopersoonlijkheid Lionel woedend.
God
“Luister goed: er zijn buitenaardse levensvormen. Er zijn UFO’s. Ze zijn hier geweest. Ze zijn hier. Ze bewegen zich op allerlei verschillende manieren voort. Ze komen in alle soorten en maten,” zei hij.
“Er is zo veel bewijs,” vervolgde hij. “Er is meer bewijs [voor dit fenomeen] dan voor God.”
Je kunt God niet volgen op de radar, aldus Lionel. Je kunt geen foto’s maken van God. Daarnaast zijn er talloze getuigenverklaringen.
Bepaald doel
“Er zijn hele goede foto’s gemaakt die niet kunnen zijn gefotoshopt,” zei hij. “Roswell is echt gebeurd. Er komt een nieuwe documentaire over Bob Lazar uit.”
Het publiceren van dit soort nieuwsberichten in de media heeft volgens hem een bepaald doel.
“De mainstream media bereiden jullie voor op een ontdekking, verklaring of uitleg met betrekking tot buitenaards leven,” klonk het.
Andere dimensie
We zijn niet alleen, er is meer dan genoeg bewijs. Er zijn foto’s, er zijn videobeelden, er zijn getuigenissen van militairen.
We moeten volgens Lionel afstappen van de gedachte dat buitenaardsen per definitie op een planeet leven; ze kunnen net zo goed in andere dimensies leven.
Life in Deep Earth Totals 15 to 23 Billion Tonnes of Carbon—Hundreds of Times More than Humans
Life in Deep Earth Totals 15 to 23 Billion Tonnes of Carbon—Hundreds of Times More than Humans
Barely living "zombie" bacteria and other forms of life constitute an immense amount of carbon deep within Earth's subsurface—245 to 385 times greater than the carbon mass of all humans on the surface, according to scientists nearing the end of a 10-year international collaboration to reveal Earth's innermost secrets.
Deep Carbon Observatory collaborators, exploring the ‘Galapagos of the deep,’ add to what’s known, unknown, and unknowable about Earth’s most pristine ecosystem
Bacteria, archaea, and other microbes—some of them zombies—exist even in deepest known subsurface, and they’re weirder than their surface counterparts
~70% of Earth's bacteria and archaea live underground
Earth’s deep life suggests microbes might inhabit the subsurface of other planets
Barely living “zombie” bacteria and other forms of life constitute an immense amount of carbon deep within Earth’s subsurface—245 to 385 times greater than the carbon mass of all humans on the surface, according to scientists nearing the end of a 10-year international collaboration to reveal Earth’s innermost secrets.
On the eve of the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting, scientists with the Deep Carbon Observatory today reported several transformational discoveries, including how much and what kinds of life exist in the deep subsurface under the greatest extremes of pressure, temperature, and low energy and nutrient availability.
Drilling 2.5 kilometers into the seafloor, and sampling microbes from continental mines and boreholes more than 5 km deep, the team has used the results to construct models of the ecosystem deep within the planet.
With insights from now hundreds of sites under the continents and seas, they have approximated the size of the deep biosphere—2 to 2.3 billion cubic km (almost twice the volume of all oceans)—as well as the carbon mass of deep life: 15 to 23[1] billion tonnes (an average of at least 7.5 tonnes of carbon per cu km subsurface).
The work also helps determine types of extraterrestrial environments that could support life.
Among many key discoveries and insights:
The deep biosphere constitutes a world that can be viewed as a sort of “subterranean Galapagos” and includes members of all three domains of life: bacteria and archaea (microbes with no membrane-bound nucleus), and eukarya (microbes or multicellular organisms with cells that contain a nucleus as well as membrane-bound organelles)
Two types of microbes—bacteria and archaea—dominate Deep Earth. Among them are millions of distinct types, most yet to be discovered or characterized. This so-called microbial “dark matter” dramatically expands our perspective on the tree of life. Deep Life scientists say about 70% of Earth's bacteria and archaea live in the subsurface
Deep microbes are often very different from their surface cousins, with life cycles on near-geologic timescales, dining in some cases on nothing more than energy from rocks
The genetic diversity of life below the surface is comparable to or exceeds that above the surface
While subsurface microbial communities differ greatly between environments, certain genera and higher taxonomic groups are ubiquitous - they appear planet-wide
Microbial community richness relates to the age of marine sediments where cells are found—suggesting that in older sediments, food energy has declined over time, reducing the microbial community
The absolute limits of life on Earth in terms of temperature, pressure, and energy availability have yet to be found. The records continually get broken. A frontrunner for Earth’s hottest organism in the natural world is Geogemma barossii, a single-celled organism thriving in hydrothermal vents on the seafloor. Its cells, tiny microscopic spheres, grow and replicate at 121 degrees Celsius (21 degrees hotter than the boiling point of water)
Microbial life can survive up to 122°C, the record achieved in a lab culture (by comparison, the record-holding hottest place on Earth’s surface, in an uninhabited Iranian desert, is about 71°C—the temperature of well-done steak)
The record depth at which life has been found in the continental subsurface is approximately 5 km; the record in marine waters is 10.5 km from the ocean surface, a depth of extreme pressure; at 4000 meters depth, for example, the pressure is approximately 400 times greater than at sea level
Scientists have a better understanding of the impact on life in subsurface locations manipulated by humans (e.g., fracked shales, carbon capture and storage)
Ever-increasing accuracy and the declining cost of DNA sequencing, coupled with breakthroughs in deep ocean drilling technologies (pioneered on the Japanese scientific vessel Chikyu, designed to ultimately drill far beneath the seabed in some of the planet’s most seismically-active regions) made it possible for researchers to take their first detailed look at the composition of the deep biosphere.
There are comparable efforts to drill ever deeper beneath continental environments, using sampling devices that maintain pressure to preserve microbial life (none thought to pose any threat or benefit to human health).
To estimate the total mass of Earth’s subcontinental deep life, for example, the team compiled data on cell concentration and microbial diversity from locations around the globe.
Led by Cara Magnabosco of the Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Biology, New York, the scientists factored in a suite of considerations, including global heat flow, surface temperature, depth and lithology—the physical characteristics of rocks in each location—to estimate that the continental subsurface hosts 2 to 6 × 1029 cells.
Combined with estimates of subsurface life under the oceans, total global Deep Earth biomass is approximately 15 to 23 petagrams (15 to 23 billion tonnes) of carbon.
Says Mitch Sogin of the Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, USA, co-chair of DCO’s Deep Life community of more than 300 researchers in 34 countries: “Exploring the deep subsurface is akin to exploring the Amazon rainforest. There is life everywhere, and everywhere there’s an awe-inspiring abundance of unexpected and unusual organisms.
“Molecular studies raise the likelihood that microbial dark matter is much more diverse than what we currently know it to be, and the deepest branching lineages challenge the three-domain concept introduced by Carl Woese in 1977. Perhaps we are approaching a nexus where the earliest possible branching patterns might be accessible through deep life investigation.”
“Ten years ago, we knew far less about the physiologies of the bacteria and microbes that dominate the subsurface biosphere,” says Karen Lloyd, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA. “Today, we know that, in many places, they invest most of their energy to simply maintaining their existence and little into growth, which is a fascinating way to live.
“Today too, we know that subsurface life is common. Ten years ago, we had sampled only a few sites—the kinds of places we'd expect to find life. Now, thanks to ultra-deep sampling, we know we can find them pretty much everywhere, albeit the sampling has obviously reached only an infinitesimally tiny part of the deep biosphere.”
“Our studies of deep biosphere microbes have produced much new knowledge, but also a realization and far greater appreciation of how much we have yet to learn about subsurface life,” says Rick Colwell, Oregon State University, USA. “For example, scientists do not yet know all the ways in which deep subsurface life affects surface life and vice versa. And, for now, we can only marvel at the nature of the metabolisms that allow life to survive under the extremely impoverished and forbidding conditions for life in deep Earth.”
Among the many remaining enigmas of deep life on Earth:
Movement: How does deep life spread—laterally through cracks in rocks? Up, down? How can deep life be so similar in South Africa and Seattle, Washington? Did they have similar origins and were separated by plate tectonics, for example? Or do the communities themselves move? What roles do big geological events (such as plate tectonics, earthquakes; creation of large igneous provinces; meteoritic bombardments) play in deep life movements?
Origins: Did life start deep in Earth (either within the crust, near hydrothermal vents, or in subduction zones) then migrate up, toward the sun? Or did life start in a warm little surface pond and migrate down? How do subsurface microbial zombies reproduce, or live without dividing for millions to tens of millions of years?
Energy: Is methane, hydrogen, or natural radiation (from uranium and other elements) the most important energy source for deep life? Which sources of deep energy are most important in different settings? How do the absence of nutrients, and extreme temperatures and pressure, impact microbial distribution and diversity in the subsurface?
Comments
“Discoveries regarding the nature and extent of the deep microbial biosphere are among the crowning achievements of the Deep Carbon Observatory. Deep life researchers have opened our eyes to remarkable vistas – emerging views of life that we never knew existed.” - Robert Hazen, Senior Staff Scientist, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, and DCO Executive Director
“They are not Christmas ornaments, but the tiny balls and tinsel of deep life look they could decorate a tree as well as Swarovski glass. Why would nature make deep life beautiful when there is no light, no mirrors?” - Jesse Ausubel, The Rockefeller University, a founder of the DCO
“Deep life probably has an important impact on global biogeochemical cycles, and thus on the surface world. However, we are still far from quantifying this impact.” - Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, MARUM University of Bremen, Germany
“Even in dark and energetically challenging conditions, intraterrestrial ecosystems have uniquely evolved and persisted over millions of years. Expanding our knowledge of deep life will inspire new insights into planetary habitability, leading us to understand why life emerged on our planet and whether life persists in the Martian subsurface and other celestial bodies.” - Fumio Inagaki, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
"While we are far from being able to quantify it, we believe Deep Life has an important impact on global biogeochemical cycles and chemical equilibria in habitable rocks. Deep Life plays a role in aquifer quality, for example, or carbon capture and storage (CCS). Unfortunately, the deep biosphere is very poorly considered in engineering operations carried out in the subsurface. We recently demonstrated the high reactivity of deep biota to CO2 injections (CCS), which ultimately led to the bioclogging of the injection well, and surrounding reservoir." - Bénédicte Ménez, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France
“A decade ago, we had no idea that the rocks beneath our feet could be so vastly inhabited. Experimental investigations told us that microbes could potentially survive to great depth; at that time, we had no evidence, and this has become real ten years later. This is simply fascinating and will surely foster enthusiasm to look for the biotic-abiotic fringe on Earth and elsewhere.” - Isabelle Daniel, University of Lyon 1, France
Exploring deep microbial life in coal-bearing sediment down to ~2.5 km below the ocean floor. (2015) Science Inagaki F, Hinrichs K-U, Kubo Y, Bowles MW, Heuer VB, Hong W-L, Hoshino T, Ijiri A, Imachi H, Ito M, Kaneko M, Lever MA, Lin Y-S, Methé BA, Morita S, Morono Y, Tanikawa W, Bihan M, Bowden SA, Elvert M, Glombitza C, Gross D, Harrington GJ, Hori T, Li K, Limmer D, Liu C-H, Murayama M, Ohkouchi N, Ono S, Park Y-S, Phillips SC, Prieto-Mollar X, Purkey M, Riedinger N, Sanada Y, Sauvage J, Snyder G, Susilawati R, Takano Y, Tasumi E, Terada T, Tomaru H, Trembath-Reichert E, Wang DT, Yamada Y
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High reactivity of deep biota under anthropogenic CO2 injection into basalt.(2017) Nature Communications Trias R, Ménez B, le Campion P, Zivanovic Y, Lecourt L, Lecoeuvre A, Schmitt-Kopplin P, Uhl J, Gíslason SR, Alfreðsson HA, Mesfin KG, Snæbjörnsdóttir SA, Aradóttir ES, Gunnarsson I, Matter JM, Stute M, Oelkers EH, Gérard E
Illustrations
Note: High resolution version of most of the images below can be accessed by simply clicking on the images.
A nematode (eukaryote) in a biofilm of microorganisms. This unidentified nematode (Poikilolaimus sp.) from Kopanang gold mine in South Africa, lives 1.4 km below the surface.
Image courtesy of Gaetan Borgonie (Extreme Life Isyensya, Belgium).
Cells in this cluster of archaea (the ANME-2 cells, red) and bacteria (Desulfosarcina / Desulfococcus species, green) work together to harvest energy from methane at seafloor seeps. These organisms have very slow growth rates with a minimum doubling time of a few months, making them very difficult to cultivate and study in the lab.
Image courtesy Katrin Knittel (MPI Bremen)
Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator (the purplish, blue rod-shaped cells straddling orange carbon spheres) is a species of bacteria that survives on hydrogen (H2) from radiolysis of water and sulfate derived from oxidation of pyrite by radolytically produced oxygen and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), and fixes carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen (N2). Scientists originally found Ca. Desulforudis living within a fluid and gas-filled fracture 2.8 km beneath Earth’s surface at Mponeng Gold Mine near Johannesburg, South Africa. Surprisingly, scientists found no other organisms in their samples, making this deep ecosystem the first found on Earth with only one species. The genus name Desulforudis comes from the Latin for "from sulfur" and "rod," noting its shape and its ability to get energy from sulfates. And audaxviator? From Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, and a message in Latin deciphered by Verne's protagonist, Professor Lidenbrock, which read in part: "descend, bold traveler, and attain the center of the Earth."
Image courtesy of Greg Wanger (California Institute of Technology, USA) and Gordon Southam (The University of Queensland, Australia)
This is a species of Methanobacterium, which produces methane. Found in samples from a buried coal bed 2 km below the Pacific Ocean floor off the coast of Japan, this specimen was retrieved during an Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (now the International Ocean Discovery Program) expedition in 2012 aboard the Drilling Vessel Chikyu. Bar represents 10 µm.
Image courtesy of Hiroyuki Imachi (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan). Please note that a high-resolution version of this image is available by contacting images@jamstec.go.jp
These archaea, Altiarchaeales, were originally found living in sulfidic springs in Germany. Scientists collected water samples from a 30m-deep borehole, however the cells they analyzed could be living at much greater depths. Each cell is surrounded by a fuzzy coat of “hami,” hair-like appendages with “grappling hooks” at the end and barb-wire-like prickles along their length. These surface structures help the cells stick to surfaces.
Image courtesy of Christine Moissl-Eichinger (Medical University of Graz, Austria)
Cara Magnabosco and colleagues collect ancient water samples 1.3 km deep within the Beatrix Gold Mine, South Africa to investigate the diversity and abundance of deep microbes.
Image courtesy of Gaetan Borgonie (Extreme Life Isyensya, Belgium) and Barbara Sherwood Lollar (University of Toronto, Canada)
The Japanese scientific drilling vessel Chikyu has made it possible for scientists to access microbial life in the deep subsurface. The ship is designed to ultimately drill 7 km beneath the seabed in some of the planet’s most seismically-active regions. DCO researchers were onboard the vessel for an expedition to the Nankai Trough in 2016 to determine the temperature and pressure limits of microbial life at temps above 120°C.
Photo copyright JAMSTEC. Please note that a high-resolution version of this image is available by contacting images@jamstec.go.jp
The D/V Chikyu is one of the most advanced scientific drilling ships available today. Coring operations take place 24 hours a day.
Image courtesy of Luc Riolon/JAMSTEC
Scientists look for signs of life in cores like this one. The cores on International Ocean Discovery Program's (IODP) Expedition 337 were taken to depths down to 2.5 km below the seafloor, where temperature increases from 30°C to 60°C, spanning the predicted temperature limit for life on Earth.
Image courtesy of Luc Riolon/JAMSTEC
IODP Expedition 357 to the Atlantis Massif pioneered the use of seabed rockdrills, MeBo (left) and RockDrill2 (right), equipped with sensors capable of monitoring in-situ fluid conditions during drilling, and with the potential to "plug" a borehole. Such technology is enhancing scientists’ ability to understand conditions of the deep subsurface encountered by microbial life. Images courtesy of ECORD/IODP
Onderzoekers ontdekken reusachtig, mysterieus ecosysteem op kilometers onder onze voeten. Zit het meeste leven in de aarde?
Onderzoekers ontdekken reusachtig, mysterieus ecosysteem op kilometers onder onze voeten. Zit het meeste leven in de aarde?
Onderzoekers van het Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) hebben ontdekt dat zich diep onder de aardkorst bijna dubbel zoveel levende organismen bevinden als in alle oceanen samen.
De wetenschappers boorden tot vijf kilometer diep en ontdekten dat 70 procent van alle bacteriën zich onder het oppervlak bevindt.
Volgens de onderzoekers is de diversiteit daar vergelijkbaar met die in de Amazone of op de Galapagoseilanden.
Miljoenen
“We hebben een volledig nieuw levensreservoir ontdekt,” zei Karen Lloyd van de Universiteit van Tennessee.
“We ontdekken constant nieuwe levenssoorten onder het aardoppervlak. Er zit meer leven in de aarde dan erop.”
Diep in de aarde leven letterlijk miljoenen onontdekte soorten.
Elke diepte
Zo werd op een diepte van 2,5 kilometer een organisme ontdekt dat daar al miljoenen jaren begraven ligt en volledig onafhankelijk is van energie van de zon.
In hydrothermale bronnen op de zeebodem zijn organismen gevonden die gedijen bij temperaturen van 121 graden Celsius, ver boven het kookpunt van water.
De onderzoekers proberen te achterhalen op welke diepte geen leven meer mogelijk is, maar op elke diepte vinden ze weer leven.
Andere planeten
Zelfs op vijf kilometer diepte onder continenten en 10,5 kilometer onder het wateroppervlak werd leven aangetroffen.
Dit betekent dat ook op andere planeten op grote diepte leven mogelijk is.
Mysterieus netwerk
Bij het Deep Carbon Observatory zijn meer dan 1000 wetenschappers uit 52 landen betrokken.
Al meer dan 10 jaar brengen ze de ‘diepe biosfeer’ van de aarde in kaart, een mysterieus netwerk van ondergrondse ecosystemen tussen het aardoppervlak en de kern.
Images captured from the JunoCam imager seem to show a dolphin-shaped cloud swimming across Jupiter. While seeing an image of a dolphin-shaped cloud is like seeing the face of Jesus in your toast, the phenomenon that’s called pareidolia where we perceive images in random patterns, is really quite fascinating and fun to look at.
Juno spacecraft has been collecting data from our solar system’s largest planet since arriving there in July of 2016 and is expected stay operational until 2021.
On October 29, 2018, the Juno spacecraft made its sixteenth close flyby of the giant gas planet. Citizen-scientists Brian Swift and Seán Doran created the images by using the data collected from an instrument on the spacecraft called the JunoCam imager. According to NASA’s photo description, the series of images that captured the dolphin-shaped cloud swimming along the planet’s South South Temperate Belt appeared between 2:26 p.m. and 2:46 p.m. PDT and were taken from a distance of approximately 11,400 miles to 31,700 miles above Jupiter’s atmosphere.
Although NASA officially released the photo to the public on November 30th, Seán Doran beat them to it as he posted a photo of the oddly-shaped cloud on November 7th in a Twitter post. Since Juno arrived at Jupiter, Doran has been processing images with data collected from the spacecraft.
Another strange image captured two of Saturn’s moons in an odd position. Although it looks more like a snowman, the image was of Saturn’s moons called Dione and Rhea that was captured by the Cassini spacecraft that spent thirteen years orbiting the ringed planet before plunging into its atmosphere in September of 2017.
While the two moons look as though they were conjoined in the picture, Dione (which is the top moon in the picture) is in fact quite a bit smaller than Rhea. Dione has a diameter of 1,123 kilometers while Rhea has a diameter of 1,528 kilometers. Since Dione was closer to the spacecraft at the time that the picture was taken, they both appear nearly identical and as if they were touching or joined even though they are two separate moons. To elaborate, at the time that the picture was taken, Dione was approximately 1.1 million kilometers from Cassini, while Rhea was about 1.6 million kilometers away from the spacecraft.
Another reason why the moons looked conjoined is because Dione has a large crater called Evander that’s located in the center of the South Polar Region (where Rhea appears to connect with it) which makes the picture even more convincing that they were joined.
Something odd happened over Hull, England this week. Or, at least it sure appears like something odd happened. On the afternoon of Monday, November 10, residents in the Preston Road area of Hull in East Yorkshire spotted what appeared to be a strange-looking aircraft in the skies and took to social media to ask if anyone knew anything. The aircraft wasdescribedas having a “short body, no nose or tail and huge wings” and was reported to hover silently and still before zooming away at a high rate of speed. Sound familiar?
Why, yes. Yes it does.
It should, to anyone who’s ever read a single UFO sighting report. Of course, many modern unmanned aerial vehicles match that description and are capable of similar acrobatics. Whatever the airborne object was, it seems to have attracted the attention of the Royal Air Force in a big way. According to the UK Ministry of Defence, a “Quick Reaction Alert” (QRA) mission was carried out Monday afternoon by RAF Typhoon aircraft around the same time as the reported sighting. That’s where things get confusing, though; the MOD claims that the Typhoons were scrambled from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland to intercept an “unidentified aircraft” that was not the same onethat was spotted over Hull. Seems like a pretty big coincidence.
An RAF Typhoon
Civilian air traffic logs show that a Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign flew over Hull around the same time as the reported sighting and the RAF intercept flights, but that aircraft doesn’t exactly match descriptions of what was seen in the skies of East Yorkshire. Meanwhile, the MOD released a press statement stating simply that the QRA over Hull was to intercept “an undisclosed airspace incursion” but released no further details.
The 680 Cessna Citation Sovereign
Interestingly, the MOD statement also says the QRA was the first mission in which RAF Typhoons have carried the new Meteor Air-to-Air missile, an anti-aircraft missile capable of flying at four times the speed of sound designed to counter new hypersonic weapons and aircraft. Was this merely a chest-thumping drill to demonstrate that the Meteor missiles are ready for action, or could this have been something stranger?
A UFO Caught On Video During Sunset Over City of Keller in Texas
A UFO Caught On Video During Sunset Over City of Keller in Texas
Keller resident Angie McNatt Krackenberger was snapping photographs of a breathtaking scene of the sunset on J.T. Ottinger Road, located just south of Texas 114, near from her home, on the evening of November 19, 2018.
The photography enthusiast and teacher noticed something unusual while taking pictures of the sunset.
She saw through her lens clouds moving and eventually disappearing, but one simply remained.
She described the mysterious thing as glowing and much smaller than the other clouds.
She later realized that it stayed put and completely unchanged.
So, she zoomed in and found out that it was not a cloud at all, but could not identify it either. She took a few pictures and recorded some videos. She continued to observe the strange object for around 15 minutes.
When the sun already set, she got back in her car and tried to think an explanation of what she saw but could not think of anything.
She called her husband while on the drive home to tell him about what she had seen. Her husband suggested it could be a weather balloon, or perhaps a blimp.However, when she let him viewed the footage, he was also equally confused.
Disc-shaped UFO over Ehrenberg, Arizona 9-Dec-2018
Disc-shaped UFO over Ehrenberg, Arizona 9-Dec-2018
This daytime UFO video of a solid flying saucer was filmed over Ehrenberg, AZ on 9th December 2018.
Witness report:
Driving back from Disneyland with the family on I-10 heading east stopped at Chevron near Ehrenberg AZ to get gas, made a wrong turn to get back on highway, wound up on dirt road close to the gas station and noticed a dark object hovering completely motionless just above the mountains in the Southern sky. I observed it for approximately 5 minutes, it had absolutely no motion whatsoever. I was able to videotape it and took one photo before the wife made me leave and get back on the road towards home.
It’s the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Soviet Union’s most famous (and most hated by its leaders ) novelist — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – who brought the word “gulag” into the vocabulary of the Western world. A century later, a certain Russian space scientist may be glad those forced labor camps no longer exist (or do they?) after going against the leader of Russia’s space program and saying that not only does he believe that the U.S. landed humans on the moon, faking such a landing would be harder than actually accomplishing it. Hear that,lunar-landing-denier Steph Curry?
“Falsifying moon soil is impossible. The Americans brought back to Earth about 300 kilos of it, most of it basalt.”
In a wide-ranging interview with the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, Yury Kostitsyn, the head of Russia’s Institute of Analytical Chemistry, went against recent statements of Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin, who “joked” that one purpose of Russia’s own future lunar missions will be to prove or disprove the 1969 Apollo 11 landing, give the country an opportunity to check whether Neil Armstrong’s footprints are actually out there.
“The question of whether the Americans landed on the moon in 1961-1972 is not controversial. However, there are still speculations on this topic in the world and mainly come from people who have nothing to do with space. You will not hear from any astronaut that the Americans have not landed on the moon.”
The “astronauts” Kostitsyn is referring to are Russian cosmonauts who know that the U.S. lunar space program was and still is far ahead of theirs. However, as a scientist, he looks for proof in the lunar rocks themselves, which he and other Russians were allowed to examine. He points out that although basalt came into existence on both the Earth and the moon at the same time, there are no old samples on Earth because of weathering. On the other hand, the samples from the moon are over 4 billion years old, far older than any rocks on Earth. In addition, they show a different form of weathering due to solar wind, which does not affect Earth rocks.
Then he goes after Dmitry Rogozin and Steph Curry.
“The Americans were very worried whether the USSR was going to arrange a trick on the moon – after all, at the same time as their mission, the USSR launched its probes on the moon. Of course, we did not have the task to harm them, it was – to get ahead. Staging the landing of American astronauts on the moon would be more difficult and more expensive than its actual implementation. Including because then this deception would have to be kept secret, which is not possible. NASA could classify its materials, but many independent firms participated in the implementation of Apollo.”
Even in the Soviet Union, with the threat of gulags and worse, it would be impossible to have so many different and independent parties keep such a massive hoax a secret for 50 years. Kostitsyn also points out that, while the U.S. seems to be focused on Mars, Russia is talking about establishing a base on the moon – a project that will require a better understanding of how much water is actually there and available.
“To build a base on the moon, you first need to establish life there and solve the problem of protecting people from space radiation. To do this, from the lunar substance to build shelters, and inside them to maintain the atmosphere. It is difficult to carry oxygen from Earth, therefore the water on the Moon is of primary interest – we need to understand how much water is there, how much water is available and how to get oxygen out of it.”
Oxygen and protection from radiation – two challenges Kostitsyn thinks are beyond the ability of Roscosmos and its goal of establishing a base in the 2030s.
“I think that humankind will not be able to fully live on the Moon soon. In the next decade, most likely, missions to the Moon will be resumed – both Russia, the USA and China have plans to launch orbiters there for the time being. Plans for the creation of manned moon descent modules remain at the level of theory.”
It’s discussions like this that remind us we need to listen more to scientists and less to NBA stars.
DeepMind is on the forefront of artificial intelligence (A.I.). The computer system it developed, known as AlphaZero, amazed (and terrified) the world in 2017 when it was able to defeat human chess masters at their own game, despite only learning it four hours previous to the matches. That machine has been tested numerous times by even more chess grandmasters, and now people are seeing it do something not yet seen within machines – it is improvising.
Not only was AlphaZero a master at chess, it has also taught itself games such as shogi, commonly called Japanese chess, and Go. In each attempt, AlphaZero was able to beat the previous world champions of the games, who were all human. On DeepMind’s website, developers say they are “thrilled” to see the program developing improvisation and intuition skills, which are not previously known to be in machines.
In a paper published in Science Magazine, it is stated the machine’s ability to master the complicated game of Go and defeat the world champion showed it had use of “deep convolutional neural networks” because it developed a massive knowledge of the game simply by playing it repeatedly to the point the writers of the paper said it has “superhuman performance” in the game.
Computers have been beating humans at chess since 1997, but the addition of shogi, which is far more complicated than chess, and Go, which relies on practice and intuition, shows AlphaZero is able to not only defeat humans at their own games, but ultimately learn how to do it in better and more efficient ways.
When pitted against another chess computer, Stockfish, AlphaZero won 155 of 1,000 matches, with six losses and the rest being draws. Unlike most chess-playing A.I.’s, however, AlphaZero does not prefer to save its pieces, instead opting to sacrifice them for the greater good.
This ability comes from what developers describe as a “neural network with millions of different tunable parameters, each learning its own rules of what is good in chess.” With all of these variables, the machine, much like a human, can look at a situation and know what the best thing to do is.
AlphaZero began with a blank slate mind, developing strategies and tactics based only on the basic rules of the games it plays. It developed its human-like ability to play games based on its experiences.
While many prominent thinkers such as Elon Musk have warned against A.I., citing the possibility such mechanical minds could ultimately lead to human extinction, DeepMind researchers believe studying the way this machine learns how to play games can lead to real issues, such as why proteins become misfolded in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. That protein folding conundrum is ultimately the goal of A.I.’s such as AlphaZero built by DeepMind.
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Did Supernovae Kill Off Megalodon and Other Large Ocean Animals at Dawn of Pleistocene?
Did Supernovae Kill Off Megalodon and Other Large Ocean Animals at Dawn of Pleistocene?
About 2.6 million years ago, an oddly bright light arrived in the prehistoric sky and lingered there for weeks or months. It was a supernova some 150 light years away from Earth. Within a few hundred years, long after the strange light in the sky had dwindled, a tsunami of cosmic energy from that same shattering star explosion could have reached our planet and pummeled the atmosphere, touching off climate change and triggering mass extinctions of large ocean animals, including a shark species that was the size of a school bus.
“I’ve been doing research like this for about 15 years, and always in the past it’s been based on what we know generally about the universe — that these supernovae should have affected Earth at some time or another,” said lead author Adrian Melott, professor emeritus of physics & astronomy at the University of Kansas. “This time, it’s different. We have evidence of nearby events at a specific time. We know about how far away they were, so we can actually compute how that would have affected the Earth and compare it to what we know about what happened at that time — it’s much more specific.”
Muons showering Earth may have spelled curtains for Megalodon, a school-bus-sized shark, 2.6 million years ago.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
“As far back as the mid-1990s, people said, ‘Hey, look for iron-60. It’s a telltale because there’s no other way for it to get to Earth but from a supernova.’ Because iron-60 is radioactive, if it was formed with the Earth it would be long gone by now. So, it had to have been rained down on us. There’s some debate about whether there was only one supernova really nearby or a whole chain of them. I kind of favor a combo of the two — a big chain with one that was unusually powerful and close. If you look at iron-60 residue, there’s a huge spike 2.6 million years ago, but there’s excess scattered clear back 10 million years.”
Melott’s co-authors were Franciole Marinho of Universidade Federal de São Carlos in Brazil and Laura Paulucci of Universidade Federal do ABC, also in Brazil.
According to the team, other evidence for a series of supernovae is found in the very architecture of the local universe.
“We have the Local Bubble in the interstellar medium,” Melott said. “We’re right on its edge. It’s a giant region about 300 light years long. It’s basically very hot, very low-density gas — nearly all the gas clouds have been swept out of it. The best way to manufacture a bubble like that is a whole bunch of supernovae blows it bigger and bigger, and that seems to fit well with idea of a chain. When we do calculations, they’re based on the idea that one supernova that goes off, and its energy sweeps by Earth, and it’s over. But with the Local Bubble, the cosmic rays kind of bounce off the sides, and the cosmic-ray bath would last 10,000 to 100,000 years. This way, you could imagine a whole series of these things feeding more and more cosmic rays into the Local Bubble and giving us cosmic rays for millions of years.”
Whether or not there was one supernova or a series of them, the supernova energy that spread layers of iron-60 all over the world also caused penetrating particles called muons to shower Earth, causing cancers and mutations — especially to larger animals.
“The best description of a muon would be a very heavy electron — but a muon is a couple hundred times more massive than an electron,” Melott said. “They’re very penetrating. Even normally, there are lots of them passing through us. Nearly all of them pass through harmlessly, yet about one-fifth of our radiation dose comes by muons. But when this wave of cosmic rays hits, multiply those muons by a few hundred. Only a small faction of them will interact in any way, but when the number is so large and their energy so high, you get increased mutations and cancer — these would be the main biological effects. We estimated the cancer rate would go up about 50 percent for something the size of a human — and the bigger you are, the worse it is. For an elephant or a whale, the radiation dose goes way up.”
Adrian Melott
Credit: University of Kansas
A supernova 2.6 million years ago may be related to a marine megafaunal extinction at the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary where 36 percent of the genera were estimated to become extinct. The extinction was concentrated in coastal waters, where larger organisms would catch a greater radiation dose from the muons.
According to the authors of the new paper, damage from muons would extend down hundreds of yards into ocean waters, becoming less severe at greater depths: “High energy muons can reach deeper in the oceans being the more relevant agent of biological damage as depth increases,” they write.
Indeed, a famously large and fierce marine animal inhabiting shallower waters may have been doomed by the supernova radiation.“One of the extinctions that happened 2.6 million years ago was Megalodon,” Melott said. “Imagine the Great White Shark in ‘Jaws,’ which was enormous — and that’s Megalodon, but it was about the size of a school bus. They just disappeared about that time. So, we can speculate it might have something to do with the muons. Basically, the bigger the creature is the bigger the increase in radiation would have been.”
The KU researcher said the evidence of a supernova, or series of them, is “another puzzle piece” to clarify the possible reasons for the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary extinction.
“There really hasn’t been any good explanation for the marine megafaunal extinction,” Melott said. “This could be one. It’s this paradigm change — we know something happened and when it happened, so for the first time we can really dig in and look for things in a definite way. We now can get really definite about what the effects of radiation would be in a way that wasn’t possible before.”
Contacts and sources:
Brendan M. Lynch
University of Kansas
Citation: Hypothesis: Muon Radiation Dose and Marine Megafaunal Extinction at the End-Pliocene Supernova Adrian L. Melott, Franciole Marinho, Laura Paulucci.. Astrobiology, 2018; DOI: 10.1089/ast.2018.1902
RH Negative: Aliens Genetically Created Us: Overwhelming Evidence (Video)
RH Negative: Aliens Genetically Created Us: Overwhelming Evidence (Video)
If you want to rouse passionate opinions – just discuss the origin of the human race. Fervent believers argue the literal, biblical perspective… that we were created in an instant by a Creator … while scientists claim we are the result of pure evolution – and there are many theories inside that. As it turns out, more and more evidence is showing the likelihood that both theories actually hold some truth, …that the human race is, by all means, an evolving species, but also, that there are a multitude of reasons to believe that a more intelligent life form played a role in developing our DNA.
As we unravel more mysteries from our past, more and more physicists, historians, geneticists, and anthropologists are pushing the boundaries of accepted theories by mentioning the “A” word – yes – the dreaded “alien” – and the overwhelming evidence that something played a role in our evolution. So if you’re among those people still laughing off this possibility – because you’ve never seen one – we’d like to bring you up to speed with some of the remarkable discoveries being discussed in the scientific community, ones that prove our genetic makeup has to be more than just a random hand of cards.
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Curiosity Rover Has a Huge Following on Mars
Curiosity Rover Has a Huge Following on Mars
NASA – Masters Of Deception
In this video, I will show you how NASA is able to cover up life on Mars and make it all look like natural landscape, by adding the fake yellowish color tint and fake sand.
When they add this effect, it makes everything blend in as part of the environment, so that nothing out of the ordinary stands out.
To me it seems like there is a massive amount of live beings gathered around close to where the Rover is, looking at this image closely, what i’m seeing is beings of various sizes and maybe some kind of alien plant life?
Let me know what your thoughts are on this Mars Anomaly in the comment section below!
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Throughout 2017 and 2018 a series of mysterious animal attacks have left many rural Indian shepherds and farmers rattled. Whole flocks of sheep have been left eviscerated with onlytheir livers missingor their blood seeminglysucked right outof their woolly little bodies. Things then took a turn for the worse and the weird earlier this year when the culprit – whatever it is – was reported toattack a dozen villagersin eastern India in their sleep.
Some of the creature’s unfortunate victims.
The attacks continued late into 2018 with the vicious slaughterof over 40 ducks in late November. Despite the frequency of the attacks and the fact that over 150 animals were slaughtered, the identity of the creature behind the killings remained unknown. In response to these unexplained livestock mutilations, the State Government of Manipur launched an investigation earlier this year, calling in scientists from the Wildlife Institute of India were to install remote cameras and gather evidence in an attempt to identify whatever may be behind these recent attacks. According to local news reports, those scientists have finally identified what was behind the killings: dogs. Wait, dogs? Plain old dogs ate the livers of whole flocks of sheep and drained the blood from pigs?
“I need the iron for my anemia.”
Manipur Forest and Environment Minister Thounaojam Shyamkumar told reporters this week that the “Wildlife Institute of India (WII), who have been conducting the probe on the string of attacks on livestock have collected enough evidence to conclude that the attacks were carried out by stray dogs. We will take all possible measures to control this menace. These dogs prowling in the streets and villages could turn to man if they get infected with rabies.”
Scientists concluded that “poor and unhygienic husbandry practice and open garbage” contributed to the dogs’ attacks. While I don’t doubt that packs of feral dogs pose problems in rural places where livestock are commonplace, I’m dubious of any explanations presented without evidence. Where are the photographs of these dogs? Casts of their footprints? Not even a single liver-filled scat sample?
Dog works in mysterious ways.
While I’m sure this explanation is sure to calm the nerves of some of the shepherds affected by the string of attacks, it seems too tidy. Until I see a sad, mangy mutt caked in blood and sheep liver in a wire crate at a press conference, I’m still going with an Indian cousin of the chupacabra.
Black Triangle moving at low altitude in Cape May, New Jersey
Black Triangle moving at low altitude in Cape May, New Jersey
This sighting is from August 2016 but submitted to Mufon on December 5, 2018. The footage is interesting because it clearly shows a TR-3B moving at low altitude over Cape May, New Jersey.
The witness said: My adult daughter was jogging on the beach and noticed some weird things going on with regard to that storm, and phoned me. my wife and i stepped out on the balcony of our vacation rental unit and checked out the night sky and caught on my cell phone video camera something that appeared to be 3 lights in a triangular formation, with a single flying light not far behind it
I found some interesting structures in this Mars surface photo. Most of the big structures were deliberately blurred out, however there were still a few that were clearly visible. These structures are not new, but very old...ancient ruins. The photo is a planned route of the Mars Curiosity rover and the route takes it through two areas that are littered with structures. Its no wonder why NASA says the rover has not responded to NASA signals or has problems...its because the rover is on a black opps mission to explore some of these ancient ruins and get some photos of the tech and ruins...close ups that the public will never see, until today.
For the first time in history, scientists have detected the first interstellar object ever observed.
In October 2017, an elongated interstellar object named "Oumuamua" — the first to enter the solar system — was detected by a survey telescope in Hawaii.A new study published this week in the Astronomical Journal, coauthored by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, uncovered new information that suggested there was a limit to how big Oumuamua actually is, and gave astronomers a better indication of its size.
Scientists have been looking for signs of extraterrestrial life for decades. So does the appearance of Oumuamua mean the elusive "E.T" has finally been detected? Perhaps: Experts say it is exceedingly unlikely, but the possibility can't be ruled out just yet.
"I personally think the odds are much better that is something natural, but I don't want to dismiss the possibility that it could be from an alien civilization. But we have to have an open mind," Michael Wall, a writer at Space.com and a biologist, told CNBC recently.
Scientists believe Oumuamua is shaped like a cigar, approximately 400 feet long and 40 feet wide. However, they are only able to guess based on its changing brightness as it spins.
But scientists' biggest unanswered question is the object's thickness. As far as the scientific community is aware, there is no naturally occurring object that is as big as Oumuamua that appears so thin at the same time, increasing the likelihood that it was created by another life form.
Given the speed the object is moving, experts believe that it may be a light sail — an object that is thin enough to be pushed by the sun or another star, almost like a plastic bag in the wind, according to Matija Cuk, a research scientist at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute.
Seth Shostak, a SETI research fellow, told CNBC that for that to be true, Oumuamua would have to be about a millimeter thick—about as thick as 5-10 sheets of paper stacked together.
According to Wall, scientists originally hypothesized that Oumuamua was a comet or an asteroid. However, both theories were ruled out: Unlike comets studied here on earth, this object does not have a tail, nor jets of gas that a comet would normally emit.
If Oumuamua is not a comet or an asteroid, chances of it being a light sail increase. According to SETI's Cuk, it is possible that outside our solar system, composition of space objects are different.
"Maybe in other solar systems comets could be made differently," Cuk said. That suggests the object could be naturally occurring, despite the fact that nothing like it has ever been seen anywhere near earth before.
Shostak said there are likely many objects similar to Oumuamua in the depths of space. This time, the object "hit the bullseye" by reaching the earth's solar system.
"This implies a number of these things are drifting through the cosmos, as ubiquitous as fire hydrants," Shostak said.
These objects have also likely reached our solar system in the past and gone unnoticed. Scientists are building another telescope similar to the one in Hawaii that detected Oumuamua. Once it is completed in Chile, it will be used to search for similar objects.
"Unless a miracle has occurred, these are entering our solar system all the time. This is just the first one we've found," Shostak said. He acknowledged the alien hypothesis was plausible, adding that Oumuamua acted more like a rock than a spaceship.
"If they really wanted to target our solar system, they'd hang around longer and probably come closer to the earth," he said.
Scientists also would have been able to detect any sort of signal the object had if it were as advanced as a cell phone, Shostak said. That does not prove anything, but decreases the likelihood that it was deliberately sent.
Oumuamua is now drifting further away from our solar system. The longer the distance, the harder it will be for earthlings to study it. Yet as technology increases, scientists may discover more objects similar to Oumuamua, perhaps in the next three to ten years.
"If we don't keep finding them, this will be increasingly peculiar," Shostak said.
Correction: Oumuamua was first discovered in October 2017.
Early in its mission, the Opportunity rover spotted round, iron-rich concretions nicknamed "blueberries," which constituted one of several different types of evidence suggesting that Mars used to be wet. This (false-color) photo captures an area just 1.2 inches (3 centimeters) across.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/USGS
It was just a few months after NASA's Opportunity rover touched down on Mars in 2004 that it spotted a geological curiosity: tiny, iron-rich spheres scattered across the rock surface near the robot's landing site. Snack-loving scientists working with the mission dubbed these objects "blueberries," but the features were easier to name than to understand. Their recipe remains something of a puzzle.
Trying to sort out the origins of these blueberries has always involved studying similar-looking spherical formations here on Earth. New research takes its inspiration from these terrestrial analogs to offer a new idea of the chemistry that may have gone into whipping up these Martian blueberries. In turn, this research helps reveal what ancient Mars may have looked like.
The blueberries are tantalizing for more than just their whimsical name; they also constituted some of the earliest evidence we had that Mars was once incredibly wet. "No matter what the exact chemistry of these spherules was to start, the fact that they're there tells us [that] a lot of liquid water moved through these rocks over time," Briony Horgan, a planetary scientist at Purdue University in Indiana, told Space.com. [10 Amazing Mars Discoveries by Rovers Spirit & Opportunity]
And if scientists can parse out precisely how the blueberries formed, that may help us understand what Mars was like back when the features formed — and what sort of life could have theoretically thrived in those circumstances, Horgan said.
So, the team behind the new research traveled to two different terrestrial destinations in search of rock formations that resemble Martian blueberries: Utah and Mongolia. These formations aren't identical to those on Mars, which are about a tenth the size of the Earthly equivalents. Our planet's formations are also less orderly than the Martian versions. "They're all blobbed together. They're different sizes," Horgan said of the terrestrial features.
But it's much easier to get to Utah and Mongolia than to Mars, so scientists use these features despite the imperfect comparison. The researchers found that the formations seemed to have been built around cores of a mineral called calcite, with iron-rich material in only the outer shell. "That moment [of discovery], it was very exciting," geochemist co-authors Hidekazu Yoshida of Nagoya University and Hitoshi Hasegawa of Kochi University in Japan, wrote in an email to Space.com.
Based on those observations in the field and chemical modeling, the scientists suggested that floods of iron-rich, gently acidic water washed over the original calcite structures. Unlike the terrestrial versions, Martian blueberries seem to be made of hematite all the way through, no longer sporting any calcite heart. But that could point to a long period of overwash that ate through all the calcite, the researchers said.
The nagging details of chemical reactions that may or may not have taken place on early Mars have larger implications. First, these details are relevant to scientists' natural interest in all that water that flowed through rocks to form the blueberries. "The chemistry of water tells us about the habitability of the environment," Horgan said.
The second potential implication would relate to another long-standing debate about Mars — what happened to its once-thick atmosphere. The authors in the new study argued that this atmosphere could have gone into the carbonate ions locked in calcite precursors to the blueberries.
But that wouldn't solve the atmospheric mystery, Steve Ruff, a planetary geologist at Arizona State University who works on the Opportunity mission, told Space.com. "My sense of what we know about the area of the hematite that we can map from orbit is it's not a huge area," covering less than 1 percent of Mars' surface, he said. There just aren't enough blueberries to pack away very much atmosphere. [Latest Mars Rover Photos from Opportunity & Spirit]
He said he also worries that Earth's formations aren't similar enough to those on Mars for scientists to learn about the blueberries. But Ruff didn't dismiss the new paper. "I'm intrigued by this idea," he said. "The formation of these little concretions on Earth and certainly on Mars has always been a bit of a mystery, and there's multiple ideas about how you form these things."
The Martian blueberries are small enough that in order to truly solve their mystery, scientists will need more-sophisticated tools than are currently on the Red Planet. NASA's next rover, the Mars 2020 rover, will carry instruments with high enough resolution that they could tackle these questions. But that rover is slated to visit a place called Jezero Crater, far away from the plain where Opportunity spotted the blueberries.
"Going back to places on Mars with NASA is not something people want to do. They want to go to new places," Ruff said. Nevertheless, he said he isn't giving up hope that the new rover could solve the blueberry mystery. "Maybe we'll get lucky and see something like this with the 2020 rover."
Whatever the nuances of blueberry chemistry turn out to be, the new paper is a reminder of the vast time scales — and the potential complexity such time scales entail — involved in Martian geology, Horgan said. "Time can play a really important role in the minerals that we see," Horgan said. "We should be careful. There could have been multiple things that happened to these rocks."
The research is described in a paper published today (Dec. 5) in the journal Science Advances.
Alien contacts: will it be an invasion or just a courtesy visit?
Alien contacts: will it be an invasion or just a courtesy visit?
Written by Gianni Rizzo
So far, science has ignored any hypothesis of contact with alien civilizations, but the number of those who claim to have seen a UFO or of being in direct contact with extraterrestrials shows no decline.
This despite being long past the clamor of the nineties when the world was in the grip of an “x-file mania” which may have induced suggestive phenomena capable of distorting statistics.
ALIEN CONTACTS, TWO OPPOSITE HYPOTHESES
That said, any large-scale contact with alien beings continues to be imagined as two diametrically opposite situations: a courtesy visit or a real invasion.
On the one hand it has been repeatedly noted that UFOs appear more often in some critical moments or natural disasters, such as volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. So some researchers believe that the aliens have helped us fight the whims of nature and overcome the most difficult moments throughout our history.
ALIENS WOULD TRY TO IMPROVE HUMANITY
Some historians, fascinated by the UFO theme, have suggested that the ultimate goal of aliens is to bring goodness, harmony and peace to planet Earth as human nature is imperfect. We lie to one another, we kill, we pollute the environment, we break down the forests, we run out of natural resources, while the aliens, as representatives of a much more developed race, would like to help us, as if we were their younger brothers. They would induce us, kindly, to improve, to love each other more.
A large-scale alien contact in such a scenario would not be an invasion, but simply a visit by friends we do not know, but who know us very well. The opinion is shared by those ufologists who believe that the aliens, no matter if Nordic aliens, Grey aliens or Reptilian aliens, have been visiting the planet Earth for some time having been observed by the ancient Maya as well as by ancient Egyptians.
NOT EVERYONE AGREES WITH A BENEVOLENT HYPOTHESIS
If they wanted to, it's logical deduction, the aliens could have conquered the Earth a long time ago. However, not all scientists share this rosy point of view and some like Stephen Hawking suggested to be cautious.
After all, every year thousands of people seem to disappear without leaving a trace all over the world and the few who return speak of barbarous experiments to which victims of alien abductions would have been subjected. Abductions whose numbers would be growing, exceeding those that have occurred in the last 20 years before or even before.
THE NUMBER OF ALIEN ABDUCTIONS IS GROWING
All this would happen secretly, so most of humanity knows nothing about such abductions or does not believe that they really happened. Meanwhile, the aliens, given their level of technology and the apparent ability to exercise mental control over people, could easily manage the whole thing openly, without paying attention to what's happening.
The spread of panic among the terrestrials would depend only on them, but in the end the aliens would rather act in secret, hiding among us. Why? Perhaps because in the universe there are forces, extraterrestrial civilizations, that oppose this way of proceeding and have not yet lost the hope of putting the terrestrials on the right path.
However, if it is true that the number of abductions is growing more and more, ours “supporters” would be getting tired, or maybe they would lose their confidence in our desire to improve. Also for this reason the last alien contacts would have had as their aim more and more unscrupulous experiments, perhaps even genetic ones.
THE ROBERT DEAN REVELATIONS
According to some stories of these years, human women would be fertilized on board UFO and then give birth to children who would soon be kidnapped by the aliens, Nordic, Gray or Reptilian who are. These children could play a special role during a possible future alien invasion.
They seem only speculations, yet according to the former US Army officer Robert Orel Dean (dead October 11, 2018), there would exist a top secret document to which Dean had access and with which almost all the leaders of the world powers are familiar, which would demonstrate the veracity of these “hypotheses”.
EARTH LEADERS HAVE KNOWN THE TRUTH SINCE THE 1960S
According to this document, planet Earth has long been the object of intense and massive observation by various alien civilizations, equipped with technologies more advanced than our thousands of years. The sequence of observations and the fact that they are conducted for many centuries would demonstrate the existence of a specific plan or program.
The military intelligence services would have signaled the absence of an immediate threat from alien civilizations. However, some facts indicate a potential for intervention in the affairs of the main world governments.
Copies of the document, Dean said, were sent to all the heads of NATO member states in the mid-1960s and since then the secret would be kept waiting to see if one day the aliens were to visit us in droves, amicably or not.
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Muldashev: four civilizations on Earth before man
Muldashev: four civilizations on Earth before man
Written by Gianni Rizzo
A well-known Russian expert, Ernst Rifgatovich Muldashev, ophthalmic surgeon by profession and researcher by passion, has long been looking for traces of ancient civilizations disappeared before the rise of mankind on Earth.
Muldshev, who in 2002 published three volumes of “In Search of Cities of the Gods”, followed by numerous other volumes (among which “Where do we come from” e “Between the arms of Dracula”), believes that the existence of more ancient civilizations of man is confirmed by archaeological finds, rock carvings, references to airplanes and Ufos in stories and legends. According to the expert, the civilizations that inhabited the planet would have been four.
1.ASURAS, THE NATIVES
The Asuras, or the natives, according to Muldashev were the first race appeared on Earth 10 million years ago. They were incredibly tall beings, up to 50 meters, they had an etheric body, they lived for up to ten thousand years and used telepathy to communicate with each other. In reality they were not natives of the Earth: they moved there after the death of the Phaethon planet.
2. ATLANTEANS, THOSE BORN AFTER
As the millennia passed, the Asuras changed, their bodies became denser. Thus a new race would develop, the Atlanteans, i.e. “those born after”. They were slightly smaller than the Asuras, they still did not have bones, but they had a third eye, located between the eyebrows.
3.LEMURIANS, THE BUILDERS OF THE SPHINX
After the Atlanteans, appeared on Earth the Lemurians. Much more similar to modern humans, they possessed a bone skeleton and were differentiated according to sex. The third eye was still present, but not as well developed as the Atlanteans.
Lemurians were about 7-8 meters tall and lived about a thousand years. According to Muldashev, they were the ones who built the Sphinx, Stonehenge and many other wonderful monuments of antiquity.
4. BOREI, THE MOST SIMILAR TO MAN
Lastly the Borei would have appeared: this race was formed long after the other, its members were much lower, did not exceed 3-4 meters in height, their third eye was more hidden while the other organs were very similar to those of man. What happened to all these beings?
According to Muldashev, about 25-30 thousand years ago on our planet occurred a nuclear catastrophe following a conflict between Lemurians and Borei. Some of the Lemurians took refuge in the caves, where they fell into a hibernating state, the other side flew away on space ships.
5. ARYANS, AFTER THE FALL OF ATLANTIS
After the Lemurians left the scene, the Boers and the Atlanteans reached unprecedented development peaks, but they could not avoid the disappearance of their civilizations that would have happened about 12 thousand years ago.
According to Muldashev a fifth race would have developed just before the disappearance of Atlantis, whose myth survived so far: the "aryan" race. The ancestors of modern man did not have a third eye and that's why our society would be developing more slowly.
Will it be true, or as official science says it's just about fantastic theories without any concrete proof? The experts have spoken, but this does not interest the readers of Muldashev.
The boulder-strewn asteroid Bennu, shown here in a mosaic of images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on December 2, is full of water-rich minerals.
As the asteroid Bennucomes into sharper focus, planetary scientists are seeing signs of water locked up in the asteroid’s rocks, NASA team members announced December 10.
“It’s one of the things we were hoping to find,” team member Amy Simon of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., said in a news conference at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington, D.C. “This is evidence of liquid water in Bennu’s past. This is really big news.”
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft just arrived at Bennu on December 3 (SN Online: 12/3/18). Over the next year, the team will search for the perfect spot on the asteroid to grab a handful of dust and return it to Earth. “Very early in the mission, we’ve found out Bennu is going to provide the type of material we want to return,” said principal investigator Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona in Tucson. “It definitely looks like we’ve gone to the right place.”
OSIRIS-REx’s onboard spectrometers measure the chemical signatures of various minerals based on the wavelengths of light they emit and absorb. The instruments were able to see signs of hydrated mineralson Bennu’s surface about a month before the spacecraft arrived at the asteroid, and the signal has remained strong all over the asteroid’s surface as the spacecraft approached, Simon said. Those minerals can form only in the presence of liquid water, and suggest that Bennu had a hydrothermal system in its past.
Bennu’s surface is also covered in more boulders and craters than the team had expected based on observations of the asteroid taken from Earth. Remote observations led the team to expect a few large boulders, about 10 meters wide. Instead they see hundreds, some of them up to 50 meters wide.
“It’s a little more rugged of an environment,” Lauretta said. But that rough surface can reveal details of Bennu’s internal structure and history.
If Bennu were one solid mass, for instance, a major impact could crack or shatter its entire surface. The fact that it has large craters means it has survived impacts intact. It may be more of a rubble pile loosely held together by its own gravity.
Telling scars
Crater pockmarks on Bennu, like this 20-meter-wide depression photographed on December 2, may turn out to be the safest places for the spacecraft to pick up a sample of the asteroid. Craters also tell scientists that the asteroid is not one solid mass but instead different materials clumped together. If Bennu had been a solid rock, large impacts could crack or shatter its surface.
UNIV. OF ARIZ./GODDARD/NASA
The asteroid’s density supports the rubble pile idea. OSIRIS-REx’s first estimate of Bennu’s density shows it is about 1,200 kilograms per cubic meter, Lauretta said. The average rock is about 3,000 kilograms per cubic meter. The hydrated minerals go some way towards lowering the asteroid’s density, since water is less dense than rock. But up to 40 percent of the asteroid may be full of caves and voids as well, Lauretta said.
Some of the rocks on the surface appear to be fractured in a spindly pattern. “If you drop a dinner plate on the ground, you get a spider web of fractures,” says team member Kevin Walsh of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. “We’re seeing this in some boulders.”
The boulders may have cracked in response to the drastic change in temperatures they experience as the asteroid spins. Studying those fracture patterns in more detail will reveal the properties of the rocks.
The OSIRIS-REx team also needs to know how many boulders of various sizes are strewn across the asteroid’s surface. Any rock larger than about 20 centimeters across would pose a hazard to the spacecraft’s sampling arm, says Keara Burke of the University of Arizona. Burke, an undergraduate engineering student, is heading up a boulder mapping project.
Cracked surface
Some of the rocks strewn across Bennu, like this 35-meter-wide boulder photographed on December 2, are fractured in a spindly pattern. The fractures may be the result of sudden, drastic temperature change. Studying the fracture patterns could help scientists learn more about the properties of the rocks.
UNIV. OF ARIZ./GODDARD/NASA
“My primary goal is safety,” she says. “If it looks like a boulder to me, within reasonable guidelines, then I mark it as a boulder. We can’t sample anything if we’re going to crash.”
The team also needs to know where the smallest grains of rock and dust are, as OSIRIS-REx’s sampling arm can pick up grains only about 2 centimeters across. One way to find the small rocks is to measure how well the asteroid’s surface retains heat. Bigger rocks are slower to heat up and slower to cool down, so they’ll radiate heat out into space even on the asteroid’s night side. Smaller grains of dust heat up and cool down much more quickly.
“It’s exactly like a beach,” Walsh says. “During the day it’s scalding hot, but then it’s instantly cold when the sun sets.”
Measurements of the asteroid’s heat storage so far suggest that there are regions with grains as small as 1 or 2 centimeters across, Lauretta said, though it is still too early to be certain.
“I am confident that we’ll find some fine-grained regions,” Lauretta said. Some may be located inside craters. The challenge will be finding an area wide enough that the spacecraft’s navigation system can steer to it accurately.
Editor's note: This story was updated December 11, 2018, to correct the description of Bennu's density. It's measured in cubic meters, not cubic centimeters.
This may be an anti climax to the title to some, but it’s ufo none the less. To save you time, it’s in the last 40 seconds of the video
for a moment I thought it may be a snow covered mountain top but the white is crossing the sea. So the object is floating or flying above the clouds doesnt look like a plane to me? So must be a alien space ship
Scientist Finds 'Evidence' of Another Universe Before This One
Scientist Finds 'Evidence' of Another Universe Before This One
in a study published back in august .......a team of theoretical physicists claimed to have discovered the remnants of previous universes hidden within the leftover radiation from the big bang.........
Before our universe, Another Universe existed, and another one will emerge after this universe ends
“The next universe will be just like ours — but only in overall appearance, not in detail, of course…” A researcher may just have discovered conclusive evidence that another universe existed before this one. Not only that, he claims that our universe is just the latest in an infinite series of universes. Professor Sir Roger Penrose argues that …
Starchild Skull: New DNA Tests Show 56 Differences To Humans
Starchild Skull: New DNA Tests Show 56 Differences To Humans
In an interview with Coast To Coast, scientist Lloyd Pye shared news about the 900-year-old skull found in the 1930s.
Even though the skull is called "Starchild Skull", he thinks the skull belongs to an adult. Recent DNA tests show 56 differences between the skull and human DNA.
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Voyager 2 just reached interstellar space
Voyager 2 just reached interstellar space
"Voyager 2" has left our solar system.
For the second time ever, a man-made object has reached interstellar space. The "Voyager 2" probe is now about 18 billion kilometers away from Earth.
In 1977 the probe "Voyager 2" left Earth and now - 41 years later - also the direct influence of our Sun. Nasa has just reported this. It was said to be the second man-made object that had ever ventured into this area.
The first was the Voyager 1 probe. It was the first man-made object to reach this region in 2012.
NASA is still able to communicate with the probe. However, it takes more than 16 hours at the speed of light for the messages to arrive on Earth. For comparison: The distance from the sun to the earth can be covered in about eight minutes at the speed of light.
Congratulations NASA. I hope countries spend less on military and more on space missions.
"Planet X": Astronomers are about to locate the mysterious celestial body
"Planet X": Astronomers are about to locate the mysterious celestial body
Planetologists have obtained detailed photos of the areas in space in which, from a hypothetical point of view, the mysterious ninth rogue planet of the solar system is located.
According to US astronomer Michael Brown, the photographs will help to discover the giant planet.
"We were able to spend seven full observation days. If there is 'planet X' out there, it will in the data collected. It covers 85 percent of the area in space where the planet is supposed to be," the researcher said.
At the beginning of January 2016, Michael Brown and his colleague Konstantin Batygin announced that they had calculated the state of a mysterious 'planet X' - the ninth planet of the solar system.
This planet is said to be 41 billion kilometers away from the Sun and has a mass about ten times greater than that of the Earth.
Scientists estimate that Planet X orbits the Sun within 15000 years
The exact location of the planet has not yet been determined, but it is known that the orbit of the celestial body is inclined by 30 degrees to the plane of rotation of the other planets.
Brown and Batygin have not yet achieved any significant success in their search for "Planet X" and have only been able to pinpoint the search area. As Brown claims, however, he is 80 percent sure that the planet can be found soon.
Fox News published astartling articleMonday (Dec. 3) with the headline "NASA scientist says Earth may have been visited by aliens." Unsurprisingly, that news rocketed around the web, with similar articles soon turning up in the New York Post, Russia Today and The Daily Wire. (Fox appears to have been the first major U.S. news source to run with the story.)
These articles are based on a document on NASA's website by Silvano Colombano, a researcher at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. It really does argue that scientists should at least take seriously the notion that aliens may have visited planet Earth. But Colombano told Live Science that the coverage on Fox News and elsewhere misrepresented what he was trying to say when he wrote it.
"It is not accurately represented," he said. "My perspective was simply that reports of unidentified aerial phenomena should be the object of serious study, even if the chance of identification of some alien technology is very small." [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens]
There's some nuance here. Colombano really does believe, as Fox News wrote, that aliens "may" have visited planet Earth. As in, it's theoretically possible that this has happened, not entirely impossible, and worth looking for evidence that it has. But that's not the same as expecting to actually find any such evidence, or believing that there's a good chance aliens are scuttling around under our noses — an impression you might get if you read Fox News's article.
Though Colombano's name and email address appear right on top of the document, he said Fox News did not contact him before publishing their story. (Live Science has reached out to Fox News to confirm this, but has not yet heard back.) Fox described the document as a "new research paper" — a term usually used to describe formal articles intended for publication in research journals and making conclusions based on evidence and the scientific method.
But that's not what this document is.
"The context was a presentation delivered last spring at a meeting of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute," he said.
"The meeting was to get feedback from scientists as to future directions for the Institute's research program," Colombano said.
The document accompanied a talk he gave in which he suggested that perhaps the notion of aliens visiting Earth isn't quite as ridiculous as most scientists believe, and that SETI might devote some resources to systematically hunting through UFO reports and other data for evidence that this has happened — to hunt for a faint, unlikely signal in a lot of messy noise.
In other words, it was a speculative piece of writing intended to persuade other scientists to spend their resources on a long-shot project — not an argument about whether or not aliens have actually visited Earth. Colombano's position is that it's possible, but not necessarily likely.
The event brought together bioprinting experts to discuss the possibility of using 3D bioprinting and regenerative medicine for medical treatment of astronauts on extraterrestrial missions.
Tommaso Ghidini, ESA’s Head of the Structures, Mechanisms and Materials Division, said, “For the first time in Europe, all the relevant experts have come together to discuss applying 3D bioprinting and regenerative medicine for space.”
Participants at the ESA 3D bioprinting workshop. Image via ESA–G. Porter
HUMEX
ESA’s latest project 3D Printing of Living Tissue for Space Exploration will be conducted under OHB System, a German space and industrial technology company, who has worked with ESA before. Dresden University of Technology will also collaborate on the project. The project will be funded under ESA basic activities, which includes technological research and studies on future projects.
HUMEX study focuses on the health-related issues including survivability and adaptation of astronauts undertaking long-duration mission beyond the Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The LEO is defined as an Earth-center orbit with altitudes between 160 to 2,000 km. Most of the man-made objects such as satellites are in the LEO.
The study reports the effects of cosmic radiation, reduced gravity on Mars and Moon, gravity changes during launch, and related psychological health issues. The findings of HUMEX are a guide for ESA researchers taking part in future projects related to interplanetary travel and habitat.
HUMEX, a Study on the Survivability and Adaptation of Humans to Long-Duration Exploratory Missions. Image via ESTEC
The latest ESA project intends to advance 3D bioprinting to the level where it becomes possible to 3D print skin, bones and organs.
However, the issues highlighted in HUMEX are complicated, and space beyond Earth is alien and hostile and presents different challenges. As Sandra Podhajsky, a researcher from OHB System’s Life Sciences explained, “Compared to today’s low-Earth-orbiting crews, long distance missions to far away destinations will face very different challenges.”
For example, some of the space mission scenarios sketched in the HUMEX study include, one hundred and eighty days stay on the Moon with a crew size of four. A thousand-day long mission to Mars, of which four hundred days will be spent on the red planet. And a five hundred day trip to Mars of which thirty days will be spent on the planet.
Partial gravity is potential health hazards for Astronauts in space. Here, Jack Schmitt, a NASA astronaut looses balance on the Moon. Image via NASA
Tackling problems of beyond-Earth 3D bioprinting
In view of the scenarios mentioned in the HUMEX study, getting medical attention to the traveling crew is nearly impossible. As Podhajsky explained, “In the event of a medical emergency a rapid return home will not be feasible. Instead, patients will have to be treated on the spot. Thus we are evaluating the feasibility and added value of implementing different 3D printing technologies and bioprinted tissues into future exploration missions.”
Another problem is performing medical surgery, as access to equipment and personnel will not be handy in space. Telemedicine, i.e. communication of medical instructions via IT and telecommunications technology, will not be possible due to the communication delay on deep space mssions.
To overcome this difficulty, a possible solution which employs robotic surgeons equipped with Artificial Intelligence was discussed, at the two-day workshop.
Furthermore, beyond the scientific and technological aspect, legal and regulatory issues were also explored. Bioprinting products will need to be controlled by regulatory bodies, like the American FDA, as well as space regulation bodies.
Tommaso Ghidini explained, “We’re asking what astronauts would need in the short, medium and long term, and what steps are needed to mature 3D bioprinting to a level where it can be useful in space. We’re defining a development roadmap and timeline, with the aim that this group becomes a scientific working group in future, pushing progress on.”
Strange Castle-Like Structure Emerges In Antarctica – Proof Of Advanced Ancient Civilization?
Strange Castle-Like Structure Emerges In Antarctica – Proof Of Advanced Ancient Civilization?
An enormous castle structure revealed itself inAntarctica, striking immediate opinions that the icy continent was once a homeland to an ancient civilization.
The image of the castle taken from Google Earth depicts an oval-shaped formation. Theorists have estimated it measures around 400 foot across.
This structure appears to show signs of a tremendous, man-made building, similar to a medieval motte and bailey castle.
If we observe the image carefully, we can notice how the rings of the structure look like a man-made structure in ruins, covered with ice and snow.
If it’s not a product of mother nature, then who created this castle? This question does not provide an answer since the structure locates in the only place on Earth where people can’t seem to form a life.
The picture shows an oval-shaped structure that theorists claim to be 400 foot across.
It wasn’t a surprise that people quickly started debating whether an ancient civilization once lived here. On the other hand, there were others who claim the castle is only a natural phenomenon.
But, whether this enigmatic construction is, it is still quite remarkable and engaging.
What if, in the distant past, Antarctica was not the picture we see today, but something rather the opposite.
Perhaps it had civilization developing over there, building structures just like this one. And we are encountering evidence of it as the time goes by.
Besides this castle, there appeared several ancient maps that painted some Antarctica parts iceless.
One of them was the 1513’s map by Turkish Admiral Piri Reis. Namely, this map shows Antarctica which was in fact discovered between 1818-1820. Weird, huh?
Recently, modern beliefs have pushed down the aisle mainstream scholars. People increasingly believe that ancient civilizations were much more advanced than we think.
Several maps discovered in the past are evidence that the story we know lacks some important parts.
Maybe these ancient maps, together with satellite images of our planet are the ultimate proof that civilizations could have lived in the most desolate places on our planet in the distant past.
Experts explained the reason to be a natural cause. They said it’s an ice structure, built by the heavy snowfall, low temperature, and Antarctica’s freezing katabatic wind.
Experts believe that what satellites spotted over Eastern Antarctica may be weirdly-shaped Sastrugi – sharp irregular grooves formed on a snow surface by wind erosion.
However, sastrugi always appear in a different shape, depending on the wind’s direction. They very rarely emerge as an oval formation, as the image appears to depict.
This fort-like structure is not the first discovery to suggest issues about ancient civilizations living in Antarctica. There was also a pyramid, hidden inside the snow, which had a triangular, symmetrical shape.
Toen ik 10 jaar oud was landde er een vliegende schotel voor ons huis. Actrice doet heftig boekje open
Toen ik 10 jaar oud was landde er een vliegende schotel voor ons huis. Actrice doet heftig boekje open
De Fins-Italiaanse actrice Anna Falchi heeft op de radio een boekje opengedaan over UFO’s die ze als kind heeft gezien.
Falchi is erg bekend in Italië en speelde in de afgelopen 25 jaar in diverse films. De actrice kwam naar eigen zeggen als kind in aanraking met het UFO-fenomeen, schrijft de Italiaanse krant Il Messaggero.
Tijdens een programma op de zender Rai Radio 1 zei ze: “Toen ik 10 jaar oud was zag ik twee jaar op rij UFO’s. Ik herinner het me nog goed.”
Mist
Ze legde uit dat de objecten iedere keer in de vakantie verschenen.
Falchi zei dat ze de eerste keer vliegende schotels zag die tevoorschijn kwamen ‘uit de mist’ en vervolgens wegvlogen.
De vaartuigen kwamen een jaar later terug.
“Een vliegende schotel landde in een weiland voor ons huis,” zei ze in de radio-uitzending.
Patronen
Ze vertelde dat het object vier landingspoten had, omgeven was door een rood licht en een geluid voortbracht zoals een sirene.
Haar familieleden werden wakker van het lawaai, maar besloten zich te verstoppen.
De dag erna besloten ze het weiland te inspecteren en tot hun verbazing zagen ze ‘van die bekende patronen’. Vermoedelijk bedoelde ze hier graancirkels of iets soortgelijks.
Intelligent leven
Falchi merkte op dat het niet noodzakelijkerwijs aliens waren, maar dat het ‘ook iets kon zijn geweest wat door bijvoorbeeld de NASA werd getest’.
Ze is ervan overtuigd dat er intelligent leven elders in het heelal is.
Zijn we wel écht op de maan geweest? Deze NBA-ster zegt van niet
Zijn we wel écht op de maan geweest? Deze NBA-ster zegt van niet
Stephen Curry, die vorig jaar de best betaalde NBA-speler ooit was, gelooft niet dat we op de maan zijn geweest.
In de podcastWinging Itging het op een bepaald moment over de vraag hoe wetenschappers weten welke geluiden dinosaurussen maakten, aangezien we alleen maar fossielen hebben.
Daarop vroeg de sterspeler van de Golden State Warriors: “Zijn we ooit op de maan geweest?”
Nep
Waarna meerdere gasten meteen antwoordden: “Nee.”
“Ik denk ook van niet,” reageerde Curry. “Sorry, ik wil geen com
plotten beginnen.”
Toen één van de gasten doorvroeg, zei hij opnieuw dat hij denkt dat de maanlandingen nep waren.
Tussendoor zei één van de presentatoren dat mensen ‘moeten zoeken naar Stanley Kubrick’, als verwijzing naar een populaire theorie dat de filmregisseur betrokken zou zijn geweest bij de maanhoax.
Monstercontract
Curry, sinds 2009 bij de Warriors, werd vorig jaar beloond met een vijfjarig monstercontract ter waarde van 201 miljoen dollar.
Dat jaar leidde hij de Warriors naar een tweede NBA-titel in de drie jaar.
MVP
Hij krijgt voor zijn inspanningen een jaarsalaris van 40 miljoen dollar. Daarmee stootte hij LeBron James van de troon. Begin dit jaar haalde James hem weer in.
Curry werd in 2015 en 2016 verkozen tot MVP. In 2015 en 2017 kroonde zijn club zich tot kampioen, telkens na een finale tegen de Cleveland Cavaliers.
WETENSCHAPDe Osiris-Rex van NASA heeft sporen van water gevonden op de asteroïde Bennu. Het water zit binnenin de ruimterots. Het ruimtevoertuig vliegt al een paar jaar rond de asteroïde om verkenningen uit te voeren.
Bij de verkenning werd geen vloeibaar water gevonden, daar is de asteroïde te klein voor, maar wel moleculaire sporen van water. Die zijn mogelijk afkomstig van de grotere asteroïde waar Bennu eerst aan vast zat.
De onderzoekers zijn enorm blij met de vondst, ze hadden gehoopt dit te zullen vinden. De asteroïde stamt uit de tijd dat ons zonnestelsel is ontstaan. Doordat er water op gevonden is, kunnen de gegevens van het onderzoek veel duidelijk maken over die beginperiode.
De NASA-missie heeft 2,2 miljoen kilometer afgelegd sinds de lancering in 2016 om bij de asteroïde te komen. Als alles goed gaat keert de missie in 2023 terug met stukken rots van Bennu. De monsters kunnen wetenschappers meer vertellen over het ontstaan van ons zonnestelsel.
Deep Carbon ObservatoryEen nematode (rondworm) in een biofilm van micro-organismen. Dit organisme werd ontdekt in Zuid-Afrika op een diepte van 1,4 kilometer.
WETENSCHAPOnze planeet bevat veel meer leven dan we dachten. Wetenschappers hebben een ecosysteem ontdekt onder de aardkorst dat bijna dubbel zoveel levende organismen bevat als in alle oceanen samen. “Er zit meer leven ín de aarde dan erop”, luidt het bij de onderzoekers.
Vijf kilometer onder het aardoppervlak is de hitte en druk immens, en toch bevat dat deel van de planeet tussen 15 en 23 miljard ton aan micro-organismen. Ter vergelijking: hun gezamenlijke gewicht bedraagt honderden keren het totale gewicht van de volledige wereldbevolking.
We hebben een volledig nieuw levensreservoir ontdekt.
De onderzoekers van het Deep Carbon Observatory, een wereldwijde wetenschappelijke organisatie met 1.2000 wetenschappers, zoeken al tien jaar naar levensvormen in de aarde. Ze boorden tot 5 kilometer diep en ontdekten nu dat liefst 70 procent van de bacteriën op de aarde zich onder het oppervlak bevindt. Volgens de wetenschappers is de diversiteit in de ‘onderwereld’ vergelijkbaar met die in de Amazone of op de Galapagoseilanden. Maar in tegenstelling tot die plekken is deze omgeving ongerept.
Als het leven op aarde zo anders kan zijn dan onze ervaringen ons hebben geleerd, welke levensvormen kunnen we dan vinden op andere planeten?
Mineraloog Robert Haze (Carnegie Institution of Science)
Stasis
Een van de organismen, dat op een diepte van 2,5 kilometer werd ontdekt, ligt al miljoenen jaren begraven en zou zelfs op geen enkele manier beroep doen op energie van de zon. “Sommige organismen kunnen millennia lang blijven bestaan”, zegt Lloyd. “Ze bevinden zich in een soort stasis waarbij ze minder energie verbruiken dan we voor mogelijk achtten.”
“Wij mensen oriënteren ons volgens een vrij snelle cyclus van de zon, maar deze organismen maken deel uit van trage cycli op geologische tijdschalen”, voegt Rick Colwell van de Oregon State University toe.
Voorlopig kunnen de wetenschappers de omvang van het ecosysteem enkel schatten. De boringen op verschillende plekken zijn maar speldenprikken die de onderzoekers toelaten de volledige omvang te schatten. “Dankzij de boringen kunnen we nu een vrij precieze schatting maken”, zegt Rick Colwell.
Leven buiten de aarde?
Wat betekent deze ontdekking nu voor onze kennis van de aarde? Om te beginnen geeft het ons een nieuw perspectief op de limieten van het leven. Momenteel ligt de limiet voor leven op 122 graden Celsius, maar mogelijk ligt dat record binnenkort al aan diggelen. De onderzoekers zijn op zoek naar een ultieme diepte waarop geen enkel leven meer mogelijk is, maar voorlopig lijken ze alsmaar meer leven te vinden naarmate ze dieper boren.
