Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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...
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Birthplace of Earth's Continents Discovered Under These Mountains
Birthplace of Earth's Continents Discovered Under These Mountains
Our planet's continents may have formed beneath large mountain ranges like the Andes along the Chile-Bolivia border, shown here in a Terra satellite image.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
Earth's continents may have been born under large mountain ranges like the Andes.
New research combining a mysterious missing trace element, a 66-million-year-old rock burped up by an ancient volcano, and a database of all the rock chemistry analyzed by scientists in the past century explains why Earth has continents. Published Jan. 16 in the journalNature Communications, the study suggests that where mountains are born, so are continents.
"It's like a jigsaw puzzle," said study leader Ming Tang, a postdoctoral researcher in geology at Rice University in Houston. "There is a missing part in this continental jigsaw puzzle, and it seems that we found the answer." [Photo Timeline: How the Earth Formed]
The missing piece
The missing piece is a rare-earth metal called niobium. In Earth's middle layer, called the mantle, as well as in the oceanic crust (the part of the planet’s outer layer covered by seas), niobium and another rare-earth element, tantalum, typically co-occur in a consistent ratio. The continental crust is weird, Tang told Live Science. The crust that makes up the continents is relatively low in niobium.
The case of that missing niobium in the continental crust has pestered geoscientists for decades. Tang went hunting for it in a rock geochemistry database maintained by the Max Planck Institute in Germany. He searched subduction zones, where the crust grinds into the mantle and magmas form. That magma, when cooled, has the potential to create continents. Niobium wasn't missing across many of these subduction zones, Tang found. But it was bizarrely absent in particular mountain-building regions like the Andes.
The Andes are a massive mountain-building region, powered by the nearby tectonics of a subduction zone. As the oceanic crust off the coast of South America crunches below the continental crust, the restless Andes rise, and magma spews from some of the highest-elevation volcanoes on Earth, Tang said.
Regions like the Andes — which form atop a subduction zone — are known as continental arcs, and they're special because the crust there is about twice as thick as regular continental crust, Tang said. Unfortunately, the chemistry of the rocks at the bottom of this crust are a mystery. At nearly 50 miles (80 kilometers) below the surface, these rocks are inaccessible.
Enter the xenolith
Fortunately, the Sierra Nevada mountains of the western United States used to be an active mountain-building region, like the Andes today. Tang, along with Rice University petrologist Cin-Ty Lee, and their colleagues analyzed a sample of rock that formed some 66 million years ago and was pushed to the surface in a volcanic eruption about 25 million years ago. This rock, called a xenolith, originally formed deep at the base of the Sierra Nevada when they were an active continental arc — the researchers found the rock in Arizona.
The rock "might provide a very nice, excellent analog to the deep crust beneath the Andes," Tang said.
The analysis showed that the continental arc xenolith had extra niobium. Tang and his colleagues had found the continent's missing rare-earth element: The lost niobium is stuck at the bottom of continental arcs.
Niobium gets trapped so deep because of the unique conditions beneath these super-thick sections of Earth's crust. Under continental arcs, because of the thick crust, the mantle is under high pressure, Tang said. Under high pressure, a titanium mineral called rutile crystallizes out of magma. Rutile happens to trap large amounts of niobium, and not much tantalum. It's also very dense, so it falls deep within the crust as other rocks get circulated toward the surface.
Because the continental crust is missing niobium, it must have formed under these continental- arc conditions, Tang said. And that means that places like the Andes probably held the seed of all the continents on Earth today.
"Every piece of continent that we are standing on right now probably started out with these mountain-building processes," Tang said.
Stunning new color X-ray images, from a company called Mars Bioimaging, in New Zealand, seem to make flesh and bone translucent and hyperreal.
A scan of an ankle rotates in this GIF.
Credit: Mars Bioimaging
The gif above shows one of the company's strange and fascinating images: a slice of human ankle, with off-white, rugged bones, bloody-looking muscle tissue and a pad of fatsmeared protectively under the heel with a whipped-cream texture.
This image shows a wrist with more muscle, less visible bone, almost no fat and a clearly-articulated watch:
It's important to note that these aren't "true-color" X-ray scans as most people would commonly understand the term. As the inventors of the sensor that was used to make these images described in a 2015 paper in the journal IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging and on the company's website, the colors in these images are applied based on the computer's detection of different wavelengths of X-rays passing through different substances. There are, however, no "true" red X-rays or "true" white X-rays; the device's programmers assign different colors to different detected body parts. (What human brains interpret as color comes from different wavelengths of light in the visual spectrum bouncing off objects. Visible light is also a form of electromagnetic radiation but is lower-energy than X-ray light.)
To successfully distinguish muscle, fat and bone, Mars Bioimaging developed sensors that could fit inside computed tomography (CT) scanners (circular X-ray devices that produce three-dimensional X-ray images) and produce very detailed information about the wavelengths of individual X-ray photons that pass through and bounce off human tissue. By sensing the wavelengths that disappear after passing through a particular bit of tissue, the device makes a judgement about what chemicals make up that tissue and uses that information to figure out what sort of tissue it was. The photon-counting technology, the company says in its marketing materials, was originally developed as part of its founders' work with CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which operates the world's largest atom smasher.
By matching those scans with details about how different chemical compounds interact with X-ray light, they were able to distinguish different compounds in X-ray scans, the researchers wrote in the 2015 study. To produce these new grody, gorgeous color images of living tissue, they simply tasked the computer with painting the different compounds of fat, bone and muscle different colors.
The benefit for researchers, the company claims in its marketing materials, isn't so much the fascinating visuals (though that's a plus) as it is the wealth of precise chemical data on objects in the scanner. The careful, multilayered tissue scans, they write, will enable new precision in medical research.
MILIEUHet gaat niet goed met de gletsjers op Antarctica, dat is geweten. De laatste 25 jaar verloor het continent maar liefst drie biljoen ton ijs, aan een alarmerende snelheid. Wetenschappers van NASA hebben nu ook een enorme holte ontdekt onder de Thwaites-gletsjer, “de gevaarlijkste ter wereld” genoemd. Er is plaats voor 14 miljard ton ijs. Maar dat is er niet meer.
De gigantische leegte onderaan de Thwaites-gletsjer is bijna 300 meter hoog en meet 10 op 4 km. Met een oppervlakte van zo’n 40 km² is de holte groter dan de stad Oostende en beslaat ze twee derde van heel Manhattan. De opening is zó groot dat het een duidelijke brok is van de zowat 252 miljard ton ijs die Antarctica elk jaar kwijtspeelt. Volgens een nieuwe studie verschenen in Science Advanceszou er ooit 14 miljard ton ijs hebben ingepast, maar alleen al in de laatste drie jaren ging het grootste gedeelte van dat volume verloren.
Pietro Milillo, hoofdauteur van het artikel, zegt dat zo’n holte onder een gletsjer een aanzienlijke rol kan spelen in het wegsmelten van het ijs. “Als er meer warmte en water onder de gletsjer geraken, smelt die sneller.” Niet onbelangrijk, omdat de Thwaites-gletsjer op dit moment een aandeel van ongeveer 4 procent heeft in de stijging van het globale zeeniveau. Mocht de hele gletsjer zo groot als de staat Florida wegsmelten, dan stijgt de zeespiegel naar schatting met 65 centimeter.
NASADe Thwaites-gletsjer.
En dat is niet eens het slechtst denkbare scenario. De Thwaites houdt ook aangrenzende gletsjers en ijsmassa’s meer landinwaarts in bedwang. Als die ondersteuning zou wegvallen, zijn de gevolgen niet te overzien. Dan zou het zeepeil nog eens met een extra 2,4 meter stijgen. Vandaar dat de Thwaites-gletsjer beschouwd wordt als cruciaal in de natuurlijke structuur van het Antarctische gebied.
Hoelang de Thwaites-gletsjer het nog zal volhouden, is moeilijk in te schatten. Wetenschappers zijn onlangs letterlijk van wal gestoken voor een expeditie in het kader van een van de belangrijkste onderzoeken wereldwijd in het huidige tijdperk.
Ter illustratie, de woorden van David Holland, geoloog aan de New York University, vorig jaar aan The Washington Post: “Voor de globale wijziging van de zeespiegel in de volgende eeuw kan zowat alles herleid worden tot de Thwaites-gletsjer”.
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Over de ontdekking van de serieuze holte zegt glacioloog en co-auteur Eric Rignot, verbonden aan de University of California in Irvine en aan NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena: “We vermoeden al jaren dat Thwaites niet stevig vasthangt aan het grondgesteente eronder. Dankzij de nieuwe generatie van satellieten kunnen we nu eindelijk ook de details zien.”
Volgens de studie is de verborgen leegte slechts één geval van het “complexe patroon van terugtrekking en van smeltijs” op de Thwaites-gletsjer. In sommige delen ervan trekt de gletsjer elk jaar met wel 800 meter terug en smelt het driftijs er aan een tempo van 200 meter per jaar. In andere delen is dat minder. Het patroon past niet in de huidige modellen over de verhouding tussen ijskap en oceaan en vereist verder onderzoek naar de interactie tussen water en ijs in de ijskoude maar opwarmende omgeving van Antarctica. Dat onderzoek zit in de pijplijn: de U.S. National Science Foundation en de British National Environmental Research Council hebben samen een grootschalig veldproject van vijf jaar opgezet om meer te weten te komen over de Thwaites-gletsjer, overigens een van de moeilijkst bereikbare plaatsen ter wereld.
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Emotioneel redeneren zoals Yoda of analytisch zoals Spock: wie van de twee maakt slimste beslissing? - HLN.be
Emotioneel redeneren zoals Yoda of analytisch zoals Spock: wie van de twee maakt slimste beslissing? - HLN.be
Psychologen van de Univeristy of Waterloo onderzochten het effect van emoties bij het oplossen van moeilijke vraagstukken
Getty Images ,Spock (L), het personage uit de televisieserie Star Trek en Yoda (R) van de Star Wars-saga.
WETENSCHAP Wat is nu het verstandigste? Redeneren en rekening houden met je emoties of redeneren zonder emoties? Die vraag stelden enkele onderzoekers van de University of Waterloo(Canada) zichzelf. “Wijs redeneren is moeilijk voor koelbloedige personen”, zo luidt het verdict dat gepubliceerd werd in het tijdschrift Journal of Experimental Psychology.
De ene laat zich beïnvloeden door zijn emoties, de andere maakt alleen maar weloverwogen en berekende beslissingen. Het onderscheid tussen die twee verschillende manieren van nadenken, sluit aan bij de fictieve karakters van Yoda (Star Wars) en Spock (Star Trek), maar wie van de twee personages is wijzer? Spoiler: Yoda wint dit gevecht alvast volgens de psychologen die het onderzoek leidden.
Het groene mannetje uit de Star Wars-saga houdt immers rekening met zijn gevoelens én die van anderen. Op die manier maakt hij gebalanceerde keuzes. Op vlak van wijsheid is hij dan ook de ‘sterkste’ Jedi die er bestaat.
De kenmerken van het fictieve personage staan in het onderzoek pal tegenover die van zijn - al even legendarische - concurrent: Spock. De ruimtevaartofficier in de televisieserie Star Trek laat zich, net zoals Yoda, leiden door het verstand, al pakt hij vooropgestelde problemen op een ietwat andere manier aan. Zijn personage tracht voornamelijk logisch te redeneren, zonder rekening te houden met gevoelens. Bijkomende schade? Zolang die het het algemeen belang dient, is dat een gefundeerde beslissing.
Maar om verstandige keuzes te maken, moeten individuen wel rekening houden met de emoties die zijzelf alsook anderen ervaren, zo stellen de onderzoekers.
Emotionele diversiteit
Om tot die conclusie te komen, voerden enkele psychologen van de University of Waterloo talrijke experimenten uit. In totaal namen er zo’n 3.700 participanten deel aan het onderzoek. De proefpersonen werden gedurende vier jaar regelmatig geconfronteerd met emotionele uitdagingen, situaties die interpersoonlijke conflicten uitlokten, en moeilijke geopolitieke vraagstukken.
De onderzoekers concentreerden zich daarbij op de emotionele diversiteit - het vermogen om verschillende emoties, negatief en positief, te ervaren – van de deelnemers. “Een diversiteit aan emoties kan niet alleen de fysieke en emotionele gezondheid van een individu bevorderen, ze maken die personen ook wijzer”, aldus hoofdauteur van de studie Igor Grossmann. “Verder brengt deze studie talrijke manieren in kaart die wijs redeneren stimuleren, rekening houden met persoonlijke ervaringen is daar een voorbeeld van.” Bij een gebrek aan emoties of zonder een gezonde mix aan negatieve en positieve gevoelens, zadelden de deelnemers anderen (of zichzelf) vaker op met meer conflicten of problemen, zo bleek.
Kortom, wie zich af en toe laat leiden door emoties neemt de verstandigste beslissingen. Dat is natuurlijk op voorwaarde dat die emoties in balans worden gehouden. Eenmaal de negatieve of positieve gevoelens domineren, zijn wijze beslissingen ver zoek.
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We communiceren met aliens via AI51 en zij leren ons hoe tijdreizen werkt, zegt deze honkballegende
Foto: Bryan Horowitz Wikimedia Commons
We communiceren met aliens via AI51 en zij leren ons hoe tijdreizen werkt, zegt deze honkballegende
Aliens willen graag de geheimen van tijdreizen met ons delen, maar hebben moeite om contact op te nemen. Dat heeft honkballegende Jose Canseco gezegd.
“Aliens hebben geprobeerd ons te leren hoe tijdreizen werkt, maar eerst moeten we onze lichaamssamenstelling veranderen, waar we niet toe bereid zijn,” tweette hij.
“We hebben het tevergeefs geprobeerd bij dieren,” voegde hij toe.
Totaal irrelevant
Canseco, die in 1988 tot meest waardevolle speler (MVP) werd uitgeroepen in de American League, zei dat de aliens ons kunnen leren tijdreizen, maar vormt de wetenschap een grote belemmering voor interplanetaire communicatie.
“Onze wetenschap is totaal irrelevant voor aliens,” tweette Canseco, die eerder aangaf dat hij president Trumps stafchef wilde worden.
AI51
“We communiceren met aliens via een zeer flexibele lichaamssamenstelling die AI51 wordt genoemd,” verduidelijkte hij.
“De aliens gaan ons leren hoe we fysiek kunnen reizen zonder het lichaam,” klonk het.
Jose Canseco✔@JoseCanseco
-We are in communication with aliens with a very flexible body composition called the AI51
Aliens have been trying to teach us how to time travel but first we have to change our body composition which we are not willing to do we have tried with animals and it has failed
Time travel puts 42,651 pounds of pressure on a human skeletal structure.... can you detach the brain from the body and equalize the pressure it could be done
Deep space radio waves baffle astronomers; aliens not ruled out
Deep space radio waves baffle astronomers; aliens not ruled out
ByJON SCHLOSBERG
WATCH: New space discovery has astronomers buzzing
Aliens!
Astronomerscan’t rule out that possibilityafter an exciting new discovery. A team in Canada recently stumbled upon ultra-brief repeating waves from deep space for only the second time in history.
Appearing on ABC News Live, Senior SETI astronomer Seth Shostak talked about the fascinating find: "Could that be aliens that are in those galaxies and they have some need to get in touch... well maybe."
The Orion Nebula and its associated cluster of young stars are photographed by the European Southern Observatory, July 26, 2017.more +
"It is something new, every time we see something we’ve never seen before that is an opportunity to learn something new about the universe," astrophysicist Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi told ABC News Live.
Shostak also shared behind-the-scenes information about a promising signaldiscovered by SETI in 1997 and how he reacted at the time.
"We had picked up a signal, it was passing all the tests. This looked like the real deal, I was there waiting for the Men in Black to show up... " he said.
Watch the video above for the best moments from the ABC News Live segment.
Radiogolven uit de diepe ruimte stellen astronomen voor een raadsel. Aliens? ‘Nou, misschien wel’
Radiogolven uit de diepe ruimte stellen astronomen voor een raadsel. Aliens? ‘Nou, misschien wel’
Astronomen kunnen de mogelijkheid niet uitsluiten dat vreemde radiosignalen uit de diepe ruimte iets te maken hebben met aliens, schrijft ABC News.
Een team sterrenkundigen uit Canada stuitte onlangs op mysterieuze radiogolven uit de ruimte, zogeheten snelle radioflitsen.
Voor de tweede keer in de geschiedenis werd een herhalende radioflits ontdekt.
Contact
Astronoom Seth Shostak van SETI (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence) zei tegen ABC News Live over de fascinerende vondst: “Kunnen het aliens zijn in die sterrenstelsels, die contact met ons willen opnemen? Nou, misschien wel.”
“Het is iets nieuws,” reageerde astrofysicus dr. Hakeem Oluseyi.
“Iedere keer dat we iets zien wat we nog nooit eerder hebben gezien, is een kans voor ons om iets nieuws over het universum te leren.”
Men in Black
Shostak deelde ook informatie over een veelbelovend signaal dat in 1997 door SETI werd ontdekt.
“We hadden een signaal opgepikt dat alle testen doorstond,” zei hij.
“Het leek echt te zijn en ik verwachtte ieder moment Men in Black op de stoep,” vervolgde hij.
BUITENAARDS CONTACT BEKEND GEMAAKT TIJDENS VN VERGADERING ( VIDEO )
BUITENAARDS CONTACT BEKEND GEMAAKT TIJDENS VN VERGADERING ( VIDEO )
Net voor afgelopen kerst publiceerden wij een artikel met daarin opnames van een piramidevormige ufo boven het Pentagon.
Nu verschijnt er uitgelekte opname van een geheime vergadering bij de VN waarin wordt gezegd dat er een buitenaards piramidevormig ruimteschip is gesignaleerd boven het Pentagon.
Op dit moment doet een video opname de ronde die als deze echt blijkt te zijn niets anders is dan full Disclosure.
De herkomst van de opname is onduidelijk omdat de originele beelden in sneltreinvaart door de censuurcommissie van Youtube werden verwijderd. Gelukkig zijn een aantal mensen erin geslaagd de video te kopiëren zodat deze nog steeds te bekijken is.
Wat daardoor wel ontbreekt zijn de mogelijkheden om te kunnen controleren waar deze opname vandaan komt en of deze echt is. Coen Vermeeren, lang werkzaam bij de Technische Universiteit (TU) in Delft en met jarenlange ervaring als het gaat om ufo's, spreekt zich uit over de VN beelden en denkt/hoopt dat ze echt zijn.
In de gelekte video zien we een deel van een sessie bij de Algemene Vergadering van de VN. Wanneer is niet duidelijk en er wordt aan de aanwezigen gevraagd om niets te filmen of om audio opnames te maken en absolute geheimhouding te bewaren over wat er bekendgemaakt gaat worden. Verder een waarschuwing dat als mensen toch proberen opnames te publiceren zij vervolgd zullen worden.
Ze zegt dat ze een mededeling heeft en die is dat afgelopen december (welke dag wordt niet gezegd) er een piramidevormige ufo verscheen boven het Pentagon.
Een object met een doorsnede van zo’n 100 meter dat vloog op een hoogte van 500 meter en om zijn eigen as draaide.
Dit gebeurtenis werd ook vastgelegd en gevolgd door een groep specialisten van NASA, die allerlei gegevens ontving van het vreemde object. Deze zijn geanalyseerd en het resultaat daarvan wordt dan door Prokofveva gedeeld in de VN vergadering.
Ze hebben daarvoor radarbeelden gebruikt, visuele waarnemingen en radiosignalen die afkomstig waren van de ufo. Conclusie is dat ze zeker weten dat hier sprake is van een object met onbekende herkomst.
Dan valt inderdaad het woord buitenaards en er wordt bij gezegd dat de intenties van het schip niet vijandig waren.
Tenslotte zegt Prokofveva dat de vreemde radiosignalen die eerder deze maand door een observatorium in Canada werden opgevangen van een melkwegstelsel op een afstand van 1,5 miljard lichtjaren identiek zijn aan de signalen die afkomstig zijn van de piramidevormige ufo.
Hier volgt de bewuste video (Redactie: in het geval deze ook weer weg is gecensureerd is een kopie opvraagbaar bij onze redactie.Tekst gaat onder de video verder):
Echt of nep? Dat is de vraag. We hebben voor zover mogelijk rondgekeken en er wordt wel regelmatig geroepen dat de opname nep zou zijn, een mogelijke promotie voor een nieuw product of film of iets van dien aard, maar (ook) wij hebben daarvoor geen concrete bewijzen kunnen vinden.
Vandaar dat we nu de hulp inroepen van de lezers om vast te kunnen stellen of we hier inderdaad met een nepopname te maken hebben of dit nu eindelijk een eerste stap tot die full Dislosure is geweest. Suggesties kunnen naar redactie apenstaart niburu.co en hierna volgt een deel van het eerdere artikel met de opnames van de piramidevormige ufo.
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:
Jose Canseco is at it again. No, the former Oakland Athletics staris not attempting a comeback at baseball normixed martial arts, nor is he dipping into the steroids bag again. Jose is back to tweeting about aliens of the space kindand has now added a new twist – his theories on time travel that he claims were given to him by extraterrestrials. Is this for rel or is he trying to get an invitation to compete on Dancing With The Stars?
“We are in communication with aliens with a very flexible body composition called the AI51”
That was Canseco’s first of a series of tweets on January 30th about aliens. It’s not clear what “AI51” is, although it’s possibly a combined abbreviation of ‘Artificial Intelligence, Area 51’, but searches come up with nothing on aliens with that name regardless of body composition. Is this a new classification?
“These aliens are going to teach us how to try and travel the brain can physically travel without the body.”
Hmm. Is he alluding to time travel via astral projection? Is he communicating directly with these aliens or does Jose have access to some secret government files?
“Aliens have been trying to teach us how to time travel but first we have to change our body composition which we are not willing to do we have tried with animals and it has failed.”
Sounds like Jose just watched The Island of Dr. Moreau. Or is he privy to secret cloning and genetic experiments going on in China?
“Time travel puts 42,651 pounds of pressure on a human skeletal structure…. can you detach the brain from the body and equalize the pressure it could be done”
Where did that figure come from? Some scientists say the maximum pressure a human can endure is 70 times normal atmospheric pressure or 1029 pounds per square inch. Is that what you’re talking about, Jose? And isn’t the brain part of the body? How can pressure on the brain alone be equalized? What kind of science is this?
“Our science is totally irrelevant to aliens”
Oh, well that explains it … not! At least it explains why these “aliens” are communicating with Jose Canseco and not Neil deGrasse Tyson. Or perhaps they’re fans of the 1980s Oakland Athletics and the “Bash Brothers” – Canseco and Mark McGwire, the team’s steroid-infused home run tandem. Or could it be that Canseco has dealt with them before?
“Jose we do not want you to run for president. You’re destined for much greater things in the battle against the androids and the alien masters. Elements of the United States government are compromised by the androids and aliens, they are deeply in at all levels, cannot trust.”
“I actually died over night and came back to life now I am a vampire and you are my apprentice”
Died and came back? Was he dabbling in time travel in 2012? And why is he complicating things by throwing in vampires?
“When I died I saw Elvis and micheal they said hello”
OK, Jose. We skeptics need more clarification. Let’s hope the aliens don’t take away his Twitter account again before Canseco can explain more about time travel, aliens, vampires, Elvis and Michael.
What’s going on in America’s skies? Last week, a series of boomsrattled the American deep southwithout explanation. The mystery boom phenomenon continues this week with a trio of unexplained explosion noises which shook people in their homes from Chicago, Illinois to Panama City, Florida. What is behind this phenomenon, and why does it at least seem like it’s being ignored by safety and security agencies?
This week’s mystery booms were spread out throughout the eastern half of the United States, yet they all seemed to occur on the same day. Could they be connected? In Chicago, Illinois, residents reported “loud booming” or poppig noises late in the evening of Tuesday, January 29. Some people said the booming was so loud it shook the earth under their feet.
O’Hare International Airport in Chicago
Our page is inundated with reports of this stuff,” says Adam Lucio of Illinois Storm Chasers, “People have been reporting that they’ve been hearing these loud booms that sound like thunder or a car crash and in many cases, it’s scaring them because they aren’t sure what it is.” In the Chicago incident, so far the best theory is that the booms were caused by cryoseisms, sometimes called “frost quakes.” These rare geological events are thought to occur when soil or bedrock breaks apart as groundwater freezes, but aren’t well understood.
While the cryoseism theory sounds plausible in icy Chicago, two other booms which occurred on the same day can’t so easily be explained. Farther to the east in Pennsylvania, residents of south Philadelphia were awoken late on the evening of January 29 by a boom loud enough to shake their houses and windows. After Philadelphia police received several reports of explosions, the U.S. Geological Service and the Department of Defense were contacted, but neither agency knows anything about the mystery booms.
That is, at least publicly.
Meanwhile, houses in Panama City, Florida were shaken on the same day by what was reported as a “loud bang,” although this one was reported in the afternoon. Curiously, some residents even reported feeling pressure changes and unexplained headaches after the noise was heard. Floridians took to social media to speculate about the cause of the bang, with explanations ranging from earthquakes to military activity. Neither the National Weather Service nor nearby Eglin Air Force Base had any information to share, but Bay County Emergency Management services are investigating the incident.