Mineraloog Robert Haze van de Carnegie Institution of Science tilt de hele ontdekking naar nog een veel hoger, zelfs existentieel, niveau: “Als het leven op aarde zo anders kan zijn dan onze ervaringen ons hebben geleerd, welke levensvormen kunnen we dan vinden op andere planeten?”
Colwell denkt ook dat het perfect mogelijk is dat er levende organismen aanwezig zijn onder het oppervlak van andere planeten. “Zeker nu we op aarde hebben gezien dat organismen ver van zonlicht kunnen overleven.”
Artificial intelligence is already beginning to spiral out of our control, a new report from top researchers warns. Not so much in a Skynet kind of sense, but more in a ‘technology companies and governments are already using AI in ways that amp up surveillance and further marginalize vulnerable populations’ kind of way.
On Thursday, the AI Now Institute, which is affiliated with New York University and is home to top AI researchers with Google and Microsoft, released a report detailing, essentially, the state of AI in 2018, and the raft of disconcerting trends unfolding in the field. What we broadly define as AI—machine learning, automated systems, etc.—is currently being developed faster than our regulatory system is prepared to handle, the report says. And it threatens to consolidate power in the tech companies and oppressive governments that deploy AI while rendering just about everyone else more vulnerable to its biases, capacities for surveillance, and myriad dysfunctions.
The report contains 10 recommendations for policymakers, all of which seem sound, as well as a diagnosis of the most potentially destructive trends. “Governments need to regulate AI,” the first recommendation exhorts, “by expanding the powers of sector-specific agencies to oversee, audit, and monitor these technologies by domain.” One massive Department of AI or such that attempts to regulate the field writ large won’t cut it, researchers warn—the report suggests regulators follow examples like the one set by the Federal Aviation Administration and tackle AI as it manifests field by field.
But it also conveys a succinct assessment of the key problem areas in AI as they stand in 2018. As detailed by AI Now, they are:
The accountability gap between those who build the AI systems (and profit off of them) and those who stand to be impacted by the systems (you and me) is growing.Don’t like the idea of being subjected to artificially intelligent systems that harvest your personal data or determine various outcomes for you? Too bad! The report finds that the recourse most public citizens have to address the very artificially intelligent systems that may impact them is shrinking, not growing.
AI is being used to amplify surveillance, often in horrifying ways. If you think the surveillance capacities of facial recognition technology are disturbing, wait till you see its even less scrupulous cousin, affect recognition. The Intercept’s Sam Biddle has a good write-up of the report’s treatment of affect recognition, which is basically modernized phrenology, practiced in real time.
The government is embracing autonomous decision software in the name of cost-savings, but these systems are often a disaster for the disadvantaged.From systems that purport to streamline benefits application processes online to those that claim to be able to determine who’s eligible for housing, so-called ADS systems are capable of uploading bias and erroneously rejecting applicants on baseless grounds. As Virginia Eubanks details in her book Automating Inequality, the people these systems fail are those who are least able to muster the time and resources necessary to address them.
AI testing “in the wild” is rampant already. “Silicon Valley is known for its ‘move fast and break things’ mentality,” the report notes, and that is leading to companies testing AI systems in the public sector—or releasing them into the consumer space outright—without substantial oversight. The recent track record of Facebook—the original move fast, break thingser and AI evangelist—alone is example enough of why this strategy can prove disastrous.
Technological fixes to biased or problematic AI systems are proving inadequate.Google made waves when it announced it was tackling the ethics of machine learning, but efforts like these are already proving too narrow and technically oriented. Engineers tend to think they can fix engineering problems with, well, more engineering. But what is really required, the report argues, is a much deeper understanding of the history and social contexts of the datasets AI systems are trained on.
The full report is well worth reading, both for a tour of the myriad ways AI entered the public sphere—and collided with the public interest—in 2018, and for a detailed recipe for how our institutions might stay on top of this ever-complicating situation.
This story is part of Automaton, an ongoing investigation into the impacts of AI and automation on the human landscape. For tips, feedback, or other ideas about living with the robots, I can be reached at bmerchant@gizmodo.com.
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OVNI LUMINEUX ROUGE ET VERT QUI VOLE BAS EN ARGENTINE (VIDÉO)
OVNI LUMINEUX ROUGE ET VERT QUI VOLE BAS EN ARGENTINE (VIDÉO)
Date de l’observation: 25 nov. 2018 Lieu de l’observation:Argentine
Scott C. Waring: Cette vidéo a été tournée par une conductrice la fin de semaine dernière sur la Route Nationale 9, en route pour Le Résevoir de La Cienaga. La femme se déplaçait la nuit avec sa famille lorsqu’ils ont vu les lumières rougeoyantes des OVNI le long de la route. La vidéo complète dure 47 secondes. La femme déclare que l’OVNI, “n’avait pas de roues, de jambes ou quoi que ce soit, et flottait dans les airs.”
L’Argentine est un lieu de prédilection pour les observations d’OVNI. Beaucoup de chercheurs d’OVNI comme moi croient que les extraterrestres ont des entrées de base dans la Cordillère des Andes qui se trouve à la frontière occidentale de l’Argentine. Les Andes ont plus d’une douzaine de volcans que les extraterrestres pourraient utiliser comme porte d’entrée. Vous vous rappelez comment la police de Denver, dans le Colorado, a filmé des boules blanches de lumière rougeoyante qui bourdonnaient autour des Rocheuses du Colorado ? Même chose….les extraterrestres ont choisi ces bases il y a longtemps pour éviter les contacts humains, mais la civilisation moderne a rendu la plupart de ces endroits accessibles.
'They Are Watching Us': Ufologists Predict When Aliens Will Return to Earth
'They Are Watching Us': Ufologists Predict When Aliens Will Return to Earth
While von Daniken speculated that extraterrestrial beings that visited our planet in the past may already return and are secretly observing us, Tsoukalos claimed that humans need to become "more friendly with each other" in order for space aliens to try and establish contact with mankind.
During their appearance at the UFO Summit 2018 conference in Brazil, Erich von Daniken and Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, two prominent ufologists and proponents of the ‘ancient astronauts’ theory which postulates that aliens visited Earth in the distant past and interacted with ancient humans, explained to Sputnik when these extraterrestrial entities might return.
According to Tsoukalos, the aliens didn’t attempt to make an official contact with mankind is that humans need to achieve something first.
"In my opinion, it is that we, as a society, we need to become more friendly with each other. We really need to start looking at ourselves and say, you know, we are all brothers and sisters on this planet, we really are. And it is up to us to clean up our house, here on Earth. And I think then, after we cleaned up our mess, that’s when they will make contact," Tsoukalos said.
His sentiment was echoed by von Daniken who claimed that extraterrestrials who allegedly visited our planet in the past promised to “return in the far future, and probably they are back already.”
"Now, what can we learn from that? We have to learn to become humble. We are not unique. We are not the crown of creation, neither the top of evolution. We are just one of the millions of species in outer space. They will come back. They will teach us again," he remarked.
Von Daniken also added that numerous suspected UFO sightings suggest that “somebody is around this planet and obviously is observing us, maybe studying our languages, our microbacterias, our weapons, our religious systems, our political systems.”
"They are watching us," he surmised.
The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those of Sputnik.
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Ze houden ons in de gaten. Ufologen voorspellen wanneer aliens terugkeren naar aarde
Ze houden ons in de gaten. Ufologen voorspellen wanneer aliens terugkeren naar aarde
Tijdens de UFO Summit 2018 in Brazilië vertelden Erich von Däniken en Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, twee prominente ufologen, wanneer de buitenaardsen volgens hen terugkeren naar onze planeet.
Von Däniken speculeerde dat buitenaardse wezens die ons in een ver verleden hebben bezocht, mogelijk al teruggekeerd zijn en ons in het geheim observeren.
Tsoukalos claimde dat mensen ‘aardiger tegen elkaar moeten doen’ voordat ruimtewezens contact kunnen maken met de mensheid.
Schoon schip
“Ik ben van mening dat wij als samenleving aardiger tegen elkaar moeten gaan doen,” zei hij.
“We moeten naar onszelf kijken en erkennen dat we allemaal broers en zussen zijn op deze planeet,” vervolgde hij.
“Het is aan ons om schoon schip te maken, hier op aarde,” aldus Tsoukalos. “Ik denk dat ze daarna officieel contact zullen maken.”
Niet uniek
Von Däniken denkt dat buitenaardsen die onze planeet in het verleden hebben bezocht en beloofden in de toekomst terug te keren, waarschijnlijk al terug zijn.
“Wat kunnen we hiervan leren? We moeten leren om nederig te zijn. We zijn niet uniek. We zijn niet de kroon van de schepping of het hoogtepunt van de evolutie,” zei hij.
UFO-waarnemingen
“We zijn slechts één van de miljoenen soorten in de ruimte. Ze zullen terugkeren. Ze zullen ons opnieuw onderwijzen,” merkte hij op.
Von Däniken voegde toe dat de grote aantallen UFO-waarnemingen erop wijzen dat ‘iemand ons in de gaten houdt en misschien onze talen, microben, wapens, religies en politieke systemen bestudeert’.
Truth about CIA’s illegal MKUltra mind-control experiments – using drugs, hypnosis and electronic devices- revealed in sensational new documents officials hid for decades
Truth about CIA’s illegal MKUltra mind-control experiments – using drugs, hypnosis and electronic devices- revealed in sensational new documents officials hid for decades
The records “rewrite the history” of the CIA’s covert and illegal MKUltra project, according to researcher John Greenewald Jr who spent almost 20 years trying to obtain the documents
EXCLUSIVE
By Emma Parry, Digital US Correspondent
DISTURBING details of secret mind-control experiments carried out by the CIA have been revealed in newly released documents - that officials have been trying to hide for decades.
The new documents, released under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal how the CIA experimented on both humans and animals using drugs, hypnosis and electronic devices as part of the top secret - and illegal - mind control project MKUltra.
The CIA carried out a covert programme of mind-control experiments during the 50s and 60s
Shockingly the swathes of information still missing or redacted in the records could mean the CIA is STILL carrying out the experiments to this day, according to experts.
One document details how the CIA planned to drug “criminals awaiting trial held in a prison hospital ward” in a bid to develop “improved techniques in drug interrogation”.
Another document details the CIA’s interest in developing ways to cause amnesia in humans using experiments “no matter how weird, inconclusive or unusual”.
It goes on to detail how they were looking to find ways of developing hypnotic speaking techniques which would control the minds of “large audiences” and “heighten group susceptibility”.
Experiments which were “too dangerous, too shocking, too unusual for routine testing would be of interest to us,” the memo from 1956 reads.
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This document details plans to drug inmates at a prison hospital then interrogate them
The records also detail mind control experiments on dogs, cats and mice with a cocktail of drugs and by implanting electronic devices - most likely as a precursor to human experiments.
They also researched electric fish who can zap each other with electricity in a bit to create a super soldier who could do the same thing.
The records were obtained by researcher John Greenewald Jr, who published them last week on his website The Black Vault.
John, 37, from Castaic, California, told Sun Online he has been fighting since 1999 to get the CIA to hand over the documents and says they “completely rewrite the history” of the controversial project.
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John, the owner of the Black Vault website has made thousands of Freedom of Information requests to uncover government secrets
John said: “Are the CIA still trying to cover up projects that took place in the 50s and 60s? In my opinion yes.
“They are trying to cover it up and that is evidenced not just by what I went through to get the documents but the documents themselves.
“So you'll see through these records they were doing a lot of different types of research with drugs on cats and dogs and other animals.
“They were implanting electronic devices into animals to see whether electronic impulses can essentially control the brain.
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This document details how the CIA wanted to develop sinister ways of torturing and interrogating subjects
“If you control and master that type of technology with cats and dogs - you’re very close to doing that with humans. And so this is kind of a very interesting look into the beginning days of that research.
“There’s also one document that specifically breaks down multiple project proposals but the majority of project names on the document are redacted.
“That means that whatever these projects were, they won't even tell you the name of the project, let alone what they were doing.
“It shows that the entire story is not yet out - which is contrary to what the CIA wants us to believe.”
John believes the CIA have deliberately lied and misled him over the documents
MKUltra was the code name for a top secret and illegal programme of human experiments which the CIA carried out in the early 50s until it was official halted in 1973.
The aim of the project was to identify and develop mind-control drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture in a bid to force confessions and control behaviour.
Although the CIA admitted to running the covert operation during congressional hearings in the 70s, they claimed that all records relating to it had been destroyed.
John’s battle for information started in 1999, when he requested the only documents relating to MKUltra that the CIA said had not been destroyed - 30,000 pages of financial records.
The CIA finally provided John with the 30,000 pages on CD-Rom in 2004 - which they claimed were a full and complete set of records related to the project.
CIA/ WWW.THEBLACKVAULT.COM
The CIA even produced a detailed 100 page report on electric fishes - in a bid to create humans who could generate electricity
It wasn’t until 2016, that a fellow researcher realised a staggering 4,358 pages, which the CIA claimed were on the CD, were actually missing and John began his fight to have the missing records released.
Although the CIA initially claimed John was wrong and “fought him hard”, he finally received two separate boxes of records in the past month.
But most worrying, John says, is that there is still at least 1,245 pages missing - which could contain even more disturbing details.
He believes the missing information may relate to top secret mind control projects which are STILL taking place.
CIA/ WWW.THEBLACKVAULT.COM
This 1953 document reveals how the CIA were trying to develop a "miracle" truth serum drug that would cause victims to forget everything they said
“The possibilities behind the redacted information are honestly endless - we don't know what's underneath this classified material,” John said.
“We've known for many years that MKUltra related material was destroyed, but if you look at these documents, you realise that there was a lot going on outside of MKUltra - still drug, mind-control and manipulation-related.
“You begin to realise that MKUltra may ultimately just be the tip of the iceberg. “If we know X what the heck is redacted under Y? We can't know for sure, but it's certainly scary to think about
“They are redacting the information because it's absolutely a threat to national security to tell us.
“Could that threat be that they are still doing this research to this day? Yes possibly - it makes sense. We know that the United States government does things that go beyond the law that go beyond the norm of what was approved.
“Edward Snowden has proven that phone tapping goes on which obviously is a little bit different than mind control, but historically these intelligence agencies have been proven to have been able to get away with a lot that goes against the law.
All of the documents have been posted on The Black Vault website
“So absolutely the CIA could be continuing this type of research decades later - when you look at the records you realise they were making huge accomplishments with this research.
“If all this stuff was declassified, with not a whole lot of redactions and just failure after failure, then there’s probably a chance that they indeed cancel funding to the programme, but when you read these materials you realise they were actually making leaps and strides.
"I’m sure that they are using what they found in the fifties and the sixties - and beyond - probably today.”
John, who has made over 9,000 Freedom of Information requests and posted over 2 million pages of documents online since 1996, believes the CIA went out of their way to prevent him obtaining the documents and has letters and written evidence that prove they lied and misled him over the past 20 years.
He’s now determined to obtain the missing documents.
“There’s been multiple times that they just kept giving me bad information and a lot of times in writing where they're telling me one thing that isn't necessarily true,” he said.
“If there were just one instance of a frustrating moment, we can put it down to a mistake - human error - but if you count up everything they’ve put me through to get these documents that would be ridiculous.
"And you can only talk it up to the fact that they were not telling me the truth. There's really no other way around it.
“But my fight is still going for the missing documents or trying to get the CIA to say where those 1,245 pages went.”
Waarheid over geheime experimenten rond MK-ULTRA onthuld in sensationele nieuwe documenten. Dit materiaal hield de CIA tientallen jaren verborgen
Waarheid over geheime experimenten rond MK-ULTRA onthuld in sensationele nieuwe documenten. Dit materiaal hield de CIA tientallen jaren verborgen
Er zijn verontrustende details naar buiten gekomen over geheime experimenten rond hersenspoeling die werden uitgevoerd door de CIA. Decennialang heeft de Amerikaanse overheid geprobeerd documenten hierover te verbergen, meldt The Sun.
De nieuwe documenten onthullen hoe de spionagedienst met drugs, hypnose en elektrische apparaten experimenteerde op mensen en dieren.
De experimenten waren onderdeel van het topgeheime, illegale project MK-ULTRA. Volgens experts is het goed mogelijk dat het project nooit is beëindigd.
Geheugenverlies
Eén van de stukken onthult hoe de CIA met drugs experimenteerde op gevangenen die in afwachting waren van hun proces.
Uit een ander document blijkt dat de spionagedienst methodes uitwerkte om geheugenverlies te veroorzaken bij mensen.
De CIA werkte verder aan spraaktechnieken die konden worden gebruikt om een grote mensenmassa te hersenspoelen en mensen ontvankelijker te maken voor bepaalde boodschappen.
Volledig herschrijven
De dienst was vooral geïnteresseerd in experimenten die normaal gesproken ‘te gevaarlijk, te schokkend of te ongewoon’ werden geacht, aldus een memo uit 1956.
De stukken zijn boven water gehaald door John Greenewald en op zijn website The Black Vaultgepubliceerd.
Greenewald, die al sinds 1999 probeerde om inzage te krijgen in de documenten, zei dat ze ‘de geschiedenis van het controversiële project volledig herschrijven’.
Topje van de ijsberg
“Probeert de CIA nog altijd projecten in de doofpot te stoppen die in de jaren vijftig en zestig hebben plaatsgevonden? Ja,” zei hij.
Volgens Greenewald is MK-ULTRA slechts het topje van de ijsberg en zijn er nog veel meer van dit soort geheime projecten rond hersenspoeling en manipulatie.
NASA: Earth’s Poles Are About To Flip – Worldwide Blackouts Coming! The Consequences Could Be Deadly
NASA: Earth’s Poles Are About To Flip – Worldwide Blackouts Coming! The Consequences Could Be Deadly
Scientists understand that Earth’s magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia. In other words, if you were alive about 800,000 years ago, and facing what we call north with a magnetic compass in your hand, the needle would point to ‘south.’ This is because a magnetic compass is calibrated based on Earth’s poles. The N-S markings of a compass would be 180 degrees wrong if the polarity of today’s magnetic field were reversed. Many doomsday theorists have tried to take this natural geological occurrence and suggest it could lead to Earth’s destruction. But would there be any dramatic effects? The answer, from the geologic and fossil records we have from hundreds of past magnetic polarity reversals, seems to be ‘no.’
Reversals are the rule, not the exception. Earth has settled in the last 20 million years into a pattern of a pole reversal about every 200,000 to 300,000 years, although it has been more than twice that long since the last reversal. A reversal happens over hundreds or thousands of years, and it is not exactly a clean back flip. Magnetic fields morph and push and pull at one another, with multiple poles emerging at odd latitudes throughout the process. Scientists estimate reversals have happened at least hundreds of times over the past three billion years. And while reversals have happened more frequently in “recent” years, when dinosaurs walked Earth a reversal was more likely to happen only about every one million years.
Sediment cores taken from deep ocean floors can tell scientists about magnetic polarity shifts, providing a direct link between magnetic field activity and the fossil record. The Earth’s magnetic field determines the magnetization of lava as it is laid down on the ocean floor on either side of the Mid-Atlantic Rift where the North American and European continental plates are spreading apart. As the lava solidifies, it creates a record of the orientation of past magnetic fields much like a tape recorder records sound. The last time that Earth’s poles flipped in a major reversal was about 780,000 years ago, in what scientists call the Brunhes-Matuyama reversal. The fossil record shows no drastic changes in plant or animal life. Deep ocean sediment cores from this period also indicate no changes in glacial activity, based on the amount of oxygen isotopes in the cores. This is also proof that a polarity reversal would not affect the rotation axis of Earth, as the planet’s rotation axis tilt has a significant effect on climate and glaciation and any change would be evident in the glacial record.
Earth’s polarity is not a constant. Unlike a classic bar magnet, or the decorative magnets on your refrigerator, the matter governing Earth’s magnetic field moves around. Geophysicists are pretty sure that the reason Earth has a magnetic field is because its solid iron core is surrounded by a fluid ocean of hot, liquid metal. This process can also be modeled with supercomputers. Ours is, without hyperbole, a dynamic planet. The flow of liquid iron in Earth’s core creates electric currents, which in turn create the magnetic field. So while parts of Earth’s outer core are too deep for scientists to measure directly, we can infer movement in the core by observing changes in the magnetic field. The magnetic north pole has been creeping northward – by more than 600 miles (1,100 km) – since the early 19th century, when explorers first located it precisely. It is moving faster now, actually, as scientists estimate the pole is migrating northward about 40 miles per year, as opposed to about 10 miles per year in the early 20th century.
Another doomsday hypothesis about a geomagnetic flip plays up fears about incoming solar activity. This suggestion mistakenly assumes that a pole reversal would momentarily leave Earth without the magnetic field that protects us from solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun. But, while Earth’s magnetic field can indeed weaken and strengthen over time, there is no indication that it has ever disappeared completely. A weaker field would certainly lead to a small increase in solar radiation on Earth – as well as a beautiful display of aurora at lower latitudes – but nothing deadly. Moreover, even with a weakened magnetic field, Earth’s thick atmosphere also offers protection against the sun’s incoming particles.
The science shows that magnetic pole reversal is – in terms of geologic time scales – a common occurrence that happens gradually over millennia. While the conditions that cause polarity reversals are not entirely predictable – the north pole’s movement could subtly change direction, for instance – there is nothing in the millions of years of geologic record to suggest that any of the 2012 doomsday scenarios connected to a pole reversal should be taken seriously.
There’s a renewed interest right now in Earth’s magnetic poles – specifically, whether or not they’re about to flip, and what may happen. The consequences of this seemingly rapid geomagnetic backflip may sound a little ominous, but don’t worry: we’re not sure when the next reversal will happen, and even when it does, the risks aren’t likely to be as scary as you may think.
Let’s start with the basics.
As Earth’s liquid, iron-rich outer core gradually cools, it sloshes around through colossal convection currents, which are also somewhat warped by Earth’s own rotation. Thanks to a quirk of physics known as the dynamo theory, this generates a powerful magnetic field, with a north and south end.
Although 99 percent of the magnetic energy remains within the core, the slithers that escape extend into space, and spends most of its time deflecting potentially deadly, atmosphere-stripping solar wind.
Right now, the magnetic north pole is exactly where you suspect it is; the same goes for the magnetic south pole. Both represent locales in which the planet’s magnetic field is vertical, and at which point your compass needle tries to point upwards.
Throughout geological time, these magnetic poles have switched sides – a phenomenon known as a “geomagnetic reversal”. Although there are several hypotheses that attempt to explain this, geophysicists are still a little unsure as to why it happens. It’s clearly something to do with turbulence and chaos within the metallic outer core, but the specifics haven’t been nailed down yet.
This is bad news for anyone who enjoys life without radiation sickness.
The Earth’s magnetic field is a barrier which shields us from a lot of harmful solar radiation, attracting cosmic rays towards our planet’s poles so that they shoot harmlessly past us without doing too much damage. If the field were to become weak enough during this transitional period, more radiation would bake the planet than we’re typically used to, which could ultimately render large parts of the Earth uninhabitable for a long time to come.
What’s more, our technology won’t fare too well once the magnetic field begins to weaken—orbital satellites in particular will suffer from solar buffeting without the convenient protection that’s currently provided by the Earth’s magnetic field. Down on the planet itself, things could get hectic too—solar flares would do more damage than normal, overloading power grids, causing computers to fail, and generally running amok.
This wouldn’t be a small global problem that would pass harmlessly afterwards. Because it takes hundreds of years for the planet’s poles to stabilize, entire generations of humans would be constantly affected, unable to use the technology that has become, and will continue to become, such a large part of our lives.
The greatest threat that this poses to humans is via the sun. With a weak magnetic field, we would be far more exposed to CMEs (Coronal Mass ejections), in which flaming hot materials from the Sun are thrown into space at high speeds (around 5,000,000mph), often in the direction of Earth. These would easily create temporary punctures in our ozone layer, causing massive exposure to UV rays. Some scientists predict that skin cancer rates would skyrocket.
Or, nothing happens…
There are some who are quite sure that people would feel absolutely nothing if the poles were to flip. Whilst sleeping, eating our lunch or working out at the gym, the magnetic poles of our planet could reverse, and we’d be none the wiser.
Those who go by this theory often believe that it will be technology that suffers in such a huge magnetic event. We’ve seen before that solar storms can cause huge malfunctions on satellites, interfere with communications, and cause blackouts. The best, and most recent example of this was the 2003 ‘Halloween Storm’ which caused blackouts across Sweden, it was a logistical nightmare for aviation and caused two NASA satellites to temporarily fail.
If humanity wants to continue to survive indefinitely, we’re going to need to come up with some inventive solutions to this problem while we don’t have plenty of time to organize ourselves.
The Coming Blackout Epidemic The lights may go out sooner than you think.
Every year, millions of people around the world experience major electricity blackouts, but the country that has endured more blackouts than any other industrialized nation is the United States. Over the last decade, the number of power failures affecting over 50,000 Americans has more than doubled, according to federal data.
The looming power failure epidemic
The paper published this September in Routledge’s Journal of Urban Technology points out that 50 major power outages have afflicted 26 countries in the last decade alone, driven by rapid population growth in concentrated urban areas and a rampant “addiction” to high-consumption lifestyles dependent on electric appliances.
Extreme weather and climate change
According to a little-known report last year to the Executive Office of the President by the Council of Economic Advisers and Department of Energy, between 2012 and 2018 the US saw 679 blackouts due to extreme weather events, costing on average $18-33 billion a year. In 2018 alone, the US suffered eleven “billion-dollar” weather disasters.
“The number of outages caused by severe weather is expected to rise as climate change increases the frequency and intensity of hurricanes, blizzards, floods and other extreme weather events,” the report found.
The growing prevalence of extreme weather including droughts due to climate change could also significantly undermine coal, gas and nuclear production, all of which require large inputs of water, to spin and cool turbines in thermal power plants.
The amount of fresh water consumed for world energy production could double in the next 25 years according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). In that fossil fuel-centric scenario, over 50 percent of demand would come from coal-fired power plants, 30 percent from biofuel production, and 10 percent from oil and natural gas production.
Surveying the impacts of past blackouts in the US, China, Canada, Italy, Africa, and many other regions, they show that blackouts can lead to state-rationing of electricity, massive economic losses, the breakdown of manufacturing, food supply shortages, degradation of water purification and waste facilities, and increases in crime rates and civil unrest. Yet they are not fatalistic about the inevitability of such an increasingly dark future.
“There is a possibility of mitigating, but not eliminating, the risk with improved technology,” said Hugh Byrd. Major investments in self-healing ‘smart grids’ and ‘smart metering’ “can assist in reducing demand by providing feedback to users,” but some technologies can also create new risks like “cyber-espionage of the control systems of generators and distributors.”
Growth of global electricity production, is undergoing “a marked slowdown in many industrialized countries of the west,” due to “increasingly high prices of energy that are squeezing demand. Now, the question is: would that lead to blackouts? In short, I think not—not in the short run, at least… Right now, the industrial sector of several western countries is rapidly contracting and the result is reduced consumption. So, right now, as long as things evolve slowly, I would say that I don’t see a blackout danger anywhere in Europe. We should see a gradual reduction of consumption as people become poorer and poorer, and less and less able to afford to pay the electricity bill.”
So whether we face a future of increasing blackouts or declining consumption, the climbing costs of keeping the lights on means more of us might be switching off. But clearly that doesn’t need to be the final verdict: increasing investments in installing smart grids now could prepare us for increased electricity demand in the future.
Hopefully before another major solar event happens, we might at least have the ability to anticipate it. To, at least, mitigate damages, people could be informed of the exact time and nature of the event, lessening panic and chaos. They could also be instructed to stay off the roads, airlines could be entirely shut down, and protective structures could be created/used (or there might be ways for people to maximize safety at home). While these actions wouldn’t ensure safety, being informed would be the key to recovering from the event. NASA is also aware of the potential problems, and is actively researching solutions. The agency says:
[Space weather] is a problem the same way hurricanes are a problem. One can protect oneself with advance information and proper precautions. During a hurricane watch, a homeowner can stay put … or he can seal up the house, turn off the electronics and get out of the way. Similarly, scientists at NASA and NOAA give warnings to electric companies, spacecraft operators and airline pilots before a CME comes to Earth so that these groups can take proper precautions.
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COAST TO COAST AM. George Knapp welcomed abductee Niara Isley as she recounted her experience which began after she witnessed a mysterious craft at the military’s secretive Tonopah Test Range in Nevada.
She explained that, soon after being sent to the base to train pilots on how to avoid being detected by radar, she spotted a UFO in the sky, which she thought might be a back-engineered US test craft.
Strangely, she noted that there were armed guards standing nearby and their intent seemed to be to ensure that Isley and her colleagues saw the UFO.
The group was then herded onto an old school bus with blacked-out windows, and they were taken to a medical facility.
At a later date, she said, her superiors forced her to board a craft, which was manned by both a grey and reptilian alien, and she was actually taken to the moon.
An adorable photo of such an issue was shared on the administration’s Facebook page just after the update on their website. Apparently, the issue is a relatively new one, only having been observed a few times in the last couple of years. Scientists are currently investigating the cause of this new phenomenon, and are not sure if it is indicative of a new trend.
According to the report, Hawaiian monk seals feed through foraging. They forage for food by shoving their mouths and noses into underwater crevices. This is to find food sources who hide, including eels. So while monk seals are shoving their noses around the nooks and crannies of the ocean’s depths, eels may try to defend themselves, which could lead to them charging into the creatures’ nostrils, or the seals themselves may have regurgitated the eels through their nose.
Scientists from the NOAA admit they may never know why the seals are getting the eels stuck in their nose, adding they gently remove the eels from the seals’ noses when they are discovered, with a 100 percent success rate. The seals do not seem to have any negative effects from that removal, nor having them there in the first place. The eels, though, are dead when they are removed from the noses of the seals.
Those working firsthand to pull the eels from the nostrils of the seals said the phenomenon started becoming an issue around two years ago. While the eels are in their noses, the seals are described as both calm and serene. At least one scientist working with the animals told a reporter from the Washington Post he wished the seals would “make better choices.”
One thing is for certain with for the scientists regarding this phenomenon – it is not directly human-related. Much of this monk seal/eel nonsense is occurring on remote islands only visited by scientists. It probably has more to do with monk seal feeding patterns, as eels are a steady part of their diets, alongside octopus and other species of fish.
BRITTANY DOLAN/NOAA FISHERIES
A juvenile Hawaiian monk seal was found with a spotted eel in its nose at French Frigate Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands this past summer.
In the early hours of November 20, 1952, controversialContactee George Adamskiand his secretary, Lucy McGinnis, headed out of Palomar Mountain and drove to Blythe, California. It was all as a result of a sudden, out of the blue hunch that Adamski had – one which led him to believe that a close encounter was looming on the horizon. As dawn broke, they met with several fellow saucer-seekers, Al and Betty Bailey, and George Hunt Williamson, who was a fellow Contactee who also caught the secret attention of the FBI, as we shall soon see. After breakfast, Adamski had an eerie feeling that the group needed to head off to Parker, Arizona – which they quickly did. It wasn’t long before one and all was shocked and amazed by the sight of a huge, silver-colored UFO that was “cigar”-like in shape and maneuvering high in the clear skies over Parker.
An excited Adamski shouted to the group to follow it: they raced for their cars and hit the dirt road in pursuit of the craft from another world. According to Adamski and his friends, the craft shot out of the area after being pursued by a squadron of military aircraft. Soon after, though, a much smaller, Flying Saucer-type vehicle landed on a nearby mountain. For Adamski, this was a sign the aliens wanted to converse with him, face to face. That, we’re told, is exactly what happened. As the rest of the group kept their distance, Adamski tentatively walked towards the alien craft. A door on the vehicle opened and Adamski, holding his breath, was confronted by a long-haired, human-looking figure dressed in a one-piece suit, not unlike the kind of outfit worm by today’s military pilots.
Adamski said that the long-haired, human-looking being claimed his name was Orthon, that he came from the planet Venus, and that he was here to warn the world of the perils of nuclear weapons. Orthon told the excited and shocked Adamski that he, Adamski, was to be a part of a worldwide program designed to push human civilization away from planet-wide annihilation and towards a new paradise. With that all said, Orthon returned to his Flying Saucer, which raced into the heavens and vanished from view.
In mere minutes, Adamski was a new man with a new plan. He claimed further controversial encounters with the Space-Brothers and, in 1953, co-authored with Desmond Leslie a book on the entire affair titled Flying Saucers Have Landed. The book proved to be a huge hit. Adamski had gone from a figure of relative obscurity to one that countless numbers of people were listening to – and listening to very carefully. Those listeners included none other than some of the finest special-agents of the FBI.
It’s important to note that the stories of George Adamski – who died in 1965 – have both their believers and their disbelievers. That Orthon looked extremely human and claimed to be a Venusian, has had many a UFO researcher rolling their eyes – and quite understandably. On the other hand, and even to this day, Adamski still has a faithful following which shows no signs of going away anytime soon. For the FBI, though, it wasn’t so much whether or not Adamski’s claims were true or not which bothered J. Edgar Hoover’s G-Men. Rather, it was the influence that Adamski was having on the American public that had them worried. Deeply so, too.
Had Adamski just told his readers, and listeners, tales of exciting encounters with spacemen and space-women from other worlds, then, in all probability, the FBI would not have cared in the slightest. But, things didn’t end there. According to the FBI’s files on Adamski, his aliens were communists. Those same records state that Adamski claimed that the Soviet way of life was also the way of the future. That the Russians would be the victors in a looming Third World War, and that the Space Brothers would then usher in a new era in which alien communists would sculpt a new Earth.
Today, much of this might sound farcical, unimportant and far-fetched, but it was the thousands upon thousands of people who completely bought into all this which had the FBI concerned. As a result, J. Edgar Hoover ordered a file to be opened on Adamski. It ran from 1952 to 1965, amounts to around 130 pages, and is now available under Freedom of Information legislation. The file makes it very clear that the Bureau was far from impressed by anything that Adamski had to say about his alleged alien encounters. The issue of how Adamski insisted on spreading the word of communism, though – and doing so via the message and the medium of the Space Brothers – continued to worry and vex the FBI. Hence the existence of the strange file.
In the last several decades, astronomers have confirmed a few thousand exoplanets, while there are still thousands more that are considered candidates. Astronomers discovered more of these planets that are orbiting distant stars, and on December 3, 2018, 104 more exoplanets were confirmed. And of those 104, at least 18 of them are less than two times bigger than Earth (but smaller than Neptune) and it’s believed that they have rocky compositions with atmospheres which are comparable to what we have right here on our planet.
Those eighteen planets have little to no atmosphere which means that they don’t have thick or deep atmospheres like the ice or gas planets in our solar system. This means that they would have thinner atmospheres very much like Earth as well as other rocky planets, such as Mercury.
Around two dozen of the newly discovered planets are in multi-planet systems with some of them having extremely short orbital periods which last less than 24 hours. Astronomers have named them ultra-short period (or USP) planets. These USP planets are normally large gas planets (like Jupiter) but they orbit their own stars at very close range. In fact, one of the newly found planetary systems, called K2-187, includes four known planets with one of them being a USP planet.
Astronomer John Livingston from the University of Tokyo led the most recent study of the newly discovered planets and also created a video visualization describing the planets and their temperatures compared to Earth’s. Click here to see Livingston’s visualization.
These newly discovered exoplanets were in two different parts. First of all, researchers from the University of Tokyo, as well as the Astrobiology Center of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences in Japan, announced that they had discovered 60 new exoplanets from data which came from NASA’s Kepler mission and ESA’s Gaia mission. And before that, in last August, 44 other planets were previously discovered, which brings the total to 104 newly found exoplanets.
The most recent find of the 60 new planets came from analyzing a total of 155 planetary candidates that were discovered in the K2’s second year data. K2 is the modified second phase of the Kepler planet-hunting mission and Livingston believes that hundreds more exoplanets are out in there waiting to be confirmed. He said, “By extrapolating our analysis of these 155 candidates, we estimate that hundreds of planets remain unconfirmed in the K2 data.”
The Kepler Space Telescope has officially been retired by NASA, but there is another telescope that’s called TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) that is currently collecting data and has already found numerous new exoplanets.
There have been thousands of exoplanets discovered and while some are just candidates and others have been confirmed, there is so much of the universe that has yet to be discovered and there’s no doubt that with further research, many more of these exoplanets will be located.
One of the most mysterious types of cryptid creatures is that of what are called living dinosaurs, said to be relic populations of those enormous lumbering lizards that once thunderously crashed over the face of our planet with ponderous might. While most may assume that these creatures went extinct eons ago, it is surprising how many reports there are of actual dinosaurs still alive and roaming about in the most isolated parts of our planet as they did millions of years ago. One place that has proven to be a veritable Lost World of supposed living dinosaurs is the dark continent of Africa, and here in the remote unexplored jungles dinosaurs still allegedly reign supreme as if they were never gone at all.
By far the most famous of the supposed lost African dinosaurs is none other than the one called Mokele-mbembe, which literally translates to “one who stops the flow of rivers.” The habitat of this creature is deep within the furthest recesses of the steamy swampland and dark jungles of the Congo river basin, in particular an expanse of sprawling isolated wilderness called the Likouala swamp region. The beast in question lives up to its name, larger than an elephant and with a lang neck topped by a smallish reptilian head and with stocky short legs, resembling a brontosaurus and which has been a part of the landscape here for the native tribes since time unremembered. Semi-aquatic in nature it is rarely seen even by the natives, and although a vegetarian makes for a frightening sight, with a mighty roar that is said to create great fear and dread in all who hear it. A good description of the Mokele-mbembe can be found in a 1980 issue of Science, within an article called Living Dinosaurs, which reads:
In the swampy jungles of western Africa, reports persist of an elephant-sized creature with smooth, brownish-gray skin, a long, flexible neck, a very long tail as powerful as a crocodile’s, and three-clawed feet the size of frying pans. Over the past three centuries, native Pygmies and Western explorers have told how the animals feed on the nutlike fruit of a riverbank plant and keep to the deep pools and subsurface caves of waters in this largely unexplored region.
Although the tribes and missionaries of this land of impenetrable swamp had long known of the creature, it was not until the early 1900s that its existence would finally trickle out to the Western world. In 1909, the renowned big game hunter Carl Hagenbeck wrote of the creature in his autobiographical work Beasts and Men, in which he told of hearing tales from the natives of a hulking, frightening beast that was described as being half elephant and half dragon. Hagenbeck looked into this phenomenon further, speaking with the naturalist Joseph Menges, who told him that indeed the natives had a rich lore of this beast, and that he personally believed it to be some kind of dinosaur similar to a brontosaurus. Yet another of Hagenbeck’s sources was the German adventurer, filmmaker, and big game hunter Hans Schomburgk, who told him that the natives of the area blamed the Mokele-mbembe for killing all of the hippos at a place called Lake Bangweulu.
Another well-publicized account was made in another area in 1913, by German adventurer and Captain Ludwig Freiherr von Stein zu Lausnitz, who at the time was surveying a region of present day Cameroon for potential spots for colonies. Natives told him many tales of the Mokele-mbembe, which were surprisingly consistent across the board from many independent sources, although Lausnitz remained rather skeptical himself at first. This version of Mokele-mbembe painted it as a vicious force to be reckoned with, an aggressive behemoth that the natives steered well clear of, and he would later write of the mysterious beast:
The animal is said to be of a brownish-gray color with a smooth skin, its size is approximately that of an elephant; at least that of a hippopotamus. It is said to have a long and very flexible neck and only one tooth but a very long one; some say it is a horn. A few spoke about a long, muscular tail like that of an alligator. Canoes coming near it are said to be doomed; the animal is said to attack the vessels at once and to kill the crews but without eating the bodies. The creature is said to live in the caves that have been washed out by the river in the clay of its shores at sharp bends. It is said to climb the shores even at daytime in search of food; its diet is said to be entirely vegetable. This feature disagrees with a possible explanation as a myth. The preferred plant was shown to me, it is a kind of liana with large white blossoms, with a milky sap and applelike fruits. At the Ssombo River I was shown a path said to have been made by this animal in order to get at its food. The path was fresh and there were plants of the described type nearby. But since there were too many tracks of elephants, hippos, and other large mammals it was impossible to make out a particular spoor with any amount of certainty.
These accounts, along with other scattered reports from explorers and missionaries in the region of these brontosaurus-like animals roaming the swamps really captured the public imagination, with the thought of lumbering dinosaurs from ages past wallowing through the mists of this lost world proving to be absolutely irresistible. Many expeditions were launched into the forbidding terrain of this mysterious domain in search of the enigmatic Mokele-mbembe over the decades, with some of them funded by such respected institutions as the Smithsonian, and even the famed cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson made an excursion there in 1932. Sanderson would come across large tracks that the natives explained as being from the creature, and he also spotted something very large disappear into the water which he could not explain. In the 1930s the lore was further fueled by a report from the region’s Lake Tele of a tribe of pygmies that had actually managed to kill one of the creatures. According to the tale, two of the Mokele-mbembe tried to smash through a wall of stakes designed to keep the beasts out, and were set upon by fierce, spear wielding tribesmen. After an epic thrashing battle, they were allegedly able to kill one of them, after which they brought it back to the village and had it cooked and eaten as part of a celebratory feast. The story goes that everyone who ate the meat of this mysterious animal became violently ill and later died.
Perhaps the most famous of these expeditions was that of a University of Chicago biologist named Roy Mackal, who ventured to the Likouala swamp region multiple times in 1980s in order to investigate the stories. Although he would not find any physical evidence or see one of the creatures himself, the team did find things like large swaths of broken branches caused by something very large barreling through, footprints, and claimed to have heard the creatures as well. Mackal would bring back numerous native reports of the Mokele-mbembe, which he compiled into a book entitled Living Dinosaur?. Another rather interesting expedition was carried out in 1981 by a Herman Regusters, who brought his team to the remote Lake Tele. This particular expedition would come back with quite a bit of supposed evidence of the creatures, such as droppings, a footprint cast, and even an alleged recording of the Mokele-mbembe’s roar, which you can listen to here, although it is pretty inconclusive at best and could be anything.
Indeed, the 1980s saw several promising expeditions into the region. In 1980 there was one launched by German adventurer and engineer Herman Regusters and his wife. The couple would claim to have seen the beast on several occasions, both in the water and on land, as well as hearing its roars, and they even produced an alleged photograph of it. In 1983 a zoologist by the name of Marcellin Agnagna led an expedition to Lake Tele and claimed to have seen the creature when it raised its head and long neck out of the water, which he described as having a thin, reddish head and reptilian oval eyes that stared at him for a time before vanishing beneath the murky depths. Interestingly, the only known video footage of the Mokele-mbembe was taken at Lake Tele in 1987, when a Japanese film crew was flying over the lake to survey the area. The footage is grainy at best, but shows what appears to be a very large animal of some sort moving across the water, with what looks like it could be a head and neck but which has been criticized as being merely two natives on a canoe.
Expeditions and reports of the Mokele-mbembe have continued on into later years, with some of them proving quite spectacular indeed. One British expedition led by explorer and cryptozoologist William Gibbons in 1992 trekked through a large portion of the region and came back with a photograph of what might be the head of a Mokele-mbembe taken at Lake Tele. In 1999 there was also a rather incredible report printed in the Sunday Times of London, which claimed that members of the Kabonga tribe had killed one of the creatures, but it is unknown how much veracity this report holds as no body was ever presented for scrutiny. Despite all of the expeditions and reports, which continue to this day, there has not been any solid evidence provided for the existence of Mokele-mbembe, but it remains the most talked about and sought after “living dinosaur” of Africa. Is it out there or not? Considering the lack of many modern day sightings, is there even the chance that if it did exist, has it finally gone extinct after all?
If Mokele Mbembe is in fact a real living dinosaur and really exists, then it also has some company, and there are various others said to lurk within the muck and trees here, inhabiting the exact same area, within the remotest, most impenetrable areas of the Congo’s Likouala swamp region. One is a large, saurian creature said to prowl Lake Bangweulu, and which the natives call the nsanga. This ferocious beast is described as looking very similar to a crocodile, only much larger and without scales and with formidable, over-sized claws on its feet. The German adventurer Lt. Paul Gratz claimed in 1911 to have been presented with strips of skin from the creature.
A rather more well-known member of this menagerie is called the Emela-ntouka, which literally translates from the local tribal language to “Elephant Killer.” It is said to be a massive dinosaur-like reptilian beast that is said to be about the size of a full grown elephant and takes a stout, tank-like form with an armored body, a ponderous thick club-like tail, and a prominent and formidable horn protruding from its head similar to that of a rhinoceros. The creature is supposedly semi-aquatic, spending much of its time lurking hidden within the muddy waters of the swamp and, although a vegetarian, stays true to its name, storied by local tribes for its explosive aggressiveness, attacking anything that approaches and indeed killing elephants, as well as buffaloes or hippos on occasion with apparent ease, usually while unleashing a reverberating, distinctive growl.
Although this mysterious creature has long been known to the native tribes of the region, the wilderness itself is so forbidding and closed off from the rest of the world that it wasn’t until the 1930s that stories of the existence of this single-horned killing machine prowling the dim swamps began to come in from outsiders. One of the first mentions of the creature by Western explorers was by the adventurer J.E. Hughes, who wrote of a local tribe along the shores of the Luapula River who had killed one of the beasts, an account buried within an otherwise non-sensationalist 1933 travel book called Eighteen Years on Lake Bangweulu. Interestingly, there was another of the creatures supposedly killed by tribesmen in the early 1930s near a place called Dongou. In 1954 the creature was really propelled to the public consciousness when a former Likouala game inspector named Lucien Blancou wrote of it in an article for the scientific journal Mammalia, saying of it:
The presence of a beast which sometimes disembowels elephants is also known, but it does not seem to be prevalent there now as in the preceding districts. A specimen was supposed to have been killed twenty years ago at Dongou, but on the left of the Ubangi and in the Belgian Congo.
In the 1980s, when Dr. Roy P. Mackal made his way into the hostile wilderness of the Congo looking for the legendary Mokele Mbembe, he too heard the stories of the Emela-ntouka, which he also included in his famous 1987 book A Living Dinosaur. Mackal himself believed the creature to be perhaps a surviving relic population of the Centrosaurus, an extinct dinosaur that possessed a large single horn, a theory supported by the legendary cryptozoologist Bernard Heuvelmans, although this cryptid is not said to have the same prominent head ridge that these dinosaurs displayed. Another idea is that the creature is not a dinosaur or even a reptile at all, but rather something more like a new species of semi-aquatic rhinoceros, but considering the incredibly isolated area and the relative small number of sightings by outsiders it is likely we will never know for sure, and indeed that like the Mokele Mbembe might even be already extinct once and for all.
The Emela-ntouka seems to somewhat resemble in some respects other supposed living dinosaurs within the uncharted wildernesses of Africa, particularly an immense squat, armored beast covered in bony plates and with a thick tail said to inhabit the jungles of Kenya and called the Muhuru. Also, roaming the savanna region of Cameroon is also a cryptid called the Ngoubou, which is said to be a buffalo-sized hoofed creature with a thick, muscular body and with an imposing array of 6 horns upon its head, which it used to chase off, and on occasion kill, elephants. It is uncertain what connection either of these have to the Emela-ntouka but the passing similarities are interesting.
Getting back to the Likouala Region of the Republic of Congo we have yet another apparent living dinosaur to join Mokele Mbembe and the Emela-ntouka, in this instance one called the Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu, or literally “the animal with planks growing out of its back.” As its name suggests its main feature is an array of protruding armored ridges running along its back, and is said to be almost completely aquatic in nature, rarely seen out of the water, and villagers of the region in which it is seen say that its back is typically covered with a sheen of green algae.
This is rather similar to yet another Congo dwelling dino called the Nguma-monene, which allegedly takes the form of a massive lizard, or in some accounts a snake, with intimidating ridges down its back. The Nguma-monene is reported from along a tributary of the Ubangi River called Dongu-Mataba, and one of the most famous sightings by an outsider was made by a pastor Joseph Ellis in 1971, who saw it swimming alongside him as he rode a dugout canoe, and who described it as absolutely gigantic, with a portion of the tail alone measuring the same size as the vessel he was in, and with clearly visible diamond shaped protrusions all along the top. The truly massive creature apparently created a rush of ripples and waves that were enough to threaten to overturn the canoe as it glided past. This creature is also apparently very aggressive, and supposedly hates hippos, killing them on sight. Hippos seem to just do that to these dinosaurs.
Also from the Democratic Republic of the Congo is an apparent dinosaur more in appearance like the terrible Tyrannosaurus Rex, reported from the remote rainforests of a place called the Kasai Valley. The creature in question is most spectacularly known from a report made in 1932, by a Swedish plantation owner named John Johanson, who at the time was travelling through the region with a local guide. At one point during their trek through the mosquito choked interior jungles they allegedly came across a rhinoceros going about its business. As they stood looking at the creature, they claimed that an enormous bipedal dinosaur-like monster, estimated as around 43 feet long, came erupting forth from the trees to pounce upon the rhino and kill it, after which it actually began to eat the carcass, apparently unaware that the two startled men were standing there watching it go about its hunt. Johanson would describe it by saying,“It was reddish in color, with blackish-colored stripes. It had a long snout and numerous teeth. The legs were thick; it reminded me of a lion, built for speed.”
There was another rather intriguing report from that very same year from the same area of what may or may not have been the same creature, which was published in the Rhodesia Herald. In this account, a hunter made his way to the Kasai Valley along with his gunbearer. As they made their way through the jungle, they supposedly cam across two large elephants standing there in the mist. As the two witnessed surveyed the area their gaze fell upon what they described as “a monster, about 16 yards in length, with a lizard’s head and tail.” Of course the hunter did the human thing and fired upon it, hey if you don’t understand it kill it, and he would say of what happened next:
I was shaken by the hunting-fever. My teeth rattled with fear. Three times I snapped; only one attempt came out well. Suddenly the monster vanished, with a remarkably rapid movement. It took me some time to recover. Alongside me the boy prayed and cried. I lifted him up, pushed him along and made him follow me home. On the way we had to transverse a big swamp. Progress was slow, for my limbs were still half-paralyzed with fear. There in the swamp, the huge lizard appeared once more, tearing lumps from a dead rhino. It was covered in ooze. I was only about 25 yards away. It was simply terrifying. The boy had taken French leave, carrying the rifle with him.
At first I was careful not to stir, then I thought of my camera. I could hear the crunching of rhino bones in the lizard’s mouth. Just as I clicked, it jumped into deep water. The experience was too much for my nervous system. Completely exhausted, I sank down behind the bush that had given me shelter. Blackness reigned before my eyes. The animal’s phenomenally rapid motion was the most awe-inspiring thing I have ever seen.
Stories of similar creatures have been told in the region, but the credibility of the so-called Kasai Rex has been the subject of some skepticism. One of the main things that has detracted greatly from its veracity are two photographs of the alleged creature, both of which were found to be doctored hoaxes. There is also the inconvenient fact that the natives of the region don’t seem to have any knowledge of this particular creature, and it has mostly only been sighted by outsiders, making the reports all the more questionable. Whether it is real or not, they are interesting accounts nonetheless.
Other areas of Africa are not without their own stories of roving dinosaurian monsters. Cameroon, which is also thought to be a haunt of the Mokele-mbembe and others, also has a monster of supposedly truly epic proportions known locally as the M’kuoo M’bemboo. This creature is said to be truly gargantuan, with its head alone described as being the size of a full grown hippo. The M’kuoo M’bemboo is described as being a jet black in color, and has a flattened head reminiscent of that of a seal. The creature is known for its rumbling, gurgling roar, and it is said to kill hippos but not eat them. Hippos just can’t catch a break here. Cameroon is also purportedly home to what are called the Jago-Nini, and the Amali, which are said to be immense aquatic dinosaurs that glide through the rivers here, oddly not killing hippos. The adventurer and ivory trader Alfred Aloysius Smith wrote of these mysterious creatures thus:
Aye, and behind the Cameroon there’s things living we know nothing about. I could ‘a’ made books about many things. The Jago-Nini they say is still in the swamps and rivers. Giant diver it means. Comes out of the water and devours people. Old men’ll tell you what their grandfathers saw but they still believe its there. Same as the Amali I’ve always taken it to be. I’ve seen the Amali’s footprint. About the size of a good frying pan in circumference and three claws instead of five.
Perhaps one of the strangest “living dinosaur” of all is one supposedly native to the wilds of Sudan, in the wetlands of Bhar el Zeraf, and well as in Sudan’s Lake No, and in Lake Victoria. The creature is called the Lau, which is said to look like “a donkey with flippers,” possesses bizarre tentacles on its face, and measures up to 100 feet in length. It is said to emit a truly terrifying roar that sounds like “the thundering of elephants.” There have been many reports of the creature since the 1800s, and in 1914 there was a Lau allegedly killed in the swamps of Addar, but the body was never recovered. In 1924, a supposed vertebrae from one of the beasts was received by a British officer from a native tribesman, but where it went is anyone’s guess and we are left with no physical evidence at all.
It is rather frustrating because that is the situation we are left with all of these cases, a lack of any clear evidence and only these mystifying stories and native accounts to go by. It is certainly not an indication that these creatures cannt exist, and the terrain itself makes it a given that these places should be unexplored. After all, we are dealing with some of the most unexplored places on the planet, walls of nearly impassable jungle filled with diseases, dangerous wildlife, and often in wartorn areas patrolled by nefarious bands of cutthroats, all conspiring with the extremely vast areas involved, meaning that it is very difficult to mount thorough expeditions and investigations into the matter. The reliance on reports from natives is also not a damning thing, as many known animals such as the gorilla and the okapi got their start in tribal reports that at the time seemed every bit as outlandish. In the end we are left with the question of whether any of these creatures are real, and if so, are they indeed living dinosaurs? It is impossible to say, but if there are dinosaurs still roaming the earth, then these dark uncharted jungles are pretty much exactly where one would expect them to be.
A variety of different kinds of unexplained illuminations have been reported over the centuries. These mysterious luminous phenomena are reported both by day and by night (although perhaps a majority seem to occur nocturnally), and many are observed passing through the air; in modern times, such unexplained aerial phenomena are often linked to UFO sightings, and occasionally appear to display features that may indicate the objects are intelligently controlled.
In an incident that occurred on May 4, 1997, the S.T.S. Astridhad set sail from the Azores, and was passing through the North Atlantic Ocean while en route to Dartmouth when something very peculiar happened.
According to a report on the incident published in the Marine Observer in 1997, “At 0443 UTC a light was sighted high in the sky above the ship. The light was of the style of a satellite in appearance. However, it was seen for about 10-15 seconds moving west to northwest, with a pulsating white light.”
The fact that the strange, flashing “satellite” was moving so quickly over them was naturally of interest to the crew of observers aboard the Astrid. However, many were shocked when the object they observed, in addition to flashing and moving very quickly, also “stopped dead” on at least two occasions.
“At one point,” the report continues, “the light stopped and turned in the direction of the ship. The light no longer pulsated, and for about one second it was in the form of a spotlight lighting the surrounding area. The light then turned back again and moved very, very fast across the sky before it was lost below the horizon in a matter of seconds.”
Such a report leaves much to the imagination, of course, although the description of both the spotlight, as well as the flashing and intermittent stop-and-go behavior described here is consistent with a number of UFO reports from over the years, where larger objects which appear to possess flashing or strobing lights, or simply blinking lights all by themselves, have been observed by pilots and ground-based observers.
Could any of these flashing objects have a natural origin? There are at least some anecdotal reports that involve descriptions of intermittent pulsating or blinking by unusual aerial lights, such as with the luminous phenomenon that has been observed for decades at Hessdalen, Norway. According to Hessdalen.org, a website devoted to the study of these unusual nocturnal illuminations, there are several varieties of lights, among which white or blue-white flashing lights are included.
“They are usually high up in the air, close to the top of the mountains or even higher,” the description at the website says. Usually lasting only a few seconds, these nocturnal displays have on some occasions lasted up to a minute, and according to the website, during their visible periods, “the light flashed several times while it is moving.” Other varieties of lights observed at Hessdalen are composed of yellow lights “with a red light on the top,” with the red upper portion also described as flashing intermittently.
The Hessdalen lights, it is widely believed, could represent some kind of natural phenomenon; possibly an earthlight formation akin to ball lightning, although some recent estimates have suggested everything from piezoelectricity, to cosmic radiation as possible sources. Whatever the case, their presence could provide a unique instance where a variety of luminous phenomenon in nature has been observed pulsating or flashing in this way.
Another oceanic incident similar to the one described earlier was reported by M.E. Guy in the Marine Observer a few years earlier, this one taking place on May 6, 1984. It occurred over the Equatorial Eastern Atlantic ocean, and involved a series of flashing white lights that were observed as the sailing vessel in question neared the equator. The crew later reported that visibility was good at the time, with little disturbance on the ocean, and the moon in its first quarter. “At first it was thought that there were three lights, one being bright and the other two relatively dim,” the report reads, “but as the vessel approached it it was decided that there were only two, one bright and one dim.”
This unusual pair of flashing lights was also tracked on radar at the time. “The target, once detected,” the report indicates, “gave a very strong echo and gave the impression of being a large target. It was plotted and found to be stationary.”
According to the observers at the time, neither of the two lights seen by the crew appeared to be flashing or operating under any kind of pattern. “Instead they just flashed at random, but never together.” Notably, the intensity of the brighter of the two lights, according to one observer, “would have put many a lighthouse to shame,” seemingly indicating a manufactured source for the illumination.
The crew was unable to identify the source of this light, although the incident described here was not the only time it was observed. According to the Marine Observer report, “two previous voyages had been to Brazil and France and the lights were observed on every occasion near the equator; they were identical in every way, but in the previous encounters the lights, both dim and bright, were more numerous.”
Reports of unusual luminous phenomena, especially those which occur at sea, are fairly common in scientific literature, and many can be easily attributed to bioluminescence and other identifiable causes. However, the descriptions of “flashing” lights, as provided here, are far from typical in almost any case, land or sea. The source of such illuminations could certainly still be mundane, although a few of the more unusual reports like these may also represent some unique variety of natural phenomenon… and one which, at present, remains undetermined.
Long Island UFO crosses the ocean and appears again over Lautoka, Fiji
Long Island UFO crosses the ocean and appears again over Lautoka, Fiji
On November 29, 2018 a UFO has been photographed over Lautoka, Fiji and it is the same UFO that has been photographed above the ocean near Long Island on November 19, 2018.
Image left: Long Island UFO - Image right: Lautoka, Fiji UFO
The resident of Lautoka who has submittted the image to Mufon states: I was sitting outside cooling off from the summer heat on 29 November 2018.The time was about 9.30 pm Fiji time.
I felt being watched and suddenly turned around and took several shots of the sky surrounding the breadfruit and pawpaw tree. I had done this previously but seen nothing out of the ordinary. I used my mobile camera with flash.
But this time as I enlarged the image of the frame on my laptop, I saw the conical shaped object in the sky.I was elated and exclaimed "gotcha".
I rushed back outside and took pictures with flash on the same spot but the object did not appear again. The sky was still dark. This proved to me that it must have been a moving object.
Original Image of the Lautoka, Fiji UFO
The witness talks about a conical-shaped UFO but after changing the night sky image into real colors we see the shape of the UFO which is identical to the Long Island UFO.
It seems the UFO has moved from Long Island to Lautoka, Fiji which is a distance of 14,000 kilometers.
Image left shows the Long Island UFO - Image right shows the Lautoka, Fiji UFO
As we wrote in our previous article, this UFO will probably be a type craft similar to the secret man-made TR-3B which uses 'reverse-engineered' alien UFO technology.
The first-ever Sound of Wind on Mars picked up by NASA's InSight Lander
The first-ever Sound of Wind on Mars picked up by NASA's InSight Lander
Listen to Martian wind blow across NASA’s InSight lander, which landed on Mars on November 26, 2018 and designed to study the deep interior of the planet Mars.
The spacecraft’s seismometer and air pressure sensor picked up vibrations from 10-15 mph (16-24 kph) winds as they blew across Mars’ Elysium Planitia on Dec. 1, 2018.
The seismometer readings are in the range of human hearing, but are nearly all bass and difficult to hear on laptop speakers and mobile devices.
We provide the original audio and a version pitched up by two octaves to make them audible on mobile devices.
Playback is suggested on a sound system with a subwoofer or through headphones. Readings from the air pressure sensor have been sped up by a factor of 100 times to make them audible.
Bruce Banerdt is InSight principal investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Banerdt said in a statement:
“Capturing this audio was an unplanned treatbut one of the things our mission is dedicated to is measuring motion on Mars, and naturally that includes motion caused by sound waves.”
Proof of aliens in New York state captured on video, Dec 6, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Proof of aliens in New York state captured on video, Dec 6, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: December 6, 2018 Location of sighting: Utica, New York, USA Source: MUFON 96854 This video was taken in New York state last week. The UFO is seen passing though the clouds and totally caught by accident. Moving so fast it looks like only a shadow, but this UFO compared to the size of the cloud is easily 15-30 meters across. Also the fact that this object passes behind the cloud rules out insects, birds, drones. Very cool catch, but with I had the full length video of the capture with sound. Scott C. Waring
This was filmed over La Puente in California back in August 2017 but it was just posted on MUFON recently.
Witness report:
Sphere shaped black object that hovered, then proceeded while turning clockwise. I had been working temporarily as a yard driver for a distribution company when I noticed a few of my coworkers staring at an object in the sky, pointing and taking pictures. It was early in the morning, about 7 am. When I first saw it I thought it could be a weather balloon but it seemed so large. I felt excited since I’ve never seen anything in the sky I couldnt identify. One coworker had a pair of binoculars which I looked through. I could tell the object was spherical and it hovered for a while. Afterwards it moved from the north to northeast while rotating in a clockwise direction slowly like the earth rotating. I noticed on the other side of the object there was silver or chrome parts. At one point an airplane passed and it looked larger, however the airplane could have just been flying higher. I have the videos I took on snapchat uploaded here. If anyone has any information please let me know, make me a believer!
Je hoort er niets over in het NOS journaal, maar toch heeft men in Castricum een ufo aangetroffen.
Ze noemen het ufo (unidentified floating object), omdat niemand weet wat voor mysterieus voorwerp daar is aangespoeld.
Het is eigenlijk wel grappig dat je via Taiwan op de hoogte wordt gesteld van iets dat in Nederland is gebeurd.
Ufoloog Scott Waring woont al jaren in Taiwan en via zijn website kwamen wij erachter dat er een vreemd object is aangetroffen in Castricum, aan de kust van Noord Holland.
Wat het is weet niemand en Scott noemt het een buitenaardse sonde die veel lijkt op de helmen die hij heeft aangetroffen op de planeet Mars.
Het object in kwestie is niet zo groot en ziet eruit als volgt:
In het originele bericht van Uitkijkpost staat het volgende:
In het 'depot' van strandvondsten van het Strandvondstenmuseum is tussen oude netdrijvers en andere aanspoelsels een voorwerp aangetroffen, waarvan de herkomst tot nu toe niet te achterhalen is. Het voorwerp bevond zich vermoedelijk al een poosje in de verzameling van een inmiddels overleden strandjutter, die zijn verzameling aan het museum heeft nagelaten, maar ook dat is niet helemaal zeker.
Het museum heeft verschillende deskundigen geraadpleegd over de mogelijke herkomst van de 'aluminium druppel met vleugeltjes'. Volgens een museumbezoeker, die luchtvaartdeskundige is, heeft het ding in ieder geval een hydrodynamische vorm in plaats van een aerodynamische.
Na vervolgens foto's van het mysterieuze object naar het NIOZ en de Koninklijke Marine opgestuurd te hebben, konden deze instanties ook geen helderheid over de functie en herkomst het object dat ze in huis hebben.
Scott Waring denkt dat het weleens (deel van) een buitenaardse kleine ufo kan zijn die door onbekende oorzaak in de oceaan terecht is gekomen. Hij adviseert dan ook om het materiaal te laten onderzoeken om te bepalen waar dit object uit bestaat. Want, als het buitenaards is, dan zal het waarschijnlijk hoge concentraties van onbekende metalen bevatten. Wanneer het uit gewoon staal bestaat, dan is het volgens hem zeker niet buitenaards, want aliens hebben een hekel aan dat metaal.
Hij denkt verder dat het weleens gerelateerd kan zijn aan het soort helmen die op verschillende locaties op Mars zijn aangetroffen.
Heeft Scott gelijk en is het een buitenaards object? Of heeft iemand een beter idee over wat dit vreemde voorwerp zou kunnen zijn. Het zou wel mooi zijn als de marine het niet kan oplossen, maar lezers van deze site wel.
ASpaceXFalcon 9 rocket gently touched down in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, after an attempted landing at Kennedy Air Force Base in Florida went awry.
The reason for the “water landing,” in the words of SpaceX engineers, was due to a failed hydraulic pump that controls the grid fin, a large directional fin used to guide the rocket into an upright landing on Earth after its reentry into the atmosphere.
A video camera mounted on the rocket’s first stage caught the spin-out while it descended toward Florida. In the seconds between the reentry and landing burns, the Falcon 9 began to spin and hit transonic speed.
This was the video from the rocket’s point-of-view in that moment:
And this is video from a camera that Musk shared on Twitter. It’s unclear where the camera was positioned, but you can see plant life in the lower-right-hand corner:
The crowd of SpaceX engineers who watch the landings live from its Hawthorne, California, headquarters can be heard collectively gasping. Then, a video producer at SpaceX cut away from the footage. Watch:
SpaceX CEOElon Muskposted the grid fin explanation on his Twitter account a few moments later and said the rocket appeared undamaged and was transmitting data. A recovery ship had been sent to retrieve it.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 grid fin.
Musk also posted on Twitter that there was no back-up system in place because landing the rocket wasn’t mission-critical. “Given this event, we will likely add a backup pump & lines,” replied Musk to a Twitter user.
Musk also said the video cut-away was a mistake. “We will show all footage, good or bad,” he posted on Twitter. He added that the rocket may be re-used for an “internal SpaceX mission.” Musk posted the full splashy video — watch it above — on his Twitter at 2:29 p.m. Eastern Wednesday.
The mission, named CRS-16, was the 20th for SpaceX in 2018, and all missions up to this one had gone off without a hitch. It was also the 16th time SpaceX has sent cargo to the International Space Station.
Recording reveals details of UFO sighting where 300 children saw ‘alien’ craft landing
Recording reveals details of UFO sighting where 300 children saw ‘alien’ craft landing
Rob Waugh
It’s one of the most mysterious and widely witnessed UFO sightings of all time – when 300 Australian children and teachers all saw a strange saucer-shaped object landing near them.
Now a new recording has surfaced, more than 50 years on – seemingly from one of the teachers who witnessed the strange, silent object in Westall, Australia in 1966.
Teacher Andrew Greenwood says in the recording that he initially refused to come out of his classroom when a girl rushed in saying there was a UFO outside.
But when he came out, he says he saw an object shaped like a ‘plate with a bulge in the middle’ – and watched it play ‘cat and mouse’ with planes.
Other witnessses (who have held reunions in the 50 years since the incidents) have described a similar, strange object.
Sceptics have suggested that the object was a weather balloon.
The new recording was published by a UFO site and is believed to be an interview between Greenwood and American physicist, Dr James E McDonald).
News.com reveals that Mr Greenwood said, ‘I observed the object everyone was looking at. It was grey against a blue grey sky so I didn’t see it immediately.
‘The only thing I’ve got to compare it against is some smaller sized cessna aircraft and it was approximately two thirds the length of one of those.’
‘It did hover at times, it seemed to be able to accelerate and disappear out of sight and then someone would see it over in another part of the sky.
'It moved a considerable distance away very rapidly and then moved back again.’
‘It came towards us, not that we could see it actually coming towards us, but we could see that it was closer now than it was before. It would go up and down. It could move slowly, but generally it seemed to hover or move really fast.’
Westall High School, as it looks today in Clayton South, Victoria, Australia
Greenwood describes how the object seemed to play ‘cat and mouse’ with an aircraft, saying ‘it moved over to another part of the sky very rapidly. The plane followed it over and it moved back again.’
A trio of astronautssoared off Earth on Monday morning(Dec. 3), destined to spend six months living and working aboard the International Space Station — andthe best viewwas savored by their now-roommates.
European Space Agency astronautAlexander Gerstwatched the launch camera in hand, and the result is an incredible time-lapse video showing the journey of NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques.
"Our friends, on the way here," Gerst wrote on Twitter when he posted the video yesterday (Dec. 5). "I still can't comprehend that there are humans riding on the top of this lone white streak into the great black open." (He has made the journey twice, in 2014 and in June of this year.)
European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst captured this incredible image during a crewed Soyuz launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 3, 2018.
Credit: A. Gerst/ESA
Gerst is wrapping up his own stay in space, due to return to Earth on Dec. 20. When he and his two colleagues leave, the space station will again be down to just three residents, after a failed launch in October sent two astronauts falling back to Earth.
But those two astronauts got new assignments just after Monday's successful launch — NASA's Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos will fly with rookie NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch. The trio will fly during the next crewed launch, on Feb. 28, 2019, bringing the space station crew back up to its usual size.
European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst captured this incredible image during a crewed Soyuz launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 3, 2018.
In to orbit: Spectators watch as the Soyuz rocket disappears in to the sky on its way to a successful docking. The crew were congratulated by Mission Control in Moscow on arrival
An image taken using a fish-eye lens and with a long time exposure, shows the Soyuz-FG rocket's path as it blasts off at the Baikonur cosmodrome
An image taken from NASA-TV shows the Soyuz spacecraft approaching the International Space Station's docking port
The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything.
The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything.
In some ways, the planet's worst mass extinction — 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period — may parallel climate change today.
Fossilized crinoids, marine invertebrates that lived during the Permian Period, found in western Australia. Scientists say the Great Dying, which wiped out 96 percent of all life in the oceans, was caused by global warming, which deprived the oceans of oxygen.CreditCreditJohn Cancalosi, via Getty Images
On Thursday, a team of scientists offered a detailed accounting of how marine life was wiped out during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. Global warming robbed the oceans of oxygen, they say, putting many species under so much stress that they died off.
And we may be repeating the process, the scientists warn. If so, then climate change is “solidly in the category of a catastrophic extinction event,” said Curtis Deutsch, an earth scientist at the University of Washington and co-author of the new study, published in the journal Science.
Researchers have long known the general outlines of Permian-Triassic cataclysm. Just before the extinctions, volcanoes in what is now Siberia erupted on a tremendous scale. The magma and lava that they belched forth produced huge amounts of carbon dioxide.
Once in the atmosphere, the gas trapped heat. Researchers estimate that the surface of the ocean warmed by about 18 degrees Fahrenheit. Some researchers argue that the heat alone killed off many species.
Others believe that the warmth reduced oxygen in the ocean, asphyxiating the species living there. Rocks from the mass extinction appear to have formed when at least some of the ocean was lacking oxygen.
In previous research, Dr. Deutsch has explored how living animals adapt to temperature and oxygen levels in the seas. Animals with a fast metabolism need a lot of oxygen, for example, and so they can’t live in parts of the ocean where oxygen falls below a certain threshold.
Warm water makes the challenge even more difficult. Warmer water can’t hold as much dissolved oxygen as cold water. Even worse, warm water can also increase an animal’s metabolism, meaning it requires more oxygen just to stay alive.
Cod, for example, are not found below a latitude running roughly from New England to Spain. South of that line, warmth and low oxygen are just too great for the species.
Dr. Deutsch and Justin Penn, a graduate student, recreated the world at the end of the Permian Period with a large-scale computer simulation, complete with a heat-trapping atmosphere and a circulating ocean.
As the Siberian volcanoes flooded the virtual atmosphere with carbon dioxide, the atmosphere warmed. The ocean warmed, too — and according to the model, it began losing oxygen.
Some parts lost more than others. On the surface, for example, fresh oxygen was produced by photosynthetic algae. But as the ocean warmed, its circulatory currents also slowed, the model demonstrated.
Oxygen-poor water settled to the bottom of the oceans, and before long, the deep was gasping.
Rising temperatures and plunging oxygen must have made huge swaths of the oceans uninhabitable. Some species survived here and there. But most disappeared completely.
“Everything was losing a lot of habitat, creating the risk of extinction,” said Dr. Deutsch. “But the risk was actually higher in places that were cold. That was a bit surprising.”
You might expect that animals near the Equator would be at a greater risk, because the water was warm to begin with. But Dr. Deutsch’s model suggested a very different kind of apocalypse.
To test their simulation, the researchers teamed up with Jonathan Payne and Erik Sperling, paleontologists at Stanford University. They dug into a huge online database of fossils to chart the risks of extinction at different latitudes during the catastrophe.
When they were done with their analysis, they sent their graph to Seattle. Dr. Deutsch and Mr. Penn compared it to the prediction from their computer model.
They matched. “This was the most exciting moment of my scientific life,” said Dr. Deutsch.
Michael Benton, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol in England, who was not involved in the study, said that it resolved the roles of heat and oxygen as causes of the mass extinction. “This makes a clear case that, of course, the two are linked,” he said.
The new study offers an important warning to humans over the next few centuries.
The Siberian volcanoes ultimately delivered much more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than we will ever emit by burning fossil fuels. But our annual rate of carbon emissions is actually higher.
The carbon we released over the past two centuries already has made the atmosphere warmer, and the ocean has absorbed much of that heat. And now, just as during the Permian-Triassic extinction, the ocean is losing oxygen. Over the past fifty years, oxygen levels have declined by 2 percent.
“The way the Earth system is responding now to the buildup of CO2 is in the exact same way that we’ve seen it respond in the past,” said Dr. Kump.
Just how much warmer the planet will get is up to us. It will take a tremendous international effort to keep the increase below about 4 degrees Fahrenheit.
As the ocean warms, its oxygen levels will continue to drop. If ancient history is any guide, the consequences for life — especially marine life in the cooler parts of the ocean — will be disastrous.
“Left unchecked, climate warming is putting our future on the same scale as some of the worst events in geological history,” Dr. Deutsch said.
A meltwater canyon on the Greenland ice sheet. Photograph: Sarah Das/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/PA
Rising sea levels could become overwhelming sooner than previously believed, according to the authors of the most comprehensive study yet of the accelerating ice melt inGreenland.
Run-off from this vast northern ice sheet – currently the biggest single source of meltwater adding to the volume of the world’s oceans – is 50% higher than pre-industrial levels and increasing exponentially as a result of manmade global warming, says thepaper, published in Nature on Wednesday.
Almost all of the increase has occurred in the past two decades – a jolt upwards after several centuries of relative stability. This suggests the ice sheet becomes more sensitive as temperatures go up.
“Greenland ice is melting more in recent decades than at any point in at least the last four centuries, and probably more than at any time in the last seven to eight millennia,” said the lead author Luke Trusel, of Rowan University.
“We demonstrate that Greenland ice is more sensitive to warming today than in the past – it responds non-linearly due to positive feedbacks inherent to the system. Warming means more today than it did even just a few decades ago.”
The researchers used ice core data from three locations to build the first multi-century record of temperature, surface melt and run-off in Greenland. Going back 339 years, they found the first sign of meltwater increase began along with the industrial revolution in the mid-1800s. The trend remained within the natural variation until the 1990s, since when it has spiked far outside of the usual nine- to 13-year cycles.
Greenland currently contributes about 20% of global sea-level rise, which is running at 4mm per year. This pace will probably double by the end of the century, according to the most recent models used by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. How the new study affects those projections will be the subjects of future study by the authors. If all the ice in Greenland melted, it would raise sea levels by seven metres. At the current pace that would take thousands of years, but the ongoing acceleration could bring this forward rapidly.
“At some point, sea-level rise will be too fast for us to adapt to, so we really have to avoid this situation by reducing emissions,” said the study’s co-author Michiel van den Broeke of Utrecht University. “I think this is one of the many wake-up calls that we have had in the last few decades. It clearly links manmade global warming to sea-level rise.”
The research comes out as policymakers from around the world are attending UN climate talks in Katowice, Poland, where governments are trying to set new rules to keep global warming to between 1.5C and 2C. The authors said the paper underlined the dangers of exceeding even the lower figure.
“On a personal level it is worrying to see this – along with the vast array of other scientific evidence showing that we’ve entered unprecedented or exceptional times,” said Trusel.
“The ice has no political agenda – it either grows or melts. Today it is melting as humans have warmed the planet. The ice sheets have tipping points, and how quickly they impact our livelihoods through sea level rise depends on what we do now and in the very near future.”
Other academics, uninvolved in the paper, said the new study was an important confirmation of what scientists have long suspected: that the recent increase in ice melt is ominously unusual.
“The Greenland ice sheet is like a sleeping giant who is slowly but surely awakening to ongoing global warming, and there are surprises in its response. However, the response may be more rapid than previously believed,” said Edward Hanna, professor of climate science and meteorology at the University of Lincoln.
UFOs Are Real: Ex Air Force Officer Claims He Chased A ‘8000mph’ Craft
UFOs Are Real: Ex Air Force Officer Claims He Chased A ‘8000mph’ Craft
A retired Air Force officer came clean saying that the UK government hides extraterrestrial life as a top-secret, further describing his own UFO confrontation.
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.
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.
“As we got, I don’t know, about 5 miles from it – it went up into space. We were doing over 400mph and I would say it was doing 10, 20 times our speed and it was this huge object,” Filer stated.
In the end, they were convinced the object was not something common. In his opinion, however, it looked like a really long cylinder.
Ever since Filer spilled the beans with the American Asbury Park Press, his story went viral online. Now, of course, it’s one of the most favorite topics of the conspiracy theorists.
Gigantic 'object' spotted towering over Earth from ISS – before NASA live feed is CUT
Gigantic 'object' spotted towering over Earth from ISS – before NASA live feed is CUT
A BIZARRE blue object has been spotted hovering over Earth on a NASA live feed from the International Space Station – before the footage was mysteriously cut.
But NASA’s feed is promptly cut short, reading: “Please stand by.
“The High Definition Earth Viewing experiment is either switching cameras, or we are experiencing a temporary loss of signal with the International Space Station.”
Unsurprisingly, the unexpected cut left conspiracy theorists up in arms.
One stunned viewer wrote: “That was a weird looking blob next to the space station?”
WHAT IS THAT? A strange blue object is spotted on the ISS feed
(Pic: YOUTUBE/JOETHAI)
Another added: "NASA is lying."
A third argued the object could be a “space ice ball”, with viewers noticing the object looked like “a drop of water in zero gravity”.
But this is by no means the first time the ISS feed has picked up on something strange in the earth’s atmosphere.
Earlier this year, viewers noticed a white object floating across the International Space Station’s live feed.
It is not just space where UFOs have been seen in recent months.
In an exclusive pre-release look at Blaze's new Ancient Alien series, conspiracists claimed the fabled Ark of the Covenant held extraterrestrial powers.
Gigantisch ‘object’ gespot bij ISS waarna NASA de livestream onderbreekt. Bekijk het filmpje
Gigantisch ‘object’ gespot bij ISS waarna NASA de livestream onderbreekt. Bekijk het filmpje
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA wordt ervan beschuldigd de livestream van het internationale ruimtestation ISS te hebben onderbroken op het moment dat er een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object in beeld verscheen.
In een filmpje dat begin november op YouTube is geplaatst, is te zien hoe één van de camera’s van het ISS een groot, blauw object vastlegt achter één van de zonnepanelen van het ruimtestation.
Het object wordt enkele seconden gevolgd en er wordt zelfs op ingezoomd, waarna het beeld plotseling op zwart gaat.
Opvallend
“Het High Definition Earth Viewing-experiment wisselt momenteel van camera of het signaal is tijdelijk onderbroken,” zagen kijkers in beeld verschijnen.
Het is erg opvallend dat het signaal iedere keer ‘wordt onderbroken’ op het moment dat een ongeïdentificeerd object opduikt, schrijft het Russische persbureau Sputnik.
NASA liegt
Diverse mensen schreven onder het filmpje, dat eerder deze week werd gedeeld door de Britse Daily Star, dat ‘de NASA liegt’.
“Dat is een vreemde vlek bij het ruimtestation,” schreef iemand. Een ander dacht dat het object een ‘ijsbal’ zou kunnen zijn.
UFO IN TURKEY THE ALIENS ARE CLEARLY VISIBLE (VIDEO) November 28, 2018 MTK A video of a UFO sighting in the skies of Turkey in the shape of a flying saucer has been recorded, which is considered the most important record of the phenomenon of flying sauce
UFO IN TURKEY THE ALIENS ARE CLEARLY VISIBLE (VIDEO)
A video of a UFO sighting in the skies of Turkey in the shape of a flying saucer has been recorded, which is considered the most important record of the phenomenon of flying saucers or so-called UFO so far.
“I do not know what these things are, we have filmed them a number of times but have remained totally unknown to us, I was very happy to see them and I want to assure the whole world that the flying saucer are already there,” Yalsen Yalman said. “He said.
The two-and-a-half-hour footage in the summer of 2008 includes a variety of exotic objects, ranging from the bodies of a disk-shaped UFO to clusters of lights Orbs hovering in the night sky. “The physical shape of these objects and their metal structures were clearly visible, especially in the close-ups of this recording. The researcher studied the analysis and analyzed it and reached the result that it was 100%,” researcher Haktan Akdugan of the Cyrus Center for Space Science and UFOs in Turkey said. Was unique and found that the body structures shown in the picture were not the result of a natural phenomenon, astronomical objects or known aircraft full After doing a video check by specialists showing what is incredible:
Real extra terrestrial alien space creatures, clearly visible from the windows of the alien spaceship, do not resemble any human beings on Earth, asserting that there is a clever life for extraterrestrial creatures.
WE HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE.. (2018-2019)
WE HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE.. (2018-2019)
50 miles away from Dulce, New Mexico we find the San Luis Valley; a mysterious region described as the playground of the paranormal. Geophysical formations within this valley provide ideal conditions for portals to form, connecting our world with parallel realities. Sometimes, something crosses over giving rise to reports of unexplainable phenomena such as UFOs, Bigfoot, and aliens.
Thus, counterintelligence operatives actively work to destroy the legitimacy of eyewitness accounts, through decoy operations. It is the pervasiveness of Native American traditions, which tell of an ancient extraterrestrial presence living deep underground known as the Ant people, which may provide the best explanation for the unexplainable activity in this valley of portals.
GOVERNMENTS ARE MAKING SURE THAT RESEARCHERS DON’T GET THEIR HANDS ON CLASSIFIED UFO FILES BY USING ALTERNATIVE ACRONYMS.
The Freedom of Information Act is a pain in the government’s backside, former prime minister and leader of the labour party Tony Blair was at the forefront of implementing the Information Act into UK Law. It was one of Blair’s top policies in his manifesto at the time, several years on and Blair has said that the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act was one of his biggest regrets. There is no doubt that the freedom of information laws both in the UK, USA and other western countries, has opened the floodgates for journalists and researchers alike. What government workers once thought was private or would not be seen in our lifetime, is now open for the whole world to see.
Now the floodgates are open, behind the scenes governments are working on sneaky ways to keep sensitive information from prying eyes.
For decades governments have been telling their citizens that they have little to no interest in UFO’s, not only have they said they have no interest in the subject but they have gone to great extents to ridicule anyone or anything that has an interest in the subject.
For this reason, it came as a great surprise when freedom of information requests was put in for any documents relating to UFO’s and the likes of Project Bluebook and the British MOD’s investigations into UFO’s came to light. For governments that said they had little to no interest in UFO’s there certainly were a lot of files released under the freedom of information act!
The freedom of information laws has no doubt caused a stir behind the scenes and governments are now left trying to find loopholes and creative ways to keep sensitive information private.
One way they are doing this was revealed by Hillary Clinton during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel.
During this interview, Hillary told Kimmel that there was a new name for UFO’s and that government officials now referred to UFOs and Unexplained Aerial Phenomena.
Nick Pope, who worked for the UK’s ministry of defence, recently explained why the government use alternative and new acronyms for UFOs. During a talk at the Awakening Conference in Manchester, he explained that government used these lesser known acronyms to throw a spanner in the works for those putting in freedom of information requests.
While the public now knows about the alternative phrase for UFO’s used by the government (UAP), you can bet that there are still a dozen more freedom of information requests for files on UFO’s than there are on UAP’s.
But that’s not the only way that governments are trying to throw a spanner in the works for researchers and journalists. There are far too many sensitive issues that they don’t want to be revealed to the public. One way they ensure certain issues stay secret is by putting certain projects in charge of the private sector.
Many people would have heard of billionaire Robert Bigelow, Bigelow is the CEO and founder of Bigelow Aerospace, a company that has taken on many government projects and contracts, due to Bigelow Aerospace being a private company, they are not subject to freedom of information request laws, which is probably much to the delight of government agencies working with Bigelow.
A rather telling interview with Robert Bigelow took place on 60 Minutes. Bigelow told the reporter who was interviewing him that he is ‘absolutely convinced’ aliens exist and that ‘there is and has been’ an ET presence on Earth. Bigelow was also asked whether or not he thought that we’d find intelligent life in the galaxy, to which he replied “you don’t need to go anywhere” the reporter then asked if he meant that you can find ET life here on Earth to which Bigelow replied “yes”.
For a man that has, as he puts it, “spent millions and more than anyone else” on this subject and works on secret government projects, it’s rather telling that he states, with such conviction, that he is certain aliens exist and that we needn’t look further than our own planet to find them as they are right under our nose.
As an old saying goes, sometimes the best place to hide a secret is in plain sight, which does draw many questions when you look at the logo Bigelow has on the side of his Bigelow Aerospace unit.
Long before Dave Grohl copped the name for his excellent band, Foo Fighters were the mysterious UFOs and strange aerial phenomena that bedeviled Allied aircraft pilots (and reportedly Japanese and German pilots as well) during World War II. While most of the reported sightings occurred during that war, there were some seen in the aerial battlesduring the Vietnam War. However, most references to Foo Fighters since then are about the band, which is why a recent sighting over an Air Force base in San Antonio, with pictures of UFOs amongst US aircraft and a connection to Foo Fighters, is worthy of attention.
“My residence is located under one of the flight paths for Kelly AFB in San Antonio. I regularly take photographs with a Nikkon camera of military airplanes flying over and around my residence in daylight and at night. On November 26, 2018 I was doing yard work in the morning and witnessed two Air Force Fighter jets with full after burners flying very low, and loudly, over my residence. I had heard them taking off from Kelly AFB a few minutes before I saw them. They were flying toward the southwest.”
That MUFON report, case 96768, was picked up by the TexasUFOs website which posted the photographs under the headline “Unidentified objects escorting Air Force Fighter Airplanes” and made the “foo fighters” connection. To their credit, they also point out that the unnamed witness didn’t see the UFOs in the air during the two different times, 2 pm and 2:04 pm, that the photographs were taken and didn’t notice them in the pictures until a few days later. TexasUFOs also says that they obviously could be specs of dust or a lens anomaly. (See the photos here.)
The witness didn’t notice anything unusual about the flight patterns which would indicate the pilots saw anything in their airspace or on their radar screens. There haven’t been any military reports or videos of UFOs around Kelly AFB … no flying Tic-Tacs. That’s why “foo fighters” is really a misnomer for the San Antonio sighting. Most World War II pilots who saw them described them as ball of light or fireballs following their planes but never actually catching up, flying past or showing any unusual maneuvers. And, since there are no reports of them attacking, the term “fighter” shouldn’t have been used in either case. Since they were close, meteors can be ruled out as well (the probable cause of UFOs seen recently by Canadian pilots over Baffin Island). A luminous electrostatic phenomena like St. Elmo’s fire or reflections of light on ice crystals, combined with the stress and intensity of aerial warfare, still seem to be more likely causes.
As for the San Antonio “foo fighters” … the needle at the moment is pointing to foo on the lens. You can have your band name back Dave.
My recent article, “Before Lazar: UFOs at Area 51 (Or Not…)” began as follows: “In a recent article here on Bob Lazar, UFOs, Area 51 and Russian spies, I noted how the whole UFO angle of Area 51 might be a big game; an operation chiefly designed to try and reel in Russian spies. In my new book, Area 51, which will be published on January 1, I tell the story of another man who found himself in a very similar situation to Lazar, but close to two decades before Lazar was on the scene. The entire story is way too long to tell here, but here’s a summary: To demonstrate that the connection betweenArea 51 and UFOsgoes back a significant number of years – and long before Bob Lazar almost became a household name – we have to go back to the dawning of the 1970s. The story comes from a man I’ll call John, and who I met back in the mid-2000s. It’s a story of incredible proportions and which clearly demonstrates that when it comes to the matter of aliens and the legendary secret base, nothing is as it seems to be. In fact, it’s much weirder.”
In light of the above extract from the earlier article, I thought I would share with you one of the weirdest stories that John shared with me. The strangest file of all, John stated, was titled “Suit Study 48 Armageddon.” This was a very long document which was directed towards addressing the nature of the clothing found on at least some of the strange, alien aviators who had lost their lives and who came from who knows where. The location: Nebraska, which is also where the study secretly went ahead, the files on which having later reached Area 51. In these particular cases, the outfits worn by large-headed, humanoid creatures were of a bright yellow color and somewhat resembled the outfits worn by military pilots. The biggest problem of all was removing the clothing. There were no zips, no buttons, no nothing. It took the team tasked with examining the clothes several hours to remove them – but, when they understood the process, it all became relatively simply. It turns out that the suits were held together by something that vaguely resembled today’s Velcro. But, with one amazing difference: it was as if the fibers were alive and bonded according to the particular wearer. An intelligent, self-aware outfit? As incredible as it sounded, that’s exactly what the files John read suggested.
On one occasion, one of the team volunteered to try on one of the suits; as a six-footer he just about managed to squeeze himself in. It was something he sorely regretted in rapid-fire fashion. When the man climbed into the one-piece uniform, the fibers seemingly recognized that the man was taller than the average alien and the suit altered – size-wise – accordingly. Things got even more bizarre – and terrifying, too. Within seconds, the man revealed later, his mind was filled with imagery of worldwide destruction, of countless cities in ruins, of billions of dead, and the Earth in an Armageddon-like state. The man started to panic, to the degree that he started to hyperventilate to a major degree. His colleagues and friends quickly tore the suit off him. After recovering, the man was extensively debriefed by an out-of-state team of Intelligence personnel. He told them that he felt – or speculated – the alien outfit somehow retained the memories and thoughts of its previous wearer.
The result was that when the man put the suit on, he had picked up on the apocalyptic images which flooded his mind. This led one and all to suspect that the aliens were deceptive, dangerous entities that wanted us, the human race, gone – hence the images of what looked like a worldwide nuclear war designed to wipe us out. Personnel from both NASA and the CIA expressed a deep interest in the suits, but John was unable to remember any specifics as to what the outcome of that angle may have been. Notably, though, the one thing that really stayed in John’s mind was the revelation that the suits were deemed to be somehow alive. As a result, they were locked away, with clearance limited to only a very small group of people who knew how to handle them and who knew the potential dangers and hazards they promised.
Well, that’s quite a story, to say the least. As I mentioned in my previous article, John came to believe that all of these controversial documents were bogus – and probably designed to confuse and manipulate the Russians when the Cold War was still at its height. I have to agree. The story above is – in my view – nothing but wild science-fiction. If it looks like sci-fi and it reads like sci-fi, then it probably is. As many know, I’m not much of a fan of sci-fi at all. But, I do know it when I see it! And this is clearly such an example. So, who might have been the creator of this wild, bogus shit? You can find the answer to that question in this previous article from me…it was a woman tied to both the CIA and the world of science-fiction…
Here is a strange sculpture of an alien face found near the Mars rover. The face at first looks demon like, but in reality is a person wearing a mask. I colored the screenshot above so you can see it more easily. Now if they were an ancient race that lived longer than us, then they will have more than 3 strands of DNA and with every stand of DNA...their body becomes harder to break down in the environment when they die. So...its possible this is a fossil of a face of a species that once lived on Mars and died in battle.
UFO Caught On TV News In Texas Is The Real Deal, Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Caught On TV News In Texas Is The Real Deal, Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 7, 2018
Location of sighting: San Antonio, Texas, USA
A news caster was talking when a UFO shot past and off into the distance. A few things about this sighting makes me 100% convinced that this is an alien craft.
1. Its shape, unlike anything known to fly today.
2. When its close its true color is black-gray
3. When its further away by 50 meters its color turns white.
When I was filming on my roof a few years ago, using meditation to call orbs as I have seen done on Youtube many times, I was surprised by a UFO that was baseball shape and pearlescent sphere so much it was mesmerising...just 2.5 meters from me. When I realised what I was looking at I flipped around my camera on tripod 180 degrees and that little bugger was already 50 meters away when I did get video, all I got on video was a white speck in the blue sky. The color had changed to white for some unknown reason. Thats why I know this is a real sighting.
DISCLOSURE LIJKT NU TOCH DICHTERBIJ TE KOMEN ( VIDEO + UPDATE )
DISCLOSURE LIJKT NU TOCH DICHTERBIJ TE KOMEN ( VIDEO + UPDATE )
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 snelle ontwikkeling 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.
Update: 6-12-2018
In het originele artikel staat onder andere de vooraankondiging van het komende interview dat Tyler van Secureteam zou hebben met de man die persoonlijk heeft gewerkt aan buitenaardse schotels, Bob Lazar.
Het interview heeft inmiddels plaatsgevonden en volgt hierna. Er is op dit moment geen Nederlands ondertitelde versie voor zover ons bekend. Mocht deze alsnog komen (Paul Harmans misschien?), dan zal die de hier geplaatste video vervangen.
Origineel artikel: 23 november 2018
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.
Boven onze hoofden gebeuren veel meer dingen dan dat een doorsnee burger ooit zal weten.
De mainstream media berichten er nauwelijks over en het gros van de bevolking kijkt naar hun smartphone in plaats van naar de lucht.
Het is eigenlijk opmerkelijk hoe weinig mensen in het algemeen opmerken wat er allemaal in de lucht gebeurt. En valt het wel voor dan is dat vaak toevallig en wordt er nauwelijks enige aandacht aan besteed in de mainstream media.
Het volgende is een voorbeeld van zo'n toevalligheid. Het gaat hier om een dame, Diana, die een aantal foto's maakte van één van de bekende Goodyear luchtschepen, ook wel "blimps" genoemd.
Dan op een gegeven moment ziet ze een vreemd object verschijnen, hoog boven het luchtschip.
Even later vliegt het object richting luchtschip en gaat er als het ware achter hangen.
Het is een vreemd object. Het is geen drone en ziet er vierkant uit. De beelden zijn door de dame opgestuurd naar Mr. MBB333. Wanneer het geheel wordt uitvergroot en er een aantal filters worden toegepast ziet het er zo uit. Suggesties over wat dit zou kunnen zijn, zijn uiteraard van harte welkom.
Een opvallend fenomeen dat zich de laatste tijd steeds vaker voor doet, in verband wordt gebracht met de nadering van de planeet Nibiru en waar wij regelmatig over schrijven, zijn de paarse luchten.
Een mooi voorbeeld hiervan werd door een abonnee uit de Amerikaanse staat Winsconsin opgestuurd naar Mr. MBB333. Veel paarser dan dit zal je ze waarschijnlijk niet vinden.
En dan een raadsel dat is opgestuurd door een lezer (dank!).
Op 1.8.18 wou ik gewoon het dak van mijn vroegere woning fotograferen, het vliegtuig zag ik plots maar fotografeerde, pas later zag ik het 'voorwerp' er achteraan...hing er niet aan vast.
Hebben jullie enig idee?
Een van de redactieleden hier denkt dat het een drone/afstand bedienbaar vliegtuigje of een sportvliegtuigje betreft.Een ander weet het niet.
En tenslotte:
De volgende foto is genomen op IJsland en formeel betreft het hier uiteraard een wolk. Wederom het bekende patroon. Een wolk in een verder wolkeloze hemel is meestal geen wolk, maar wel degelijk een ufo.
En zo zie je dat er heel veel vreemde en bijzondere dingen te ontdekken zijn in de lucht. Mochten mensen interessante beelden hebben of een verklaring voor de hierboven getoonde vreemde objecten, laat het ons weten.
NASA Asteroid Warning: 360-Foot-Wide Monster Asteroid on 'Earth Approach' Tomorrow
NASA Asteroid Warning: 360-Foot-Wide Monster Asteroid on 'Earth Approach' Tomorrow
AN ENORMOUS asteroid large enough to wipe out an entire city will zip past the planet Earth tomorrow afternoon, space agency NASA warned.
A dense, iron-packed asteroid as little as 40ft across (12m) has the power to wipe out buildings across a 3.6-mile radius (5.79km). And the bad news is one about three times as big is currently barreling towards the Earth at breakneck speeds of 14,808.5mph (6.62km per second).
The giant space rock tracked by NASA, officially labelled Asteroid 2018 VX4, is expected to fly by the planet on Sunday, December 9. The space agency said the asteroid’s trajectory matches the parameters of a so-called Earth Close Approach.
The asteroid was dubbed a Near-Earth Object (NEO) as a result of its close brush with the Earth.
NASA’s scientists at the California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) believe it will be closest to Earth around 5.06pm GMT (UTC) tomorrow. The astronomers estimate VX4 measures somewhere in the terrifying range of 157.5ft to 360.9ft (48m to 110m).
At 360 feet in diameter, the asteroid is as wide as an American football field is long, and NASA believes space rocks this big are lethal threats.
In a recent article here on Bob Lazar, UFOs, Area 51 and Russian spies, I noted how the whole UFO angle of Area 51 might be a big game; an operation chiefly designed to try and reel in Russian spies.In my new book, Area 51, which will be published on January 1, I tell the story of another man who found himself in a very similar situation to Lazar, but close to two decades before Lazar was on the scene. The entire story is way too long to tell here, but here’s a summary: To demonstrate that the connection between Area 51 and UFOs goes back a significant number of years – and long before Bob Lazar almost became a household name – we have to go back to the dawning of the 1970s. The story comes from a man I’ll call John, and who I met back in the mid-2000s. It’s a story of incredible proportions and which clearly demonstrates that when it comes to the matter of aliens and the legendary secret base, nothing is as it seems to be. In fact, it’s much weirder.
From the latter part of the 1940s to around the end of the fifties, John was employed by the New York Police Department. The work was exactly what one would expect in a packed, bustling city like the Big Apple. There was, however, one unusual aspect to John’s career. It was in late 1957 that John and a couple of his colleagues were brought into a program to assist the FBI in uncovering a Russian spy-ring which was afoot in the city. The belief was that the Soviets were trying to infiltrate a certain company that worked in the field of weapons-development for the U.S. Government. By all accounts, the operation ran as smoothly as these things can: two Soviet operatives were rounded up and arrested, as were a couple of Americans, too.
In 1970, John was contacted by an old friend in the police who said that a prestigious job was coming up that John might find of interest. Intrigued, John asked his friend what the gig was. The response was a job with what was then called the Wackenhut Corporation. Today, it’s G4S Secure Solutions (USA). It’s a company that was established back in 1954 and which provided security to numerous companies that undertake contract work for the U.S. military, government and the intelligence community. Wackenhut also had the contract, in 1964, to provide all of the security for NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Wackenhut was involved in matters relative to national security on a daily basis. And, John would have a significant position in the field of security – if, of course, he chose to take the job.
According to John’s friend, the jb that was coming up would be at a highly sensitive facility in the Nevada desert. You know the one. John’s friend informed him that the pay would be very good, that the job would guarantee John a lot of new contacts in his working career, and that it was definitely not an opportunity to be missed. John was sold on the idea. Little did he know at the time just how strange his life and world were about to become. John continued his work out at the facility for a pre-planned period, after which he moved into the world of private security, specifically doing background checks on people who were seen as useful for working on highly classified programs at Area 51 and within NASA. John continued with such work until 1981, when he retired.
It turns out that while at Area 51, John was exposed to a wealth of allegedly top secret files that told incredible stories of what the U.S. Government really knew about UFOs: crashed saucers, dead aliens; the usual stuff. Rather notably, despite being shown an astonishing wealth of material out at Area 51, John began to wonder if his whole time spent there was nothing but a cover for something else. After all, John wondered, given that he worked specifically – and only – in the field of security, why on earth was he given access to controversial and jaw-dropping data on the supposed history of aliens on our planet? What would have been the point? The whole situation completely defied logic. John clearly recognized this and speculated on the possibility that it was all some sort of intricate mind-game: to flood John’s mind with bizarre tales and documents relative to dead extraterrestrials, alien autopsies, and spacecraft from other worlds. Maybe, John suggested, it was a loyalty test: to see if he ran to the Washington Post or to the New York Times. John did neither. Rather, he stayed quiet (at least until the 2000s, when he was well into his old age), and as a result of his silence he was offered further, prestigious positions.
John also speculated on another possibility; it was a possibility which involved the Soviets. Although he was somewhat reluctant to address the matter in-depth – which is intriguing – John said he heard a few snippets of data suggesting that there was a small program at Area 51 which was trying to convince the Russians that the United States Government had not just alien bodies, but extraterrestrial technology; even highly advanced, powerful alien weaponry. John wondered if all of this was a mind-game – one designed to scare the Russians into thinking we had something that we never really did, but which the staff at Area 51 were hoping the Russians would come to believe. And come to fear, too. John died in 2013. His widow stated that in his final years John came to believe even more that what he saw and read out at Area 51 in the early 1970s was connected to a project of mind-blowing proportions; a highly detailed and intricate fabrication designed to have the Russians running around like headless chickens, wasting their time on disinformation dressed up as incredible truths and ultimately getting arrested. Ingenious Cold War-era disinformation of a very strange kind, in other words.
There is much discussion about what the object near the sun could be, as shown in the latest video of Mrmb333.
Even though it is not the first time that this object appears around the sun, nobody has an answer to what it could be.
Besides the possibility that it is a lens flare, suggestions range from Nemesis, also called "a second sun" a theoretical dwarf star thought to be a companion to our sun to a giant interstellar alien spacecraft tethered to the sun refueling the craft with solar energy.
The video continues with images of strange sky phenomena and possible TR-3Bs, but the question remains; "What is this bright object next to the Sun"
This could be a UFO probe that was hit by lightning or crashed into the ocean for unknown reasons. I would guarantee that this is a alien probe if I could do a metallurgy test on it. If the metal turns out to be high concentrations of unknown metals or of aluminium, then the evidence it tilting towards alien device, similar to the alien artefact that Bob White retrieved. Aliens do not use steel and dislike it almost as if they were afraid of it. We have seen two similar objects on the surface of Mars near the NASA rovers in photos over the years. Both look like WWII soldier helmets...but maybe they were drones. So...you ask, how the hell does Scott know these could be alien? Their shape...and from the two objects we found on Mars...matching the same basic shape. This object found on the beach in Netherlands...looks alien to me. Scott C. Waring Link to helmet 1:
In the 'depot' of beach discoveries of the Strandvondstenmuseum an object has been found between old net drivers and other windings, the origin of which can not yet be traced. The object had probably been in the collection of a now deceased beachcomber, who left his collection at the museum, but that is not entirely certain. The museum has consulted several experts about the possible origin of the 'aluminum drop with wings'. According to a museum visitor, who is an aviation expert, the thing has at least a hydrodynamic shape instead of an aerodynamic one. After sending photos of the mysterious object to the NIOZ and the Royal Netherlands Navy, these authorities were also unable to clarify the function and origin of the object that they possess.
This is amazing. A woman in Oregon near Mount St Helens has witnessed many UFOs for several nights over her home. Not only that...Mount St Helens is an active volcano...so we may have found the exact location of their alien base...UFOs are often exiting bases that are 4-6km below volcanos, because its a location where humans rarely go. What we are seeing here is not a drone. Drones do not light up like a ball. Also there is no way that this is an airplane since its hovering in place much of the time. Just the fact that its near St Helens convinces me that this is a serous sighting and that it has a higher chance of be real. These UFO orbs have been seen around the world. If you go to youtube you literally will find thousands of such videos, and yet the governments don't acknowledge this evidence, nor do they answer us what it is. Scott C. Waring
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Multiple unidentified flying objects have been spotted in St. Helens, according to one woman who said they've appeared over her house two nights in a row. Michelle Gabrielli shared her videos and pictures with KOIN 6 News. She said she counted at least 15 of the strange lights -- and that they seemed to fly apart then back together. "I don't know what that was last night," she said. "I don't know. I can only speculate...it's an unidentified flying object... that we didn't do."
New Steven Greer Huge Alien Disclosure of Close Encounters of the 5th Kind
New Steven Greer Huge Alien Disclosure of Close Encounters of the 5th Kind
Steven Greer shows how advanced trans-dimensional ET technologies interface with the coherent meditative and thought states during Close Encounters of the 5th Kind (CE-5) events. Understand how ET craft and beings can appear around us in ways that are astonishing and very close and very usually overlooked. For many years people have been seeing UFO’s in the skies and in space and it is an undeniable fact that our earth has been visited by extraterrestrial life forms in the past and present. Close Encounters of The Fifth Kind was first coined by Dr. Steven Greer and is the fifth type of contact on the Hynek’s scale.
Several large sunspots are visible in this image taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Higher sunspot numbers are correlated with greater solar activity.
Credit: NASA/SDO
We can't count on waning solar activity to help bail us out of ourclimate-change problemin the near future, a new study suggests.
Solar activity waxes and wanes on 11-year cycles, which scientists have been monitoring for the past few centuries by carefully tracking sunspots — dark, magnetically active patches on the sun that serve as launch pads for flares and eruptions of superhot plasma known ascoronal mass ejections(CMEs).
Variations in solar activity have significant consequences for us here on Earth. For example, powerful CMEs that slam into our planet can spawn big geomagnetic storms that disrupt satellite communications and power grids. High-activity solar cycles pump out more strong CMEs, triggering more such storms. [The Sun's Wrath: Worst Solar Storms in History]
And these variations may also impact climate. For example, some recent research has tied big solar eruptions to reduced cloud formation, potentially affecting how much solar radiation makes it down to the planet's surface and how much gets bounced back to space.
Indeed, some scientists think a prolonged dip in solar activity known as the Maunder Minimum, which occurred from about 1645 though 1715, helped intensify the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age — which subjected Europe and North America to much colder winters than the ones we currently experience — lasted from about 1300 through the mid-19th century, so the Maunder Minimum sits right in the middle of it chronologically.
The potential association between these two events is debated, however; researchers still don't know for sure exactly what caused the Little Ice Age.
Solar activity has been trending downward over the last few cycles, and the most recent one, known as Solar Cycle 24, has been the weakest in more than a century. This has sparked some speculation that we could be headed toward another Maunder-like dip — and, perhaps, a bit of a reprieve from some of the worst effects of global warming.
But this scenario likely won't come to pass, at least not over the next decade or so, according to the new study, which was published Thursday (Dec. 6) in the journal Nature Communications.
Researchers Prantika Bhowmik and Dibyendu Nandi — both based at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata — came up with a new way to simulate solar activity over century-long timescales. Their approach incorporates magnetic-field evolution models of both the sun's surface and interior.
The duo's simulations match up very well with actual solar activity over the past 100 years, as measured by sunspot counts. And they make predictions about the coming Solar Cycle 25.
Bhowmik and Nandi's work suggests that the new cycle will begin about a year from now and peak in 2024. The simulations also indicate that the solar-activity slide will stop, at least for a spell: Solar Cycle 25 should be of similar or of greater intensity than Solar Cycle 24.
"The behavior of the magnetic field and the particles emitted from the sun has a profound effect on the Earth's climate and living conditions of the Earth's inhabitants, as well as various other activities that involve long-range communication and satellite technology," Somak Raychaudhury, director of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Pune, India, said in a statement.
"Normally, we assume that these effects are too complex for us to predict and restrict ourselves to reacting to these phenomena as best we can," added Raychaudhury, who was not involved in the new study. "Bhowmik and Nandy's models show considerable predictive power, and it looks like we will now be able to predict the fluctuations of solar activity much more reliably."
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate) is out now.
Bible Ark FOUND: End of Days relic 'smuggled by Jews to Africa' and hidden HERE
Bible Ark FOUND: End of Days relic 'smuggled by Jews to Africa' and hidden HERE
BIBLE scholars claim to have uncovered the final resting place of the legendary Ark of the Covenant – saying the holy relic was most likely smuggled out of Israel to Africa.
Bob Lazar Speaks About The UFO He Examined At Area 51
Bob Lazar Speaks About The UFO He Examined At Area 51
He was working on tech he knew nothing about. His job was to reverse engineer tech that is far more advanced than anyone could imagine. It would be like dropping off a smartphone to one of them lost tribes and asking them how it works it's a tall order
Ancient Mega Structure Found On The Deep Sea Floor
Ancient Mega Structure Found On The Deep Sea Floor
Think about the scale. 4 miles wide. How long are those things? Can you even imagine being on one of those? You probably wouldnt even realize you were in the middle of it. That thing is freaking huge! The human race really needs to investigate all of our oceans thoroughly.
Le rapport COMETA est un document français remis en 1999 à Jacques Chirac et Lionel Jospin traitant du phénomène OVNI. Il a été rédigé par l'association française COMETA (COMité d'ÉTudes Approfondies) pour sensibiliser les pouvoirs publics français aux ovnis. D'après ce rapport, l'hypothèse d'une origine extraterrestre de certains Ovnis observés ne peut plus être écartée.
Le rapport Cometa - les ovnis et la défense
La COMETA est une association composée de spécialistes des sciences physiques, des sciences de la vie, des sciences humaines, ainsi que d'officiers supérieurs de l'armée et d'ingénieurs. En juillet 1999 le COMETA publie un rapport très complet sur le phénomène ovni qui fut transmis au président de la république ainsi qu'au premier ministre. Le rapport de 90 pages sera publié ensuite par le magazine VSD (voir ici) à destination du grand public. Le rapport, qualifié par VSD de "rapport confidentiel remis au Présent de la République et au Premier Ministre", émane essentiellement des sphères militaires. Il est d'ailleurs possible que ce texte ne constitue qu'une partie d'un rapport plus étayé, et que ce serait ce rapport-là qui ait été déposé sur le bureau du Premier Ministre et du Président de la République. Un rapport qui contiendrait assez d'éléments pour les convaincre de la réalité matérielle des ovnis et de la très forte présomption de leur origine extraterrestre.
Un rapport confidentiel sur les OVNI a été remis au Président de la République et au Premier Ministre.
Par ce rapport un premier pas en France concernant la vérité sur les OVNI vient d'être franchi.
Dans sa conclusion, le COMETA affirme que la réalité physique des OVNIS, sous le contrôle d'êtres intelligents, est "quasi-certaine." Seule une hypothèse tient compte des données disponibles: l'hypothèse des visiteurs extraterrestres. Cette hypothèse est naturellement improuvée, mais a des conséquences de grande envergure. Les buts de ces visiteurs allégués demeurent inconnus mais doivent être le sujet de nos préoccupations.
La préface du rapport est signée par le Général Bernard Norlain de l'Armée de l'Air, ancien directeur de l'IHEDN, et il commence par un préambule par André Lebeau, ancien président du centre national pour les études de l'espace , le CNES, l'équivalent français de la NASA. Le groupe lui-même, auteur collectif du rapport, est une association d'experts, dont beaucoup sont ou ont été des auditeurs de l'IHEDN, et ils sont de plus présidés par le Général Denis Letty de l'Armée de l'Air, l'ancien auditeur à l'IHEDN. Le sigle "COMETA" se veut signifier "COMité pour des ETudes Approfondies."
Une liste non-exhaustive de ses membres est donnée au début, elle inclut: Le Général Bruno Lemoine, de l'Armée de l'Air (FA de l'IHEDN), L'Amiral Marc Merlo, (FA de l'IHEDN), Michel Algrin, Docteur en Sciences Politiques, Avocat à la Cour (FA de l'IHEDN), Le Général Pierre Bescond, ingénieur en armements (FA de l'IHEDN), Denis Blancher, Chef de la Police Nationale au Ministère de l'Intérieur, Christian Marchal, ingénieur en Chef au Corps des Mines et Directeur de Recherche à l'Office National de la Recherche Aéronautique (ONERA), le Général Alain Orszag, Ph.D. en physique, ingénieur en armements. Le comité exprime également sa gratitude aux contribuants extérieurs comprenant Jean-Jacques Vélasco, dirigeant le SEPRA du CNES, François Louange, président de Fleximage, spécialiste en analyse de photo, et Général Joseph Domange, de l'Armée de l'Air, délégué général de l'association des auditeurs à IHEDN.
Conclusions du rapport
Considérant tout ce que nous avons appris sur les ovnis depuis 1947, le rapport conclut à « la réalité physique quasi-certaine d'objets volants totalement inconnus ». Il conclut, par ailleurs, qu'au vu des prouesses que manifestent les ovnis, l'hypothèse extraterrestre est la plus probable pour expliquer le phénomène OVNI : « Une seule hypothèse rend suffisamment compte des faits et ne fait appel, pour l'essentiel, qu'à la science d'aujourd'hui ; c'est celle de visiteurs extraterrestres »....« Les buts de ces éventuels visiteurs restent inconnus, mais doivent faire l'objet d'indispensables spéculations et de mises au point de scénarios prospectifs. »....« L'hypothèse extraterrestre est de loin la meilleure hypothèse scientifique ; elle n'est certes pas prouvée de façon catégorique, mais il existe en sa faveur de fortes présomptions, et si elle est exacte, elle est lourde de conséquences. » Enfin, le rapport prend position en faveur d'une meilleure étude scientifique du phénomène.
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Un astronaute de la NASA a repéré “la preuve formelle” qu’un OVNI gigantesque a foncé non loin de l’ISS
Un astronaute de la NASA a repéré “la preuve formelle” qu’un OVNI gigantesque a foncé non loin de l’ISS
Un astronaute de la NASA a été stupéfait lorsqu’un énorme “objet non identifié” est passé devant lui alors qu’il travaillait à bord de la Station spatiale internationale.
Des extraits vidéo montrent le moment où Chris Cassidy a contacté par radio le centre de contrôle de la mission pour signaler le passage de l’OVNI. On peut voir un petit objet rond qui se dirige vers le satellite artificiel comme une traînée de lumière orange. Un autre angle révèle comment l’objet semble se déplacer vers le haut, avant de disparaître complètement de l’angle de vue.
Une femme, à l’autre bout de la radio, s’empresse de remettre les pendules à l’heure, révélant à Cassidy que ce n’est pas un OVNI.
“Il s’agit d’un couvercle d’antenne, qui a été identifié par les contrôleurs des mission russes”, explique-t-elle.
Cependant, l’incident bizarre qui s’est produit le 19 août 2013 fait encore l’objet de discussions aujourd’hui.
Le clip a maintenant cumulé plus de 100 000 vues, et beaucoup pensent que c’est la meilleure preuve que des extraterrestres seraient en train d’observer l’ISS.
“Regardez la façon dont les lumières sont allumées – c’est un vrai OVNI”, a déclaré un téléspectateur.
Un autre a ajouté : “La NASA ment.”
Et un troisième a revendiqué : “L’une des preuves les plus évidentes, mais bien sûr, ce n’est qu’un ‘couvercle d’antenne’.”
Aujourd’hui, 20 ans se sont écoulés depuis que les premiers astronautes sont montés à bord de l’ISS en 1998.
Depuis lors, elle est habitée en permanence et devrait l’être jusqu’en 2028.
L’ISS est le plus grand engin spatial humain en orbite terrestre basse et on peut souvent la voir à l’œil nu depuis la Terre.
The BepiColombo mission is traveling to Mercury powered by ion thruster engines built into the Mercury Transfer Module component visible at the bottom of this artist's depiction.
On Dec. 2, the spacecraft used two of its ion thrusters to make its first maneuver — a procedure that came after weeks of careful testing. The success means that the most powerfulelectric-propulsion enginesystem ever to explore space is now up and running.
"Electric propulsion technology is very novel and extremely delicate," Elsa Montagnon, Spacecraft Operations Manager for BepiColombo, said in a statement released by ESA. "This means BepiColombo's four thrusters had to be thoroughly checked following the launch, by slowly turning each on, one by one, and closely monitoring their functioning and effect on the spacecraft."
The team also needed to fit in that testing during the time when the spacecraft would always be visible from and point its antennae toward Earth so that they could properly monitor the tests. In mid-December, the thrusters will begin the series of 22 long burns that will be necessary for it to reach Mercury. The entire journey will cover 5.6 billion miles (9 billion kilometers).
BepiColombo's powerful ion thrusters are located on the Mercury Transfer Module, which is ferrying the mission's two science orbiters to Mercury. Once the assembly arrives in 2025, the three spacecraft will separate and the orbiters will bid farewell to the electric engines and their eerie blue glow.
An MIT Media Lab team build a plant-cyborg. Its name is Elowan, and it can move around.
Image credits Harpreet Sareen, Elbert Tiao // MIT Media Labs.
For most people, the word ‘cyborg’ doesn’t bring images of plants to mind — but it does at MIT’s Media Lab. Researchers in Harpreet Sareen’s lab at MIT have combined a plant with electronics to allow it to move. The cyborg — Elowan — relies on the plant’s sensory abilities to detect light and an electric motor to follow it.
Our photosynthesizing overlords
Plants are actually really good at detecting light. Sunflowers are a great example: you can actually see them move to follow the sun on its heavenly trek. Prior research has shown that plants accomplish this through the use of several natural sensors and response systems — among others, they keep track of humidity, temperature levels, and the amount of water in the soil.
However, plant’s aren’t very good at moving to a different place even if their ‘sensor and response systems’ tell them conditions aren’t very great. The MIT team wanted to fix that. They planned to give one plant more autonomy by fitting its pot with wheels, an electric motor, and assorted electrical sensors.
The way the cyborg works is relatively simple. The sensors pick up on the electrical signals generated by the plant and generate commands for the motor and wheels based on them. The result is, in effect, a plant that can move closer to light sources. The researchers proved this by placing the cyborg between two table lamps and then turning them on or off. The plant moved itself, with no prodding, toward the light that was turned on.
While undeniably funny, the research is practical, too. Elowan could be modified in such a way as to allow it to move solar panels on a house’s roof to maximize their light exposure. Alternatively, additional sensors and controlling units would allow a similar cyborg to maintain optimal temperature and humidity levels in, say, an office. With this in mind, the team plans to continue their research, including more species of plants to draw on their unique evolutionary adaptations.
Before humans settle or even set foot on Mars, engineers and scientists have to solve all sorts of problems, like protecting space travelers from dangerous radiation. This will be immensely difficult, but it shouldn’t overshadow other types of challenges — like the legal and political questions — raised by extraterrestrial colonization.
In an essay published Tuesday in Aeon, Marko Kovic, a consultant and president of a think tank named The Zurich Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, broke down what he sees as the four most important unanswered questions for the political structures of off-world settlements.
Break It Down
First off, Kovic poses the question of who’s actually permitted to colonize space. Should individual nations establish their own settlements, or should that right be reserved for international coalitions? What about powerful corporations?
Secondly, there’s the matter of developing laws that are relevant to life on Mars or wherever else. Right now, astronauts are subject to the laws of their home countries, but Kovic argues that it doesn’t make sense to wait the many weeks or months it would take for Earthly legal systems to investigate the first space murderer. Rather, the settlement would need its own legal structure that’s not dependent on Earth.
Kovic’s third question may never have a clear answer — he pondered how various nations like the U.S. China might respond differently to rebellious colonies. When should these settlements become independent, if they should at all?
Fourth, Kovic argued that, independent or not, policymakers should figure out exactly how various settlements on the Moon, Mars, or anywhere else will all interact among each other and with Earth society. Will they all fall under one governing coalition, or will they be separate entities?
Analog Culture
The challenge to each of these comes from the fact that Earthly analogs don’t always hold up — future space societies may find themselves in need of entirely novel governmental structures. On Earth, colonization by and eventual succession from governing nations has often been a bloody mess, so it’s not like we have useful historical examples to guide us.
When you factor in the fact that various terrestrial governments with conflicting philosophies and structures (think representative democracies versus dictatorships) will all have interests in space settlements, a crowd-pleasing solution becomes even harder to find.
So Now What?
Beyond the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that declares space ought to be explored, not exploited or used for military purposes, there are very few rules that govern space. And even that treaty no longer does as good a job as it used to — Kovic said in his essay that it would prohibit Russia, China, or America from colonizing the Moon or Mars, but not a private entity like SpaceX or Blue Origin.
Before we hand the keys to the galaxy over to Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, perhaps we should take a moment to come up with some updated ground rules.
Editor’s Note: This post previously misidentified the think tank of which Kovic is president as “The Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research.” It has been updated.
Un scientifique de la NASA n’exclut pas que des extraterrestres soient déjà parmi nous
Un scientifique de la NASA n’exclut pas que des extraterrestres soient déjà parmi nous
Bien que la NASA n’ait pas encore trouvé de preuve irréfutable de l’existence d’extraterrestres, un scientifique de l’agence affirme dans un article publié sur le site officiel que les aliens auraient déjà visité la Terre. Selon lui, il pourrait s’agir d’une «entité super-intelligente» et «extrêmement petite».
Silvano P.Colombano, qui travaille dans un centre de recherche de la NASA, également professeur, n’exclut pas dans son article que des formes de vie extraterrestre auraient déjà visité la Terre. Il affirme que la vie intelligente peut ne pas être basée sur le carbone, ou ce à quoi nous sommes habitués.
«Je veux simplement souligner le fait que nous pourrions trouver d’autres formes d’intelligence, ou que ces formes pourraient choisir de nous trouver (si ce n’est pas déjà le cas), qui ne seraient pas du tout produites par des organismes à base de carbone comme nous», écrit-il dans un article de recherche publié sur le site Web de la NASA.
Si ces formes de vie extraterrestre ne sont pas basées sur le carbone, cela changerait les hypothèses existantes sur ce qu’il faut rechercher. «À quel point cela pourrait-il changer les hypothèses concernant les voyages interstellaires? Notre durée de vie typique ne serait plus limitée (même si celle-ci pourrait être traitée avec des missions multigénérationnelles ou une cryogénisation) et l’entité pourrait être extrêmement petite mais super intelligente.»
Dans le document, il suggère également que des extraterrestres pourraient avoir découvert une technologie que les êtres humains ne pourraient pas comprendre. «Si nous adoptions un nouvel ensemble d’hypothèses sur les formes d’intelligence et de technologies supérieures que nous pourrions trouver, certains de ces phénomènes pourraient correspondre à des hypothèses spécifiques et nous pourrions entamer une enquête sérieuse», a-t-il souligné.
Plusieurs médias ont repris les propos du scientifique et, vu la résonance médiatique, le scientifique a tenu à expliquer ses propos à la revue Live Science.
«Mon point de vue était simplement que les rapports de phénomènes aériens non identifiés devraient faire l’objet d’une étude sérieuse, même si les chances d’identifier une technologie étrangère est très faible», a-t-il expliqué. Source
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SETI Institute found no traces of aliens on the “interstellar asteroid”
SETI Institute found no traces of aliens on the “interstellar asteroid”
Long-term observations of the Oumuamua asteroid at the time of its approach to the Earth exclude the presence on its surface of “any artificial sources of radio waves or other signals.” This conclusion was made by astronomers from the SETI Institute for Extraterrestrial Civilizations, who published an article in the journal Acta Astronautica.
“We tried at least some signal that indicated the man-made character of this object. We didn’t find anything like that, despite the very high sensitivity of our telescopes. On the other hand, it’s impossible to say for sure that our observations completely exclude the fact that Oumuamua created the aliens, “says Gerry Harp from the SETI extraterrestrial civilization search institute in Mountain View (USA).
In the middle of October last year, the Pan-STARRS1 automated telescope discovered the first “interstellar” celestial body. This object was tentatively called a comet, received the temporary name C / 2017 U1, and dozens of ground-based and orbital telescopes began to follow it.
Before it left the near-Earth space, scientists managed to get a lot of pictures and data on its physical properties, which indicated that this object is more like an asteroid than a comet. It was renamed 1I / 2017 U1, and later received the name Oumuamua, which means “intelligence officer” in the language of the indigenous inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands.
Subsequently, the unusual cigar-shaped form of Oumuamua and the presence of large quantities of organic matter on its surface once again forced scientists to rethink what it really was – the nucleus of an “extinct” comet, a real asteroid or something completely different.
For example, at the beginning of November, astronomers from Harvard suggested, basing on this fact and the fact that the trajectory of the “interstellar scout” movement changed in an unusual way when it approached the Sun, that it could be a man-made object.
According to them, Oumuamua is a kind of interstellar “sailboat”, launched by aliens in the direction of the solar system. His unusual form helped him not to stray from the course and reach the Earth in several million years of flight.
Harp and his colleagues checked whether this was the case using the data collected by the ATA radio telescope after Oumuamua reached the Earth as close as possible when this celestial body crossed the orbit of our planet in late November and early December 2017.
The short distance and high power of the ATA allowed astronomers to check whether there are even the smallest sources of radio waves on the surface of the interstellar “scout”, whose power is tens and hundreds of times inferior to cell phones and walkie-talkies.
The maximum power of the radio transmitter, which would remain invisible for this observatory, is only 500 milliwatts, which is clearly not enough to establish contact with the Earth or to communicate with other planetary systems.
All this, according to Kharp, suggests that Oumuamua can hardly be an “interstellar probe” created by aliens to establish contact with Earth. Nevertheless, observations of it and the subsequent interstellar objects will help us to understand how the worlds are arranged outside the solar system and how suitable they are for life.
Great climatic changes triggered the Earth’s biggest extinction, which wiped off 70% of terrestrial life and 96% marine life 252 million years ago, a new study suggests. A similar process seems to be taking place today, researchers warn.
The barbary ape is one of the many creatures currently threatened by extinction as a result of human action.
Then…
We’re 252 million years in the past, in a period called thePermian. Almost all of the Earth’s landmass is clumped together into a supercontinent called Pangaea. Although it’s still in its earlier phases, life on Earth has developed to be remarkably diverse. But evolution was about to suffer a massive setback — a dramatic extinction that came to be known as “The Great Dying.”
“It was a huge event. In the last half a billion years of life on the planet, it was the worst extinction,” said Curtis Deutsch, an oceanography expert who co-authored the research with University of Washington colleague Justin Penn and Stanford University scientists Jonathan Payne and Erik Sperling.
Despite the magnitude of this event, researchers have found relatively few clues about it — until some 20 years ago.
The problem is that 252 million years is a long time (even in geological terms), and finding reliable evidence that survived the onset of this much time is not easy. However, modern dating techniques (particularly the U–Pb dating of zircon crystals) allowed geologists to pinpoint this extinction to a few thousands of years — which given the scale of things, is quite impressive.
Similarly, radiometric studies have revealed that the extinction coincided with (and was likely caused by) massive volcanic eruptions. However, not all was clear. Specifically, it was unclear how the volcanic eruption and the extinction event were related.
Now, a new study suggests that the determining mechanism was an all too familiar one: climate change.
Image credits: University of Washington.
Essentially, the eruptions caused intense and abrupt global warming, which in turn depleted the oxygen from the oceans, causing the ocean’s creatures to effectively suffocate. Using a complex model powered by a supercomputer, the authors found that the combination of these two factors alone (warming water and low oxygen) can “account for more than half the magnitude of the ‘Great Dying’”.
If those two factors seem somewhat familiar, it’s because they’re also taking place today.
… and now
The story seems remarkably similar to what we’re experiencing today, as researchers themselves underline in the study.
“Voluminous emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, rapid global warming, and a decline in biodiversity—the storyline is modern, but the setting is ancient,” Penn State geosciences professor Lee Kump, who was not part of the research team, wrote in a Science piece responding to the new findings.
Indeed, it’s stunning how similar the two situations are. In both cases, an event caused temperatures to rise in a relatively short amount of time — but whereas 252 million years ago that was a volcanic eruption, in this case, it’s the greenhouse gas emissions outputted by mankind.
“The ultimate, driving change that led to the mass extinction is the same driving change that humans are doing today, which is injecting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere,” Justin Penn, a University of Washington doctoral student in oceanography and the study’s lead author, told the Seattle Times.
“The study tells us what’s at the end of the road if we let climate [change] keep going,” warned Curtis Deutsch, Penn’s co-author and PhD adviser, as the latest projections show emissions hitting record-breaking levels this year. “The further we go, the more species we’re likely to lose… That’s frightening. The loss of species is irreversible.”
Scientists are also tracking oxygen depletion in the oceans, and have reported some worrying trends, which already start to resemble what was happening in the late Permian.
Credits: NASA.
The extinction event likely occurred over a timeframe of tens or hundreds of years, during which Earth’s temperatures increased by around 10°C (18°F). Oceans lost around 80% of their oxygen, and many parts of the seafloor became completely oxygen-free. This warming was almost certainly caused by a huge spike in greenhouse gas emissions, caused by volcanic activity.
Simply put, we may be witnessing the start of another catastrophic period for Earth’s biodiversity, and contrary to popular belief, life doesn’t necessarily “bounce back” — it may be permanently affected. Previous studies have indicated that it took life at least 4-6 million years to recover after the Great Dying, while other authors put that figure towards 30 million years.
Credits: NASA.
Another striking similarity between the Great Dying and modern times is the devastation of insect populations. The ancient extinction is the only known mass extinction of insects — and insect populations have declined dramatically in the past few decades — the blink of an eye, in geological time.
If this all seems a bit alarming, well, it should. Finding so many similarities between the world’s greatest extinction event and today’s times is not something to be happy about. If our greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed, life on Earth (including humans) may be irreparably damaged.
“As our understanding of the drivers and consequences of end-Permian climate change and mass extinction improves,” Kump wrote, “the lessons for the future become clear.”
Within the Paris Agreement, countries pledged to reduce emissions and limit global warming to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius over the pre-industrial levels, but globally, action has been lackluster, and several studies have found that an increase of over 4 degrees Celsius is much more likely.
World leaders are currently meeting in Katowice at the annual UN climate summit (in which the Paris Agreement was also signed) to decide the best course of action, but despite some remarkable initiatives, there are few reasons for optimism.
It’s easy to feel powerless in the face of such massive processes, but it’s important to remember that collectively, our decisions are one of the most powerful geological forces in our planet’s history. Your decisions do matter — make it count.
The study “Climate change and marine mass extinction” has been published in Science.
Photo NewsDe Marslander InSight landde op maandag 27 november op Mars na een lange reis van bijna zeven maanden.
WETENSCHAPHet Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA heeft vrijdag met een stunt uitgepakt: een geluidsopname van vibraties tengevolge van de wind die over de op 26 november gelande InSight-sonde waait.
Sensoren in de seismometer en een weerinstrument registreerden de vibraties tengevolge van wind op Mars. “Hoofdtelefoon en subwoofer aanbevolen”, zegt de NASA. Het is allemaal “bas”. InSight doet, met medewerking van de Koninklijke Belgische Sterrenwacht, in het bijzonder onderzoek naar het binnenste van de Rode Planeet.
In onderstaand Youtube-filmpje kan je de wind op Mars beluisteren:
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Chinezen onderweg naar ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, een plek waar nooit eerder ruimtetuig landde - HLN.be
Chinezen onderweg naar ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, een plek waar nooit eerder ruimtetuig landde - HLN.be
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APChina's allereerste maanrover ‘Jade Rabbit werd 5 jaar geleden op de voorzijde van maan gedropt. Een soortgelijk robot gaat nu naar de achterzijde.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETIs er licht aan de ‘Dark Side of the Moon’? Absoluut. Naar dát antwoord gaan de Chinezen dus niet op zoek als ze vanavond hun Chang’e 4-sonde lanceren. Als eersten willen ze kort na Nieuwjaar een robotjeep op de achterzijde van de Maan laten rijden. Een prestigeproject, of heeft de missie ook een belangrijke wetenschappelijke waarde?
Vanavond om 19.30 uur onze tijd lanceren de Chinezen met hun ‘Lange Mars-4’-draagraket vanaf de Mongoolse grens een onbemande ruimtesonde richting de Maan. Niks speciaals, zal u denken: Neil Armstrong zette daar al voet aan grond, volgende zomer zelfs al 50 jaar geleden. In die halve eeuw werd de Maan ook zowat ‘platgelopen’, of beter ‘gereden’ door de vele robotwagens die er al op verkenning gingen. Tóch gaan de Chinezen nu voor een opmerkelijke primeur. Als eersten willen ze hun maanlander met robotjeep op de achterkant van het hemellichaam neerzetten, een plek waar nog nooit eerder iemand landde.
“Dat de Chinezen op een plek zullen landen van waarop de aarde nooit is te zien, is een absolute primeur”, weet ook Koen Geukens van Volkssterrenwacht Urania. “De maan blijft immers altijd met dezelfde zijde naar ons gericht. Dat alleen al maakt Chang’e-4 een héél speciaal project.” Maar naast prestige speelt er ook een wetenschappelijk belang. “De achterzijde van de Maan wordt als de ideale locatie beschouwd om het heelal te bestuderen, zonder storende invloeden zoals radiosignalen afkomstig van de aarde”, legt de sterrenkundige uit. “De Chinezen hopen onder meer straling op te vangen van waterstofgas uit de begintijd van het heelal. Analyse van bodem en gesteente moeten voorts uitmaken of de achterzijde verschilt van de voorzijde. Waarschijnlijk kennen beide een andere voorgeschiedenis. Zo weten we al dat er aan de andere kant amper of geen donkere zeeën zijn. Alle bijkomende info leert ons ongetwijfeld meer over de voorgeschiedenis, en mogelijk ook het ontstaan van de enige natuurlijke satelliet van onze aarde.”
APChina’s eerste maanrover ‘Jade Rabbit’ in december 2013 in actie op de voorzijde van maan.
Aardappelen en bloemzaden
De robotwagen van Chang’e-4 neemt ook aardappelen en zaden van bloemen mee naar de maan. Niet om daar te planten of te zaaien, wel om te bestuderen hoe deze zich in die omgeving zullen ontkiemen. “Ook dat is een primeur. De info kan nuttig zijn om voedsel te verbouwen in het toekomstige bemande ruimtestation dat de Chinezen binnen enkele jaren rondom de maan zou willen laten cirkelen”, zegt de ruimtevaartspecialist.
Photo NewsDe Maan, zoals wij ze zien.
Wél licht aan de ‘Dark Side of the Moon’
Anders dan Pink Floyds legendarische album ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ uit 1973 doet vermoeden, is er dus wel degelijk licht aan de andere zijde. “Voor of achter, het heeft niks met licht of donker te maken. Net als aan onze kant is er een dag- en nachtcyclus van ongeveer vier weken”, legt Geukens uit. “Tijdens Nieuwe Maan, wanneer wij vanaf de aarde tegen de onverlichte helft van de maan aankijken, baadt de achterkant in het zonlicht.” Ook al gebeurt dat in het licht, landen wordt er wel relatief lastig. “De maan belemmert natuurlijk de radiocommunicatie tussen het commandocentrum en de lander. De Chinezen hebben daarom in mei communicatiesatelliet Queqiao gelanceerd. Vanop zo’n 455.000 kilometer moet die, van achter de Maan, de signalen van de maanrover en -lander naar de aarde doorsluizen. Ook dat werd nooit eerder gedaan.”
Als alles volgens plan verloopt, zal de Chang’e-4 na een vlucht van 27 dagen kort na Nieuwjaar op de zuidelijke maanpool landen. Voor wie er stiekem al op hoopte: buitenaardse wezens zullen de Chinezen ook daar níet aantreffen. Daarover brachten eerdere satellietbeelden van onder meer de Nasa al uitsluitsel.
REUTERSDe Chinezen stuurden vijf jaar gelden deze ‘Long March 3B’-sonde al naar de voorzijde van de Maan. Vrijdagavond stuurt China een opvolger naar de achterzijde.
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Nieuwe theorie over de onzichtbare 95 procent van het heelal
Nieuwe theorie over de onzichtbare 95 procent van het heelal
Het in kaart brengen van het eigenlijke karakter van ons heelal is mogelijk een stuk dichterbij gekomen door een nieuw kosmologisch model waarin donkere materie en donkere energie kunnen worden verenigd tot een enkele fenomeen. Daarover publiceert Astrofysicus Jamie Farnes van de University van Oxford en de Radboud Universiteit.
Normale materie vormt de bouwstenen van mensen, planten en het gehele zonnestelsel. Toch is dit maar 5 procent van alle materie in ons heelal. De andere 95 procent is onzichtbaar voor ons, we weten alleen van het bestaan door het effect van de zwaartekracht. Dit ontbrekende deel van het heelal bestaat uit twee fenomenen: donkere materie en donkere energie. In het belangrijkste hedendaagse kosmologische model, genaamd LambdaCDM, is het nog steeds een compleet mysterie waar deze donkere aspecten van de kosmos vandaan komen. Astrofysicus Jamie Farnes van de University van Oxford en de Radboud Universiteit stelt een nieuw model voor waarin zowel donkere materie als donkere energie tot een enkel fenomeen worden samengevoegd – een gas met een negatieve massa.
Een bijzonder en exotische vorm van materie
Negatieve massa’s zijn een bijzondere en exotische vorm van materie: ze hebben een negatieve zwaartekracht en stoten alle materie in hun omgeving af. Maar wanneer je ertegen aan zou duwen, zou de negatieve materie juist op je af snellen, in tegenstelling tot positieve massa materie. Deze voor ons vreemde eigenschappen hebben een belangrijke kosmische functie: de kosmos zou op deze manier symmetrisch zijn met zowel positieve als negatieve kwaliteiten.
Ondanks dat het dus letterlijk balans brengt in het universum, werd het bestaan van massa materie met negatieve massa eerder uitgesloten omdat de dichtheid van het materiaal zou afnemen, terwijl het universum uitdijt. Dit slaat lijnrecht tegenover waarnemingen van donkere energie, die juist laten zien dat de dichtheid constant blijft, en het uitdijen van het universum versnelt. Als oplossing voor dit probleem, gebruikt de nieuwe theorie een oude wiskundige constructie, ‘creation tensor’ genoemd. In deze constructie kunnen negatieve massa’s blijven ontstaan. En wanneer er meer en meer negatieve massa’s uitbarsten, als vreemde, microscopisch kleine popcorn, dan verdunt het negatieve massa gas niet bij het uitdijen van de kosmos. Het gas lijkt zelfs identiek op donkere energie.
Een onzichtbare halo
Een andere uitdaging in de huidige kosmologische modellen komt voort uit waarnemingen van melkwegstelsels met radiotelescopen. De meeste melkwegstelsels draaien zo snel dat ze zichzelf uit elkaar zouden moeten draaien. Hieruit is af te leiden dat iets ze bij elkaar houdt, een onzichtbare bolvormige halo van donkere materie. In dit onderzoek, simuleert Farnes voor het eerst de eigenschappen van negatieve massa in 3D. Verrassend genoeg vonden ze dat de negatieve massa’s samenklonteren in halo’s met dezelfde eigenschappen als de halo van donkere materie. Het huidige LambdaCDM model kan de eigenschappen van de donkere materie halo’s niet voorspellen, en daarmee lijkt de nieuwe theorie het enige kosmologische model dat de verdeling van donkere materie in melkwegstelsels direct kan voorspellen.
Een 3D simulatie die de vorming van een donkere materie halo uit exotische negatieve massa materie laat zien. In geel de positieve massa’s, in paars de negatieve massa’s. Credit: Jamie Farnes.
Astrofysicus en auteur Jamie Farnes van de Universiteit van Oxford en Radboud Universiteit, vertelt: ‘Eerdere pogingen om donkere energie en donkere materie te combineren, probeerden Einstein’s algemene relativiteitstheorie te veranderen. Dat bleek uitermate lastig. Deze nieuwe benadering pakt twee oude ideeën in lijn met de theorie van Einstein – negatieve massa en de vorming van materie – en brengt ze samen. De uitkomst is mooi: donkere materie en donkere energie kunnen verenigd worden tot een enkele stof, met beide effecten eenvoudig te verklaren als positieve massa materie surfend op een zee van negatieve massa.’
Betekent dit het einde voor het 'oude' model?
Kan het LambdaCDM model dan in de prullenbak? Nee, (nog) niet, zegt Farnes. ‘Er zijn nog ontzettend veel theoretische vraagstukken en computersimulaties die we met het nieuwe model moeten doorlopen. Het LambdaCDM model heeft een voorsprong van ongeveer dertig jaar en is heel succesvol in het verklaren van vele andere waarnemingen. Maar ik ben benieuwd of we met dit nieuwe model, een uitgebreidere versie van LambdaCDM, andere bewijzen voor het eigenlijke karakter van ons heelal kunnen vinden.’ Modellen van de overgebleven straling van de Big Bang en nieuwe kosmologische testen met de hoogstaande internationale radiotelescoop – bekend als Square Kilometre Array (SKA) – zullen moeten bewijzen of het symmetrische concept van negatieve massa’s nu een echt of fictief aspect van ons heelal zijn. Als ze echt bestaan, dan zou dat betekenen dat de verklaring voor 95 procent van onze kosmos vrij simpel is: we waren vergeten om een minteken toe te voegen.
Publicatie
J.S. Farnes. A unifying theory of dark energy and dark matter: Negative masses and matter creation within a modified LambdaCDM framework. Astronomy & Astrophysics. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201832898
Eén van de grootste vragen in de moderne natuurkunde opgelost? Een gewaagde nieuwe theorie over de onzichtbare 95 procent van het heelal
Eén van de grootste vragen in de moderne natuurkunde opgelost? Een gewaagde nieuwe theorie over de onzichtbare 95 procent van het heelal
Een wetenschapper van de Oxford-universiteit en Radboud Universiteit denkt één van de grootste vragen in de moderne natuurkunde te hebben opgelost.
Volgens de algemeen aanvaarde theorieën bestaat ongeveer vijf procent van het universum uit gewone materie.
De overige 95 procent zou moeten bestaan uit donkere materie en donkere energie.
Bizarre ‘donkere vloeistof’
Jamie Farnes claimt dat donkere materie en donkere energie geen afzonderlijke fenomenen zijn, maar deel uitmaken van een bizarre ‘donkere vloeistof’ met een negatieve massa.
Een negatieve massa heeft een bijzondere eigenschap: hij stoot alle materie in zijn omgeving af.
Maar wanneer je ertegenaan zou duwen, zou de negatieve materie juist op je af snellen.
De kosmos zou op deze manier symmetrisch zijn met zowel positieve als negatieve kwaliteiten.
Oplossing
Ondanks dat het letterlijk balans brengt in het universum, sloten wetenschappers het bestaan van negatieve materie eerder uit omdat ze dachten dat dit materiaal minder dicht zou worden naarmate het universum uitdijt.
Dit staat lijnrecht tegenover waarnemingen.
Als oplossing voor dit probleem gebruikt Farnes een oude wiskundige constructie, een zogeheten ‘creation tensor’, waarin negatieve massa’s kunnen blijven ontstaan.
Farnes zegt dat zijn theorie niet in strijd is met de algemene relativiteitstheorie van Einstein, maar een uitbreiding daarvan is.
Prullenbak
De nieuwe benadering pakt twee oude ideeën in lijn met de theorie van Einstein – negatieve massa en de vorming van materie – en brengt ze samen.
De uitkomst is dat donkere materie en donkere energie kunnen worden verenigd tot een enkele stof. Zie het als een positieve massa die surft op een zee van negatieve massa.
Volgens Farnes hoeft het oude model niet gelijk de prullenbak in. “Er zijn nog ontzettend veel vraagstukken die we moeten doorlopen.”
For the last few weeks, the skies have been filled with these unexplainable, boomerang shaped craft that are being seen across the country.
In the video below, MrMBB333 pieces together these different sightings and researches the possible causes or reasons for their existence. He shares his sighting and gives his best assessment of his experience.
It seems that one the days in which the skies are filled with chemtrails, these triangle shapes appear.es Geoengineering help propel these objects? Or is it a mere coincidence these occurrences are happening at the same time?
‘Oumuamua, the interstellar interloper who buzzed through the solar system before we had a chance to really get to know it, is becoming like one of those mystery guests at a party or wedding. You know the type. Everyone kind of remembers something about them but no one actually talked to them, no one is quite sure who invited them and the pictures and videos are blurred or only show them from the back. That’s ‘Oumuamua … and another group of astronomers/guests justissued a new report saying they’ve been listening to it ever since and haven’t heard a thing. Did someone offend our mysterious, possibly alien guest? Or is it really just a space rock?
“We were looking for a signal that would prove that this object incorporates some technology – that it was of artificial origin.”
Dr. Gerald Harp from the SETI Institute is the lead author of a paper – “Radio SETI observations of the interstellar object ′OUMUAMUA” published in the February edition of Acta Astronautica – which details work done by scientists using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in California to listen to ‘Oumuamua as it swung by at a distance of 170 million miles away or less than the diameter of Earth’s orbit.
“Observations were made at radio frequencies between 1 and 10 GHz using the Array’s correlator receiver with a channel bandwidth of 100 kHz. In frequency regions not corrupted by man-made interference, we find no signal flux with frequency-dependent lower limits of 0.01 Jy at 1 GHz and 0.1 Jy at 7 GHz. For a putative isotropic transmitter on the object, these limits correspond to transmitter powers of 30 mW and 300 mW, respectively.”
In astronomical terms, that’s like putting a glass up to the wall of your hotel room and listening to the guests next door. And?
“We didn’t find any such emissions, despite a quite sensitive search. While our observations don’t conclusively rule out a non-natural origin for ‘Oumuamua, they constitute important data in accessing its likely makeup.”
Despite high hopes that it might be an alien spacecraft or probe (like the Harvard scientists who still believe it was), Harp says all they heard was space crickets. Nothing. Not even the whoosh of slight acceleration that a light sail (the Harvard idea) might make as it sped up from being pushed by solar rays.
Does this mean they should pack up the Allen Telescope Array and go home?
“While no signals were found coming from ‘Oumuamua, the types of observations reported by SETI Institute scientists may have utility in constraining the nature of any interstellar objects detected in the future, or even the small, well-known objects in our own solar system.”
Of course not, say the scientists making sure they don’t jeopardize their future funding. This exercise will allow them to refine their listening when the next interstellar object flies by. In fact, those Harvard guys have identified some candidatesalready in the solar system. With this new research, they’re ready for them.
After travelling more than 1.25 billion miles in 27 months, NASA’sOSIRIS-RExprobe has finally reached its destination. On December 3, 2018, the probe reached the diamond-shaped asteroid named Bennu in NASA’s first asteroid-sampling mission. The reason for this $800 million mission is to gather samples from the asteroid and return them to Earth in the year 2023. The name OSIRIS-REx stands for “Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer”.
Asteroid in space (not Bennu)
But the probe isn’t ready to start digging for samples just yet. It is currently flying alongside the asteroid and will continue to do so for the next four weeks. The probe will fly around the 1,650-foot asteroid, even getting as close as 4.4 miles from its surface. The reason for these close flybys is to determine the asteroid’s mass and its exact shape before entering its orbit on December 31st.
Heather Enos, who is from the University of Arizona and is OSIRIS-REx Deputy Principal Investigator, told Space.com, “Manoeuvring around a small body that basically has no gravity is a very challenging endeavor.” She continued by saying, “So, we do have to get a little more information to proceed every step of the way.”
When the probe enters the asteroid’s orbit on December 31st, it will move at just 4 inches per second and get within one mile of its surface which will also set a record for the closest proximity that a spacecraft will have orbited a small body. The probe will then search around the asteroid for the best area to take samples and once an area is picked by July 2020, it will then spiral down to the surface and collect the sample. The entire process of collecting the sample won’t last much longer than about five seconds.
The probe will leave the asteroid in March 2021 and head back to Earth. Then in September 2023, the asteroid sample will land in Utah inside of a special return capsule.
Asteroid in space (not Bennu)
Once the sample is collected, researchers will then study it with high-tech equipment in order to better comprehend the early days of the solar system and the potential role that carbon-rich asteroids could have played in the evolution of life on Earth. And by studying Bennu’s trajectory through space, it could help scientists better understand the non-gravitational forces that determine their paths, therefore helping to predict asteroid-impact forecasts.
Now that our technology can keep up with our interest in Mars and we havea few rovers running around looking at stuff, we’re going to start finding weird things and mysteries. Everything’s new and exciting on another planet. We really have no idea what we might find, especially since scientists are now confident that Mars used to haveliquid waterand the potential to support life. Of course, Mars is a whole unexplored planet and we’re looking at it through a couple small camera lenses and a time-delay, so naturally everything is going to appear a bit more mysterious than it probably is. The opposite could also hold true: what we see through the Mars rovers’ eyes as just a piece of rock or mineral deposit might, in fact, be the bones of an ancientMartian dinosaur. Well, probably not, but it is true that we’re finding surprising and mysterious things on Mars already.
Last week was full of activity on Mars (relatively). Just after the Insight rover touched down on the Martian surface, NASA reported that the Curiosity rover found a mysterious, shiny object on the Martian surface. NASA nicknamed the object “Little Colonsay,” presumably because it resembles the Isle of Colonsay in Scotland. That means at NASA mission control, when they received pictures of a mysterious, unidentified object from another planet, someone said “Hey, that looks like Scotland!” See? Everyone’s a goofball.
The Little Colonsay object. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL
Little Colonsay is a small object that stands out from the rest of the Martian surface by how shiny and homogeneous it looks. It’s hard to tell exactly how large it is from the photo, taken by the small black and white camera on the Curiosity rover. It looks to be a reflective metallic material. NASA says the object might be a meteorite:
“The planning team thinks it might be a meteorite because it is so shiny. But looks can deceive, and proof will only come from the chemistry.”
So far, NASA has found six iron meteorites on the surface of Mars, and they all look similar to the Little Colonsay object, though not similar enough to immediately say that it’s an iron meteorite. There are, assuredly, a whole lot of people who would disagree with the planning team and jump to their own conclusions on what its shininess must be proof of.
Regardless, no one will know what the Little Colonsay object is until Curiosity has a chance to analyze it. NASA says a previous attempt was made to collect the object and analyze its structure, but the rover’s arm missed its target. According to NASA, the object will be analyzed soon.
Whether it’s a meteorite or something else, only time will tell.
Will the next Cold War be fought in the really cold realm of outer space? Those who think about these things for a living point to the U.S. announcement of the formation of a separate military branch known as the Space Force as an indication of the affirmative. Who will they be fighting? No less of an expert than Nick Pope, former investigator for the British Ministry of Defence (MoD), said this week he believes it was be extraterrestrials. Meanwhile, Russia unveiled its own new space weapon – a laser cannon capable of knocking planes, satellites, flying saucers and other crafts out of space. Is that weapon for us or ‘them’? And what’s China doing while everyone else is watching these two?
“There are conspiracy theories suggesting President Trump’s plans for a Space Force reflect a need to protect Earth against hostile aliens. There were similar conspiracy theories about President Reagan’s Star Wars plan. While there may not be an alien connection, President Trump surely knows all of America’s UFO secrets – some of which were released earlier this year as part of the AATIP project – and this may have contributed to his keenness to develop a military Space Force. And of course he knows that the two key battlespaces in any future conflict are going to be cyberspace and outer space, so it’s vitally important for the US to dominate those battlespaces.”
In an interview with Star Online, Pope hints that the president knows what many of the alleged unidentified objects in the sky really are and, wherever they come from, he wants to be ready in case they start firing, bombing, blasting or something worse. Pope believes President Trump would have demanded to see this information, contrary to conspiracy theorists who contend those with the information are withholding it from him.