Why have these booms become so common recently?
With no information from authorities, what are we left with? Three mystery booms in three states all on the same day within twelve hours of each other. I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to get genuinely creeped out over the frequency of these mystery booms and the total lack of explanation. While no information has been offered up by any official channels, I’m confident that someone or some agency somewhere knows at least something about these mystery booms – something they’re not sharing with the public. What’s more terrifying: the thought that clandestine military activity is causing sonic booms around the country, or that some unknown natural force might be behind the phenomenon?
Here is a blue triangle UFO I found in the STS-052 shuttle mission archives. This occurred in Nov 1992. Now this triangle UFO reminds me of the same blue triangle seen over the UK that was a USAF top secret project called The Aurora Project. It looks like even back in 92 this secret craft was up and flying around.
The Aurora legend started in March 1990, when Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine broke the news that the term "Aurora" had been inadvertently included in the 1985 U.S. budget, as an allocation of $455 million for "black aircraft production" in FY 1987. According to Aviation Week, Project Aurora referred to a group of exotic aircraft, and not to one particular airframe. Funding of the project allegedly reached $2.3 billion in fiscal 1987, according to a 1986 procurement document obtained by Aviation Week. The blue triangle was repeatedly seen over the UK for several years, always near a USA military base. Project Aurora was a triangular craft that glows blue and was built with an alien tech propulsion system. Yes it works, yes its real, yes it can reach up to one quarter the speed of light. Scott C. Waring
The co-writer/director of The Blair Witch Project, Daniel Myrick, is returning to his shaky-cam roots with his new movie,Skyman, which follows, documentary-style, the fictional story of Carl Merryweather, a man who believes he had an alien encounter in the desert when he was 10 years old and is now attempting to re-establish contact at the same location.
Daniel Myrick
In a statement made last week on the 20th anniversary of the Blair Witch release, Myrick said:
“I’m elated to finally be able to share the first look at Skymanon such a monumental occasion – the 20th year anniversary of Blair Witch. We’re all curious about the beyond… I’m excited for you to join me on this journey.”
I’ll go out on a limb and say this will be a must-watch for UFO buffs as it will likely tap directly into some fascinating elements of UFOlogy and UFO lore. Blurring the lines between fact and fantasy, the trailer for Skyman opens with actual UFO footage captured in the 1950s, well known to UFOlogists. I interviewed Daniel Myrick back in 2014 in connection with his 2008 sci-fi movie The Objective, which drew inspiration from UFO conspiracy theories and Ancient Astronaut lore. Myrick described to me how he had grown up in the 1970s watching TV series and documentaries exploring Ancient Astronauts. “They had a huge influence on my imagination and world view about earth and the cosmos,” Myrick explained.
The Objective (2008)
Myrick also told me he is a firm believer in life elsewhere in the cosmos and is hopeful that contact might be established within his lifetime. However, he was far from sold on the extraterrestrial hypothesis for UFOs. He acknowledged in our correspondence:
“Well, there is a ‘phenomenon’ to be sure. Exactly what is the root cause is more open to speculation. Scientifically, I find it hard to imagine that a race of beings with the capability of space travel over such distances would come all this way only to leave blurry remnants of themselves for us mere mortals to argue over in the ensuing years after their departure. More likely we’ll be making contact via radio telescope or some other technology that has yet to be invented.”
Judging by the trailer and poster for his new film, though, it may be that Myrick is finally finding his believer boots…
A possible “missing link” has been discovered in orbit around the Sun close to Pluto. While it would be a lot cooler if this was the ‘half-ape, half-man’ kind of missing link found floating frozen in space and proving ancient astronaut speculation to be true, this curious object is more of the ‘half-planetoid, half-asteroid which may prove planetary formation theories true’ type of missing link. The Japanese astronomers who discovered this mysterious space object believe it could help further explain how planets in our Solar System formed, and in the process shed light on the origins of Earth as we know it.
The object was discovered by astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) who spent 60 hours with small 11-inch telescopes observing 2,000 different stars looking for any objects which might pass in front of them. That old-school space sleuthing paid off, because the astronomers found evidence of a tiny body known as a planetesimal orbiting the Sun close to Pluto. Planetesimals are protoplanets, small planet-like objects around 1 kilometer in diameter. Given enough time, these objects’ gravity can attract enough matter to become full-fledged planets. The full study of this new planetesimal has been published in Nature Astronomy.
“This is a real victory for little projects. Our team had less than 0.3 percent of the budget of large international projects. We didn’t even have enough money to build a second dome to protect our second telescope! Yet we still managed to make a discovery that is impossible for the big projects,” astronomer Ko Arimatsu said in a NAOJ press release. Geez, somebody get these guys some funding.
The object is estimated to be around 2.6 kilometers (1.6 miles) in diameter and orbits the sun in the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt is becoming one of the most-studied areas of our Solar System. This belt of asteroids and objects like this new planetesimal is thought to contain answers to some of the as yet unsolved mysteries of our cosmic neighborhood. How could this tiny planetesimal be related to the long-suspected Planet 9, if such a planet exists at all?
Whether or not this discovery turns out to be Earth-shattering astronomical news, it shows that a bunch of dudes with retail-level telescopes on their roof can still discovery new objects within our Solar System. How cool is that?
In a 1900 book,History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil, written by Dr. Paul Carus, we get to see what some of our ancient ancestors had to say about the unholy offspring that a coupling between an Incubus and a man, or a Succubus and a woman could create. And if you’re not aware of the incubus-succubus issue, read on. Carus recorded: “The theory of incubi and succubi is presented in all its indecency on the authority of St. Thomas Aquinas, who in his commentary on Job (Chap. 40) interprets Behemoth (a large animal, probably the elephant) as the Devil, and derives from the mention of the animal’’s sexual strength (verse 16) the theory that evil demons can have intercourse with human beings. Satan is supposed to serve first as a succubus (or female devil) to men, and then as an incubus (or male devil) to women; and St. Thomas declares that children begotten in this way ought to be regarded as the children of the men whom Satan served as succubus. They would, however, the more cunning than normal children on account of the demoniacal influence to which they were exposed in their pre-natal condition. Matthæus Paris mentions that within six months one such incubus-baby developed all its teeth and attained the size of a boy of seven years, while his mother became consumptive and died.”
There was a strong belief that something decidedly non-human was behind the offspring of these terrifying, late night couplings. As for St. Thomas Aquinas, to whom Carus referred, he was highly knowledgeable on this matter. He said of assaults on the sleeping and the unwary, and of the nature of the children that resulted: “Still, if some are occasionally begotten from demons, it is not from the seed of such demons, nor from their assumed bodies, but from the seed of men, taken for the purpose; as when the demon assumes first the form of a woman, and afterwards of a man; just so they take the seed of other things for other generating purposes.”
One of the biggest problems when it comes to the incubus and the succubus is the matter of their physical appearance. Or, more correctly, their multiple appearances. People who have experienced such things have described encounters with the so-called “Gray” extraterrestrials of UFO/”alien abduction” lore. Others have claimed rape by demons. More than a few have found themselves under the sway of the closest thing one could imagine to a real-life, shape-shifting, werewolf. Many have experienced horrifying visitations from a phenomenon called the “Old Hag.” It’s a creature that surfaces all around the world, but which is most curiously prevalent, for reasons that remain unknown, among the people of Newfoundland, Canada. As its name suggests, this breed of creature manifests as a white-or-black-haired, withered and wailing, ancient crone. A welcome visitor, she is not.
The prevailing, skeptical view on encounters with an incubus or a succubus is that they are provoked by something called Hypnagogia, better known as “Sleep Paralysis.” It is an age-old phenomenon that was finally given a name in the 19th century, by a French physician, Louis Ferdinand Alfred Maury. Essentially, sleep paralysis is a physical state that is somewhere between being awake and being asleep. At that hazy moment, when transition from one distinct state to another is occurring – and, more importantly, if and when that transition is violently interrupted – both body and mind act in decidedly strange fashion.
Sleep Paralysis plunges a person into a dream-like condition in which they, literally, cannot move. For all intents and purposes they are physically paralyzed, and that includes their vocal chords, too: the person is unable to shout, or scream, for help. They also, typically, detect a deeply malevolent presence in the room in which they are sleeping – or, on other occasions, experiencers will describe predatory forms slowly, and in creeping fashion, approaching the room. It’s an experience that can be accompanied by strange and menacing voices, incomprehensible words screamed or whispered at the terrified soul in rapid-fire time, and the sense of something dangerous looming over the affected person, as they struggle to both wake up and move. When they finally manage to do so, the dark atmosphere and attendant malevolent entity are gone, as in practically immediately.
Those skeptical of the idea that Sleep Paralysis has external origins would likely say that the large number of Old Hag encounters that originate in Newfoundland are caused by cultural conditioning, and subconscious knowledge of how the experience should play out. Of only one thing can we be certain: when Hypnagogia occurs, an absolute multitude of supernatural forms appear out of the ether and subject us to violent, sexual encounters.
It’s easy to understand why Hypnagogia is perceived as being the cause of attacks of the incubus and succubus variety. But, there are important questions that needs answering. Sleep Paralysis is an undeniable, real phenomenon; there is no doubt about that. But, is it a product of the internal intricacies of the mind, the dream state, and the subconscious? Maybe not. It might actually be provoked by an external, supernatural source; one that can invade our dream states and manipulate them accordingly.
Antarctica Whistleblower reveals to Linda Molton Howe what he saw during Secret Antarctica Operation
Antarctica Whistleblower reveals to Linda Molton Howe what he saw during Secret Antarctica Operation
Antarctica Whistleblower: Aliens have been in contact with Home Sapiens from the beginning - They have seeded us!
In 2003, a U.S. Navy Seal Special Operation team traveled to Antarctica to investigate a perfectly geometric 8-sided octagon structure discovered by ground penetrating radar near the Beardmore Glacier, about 93 miles from the American McMurdo Station.
Another previous team of engineers and scientists had dug out the top layer of one of octagon made of a pure black substance that was built on top of two more black octagonal structures that went down deep into the 2-milethick ice.
The following testimony, which starts around the 11.20 mark in the video, is by one of those Navy Seals who was there, but now retired. He calls himself Spartan 1 and gave me permission to videotape him on July 19, 2018 - as long as he was in the shadow and his voice was altered.
He reports that the octagonal entrance led to vast structures covering acres deep beneath the Antarctic ice - heated and lighted by an unknown source...
But before Linda Molten Howe starts her interview with the retired Navy Seal she talks about Naval officer, Brian, who has worked for twenty years as a technician and flight engineer for the US Navy from 1977 to 1997.
Brian told Linda some rather disconcerting things about what he has experienced in Antarctica in the period 1995/96.
Several times they saw silver colored flying saucers in the distance over the mountains and once they saw a hole in the ice, the size of a football field. Actually, they ended up there by accident, because the hole was only a few kilometers away from the geographical south pole and in a no-fly zone.
However, since they made a medical flight that had rushed in, they flew over this forbidden area and saw a huge hole in the ice that looked like it was an entrance to an underground installation ...
Strange ‘pill-shaped’ object seen pulsing in North Carolina Sky, Jan 25, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Strange ‘pill-shaped’ object seen pulsing in North Carolina Sky, Jan 25, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 25, 2019 Location of sighting: North Carolina, USA This is a great video of a cigar UFO over NC last week. The eyewitness is an avid birdwatcher and known on Youtube as SpaceBret. He noticed an object flying near an airplane and got some great close up video of it. When an eyewitness uses the best of the best camera lens...Leica...I sure as hell take that evidence seriously. UFOs often fly towards any other flying object in the vicinity in order to scan the latest human tech. Because each high tech craft made by humans is one step closer to making light speed craft and flying across the universe. And they don't want to miss that historic moment in human evolution. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Eyewitness states:
Yesterday while walking around outside looking for birds to film and photograph I noticed a strange flashing light in the sky near an airplane. It was moving slowly in the sky, a little slower than the planes flying around. I could see the random flashing coming from the object for about 10 seconds. I tried to film it with my camera. Using my GH5 and Leica 100-400mm lens I was able to grab a few frames of the object. I did not think I captured it at all because the focus would only hunt and not lock on. When I got inside and checked the footage I was blown away by what I saw. I have no idea what this object is. It is pill shaped with bullet headed ends. This is in rural North Carolina just outside of Greensboro. Enjoy the video and let me know if you have any idea as to what this object is. Camera: GH5 Lens: Leica 100-400mm at 400mm Camera settings: F6.3 ISO 800 Shutter 1/250th Focal Length 400mm - Equivalent to 1177mm on 35mm FPS 59.94 in 8bit VLOG Thought I was shooting 1/1000th shutter speed but heat of the moment probably knocked it down, or video recording mode automatically knocked it down. The meta data does not lie. Used the Daylight Linear GHAlex lut and changed gamma to bring in as much detail as I could.
Black Square UFO Seen Over Conyers, Georgia on Jan 30, 2019, MUFON Report #98202 UFO Sighting News.
Black Square UFO Seen Over Conyers, Georgia on Jan 30, 2019, MUFON Report #98202 UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 30, 2019 Location of sighting: Conyers, Georgia, USA Source: MUFON #98202 An eyewitness records this dark square shaped UFO over Conyers yesterday. Heavy winds, but this object is not turning or rotating like a balloon, nor does it have stings...its huge! Like a 727 in size, but I do notice a wobble to it slightly. Also, if you fast forward to the 1:18 mark I noticed there are two UFOs there for about 7 seconds....one dark black square, the other is semi transparent and far above it...but almost in the same position. Wow I really hope we get more footage from more people in Conyers. I'm sure others must have seen it, but believe it or not, only 1 out of 6 will actually think about recording the UFO on their phone at the time of any sighting. There must be more footage out there. Scott C. Waring
Did Boeing secretly test a mysterious UFO space plane above Area 51?
Did Boeing secretly test a mysterious UFO space plane above Area 51?
Jasper Hamill
Boeing has released pictures which appear to show a hyper-advanced space plane sitting on a runway at a base which looks a lot like Area 51.
The concept drawings may have been sketched as long ago as the 1980s and depict several super-advanced reusable spacecraft.
Although it’s not clear whether the futuristic flying machines were actually built, one image features a ‘mothership’ which appears designed to carry a baby which hangs beneath it and resembles a cross between a UFO and the Space Shuttle.
At least four of images were shared as an Instagram story last January, which means they disappeared from view after just 24 hours. They do not appear to have been shared again by Boeing, although this does not necessarily show they prove something explosive such as the existence of a top-secret research program at a military base.
It’s not clear if this image was sketched by someone who actually saw this space plane in action, or whether it’s a work of pure imagination
(Image: Boeing)
We could not find the images on Boeing’s Instagram page because they were shared as a ‘story’ so automatically disappeared after they were posted
Most of the images were also released on a tweet published in August last year, which you can see above.
The picture of a mothership and its baby was released on January 14 2019, The Drive reported, but we have been unable to find the image on Boeing’s social channels or website.
The motoring and defence publication was also first to suggest the backdrop of the images resembled Area 51, a nickname for the Edwards Air Force Base.
These drawings show several space planes. It not known if any of them were ever built
This secretive facility believed to be dedicated to researching and building ‘exotic’ aircraft – and potentially spaceships as well. Its work is highly classified.
But in the public imagination, Area 51 is forever linked with aliens and is at the centre of all sorts of bizarre conspiracies claiming it has secretly studying extraterrestrial technology or built craft which resemble UFOs.
The background certainly does look a lot like Area 51, while some of the planes resemble the craft pictured in a patent for a ‘horizontal-takeoff transatmospheric launch system’ filed in 1984 and granted in 1989.
These images were drawn in 1984 or before but like the sort of spaceship you’d see in a science fiction movie
(Image: Boeing)
Boeing wrote: ‘This invention is directed toward providing a transatmospheric launch system that is essentially totally reusable, provides wide flexibility in choice of orbit, and may be launched quickly on short notice.
‘The system of the invention is a two-stage horizontal takeoff and landing system. An orbiter vehicle is integrated into the underside of an aircraft.’
We have written to Boeing to ask if it tested spaceships at Area 51 and will update this article if it replies.
UFO sighting: Spaceship 'with ALIENS on board' seen landing in Doncaster garden
UFO sighting: Spaceship 'with ALIENS on board' seen landing in Doncaster garden
A UFO has been seen landing in the front garden of a house in Doncaster, which alien enthusiasts are claiming is proof of an extraterrestrial presence on Earth.
A video which was titled “UFO Ship with Aliens on Board Crashed into the Sand Pile on my Driveway” was uploaded to YouTube by the user Tiho Gro. The video quickly racked up thousands of visitors because of the strange activity, which some are struggling to explain. A bright pulsating light can be seen drifting slowly towards the ground.
The user who uploaded the video said: “Aliens exist and now living in my 10 ton sand pile on the drive way.”
The sighting was quickly picked up by conspiracy theorists, with some claiming it is proof of alien activity.
Prominent alien hunter Scott C Waring shared the sighting, which occurred on January 17, on his blog UFO Sightings Daily.
Mr Waring said: “The video shows a globe of light (UFO) that lands in the garden of a house in the town of Doncaster, located in South Yorkshire (England).
UFO sighting: ‘Alien spaceship’ seen landing in Doncaster garden
(Image: GETTY • YOUTUBE)
“In the security cam video you can see how the sphere of light, once landed, seems to stand for a few seconds in the garden.
“The eyewitness then states that the light then suddenly in a flash of light disappears, but I don't see this in the video.
“Perhaps the eyewitness cut it out for some unknown reason.”
A Chinese lantern was touted as a probable explanation
(Image: GETTY)
While some believed the footage was proof of aliens, others were not so convinced by its authenticity and offered simpler explanations.
YouTuber Larry Maxweel commented on the original video: “Probably a Chinese lantern. Candles put off A LOT of light which would look exactly like it does in video.”
Another commenter, SFearFox, agreed, writing the simple explanation beneath the video: “It’s a Chinese lantern landing”.
Open Minds UFO Radio: In this episode, Alejandro and Martin review fresh UFO news including the recent release of files related to the Pentagon’s UFO program.
We take a look at the serious topic and related issues of objects observed in the skies above us that remain a mystery. Host Alejandro Rojas shares updates and credible information regarding Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) including the search for extraterrestrial life and our quest to become a space fairing species.
Tom Delonge, founder of To The Stars Academy, recently uploaded a post on Instagram claiming that multiple US attack submarines somehow had a UFO 'pinned' underwater against the North Atlantic Coast.
Reflect On:
There are thousands of declassified UFO encounters, most of which are aerial. A story like this doesn't really seem too 'out there' for those who have researched the topic, and it seems more probable given Tom and his team's reputation.
The idea of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) is no longer taboo, and has been officially verified by multiple governments around the world including the United States. These objects are often tracked on military radars and seen by the pilots who are sent out to take a closer look. There have been millions of pages of UFO related documents declassified detailing these encounters, hundreds of testimonies from credible people within military, intelligence, and government agencies exposed, and tons of electro-optical data and physical evidence released. You can read about some examples of military encounters in more detail here.
In 1979, General Carlos Cavero told the world that “everything” has been “in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world. On a global scale, the nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon” and there is “an international exchange of data.” There are tons of similar, reputable statements like this out there, including the following one made by the first CIA director, Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter: “Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” (source)
Despite the vast amount of evidence in support of extraterrestrial and UFO phenomena, the ‘secrecy campaign’ is still ongoing, influencing the minds of the masses and convincing people that it’s all a “conspiracy theory.” Perception manipulation is a tool frequently used by the ‘powers that be’ in all areas, especially within the political realm.
Whether it be a former Chairman of the Royal Navy telling us that “there is a serious possibility that we are being visited, and have been visited by people from outer space,” a former Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Barry Goldwater stating that “I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified,” or an Apollo 14 astronaut saying that “yes, there have been crashed craft and bodies recovered,” there is no shortage of high-ranking insiders attesting to the reality of this phenomenon.
However, this goes far beyond mere witness testimonies.
One of the biggest mouthpieces for “the establishment,” The New York Times, admitted something that the establishment has been concealing for years: UFOs are real. The Times broke the story about a secret Pentagon program about UFOs, but any UFO researcher knows these programs are far more in-depth, expensive, and expansive than anything that’s described within the article.
This was then followed by a Washington Post article written by Christopher Mellon, a member of To The Stars who spent 20 years in the federal government, holding prestigious roles including the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush Administrations. To The Stars is a company founded by the musician Tom Delonge, which aims to inspire a newfound appreciation for ‘the profound yet unresolved mysteries involving science and the universe,’ including UFO phenomena.
All of a sudden, after these articles, UFOs were perceived as ‘real’ within mainstream media. Many have criticized Tom Delonge and To The Stars, claiming that the company is a deep state operation looking to bring about misinformation about UFOs. Some will post pictures of Tom Delonge with John Podesta, for example, and claim that he is ‘one of them.’ However, I do not believe these accusations.
It’s similar to Harvey Weinstein being pictured with Oprah. A single image doesn’t make Oprah a rapist or a supporter of sexual misconduct, and we shouldn’t judge others based on a photograph or who they spend their time with. Tom might be completely unaware of Podesta’s reputation, as it’s quite clear his main interest is the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon. Delonge has done nothing but good for the UFO movement and has inspired massive awareness surrounding the subject.
Perhaps we should be more concerned with the transparency of the US government than with Tom Delonge’s motives. So far, the US government has proven that they cannot be trusted when it comes to being transparent about this subject. This is why it’s ok to have concerns about where this mainstream disclosure movement is headed, and whether or not it’s rooted in good will.
It’s evident that politicians are becoming more and more persuaded and coerced by corporations and the global elite, something Roosevelt referred to as the “invisible government” that “sits enthroned” behind the “ostensible government.” (source)
Another great quote:
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation . . . The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. – John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York City from 1918-1925, (source)(source)
It remains to be seen where To The Stars will take this, but I fully believe that if there are some sort of ‘sinister’ intentions within To The Stars, Tom and most of the team probably have no idea about it. So far things are looking good, and they’ve done nothing but create awareness.
The team he assembled is actually pretty extraordinary, as their backgrounds are quite impressive, and Tom deserves all the credibility he’s garnered. Sure, there is no evidence that his claims are true (like the image pictured below), but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t entertain his thoughts, especially given the fact that thousands of similar encounters have been reported. Here is one of many great examples of verified encounters with documented proof, in case you were curious.
Why Would Multiple Nuclear Attack Submarines Do This?
As an avid researcher into the field of UFOs for nearly half of my life, I can confidently say that not only are there unidentified crafts performing maneuvers that defy our known laws of aerospace and physics, but these crafts have been spotted entering and exiting our oceans as well. This is something that’s still new to many UFO researchers just entering the field now.
I’d like to highlight one thing here. After decades of military encounters, it seems the protocol for multiple governments is to try and shoot these crafts down.
Below is a quote from Dr. Steven Greer, creator of the most popular documentary on Netflix last year, Unacknowledged. Greer is well known for the Disclosure Project, where he amassed hundreds of military/intelligence personnel with verified backgrounds to come together and share their testimonies and experiences regarding UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence.
Below he shares a perspective many may not know about:
Here is a great quote from Paul Hellyer,
Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. The inevitable result was that some of our planes were lost, but how many were due to retaliation, and how many were a result of our own stupidity, is a moot point.” (source)
By the way, “the preservation of the planet” (Colonel Ross Dedrickson, from thisinterview with Dr. Greer) is a common theme in extraterrestrial lore. However, that is not to say that some malevolent forces aren’t at work as well. Who really knows!
Dr. David Clarke, an investigative journalist, reader and lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University in England, and the former curator for The National Archives UFO project from 2008–13, outlined what some of the UK’s documents say regarding this type of technology.
These documents reveal how the RAF expressed great interest in finding UFOs to help come up with new and innovative ways to become their enemies during the Cold War. Apparently, they were gathering evidence that other nations had collected this technology. Having been an avid researcher into the field myself for more than a decade, I can confidently say that stories of crash retrievals of unknown aerial objects are abundant–Roswell is certainly not the only example.
Even though they have been partly censored they can’t conceal the fact the UK military were interested in capturing UFO technology or what they coyly refer to as ‘novel weapon technology’…And the files reveal they were desperate to capture this technology – wherever it came from – before the Russians or the Chinese got hold of it first….Although this was 1997, Russia was still regarded as an undefeated enemy with a weapons programme regarded as a threat to the West.
The Takeaway
What makes us think this planet belongs to us? What right do we have to shoot down intelligently controlled crafts that may have been around for decades? Clearly, if there was a threat associated with them or some type of ‘armageddon’ scenario, it would have happened already.
All the global military industrial complex wants to do is find out what’s going on and what’s inside these crafts, even if that means disregarding basic morals. These are not actions we should be proud of, as they highlight just how difficult it may be for any potential outside visitors to explore our planet.
Does the elite actually care about the preservation of our planet? Or do they only care about looking out for their own interests, regardless of the implications their actions have on others?
The extraterrestrial/UFO phenomenon truly leaves no area of humanity untouched. The implications on spirituality and human consciousness are huge, and it’s a topic that will eventually force us to take a closer look at who we are, where we came from, how we treat our planet, and why we are so much more than the bodies we inhabit.