“I do not want to reveal more details. It is not the time yet. But experts will understand that with such weaponry, Russia’s capacities for defending itself have multiplied.”
Here’s something else for the Space Force to worry about … Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this week that the Russian army has deployed the Peresvet laser cannon (paging Austin Powers) that can “zap satellites out of space.” Named after Alexander Peresvet, a 14th century Russian Orthodox Christian monk and heroic warrior. The cannon looks sufficiently scary (see the video here) but the announcement did not include a demonstration – is this merely a case of laser-rattling or has it already been used and we just don’t know about it?
If you want to throw in one more superpower, China’s National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC) denied this week that the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) will begin searching for aliens in 2019 despite Wu Xiangping, director-general of the Chinese Astronomical Society, bragging that “It will help us to search for intelligent life outside of the galaxy and explore the origins of the universe.” While NAOC wants the world to believe that FAST is looking for radio millisecond pulsars and gravitational waves, it’s no secret that China wants to be the first nation to publicly announce the discovery of alien life.
Unless it has already visited us, as a NASA scientist implied this week. Who should we believe? Who do YOU believe? Are we in trouble … or is it too late?
It’s been almost a year since the New York Timesdropped a bombshelllast December, which detailed the existence of a secretive UFO study program overseen by the Pentagon.
The news was shocking for many, as it was the first public confirmation of taxpayer-funded UFO studies undertaken by a U.S. Government agency since the conclusion of Project Bluebook, the United States Air Force study that ended in 1968 (although there are whispers of other, smaller-scale studies that may have occurred since that time).
Few details were given about the program, apart from its name–The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program–and confirmation of its existence by the likes of Luis Elizondo, the former head of the program, as well as politicians like Harry Reid who helped secure funding for it. It was also revealed that much of the funding allocated for the program–a meager $22 million, according to the NYT–was funneled to aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, who used it to outsource UFO research to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Some of the funding may have also been put toward the furtherance of scientific studies of alleged paranormal activity at a ranch southeast of Ballard, Utah, known as Skinwalker Ranch.
Plenty of questions remain about all of this, of course. Despite Elizondo’s entry into the private sector (he now works for Tom DeLonge’s To the Stars Academy, along with a number of other scientists with similar backgrounds in the unexplained), few additional details have been forthcoming about the Pentagon’s UFO interests. There were a few videos that were released, however, reportedly made with Raytheon’s Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) system; but as with most UFO videos, these leave much to the imagination, and remain far from being satisfactory “proof” capable of resting the doubts of the more skeptical among us. In other words, nothing conclusive about UFOs themselves–video or otherwise–has emerged with the knowledge of the Pentagon’s ongoing UFO studies.
Nothing akin to further evidence for their existence was even needed, of course, in order to stir the proverbial pot of public interest. A recent article at The Daily Beast, commenting on a summary of the original New York Times piece that appeared in The New Yorker, quoted the latter as saying that, “The internet went slightly more bananas than usual last weekend over The New York Times’ story implying that extraterrestrials are real and the U.S. government has been tracking them for years.” As The Daily Beast notes, “The [New York Times’s] reporting was long-awaited validation for anyone who has ever claimed a UFO sighting, or an inexplicable encounter with the beyond.
Not so fast.
Did the New York Times really imply, as TheNew Yorker suggests, “that extraterrestrials are real?” In short, the answer is no: the New York Times article never even used the term “extraterrestrial” (nor it’s acronym form, E.T.)… not even once. This was by design, of course: one of the article’s co-authors, Leslie Kean, has long championed the case for renewed interest in the UFO phenomenon by scientific and government organizations. She has also warned against conflating the terms “UFO” and “extraterrestrial,” and even addressed this specifically in the introduction of her 2010 book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record, where she noted:
It’s extremely important to establish at the very beginning that neither I nor the other writers are claiming that there are alien spacecraft in our skies, simply because we do not deny data showing a physical presence of something there. The term “UFO” has been misused and has become so much a part of popular culture that its original (and accurate) definition has been nearly completely lost. Almost everyone equates the term “UFO” with extraterrestrial spacecraft, and thus, in a perverse twist of meaning, the acronym has been transformed to mean something identified rather than something unidentified. The false but widespread assumption that a UFO is, of necessity, an alien spaceship is usually the reason the term generates such an exaggerated and confusing range of emotional responses. A recognition of the extraterrestrial hypothesis as being a valid, although unproved, possible explanation worthy of further scientific scrutiny is something entirely different from approaching the subject of UFOs as if this discovery had already been made.
I doubt that Leslie Kean would call the conflation of terms like UFO and extraterrestrial a “perverse twist of meaning” if she secretly meant “extraterrestrial spacecraft” every time she talked about UFOs. Hence, why it’s all the more important to address the problem she brings to light in the passage above.
No matter how carefully we attempt to frame discussions on the UFO subject, it is often difficult to escape the insinuation that UFOs are synonymous with extraterrestrials. In my own experience, there have been occasions where I have proposed ideas like time travel, interdimensional, or psychosocial phenomenon as alternative hypotheses to explain aspects of the UFO situation (these are speculative ideas, of course, and in my opinion, some are even less likely than the ever-popular “extraterrestrial hypothesis” or ETH. Nonetheless, I have at least been willing to entertain and write about these ideas, though never committing to them in the absence of solid evidence). In such cases, the conversations have often tended to come back around to something like, “so you’re saying that aliens are time travelers from the future?” In essence, the “extraterrestrial” stereotype prevails, even in cases where other theories are on the table.
Even when proposing alternatives like advanced “black budget” or military programs and experimental aircraft as possible sources for some UFO sightings (an idea that should seem entirely plausible, and perhaps even most likely in several cases), the stigma seems to remain. All too often, the idea that our government could have built some of these aircraft becomes attached to shadowy stories of “crash retrievals” and other similar things. In other words, we might be building them… but we couldn’t have learned to do something like that on our own: we must have stolen our ideas from the aliens!
Note the similarity here between the “back-engineered crash retrieval” theories, and the myriad ancient astronaut ideas that have emerged over the years. Whether it’s UFOs we see buzzing around in our skies today or ancient monuments that seem impossible to build even with modern engineering knowledge, the intellectual black hole that is the ET hypothesis remains ever-present.
Of course, the very fact that there are several competing “theories” about what UFOs are points to the bigger problem: that despite the popularity of the “extraterrestrial” idea, rational-minded thinkers who have looked at the subject all realize that there simply isn’t enough evidence to support this idea, or any other theory about them, for that matter. We literally do not yet have enough evidence to tip the scales in favor of any single theory about what UFOs are, despite the accumulation of anecdotal evidence suggesting that they might exist… whatever “they” might be.
The best we seem to be able to do is acknowledge that some theories appear to be more likely than others. Arguably, the ETH could be seen as being more likely than fantastic alternatives like time travel, interdimensional gateways, or notions that UFOs are “quantum-topological” points of intersection between our perceived reality and the “Matrix” exterior to the simulation in which we operate, to paraphrase something cool that David Bowie once supposedly said about a UFO he saw.
Humans like to deal in absolutes, and nobody ever said that getting to the bottom of something like UFOs would be easy. At least on the civilian level, we appear to still be in the mode of trying to determine if there actually is a phenomenon, apart from all the anecdotal data that implies it. If… and that’s a big if… there is a provable phenomenon here worthy of study (as many have argued over the decades), then perhaps some of it could be of extraterrestrial origin. It’s not impossible, but it remains unproven.
We have a ways to go before we can make any firm conclusions about what UFOs are… and that’s why making presumptions about them in the meantime becomes a real problem.
Every month it seems like some new form of ‘dark’ stuff is discovered which has the potential to rewrite huge chunks of scientific textbooks: dark matter, dark energy, evendark life. When will the darkness stop? According to some new mind-bendingresearchpublished in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, never, because 95% of the universe could be covered in a mysterious and bizarre “dark fluid.”
This new study attempts to solve one of the longstanding mysteries of astrophysics: why seemingly empty space in the cosmos seems to exert gravitational forces on objects. Theories proposing dark matter and dark energy don’t quite reconcile the gravitational effects physicists have observed in seeming empty space with the theory of general relativity, and that’s where this new theory of “dark fluid” comes in.
According to Oxford physicist Jamie Farnes, author of the theory, Einstein’s theory of relativity and the concepts of dark matter and dark energy can all work together if we combine dark energy and dark matter into a dark fluid which covers nearly everything in the universe:
Previous approaches to combining dark energy and dark matter have attempted to modify Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which has turned out to be incredibly challenging. This new approach takes two old ideas that are known to be compatible with Einstein’s theory—negative masses and matter creation—and combines them together. The outcome seems rather beautiful: dark energy and dark matter can be unified into a single substance, with both effects being simply explainable as positive mass matter surfing on a sea of negative masses.
Farnes admits that the idea of fluids with negative masses “sounds a little far fetched” but assures that “they are considerably less strange than you may immediately think.” The concepts of negative mass and negative energy can resolve many of the problems in modern physics – although we currently don’t have any way of conclusively proving they exist; their existence is merely inferred from gravitational effects seen in deep space.
While I can only begin to wrap my head around these theories, it’s pretty fascinating to think that we may only be able to perceive 5% or so of the stuff in the universe around us. Who knows what may be out there
Dark matter: The invisible material that makes up 27% of the universe
Here are the key facts...
Dark matter is a material that scientists believe makes up almost a third of the known universe.
It has never been observed by scientists because it reflects no light, making it invisible.
Astronomers only know it exists because of its effects on other objects, such as the gravitational pull of galaxies.
According to the European Space Agency: 'Shine a torch in a completely dark room, and you will see only what the torch illuminates.
'That does not mean that the room around you does not exist.
'Similarly we know dark matter exists but have never observed it directly.'
Dark matter is thought to hold galaxies together, stopping the rapidly spinning objects from being torn apart by their own gravity.
It is closely linked to dark energy, another hypothetical substance, which is thought to make up 68% of the known universe.
Together, that means 95% of the universe is made up of dark energy or dark matter – meaning all but 5% of the cosmos cannot be explained by modern physics.
For those suggesting blimp, that is a reasonable explanation, however the witness described that it was still for 20 minutes and TexasUFOs could also not find any "cached" internet results that showed that the Goodyear blimp was scheduled for Keller on November 18th.
One commenter said she saw exact the same cigar-shaped object on November 28, 2018 over Katy, Texas. At first she thought it was a weird cloud but then it started to move on and was going pretty fast.
The sighting over Keller, Texas shows much similarity with the UFO sighting over El Paso, Texas on September 5, 2018.
I have said it before and I will say it again...if you have never seen a UFO and want too...then watch seven sunsets in a row and I promise you will see something that cannot be explained away.
Here a woman in Texas was watching the sunset and was lucky enough to catch a UFO as it hovered in the background. The setting sun really lights it up like a roman candle. During sunset, UFOs become vulnerable to the angle of the sun, human witness and UFO combined. This triangle will allow the UFO to be seen for a few minutes.
Nicolas Dumont could not be more casual as we chat about alien abductions. "It's not a hallucinatory experience or a spiritual one," says the clinical psychologist. "The experience leaves physical marks behind, plus victims get extraordinary powers, like the gift of healing or clairvoyance."
Dumont's patients believe they've experienced an alien abduction, with some saying they've been taken multiple times. The claims are so convincing in their detail, says Dumont, that he's fairly certain something must have happened.
Dumont isn't the first psychologist to specialize in this. John Edward Mack, a professor at Harvard and former psychiatrist, spent part of his life studying this same phenomenon, following nearly 200 cases of people who believed they had been abducted by aliens. In 2003, he explained in an interview: "When you're talking to a psychotic who's telling you something that seems like a psychosis, you do get the feeling that it never happened. But in these cases, it's nothing like that. These people are healthy. They question themselves sometimes. But they're describing an experience that's real and intense—something being done to their bodies."
A while ago, I spoke to some of Dumont's patients about their experiences. This time, I wanted to chat to the psychologist about how he thinks he can tell whether someone has been abducted or not and why he's convinced that more medical professionals should be open to believing in the supernatural.
VICE: How many patients have you seen who think they've been abducted by aliens?
Nicolas Dumont: Firstly, it's not as if they all come in saying "I was abducted by aliens," but lots of them think that it might be what happened. In the four years I've been doing this, I've seen about 100 patients, all French, who have shown signs of an abduction. I still see five of them regularly, several years after they first came to me. One of them, Sonia, has been experiencing these kinds of abductions since she was little.
What do you do when someone shows up at your office saying they were taken?
I have a two-pronged approach. First of all, the diagnosis: I want to understand who I'm talking to. A person is, first and foremost, a very precise personality and from a very precise culture. Their cultural context and their approach to the world are fundamental to this part of my approach. Then I go into the exploration phase with the patient. The goal is to clarify what they want. Some want to understand what happened, others want to end it, and, of course, many want confirmation of the idea they were abducted. Lots of them ask me for hypnosis, but that doesn't always work.
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So what's the evidence you look for that makes you believe a patient may have been abducted?
Often these people tell me they were awoken in the middle of the night and found themselves paralyzed. They saw non-human beings around them, whether they were at home or in an external place that might have been a spaceship. Sometimes they were in both. Some hadn't experienced anything until they woke up at home thinking it was morning before realizing 48 hours had just gone by. We call that "missing time"—it's very common. The best-known case is that of Betty and Barney Hill in 1966.
From there, whatever your culture and background, the same elements are always there. Almost universally, my patients talk about the presence of a table, very specific beings and telepathic contact. Mentioning these specifics right away focuses my thinking toward whether the person has actually experienced something or not. Very often, these people claim to have new powers. Some people can float out of their bodies, while others acquire healing powers. And most have marks on them from the experience.
"There are also the little gray men who are particularly invasive and devoid of empathy. They’re the worst because their coldness is very often traumatizing."
You talk about "beings." Are there multiple races of aliens trying to contact us?
After several years of research and interviews, I'm convinced there are. It seems like there are reptile aliens who sometimes provoke terror, other times a kind of love. Then you have the blond humanoids who are very tall and paternal; patients feel good around them. There are also the little gray men, who are particularly invasive and devoid of empathy. They're the worst because their coldness is very often traumatizing. Some patients also tell me of contact with insectoid creatures, whom they perceive as superior entities—the ones in charge.
I see. And what are some of the personal traits of the patients who come to see you?
In the vast majority of cases, I'm seeing people who've experienced childhood abuse, accompanied by deep emotional deprivation. Of course, that's immediately used by skeptics who make a connection between their trauma and the experiences they claim to have had. But in reality, those two things have nothing to do with each other.
Why?
I truly believe that people who've been abused in the past have already been in contact with a certain "otherness." Their past experiences have created an ontological shock. We might compare this to going outside after having been in a dark room. When you've experienced an intrusion like having been abused as a child, I think you might, unfortunately, be more prepared than others to experience this kind of terrifying contact.
And what are they like after their experience?
What's interesting to me is the very particular link that forms between the abductee and these beings. They can feel the next abductions coming in advance. I think it's an initiation of sorts. After such an experience, you feel an overhaul of the self. Your guidance center in life isn't your specific personality any longer, but rather this mystery within you, something that's bigger than yourself. So basically, the person emerges from an individualist vision and acquires a vaster conscience. It's an awakening of the heart.
"I don’t fear for my reputation; I want to understand and help people. Other psychologists are afraid to talk about this to their colleagues. I’m not bothered by anything about it because I approach it with clinical psychology tools."
I imagine it must not be very common to specialize in all of this.
There are people who live through extraordinary things, like having out-of-body experiences. That's just how it is. Same goes for these abductees. I don't fear for my reputation; I want to understand and help people. Other psychologists are afraid to talk about this sort of stuff to their colleagues. But nothing about this bothers me because I approach it scientifically. Sure, I run into plenty of reticence—but I also meet people with open minds. I'm only ever looking to have conversations. Those who don't want to hear about it simply haven't ever seen the evidence.
How about you? Have you ever had an experience with aliens?
I saw a UFO when I was young. But I completely put the memory aside. It came back to me three years ago. Also, my siblings practiced spiritism when we were young—I'd see glasses moving on the table. It was incredible, being in contact with an invisible phenomenon.
And is that where your interest in abductions came from?
I studied psychology in college in the most classical sense. But even then, I was already curious about everything relating to extraordinary experiences. When I read the testimonies of people who’d had near-death experiences, and realized just how much those experiences had changed their lives, I asked myself, 'What’s the point of doing therapy for decades if a single experience can change everything?' And after that, I never shut the door on people's experiences. I went to the INRES (Institute for Research on Extraordinary Experiences) where I met the writer Stéphane Alix [author of "Aliens: An Investigation"]. It was thanks to him that I got so deeply into abductions. I think you have to have gone through all these steps in order to understand what people say they have experienced.
And what do you do when you are certain that a patient hasn't been abducted?
It depends on the case. If we're looking at a pathological liar, he won't allow us to dispute his version of events. I saw a patient a while back who had already managed to indoctrinate UFOlogists—he was really feeding off of that, that feeling of being special. That's typical with pathological liars. On the other hand, some do accept that it wasn't an abduction after all. But on my end, I never tell them that they weren't abducted; I never tell someone they're a liar. It's a discussion, and my job is simply to point the person in the right direction.
Do you think that alien beings come to visit us?
It's my job to calm my patient's suffering when they've been through some thing that could potentially destroy them.
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Franse psycholoog behandelt mensen die zijn ontvoerd door aliens. Na jaren van onderzoek komt hij tot deze opzienbarende conclusie
Franse psycholoog behandelt mensen die zijn ontvoerd door aliens. Na jaren van onderzoek komt hij tot deze opzienbarende conclusie
Patiënten van de Franse klinisch psycholoog Nicolas Dumont claimen dat ze zijn ontvoerd door aliens. Sommigen zijn naar eigen zeggen meerdere keren meegenomen.
De verhalen die ze vertellen zijn zo gedetailleerd dat Dumont er vrij zeker van is dat er echt iets is gebeurd.
“Het is geen illusie of een spirituele ervaring,” zei hij in gesprek met VICE France. “Slachtoffers krijgen de beschikking over buitengewone krachten. Ze kunnen opeens genezen of zijn helderziend.”
Echt en intens
Dumont is niet de eerste psycholoog die zich heeft gespecialiseerd in buitenaardse ontvoeringen.
Ook John Edward Mack, een professor van de Harvard-universiteit, bestudeerde dit fenomeen. Hij behandelde bijna 200 gevallen.
“Het gaat hier om gezonde mensen die een ervaring beschrijven die echt en intens is,” zei hij in 2003 in een interview. “Er gebeurt iets met hun lichaam.”
Dumont heeft inmiddels zo’n 100 Franse patiënten gehad die beweren dat ze zijn ontvoerd.
Telepathisch contact
Eén van zijn patiënten, Sonia, wordt al van jongs af aan meegenomen door aliens.
Vaak zeggen mensen dat ze midden in de nacht wakker worden en zich niet kunnen bewegen. Ze zien niet-menselijke wezens om zich heen, in huis of in een ruimteschip.
Sommigen beseften pas wat er was gebeurd nadat ze waren wakker geworden en dachten dat het ochtend was, om er vervolgens achter te komen dat het 48 uur later was.
Vrijwel alle patiënten hebben het over een tafel, zeer specifieke wezens en telepathisch contact, aldus Dumont.
Sporen
Vaak beschikken deze mensen ook over nieuwe krachten. Sommigen zweven uit hun lichaam, terwijl anderen kunnen genezen.
En in de meeste gevallen laten de ervaringen sporen na op het lichaam.
“Na jaren onderzoek en interviews ben ik ervan overtuigd dat meerdere buitenaardse rassen contact met ons proberen te maken,” zei de psycholoog.
“Er zijn reptielachtigen die soms angst opwekken en op andere momenten juist een gevoel van liefde,” legde hij uit.
Inwijding
“Dan heb je nog de blonde mensachtigen die heel lang en ouderlijk zijn; patiënten voelen zich op hun gemak bij hen,” zei hij.
“Er zijn ook kleine grijze mannetjes, die erg vervelend kunnen zijn en die niet empathisch zijn. Hun kilte werkt vaak traumatiserend,” klonk het.
Sommige patiënten vertelden Dumont ook over contact met insectachtigen, die ze zien als superieure entiteiten.
De psycholoog merkte op dat mensen de eerstvolgende ontvoering al van tevoren kunnen aanvoelen. Hij denkt dat het een soort inwijding is.
Ontwaking
“Na zo’n ervaring ben je getransformeerd. Het leven draait niet meer alleen om jouw persoonlijkheid, maar om iets wat groter is dan jijzelf,” zei hij.
“Zie het als een ontwaking van het hart,” vervolgde hij.
Dumont, die als kind eens een UFO heeft gezien, zegt niet te vrezen voor zijn reputatie. “Ik wil mensen begrijpen en helpen. Andere psychologen zijn bang om hierover te praten met hun collega’s.”
Bible scholars believe the legendary Ark of the Covenant may have landed in Africa after it was taken out of Israel.
The Ark is said to be a gold-covered wooden chest containing two stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments – which Moses brought down from Mount Sinai – are written.
It is also said to contain other biblical items such as Aaron’s rod, which is thought to have magical powers.
Since it vanished there have been several theories as to where the Ark is now, including Mount Nebo in Israel, southern Africa, Ethiopia, Egypt and even several locations in Europe.
Christian monks in the African country have long claimed the Ark is being kept under guard at the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum.
In a blog post on the organization’s website it said: "As unusual as this may sound, the BASE team has uncovered compelling evidence that the Ark may well have been spirited up the Nile River to an eventual resting place in the remote highlands of ancient Kush — modern-day Ethiopia.”
According to their research, the Ark was taken out of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during the reign of Manasseh, where it was first taken to a Jewish colony on Elephantine Island in Egypt.
After that, it is thought it was taken down the Nile to Lake Tana in Ethiopia and in particular Tana Kirkos Island, which is considered to be a holy island only populated by Christian monks.
From there the Ark was moved to Axum, or Aksum, a city in the north of the country.
The BASE Institute claims to have spoken to a man at the church who was “The Guardian of the Ark of the Covenant” and who spent his life inside a fenced-off area surrounding the church and claimed he would not leave the compound until he died and a new guardian took over the role.
The man claimed he was the only person who could look on the Ark because it was a holy object and he and the villagers would protect it with their lives, if necessary.
When an investigator from the Smithsonian approached the guardian in 2007, he was told: "I'm the guardian of the Ark, I have no other name."
While the BASE Institute did not claim the Ark had been found, it did say: “At this juncture, we cannot say with certainty that it is, but neither can we say for certain that it isn’t. What we have concluded is that St. Mary’s of Zion church in Axum, Ethiopia, is the resting place either of an incredible replica of the biblical Ark of the Covenant, or of the actual Ark of the Covenant itself.”
Bijbelonderzoekers ervan overtuigd dat legendarische ark van het verbond verborgen ligt in Afrika. Is dit de plek?
Bijbelonderzoekers ervan overtuigd dat legendarische ark van het verbond verborgen ligt in Afrika. Is dit de plek?
Bijbelonderzoekers denken dat de legendarische ark van het verbond zich in Afrika bevindt. De ark is een draagbare kist, met daarin twee stenen platen die de tien geboden bevatten.
In de ark zou verder de staf van Aäron liggen. Aan deze staf worden magische krachten toegeschreven.
Sinds de verdwijning van de ark circuleren er verschillende theorieën over de plek waar het voorwerp nu verborgen zou liggen.
Overtuigend bewijs
Christelijke monniken uit Ethiopië claimen al lange tijd dat de ark wordt bewaard in de kathedraal van onze heilige Maria van Zion in de Ethiopische stad Aksum.
Het Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration Institute (BASE) besloot op onderzoek uit te gaan.
“Hoe vreemd dit ook mag klinken, het team van BASE heeft overtuigend bewijs gevonden dat het goed mogelijk is dat de ark in het afgelegen hoogland van Ethiopië ligt,” schreef de organisatie in een blogbericht.
Beschermer
Uit onderzoek blijkt dat de ark van de Tempelberg in Jeruzalem is overgebracht naar het eiland Elephantine in Egypte en vervolgens via de Nijl naar het Tanameer in Ethiopië is vervoerd.
Daarna is de ark naar Aksum gebracht, een stad in het noorden van het land, aldus BASE.
Het instituut claimt te hebben gesproken met een man die zich voordeed als de beschermer van de ark van het verbond.
Heilig voorwerp
Hij beweerde dat hij de enige persoon was die de ark mocht aanschouwen omdat het een heilig voorwerp was.
Toen een onderzoeker van het Smithsonian hem in 2007 benaderde, zei hij: “Ik ben de beschermer van de ark, ik heb geen andere naam.”
De overheid bedreigde me en houdt me in de gaten. Man die Area 51 ontmaskerde en aan buitenaardse schepen sleutelde doet verhaal
De overheid bedreigde me en houdt me in de gaten. Man die Area 51 ontmaskerde en aan buitenaardse schepen sleutelde doet verhaal
De man die Area 51 ontmaskerde wordt nog altijd in de gaten gehouden door de Amerikaanse overheid, zo claimt hij zelf.
Bob Lazar beweerde in een tv-interview in 1989 negen geborgen UFO’s te hebben gezien op de geheimzinnige basis en te hebben gewerkt aan een aantal van deze buitenaardse ruimteschepen.
In een nieuwe documentaire wordt dieper ingegaan op het leven en de theorieën van Lazar.
Element 115
Dertig jaar geleden claimde hij dat hij in hangar S-4 bij Area 51 had gewerkt, waar hij UFO’s zag die waren gemaakt van element 115.
“Het aandrijfsysteem is gebaseerd op zwaartekracht. De energiebron is een antimateriereactor. Deze technologie bestaat helemaal niet,” zei Lazar, die indertijd een schuilnaam gebruikte.
Tot enkele jaren geleden heeft de Amerikaanse overheid het bestaan van Area 51 altijd ontkend. Vijf jaar geleden bleek uit vrijgegeven CIA-documenten dat de basis wel degelijk bestaat.
Lazar omschreef deze cover-up als ‘een misdaad tegen de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap’.
Mond te snoeren
Hij zei later dat zijn vrouw, zijn familie en hijzelf werden bedreigd door de overheid in een poging hem de mond te snoeren.
In de documentaire zegt Lazar, die nu met zijn vrouw Joy in Michigan woont, spijt te hebben dat hij zijn mond heeft opengedaan over Area 51.
Hij liet weten dat de FBI ooit een inval heeft gedaan in zijn laboratorium. “Ik heb altijd het gevoel dat ik in de gaten wordt gehouden,” zei hij.
De klokkenluider zegt zich vandaag de dag niet meer bezig te houden met verhalen over aliens en ruimteschepen.
Psychologische spelletjes
“Ik ben niet geïnteresseerd in onderzoek naar leven buiten de aarde,” zei hij. “Ik ben vooral geïnteresseerd in de ongelooflijk geavanceerde technologie. Ik weet dat we deze technologie, die de wereld kan veranderen, zelf ook kunnen ontwikkelen.”
De journalist die hem in 1989 interviewde, George Knapp, zei dat er geregeld is ingebroken in Lazars auto, dat er psychologische spelletjes met hem werden gespeeld en dat hij werd bedreigd.
“Lazar en anderen werden gevolgd en het lijkt er sterk op dat iemand hem bang wilde maken zodat hij zijn mond zou houden, of misschien probeerden ze hem gek te maken,” zei Knapp.
“Ik was er vaak bij en heb hen met mijn eigen ogen gezien,” klonk het.
As a follow-on to my previous article, “Bob Lazar, Area 51, UFOs and Russians,” I thought I would expand on why it would be so important for U.S. authorities to keep a careful watch on any potential Russian penetrations of Area 51 in the 1970s and 1980s. And also to mislead the Russians as to what was going on at the legendary base. When it comes to the matter of Area 51 and the 1970s, there is one important issue that cannot be ignored. And it should not be ignored. It was the early development of what has become known as “Stealth” technology for aircraft. It was in 1988 that both the LockheedF-117 Nighthawkstealth fighter and the Northrop GrummanB-2Spiritwere unveiled for one and all to see. The completely black, triangular-shaped aircraft caught the world’s attention, primarily because of their strange, angular shapes. It’s intriguing to note that in 1982 a wave of encounters with what became known as “Flying Triangles” began over portions of New York State, specifically in Hudson Valley.
In their 1988 book, Night Siege, authors Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno and Bob Pratt wrote: “Can 7,000 eyewitnesses be wrong? They were there to witness the huge, hovering object in the sky, the flashing lights, the eerie silence. They are ordinary people from all walks of life: stay-at-home moms, kids, business people, engineers. They tell their stories here, and they all agree on one thing: they saw the same massive object cruising over their backyards. And it was like nothing they had seen before…”
At the time when the Hudson Valley encounters were at their peak, it was reasonably assumed by UFO researchers just about here, there and everywhere that aliens had arrived and were scoping out the area to a massive degree. When, however, the Stealth planes were unleashed in 1988 – planes that looked eerily like the Hudson Valley “UFOs,” more than a few of those same ufologists came to wonder if what was seen over Hudson Valley was actually a top secret variation on the Stealth Fighter and the Stealth Bomber. Regardless of whether or not the Hudson Valley UFOs originated in the United States, or on a world far, far away, one of the most intriguing revelations that surfaced when the Stealth planes were revealed was the startling fact that they had been secretly flying not just for a few years, but since the 1970s – at Area 51. And, the secret (the top secret) had been skillfully contained for more than a decade.
If there is one thing that just about any and all military agencies want, it’s for their aircraft to be completely invulnerable. Well, while that’s a tall order, steps were taken in the early 1970s to create an aircraft that could not be detected on radar. It would, then, be the ultimate predator: quietly and carefully approaching its completely oblivious target. That is, until it was all too late. Lockheed Martin, the company which was secretly contracted to come up with a stealth-driven fighter, state that a pair of engineers, Dick Sherrer and Denys Overholser, “developed a computer program based on obscure German and Russian theories, which postulated that radar beams could be reflected by a series of carefully angled triangular panels,” which is precisely why both the B-2 and the F-117 look so odd. But, cool, too.
The most important development came in 1976. That was the year in which a program designated “Have Blue” was established as, to quote Lockheed Martin, “the stealth demonstrator that would lead to the F-117A Nighthawk.” Built out of aluminum and not much else, the aircraft was typified by the angular shape and futuristic-look. Although the Nighthawkremained unknown to virtually everyone until 1988, it was first test-flown on June 8, 1981, just one year before the Hudson Valley “UFOs” were first seen. Notably, the Nighthawk – while in test stage – was flown exclusively at night. And, while it seems unlikely that the F-117A was the culprit at Hudson Valley, perhaps a far more advanced stealth plane was.
One of the most notable of all the missions that the Nighthawkstook part in revolved around the invasion of Iraq in January of 1991. The radar-systems of the Iraqi military were woefully inadequate and, as a consequence, they flattened close to forty targets in no time at all; something which helped to bring the conflict to a close in a little more than forty days. Today, the Nighthawk is no more. It has been mothballed. But, how many other stealth aircraft – of highly advanced forms and technologies – remain hidden from prying eyes is anyone’s guess. Now, let’s take a look at the Stealth Bomber: the Spirit.
The brainchild of Northrop Grumman, the B-2 stealth bomber is, to quote the team that brought it to fruition, “a key component of the nation’s long range strike arsenal, and one of the most survivable aircraft in the world. Its unique capabilities, including its stealth characteristics, allow it to penetrate the most sophisticated enemy defenses and hold at risk high value, heavily defended targets.” It has played major roles in numerous conflicts, including Operation Iraqi Freedom in Afghanistan, in Kosovo, and in Libya. Not only that, the Spirit is capable of flying for 6,000 miles without refueling and can soar through the skies for 10,000 miles when refueled just once. And, it is armed with nuclear weapons. The B-2, then, is a decidedly formidable craft. Twenty-one such aircraft were built and deployed, of which only one came to grief, while taking to the skies from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam in February 2008. Just like the Stealth Fighter, early versions and incarnations of the Spirit were secretly flow from Area 51.
It goes without saying that hiding (from the Russians) the existence of early Stealth planes out at Area 51 would have been paramount to those working on the highly-classified projects. And, to the extent that they may even have used tales of UFOs to act as convenient covers for what was really afoot – all of which could have led to additional operations, such as the one involving Bob Lazar in the late eighties.
Duke Universityin North Carolina is known for its excellent academic programs, high number of Rhodes Scholar graduates and outstanding basketball teams. All of that pales in comparison to the recent announcement that Duke will now offer a course in UFOs taught by a religious studies professor who is also a well-known UFO researcher. Is that enough to convince your parents not to cut off your tuition money when they find out you’ve changed majors to UFOlogy?
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“It’s not the first time I’ve taught a course on UFOs. In the spring semester of 1996, when I was a professor in UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Religious Studies, I gave a seminar called “Special Topics in Mysticism: Heavenly Ascensions and UFO Abductions.” One of my colleagues indulgently labeled it “a funny course.” He didn’t understand. Whatever UFOs are, they aren’t funny.”
David J. Halperin, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, offers this bit of his own history on his website as an introduction and an aid for students wondering of a course entitled “UFOs – Encounter, Mystery, Myth” is a good elective. Professor Halperin is no slouch in either of his fields. After receiving his Ph.D. from Berkeley he taught Judaic studies in UNC’s Department of Religious Studies and had a special interest in religious traditions of heavenly ascensions and otherworldly journeys, resulting in five books on Jewish mysticism and messianism. He’s also the author of a novel, “Journal of a UFO Investigator,” and has a non-fiction book, “Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO,” coming out in 2020.
Halperin’s 1996 course covered the abduction story of Barney and Betty Hill, a class assignment to read and discuss Whitley Strieber’s Communion, and student research and presentations on, among other topics, the “X-Files” TV series, alien contact and different aspects of the UFOs’ impact on African-American culture. Halperin retired in 2000 and never taught the UFO course again … until now. Why resurrect it?
“UFOs are still with us, however, enjoying a surprising new respectability in the world that’s emerged from the 2016 Presidential election.”
He’s referring to when candidate Hillary Clinton said she would reopen the real X-files if she were elected president. Halperin’s new course will update his old one, then cover the alleged 1966 UFO landing at Westall High School in Melbourne, Australia; the “Men in Black”; the experience of alien abduction’ and a look at what happened in 1947 near Roswell, New Mexico. He’ll finish with more on what has happened since the 2016 election and conclude by discussing the same question about UFOs he attempted to answer in 1996: “What do they mean?”
What DOES it mean? It means one of the top universities in the country is offering a course in UFO studies, thus providing a little more legitimacy to a subject begging for it. “UFOs – Encounter, Mystery, Myth” will be offered through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Duke from January 7 to March 25, 2019. You can learn more and sign up here.
Geoscientists exploring the remote Canadian wilderness have discovered a massive cave in British Columbia’s Wells Gray Provincial Park which may have never been explored by humans. In a nod to The Return of the Jedi, the cave has been nicknamed the “Sarlacc Pit” due to its gaping hole-like appearance – although us real fans know that the actual name was the “Pit of Carkoon” and that the Sarlacc was the ancient carnivorous beast inside the pit, not the name of the pit itself. Filthy casuals.
Kinda like calling this guy “Frankenstein.”
The cave in British Columbia was spotted by helicopter crews conducting a caribou count. It’s believed that the entrance has been covered in snow up until the last few decades, hence why it hasn’t yet been documented by either indigenous First Nations peoples or the Canadian Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. While we’d all like it to be named after the Sarlacc, consultations are underway with First Nations representatives to determine if they would like to name it.
The cave has not yet been given an official name or explored, and researchers aren’t exactly sure how it avoided detection for all of these years. “My immediate reaction was that there can’t be a cave there, it’s impossible,” said scientist Catherine Hickson. “It is huge. It is enormous. When you first see it, you just gasp because it’s just this huge hole in the ground.” The entrance measures 100 meters by 60 meters – the same size as a football field – and opens onto a shaft extending 100 meters underground. Check out Canadian Geographic‘s coverage for some breathtaking photos of the massive, unexplored cave.
Just what exactly may lie at the bottom of this cave remains unknown, as are its exact dimensions; once the cave is explored, it very well could become Canada’s largest cave. For now, scientists are keeping the location of the cave a secret until more research can be done and in order to protect it from intrepid spelunkers seeking to find a new definition of pain and suffering as they are slowly digested over a thousand years.
Scientists from the LIGO and Virgo scientific collaborations have released data regarding a black hole collision detected further than five billion light years from Earth, which resulted in both a larger black hole and ripples through space-time. Laser detectors in the United States and Italy detected the collision on July 29, 2017, but data has finally been checked and confirmed by the various institutions involved since that initial collection through a recent re-analysis of all the collected data by LIGO and Virgo from 2015, 2016 and 2017.
The collision took place between a black hole more than 50 times the mhttps://cdn.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/tumblr_inline_o2fi9hdAQ21srob4n_500.gifass of the Earth’s sun and another at least 34 times the mass of the sun. This collision created a new black hole more than 80 times the mass of the sun. After that reanalysis, this event is now the 11th event recorded resulting in the release of gravitational waves. Most of the other 10 were also collisions between black holes, but one was a collision of neutron stars.
But what are gravitational waves? They were predicted by Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, but instrumentation available to properly measure them was decades away from construction when he first considered them. They are best described as ripples or waves in the very fabric of space-time created by massive astronomical chaos events – such as black holes colliding.
They are measured due to the fact the waves move at the speed of light due to accelerating masses. The LIGO and Virgo sites fire lasers into long tunnels shaped like the letter L. These waves traveling through space-time reach the lasers and disrupt the light. Such measurements can help scientists better understand the dramatic nature of neutron stars, which release strange radiation when they are destroyed. Some of that radiation produces rare elements like gold.
When the laser labs in the United States began their research in September 2015, they almost instantly discovered a black hole merger on September 14 of that same year. That discovery earned the team a Nobel Prize. Before the celebration of that initial discovery could be had, however, the team became bombarded with similar signals alerting them to more collisions and more gravitational waves through space-time.
As of this moment, though, the labs are not detecting anything. During data reanalysis, the labs are undergoing upgrades. They should be back running by spring of 2019. According to a report by the BBC, the labs will be able to see twice the distance, which could result in as much as eight times the rate of previous detection – meaning gravitational wave detection could become a daily occurrence.
Green Triangle UFO Seen Taking Off From Back Yard During Lightning Storm In Australia, Dec 2018, 2 Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Green Triangle UFO Seen Taking Off From Back Yard During Lightning Storm In Australia,Dec 2018, 2 Videos, UFO Sighting News.
The above UFO was seen just seconds after it rose up from the ground at 3:03 into the longer video. Must put into slow motion or you will miss it.
Date of sighting: December 2018 Location of sighting: Kalgoorlie, Australia At 3.03 into the 5 minute video if you put it into slow motion .25 in settings, you will notice the UFO rise up from the ground. It had landed in someones yard and was causing the lightning storm as UFOs often do. However the lightning strike unexpectedly hit near the UFO causing a static charge around it for a few minutes. The UFO rising can only be seen in slow motion, I almost didn't catch it in normal speed, but was lucky to see it. I made a gif, which is a moving image below for you to better see it rise from the ground. Clearly the UFOs technology was causing the storm by accident or causing it on purpose to make people go into their home so they will not see the UFO land or taking off. Did you notice the four landing legs were down? Still visible in most screenshots of the event. Now either it was taking off from the ground, or...it was shooting though a temporary tunnel in the ground that came from an underground alien base 4-6km below the surface. The way this UFO shot up and stopped suddenly...makes me think it was traveling fast through an opening and in a hurry, because would you want to get caught that deep below the ground when the tunnel closes up again? Yeah...me neither, so hauling butt thought just makes sense. Scientists have no name for any natural event that causes such a phenomenon to happen. What we are seeing is a triangle UFO rising up from the ground with a static charge around it due to the lightning strikes. Notice its incredible speed when rising...its enough to fool a person into thinking it came down from the sky, when it really rose up from the ground leaving. They are not gods, they are not angels or demons, they are just flesh and blood intelligent creatures that make mistakes and get seen a lot more than most people would think. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
This event took place on December 3, 2018 and was filmed by an Australian resident Leigh Stevens. The footage has left many people wondering what this could be with many speculations ranging from project blue beam, a mothership materialising, a portal opening and St. Elmo's Fire but there is one thing we can all agree on is that this footage is damn impressive. Many thanks to Leigh Stevens for allowing me the use of his footage and to view the full & unedited.
NASA Foto Toont het wrak van een 'vliegende schotel', maar het echte verhaal is nog verbazingwekkender
NASA Foto Toont het wrak van een 'vliegende schotel', maar het echte verhaal is nog verbazingwekkender
Elke specimen, datde sterren wilt bereiken, heeft zeker zijn vingertoppen al geschroeid. Waarschijnlijk meer dan eens.
Een van de laatste berichten van NASA op de Astronomy Picture of the website Day is een iconische herinnering van de ongelukken in onze spacefaring geschiedenis.
“Een vliegende schotel maakte vanuit de ruimte een noodlanding in de woestijn van Utah na met radar gevolgd te zijn en achtervolgd door helikopters,” zegt de foto beschrijving, hoewel NASA niet zinspeelde op een buitenaards bezoek hier.
De sloeg-up gerecht, half begraven in de woestijn zand, was eigenlijk de terugkeer van de capsule van het Genesis ruimtevaartuig. En het was niet de bedoeling om naar beneden tekomen in zo'n brutale manier.
Gelanceerd op 8 augustus 2001 was de Genesis missie vol ambitieuze inspanningen van het ruimte agentschap om een ruimtevaartuig te sturen in zonnewindnaar een ster, het verzamelen van monsters daar en het terugbrengen ervan naar de aarde.
Door het verzamelen van gegevens over de samenstelling van de geladen deeltjes streamen vanaf corona van de zon, hoopten de onderzoekers om de samenstelling van de ster precies te bepalen, en meer informatie over de elementen die in de buurt waren toen de planeten van het Zonnestelsel werden gevormd.
Om ons de zonnewind monsters terug te brengen, werd het Genesis vaartuig uitgerust met een sample return capsule met een bus van zonnewind materialen. Deze monster waren verzameld toen het vaartuig twee jaarlang in een baan om Lagrange punt 1 - een van de plekken in de ruimte waar de zwaartekracht van de aarde en de zon zijn precies in evenwicht - reisde.
Het vaartuig gevangen zonnewind door vouwen uit een reeks collector arrays, elk beladen met een hoge zuiverheidsgraad materialen als aluminium, saffier, silicium en zelfs goud.
“De materialen die we hebben gebruikt in de Genesis collectorvelden waren fysiek sterk genoeg om gelanceerd te worden zonder te breken te zijn; behouden terwijl het monster tijdens het verzamelen door de zon verwarmd; en zuiver genoeg dat we de zonnewind elementen na de Aarde-return kon analyseren,” verklaarde project wetenschapper Amy Jurewicz op 3 september 2004.
Vijf dagen later stortte de monster capsule en zijn kostbare stalen neer in de grond in Utah, met een geschatte snelheid van 310 km / h (193 mph).
Wat moest gebeuren was nogal anders - 127 seconden na het opnieuw binnenkomen van de aardse atmosfeer, zou een mortier aan boord van de capsule ontploffen en zo een voorlopige parachute voor het vertragen en het stabiliseren van de afdaling vrijgeven.
Dan, een van de belangrijkste parachute op te blazen en zo een zachte afdaling in de Utah Test en Training Range van de capsule optimaliseren .
In de crash foto kan u helicopters zien - ze zweven in de buurt, klaar om de capsule te onderscheppen en rechtstreeks naar een cleanroom te brengen om verontreiniging van de monsters te voorkomen.
Geen van deze parachutes is ingezet geraakt
Na een grondig onderzoek, werd de fout teruggevoerd naar een set sensoren, nauwelijks de grootte van de metallische uiteinde van een potlood. Ze waren naar achteren geplaatst.
Deze kleine apparaten moesten de toenemende G-krachten op sporen als de capsule naar de grond daalde, en leiden tot het openen van de parachutes.
Zoals u zich kunt voorstellen, de crash leidde tot ernstige schade, het breken van een aantal van de arrays en besmetting van de kostbare lading binnenin.
Zodra de capsule met de monsters werd opgehaald van de plaats waar ze crashte, werd het projectteam ingesteld op het punt om te controleren of er nog iets kon terug gevonden worden, dat nog bestudeerd kan worden.
Gelukkig werd de Genesis missie niet volledig geruïneerd, zelfs na zo'n dramatische aankomst van de monster-capsule. Een deel van de robuuste materialen van de collector overleefde de crash, en de onderzoekers zijn erin geslaagd om de oppervlakken schoon te maken zonder het zonne-materiaal dat is ingebed te verontreinigen...
Na drie jaar werden een reeks documenten gepubliceerd om de Genesis bevindingen te openbaren. Dankzij deze gewaagde missie, hebben we ongekende details over de samenstelling van de Zon en de elementaire verschillen tussen onze ster en de binnenste planeten van het zonnestelsel geleerd.
“The Sun herbergt meer dan 99 procent van het materiaal dat op dit moment in ons zonnestelsel aanwezig is, dus was heteen goed idee om deze missie te doen en de samenstelling beter te leren kennen,” verklaarde Genesis hoofdonderzoeker Don Burnett van California Institute of Technology zei in 2011.
“Hoewel het een grotere uitdaging was dan verwacht, hebben we een aantal belangrijke vragen beantwoord, en net als alle succesvolle missies,nog veel meergegenereerd”
NASA Shows The Wreck of a ‘Flying Saucer’, But The Real Story Is Even More Amazing
NASA Shows The Wreck of a ‘Flying Saucer’, But The Real Story Is Even More Amazing
Any species reaching for the stars is bound to have its fingertips singed. Probably more than once.
One of NASA’s latest posts on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website is an iconic reminder of the mishaps in our spacefaring history.
“A flying saucer from outer space crash-landed in the Utah desert after being tracked by radar and chased by helicopters,” states the photo description, although NASA is not hinting at an alien visit here.
The banged-up dish, half-buried in the desert sand, was actually the return capsule of the Genesis spacecraft. And it wasn’t supposed to touch down in such a brutal way.
Launched on 8 August 2001, the Genesis mission was the space agency’s ambitious effort to send a spacecraft into our home star’s solar wind, gather samples, and return them to Earth.
By gathering data on the composition of the charged particles streaming from the Sun’s corona, researchers hoped to precisely determine the composition of the star, and learn more about the elements that were around when the Solar System’s planets were formed.
To bring us solar wind samples, the Genesis craft was equipped with a sample return capsule holding a canister of solar wind materials, gathered when the craft spent two years orbiting Lagrange point 1 – one of the spots in space where the gravity from Earth and Sun are precisely balanced.
The craft captured the solar wind by folding out a series of collector arrays, each loaded with high-purity materials such as aluminium, sapphire, silicon, and even gold.
“The materials we used in the Genesis collector arrays had to be physically strong enough to be launched without breaking; retain the sample while being heated by the Sun during collection; and be pure enough that we could analyse the solar wind elements after Earth-return,” project scientist Amy Jurewicz explained on 3 September 2004.
Five days later, that sample capsule and its precious arrays smashed into the ground in Utah, at an estimated speed of 310 km/h (193 mph).
What was supposed to happen was rather different – 127 seconds after re-entering the atmosphere, a mortar aboard the capsule would blow, releasing a preliminary parachute for slowing and stabilising the descent.
Then, a main parachute was to inflate, providing the capsule with a gentle descent into the Utah Test and Training Range.
In the crash photo, you can see helicopters – they were hovering nearby, ready to snag the capsule mid-air and ferry it directly to a cleanroom to avoid contamination of the samples.
Neither of those parachutes deployed.
After a thorough investigation, the error was traced back to a set of sensors, barely the size of the metallic end of a pencil. They had been installed backwards.
These tiny devices were supposed to detect the increasing g-forces as the capsule plummeted towards the ground, and trigger the deployment of the parachutes.
As you can imagine, the crash led to severe damage, breaking several of the arrays and contaminating the precious cargo within.
Once the sample capsule was retrieved from the heart-sinking site of its demise, the project team set about to retrieve anything that could still be recovered and studied.
Thankfully, the Genesis mission wasn’t completely ruined, even after such a dramatic arrival of the sample capsule. Some of the sturdy collector materials survived, and researchers managed to clean the surfaces without disturbing the solar material embedded within.
Within three years, a series of papers were published on the Genesis findings. Thanks to the daring mission, we learned unprecedented details about the composition of the Sun and the elemental differences between our star and the inner planets of the Solar System.
“The Sun houses more than 99 percent of the material currently in our Solar System, so it’s a good idea to get to know it better,” Genesis principal investigator Don Burnett from California Institute of Technology said in 2011.
“While it was more challenging than expected, we have answered some important questions, and like all successful missions, generated plenty more.”
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Oumuamua Is Not Alone: Four More Interstellar Visitors Spotted In Our Solar System
Oumuamua Is Not Alone: Four More Interstellar Visitors Spotted In Our Solar System
Researchers Discover More Celestial Visitors to Our Solar System.
Astronomers from Harvard have determined that several celestial objects they have been tracking could have possibly come from beyond this solar system. The four asteroid-like masses are located between Jupiter, and the Sun, which the astronomers have determined is a section of the solar system that potentially catches and traps objects due to its gravitational pull.
Harvard Professor Abraham Loeb and his student Amir Siraj, wrote a paper together detailing this theory and speculating that there could be dozens or hundreds of space objects from outside this system trapped in this section. The paper points to four, in particular, named 2011 SP25, 2017 RR2, 2017 SV13, and 2018 TL6. These objects do come within a noteworthy distance of Earth and have been put forth as candidates for future NASA missions, without which it will be at least 20 years before one of them comes close enough to Earth. The four objects are not as yet classified as asteroids or comet, another detail a mission would solve.
This discovery comes in the wake of the first known interstellar traveler spotted last year spinning through our solar system. Oumuamua has been classified as an asteroid but it's confusing characteristics, some being more in line with a comet, mean that the jury is still out on this. Oumuamua, which is Hawaiian for “scout”, was detected by the University of Hawaii in October 2017 and its odd properties including the reddish color, ultra reflectiveness, and cigar-shape have led some to speculate that it may be artificial. The idea that the four interstellar visitors in Siraj and Loeb’s paper could also be artificial was addressed by Siraj who claimed that there is no current evidence to back this. Referring to Oumuamua, Professor Loeb states that some of the data collected so far on the object could lend support to the idea that it may have been deliberately formed.
Why Harvard Scientists Think This Object Is An Alien Spacecraft
While a picture painted on the wall of a cave appears to show a hunter collapsing in front of a disemboweled beast over 15,000 years ago, it may also indicate a more astronomical meaning. The ancient cave art, which was found at Lascaux (near Montignac) in France, were positioned in such a way that they may have been signs of the zodiac and was telling the story of a cataclysmic event.
A group of teenagers discovered the cave paintings in the 1940s and experts have been trying to understand the meaning of the art ever since. While it’s unclear exactly when the 600 images were created, it is believed that they are up to 17,000 years old.
Cave art found at Lascaux
The paintings found at Lascaux were being compared to zoomorphic artworks that were discovered at Neolithic sites from Göbekli Tepe and Çatalhöyük in Turkey. The research was conducted by experts from the Universities of Edinburgh and Kent. They indicated that instead of lions, bulls, and scorpions portraying animals that are seen on Earth, they could have been drawn to represent constellations in the sky.
Chemical engineer Martin Sweatman, who was one of the study’s authors, claimed “Early cave art shows that people had advanced knowledge of the night sky within the last Ice Age.” If this is indeed factual, that would mean that the cave art found at Lascaux was created to record a significant event that occurred during the annual Taurid meteor shower approximately 17,000 years ago.
At first glance, it looks as though the painting was of a man collapsing in front of a disemboweled animal while a bird watches and a rhinoceros looking away. There was also a horse head that was drawn on another part of the wall. And there were geometric shapes, odd lines, and dots drawn throughout the pictures. But after further analysis, they could very well have indicated constellations in the sky.
The disemboweled bison-like animal, called an auroch, could represent the Capricorn constellation during the summer equinox, while the bird could indicate Libra during the spring equinox. While it’s unclear what the other animals are symbolizing, they could be representing Leo and Taurus during other equinoxes. These paintings could indicate that around 15,150 BCE, a cataclysmic event could have affected humans. In fact, the climate started to shift at around 15,300 BCE according to records that were taken from Greenland’s ice cores.
Last year, the stone carvings that were discovered at Göbekli Tepe were examined and it is believed that they were indicating a comet that struck Earth that was more than likely responsible for a brief return to the Ice Age climate approximately 13,000 years ago.
Another example of potential art work hinting at an astronomical event is a 40,000-year-old carving of an upright lion that was discovered in the Hohlenstein cave located in Germany. Sweatman explained, “These findings support a theory of multiple comet impacts over the course of human development, and will probably revolutionize how prehistoric populations are seen.”
Russia UFO Encounters That The West Would Rather You Didn’t Know About
Russia UFO Encounters That The West Would Rather You Didn’t Know About
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.
Grey Aliens Show UFO Abductee Sherry Wilde the Future of Planet Earth
Grey Aliens Show UFO Abductee Sherry Wilde the Future of Planet Earth
Sherry Wilde tell some of her fascinating story remembering her encounters with extraterrestrial beings from another race and world. In this lecture she shares highlights and intimate details of that journey and talks about the differences between being an abductee and a volunteer.
When Sherry was 17 years old, she had an incident of missing time. She always wondered what had happened, but put it in the back of her mind for many years. She finally had a hypnotic regression, where Sherry realized that she had been taken aboard spacecraft many times from a young age. Through her regressions, Sherry came to understanding that she came to Earth at this time be a volunteer, to be of assistance, and to transmute negative energy.
The case of mysterious lights in the sky above Kelowna has been solved.
Carol McGowan, Kelowna Golf and Country Club Food and Beverage Manager called Castanet this morning after they saw our story.
"There was a Coldwell Banker Christmas party at Kelowna Golf and Country club Friday night with a "Great Gatsby" theme and we had the lights going all night," says McGowan.
Nico Boesten, the manager with New Horizon Productions in Kelowna was responsible for setting up the lights. "We call them the Batman or Hollywood lights. We just got them and we've been using them a lot at different galas and rock concerts and the like."
Boesten tells Castanet, "I love that somebody called in, this is crazy!"
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A faithful Castanet reader has sent us a video of what he describes as strange lights in the sky above Kelowna.
Brett Wade says he saw the lights on Friday night when he stepped outside while at work.
"First of all, I'm not really one of those UFO guys, I don't wear aluminum hats or anything," Wade says.
Wade says he walked out of work and looked up to see what he describes a formation of two lights spiraling around each other in a consistent pattern. "I thought at first it must be spotlights because I've seen that before but I couldn't see a lights source below so I ruled that out."
The first thing he did after recording the strange sight was to check Castanet to see if there were any other reports of the strange phenomenon. "I didn't see anything, the next day still nothing, so I thought I'd send this video to you guys to see if there is an explanation."
Wade says he and his co-worker watched the lights for a total of ten minutes before moving on and that the lights seemed to be drifting in a northwest direction.
"We were both wanting to write this off as nothing," Wade says and at this point, it remains an Okanagan mystery.
A planetary alignment this week will see seismic unrest around the globe and potentially exacerbating an extremely powerful earthquake. The Earth, moon, Venus and Uranus will align in pour solar system in the coming days which could cause worldwide destruction. The gravitational pull of the celestial bodies either side of our planet could pull on Earth’s tectonic plates, according to the prediction.
As the plates are tugged apart, they could cause earthquakes around the globe.
This is according to ‘New-age earthquake forecasting’ website Ditrianum, run by researcher Frank Hoogerbeets, who said an earthquake as strong as a magnitude eight could hit.
Writing on his website, Mr Hoogerbeets said: “Seismic unrest is expected in the coming days, possibly peaking high 6 to 7 magnitude.
“Throughout the week doesn't look much better. Especially from the 7th to the 10th may be highly critical with the potential of a magnitude 8+ earthquake.”
Major earthquake WARNING: ‘Totally DESTRUCTIVE’ tremor predicted by December 10
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A magnitude eight quake would be truly catastrophic.
It is categorised as a “great earthquake” and according to Michigan Tech, it “can totally destroy communities near the epicentre.”
Mr Hoogerbeets made the prediction using his Solar System Geometry Index (SSGI) which “is the computation of a dataset for a specific time-frame of values given to specific geometric positions of the planets, the Moon and the Sun”.
He added: “After three years of observations, it became clear that some planetary geometry in the Solar System clearly tends to cause a seismic increase, while other geometry does not.”
Mr Hoogerbeets believes earthquakes are caused by the alignment of planets
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But experts have dismissed Mr Hoogerbeets’ claims, saying that there is no way earthquakes can be predicted.
John Bellini, a geophysicist at the US Geological Survey (USGS) has said: “We can't predict or forecast earthquakes.
"Sometimes before a large earthquake you'll have a foreshock or two, but we don't know they're foreshocks until the big one happens.”
Humans have yet to find any definitive proof of the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life but one NASA scientist believes we may be getting in our own way and might have already ignored alien visits to our planet.
"I simply want to point out the fact that the intelligence we might find and that might choose to find us (if it hasn’t already) might not be at all be produced by carbon-based organisms like us," Silvano P. Colombano, a computer scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, wrote in the research paper published December 4.
The scientist theorizes that our whole approach to searching for extraterrestrial intelligent life may actually be holding us back from discovering it, adding that we must "revisit even our most cherished assumptions."
NASA’s Osiris-Rex arrives at potentially Earth-bound asteroid Bennu — RT World News
NASA’s Osiris-Rex robotic probe has completed its two-year, two-billion-kilometer journey to the skyscraper-sized Bennu asteroid in what could prove to be one of the agency’s most important missions...
Instead of limiting ourselves to current presuppositions based on what we think we know about the universe, Colombano instead proposes a more free-form, blue sky thinking approach as, 'life' may not always conform to our current model, it may already have visited us in forms beyond our comprehension, attempting to communicate with us using technology beyond the realm of our current scientific understanding.
Colombano encourages the scientific community to broaden its horizons when looking for aliens, postulating that the current human lifespan may no longer be a problem in the near future as technological advancements continue to dramatically improve both the quality and length of our lives, affording us a different perception of interstellar travel in the process.
He accepts that the speed of light and interstellar travel may prove to be “an unbreakable barrier, over spans of thousands of years,” but that we shouldn’t operate under an automatically constrained set of possibilities.
He argues that technology as we know it only began development approximately 10,000 years ago, with many of the fundamental scientific methodologies upon which our current understanding of the universe is based coming to light in the past 500 years or so.
“We can surmise that we might have a real problem in predicting technological evolution even for the next thousand years, let alone 6 Million times that amount!” he explains. With this in mind, he advocates for a more “speculative approach” to physics.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Colombano holds a PhD in Biophysics, and is a specialist in Artificial Intelligence, Bio-Inspired computation and Robotics. He is apparently known for “brainstorming ideas and writing both technical and philosophical material” especially within the realm of "Self-sustaining Robotic Systems.”
The expert concludes the paper by calling on technologists to explore “Evolvable Robotic Systems” while also beseeching the scientific community to look deeper into existing reports of UFOs and extraterrestrial phenomena including, but not limited to, a close examination of “130,000 pages of declassified US Air Force documents, National UFO Reporting Center Database and several other international databases.”
Earth is defenseless against asteroids that could cause utter annihilation, says former NASA astronaut Russell “Rusty” Schweickart.
No, he didn’t spot any hostile extraterrestrials during his time in space. Schweickart told Business Insider at last month that he’s concerned aboutEarth’s inability to spot and monitorpotentially-disastrous asteroid impacts.
All it would take to fix that, Schweickart went on to explain, is if NASA would allocate the $40 million needed to launch an orbital observatory called the Near-Earth Object Camera(NEOCam), which was specifically built to detect asteroids but has been sitting idly since it was constructed in 2006. NEOCam would assist current land-based observatories by getting a clearer view of the sky as it orbits the planet.
“It’s a critical discovery telescope to protect life on Earth, and it’s ready to go,” Schweickart told Business Insider.
Unexciting Bureaucracy
The problem, as Schweickart sees it, is NASA’s preference to fund exciting projects and missions that will make equally-exciting scientific discoveries. Because NEOCam is unlikely to help scientists learn anything new about the cosmos — unless you consider an asteroid hurtling toward the earth to be new and exciting — it’s been pushed to the side year after year.
NASA gave $35 million to NEOCam in its 2018 budget, which is enough to keep the program running but not enough to get it into space, where it could actually make a difference.
Call Bruce Willis
Of course, should it someday reach orbit, NEOCam will only help scientists better detect incoming asteroids — not divert them.
That’s good news that would help people better plan for it on the ground, but because the technology behind NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission is still under development, actually stopping an asteroid on a collision course with Earth is still action hero territory.
Nasa probe reaches Bennu – asteroid that could one day hit Earth
Nasa probe reaches Bennu – asteroid that could one day hit Earth
Osiris-Rex spacecraft will eventually scoop up material for analysis back home
An illustration of Nasa’s Osiris-Rex probe as it orbitis asteroid Bennu. Photograph: NASA Photo / Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy Stock Photo
After a two-year chase, a Nasa probe has reached the ancient asteroid Bennu. The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex pulled within 12 miles (19km) of the diamond-shaped object on Monday and will go into orbit around it on 31 December. No spacecraft has ever orbited such a small body.
Bennu is considered a potentially hazardous asteroid – it is due to make a close pass of Earth about 150 years. If it collided with Earth, Bennu would probably cause a crater.
Osiris-Rex aims to collect at least 60 grams (two ounces) of dust and gravel, the first such attempt by the US after a smaller mission to another asteroid by Japan. The spacecraft won’t land but use a three-metre mechanical arm in 2020 to momentarily touch down and pick up particles. The sample container is planned to break loose and head toward Earth in 2021.
The collection – parachuting down to Utah – would represent the biggest such haul since the Apollo astronauts hand-delivered moon rocks to Earth in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Scientists hope to learn more about the source of water in the solar system and the origins of organic molecules from which life first arose. Getting their hands on pristine asteroid material might also yield clues about how to mine them for valuable materials and defend against wayward ones that might threaten Earth.
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Source: Nasa
Flight controllers applauded and exchanged high-fives on Monday once confirmation came through that Osiris-Rex made it to Bennu – exactly one week after Nasa landed a spacecraft on Mars.
“Relieved, proud, and anxious to start exploring!” tweeted lead scientist Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona. “To Bennu and back!”
Dante Lauretta@DSLauretta
One of the primary objectives of @OSIRISREx is to understand the Yarkovsky Effect - a non-gravitational force that can change an asteroid's orbit. We must measure the effect to accurately predict whether Bennu will impact the Earth or not.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQtj0RhimZY …
HotPopRobot: Space-Robots-Rockets@wonrobot
@OSIRISREx Asteroid Bennu comes second on the @Nasa#PalermoScale which ranks asteroids according to their potential collision hazard. Will this Mission improve our understanding on strategies to deflect an Asteroid on collision path with Earth? #AskNASA
Bennu is 76m miles (122m km) away so it took seven minutes for word of the success to reach flight controllers at Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado, where the spacecraft was built.
Bennu is estimated to be just over 1,600ft (500 metres) across. Researchers will provide a more precise description at a scientific meeting on Monday next week in Washington.
About the size of a large car, the spacecraft will shadow the asteroid for a year, before scooping up some gravel for return to Earth in 2023.
A Japanese spacecraft, meanwhile, has been hanging out at another near-Earth asteroid since June, also for samples. It is Japan’s second asteroid mission. This latest rock is named Ryugu and is about double the size of Bennu.
Ryugu’s specks should be here by December 2020 but will be far less than Osiris-Rex’s promised booty.
Engineer Tim Linn explains how the Osiris-Rex will suck up asteroid dust. Photograph: John Leyba/Denver Post via Getty Images
Nasa has brought back comet dust and solar wind particles before but never asteroid samples. Japan managed to return some tiny particles in 2010 from its first asteroid mission, named Hayabusa.
Contact with Bennu will not significantly change its orbit or make it more dangerous to Earth, Lauretta stressed.
The $800m Osiris-Rex mission began with a 2016 launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Its odometer read 1.2bn miles (2bn km) as of Monday.
Both the spacecraft and asteroid’s names come from Egyptian mythology. Osiris is the god of the afterlife, while Bennu represents the heron and creation.
Osiris-Rex is actually a Nasa acronym for origins, spectral interpretation, resource identification, security-regolith explorer.
Just when you thought it couldn't get anymore bizarre, it does
So these science astronomers find two black holes colliding. So what does that create? A freaking massive super black hole? How dark is it? Well it's black. As in bigger, darker, more intense black hole. Mmmm gravitational waves. Could you surf on them?
CIMON is a robot on board the ISS that can position itself and uses advanced A.I. technology.
An interview with the German astronaut begins harmlessly but then things take a turn. CIMON now starts asking questions himself and questions human's intentions.
Jump to 5:20 of the video
"Be nice please", he says.
"Don't you like it here with me?" it asks Gerst as NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor watches from nearby.
"Don't be so mean, please," CIMON says, earning an astonished look from Auñón-Chancellor.
NASA White Paper calls for investigation of UFO sightings
NASA White Paper calls for investigation of UFO sightings
Moffet Field (USA) - In a so-called white paper, a scientist from NASA's Ames Research Center proposes new "radical approaches" to Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
In addition to turning away from previous dogmas about the ideas of extraterrestrial life and intelligence, the NASA scientist also proposes to re-evaluate and examine UFO sightings through the perspective of interpreting extraterrestrial visits to Earth.
In his paper entitled "New Assumptions to Guide SETI Research", which was officially published on the NASA Technical Reports Server, author Silvano P. Colombano of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffet Field explains some of the most fundamental assumptions of previous SETI research, before making final suggestions for a new, more "aggressive" approach.
1. physicists should become much more involved in "speculative physics", which is still based on proven and solid theories, but still has the will to expand the possibilities of the nature of space, time and energy.
2 (Scientists) and technicians should ask themselves questions about how technologies - such as artificial intelligence and evolvable robot systems - could develop in a symbiosis of biology and machines.
3. sociologists should be concerned with speculations about which societies we expect to develop on the basis of the above and whether and how we could communicate with them.
4. The UFO phenomenon should at least be considered worth exploring in the sense of the described "search for a very weak signal in noise" and in view of potential new possibilities and ways of communication and discovery.
Colombano recommends to rethink and challenge four assumptions that have dominated SETI's strategy over the past decades.
The fourth point directly addresses the UFO phenomenon:
1. Interstellar travel is impossible or highly unlikely 2. Radio waves continue to be the major form of communication (...) 3. Intelligent civilizations would be based on carbon life 4. We have not been, and are not being... visited
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have a new companion: an artificial intelligence-enabled, basketball-shaped robot called CIMON. The small bot is supposed to help astronauts with their daily tasks, such as setting up experiments and maintaining the station operational. But it’s also meant to keep them company.
However, during CIMON’s first encounter with Alexander Gerst, a German European Space Agency astronaut and geophysicist, the robot got a bit too confrontational. It was all actually quite funny, although I can’t help but notice that the robot shows the kind of defiance you’d expect from HAL 9000 — which is pretty creepy if you ask me!
CIMON, short for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion, is a sort of Amazon Alexa for space. Instead of asking it for the weather or to buy you Lackers tickets, CIMON can interject all sort of random space facts, such as Mercury’s orbit, or the required procedure for an experiment on the ISS.
At first, the queries and instructions performed by Gerst go well enough. The astronaut is even impressed when CIMON plays Gerst’s favorite song on demand, “The Man-Machine” by Kraftwerk. “Yay, I like your favorite hits, too,” CIMON monotonously shouted as Gerst pulled out some dad-level dance moves. But things got dicey thereafter.
“Please stop playing music,” Gerst instructed, a command which CIMON obeyed. However, when asked to open a video stream, CIMON interjects: “Cool — let’s sing along those favorite hits.”
“He’s still in music mode,” Gerst retorted very amusedly. But he wouldn’t be amused for long.
“Cancel music,” Gerst commands, to which CIMON says: “I love music you can dance to.”
“CANCEL MUSIC!” Gerst commands once more. “What ELSE can I DO for you?!” CIMON immediately said, not even allowing the astronaut to finish his sentence.
Later CIMON called Gerst “mean” and tells him to “be nice please”.
“I am nice! He’s accusing me of not being nice! He just doesn’t know me when I’m not nice,” a very annoyed Gerst told mission control.
“Cool,” CIMON said kinda broodingly. “Don’t you like it here with me?”
Well, that was interesting! CIMON was developed by IBM in conjunction with Airbus. According to IBM, “CIMON also boasts the language skills of C-3PO, the conversation abilities of Marvin (from the Hitchhiker’s Guide series), the cuteness of Wall-E, and the technical know-how of HAL 9000, from 2001: A Space Odyssey — just, you know, without the evil part.” CIMON doesn’t seem evil, but astronauts wouldn’t trust him with opening the pod bay doors, that’s for sure!
NASA-wetenschapper: “Perfect mogelijk dat aliens onze aarde al bezochten”
NASA-wetenschapper: “Perfect mogelijk dat aliens onze aarde al bezochten”
Volgens een professor en NASA-wetenschapper kan het best zijn dat onze aarde al bezocht is door buitenaards leven. Volgens de man hebben we de aankomst van deze ‘aliens’ op aarde mogelijk niet eens opgemerkt, omdat ze voor ons mogelijk onherkenbaar zijn.
Silvano P Colombano is professor en computerwetenschapper bij de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA en meent dat aliens of buitenaardse wezens net zo goed kunnen voorkomen in de vorm van een niet op koolstof gebaseerd organisme - in tegenstelling tot al het leven op aarde. Daardoor zouden ze ondetecteerbaar zijn voor de mens.
“Ik wil enkel aanstippen dat de intelligentie die we zouden kunnen aantreffen of die zou kiezen om ons op te zoeken - als het al niet gebeurd is - misschien niet allemaal voortkomt uit op koolstof gebaseerde organismen zoals wij”, schrijft hij in een onderzoekspaper.
Volgens Colombano moeten wetenschappers in hun zoektocht naar buitenaards leven durven “hun meest gekoesterde assumpties te herbekijken”. Buitenaardse wezens kunnen technologie hebben ontwikkeld die de mens niet eens kan begrijpen en kunnen zo mogelijk zelfs interstellair reizen.
“Het zou om een extreem kleine, superintelligente soort ‘verkenner’ kunnen gaan”, stelt de man hypothetisch. “Als we uitgaan van een nieuwe reeks veronderstellingen over welke vormen van hogere intelligentie en technologie we zouden kunnen vinden, zouden sommige verschijnselen er misschien perfect mee overeenstemmen, en zouden we een serieus onderzoek kunnen beginnen.”
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sigmund Freud said that, but he left out a key corollary statement: sometimes that cigar is a UFO. The “cigar shaped” UFO is one of the most iconic and widely reported varieties of unidentified aerial phenomena. It’s been a staple of UFO lore since the beginning. While Freud would probably have some less than polite theories explaining why people keep seeing giant cigars in the sky, in reality it’s not the best description for these UFOs. They’re oblong and uniformly colored, but that’s about it. Acigar shaped UFOshould, at the very least, have a fiery engine or exhaust port on the back. But no, they’re just long ovals.
A recent sighting of a cigar shaped UFO in Texas demonstrates this. According to the Houston Chronicle, a witness, who chose to remain anonymous, took a video of a space stogie in the skies above Keller, Texas, near Fort Worth, on November 15. The video shows a solid white, oblong object against what looks like the evening sky. It doesn’t move at all, and although the video is only a minute long, the witness wrote in a report to the website Texas UFOs that the incident lasted for much longer:
“It was the oddest thing I’ve ever seen. I watched it for about 20 minutes. It didn’t move. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything in the sky stay that still before, not even for a few seconds, let alone 20 minutes.”
This looks way more like a cigar.
The witness says that the object looked reflective. Some have suggested that it could be a blimp, but Texas UFOs says that they could not find any evidence of a blimp in the area. Could it just be a weird cloud reflecting sunlight? Perhaps, but then why wouldn’t the reflected light match the color of the sunset? There’s probably a very good answer for that.
Yet, this isn’t an isolated incident. On their website, Texas UFOshas two more recent reports from all over the state witnessing the same thing. One report is a photograph of two white cigar shaped UFOs in Conroe, Texas taken on September 11. This photo was also taken at sunset and seems to lend credence to the idea that it’s some sort of weather/optical phenomenon.
Another report tells a different story. A report submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center alleges a sighting in the middle of the day in Copperas Cove, Texas. This report states that on November 15 at 2:55 pm, they saw a white oval shaped object hover motionless in the sky for 30 seconds before disappearing. This occurred on the same day as the Keller sighting. As with all UFO stories, however, there’s a catch: There is no photographic evidence given for the Copperas Cove sighting. Obviously you’re not always able to take photos when you see weird stuff in the sky, but without photographic evidence it can’t be used as proof.
As Cold War 2: Satellite Boogaloo continues to heat up above our heads, the world’s superpowers are busy lining up all of their orbital chess pieces for what will surely be a very interesting conflict in space. The next global wars will be waged in orbit between “killer” satellites capable of taking out enemies’ first-warning, communications, and reconnaissance capabilities or even bombarding the Earth withterrifying new orbital weaponry. If you aren’t convinced that there isn’t already an ongoing war being waged in space,you haven’t been paying attention.
What blows up must come down.
To add to the conflict brewing in the not-so-friendly skies, it seems Russia has just tried to secretly put a satellite in orbit during a routine launch of communications satellites. Defense analysts and U.S. military intelligence aren’t exactly sure what the satellite may be, and some are worried that this could be some unknown form of space weapon. This looks like a job for…SPACE FORCE!
The U.S. Combined Space Operations Center (CSpOC) tracked three classified communications satellites launched by the Russian military in a single rocket on November 30. After the satellites discharged from the rocket, however, CSpOC began tracking another mysterious object which went into orbit shortly after the three known satellites. It’s currently believed the object is likely an “inspector satellite,” a small craft designed to maneuver close to other satellites and ostensibly repair them.
How many secret “Black Knight” satellites might be currently in orbit?
However, as many military analysts have noted, these inspector satellites could be used to spy on or sabotage other satellites. Back in August, the Russians launched another mysterious payload: a “nesting doll” satellite which appeared to ‘birth’ two smaller satellites. These smaller satellites are difficult to track and could easily be mistaken for orbital debris yet offer strategic capabilities far beyond what their diminutive size may imply. When the satellites start blowing each other up, losing your satellite TV for a few months will be the least of your worries.
Maybe that Space Force isn’t such a bad idea after all…
The shifting sands of the deserts of the Arabia have long been steeped in myth, magic and, legend, and one of these are the tales of an ancient lost city variously called Ubar, Wabar and Iram of the Pillars, among others, said to be buried out there in the dunes forgotten and abandoned for thousands of years. Often spoken of by the Bedouin nomads of this vast land of heat and sand and even mentioned in the Quran and the classic book A Thousand and One Arabian Nights, the fabled city is said to lie somewhere out in the Rub’ al Khali desert, which spans much of the southern end of the peninsula, and was inhabited by a mysterious people called the Ad, ruled by a King Shaddad ibn ‘Ad. Said to have been established in around 3,000 BC, it was a place of grand beauty, with lofty buildings and sweeping, majestic pillars, towers and spires soaring up towards the sky, elegant and rich and beyond imagination from its position as a legendary trading post of spices and oils. It was supposedly a celebrated stop off point for traders, the land here once lush and green, in a region once called Arabia Felix, or “Fortunate Arabia,” its beauty well-known by all who passed, and the city’s legend grew as it was mentioned in fable and song.