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
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. – Jacobs. (source)
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…
Related CE Article
We’ve been writing about this topic in depth for years, below is one article out of hundreds that touches on what’s currently happening in the mainstream with regards to UFO disclosure. If you’d like to read more of our articles on the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon, visit the disclosure section of our website.
UFOs are perhaps the most searched subject on internet search engines at the moment and if they’re not, they’re close to the top. Interest in the subject matter continues to grow, and theDeep Statecommunity has certainly recognized it. Years and years of petitioning from the citizenry and UFO disclosure advocacy groups, on top of other international governments acknowledging the phenomenon, not to mention hundreds of high-ranking people from numerous ranks within military agencies, academia and intelligence agencies have all come forth sharing their knowledge and experiences.
Recently, it seems to have reached a critical boiling point, where a majority of the populace is aware of the fact that something strange seems to be happening in the inside, and outside of our atmosphere and has been for a long time. Perhaps this is why the US government recently decided to end what seems to be, as the first CIA Director Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter alluded to, and official campaign of secrecy?
“Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” (source)
Because the idea has been ridiculed by the global elite, through movies and mainstream news, it brainwashes mass amounts of people to do the same. This is done with several different topics, and it creates a culture where anyone who raises their voice, is instantaneously vilified by whomever they tell. But things are changing.
The Pentagon recently disclosed this info as well, by approving the release of video footage shot by US military pilots of three different UFOs. All three objects, one the size of two air-craft carries, defied our current known laws of physics and aerodynamics. The videos came from a Pentagon program which located, and video taped unidentified aerial objects to determine if there is a ‘threat’ associated with them.
The head of that Program, who recently retired from the Pentagon, Louis Elizondo, shared the fact that this is actual data, electro-optical data and radar returns. He also emphasized how this type of thing is quite common, and how he believes there is a great deal of evidence to suggest that “we may not be alone, whatever that means.” He did so on national mainstream television.
UFO encounters with the military is nothing new, there are millions of pages of declassified documents from various governments and agencies showing so.
People like Louis, and others at the To The Stars initiative of which he is apart of, don’t really speak out until they are given the green light. One thing is for certain, the US government has now disclosed the existence of UFOs, and many researchers within the field, including myself, are very cautious of the direction the government wants to take this information.
You can read more about that, and check out some of the footage in the articles linked below:
I only say that because we’ve been lied to and manipulated so much so that it’s almost hard to believe anything that comes from a government agency, unfortunately.
I elaborate on the idea of a ‘false flag’ alien invasion in the article linked below, if you’re interested in that discussion and where it’s coming from:
As far as the question of whether or not these UFOs are extraterrestrial or not, I elaborate on that idea in this article I previously published:
This topic is so big and vast that it truly leaves no aspect of humanity untouched. There are facts about this subject that would still blow your mind and we’ve covered many of them. If you want to go through our articles we’ve published on the UFO/Extraterrestrial topic for the past 9 years, you can visit the Exopolitics section of our website, HERE.
Whether it be a former Chairman of the Royal Navy telling us that “there is a serious possibility that we are being visited, and have been visited by people from outer space,” a former Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Barry Goldwater telling us that “I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified,” or an Apollo 14 astronaut saying that“there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered,” we have no shortage of high-ranking insiders attesting to the reality of this phenomenon.
General Carlos Cavero told the world in 1979, “everything” has been “in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world.” On a global scale, “the nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon” and there is “an international exchange of data.” (source)
So, what type of data have they been analyzing? Here’s a quote from December 16th 1978, issued by the Chilean Air Force with regards to a UFO encounter, similar to what the Pentagon released. Again, keep in mind, this is something that’s happened thousands of times over the past few decades, and perhaps thousands of times every single year?
“Two pilots on a training mission, each flying a F5 fighter aircraft, tracked the object on their airborne radar. It gave a return equal to ten or more aircraft carriers-except this object was in the air, not floating on the water. Each pilot assumed his radar equipment was faulty, until he learned that the other pilot was also getting the same return. Not only this, but ground radar from a nearby airport also picked up the object and confirmed its huge size. The pilots also saw the object with their own eyes. One pilot later said that at a distance of twenty miles, it looked “like a plantain banana swathed in smoke.” The pilots were frightened, having no missiles or weapons. As they approached the massive object, which had been motionless all this while, it took off at an unimaginable speed. All at once, it vanished from the three radar screens.” (1)(2)
The very next morning the Chilean Air Force scrambled some F5 fighter jets to intercept another very large UFO. The pilots described this one as very bright, and very large. The Chilean Air Force has officially acknowledged these events, but could not explain what had occurred.
To see some more examples of UFO/military encounters, you can refer to this article:
Since we’re talking about Chile, here’s a CIA document from decades ago that also cites another incident.
It states as follows:
“ANTARCTIC FLYING SAUCERS” – A group of red, green, and yellow flying saucers has been seen flying over Deception Island for two hours by Argentine, Chilean and British bases (military) in Antarctica. The flying saucers were also seen flying in formation over the South Orkney islands in quick circles.”
The Implications?
As mentioned earlier, this topic really leaves no aspect of humanity untouched. Within the lore, if you take some of these objects to indeed be extraterrestrial, there is a consistency among many in the field that many of these beings are here to help humanity to make a transition, and help us.
For example, Colonel Ross Dedrickson, a high-ranking officer in the Air Force who held special positions at various points in his career dealing with nuclear weapons, the atomic energy commission, and nuclear weapons storage facilities provided video testimony prior to his passing, revealing that extraterrestrials have been around for a long time, and that they do not approve of our nuclear activities. He also revealed that extraterrestrials have shut down nuclear weapons in flight as well as our attempts to detonate and experiment with them, and he’s not the only one to do so. You can watch that interview here.
For example, Colonel Ross Dedrickson, another high-ranking officer in the Air Force who held special positions at various points in his career dealing with nuclear weapons, the atomic energy commission, and nuclear weapons storage facilities provided video testimony prior to his passing, revealing that extraterrestrials have been around for a long time and that they do not approve of our nuclear activities. He also revealed that extraterrestrials have shut down nuclear weapons in flight as well as our attempts to detonate and experiment with them and he’s not the only one to do so. You can watch that interview here.
Spiritual implications are also referred to quite often, I could go on and on, but I won’t, I’ll let you listen to a recent podcast I did with CE founder, Joe Martino, and Richard Lawrence. He is the Executive Secretary of The Aetherius Society for Europe and a Bishop in The Aetherius Churches. He has devoted his life to the work of his late master and personal friend, Dr George King (1919-1997), who founded the Society, as mentioned above.
There is also the other side, a malevolent side to this whole phenomena which is important to explore as well. But when it comes to an “alien invasion,” the evidence suggests that extraterrestrials have been around for a long time, if that were the case, it probably would have happened. But that’s just my opinion.
(1) Huneeus, J, Antonio, “A Chilean Overview,” MUFON UFO Journal, 6/86; Huneeus, J. Antonio, “A Historical Survey of UFO Cases in Chilie,” MUFON 1987 International Symposium Proceedings (MUFON, 1987.)
(2) Department of Defense JCS Message Center, Subject: B6/BAF Has a Close Encounter of the First Kind. Date: 20 May 86. Subject: Numerous Unidentified Objects Were Cited in the Skies over Brazil. But BAF Fighters Were Unable to Intercept Them. Berliner, Don, The UFO Briefing Document,p. 121-127. Huneeus, J. Antonio, “UFO Alert in Brazil,” MUFON UFO Journal, 11/86. Andrus, Walt, “UFOs Over Brazil,” MUFON UFO Journal, 9/86. Smith, Dr Willy, “The Brazillian Incident,” International UFO Reporter, 7-8/86. Smith, Dr. Willy, “More on Brazilian OVNIs,” MUFON UFO Journal, 9/86.
Chilean Air Force Receives A Radar Return of A UFO Equal To The Size of Ten or More Aircraft Carrier
Chilean Air Force Receives A Radar Return of A UFO Equal To The Size of Ten or More Aircraft Carrier
Two pilots on a training mission, each flying an F5 fighter aircraft, tracked the object on their airborne radar.
General Carlos Cavero told the world in 1979, everything has been in of Investigation both and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world.
On a global scale, the nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon and there is an international exchange of data.
So what type of data have they been analyzing?
“The US/UK/Canadian/EU and Rome all know full well what is going on with the alien spacecraft over the last 60+ years, and Rome knows what has been going on for the last 1000+years. We have been all living a LIE for the last 1700 years, with the heretic in Rome (Frances) coming out just last week stating that Hell doesn’t exist. Read between the lines people the great deception is coming down and falling apart, you just need to open your eyes.-Oveida”
On January 23, Emmy award winning journalist, Linda Moulton Howe, released the video testimonyof a new whistleblower discussing his highly classified mission to a large buried structure found in Antarctica. The whistleblower claims that in a classified mission conducted in 2003, he entered inside a very large octagon-shaped structure located near the Beardmore Glacier that extended down deep into the glacier’s icy interior.
The whistleblower is a retired U.S. Navy Seal who was first interviewed by Howe on July 19, 2018. He used the pseudonym Spartan 1 in Howe’s YouTube video where his face is shadowed out and his voice is altered to protect his identity. Howe says that she personally vetted Spartan 1, who provided ample documentation to substantiate his military career.
Previously, Howe has released the testimony of another military whistleblower, Brian, who was a Navy flight engineer who had flown numerous support missions with the Antarctic Development Squadron from 1983 to 1997. He witnessed a number of anomalies pointing to hidden facilities or bases located deep under the Antarctic ice sheets. He says he witnessed silver flying discs over the Transantarctic Mountains, not all that far, as Howe pointed out, from where the Navy Seal had conducted his mission.
The Navy Seal says that ground penetrating radar had discovered the structure which was an eight-sided octagon, as Howe elaborated:
In 2003, a U.S. Navy Seal Special Operation team traveled to Antarctica to investigate a perfectly geometric 8-sided octagon structure discovered by ground penetrating radar near Beardmore Glacier, about 93 miles from the American McMurdo Station.
Another previous team of engineers and scientists had dug out the top layer of one octagon made of a pure black substance that was built on top of two more black octagonal structures that went down deep into the 2-mile-thick ice.
In the video the Navy Seal (aka Spartan 1) described the launch of his mission from an aircraft carrier voyaging near West Antarctica’s Ross Sea. He was taken by helicopter to McMurdo station, the largest U.S. base in Antarctica, and then taken by ground transport to the structure’s location.
Spartan 1 described entering a doorway approximately 50 feet under the ice. He estimated the walls of the structure as about 18 to 30 feet thick (6-10 meters) and the ceiling height at around 22-28 feet (7-9 meters). He said that the walls, ceiling and floor were made of a black basalt material that looked like shiny black marble.
The interior was heated to around 68-72 degrees Fahrenheit (20-22 Celsius), and was also lighted by a lime green source projected from the ceiling and floor. He did not see any heating or lighting equipment, which added to the mystery of the buried structure.
Only part of the structure, he stated, has been uncovered so far by the archeological teams, with the rest buried under the ice and extending far below. Ground penetrating radar had shown the structure to be an Octagon in shape, and covering an area of 62 acres (about 0.5 square kilometers).
Spartan 1 described the walls and doors as being covered by hieroglyphs that were about eight inches (20 cm) high and about two inches (5 cm) deep. The hieroglyphs were neither Egyptian nor Mayan, but appeared similar to both in terms of depicting animals and other strange symbols.
Egyptian and Mayan Hieroglyphics.
Sources: Wikipedia Commons
Significantly, one of the symbols was very similar to the Black Sun image used by the Nazi SS, who had a large version of it built on the floor of their headquarters at Wewelsburg Castle. The Black Sun image continues to be banned in Germany under their Nazi propaganda law. Howe said future episodes featuring Spartan 1 will return to the Black Sun symbol.
Black Sun symbol Wewelsburg Castle
Spartan 1 explained that part of his mission was to transport scientists who would document the buried structure and the hieroglyphic symbols, by taking photos and making drawings. He said that his team had to leave one of the scientists behind who insisted that more time was needed to do a proper inventory of what was discovered.
Spartan 1 was told and believed that the structure had been built by a human looking group of extraterrestrials, who were involved in the genetic engineering of humanity.
Spartan 1’s testimony is very significant since it provides a rare eyewitness account of what is actually inside one of the buried structures whose age stretches back into antiquity. Howe’s previous Antarctica eyewitness, Brian, did not actually get to see or go inside one of the artifacts. The closest he got was when he saw a large hole going deep inside the South Pole, while flying overhead through restricted airspace.
To date, only two other whistleblowers/insiders have come forward to share their accounts of being taken inside or witnessing the ancient artifacts buried deep under Antarctica’s ice sheets. These are Corey Goode and Pete Peterson who both say they witnessed some of the buried artifacts during their respective visits there.
Goode claims to have been taken to Antarctica in early 2016 and 2017, where he saw secret bases and the remains of an ancient civilization buried deep below the ice sheets. He says he witnessed some bodies of human alien hybrids who were part of the genetic experiments conducted by a tall human looking extraterrestrial race thousands of years ago. He described three very large motherships buried under the ice that were used to start a global civilization with Antarctica as a hub.
Peterson says that he was taken to Antarctica during classified missions where he was tasked with the job of understanding the advanced technologies found near three motherships, one or more of which he witnessed during his missions. Peterson’s testimony corroborates Goode’s account of an ancient extraterrestrial base that was used as a hub for a global civilization.
This raises some intriguing questions. Was the Black Sun symbol a pictorial representation of an ancient global civilization where the South Pole was the hub with spirals going out to its distant colonies? In the book, Antarctica’s Hidden History, I present evidence that German nationalists using the black sun symbol established a colony in Antarctica, where they built spacecraft for deep space colonization.
According to Howe’s analysis, the structure witnessed by Spartan 1 dates as far back as 33 million years, which is the general date conventional geologists give for when Antarctica was last ice free. In Antarctica’s Hidden History, contrary evidence is presented that Antarctica was ice free as recently as 11,700 years ago, which is the approximate date for the destruction of Atlantis according to Plato. This raises the question, “how old are the ruins being currently discovered in Antarctica?”
Spartan 1’s independent testimony corroborates important elements of what Goode and Peterson described, and what others claim lies hidden under the frozen continent. As more of Spartan 1’s testimony is released through Howe’s video series, we may get important answers to questions about what lies hidden deep below the Antarctic ice sheets
KLOKKENLUIDER VERTELT OVER GEHEIME ANTARCTICA ( VIDEO )
KLOKKENLUIDER VERTELT OVER GEHEIME ANTARCTICA ( VIDEO )
Voor een doorsnee mainstream burger is Antarctica niets meer dan een koude ijsklomp waar een normaal mens niets te zoeken heeft.
En het is juist dit continent dat boordevol geheimen zit en waar nu door een klokkenluider weer een tipje van de sluier wordt opgelicht.
Nog steeds is het bevroren continent Antarctica een groot mysterie, hoewel er toch steeds meer stukjes informatie naar buiten komen waardoor we weten dat het een heel bijzondere plek is.
Iemand die al eerder interessante informatie naar buiten heeft gebracht over Antarctica is onderzoeksjournaliste Linda Moulton Howe.
Zo schreven wij al in een eerder artikel over haar en de onthullingen van voormalig marine officier Brian, waarin onder andere het volgende stond:
Dit is het verhaal van een marine officier, Brian, die twintig jaar lang gewerkt heeft als technicus en boordwerktuigkundige voor de Amerikaanse marine gedurende 20 jaar van 1977 tot en met 1997.
Deze Brian heeft aan de bekende onderzoekjournalist en documentairemaker Linda Moulton Howe een aantal nogal onthutsende zaken verteld over de dingen die hij heeft meegemaakt op Antarctica in de periode 1995/96.
Diverse keren zagen ze zilverkleurige vliegende schotels in de verte over de bergen en een keer zagen ze een gat in het ijs ter grootte van een voetbalveld. Eigenlijk kwamen ze daar een beetje per ongeluk terecht, want het gat was slechts enkele kilometers verwijderd van de geografische zuidpool en in een no-fly zone.
Echter, aangezien ze een medische vlucht maakten waar spoed bij was gekomen, vlogen ze over dit verboden gebied en zagen dingen die ze absoluut niet mochten zien.
Een enorm gat in het ijs dat eruit zag alsof het een ingang was naar een ondergrondse installatie.
Via Paul Harmans ontvingen wij de hieronder geplaatste en door Paul in het Nederlands ondertitelde video (dank!).
Deze gaat voor een klein stukje over de eerder genoemde Brian en vervolgens een interview met een andere klokkenluider, dit keer een voormalige en inmiddels gepensioneerde Navy Seal.
Deze vertelt hoe hij op één van zijn missies op Antarctica terecht kwam en werd gestuurd naar een plek waar zich reusachtige gebouwen bevinden. Gebouwen die zich uiteraard grotendeels onder het ijs bevinden en waar ondanks dat er geen verwarming is en het buiten zo'n 40 graden vriest, een behaaglijke temperatuur heerst. Een gebouw waarin ondankdat er geen aanwijsbare lichtbron is, toch een permanente limoenkleurige verlichting aanwezig is.
Dit en nog veel meer vertelt de man in de volgende video, waar Paul onder andere de volgende tekst bij heeft geplaatst.
Als er buitenaardsen op aarde zijn, al sinds mensenheugenis, wat zou dan de beste locatie voor hen zijn om zich gedurende tijden ongezien te vestigen? Natuurlijk is dat Antarctica, duizenden en duizenden jaren was er geen mens die daar ooit kwam. Antarctica steunt, anders dan de Noordpool, op solide rotsgrond, het drijft dus niet op water. Al lange tijd worden vreemde constructies op Antarctica gezien en de getuigenissen van UFO’s boven dat continent zijn ook talrijk.
Voor buitenaardsen is Antarctica qua locatie om verborgen te blijven voor menselijke waarneming gelijk aan de achterkant van de Maan. Ook over die Maanlocatie beweren overheidsklokkenluiders dat er talloze constructies staan die op gebouwen wijzen en die daar duidelijk niet door de mens zijn geplaatst. De kans dat buitenaardsen op de achterkant van de Maan ontdekt zouden worden, was pas aanwezig toen de mens technisch gezien dichter bij hen kwam te staan en ruimtereizen kon maken.
Bovenstaande video is een deel van een meer dan een uur durende video van Linda en wie deze in z'n geheel wil bekijken, kan dat hier doen, maar dan wel zonder ondertiteling helaas.
Linda Moulton Howe Live - Antarctica Whistleblower (01/23/2019)
This is not what you want to hear from the people who run the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) project. Yet that was the message issued on January 25th by the astronomers running the ATLAS-HKO telescopes at the top of the Haleakalā volcano on the Hawaiian Island of Maui. (If your job is to look for asteroids that could kill you, it’s at least nice to know you’ll die in Hawaii.) They were watching a Near Earth Object that was about as near as you can get – 600 km (370 miles) above Earth’s surface at the perigee of its highly elliptical orbit whose apogee is 1.4 times the distance to the Moon. If they don’t know what it is and it’s orbiting the Earth, then it must the …
Black Knight Satellite!
Wouldn’t that be a great story to take our minds off of the rest of our problems? Unfortunately, A10bMLz (they had to give it a name so they could record it in the log and get paid) is not the alleged extraterrestrial satellite which has been orbiting the planet for at least 13,000 years and was supposedly detected by Nikola Tesla. However, it’s definitely a mysterious object that most people outside of the space field have probably never heard of before … an Empty Trash Bag Object (ETBO). A what?
“This suggests that it is what is known as an “empty trash bag object”: A piece of light material (probably metallic foil), left over from a rocket launch. It is not clear yet when A10bMLz has been launched.”
That observation comes from the Northolt Branch Observatories of London, which was tasked with identifying the 1 km (2.2 lb.) A10bMLz using Project Pluto astronomical software. (See a video on their Facebook page.) As one would expect, the name comes from the fact that the object behaves like a trash bag being blown about by the wind. The difference is that this ETBO Is at least 370 miles up – the highest observance of one of these rare objects.
The “trash bag” part makes it sound pretty safe. Are we in any danger from this ETBO? Well, its behavior is unpredictable and there’s no past history to use in a model.
“As with an empty trash bag blowing down the street, it may zig and zag in unpredictable ways. The nominal orbit, though, suggests that this object had a much higher perigee; it dropped to within a few hundred kilometers on this most recent perigee. I do not see any recent lunar flybys, and would not speculate on when it might hit the earth or moon or leave the earth-moon system.”
So, we’re not in any danger and neither is the Moon. Unfortunately, A10bMLz is far less intriguing that the Black Knight Satellite … unless this whole Empty Trash Bag Object is just a ruse to cover-up an accidental observation of it. Or is it an outer-space ploy by environmentalists to finally put an end to the wasteful usage of plastic bags?
At least the ETBOs are empty.
For now, it’s a good example of the ever-increasing variety of space junk in orbit that is endangering the ever-increasing number of private space flights being planned. Which will come first … the accident or the Space Junk and Empty Trash Bag Objects Collection Mission?
Sept. 20, 2002: Something odd is circling our planet. It's small, perhaps only 60-ft long, and rotates once every minute or so. Amateur astronomer Bill Yeung first spotted the 16th magnitude speck of light on Sept. 3rd in the constellation Pisces. He named it J002E3.
Robert Powell, USS Nimitz Tic-Tac UFO Update & More
Robert Powell, USS Nimitz Tic-Tac UFO Update & More
01-29-19 – Alejandro Rojas with UFO Updates, Robert Powell Robert Powell is back to talk about being part of an extensive report that the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU) wrote on the USS Nimitz Encounter, we take several calls and in hour two, he discusses triangle UFOs and more.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has completed its first full orbit around the sun.
Credit: Steve Gribben/NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has completed its first loop around the sun and entered the second of 24 planned orbits.
The spacecraft launched on Aug. 12, 2018, and survived its first close flybyof the sun on Nov. 5 of last year, when it swooped within 15 million miles (24 million kilometers) of the star. As of Jan. 19, the probe has reached its farthest distance from the sun, called aphelion, before it goes in for another close pass on April 4.
"It's been an illuminating and fascinating first orbit," Andy Driesman, Parker Solar Probe project manager and a researcher at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab in Maryland, which built and manages the project, said in the statement. "We've learned a lot about how the spacecraft operates and reacts to the solar environment, and I'm proud to say the team's projections have been very accurate."
"We've always said that we don't know what to expect until we look at the data," added Nour Raouafi, a project scientist on the probe who's also at APL. "The data we have received hints at many new things that we've not seen before and at potential new discoveries. Parker Solar Probe is delivering on the mission's promise of revealing the mysteries of our sun."
The spacecraft's first approach broke distance records; humanity's previous record-holder for a close approach to the sun, Helios 2, dove to about twice Parker Solar Probe's distance from the star in 1976. Parker also busted speed records, blazing by at 213,200 mph (343,112 km/h) relative to the sun.
On its second pass, the spacecraft will fly by at a similar distance, but in future orbits, it will break its own records, getting closer and closer to the sun. By its final planned flyby, in late 2025, the spacecraft will dive within just 3.83 million miles (6.16 million km) of the sun, accelerated by the star's gravity to nearly 430,000 mph (690,000 km/h).
Data about the Parker Solar Probe as of Jan. 19, 2019, when it completed its first orbit of the sun.µ
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
But for now, preparing for the spacecraft's second flyby, engineers are remotely emptying the probe of data that has already been transmitted to Earth. They're also sending updated position and navigation information, plus about a month's worth of command instructions, NASA officials said in the statement.
During Parker Solar Probe's 24 total flybys, its four instruments will help researchers understand the inner workings of the sun and how it accelerates solar material at high speeds, as well as what makes the star's outer atmosphere, called the corona, so much hotter than the solar surface.
Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her @SarahExplains.
X-37B missions are carried out under the auspices of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, and mission control for OTV flights is handled by the 3rd Space Experimentation Squadron at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado. This squadron oversees operations of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle.
This Schriever Air Force Base unit is tagged as the Air Force Space Command’s premier organization for space-based demonstrations, pathfinders and experiment testing, gathering information on objects high above Earth and carrying out other intelligence-gathering duties.
And that may be a signal as to what the robotic craft is doing — both looking down at Earth and upward.
Flight-duration record
Each X-37B/OTV mission has set a new flight-duration record for the program.
OTV-1 began April 22, 2010, and concluded on Dec. 3, 2010, after 224 days in orbit.
OTV-2 began March 5, 2011, and concluded on June 16, 2012, after 468 days on orbit.
OTV-3 chalked up nearly 675 days in orbit before finally coming down on Oct. 17, 2014.
OTV-4 conducted on-orbit experiments for 718 days during its mission, extending the total number of days spent in space for the OTV program at that point to 2,085 days. It was launched in May 2015 and landed in May 2017.
On-orbit testing
Air Force officials haven't divulged much about the current mission. But they have revealed that one payload flying on OTV-5 is the Advanced Structurally Embedded Thermal Spreader, or ASETS-II.
Developed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), this cargo is testing experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipes for long-duration stints in the space environment.
According to the AFRL, the payload’s three primary science objectives are to measure the initial on-orbit thermal performance, to measure long-duration thermal performance and to assess any lifetime degradation.