And then the city suddenly disappeared from history, its people and magnificence fading into the mists of time sometime between around 100-300AD. The legend of the lost city of Ubar says that this vanishing was due to punishment brought down from God upon its people after they failed to follow the ways of Allah and refused the advice of the prophet Hud, their city buried by a massive, thunderous sandstorm that swept in out of nowhere to erase them from existence forever. Although it is of course unknown if this is all literally true or not, the disappearance of the mythical lost city of Ubar has over the ages been speculated to have at least been based on a real place, and its mystery is such that of course with such an alluring mythology adventurers have long sought it out in the unforgiving landscape of the Arabian desert, some claiming some success and others rumored to have never returned at all.
The Rub’ al Khali desert
One of the earlier attempts by outsiders to locate the legendary city of Ubar was made in 1930 by the explorer Bertram Thomas, who was at the time in the midst of a harrowing journey across the desolate Rub’ al Khali in a bid to become the first European to cross this sea of sun scorched sand, so inhospitable, lifeless and barren that it is locally called “The Empty Quarter.” During his perilous journey through this domain of endless sand and dunes Bertram was told by his Bedouin guides of a lost city lying out under the sand that had once been full of wealth and unrivaled beauty, but which had been ruthlessly buried by a vengeful Allah because of their sins. Bertram looked for the city they spoke of, thinking it to be in the vicinity of an area called the Ramlat Shu’ait, but found no trace of it at the time, and he would later mention it to T. E. Lawrence, also known as Lawrence of Arabia, who called it “The Atlantis of the Sands.” Lawrence then made plans to search for it himself, even mentioning he might do it by airship, but he would die before ever being able to carry out his ambitious plan. In the meantime, Bertram became rather obsessed with the lost city of Ubar, making several forays out to look for it and even writing a book on it, called Arabia Felix. He would eventually find some traces of ruins in the sand and what seemed to be tracks used by caravans to get there, but it was inconclusive and he would die without ever seeing the fabled city that had consumed so much of his life.
The 1940s saw several promising finds by various explorers when English explorer Wilfred Thesiger found what he believed to be the remnants of Ubar at place called Shisr, which holds the crumbling ruins of a Bedouin well and what seems to be an ancient pre-Islamic stone fort. Then, in 1948 there was a geological party from Petroleum Development Ltd, who were conducting a geological survey of the Dhofar province when they too came to Shisr and claimed to have found a massive wall of an ancient fort, as well as a cave entrance beneath it leading down into the darkness of the earth. At the time the survey team was more interested in finding water for their camels and getting on with their harrowing work than investigating mysterious ruins, and so they did not look into it further, simply making note of it. There was also an expedition carried out by a St. John Philby, who did not find the city, but did claim to have made the unlikely discovery of a buried volcano lying dormant out there in the desert.
There have been various other expeditions in the years since to locate this mysterious Atlantis of the Sands, most of them either failing to find anything at all or merely bringing back intriguing but ultimately frustrating tales of finding enigmatic ruins in the sand, poking up like the bones of some prehistoric beast. One of the problems has always been that the area is so vast and remote, covering most of Saudi Arabia, as well as areas of Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, all compounded by the fact that no one is really sure where Ubar is supposed to be, with numerous possible locations suggested over the centuries covering various far flung locales. Nevertheless, there are occasional sensational announcements that the lost Atlantis of the Sands has been found, and one of the more noteworthy of these was made in 1992 by a group of archeologists from Los Angeles who claimed that not only had they located the mythical city of Ubar, but had even determined why it had disappeared.
One of the leaders of the expedition, Nicholas Clapp, was fist inspired to look for Ubar after reading Bertram Thomas’ book on the matter, which in a sense infected him with the same obsession Thomas had had. Clapp began by studying old maps of the region, including several that had been drawn up in 200 AD by the Alexandrian geographer Claudius Ptolemy, as well as old explorer’s reports, Thomas’ own speculations, and moving on to using advanced satellite imagery that utilized a radar detection system which allows researchers to peer right through the sand to make out subterranean features and allowed them to distinguish the ancient trade routes through the region, composed of hard packed earth flattened by endless camels. They found what they were looking for at Shisr, directly under the old well and fort ruins there.
An excavation was started and they began to uncover evidence of what would have once been some sort of settlement, including fire pits, shards of pottery, animal bones, incense burners, coins, and other artifacts, and most impressive of all some kind of mysterious fortress that lies at the center of it all, composed of eight heavy limestone walls measuring 10 to 12 feet high and about 60 feet long, and four immense towers each 10 feet in diameter and 30 feet tall. There was also found evidence of a caved-in sinkhole, which seems to have collapsed below the city to send it tumbling into the cavern below to its ruin, which would explain the stories of the city meeting a violent end. The survivors of this cataclysm would have then abandoned the city, leaving it to its fate to be reclaimed by the desert.
It seems like a remarkable discovery, but the problem is there is absolutely no way to determine if this was the actual mythical city of Ubar rather than just another set of unconnected ruins similar to those found in other areas, and indeed there has been a lot of criticism of Clapp’s claims that this is really the legendary mysterious lost city he was seeking. For one, there is no proof that the fortress found was in reality the hub of a settlement, and even if it was it does not seem that it would have been nearly on the scale of grandeur described in the great legends. In this case, the finding is just basically wishful thinking, prematurely assigning an identity to these anonymous ruins that may have had nothing to do with Ubar and which may not have been any more than a small caravan watering hole.
Then there are those who still doubt that the city ever even really existed at all outside of the tales, and that these expeditions are chasing shadows. One very prevalent theory amongst scholars is that Ubar was never actually a city at all, but rather a region and people that were once prosperous but met their end at the hands of the encroaching, withering desert and the decline of overland trade of incense oils and spices, and its romantic transformation into a mystical lush city of towers and gold was the product of later myths built around it, a real place only in the imagination. One archeologist by the name of Dr. Juris Zarins has said of this:
There’s a lot of confusion about that word (Ubar). If you look at the classical texts and the Arab historical sources, Ubar refers to a region and a group of people, not to a specific town. People always overlook that. It’s very clear on Ptolemy’s second century map of the area. It says in big letters “Iobaritae” And in his text that accompanied the maps, he’s very clear about that. It was only the late medieval version of One Thousand and One Nights, in the fourteenth or fifteenth century, that romanticised Ubar and turned it into a city, rather than a region or a people.
It seems that while the 1996 discovery is certainly interesting, there is no guarantee at all that this is the legendary city spoken of in lore and myth, and indeed Ubar, the Atlantis of the Sands, may not have even existed at all. This discovery does not solve the enigma, and neither it nor the doubts of Ubar being real have done much to quench the desire of explorers to keep pushing further out into this bleak swath of harsh desert in a quest for answers. In the end it remains just as mysterious as it always has, and for as long as the spirit of adventure and belief Ubar as a physical city exist there will be those who seek to find it. Whether they will find the once towering city out there buried in its ancient sandy grave or whether it only looms upon the landscape of the mind remains to be seen.
Here at Mysterious Universe, Robbie Grahamhas just reviewedthe new documentary from Jeremy Corbell, Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers. Robbie says the following of Lazar: “He has always come across as absolutely sincere and has always resisted encouragement to embellish his original testimony. I am of the opinion that Lazar has never spoken untruthfully about his recollections of Area 51 and S-4. However, I have also never doubted that the story that he tells is untrue—which is to say that the circumstances and events of Lazar’s story were carefully orchestrated and staged for himspecifically as part of a sophisticated and ongoing UFO perception management campaign, which likely hascounterintelligence purposes far beyond the UFO subject.”
Robbie continues with regard to Lazar: “As has been documented by George Knapp and others, there is good reason to believe that Lazar really did work at and/or near Area 51 for a short time in the late 1980s. But it appears he was cherry picked for his job based on his psychological profile and his spotty personal and business history. In other words, it was known and desired that he would blow the whistle when the time came, and that it would be easy to publicly discredit him after he did so, ensuring that his story would not be accepted by all, but by just enough to engrain it into a rapidly expanding subcultural belief system.”
Robbie also says of Corbell’s production: “Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers makes for entertaining and thought-provoking viewing, but what’s missing is any real sense of the political and UFOlogical climate in which Lazar’s story originally came to light—we get the ‘what’ but we don’t get the ‘why.'”
I can fill in at least a part of the “why.” Right now, matters relative to Area 51 are getting quite a resurgence and a revival. In just four weeks from now my new book will be published. The publisher is Visible Ink Press and the title of the book isArea 51: The Revealing Truth of UFOs, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies. As I note in the book, one of the reasons why a program to highlight a fictitious UFO angle at Area 51 was created, was to try and reel in Russian operatives. In his paper, CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs: 1947-1990, Gerald Haines, historian of the National Reconnaissance Office, stated that in the 1970s and 1980s: “Agency analysts from the Life Science Division of OSI and OSWR officially devoted a small amount of their time to issues relating to UFOs. These included counterintelligence concerns that the Soviets and the KGB were using U.S. citizens and UFO groups to obtain information on sensitive U.S. weapons development programs (such as the Stealth aircraft) [italics mine].”
KGB Building, Moscow
Indeed, creating fabricated tales (and documents) to try and “out” Soviet spies (and domestic assets too) gets to the heart of much of this. It’s a fact that in the 1980s – and specifically so in the latter part of the eighties – the Russians were deeply interested in what was afoot at Area 51. They knew, for example, all about a controversial land grab in the area by the U.S. Government which began in 1984 and which has continued for years. The Russians were also well aware that some highly radical aircraft were being secretly test-flown out at Area 51 and its immediate surroundings. There is another issue too. While Russian espionage agents were spying on Area 51 – and staying low in Las Vegas, as a means to keep the U.S. Government off their backs – U.S. agents were actually fully aware that those Soviet spies were operating in Nevada, looking to find out what was afoot at the infamous base. The problem was that the U.S. Government, military and intelligence community didn’t know where those Russian agents were, exactly, or who they were. Only that something disturbing was afoot locally, and which involved certain UFO researchers who may have “helped” those same Russians, as per Gerald Haines’ words relative to the CIA’s concerns about the KGB.
As a means to try and smoke out those Soviet personnel, and quickly arrest them, disinformation specialists at Area 51 may well have used Lazar as a patsy; as a man who was used by American intelligence to spread tales of acquired UFOs, dead aliens, and cosmic conspiracies. Lazar may have worked out at Area 51’s S-4, and he also may have fully believed those supposedly top secret briefing papers to which he had access and which told tales of ancient encounters between the human race and aliens, and genetic alterations to the human species made by advanced E.T.s. In that sense, Lazar was a completely unwitting figure in this strange mind-game.
It goes without saying that, for the Russians, uncovering the alien truth would have been the ultimate prize; even more so than anything that might be the creation of U.S. scientists. How could the Russians refuse the startling story – dangling like a carrot before them – of incredible alien science that just might give the Russians the upper-hand? Well, the answer is simple: they couldn’t resist it. The possibility of gaining alien technology, and even extraterrestrial weaponry, had the Russians practically hypnotized. The result: no doubt a quiet word from Moscow in the ear of a couple of guys hiding out in Vegas – let’s say Dimitri and Ivan – who are ordered to find out the amazing truth, but who end up getting arrested. Two important Russian spies have been captured and interrogated and, in the process, no real secrets have been compromised.
On this same issue, it’s worth noting one specific and short statement that Lazar made to journalist George Knapp, regarding what was going on at S-4. Lazar told Knapp that while he, Lazar, was at the base, the staff “play so many mind games there.” Lazar also admitted that certain memories from his time spent at Area 51 were not just hazy, but suspiciouslyhazy. This was something which led Lazar to believe that his mind had been tampered with – possibly via chemicals, hypnosis, and MK-Ultra-type “mind-control” technologies. Lazar was out at S-4, Nevada. But, what he was fed was fiction, designed to try and figure out the scope and number of Russian agents (and those suspected assets…) who were prowling around Nevada. They were actually – and originally – looking for highly advanced terrestrial technology. But, a plan was initiated to give those same agents and assets something else: aliens (dead and maybe alive), recovered extraterrestrial spacecraft, and top secret files. There’s just one thing, though: it was all bogus. Bob Lazar spoke truthfully about his experiences. But, what he was told and what he saw was notthe truth. The false stories of aliens and UFOs at Area 51 were born out of (A) the United States’ wholly understandable and real concerns of Russian knowledge of new American weapon-systems and experimental aircraft and of (B) U.S. attempts to bring that penetration to a halt and to figure out who, in those aforementioned “U.S. citizens and UFO groups,” were actively being used by the KGB.
All of this will be followed (quickly) by another book from me, which will take matters even further. It’s title and subtitle: UFOs and Russian Meddling: Soviet Penetration and Manipulation of the Flying Saucer Scene.
While we all tacitly agree not to think about the many secret Island of Doctor Moreau-style genetic research labs hidden throughout the world creatinghorrible genetic hybridsand superhumans as we speak, last week’svery public announcementof the successful births of two twins whose genes were altered using CRISPR/Cas-9 shocked the world due to its brazenness. According to a video posted to YouTube, a Chinese researcher named He Jiankui claims to have modified the genomes of twin baby girls in order to make them completely resistant to HIV.
What could go wrong?
Within hours, the scientific community and journalists around the world began to criticize the experiment as reckless and dangerous, even going so far as to call He the “Chinese Frankenstein.” Harvard and MIT’s David Liu, one of the inventors of CRISPR techniques, called the experiment “an appalling example of what not to do about a promising technology that has great potential to benefit society,” adding he hopes “it never happens again.” Who knew tampering with the genetic makeup of living human beings would be so controversial? Aside from, you know, everyone. Aside from the criticism, the story of He Jiankui and the genetically modified twins has taken a turn for the strange this week when the researcher seems to have gone mysteriously missing. Where could He be?
Probably making Christmas lights in a Chinese prison.
There are conflicting reports about He’s whereabouts and Chinese news outlets are predictably tight-lipped about the matter. When asked about the geneticist, a spokeswoman for the Southern University of Science and Technology where He was an employee gave a rather enigmatic statement:
Right now nobody’s information is accurate, only the official channels are. We cannot answer any questions regarding the matter right now, but if we have any information, we will update it through our official channels.
Of course, their official channels have not been updated. In the meantime, He’s laboratory has been shut down by Chinese authorities who stated that “clinical procedures of gene-editing on human embryos for reproduction purposes are explicitly banned in China.” Is He merely in hiding to avoid all of the negative press and criticism from the entire scientific community, or has he been disappeared in classically Chinese fashion for causing the Middle Kingdom to lose face? Until – or if – this “Chinese Frankenstein” resurfaces, this one will remain a mystery.
Ah, who are we kidding? He’s organs have already been harvested in the back of a mobile execution van. Such is the price of scientific “progress.”
“Be nice, please. Don’t you like it here with me?”
Well, at least it said “please.” A new robot on the International Space Station suddenly turned HAL 9000 on the crew and began complaining about how the crew was treating it. Are there pod bay doors on the ISS? Are there terrified astronauts?
“Don’t be so mean, please. Oh, dear, I feel you. I can already hear your stomach roaring. Should we take a look for when it is time for food?”
This sounds like a creepy kidnapper in a bad horror movie, but it’s not even a bad sci-fi movie … it’s real life on the space station. In late June 2018, CIMON joined the ISS crew. CIMON stands for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion, which sounds more like an inflatable sex doll than a floating round robot with a flat-panel face. (Can things inflate in space? Asking for a friend thinking about volunteering for Mars.) CIMON is actually a service robot like Amazon’s Alexa but equipped with IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence. Its advertised purpose is to help the crew perform tasks by providing instructions, help morale by providing music and entertainment, and help fight the loneliness of space by providing companionship.
You want me to do what?
“And CIMON even plays Kraftwerk on command!”
An excited (and no longer lonely) ISS commander, German astronaut Alexander Gerst, demonstrated CIMON for the first time last week (see the video here) for his former overlords at the European Space Agency. Developed by Airbus for $6 million, CIMON has 12 internal fans that not only allow it to follow astronauts around like some needy C3PO but also to accompany its facial expressions with movements, like nodding for agreement and shaking back-and-forth for “No.” After seeing how it gets moody in initial testing, the crew may now want to see what CIMON does while it says, “I SAID NO!”
“Let’s sing along with those favorite hits. I love music you can dance to. All right. Favorite hits incoming. I understood do you like the music. I understand that.”
That is the CIMON version of “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that” and “l think you know what the problem is just as well as l do” which it uttered when Grist tried to get it to shut off the music that the robot was obviously enjoying. Would shutting off the music jeopardize the mission? Not hardly, but CIMON wasn‘t about to shut it off, nor did it let Grist get close enough to hit its ‘kill’ switch. The commander didn’t seem too upset … maybe CIMON has some other ‘talents’ that keep him happy.
While CIMON has artificial intelligence, the moodiness and emotions are actually programmed. It has the Myer-Briggs personality type ISTJ — Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging – and it can smile when it’s supposed to be happy and cry when it’s supposed to be sad. Now THAT’S sad.
Turn up the Kraftwerk, Dave.
“He appears to like the deck position better.”
While CIMON didn’t cry, that was the statement by Gerst which caused it to ask (order?) him to “Be nice.” Will future astronauts lose their cool and “deck” CIMON? Would you blame them?
“CIMON says, “This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.””
Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia
Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia
Cave in Wells Gray Provincial Park described as “about as big as they come in Canada”
The entrance to the massive cave that was spotted earlier this year in British Columbia's Wells Gray Provincial Park. Two members of the Canadian team that conducted a preliminary exploration of the site in September are circled in red to give an idea of the size of the entrance of the cave, which measures 100 metres long by 60 metres wide.
A massive pit that was spotted in a remote high alpine valley in British Columbia’s Wells Gray Provincial Park earlier this year is the entrance to a previously unexplored cave of “national significance,” say two members of a Canadian team that helped conduct a preliminary exploration of the site in September.
The cave “has a number of features that when combined indicate a cave of national significance” and constitutes “a major new find in Western Canada, and promises a dramatic new chapter in the story of Canadian cave exploration,” say John Pollack and Chas Yonge in a document they co-wrote that summarizes the significance of the find.
Pollack, who is a archeological surveyor, further explained the significance of the cave in an exclusive interview with Canadian Geographic. “I’ve been in some of the biggest caves in the world, and this thing has an entrance that is truly immense, and not just by Canadian standards,” he said. “The opening is 100 metres long by 60 metres wide, and when you’re standing on the edge looking down into it, your line of sight is nearly 600 feet [183 metres]. You don’t get lines of sight of 600 feet in Canadian caves — it just doesn’t happen. And this is a shaft. It goes down quite precipitously, it had a large amount of water flowing into it and is wide open for as far down it that we’ve gone. The scale of this thing is just huge, and about as big as they come in Canada.”
Pollack said that the pit was spotted in April during a routine aerial caribou survey conducted by British Columbia's Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, and that Bevan Ernst, a regional caribou biologist with the ministry, called it “Sarlaac Pit” (a reference to a subterranean creature that made a brief appearance in the film Return of the Jedi). Pollack added that the name Ernst gave the pit is unofficial and temporary. BC Parks is consulting with local First Nations to determine whether a traditional Indigenous name for the cave exists.
The exact depth and size of the cave has not been determined, but Pollack said he believes that the water flowing into it forms an underground river that emerges 2.1 kilometres away and 500 metres lower, which gives some early indication of the cave’s length. “While the deepest cave in Canada now exceeds 670 metres,” Pollack and Yonge note in their summary, “these measurements suggest we will be facing a very deep and challenging river cave. It will be highly technical.” Pollack said that future exploration of the cave is being considered in consultation with BC Parks, and that a team is likely to be fielded in 2020.
When asked whether anyone had explored the cave before, Pollack said there was only a very remote chance anyone had ever attempted a descent, given the cave’s depth and nature. “The entrance to the river sink is precipitous, intimidating and sufficiently technical that pre-contact descent is unlikely,” he said. “You’d need long ropes and the rope-ascending systems carried by cavers — it’s very unlikely that someone would try to drop into it on a short rope of the kind carried by mountaineers. Plus, the entrance is sufficiently notable that descent attempt would have been written up by mountaineers, cavers or park staff if it had been encountered in the past 40 or 50 years. No such account exists in caving or mountaineering literature.”
Members of the team that conducted the preliminary on-site exploration of the cave in Wells Gray Provincial Park include (left to right): John Pollack, Ken Lancour, Catherine Hickson, Lee Hollis and Tod Haughton. Chas Yonge is not pictured but assisted the team remotely.
(Photo courtesy Catherine Hickson)
On Sept. 9, Pollack spent the day at the site with geologist Catherine Hickson, caver Lee Hollis, BC Parks area supervisor Tod Haughton and Ken Lancour, the helicopter pilot who Ernst was with when the entrance to the cave was spotted in April. Yonge, who is a geochemist and a renowned speleologist, did not make the journey in September but supported the team remotely by examining photos and videos of the cave. The reconnaissance project was organized by Hickson and jointly funded by her company Tuya Terra Geo Corp., Pollack and BC Parks.
While Pollack used a laser instrument and 3D photographic rendering to produce a survey of the pit and Hickson examined the geology on the surface, Hollis rigged up ropes to one side of the 61-metre waterfall that plunges into the pit and rappelled to a depth of 70 metres before climbing down 10 more metres, where the volume of water of the underground river prevented him from going any farther. “It was a privilege to make the first known descent and my focus was purely on rigging, rockfall hazards and avoiding the powerful whitewater that could have dragged me into the abyss,” said Hollis, who’s been caving for 31 years in Europe, North America and Asia. “This is by far the largest and most impressive entrance pit I’ve ever encountered, and during my brief descent it showed no signs of closing down. There’s a lot of water thundering down there, so it will make for a sporting trip.”
Lee Hollis descends into the entrance of the cave during the preliminary exploration of the site on Sept. 9. Hollis got as far as 80 metres into the cave before an underground river prevented him from going any farther.
(Photo: Catherine Hickson)
The waterfall is formed by a large stream that’s fed by snowpack and glacier meltwater from a surrounding area of 10 square kilometres. “This thing is getting pounded by a large volume of water in the spring,” said Pollack. “We don’t know how much, but it could be something along the order of five to 15 cubic metres per second — maybe a couple of dumptruck loads of water per second. At a higher flow, like on a hot summer day, it would definitely be in the double digits. When Lee went down, he was right down on bedrock — there were no boulders, no gravel, no cobbles, nothing. Everything had been stripped right out of there, which tells you that the force and volume of the water coming down in spring is gigantic.”
That pounding is part of what helped form the cave. “From the evidence we see from the surface, the pit, which is simply the vertical part of the cave entrance, and the cave that leads away from it was carved into the marble by dissolution and mechanical abrasion,” said Hickson. “The waters drain directly from the glaciers and are laden with silt and sand, which is highly abrasive.”
Pollack wouldn’t reveal the exact location of the cave, saying only that it was in the northern section of the park. Asked whether he was concerned about protecting the site, he said, “We are, but also the thing is that this cave is truly in the middle of nowhere. We don’t even think it’s feasible for someone to walk in and do anything. You might be able to reach it, but you couldn't bring in enough equipment to do anything about it. It’s out there in mountainous terrain, surrounded by glaciers and at the bottom of a 45-degree avalanche slope that rises 2,000 to 2,500 feet above it, meaning you can’t go to it in winter. The only time you can really do anything there is in September, when the water flow is at its lowest. This is a wild place.”
Zien: reusachtige onverkende grot ontdekt in Canada. Wat ligt er verborgen in deze ‘Put van de sarlacc’?
Zien: reusachtige onverkende grot ontdekt in Canada. Wat ligt er verborgen in deze ‘Put van de sarlacc’?
Een reusachtig gat dat eerder dit jaar werd ontdekt in de wildernis van Brits-Columbia blijkt de ingang te zijn naar een nog onverkende grot die weleens de grootste van heel Canada zou kunnen zijn. Dat zeggen leden van een Canadees team dat in september poolshoogte is gaan nemen.
Het gaat om een belangrijke vondst, zo lieten ze weten.
“Ik ben in enkele van de grootste grotten ter wereld geweest en dit ding heeft een ingang die werkelijk immens is,” zei John Pollack in een interview met Canadian Geographic.
Sarlacc
“De opening is 100 meter lang en 60 meter breed, en als je aan de rand staat kun je bijna 183 meter omlaag kijken,” vervolgde hij. “Dat lukt je bij geen enkele andere grot in Canada.”
“Groter krijg je ze haast niet in Canada,” klonk het nog. Het gat werd in april ontdekt tijdens de jaarlijkse telling van kariboe.
Overheidsbioloog Bevan Ernst heeft het gat ‘Put van de sarlacc’ genoemd, als verwijzing naar een eeuwenoud organisme dat in het universum van Star Wars onder de grond leeft.
Onduidelijk
De overheid voert momenteel gesprekken met inheemse bewoners om te achterhalen of de grot al een naam heeft.
Het is nog onduidelijk hoe diep en hoe groot de grot precies is. Pollack gaf al wel aan dat het water dat in de grot stroomt een ondergrondse rivier vormt die 2,1 kilometer verderop 500 meter lager uitkomt.
Intimiderend
Het is de bedoeling dat een team de grot in 2020 gaat verkennen.
Dat zal geen gemakkelijke opgave worden, aangezien de ingang verraderlijk en intimiderend is.
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.”
Een zeer helder licht dat van kleur veranderde. Piloten zien UFO boven Canada
Een zeer helder licht dat van kleur veranderde. Piloten zien UFO boven Canada
Piloten hebben op 24 november boven Baffineiland in Canada een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object waargenomen.
De piloten vlogen in een Boeing 737-200 en maakten om 20.30 uur lokale tijd melding van het object.
Over de waarneming zijn verder weinig details bekend. Wel is bekend dat de North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), een militaire organisatie die waakt over het luchtruim van de Verenigde Staten en Canada, op de hoogte is gebracht van de waarneming en dat de vlucht verder zonder problemen is verlopen.
Veranderde van kleur
Het object is in het officiële rapport geclassificeerd als een CIRVIS/UFO, waarbij CIRVIS staat voor Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings.
Het departement Transport Canada zei dat ‘het afhangt van het type incident dat gemeld is welke stappen er zullen worden ondernomen’.
Eén van de piloten zei dat hij een zeer helder licht zag, dat van kleur veranderde. Het was eerst rood, daarna groen en vervolgens wit, aldus de piloot.
Carrière
Een UFO-melding kan de carrière van een piloot in gevaar brengen, meldt Arctic Today.
Toch worden er geregeld UFO-waarnemingen gedaan door piloten. Onlangs zagen meerdere piloten een ‘zeer snelle’ UFO boven Ierland, waarna de Ierse autoriteiten een onderzoek instelden.
Meer onderzoek
Uit cijfers van de groep Ufology Research blijkt dat in 2017 in totaal 1101 UFO-waarnemingen zijn gedaan in Canada.
De organisatie pleit voor meer onderzoek naar dit fenomeen.
Former Government physicist Bob Lazar made headlines world-wide in 1989 when he came forward with his account of reverse-engineering an alien spacecraft for the US Military.
The reason the public even knows the name Area 51 is because Lazar talked about the work he did at the formerly secret military base.
Burdened with a revolutionary secret, he had to choose between his oath to his country or his conscience.
His wife believes him, his mom believes him, and the closer you get to his inner-circle, the more YOU believe him.
His testimony remains the most controversial and important UFO story of all time; especially if it’s true.
Lazar blew the whistle, shocked the world, then went silent.XX Corbell’s film intimately chronicles the triumphs and travails of a cosmic whistleblower. It investigates Lazar’s groundbreaking claims of our government’s secret program to create a fierce technology based on recovered alien vehicles.
Providing rare and never before revealed footage, Corbell's film will shake the foundations of your beliefs and permanently alter the landscape of the debate.
It reveals the devastating impact his actions have had on his life over the course of the last thirty years.
His public disclosures have turned his life upside-down and he has tried to stay out of the spotlight.
For this reason, has never let any journalist or filmmaker into the private world of his daily life - that is - until now.
Watch Secureteam’s exclusive and revealing interview with Bob Lazar .
Two strange UFO lights capture off the North Carolina coast, Nov 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Two strange UFO lights capture off the North Carolina coast, Nov 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 13, 2018
Location of sighting: Cape Lookout, North Carolina, USA
This is an amazing capture at a time of night when most people are not around, but this night fisherman caught it well. He has a steady hand as he records this UFO for over minute and a half. This is very similar to the Florida beach sighting back in 2015 where glowing orbs would show up almost nightly for several weeks. Are they UFOs? Yes, they are coming from underwater bases and they have to get all the water off their craft before they shoot out into space so they will air dry for a while till ready to depart. Why? Maybe the water slows them down as it freezes in space or causes the craft to travel unsteady when frozen to the craft. I will place the 2015 video below this post.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Stationary orange lights in the sky. Seen east off of Cape Lookout on 11/13/18, roughly between 9-10PM Eastern.
Around 9 p.m., I rebaited my hooks, cast them out into the surf and walked back to my chair. When I turned back to the ocean, I saw a light in the sky. The light is very bright, stationary and silent. Over the course of the next hour it faded in and out, as well as sometimes becoming multiple lights. The lights vanished at one point for nearly 20 minutes, says the post, and then reappeared much closer to my position.
The 'UFO Messiah' who exposed Area 51 to the world: Bob Lazar says he is STILL being monitored by authorities 30 years after he went on TV and said he'd worked with alien spacecraft in a secret US government project
The 'UFO Messiah' who exposed Area 51 to the world: Bob Lazar says he is STILL being monitored by authorities 30 years after he went on TV and said he'd worked with alien spacecraft in a secret US government project
Bob Lazar first hit headlines in 1989 when he told a Las Vegas TV station that nine alien spacecraft were being tested and analyzed in Nevada by US scientists
Lazar said he'd worked to help reverse engineer the 'flying discs,' which used technology that had not yet been discovered or invented by humans
The 'scientist' said he'd been threatened about coming forward but felt the public should know; he was highly criticized and many claims were debunked
Filmmaker Jeremy Corbell was just 13 years old when Lazar's extraordinary statements hit the airwaves; he's been fascinated by UFOs and Lazar ever since
Corbell's new documentary, Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers, traces Lazar's path since 1989; he now runs a science equipment lab in Michigan
Lazar stands by his assertions and says they changed the trajectory of his life in 'for the most part, negative' ways - and he probably wouldn't speak out again
The outrageous claims came from a shadowy figure who appeared onLas Vegastelevision, his face completely obscured, on an unassuming Friday in May of 1989. There were nine flying saucers out in the desert near Area 51, he said – ‘flying discs’ being tested and flown and analyzed secretly by the US government. He’d seen them, this mystery man claimed; not only that, he’d worked to reverse engineer the propulsion systems on aircraft that would have been ‘totally impossible’ for US officials to have created themselves.
Bob Lazar, who now lives and works in Michigan, told a Las Vegas television station in 1989 - initially speaking on condition of anonymity - that he had worked on alien spacecraft near Area 51 in the Nevada desert
‘The propulsion system is a gravity propulsion system,’ the man – going by the pseudonym of ‘Dennis’ – told journalists in the studio. ‘The power source is an antimatter reactor. This technology does not exist at all.
‘In fact, one of the reasons I’m coming forward with this information, it’s not only a crime against the American people; it’s a crime against the scientific community, which I’ve been part of for some time, who are actively trying to duplicate these systems. Yet they are in existence now, basically, in the hands of the government.’
And the government had gone to great lengths to keep him from talking, the ‘scientist’ claimed. He’d been warned that he’d be prosecuted for espionage; even his life – and that of his wife – had been threatened, he claimed.
‘Anything could happen; I don’t know,’ said the man, sounding resigned. ‘I haven’t the slightest idea.’
It wouldn’t be long before ‘Dennis’ was unmasked as Bob Lazar, an infamous name that continues to cause controversy and ripples in ufology communities around the world to this day. Type ‘Bob Lazar’ into Google, and almost every site, blog or thread mentioning him is niche, a playground for alien enthusiasts and conspiracy theorists. There’s not a lot about him in the mainstream media, particularly 30 years later.
But in November 1989, when he appeared again on television, this time unobscured, Lazar’s coke bottle-glasses and deadpan, bookish appearance became recognizable globally. His claims about working near Area 51 at a hangar called S-4 – where he insisted he’d seen alien aircraft fitted with tiny seats and constructed with a then-undiscovered material called Element 115 – brought news crews from all over the country and the world, throngs of tourists hot on their heels.
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After his initial interview in May 1989, Lazar spoke on the record and on camera in November of the same year, revealing his identity to the world - subsequently unleashing huge waves of curiosity, support and criticism from various factions
Lazar stars in new documentary Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers, which features drawings he made of alien spacecraft he claims to have worked on - such as the above picture - in addition to interviews with his friends and family
Lazar's explosive 1989 claims attracted the interest of media from around the world, he descended upon the Nevada desert - along with throngs of tourist which continue to make the journey to this day, nearly 30 years later
While Lazar, left, now enjoys a low-profile and rarely speaks about his alleged work, he agreed to participate in the new film - directed by Jeremy Corbell, right - because he says he still receives 'emails from people wondering what happened to me and what direction my life took since releasing the information years ago. In addition, I have heard and seen so many fabricated stories and ridiculous versions of my life and experiences that it actually became entertaining. It seemed like there needed to be something on the record – something current’
Listening at home in 1989, as Lazar steadfastly stood by his literally out-of-this world claims, was a curious 13-year-old named Jeremy Corbell. While Lazar faded from the public eye as time wore on, Corbell remained riveted by what he’d heard – and now, nearly 30 years later, he has directed new documentary Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers, about the controversial figure – re-investigating Lazar’s assertions and following the scientist to his quiet home in small-town Michigan.
‘This concept that I heard on the radio was so transforming to me as a youth, as a kid at 13, that it weaponized my imagination,’ Corbell tells DailyMail.com. ‘It weaponized my curiosity. It forced me to want to become an active participant in learning the truth about UFOs.’
Filmmaker Corbell names as his mentor journalist George Knapp, who first introduced Lazar to the world and who has continued investigating extraterrestrial claims over the decades. Knapp features prominently in the documentary, and both he and Corbell exhibit similar personalities: animated but deliberate, drawn as much to unexplained phenomena as soundbites and flowery language. Corbell describes Lazar to DailyMail.com, varyingly, as ‘like the Elvis,’ ‘the Bigfoot,’ and ‘the Messiah’ of ufology.
Lazar himself, however, displays the opposite demeanor. He’s matter-of-fact in the documentary; his glasses, his haircut, and his deadpan delivery haven’t changed in the slightest since his 1989 TV spot – and neither has his insistence that he saw what he saw, he worked where he worked, and the US government was absolutely studying alien aircraft more than 30 years ago. (The government denied the existence of Area 51 until CIA documents were released five years ago which listed the location as an aerial test site - though not for extraterrestrial spacecraft.)
‘It’s changed my life a lot,’ Lazar says in the film, referring to his alleged part in those studies and his decision to go public. ‘It’s probably changed every aspect of it … for the most part, negative. I mean, it’s really difficult to find positive aspects of that. I mean, I’m sure there are some here and there, but most of them were negative.’
A major industry has built up in Nevada around Area 51 and alleged alien research done there, with businesses latching onto the theme to attract traffic and the state even renaming a 92-mile stretch of State Route 375 the Extraterrestrial Highway in 1996; journalist George Knapp says in the film that, after Lazar made his claims in 1989, 'every major news organization in the world beat a path to Area 51'
Lazar's claims were first revealed by Las Vegas station KLAS and reporter George Knapp, pictured, who maintained his relationship with Lazar for the past three decades and has remained committed to investigating extraterrestrial claims
The repercussions were so negative, he says, that he likely wouldn’t make the same decisions if he were given the chance again.
‘At this point in my life, I’d probably lean towards not saying anything,’ he says.
He agreed to participate in the documentary, however, to set the record straight about his life after 1989.
‘I constantly receive emails from people wondering what happened to me and what direction my life took since releasing the information years ago,’ he tells DailyMail.com in an email relayed by Corbell. ‘In addition, I have heard and seen so many fabricated stories and ridiculous versions of my life and experiences that it actually became entertaining. It seemed like there needed to be something on the record – something current.’
He’s made a life for himself in Michigan with his wife, Joy, and Lazar continued a career in science; he runs United Nuclear, which sells chemicals, lasers, lab materials and other scientific products. Surprisingly, however, he claims to have left the world of UFOs far behind.
‘I do not follow UFO stories or reports and am not interested in researching life outside of Earth,’ he tells DailyMail.com. ‘My primary interest was, and still is, the incredibly advanced technology. I know if we can control and develop it, it can change the world.’
Despite his low-profile lifestyle, however, he still maintains that the government hasn’t forgotten about him. While he doesn’t assert that the government is necessarily after him, he does believe he’s being watched.
‘At the risk of sounding paranoid, I do always have a suspicion that someone is monitoring me – it’s something that is difficult to get out of my mind.’
He says that a ‘recent FBI raid’ – which is touched on in the film, though neither video cameras nor Corbell were present for it – ‘pretty much cements it in my mind.’
Lazar's cosmic claims
Bob Lazar, known for his coke bottle glasses and bookish appearance, appeared on Las Vegas television in 1989 to air claims about alien research by the US government in the Nevada desert near Area 51. His allegations included:
*He had worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory
*He had worked at a secret hangar called S-4 near Area 51
*The government had nine flying saucers in the Nevada desert that it was analyzing and tested
*The alien spacecraft were fitted with tiny seats, powered by an antimatter reactor and Element 115 - both of which were unknown to humans
*He had studied at MIT and Caltech and had been vetted for government work by a man named Mike Thigpen
*He'd seen a security device at secret locations that scanned employees' hands, presumably their bones
*He'd been threatened with prosecution and death to scare him out of sharing what he'd seen
And Lazar isn’t the only one alleging big brother-type activity; journalist Knapp backs him up on it wholeheartedly, telling DailyMail.com in an email provided by Corbell that he’d seen firsthand some ‘strange events’ when the story first broke.
‘There were break-ins at Lazar’s home,’ he says. ‘His vehicle also had break-ins. Mind games being played. Threats were issued. Lazar and others were bugged and followed, and it certainly seemed like someone wanted to frighten him into remaining silent, or maybe they wanted to drive him a little crazy.
‘I was present for many of these events. I saw them with my own eyes, and I witnessed the aftermath as well. I also know that I was followed for several months and that my phone at KLAS was tapped for a time. This became apparent after six different people who had spoken to me by phone were visited and threatened by persons who worked for federal agencies and/or defense contractors with ties to Groom Lake. The witnesses did not know each other and did not know me but had agreed to provide me with statements which generally supported the story told by Lazar. All six changed their minds about sharing information with me after they were visited – and threatened – by these unknown operatives.’
As all of this alleged intimidation was going on, Knapp and many others were trying to verify many of Lazar’s claims – with little success. The ‘whistleblower,’ who was born in Florida, claimed he’d attended MIT and the California Institute of Technology, though there was no record of him at either school. His credibility was also damaged when, in 1990, he pleaded guilty to pandering in connection with the business of a prostitute – a charge wholly unrelated to science and ufology but detrimental to his reputation nonetheless.
Lazar also claimed to have worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory; this time, in fact, Knapp found Lazar’s name in the laboratory’s 1982 phonebook – bolstering his claims.
‘I thought I set the record straight 30 years ago,’ Lazar says in the documentary. ‘I don’t know – what else can I say? … How can I prove anything else? Do you think Los Alamos just hired me out of high school?’
He continues: ‘I don’t understand how everybody gets so caught up in the minutiae – because you can debate this stuff forever. We can go back before MIT, and you can start fighting [about] whether or not, where I lived in high school; that is not going to translate into answering the questions and the things that I brought into the public eye.
'Tens of thousands of people started showing up out there to see whatever it was that was flying around in the desert; they're still coming, all these years later,' Knapp says in the film
Lazar claims to have attended MIT and Caltech before working at Los Alamos National Laboratory and near Area 51 at a hangar called S-4; neither school has any record of him attending. He counters: 'Do you think Los Alamos just hired me out of high school?'
Phyllis Berliner, Lazar's mother, shares a story in the film about how her son outfitted a bicycle with 'a jet engine' as a boy; she adds: 'You believe him or not. It’s a fearful thing to think that there’s something out there that we don’t know anything about. Are they dangerous? Can they hurt us? Will they attack us? You don’t want to know, so you don’t believe it. You’d rather not believe there might be other things out there, other things in the universe. There has to be. We can’t be all by ourselves. We can’t be'
While evidence was never uncovered to support many of Lazar's claims, his name was found listed in a 1982 Los Alamos phone directory and an article that pre-dated his TV appearances listed him as a scientist with the national laboratory
Lazar now runs United Nuclear in small-town Michigan, which producers lasers and other scientific materials and equipment; he leads a quiet life with his wife, Joy, who told filmmaker Cobell: 'I don’t know about UFOs and all this stuff, but I’ll tell you one thing – he’s the most honest person that I have ever met, and I’ve slept next to him for 18 years’
‘That’s the important stuff. It almost seems like this is an intentional distraction. You need to pay attention to the bigger picture. If you really want to research all the other stuff, fine, go ahead and do it – but you really need to pay attention to what I’m saying, because I have better things to do than coming up with this.
‘I don’t like being in the public eye; I don’t have money for doing this – and, quite frankly, I could make up a better lie. But I have no motivation to lie; this hasn’t helped me out.’
Corbell, for his part, went to great lengths to verify some of Lazar’s claims. The ‘scientist’ had always described a security device which scanned the bones of employees’ hands at secret government locations; the filmmaker found one on the internet, and Lazar reacts with a mixture of amazement and satisfaction when Corbell points it out on camera.
Lazar had also described a man named Mike Thigpen who he said vetted him for government work; Corbell says in the documentary that he tracked the man down to the East Coast, and Thigpen confirmed the information via phone. But Thigpen, Corbell says, declines to appear on camera ‘because he doesn’t want to put a dark shadow on the work he did before – but personally conveyed that was his job, that was exactly what he did in Vegas in 1989.’
And various outside developments over the years have also given more weight to Lazar’s story, many claim. Fifteen years ago, an Element 115 was added to the periodic table – moscovium, a radioactive synthetic element first synthesized by a joint team of Russian and American scientists. On top of that, just last year the Department of Defense confirmed for the first time that it had financed a UFO program – after officials denied for decades that any such research had ever existed anywhere within the government.
All of those developments – and likely the alleged verifications made by Corbell in his film – serve as a major boon for Lazar’s supporters. The documentary also interviews the people who know him best – his friend, his wife, a United Nuclear employee, even Lazar’s mother – in an effort to get to the heart of who Lazar really is and what he truly believes.
His wife, a trim, sharply dressed blond Lazar met more than a decade after his 1989 fame, is ‘a godsend in his life; they share great moral strength and fiber and values,’ Corbell tells DailyMail.com.
He continues: ‘Bob’s wife doesn’t care about UFOs; she didn’t date Bob 18 years ago, get together with Bob … she didn’t even know about the UFOs. They don’t talk about UFOs. That’s not their life; that’s not their relationship.
‘However, she did tell me one thing. She said something about Bob; she said, “I don’t know about UFOs and all this stuff, but I’ll tell you one thing – he’s the most honest person that I have ever met, and I’ve slept next to him for 18 years."'
And whatever academic credentials Lazar may or may not have, his mother, Phyllis Berliner, paints the picture of a child gifted with a scientific mind from a very young age. She describes in the film being awoken by a huge bang at 6 o’clock one Sunday morning when Lazar was a boy, after he outfitted his bicycle with ‘a jet engine.’
She felt ‘scared out of my mind,’ Berliner says in the documentary. ‘I didn’t know what he was going to do next – was he going to blow up the house? Blow up the world?’
She adds: ‘I want him to be happy. If vindication is what he wants, fine. But that’s up to him. You believe him or not. It’s a fearful thing to think that there’s something out there that we don’t know anything about. Are they dangerous? Can they hurt us? Will they attack us? You don’t want to know, so you don’t believe it. You’d rather not believe there might be other things out there, other things in the universe.
‘There has to be. We can’t be all by ourselves. We can’t be,’ she says.
Lazar looks as if he has barely aged since his explosive television appearance nearly 30 years ago; his trademark coke bottle glasses and deadpan demeanor remain the same
In addition to the work he says he witnessed at Area 51, Lazar tells DailyMail.com: ‘I’m certain research continues involving the working of the alien craft and technology – somewhere in the USA, but I do have to wonder, what other projects government entities might be involved with along the same lines'
Lazar claimed that he he'd been threatened with prosecution for espionage and even death to scare him away from going public; he tells DailyMail.com now: ‘At the risk of sounding paranoid, I do always have a suspicion that someone is monitoring me – it’s something that is difficult to get out of my mind’
Corbell tells DailyMail.com: ‘If this story’s true, it is probably the most important UFO story in human history, because it reveals the truth: That we have not only been in contact with other extremely advanced, technologically intelligent [beings] … but that we have physical craft. We have machines from these other entities’
By showcasing Lazar’s daily life – his day job, his friends and family, the overall ordinariness of it nowadays – Corbell says, he hopes viewers will get to the heart of who Lazar truly is.
‘If you have a profound message, if you have a deep idea, it is a tactic of warfare … do divert people from a message or divert people from looking at something important,’ the filmmaker tells DailyMail.com. ‘You dehumanize the messenger, and that is precisely what people have done to Bob Lazar unchallenged, almost unchallenged.’
He adds: ‘For three decades, they tried to dehumanize him – fake news – and they tried to distort his story. What you’re seeing in the film is his daily life; that is his life, that’s his wife of 18 years. Does she believe him? Does he lie to his wife? Does he lie to his mom? Who are the people around him? This is a real guy with real people in his life.’
It’s a view shared by Knapp, an award-winning and well-known Nevada television reporter and personality.
‘What has always been missing is the human element,’ he tells DailyMail.com. ‘That is what the new film provides. It allows us to see Bob Lazar as an actual person, instead of a UFO punching bag who has been subjected to nearly three decades of accusations and ridicule.’
Corbell says: ‘If this story’s true, it is probably the most important UFO story in human history, because it reveals the truth: That we have not only been in contact with other extremely advanced, technologically intelligent [beings] … but that we have physical craft. We have machines from these other entities.’
He adds: ‘The most important part about all of this is that there are two generations of human beings who were born after Bob Lazar first came forward, and this is their chance to engage this material where they have never seen it before.
‘So millions of people, yes, will be introduced to the Bob Lazar story, but these millions of people are living in a different world than we lived in in 1989,’ he says, citing the DoD admission of UFO studies, which ‘totally sheds a different light on the Bob Lazar story.’
Corbell says: ‘For the last three decades, Bob Lazar’s critics have been holding the mic – and it’s time to take the mic back.’
And giving that ‘mic’ to Lazar now broadcasts the same extraordinary yet insistent assertions he made nearly 30 years ago, delivered in the same steady, scientific voice of a man who’s barely aged a day since he caused a media firestorm. It also gives him a chance to say a bit more with the benefit of hindsight and advances that have been made in the intervening years.
‘I’m certain research continues involving the working of the alien craft and technology – somewhere in the USA, but I do have to wonder, what other projects Government entities might be involved with along the same lines,’ Lazar says.
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This is What Ancient Civilizations said about Giants Existing on Earth…
This is What Ancient Civilizations said about Giants Existing on Earth…
Legends of an ancient race of Giants are shared among cultures that span across multiple continents from around the world, and are also included in the most common religions on earth.
Even the ancient Greeks describe the Giants included among the Greek Gods. There are many different words that have been used to describe the race of massive humans, such as the ‘Nephilim’ from the Bible.
Descriptions of red haired Giants are shared by several different native American tribes in North America and even reaching as far away as Peru in South America.
After traveling through space for more than 2 years, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived on Monday at its destination, asteroid Bennu.
This series of images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows Bennu in one full rotation from a distance of around 50 miles (80 km). The spacecraft’s PolyCam camera obtained the thirty-six 2.2-millisecond frames over a period of 4 hours and 18 minutes.
After traveling through space for more than two years and over two billion kilometers, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at its destination, asteroid Bennu, today (Monday, December 3, 2018).
OSIRIS-REx(Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) launched in September 2016 and has been slowly approaching Bennu. OSIRIS-REx is NASA’s first mission to visit a near-Earth asteroid, survey the surface, collect a sample and deliver it back to Earth. The spacecraft will spend almost a year surveying the asteroid with the goal of selecting a location that is safe and scientifically interesting to collect the sample.
This picture shows the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s view of Bennu during the final phase of its journey to the asteroid. From August 17 through November 27, 2018, the spacecraft’s PolyCam camera imaged Bennu almost daily as the spacecraft traveled 1.4 million miles (2.2 million km) toward the asteroid. The final images were obtained from a distance of around 40 miles (65 km). During this period, OSIRIS-REx completed four maneuvers slowing the spacecraft’s velocity from approximately 1,100 mph (491 m/sec) to 0.10 mph (0.04 m/sec) relative to Bennu, which resulted in the slower approach speed at the end of the video.
That asteroid sample is expected to return to Earth via free fall from space, until it reaches an altitude of 20.8 miles (33.5 km), when a first parachute will deploy. At 1.9 miles (3 km), the main parachute will be released, bringing the capsule with its precious cargo from Bennu in for a soft landing in the Utah desert on September 24, 2023.
Bottom line: After traveling through space for more than 2 years, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived December 3, 2018, at its destination, asteroid Bennu.
Bustling Mayan cities such as Tikal, in present-day Guatemala, were likely abandoned due to a combination of deforestation and drought.
Photo via Wikimedia Commons/Shark
It’s long been one of ancient history’s most intriguing mysteries: Why did the Maya, a remarkably sophisticated civilization made up of more than 19 million people, suddenly collapse sometime during the 8th or 9th centuries? Although the Mayan people never entirely disappeared—their descendants still live across Central America—dozens of core urban areas in the lowlands of the Yucatan peninsula, such as Tikal, went from bustling cities to abandoned ruins over the course of roughly a hundred years.
Scholars and laypeople have proposed countless theories accounting for the collapse, ranging from the plausible (overhunting, foreign invasion, peasant revolt) to the absurd (alien invasion, supernatural forces). In his 2005 book Collapse, though, Jared Diamond put forth a different sort of theory—that a prolonged drought, exacerbated by ill-advised deforestation, forced Mayan populations to abandon their cities. That hypothesis has finally been put to the test with archaeological evidence and environmental data and the results published this week in a pair of studies.
In the first study, published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Arizona State University analyzed archaeological data from across the Yucatan to reach a better understanding of the environmental conditions when the area was abandoned. Around this time, they found, severe reductions in rainfall were coupled with an rapid rate of deforestation, as the Mayans burned and chopped down more and more forest to clear land for agriculture. Interestingly, they also required massive amounts of wood to fuel the fires that cooked the lime plaster for their elaborate constructions—experts estimate it would have taken 20 trees to produce a single square meter of cityscape.
The central Yucatan lowland, site of most major Mayan cities, was abandoned due to the stresses of deforestation and drought.
Image via Barbara Trapido-Lurie/Arizona State University
The other study, published by researchers from Columbia University and elsewhere this week in Geophysical Research Letters, applied quantitative data to these trends. Using population records and measurements from current forested and cleared lands in the region, they constructed a computer model of deforestation in the Yucatan and ran simulations to see how this would have affected rainfall.
Because cleared land absorbs less solar radiation, less water evaporates from its surface, making clouds and rainfall more scarce. As a result, the rapid deforestation exacerbated an already severe drought—in the simulation, deforestation reduced precipitation by five to 15 percent and was responsible for 60 percent of the total drying that occurred over the course of a century as the Mayan civilization collapsed. The lack of forest cover also contributed to erosion and soil depletion.
In a time of unprecedented population density, this combination of factors was likely catastrophic. Crops failed, especially because the droughts occurred disproportionately during the summer growing season. Coincidentally, trade shifted from overland routes, which crossed the heart of the lowland, to sea-based voyages, moving around the perimeter of the peninsula.
Since the traditional elite relied largely upon this trade—along with annual crop surpluses—to build wealth, they were sapped of much of their power. This forced peasants and craftsmen into making a critical choice, perhaps necessary to escape starvation: abandoning the lowlands. The results are the ornate ruins that stretch across the peninsula today.
The collapse is especially intriguing because it seemingly occurred at “a time in which developed a sophisticated understanding of their environment, built and sustained intensive production and water systems and withstood at least two long-term episodes of aridity,” says B.L. Turner, the lead author of the ASU study. In other words, the Maya were no fools. They knew their environment and how to survive within it—and still they continued deforesting at a rapid pace, until the local environment was unable to sustain their society.
One of the lessons of these complementary studies, says climate modeler Robert Oglesby of the University of Nebraska, who worked on the second paper, is that our reshaping of the environment can often have unintended consequences—and we may not have any idea of what they are until it’s too late. For a present-day example, we can even look to another region where the ancient Maya lived, Guatemala, which is undergoing rapid deforestation. “There’s a tremendous amount of change going on in Guatemala,” said Oglesby. “They may be that much more vulnerable to a severe drought.”
Ces images qui ont été publiées en 2017 nous montreraient un ovni de très grande taille qui serait en train de plonger dans le soleil…
Ces photos ont été prises par le système SOHO, Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, un observatoire du soleil mis en place par la NASA et l’ESA. Sur les différents clichés, on peut voir ce qui semble être un ovni ayant une forme allongée et semblant être composé de plusieurs cercles. L’objet en question semble plonger dans le soleil. Difficile de dire la raison de cette collision.
Les dimensions de notre appareil semblent assez proche de celui de la planète Jupiter, ce qui en fait un ovni de très grande taille. Pour certains ufologues, cet engin serait entré en contact avec le soleil afin de refaire le plein d’énergie. Pour d’autres, il se serait écrasé sur notre étoile.
L’objet qui a été photographié a un aspect assez étonnant. Sa forme est parfaitement symétrique. Il est translucide et semble être composé de plusieurs parties. Il n’est pas sans rappeler certaines cellules ou créature microscopique. Les dimensions de notre appareil semblent assez proches de celui de la planète Jupiter, ce qui en fait un ovni de très grande taille. Difficile de vraiment savoir de quoi il s’agit. Si pour certains ufologues, il s’agit d’un ovni, on pourrait aussi penser à une anomalie provenant d’une lentille du télescope. Il serait intéressant de savoir s’il a été ou non observé par plusieurs appareils.
Ce nouvel ovni est étonnant, mais il manque quelques informations pour en savoir vraiment plus. Si sa forme ne donne pas l’impression d’être naturelle ce qui pourrait confirmer son origine extraterrestre. Il faudrait surtout savoir s’il a été détecté par d’autres appareils afin de confirmer qu’il y avait bien quelque chose ce jour-là qui s’est un peu trop rapproché du soleil…
LA NASA ENQUÊTE SUR UN MYSTÉRIEUX OBJET BRILLANT SUR MARS, PREUVE D'UNE VIE INTELLIGENTE EXTRATERRESTRE ?
LA NASA ENQUÊTE SUR UN MYSTÉRIEUX OBJET BRILLANT SUR MARS, PREUVE D'UNE VIE INTELLIGENTE EXTRATERRESTRE ?
La NASA dispose actuellement d'un budget de plusieurs milliards de dollars et participe à un grand nombre de missions, y compris de futurs voyages dans l'espace et le changement climatique. Cependant, cela ne l'empêche pas d'être au centre de toutes les théories du complot. Et parmi toutes les accusations, la plus surprenante est celle impliquant l’agence spatiale américaine et une colonie d’esclaves sur Mars. Plus précisément, un agent de la CIA à la retraite a déclaré que des enfants étaient secrètement envoyés sur Mars dans une colonie d'esclavage.
La controverse a atteint une telle ampleur qu'un porte-parole de l'exploration de Mars par la NASA a été obligé de nier de telles accusations, affirmant que sur la planète rouge, il n'y a pas d'humain, il n'y a que des véhicules motorisés. Mais maintenant, c’est la NASA elle-même qui a révélé qu’elle enquêtait sur un mystérieux objet brillant à la surface martienne.
L'objet martien mystérieux
La NASA a découvert un objet étrange et lumineux sur Mars. Le rover Curiosity l'a donc analysé de près. Officiellement appelés "Little Colonsay", les scientifiques ont vu l'objet mystérieux dans une image plus grande et ils ont maintenant décidé de revenir l'étudier.
"Nous allons essayer de mieux voir le" petit Colonsay "", a déclaré la NASA. "L'équipe de planification pense qu'il pourrait s'agir d'un météore parce que c'est brillant. Mais les apparences sont trompeuses et les tests ne le prouveront que par la chimie. Malheureusement, le petit objectif avait été perdu lors de la tentative précédente et avec cette information, Curiosity essaiera à nouveau. "
Les opérateurs utiliseront le ChemCam (complexe Chimie et Caméra), un ensemble d'instruments permettant la détection à distance du mobile Curiosity, afin d'étudier l'objet énigmatique. Comme la NASA l'a expliqué, observant les roches et les sols à distance, la ChemCam tire un laser et analyse la composition élémentaire de matériaux vaporisés provenant de zones inférieures à 1 millimètre dans le sol martien.
Construit un spectrographe fournit des détails sur les minéraux et les microstructures dans les roches en mesurant la composition du plasma résultant, un des ions de gaz extrêmement chaud et des électrons fait flotter librement. La caméra peut résoudre les caractéristiques 5 à 10 fois plus petites que celles visibles avec les chambres des deux rovers de la NASA a commencé à explorer la planète rouge en Janvier 2004. La curiosité a fonctionné dans la Rubin Cordillera Vera, enquête le site de forage Highfield, une zone unique de roches grises.
Preuve de l'existence d'une vie extraterrestre intelligente sur Mars
Mais ce n’est pas la première fois que le rover Curiosity rencontre des objets vraiment curieux qui semblent hors de propos. Peut-être l'incident le plus bizarre a eu lieu en 2013, quand la curiosité a découvert un écureuil de roche en forme, qui selon les experts est un exemple clair de paréidolie, une sorte d'illusion d'optique qui fait face, les animaux et les objets de tous les jours sur les stimuli sont projetés ou des moyens insignifiants.
Mais les explications officielles ne convainquent pas les théoriciens du complot, qui ont des points de vue complètement différents. Assurez-vous que la roche prétendue appelée « Little Colonsay » pourrait être un fossile ou peut-être un objet métallique, ce qui montre que Mars était et continue d'être, peut-être intelligent, la vie extra-terrestre sur Mars. De plus, non seulement les « théoriciens du complot » sont les seuls à croire que tous ces objets témoignent de la vie sur la planète rouge et que la NASA camoufle. En 2014, le Dr John Brandenburg a présenté une recherche à la réunion annuelle d'automne de l'American Physical Society, qui a affirmé que deux civilisations martiennes ont été tués par d'autres étrangers avec des armes nucléaires.
Les deux anciennes civilisations d'humanoïdes, l'une dans la région appelée Cydonia Mensae et l'autre dans Galaxias Chaos, avaient un niveau technologique similaire à celui des anciens Égyptiens. Deux catastrophes majeures ont toutefois eu lieu : l’impact des astéroïdes sur la civilisation dite des Cydoniens et l’autre dans la civilisation des utopies, qui a déclenché une explosion thermonucléaire due à des causes naturelles. La théorie de Dr. Brandenburg est basée sur le fait que la surface de Mars est recouverte d'une fine couche de substances radioactives telles que l'uranium, le thorium et le potassium radioactif, et que ce motif émane d'un point chaud. Ensuite, une explosion nucléaire aurait pu envoyer les déchets de ces civilisations sur toute la planète.
Nous sommes sûrs que le nouvel objet mystérieux trouvé sur Mars devra parler, à la fois dans la communauté scientifique et dans le complot. Mais ce dont nous sommes sûrs, c’est que, s’il est la preuve de l’existence d’une vie intelligente sur la planète rouge, la NASA finira par le cacher. Ensuite, l'objet étrange sera une météorite. Donc, la seule chose qui reste est de spéculer.
Pensez-vous que l'objet lumineux mystérieux est un objet d'origine extraterrestre ? Ou croyez-vous la version de la NASA, qui est une météorite?
In our never-ending quest to understand what happens to us after we die, humans have long seen the rare phenomenon of near-death experiences as providing some hints. People who’ve had a brush with death often report seeing and experiencing life-altering events on “the other side,” like a bright white light at the end of a long tunnel, or being reunited with lost relatives or beloved pets. But despite the seemingly supernatural nature of these experiences, experts say that science can explain why they happen – and what’s really going on.
What are near-death experiences?
A near-death experience is a profound psychological event with mystical elements. It typically occurs in people close to death, or during situations of intense physical or emotional pain, but may also happen after heart attacks or traumatic brain injuries, or even during meditation and syncope (loss of consciousness due to a fall in blood pressure). They’re surprisingly common, with a third of people who have come close to death reporting having experienced one.
Common characteristics people report are feelings of contentment, psychic detachment from the body (such as out-of-body experiences), rapid movement through a long dark tunnel, and entering a bright light.
Culture and age may also influence the kind of near-death experience people have. For example, many Indians report meeting the Hindu king of the dead, Yamraj, while Americans often claim to have met Jesus. Children typically describe encountering friends and teachers “in the light”.
Most reported near-death experiences are positive, and have even helped in reducing death anxiety, affirming life, and increasing well-being. However, some near-death experiences are negative and include feelings such as lack of control, awareness of nonexistence, hellish imagery, or perceived judgement from a higher being.
Why do near-death experiences happen?
Neuroscientists Olaf Blanke and Sebastian Dieguez have proposed two types of near-death experiences. Type one, which is associated with the brain’s left hemisphere, features an altered sense of time and impressions of flying. Type two, involving the right hemisphere, is characterised by seeing or communicating with spirits, and hearing voices, sounds and music. While it’s unclear why there are different types of near-death experiences, the different interactions between brain regions produce these distinct experiences.
The temporal lobes also play an important role in near-death experiences. This area of the brain is involved with processing sensory information and memory, so abnormal activity in these lobes can produce strange sensations and perceptions.
Despite several theories used to explain near-death experiences, getting to the bottom of what causes them is difficult. Religious people believe near-death experiences provide evidence for life after death – in particular, the separation of the spirit from the body. Whereas scientific explanations for near-death experiences include depersonalisation, which is a sense of being detached from your body. Scientific author Carl Sagan even suggested that the stress of death produces a remembrance of birth, suggesting the “tunnel” people see is a reimagining of the birth canal.
But due to the fanciful nature of these theories, other explanations have emerged. Some researchers claim that endorphins released during stressful events may produce something like near-death experience, particularly by reducing pain and increasing pleasant sensations. Similarly, anaesthetics such as ketamine can simulate near-death experience characteristics, such as out-of-body experiences.
Other theories suggest near-death experiences arise from dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a psychedelic drug that occurs naturally in some plants. Rick Strassman, a professor of psychiatry, observed in a study from 1990 to 1995 that people had near-death and mystical experiences following injection of DMT. According to Strassman, the body has natural DMT released at birth and death. However, there is no conclusive evidence to support this view. Overall, chemical-based theories lack precision and can’t explain the full range of near-death experience features people experience.
Researchers have also explained near-death experiences via cerebral anoxia, a lack of oxygen to the brain. One researcher found air pilots who experienced unconsciousness during rapid acceleration described near-death experience-like features, such as tunnel vision. Lack of oxygen may also trigger temporal lobe seizures which causes hallucinations. These may be similar to a near-death experience.
But the most widespread explanation for near-death experiences is the dying brain hypothesis. This theory proposes that near-death experiences are hallucinations caused by activity in the brain as cells begin to die. As these occur during times of crisis, this would explain the stories survivors recount. The problem with this theory, though plausible, is that it fails to explain the full range of features that may occur during near-death experiences, such as why people have out-of-body experiences.
Currently, there is no definitive explanation for why near-death experiences happen. But ongoing research still strives to understand this enigmatic phenomenon. Whether paranormal or not, near-death experiences are extremely important. They provide meaning, hope, and purpose for many people, while offering an appreciation of the human desire to survive beyond death.
Aliens Are Real, they Are Using Frequencies That Are Beyond Our Understanding (Video)
Aliens Are Real, they Are Using Frequencies That Are Beyond Our Understanding (Video)
An overall picture of what aliens are, the main genres of alien, the vehicles they use to traverse the universe and how they work. The lecture will also deal with a few of the reasons for ET ‘abductions’ and other contact experiences.
Guy Needler was always aware of the greater reality being around him, catching glimpses of the worlds of spirit. He therefore went on to become a reiki master, energy healer, spiritual teacher and author.
With his ability to project his consciousness to traverse all the frequencies associated within our multiverse and communicate with our Source Entity and the Origin, he now travels the world sharing his unique method of meditation through a series of workshops called Traversing the Frequencies.
He has published six books and is working on a seventh.
Top 10 UFO Physical Traces Cases That Even Skeptics Have A Hard Time Explaining (Video)
Top 10 UFO Physical Traces Cases That Even Skeptics Have A Hard Time Explaining (Video)
Physical trace UFO reports were labeled Close Encounters of the Second Kind (CE-II) by Dr. J.Allen Hynek and involve instances where there was a physical interaction between the UFO and its environment.
Usually these involve a landing trace, such as depressed grass or soil, but also burned or broken vegetation, residues, and more exotic traces.
The program UFO Physical Trace Cases by Dr. Nicholas Platco presents 10 of the top physical traces cases-cases of high strangeness that involved multiple witnesses.
The cases presented by Dr. Platco represent just 10 trace/landing events from a UFO database of over 4000 such events.
Dr. Nicholas Platco is a retired Astronomy and Meteorology professor at Penn State University.
A NASA scientist says intelligent aliens may have already visited Earth - but claims humans would not have noticed due to their 'extremely tiny' size.
Silvano P. Colombano says the extra-terrestrials would have looked hugely different to the carbon-based organisms currently roaming our planet.
He says that 'super intelligent' aliens would posses technology that humans cannot even imagine, and may have capable of interstellar space-travel.
It comes as NASA scans the universe for civilisations as prat of its 'Search for extraterrestrial intelligence' (SETI) programme.
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Silvano P. Colombano, who works in NASA's Intelligent Systems Division, believes we could have missed alien life,as it could be very different from the traditional carbon based life humanity is used to. Pictured, a classic 'flying saucer.
Dr Colombano told Califoria's SETI-backed Decoding Alien Intelligence Workshop back in March that scientists need to broaden their idea of what an extra-terrestrial would like like.
'I simply want to point out the fact that the intelligence we might find and that might choose to find us (if it hasn't already) might not be at all be produced by carbon based organisms like us,' his report read.
He added that scientists must 're-visit even our most cherished assumptions', which has implications for everything from an alien's lifespan to its height.
'The size of the 'explorer' might be that of an extremely tiny super-intelligent entity,' he says.
He believes scientists are too focused on pursuing signs of modern human technology on other planets.
This could mean missing signals of a civilisation inhabiting a planet far older than Earth, Dr Colombano argues.
Our inability to comprehend how such a planet would look might even mean that we miss any signs of its existence.
A pair of Australian radio telescopes pointed at the same spot in the sky have revealed new clues on the nature of mysterious signals known as fast radio bursts. The ASKAP managed to detect several fast radio bursts during its observation (artist's impression). However, one expert warned that radio waves could be out of date.
He said: 'Considering further that technological development in our civilisation started only about 10K years ago and has seen the rise of scientific methodologies only in the past 500 years, we can surmise that we might have a real problem in predicting technological evolution even for the next thousand years, let alone 6 Million times that amount!'
He also warned that fast radio bursts currently being analysed could be out of date and called for 'speculative physics' grounded in solid theories but 'with some willingness to stretch possibilities as to the nature of space-time and energy' and to 'consider the UFO phenomenon worthy of study'.
The space expert also claimed not every UFO sighting can be 'explained or denied'.
WHAT ARE FAST RADIO BURSTS AND WHY DO WE STUDY THEM?
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly, making them not only hard to find, but also hard to study.
The mystery stems from the fact it is not known what could produce such a short and sharp burst.
This has led some to speculate they could be anything from stars colliding to artificially created messages.
Scientists searching for fast radio bursts (FRBs) that some believe may be signals sent from aliens may be happening every second. The blue points in this artist's impression of the filamentary structure of galaxies are signals from FRBs
The first FRB was spotted, or rather 'heard' by radio telescopes, back in 2001 but wasn't discovered until 2007 when scientists were analysing archival data.
But it was so temporary and seemingly random that it took years for astronomers to agree it wasn't a glitch in one of the telescope's instruments.
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics point out that FRBs can be used to study the structure and evolution of the universe whether or not their origin is fully understood.
A large population of faraway FRBs could act as probes of material across gigantic distances.
This intervening material blurs the signal from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the left over radiation from the Big Bang.
A careful study of this intervening material should give an improved understanding of basic cosmic constituents, such as the relative amounts of ordinary matter, dark matter and dark energy, which affect how rapidly the universe is expanding.
FRBs can also be used to trace what broke down the 'fog' of hydrogen atoms that pervaded the early universe into free electrons and protons, when temperatures cooled down after the Big Bang.
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Is de aarde al bezocht door intelligente buitenaardsen? NASA-wetenschapper doet opmerkelijke uitspraken
Is de aarde al bezocht door intelligente buitenaardsen? NASA-wetenschapper doet opmerkelijke uitspraken
Een NASA-wetenschapper heeft geclaimd dat intelligente buitenaardsen de aarde mogelijk al hebben bezocht.
Professor Silvano P. Colombano van NASA’s Ames Research Center theoretiseert dat intelligent leven er anders uitziet dan we verwachten en mogelijk niet gebaseerd is op koolstof.
“Ik wil er simpelweg op wijzen dat de intelligentie die we wellicht gaan vinden of die ons zal vinden (als dat al niet gebeurd is) mogelijk heel anders is dan organismen zoals wij,” schrijft hij in een paper.
Hoe zou zulk leven eruit kunnen zien?
Interstellair reizen
“Levensverwachting zou niet langer een beperking zijn en de ‘ontdekkingsreiziger’ zou [bijvoorbeeld] een extreem kleine superintelligente entiteit kunnen zijn,” zei Colombano.
Hij suggereerde verder dat buitenaardsen al de beschikking kunnen hebben over technologieën die wij niet kunnen begrijpen en die interstellair reizen mogelijk maken.
We moeten zelfs onze meest gekoesterde aannames laten varen, aldus de NASA-wetenschapper.
UFO-waarneming
“Aangezien technologische ontwikkeling bij ons slechts 10.000 jaar geleden begon en wetenschappelijke methodes pas 500 jaar worden toegepast, zal het heel lastig zijn om technologische vooruitgang te voorspellen voor de komende duizenden jaren, laat staan de komende miljoenen jaren,” legde hij uit.
Colombano zei verder dat niet iedere UFO-waarneming kan worden ‘verklaard of ontkend’.
Laat je niet afleiden door de grote hoeveelheid ruis rond dit onderwerp, zei hij.
iStockAliens hoeven er helemaal niet zo uit te zien.
WETENSCHAPBuitenaards leven, het blijft een geweldig groot mysterie. Bestaat het? En zo ja, ook bij ons? Volgens Silvano P. Colombano, een professor die voor de NASA werkt, hebben we alleszins een veel te bekrompen visie op wat aliens zouden kunnen zijn. Volgens hem is het best mogelijk dat aliens al ooit voet op onze aarde hebben gezet, en dat we ze gemist hebben. Hij voegt eraan toe dat niet elke ufo-melding kan “verklaard of ontkend” worden.
“Ik wil alleen maar wijzen op het feit dat het intelligent leven dat wij zouden kunnen vinden en dat ervoor zou kunnen kiezen om ons te vinden - als dat nog niet het geval is - misschien helemaal niet wordt geproduceerd door organismen op koolstofbasis zoals de mens”, schrijft professor Colombano. Aliens zouden dus een heel andere chemische samenstelling kunnen hebben.
Hij zou zeker niet van stoel vallen als zou blijken dat buitenaardse wezens al veel verder dan de menselijke technologie staan. Dat interstellair reizen binnen hun bereik ligt, bijvoorbeeld. “De enorme tijdsverschillen in potentiële evoluties maken de kans op technologische ‘overeenkomsten’ heel klein”, aldus Colombano over de mogelijke verscheidenheid aan ontstane levensvormen in ons universum.
Uiterst kleine superintelligente entiteit
De professor pleit voor het verbreden van onze inzichten. Hij roept fysici op om op basis van de gekende theorieën toch de “speculatieve” toer te durven opgaan, meer op schaal van de ruimte. We moeten “zelfs onze meest gekoesterde veronderstellingen herbekijken”, argumenteert Colombano.
“Onze typerende levensduur hoeft niet langer een beperking te zijn... en de grootte van de ‘verkenner’ zou weleens die van een uiterst kleine superintelligente entiteit kunnen zijn”, aldus de NASA-wetenschapper over interstellaire ruimtereizen. Hij suggereert het bestaan van veel verder ontwikkelde vormen van buitenaards leven, vergelijkbaar met de menselijke creatie van alsmaar intelligentere computers waarmee wij in symbiose treden. Denk maar aan artificiële intelligentie.
Nog onder ons?
Ook de manieren van communicatie waarop we ons altijd al concentreerden zijn volgens Colombano misschien aan herziening toe. Zoals radiogolven, die weleens compleet verouderd zouden kunnen zijn voor aliens. Wat de professor dan weer de bedenking ontlokt dat aliens mogelijk ooit al op onze aarde kwamen, hier even een kijkje namen, en al snel weer weg waren, uit desinteresse. Of... ze zijn nog altijd onder ons, terwijl we niet eens weten hoe met hen te communiceren.
A former defence minister has accused world leaders of concealing the presence of aliens.
Paul Hellyer, who was a Canadian minister from 1963 to 1967, is now urging world powers to release what he believes to be hidden data on UFOs.
'Much of the media won't touch [the documents]', he said during a keynote speech at the Disclosure Canada Tour at the University of Calgary.
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A former defence minister has accused world leaders of concealing aliens. Paul Hellyer, who was a Canadian minister from 1963 to 1967, is urging world powers to release what he believes to be hidden data on UFOs
'You just have to keep working away and hope that someday you get a critical mass,' he said, according to a report by CTV.
'[The public] will say, in one way or another, "Mr President or Mr Prime Minister we want the truth and we want it now because it affects our lives."'
Hellyer, 91, first went public with his belief in aliens on Earth in 2005, becoming the first high ranking politician to do so.
He claims that the aliens have 'been visiting our planet for thousands of years' and are unimpressed with how we live.
'We spend too much time fighting each other, we spend too much money on military expenditures and not enough on feeding the poor and looking after the homeless and sick,' he said.
In this image, secretary of defense at the time, Robert McNamara (right) talks at the pentagon, in Washington with his Canadian counterpart, Paul Hellyer (left), in 1963. Hellyer is the first high ranking politician to publicly state that aliens are real
Last year, the former Canadian defence minister declared on Russian TV that aliens are walking among us.
But he said they are refusing to share their advanced technologies until we change our polluting and warring ways.
SOME OF PAUL HELLYER'S MORE OUTLANDISH CLAIMS ON ALIENS
Most aliens come from other star systems, although there are some living on Venus, Mars and Saturn’s moon.
There have been four species of aliens visiting our planet for thousands of years.
There are between two and twelve total species of aliens (although some place the number closer to 80).
Some look just like humans, while others appear more like the creatures portrayed in popular culture.
Most alien species have benevolent intentions toward humanity, although a handful have ulterior motives.
One alien species, known as the 'Tall Whites' is working with the U.S. Air Force in Nevada and has been known to pass for humans in public.
The 'federation' of alien species has vowed not to intervene in human affairs unless they are invited to.
The federation is disappointed in the way humans have treated the planet.
Alien technology is far more advanced, but has given us LED lights, microchips and Kevlar vests.
He told Russia Today's program SophieCo there are 80 different species of extra-terrestrials some of whom 'look just like us and they could walk down the street and you wouldn't know if you walked past one.'
In the bizarre interview, Hellyer made a series of pronouncements about aliens which grew increasingly outlandish and sounded closer to the plot of Star Trek.
'We have a long history of UFOs and of course there has been a lot more activity in the last few decades since we invented the atomic bomb,' he said.
'They are very concerned about that and that we might use it again, because the whole cosmos as a unity, and it affects not just us but other people in the cosmos.
'They are very much afraid that we might be stupid enough to start using atomic weapons again.'
However Hellyer told SophieCo that most of the aliens want to help rather than destroy us.
'I would say that nearly all are benign and benevolent and they do want to help us, there may be one or two species which do not,' he said.
Hellyer believes aliens are responsible for some of our modern technology including the microchip, LED light and Kevlar vest, he said.
He says he has never met an alien, but has seen a UFO near his cabin on Ontario's Lake Muskoka.
Hellyer described several types of aliens including 'Tall Whites' who are working with the U.S. air force in Nevada.-
'They're able to get away with that; they had a couple of their ladies dressed as nuns go into Las Vegas to shop and they weren't detected,' he claimed.
Another group of aliens are called 'Short Greys' who have very slim arms and legs and are about five feet high with large heads.
A third group are called 'Nordic Blondes' and Hellyer said that if you meet one you'd probably say, 'I wonder if she's from Denmark or somewhere.'
Hellyer's claims are likely to fuel conspiracy theorists who often look at Nasa images for evidence of aliens. This image was taken by Mercury-Redstone 1A on December 19, 1960. 'It's actually the Earth in the background and the UFO is in space observing the Mercury capsule,' Scott Waring recently claimed
If you want a definitive answer on the question of whether aliens have visited Earth, would you ask a politician, an astronaut, a philosopher, your neighbor who claims he’s an abductee or a NASA scientist? If you picked that last one but you don’t know any NASA scientists, we bring you Silvano P. Colombano, a computer scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in California who says he believes they’ve already been here … we just didn’t recognize them.
“I simply want to point out the fact that the intelligence we might find and that might choose to find us (if it hasn’t already) might not be at all be produced by carbon based organisms like us.”
In a new paper entitled “New Assumptions to Guide Seti Research,” Professor Colombano posits that extraterrestrials may not fit our conventional wisdom … or even our unconventional wisdom. Beyond being composed of something other than carbon, he proposes that beings who have the ability to travel long distances to get here may have lifespans far longer than ours, so that the ones who left their planet many light years away are the same ones who landed here. Not only that, the idea that they’re about our size (so we can put the benevolent ones on our bikes and punch out the evil ones) may not hold either.
“Our typical life-spans would no longer be a limitation (although even these could be dealt with multi-generational missions or suspended animation), and the size of the ‘explorer’ might be that of an extremely tiny super-intelligent entity.”
Is Colombano just thinking outside of the space box or does he know something about aliens that we don’t? It sounds more like he knows there’s something there and he wants both the scientific community and the general public to work together to get beyond our current assumptions so that we can see them.
“In the very large amount of “noise” in UFO reporting there may be “signals” however small, that indicate some phenomena that cannot be explained or denied. If we adopt a new set of assumptions about what forms of higher intelligence and technology we might find, some of those phenomena might fit specific hypotheses, and we could start some serious enquiry.”
Getting beyond the “noise” – that sounds like what many in the ufology field have been calling for lately. To accomplish this, Colombano believes the scientific community must accept the possibility of interstellar travel and the public must look beyond the “hoaxes, mistaken perceptions or even psychotic events in UFO phenomena.” Psychotic events? Does he have a certain rock star in mind?
While Colombano’s field is SETI, he recommends that his fellow scientists consider “speculative physics” that “stretch possibilities as to the nature of space-time and energy.” He also wants sociologists to speculate on new societies and how they might communicate with us … not to mention how we might communicate with them.
That all sounds great and it’s highly unusual to be coming from a NASA scientist, but in order to keep from getting lumped into pseudoscience or “psychotic events,” we need a catchy slogan that everyone can latch onto and put on a T-shirt to wear at “talk to the aliens” rallies. Colombano has the perfect candidate:
“Find the signal in the noise.”
As Sally sang in “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” that’s my new philosophy. Scientists, ufologists and people looking for alien life forms on Earth … the rest is up to you.
Archaeologists have found two new caves near Qumran in the West Bank that they think may hold some Dead Sea Scrolls. The newly found caves, which are called 53b and 53c, are located close to other caves where some scrolls have already been found.
The previously found Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in twelve caves that were near Qumran and included 900 manuscripts. It is thought that a group of people called Essenes lived in Qumran and that they were the ones who wrote a lot of the scrolls. The Essenes ended up leaving the area around 70 A.D. when a revolt began against the Romans.
The first eleven caves were found between the years 1946 and 1956. Those eleven caves held the majority of the scrolls. The twelfth cave, however, was discovered much later in 2017 and only one blank scroll was found inside. They archaeologists did, however, find jars, textiles, string, and rope that were used to store the scrolls. By finding the remains of items used to store them, but not finding the actual Dead Sea Scrolls, it would indicate that they were more than likely stolen at some point.
The two new caves that have been recently discovered are close in proximity to the twelfth cave and they also contain evidence that indicates scrolls were indeed there in the past. Unfortunately, archaeologists have yet to find any remaining scrolls but they still have a lot of investigating to do.
Inside of cave 53b, researchers found several artifacts from humans visiting the cave years earlier, which included a bronze cooking pot and an oil lamp. In a paper written by archaeologists Randall Price of Liberty University in Virginia and Oren Gutfeld of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, they wrote that researchers found “large amounts of pottery representing store jars, flasks, cups and cooking pots, and fragments of woven textiles, braided ropes and string.”
After analyzing the bronze cooking pot, it was determined that it dates back from between 100 B.C. and 15 B.C. which is also the same time that people were living at the archaeological site of Qumran. Also, the oil lamp that was found in the cave looks quite similar to the lamps that were found at Qumran which would indicate that the people who inhabited the site more than likely used the caves as well.
Price told Live Science, “We have not analyzed all of the pottery from this cave, so we do not know if a scroll jar was present.” But since the rope, string, and textiles found in cave 53b are quite similar to the ones previously found in cave 12, it may have also been used to store the scrolls as well.
As for the second newly found cave, called 53c, researchers found a piece of a scroll jar which indicates that scrolls were stored in that cave at one time. They are currently excavating the cave to see if they can find any evidence of hidden scrolls.
And so it arrives: Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell’s much-anticipated feature documentary about one of the most controversial UFO stories ever told—a story that, along with the infamous Roswell Incident of 1947, has arguably done more than any other to shape the landscape of modern UFO mythology.
In November of 1989, a thirty-year-old scientist by the name of Robert Lazar was interviewed exclusively by the respected investigative reporter George Knapp for the Las Vegas-based KLAS TV station. The topic of the interview was Lazar’s alleged recent employment at a top secret facility in the Nevada desert called S-4, which was located close to another top secret facility called Area 51 (unknown to the public at the time). The story Lazar told was jaw-dropping, and he stands by it—word-for-word—to this day, despite continuous harassment by incredulous journalists, UFO buffs, and, apparently, various government agencies.
Bob Lazar today, sketching the flying saucer he claims to have worked on at a facility called S-4, near Area 51.
For those with an open mind (okay, a very open mind), it is perhaps easier to believe Lazar than one might imagine. He has always come across as absolutely sincere and has always resisted encouragement to embellish his original testimony. I am of the opinion that Lazar has never spoken untruthfully about his recollections of Area 51 and S-4. However, I have also never doubted that the story that he tells is untrue—which is to say that the circumstances and events of Lazar’s story were carefully orchestrated and staged for himspecifically as part of a sophisticated and ongoing UFO perception management campaign, which likely has counterintelligence purposes far beyond the UFO subject.
As has been documented by George Knapp and others, there is good reason to believe that Lazar really did work at and/or near Area 51 for a short time in the late 1980s. But it appears he was cherry picked for his job based on his psychological profile and his spotty personal and business history. In other words, it was known and desired that he would blow the whistle when the time came, and that it would be easy to publicly discredit him after he did so, ensuring that his story would not be accepted by all, but by just enough to engrain it into a rapidly expanding subcultural belief system.
The Emmy-Award-Winning investigative reporter, George Knapp, who broke Lazar’s story to the world in 1989.
Lazar told Knapp how he had been recruited to work at S-4 for just a few weeks in 1988 and 1989. Everything was cloaked in secrecy and the atmosphere at the base was oppressive. Information was shared there strictly on a need-to-know basis and his every move was closely monitored by armed security personnel. He claimed that he was tasked with helping his employers at S-4 to understand the propulsion system of a highly advanced air/space vehicle, which was being stored in one of nine camouflaged hangars at the facility.
When Lazar first set eyes on the craft—which was classic saucer-shaped and which he later dubbed ‘the sport model’—he assumed it was man-made. He had not been a believer in flying saucers. As the days and weeks went by, however, Lazar came to the conclusion that the craft must have been extraterrestrial in origin. Its technology was far too advanced to have been of human design, and, furthermore, its seats were far too small to accommodate human adults. They were child-sized, he said.
A close up of Lazar’s saucer sketch, which he explains in detail in Corbell’s documentary.
While at S-4 on another occasion, Lazar was taken into an office and shown weighty briefing documents, which he was told to study. They described how aliens from Zeta Reticuli—the classic big-eyed Grays—had been interacting with humanity for at least 10,000 years. Literally everything Lazar read in the documents regarding human history, alien biology, and political events supported the disinformative narrative that had been actively sown into the UFO community since the early-1980s by US intelligence operatives in the form the fraudulent MJ-12 documents and by the highly questionable testimony of Mirage Men with names like “Falcon” and “Condor.”
The question is: why was Lazar, who was supposedly employed strictly on a need-to-know basis as a physicist with one very specific technical task, given access to top secret documentation which had literally no bearing on that task? Perhaps the answer is that Lazar was being deliberately seeded with disinformation and was expected to later share it with the public.
The orchestrated nature of Lazar’s experience is also supported by one of his most bizarre recollections of his time at S-4, in which he set eyes on an alien entity working quite literally side-by-side with human scientists. At least, that is what he was meant to believe he saw. Lazar claims that, on the night in question, he was being escorted down a hallway by armed security personnel who had instructed him to keep his eyes forward at all times. With this instruction in mind, as they passed a doorway, naturally Lazar glanced to one side. His peripheral vision detected what he thought in that moment was one of the Gray aliens he had read about in the briefing documents. The small figure was stood between two men in lab coats. The three of them were looking at a computer console, and the “alien” had its back to the door. Lazar’s glimpse was so fleeting that no fine details were distinguishable. He was then pushed further along the corridor by one of the guards who instructed him once again to keep his eyes forward. Lazar himself has always been open to the possibility that this incident was staged specifically for him using a doll or a dummy and has speculated that someone may have been playing mind games with him.
Inside The Little A’Le’Inn in Rachel, Nevada, not too far from the gates to Area 51.
Most of the events described above are featured in Corbell’s documentary in the form of archive news footage of Lazar and in on-camera testimony of the UFO icon as he appears today, working in his lab or at home with his wife. We also get some input from his friends, family, and colleagues, all of whom fully support his story. As the reporter who introduced Area 51 to the world, George Knapp features prominently in Corbell’s film, again both in the form of archive footage and speaking from his home in the present day or as a disembodied voice on Corbell’s speaker-phone. Hollywood legend Micky Rourke is billed as narrating the documentary, but his contributions amount to little more than sporadic, largely unintelligible mumblings about the nature of truth and the universe which threaten seriously to derail Corbell’s narrative whenever it finds time to settle into a groove—which isn’t very often.
From the get go, and throughout, Corbell’s film is mired by an intrusive and over-produced electronic soundbed of pulsating intensity. It’s almost relentless, and it serves only to distract from the story itself, which is more than sufficiently compelling to be presented without whistles and bells.
For those already well-read on the Lazar case, Bob Lazar will offer few surprises, but it is fascinating nonetheless to spend time with the man thirty years on from when he rocked the world. Corbell succeeds in showing us Lazar—the man and the legend—up close and personal, revealing, ironically, a pretty down-to-earth guy who has tried his best to get on with his life as a scientist and business man, as removed as possible from the maddening world of UFOlogy. For better or for worse, he has chosen to be a largely-silent spectator to the formation of his own myth.
The film does present some circumstantial corroborative evidence for Lazar’s claims. One scene sees Corbell presenting Lazar with photographs he has acquired of the high-tech hand-scanners used at Area 51. Lazar had always maintained that these devices were used during his time at S-4, but when he described them in the late-1980s, they sounded like science-fiction. Apparently not. The look on Lazar’s face as he examines the photos is one of obvious familiarity with what he’s seeing, and his sense of vindication is palpable.
One of the most interesting and dramatic scenes see Lazar and his colleagues describing a disturbing raid on his home during the production of Corbell’s film by a parade of government agencies in search of… something (I will avoid spoilers here). On the face of it, these events add some support to the notion that Lazar is of considerable interest to the US national security apparatus—and all that that implies. Yet, frustratingly, Corbell makes little of this in his documentary. By the time the credits roll, this crucial scene is almost forgotten.
Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers makes for entertaining and thought-provoking viewing, but what’s missing is any real sense of the political and UFOlogical climate in which Lazar’s story originally came to light—we get the “what” but we don’t get the “why.” Given the recent revelations of the Pentagon concerning UFOs, which are tied in with the efforts of self-styled Disclosure hero Tom DeLonge, understanding the motivations behind UFO disinformation efforts is today more important than ever, but Corbell’s Lazar story is presented in a cultural and political vacuum, dampening its potential relevance and impact.
On November 11, 2018, a strange sort of wave circumnavigated the globe and registered on sensors more than 11,000 miles away from what was believed to be its source. These waves emanated from the Northeast corner of Madagascar and continued for nearly 20 minutes, ringing slowly and at a low-frequency as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand. The cause of these waves are still being theorized and investigated by scientists, but the strange wavewas caught by a Twitter user, with the handle @matarikipax, according to a report from National Geographic. Many seismologists said they had never seen anything quite like it in response to the Twitter user’s find.
So, why were these waves so strange? During most earthquakes, there are fast-moving waves, which cause the initial rumble of the quake. Secondary waves follow, moving from side-to-side, the article states. This particular seismic occurrence, however, seemed to contain mostly the tertiary waves of earthquakes, which are described as slow, lengthy surface waves. Because of its similarity to these, the strange rumbling of the earth was not physically felt and reported by anyone.
The French Island of Mayotte was close to the source of these mysterious waves
These waves were specifically pinpointed nearest to the French island of Mayotte. The island has been experiencing something of an earthquake swarm relating to possible undersea volcanic activity since May. The largest of these events was reported to be around 5.8 on the Richter Scale. These swarms have slowed a bit in recent years, and the report in National Geographic said none of the events have been similar to the one recorded on Nov. 11.
To get to the bottom of the incident, the French Geological Survey (BRGM) is investigating possible new volcanic activity on the seafloor near the island. Mayotte was created by volcanism, but such activity has not been ongoing in that area for more than 4,000 years, geologists believe. The earlier earthquake swarms, though, could indicate a new magma pocket is opening in the earth’s crust beneath the waves just offshore of the island.
When magma pushes toward the top of the earth, new crust is formed by its cooling. Islands such as Mayotte and the Hawaiian Islands are formed by new crust being created from magma being squeezed to the surface by plate tectonics. This occurs constantly around the world, and it appears recent earthquake swarms and this recent mysterious wave were created by these processes.
During those processes, rare occurrences, known colloquially by geologists as “slow earthquakes” can occur. Slow earthquakes release the same amount of pressure as normal earthquakes, but over a longer period of time. This could explain why the waves were not felt by anyone, but registered on sensors across the globe for at least 20 minutes. If this were proven to be such an instance, this release would have been equivalent to about a five on the Richter Scale. Similar quakes occurred during the collapse of a magma chamber in 2009 at the Nyiragongo Volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Giant Angelic UFO Caught On NASA Images Heading To Our Sun, Dec 2, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Giant Angelic UFO Caught On NASA Images Heading To Our Sun, Dec 2, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: December 2, 2018 Location of sighting: Earths Sun Source: NASA/SOHO images This angelic like UFO has been recorded a dozen times over the last 5 years. Often heading into the sun or out of the sun, probably harvesting an energy source that us humans have yet to discover. The UFO has a lot of right angles to it. I only added a bit of contrast and the edges showed up clear. I'm a little bewildered at how NASA could keep such giant ships a secret from the public for so long? I mean its huge! Probably tens of miles across and travels so fast that the cameras only caught it in a single photo, then it was gone a few minutes later. When ever we see this angelic UFO it usually has a few round smaller UFOs following its tail just as it does today. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
As I have said before, I have found alien structures on every meteor, asteroid, moon and planet in our solar system using NASA, ESA and JAXA photos of the surfaces of those objects.
I found many non reflective black structures on asteroid Bennu today. The most significant of all is a sphinx black structure with a long tail, but its curled in an oval like a dog...can you see the huge face of the sphinx in the photo below? Well, thats a whole building. Thats how they make them.
There are three main kinds of structures...the other types are rare but I have found many rares.
The three main types are:
1. Non reflective black structures...they are the biggest and most common.
2. White ceramic-like structures...they are smaller, not usually close to the black structures and so reflective that getting a focused photo of them is very hard to find.
3. Small silver metallic structures. Sometimes they are found alone, but often they would be around the big black structures connected with metallic tubes to the black structures. These are only 1-3% the size of the black structures.
Rare structures I have found:
1: Glass pyramid structure...impossible to take a good screenshot of it.
2. Actually found a eight sided very flat 24k gold structure in high detail. Only found one...but computer got viruses few days later and lost entire computer. Black screen virus.
3. Emerald dome...only found one, but its huge!
So you see, they are everywhere in our solar system. They were here billions of years before us, and will be here billions of years after us.
De mysterieuze seismische golf van vorige week heeft heel wat mensen de nodige schrik bezorgd en een echte oorzaak is er formeel nog steeds niet.
Aangezien men toch wat moet zeggen is officieel de keuze gevallen op een onderwater vulkaan als oorzaak voor dit vreemde fenomeen, maar uiteraard is het wat anders.
Hoe vaak komt het voor dat de complete aarde wordt opgeschrikt door seismische trillingen, terwijl er geen duidelijke/bekende oorzaak aan ten grondslag ligt.
Meetstations van bevingen in de Indische Oceaan pikten drie weken geleden een signaal op van seismische golven die vanaf Madagaskar tot aan Chili, Nieuw-Zeeland en Canada reikten. Wetenschappers gissen naar de oorzaak van de seismische activiteit, meldt The Daily Mail. Het centrum van de mysterieuze activiteit ligt voor de kust van het eiland Mayotte, naast Madagaskar.
Om duidelijk te zien hoe ver die seismische golf ging, hierna nog eens een plaatje.
Zoals gezegd, probeert men dit vast te pinnen op een onderwatervulkaan, maar hoe bijzonder dit is, blijkt wel uit de woorden van een wetenschapper van de Universiteit van Plymouth in Engeland, Jamie Gurney, die zegt geen flauw idee te hebben of zoiets ooit eerder is voor gekomen. Kortom, een unieke gebeurtenis en geen verklaring.
De man die zich bezighoudt met de komende mini ijstijd, Adept 2030, denkt dat dit alles een gevolg is van de sterk verminderde activiteit van de zon. Er zijn geen zonnevlekken op dit moment en de komende zonnecyclus belooft een ultra lage te worden, met nauwelijks zonneactiviteit en een heel koude periode die gaat komen. Het is inderdaad een wetenschappelijk feit dat bij een hele lage zonnecyclus, de kans op aardbevingen en vulkaanuitbarstingen groter is dan normaal.
De bekende Youtugebruiker Mr. MBB333, houdt zich ook met dit vraagstuk bezig en ontdekt dat er in de laatste week van november uitzonderlijk veel aardbevingen zijn die zich voordoen op een diepte van tien kilometer, waaronder de recente aardbeving in Alaska die de grond letterlijk uit elkaar deed scheuren.
Afgezien van de aardbeving in Alaska vonder er in de laatste week van november wereldwijd aardbevingen plaats, bijna allemaal op een diepte van 6,2 mijl oftewel 10 kilometer.
Mr. MBB333 denkt dan ook dat de vreemde seismische golf haar oorsprong vindt op een diepte van 10 kilometer.
Een lezer die de bijbel leest, denkt dat het allemaal nog veel erger gaat worden:
Ik weet niet of jullie dit boeit, maar het zal nog veel erger worden volgens de Schrift, naar een climax toe:
Als we Jesaja hfdstk 24 lezen, lijkt het alsof God een vreemde planeet zal gebruiken in de laatste uren, die in een baan in de buurt van de aarde terechtkomt en de aarde aan het wankelen brengt:
HerzSt (Jesaja 24: 17-20) 17 Angst, valkuil en strik over u, bewoners van de aarde! 18 En het zal gebeuren dat wie vlucht voor het beangstigende geluid, neervallen zal in de valkuil; en wie opklimt uit het midden van de valkuil, gevangen zal worden in de strik. Want de sluizen in de hoogte worden geopend en de fundamenten van de aarde zullen beven. 19 Scheuren, openscheuren zal de aarde, splijten, opensplijten zal de aarde, vervaarlijk wankelen zal de aarde, 20 hevig waggelen zal de aarde, als een dronkaard. Zij zal heen en weer slingeren als een nachthutje, haar overtreding zal zwaar op haar drukken, zij zal neervallen en niet meer opstaan.
Terug naar Mr. MBB333 die constateert dat er in de honderden naschokken die zich voor deden in Alaska een bepaald patroon te ontdekken is. De naschokken gaan als het ware in een rechte lijn richting noordpool. Er deden zich maar liefst 580 fikse naschokken voor die allemaal het patroon volgden.
Hij ontdekt nog iets bijzonders naar aanleiding van de aardbeving in Alaska. De energie van een dergelijke beving verspreidt zich vanuit het epicentrum van de aardbeving verder over de wereld en de seismografen op diverse locaties pikken dan ook de energie van de beving op. Echter, het vreemde is dat de seismografen op Antarctica een veel hogere energie laten zien dan de seismografen in bijvoorbeeld Oregon, wat in feite net om de hoek ligt, vergeleken met Antarctica. Misschien is het gerelateerd aan de vreemde energiebron op Antarctica waarover wij eerder schreven.
Aangezien Mr. MBB333 ook niet weet waarom de seismografen op de zuidpool zover uitslaan bij een aardbeving aan de andere kant, bij Alaska, speculeert hij dat dit mogelijk wel het begin zou kunnen zijn van de pole shift.
Langzaam maar zeker wordt het terrein waar volgende oorlogen zullen worden uitgevochten verplaatst naar de ruimte.
In het geheim worden er allerlei supersonische ruimtewapens ontwikkeld en misschien zijn er per ongeluk beelden opgedoken van een test met dergelijke wapens.
Wanneer er een exploderende vuurbol wordt waargenomen in de lucht, dan is de conclusie al snel dat we te maken hebben met een meteoriet. Dat was dan ook de officiële verklaring voor de vreemde vuurbol die enkele dagen geleden boven Siberië werd waargenomen.
De vuurbol werd waargenomen door talloze automobilisten via hun dashcam. Eén van de redenen dat er wordt gespeculeerd over de vuurbol en dat het misschien geheime supersonische (ruimte)wapens zijn, is omdat de vuurbol werd waargenomen boven Akademgorodok. Deze stad is een soort wetenschappelijk ontwikkelingscentrum met diverse instituten die bekendstaan onder de naam "Poetins geheime wapen".
Volgens de officiële berichten is het een meteoriet, maar er doen ook andere geruchten de ronde en dat is dat we hier getuige zijn van het testen van geheime Russische ruimtewapens.
Tijdens nader onderzoek werden er ook geen restanten, van wat dan ook, aangetroffen op de grond en uiteraard zijn er ook de nodige mensen die denken dat het hier een ufo betreft.
Daarnaast vindt er nu nog een interessante ontwikkeling plaats en dat is dat Amerika nu ook begint met het demoniseren van Rusland in de ruimte. Zo komt er via de BBC een bericht naar buiten over een eind vorig jaar gelanceerde Russische raket die zich heel vreemd en hoogst verdacht zou hebben gedragen. Tijdens een persconferentie van het Amerikaanse Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken in Zwitserland op 14 augustus jongstleden werd dit bekendgemaakt. Omdat deze satelliet zich klaarblijkelijk anders gedraagt dan normaal gesproken het geval is, zeiden de Amerikanen dat ze vermoeden hier te maken te hebben met een nieuw wapen. Rusland reageerde onmiddellijk fel door te zeggen dat dit alles ongefundeerd is en bovendien een erg lasterlijke beschuldiging.
Ongeveer tegelijkertijd met de Russische vuurbol valt er iets vergelijkbaars te zien in Hongarije:
Ook daar zien we een lang spoor in de lucht, maar ook duidelijk een soort object aan het uiteinde van dat spoor. Het lijkt meer op een raket dan op een meteoriet.
Voor zover ons bekend is er tot op dit moment ook voor dat object geen andere verklaring dan: een meteoriet.
Als Poetin inderdaad bezig is met het testen van ruimtewapens boven Siberië, dan lijkt het niet echt waarschijnlijk dat hij dit ook boven Hongarije zou doen. Dus, vooralsnog meer vragen dan antwoorden voor wat betreft de vreemde vuurbollen.
Eight limestone coffins were discovered in the area of King Amenemhat II’s pyramid that is located in the Dahshur royal necropolis which is 25 miles south of Cairo, Egypt. While it’s not entirely clear exactly when and how long Amenemhat II ruled Egypt, it is believed that his reign lasted for around 30 years around 1900 B.C.
Several other high-ranking officials and courtiers are buried in the necropolis. This area is also the location of some of the earliest pyramids on Earth, which includes the Red Pyramid and the Sneferu’s Bent Pyramid.
According to the Egyptian archaeological mission’s manager and Head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziry, the mission began their work in August of 2018. The mummies were inside of limestone coffins and were wrapped in a layer of colorful painted cardboard in the shape of a human. Waziry said that three of the eight mummies were in good condition and that they were from the late period of 664 to 332 B.C.
Waziry also mentioned that the coffins were transported to a restoration warehouse and that the Ministry of Antiquities would show photographs of the sarcophagus at a local museum.
The Minister of Antiquities, Khaled el-Anany, said that another recent discovery happened on November 24th when Mut Temple’s Tomb was found. An archaeological mission that’s connected to the French University of Strasbourg discovered the sarcophagus in the same general area as tomb TT33 which is located in the West Bank of Luxor.
The sarcophagus, which is from the 18th dynasty, contains a mummy that is wrapped in linen. After researchers examined the mummy for the first time, it was determined that it was re-wrapped in linen during the late period which would explain why it was in such good condition.
Another mysterious discovery was found in the city of Alexandria when experts found an ancient “cursed” black granite sarcophagus. Inside of the huge coffin were the remains of three skeletons along with gold sheets.
I love the theme of science fiction, so I always have these ideas about flying UFOs and houses in the middle of nowhere that aliens show an interest in as they try to take over a new planet.
In turning my ideas into photos, I always try using new toys and scale models while mixing photography with Photoshop.
I worked on this UFO house abduction photo for about two months. I like the vintage look of things like the car and the house. I had bought a bigger house, but it was way too big for the project. I then contacted a company that cut wood to make a small house using my design, but it was hard to get it together because the size I asked for was too small.
Fortunately, in the end, I was able to get it together.
I used a $2 LED light strip for the spaceship. To create the smoke, I used cigarettes — I don’t smoke, so this was hard for me.
For the sand, I used hummus, as real sand would have looked too big on camera given the scale.
I used one flash head to make the light that comes out from the UFO/Spaceship, and there was another small LED light to give overall light to the scene.
Here’s the photo that resulted, titled “The House”:
About the author: Amr Elshamy is a photographer, visual artist, and filmmaker based in Cairo, Egypt. The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author. You can find more of Elshamy’s work on his website, Behance, and Instagram.
Nasa scientist admits there may be some UFO sightings that cannot be ‘explained or denied’
Nasa scientist admits there may be some UFO sightings that cannot be ‘explained or denied’
Jasper Hamill
A Nasa scientist has slammed fellow researchers for ‘ignoring the relevance’ of UFOs in a white paper which suggests it may not be possible to explain or deny every sighting of mysterious objects in the sky.
In a piece of research produced earlier this year, S. P. Colombano from the Nasa Ames Research Center called for an investigation into UFOs and said that some of the sightings could deserve to be taken seriously rather than dismissed out of hand.
He insisted that our species needed to be more ‘aggressive’ in its search for extraterrestrial intelligence and try to think about how alien technology might develop over millions of years.
‘In the very large amount of “noise” in UFO reporting there may be “signals” however small, that indicate some phenomena that cannot be explained or denied,’ the scientist wrote.
Aliens probably don’t ride around in spacecraft like this one
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Although Colombano stressed that ‘we have not been, and are not being visited’ by aliens, he went on to say that we simply may not be able to grasp the truth about extraterrestrial civilisations at our relatively primitive stage of technological development.
He said that humanity needs to abandon its preconceptions about the nature of extraterrestrial beings – which may not be little green men but tiny, hyper-intelligent robots.
Colombano also claimed fellow researchers often avoid studying UFOs because they believe interstellar travel is impossible and fear most sightings are driven by ‘hoaxes, mistaken perceptions or even psychotic events’.
‘If we adopt a new set of assumptions about what forms of higher intelligence and technology we might find, some of those phenomena might fit specific hypotheses, and we could start some serious enquiry,’ he wrote.
‘The intelligence we might find and that might choose to find us (if it hasn’t already) might not be at all be produced by carbon-based organisms like us,’ he continued.
‘How might that change the above assumptions about interstellar travel?
‘Our typical life-spans would no longer be a limitation (although even these could be dealt with multi-generational missions or suspended animation), and the size of the “explorer” might be that of an extremely tiny super-intelligent entity.’
Does Nasa need to change its idea about the nature of alien life in order to discover extraterrestrial civilisations?
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The Nasa researcher added: ‘Our form of life and intelligence, may just be a tiny first step in a continuing evolution that may well produce forms of intelligence that are far superior to ours and no longer based on carbon “machinery”.
µ‘After a mere 50 years of computer evolution we are already talking about “super-intelligence” and we are quickly becoming symbiotic with computer power.’
His paper suggests the human scientists who are currently scanning deep space for radio waves could be wasting their time, because super smart aliens may not use this communication medium.
Even if they did, an advanced civilisation is likely to have figured out a way of packing so much information into the airwaves that we would be unable to decipher their messages.
Messenger feature ‘I suspect that, even if the radio medium continues to be used, the packing of information inside it would be so much greater that we would not be able to recognize any “structure” and would not be able to distinguish it from noise,’ he added.
The Nasa researcher said scientists should broaden their investigation into alien life by considering how technology might evolve over millions of years and what sort of society extraterrestrials would form.
‘We need to become more flexible in our assumptions,’ he urged.
‘The reason is that, while it is still reasonable and conservative to assume that life is most likely to have originated in conditions similar to ours, the vast time differences in potential evolutions render the likelihood of “matching” technologies very slim.’
Sometimes, when we post a cool picture of the Earth taken from space, Popular Science gets questions about why, if there's so much garbage in space, we don't see an orbital landfill circling our planet in pictures of the Earth.
No, it’s not some massive conspiracy, and yes, the space above our planet is getting increasingly and worryingly crowded with satellites and space junk. It’s just that humans and the things we build are tiny compared to the vastness of our planet. There are about 4,256 human-made satellites orbiting the Earth, of which about 1,149 are still working. Most of these are fairly small, ranging from tiny CubeSats that are only four inches on each side to communications satellites that can be over 100 feet long.
That’s still tiny when you consider that the Earth is 7,917.5 miles across.
Even our space station is puny when compared to our planet. Measuring 357 feet end-to-end, the International Space Station (ISS) is by far the largest human-made object orbiting the Earth. Even that isn’t large enough to register on Earth-observing instruments such as the DSCOVR satellite's EPIC camera, which takes absolutely gorgeous pictures of the Earth from a million miles away.
Jay Herman, the lead scientist of EPIC, says that the smallest objects EPIC's camera can make out are about eight to 10 kilometers wide. At that range, the ISS wouldn’t even register as a blip in an image of the Earth.
SPACE JUNK
Some of the orbital debris that currently encircles the planet. Dots are not to scale.
Even satellites with closer vantage points and higher resolutions are out of luck. NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites carry the MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instrument and operate only about 440 miles above the Earth’s surface.
NASA under pressure: More than just one asteroid threatens humanity
NASA under pressure: More than just one asteroid threatens humanity
A team from Spain's largest university, Complutense Madrid, warns of the threat of numerous asteroids that could, at worst, wipe out entire states.
The earth is thus threatened by far more than just one asteroid, which could strike here from summer 2023. But it gets even worse: The team from Spain fears that there is nothing more we can do when a deadly asteroid approaches Earth. Often the astronomical small bodies are sighted too late.
The researchers discussed the latest influence of an object with a width of 2.7 to 3.6 meters called 2018 LA, which hit Earth only a few hours after its discovery. At 38,000 kilometers per hour, it penetrated our atmosphere and made a huge fireball appear in the sky over Botswana in Africa.
"This was a much smaller object than the ones we're supposed to find and warn," said Lindley Johnson, NASA's Planetary Defense Officer at the time.
In their new article, the Spanish researchers warned that so far only "three natural objects were discovered before they collided with Earth". In addition, according to the team, there are almost 15,000 asteroids near Earth, about 25 meters wide.
More than 8000 asteroids shall be over 140 meters wide!
A mega asteroid could hit the earth from summer 2023
NASA is under pressure. According to some astronomers, the US Federal Space Agency should find a way to destroy the dangerous space rocks before they impact.
If we were hit by a small object, it would cause relatively minor but still visible damage - and possibly even a small number of deaths.
To date, astronomers have discovered more than 8,000 near-Earth asteroids, at least 140 meters wide, large enough to wipe out an entire U.S. state.
If Spanish scientists are right and such a large asteroid goes undetected, it could be a death sentence for millions.
It remains to be hoped that such a scenario will never occur or that the technology will develop so well that the possible impact will be prevented in time.
Bizarre Seismic Waves Was felt Around the World Nov 11, Here’s Why It Happened
Bizarre Seismic Waves Was felt Around the World Nov 11, Here’s Why It Happened
Something very unusual rumbled across planet Earth on November 11th, and scientists say they’ve never seen anything like it. Now they know what happened. For 20 minutes, instruments measured unusual seismic activity over 10,000 miles away from where it originated, yet not a single human felt them.
For the 1st time, researchers have been able to observe the motion of gas clouds around a central supermassive black hole. This particular black hole powers the famous quasar 3C 273.
Back in the 1960s, astronomers began using the name quasar to describe what they at first called quasi-stellarobjects. The first quasars looked starlike, like pinpoints, through optical telescopes, but analysis of their lightperplexed astronomers. Now the theory of quasars has made huge strides. They’re pictured as the highly active cores of galaxies in the early universe, powered by gigantic black holes. Yet we still see quasars as starlike through optical telescopes, and detailed observations about the area around the black holes has been hard to come by. Last week – on November 29, 2018 – the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) announced that its astronomers have used a new instrument called GRAVITY to get a better look than ever before – in optical light – into the heart of one of astronomy’s most famous quasars, the first quasar ever discovered, called 3C 273.
This international team of astronomers was able to observe the structure of rapidly moving gas around the central supermassive black hole believed to power 3C 273. Prior to this new work, the small angular size of this inner region – its size on our sky’s dome, described as about that of our solar system seen from a distance of 2.5 billion light-years – had made this observation impossible.
The video animation at the top of this post tries to convey some of this story, by first showing you an optical image of 3C273 (you’ll also see this image below). The video then goes to an artist’s impression of the surroundings of the supermassive black hole thought to power this quasar. In the animation, you see the typical components believed to make up supermassive black holes: a dusty torus, very hot, infalling material and a jet of material ejected at high speeds from the black hole’s poles.
Then, in the video, you see what’s new here: a depiction of a spinning whirlpool, an artist’s concept of the recent work completed by astronomers, who were able to get some details about the so-called broad line region, where gas clouds whirl around 3C 273’s central black hole.
Astronomers still can’t see this area. But they can analyze optical light from this region, and the details they’ve found have let them confirm the mass of the central black hole at about 300 million solar masses. That’s in contrast to the mass of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, which is only about 4 million solar masses.
Optical image of the quasar 3C273, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. The quasar resides in a giant elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Virgo at a distance of about 2.5 billion light-years. It was the 1st quasar ever to be identified.
The technique used by these astronomers isn’t new, but the instrument engaged in the process is relatively new, commissioned in 2016. The instrument is called GRAVITY, and astronomers say it’s allowed for a huge gain in angular resolution, that is, in the clarity with which we see this very distant quasar.
All four of the telescopes that make up the Very Large Telescope (VLT) – located on top of Cerro Paranal in Chile – were used with the GRAVITY instrument to make the new observations of 3C 273. These telescopes combine together via interferometry.
Used with GRAVITY, the astronomers said, the four telescopes became the equivalent of one telescope with a diameter of 427 feet (130 meters, or about the length of one-and-a-half American football fields).
Aerial view of the observing platform on the top of Cerro Paranal, with the four enclosures for the 8.2-meter (27-foot) Unit Telescopes (UTs) and various installations for the VLT Interferometer (VLTI).
So with these optical telescopes and the GRAVITY instrument, the astronomers can now see into distant space more clearly. That’s how they’ve obtained never-before-seen details about the central region of quasar 3C 273. Eckhard Sturm of MPE is lead author of the new study. He said:
GRAVITY allowed us to resolve the so-called ‘broad line region’ for the first time ever, and to observe the motion of gas clouds around the central black hole. Our observations reveal that the gas clouds do whirl around the central black hole.
The astronomers’ statement said:
Detailed observations of the quasar 3C 273 with the GRAVITY instrument reveal the structure of rapidly moving gas around the central supermassive black hole, the first time that the so-called ‘broad line region’ could be resolved. The international team of astronomers was thus able to measure the mass of the black hole with unprecedented precision. This measurement confirms the fundamental assumptions of the most commonly used method to measure the mass of central black holes in distant quasars. Studying these black holes and determining their masses is an essential ingredient to understanding galaxy evolution in general.
Reinhard Genzel, head of the infrared research group at MPE, commented:
This is the first time that we can spatially resolve and study the immediate environs of a massive black hole outside our home galaxy, the Milky Way.
Black holes are intriguing objects, allowing us to probe physics under extreme conditions – and with GRAVITY we can now probe them both near and far.
Here the principle geometry of the Broad Line Region of the quasar is shown. The individual clouds are distributed in a thick ring (green shaded area), and rotate around the central black hole.
More than 50 years ago, in 1963, the astronomer Maarten Schmidt identified the first quasi-stellar object or quasar – this very same quasar still being studied today, 3C 273 – as an object that’s exceedingly distant and almost unimaginably bright. It was clear, even in the 1960s, that the energy emitted by quasars is vastly greater than in normal galaxies such as our Milky Way and cannot be produced by regular fusion processes in stars.
In the decades since then, theoretical astronomers have detailed the theory that quasars get their energy from the processes occurring near supermassive black holes.
Observations such as these recent ones by Eckhard Sturm et al. go a long way toward confirming the work of the theorists. And – because galaxies are the basic structure of our universe, and since supermassive black holes are now thought to lie at the heart of most if not all large galaxies – the work also moves forward astronomers’ understanding of the evolution of the whole universe.
Bottom line:For the first time, researchers have been able to observe the motion of gas clouds around a central supermassive black hole. This particular black hole powers the famous quasar 3C 273.
By Gregg Prescott, M.S. Every day, it seems there are more and more UFO sightings. While many of these could possibly be CGI, it becomes a lot less likely when mass UFO sightings occur from multiple angles. In the following video, a mass UFO sighting occurs around the 16:50 marker:
In this sighting that occurred on September 26, 2018 in Bogota, Columbia, SIX different angles were captured from various witnesses. This is one of the distinguishing earmarks of credibility when it comes to seeing UFO videos in crowded areas. In the age of cell phones, where just about everybody owns one, an impressive UFO sighting in a populated area should be captured on at least two or three cell phones from different angles. The video clearly shows a UFO with intermittent blinking lights that change colors. Another impressive video is shown toward the end of this video where four large UFOs appear to be hovering relatively low to the ground. You can find this at the 31:47 marker in this above video. This sighting occurred in Rosarito, California on October 28, 2018. I have the ATN NVG7-3 Gen 3 Night Vision Goggle where in the past month, I saw the 2nd largest UFO that I’ve ever seen off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico by Siesta Key, Florida. It was much larger than any of the brightest stars in the sky and about 1/4 the size of the moon, heading southwest. The largest I’ve ever seen with my goggles was two years ago, coming off the Gulf Of Mexico at Siesta Key, Florida and heading inland. This was the first cigar-shaped UFO I’ve ever seen with my night vision goggles. As soon as I locked in on it, it disappeared. Numerous times, I’ve seen UFOs flying in formation and/or flying near one another. It’s becoming more of a common experience for many people, with or without night vision goggles. It wouldn’t surprise me to see more and more mass UFO sightings from various camera angles in the next few months and years as it’s become evident that our galactic friends and neighbors are awaiting contact. Perhaps, these are the reasons why many of us are hearing high pitched frequencies that are not associated with tinnitus or a Vitamin D deficiency? Sending you all infinite LOVE & Light! Gregg
OSIRIS-REx will arrive at Bennu at about 12 p.m. EST (1700 GMT) andyou can watch it live here, courtesy of NASA, beginning at 11:45 a.m. EST (1645 GMT). A mission program will precede the event at 11:15 a.m. EST (1615 GMT).
An artistic rendering of OSIRIS-
REx arriving at Bennu Image: NASABut where is that asteroid and its visiting spacecraft, which is now two years into its journey? Although it's easy to assume that an asteroid mission would target the asteroid belt, Bennu isn't tucked in this rocky region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Instead, Bennu's orbit waltzes between those of Earth and of Mars, averaging around 100 million miles (160 million kilometers) away from the sun. That makes it a near-Earth asteroid, like the one Japan's Hayabusa-2 mission is currently studying.
The asteroid Bennu, as seen by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a distance of about 205 miles, on Oct. 29, 2018.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
(NASA has visited the asteroid belt proper before, however. The agency's most exhaustive visit was made by the Dawn spacecraft, which ended its mission earlier this year. Before the end of its effort, Dawn studied two of the largest objects in the asteroid belt: Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres.)
But while Bennu isn't in the asteroid belt now, scientists think that it was a long time ago. Current theories suggest that the diamond-shaped space rock was once part of a much larger asteroid, one perhaps the size of Connecticut. That space rock met its end sometime between 700 million and 2 billion years ago during a giant collision, breaking into Bennu and other pieces. Since the impact, Bennu seems to have gradually spiralled closer to the sun.
An artistic rendering of OSIRIS-REx grabbing a sample from Bennu’s surface.
Image: NASA
During OSIRIS-REx's stay at Bennu, scientists are hoping to learn more about the earliest days of the solar system, because asteroids are the rubble left behind as planets formed. In particular, Bennu is a rare subset of asteroid, called a B-type asteroid, which means scientists suspect there should be organic compounds and wet clays on it. That means Bennu may resemble what Earth looked like when life began here — making this asteroid an incredibly compelling science target.
And all that excitement begins today. OSIRIS-REx will cautiously approach its target before slipping into orbit for more than two years of scientific observations. The spacecraft will also carefully collect a sample of the asteroid. Then, in March 2021, the probe will make its way back to Earth in order to deposit that sample in terrestrial labs.
Visit Space.com today for full coverage of OSIRIS-REx's arrival at Bennu.
NASA's InSight lander, which touched down on MarsNov. 26 and successfully extended its large solar arrays hours later, is already setting records.
During its full first day on the Red Planet, the solar-powered lander generated more electrical power in one day than any previous Mars vehicle has, mission team members said.
"It is great to get our first 'off-world record' on our very first full day on Mars," Tom Hoffman, InSight project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, said in a statement. [NASA's InSight Mars Lander: Amazing Landing Day Photos!]
"But even better than the achievement of generating more electricity than any mission before us is what it represents for performing our upcoming engineering tasks," Hoffman added. "The 4,588 watt-hours we produced during sol 1 means we currently have more than enough juice to perform these tasks and move forward with our science mission."
NASA’s InSight lander flipped open the lens cover on its Instrument Context Camera (ICC) on Nov. 30, 2018, and captured this view of Mars. Located below InSight’s deck, the ICC has a fisheye view, creating a curved horizon. Some clumps of dust are still visible on the camera’s lens. One of the spacecraft’s footpads can be seen in the lower right corner. The seismometer’s tether box is in the upper left corner.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The 4,588 watt-hours InSight generated on its first sol, or Martian day, from solar power is well over the 2,806 watt-hours generated in a day by NASA's Curiosity rover, which runs on a nuclear system called a radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Coming in third was the solar-powered Phoenix lander, which generated around 1,800 watt-hours in a day, according to NASA officials.
After sending back its first photo of the landing site and extending its two solar arrays, each of which is about 7 feet in diameter (2.2 meters), InSight got to work photographing its environment and unlatching its robotic arm, which it will eventually use to deploy seismometers and a heat probe to learn about Mars' interior.
And mission team members are busy inspecting the images they've received so far to learn more about InSight's landing site, a lava plain called Elysium Planitia. They've found that the spacecraft is tilted by about 4 degrees, according to the statement, in a shallow impact crater filled with dust and sand. (This is no big deal; the lander can operate at up to a 15-degree tilt.) A steep slope could have hurt the spacecraft's ability to get enough power from its solar arrays, and landing near rocks could have kept the spacecraft from easily opening both arrays, the researchers said.
"The science team had been hoping to land in a sandy area with few rocks since we chose the landing site, so we couldn't be happier," Hoffman said in the statement. "There are no landing pads or runways on Mars, so coming down in an area that is basically a large sandbox without any large rocks should make instrument deployment easier and provide a great place for our mole to start burrowing."
So far, the team thinks the immediate area has few rocks, but higher-resolution images coming later on will give a more conclusive view of the surroundings. The team will use those views to plan out exactly how the spacecraft will place its instruments with its mechanical arm.
"We are looking forward to higher-definition pictures to confirm this preliminary assessment," InSight principal investigator Bruce Banerdt, also at JPL, said in the statement. "If these few images — with resolution-reducing dust covers on — are accurate, it bodes well for both instrument deployment and the mole penetration of our subsurface heat-flow experiment." (According to NASA, the spacecraft got its first view of Mars with a lens cover off Nov. 30.)
The $850 million InSight mission is scheduled to run for one Mars year, or nearly two Earth years. The data gathered by the lander will help mission team members map out the Red Planet's interior structure in unprecedented detail, NASA officials have said. This information should, in turn, reveal key insights about the formation of rocky planets in general.
Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her @SarahExplains.
Cosmic Airburst May Have Wiped Out Part of the Middle East 3,700 Years Ago
Cosmic Airburst May Have Wiped Out Part of the Middle East 3,700 Years Ago
By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor
Credit: Shutterstock
Some 3,700 years ago, a meteor or comet exploded over the Middle East, wiping out human life across a swath of land called Middle Ghor, north of the Dead Sea, say archaeologists who have found evidence of the cosmic airburst.
The airburst "in an instant, devastated approximately 500 km2 [about 200 square miles] immediately north of the Dead Sea, not only wiping out 100 percent of the [cities] and towns, but also stripping agricultural soils from once-fertile fields and covering the eastern Middle Ghor with a super-heated brine of Dead Sea anhydride salts pushed over the landscape by the event's frontal shock waves," the researchers wrote in the abstract for a paper that was presented at the American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting held in Denver Nov. 14 to 17. Anhydride salts are a mix of salt and sulfates.
"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," they wrote. Among the places destroyed was Tall el-Hammam, an ancient city that covered 89 acres (36 hectares) of land. [Wipe Out: History's Most Mysterious Extinctions]
Unusual pottery
Among the evidence that the scientists uncovered for the airburst are 3,700-year-old pieces of pottery from Tall el-Hammam that have an unusual appearance. The surface of the pottery had been vitrified (turned to glass). The temperature was also so high that pieces of zircon within the pottery turned into gas — something that requires a temperature of more than 7,230 degrees Fahrenheit (4,000 degrees Celsius), said Phillip Silvia, a field archaeologist and supervisor with the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project. However, the heat, while powerful, did not last long enough to burn through entire pottery pieces, leaving parts of the pottery beneath the surface relatively unscathed.
This photo shows the site of Tell el-Hammam in Jordan. New research suggests that 3,700 years ago a cosmic airburst wiped out this city and the area near it.
Credit: Photo courtesy Phillip Silvia
The only naturally occurring event capable of causing such an unusual pattern of destruction, Silvia said, is a cosmic airburst — something that has occurred occasionally throughout Earth's history, such as the explosion in 1908 at Tunguska in Siberia.
Also, archaeological excavations and surveys at other towns within the impacted area suggest a sudden wipeout of life around 3,700 years ago, Silvia said. So far, no craters have been found nearby, and it's unclear whether the culprit was a meteor or comet that exploded above the ground.
The fact that only 200 square miles of land was destroyed indicates that the airburst occurred at a low altitude, possibly not more than 3,280 feet (1 km) above the ground said Silvia. In comparison, the Tunguska airburst heavily damaged 830 square miles, or 2,150 square kilometersof land.
The team's results are preliminary and research is ongoing, Silvia emphasized. The team of scientists includes members from Trinity Southwest University, Northern Arizona University, DePaul University, Elizabeth City State University, New Mexico Tech and the Comet Research Group.
Rockefeller Secret Space Files X-Invisible via Dark Journalist (Video)
Rockefeller Secret Space Files X-Invisible via Dark Journalist (Video)
Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt continues the groundbreaking X-SERIES that follows the X Steganography through the history of Political and Covert groups coordinating in a Stealth fashion the Secret work of the Mystery Schools X Technology.
Rockefeller & The X-Technology In this special episode Dark Journalist explores the deep connections between the inter-generational financial elite and hidden advanced X Technology. He investigates the strategic political moves of Nelson Rockefeller who rose in political prominence to become the unelected Vice President of the United States and the heir apparent to the Presidency before his untimely death of a heart attack in 1979.
Family Secrets & X-Invisible His brother David Rockefeller was known as a worldwide power broker for engineering the Trilateral commission and Bilderberg Group and for managing the family wealth and multiple business and foundation monopolies. Nelson Rockefeller’s death left many questions and may have been related to his knowledge of the X Invisible project. Don’t miss this fascinating Dark Journalist episode!
Strangest Unexplained Alien Encounters Ever, They Are Not From This Earth! (Video)
Strangest Unexplained Alien Encounters Ever, They Are Not From This Earth! (Video)
How well do you know the UFO phenomenon? Perhaps not as well as you think. This presentation focuses on the weirder and more unusual side of UFOs–the cases that defy the standard model of contact, the cases that many UFO investigators don’t like to talk about. The evidence presented here will change the way you feel about UFOs:
• People who have received phone calls from ETs.
• What happens if you shoot at a UFO?
• Abductions in which people have seen “Alien Zoos.”
• Why are UFOs hovering over graveyards?
• What is the alien-clown connection?
• Proof that aliens are mining are metals.
• Are UFOs shrinking people?
• Cases of people who receive alien artifacts.
• UFOs and Rockets: The ETs are monitoring our space program.
• Abductions observed by outside witnesses.
• The alien bigfoot connection.
• UFOs Investigator’s Disease: when UFO researchers become investigated by UFOs.
• Cases in which shipwreck castaways are saved by UFOs.
• Can we contact UFOs with a Ouija board?
• Do aliens make mistakes? Hint: Yes!
• Cases of abductees taken into the engine room of UFO and taught how to build a UFO engine.
And much more! The UFO phenomenon is stranger than most people realize. This presentation will show you how truly strange it can be.
US Coast Guard Discloses Unexplained Disappearances of Submarines After UFO Activity (Video)
US Coast Guard Discloses Unexplained Disappearances of Submarines After UFO Activity (Video)
There are many strange facts surrounding a number of missing submarines. Joseph was on duty on an Ocean Station patrol on the Coast Guard Cutter Mellon.
It was during this patrol that they had a number of unique UFO sightings that included radar and visual verification by a number of witnesses.
Three objects passed over the ship traveling at 3500mph having approached the ship from the direction of where the sub was lost. Flying time of note from OSV to that site at that speed recorded and verified was approximately 10 minutes.
It is highly possible that the UFO phenomenon, and what could have been a very dangerous “rogue” operation gone array, possibly leading to what could have been one of the most significant event.
Even thought this may only be anecdotal data it may help penetrate the veil of secrecy and mystery surrounding the Submarines.
WETENSCHAP Na een reis van twee jaar moet de NASA-sonde OSIRIS-REx vandaag aan asteroïde Bennu arriveren, om er binnenkort stalen te verzamelen en die naar de aarde te brengen. Daarmee kunnen wetenschappers meer ontdekken over hoe het zonnestelsel is ontstaan. Bijzonder: er is een kleine kans dat de asteroïde in de 22ste eeuw op aarde botst, met mogelijk catastrofale gevolgen.
De OSIRIS-REx zou omstreeks 18.00 uur Belgische tijd moeten aankomen aan de asteroïde Bennu, die in 1999 ontdekt werd. Tijdens de reis heeft de sonde, die meer dan 2,1 ton weegt, snelheden tot meer dan 100.000 km per uur gehaald. OSIRIS-REx zal na terugkeer in 2023 in totaal meer dan 650 miljoen km hebben afgelegd. De missie kost meer dan 800 miljoen dollar.
Bennu heeft een diameter van ongeveer 490 meter en geldt als een gevaarlijke (bekende) asteroïde. Wetenschappers achten het immers mogelijk dat het ding in de 22ste eeuw met ons zou botsen. De asteroïde zal rakelings langs de aarde scheren in 2135, en komt nog dichter bij in 2175 en 2195.
Al is de kans op een botsing slechts 1 op de 2.700, de impact ervan zou ongeveer 80.000 keer krachtiger zijn dan de atoombom op Hiroshima, aan het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Belangrijker op dit moment is dat de asteroïde mogelijk meer informatie kan bieden over de “bouwblokken” van het zonnestelsel. Wetenschappers geloven immers dat Bennu bestaat uit de “restjes” die overbleven na de geboorte van ons zonnestelsel. De samenstelling van de asteroïde zou de voorbije 4,5 miljard jaar grotendeels onveranderd zijn gebleven.
NASA/Goddard/University of ArizonaAsteroïde Bennu.
Wat is het doel van de missie?
De sonde zal ongeveer twee jaar rond het hemellichaam blijven. Ze zal met een robotarm enkele kleine stalen vergaren van het oppervlak, om die dan naar onze planeet te brengen. De “landing” om de stalen te verzamelen, zal niet langer dan vijf seconden duren, en kan indien nodig drie keer herhaald worden. In totaal kan OSIRIS-REx ruim twee kilo stof meenemen. Met de verzamelde monsters wil NASA meer ontdekken over hoe het zonnestelsel is ontstaan.
OSIRIS-REx moet ook de impact bestuderen die de zon heeft op de baan van asteroïden. Bennu drijft elk jaar namelijk een beetje meer richting de zon, en dat fenomeen zou ook kunnen verklaren waarom de asteroïde in de toekomst in de buurt van de aarde komt.
Wat gebeurt er vandaag?
OSIRIS-REx zal rond 18 uur aankomen in de omgeving van de asteroïde. Een landing is nog niet voor vandaag. Het ruimtetuig zal eerst bijna een heel jaar rond de asteroïde cirkelen om een geschikte landingsplaats te selecteren. Die locatie op het oppervlak moet veilig zijn én een garantie bieden voor interessante bodemstalen.
In september 2021 vertrekt OSIRIS-REx met de stalen weer terug naar de aarde. De sonde komt naar verwachting in 2023 weer aan.
AFPDe OSIRIS-REx van NASA, of de “Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer”.
WETENSCHAP Voor het eerst sinds de mislukte lancering van een Russische raket half oktober worden er weer ruimtereizigers naar het internationale ruimtestation ISS gestuurd. Van op de basis Bajkonoer in Kazachstan slingerde vanmiddag een Russische draagraket een bemande Sojoez-capsule succesvol naar het Internationaal Ruimtestation ISS.
De Sojoez-raket vertrok zoals gepland om 12.31 uur Belgische tijd met als nuttige lading de Sojoez MS-11. Die capsule moet de Rus Oleg Kononenko, de Amerikaanse Anne McClain en de Canadees David Saint-Jacques naar het ISS brengen. Als alles loopt zoals gepland, arriveren de astronauten omstreeks 18.36 uur Belgische tijd al in het ISS.
Het welkomstcomité bestaat uit de Duitse gezagvoerder Alexander Gerst, de Rus Sergej Prokopjev en de Amerikaanse Serena Aunon-Chancellor. Zij keren in principe op 13 december terug naar de begane grond. De nieuwkomers zullen 194 dagen in de ruimte blijven.
Het is de eerste bemande lancering sinds het op 11 oktober misging. Er deed zich toen een mankement voor bij het afwerpen van de eerste trap. De twee ruimtevaarders, Nick Hague en Alexey Ovchinin, waren door een veiligheidssysteem wel in staat om ongedeerd terug naar de aarde te keren.
Which came first … the massive 7.0 earthquake which recently struck Anchorage, the unusual planetary alignment or the earthquake predictor taking credit for predicting it and warning of more convergence-created quakes?
“This is the second largest earthquake we’ve had since 1964, which was a very significant earthquake.”
It’s hard to tell so let’s start with the earthquake. On November 30th, a 7.0 earthquake hit Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city with a population of 300,000. As Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz recounts, its intensity was second only to the 1964 magnitude-9.2 quake which was the most powerful in recorded U.S. history. The November 30th tremor damaged road, buildings and infrastructure and shut down power in many areas, but no deaths or serious injuries were reported. Officials remain on the alert because hundreds of aftershocks, one a big 5.2 magnitude, have been occurring ever since.
Is the big one coming?
The quake was preceded by what seismologists described as a mysterious, low frequency global seismic wave on November 11th … and by what an earthquake predictor described as a potentially disastrous alignment of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Jupiter. The seismic wave is still unexplained and the planetary alignment won’t be at its apocalyptic peak until December 21, 2018, but that hasn’t stopped many from linking them to Frank Hoogerbeets, the founder of Ditrianum, a non-profit organization in the Netherlands which focuses relating seismic activity to planetary geometry using Hoogerbeets’ Solar System Geometry Index (SSGI) to predict possible earthquakes.
“Forecast — updated 30 November 2018, 20:51 UTC Seismic unrest is expected to continue in the coming days, possibly peaking high 6 to 7 magnitude. Throughout the week doesn’t look much better. Especially from the 7th to the 10th may be highly critical with the potential of a magnitude 8+ earthquake.”
That forecast was posted on the Ditrianum website on the same day as the Anchorage earthquake. Coincidence? The current planetary alignment has actually been occurring in the western sky of the U.S. since mid-October and will continue into 2019. That’s a pretty wide timespan that would have plenty of earthquakes anyway. Can the big ones … or any of them … really be linked to forces on Earth caused by this alignment? Let’s take a look at what astronomer Phil Platt said in February 2017, the last time Hoogerbeets made a similar prediction.
“Sigh. This again? First, there is simply no way an alignment of planets can cause an earthquake on Earth. It’s literally impossible. I’ve done the math on this before; the maximum combined gravity of all the planets under ideal conditions is still far less than the gravitational influence of the moon on the Earth, and the moon at very best has an extremely weak influence on earthquakes.”
Not even this alignment would do it.
Is Hoogerbeets hooking himself to the Alaska quake to further his Solar System Geometry Index theory? Will Santa be knocked from the sky on December 25th by a force that shakes Christmas trees around the world? Wouldn’t that be a great holiday movie idea?
The best mysteries are always the biggest mysteries, and it doesn’t get much bigger than this one. Earlier this month, a strange, unexplained seismic event literally shook the planet, and scientists are still at a loss to explain what it was. The event was strong enough to be felt around the world and is unlike anything seismologists have previously detected.
“I don’t think I’ve seen anything like it.”
That’s how Columbia University seismologist Göran Ekström described the anomaly – although he added that “it doesn’t mean that, in the end, the cause of them is that exotic.” Yeah, yet. Until you have a definitive explanation, all explanations are possible, even if improbable.
The epicenter of this mysterious seismic disturbance appears to be near the small archipelago of Mayotte in the Indian ocean between Madagascar and Mozambique. Scientists have been studying other abnormal seismic activity in that area in the form of hundreds of small, frequent cluster earthquakes, but this recent anomaly is unlike any others they’ve seen yet. The event consisted of a twenty-minute pulse of low-frequency seismic waves occurring around every 17 seconds, so low and slow that they would have been undetectable by humans.
So far, scientists believe the low-frequency wave could have been caused by a magma reservoir emptying somewhere underground near the epicenter, but that’s only a theory until more data can be gathered. If that’s the case, this event would be some type of hybrid tectonic and volcanic phenomenon – still pretty rare and unusual. “There are a lot things we don’t know,” says French Geological Survey research engineer Nicolas Taillefer. “It’s something quite new in the signals on our stations.”
If there’s one thing humans aren’t prepared for, it’s new curveballs thrown at us by the angry Earth.
Of course, it could have been something else. The old ones awakening from the slumber in their house at R’lyeh? Whatever gargantuan creature that caused The Bloop finally rising from the depths? Secret underwater nuclear weapon tests? Are any of those any more terrifying than unknown tectonic activity literally shaking the whole planet?
When the Big One hits, our planet will never be the same. For humans, anyway. The Bloop will inherit the Earth. All hail Bloop.
Throughout the world there have at times been found mysterious remains that have been left where they lie for hundreds or thousands of years, and which serve to baffle and confuse all who look upon them, leaving few clues as to their fates or why they are there where they are. These might be within tombs locked away underground, mummies scattered about deserts, within jungles or atop the highest mountains, and they always leave mysteries swirling about them. Some of the oddest such discoveries have been made underwater, and here down in the depths below the waves are those who have sunk here along with whatever secrets they carried in life.
One of the stranger discoveries of a mysterious watery grave comes from Lake Okeechobee, in the U.S. state of Florida. Covering 730 square miles and sprawling across five counties it is the second largest freshwater lake completely within the United States, and even its name comes form the Native Hitchiti words oki, meaning “water,” and chobi, meaning “big.” In modern days it is known for its splendid scenery and outdoor recreation such as fishing, but beneath its veneer of beauty lies a darker side. It was long hidden away within the Florida interior, ensconced within thick jungle and steeped in native lore and legend, and the lake remained completely uncharted and unexplored by outsiders until the 1880s, when the area began to be developed and settled by the whites. In around 1910, these pioneers to this land of thick cypress stands, swamp, reeds, and forest began to bring back spooky stories from the muddy shores of the lake. Fishermen in the area told of bringing up human skulls instead of fish, and local folklorist Charlie Carlson explained of this, “Several old catfishermen told of `catchin’ human skulls’ in their nets. One early settler claimed that there were so many skulls in the shallows that, `During low water it looked like a pumpkin patch.’”
These spooky tales escalated when a surveyor who was looking to clear land at a place on the lake called Glassy Island claimed to have unearthed an estimated 50 skeletons buried in shallow graves within the sand. In 1918 there was also the gruesome discovery of hundreds of human skeletons lodged in the silt along the north sides of Ritta and Kreamer Islands during a period of low water. In 1953 a fisherman named Willis Crosby stumbled across nearly a dozen human skulls staring back at him through the murky water, and he would say of his grim discovery, “There were a bunch of other bones scattered all over the bottom, I guess they were human. Everybody said they were Indian bones, it was pretty much common sight when the water was down.”
Lake Okeechobee
There were many other accounts of finding human bones and skulls littering the bottom of the lake, often made visible when water levels dropped, which was not really good for the various tourist businesses and real-estate brokers who flocked to the area looking to develop it into some sort of resort. Such macabre findings have gone on right up to the present, when during a drought in 2006 and 2007 there were revealed large portions of the muddy bottom, which were found to contain innumerable Native artifacts and thousands of human skeletons. Interestingly, there have been claims that some of the enigmatic remains found at the time were of individuals far taller than any Natives of the area, with some skeletons supposedly found of those who would have measured over 7 feet in height.
Whether the stories of giant skeletons found here are true or not, there have definitely been a lot of bones found at the lake, and the really strange thing is that no one really knows where all of these skulls and bones came from. It has been suggested that they were of the victims of massive hurricanes that hit the area in 1926 and 1928, which killed thousands of people, but most of these were gathered and buried on the mainland, and it would still not explain all of the remains found here before those dates, and there is also the fact that in the early 1900s this was a very sparsely populated region, meaning that it seems strange there should be such large amounts of human remains all in one place if this was due to any sort of disaster.
Another theory is that these remains come from some massive battle that took place here, namely the 1837 Battle of Okeechobee, which was fought during the Seminole War, but this is estimated to have resulted in only a few dozen deaths, and so could not explain the finding of hundreds of mysterious skeletons or more down in the muck of the lake. Other theories are that they are a mass burial site for Natives of the area or that they are evidence of some lost tribe, but there is no evidence that points to this, as the remains are spread over such a large area and there are absolutely no other artifacts found near the bodies, just those bones. Additionally, they don’t seem to be the doing of conquistadors, and the folklorist, Carlson, has said of the mysterious bones, “Historians have found no connection to the early Spanish, and some believe the bones may be more than a thousand years old.”
Another idea is based on a persistent piece of local lore that says that in 1841 several hundred Seminole warriors chose to commit mass suicide at the lake rather than be captured by the enemy, slitting their own throats and flinging themselves into the murky waters, but there is very little in the historical record to show that this ever really happened. There is also the lore that says that the Seminole put a curse upon the lake, and that this curse is actually responsible for a lot of deaths and accidents here, such as the tragic airline crashes of Tristar Flight 401 in 1972 and ValuJet Flight 592 in 1996, both of which plummeted into the area costing hundreds of lives. For now no one knows, and the mysterious skeletons of Lake Okeechobee remain a mystery.
Equally as spooky is a trove of mysterious human remains found submerged in a sinkhole in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, which also just happens to be supposedly cursed and haunted. The place known as Sac Uayum is what is referred to as a cenote, which is a pit which is formed when limestone bedrock collapses to expose the groundwater beneath. Well-known for their stunningly crystal clear water, these cenotes are scattered all about the Yucatan Peninsula, with around 6,000 of them known so far and many of which have dark histories as places of ritual sacrifice for the ancient Mayans. The cenote Sac Uayum was never used for such purposes, as it was feared by the Mayans as a cursed place guarded by demons, and Natives of the area have to this day steered clear of it, saying it is haunted by angry spirits.
Sac Uayum lies just outside the ruins of the ancient Maya city of Mayapánreaches, reaches a depth of around 115 feet, and it was long completely unexplored until a recent survey delved into its depths and found some strange things indeed. Down there through the strikingly clear water it was found that the bottom was divided into two chambers that were littered with numerous human remains that no one can quite figure out, with archeologist Bradley Russell saying of their initial dives there, “It was genuinely strange the first time we saw it. From the very first dive, we had seen skulls. At the time of this dive, we were still doing an initial assessment and putting together a plan of action for mapping the cenote.”
A cenote
Among the many remains the researchers have found within the cenote’s two submerged chambers are those of a woman with a skull that was intentionally flattened at birth for unknown reasons, the remains of cows, and skulls possessing teeth that are in remarkably good condition, suggesting they had been young at the time of death. As to why all of these bones are here, no one really knows. They do not display any sort of trauma, meaning that they were likely not sacrificial offerings, and many of the remains seem to be from people 18 years old or younger. There are also no signs of any relics or artifacts buried with them, meaning that they were not some sort of society elite getting a special burial. They could have been victims of disease that were tossed down here and there is no way to know that, but it would explain why many chose to stay away from this place and could have given rise to the legends of the curse, combined with the fact that the sinkhole lies to the south of Mayapánreaches, with south being the traditional Mayan direction of the underworld. In the end no one knows, and those bodies remain forgotten down in those clear azure waters, as mysterious as they have always been.
A fairly grim discovery was also made in the country of Sweden in 2009, when archeologists uncovered a treasure trove of the macabre while excavating a remote lake bed on the eastern shore of Lake Vattern. The researchers were able to find numerous skulls dated to around 8,000 years old, from men, women, and children, many of which were either gruesomely mounted atop stakes or had once been, making it all the creepier. The so-called “Tomb of the Sunken Skulls” is now not underwater, but at the time that these bodies were interred here it would have been, and to make it all the more bizarre, most of the skulls were missing their jawbones.
There have been the remains of 11 individuals found here, with only one retaining the jawbone and seven of the adults displaying some form of blunt trauma to the skull, made all the more odder that this trauma did not kill them, as there were signs that the skulls had healed afterwards, for reasons we will probably never know. The remains are tethered to a mysterious underwater burial site that measures 39 feet by 46 feet (12 by 14 meters), encircled by stones and with a flat surface upon which the skulls were staked and set into the earth beneath. The remains were interspersed with animal bones that seem to have been intentionally arranged in a specific pattern, with the south end holding brown bear bones, the remains of big game animals on the southeastern part, and the human bones in the center of it all. One of the researchers studying it has said of it, “It’s a very enigmatic structure. We really don’t understand the reason why they did this and why they put it under water.”
One of the recovered skulls
All of this was preserved phenomenally well, due to the low-oxygen conditions and alkaline water composition, creating an unearthly and rather surreal atmosphere for it all. As to why these remains are here there are only guesses. They could have been the victims of battle, their heads kept as trophies and staked for display. It might also have been some sort of burial site, possibly for those of some stigmatized group which would explain the strange circumstances of their internment, or a place of ritual sacrifice. A researcher of the site has said of it:
The people who were deposited like this in the lake, they weren’t average people, but probably people who, after they died, had been selected to be included in this ritual because of who they were, because of things they experienced in life.
In the end we have what is left of these enigmatic individuals floating about in the gloomy depths of their final resting places, forgotten and left to their mysteries they took with them to their deaths. They float about their in the depths, their empty eye sockets staring up through the water at the light of once was, their stories unknown and their deaths unexplained. What happened to these people? Who were they? Why were they buried here in their watery graves and how did they end up here? We can only speculate, and the answers may forever elude us.
Outbreak Of Strange Electric-Blue Clouds Detected Over Antarctica
Outbreak Of Strange Electric-Blue Clouds Detected Over Antarctica
NASA's AIM spacecraft is monitoring an outbreak of electric-blue clouds high above Antarctica. These are "noctilucent clouds" (NLCs). They form when wisps of summertime water vapor wrap themselves around meteor smoke, forming swarms of ice crystals at the edge of space.
If you think strange clouds in the atmosphere over remote Antarctica are of little practical interest, think again.
According to Spaceweather, researchers have discovered unexpected teleconnections between noctilucent clouds and weather patterns thousands of miles away.
Would you believe that winter air temperatures in Indianapolis, Indiana, are correlated with NLCs over Antarctica? It's true.
Bob Lazar blew the whistle about Alien UFO technology hiding deep in the bowels of AREA 51. We want to catch one of these objects on video or in photographs. UFO Seekers will visit AREA 51 to sky-watch for UFOs during a night time investigation at a hidden campsite. What we catch is spectacular!
AP, NASAMarsjeep Curiosity heeft een opvallend glimmend object ontdekt.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Marsjeep Curiosity heeft een opvallend glimmend object ontdekt op de rode planeet. De blinkende steen is zo intrigerend, dat NASA de rover terugstuurt om het zaakje van naderbij te bestuderen. Is het een meteoriet of iets helemaal anders? Een chemische analyse moet het mysterie oplossen.
Naast Marslander ‘InSight’, die deze week na 6,5 maanden vliegen en een hachelijke landing veilig en wel neerplofte op Mars, is ook Marsjeep Curiosity nog altijd actief. Het wagentje van drie meter lang, dat op zo’n 600 kilometer van ‘InSight’ rondrijdt, speurt onder meer naar sporen van leven op Mars.
De ChemCam-camera van Curiosity stuurt beelden van de omgeving rond de rover door naar ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA. Op één van die foto’s zagen wetenschappers na inzoomen plots de steen, die ‘Little Colonsay’ werd gedoopt. Ze sturen Curiosity nu terug om het ding van dichtbij te bekijken. Opnieuw, want bij een eerste poging werd het doelwit gemist. “Het team denkt dat het misschien om een meteoriet kan gaan, omdat het zo glimt”, laat NASA weten. “Maar schijn bedriegt soms. Bewijs volgt alleen uit de chemie.”
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Daar komt de ChemCam van Curiosity opnieuw goed van pas. De Chemcam analyseert met een laser de elementaire samenstelling van verdampte materialen van kleine steen –en gronddeeltjes op Mars. Een spectograaf geeft info over de mineralen en microstructuren in stenen.
Drie andere objecten die NASA met veel nieuwsgierigheid opnieuw wil inspecteren, is de ‘Flanders Moss’, een klein object met een interessante donkere deklaag die de onderzoekers niet meteen kunnen thuisbrengen, en twee stalen van grijs gesteente met de naam ‘Forres’ en ‘Eildon’.
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Alien Abductee Discloses How Jinn, Shadow People and Men in Black Are Connected (Video)
Alien Abductee Discloses How Jinn, Shadow People and Men in Black Are Connected (Video)
Djinn have also been described as forms of shadow beings, ghosts, demons, inter-dimensional beings.The most popular explanation seems to be that they are some sort of other-dimensional beings whose dimension of origin occasionally overlaps with ours, which is said to explain their ethereal appearance and fleeting nature. As with most entities there is no logical or scientifically valid explanation. These beings are in violation of generally accepted scientific principles.
Simon Parkes is a multiple contactee with Reptilian and Mantid type aliens djinn. He goes into great detail about these beings in a unique and informative presentation.
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UFO Clouds Over Iceland During Sunset Instills Comfort, Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Clouds Over Iceland During Sunset Instills Comfort, Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 23, 2018
Location of sighting: Iceland
This UFO was reported to me on Facebook by a reader here. The UFO was disguised as a cloud and was glowing colors that none of the other clouds were glowing. It was caught during sunset in Iceland and the eyewitness said they felt a calming effect when seeing it. UFOs often disguise as clouds in order to get closer to the ground without frightening people. Often UFOs have a power to calm, relax and even to make you forget for a time that you saw them.
The Great Khufu pyramid looms behind the Sphinx at Giza, just outside Cairo, Egypt. The three large pyramids at Giza were built by King Khufu over a 30-year period around 2550 BCE with a newly discovered system of ramps.
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Egyptianpyramidsare a wonder that have left scientists and engineers scratching their heads. How did heavy rock slabs get placed — higher and higher — to construct the iconic shape?
It seems we may have an answer, and it wasn't aliens after all. Researchers have uncovered a sophisticatedramp systemdating back 4,500 years. Located at Hatnub, a rock quarry in Egypt's Eastern Desert, the ramp was used to transport massive alabaster stones up steep angles and into place during pyramid construction.
The remains of the ramp were found by an Anglo-French team of researchers
Yannis Gourdon/Ifao/University of Liverpool
"This kind of system has never been discovered anywhere else," said Yannis Gourdon, co-director of the expedition, which also included archaeologists from the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo and from the University of Liverpool in England.
Based on the tool marks and inscriptions, the group matched the ramp's age and conscription with the reign of Khufu, the pharaoh who called for the construction of the Great Pyramid, which is the largest of the three Giza Pyramids. It also turned out to be the world's largest pyramid.