The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle 4 is seen after landing at NASA ‘s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida on May 7, 2017.
Credit: U.S. Air Force
Tarmac touchdown
Exactly when the space plane will land is unknown.
The previous X-37B mission touched down at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility on May 7, 2017 — a first for the program. All prior missions had ended with a tarmac touchdown at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Several website postings say that the Air Force aims to launch the sixth X-37B mission, OTV-6, sometime this year aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V (501) rocket. The liftoff would be from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex-41.
Reusable vehicles
Artist's illustration of the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane in Earth orbit.
Credit: Boeing
The classified X-37B program "fleet" consists of two known reusable vehicles, both of which were built by Boeing.
The Orbital Test Vehicles were fabricated at several Boeing locations in Southern California, including Huntington Beach, Seal Beach and El Segundo. The program transitioned to the U.S. Air Force in 2004 after earlier funded research efforts by Boeing, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Looking like a miniature version of NASA’s now-retired space shuttle orbiter, the military space plane is 29 feet (8.8 meters) long and 9.6 feet (2.9 m) tall, with a wingspan of nearly 15 feet (4.6 m).
The X-37B space plane has a payload bay measuring 7 feet (2.1 m) by 4 feet (1.2 m) that can be outfitted with a robotic arm. Each X-37B has a launch weight of 11,000 lbs. (4,990 kilograms) and is powered on orbit by gallium-arsenide solar cells with lithium-ion batteries.
Milestone for the program
Prior to the launch of OTV-5, Randy Walden, the director of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, said there were many firsts on this mission, making it a milestone for the program. "It is our goal to continue advancing the X-37B OTV so it can more fully support the growing space community," Walden said.
The Air Force also noted that the fifth OTV mission was launched into, and will be landed from, a higher-inclination orbit than prior missions to further expand the X-37B’s orbital envelope.
Ground track
Ted Molczan, a Toronto-based satellite analyst, told Inside Outer Space that OTV-5 began September 2018 in an orbit about 243 miles (391 kilometers) high, inclined 54.5 degrees to the equator. Its ground track repeated every three days, after 46 revolutions.
"In mid-September, it lowered its altitude to 214 miles (344 km), which caused its ground track to repeat every two days, after 31 revolutions," Molczan said. "It appeared to still be in approximately that orbit when last observed, on January 26, by Alberto Rango, from Rome, Italy."
Repeating ground tracks are very common, Molczan said, especially for spacecraft that observe the Earth. "I do not know why OTV has repeating ground tracks," he said.
Kevin Fetter, an amateur Canadian satellite spotter in Brockville, Ontario, caught the OTV-5 craft zip by above a bright star. The video can be viewed here.
Editor's note: This story was updated on Jan. 29 to include comments from Ted Molczan.
Leonard David is author of the forthcoming book, "Moon Rush: The New Space Race" to be published by National Geographic in May 2019. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades.
A team of researchers have reverted the beak structure of a chicken embryo back to its ancestral state—a time when dinosaurs roamed the land with snouts instead.
"The beak is a crucial part of the avian feeding apparatus, and is the component of the avian skeleton that has perhaps diversified most extensively and most radically—consider flamingos, parrots, hawks, pelicans, and hummingbirds, among others," Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar, lead author of the study published in the journal Evolution, explained. "Yet little work has been done on what exactly a beak is, anatomically, and how it got that way either evolutionarily or developmentally."
There are two different genes that a developing embryo needs in order to construct a bird skull with a beak. The team decided to see what happened when they repressed those genes. To do this, they used small-molecule inhibitors to block the beak genes. The effects were shocking.
The beak structure of the chicken embryo returned to its ancestral anatomy, along with the palatine bone on the roof of the mouth. The skull of the chicken embryo developed a reptilian 'snout' instead of a beak. Two bones manifested themselves in this snout-like structure, which is reminiscent of the nose of a modern-day alligator. "This was unexpected and demonstrates the way in which a single, simple developmental mechanism can have wide-ranging and unexpected effects," Bhullar said.
The skull of a chicken embryo ready to hatch has a beak (left), but when certain proteins are blocked (middle), it develops a reptilian 'snout' from two bones, rather like a modern-day alligator (right)
via Bhart-Anjan Bhullar
The chickens didn't actually develop snouts, perse, but changes to the actual embryo are noticeable: There is a little flap of skin covering the gene-altered chicken-embryos' would-be beaks.
It must be noted that the genetically altered embryos were never hatched. "Our goal here was to understand the molecular underpinnings of an important evolutionary transition, not to create a 'dino-chicken' simply for the sake of it," said Bhullar.
We are still far from identifying the genetic changes that are responsible for nature's first beaks, but identifying the genes involved is a great start. The team won't be building a zoo of little dino-chickens anytime soon. The purpose of this experiment was to examine the evolutionary pathways on a molecular level, not create a real-life Jurassic Park.
The Sun will undergo a period of solar minimum between 2019 and 2020, and with it comes the increased risk of solar storms. Every 11 to 12 years or so, the Sun enters a phase of solar maximum and is followed by a solar minimum. The transition from one state to another is marked by a lower number of solar flares and sunspots erupting on the surface of the Sun. But this does not mean activity at the burning heart of the solar system subsides or weakens.
Solar storms can wipe out satellites, disable communications and render Earth’s navigations systems useless.
The US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) explained: “While the storms create beautiful aurora, they also can disrupt navigation systems such as the Global Navigation Satellite System and create harmful geomagnetic induced currents in the power grid and pipelines.”
Just this week, on Monday, January 28, space weather forecasters have warned a coronal hole had opened in the Sun and is facing the Earth.
Forecasters at SpaceWeatherLive warned “enhanced solar winds” are now barreling towards the planet in as little as three days.
The Sun will undergo a period of solar minimum between 2019 and 2020, and with it comes the increased risk of solar storms. Every 11 to 12 years or so, the Sun enters a phase of solar maximum and is followed by a solar minimum. The transition from one state to another is marked by a lower number of solar flares and sunspots erupting on the surface of the Sun. But this does not mean activity at the burning heart of the solar system subsides or weakens.
Solar storms can wipe out satellites, disable communications and render Earth’s navigations systems useless.
The US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) explained: “While the storms create beautiful aurora, they also can disrupt navigation systems such as the Global Navigation Satellite System and create harmful geomagnetic induced currents in the power grid and pipelines.”
Just this week, on Monday, January 28, space weather forecasters have warned a coronal hole had opened in the Sun and is facing the Earth.
Forecasters at SpaceWeatherLive warned “enhanced solar winds” are now barreling towards the planet in as little as three days.
How History Channel’s Ancient Aliens takes the mickey out of Australian history
How History Channel’s Ancient Aliens takes the mickey out of Australian history
Ancient aliens and exploring Egyptians. According to the History Channel, all visited Australia 50,000 years ago. And the evidence is … out there.
Jamie Seidel
News Corp Australia Network
Over the Australia-Day long weekend, the world was hammered with History Channel’s perspective of our Land Down Under.
One show cited Indigenous art as absolute evidence of ancient alien visitation.
Aboriginal cave paintings in rock shelter – Gwion Gwion (formerly called Bradshaw) rock art, depicting a fish hunt. Raft Point Gallery, Kimberley Region, Western Australia.
(Photo by Auscape/UIG via Getty Images)
Another ‘finds’ Australia’s own version of Stonehenge.
And then there’s the increasingly popular notion that this continent was explored by … ancient Egyptians.
The Wandjina figures … highly stylised images that sparked the whole aliens visited Australia story with Erich Von Daniken's 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods.
Picture: History ChannelSource:Supplied
But it takes barely more than a scratch at the surface of each of these stories for them to start unravelling. So why does a network with the grandiose name like the History Channel so consistently indulge in such flights of fancy?
“It’s really unbelievable that the History Channel chose not to speak to any archaeologists about this — all of these supposed sites of Egyptian or Phoenician settlement have been debunked over and over,” Flinders University archaeologist Dr Alice Gorman told News Corp. “I guess they wouldn’t have had the story they wanted …”
EGYPTIAN EXPLORERS?
The Ancient Aliens promotion is credulous: “Deep in the Brisbane Water National Park is a mysterious site known as the Kariong Glyphs. The site consists of two massive eight foot (2.4m) high walls engraved with 300 ancient carvings — carvings that experts say do not resemble indigenous artwork, but Egyptian heiroglyps”.
Trouble is, the site isn’t mysterious.
They are naturally formed rocks, not artificial walls.
The ‘ancient’ engravings are no more than 50 years old.
Yes: they do ‘resemble’ Egyptian hieroglyphs.
But they’re not authentic.
Brisbane Water National Park, Gosford, is about an hour’s drive north of Sydney.
It’s become something of an alternate history flashpoint.
Some insist the carefully collected — and bitterly contested — lines of research that form our academic understanding of the past cannot be true.
How can so many diverse cultures across the enormity of the planet so often separately discover the same solution to the same problems, they ask?
It's odd … therefore aliens? An Aboriginal dreamtime image of one of their mystical beings.
Picture: History ChannelSource:Supplied
It looks good, so it must be true? A History Channel computer-graphic interpretation of an Aboriginal rock-painting.
Picture: History ChannelSource:Supplied
Surely there must have been an ancient source of knowledge — a ‘super race’ such as Atlantis, or prehistoric manipulations by aliens — to help these ignorant ape-descendants along their path to enlightenment?
In the case of Gosford, the only thing apparently linking it with a civilisation 13,200km and 4500 years away are 250 remarkably childlike hieroglyphs gouged into a rock face.
The eroded grotto rock structure is within 100m of a road, and near an old housing subdivision. But no verifiable mention of the hieroglyphs was made before the 1970s.
This is itself odd. It’s not as though the region hadn’t been explored many times previously. And anthropologists and treasure hunters seeking Aboriginal rock art had repeatedly scoured the area since the late 1800s, and especially during the 1920s Great Depression.
Not one of them mentioned Egyptian hieroglyphs.
How did they all overlook such an easily accessible, promising rock grotto?
The glyphs, most likely a 1960s and 70s hoax, are etched into sandstone boulders in Brisbane Water National Park, near Sydney.
Picture: History ChannelSource:Supplied
DREAM TIME
History Channel’s Ancient Aliens calls local historian Ray Johnson an Egyptologist. He wasn’t. He was a self-professed amateur enthusiast who died in 2004. He was so excited by the appearance of the hieroglyphs he translated them himself. He insisted the pictograms proclaimed the site to be the burial place of Lord Nefer-ti-ru.
We know he sent letters seeking verification of his find to experts in both Egypt and Australia. We don’t know if anyone replied.
“There is also an eminent Egyptologist called W Raymond Johnston from the University of Chicago. Confusion about him and the amateur from Australia has been used to fuel uncertainty about the legitimacy of the claimed reading of the inscription,” says NSW senior heritage specialist and archaeology doctorate student Mr Denis Gojak.
Gosford’s Mr Johnson said the glyphs told the tale of the intredip member of the Egyptian royal family who died in the area while leading an expedition with his brother, Nefer-Djeseb.
The story flared again in 2012.
Dr Hans-Dieter von Senff (a Doctor of Philosophy) declared he had found a new chamber above the Kariong Glyphs, suggesting the NSW site of Woy Woy had been an Egyptian settlement some 5000 years ago.
‘‘Australia was discovered in the Third Dynasty (Egypt’s Old Kingdom). The Egyptians landed at Cape York Peninsula and moved south,’’ Dr von Senff said in a press release at the time.
Evan Strong, author of Ancient Aliens in Australia, who was interviewed by the History Channel's Ancient Aliens.
Then the supposed tale the stones record is recited:
“At least one panel talks about two brothers, two princes, coming here from Egypt. They were shipwrecked. One of them ended up getting bitten by a snake. He then died. The theory is then he was interred here and that’s why you’ve got hieroglyphs here,” Mr Strong says.
“But, there’s these other walls with a mixture of symbols. This one over here is more of a philosophical, astrophysics style thing with symbols meaning all sorts of esoteric stuff …”
“So this one here we call the UFO glyph, and people have called it that since they’ve been coming here because it kind of looks like a UFO …”
“It definitely has the classic UFO shape…,” the commentator observes.
“I think someone suggested jewellery, but it’s a completely different symbol that’s upside down and it really doesn’t quite fit in. It’s one of those symbols here that doesn't’t fit into the canon.”
Aliens! Really? This shape scratched out of the sandstone face of a Gosford rock formation is being interpreted as representing an ancient flying saucer.
Picture: History ChannelSource:Supplied
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
There’s a reason so many of the symbols don’t fit the ‘canon’ of any Egyptian-era text.
They’re not.
The Gosford History Group has repeatedly told different researchers over the years that the engravings were made by schoolchildren in the 1960s.
Blogger Steve Spillard has undertaken a deep-dive into the history and mythology of the Gosford glyphs. His work can be found here.
A quick look at the hieroglyphs show them to be remarkably clean, sharp-edged and unweathered for their alleged 4500-years of age.
It’s doubly unusual given the comparatively high rate of erosion for local sandstone.
This was something highlighted by a late 1970s survey by the National Parks and Wildlife service. It found the engravings were so fresh the exposed rock was bright and white, even where the hieroglyphs had been cut through lichen growths.
Once qualified Egyptologists looked at them, they found the form of the engravings to be … amateurish. The simplistic symbols were randomly arranged — not in the neat structured rows found in actual Egyptian engravings. That, and the fact different forms on the rock face were used in a variety of eras thousands of years apart.
Stark relief … the engravings found in the Brisbane Water National Park, left, as compared to the real thing from Egypt, right.
Picture: History ChannelSource:Supplied
It was, they said, as though someone had been looking at Egyptology books, picking and choosing the characters that inspired them most.
Professor Boyo Ockinga from Macquarie University’s Ancient History Department in Sydney, told the ABC in 2017: “I’d be the first person who’d welcome some sort of link that because it would make my subject relevant to Australian history. It’d be wonderful … but I’m afraid it’s just not possible.
‘‘People just don’t want to believe they are fake; they want this connection with ancient Egypt to be true, but unfortunately it’s not.’’
Dr Gorman is less diplomatic: “This obsession with finding evidence of ‘classical’ civilisations is really just about legitimatising the theft of Aboriginal land, like altering a will to steal someone else’s inheritance. It’s a pretty tired cliche by now.”
Proto-Egyptian, or fake? Some of the less 'canon' engravings found at the Gosford, NSW, site.
Picture: Supplied.Source:Supplied
EXPLODING MYTHS
Tales of Ancient Egyptians visiting Australia are nothing new.
In 1875 Chevert expedition travelled up the Queensland coast to Papua New Guinea ‘for the promotion of science'. It was a well documented mission, as the University of Sydney highlights.
Torres Strait traditions included preserving some bodies, but it was not mummification in the Egyptian sense.
“ The claimed parallels were exploited by Australian anatomist and physical anthropologist Grafton Elliott-Smith, whose idea was that most critical cultural innovations associated with civilisation originated in Egypt and spread outwards from there,” says Mr Gojak. “His ideas became known as the Hyper-diffusionist school of thought. It was heavily debunked at the time [early 20th century] and has no credibility with archaeologists now because it is completely contrary to the evidence.”
Then there’s Walsh’s Pyramid. It’s a 922 metre tall sandstone peak with a roughly pyramidal appearance about 20km south of Cairns in Queensland. It isn’t all that odd. A pyramid is a naturally stable shape, which is why most mountains roughly look that way. It’s also why the Egyptians built pyramids in the first place.
Context counts: UFO's hovering above ancient indigenous population? Or ochre-blown outlines of bark shields, along with weapons such as boomerangs and spears?
Picture: History ChannelSource:Supplied
This particular mass fully conforms with the geology of the landscape. And there are no signs of ancient artificial assembly or earthmoving.
But that doesn’t stop it being cited as further evidence of Egyptian visitation.
As is the case of a bronze coin minted in the era of Ptolemy IV (221 and 204BC).
It was reportedly found by a farmer digging a post hole in a far north Queensland rainforest.
Whatever the case, the finder — Andrew Henderson — said he had shoved it in a draw and forgotten about it for some 40 years. That’s when he handed it over to neighbour’s son.
Cited as an Aboriginal elder and healer, Gary Simon Jagamarra is actually an Aboriginal arts performer.
Picture: History ChannelSource:Supplied
Later, Hank Gilmore handed the coin and its tale over to the Cairns Museum.
How did it get there. A careless Egyptian explorer? Indigenous traders? Or an unlucky gold prospector?
It comes down to context.
Indigenous traders and thousands of hopeful gold prospectors were known to have used a trail that passed through Henderson’s land. And the region has a total lack of any other link to Ancient Egypt.
Dr Andrew Connor, a lecturer in ancient history from Monash University, told the ABC last year that the coin was most likely dropped by a miner. “We know conclusively that this is the sort of thing that people would bring with them when they emigrated to Australia in the 19th Century,” Dr Connor said.
Dr Gorman says she is dismayed at how so much airtime is given to such Euro-centric flights of fancy.
“Wouldn't it have been nice to focus instead on real achievements of Aboriginal culture and science — the tidal fishtraps made of extensive stonework, the mining and geology of stone tool industries, and the monumental works of art, such as you see on the Burrup Peninsula?” she asks.
Mr Gojak says some of the responsibility must also be borne by Australian archaeologists and historians: “‘Ultimately much of the idle speculation about other civilisations comes from a perception that Australia’s actual human history is dull and unexciting. It should be a challenge to educators and professionals in history and archaeology to fairly represent the amazing complexity and texture of our history. That is our best defence against cranks and pseudoarchaeology.”
The giant space rock, dubbed Asteroid2013 CW32, will make a so-called “Earth Close Approach”. NASA predicts CW32 will swing by Earth around 6.54pm GMT (UTC) today (Tuesday, January 29). During this approach, the imposing asteroid will reach breakneck speeds of more than 36,775mph or 16.44km per second. And if this is not terrifying enough, astronomers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) estimate CW32 measures between 360.8ft to 820.2ft (110m to 250m) in diameter.
NASA asteroid warning: A space rock bigger than Egypt's pyramids is heading past Earth
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According to NASA, asteroids and comets measuring upwards of just 262.5ft (80m) could cause devastation on a “regional” scale.
Even small Near-Earth Objects can have significant destructive effects
NASA
A report on asteroid dangers penned by the US space agency reads: “Even small Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) can have significant destructive effects.
“For example, on February 15, 2013, an asteroid approximately 20 metres in size created an airburst near Chelyabinsk, Russia, with roughly 20-30-times more energy than that released by the first atomic bombs.
“It damaged thousands of buildings and injured over a thousand people, mostly due to glass broken by the shockwave.
“According to current estimates, there are almost 10 million NEOs larger than 20 metres, but they are extremely difficult to detect prior to entering Earth’s atmosphere."
The 2013 Chelyabinsk asteroid was an extreme example of how these space rocks can take the Earth by surprise.
The asteroid remained completely undetected until it erupted in the atmosphere because it approached the planet from the direction of the Sun.
Thankfully Asteroid 2013 CW32 is not expected to hit the planet today but rather make a close brush.
Until the Eiffel Tower was constructed in 1887, the Great Pyramid was the tallest structure in the world. More than two million stones were used in its construction with no stone weighing less than a ton, making it 20 times the weight of the Empire State building. Inside the pyramid, passageways connect the chambers and shafts run to the exterior. Today the pyramid is rough stone, but it once had a mirror-like masonry. It is believed the Great Pyramid was adorned with a top of solid gold and for centuries, experts have speculated on the purpose of the pyramids.
Conventional theory claims the pyramids were symbolic doorways to the afterlife. Others believe the pyramid was an astronomical observatory, and some say it was a geographical survey instrument.
One outlandish theory states the Great Pyramid was a grain elevator. But experts do agree that they were more than just gigantic tombs.
In Amazon Prime’s ‘The Secret KGB Files’, the 2001 documentary reveals former Soviet spies and conspiracy theorists’ investigations into the possibility that extraterrestrial life built the pyramids using astronomical technology.
One scientist asks why nobody has ever found evidence of a burial in a pyramid.
Conspiracy theorists believe they have found "proof" that "aliens built the pyramids" in Egypt
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The documentary’s host, the late Roger Moore said: “Scholars had argued that the technology to contract massive pyramids might not have been available to people at the point in human history when these structures were built.”
The narrator said: “The pyramid builders knew information that would not be rediscovered for centuries. For example, the pyramid’s height corresponds to the distance from the earth to the sun.
“The pyramid was set within four degrees of the corners of a compass, a precision that has never been equaled. The Great Pyramid lies in the exact centre of the earth’s land mass.
One scientist said: “When I began my field research at Giza, I was immediately struck by the fact that whoever built the pyramids could determine longitude and latitude.
“This is amazing, since the technology to fix longitude was not invented until the 1600s.
One former Soviet scientist advised the KGB that the pyramids were built for by alien explorers
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“But more to the point, the pyramids were constructed at the exact centre of the earth. Also the size of the pyramids can be seen from the moon.
“For these reasons, I advised the KGB that the pyramids of Egypt were built for navigation by alien explorers.”
Doctor Viktor Ivanovich, former science advisor to the Kremlin said: “It makes perfect sense, Egypt would be an obvious choice for the aliens who had to establish an outpost for planetary expeditions.
“The initial landing by an alien expedition team would pick a flat area with a few obstacles. Egypt would be an obvious choice, since it’s also in the centre of their land of habitable mass of the earth.”
Great Pyramids of Egypt: Evidence That the Stone Blocks Might Have Been Cast, Not Quarried
Great Pyramids of Egypt: Evidence That the Stone Blocks Might Have Been Cast, Not Quarried
"This is not my day job," begins Michel Barsoum as he recounts his foray into the mysteries of the Great Pyramids of Egypt. As a well respected researcher in the field of ceramics, Barsoum never expected his career to take him down a path of history, archaeology, and "political" science, with materials research mixed in.
As a distinguished professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University, his daily routine consists mainly of teaching students about ceramics, or performing research on a new class of materials, the so-called MAX Phases, that he and his colleagues discovered in the 1990s.
These modern ceramics are machinable, thermal-shock resistant, and are better conductors of heat and electricity than many metals — making them potential candidates for use in nuclear power plants, the automotive industry, jet engines, and a range of other high-demand systems.
A ground level block in front of the Great Pyramid of Khufu includes a irregular lip at the bottom that would have been very hard, and somewhat pointless, to carve. This lip indicates that the block was cast in place — the material in the lip having slid out under the temporary wooden mold before hardening. Barsoum analyzed a piece of material from the bottom lip and says he did not find smoking gun evidence. “The only logical conclusion is that after 5000 years, the binding phase has basically been washed away. Solution? Get samples from the core of that block. Easier said than done.”
Then Barsoum received an unexpected phone call from Michael Carrell, a friend of a retired colleague of Barsoum, who called to chat with the Egyptian-born Barsoum about how much he knew of the mysteries surrounding the building of the Great Pyramids of Giza, the only remaining of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
The widely accepted theory — that the pyramids were crafted of carved-out giant limestone blocks that workers carried up ramps — had not only not been embraced by everyone, but as important had quite a number of holes.
Burst out laughing
According to the caller, the mysteries had actually been solved by Joseph Davidovits, Director of the Geopolymer Institute in St. Quentin, France, more than two decades ago. Davidovits claimed that the stones of the pyramids were actually made of a very early form of concrete created using a mixture of limestone, clay, lime, and water.
"It was at this point in the conversation that I burst out laughing," Barsoum said. If the pyramids were indeed cast, he said, someone should have proven it beyond a doubt by now, in this day and age, with just a few hours of electron microscopy.
It turned out that nobody had completely proven the theory … yet.
"What started as a two-hour project turned into a five-year odyssey that I undertook with one of my graduate students, Adrish Ganguly, and a colleague in France, Gilles Hug," Barsoum said.
A year and a half later, after extensive scanning electron microscope observations and other testing, Barsoum and his research group finally began to draw some conclusions about the pyramids.
They found that the tiniest structures within the inner and outer casing stones were indeed consistent with a reconstituted limestone. The cement binding the limestone aggregate was either silicon dioxide (the building block of quartz) or a calcium and magnesium-rich silicate mineral.
The stones also had a high water content — unusual for the normally dry, natural limestone found on the Giza plateau — and the cementing phases, in both the inner and outer casing stones, were amorphous, in other words, their atoms were not arranged in a regular and periodic array. Sedimentary rocks such as limestone are seldom, if ever, amorphous.
The sample chemistries the researchers found do not exist anywhere in nature. "Therefore," Barsoum said, "it's very improbable that the outer and inner casing stones that we examined were chiseled from a natural limestone block."
More startlingly, Barsoum and another of his graduate students, Aaron Sakulich, recently discovered the presence of silicon dioxide nanoscale spheres (with diameters only billionths of a meter across) in one of the samples. This discovery further confirms that these blocks are not natural limestone.
Generations misled
At the end of their most recent paper reporting these findings, the researchers reflect that it is "ironic, sublime and truly humbling" that this 4,500-year-old limestone is so true to the original that it has misled generations of Egyptologists and geologists and, "because the ancient Egyptians were the original — albeit unknowing — nanotechnologists."
As if the scientific evidence isn't enough, Barsoum has pointed out a number of common sense reasons why the pyramids were not likely constructed entirely of chiseled limestone blocks.
Egyptologists are consistently confronted by unanswered questions: How is it possible that some of the blocks are so perfectly matched that not even a human hair can be inserted between them? Why, despite the existence of millions of tons of stone, carved presumably with copper chisels, has not one copper chisel ever been found on the Giza Plateau?
Although Barsoum's research has not answered all of these questions, his work provides insight into some of the key questions. For example, it is now more likely than not that the tops of the pyramids are cast, as it would have been increasingly difficult to drag the stones to the summit.
Also, casting would explain why some of the stones fit so closely together. Still, as with all great mysteries, not every aspect of the pyramids can be explained. How the Egyptians hoisted 70-ton granite slabs halfway up the great pyramid remains as mysterious as ever.
Why do the results of Barsoum's research matter most today? Two words: earth cements.
"How energy intensive and/or complicated can a 4,500 year old technology really be? The answer to both questions is not very," Barsoum explains. "The basic raw materials used for this early form of concrete — limestone, lime, and diatomaceous earth — can be found virtually anywhere in the world," he adds.
"Replicating this method of construction would be cost effective, long lasting, and much more environmentally friendly than the current building material of choice: Portland cement that alone pumps roughly 6 billion tons of CO2 annually into the atmosphere when it's manufactured."
"Ironically," Barsoum said, "this study of 4,500 year old rocks is not about the past, but about the future."
Editor's Note: This research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the federal agency charged with funding basic research and education across all fields of science and engineering.
The CIA Confirms There’s Extraterrestrial Activity on Our Planet
The CIA Confirms There’s Extraterrestrial Activity on Our Planet
A wave of recently declassified UFO files and statements of high rank officials are slowly turning the UFO phenomenon into reality.
by EWAO
Believing that we are the only civilization in the physical Universe – which scientifically speaking is infinite – shows not only an immense ego, but also an unfathomable ignorance. But what happens when high rank officials
On December 2012, the Russian prime-minister Dmitri Medvedev gave a live interview aired simultaneously on five television channels.
After that, the Russian ex-president revealed to a journalist that every leader of the Kremlin is handed two folders with classified information regarding the visit of extraterrestrial beings.
At that time, Medvedev’s statement was a worldwide premiere, since it was the first time when a high level official publicly acknowledged the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations during the presidential mandate.
A riveting news article was published in 1980 in the “Sputnik” magazine about the perceptions and experiences of UFOs. This article contains reports from ten Soviet and American astronauts. Only one of these astronauts refused the possibility of UFOs getting in and out of our galaxy.
Ievgheni Krunov declared that it’s actually impossible to deny the presence of UFOs, and we should admit that these are more than simple optical illusions, even some of their characteristics like the rapid change of flight course at a 90 degrees angle offers us a lot of food for thought.
Astronaut Ghenadi Strekalov mentioned that he witnessed numerous strange and inexplicable phenomena, but hesitates to classify these events in any way.
Still, he described a phenomenon observed on September 28 1980, during his day shift on the Mir space station: a flying sphere above the Earth, at an altitude of 20-30 km, around Newfoundland.
The atmosphere was clear and the visibility was perfect, so he could watch for about 10 seconds how the sphere was shifting beautiful vivid colors, and afterwards disappearing almost instantly.
Strekalov remembered that the UFO had a perfect oval shape. He claimed that he reported the event to the Mission Control Center, but it did not classify as a UFO, concluding that he must be more precautious in the relation with his superiors.
According to publicly released documents, in the year of 1952 alone have been checked and confirmed over 100 UFO phenomena with no logical explanation, that were registered and labeled in the CIA archives as “inexplicable”.
“Almost 100 believable confessions remain inexplicable at the moment. However, the CIA monitoring will continue and no reports will be made public,” the report notes.
To the disappointment of ufologists around the world, the declassification of those 10 documents coincides with the relaunch of the “X Files” series and apparently those documents do not contain any information regarding crashed UFOs, encounters or kidnappings.
According to the CIA spokesman, the organization believes that the public will find the information extremely fascinating:
"We have decided to release to publicity a few files that even the most skeptical individuals will find appealing. Five of these files are fit for 'X Files' agent Fox Mulder, but the other 5 files are perfect for his skeptical partner, agent Dana Scully.”
Conspiracy theorists believe that CIA’s decision to make these documents public does not coincide with the relaunch of the new X Files series, but rather are an attempt to warm-up the audience for later disclosures.
“Apparently, the CIA used the rebirth of the X Files franchise to remind the people that the agency has agents investigating these cases,” declares Stephen Basset, executive director of Paradigm Research Group, an organization that militates at the White House in order for the government of the United States to admit that aliens are real.
If the world will eventually accept the UFO reality we are yet to find out, but hopefully it won’t take long until our governments will spill the beans about the existence of extraterrestrials.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev talks about aliens on Earth with curious reporter:
Reporter: You know absolutely everything. For example, have aliens visited Earth, you know, those same green men?
Medvedev: Malyana (name of reporter?), so, I'm telling you for the first and the last time. Together with a briefcase containing nuclear codes, a special folder is delivered to the president of the country. On it is written "Completely Secret" (Top Secret). And it is entirely and wholly devoted to the visitors who came to our planet.
Simultaneously, a report is given by an absolutely closed (secret) special service, which deals with the control (regulation?) of aliens on the territory of our country. So, these two folders are given, along with the nuclear briefcase. After the conclusion of the term, of course, these folders are given to the new president.
More detailed information on this topic, you can obtain by watching a famous, chronically-documented film People in Black (the documentary is included below). Several versions have come out.
Reporter: How many of them among us?
Medvedev: How many of them among us I will not say, because it may cause panic.
This is the documentary that Medvedev mentioned: Men In Black (Russian Documentary With English Subtitles)
The new version of Hubble's deep image. In dark grey is the new light that has been found around the galaxies in this field. That light corresponds to the brightness of more than 100 billion suns.
Credit: A. S. Borlaff et al.
One of the Hubble Space Telescope's most famous images peered even deeper into the cosmos than scientists had thought.
That photo is theHubble Ultra-Deep Field(HUDF), which combines hundreds of images taken by the space telescope over multiple years into the deepest view of the universe ever created. The composite pic of a small patch of sky contains a whopping 10,000 galaxies, astronomers have estimated. (The HUDF also refers to that patch of sky, not just imagery of it.)
"What we have done is to go back to the archive of the original images, directly as observed by the HST, and improve the process of combination, aiming at the best image quality not only for the more distant smaller galaxies but also for the extended regions of the largest galaxies," study leader Alejandro Borlaff, from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in the Canary Islands, said in a statement.
The new work revealed that some of the galaxies in the HUDF view are nearly twice as big as previously thought, study team members said.
The Hubble Space Telescope launched to Earth orbit in April 1990 aboard NASA's space shuttle Discovery. The scope got off to an inauspicious start; its initial images were blurry, a problem that mission team members traced to a slight flaw in Hubble's primary mirror.
Spacewalking astronauts fixed that problem in December 1993, giving Hubble the sharp focus it's known for today.
The 2012 version of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image.
Credit: R. Ellis (Caltech), and the HUDF 2012 Team/NASA/ESA
That was the first of five servicing missions that repaired, maintained and upgraded the telescope over the years. The most recent of these, which occurred in May 2009, installed what is today Hubble's main eye on the universe, an instrument called the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).
The HUDF image has long been a work in progress. The first version combined data gathered by Hubble from late 2003 to early 2004; later updates have incorporated additional imagery in various wavelengths of light.
The new study, which was published this month in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, looked at the 2012 incarnation of the HUDF, which relied heavily on data gathered by the WFC3.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate) is out now.
Can moons have moons? Yes, and they're called 'moonmoons'! Earth, Saturn and Jupiter's natural satellites may have objects the size of SKYSCRAPERS in orbit around them
Can moons have moons? Yes, and they're called 'moonmoons'! Earth, Saturn and Jupiter's natural satellites may have objects the size of SKYSCRAPERS in orbit around them
Astronomers have yet to confirm the existence of so-called moonmoons
They could exist around at least four larger moons in the solar system
These include Earth's moon, Jupiter's moon Callisto, and Saturn's moons Titan and Iapetus
Earth's moon may be orbited by a mysterious smaller moon that has alluded scientists for decades, according to a new study.
This submoon, also known as a moonmoon, could be as large as a skyscraper but has yet to be spotted by astronomers.
It is one of at least four moonmoons that may exist in our solar system, according to new calculations.
Earth's moon, Jupiter's moon Callisto, and Saturn's moons Titan and Iapetus all have the perfect conditions to host one - if they exist in our star system at all.
Earth's moon (file photo) may be orbited by a mysterious smaller moon that has alluded scientists for decades, according to a new study. This submoon, also known as a moonmoon, could be as large as a skyscraper but has yet to be spotted by astronomers
Scientists at Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Bordeaux team up for the new study.
Following decades of speculation, the team's calculations revealed for the first time the conditions required for a moonmoon to form.
Computer models showed such an object could only exist around large moons that are relatively distant from their parent planets.
A moonmoon would have to orbit within a very fine distance margin, researchers found.
It would need to orbit close enough to remain within the gravitational pull of its moon rather than the larger planet - but far away enough to avoid being torn apart or pulled out of orbit by its moon.
Meeting these stringent requirements would be difficult, but not impossible, according to the calculations.
A moonmoon would have to orbit within a very fine distance margin to avoid being pulled away by the larger planet. Jupiter's moon Callisto (top left), and Saturn's moons (top right) Titan and Iapetus all have the perfect conditions to host one. Uranus and Neptune do not
Four moons in the solar system could host a mini-satellite, including Earth's moon, Jupiter's moon Callisto, and Saturn's moons Titan and Iapetus.
Even if these moons have the right conditions to host a moonmoon, it remains extremely unlikely that one has landed in the right spot.
'Something has to kick a rock into orbit at the right speed that it would go into orbit around a moon, and not the planet or the star,' study coauthor Dr Sean Raymond, of the University of Bordeaux, told New Scientist.
If that moon shifted its position during the course of its evolution, as Earth's moon has, its unlikely that the moonmoon would have remained in its orbit, he said.
This may explain why a moonmoon has yet to be spotted in our solar system, experts said.
'I think we can say for sure that there's not a moonmoon that's kilometres across around Jupiter or Saturn,' Queen's University Belfast astronomer Michele Bannister, who was not involved in the study, told New Scientist.
'A moonmoon down to the size of a skyscraper could exist out there, but I'd call it moonmoonlet.'
A new study shows that Earth’s moon should, theoretically, be able to have its own moon. Why doesn’t it?
Size comparison of the major moons in our solar system via Emily Lakdawalla.
Most of the planets in our solar system have orbitingmoons, and even someasteroids have their own moons. But do any moons have moons? Is it possible? Could there be so-called submoons? Carnegie Science’sJuna Kollmeiersaid her 4-year-old son sparked her interest in this subject by asking this seemingly logical question. It’s a simple enough question. If most other objects in the solar system can have moons, why not moons themselves?
Kollmeier decided to try to answer the question, along with her colleague Sean Raymond of Université de Bordeaux. Their results have now been published in a new peer-reviewed paper in the February 2019 issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
As explained by Raymond in a statement from Carnegie Science:
Planets orbit stars and moons orbit planets, so it was natural to ask if smaller moons could orbit larger ones.
So far at least, no submoons have been found orbiting any of the moons considered most likely to support them – Jupiter’s moon Callisto, Saturn’s moons Titan and Iapetus and Earth’s own moon. According to Kollmeier:
The lack of known submoons in our solar system, even orbiting around moons that could theoretically support such objects, can offer us clues about how our own and neighboring planets formed, about which there are still many outstanding questions.
Earth’s moon should theoretically be able to have its own moon. Why doesn’t it?
Image via NASA/Goddard.
The researchers found that only large moons on wide orbits from their host planets would be capable of hosting submoons. Usually, any submoons orbiting smaller moons closer to their planet would have their orbits destabilized by tidal forces. Jupiter’s large moon Callisto, Saturn’s large moon Titan, another Saturn moon called Iapetus and Earth’s moon could all theoretically have submoons, so why don’t they?
There may be other sources of submoon instability, such as the non-uniform concentration of mass in Earth’s moon’s crust, according to the researchers.
Even asteroids can have moons, such as 2004 BL86. It is about 1,100 feet (325 meters) in diameter, and its moon is tiny, only 230 feet (70 meters) wide.
Image via NASA.
Part of the answer might also have to do with how the primary moons formed in the first place. Earth’s moon is thought to have been born out of a collision between Earth and another body about the size of Mars – and that collision may have helped life on Earth to get started. But some other moons, like those orbiting Jupiter and Saturn, originated from the same cloud of gas and dust that the planets themselves formed from. Kollmeier added:
And, of course, this could inform ongoing efforts to understand how planetary systems evolve elsewhere and how our own solar system fits into the thousands of others discovered by planet-hunting missions.
It may be that in many or even most cases, there are multiple factors that make the orbits of submoons inherently unstable. Knowing whether that is true or not may have to wait for discoveries of moons orbiting distant exoplanets. Moons themselves are much harder to detect and only one promising candidate has been found so far – a possible exomoon orbiting the Jupiter-sized exoplanet Kepler-1625b. That possible moon – about the size of Neptune – is large enough and far enough from its planet that submoons should be possible as well. Astronomers will need to verify that primary moon first – if it does exist – before looking for any submoons.
Even little Pluto has five moons, including the largest one – Charon – shown here. So how many moons with their own moons could there be out there?
Image via NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI.
Even though Earth’s moon doesn’t have a submoon now, it may in the future, according to the researchers – an artificial one, perhaps NASA’s planned Lunar Gateway. The Lunar Gateway would help to establish humanity’s presence in deep space, as outlined by William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator of Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters:
The Gateway will give us a strategic presence in cislunar space. It will drive our activity with commercial and international partners and help us explore the Moon and its resources. We will ultimately translate that experience toward human missions to Mars.
Raymond has also written a cool poem about moons having moons, which you can enjoy on his blog here.
Bottom line: The possibility of moons having their own moons is a fascinating one, even though we haven’t found any examples yet. This new research from Carnegie Science shows that it is indeed possible, but only under the right circumstances.
The experts are telling us that the Midwest could experience the coldest weather that it has ever seen this week. Wind chill temperatures of -40 and -50 degrees will be common throughout the region, and it is being projected that some spots will actually get hit by wind chill temperatures of up to -60 degrees. A shift in the polar vortex is being blamed for this life-threatening weather, and we are being told to expect the coldest temperatures to arrive on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. But all-time records are already being set. For example, according to Accuweather the temperature in the city of International Falls, Minnesota hit 45 below zero on Monday morning…
The coldest weather in years will put millions of people and animals throughout the midwestern United States at risk for hypothermia and frostbite to occur in minutes during the final days of January.
The deep freeze continued across the Upper Midwest on Sunday with temperatures plummeting well below zero in the morning. The low of 45 below zero F in International Falls, Minnesota, shattered the day’s record of 36 below zero F from 1966.
Please keep in mind that was not a wind chill temperature.
That was the actual temperature outside.
As the week progresses, bitterly cold temperatures will be accompanied by heavy snow and strong winds across the Midwest. The polar jet stream has weakened, and as a result the polar vortex will “dip into parts of North America”…
The wintry onslaught will be driven by the Northern Hemisphere’s polar vortex, the pocket of cold air sitting atop the North Pole. When temperatures rise in the Arctic, the polar jet stream — the torrent of westerly winds that hold the polar vortex in place — can weaken and dip into parts of North America.
“Occasionally this ring of winds deforms or even splits, which allows the cold air to spill southward over mid latitudes — this is exactly what’s happening now,” said Jennifer Francis, a senior research scientist with Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, in an email. “It just so happens that the lobe of cold air is located over central North America, with Chicago in the crosshairs.”
This is an extremely dangerous situation, and we will probably read about some people that underestimate the danger and end up dead.
According to weather.com, the air will be so cold that it “could lead to frostbite on exposed skin in a matter of minutes”…
This bitter cold will be accompanied by strong winds at times Tuesday through Thursday, leading to life-threatening wind chills in the Midwest that could lead to frostbite on exposed skin in a matter of minutes. A large swath of the Midwest will have wind chills in the 30s, 40s and 50s below zero by Wednesday. A few spots in Minnesota and eastern North Dakota may see wind chills in the 60s below zero.
Unless you absolutely must go out for some reason, if you live in the Midwest you should stay inside until temperatures begin to warm up again.
In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!
Now that even the president of the United States is acknowledging that this winter could be “the coldest ever recorded”, I want to remind everyone that we were warned about this months in advance…
I wrote article after article warning that this would happen, and now it is happening.
At this hour, schools and businesses are closed throughout North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin as blizzard-like conditions sweep through both states. And Chicago is bracing for what will likely be the coldest day ever in the history of the city…
After seeing a high around 34 on Monday at O’Hare International Airport, temperatures will drop to near zero before the end of the day, according to the National Weather Service. By Tuesday night, temperatures are expected to take another plunge, to 23 below zero, flirting with Chicago’s coldest temperature ever: minus 27 on Jan. 20, 1985.
Temperatures are forecast to inch up to a daytime high of about minus 14 on Wednesday — the first subzero high temperature in five years and the coldest winter high ever recorded in Chicago — before dipping, again, to about minus 21 overnight. The coldest daytime high in Chicago was minus 11 on Christmas Eve 1983.
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In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!-
And we are already starting to see evidence of this. In fact, Chicago police are telling us that in recent days people have been getting robbed of their expensive winter coats at gunpoint…
Chicago police are reporting gunpoint robberies targeting people wearing pricey Canada Goose jackets as temperatures plunge in the city.
Over the past two weeks, police say there’s been a spate of the thefts in which people wearing the luxury coats have been targeted and forced to give up the jackets. The coats can cost upward of $1,000 and are often seen on celebrities.
Six people had their Canada Goose coats stolen last week and two more were targeted Wednesday.
Unfortunately, this is only just the beginning.
Global seismic activity is rising, weather patterns are becoming more extreme, and a worldwide environmental collapse is already well underway. If you have any doubts that this worldwide environmental collapse is happening, just read this excellent article by Chris Martenson.
We have been making the wrong decisions for decades, and now the consequences of those decisions are starting to catch up with us. The clock is ticking, but most Americans are still completely and utterly clueless about what is coming.
Recordkou in Amerika: Chicago kouder dan Antarctica en Siberië. Wat is er in vredesnaam aan de hand met global warming?
Recordkou in Amerika: Chicago kouder dan Antarctica en Siberië. Wat is er in vredesnaam aan de hand met global warming?
Vrijwel de hele Verenigde Staten gaan momenteel gebukt onder extreme kou. In Chicago is het deze week kouder dan op Antarctica en in Siberië.
In Chicago daalt het kwik voor het eerst sinds begin jaren tachtig tot -33 graden Celsius. De gevoelstemperatuur bedraagt -45 graden.
De Chicago River is bijna geheel dichtgevroren en zelfs Lake Michigan, waar de rivier in uitmondt, begint geleidelijk aan te bevriezen.
Noodtoestand
In de stad is een weerswaarschuwing afgegeven.
De gouverneur van de staat Illinois, Jay Robert Pritzker, heeft de noodtoestand afgekondigd.
Scholen, universiteiten, musea en restaurants zijn dicht vanwege de extreme kou en slechts een enkeling gaat de weg op.
Ook elders in het Amerikaanse Middenwesten, waaronder Minnesota en Wisconsin, worden temperaturen gemeten die men er al tientallen jaren niet meer gezien heeft.
Records
Overal gaan records aan diggelen. Het record van zondag van -43 graden Celsius in International Falls in Minnesota heeft het dagrecord van -38 graden uit 1966 verbroken.
De ergste omstandigheden worden verwacht van North Dakota tot het noorden van de staat Illinois. Vannacht kunnen de temperaturen daar dalen tot wel -40 graden.
“In het mooie Middenwesten daalt de gevoelstemperatuur tot -60 graden (Fahrenheit), het koudste ooit gemeten,” tweette president Trump.
Global warming
“En de komende dagen wordt het nog kouder. Mensen kunnen niet eens een paar minuten buiten blijven. Wat is er in vredesnaam aan de hand met global warming? Kom snel terug, we hebben je nodig!” zei hij cynisch.
Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump
In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!
Not only is it clear that the next war will be fought in space, but it looks like we’reinching ever closer to it breaking outany day now. Many of my favorite topics to cover here at MU (space weaponry, mystery booms, unidentified aircraft) all seem to be making the headlines with increasing frequency, suggesting a new space race is underway – one that will end with the fiery wrecks of satellites and space stations crashing to the ground and one of the world’s superpowers becoming the new undisputed king of space. Who will come out on top?
“GET SOME, SPACE COMMIES!”
Certainly not the average schmoes like you and me. Whether or not we’re actually standing on the precipice of a shooting war in space is still up in the air, but one thing is certain: the U.S. Air Force is hard at work preparing for it. Since 2010, the Air Force has been testing its secretive X-37B space plane in orbit above the Earth, and nobody really knows what it’s been doing up there. Well, someone knows, but not us average schmoes. Schmoes never know the good stuff.
The X-37B has once again reached another milestone this week, surpassing 500 days in continuous flight above the Earth. The X-37B is operated by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office and controlled by the 3rd Space Experimentation Squadron at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado. Despite the numerous milestones and records the super-secret spacecraft has chalked up, Air Force officials are still tight-lipped about its true purpose. Interestingly enough, the craft was also caught on camera yesterday; it’s quite a spooky sight as it zooms quickly by stars in the background. What’s the X-37B doing up there?
The X-37B is essentially hiding in plain sight.
When the craft was first put into orbit in 2010, officials with the USAF assured everyone the X-37B has no offensive capabilities and was there to support “technology risk reduction, experimentation and operational concept development.” It’s long been suspected that the craft has something to do with surveillance, tracking spy satellites, or is even a type of reusable spy “satellite” itself, one which can land and be serviced when needed. Could it be that whatever the craft is spying on or doing up there is so sensitive that the Air Force can’t risk transmitting data back to Earth at all, hence why it must land every once in a while?
Who knows. Everything is pure speculation at this point. It’s also unknown when the X-37B might come back down to Earth. Will we ever know what this secretive craft is up to?
Anyway, happy 500th day, supersecret scary spaceplane. Please don’t blow us all up.
Airplane passenger captures an alien craft "Fast Mover" under the water
Airplane passenger captures an alien craft "Fast Mover" under the water
Interesting footage of a USO also called a “Fast Mover” at high velocity under the water filmed from an airliner en route to LAX.
A plane passenger has filmed a USO (Unidentified Submerged Object) at the moment the commercial plane flew above the Sea of Japan and even the plane is flying at a cruising speed of almost 1,000 km per hour the USO goes even faster.
Some people will say that the long dark trail/object underwater is just a shadow of the plane but if we compare the shadow of a plane on water with the USO then we see that is completely different.
What we are seeing is the USO with a long trail of water displacement behind it, indicating that the USO is moving through the water at high speed.
The plane passenger is not the only person who has witnessed such an underwater alien craft also Marc D’Antonio, an astronomer and chief video analyst for UFO organisation MUFON witnessed what he believes must have been an alien craft travelling at impossible speeds under the water while he was on board a US Navy submarine in the North Atlantic ocean.
According to Marc D’Antonio the US Navy is running a top secret programme to detect unidentified submerged objects “fast movers” beneath the sea.
This UFO was recorded by a drone in Spain last week. The UFO was sitting on the mountain side and noticed the flying drone...so it immediately did a flyby to investigate it. The object moved incredibly fast, so fast it appears to be a tube, when actually its an oval disk. In the close up you can see that its actually caught four times in the photo...thats how fast this is moving. Those four time are stretched out touching each other so that it appears to be long, when its not. UFOs are often atrracted to aircraft and this one was no exception. Yes UFOs can be small like this one. Aliens have drones, because not all species of aliens can walk among us without being noticed, and many breath different gases. Scott C. Waring News states (translated from Spanish:
According to his conclusions, the object captured by the camera of the drone is "cylindrical shape, with a length of about 2 meters". "It comes out of a brush and travels about 600 meters in a time of about two seconds, which would be about 1,080 kilometers per hour," something that "completely discards the explanation of an insect or any animal." "We may talk about a vehicle about two meters long that I doubt very much that it is human technology and that it goes out to see what is approaching," he concludes. Do you believe it? Do not? The truth is out there.
Giant Glowing UFO Over Homes In Colombia Frighten Residents, Jan 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Giant Glowing UFO Over Homes In Colombia Frighten Residents, Jan 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 2019
Location of sighting: Velez Santander, Colombia, South America
Check out this video of a huge glowing white ball behind a cloud. The object is big and right above a neighborhood thats staring in awe at the UFO above them. The craft his hiding 75% inside of a cloud that it made, but part of it is exposed, probably so that the aliens on board can see out their windows first hand. Staring at a computer screen would seem less personal and so really, who could blame them? I placed the screenshot in negative format below and the UFO turns dark black...and really stands out.
An aurora australis, the southern version of the phenomenon, as seen from the International Space Station in 2010.