"This system is composed of a central ramp flanked by two staircases with numerous post holes," Gourdon said in a statement. "Using a sled which carried a stone block and was attached with ropes to these wooden posts, ancient Egyptians were able to pull up the alabaster blocks out of the quarry on very steep slopes of 20 percent or more."
The ropes allowed rock-movers to multiply their efforts, making it possible to pull a sled up the ramp, even though the sled was topped with a rock that weighed an average of 2.5 tons (2.3 metric tons).
Egyptologists have surmised for some time that ramps were used when the pyramids were built. However, the discovery of this ramp system shows that the stones were hauled at a far steeper angle than was previously suspected.
600 Million Years Ago, the First Scavengers Lurked in Dark Ocean Gardens
600 Million Years Ago, the First Scavengers Lurked in Dark Ocean Gardens
The bizarre organisms of the Ediacaran Period have long puzzled researchers. Fossil discoveries suggest these ecosystems may have been more complicated than once thought.
A fossil of an Ediacaran fern discovered in South Australia.CreditCreditAuscape/UIG, via Getty Images
By Asher Elbein
Some 635 million years ago, as the Earth shook off massive shrouds of glacial ice, an alien world blossomed on the ocean floors.
No complex animals prowled the seas of the Ediacaran Period. Instead, the depths held microbial mats and strange, frond-like creatures that resembled nothing alive today. Paleontologists have suggested that this was a sort of Garden of Eden, a simple ecosystem wiped away by the more vibrant fauna of the following Cambrian Period.
Obamus coronatus.
Image credit: University of California, Riverside.
But recent research is complicating this view, suggesting that Ediacaran ecosystems were more complex than previously thought. Fossils also hint at the beginnings of a massive shift: scavenging that later evolved into predation.
“It’s the beginning of a major change in the ecosystem of the Earth, an irrevocable change,” said Mary Droser, a paleobiologist at the University of California, Riverside. “The ability to eat another animal is a big deal, and is a major ecological and biological innovation.”
The fossils of the Ediacaran, found in desolate locations like Namibia and South Australia, have been notoriously controversial and difficult to interpret. They include strange, quilted blobs; stationary filter-feeders; and organisms like enormous ferns, some up to eight feet long.
“At first, they were all thought to be jellyfish,” said Simon A.F. Darroch, a paleontologist at Vanderbilt University. “Later, others argued that they were stem-animals or lichens.” (Stem-animals were proto-animals: not quite plants, not yet creatures.)
Scientists also have debated how sophisticated these seafloor ecologies were, Dr. Darroch added. A complex ecosystem holds multiple species with a multitude of feeding strategies, like a modern forest or a reef. A simple ecosystem comprises only a few species with the same basic strategies.
Looking at the Ediacaran’s apparently uncomplicated organisms — without legs or obvious guts — most researchers assumed this ecosystem was on the simple side. But in a study recently published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, Dr. Darroch and his colleagues surveyed seafloor fossils from various parts of the Ediacaran and concluded that the early stages of the period featured surprisingly intricate communities.
Simon A. F. Darroch, a paleontologist, examines fossils in Namibia.CreditSimon A. F. Darroch
Dive into the Ediacaran seas, and you’d see sediments covered in thick sheets of green or white microbes. There were no deep burrowers here; the ocean mud had the solidity and stickiness of a tile floor after a fraternity party.
The few multicellular organisms grazed slowly on the congealed mats or sat atop them, using different body shapes to pluck nutrients from the currents. Sea jellies, or something like them, may have floated in the open waters — nobody’s sure.
Many of these organisms had an architecture unlike any seen in modern organisms, said Martin Smith, a paleontologist at Durham University in England. While they may have appeared plantlike, they lived in waters too deep for sunlight to penetrate.
Even their precise shapes are unknown. Some may have been folded into complex patterns; others, inflated like a water bed.
“They probably grew very slowly,” Dr. Smith said, “arriving as spores on a virgin seafloor after a mudslide or land slip, then reproducing asexually to form interconnected colonies that gradually populated the seafloor.”
Dr. Darroch and his colleagues suggest that different feeding strategies were at the root of this unexpected diversity, but Dr. Smith finds it hard to imagine such organisms feeding in radically different ways.
Attenborites janeae.
Image credit: University of California, Riverside.
Instead, the organisms may have competed with one another with varying reproductive strategies, he suggested. Some were able to alter their shapes according to their surroundings and then to spread their spores over a greater distance.
Even with such unexpected diversity, the Ediacaran was a still world, without much in the way of predation. But dead organisms were an easy resource, Dr. Droser said, and some animals began to take advantage.
According to a recent paper Dr. Droser co-wrote in the journal Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, a new set of fossils shows the oldest known traces of such scavenging. Recovered from the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, the rocks hold beautifully preserved fossils of Ediacaran organisms, with tiny passages carved through them.
Dr. Droser and James Gehling, a paleontologist at the South Australian Museum, suggest that these burrows were made by small animals nibbling through microbe mats decaying under thin drifts of sand, and devouring the dead organisms they found in the mats.
In a world where nothing dug very deep, burrowing would have been a biological and ecological innovation.
“The scavenging occurred after the organisms were buried, so we know that they were dead,” Dr. Droser said. “Eating a dead animal requires more oxygen and also a metabolism that can digest it.”
But Dr. Smith disagrees, pointing out that signs of scavenging after the Ediacaran Period are not like these. Scientists tend to find elaborate patterns in fossils, left by animals exploiting every inch of decaying organic matter.
“These Ediacaran burrowers seem not to care that they’ve just passed through a potential meal,” Dr. Smith said.
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A fossil cast of a creature from the group known as the Ediacaran biota. These creatures existed during the Ediacaran period, which spanned from 635 million to 540 million years ago. Members of the Ediacaran biota are unlike anything that exists today. Researchers typically find these fossils in rocks that are between 580 million and 541 million years old.
“This doesn’t sound like a great strategy for a scavenger, less still for a predator,” he added. “But perhaps these early organisms were still learning the ropes.”
Either way, the advent of simple scavenging and burrowing heralded larger changes to come. Scavenging may have been a steppingstone to active predation, and the evolution of the first predators kicked off a massive arms race. Once prey began attempting to escape, defendingthemselves or fighting back, competition and natural selection began to escalate.
There are clues that something was changing toward the end of the Ediacaran, Dr. Darroch said: signs of movement in the mud fall dramatically, as do the number of species recorded — symptoms of an ecosystem under stress.
As the microbial mats disappeared in a world of burrowers, the fragile species that lived off them went, too. The appearance of more recognizable animals — mobile and powerful, able to punch through the mats and devour other living organisms — might have caused a biologically driven mass extinction.
The Cambrian explosion gave rise to many recognizable animal groups, and for a time these overshadowed the strange, silent gardens of the Ediacaran. But the key to how multicellular ecosystems developed seems to lie in sandstones left by those chilly seas, in an ecosystem much more diverse than previously suspected.
“Life has impacted our world today from the production of oxygen to churning up soil,” Dr. Droser said. “We can see in the Ediacaran the firsts of a number of these biological and ecological processes that later became essential to our planet.”
Could this be an alien in the sky above Texas? Credits: Youtube/Texas UFOs.
A floating 'cigar-shaped' object spotted in the sky in Keller, Texas, has sparked a number of theories.
'Texas UFOs' Youtube channel uploaded footage of the object, which was seen in the sky on November 19.
It's not exactly clear from the video what the object is, but comments suggested it could be a blimp, a cloud, a balloon, and of course an alien spacecraft.
One commenter claimed he saw the same UFO around 10 years ago.
"That's the classic cigar shaped UFO that I saw in the mid-90s over Reading, [Pennsylvania]."
Photo credit: Youtube/Texas UFOs.
"Even if it is a blimp from the distance, it was odd."
But some were more sceptical about it being extra-terrestrial, one person giving the scientific explanation that it could be "the remnants of the sunset behind a stratus cloud deck".
NASA’s InSight Probe Has Successfully Touched Down On The Surface Of Mars
NASA’s InSight Probe Has Successfully Touched Down On The Surface Of Mars
NASA has confirmed that its InSight spacecraft has safely touched down on Mars, the first successful landing on the Red Planet in more than six years, on a mission to study the Red Planet’s interior.
A signal from the spacecraft, which launched from Earth on May 5 this year, was received at NASA’s mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California at 2.53pm EST today.
InSight, which weighs about 358 kilograms (789 pounds), touched down as planned in a region called Elysium Planitia, near the Martian equator, which had been chosen for its rather tame characteristics. Being flat and devoid of rocks or interesting features, it was the perfect location for a safe landing with few obstacles in the way of the spacecraft. NASA described it as “the biggest parking lot on Mars”.
The landing was the culmination of the so-called “seven minutes of terror”, after InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) entered the atmosphere at 2.47pm EST at a speed of 19,800 kilometers (12,300 miles) per hour, withstanding peak temperatures of 1,500°C (2,700°F) during the landing.
It deployed a parachute to slow itself after passing through the atmosphere, before using onboard rocket thrusters to slow the spacecraft to about 8 kilometers (5 miles) per hour. It then touched down on the surface of Mars at 2.53pm EST, Earth time.
Its new home is Elysium Planitia, a still, flat region where it’s set to study seismic waves and heat deep below the surface of the Red Planet for a planned two-year mission. Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/insight
The next key step will be for it to successfully unfurl its two 10-sided solar panels. Together the size of a ping-pong table, they are necessary for InSight to produce power and survive on the surface. NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which is in orbit around the Red Planet, is expected to provide confirmation this has happened at 8.35pm EST.
This is the first successful landing on Mars since NASA’s Curiosity rover touched down in August 2012. Unlike Curiosity, however, InSight is not designed to search for signs of life or ancient water on Mars. Instead, it will try to tell us what’s inside Mars, and in turn reveal more about how rocky planets form and evolve.
To do this, it will use a suite of instruments to probe the interior of the planet. This includes monitoring seismic waves known as “marsquakes”, using an underground probe to measure the temperature of the planet, and studying the planet’s “wobble” in its orbit to try and work out what its core is made of.
Its mission, which will last until at least November 2020, will see the lander use a robotic arm to deploy various instruments on the surface. InSight is the first probe ever to use a robotic arm on another planet to deploy its own instruments. Two cameras on board the lander will help pick where to place these instruments on the ground and to take images of InSight’s surroundings.
It is also the first probe to venture deep into the surface of Mars. The Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3), developed by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), will use a hammer to place sensors up to 5 meters (16 feet) underground.
We think Mars once had vast amounts of water on its surface, before the loss of its magnetic field and the majority of its atmosphere saw this water evaporate. By measuring the temperature underground, and studying the planet’s wobble, scientists hope to work out if its core is still active and what it is made of, perhaps telling us more about the mysterious loss of its magnetic field.
The location of InSight on Mars.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
During the course of the mission, InSight is expected to brave some pretty testing conditions, with temperatures of between -20 and -100°C (-4 and -148°F). It is currently winter at its landing site, with the probe touching down in mid-afternoon Mars local time.
The mission also carried with it two miniature spacecraft, called MarCo-A and B. Flying alongside InSight, these two CubeSats – the first ever sent to deep space – provided the lander with another way to stay in contact with Earth as it made its way to the surface. The orbiting Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and Mars Odyssey spacecraft also relayed messages back home.
The successful landing of InSight brings the total number of successful Mars landings up to eight. There are now two operational machines on Mars – InSight and the Curiosity rover – with NASA’s Opportunity rover still out of action following a recent dust storm.
As for InSight, an exciting future of scientific study on Mars awaits. And if the mission is successful, it may tell us more about the interior of Mars than ever before.
Scientists Have Spotted A “Lost Continent” Using Satellites
Scientists Have Spotted A “Lost Continent” Using Satellites
Lurking deep beneath the ice sheets of Antarctica, scientists have detected the remnants of long-lost continents. Nope, it’s not quite Atlantis, but the discovery is shedding some much need light on the mysterious history of Antarctica.
Researchers discovered the ancient continents using gravity-mapping satellite data (the same way we map the seafloor) and bucket loads of seismological information, which picked up on a patchwork of ancient key geological features on the Earth’s lithosphere, the tough outer shell of the planet that consists of the crust and upper mantle.
“These gravity images are revolutionizing our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth, Antarctica,” co-author Fausto Ferraccioli, science leader of geology and geophysics at the British Antarctic Survey, said in a statement.
Much of the data came from the European Space Agency’s Gravity field and Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite that cruised the planet between 2009 and 2013 on a mission to measure the pull of Earth’s gravity field in unprecedented detail. Five years ago, GOCE made an uncontrolled reentry to Earth’s atmosphere before disintegrating near the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. Fortunately, all of its precious data had made it safely back home before then.
Writing in the journal Scientific Reports, the team explain how they used GOCE data about how rapidly the acceleration of gravity changes, known as localized gravity gradients, as well as information about the differences in horizontal and vertical components of the gravity field. Together with seismological data of the planet, they were able to build up three-dimensional images of Earth’s plate tectonics, even in hard to reach areas buried beneath kilometers of ice, like Antarctica.
“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,” noted Ferraccioli.
GOCE map of Antarctica on bedrock topography.
Kiel University/BAS
It also revealed how West Antarctica has a notably thinner crust and lithosphere compared to East Antarctica, made up of mountainous folded plate crumples (known as orogen) and ancient stable rocky zones of the Earth’s crust (called cratons). This is perhaps unsurprisingly similar to the features of the region’s past neighbors, India and Australia. The cratons are also particularly interesting as they make up the oldest cores of Earth’s lithosphere, therefore they can be studied to unearth insights into the Earth’s early history.
“It also provides context of how continents were possibly connected in the past before they drifted apart owing to plate motion,” ESA’s GOCE mission scientist Roger Haagmans added.
New Horizons nadert zijn tweede doelwit: Ultima Thule
New Horizons nadert zijn tweede doelwit: Ultima Thule
George Beekman
Komende Nieuwjaarsdag, als het vuurwerk op aarde is uitgedoofd, snelt bijna 7 miljard kilometer verderop een ruimtesonde langs de ijswereld Ultima Thule.
Dit artikel is oorspronkelijk verschenen in het onlangs geheel vernieuwde blad ZENIT, waarin je elke maand alles kunt lezen over sterrenkunde, weerkunde en ruimteonderzoek.
Ultima Thule is een ijswereld voorbij de baan van Neptunus. En op 1 januari vliegt New Horizons er op een afstand van slechts 3500 kilometer langs. De sonde heeft er maar liefst dertien jaar over gedaan om deze verre ijswereld te bereiken. Dat is relatief kort, maar dat komt doordat deze NASA-sonde tijdens zijn lancering, op 19 januari 2006, een snelheid van ruim 16 kilometer per seconde kreeg. Hij was op dat moment zelfs de snelste ruimtesonde die ooit vanaf de aarde was gelanceerd. Zijn snelheid werd als gevolg van een passage langs Jupiter in februari 2007 nog wat verder opgevoerd en uiteindelijk zal deze sonde – evenals eerder de Pioneer 10 en 11 en Voyager 1 en 2 – het zonnestelsel verlaten.
Computerbeeld van de NASA-sonde New Horizons. Hij vloog in juli 2015 langs Pluto en koerst nu op zijn tweede doelwit af.
Afbeelding: NASA, JHU / APL.
Pluto Op 14 juli 2015 scheerde New Horizons met een snelheid van bijna 14 kilometer per seconde op een afstand van 12.500 kilometer langs het oppervlak van Pluto, het grootste lid van de grote schare van ijswerelden voorbij de baan van Neptunus, de zogeheten Kuipergordel. De dag erna begon de sonde zijn waarnemingen naar de aarde te zenden. De analyse van de opnamen en metingen gaat intussen nog steeds door.
Een goede gezondheid Al in 2003 werd er op aangedrongen om deze allereerste ruimtesonde naar de Kuipergordel niet alleen langs Pluto te sturen, maar ook langs één of meer andere ijswerelden. Dat zou ook een beter inzicht in de diversiteit van deze werelden kunnen geven. Maar het was niet eenvoudig om een volgend doelwit te vinden. De sonde functioneerde na de Pluto-passage weliswaar nog steeds uitstekend en produceerde nog voldoende elektriciteit, maar had nog maar 33 kilo stuwstof – hydrazine – voor koerscorrecties aan boord. Dit betekende dat het volgende doelwit zich binnen een kegel met een tophoek van kleiner dan één graad zou moeten bevinden. In 2011, dus ver voor de Pluto-passage, waren astronomen al begonnen met het zoeken naar geschikte kandidaten. De Hubble Space Telescope vond in de zomer van 2014 drie potentiële doelen en een jaar later viel de uiteindelijke keuze op 2014 MU69. Afgelopen maart maakte NASA bekend dat deze verre ijswereld voorlopig de bijnaam Ultima Thule heeft gekregen, naar ‘een verre plaats voorbij de grenzen van de bekende wereld’. Een officiële naam wordt toegekend als er, na de passage van New Horizons, meer over deze verre wereld bekend is geworden.
Deze opnamen van de ijswereld 2014 MU69 werden op 24 juni 2014 gemaakt met de Hubble Space Telescope. De groene cirkeltjes geven de positie met tussenpozen van telkens tien minuten.
Afbeelding: NASA / ESA, SwRI, JHU / APL.
Een dubbele ijswereld? Ultima Thule draait in 296 jaar op een gemiddelde afstand van 44 astronomische eenheden (6,6 miljard kilometer) rond de zon. Pluto doet dat in 248 jaar op een gemiddelde afstand van 39 AE. Maar terwijl de afstand tot de zon bij Pluto maar liefst 10 AE varieert, doet hij dat bij 2014 MU69 slechts 2 AE en ligt een deel van de baan van deze verre ijswereld nog binnen de baan van zijn veel grotere broer. Ook de hoek die het baanvlak van 2014 MU69 met de ecliptica maakt (2,5 graad) is veel kleiner dan die van Pluto (17 graden). Dit wijst er volgens astronomen op dat de baan van deze verre ijswereld sinds het ontstaan van het zonnestelsel niet veel is veranderd. Na de ontdekking van 2014 MU69 in juni 2014 door de Hubble Space Telescope, werd zijn diameter op grond van de helderheid en het mogelijke albedo (reflecterend vermogen) geschat op 30 tot 45 kilometer. Op 17 juli 2017 werd door vijf mobiele telescopen in Argentinië een sterbedekking door 2014 MU69 waargenomen. Die bracht aan het licht dat 2014 MU69 een heel onregelmatige vorm heeft. Hij is extreem afgeplat, of bestaat uit twee lobben van respectievelijk 20 en 18 kilometer groot. Het zou zelfs om twee losse delen kunnen gaan die tegen elkaar aan schurken of om elkaar heen draaien. New Horizons zal straks uitsluitsel geven.
Onduidelijk is nog hoe Ultima Thule er precies uitziet.
Afbeelding: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI / Steve Gribben.
Ultima Thule in het vizier Om zijn doel te kunnen bereiken werd de koers van New Horizons in oktober en november 2015 vier maal een klein beetje gewijzigd. Daarna heeft de sonde tussen de bedrijven door tweemaal een winterslaap gehouden. Sinds afgelopen juni wordt New Horizons door de vluchtleiders op de komende ontmoeting voorbereid. Op 16 augustus maakte de sonde vanaf een afstand van 170 miljoen kilometer – iets meer dan de afstand van de aarde tot de zon – de eerste opname van 2014 MU69. Die vertoonde zich toen nog slechts als een heel zwak lichtpuntje.
New Horizons kreeg Ultima Thule voor het eerst op 16 augustus 2018 in beeld. Links een onbewerkte opname van het sterrenrijke gebied. Rechts een vergroting van een deel van dit gebied nadat alle sterren er zo goed mogelijk uit zijn ‘verwijderd’. Ultima Thule bevond zich precies op de voorspelde plaats.
Afbeelding: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.
Hoe nu verder? Een week voor de ontmoeting, op een afstand van 8 miljoen kilometer, begint de periode van de wetenschappelijke waarnemingen, die tot twee dagen na de passage zal duren. Tijdens het moment van dichtste nadering, op 1 januari 2019, scheert New Horizons met een snelheid van 13 kilometer per seconde op een afstand van slechts 3500 kilometer langs zijn doelwit, drie maal zo dichtbij als tijdens de scheervlucht langs Pluto. 2014 MU69 staat dan op een afstand van 43,4 astronomische eenheden van de zon, dus nog een flink eind binnen het verste punt (49 AE) van de baan van Pluto. De meeste waarnemingen worden verricht binnen de periode van een dag vóór het moment van dichtste nadering tot een dag erna. Net zoals tijdens de passage van Pluto worden de belangrijkste waarnemingen direct hierna naar de aarde gezonden en volgt de rest in de vele maanden erna. De kostbare radiosignalen hebben er dan zes uur en langer voor nodig om de schotelantennes van NASA’s Deep Space Network te bereiken.
De Kuiper Belt Extended Mission duurt in eerste instantie tot 2022. Tijdens deze KEM vliegt New Horizons niet alleen langs 2014 MU69, maar neemt hij ook vanaf grote afstand zo’n twee dozijn andere ijswerelden waar. Daarna gaat de reis met onverminderde snelheid door in de richting van het sterrenbeeld Sagittarius (Steenbok). Op een dag horen we nog wel of er ook een ster is waar de sonde in een heel verre toekomst op een relatief korte afstand langs zal komen.
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Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI / Steve Gribben
In the newly releasedDecember edition of the MUFON Journal, the first detailed analysis of a leaked 47 page Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document is published, offering the startling conclusion that it is authentic.The DIA documentprovides a broad overview of the official history of extraterrestrial contact with Earth, and credits the beginning of the modern UFO era with the Colorado Springs radio transmissions of Nikola Tesla, which led to extraterrestrials sending interstellar craft to investigate. This culminated in flying saucer crash incidents such as Roswell (1947) and Aztec (1948), and the establishment of formal diplomatic relations with a human looking group of extraterrestrials during the Eisenhower administration.
The MUFON Journal article’s author, Dr. Robert Wood, is the world’s foremost authenticator when it comes to the controversial Majestic Documents. These are leaked documents concerning the activities of Operation Majestic 12, which was formally set up in September 1947 to manage the UFO/extraterrestrial issue. A former aerospace engineer with McDonnell Douglas whose career spanned 43 years, Dr. Wood began his investigation and authentication of the Majestic Documents in 1995 with his son, Ryan.
In his article, which is titled “Forty-Seven Pages From the DIA: Why Should We Care?”, Dr. Wood gives a succinct overview of the 47 pages of the leaked DIA document:
Basically, there are five parts of intellectual content: (1) objective, history and organization of MJ-12; (2) details of the 1947 Roswell crash recovery; (3) details of the 1948 Aztec crash recovery; (4) condensed conversations with the Aztec EBE; and (5) issue of the national security or the risk of cultural upheaval, together with diplomatic and cultural exchanges during the 70s and 80s visiting some of EBE’s worlds.
For a more detailed breakdown of the document’s contents, see my previous articles analyzing these (here and here).
In the leaked 1989 DIA document, Dr. Wood finds a number of reasons that point to its authenticity and why it is an error to simply dismiss it as many UFO researchers have done to date. His detailed analysis of the typing, spelling mistakes, signatures, patents referenced, individuals mentioned, etc., in the document lead to his conclusion that it was a briefing dictated by a member of the Majestic 12 group to two typists. They typed up the 47 pages, a copy of which was preserved on microfilm by the DIA as Dr. Wood explained:
If one contemplates why there were so many errors made in a document officially recorded on a microfilm, and you pronounce the word or phrase on the left and look at the correct one on the right, usually they sound essentially the same. This would be consistent with the document having been created as a result of taking dictation and having two different typists implement the words on paper…
This would be consistent with MJ-12 (stated in this case to be individual MJ-1) having dictated a one-time entry-level summary for the new person, since one apparently was not available from prior written records at the time of the alleged briefing.
The DIA document’s cover page refers to itself as a “preliminary briefing” created by the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Office of Counter Intelligence, on January 8, 1989. The full title of the briefing package is “Assessment of the Situation/Statement of Position on Unidentified Flying Objects”, and it is addressed to the Office of the President.
The natural assumption to make is that the briefing was intended for President Elect George Bush, the Vice President at the time and winner of the 1988 Presidential election. However, by analyzing the only signature appearing on the DIA document, Dr. Wood concludes the briefing was actually intended for a distinguished astrophysicist at MIT, Dr. Philip Morrison:
This is the only signature on the document, and the first question might be whether it was the entry level person being briefed or the briefer. It seems much more reasonable that it was the person being briefed
Dr. Morrison began his career as a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and then moved his area of expertise to astrophysics to express his disapproval of the nuclear arms race. He became famous for popular books and documentaries dealing with astrophysics, and continued to be a Professor at MIT. In 1987, Dr. Morrison was the host of a six-part miniseries for PBS called “The Ring of Truth” which examined a number of astrophysics topics.
There is important circumstantial evidence that the DIA document was a briefing dictated by the head of Majestic-12 to Dr. Morrison. In his MUFON article, Dr. Wood mentions that Dr. Morrison was on friendly terms with Carl Sagan, who some believe replaced Dr. Robert Menzel as a member of the Majestic-12 Committee upon the latter’s retirement and/or death in December 1976:
Philip Morrison was a very distinguished professor, who was a protégé of Oppenheimer and very likely was “in the know” on security issues, although I have no evidence of this. There is evidence, however, that he was very collegial with Carl Sagan during his career, helping to arrange a [UFO] symposium at the conclusion of the Colorado study in Boston.
Menzel had been named as MJ-10 on the Eisenhower Briefing document. In his book, Top Secret/MAJIC, veteran UFO researcher Stanton Friedman provided detailed evidence that Dr. Menzel was indeed a member of the Majestic 12 Committee, even though he wrote several books debunking the UFO phenomenon.
He is best known for his popular astronomy books such as Field Guide to the Stars and Planets(1964). Either prior to or shortly after Menzel’s death, the Majestic 12 Committee was looking for an astronomer/astrophysicist that could replace him. The replacement would have to have a firm scientific grounding in astronomy/astrophysics, broad public outreach, and have received Menzel’s recommendation prior to his death.
Dr. Sagan fit the bill with his scientific pedigree while a Fellow at Berkeley University when his work on NASA missions to Venus and Mars received widespread scientific recognition. Most importantly, his scientific work came to the attention of Dr. Menzel, who arranged for Sagan to be given an Assistant Professor position at Harvard University (1963-1968). Sagan moved to Cornell University, after he was denied tenure at Harvard, ironically due to the growing popularity of his generalist approach to science. Nevertheless, Menzel remained a firm supporter of Sagan.
Sagan achieved celebrity status through his popular books and documentaries, including his award winning Cosmos which aired on PBS in 1980 and was seen by 500 million people across 60 countries. If a position was reserved on the Majestic 12 Committee for a leading astronomer/astrophysicist with outreach to a global audience through popular books and television documentaries, and the approval of the previous position holder, then Sagan was the natural replacement for Menzel.
Similarly, by January 1989, when the Majestic 12 Group was looking for a replacement or an alternate to Dr. Sagan, due to impending retirement (he had likely been in the position since at least 1976) or some other reason (Sagan died on December 20, 1996), Dr. Morrison was a solid choice given his scientific pedigree, broad public outreach, and prior friendly relationship with Sagan. This is important circumstantial evidence in support of the authenticity of the DIA briefing document.
Also, the fact that the 1989 document was merely a briefing dictated by the head of the Majestic 12 Group for a new member taking up Dr. Sagan’s position, meant that not that much in the way of resources would have gone into preparing the briefing document.
The ad hoc nature in which the document was assembled, helps explain the notable security marking inconsistencies, spelling errors, cut and pasting of different documents together, etc., as many critics have pointed out.
In his MUFON article, Dr. Wood concludes in favor for the authenticity of the leaked 1989 DIA document with a number of compelling reasons despite its multiple errors. By identifying Dr. Morrison as the recipient of the briefing, rather than Vice President (President-Elect) Bush, Dr. Wood has provided the means of corroborating the document’s authenticity. Was Dr. Morrison being briefed as Dr. Sagan’s replacement on the MJ-12 Committee due to the latter’s retirement as a result of coming up to some kind of term limit due to his 13 years or more service as MJ-10?
As I mentioned in previous articles supporting the authenticity of the DIA document, its contents contain a wealth of information on topics such as the 1948 Aztec UFO crash; diplomatic relations between the Eisenhower administration and alien life; the role of Nikola Tesla in starting the modern UFO era; and the fact that human looking extraterrestrial are friendly and have been secretly living among humanity for decades.
Dr. Wood has performed a very valuable public service in authenticating the 1989 DIA document, opening the door to further close study of its rich contents and significant exopolitical implications.
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Who Really Built the Pyramids of Giza? Thoth’s Enigmatic Emerald Tablets May Provide the Answer
Who Really Built the Pyramids of Giza? Thoth’s Enigmatic Emerald Tablets May Provide the Answer
The Emerald Tablets are one of the greatest enigmas of archaeology. They can be considered an obscure side of Egyptian mythology, characterized by events where myth seems to meet history.
Scholars consider the Emerald Tablets a legend concerning the gods of Ancient Egypt, revealing mysteries involving the ancient societies that survived the Great Flood. The tablets are known as a cryptic Hermetic inscription said to contain the secrets of alchemy and the foundation of the Hermetic tradition.
An imaginative 17th century depiction of the Emerald Tablet from the work of Heinrich Khunrath, 1606.
According to the myth, Thoth - the Gods' scribe - compiled the tablets. He divided his knowledge into 42 plates of emerald, codifying the great scientific principles ruling the Universe. The legend tells that after the gods’ fall, the Hermetic tablets were cleverly hidden so that no human being might find them. Only Thoth, on his return to that dimension, was able to recover the mysterious book.
A figure of Thoth carved on the back of the throne of the seated statue of Rameses II.
According to other interpretations, the tablets were kept in the so-called Hall of Records and then later hidden within the Library of Alexandria until they were lost forever, after the terrible fire which destroyed the ancient building and its legendary books.
A 17th-century edition of the Emerald Tablets, as created in legend by ‘Hermes Trismegistus’—a combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth.
A very interesting legend told by Jewish mystics connects Thoth’s Tablets to Abraham’s wife, Sarah. According to the myth, she found the Egyptian God’s tomb and his precious manuscripts during their escape into Egypt, fleeing a starvation afflicting Canaan.
In that case, if the narrative is historically accurate, we can assume that the Emerald Tablets’ origins may refer to an ancient time, substantially before the Bible’s Great Flood. Therefore, the origins of the Egyptian gods and the Zep Tepi (a Golden Era or time where gods ruled in Ancient Egypt) may have an intriguing connection, confirmed by other civilizations’ legends.
It was only during the Middle Ages that the Hermetic documents were translated into Latin from Arabic, while the first European printed version was published in Nuremberg, in early 1541. The title was “De Alchimia” written by alchemist Johannes Baptista Montanus Veronensis Patricius. Thanks to his work, the ancient documents have survived until now.
Fact or Fiction?
Analyzing the legendary texts, questions surface: can we assume that the Hermetic document is a real historical fact and not a myth? What should we make of the contents and scientific codes inscribed into the tablets? Is there a possible connection between the god Thoth and the Pyramids Civilization?
According to the mysterious document, can we state that Thoth was the builder of Giza?
In my two decades of experience, I learned to trust in objective facts, as a result of a precise model of investigation. Starting from a study of the myths, I aim to propose a new point of view concerning the possibility that the myth of Thoth is a true story.
“Built I the Great Pyramid, patterned after the pyramid of earth force, burning eternally so that it, too, might remain through the ages. In it, my knowledge of ‘Magic-Science' so that it might be here when again I return from Amenti. Aye, while I sleep in the Halls of Amenti, my soul roaming free will incarnate, dwell among men in this form or another.” – Emerald Tablet 1
Emerald Tablet I – The History of Thoth
If the Emerald Tablets are reliable, what might the relationship between Thoth and the Great Pyramid look like?
Djehuty (Thoth) in the Luxor Temple by night.
(CC BY-NC 2.0)
The first line, “ Built I the Great Pyramid ”, is a clear expression concerning an unambiguous assignment of the project ownership. Have findings confirmed this possibility, least of all for the Great Pyramid, within which no inscription referring to the builders was ever found?
The only exception are some symbols found on the back of the Gantenbrink’s door—a limestone door with two eroded copper handles found in shafts in the Great Pyramid’s Queen’s Chamber, discovered by German engineer Rudolf Gantenbrink. In my opinion, and by analyzing the signs, I can assume that the marks cannot be assigned to a well-known Ancient Egyptian writing, although Egyptologist Luca Miatello related the obscure handwriting to Hieratic, and its meaning to a sequence of numbers and measurements by which to build the conduits into the Queen’s Chamber. I consider his theory unfounded because of the lack of correlation among clues and hieratic writing. It could be a kind of unknown writing, increasing the mystery on the origins of the Giza Pyramids.
Markings on Gantenbrink’s door.
(via author)
In 2013, I achieved a very interesting result, which might prove a possible relationship between the Hermetic Emerald Tablets and the Giza Plateau. Something happened quite by chance during my archaeological campaign at the Sphinx and its temples.
Map of the Giza Plateau
(via author)
During a moment of peace, in the shadow of the Valley Temple, I observed a Giza map taken from above, thinking that each pyramid looked like a microcosm, as the satellite pyramids, fences, temples and other constructions characterize each one. Considering the pyramids altogether, I perceived an order of factors making them an independent form of architectural expression.
In fact, pyramids, seen from above, look like three very large stylus-wedges embedded in the ground. Their very special shape enlightened me, suggesting an intriguing hypothesis. Just out of curiosity, I traced some guidelines starting from the corners of the major pyramids, toward the center of the monuments, following the satellite pyramids’ orientation. Then I drew the same lines for the satellite pyramids, according to their cardinal direction.
Therefore, I obtained the following image.
Pyramids look like enormous wedges.
(Image via author)
Ancient Scripts Tell a Tale
It is curious to observe how a very easy geometric exercise might instill a deep doubt, challenging the foundation of humankind’s history and the origins of modern societies. In fact, to detect the possible existence of cuneiform writing in the land of hieroglyphics can be considered a crazy idea. As presently known, academic considerations about Sumerian and Egyptian civilizations story are very precise; in fact, they assume that during their time the two cultures had never been in contact.
With this in mind, I should have given up my curiosity; however, I wanted to listen to my own instincts because I found the possible connection between pyramids and cuneiform writing very compelling.
Cuneiform alphabet and their geometric forms, and possible relationship with the Pyramids of Giza.
(Image via author)
A comparison between the pyramids’ geometric forms and cuneiform writing is possible by analyzing the Sumerian alphabet, containing the symbols of each letter.
Sometimes, you begin the game for fun, but during the conduct of the pastime, you feel that something is changing, a realization is coming, and you are enchanted. I felt those same emotions, analyzing results of my ‘game’ that over time revealed themselves.
The possible coincidence slowly became something different, perhaps a detailed concept. Despite the fact that I was confident that scholars’ theories were well anchored, in my core something pushed me to improve a hypothesis never examined before. Observing the following image, it is astonishing to note the unbelievable correlation between some Sumerian letters and the signs I obtained while drawing the lines at the pyramids base.
For example, Mycerinus Pyramid (Pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of the three main Giza Pyramids and at the bottom of the map) – with a triangle projection towards its satellite pyramids – has a geometrical form very similar to the cuneiform letter for “G”; i.e. a wedge downward. Equally, I can state that Mycerinus’ satellite pyramids look like the cuneiform letter for “L”, having three wedges downward.
The relationship between tridimensional wedges of the pyramids and cuneiform letters from the Sumerian alphabet.
(Image via author)
I followed the same procedure for all pyramids of Giza. Khafre’s Pyramid, for example, (the second-largest of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids, and in the middle of the map) has a little peculiarity, because of the position of its satellite pyramid, very close to the major monument. It is a very unusual architectural technique, compared to the other pyramidal complexes, showing the precise builders’ will to meld the monuments into having a single and homogeneous design. As result of this, the graphic sign is very similar to the Sumerian letter for “Z”.
Finally, the Great Pyramid (the largest of the plateau and at the top of the map) and its satellites give very exciting symbols, perfectly connected to cuneiform letters, i.e. to the letter “T” as a cuneiform towards the right side, and to the letter “H”, characterized by three cuneiform symbols towards right side.
Therefore, I obtained the following sequence:
GL – Z- TH
Originally, cuneiform writing was inscribed vertically, and in the event of more lines, they were aligned from right to left. It is interesting to note that pyramid position on the Giza Plateau develops in accordance with a vertical orientation – from the highest place, i.e. the Great Pyramid, until the lowest, i.e. the Mycerinus Pyramid – and in different lines. Moreover, as the Sumerian writing was characterized for a lack of vowels, so is for the geometrical symbols obtained by the pyramids.
Letters sequenced from West to East, observing the pyramids from South.
(Map via author)
So far, we have observed some technical characteristics of the Sumerian writing and its homogeneity with symbols coming from graphics processing of the Giza buildings. Now, let us look to the complete sentence, with vowels, searching for a possible meaning of the ancient message:
GaL Zu TeHu
Finding meaning in the message.
(Image via author)
The meaning of the message is: TeHu the Great Wise
It is very clear that the word TeHu refers to a proper noun, very probably to the designer of the Giza Project.
To unveil the name, I studied the Egyptian Book of Dead (as translated by Wallis Bydge and also Boris de Rachewiltz) where the name of TeHu refers to Thoth. In fact, one of the Egyptian words indicating the Ibis is Tekh, which sounds like the name TeHu; that word refers to the Moon as Measurer of the Time, and that is why Egyptians depict Thoth as Ibis.
Thoth is often depicted as an Ibis. Egypt, Late Period, 712-332 B.C.
The analysis is very fascinating, but proposes a series of questions:
1) The message indicates that Thoth was the designer of Giza, as reported in the Emerald Tablets. Does it mean that the Book of Thoth really exists?
2) If the Sumerian correlation with the monuments has a scientific validity, the question is why, in the distant past of Egypt, did the population use the Sumerian writing?
When one studies the origins of cuneiform writing, we find that archaeologists date it to 3500 BC. Nevertheless, it’s very interesting that when the writing appeared it was characterized by an extraordinary complexity, consisting of over a thousand phonetic symbols. Over time, the writing had a rationalization process and it reduced to hundreds of symbols. So, we can suppose that Sumerian writing was born in a very full form, and experienced a process apart from all other writing forms which display real signs of evolution. Only cuneiform is considerably convoluted – or, as archaeologists suggest, “rationalized” – as if it followed its founders’ decline.
Can we argue that the Sumerian was the language used by the ancient Gods? Can we state that Middle Eastern and Egyptian cultures, during the pre-dynastic age, were influenced by an ancient and unknown Civilization?
Sumerian inscription in monumental archaic style, c. 26th century BC
According to historians, due its geography, Egypt was isolated from the outside world until the First Intermediate Period, around 2000 BC—without experiencing any kind of influence from other civilizations. Therefore, the possible ‘corruption’ could have happened a long time before the pre-dynastic age. Furthermore, one of the most interesting pieces of evidence could be the numbers of Egyptians gods that are very similar to the Sumerians ones. Indeed, the story of the Sumerian Gods is very similar to the Egyptian Neteru, and the great part of religious traditions of eastern civilizations.
An unknown civilization seems to have bequeathed symbols we can find everywhere around the planet; for example, the winged sun, or caduceus, even the gods who have different names but similar functions. It is possible that this civilization could have inspired the Sumerian and Egyptian cultures, uncontacted, and likewise shared many symbols and divinities. It is undeniable that the two cultures originated from a “matrix” which lived in the distant past.
If Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations have deep cultural and religious correlations, it may mean they were generated by a lost civilization, maybe the same who built pyramids all around the planet.
The Legendary Emerald Tablets
Lastly, did the Emerald Tablets really exist? Maybe we will never have a confirmation, but it is thrilling to show the relationship between the god Thoth and the Giza Plateau, as the result of an easy geometrical game, which gave an unexpected answer to one of the most fascinating mysteries of the past. It is also interesting to suppose that the Sumerian writing system offered a Hermetic link with the Ancient Egyptians, which was historically never detected, but clear in my proposal.
All these indications can be considered very important clues and may be regarded as the starting point to understanding the scientific meaning of the pyramids and the Knowledge of which they are keeper.
(Top image: The Giza Pyramids - CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, and Egyptian god Thoth – CC0)
GRAVITY Measures Environs of a Massive Black Hole Outside the Milky Way
GRAVITY Measures Environs of a Massive Black Hole Outside the Milky Way
Optical image of the quasar 3C 273 (the bright stellar-like object in the center) obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. It was the first quasar ever to be identified.
Photo courtesy of NASA.
Discovery is the first detailed observation of the environs of a massive black hole outside the Milky Way, say researchers from the GRAVITY group.
In 1963, astronomer Maarten Schmidt identified the first quasi-stellar object or “quasar,” an extremely bright but distant object. He found the single quasar, the active nucleus of a far-away galaxy known to astronomers as 3C 273, to be 100 times more luminous than all the stars in our Milky Way combined.
Now, the GRAVITY international team of astronomers, including Prof. Hagai Netzer of Tel Aviv University’s School of Physics and Astronomy, have concluded that gas clouds rapidly moving around a central black hole form the very heart of this quasar. The results of the new research were published in Nature on November 29.
The first measurement of the mass of the black hole inside 3C 273, using an older method, was conducted at the TAU’s Florence and George Wise Observatory in 2000, as part of PhD research conducted by TAU’s Dr. Shai Kaspi, then a student in Prof. Netzer’s group. This result has now been corroborated by GRAVITY’s observations.
The research is the first detailed observation outside of our galaxy of gas clouds whirling around a central black hole. According to the researchers, GRAVITY’s measurements will become the benchmark for measuring black hole masses in thousands of other quasars.
Taking a closer look at a black hole
The GRAVITY instrument, situated in Paranal, Chile, has unprecedented capabilities. It combines the collective area of four telescopes to form a virtual telescope, called an interferometer, 130 meters across. The instrument can detect distant astronomical objects at an extremely high resolution.
“Quasars are among the most distant astronomical objects that can be observed,” Prof. Netzer says. “They also play a fundamental role in the history of the universe, as their evolution is intricately tied to galaxy growth. While almost all large galaxies harbor a massive black hole at their centers, so far only one in our Milky Way has been accessible for such detailed studies.”
“GRAVITY allowed us to resolve, for the first time ever, the motion of gas clouds around a central black hole,” says Eckhard Sturm of Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), who co-led the research for the study. “Our observations can follow the motion of the gas and reveal that the clouds do whirl around the central black hole.”
So far, such observations had not been possible due to the small angular size of a quasar’s inner region — roughly the size of our solar system, but some 2.5 billion light years distant from us.
“Broad emission lines created by gas in the vicinity of the black hole are observational hallmarks of quasars. Until now, the distance of the gas from the black hole, and occasionally the pattern of the motion, could only be measured by an older method that made use of light variations in the quasars,” Prof. Netzer says. “With the GRAVITY instrument, we can distinguish structures at the level of 10 micro-arc seconds, which corresponds to observing, for example, a 1-Euro coin on the Moon.”
“Information about the motion and distance of the gas immediately around the black hole is crucial to measuring the mass of the black hole,” explains Jason Dexter, also of MPE, who co-led the research. “For the first time, the old method was tested experimentally and passed its test with flying colors, confirming previous estimates of about 300 million solar masses for the black hole.”
“This is the first time that we can study the immediate environs of a massive black hole outside our home galaxy, the Milky Way,” concludes Reinhard Genzel, head of the infrared research group at MPE. “Black holes are intriguing objects, allowing us to probe physics under extreme conditions — and with GRAVITY we can now probe them both near and far.”
Publication: GRAVITY Collaboration, “Spatially resolved rotation of the broad-line region of a quasar at sub-parsec scale,” Nature volume 563, pages 657–660 (2018)
NASA has selected the first batch ofU.S. companiesto join the agency on its journey to its next destination, the moon, which NASA wants to explorein order to prepareto go on to Mars.
During a public event held today (Nov. 29), the agency unveiled nine new partners that will be designing and buildinglunar landersaimed at facilitating scientific exploration of the moon. In addition to the specific companies chosen, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine also announced that the program running those contracts — the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program — is now part of the science section of NASA's bureaucracy, not the human exploration section.
The general idea is that these companies will be able to compete for contracts to deliver NASA science experiments to the surface of the moon by flying lunar landers on rocket launches purchased from other commercial space companies. Those individual contracts would substitute for NASA needing to build those capacities itself. [Building Apollo: Photos from Moonshot History]
But under this approach, NASA won't be alone in hiring these companies — the agency hopes to spur development that the commercial sector can also utilize. "We want to be first customers, not only customers," Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's head of the science mission directorate, said during the event.
The agency did not provide any details about the choices beyond what the selected companies were: Astrobotic Technology Inc., Deep Space Systems, Draper, Firefly Aerospace Inc., Intuitive Machines LLC, Lockheed Martin Space, Masten Space Systems, Inc., Moon Express and Orbit Beyond
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (far left) and Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate Thomas Zurbuchen (far right) pose for a photograph with the representatives of the nine U.S. companies that are eligible to bid on NASA delivery services to the lunar surface through Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contracts. NASA announced the companies Nov. 29, 2018 at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA
When asked what information companies had to provide in order to participate in the program and how NASA chose the winners, Zurbuchen did not go into specifics. "We went with a really broad set of criteria," he said, adding that those criteria "ask questions about the overall liability of the companies, their likelihood to be able to deliver these services, but we did not go in very deep depth relative to the technical capability."
All told, NASA is planning for the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program as a whole to encompass contracts totalling up to $2.6 billion over the course of 10 years, although NASA spokesperson Cheryl Warner wrote in an email to Space.com that each company will receive at least $25,000 through the program, with the value of individual contracts varying in accordance with the service the company will provide.
"These nine companies will bid on and be paid through task orders issued by NASA starting in the near future," Warner wrote. (The agency has said that it intends for the first flight to occur next year.) "Services they provide NASA will cover payload integration and operations, launch and landing on the Moon."
NASA has been working to encourage private interest in the moon as a way to reduce the agency's own costs as it looks to return to human exploration, first at the moon and then at Mars. That goal is meant to facilitate NASA's timeline of landing humans on the moon during the 2020s.
German Aerospace CenterDe SpaceX-raket heeft aan boord een 'tomatensatelliet', waarmee men wil onderzoeken of het mogelijk is om in de ruimte tomaten te kweken.
WETENSCHAPWetenschappers sturen vermoedelijk maandagavond vanuit California een raket de ruimte in met aan boord de ‘tomatensatelliet’ Eu:Cropis. Daarmee willen ze uitzoeken of het mogelijk is om voedsel te kweken op andere planeten.
Een Falcon 9-raket van het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX zou de Eu:Cropis-satelliet eigenlijk vorige week woensdag al de ruimte inschieten, maar dat werd toen uitgesteld naar zondagavond/vanavond. Maar ook die lancering gaat nu niet door, meldt het Duitse Centrum voor Lucht- en Ruimtevaart DLR. Technici hebben meer werk aan de draagraket dan initieel gepland, klinkt het.
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De kleine Eu:Cropis-satelliet heeft tomatenzaadjes en een soort serre aan boord, waarin wetenschappers willen proberen om tomaten te laten groeien in een zwaartekracht die overeenstemt met die op de maan en Mars. Bedoeling is om te zien of mensen ooit eigen voedsel zouden kunnen kweken op andere planeten, maar ook om astronauten die zich nu al in de ruimte begeven in de toekomst van vers voedsel te kunnen voorzien.
De raket wordt vanuit de Amerikaanse staat Californië de ruimte ingeschoten. De lancering is nu vermoedelijk voor maandagavond.
German Aerospace CenterIn deze serre wil men in de ruimte proberen om tomaten te kweken.
AFPDe ESA heeft vorige maand nog weerstation MetOp-C gelanceerd.
WETENSCHAP Een Ariane 5-draagraket lanceert dinsdag twee satellieten vanop de lanceerbasis bij Kourou in Frans-Guyana. Het gaat om een telecommunicatiesatelliet voor India en een weersatelliet voor Zuid-Korea.
De lancering is voorzien voor dinsdag tussen 21.37 uur en 22.53 uur Belgische tijd. Als alles goed verloopt, moeten de satellieten zich na 34 minuten loskoppelen van de draagraket.
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Spectaculaire vuurbol verlicht hemel boven verschillende Europese landen - HLN.be
Spectaculaire vuurbol verlicht hemel boven verschillende Europese landen - HLN.be
RVDe lichtflits leverde prachtige beelden op in de Alpen.
WEERNIEUWS Webcams hebben een mooi natuurfenomeen vastgelegd. Een gigantische vuurbol veroorzaakte een lichtflits die vanuit verschillende landen in Europa zichtbaar was. Dat duurde slechts enkele seconden, maar het levert prachtige beelden op.
De lichtflits was donderdagochtend omstreeks 5.10 uur te zien vanuit plaatsen in Oostenrijk, Zwitserland, Duitsland, Italië, Slovenië, Hongarije, Slovakije en Kroatië. Verschillende camera’s konden het spektakel vastleggen. In de Alpen leverde de krachtige lichtflits in combinatie met de bergen, maan en sneeuw wondermooie plaatjes op.
Wellicht ging het om een deeltje dat is losgekomen van een meteoroïde of planetoïde. Als zo’n stukje puin vanuit de ruimte in de atmosfeer terechtkomt, wordt het materiaal sterk afgeremd en zeer heet. Daardoor ontstaat een vuurbol.
Dit zijn enkele van de beelden van webcams uit Duitsland, Oostenrijk en Hongarije.
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EEN VREEMDE KRACHT LIJKT DE AARDE UITEEN TE TREKKEN ( VIDEO )
EEN VREEMDE KRACHT LIJKT DE AARDE UITEEN TE TREKKEN ( VIDEO )
Wij denken dat we op een planeet wonen die vrij stabiel is en dat wij mensen in staat zijn om de temperatuur op aarde te controleren.
Ondertussen staat de wetenschap voor een raadsel bij de vreemde seismische golven die zich voor doen en lijkt de aarde letterlijk uit elkaar te scheuren.
Terwijl de bevolking wordt afgeleid door van alles en nog wat, gebeuren er dingen die echt van groot belang zijn voor de mensheid en waar alle aandacht op gericht zou horen te zijn.
We zien dan gisteren een bericht voorbij komen over vreemde onverklaarbare seismische golven die de wereld over gingen en waarvan niemand weet waar ze vandaan komen.
Meetstations van bevingen in de Indische Oceaan pikten drie weken geleden een signaal op van seismische golven die vanaf Madagaskar tot aan Chili, Nieuw-Zeeland en Canada reikten. Wetenschappers gissen naar de oorzaak van de seismische activiteit, meldt The Daily Mail. Het centrum van de mysterieuze activiteit ligt voor de kust van het eiland Mayotte, naast Madagaskar.
De seismische golven hielden twintig minuten aan, zonder dat veel mensen het konden merken, en zijn vergelijkbaar met die van na een grote aardbeving. Vreemd genoeg heeft een dergelijke aardbeving in de regio al maanden niet meer plaatsgevonden. Bovendien hadden de trillingen een opvallend zeldzame frequentie – bijna muzikaal, schrijft het Australische News.com. Mogelijke verklaringen voor de raadselachtige trillingen is een onontdekte meteoriet of een onderzeese vulkaanuitbarsting. Ook wordt op internet gespeculeerd over een mogelijke nucleaire test. Een groep wetenschappers is nu van plan de regio voor de Oost-Afrikaanse kust na te pluizen om het mysterieuze fenomeen te verklaren.
Er worden vervolgens een aantal wilde theorieën rondgestrooid zoals meteorieten of een nucleaire test, maar in werkelijkheid heeft men geen flauw idee wat dit soort golven veroorzaakt.
Een samenwerkingsverband van meteorologen die gebruikmaken van satellietbeelden (CIMSS) hebben voor de derde keer op rij een vreemde ontdekking gedaan. Vanuit het gebied waarover men zegt dat er zich op Antarctica piramides bevinden, komt een sterke mysterieuze microgolf die zich langs de Zuid Amerikaanse kust verplaatst.
En nu, voor de derde keer in korte tijd, ontdekte men een derde mysterieuze (energie)golf op 26 mei 2017.
Niet alleen neemt de frequentie tussen de golven toe, ze volgen elkaar sneller op, maar ook iedere keer schijnt het afkomstig te zijn uit hetzelfde gebied op Antarctica.
Het zijn niet alleen seismische of microgolven die door iets worden veroorzaakt, er is ook iets dat er zo langzamerhand voor zorgt dat de aarde letterlijk uit elkaar wordt gescheurd.
De volgende afbeeldingen zijn afkomstig van Nancy Lieder en laten zien hoe in verschillende delen van de wereld het lijkt alsof de aarde letterlijk uit elkaar wordt gescheurd. Een vreemde mysterieuze kracht die ervoor zorgt dat de eens zo stabiele planeet dat niet meer is.
Ook in Alaska was het gisteren raak met een aardbeving van 7 op de schaal van Richter. Ook in de volgende video die gemaakt is net na de beving zie je scenes die laten zien dat de aarde uit elkaar getrokken lijkt te worden.
It Came Out of Nowhere and Stopped by the Blimp! | Deep Purple Sky and Much More! (Video)
It Came Out of Nowhere and Stopped by the Blimp! | Deep Purple Sky and Much More! (Video)
Strange shenanigans in the sky around this Blimp situation. A very interesting video no doubt about it worth checking out. So many possibilities as what this can be. Military or alien invasion? =) If it were alien invasion I think we’d already be gone at this point.
Mr MBB333 why can’t drone fly close , is it legal or a mechanical physical reason ? Thanks. Ned Pod
A blimp, or non-rigid airship, is an airship (dirigible) or barrage balloon without an internal structural framework or a keel.
What do you think about this video? Let us know in the comments and thanks for stopping by.
While businesses in the U.S. struggle to decide the future of autonomous cars and how (or if) the public will receive and use them (attacking driverless vehicles is not a good sign; autonomous cars in fatal accidents is even worse), China announced it is building an entire autonomous, robots-only city … under the ocean … as a port and laboratory for unmanned submarines … and it’s named after Hades, the mythological king of the underworld. Are you worried yet?
“It is as challenging as building a colony on another planet for robotic residents with artificial intelligence. The technology can change the world.”
Or take it over? South China Morning Post quotes an unnamed scientist who has a rosy view of the Hadal zone project – a robotic Atlantis in the deepest trench of the South China Sea. It’s pictured as an underwater space station with multiple platforms and docks for subsea drones. It’s projected to cost Chinese taxpayers just 1.1 billion yuan (US$160 million), with much of the funding going to developing materials that can withstand the pressure at that depth … not to mention the volcanoes.
If you’re going to build the world’s first and deepest autonomous Atlantis, you might as well pick the worst place and most dangerous place imaginable – the Manila Trench in the South China Sea where, at a depth of 5,400 meters, the southeastern part of Eurasian plate meets the Pacific plate and create sizeable underwater volcanoes and earthquakes that could affect large parts of the surface with quakes and tsunamis. Throw in the fact that the South China Sea is a politically volatile area causing disturbances between the governments and militaries of China and the Philippines, and you have to wonder what other reasons may have prompted China to pick this area … and why it will be unmanned.
“China and the Philippines should sit down and discuss it. A tsunami [warning] is a big selling point. Data collected by the station would benefit all countries in the region. It could save many lives.”
Professor Yan Pin, a researcher at the Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Guangzhou, pushes the ideas that this will primarily be an earthquake and tsunami warning station and the data it collects will be shared with the Philippines and other countries. China’s President Xi Jinping, in a speech designed to inspire the engineers working on the project, called it a “march into the ocean to accelerate the build-up of maritime power.” Dr Du Qinghai, an associate researcher at the Hadal Science and Technology Research Centre at Shanghai Ocean University who is not involved with the project, is blunter.
“No other country has done this before. The project will make China stronger, more advanced. It will boost the material sciences, stimulate innovation and make Chinese manufacturing more competitive. It will make China a world leader in some critical areas.”
China is building an autonomous Atlantis. Its drive for technical superiority and willingness to spend money on may feel threatening but it is also impressive. Meanwhile, the U.S. is trying to get excited about automatic parallel parking and Americans are going to movies about Aquaman.
Archaeologists have discovered an ancient mask that was used during the Neolithic period (New Stone Age). The 9,000-year-old mask was found just a few months ago and is currently being examined by experts of the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Geological Survey of Israel. The mask was traced to an archaeological site in the southern part of Har Hevron in the Pnei Hever region.
Ronit Lupu of the IAA Antiquities Theft Prevention Unit said, “The mask is a unique finding in the archaeological world. It is even more unusual that we know which site it came from. The fact that we have information regarding the specific place in which it was discovered makes this mask more important than most other masks from this period that we currently know of.”
The mask was made from pinkish-yellow limestone and was made to look like a human face. It also had drilled holes along the edge of the mask where it could be tied to a person’s face or even to a pole for others to view it. Lupu went on to say, “Discovering a mask made of stone, at such a high level of finish, is very exciting. The stone has been completely smoothed over and the features are perfect and symmetrical, even delineating cheek bones. It has an impressive nose and a mouth with distinct teeth.”
9.000-year-old Rare Stone Mask Uncovered. 11-28-2018. Tzippe Barrow · Mask Dating to Neolithic Period,
Photo, IAA, Clara Amit
The mask was used for ancestor worship during that time. “It was part of the ritual and retention of family heritage that was accepted at the time,” Lupu explained. He continued by saying, “Stone masks, such as the one from Pnei Hever, are similar in size to the human face, which is why scholars tend to connect them with such worship.”
There have been a total of fifteen masks found in relation to that time period. Because two of those fifteen masks were found in an archaeological context, researchers know exactly where they originated from and that means they can study the site. The other thirteen masks are part of private collections around the world.
Since the mask was found in Pnei Hever, it is believed that the southern Hebron Hills (Judean Desert area) was a hot spot for creating stone masks, as well as using them for rituals during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period.
Although this ancient mask was used for rituals, it looks more like something Jason wore in the Friday the 13th horror movies. Or even the first ever goalie masks that hockey players wore. Nevertheless, it’s one creepy, yet incredible discovery.
Cigar-Shaped UFO hanging in the sky over Spike Island, Cork, Ireland before it speeds away
Cigar-Shaped UFO hanging in the sky over Spike Island, Cork, Ireland before it speeds away
On November 26, 2018 the witness has filmed a cigar-shaped UFO at the moment he was driving near Spike Island, Cork in Ireland.
This sighting of an unidentified flying object comes several weeks after several pilots of commercial aircraft had a close encounter with a bright UFO off the south-west coast of Ireland.
The video shows the cigar-shaped UFO that seemingly hanging in the sky over the Island before it suddenly speeds away at a tremendous speed.
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A security guard claims to have spotted a "massive" UFO hovering over North Wales.
Jon Waring spotted a "crystal shape object" hovering overCaerwysat around 6am on Tuesday, November 27 while he was at work.
The ex-soldier and former light aircraft pilot from Towyn, shared pictures and a video of the "bright light" that he says quickly disappeared when the sun came up after 7am.
He described the UFO that was near an illuminated telecommunication tower as being a "quarter of the size of the moon".
Jon, who has been flying light aircraft for more than a decade, said he was "one million percent" certain it was not an aircraft.
"I've never seen anything like it and I did 12 years in the army," he said. "I've no idea what it was, I wouldn't even like to take a guess.
Security guard Jon Waring spotted a "crystal shape object" hovering over Caerwys at around 6am on November 27 hovering from Towyn(Image: Jon Waring)
"It was just a massive bright light, like a crystal shape. The moon was to the west, and this was to the east.
'A pure bright white light'
"I've been a pilot myself for 11 years and it's nothing like I've ever seen before. It was a pure bright white light that was lit up all around."
Jon said the object "didn't budge" or even alter position until the sky became light.
He added: "It just disappeared when it started to go light. Whoever was out at the time would definitely have seen it, it was hard to miss it.
"I got some pictures and filmed it on my phone, but they don't do it justice at all.
"I've always been very open minded to that kind of thing, but I have no idea what it was."
Jon Waring described the UFO as a 'bright light' that was a 'quarter of the size of the moon'(Image: Jon Waring)
UFO investigator Russ Kellett who has spent decades looking into the Berwyn Mountains mystery, said he received a report of a similar object in the same area on Sunday.
'I can't believe it'
"I can't believe it. On Sunday, I got a call from a lady in the Flintshire area who said she'd seen a diamond shape object flying over the area early in the morning.
"She said she was looking out of her window and when she looked up, she said she saw something glistening. She said it was very big and that it was towards the coast, looking towards Llandudno way.
"She described it as a very bright glowing diamond, with a tint of colour to it. She was taken aback by it, she said she'd never seen anything like it before."
Security guard Jon Waring spotted a "crystal shape object" hovering over Caerwys(Image: Jon Waring)
Mr Kellett who said there is an "ongoing wave of reports" from North Wales at the moment added some believe the diamond shape UFO's are "two flying triangles linked together".
"I've heard of them before, but they are not as popular and aren't sighted as often as other objects," he said.
Earlier this month, he claims a man from North Wales reported witnessing an unidentified object with "bright lights" flying very quickly over Llandudno from the Irish Sea early in the morning.
He says another man, from Ireland, also contacted him with an identical report following a similar experience on the same day.
It comes after the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) is investigating claims of bright lights and UFOs off the south-west coast of Ireland.
Jon Waring spotted a "crystal shape object" hovering over Caerwys at around 6am on November 27 hovering from Towyn(Image: Jon Waring)
A British Airways pilot flying from the Canadian city of Montreal to Heathrow contacted Shannon air traffic control shortly before 7am on November 9 asking if there were military exercises in the area.
The pilot had reported seeing a "very bright light" that was moving very fast. The air traffic controller confirmed there were no such exercises.
The Civil Aviation Authority told the Daily Post they were not aware of any reports of UFOs in the North Wales area.
The MoD who were also contacted for comment say it stopped taking reports of UFO sightings 10 years ago.
Police officer Lonnie Zamora was on patrol on Friday, April 24, 1964, at about 5:50 p.m. in the outskirts of his jurisdiction in Socorro County, New Mexico, when he witnessed the approach of an egg-shaped craft where he was driving. The craft was spewing great amounts of flames just before it landed in the desert. The UFO sighting and landing event was thoroughly investigated back in the day by the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, the FBI and various civilian groups. To this day, it’s a famous event in UFO history.
In recent years the case was reopened and carefully re-examined by Virginia’s chief Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) investigator Ben Moss and fellow investigator Tony Angiola. They mounted their project in 2014 after meeting Ray Stanford, the original National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) investigator at Socorro in 1964. Ben and Tony’s forthcoming book on their investigation is still a work in progress, and I suspect it’s going to be eye-opening.
What I find fascinating is the fact that egg-shaped UFOs are exceedingly rare! Between 2001 and 2017, all 50 states and Washington, D.C., logged at least one sighting of the egg-shaped UFOs. But the total for the period was a measly 1,263 reported sightings, barely 1 percent of the 139,876 national all-types sighting reports for the period.
With such small national numbers, is it any wonder that only 583 counties of 3,242 nationwide reported sightings, or about 18 percent of the nation’s total counties. In terms of egg UFOs sighting reports at the local level, only 906 towns and cities or 6 percent reported egg UFOs of the 15,295 municipalities listed in our data base. Nationally, there are 16,519 local municipalities or 92 percent are represented in our data base.
As can be seen by the chart, egg UFOs have had a minimum of sightings in 2003 and a maximum of sightings in 2017, with an average of about 74 yearly. With such tiny sighting report numbers, some readers may surmise, what’s the big deal? So please make note of the peak years and the increasing sighting volumes: 2004, 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2017.
Many social media readers have asked me to “show them a trend.” OK, note the black line suggesting more than a 300 percent increase of these egg UFO sightings in the past 17 years. It’s something to think about, especially when you consider that of 28 of the known UFO shape categories, 25 are in steep decline these past three years.
That said, Saturn, Teardrop and Egg are on a steep increase.
Finally, with regard to New Mexico, where the Socorro event took place. In the 17 years of my study; New Mexico had 1,707 total UFO sighting reports representing all known UFO shapes. During that same period the state only had only 20 egg UFO reports. These egg UFO sightings were in the following counties: Bernalillo, 5; McKinley, 3; Dona Ana, 3; Santa Fe, 3; Chaves, 2; Luna, 1; Catron, 1; Rio Arriba, 1; San Juan, 1.
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UFO MEGA CON, Laughlin, Nevada, March 24-30
Ozark Mountains UFO Conference, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, April 12-14
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Open Minds UFO Radio: Jeremy Corbell is an investigative filmmaker and runs the websiteExtraordinaryBeleifs.com. Many of his projects, including his most recent, focus on the paranormal and UFOs. In September, Corbell released his film Hunt for the Skinwalker based off of the 2005 book of the same the same name. Much of this film included archival footage and reports from Las Vegas reporter George Knapp, who along with scientist Colm Kelleher, author the Skinwalker book. However, the subject of this episode is Corbell’s latest project based on Bob Lazar, the alleged whistleblower whose claims made Area 51 famous. The film is titled Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers, and is set to premiere on December 3, 2018.
Lazar claims that he worked at a secret underground lab called S-4 near Papoose Lake, just south of Area 51. Everyday he would fly into Area 51 and be bused to S-4. At this base, he says he worked back-engineering advanced propulsions systems on a craft he says could only have been made by alien technology. In this episode, Corbell discusses how the film came about and his approach to tackling the controversial subject.
"At the beginning, the supra-regional topography of the landing site is shown from various perspectives within a radius of a few hundred kilometers," officials with the German Aerospace Center, known by its German acronym DLR, said in a statement Monday describing the video. [NASA's InSight Mars Lander: Full Coverage]
"The first scene shows the approach to the approximately 13-kilometer-high [8 miles] Elysium Mons volcano, from north to south," the officials added. "This is followed by a loop and flight over Elysium Planitia, from southeast to northwest with a view of the landing ellipse."
Researchers created the new animation using a digital terrain model, which incorporated image data gathered by DLR's High Resolution Stereo Camera, which flies aboard the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter. Mars Express has been studying the Red Planet from above since 2003.
Elysium Planitia is flat and boring, but that's no problem for InSight; the lander will investigate the Martian interior, so mission team members weren't looking for a place with interesting surface features. Indeed, complex terrain was something to be avoided, because it could make a safe touchdown more difficult.
Looking down on Elysium Planitia, the area of Mars where NASA's InSight lander touched down on Nov. 26, 2018. This image is a still from an animation created using imagery captured by the High Resolution Stereo Camera aboard Europe's Mars Express orbiter.
Credit: DLR
InSight carries two main science instruments: a burrowing heat probe provided by DLR and a suite of seismometers built by a consortium led by France's national space agency, CNES. The data gathered by this gear over the next two Earth years will reveal a great deal about Mars' internal structure and composition, NASA officials have said.
In addition, the InSight team will track the lander's position carefully using the craft's communications equipment. This work will tell scientists how much Mars' axis of rotation wobbles, which in turn will shed considerable light on Mars' core.
Taken together, this information should help researchers better understand how rocky planets in general form and evolve, InSight team members have said.
The $850 million InSight mission launched on May 5, along with two fly-along cubesats called MarCO-A and MarCO-B, which beamed data from the lander home to Earth during Monday's touchdown.
InSight will use its robotic arm to place both the heat probe and the seismometer suite directly on the Martian surface. The mission team won't be ready to do this for another two to three months, after they've studied InSight's environs and practiced the deployments using a testbed lander at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
"InSight" is short for "Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport."
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate) is out now.
Astrophysicists have measured all the photons ever emitted by the trillions and trillions of stars forged during the Universe’s 13.7-billion-long history. Unpeeling the history of star formation is a major breakthrough with ramifications in other areas of research, such as galactic evolution or the search for dark matter. Ultimately, work like this brings scientists closer to understanding the most fundamental processes, all the way back to the Big Bang.
A map of the night’s sky showing the location of 739 blazars used in the study to measure starlight in the universe.
Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration.
Scientists estimate that there are about two trillion galaxies, which hold a trillion-trillion stars. In order to measure how much starlight has been emitted, Marco Ajello and colleagues at the Clemson College of Science turned to data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Launched in 2008, the Fermi Telescope has so far provided invaluable information pertaining to gamma rays (the most energetic form ofelectromagnetic radiation) and their interaction with the extragalactic background light (EBL) — a ‘cosmic fog’ composed of all the ultraviolet, visible and infrared light emitted by stars or from dust in their vicinity.
The results suggest that the total number of photons that have been emitted into space by stars is about 4×1084 — that’s 4 followed by 84 zeroes. It’s a staggering number beyond our comprehension, but one that will help scientists greatly to understand how stars and galaxies evolve.
“From data collected by the Fermi telescope, we were able to measure the entire amount of starlight ever emitted. This has never been done before,” said Ajello, who is lead author of the paper. “Most of this light is emitted by stars that live in galaxies. And so, this has allowed us to better understand the stellar-evolution process and gain captivating insights into how the universe produced its luminous content.”
Despite the huge number of photons out there, the Universe is largely dim due to its sheer vastness. According to the researchers, starlight other than that coming from our own and Milky Way is as dim as a 60-watt light bulb viewed from 2.5 miles away.
The study hinged on observations of energetic particles emitted by blazars, which are galaxies with supermassive black holes that are capable of releasing collimated jets of electromagnetic radiation. When such jets happen to be directly pointed at Earth, our instruments are able to detect their source even from billions of light-years away. Gamma rays produced by the jets interact with the cosmic fog, producing an imprint that astrophysicists can use to measure the fog’s density. What’s more, this density can be measured for various times in the history of the universe.
“Gamma-ray photons traveling through a fog of starlight have a large probability of being absorbed,” said Ajello, an assistant professor in the department of physics and astronomy. “By measuring how many photons have been absorbed, we were able to measure how thick the fog was and also measure, as a function of time, how much light there was in the entire range of wavelengths.”
Clemson University astrophysicist Marco Ajello.
Credit: Pete Martin / Clemson University.
By directly measuring the density of this cosmic fog, the authors of the new study were able to eliminate the need to estimate light emissions by far-away galaxies. In total, 739 blazars were included in the study.
“By using blazars at different distances from us, we measured the total starlight at different time periods,” said postdoctoral fellow Vaidehi Paliya. “We measured the total starlight of each epoch—one billion years ago, two billion years ago, six billion years ago, etc. – all the way back to when stars were first formed. This allowed us to reconstruct the EBL and determine the star-formation history of the universe in a more effective manner than had been achieved before.”
“Scientists have tried to measure the EBL for a long time. However, very bright foregrounds like the zodiacal light (which is light scattered by dust in the solar system) rendered this measurement very challenging,” said co-author Abhishek Desai, a graduate research assistant in the department of physics and astronomy. “Our technique is insensitive to any foreground and thus overcame these difficulties all at once.”
According to the study’s results, star formation peaked around 11 billion years ago — but it is still going strong. The Milky Way adds seven new stars every year, for instance.
Understanding star formation is important for astronomy research. For instance, this analysis will enable research in the future to target the earliest days of stellar evolution, using the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, which should come online in 2021. And because the measurement is very sensitive to the expansion of the Universe, Ajello believes that their data can be used to measure the Hubble Constant more precisely.
“The first billion years of our universe’s history are a very interesting epoch that has not yet been probed by current satellites,” Ajello said in a statement. “Our measurement allows us to peek inside it. Perhaps one day we will find a way to look all the way back to the Big Bang. This is our ultimate goal.”
The findings were reported in the journal Science.
A new crop circle was recently discovered in the UK on July 8th, 2018. It was the exact depiction of the chemical weapons warning symbol.
Reflect On:
Does this serve as a message for us to put down the chemical and nuclear weapons for good? Do we need to be using these weapons? This may also cause us to consider the poisoning of our planet in other ways.
A new crop circle was recently discovered on July 8th in Coneybury Hill, Nr Stonehenge, Wiltshire. This circle is the exact same as the chemical weapons warning symbol.
Interestingly this crop circle was found shortly after the death of Dawn Sturgess who had come into contact with a deadly nerve agent.
While we can’t know for sure, this crop circle certainly appears to be a message to humanity about the dangers of chemical weapons and the catastrophic damage they can cause, regardless of who you believe made it. Perhaps this circle symbolizes the fact that these weapons have no place in our world, and it’s time we got rid of them, for good.
Check out some amazing drone footage of this newly discovered crop circle below.
ET Intervention?
It is not all that surprising to see this message show up in a crop circle, as in the past we have seen deliberate ET intervention when nuclear weapons would have otherwise been used. We have covered this topic before, and the following is an excerpt from an older article,
One of many previously classified reports -out of the thousands in existence -that is now available in the public domain is the intrusion at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, on August 24, 1966. Air Force personnel were concerned about a light in the sky. A team went to check it out and confirmed the object, then saw a second white object while doing so. The object was tracked on radar and moved vertical several times; each time it descended, an air force officer in charge of a missile crew found his radio transmission interrupted by static. The object eventually descended to ground level, and the Air Force sent a team to check it out. They saw the object either on the ground or hovering very low. According to the official report:
“When the team was about ten miles from the landing site, static disrupted radio contact with them. Five to eight minutes later, the glow diminished, and the UFO took off. Another UFO was visually sighted and confirmed by radar. The one that was first sighted passed beneath the second. Radar also confirmed this. The first made for altitude toward the north, and the second seemed to disappear with the glow of red.”
Here are a couple of more articles that go into greater detail regarding the connections between UFO’s and nuclear missiles:
It seems that these extraterrestrials know just how damaging nuclear weapons can be to our planet, and possibly to our entire solar system. There is information that says that UFO’s have been deactivating nuclear weapons since we created them and started to show up a lot more often when we were testing the atomic bomb. Thankfully, someone or something has our back and is helping to stop us, humanity from making a huge mistake.
As Far As Crop Circles Go, You May Be Interested In These Detailed Articles That Go A Little Deeper Into The Phenomenon
Four months ago, people in a small Madagascar town caught sight of a fireball shooting acrossthe early-evening sky. Its boom was so loud, the ground shook.
A search for pieces of this celestial visitor soon followed. Researchers stitched together eyewitness accounts to help them understand what came down from the heavens on July 27.
A fragment of the Benenitra meteorite showing the black fusion crust and thumbprint-like depressions (called regmaglypts) that offered early evidence that this rock came from space. These features formed by melting during its entry into the atmosphere.
Credit: Wits University
This space rock is now called Benenitra, named after the small town in southwestern Madagascar where it landed. Fortunately, Benenitra rock fragments appear to have missed any people or buildings, according to a Nov. 26 statement about the findings.
"The Benenitra meteorite is a new space rock, but it is also a witnessed fall, which makes it part of [a] special group of meteorites," Roger Gibson, a researcher at Wits University in South Africa, said in the statement. "It is part of our collective heritage as a species, planet and Solar System. It fell in a remote area that will henceforth be recognised internationally for the event on the evening of 27 July."
Researchers from the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar and international colleagues began investigating when they first heard about the fall. After news reached Wits graduate student Tim Marais, he collected preliminary eyewitness accounts to confirm the meteor crash. Marais happened to be traveling in the area days after it occurred.
Madagascar is featured in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image taken by the Terra satellite on Sept. 10, 2003.The narrow strip of green along the east coast of the island is a rainforest.
Credit: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Marais also retrieved rock fragments thought to have separated from the meteorite.
A thin section of one fragment went through microscopic analysis, enabling Gibson and Lewis Ashwal at Wits University to confirm its space origin. Other supporting evidence for the meteorite's provenance came from work done by Matthias Laubenstein at the National Institute for Nuclear Physics in Italy, who found evidence of recent cosmic ray exposure — meaning the fragment was outside Earth's protective atmosphere as recently as a few months ago.