Credit: NASA
Auroraspaint the sky around the poles when the sun is particularly active, flinging highly charged particles at Earth's atmosphere. Scientists once thought that the gorgeous events were mirror images, but to their surprise, displays at the north (theaurora borealis) and south (the aurora australis) don't precisely match.
Ever since scientists realized these two celestial displays don't line up, they've been trying to sort out why. Now, a team of researchers thinks it has found the reason — asymmetry in Earth's magnetic tail. But what's stranger is that the asymmetry is caused by the precise inverse of what scientists expected.
"The reason this is exciting is that earlier we have thought that the asymmetry in the system enters the magnetosphere by a mechanism called tail reconnection," Anders Ohma, a doctoral candidate at the University of Bergen in Norway and lead author on the new study, said in a statement released by the journal. "What this paper shows is that it's possible that it is actually the opposite." [Northern Lights Photos: The Amazing Auroras on Earth]
It all comes down to Earth's magnetic tail, which is created by interactions between our planet and the sun. Those interactions begin with Earth's magnetic field, which scientists believe springs from the innards swirlingthrough Earth's core and creating an electrical charge. Magnetic fields — from refrigerators to planets — create invisible magnetic field lines arcing between the North and South Poles that can govern the behavior of material around them.
But Earth's magnetic field isn't the only one out there — the sun also has one, which affects the constant flow of highly charged plasma particles that streams out in every direction. The magnetic field embedded in that stream, called the solar wind, interferes with the one Earth produces, squishing it on the daylit side of Earth facing the sun and stretching it on the nightside facing away from the sun into a tail-like shape.
Magnetic field lines carry through the contorted field, and they aren't fixed in place — they break and reform in dramatic events called reconnections. This phenomenon in the tail is what scientists had thought caused nonmatching northern and southern auroras. (It's the tail that matters for the aurora because that's the side of the magnetic field that's in darkness, and auroras are only visible at night.)
Instead, the team behind the current research realized that the solar wind's magnetic field doesn't always line up precisely with Earth's. When it's skewed, it introduces asymmetry between the North and South Poles into Earth's magnetic field — and that, in turn, causes the mismatch between northern and southern auroras.
Aurora Dazzles Above Iceland
Credit: Copyright Elizabeth M. Ryan
The northern lights can be an awesome sight for casual stargazers and professional photographers alike. See some amazing aurora photos by Space.com readers in 2016. HERE: This dramatic panorama by photographer Elizabeth M. Ryan hosts a collision of legends: Icelandic villages, beaches and basaltic rocks, and Greek gods, as well as the beauty of the aurora borealis.
Auroras from Space Station
Credit: Tim Kopra/NASA via Twitter (@astro_tim)
NASA astronaut Tim Kopra captured this stunning view of auroras over Earth as seen from his window on the International Space Station on May 4, 2016.
Aurora and the Pacific Northwest
Credit: ESA/NASA
Colorful aural lights dance exquisitely across the Pacific Northwest in this amazing photo from the International Space Station captured in early 2016.
Unusual Aurora Over Canada
Credit: Jeff Williams (via Twitter as @AstroJeff)
NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, aboard the International Space Station, tweeted a photo of an aurora over Canada on April 5, 2016.
Aurora Corona and the Moon Over Sweden
Credit: Mia Stålnacke
Astrophotographer Mia Stålnacke sent in a photo of an auroral display alongside the moon on Jan. 23, 2016, taken in Sweden
Tim Peake Tweets Aurora Australis
Credit: ESA/NASA
Tim Peake tweeted an image of the Aurora Australis taken from his vantage point on the International Space Station, April 17, 2016.
So, the researchers gathered simultaneous far-infrared observations of northern and southern lights and tracked how closely the two auroras matched. Then, they added in data about reconnections in Earth's magnetic tail. But when they compared the two sets of measurements, they saw exactly the opposite of what they had expected to see — instead of these dramatic reconnections increasing the asymmetry of auroras, they nudged the auroras back into matching.
Understanding the auroras themselves isn't vital, as auroras are just symptoms of how the sun affects the Earth through a set of phenomena called space weather. But space weather can interfere with navigation and communication satellites and even put power grids out of commission. And scientists are still trying to figure out precisely how space weather works and how they can better predict it. Auroras are just the prettiest phenomenon to start cracking.
The research is described in a paper published last month in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured these images of Bennu's south pole on Jan. 17.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin
NASA's OSIRIS-REx missionis orbiting an asteroid closer than any spacecraft has ever orbited a body — and it shows in an incredible pair of photographs that the team released yesterday (Jan. 24).
The spacecraft slipped into orbit around the asteroid, called Bennu, on Dec. 31, after the team carefully mapped the object to design a safe path for the probe. That was a challenge, since Bennu is the smallest space rock that's ever been orbited.
But the dangerous maneuver has paid off. OSIRIS-REx is orbiting just about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) above Bennu's surface, giving its cameras an incredible view of the asteroid's rocky surface. Scientists believe that rugged shape is the result of Bennu having formed from a bunch of rubble loosely clumped together. [The Greatest Asteroid Encounters of All Time!]
The two images shown here were taken by an instrument called NavCam, which is the main camera the team uses to steer the spacecraft. The images, snapped on Jan. 17, show Bennu's south pole.
Another recently released image of the south pole of Bennu, taken while the spacecraft was preparing for orbit, was captured at a distance of about 8 miles (12 km) but still gives scientists a detailed view of the surface topography.
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of Bennu's south pole on Dec. 17, before it slipped into orbit around the asteroid.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
This photo was captured by a different camera on the spacecraft, called MapCam, which is one of the probe's science instruments rather than a dedicated navigation camera. Its main purpose is to photograph the asteroid in color and help the team select where it will collect a sample to bring home to Earth for analysis.
The sampling process won't begin until mid-2020, after the team has had plenty of time to study Bennu from all angles and make an informed decision about where to collect the sample — informed in part by detailed observations of the surface boulders that could interfere with sampling equipment.
WE’RE LISTENING A radio telescope in Green Bank, W.Va., was the first to listen for signals from intelligent aliens in 1960. Now scientists are using another instrument, the Green Bank Telescope (shown), to search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Long an underfunded, fringe field of science, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence may be ready to go mainstream.
Astronomer Jason Wright is determined to see that happen. At a meeting in Seattle of theAmerican Astronomical Societyin January, Wright convened “a little ragtag group in a tiny room” to plot a course for putting the scientific field, known as SETI, on NASA’s agenda.
The group is writing a series of papers arguing that scientists should be searching the universe for “technosignatures” — any sign of alien technology, from radio signals to waste heat. The hope is that those papers will go into a report to Congress at the end of 2020 detailing the astronomical community’s priorities. That report, Astro 2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, will determine which telescopes fly and which studies receive federal funding through the next decade.
“The stakes are high,” says Wright, of Penn State University. “If the decadal survey says, ‘SETI is a national science priority, and NSF and NASA need to fund it,’ they will do it.”
SETI searches date back to 1960, when astronomer Frank Drake used a radio telescope in Green Bank, W.Va., to listen for signals from an intelligent civilization (SN Online: 11/1/09). But NASA didn’t start a formal SETI program until 1992, only to see it canceled within a year by a skeptical Congress.
Private organizations picked up the baton, including the SETI Institute, founded in Mountain View, Calif., in 1985 by astronomer Jill Tarter — the inspiration for Jodie Foster’s character in the movie Contact (SN Online: 5/29/12). Then in 2015, Russian billionaires Yuri and Julia Milner launched the Breakthrough Initiatives to join the hunt for E.T. But the search for technosignatures still hasn’t become a more serious, self-sustaining scientific discipline, Wright says.
“If NASA were to declare technosignatures a scientific priority, then we would be able to apply for money to work on it. We would be able to train students to do it,” Wright says. “Then we could catch up” to more mature fields of astronomy, he says.
THE SETI VANGUARD Astronomer Jason Wright (third from the left, wearing sunglasses) and his students visited the Green Bank Telescope as part of the first-ever SETI graduate course at Penn State University.
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In the last five years, scientists’ attitudes toward the search for intelligent alien life have been changing, Wright says. SETI used to have a “giggle factor,” raising images of little green men, he says. And talking about SETI work as an astronomer was considered taboo, if not academic suicide. Now, not so much. “I have the pop sociology theory that the ascension of geek culture has something to do with it,” Wright says. “Now it’s like all the top movies are comic books and science fiction.”
When NASA requested a report in 2018 on what technosignatures are and how to look for them, SETI researchers thought hopefully that the space agency might be ready to get back into the SETI game. Colleagues tapped Wright to organize a meeting to prepare the technosignatures report, posted online December 20 at arXiv.org.
But Wright didn’t stop there. He convened the new workshop group with the goal of dividing up the work of writing at least nine papers on specific SETI opportunities for the decadal survey. By contrast, there was only one submission on SETI research, written by Tarter, in the 2010 decadal survey.
The SETI situation has also evolved since the 2009 launch of the Kepler space telescope, which discovered thousands of exoplanets before its mission ended in 2018 (SN Online: 10/30/18). Some of those planets outside our solar system are similar in size and temperature to Earth, raising hopes that they may also host life. Old arguments that planets like Earth are rare “don’t hold much water any longer,” Wright says.
The exoplanet rush has sparked a surge in research about biosignatures, signs of microbial life on other planets. NASA’s next big space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, is planning to search directly for signs of alien life in exoplanet atmospheres (SN: 4/30/16, p. 32). So far, though, no one has found any biosignatures, let alone technosignatures. But the focus on searching for the one makes the case for ignoring the other seem all the weaker, Wright says.
“Astrobiology and the search for life has become such a big part of what NASA does,” he says. “The fact that it won’t look for intelligent life has become ever more incongruous with its other activities.”
Editor's note: This story was updated on January 28, 2019, to correct the instrument that Frank Drake used to look for alien intelligence. It was a previous radio telescope in Green Bank, W.Va., not the current Green Bank Telescope.
SOLAR SHIELD Earth’s magnetic field (illustrated) is powered by circulation of iron-rich fluid in the core. New research suggests Earth’s solid inner core formed about 565 million years ago, saving a weakening magnetic field from collapse.
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Earth’s inner core solidified around 565 million years ago — just in time to not only save the planet’s protective magnetic field from imminent collapse, but also to kick-start it into its current, powerful phase, a new study suggests.
The finding, reported online January 28 in Nature Geoscience, supports an idea previously proposed by simulations that Earth’s inner core is relatively young. It also provides insight into how, and how quickly, Earth has been losing heat since its formation 4.54 billion years ago —key to understanding not only the generation of the planet’s magnetic shield but also convection within the mantle and plate tectonics.
“We don’t have many real benchmarks for the thermal history of our planet,” says Peter Olson, a geophysicist at Johns Hopkins University who was not involved in the new study. “We know the interior was hotter than today, because all planets lose heat. But we don’t know what the average temperature was a billion years ago, compared with today.” Pinning down when iron in the inner core began to crystallize could offer a window into how hot the interior of the planet was at the time, Olson says.
The planet’s iron-nickel core is made up of two layers: a solid inner core and a molten outer core. When that solid inner core formed is a long-standing mystery (SN: 9/19/15, p. 18). “Proposed ages have been anywhere from 500 million years ago to older than 2.5 billion years,” says coauthor John Tarduno, a geophysicist at the University of Rochester in New York.
The interplay of the two layers drives the geodynamo, the circulation of iron-rich fluid that powers the magnetic field. That field, surrounding the planet, protects Earth from being battered by the solar wind, a constant flow of charged particles ejected by the sun. As the inner core cools and crystallizes, the composition of the remaining fluid changes; more buoyant liquid rises like a plume while the cooling crystals sink. That self-sustaining, density-driven circulation generates a strong magnetic field with two opposing poles, north and south, or polarity.
Traces of magnetism in ancient rocks suggest that Earth had a magnetic field as far back as 4.2 billion years ago. That earlier field was likely generated by heat within the planet driving circulation within the molten core. But over time, computer simulations suggest, the heat-driven circulation wouldn’t have been strong enough alone to continue to power a strong magnetic field. Instead, the field began to shut down, signaled in the rock record by weakening intensities and rapid polarity reversals over millions of years. And then, at some point, Earth’s inner core began to crystallize, jump-starting the geodynamo and generating a new, strong magnetic field.
Feeling stable
Heat driving convection within Earth’s hot, molten core (orange) powered the planet’s magnetic field for billions of years. New evidence suggests that by about 565 million years ago, that field was weak and increasingly unstable (left). Sometime after that, the inner core began to solidify (red, at right), which stabilized and strengthened the field, giving it relatively consistent magnetic north and south poles (right).
Now scientists think they’ve found evidence of when that magnetic field breakdown was happening. Researchers led by geophysicist Richard Bono, now at the University of Liverpool in England, examined magnetic inclusions within a suite of rocks in Quebec, Canada, dating to about 565 million years ago. Analyses of the inclusions — needlelike iron-rich grains that align themselves with the orientation of the magnetic field that existed when the rocks formed — show that the planet’s magnetic field was extremely weak at that time, the researchers report.
“These paleo-intensity values were 10 times less than the present magnetic field, lower than anything observed previously,” Tarduno says. “It suggested there’s something fundamental going on in the core.”
Combined with previous studies that have found that the magnetic field was also rapidly reversing polarity during that time period, the new result indicates that Earth’s field may have been on the point of collapse about 565 million years ago. That suggests that the inner core hadn’t yet solidified. Fortunately for life on Earth, it eventually did.
“Presumably things worked out well for our planet,” Tarduno says. “But that doesn’t necessarily mean it had to.”
The new finding is “potentially very important,” Olson says. Because the rocks bearing the magnetic grains didn’t cool instantaneously but over a long time, the data represent an average field intensity for about a 100,000-year period. That means the scientists haven’t just captured a snapshot in time of a fluctuating field, but have found a true, persistent signal, he says. Computer simulations have suggested that the weak field phase may have lasted much longer, from about 900 million to 600 million years ago. More paleo-intensity data from within that time span, as well as from other locations, would help to confirm that the observed weak phase really signaled the final throes of that pre–inner core field.
Peter Driscoll, a geophysicist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., was one of the theoreticians who estimated how long the weak phase might have lasted. Driscoll, whose commentaryaccompanies the study in Nature Geoscience, notes that a young solid inner core also highlights lingering conundrums about how quickly Earth cooled. For example, “if the core is cooling quickly, that means it was very hot in the recent past, and that the lower mantle was very hot in the recent past” — so hot that both were molten just 1 billion to 2 billion years ago. “We absolutely do not see that in the rock record.”
Driscoll adds that he hopes the new study garners attention to the glaring gap in paleomagnetic data from this time period. “There’s a lot more time here that we could be filling in.”
SOLAR SHIELD Earth’s magnetic field (illustrated) is powered by circulation of iron-rich fluid in the core. New research suggests Earth’s solid inner core formed about 565 million years ago, saving a weakening magnetic field from collapse.
MARC WARD/SHUTTERSTOCK
Earth’s inner core solidified around 565 million years ago — just in time to not only save the planet’s protective magnetic field from imminent collapse, but also to kick-start it into its current, powerful phase, a new study suggests.
The finding, reported online January 28 in Nature Geoscience, supports an idea previously proposed by simulations that Earth’s inner core is relatively young. It also provides insight into how, and how quickly, Earth has been losing heat since its formation 4.54 billion years ago —key to understanding not only the generation of the planet’s magnetic shield but also convection within the mantle and plate tectonics.
“We don’t have many real benchmarks for the thermal history of our planet,” says Peter Olson, a geophysicist at Johns Hopkins University who was not involved in the new study. “We know the interior was hotter than today, because all planets lose heat. But we don’t know what the average temperature was a billion years ago, compared with today.” Pinning down when iron in the inner core began to crystallize could offer a window into how hot the interior of the planet was at the time, Olson says.
The planet’s iron-nickel core is made up of two layers: a solid inner core and a molten outer core. When that solid inner core formed is a long-standing mystery (SN: 9/19/15, p. 18). “Proposed ages have been anywhere from 500 million years ago to older than 2.5 billion years,” says coauthor John Tarduno, a geophysicist at the University of Rochester in New York.
The interplay of the two layers drives the geodynamo, the circulation of iron-rich fluid that powers the magnetic field. That field, surrounding the planet, protects Earth from being battered by the solar wind, a constant flow of charged particles ejected by the sun. As the inner core cools and crystallizes, the composition of the remaining fluid changes; more buoyant liquid rises like a plume while the cooling crystals sink. That self-sustaining, density-driven circulation generates a strong magnetic field with two opposing poles, north and south, or polarity.
Traces of magnetism in ancient rocks suggest that Earth had a magnetic field as far back as 4.2 billion years ago. That earlier field was likely generated by heat within the planet driving circulation within the molten core. But over time, computer simulations suggest, the heat-driven circulation wouldn’t have been strong enough alone to continue to power a strong magnetic field. Instead, the field began to shut down, signaled in the rock record by weakening intensities and rapid polarity reversals over millions of years. And then, at some point, Earth’s inner core began to crystallize, jump-starting the geodynamo and generating a new, strong magnetic field.
Feeling stable
Heat driving convection within Earth’s hot, molten core (orange) powered the planet’s magnetic field for billions of years. New evidence suggests that by about 565 million years ago, that field was weak and increasingly unstable (left). Sometime after that, the inner core began to solidify (red, at right), which stabilized and strengthened the field, giving it relatively consistent magnetic north and south poles (right).
Now scientists think they’ve found evidence of when that magnetic field breakdown was happening. Researchers led by geophysicist Richard Bono, now at the University of Liverpool in England, examined magnetic inclusions within a suite of rocks in Quebec, Canada, dating to about 565 million years ago. Analyses of the inclusions — needlelike iron-rich grains that align themselves with the orientation of the magnetic field that existed when the rocks formed — show that the planet’s magnetic field was extremely weak at that time, the researchers report.
“These paleo-intensity values were 10 times less than the present magnetic field, lower than anything observed previously,” Tarduno says. “It suggested there’s something fundamental going on in the core.”
Combined with previous studies that have found that the magnetic field was also rapidly reversing polarity during that time period, the new result indicates that Earth’s field may have been on the point of collapse about 565 million years ago. That suggests that the inner core hadn’t yet solidified. Fortunately for life on Earth, it eventually did.
“Presumably things worked out well for our planet,” Tarduno says. “But that doesn’t necessarily mean it had to.”
The new finding is “potentially very important,” Olson says. Because the rocks bearing the magnetic grains didn’t cool instantaneously but over a long time, the data represent an average field intensity for about a 100,000-year period. That means the scientists haven’t just captured a snapshot in time of a fluctuating field, but have found a true, persistent signal, he says. Computer simulations have suggested that the weak field phase may have lasted much longer, from about 900 million to 600 million years ago. More paleo-intensity data from within that time span, as well as from other locations, would help to confirm that the observed weak phase really signaled the final throes of that pre–inner core field.
Peter Driscoll, a geophysicist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., was one of the theoreticians who estimated how long the weak phase might have lasted. Driscoll, whose commentaryaccompanies the study in Nature Geoscience, notes that a young solid inner core also highlights lingering conundrums about how quickly Earth cooled. For example, “if the core is cooling quickly, that means it was very hot in the recent past, and that the lower mantle was very hot in the recent past” — so hot that both were molten just 1 billion to 2 billion years ago. “We absolutely do not see that in the rock record.”
Driscoll adds that he hopes the new study garners attention to the glaring gap in paleomagnetic data from this time period. “There’s a lot more time here that we could be filling in.”
A new study suggests that the mysterious moai statues on Easter Island were placed to mark sources of fresh water.
Image in public domain.
A Polynesian population called the Rapa Nui arrived on Easter Island in 1200 AD. Despite the unpredictable weather and nutrient-poor soil, they established a thriving and industrious culture, leaving behind many impressive artifacts. Most famous among these artifacts are the giant moai: giant basaltic statues scattered across the island.
Although they are still shrouded in mystery, several explanations have been proposed. The most straightforward one is that the moai represent the inhabitants’ gods or ancestors, watching over them. But a new study has a new idea: the statues are marking valuable sources of freshwater.
As if Easter Island wasn’t inhospitable enough, there’s another problem: freshwater. Easter Island is a volcanic high island, consisting mainly of three extinct coalesced volcanoes. While there are freshwater lakes inside the volcano craters, there are no streams or other sources of surface freshwater. This must have been quite a worry for the Rapa Nui people, and the megaliths may have been built in to indicate freshwater, researchers suggest. The relationship isn’t straightforward, however: it’s not that all moai are indicators of freshwater, but everywhere there is some subsurface water source, there’s always moai nearby.
“Our results suggest that ahu locations are most parsimoniously explained by distance from freshwater sources, in particular coastal seeps, with important implications for community formation and inter-community competition in precontact times,” researchers write.
The team analyzed the connection between the moai (and the platforms they were placed on, called ahu) and rock mulch agricultural gardens, marine resources, and freshwater sources — the three most important resources for the Rapa Nui civilization. They didn’t find any connection to the first two, but the third one provided a good fit. The fresh water would pass through the ground into aquifers, seeping into caves as well as emerging around the coast. Controlling these places would have been quite valuable to the natives.
This may mean that, at least in part, the statues were built to indicate territorial domination over a sparse resource.
“What is important about it is that it demonstrates the statue locations themselves are not a weird ritual place — represent ritual in a sense of there is symbolic meaning to them, but they are integrated into the lives of the community,” said Prof Carl Lipo from Binghamton University in New York, who was co-author of the research.
However, not everyone is convinced by this theory. Jo Anne Val Tilburg, an Easter Island expert from the University of California, Los Angeles believes that these freshwater seeps would have been minor resources, so it is highly unlikely that the moai were built in relation to them.
Whatever the case may be, the enigma of the moai and their creators will undoubtedly continue to puzzle us and stir debates for many years to come
Alexander Weygers, a Renaissance man in the mold of the tech industry’s stated ideal, inspired an art dealer to become an acolyte.
Alexander Weygers made numerous detailed drawings of an aircraft called the “Discopter”, a vertical liftoff aircraft that looked very much like what was to be later termed “flying saucer” and other drawings of an American cities specifically flying saucers in San Francisco and as well as a port in Chicago.
He sent these detailed plans to all the branches of the U.S. Military and was eventually told that they were intrigued by the concept and the design of the craft but were not prepared at that time because the war effort superseded its development.
However he did indeed patent the design for the “Discopter” in January 1944 with the U.S. Patent Office and it served as the prototype for other similar aircraft that have been developed up to the present day.
Ashlee Vance visits the dealer whose curiosity about Weygers has evolved into an obsession.
A mysterious and unexplained security breach at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) turned deadly this week, highlighting the serious nature of the Air Force’s secretive desert research facilities which include Area 51. According to apress releaseissued yesterday, at 5:18 pm local time on January 28, an unidentified male sped through a security checkpoint at the entrance to the site. Both the Nye County Sheriff’s Office and the NNSS Security Protective Force Officers pursued the man in what became a high-speed chase which lasted eight miles.
Eventually, the man came to a stop and exited his vehicle. That’s when things got weird – and dangerous. According to the NNSS, the man got out of his car and began approaching security officials carrying an unknown “cylindrical object.” The man did not respond to officers’ verbal commands to stop, forcing security personnel to open fire. The man was pronounced dead at the scene; no officers were harmed.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal says the FBI is investigating the incident. The Nevada National Security Site, formerly known as the Nevada Test Site, is home to the U.S. military’s underground nuclear testing program, weapons development programs, and many nuclear research projects. The infamous Area 51 is a remote detachment of the NSS found just an hour to the east of the main site.
I’m sure you’re wondering the the same thing I am: what exactly was the “cylindrical object” the man was holding when he got out of his car? What would someone want to smuggle into the secretive research facility? The vague way the object has been described in both the press statement and news reports is rather curious. Was this an attempt at sabotage? A foreign intelligence operation gone wrong? Or did the man take a wrong turn fleeing Area 51 with some type of exotic alien material?
While it’s much more probable the object was an empty can of Icehouse or a flashlight, the lack of details released to the public so far leaves the imagination free to wander. Even if this happens to be a case of bad decision making due to mental illness or intoxication, it highlights the deadly seriousness of the many “No Trespassing” signs surrounding Area 51 and other secretive research sites in America’s deserts. No grainy cellphone photo of alleged alien technology or an experimental black triangular drone is worth risking your life.
But seriously: what was the mysterious “cylindrical object” the man was carrying? Why was he trying to get into such a heavily guarded facility? Does this have anything to do with the other Area 51-related revelation this week about secret ‘motherships’ possibly being tested at the site?
Het klinkt natuurlijk als iets dat echt niet kan, maar toch is dit wat er gebeurde in de tuin van een huis in het Engelse Doncaster.
Een gebeurtenis die veel lijkt op wat een bange Amerikaanse dame enkele dagen eerder filmde in de staat West Virginia.
Het volgende voorval vindt plaats op 17 januari 2019 in Doncaster, gelegen in het Engelse Yorkshire.
Er is een beveiligingscamera gemonteerd aan een huis en op de beelden daarvan is te zien hoe een lichtbol neerdaalt vanuit de lucht.
De camera legt vervolgens vast hoe de bol landt in de tuin van het huis en daar enige tijd onbeweeglijk blijft staan.
Wat niet is vastgelegd op film, maar wat volgens de eigenaar van het huis wel is gebeurd, is dat het object enige tijd stilstond, af en toe een soort lichtsignaal af gaf en vervolgens met een flits van licht weer vertrok.
De beelden die er zijn zien er als volgt uit:
De beelden zijn geplaatst op een Youtubekanaal dat er betrouwbaar uit ziet. Het is geen kanaal waar talloze video's zijn geplaatst over ufo's. En het ziet er uit als een doodgewoon bijna niet gebruikt Youtubekanaal waar de dame in kwestie slechts een paar video's heeft geplaatst, waarvan één haar man laat zien die babykleertjes strijkt met een strijkijzer waarvan hij is vergeten de stekker in het stopcontact te doen.
De beelden lijken echt en het doet Scott Waring heel erg denken aan de ufo die een aantal jaren geleden te zien was boven de Tempelberg in Jeruzalem die toen ook in een lichtflits verdween.
Maar, enkele dagen voor de gebeurtenis in Doncaster, maakte een oudere dame in de plaats Barboursville in de staat West Virginia ook iets bijzonders mee.
Zij filmde een aantal oranje/witte bollen in de lucht die haar toch wel de nodige angst in boezemde en waar ook één van die ufo's uiteindelijk landde.
In de onderstaande video hoor je haar commentaar bij datgene wat ze ziet. Eerst twee ufo's en later zelfs drie in een formatie die er als volgt uit ziet.
Even later kan je haar verschrikt horen zeggen dat één van die ufo's een stukje verderop bij iemand in de tuin is geland en dat is ook het punt waarop ze behoorlijk angstig begint te worden en weer snel de veranda van haar eigen huis op gaat.
Hoe het verder is afgelopen is niet bekend. Het voorval is door een neefje van de dame ingeleverd bij Mufon voor verder onderzoek en deze heeft geen verdere informatie gegeven.
De witte en oranjebollen zijn natuurlijk al jaren bekend, maar we hebben daarbij eigenlijk nog nooit de situatie gezien waarbij deze daadwerkelijk zijn geland.
Nu twee voorvallen in twee verschillende landen met verschillende getuigen die beiden verklaren dat er een ronde witte/oranje ufo is geland.
Mocht iemand hier meer weer over weten of zelf een dergelijke ervaring hebben gehad, laat het ons weten, want misschien is het toeval dat twee van dit soort gebeurtenissen plaatsvinden binnen een week, maar misschien ook niet
Het klinkt natuurlijk als iets dat echt niet kan, maar toch is dit wat er gebeurde in de tuin van een huis in het Engelse Doncaster.
Een gebeurtenis die veel lijkt op wat een bange Amerikaanse dame enkele dagen eerder filmde in de staat West Virginia.
Het volgende voorval vindt plaats op 17 januari 2019 in Doncaster, gelegen in het Engelse Yorkshire.
Er is een beveiligingscamera gemonteerd aan een huis en op de beelden daarvan is te zien hoe een lichtbol neerdaalt vanuit de lucht.
De camera legt vervolgens vast hoe de bol landt in de tuin van het huis en daar enige tijd onbeweeglijk blijft staan.
Wat niet is vastgelegd op film, maar wat volgens de eigenaar van het huis wel is gebeurd, is dat het object enige tijd stilstond, af en toe een soort lichtsignaal af gaf en vervolgens met een flits van licht weer vertrok.
De beelden die er zijn zien er als volgt uit:
De beelden zijn geplaatst op een Youtubekanaal dat er betrouwbaar uit ziet. Het is geen kanaal waar talloze video's zijn geplaatst over ufo's. En het ziet er uit als een doodgewoon bijna niet gebruikt Youtubekanaal waar de dame in kwestie slechts een paar video's heeft geplaatst, waarvan één haar man laat zien die babykleertjes strijkt met een strijkijzer waarvan hij is vergeten de stekker in het stopcontact te doen.
De beelden lijken echt en het doet Scott Waring heel erg denken aan de ufo die een aantal jaren geleden te zien was boven de Tempelberg in Jeruzalem die toen ook in een lichtflits verdween.
Maar, enkele dagen voor de gebeurtenis in Doncaster, maakte een oudere dame in de plaats Barboursville in de staat West Virginia ook iets bijzonders mee.
Zij filmde een aantal oranje/witte bollen in de lucht die haar toch wel de nodige angst in boezemde en waar ook één van die ufo's uiteindelijk landde.
In de onderstaande video hoor je haar commentaar bij datgene wat ze ziet. Eerst twee ufo's en later zelfs drie in een formatie die er als volgt uit ziet.
Even later kan je haar verschrikt horen zeggen dat één van die ufo's een stukje verderop bij iemand in de tuin is geland en dat is ook het punt waarop ze behoorlijk angstig begint te worden en weer snel de veranda van haar eigen huis op gaat.
Hoe het verder is afgelopen is niet bekend. Het voorval is door een neefje van de dame ingeleverd bij Mufon voor verder onderzoek en deze heeft geen verdere informatie gegeven.
De witte en oranjebollen zijn natuurlijk al jaren bekend, maar we hebben daarbij eigenlijk nog nooit de situatie gezien waarbij deze daadwerkelijk zijn geland.
Nu twee voorvallen in twee verschillende landen met verschillende getuigen die beiden verklaren dat er een ronde witte/oranje ufo is geland.
Mocht iemand hier meer weer over weten of zelf een dergelijke ervaring hebben gehad, laat het ons weten, want misschien is het toeval dat twee van dit soort gebeurtenissen plaatsvinden binnen een week, maar misschien ook niet
Unlike U.S. political party members, Chupacabra fans seem to break down into three groups: those who believe in the traditional Puerto Rican, upright, lizardish kind of bloodsucker; those who believe in the hairless coyote-like Texas kind; and those who put the moniker on any unidentifiable dead creature with fangs in any country. (Actually, U.S. political party members break down too, but it’s a breakdown of the other kind.) A mysterious creature discovered and photographed by a boy in Colombia seems to fall into the third category … but maybe not.
“I arrived and I looked out and then there was something all weird like a dog, so I came and told her aunt see that, and my aunt handed me the cell phone to take pictures.”
Thus begins the strange tale of Joan Sebastian Arboleda Lombana, a boy living in La Sierra, a village in the Magdalena River valley region of the mountainous Department of Antioquia in central northwestern Colombia. The rough googly translation comes from Noticias Caracol TV (see the video report here), which sent a reporter to interview Joan, his aunt and La Sierra locals who were said to be “dismayed” at the appearance of the corpse of such a strange creature. The pictures (way to go, Joan!) support the boy’s description that the beast looked like a cross between an opossum and a bush dog. While opossums are common in the area, bush dogs (Speothos venaticus) – a remote relative of the South American maned wolf and the African wild dog – are an extremely rare canid found mostly in Suriname, Guyana and Peru. Is the bush dog making a comeback in La Sierra?
Bush dog at the Prague Zoo (Wikipedia)
“We came to see and we found an animal that was more or less, 70 centimeters long, had a face or a fox head, and hands that were like a kind of gorilla, like a miquito, then it has us. This strange species is quite impacted.”
La Sierra resident Martin Prada, one of many locals concerned about the mysterious creature, thought (again, a rough Google translation) it looked more like a gorilla or a monkey (miquito). At 70 cm (27.5 inches) in length, gorilla seems unlikely. Why did some residents, as reported by HDB Noticias, think it was a Chupacabra?
“According to versions of some locals, the creepy creature had been hanging around the homes in the area for several days; especially at night … Several barnyard animals disappeared from the homes of this hot Magdalena Medio population, as a victim of this four-legged ‘monster’ and an unpleasant aspect.”
Ah-ha! What other creature sneaks around at night and pilfers pets and barnyard animals? OK, a lot of them do, but this corpse didn’t look like any of the more common ones. It’s also 50% larger than the largest opossums. That was enough to call in Corantioquia, the environmental protection organization that is part of integrated urban water management in Medellín, the largest city in Antioquia. Adriana Molina, deputy director of ecosystems of Corantioquia, looked at the creature and had this to say:
“The corporation has already begun the verification process for the identity of this individual, the invitation is for the entire community to report any anomalous or conflictive situation that may occur with wildlife and to maintain calm in these situations.”
Yep – they took away the corpse and are verifying its identity. Preliminary observations suggest the creature was suffering from advanced dermatitis – a skin condition related to poor diet, bacteria and fungi. That, in addition to the decay, make it look more like the Texas mangy coyote version of the alleged Chupacabra.
Possum or opossum — depending on your political persuasion.
If it’s anything other than an opossum, will they tell the public? It would be nice in a way if it were a bush dog, since that species was just placed on the Near Threatened Species list and this might be a sign it’s surviving and spreading its habitat.
The best part of this story is that Joan got some pictures before the authorities took the creature away. Keep those phones handy and shutter fingers ready and steady — that thing you spot in your garden could be a Chupacabra!
America’s favorite secret military base somehow manages to stay in the headlines year after year. Earlier this month, the world’s largest aerospace company Boeing quietly released a series of concept art images which appear to depict some type of unknown, high-altitude “mothership” capable of launching smaller craft while in flight. Even stranger, the images appear to depict the large triangular aircraft sitting on a tarmac at the infamous Area 51. Does this revelation confirm any of the triangle UFO theories that have been floating around for years?
Not yet, anyway. The Boeing concept art images appear to have been discovered and published by aviation blog The Drive. As The Drive’s Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick note, the mountain ranges and landscape in the images seem eerily similar to the landscape at Groom Lake, Nevada where Area 51 is located:
What makes these renderings even more interesting is that they seem to show this combination of exotic aircraft being flown out of Area 51. The hills in the background and the general details shown match up near perfectly with the clandestine flight test location. It’s interesting to think that concept art would include such specific details, especially in an age long before Area 51 was as known as it is today or tools like Google Earth existed. The chances of this being some coincidence seem low. Considering the tech being shown and the fact that these renderings remained unreleased for decades, it does make sense that they would show the system operating at its intended base of operations.
In the images, a massive triangular ‘mothership’ is depicted both in flight and sitting on a landing strip surrounded by desert. The ‘mothership’ in the images appears to be a high-altitude aircraft capable of launching a separate, smaller spacecraft or aircraft from a special hollow section of its fuselage. Strangest of all, the triangular ‘parasite’ spacecraft in the images should be familiar to anyone who keeps up aerospace and UFO developments: it’s a dead ringer for the long-rumored TR-3B.
If the ship had navigation lights at its corners, it would match the craft described in hundreds of reports of triangular black UFOs around the world.
The TR-3B is an alleged black budget surveillance aircraft built by the US Air Force, believed to exist thanks to dozens of sightings of black, triangular aircraft reported throughout the 20th and 21st centuries and a few grainy photographs. Our own Micah Hanks recently published a terrific look at the triangle UFO phenomenon and the many documented sightings which took place throughout the 1980s – which just so happens the exact same time these Boeing Area 51 ‘mothership’ images were created.
Are these concept images proof of anything? Not exactly. It’s unknown if this project ever came to fruition, although several similar platforms have in recent years been developed which can launch spacecraft from high-altitude ‘mothership’ aircraft. Still, these Boeing images may help further reinforce some people’s suspicions (like my own) that Area 51 isn’t as strange as some make it out to be. If the ‘truth’ about Area 51 is ever disclosed to the public, it will likely be a lot less sensational and strange than we all hope. While many of us hold on to the hope that de-engineered alien spacecraft or grey aliens in massive formaldehyde tanks might be stored away in hangars at the secretive military base, the truth is likely far more banal. Or maybe that’s just what They want us to believe.
Why would Boeing release the images now?
The U.S. military tests all manners of new aircraft and weapons at the highly off-limits base at the Nevada Test and Training Range, and the secrecy is likely in place to keep new defensive capabilities out of the hands of America’s adversaries. It has even been alleged that the alien rumors surrounding Area 51 are a form of counterintelligence designed to muddy the waters and discredit any leaks that do manage to slip out of the top secret facility. Where do these ‘mothership’ images fit in with larger Area 51 narratives? Are they more misinformation, or a hint that the TR-3B might indeed be overhead?
Saturn’s rings are arguably one of the most widely recognized features of our solar system. While Saturn isn’t the only planet that has a ring system (Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus also have rings), the sixth planet from the sun does have the most prominent and spectacular rings, visible from Earth on clear nights with the aid of a bit of telescopic magnification.
Back in December, we also learned something interesting about Saturn’s ring system: that it may be much younger than we once thought, having appeared more recently than the dinosaurs.
Luciano Iess of the Sapienza University of Rome told Astronomy.com that “A catastrophic event like a collision looks to me the most obvious explanation, but there may be problems with that too… The origin of the rings has to be put in the broader context of the dynamics of the Saturnian system.” Iess went on to cite colleagues of his “that even [think] the inner moons of Saturn are young, and they are migrating inward.”
Recent astronomical studies helped us determine the youth of Saturn’s rings. Since the physical matter which composes them constitutes fairly low mass, astronomers guess that the rings are between 10 and 100 million years old (Saturn, on the other hand, is believed to be almost 4.5 billion years old). Iess told Astronomy.com that measurements going all the way back to Voyager and Cassini were highly suggestive that the planet’s rings came much later.
Knowing that the most prominent planetary ring system in our celestial neighborhood was a recent addition, it has caused some to ask whether Earth itself might have at one time had rings, too.
This was precisely the idea proposed by Danish astronomer Kaare Rasmussen of the National Museum in Copenhagen in the early 1990s, who argued that in the past 2800 years Earth may have had rings on as many as 16 separate occasions.
According to am April 1991 article in New Scientist by John Gribben, Rasmussen “carried out a survey of all reports of meteorite falls, fireballs and showers of shooting stars from 800 BC to 1750 AD. He then carried out a statistical analysis of the data. He discovered that there were many distinct periods of intense activity.” Based on this, Rasmussen noted that these active periods peaked coinciding with high meteoritic activity, during which time he believed that rings formed as a result of a comet or asteroid being caught in Earth’s orbit. Subsequent decreases in meteoritic activity might have indicated periods of ring stability, followed by a return to activity as particles from the particulate ring were decelerated by Earth’s upper atmosphere and began to shower down upon the Earth.
Some interesting observational data exists from the last couple of centuries that suggests Earth could have had asteroids trapped in its orbit even more recently. In 1907, the June 12 edition of the Edmonton Bulletin featured an article on a colorful character by the name of E. Stone Wiggins, a Canadian astronomer who claimed to have spotted a second moon in orbit around the Earth:
“In 1882,” says Prof. Wiggins, “I discovered another moon. It is now at that point of its orbit nearest the earth… I knew this moon existed because our visible moon showed a disturbing force in her revolutions around the earth, for which astronomers could not account.
“In 1884 I published a letter in the New York Tribune claiming the discovery, giving the evidence of trustworthy persons in Michigan who declared to me that the sun was eclipsed on May 16 of that year, the sky being perfectly cloudless and when our visible moon was in another quarter of the heavens and therefore could not possibly eclipse the sun. This dark moon has an immense carbon atmosphere in which the dun develops little or no light; but it has often been seen by persons who happened to be in the range of incidence of its reflected light.”
It’s not impossible that a fairly large object could enter Earth’s orbit for a period of time, thus resulting in what astronomers have called a “moonlet” (see my article here for more on this), or as Kaare Rassmussen suggested in the 1990s, maybe even a ring system around Earth for a period of time.
At his Bad Astronomy blog, Phil Plait addressed the question of whether a ring system might ever form around Earth, to which he said, “could Earth have rings? Sure!” Plait continues:
“It’s unclear exactly how Saturn (or the other four outer giant planets) got their rings, but there is more than one mechanism to create them. A small moon could get hit by an asteroid or comet, shattering it. An impact on the Earth itself, if it were big enough, could create rings (the impact that formed the Moon billions of years ago may have done just that). That would kinda suck for us, though. Saturn’s moon Enceladus has geysers which may resupply the planet’s A and E rings.”
As Plait points out, at some point in Earth’s past the impact that led to the formation of our Moon might have actually caused Earth to have a ring system, as Rassmussen suggests (although these rings would have existed much earlier than Rassmussen’s estimate of the last 2800 years). So if this is the case, why doesn’t Earth have a ring system now?
The problem with ring systems is that much of their composition is formed from ice particulates. As Fraser Cain, publisher of Universe Today and co-host of Astronomy Cast explains, “The problem with icy rings is that the Earth orbits too closely to the Sun. There’s a specific point in the Solar System known as the ‘frost line’ or ‘snow line’. This is the point in the Solar System where deposits of ice could have survived for long periods of time. Any closer and the radiation from the Sun sublimates the ice away.”
So Earth’s proximity to the Sun, in other words, makes it physically difficult for icy rings to remain for long periods, as with more distant planets in our solar system.
It’s not impossible that Earth may have had rings at some point in the past, or in the unfortunate event of an asteroid impacting the moon, or even the Earth, that our planet could have rings again someday. In the event that it ever does, let’s just hope it’s not the result of an armageddon-inducing space rock smashing us to bits in the process. In the meantime, if you’ve ever wondered what a ring system around our planet might look like from here on Earth, check out Ron Miller’s conceptual artwork that illustrates this idea.
UFO appears below strange beam of light in Bariloche, Argentina
UFO appears below strange beam of light in Bariloche, Argentina
The photographer took some images of a strange beam of light in a clear sky at the shoreline of Lake Nahuel Huapi Bariloche, Argentina on January 24, 2019.
Hours after, while reviewing the photos, the photographer, who has submitted the images to Mufon, noticed in one of the images a UFO and realized that during the short laps between takes, the UFO must have appeared and vanished in a matter of seconds.
First image shows the strange beam of light only.
Second image shows the UFO below the strange beam of light.
Not only a single beam of light in a clear sky is very unusual but a UFO that appears exactly below the beam of light raises many questions.
Where does this beam of light comes from and could it be that the UFO has emerged from it? Or is it something from another world that has been teleported via this ray of light?
This UFO was seen by Francisco “Pancho” Zamudio, a member of the tropical music group Los Alfiles living in La Banda, Argentina. I enlarged the photo as you see above, and yes it does appear to be a disk with a dome top and bottom area. How could he have missed such an event? Very easily since UFOs are capable of flying so fast that the human eye cannot even detect the movement, but the digital eye of the camera is exceptional and capturing everything in its path. Yes, I do believe this to be a UFO. The shape, speed, and the blurred outer edges all indicate that is real. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
“It was on January 9th of this year. I was drinking at home, went out to see the clouds that were taking shape and took some random photos. I wasn’t aware of anything at the time. Just this past Saturday, looking through the images, I noticed a black dot. I sent them to a friend who works on radio and he downloaded them to his computer. Upon zooming in, he discovered this thing, and we were truly startled.”
Really fast UFO filmed over Dallas, Texas 2-Sep-2018
Awesome UFO Recorded Over Italy From Eyewitness In Car,Jan 28, 2019, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 28, 2019
Location of sighting: Alessano, Italy
An eyewitness in Alessano, Italy recorded this UFO while sitting in the passenger side of a car. The UFO seems to move through the sky effortlessly. The object is very big, so big it almost looks as if this object is shooting fast, but thats the cars movement causing that.
The person who uploaded it to Youtube works for the TELA RAMA TV News channel and posts only videos used on their local Italian TV news. So...this did make it on to Italian news.
The object is actually planes size and hovering over a field with a tree and two floors house. Wow, this one is baffling. I couldn't see any line or string holding this object so it does seem to be floating by itself. The video is real, taken of a real object. The only question remains is...what the hell is it? Right now...its an unidentified flying objcct...UFO.
On Monday many eyewitnesses saw large round openings in the clouds that appeared to be pushed aside, leaving only a rounded hole in the clouds and a lower thin line of clouds at the center. I believe these holes are made by large cloaked UFOs that come very low to scan the residences on the surface below. Did you notice the line of clouds at the center that are pushed lower and spread out as if surround the bottom of an invisible disk?
How did I learn that UFOs make hole in clouds? I learned that from a MUFON 80 page report of the famous UFO over O'hare airport back in Nov 7, 2006. It states that dozens of eyewitnesses working for the United Airlines saw the metallic disk sitting there over Gate C at the airport, but below the clouds, then after about two to three minutes, the UFO shot off upward throughout the clouds leaving a hole in the clouds that remained visible for almost 15 minutes. When pilots and experts working for the airline witness such UFOs close up, I listen.
Scientists have suggested a different explanation of the effects caused by Planet 9, the hypothesised supermassive planet hiding beyond Neptune.
Artist impression of the hypothetical ‘Planet 9’.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
In the last few years, scientists have predicted the presence of a large, hidden celestial body, known as Planet 9, which may be causing disturbances in the outer reaches of our solar system. Now, new research from the Universities of Cambridge and Beirut has suggested something entirely different is out there.
Since the discovery of Neptune in the mid 19th century, there have been predictions of other vast objects concealed farther out in the cosmic gloom. In recent decades scientists have observed strange behaviours in some of the TNOs (Trans-Neptune Objects) orbiting the Sun that have so far evaded explanation.
There are currently 30 TNOs recorded by astronomers, Pluto amongst them. They are minor planetoids residing beyond Neptune and, like Pluto, some of their orbits are distorted by an enigmatic force – in some cases by as much as 30% ‘downwards’. Some TNOs are even moving through space in the opposite direction to the rest. Such phenomena do not correlate with our assumed 8 planet model of the solar system, and has led researchers in a quest for answers.
Recently in 2016, Caltech astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown proposed a theory that a massive planet, 10 times the size of Earth, was lying concealed in the depths of our solar system. Far beyond Neptune, Planet 9 (or Planet X as termed colloquially) would receive barely any light to reflect, making any detection from Earth extremely difficult. Its considerable bulk would also exert a strong gravitational force, dislodging objects from the Kuiper Belt, warping their orbits, and even causing the Sun to wobble slightly on its axis.
But a new theory published in Astronomical Journal offers an alternative and, as co-author and Cambridge PhD student Antranik Sefilian terms it, a “less dramatic and perhaps more natural” solution.
Sefilian and his colleagues suggest that combined gravitational forces from a rotating, icy disc of smaller objects orbiting the Sun are the cause of much of the distortion observed in the outer solar system.
In a statement, Sefilian explained:“If you remove Planet 9 from the model and instead allow for lots of small objects scattered across a wide area, collective attractions between those objects could just as easily account for the eccentric orbits we see in some TNOs.”
The new study has not been without its opponents. Planet 9’s original theorist, Mike Brown, criticised the idea, highlighting the improbability for a disc of objects to survive within a dynamic solar system for billions of years. In addition, Brown said that “a ring of objects would be much easier to find than a singular planet, yet there is no evidence that such a thing exists.”
Sefilian and his colleagues remain convinced, however, and also alluded to the struggles the team had faced during their investigations.
“When observing other systems, we often study the disc surrounding the host star to infer the properties of any planets in orbit around it. The problem is when you’re observing the disc from inside the system, it’s almost impossible to see the whole thing at once. While we don’t have direct observational evidence for the disc, neither do we have it for Planet 9, which is why we’re investigating other possibilities. Nevertheless, it is interesting to note that observations of Kuiper belt analogues around other stars, as well as planet formation models, reveal massive remnant populations of debris.”
However, with the recent discoveries of other dwarf planets, such as the ‘Goblin’, ‘Sedna’ and ‘Farout’ at the edge of the solar system, Sefilian remains open to the prospect of both the icy disc and Planet 9 coexisting.
“It’s also possible that both things could be true – there could be a massive disc, and a ninth planet.”
With more research from astronomers like Sefilian and Brown, hopefully the coming years will shed more light on what exactly lurks around the furthest realms of our solar system.µ
He told the Sun: 'These are objects which someone possibly did not want seen on Instagram which is a big red flag. This gives a signal that we may well have something here.
'At first they are random but towards the end four of them align in a rectangular formation so they can't be balloons.
'Whatever they are even the border control agents are focusing on them.'
The sight was so unusual that border staff even abandoned their posts to watch
The border between the USA and Mexico has been a hot news topic recently after President Trump promised to build a wall between that two countries - with Mexico footing the bill.
He floated a 20 percent tax on imports to lawmakers as a way to pay for the controversial border wall.
Mexican President Enrqiue Pena Nieto has repeatedly said his country won't pay for the border wall and this week cancelled a meeting with Trump because of the issue.
The eggs laid by a group of “pampered” hens in the U.K. contain something special in their whites.
After researchers from the University of Edinburgh spliced a human gene into the chickens’ DNA, the animals began laying eggs boasting a significant amount of two proteins used to treat diseases including cancer in humans — and the process, they say, is far cheaper than current methods of protein production.
“Production from chickens can cost anywhere from 10 to 100 times less than the factories,” researcher Lissa Herron told the BBC. “So hopefully we’ll be looking at at least 10 times lower overall manufacturing cost.”
Protein Packed
The human body naturally produces the proteins found in the new hen eggs — IFNalpha2a and macrophage-CSF, if you’re wondering — and they each play an important role in the immune system. Drugs containing both proteins are widely used by doctors to treat cancers and other diseases, but producing the proteins in the lab is difficult and expensive.