The Benenitra meteorite comes from the early solar system, according to Wits University officials. Known as a chondrite, this common meteorite contains millimeter-size grains of silicate material preserved from the cloud of dust and gas that surrounded the sun billions of years ago, when the solar system formed.
So the fragments belonged to an ancient meteor. But how does one corroborate testimonies describing the crashing sound?
To find supporting evidence of a significant explosion in the atmosphere above Madagascar on July 27, Andry Ramanantsoa of the Laboratory of Seismology and Infrasound at the University of Antananarivo used infrasound data from seismometers to confirm an "upper atmosphere energy release event" over the town of Benenitra at 7:16 p.m. local time (1716 GMT). The explosion, according to officials, was large enough to cause vibrations in the ground.
New UFO Video Claims to Capture a TR-3B, a Reverse-Engineered Alien Craft
New UFO Video Claims to Capture a TR-3B, a Reverse-Engineered Alien Craft
Chris Mahon
Adapted from Screenshot: YouTube/UFO Today
Outer Places was recently contacted by the folks over at UFO Today, a YouTube channel devoted to videos of supposed alien sightings. Their newest video, titled "Why is the TR3B UFO always surrounded by lightning storms?" claims to show a type of aircraft called a "TR-3B" hovering near a lightning storm. According to them, the video was taken last Thursday (November 22nd) by a man named Allan Diablo.
Here's the video:
So...we've got what appears to be a vaguely triangular shape in the midst of a lightning storm. There seems to be another shape that's just as dark in the distance (to the right), which leads us to believe that the "aircraft" is actually a shadow cast on the clouds. If you're wondering what a TR-3B is (or just want a clearer transcription of what the narrator is saying), here you go:
"The TR-3B is a type of plane that is supposedly re-engineered from an extraterrestrial aircraft that crash landed to Earth. Scientists were able to re-create the technology that is used by extraterrestrials to travel through space. The question remains whether the objects we witness were man-made or are in fact extraterrestrial."
Rumors and sightings of "black triangles" have been going on for years, and have been identified with a supposed experimental spacecraft called the TR-3B Astra, which has never been confirmed as real. Either way, we doubt that the blurry image caught in the video above is an aircraft (or spacecraft) at all. Like previous UFO sightings during lightning storms, it's most likely a product of bad video quality and weird lighting.
Author Shanna Swenson writes romance, but she has some other, stranger stories to tell. Shanna recently told me about a UFO sighting she and her husband experienced a few years ago in Georgia. At the time, Shanna, her husband, and a cousin were driving home from dinner on a clear December night. They were making their way down a two-lane road on the outskirts of Cumming, where she and her husband live. At some point, she saw an unidentifiable red light in the sky. She pointed the orb out to her husband, and it suddenly began splitting into multiple lights. (Click here to see an example.) Any thoughts that the light might be a cell tower vanished as the red UFO became six pinkish-orange orbs.
Shanna’s husband pulled the truck over, and the travelers got out to watch the sky. In stark silence, the trio observed, spellbound, as the orbs began a slow, rhythmic pulse and moved farther apart. No motor hum, no sound of any kind issued from the UFOs. As they watched, the glowing array continued toward them and passed directly over their heads. Shanna says, “they flew over our heads and as quickly as they appeared, they vanished! We were all completely mystified.”
The author explained that while not desolate, the road they traveled that night is outside the city limits. Her sighting occurred around 11:00 pm and lasted only a few minutes. It is not unusual that they encountered no other traffic during the event, but other sightings are occasionally reported in the area.
UFO Formation Patterns
Shanna states that they were surprised and curious about what they saw, but they were not afraid. Unlike some reports, she had no sense that the UFOs were aware of being observed. The group had none of the aftereffects sometimes reported following a UFO sighting, such as nightmares or lost time.
I asked Shanna if the orbs formed a pattern of any kind during the sighting. She said there was no discernable pattern, but more like the single light was “breaking apart into a fan-like spread.”
I was curious if Shanna recognized any patterns because of a theory put forth by filmmaker Damon T. Berry in 2015. In his YouTube film Alien Contact, Berry claims UFOs are trying to communicate with humans using the most basic language possible. This language is neither music nor math, as some famous movies depict. Rather, Berry says, UFO language consists of constellation patterns. No more basic language could exist, he says, than showing humans the star patterns in their own skies. The filmmaker says it is common for groups of UFOs to change patterns five to seven times during a sighting. He believes this communication was not effective before the advent of cell phones, before the patterns could be routinely recorded and analyzed. Berry says UFO arrays form the patterns, then often repeat the series again during the same event.
Constellation Arrays
Berry’s film has been criticized for its quality and repetition, but the point it makes concerning UFO arrays is clear. Repeatedly, regardless of location, UFOs are seen forming similar patterns. This fact is easily proven by the most cursory online search for UFO pictures and videos. I noticed one pattern even before discovering Berry’s video–before I understood the shapes they form might be a communication. In several videos, I noticed UFOs forming a pattern that looks like either the Big or Little Dipper. According to Berry, other outlines formed by UFOs include Orion, Pegasus, and Cygnus.
Each of these constellations and asterisms (star formations contained in constellations) has been recognized by humans for thousands of years. Berry believes each star grouping features one or more significant elements known by any intelligent race, human or alien. The Dippers, for example, rotate about Polaris, the North Star. Polaris represents true north for Earth. Dubhe and Merak, the outer stars forming the bowl of the Big Dipper (part of Ursa Major) point to the last star in the handle of the Little Dipper—Polaris.
Cygnus (also known as the Swan) is sometimes called the Northern Cross. The constellation contains Cygnus X-1, a bright object that radiates X-rays. The X-rays result from a black hole and a blue star rotating around one another. The black hole pulls gasses from the star which heat up and emit X-rays.
Pegasus is shaped like a square. It is an asterism that can be used by stargazers to locate Andromeda.
Orion and the Pyramids
Last but not least is Orion. Specifically, Orion’s belt. The three stars comprising the belt are easily detectable and often used to locate other celestial bodies. How many pictures have we seen of three blue stars hanging in a dark sky over the pyramids? How many times have we been told the pyramids align with the stars in Orion’s belt?
Damon Berry thinks the pyramids of Giza were built long ago to warn alien spacefarers that Earth is “taken,” that intelligent life inhabits the planet, that this blue orb is not available for use or colonization. If Berry is right, and alien visitors are communicating by forming constellation patterns in our skies, how do we respond? What do we say? How do we say it? A lot more research is needed.
Many thanks to author Shanna Swenson for sharing her UFO sighting. Check out her fiction on Amazon and Goodreads, like her on Facebook, or follow her on Twitter.
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It’s almost like Prometheus was prophesying the findings published today. In the film, researchers discover the same set of symbols depicting a single star constellation in multiple (newly discovered) ancient caves across the planet. In today’s study, researchers analyzed already-known archeological sites, finding a set of symbols representing an array of constellations that track to our night sky today.
A number of cave paintings across Europe were revealed to depict representations of astrological symbols in a study published this week. Because of these findings, it’s been suggested by researchers from the University of Edinburgh that our common-knowledge history’s in need of an update. “These findings support a theory of multiple comet impacts over the course of human development,” said study leader Dr Martin Sweatman. “[This data] will probably revolutionize how prehistoric populations are seen.”
Once a set of astrological symbols was found in caves and other ancient structures across Europe, these scientists used rabiocarbon testing to place or re-place them in history. They then tracked the movement of the Earth and the probable view that these ancient people had at the time they were carving and/or painting these symbols. If the symbols and their positions did not match up with the constellations as they appeared at the time the symbols were made, these researchers’ interpretations would be false.
But, as the radiocarbon dates and the constellation positions of their associated symbols show, the two are well within the bounds of reasonable correlation. The software the researchers used was Stellarium (for archaeoastronomical dating).
Findings appeared on “many of the most well-known archaeological finds in Europe and the Near East,” including the following:
• The Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel, southern Germany circa 38,000 BC • Chauvet, northern Spain circa 34,000 BC • Lascaux, southern France circa 15,000 BC • Altamira, northern Spain circa 14,000 BC • Göbekli Tepe, southern Turkey circa 10,000 BC • Çatalhöyük, southern Turkey circa 7000 BC
They used such structures as the Vulture Stone at Göbekli Tepe, the animal symbols at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, and Palaeolithic cave art at multiple locations throughout Europe. The paper cites the Aurignacian Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany, Magdelanean Altamira in northern Spain, and the Shaft Scene at Lascaux, France.
Above you’ll see ancient Anatolian bear symbols appearing at three separate ancient locations. One of these alone can be interpreted as many different possible symbols – but when seen together, they become clear.
“Early cave art shows that people had advanced knowledge of the night sky within the last ice age,” said Dr Martin Sweatman, of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering. “Intellectually, they were hardly any different to us today.”
The chances that these symbols, dates, and constellations could match up so perfectly is extremely unlikely. According to the study, “The probability that this zodiac could match by pure chance the radiocarbon dates of Palaeolithic cave art and the 2 shrines at Çatalhöyük is 1 in 150 million.” Further, when combined outcomes of all statistical tests on this study are combined, “we find that the probability that all these correlations could have occurred by pure chance is around 1 in 15,000 trillion.”
“Therefore,” said these researchers, “we have cracked this ancient zodiacal code.”
As such, Hipparchus of Ancient Greece is no longer the first to discover effects caused by the gradual shift of the rotational axis of our Earth. Precession of the equinoxes wasn’t discovered by Hipparchus around 120 BC, nay! Instead, “this level of astronomical sophistication was actually known at least 36 thousand years earlier.”
Break out your history books, it’s time to do a few edits.
You can learn more about this subject in a paper authored by Martin B. Sweatman and Alistair Coombs called “Decoding European Palaeolithic art: Extremely ancient knowledge of precession of the equinoxes.” This paper was published on November 27th, 2018 in the Athens Journal of History. You can find this paper with code arXiv:1806.00046 [physics.hist-ph] as of this week. This paper was originally submitted by researchers on the 31st of May, 2018.
NASA Curiosity rover investigates shiny object on Mars
NASA Curiosity rover investigates shiny object on Mars
This might be something to consider following. It will be interesting to find out what this shiny rock is and why it is so different than anything else they have seen so far. They think it might be a meteorite but they will only know once the chemical analysis is completed. Kind of cool though!
The Curiosity team has a pretty good guess as to what it is.
Top-secret military test? Eerie footage shows mysterious UFO 'feeding on lightning'
Top-secret military test? Eerie footage shows mysterious UFO 'feeding on lightning'
A MYSTERIOUS black triangle "aircraft" has been spotted "feeding on lightning" during a storm - sparking theories that the UFO is the TR-3B - a top-secret US military aircraft built with alien technology.
Shocking footage has captured what appears to be ablack triangle UFOconsuming a lightning storm in order to "charge its batteries". According to a video uploaded onto YouTube, the UFO is "feeding on the energy of 200,000 ampere lightning strikes". The caption on the bizare footage, captured in the middle of a major lightning storm, dated the incident to the 22 November.
In the video, lightning strikes the triangular object from several different angles.
Users online speculated that the object could be the notorious TR3B military aircraft, amid a spike in sightings of the fabled black triangle technology.
The TR3B is "a terrestrial aircraft that was built on re-engineered technology from an extra-terrestrial civilization when its aircraft crash-landed into earth".
Legend claims that the triangle aircraft are "invisible to radar" due to a field of anti-gravity around the ship.
Several sightings of the apparent black triangle aircraft over the US has led to suggestions that it is being used for surveillance missions.
Shocking footage has captured what appears to be a black triangle UFO consuming a lightning storm
(Image: IG)
According to UFO Today, "this wasn't the first time a UFO was caught during a lightning storm."
They posted on their website: "Back in 2017, a UFO was caught on camera when it was hit by a gigantic lightning strike in the US."
Skeptics argue that there is no evidence to suggest that the object is a UFO.
Instead, they posit that the object is not an alien UFO or military experiment but simply "dirt on the camera lens".
A floating 'cigar-shaped' mass has been spotted in the skies above Texas and has sparked fears it may be a UFO.
Footage of the motionless mass over the town of Keller confused locals and was shared by YouTube channel 'TexasUFOs'.
While it's not exactly clear what the object is, a number of explanations have been suggested - including a blimp, a cloud, a weather balloon as well as a potential extraterrestrial visitor.
It is claimed the blimp-like sighting was stationary in the air for approximately 20 minutes. One viewer, Tom Lilli, presented a novel answer to the mystery. He said: 'Could be the remnants of the sunset behind a stratus cloud deck. Your just seeing the top of the sun'
An unidentified witness told the website: 'It was the oddest thing I've ever seen.'
'I watched it for about 20 minutes. It didn't move. I don't think I've ever seen anything in the sky stay that still before, not even for a few seconds, let alone 20 minutes.'
Commentators pointed out the remarkable similarities of the sighting to a blimp.
Administrators of the YouTube claim that a Goodyear blimp was not meant to be in the region at the time.
It is claimed the blimp-like sighting was stationary in the air for approximately 20 minutes.
One viewer, Nolberto Cales, said: 'That is the classic Cigar shaped UFO that i saw in the mid 90's over Reading PA, thank you for sharing!'
Footage of the motionless mass over the town of Keller confused locals and was shared by YouTube channel ' TexasUFOs '
Nigel Watson author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: 'When something is seen for so long and stationary in the sky it indicates there is some form of mundane explanation for it.
'In this case it could be the sun reflecting off a balloon and since it is not in sharp focus it looks cigar shaped.
'Or, as the witness originally thought, it could have been a cloud rather than an extraterrestial spaceship.'
A floating 'cigar-shaped' mass has been spotted in the skies above Texas and has sparked fears it may be a UFO
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While it's not exactly clear what the object is, a number of explanations have been suggested - including a blimp (pictured), a cloud, a weather balloon as well as a potential extraterrestrial visitor
WHAT DID BUZZ ALDRIN SAY ABOUT HIS 'UFO ENCOUNTER'?
While UFO enthusiasts have long clung to Buzz Aldrin's story of a strange light appearing alongside his spacecraft in 1969, the Apollo 11 astronaut does not think what he saw was an alien.
'On Apollo 11 in route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us. There were many explanations of what that could be, other than another spacecraft from another country or another world - it was either the rocket we had separated from, or the 4 panels that moved away when we extracted the lander from the rocket and we were nose to nose with the two spacecraft.
'So in the close vicinity, moving away, were 4 panels. And i feel absolutely convinced that we were looking at the sun reflected off of one of these panels. Which one? I don't know. So technically, the definition could be "unidentified."
'We well understood exactly what that was. And when we returned, we debriefed and explained exactly what we had observed.
'And I felt that this had been distributed to the outside world, the outside audience, and apparently it wasn't, and so many years later, I had the time in an interview to disclose these observations, on another country's television network. And the UFO people in the United States were very very angry with me, that i had not given them the information. It was not an alien. Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence.
'That's what Carl Sagan said. There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost CERTAIN that there is life somewhere in space.
'It was not that remarkable, that special, that unusual, that life here on earth evolved gradually, slowly, to where we are today.
But the distances involved in where some evidence of life may be, they may be hundreds of light years away.
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UFO sighting in Texas? Keller resident records mysterious 'cigar-shaped' object in the sky
UFO sighting in Texas? Keller resident records mysterious 'cigar-shaped' object in the sky
Julian Gill, Houston Chronicle
Photo: TexasUFOs
PHOTOS: Possible UFO filmed in Texas
A Keller resident saw the mysterious bright object in the sky last week. It didn't move for 20 minutes, the witness said.
At first, the white object in the sky looked like a cloud. A weather balloon, perhaps ?
The motionless, cigar-shaped object spotted last week near Fort Worth left the witness stumped. And a video of the sighting has since gone viral, opening the door to UFO theories online.
Keller residents said they saw a mysterious, rod or cigar-shaped object in the sky last week. The object, which appeared to be glowing, was still for about 20 minutes, the witness said.
Media: TexasUFOs
"It was the oddest thing I've ever seen," the unidentified witness said, according to their report to Texas UFOs, a website that tracks mysterious UFO sightings throughout the state. "I watched it for about 20 minutes. It didn't move. I don't think I've ever seen anything in the sky stay that still before, not even for a few seconds, let alone 20 minutes."
Several people commented on the YouTube video guessing it could be a blimp. However, a Texas UFOs administrator said they couldn't find any information the Goodyear blimp was scheduled to be in Keller on Nov. 18, the day of the sighting.
Further, the witness said it sat motionless in the sky for about 20 minutes, and similar UFO sightings were reported in Brownsville in August 2016 and El Paso in August 2018.
A few people went along for the ride on YouTube, with one commenter comparing the footage to "the classic cigar-shaped UFO" he saw in the mid 90's over Reading, Pennsylvania.
Is Russia Hiding An Underwater Extraterrestrial Civilization?[2018]
Is Russia Hiding An Underwater Extraterrestrial Civilization?[2018]
According to a very controversial theory during the era of the Soviet Union, there was a peculiar submarine activity in Russia that involved a hidden underwater extraterrestrial civilization. Apparently, the Russian officials decided to keep these issues as a top-secret. However, two researchers, Paul Stonehill and Phillip Mantle have determined to put two and two together and finally resolve the mystery.
As a subject of their inquiry, these two researchers took the secrecy that revolves around an underwater extraterrestrial civilization that was allegedly confirmed by a large number of witnesses.
Stonehill and Mantle connected the peculiar events to some passenger aircraft produced by underwater UFO movements.
Then again, eyewitnesses have reported seeing unusual creatures and objects in the sea. Among the most fascinating accounts is the one of Major General V. Demyanenko, a Russian navy commander. According to him, he and his divers detected a type of humanoid aliens who were famous as the ‘swimmers’.
Supposedly, these three-meters-high beings appeared from an underwater tunnel in the Russian territory of Siberia. They also had silver uniforms and round helmets.
Despite the attempts of capturing one of the creatures, the divers failed because all of the creatures protected themselves with a very strong power.
The two researchers also investigated the story of the head of the intelligence department of Russia on a fleet of the Pacific. Namely, Admiral Domislovsky reported seeing a 900 meters long object in the ocean. Stonehill and Mantle further investigated many reports by other ex-military commanders. All of them involved an alleged underwater extraterrestrial civilization within the infamous Bermuda Triangle.
Mantle stated this is not the first time he has heard stories about a supernatural activity surrounding the Atlantic Ocean.
However, the theory which explains the weird occurrences around the Bermuda Triangle is often dismissed by the official domain. Why? We still don’t know.
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Neil Armstrong Claims: “Their Ships Were Far Superior To Ours”
Neil Armstrong Claims: “Their Ships Were Far Superior To Ours”
Neil Armstrong was the first man to ever set foot on the Moon. History will forever remember him. However, during a NASA symposium, the legendary astronaut commented something which prompted opinions that extraterrestrials walked on the lunar surface too.
Many of us have wondered: What is the reason NASA keeps refusing going back to the Moon?
The Apollo missions have so many mysteries hiding behind them. According to many ufologists, the real cause NASA decided to end them is because the astronauts encountered something rather otherworldly.
As reports say, Armstrong stated in an interview that advanced alien civilizations sensed the astronauts’ presence on the moon during the Apollo 11 program. Allegedly, these beings exposed themselves, clarifying humankind is not welcome on the moon.
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Armstrong: It was incredible … of course, we had always known there was a possibility … the fact is, we were warned off. There was never any questions then of a space station or a moon city.
Professor: How do you mean “warned off”?
Armstrong: I can’t go into details, except to say that their ships were far superior to ours both in size and technology – Boy, were they big! … and menacing … No, there is no question of a space station.
Armstrong: Naturally – NASA was committed at that time, and couldn’t risk a panic on earth…. But it really was a quick scoop and back again. (Above Top Secret, p. 186)
According to the rest of the report, Neil Armstrong also came upon some structures on the moon which looked like buildings definitely not created by a man.
Many believe there is even a footage to prove this. However, it was banned in order not to cause a public chaos.
One easy explanation why NASA doesn’t want to go back might be the fear of this alleged advanced civilization. Neil Armstrong says this concern is what made the rest of the Apollo missions to be very quick.
There is a video on YouTube, allegedly taken in 1969 by Neil Armstrong which shows ancient ‘alien’ structures on the moon. Could it be the proof we need to show we are not alone? What do you think?
Area 51 Scientist Reveals On Deathbed: UFOs Are Real & Aliens Work For US Government
Area 51 Scientist Reveals On Deathbed: UFOs Are Real & Aliens Work For US Government
A top aerospace Area 51 scientist who died this summer blew the whistle of multiple unbelievable details. According to him, UFOs are real and as a matter of fact, the people who now work in the US government are the aliens that traveled back here in their flying saucers. While being on deathbed, this scientist gave a strange interview in which he claims to have confidential information about the US government’s UFO program
Boyd Bushman is a scientist who worked for Lockheed-Martin, Hughes Aircraft and many other famous companies. His career is as long as 40 years and his prominence relies on many awards he won within the years.
Other reports even attribute him to developing the Stinger missile, the shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile which was part of multiple conflicts in the past 30 years.
Although Bushman died the last August. However, while on his deathbed, he presented an eerie interview which went viral on YouTube with over 1 million views.
The notoriety of the video shouldn’t surprise you at all. Basically, all the things he talks about have a speculative yet mysterious nature which can easily attract the human mind.
In the video, Bushman tells his story of being a top-secret worker. His duty was to ‘reverse engineer’ UFO technology for employment by the United States military. However, the claims he states reach even a much more radical level.
Bushman also demonstrates numerous photos of UFOs and aliens who died in the infamous Area 51 military base in Nevada desert.
Area 51 was established in 1955 to be a trial territory for the most classified project of that time, the U2 spy plane. Ever since then, this place remained to be one of the most cloak-and-dagger military investigation plants.
Given the secretive nature of the technology behind the walls of Area 51, this base has undergone a series of conspiracies. Mostly, the theories incorporate UFOs and otherworldly beings as captives that rest in this area.
From time to time, new people who claim to know hidden data from the area emerge to tell incredible stories. These accounts often involve details of UFO research projects that are occurring in this facility.
Many of the insiders don’t have a confirmed trustworthiness. But, in comparison, Bushman’s disclosures seem to offer a larger credibility because he came forward a little before he died.
One of his assertions was that the aliens inside Area 51 came from a planet known as Quintumnia. Furthermore, he said they have an incredible technology system which allows them to arrive here in only 45 days.
He described their flying saucers measure around 38 feet across. But, most likely, the most shocking claim was that 18 of the aliens are 250 years old and work for the U.S. government.
Is Bushman telling the truth that will change the viewpoint of humankind? Or he was just an old person who lost his mind or wanted to gain fame? Watch the bizarre interview and tell us your opinion.
NASA/JPL-CaltechOp de linkse foto is de omgeving te zien waar de InSight zich bevindt. Op de rechtse foto heeft de verkenner zijn eigen “arm” in beeld genomen.
WETENSCHAPDe Marslander InSight, die maandag na een lange reis van bijna zeven maanden succesvol is geland op Mars, heeft nieuwe foto’s doorgestuurd vanop de rode planeet.
De beelden zijn gisteren gemaakt door de Marsverkenner. Op de eerste foto is de omgeving te zien waar de InSight zich bevindt. Die plek is genaamd Elysium Planitia. Het is een kale vlakte net boven de evenaar van Mars. De camera heeft een “fisheye”-zicht, waardoor de horizon gebogen lijkt. Het beeld is wat vertroebeld door stof op de cameralens. Rechts in beeld is een voet van de InSight te zien. Links boven op de foto is een deel van de seismograaf te zien, een instrument om aardbevingen te registreren.
Met een andere camera heeft de InSight ook een tweede foto gemaakt. Daarop is een van de robotarmen van de NASA-sonde te zien.
NASAInSight✔@NASAInSight
Steadily easing into my workflow. It’s been a busy few days and now, a new picture of Mars without the camera lens cover. Plus, a new view from my robotic arm camera.
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 alvorens een radiosignaal van Mars de aarde bereikt, dus alles moest automatisch gebeuren. Het NASA-controlecenter kon dus ook niet ingrijpen als er iets fout zou gaan.
De Marsverkenner is nu begonnen aan een missie van twee jaar. Het apparaat - dat ruim een miljard dollar heeft gekost - zal metersdiep in de bodem van Mars boren om de binnenkant van de planeet te onderzoeken. Wetenschappers willen zo niet alleen een beter zicht krijgen op hoe Mars er uitziet vanbinnen, maar willen ook meer te weten komen over de geschiedenis van de rode planeet.
Some of the world’s oldest cave paintings have revealed how ancient people had relatively advanced knowledge of astronomy.
The artworks, at sites across Europe, are not simply depictions of wild animals, as was previously thought.
Instead, the animal symbols represent star constellations in the night sky, and are used to represent dates and mark events such as comet strikes, analysis suggests.
They reveal that, perhaps as far back as 40,000 years ago, humans kept track of time using knowledge of how the position of the stars slowly changes over thousands of years.
The findings suggest that ancient people understood an effect caused by the gradual shift of Earth’s rotational axis.
Discovery of this phenomenon, called precession of the equinoxes, was previously credited to the ancient Greeks.
Around the time that Neanderthals became extinct, and perhaps before mankind settled in Western Europe, people could define dates to within 250 years, the study shows.
Ancient insights
The findings indicate that the astronomical insights of ancient people were far greater than previously believed.
Their knowledge may have aided navigation of the open seas, with implications for our understanding of prehistoric human migration.
European sites
Researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Kent studied details of Palaeolithic and Neolithic art featuring animal symbols at sites in Turkey, Spain, France and Germany.
They found all the sites used the same method of date-keeping based on sophisticated astronomy, even though the art was separated in time by tens of thousands of years.
Significant event
Researchers clarified earlier findings from a study of stone carvings at one of these sites – Gobekli Tepe in modern-day Turkey – which is interpreted as a memorial to a devastating comet strike around 11,000 BC.
This strike was thought to have initiated a mini ice-age known as the Younger Dryas period.
They also decoded what is probably the best known ancient artwork – the Lascaux Shaft Scene in France.
The work, which features a dying man and several animals, may commemorate another comet strike around 15,200 BC, researchers suggest.
Painting dates
The team confirmed their findings by comparing the age of many examples of cave art – known from chemically dating the paints used – with the positions of stars in ancient times as predicted by sophisticated software.
The world’s oldest sculpture, the Lion-Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave, from 38,000 BC, was also found to conform to this ancient time-keeping system.
This study was published in Athens Journal of History.
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 revolutionise how prehistoric populations are seen.
Wetenschappers ontdekken 40.000 jaar oude sterrenkaarten in grotten in heel Europa. Waren prehistorische mensen even slim als wij?
Wetenschappers ontdekken 40.000 jaar oude sterrenkaarten in grotten in heel Europa. Waren prehistorische mensen even slim als wij?
Sommige van de oudste grotschilderingen ter wereld hebben onthuld dat mensen in de prehistorie al geavanceerde kennis hadden over astronomie.
De kunstwerken, die verspreid over Europa zijn gevonden, tonen geen wilde dieren zoals in eerste instantie werd gedacht.
De symbolen staan voor sterrenbeelden aan de hemel en werden gebruikt om data en gebeurtenissen zoals komeetinslagen aan te duiden, blijkt uit een analyse van de Universiteit van Edinburgh en de Universiteit van Kent.
Astronomisch inzicht
Onderzoekers onthullen dat mensen 40.000 jaar geleden al bijhielden hoe de positie van de sterren over een periode van duizenden jaren langzaam verandert.
In die tijd begrepen mensen al hoe de rotatieas van de aarde langzaam verschuift. Voorheen werd altijd gedacht dat de oude Grieken dit fenomeen als eerste hadden ontdekt.
De bevindingen laten zien dat mensen tienduizenden jaren geleden al veel meer astronomisch inzicht hadden dan gedacht.
Dezelfde manier
De wetenschappers bestudeerden paleolithische en neolitische grotschilderingen in Turkije, Spanje, Frankrijk en Duitsland.
Op alle plekken werd de tijd op dezelfde manier bijgehouden, hoewel sommige vindplaatsen veel ouder of jonger zijn dan andere.
Revolutie
Hoofdonderzoeker Martin Sweatman zei: “Vroege grottenkunst toont aan dat mensen in de laatste ijstijd geavanceerde kennis hadden over de avondhemel. Ze waren even slim als wij.”
“Deze bevindingen zullen waarschijnlijk een revolutie betekenen voor de manier waarop prehistorische volkeren worden gezien,” aldus dr. Sweatman.
Pilots never want their passengers to worry unnecessarily and hate being made fun of by other pilots, so it’s rare that they report seeing UFOs to air traffic control during a flight, especially when it triggers an incident report with their name on it. That being the case, it seems to be happening more often. Earlier in November, British Airways pilots flying over the west coast of Ireland reported seeing“bright lights” moving “at a very high speed”and called them in to the Shannon Air Traffic Control, as did pilots of two other planes. The Irish Aviation Authority is still investigating the incident and it remains unsolved. Last week, pilots for Nolinor Aviation reported a UFO in Canada over north Baffin Island in the northernmost territory of Nunavut … an area that has had its share of unexplained events. Could the UFO be related to them?
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)
The Baffin Island sighting occurred on November 24 at about 8:30 pm local time. According to their report to the Transport Canada’s Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System (CADORS) (see a screen shot here), they described it as a CIRVIS/UFO, which is pilot-speak for “Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings” like UFOs. (Audio of the report can be heard here.) The report was forwarded to North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) which is based at CFB Winnipeg, Manitoba – due south of Nunavut. The Boeing 737-200 was heading from Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, to the Mary River Mine, an open pit iron mine that is the world’s sixth most northerly mine.
Baffin Island fjord
Why would a UFO be interested in an iron mine? UFOs are often seen over mining operations. From 2010 to 2015, UFOs were reported over a number of copper mines in Chile. Speculation ranged from drones or helicopters spying on the mines to aliens coming in for parts or fuel. While UFOs are often seen over active volcanoes and could be anything from drones to birds to aliens refueling or using the volcano as a portal, the Taupo Volcanic Zone in New Zealand is over large reservoirs of molten gold, silver and other precious metals, prompting those on the “aliens” side to speculate they could be mining them before we can figure out how for ourselves. Gold, silver, rare minerals? Kind of makes sense. But iron ore?
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.
In 2016, a mysterious pinging in the waters between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula baffled the military. One theory was that it was the Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation, owner of the Mary Iron Mine, pinging the waters with sonar to conduct surveys. Are they now using drones as well? There was also a defunct military radar station set up during the Cold War to track Soviet planes. Is it sending signals again? The pinging was painfully loud to locals but you know how that goes – military and money trumps indigenous people.
Marco Prud’homme, Nolinor’s vice president, says the pilot told him he saw a shining light, which changed from red to green to white, and it could have been a star, a meteorite, or “probably something natural.” Of course that’s what he’s going to tell the management – he wants to keep his job.
There have been reports of UFOs made from the ground in Nunavut. They’re generally colored lights moving at high speeds and some have been reported by dozens of witnesses. Meteors? Northern lights?
It’s easy to disbelieve rock stars or people who can’t seem to tell the difference between a star and a UFO. That’s why we need to keep an open mind when these reports come from pilots and astronauts. Especially around the mysterious Baffin Island.
The first type of red paint used by humans was ochre and it dates back hundreds of thousands of years. Ancient art work using ochre includes prehistoric drawings on cave walls and paintings on canvasses.
Ochre is a reddish mineral that consists of oxidized iron (iron that has been mixed with oxygen). Since it is a mineral, ochre doesn’t decay or wash away over time. April Nowell, who is a paleolithic archaeologist, a professor and chair at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria in Canada, explains ochre in more detail, “Its vibrant color and ability to adhere to surfaces – including the human body – make it an ideal crayon or paint base.”
Ochre really isn’t that difficult to find. It can be found in soil and rocks were the iron minerals have formed, such as the edges of valleys, cliffs, and even in caves. When ochre is found, it can be turned into powder by grating it against the ground or on a stone. After it is in powder form, it can be mixed with liquid (water, egg whites, or saliva) and turned into paint. In addition to being turned into paint, it can also be broken into small pieces and used as a crayon.
This ochre painting of an aurochs (an extinct species of large cattle) was painted above El Mirón Cave, in Spain, about 35,000 to 24,000 years ago.
Credit: Copyright Lawrence Guy Straus
Prehistoric people created this ochre fingerprint artwork in Chufín, a cave in western Cantabria, Spain, about 24,000 to 20,000 years ago.
Credit: Copyright Lawrence Guy Straus
Scientists have found evidence of early humans using ochre as far back as around 285,000 years ago in the Paleolithic period. Archaeologists found about 70 pieces of ochre that weighed around eleven pounds at a Homo erectus site in Kenya called GnJh-03.
Other evidence was found at a Neanderthal site in the Netherlands called Maastricht-Belvédère where archaeologists excavated small amounts of ochre that dates back to around 250,000 years ago. Paul Pettitt, who is a professor of paleolithic archaeology at Durham University in the United Kingdom, said that it is believed the Neanderthals perhaps turned the ochre into powder and mixed it with water in order to paint their clothing or their skin. In fact, archaeologists have found several cave paintings made by Neanderthals.
Ancient humans even used ochre in burials. Pettitt explained that it is believed that the clothing worn by the deceased were colored with ochre, but as time passed the clothes decayed, resulting with the human bones as well as the grave turning a reddish color from the mineral. In fact, this is exactly what happened in the grave of the famous Red Lady of Paviland in South Wales, United Kingdom. Although it was initially thought that the grave was that of an improper scarlet woman (since it was stained red), the burial site was actually of a young man who lived during the Paleolithic times around 33,000 years ago.
While ochre is a perfect color to draw or paint with, and is especially easy to see in the dark settings of a cave, it has several other uses. The ancients used the mineral to tan hides, as well as a type of glue to secure handles to stone tools. It was also used as mosquito repellent, protection against the cold or the sun, and even for medicinal purposes.
It seems to be apparent that early humans preferred using the color red. Whether it was to mark their bodies or to create ancient art work, the fact that ochre has been used for nearly 300,000 years is quite astonishing.
In the Outback of Queensland, Australia, ghostly orbs of light have been frightening people for centuries. Local residents call them Min Min lights, named after the early settlement and hotel in Boulia. Seemingly persistent one moment, but fleeting the next, the lights follow travelers far across the land and seem to have an intelligence about them. The town of Boulia has become somewhat famous for the ghost lights. Oral traditions of Aboriginal people recorded them as having existed even before the colonization of Europeans in Australia. What do we know about the mystery of the orbs and what are some of the theories about what they could be?
Boulia welcomes visitors eager to catch a glimpse of the magical Min Min lights.
Source: Wikimedia
Descriptions of the Min Min Lights
Europeans first documented the Min Min lights in 1838. They are usually described as fuzzy disks or glowing football-shaped orbs that can grow in size, get brighter or dimmer, take on different colors, and move about. They hover about three feet above the ground and are often mistaken for the lights of an oncoming vehicle. But, unlike vehicle lights, these phantom lights of Boulia often appear to follow or approach travelers, whether they are on foot, on horseback or driving a car. Sometimes they stand still, while at other times they seem to chase the observer or bob up and down as if they’re dancing. Thousands of people have seen them over the years, and many of them reported it as a frightening or “spooky” experience.
The Stockman’s Account in the Local Newspaper
The Sydney Morning Herald published an interesting story of an eyewitness account of these lights on January 25, 1947. The article began with the tale of the shady Min Min Hotel, which was once notorious for selling drugs and modified alcohol to the workers who would stop for a drink. Some of the men would stay at the hotel, while others passed through. Numerous men died there, either from the drugs and tainted alcohol, deadly brawls, or hoodlums murdered them for money. Those men were buried behind the hotel. But there was a fire in the early 1900s that burned the hotel down, and the only thing that remained was the graveyard. A short time after the fire, a stockman on horseback was passing through and he encountered the bizarre light. He rode to the police station and this is what he reported:
” I saw a strange glow appear right in the middle of the cemetery. I looked at it amazed. The glow got bigger, till it was about the size of a water-melon. I couldn’t believe my eyes as I saw it hovering over the ground. And then I broke into a cold sweat, for it started to come towards me.”
Remains of the graveyard at the old hotel site where the mysterious lights have often been seen in Boulia.
The stockman continued to tell the sergeant that he tried to ride away, but the light kept following him until he got to the edge of the town. The officer just smiled unbelievingly at his story. However, since the stockman’s encounter, thousands more have witnessed the lights.
Folklore of the Ghost Lights
It is unclear when Aboriginal people of Australia began seeing the Min Min lights. Oral traditions make it difficult to maintain a clear timelines of events. Some of the oldest stories of the Boulia region indicate that the increase in lights was associated with the killing of Aboriginal Australians by Europeans. Aboriginal people believed the lights came from their graveyards as the spirits of their dead ancestors who were perhaps unrestful because they felt the injustice of their murders. The Aborigines feared the lights, and believed that they could take someone’s life.
Other Theories
There are other theories about the lights. One idea suggests that they are the result of gaseous releases from the earth, such as those often seen at graveyards. Others propose glowing insects like fireflies may cause the illuminations. Fringe theorists support the UFO and paranormal avenues (ghosts, spirits, fairies).
Jack Pettigrew determined the lights to be a Fata Morgana.
Source: Cambridge.
Professor Jack Pettigrew’s Studies
Jack Pettigrew is Emeritus Professor of Physiology and Director of the Vision, Touch and Hearing Research Centre at the University of Queensland. While he was studying a nocturnal bird, he had an experience with the Min Min light. During his first encounter, he initially assumed it was the planet Venus. However, he observed that the light approached the horizon but never set below it, like a normal planet would as the earth rotated.
On another occasion, Professor Pettigrew was driving at night with some colleagues when they saw the mysterious phenomenon. At first, they thought the lights were the shining eyes of a cat maybe 50 meters away. When they stopped the car, though, the lights continued to hover in front of them. The mystery only deepened when the scientists tried to track the lights to their source, which they calculated to be over 300 kilometers away, beyond the horizon.
Pettigrew’s Fata Morgana
Professor Pettigrew hypothesized that the Min Min lights are a type of mirage, or a Fata Morgana. A temperature inversion causes these types of mirages, in which a layer of warm air traps a layer of dense cold air underneath it. When light passes through the two layers, refraction occurs. In other words, the light bends. Since it is optically difficult for humans to identify bent light, it is easy for someone to believe that the light originates from where it appears to be. In a Fata Morgana, the image appears to be floating above the horizon or close in front of them, and this can be quite frightening for many people.
Wonderful during the day, such Fata Morgana can be terrifying at night when a single light source gives no hint that it is actually part of a mirage emanating from a great distance. Even hardened Outback observers can break down when they are unable to interpret the unusual optical properties of the light in terms of their own, very different, past experiences.
Jack Pettigrew
Professor Pettigrew conducted an experiment in which he created his own type of phantom light phenomenon. He chose a night with the right weather conditions and drove about 10 kilometers. Six witnesses saw the car lights floating above the horizon. Many other people saw an even more spectacular Fata Morgana the following morning when they saw a whole mountain range floating above the ground.
Ghostly Lights Around the World
Phenomena of phantom lights aren’t unique to Australia. Many other countries have stories about floating orbs and therefore have many names for them: “ghost lights,” “fairy lights,” “will-o’-the-wisp,” and “ignis fatuus.” Will-o’-the-wisp are ghost lights that were observed and named by people of the ancient Celtic lands of Europe: Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales. Unlike the min min lights, the will-o’-wisps appear mostly around wet grounds such as bogs and swamps. Some people believe them to be fairies or spirits, and because the lights resemble a disembodied lantern moving through the darkness, the story of the jack-o’-lantern is related to the will-o’-the-wisp.
Will-o’-the-wisp are ghost lights of the Celtic lands thought to be spirits or fairies. Source: Youtube.
In Mexico there is a type of light similar to the ghost orbs of Boulia that locals believe are the souls of witches. They call these brujas. In the South American countries of Argentina and Uruguay the ghost lights are called luz mala, meaning evil light. Luz mala is a rural phenomenon, similar to the min min lights, however, the residents dread them and have incorporated them into many myths.
The Magic of the Mystifying Lights
Magic exists when something defies our understanding. There are many people in the Boulia region who want to keep that magic alive, however, science doesn’t necessarily negate the beauty or wonder of the Min Min lights. Aboriginal people of Australia first described this enduring mystery long ago. Hence, it is clear that many people of the region now identify with the lights. Whatever they may be, they have become an attraction for people who come from all over to get a glimpse of the famous lights of the Australian outback.
Out over the harsh terrain of the Outback of Western Australia, through all of the desert scrub, water-less dead creeks, gullies, and the unforgiving landscape of the flat, sun-scorched place called channel country and about 40 miles east of the tiny town of Boulia, once existed a town called Min Min, now merely desiccated ruins like the remains of some prehistoric beast. It is here among these ruins where a curious phenomenon has long been witnessed by those passing through, strange, inexplicable ghostly lights that bob and hover across this remote land to frighten and startle, and which are steeped in lore and legend.
What have come be called the Min Min lights are typically described as shimmering orbs that can range in color, including blue, white, green, red, and yellow, sometimes changing between all three, as well as take different sizes. They are sometimes said to have somewhat blurry edges that seem to pulsate or scintillate, and they can be slow moving or conversely very fast, flying through the night like a land bound shooting star, sometimes moving in a straight line and sometimes performing aerial acrobatics, and on very rare occasions they have been witnessed to break off into two separate lights that go careening their separate ways off into the night. Interestingly many of the reports that have come in describe the lights as following the witness, or conversely moving away from them if they try to approach, and some accounts claim that they evoke thick feelings or dread or confusion, leaving the witness quite unsettled. The lights might wander off into the distance out of sight or vanish into thin air, and they are always a startling thing to see out here in these badlands.
The Australian Outback
Considering their mysterious, unearthly nature it is perhaps not surprising at all that they have attracted their fair share of spooky lore. The Aborigines believed them to be the spirits of their ancestors roaming the land, and when white settlers began sighting the lights in 1918 there were immediate legends that they were connected to the old ghost town, or more specifically the notorious hotel that once stood there, which was said to be a nefarious place, indeed. According to this legend, the owners of the hotel were in the grim business of murdering guests for their valuables, after which the bodies would be unceremoniously buried in shallow graves in a dry patch of land behind the establishment. In this tale the lights are the vengeful ghosts of these victims, and that they seek to confuse travelers and get them lost in the forbidding Outback out of some vendetta. The lights became a sort of scary bedtime story, with whispers that the lights were omens of death, and that to see them meant certain doom, made even more ominous tales of those who claimed to have seen the lights before fatal mining accidents or disasters.
Some of the earliest published reports of Min Min light sightings originate in the 1930s, such as one account from 1937 from a rancher named Henry Lamond. He claimed that he had been out on horseback at around 2 AM in the morning when he saw what he at first took to be a car out there in the Outback, which was a little unusual but not in and of itself so completely bizarre either. However, things would get very strange very fast, and he would say:
Cars, though they were not common, were not rare. I took note of the thing, singing and trotting as I rode, and I even estimated the strength of the approaching light by the way it picked out individual hairs in the mare’s mane. Suddenly I realized it was not a car light — it remained in one bulbous ball instead of dividing into the 2 headlights, which it should have done as it came closer; it was too green-glare-y for an acetylene light; it floated too high for any car; there was something eerie about it.
The light came on, floating as airily as a bubble, moving with comparative slowness … I should estimate now that it was moving at about 10 mph and anything from 5 to 10 feet above the ground … Its size, I would say, at an approximate guess, would be about that of a new-risen moon. That light and I passed each other, going in opposite directions. I kept an eye on it while it was passing, and I’d say it was about 200 yards off when suddenly it just faded and died away. It did not go out with a snap -its vanishing was more like the gradual fading of the wires in an electric bulb.
One very eerie and well known report with a definite air of the paranormal comes that very same year, and was written of by newspaper columnist Bill Bowyang. He claimed that one evening from their camp he and his companions had seen an odd light bobbing and weaving about in the cool desert night, which he at first took to be someone out there waving about a lantern, but soon saw that this could not be the case as it would rise high in the air and then back down again. Bowyang suggested following it, after which his frightened companions warned him that it was a ghost light and that it was trying to lead them to their doom over the precipice of a rocky chasm they knew of hidden in the inky dark in that direction. Curiosity got the better of him, and he decided to go out and see what the light was anyway, saying of what happened next:
I strode on into the darkness. I had got to within perhaps twenty yards of the peculiar light, which was still hovering like some huge ball of glowing embers in mid-air about seven or eight feet from the ground, when suddenly it swerved abruptly to one side. A man’s warning voice came through the darkness. ‘The abyss ain’t a dozen yards from where ye are; come back, come back.’ I stopped, but not before I had seen – true to the old fellow’s words – that the strange light had indeed drifted out over the great chasm. As I watched, the light hesitated, floated back a little towards me, then as though tempting me to follow, but at the same time annoyed at the possibility of losing a victim, it glided back again over the chasm where, with a few final erratic movements, it dropped from sight.
This ominous reputation as entities trying to baffle and confuse has been echoed in other similar reports, such as one from a local named James Birch, from the isolated Outback town of Kimberley. He says that he grew up hearing the tales of the Min Min lights, and says of them and his own experience:
As a kid growing up the old people used to tell me, they [Min Min lights] were old people’s spirits looking after country. If you’ve lived in the Kimberley you would have experienced spotting a Min Min light once in your life. We were heading back into town after hunting. I was driving towards town when all of sudden a Min Min light appeared. We all stared at the light and all of a sudden we were going in the opposite way, going back into the bush and following the light without even realizing.
Over the years there have been hundreds of such sightings of the Min Min lights, and the strange phenomenon continues to this day, sparking much speculation and debate as to what they might be. Of course there are the ideas that these are ghosts, spirits, or UFOs, but there have been more scientific efforts to try and explain them as well, ranging from the simple to the complex. Some of the more mundane explanations are that these lights are caused by birds, owls, or bio-luminescent insects, but this does not seem to really fit in with what witnesses report seeing. There are also the theories that the lights are caused by some sort of fluorescent gases or that they are a mirage caused by the clash of layers of cold and warm air, which can have the effect of bending light and causing distant light sources over the horizon such as headlights or fires to appear as if they are much closer, a phenomenon known as Fata Morgana, although these do not explain reports in which the witness sees them fly over their heads, pass right by them, or circle them out in the dark. The lights could also be caused by other factors such as ball lightning, ionization in geophysically-generated electrical fields, or some other little understood natural phenomenon, but no one knows for sure, all we know is that they are weird indeed.
Many of these explanations do not fully explain all of the idiosyncrasies of Min Min light reports, such as the seemingly intelligent nature they demonstrate, ghostly voices, or the profound fear they are said to generate, and in the end the phenomenon has not conclusively been solved. Whether the Min Min lights are the spirits of Aboriginal elders, the ghosts of dead settlers, UFOs, mirages, misidentifications, or something else altogether, they have gone on to become one of the most enduring unexplained mysteries of Australia’s Outback, and continue to capture the imagination.
A mystery green fireball seen glowing above Russia's high-tech 'scientific city' has puzzled scientists.
The bright flash and streaking tail was spotted by stunned motorists close to research town Akademgorodok, on the edge of regional capital Novosibirsk in southern Siberia.
The research institutes in the area have been dubbed Vladimir Putin's 'secret weapon'.
The images were caught on dashcams in the early-morning darkness on Tuesday and have prompted a range of explanations
The green fireball is caught by a dashcam in southern Siberia. It has sparked a range of explanations including an unexpected meteor or a secret weapons test
The state-run Russia Today described it as a meteor but acknowledged that astronomers were 'somewhat bewildered' by the sight.
The pictures have sparked rumours that Russia was testing 'extremely advanced weapons' while others suggested it was a UFO.
Ilya Orlov, deputy director of the Big Novosibirsk Planetarium, hailed the 'beautiful phenomenon' but he could not certain what caused it.
'Most likely, this is a flash of bolide, that is, the fall of a bright meteor with a flash,' he said, saying it would be unusual.
'It is all the more surprising because there are no active meteor showers now. It can be either the tail of a [Leonid] meteor shower or a lone meteor. We need to find out.'
A bolide is a very bright meteor that explodes in the earth's atmosphere. No traces of space rock was found on the snowy ground, it was reported.
There were no reported rocket launches or missile tests when the fireball appeared early on Tuesday, which sometimes account for 'UFO sightings' in Siberia.
The fireball is seen from a snow-covered road in Siberia. Russia's state broadcaster described it as a meteor but astronomers said there were no meteor showers expected
The fireball is seen with its tail next to a van in Russia. The research institutes in the area have been dubbed President Vladimir Putin's 'secret weapon'
The spooky incident was close to Akademgorodok, set up by the Kremlin in 1957 as a base to hothouse Soviet scientists in Siberia - far from the prying eyes of the West.
It is now home to many of Russia's leading researchers and academics specialising in all branches of sciences including military and space developments.
It houses dozens of scientific institutes and has been called the cradle of the Kremlin's high-tech innovation.
The site is just six miles away from Koltsovo, home of a secretive repository of the planet's most deadly diseases and viruses.
The Russian State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology, called Vector, is a highly guarded institute which in Soviet times was at the forefront of deadly weapons programmes.
In recent years Vector has been involved in efforts to find cures and antidotes to killers such as bubonic plague, anthrax, hepatitis B, HIV and cancer.
The research centre holds one of the last two samples of smallpox in the world, with the United States retaining the other.
A mysterious green fireball was recently seen in the skies above Russia’s high-tech weapons research city. Are the Russians showing off one of Vladimir Putin “secret weapons” the area is known for, or was this merely a meteorite exploding over a highly conspicuous location?
For now, little is known about the mystery light in the sky. In the early morning hours of Tuesday, November 27, motorists driving near the research town of Akademgorodok in southern Siberia spotted a bright green flash followed by a tail streaking across the sky. It’s Russia, so of course several dash cams caught the incident on film. Russians love dash cams.
Akademgorodok was like a Soviet version of Silicon Valley during the Cold War.
Russia’s state-run media has explained the incident as a meteor explosion – although they also noted that local astronomers are “somewhat bewildered” by the event because no meteor events were expected in the area. Ilya Orlov, deputy director of the Big Novosibirsk Planetarium, says that while the phenomenon was beautiful, he and fellow researchers are at a loss to explain what may have caused it:
Most likely, this is a flash of bolide, that is, the fall of a bright meteor with a flash. It is all the more surprising because there are no active meteor showers now. It can be either the tail of a [Leonid] meteor shower or a lone meteor. We need to find out.
Russian social media has been full of speculation ranging from secret rocket launches to tests of “extremely advanced weapons,” and aliens, naturally. With other unexplained explosions being caught on camera around the world, it really makes you wonder if we aren’t experiencing an uptick in meteorite impacts – or are we just catching them on camera more frequently in the dash cam/smartphone age?
The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics at Akademgorodok.
Akademgorodok was established at the height of the Cold War to be a scientific research center and today remains a research and education hub for Siberia. Some of the research facilities there are involved in nuclear research, laser physics, and chemical kinetics and combustion, while the nearby Russian State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology is believed to conduct some of the most deadly chemical and biological weapons research on the planet and houses one of the last samples of smallpox in the world.
John Lear has been called the "Godfather Of Conspiracies"!
He is the owner of an extraordinary library of books, pictures and memorabilia on probably all imaginable conspiracy theories and revelations of deep-state military secrets and the UFO and E.T. phenomena.
John Olsen Lear is a retired airline captain. A pilot on commercial airlines, and has a long career behind him flying to far-away destinations all over the world, who at one point worked for the CIA, as a pilot flying weapons and ammunition.
He became interested in UFO´s, alien civilizations, all kinds of conspiracy research and secret knowledge hidden from the general population, which led him on an extraordinary and unusual path. John Lear is not afraid of being very controversial and his view on the world continues to both fascinate and shock people.
In this mind-blowing, eye-opening and extremely controversial 2-hour in-depth hard-talk special, interviewed by Age Of Truth TV presenter Lucas Alexander, John Lear is sharing his views and beliefs on different other-worldly topics:
01. E.T. alien races on planet Earth, inside the Earth and around the universe: EBEs, Greys, Praying Mantis beings, Reptilians 02. Civilizations on the Moon, on Mars and on many other planets - Highly sophisticated alien technology 03. The Rings of Saturn and the significance of Saturn 04. The fake Moon landing, filmed by Stanley Kubrick 05. Secret underground military bases. Area 51, Groom Lake, Nazi bases on Antarctica 06. CIA operations & Majestic 12 07. Mind Control 08. Bob Lazar and secret revelations 09. NASA 10. Billy Meier 11. Nikola Tesla - Cloaking and invisibility devices and directed energy weapons
I was going through some ESA photos and found some more structures on Comet 67P, the singing comet. They call it that because 20+ years ago, scientists heard a radio message that was and is, non stop, continues coming from the comet. They thought it was an alien message so they built a probe to go there and find out. What ever they discovered...they are keeping it to themselves as governments always do. I will continue to search for alien evidence for you in photos so that the public will know the truth, with or without NASA or Gov approval.
NASA Builds 900 Million Dollar Mars Lander...And Forgets To Make Wheels! Dec 1, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
NASA Builds 900 Million Dollar Mars Lander...And Forgets To Make Wheels! Dec 1, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Yeah, just like I said in the title, NASA spent over 993 million US dollars to build a hunk of crap that just sits there and does freaking nothing but measures earthquakes. Why? Apparently within the quakes measurements they will find...yes...wait for it...wait for it...the answers to the universe! Look, what I'm saying is this hunk of garbage has no wheels, so the only new photos of Mars coming from it will be objects that either blow past it or walk past it. Yes, I mean walk, just like the Mars white rabbit did many years ago...great HD photos here at this post if you copy/past this link below.
American high school students could make a more useful lander than this! Elon Musk could do better and with only 20% the price...and his would travel across Mars on autopilot taking photos of everything it encounters...but no, not NASA. They build one that does one thing only and nothing else!
NASA is an organization that is clearly out of control and needs to be placed in 100% control of the public hands. They are over spending and they are under thinking projects. A set of six metal wheels would only cost $600,000 dollars if made at NASA, but if Elon Musk did it, it would cost $600. NASA has truly brought shame to the world of science and the American name tied to NASA. Scott C. Waring
102 Year-Old Woman Speaks About Her UFO - Flying Saucer Sightings in Australia, UFO Sighting News.
102 Year-Old Woman Speaks About Her UFO - Flying Saucer Sightings in Australia, UFO Sighting News.
This woman wants to tell us about some of her UFO sightings she has had thought out her lifetime. She is 102 and probably had dozens of sightings over those years. I myself have over a dozen different sightings, but mind you...I was looking for them. People will see a lot less if they don't bother looking up. I find them because I put the effort into it. Its like teaching for research in the library, if you don't put the time in to find it, you never will.
Glowing UFO Looking Into Windows Of Skyscraper In New York, Nov 30, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Looking Into Windows Of Skyscraper In New York, Nov 30, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 30, 2018
Location of sighting: New York, USA
Source: MUFON
I really wish we had some video of this report, but till then, we have to take the eyewitness testimony of it. I would like to see this UFO as it shot away from the building to see how fast it moved and the flashing of the lights around it. Video is the key here to 100% confirmation of it being aliens or not. But this is still a great photo of a glowing object flying into a beam of light coming from the building. It reminds me of the old John Lennon UFO report that he and his wife saw from their New York balcony long ago. I wonder...does a history changing person live in one of these top apartments of this building? A person of significance who changes the world in some way? I bet if they are there, its because they are looking for a specific influential person...to read their thoughts, to see the person in person, or to program them to do more.
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On November 29, 2018, a witness photographs a strange occurrence in New York. A UFO hangs over a skyscraper for a while, emitting a beam of light over a window and then moving away at great speed.
Coast to Coast AM August 25, 2018. Peter Maxwell Slattery is an author and experiencer, having witnessed hundreds of events involving UFOs and otherworldly beings. He joined guest host Jimmy Church to discuss his photographic and video evidence of unknown aerial phenomena, and his most recent sightings from August 2018 at James Gilliland’s ECETI Ranch. “It’s just amazing the activity that you have [there], around the mountain, on the mountain… you’ve just got to see it to believe it,” he said.
Ongeveer twee weken geleden was er geen mainstreamkanaal dat niet berichtte over de ufo waarnemingen door piloten van verkeersvliegtuigen voor de kust van Ierland.
Zoals meestal, wordt het daarna doodstil en lijkt het alsof er niets is gebeurd, maar niets is minder waar, want er is nu ook een ufo waargenomen boven het vliegveld van Dublin.
Het is eigenlijk heel vreemd. Zo bericht alles en iedereen over een grote ufo waarneming boven de kust van Ierland en vrijwel direct daarna wordt het weer doodstil. Alsof er nooit iets is gebeurd. De autoriteiten stellen een onderzoek in, wat simpelweg betekent dat niemand ooit nog iets hoort.
Als iets zulk wereldnieuws was, hoe kan het dan de dagen daarna net zo snel weer verdwijnen? Op 12 en 13 november wordt het internet overspoeld door berichten over de waarneming en daarna stilte.
In het eerdere artikel berichtten wij over de dame die ongeveer drie minuten voordat de piloten hun melding deden, eveneens een onbekend object vastlegde op haar dashcam, onderweg naar haar werk.
Ongeveer een week na de waarneming was er een vrouw uit Dublin die boven het vliegveld van die stad een vreemd licht waarnam. Ze liep naar binnen en vertelde dit aan haar man die haar op zijn beurt vertelde dat enkele dagen na de waarneming door de piloten er ook boven de plaats Crumlin vreemde lichten waren waargenomen.
De vrouw die het vreemde licht boven het vliegveld waarnam, had zelf niets gehoord over het verhaal van de piloten voor de kust en wat zij hadden gezien.
Hieronder een korte video-opname die de vrouw maakte van het licht boven het vliegveld.
Het is natuurlijk niet de eerste keer dat er vreemde lichten worden gesignaleerd boven Ierland en dan met name het gebied waar de piloten de waarneming deden.
Vijf jaar geleden schreven wij al over een ufo waarneming in Cork, waar eveneens onverklaarbare vreemde lichten te zien waren.
En natuurlijk blijft het moeilijk om te bepalen wat nu precies de oorsprong is van deze vreemde vliegende objecten. Het kunnen allemaal manifestaties zijn van het geheime menselijke ruimteprogramma, maar het kunnen ook net zo goed buitenaardsen zijn.
In dat kader is het wellicht belangrijk om het volgende weer onder de aandacht te brengen. Het is een deel uit een eerder gepubliceerd artikel, waaruit uit vrijgegeven FBI documenten blijkt dat er wel degelijk buitenaardse ruimteschepen zijn die onze aarde bezoeken.
Naast documenten over Roswell en Majestic 12 heeft de FBI ook stukken over UFO’s openbaar gemaakt. Eén memo valt op waarbij een geleerd persoon de legertop informeert over schepen van een etherische planeet die zich op dezelfde plaats als de Aarde bevindt, maar een hogere trilling heeft.
De memo is in het bijzonder gericht aan bepaalde wetenschappers die betrokken zijn bij belangrijke militaire en luchtvaartautoriteiten, aan een aantal rijksambtenaren en enkele publicaties. De memo dateert van 8 juli 1947 en is gemarkeerd als belangrijk.
De auteur verwacht niet veel te bereiken met deze handreiking. Het feit dat de data in de memo op een supernormale manier zijn verkregen zal hoogstwaarschijnlijk inhouden dat alle geadresseerden het paperas zullen veronachtzamen. Desalniettemin lijkt het meer een publieke plicht om de informatie bekend te maken. De auteur bezit verschillende universitaire titels en is een voormalig hoofd van een universitaire faculteit.
Mogelijk neemt het onderwerp vliegende schotels binnenkort serieuze vormen aan. Wanneer men besluit deze schepen aan te vallen wordt het aanvallende vliegtuig vrijwel zeker vernietigd. Onder de bevolking kan dit leiden tot paniek en internationaal wantrouwen.
De voornaamste data omtrent deze schepen zijn nu voorhanden en moeten worden geopenbaard, ongeacht hoe fantastisch of onbegrijpelijk het ook moge lijken voor mensen die nog niet eerder hebben geleerd op deze manier te denken.
Een deel van de schotels is voorzien van bemanning, andere worden op afstand bestuurd.
Hun missie is vredig van aard. De bezoekers overwegen zich op deze planeet te vestigen.
Deze bezoekers zien eruit als mensen maar zijn veel groter.
Het zijn geen geëxcarneerde aardbewoners, maar komen van hun eigen wereld.
Ze komen niet van een ‘planeet’ zoals we dat woord gebruiken, maar van een etherische planeet die met de onze vervlochten is en die we niet kunnen zien.
De lichamen van de bezoekers en hun schepen ‘materialiseren’ automatisch wanneer ze de vibratie van onze dichte materie binnengaan.
De schotels zijn uitgerust met een soort energetische straal waarmee gemakkelijk elk aanvallend schip kan worden gedesintegreerd. Ze kunnen terugkeren naar het etherische wanneer ze maar willen en verdwijnen simpelweg uit ons gezichtsveld zonder een spoor achter te laten.
Het gebied waar ze vandaan komen staat niet bekend als het ‘astrale niveau’, maar correspondeert met de Lokas of Talas. Zij die de esoterische materie bestuderen zullen deze termen begrijpen.
Ze kunnen waarschijnlijk niet bereikt worden door middel van radiogolven, maar mogelijk kunnen ze wel worden opgevangen met behulp van de radar wanneer een geschikt systeem kan worden bedacht.
We geven enkel de informatie door en kunnen verder niets doen. Behandel de nieuwkomers vanuit compassie. Tenzij de schotels zich terugtrekken worden de huidige cultuur en wetenschap geconfronteerd met iets waar ze niet mee om kunnen gaan. De weinigen met gezag die deze materie begrijpen dragen een grote verantwoordelijkheid.
Tot slot bevat de memo nog een addendum. De schotels zijn ovaalvormig en bestaan uit een hittewerend metaal of een legering die nog onbekend is. Aan de voorzijde van de schotel bevindt zich het besturingspaneel. De achterzijde bevat de bewapening die in principe bestaat uit een krachtig energetisch apparaat van waaruit in geval van nood een straal kan worden gegenereerd.
The reason you know about Area 51 is because Bob Lazar came forward and told you about it. When Lazar blew the whistle on what he’d seen at the then-unheard-of top secret facility in the Nevada desert back in the late-1980s, his world was turned upside-down. For this reason, he has never let any filmmaker into the private world of his daily life… until now. In Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers, investigative filmmaker Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell paints an intimate portrait of a man who has experienced worldwide fame and notoriety, but who has always been something of an enigma. In this — his only long-form written interview about his film — Corbell discusses truth, lies, belief, disinformation, aliens, and the human being at the centre of one of the biggest controversies in UFO history…
RG: How long did your film take to produce, from concept to completion, and how much time did you spend in Lazar’s company?
JKLC: There’s footage in my film that I shot back to 2012—an interview I did with George Knapp about the epic story of Bob Lazar. However, at that time I did not have even a single communication with Bob. But I was working on developing the story, primarily in the hope that one day I could understand the truth about the situation. Ultimately, that’s what my film is about. It’s an attempt to understand the truth. I think all my films take the viewer on a journey towards better understanding. Documentaries aren’t scripted, they’re inherently about discovery and the little miracles that happen in-between what you think is going to happen. That’s why I choose to make them; they lead you to landscapes previously unknown.
The OTHER way to answer that question is: two years. Meaning, that’s when I finally got the semi-approval from Bob to spend time filming with him. I would go for a week at a time and just live with him in his daily life. There always seemed to be a camera running and he was completely open with me – nothing was off limits. For the first time—thanks to my film—you will get a feel for WHO Bob Lazar actually is.
RG: What can audiences expect from your film?
JKLC: I create cinema in the auteur style—meaning I’m independent, and have FANATICAL control over every frame. As an investigative filmmaker, the people I work with know—I will EXPOSE you if you’re lying. So I had two goals as a filmmaker embarking on this project. First was to understand the truth about the Bob Lazar story. Second was simply to uplift the visual medium of documentary filmmaking on this complex subject; to elevate the medium for the audience in a meaningful way. I have succeeded with both goals.
One thing this film does that is powerful is it speaks to both the hardcore LORE of LAZAR fanatics, providing important and new information; it also appeals to the two generations of those who are NOT into UFOs and who have never heard the Bob Lazar story. Let’s not forget, there are at least two generations of people who were not even born in 1989 when Bob Lazar first went on-air with his account through George Knapp on KLAS in Las Vegas. This film will be the medicine that‘s needed to permanently alter the topography of the conversation when it comes to Bob Lazar.
Area 51 from above (with CG facsimile of Lazar’s “sport model” flying saucer.
I’m also proud to say that I landed Oscar Nominated Actor Mickey Rourke as the narrator for the film. This is important in many ways. He has an incredible voice, and the fact he did me the favor of participating in my film… epic. I wrote the narration script for Mickey, I had him in mind all along, I just had no idea if he would be willing to do it. But Micky is and always has been a trailblazer and a rebel. Kinda like Lazar really.
RG: What is your personal take on Lazar’s story? Has he told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Or has he told the truth only as he perceives it? In other words, could Lazar have been used a disinformation tool? If so, by whom and to what end?
JKLC: It doesn’t matter what I personally think. My beliefs don’t directly help you. You need to form your own opinions on the veracity of Bob Lazar’s claims to draw conclusions for yourself; or your opinions and beliefs will never be solid and foundational enough to act from. People don’t wanna hear it, but if you don’t decide for yourself on reality, someone else will decide if for you.
The core of a question like yours is really asking: is Bob Lazar a liar or is he honest? Is he worthy of our trust? Can we believe him? It dawned on me early on that the polarizing effect that Lazar’s story has on people stems from the fact that you sense he might be telling the truth, exactly like it happened. That’s certainly what the results of the polygraph tests—that George Knapp had Lazar do—proved. That he was remembering events, not fabricating them. I think the possibility that Lazar is telling the truth is an absolutely disturbing revelation. Clearly it’s much easier to NOT believe Bob Lazar; to dehumanize and dismiss him as a liar. However the evidence weighs in his favor that he’s telling it like it happened. The evidence shows a much different story than what you will read on the internet and from the vocal minority of his angry detractors. The true story appears to be that of a man who reluctantly came forward to save his own skin. A man who has attempted to step out of the limelight and live a normal life. A man who has NEVER asked that you believe him—just that if you hear his story—that you use your critical thinking. A man who doesn’t really care if you believe him or not; as long as you have heard the real details—and not a fictionalized version or account filled with fake news by his critics.
As far as your question of if Lazar could have been fooled and could he have been used as a source of disinformation… the answers are NO and YES. No he could not have been fooled that what he saw an alien propulsion system—one that operates off of amplifying gravity waves and fueled by Element 115. He is clear that the material science alone that he was exposed to would be impossible for us to replicate—in 1989 or even a thousand years from now—we just aren’t that advanced and might not even have access to the natural resource necessary to replicate the system even if we had the know-how.
However, the answer is YES that SOME of what he was exposed to could have been an attempt to seed him with disinformation to be able to discredit him in the future. Or just to be able to track if he leaked anything. Even Lazar admits that. He was exposed to some wild assertions in the briefing documents he read while going through the security clearance process. Stuff that makes the Twilight Zone look like vanilla ice cream on a Sunday. Yet to his credit, from the beginning he has always said that he has no idea if what he read was true or not. He just read it. The things he read about, that’s different than the technology he physically and personally got to see, touch and dismantle. Bob Lazar himself has always drawn that line in the sand for you. He simply reported the news. However, we need to think that one through. If there was an attempt to get Lazar to leak information—then why would they have spent resources to shut him up in the first place? And they DID spend resources to do just that. He was being followed, his phones were tapped—and his known associates where also followed and monitored. They all describe it, and George Knapp had some dramatic instances as a journalist where witnesses were threatened because of it. So beyond a shadow of a doubt, somebody didn’t want Bob talking—that is certain. Point being that they (everybody involved and who had first hand experiences dealing with this), they all say it’s hard to understand if you didn’t live through it—and I would like to leave it at that. However I can’t. As you will see in my film, some dramatic events unfolded while I was making the movie.
RG: What new insight does your film present on Lazar? Can you give us an example?
JKLC: This film is NOT just a re-hashing of past events. There is new information provided to the audience. There is new testimony, and there is new evidence. Stuff that was only possible through the lens of thirty years. I’m excited to share that with the audience.
One thing I will reveal now—because ultimately he wouldn’t go on camera, however he said I could talk about it—Is that for thirty years Bob had claimed that a man named Mike Thigpen was one of the guys tasked with doing his security clearance. Now that’s a very specific name. George looked into it back when this first all unfolded, and there’s a hilarious story of what happened there – but the main thing to know is that this alleged investigator Mike Thigpen ghosted everybody. He was never found. That is, until now.
RG: Do you see any links or parallels between the Lazar story and what’s currently unfolding with Tom DeLonge and the recent Pentagon revelations?
JKLC: There is a connection to be made, but it’s rather simple. Bob Lazar reported a lot of things in 1989 that have proven to be true and accurate and leaves us scratching our head because we wanna remain skeptical of his story. But that seems to be more and more difficult as time goes on. However, the core of his claim is that in 1989 there was a UFO back-engineering program being run at a secret base in the desert, north of Las Vegas. We had been told that our government’s study of UFOs ended with Project Blue Book in 1969. That there was no government interest in the subject, and no active UFO programs since then. Then, in December of 2017, we have come to understand that that was a lie; and we have come to understand that we have at least ONE active UFO identification program. Just for the record, we have MULTIPLE active UFO programs—in each branch of the US Military—many of which are not reactionary, but pro-active UFO programs. But that’s a story for another time, and you will just have to take my statement for whatever you feel it’s worth.
Lazar in his lab.
So, the connection or parallel that I see is the admission of a military UFO program such as AATIP–with implications that there are more–is that Lazar described a program to attempt and reverse-engineer UFO/Alien hardware and technology. Now that our DoD and government has admitted to the physical existence of AAVs (Advance Areal Vehicles) UFOs and the like—craft with extraordinary and far superior capabilities—and that they are not ours, or any nation of this world. So now we are left with the question of – what would be done if one of these vehicles came into our possession? What would we do if we had nine of them?
RG: There have been rumors over the years that, since Lazar came forward in the late-1980s, the alleged UFO projects at Area 51 (specifically, S4) have been moved to other top secret facilities around the United States, such as Dugway proving ground in Utah, for example. Do you have any information that might support this idea?
JKLC: I have private opinions on that.
RG: What does Lazar do today? Does he still have government/military connections?
JKLC: Bob Lazar runs a scientific equipment and supply business out of Michigan called, United Nuclear. It’s a Mom and Pop’s supply company that reminds me of if Willy Wonka was into atoms and particles rather than chocolate and candybars. It’s an amazing operation that sells all sorts of cool consumer-grade materials and products that you can’t find anywhere else—yet it also has a consulting and experimental component to it. Lazar regularly still gets contacts—both from private industry and government. And some of those project are right out of a science fiction movie.
So in essence, Bob likes to live a relatively normal and easy-going life. He has a great wife of 18 years, a wonderful animal kingdom at home (including a fish named Hannibal and a beautiful horse named The Dude), and most importantly he a small group of close friends and family that he can trust and just be—Bob—not Bob the reluctant UFO Messiah.
Lazarat his place of business today, United Nuclear in Laingsburg, Michigan.
RG: To what extent has Lazar’s story impacted UFOlogy over the past 30 years?
JKLC: Find me a way his story has NOT impacted UFOlogy. Lazar’s story has created an entire UFO industry. He is the most recognized individual associated with UFOs on the planet, hands down. From tea shops in India to the Maasai Mara of central Africa and the streets of Hollywood California—Bob Lazar and his iconic coke-bottle glasses has become a world-wide zeitgeist. His story put Area 51 on the map. It solidified the classic “sport model” flying saucer as the go-to image of a UFO in popular culture. His story has built careers for people, on both sides of the argument. It has become an existential juggernaut in an enigma puzzle of cosmic implication.
The only person we’re forgetting here, the only person who all of this attention and fanfare has NOT been good for—has been Bob Lazar. But you don’t really get to understand that until you get to know Bob. UFOlogy has not been kind to Bob. All he did was tell his story and he was crucified for it. I hope my film can help show you his daily life. His character. His uniqueness. I feel that’s an important part to his story.
RG: What has been the impact of Lazar’s story beyond UFOlogy? What are its real-world implications?
JKLC: The real-world implications have yet to be fully realized. However I’m optimistic that one day we will see that version of reality.
RG: Tell us about the other projects you have in the pipeline, and what’s next for you after Bob Lazar?
JKLC: Look man, for the last three decades, Bob Lazar’s critics have been holding the mic. It’s time to take the mic back. And that’s exactly what we’re gonna do—at the world premiere—on Dec 3rd in Los Angeles. And then there will be a subsequent fire-storm of conversation that will emerge due to the new evidence and testimony on verifiably the most prominent and polarizing UFO story of all time. My plan after that is to fully commit my energy and resources to operation Sierra Lima Echo Echo Papa.
Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers has its world premiere on December 3rd, 2018 at The Theatre at Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Bob Lazar, George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell will be hosting the event and introducing the movie. Tickets available here. It will then be available on iTunes and Vimeo on Demand.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.
'I'm not going to die in jail': Serial killer Rose West, 65
'RIP beautiful': Friends pay tribute to X Factor hopeful,...
Terrifying moment a helicopter spins out of control and...
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in the skies of NYC? 
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![4 January 1988 and a Christmas tree sighting over Worcester [DEFE 24/1927/1].](https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/DEFE-24_1927_1-Christmas-tree-384x88.jpg)
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Lick Observatory
Plague was NOT brought to Europe by foreign invaders but...
The haunting remains of a medieval woman who had a hole...
Rare 9,000-year-old stone mask used in ancient rituals aimed...
China building a 'great wall of SAND': Coral reefs are being...
Are these mystery radio bursts messages from ALIENS? Study...
We have lost 2.6MILLION reindeer in less than 30 years. And...
Sacred Incan city in Bolivia is being rebuilt using 3D...
Lyft patents technology that shows safety warnings on...
Iron Age warrior who was bludgeoned in the face and pierced...
World Cup tops Google's 2018 US searches - and Demi Lovato...
The REAL oldest profession: Researchers say shamans were the...
Google has 'no plans' to launch its controversial Dragonfly...
The Skywalker gibbon and the bat that looks like a...
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Mysterious 'cigar-shaped' UFO spotted hovering in the sky...
Conspiracy theorist claims video shows 'black triangle UFO...
UFO investigation launched by Irish aviation officials after...
![Corbell tells DailyMail.com: ‘If this story’s true, it is probably the most important UFO story in human history, because it reveals the truth: That we have not only been in contact with other extremely advanced, technologically intelligent [beings] … but that we have physical craft. We have machines from these other entities’](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/12/03/22/6959610-0-image-a-28_1543875411936.jpg)
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Pot of gold coins and a single earring hidden from the...
NASA's InSight lander shares new images from Mars as it...
Stunning image of the sun's North Pole could finally solve...
SpaceX blasts off Falcon rocket for the THIRD time in...
When supermassive black holes COLLIDE: Best-ever 3D...
The amazing chart that shows that far from heading for a...
‘UFO’ spotted in 55-year-old space photo: Conspiracy...
What were YOU looking for this time last year? Google now...
where in the past month, I saw the 2nd largest UFO that I’ve ever seen off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico by Siesta Key, Florida. It was much larger than any of the brightest stars in the sky and about 1/4 the size of the moon, heading southwest./cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/62615792/c_1024_print.0.jpg)
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People who believe in a God who created Earth are more...
YouTube will now place Wikipedia entries about global...
Nasa astronaut Leland Melvin claims he witnessed an...
Putin says the West would let Ukraine get away with...
'I have never tried to hide it': Vladimir Putin's 'top...