For their study, published in the journal BMC Biotechnology, the Edinburgh researchers inserted the gene that produces the proteins in humans into the part of the chickens’ DNA that handles the production of the white in its eggs. When they tested the hens’ eggs, they found that just three eggs contained a dose-worth of the proteins.
The genetically modified chickens, which live “pampered” lives in large pens, are none the wiser either, according to Herron. “As far as the chicken knows, it’s just laying a normal egg,” she told the BBC. “It doesn’t affect its health in any way, it’s just chugging away, laying eggs as normal.”
Multiple Baskets
Though their research yielded promising results, the team believes it’d take between 10 and 20 years before regulatory agencies would approve for human use any drugs developed from their genetically modified chickens. But the proteins in the animals’ eggs could serve a purpose in the interim.
“We are not yet producing medicines for people,” researcher Helen Sang told the BBC, “but this study shows that chickens are commercially viable for producing proteins suitable for drug discovery studies and other applications in biotechnology.”
As the United States enters into the second month of a government shutdown that began on December 22, 2018, federal employee shortages are becoming an increasing problem. On the morning of January 25, 2019, the FAA announced that due to air traffic control staffing shortages along the east coast, they werehalting flightsinto New York City's LaGuardia Airport. It's a potent reminder that while pilots and flight attendants are key to making air travel safe, air traffic controllers—though less-visible—are just as essential in getting you from Point A to Point B.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employs more than14,000of them tochoreographthe flow of airplanes on the ground and in the sky, whether that means using radar and other tools to direct aircraft at take off, communicating with pilots about flight paths and weather, or helping pilots land their planes safely. Take a look at these secrets of air traffic controllers to learn about their unique lingo, high degree of job stress, and occasional UFO sighting.
1. MANY OF THEM DON'T WORK AT AIRPORTS.
When you imagine an air traffic controller, you probably envision someone working in a tall glass tower at an airport. However, many controllers toil at either a Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facility or at a route center, which may be located far away from an airport.
According to air traffic controller Chris Solomon, who controls planes for the military, controllers in each of the three types of facilities have different responsibilities. “The typical tower controllers get the planes from the gate to the runway and then airborne to within five or so miles of an airport. The aircraft then becomes under the control of the approach controllers [TRACON],” he told the website Art of Manliness.
These TRACON controllers usually control the plane during its ascent and descent from the airport. When aircraft reach an altitude above 18,000 feet, the route center controller takes over, using radar to guide aircraft at cruising altitudes until the plane begins its descent. Then the approach controller takes the reins, followed by a tower controller who guides the plane’s landing.
2. AGE IS A MAJOR FACTOR.
Some air traffic controllers begin their careers in the military, while others apply to the FAA’s Air Traffic Control Academy. But no matter how they enter the profession, they must have good vision, a sharp mind, and the ability to think quickly and clearly under pressure. The FAA requires that applicants be 30 years old or younger when they apply to the job, and controllers must retire at age 56, before most of them experience any age-related mental decline.
3. THEY HAVE THEIR OWN LINGO.
Pilots and air traffic controllers around the world must speak English to communicate (it's required by the International Civil Aviation Organization), but they also have their own flight-related language. This phonetic alphabetic and numerical system, which replaces letters (A to Z) and numbers (zero to nine) with code words, minimizes confusion and misunderstandings between air traffic controllers and pilots.
For example, controllers say “bravo” instead of the letter “B,” “Charlie” instead of the letter “C,” and “niner” instead of the number “nine.” (Theories explaining the origin of the code word “niner” differ, but aircraft enthusiasts speculate that the extra syllable differentiates it from the German word for “no” or distinguishes it from the pronunciation of the number “five.”) Air traffic controllers also have their own slang and, for instance, use the phrase “souls on board” to refer to the number of people on a plane.
The phonetic system is spelled out in detail in the FAA Order 7110.65 manual [PDF], along with other key code words, phrases, and procedures. Controllers call the manual their "bible," study it during training, and review it regularly to keep apprised of any updates and additions.
4. PILOTS WITH HEAVY ACCENTS CAN FRUSTRATE THEM.
Although English is the official language of aviation, not all pilots speak it well. Air traffic controller Brandon Miller, who works for Potomac Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) in northern Virginia, tells Mental Floss that it can be difficult to communicate with foreign pilots. “However, we are in the business of communication,” he says, explaining that learning to solve potential communication issues is part of their training. When talking to a pilot who has a heavy accent, controllers may speak more slowly, enunciate words more dramatically, and try to avoid changing routes as much as possible.
Stephen, an air traffic controller with the FAA, echoes Miller’s point. “We mainly just bitch amongst ourselves, say things very slowly, and do the best we can” when dealing with pilots who have heavy accents, he wroteon Reddit.
5. THEY ALTERNATE BETWEEN STRESS AND BOREDOM.
Because they’re responsible for thousands of lives 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, most air traffic controllers experience a high level of job-related stress. “We often miss birthdays, we work on holidays and weekends, and often operate on alternative sleep cycles,” Miller explains. Staying focused is essential, especially during times of busy traffic and bad weather, so most air traffic controllers take a break every hour or two, depending on the rules at their facility.
According to Miller, the diversity of tasks in his work day keeps his job challenging. At any given time, he may be directing Air Force One or other VIPs (from our country or a foreign one), sequencing commercial passenger jets into a variety of airports in the Washington, D.C. area, assisting police or paramedic helicopters, expediting military fighters and military transport planes, or looking for suspicious aircraft in the Washington, D.C. Special Flight Rules Area.
On the other hand, graveyard shifts and periods with less traffic can be tedious and dull. “Hours and hours of boredom combined with moments of sheer terror, as we like to say,” Stephen told Reddit. “But if you like the challenge and want to be where the action is, it's a great job!”
6.THEY'RE PROBABLY OVERWORKED.
In a 2011 article for The Daily Beast, Bob Richards, who worked as an air traffic controller at Chicago O’Hare International Airport for more than two decades, described his job as “thrilling, fulfilling, and utterly exhausting.” Richards noted that four of his coworkers died of sudden cardiac death, two died of pancreatic cancer, and many others suffered from stress-related gastrointestinal illnesses. In his early 40s, Richards himself suffered from atrial fibrillation, which eventually progressed into congestive heart failure.
A secret study conducted by NASA in 2011 found that almost one-fifth of controllers made significant errors, partly due to chronic fatigue caused by their lack of sleep and busy shift schedules. To combat fatigue and address controllers who were allegedly asleep on the job, the FAA issued a series of new rules that increase the mandatory time between controllers’ shifts.
7. UFO SIGHTINGS DEFINITELY HAPPEN.
During the course of their careers, most air traffic controllers have personally spotted (or have a coworker who has spotted) some sort of unidentified flying object. UFO sightings are more common at night, when air traffic controllers may see an unexplained blinking light that doesn’t appear to be coming from an aircraft. But strange sightings aren't necessarily alien life forms—radar is so sensitive that it may pick up items such as clouds, a flock of birds, or even a large truck on the ground.
8. ROBOTS WON'T BE REPLACING THEM.
Although air traffic controllers rely on radar and other technology to do their jobs, they’re not in danger of technology replacing them any time soon. With so many lives at stake, air traffic control will likely always require humans to ensure that automated systems function properly and technology doesn’t malfunction. And controllers enjoy the sense of satisfaction that comes with using their knowledge and skills to help passengers get from point A to point B safely. “There is a great amount of pride that my coworkers and I take knowing that safety of air traffic control is the last thing on passengers' minds when they get buckled in the airplane,” Miller says.
Mysterious UFOs HEADING TOWARD Earth during NASA spacewalk live stream - shock claim
Mysterious UFOs HEADING TOWARD Earth during NASA spacewalk live stream - shock claim
MULTIPLE UFOs spotted heading towards Earth were shown on a International Space Station live stream sparking panic among viewers about secret alien contact.
A shocking clip from the ISS live stream, intended to show a NASA-led spacewalk, in fact revealed “at least two UFOs” heading towards Earth. Stunned viewers were shocked at the rare glimpse of thefast-moving UFOsthat appeared to “reflect” the sunlight. Both of the objects were heading towards the Earth, although the one that was closer appeared to be spinning across the sky.
WETENSCHAPThe sky is the limit voor de Russische start-up StartRocket. Het bedrijf ziet in het heelal immers ongelimiteerde mogelijkheden voor adverteerders. StartRocket wil massa’s klein lichtreflecterende satellietjes de ruimte insturen, die samen een reusachtig reclamebord vormen dat tegelijkertijd miljoenen mensen kan bereiken.
De advertenties zullen bestaan uit een reeks hele kleine satellietjes – ‘CubeSats’ - die elk een reflecterend zeil dragen van zo’n tien meter diameter. De kubusvormige satellieten zullen in een baan om de aarde gebracht worden op zo’n 400 à 500 kilometer hoogte, waar ze zonlicht reflecteren om zo samen lichtgevende woorden of logo’s te vormen.
De eerste ruimteadvertenties van StartRocket zouden al in 2021 moeten gelanceerd worden. Ze zouden enkel in het donker zichtbaar zijn en dat van nagenoeg overal op aarde. Per dag kunnen er volgens StartRocket zo’n drie à vier verschillende boodschappen geprojecteerd worden. Bovendien kan het systeem ook gebruikt worden voor noodsituaties, schrijft het bedrijf op zijn website: overheden kunnen aan de hand van de display in de ruimte belangrijke boodschappen communiceren naar het publiek.
Momenteel heeft de start-up een prototype van de satelliet klaar. Volgend jaar zouden ze beginnen met de eerste tests, zo deelde CEO Vladilen Sitnikov mee aan NBC News. Over de manier waarop de satellietjes in de ruimte gelanceerd zouden worden of hoeveel het zou kosten om een ruimte-advertentie te plaatsen, geeft StartRocket nog geen informatie prijs. Of de technologie effectief zal werken en of StartRocket voldoende middelen heeft om van start te gaan, is ook nog een vraagteken.
Wetenschappers hebben echter grote bezwaren tegen het project.
Lees verder onder de foto.
StartRocket
Technische problemen
Astronoom Patrick Seitzer van de universiteit van Michigan wijst op technische problemen die de kop zullen opsteken. Het zal niet eenvoudig zijn om de satellietjes in formatie te houden, haalt hij aan: ze zullen geleidelijk aan uit elkaar drijven. “Men zal de constellatie voortdurend moeten blijven aanvullen.” StartRocket beweert dat er al een oplossing voorzien werd voor dat probleem.
Ruimtepuin
Bovendien zal het project van StartRocket de hoeveelheid ruimteafval nog meer doen toenemen. “De ruimte raakt steeds voller. Er bewegen zich al meer dan 20.000 objecten in een baan om de aarde, volgens de officiële openbare cataloog van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht. Slechts tien procent daarvan zijn actieve satellieten – de rest bestaat uit dode satellieten, oude raketonderdelen en onderdelen van ruimtetuigen”, aldus Seitzer. Het is volgens hem onverstandig om projecten te lanceren die geen commerciële of wetenschappelijke waarde hebben of die de nationale veiligheid niet dienen.
Lichtvervuiling
Bovendien zullen de CubeSats lichtvervuiling veroorzaken en dat kan negatieve gevolgen hebben voor de volksgezondheid en voor het gedrag van dieren en planten. Daarnaast kunnen ze zo ook wetenschappelijk onderzoek verstoren. “Het is een bedreiging voor de mogelijkheid om vanaf de grond astronomisch onderzoek te verrichten”, vertelde astronoom John Barentine van de International Dark-Sky Association aan Astronomy Magazine. “Al die bewegende lichtbronnen aan de hemel kunnen ons vermogen om fotonen van astronomische bronnen te verzamelen, in de war sturen.”
StartRocket laat de kritiek echter niet aan het hart komen. “We ontwikkelen een nieuw medium. In het begintijdperk van televisie hield er ook niemand van reclame”, klinkt het daar.
De VS voerden in 1993 een verbod op ruimte-advertenties in. In Rusland bestaan dergelijke regels niet.
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Hou je vast: de Universiteit van Amsterdam heeft onderzoek gedaan naar complottheorieën. De uitkomsten zijn héél verrassend
Hou je vast: de Universiteit van Amsterdam heeft onderzoek gedaan naar complot -theorieën. De uitkomsten zijn héél verrassend
Als het gaat om complottheorieën zijn onze media en wetenschappers opeens expert op het gebied van letterlijk alles.
In de media en de wetenschap worden ‘complotdenkers’ nog steeds behandeld als kleine kindertjes die verkeerd denken en die nodig moeten worden bijgeschoold.
Op dezelfde manier wilde de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk ‘ketters’ bekeren tijdens de Inquisitie.
Iedere keer hetzelfde
Op Nederlandse universiteiten en door tv-programma’s wordt geregeld onderzoek gedaan naar complottheorieën.
De uitkomsten zijn iedere keer hetzelfde: het speelt zich af in de marge en het zijn vooral laagopgeleide mensen die samenzweringstheorieën aanhangen.
Nu is er weer een onderzoek van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, uitgevoerd door sociaal psycholoog Michiel van Elk.
Hij deed onderzoek naar het geloof in samenzweringen en sprak met verschillende complotdenkers, waaronder mensen die in chemtrails geloven.
Gelijk
Van Elk kwam tot de conclusie dat deze complotdenkers allerlei denkbeeldige verbanden oppikken die de basis leggen voor afwijkende ideeën en het geloof in samenzweringstheorieën.
Hij stelt verder dat intuïtieve mensen gevoeliger zijn voor complotdenken omdat zij snel reageren en niet reflecteren bij gebeurtenissen.
Van Elk denkt dat opleidingsniveau daar mogelijk een rol bij speelt. “Hoger opgeleiden zijn over het algemeen minder vatbaar voor samenzweringstheorieën dan lager opgeleiden, omdat ze vaardiger zijn in het ontleden van informatie en vinden van betrouwbare bronnen.”
Hij zegt dat complotdenkers moeilijk te overtuigen zijn omdat ze altijd weer dingen kunnen toevoegen aan hun theorie, waardoor ze toch gelijk hebben.
Zwaar in de minderheid
Uit recente peilingen blijkt dat het overgrote deel van de bevolking gelooft in complottheorieën.
Mensen die nog geloven in de gangbare theorieën zijn zwaar in de minderheid. De vraag is dan ook: is de samenleving gek of is er iets mis met het systeem?
Uit een nieuwe grote studie is bijvoorbeeld gebleken dat ruim 60 procent van de Britten en Amerikanen in tenminste één complottheorie gelooft over de manier waarop hun land gerund wordt of de betrouwbaarheid van informatie die ze tot zich krijgen.
Een recente peiling van de Universiteit van Aarhus laat zien dat slechts de helft van de Denen gelooft dat we op de maan hebben gestaan.
Vreemd
En maar liefst acht op de 10 Fransen geloven in tenminste één complottheorie, bleek vorig jaar uit onderzoek.
Het gebeurt heel vaak dat complottheorieën later feiten worden, schreef docent David Coady van de Universiteit van Tasmanië.
Coady merkte op dat complottheorieën een slechte reputatie hebben. Mensen die erin geloven worden gezien als irrationeel.
Dat is volgens hem vreemd, aangezien complottheorieën net als wetenschappelijke theorieën en vrijwel alle andere soorten theorieën soms kloppen en soms niet kloppen.
Propaganda
Coady trok een parallel met de term ketterij die in de middeleeuwen in Europa werd gebruikt.
In beide gevallen zijn het termen die gebruikt worden als propaganda, bedoeld om mensen die andere overtuigingen hebben te stigmatiseren en marginaliseren.
Mensen die in onze cultuur worden bestempeld als ‘complottheoretici’ kunnen worden vergeleken met de ‘ketters’ in middeleeuws Europa.
Blijven bestaan
Vandaag de dag vervullen psychologen en sociale wetenschappers de rol van de Inquisitie, aldus Coady.
Vrijwel alle psychologen en sociale wetenschappers zijn namelijk van mening dat complottheorieën niet kloppen, schadelijk zijn en het gevolg zijn van een irrationeel proces.
Een negatief gevolg hiervan is dat ze bijdragen aan een politiek milieu waarin het juist makkelijker is voor een complot om te blijven bestaan.
CIA
Waar komt die term complottheorie eigenlijk precies vandaan?
Professor Lance deHaven-Smith, auteur van Conspiracy Theory in America, schreef dat de CIA hoogstwaarschijnlijk achter de introductie van het woord ‘complottheorie’ zit, een term die gebruikt zou gaan worden om het publiek te beïnvloeden.
In de jaren zestig was er veel kritiek op het rapport van de Commissie-Warren, die had geconcludeerd dat Lee Harvey Oswald president Kennedy in zijn eentje had gedood.
Veel Amerikanen waren er echter van overtuigd dat hun politieke leiders betrokken waren bij de moord.
Om de schade te beperken stuurde de CIA een geheime memo rond waarin stond dat de media critici moesten bestempelen als complottheoretici. Al gauw kreeg de term een negatieve lading.
Wetenschappelijk bewijs
Inmiddels zijn er meer dan genoeg complottheorieën die worden ondersteund met wetenschappelijk bewijs.
Zo bewezen twee politicologen in 2014 op basis van wetenschappelijk onderzoek dat de Verenigde Staten geen democratie, maar een oligarchie zijn.
Een wetenschapper van de Universiteit van Ottawa publiceerde een onderzoek waaruit blijkt dat Oekraïense scherpschutters op demonstranten hebben geschoten met als doel president Janoekovitsj de schuld te geven en zijn positie onhoudbaar te maken.
Volgens hem waren de sluipschutters onderdeel van een valse vlag-operatie.
Onrecht aangedaan
Twee economen onderzochten 28 generaties Britten en kwamen tot de conclusie dat de rijkste 1%, de elite, al tenminste 800 jaar aan de macht is in Groot-Brittannië en dat je daar niet tussenkomt tenzij je een bepaalde achternaam hebt.
Wetenschappers hebben ook bewijs geleverd dat de meeste oorlogen draaien om olie. Landen mengen zich meestal in een conflict om toegang te krijgen tot olievoorraden, aldus hun studie in het Journal of Conflict Resolution.
En wetenschappers van de Yale School of Medicine en het Penn State College of Medicine hebben een zorgwekkende relatie ontdekt tussen vaccinaties en hersenaandoeningen bij kinderen.
Om af te sluiten met de woorden van Coady: “De mensen die worden bestempeld als complottheoretici wordt op deze manier onrecht aangedaan. Het zijn juist de professionele psychologen die een irrationele en autoritaire visie hebben.”
According to newly conducted research, one of Earth’s oldest rocks may have been discovered on the Moon. The chunk of rock was initially brought back to Earth in 1971 from Apollo 14 astronauts who landed on the Moon.
The Earth rock ended up on the Moon more than likely because of a very powerful impact on our planet that happened approximately 4 billion years ago.
In a statement, David Kring, who is the co-author of the rock study, as well as a Universities Space Research Association (USRA) scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, explained, “It is an extraordinary find that helps paint a better picture of early Earth and the bombardment that modified our planet during the dawn of life.”
Astronauts from the Apollo 14 mission explored the surface of the Moon for a few days in February of 1971 and that’s when they collected rock samples to bring back to our planet. The lunar samples were then studied by a research team which was led by Jeremy Bellucci from the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and Alexander Nemchin who is from the Swedish Museum and Curtin University in Australia.
Upon analysis, scientists discovered a small 0.08-ounce (or 2 grams) fragment on a rock that contained quartz, zircon, and feldspar, which are all rarely found on the moon but very common here on Earth. When they conducted chemical analysis on the fragment, they were able to find that it was crystallized in an environment which was oxidized and at a temperature that would have been the same as it was near the subsurface of the Earth in its very early days.
According to the evidence found in the study, the fragment was crystallized here on Earth between 4.1 billion and 4 billion years ago and at around 12 miles below the surface of our planet. It was then thrown into space by a strong impact and ended up on the Moon which was around three times closer to Earth than it is now.
A moon rock brought back by Apollo 14 astronauts in 1971 may contain a tiny piece of the ancient Earth (the "felsite clast" identified by the arrow).
Credit: NASA/LPI/USRA/Bellucci et al.
This photo by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Apollo 14 landing site and nearby Cone Crater. The trail followed by the Apollo 14 astronauts can be seen. Image width is 1 mile (1.6 kilometers).
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
An artist's illustration of the Hadean Earth, when the rock fragment was formed. Impact craters, some flooded by shallow seas, cover large swaths of the Earth's surface. The excavation of those craters ejected rocky debris, some of which hit the moon.
Credit: Simone Marchi
Researchers said that after the Earth rock landed on the Moon, some of it melted and was probably buried by an impact which happened around 3.9 billion years ago. It was then uncovered by another impact on the Moon about 26 million years ago which created the 1,115-foot-wide Cone Crater. That’s where two of the Apollo 14 astronauts (Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell) took some rock samples.
The mystery of unexplained, earth-rattling booms continues around the country. Whereas mystery booms were once a rare anomaly, they seem to behappening with unsettling regularitylately. What’s behind this mysterious phenomenon? Sonic booms caused by supersonic orhypersonicweapons and aircraft? Unknown atmospheric activity? Meteorite explosions? Earthquakes, frostquakes, or frack-quakes?
What could go wrong?
Anyone’s guess is as good as any. This week’s mystery booms come to us from the American south, where residents of four separate counties in Kentucky reported hearing “an earth-shaking sound” on January 23. Emergency dispatchers in Jackson, Madison, Estill, and Rockcastle counties were called when residents heard and felt a mysterious boom loud enough to shake their homes’ foundations.
“At about 6:19 pm yesterday evening a couple of people called in and said they heard this loud boom in the county. We went to check on it in the area, and we never found anything,” Jackson County Sheriff Paul Hays told local news station WKYT. While the cause of the Kentucky mystery boom is still unknown, locals have speculated it could have been anything from an electrical transformer exploding, a rock quarry blast, a sonic boom, or outgassing caused by hydraulic fracking.
A few states to the west in Arkansas, residents of Little Rock took to social media to ask if anyone might know what caused a deafening mystery boom a few hours later on the same night. According to local news station FOX 16, several residents thought it may have been an F/A-18 breaking the sound barrieroverhead – or worse. North Little Rock local Collette Young says the sounds were eerily reminiscent of battle:
My family has served and have been to war – at one point I thought we might be under attack. I just want to know what it is so the next time I hear the sound I am not so startled.
Spokespersons for nearby Little Rock Air Force Base and the Clinton National Airport had no information about the mysterious boom. I just hope that more of these mystery booms can’t be explained by the same causes as those determined the case of recurring booms heard in Pennsylvania last year; in that incident, it turns out that a would-be domestic terrorist was testing improvised explosives in remote areas. Could more of these mystery booms be of a similar origin, or is something stranger going on?
From almost the days of the actual trip, rumors have flown about possible UFO sightings during the Apollo 11 mission and first manned landing on the Moon. Buzz Aldrin still insists that his comments about a light he saw were taken out of context and what he saw was simply a reflection of the sun off of panels jettisoned from the rocket that had carried them into orbit. The same was said to be true of comments made by Armstrong that were misconstrued over the years to be about something other than space junk. However, a newly released letter written by someone back in the news claims that the first man on the moon had more than just a passing-by-while-in-the-sky interest in UFOs.
“This letter could be somewhat historic because it might actually confirm that Armstrong did have an interest in UFOs.”
Neil Armstrong
Sun Online says the letter (see it here) was discovered by Dr. Irena Scott, a former Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer and author of a new book about UFO encounters, “Sacred Corridors.” Dr. Scott is well-known in UFOolgy circles, having served on the MUFON Board of Directors and as a MUFON consultant in physiology and astronomy and a field investigator. The author of the letter is Professor J. Allen Hynek, who has posthumously received 15 more minutes of fame as the focal point of the History Channel’s new series on Project Blue Book.The recipient of the handwritten letter (remember those?) was Jennie Zeidman, a close friend of Hynek who also worked with him at Wright Patterson Air Force Base on Project Blue Book.
“Dear Jennie. A week from today we sail … I got called up by the cruise director asking if the Hyneks would mind sharing a table with the Armstrongs! So – tell Barry I should be able to get the autograph for him! Did I tell you I’m going?”
Hynek was referring to an upcoming two-week cruise from New York to the west coast of Africa in 1973 on which 2,000 teachers, artists, authors, scientists and celebrities would observe a total solar eclipse and listen to lectures and discussions, including a panel with Hynek and Armstrong called “Life in the Universe.” To Scott, this is proof that, while Armstrong never publicly discussed his UFO interests, he intentionally sought on the cruise to have such discussions with a recognized expert in the field.
Sun Online also reveals Scott found evidence that Neil Armstrong and J. Allen Hynek also contacted ufologist and author Leonard Stringfield, who was at one time the director of Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects (CRIFO).
“Stringfield said that a number of years ago when Armstrong was on the board of directors of a Cincinnati bank, Armstrong and Hynek approached him with a proposal to protect the names of the government-connected informants. Armstrong said Stringfield could put his list of names in a safety deposit box at Armstrong’s bank, to which it was assumed Armstrong would also have access. The intention was that in the event of Stringfield’s death, the names wouldn’t be lost, but Stringfield rejected the idea.”
Scott implies that Armstrong was trying to help Stringfield protect the identities of 50 UFO informants. She is sketchy on this – Stringfield died in 1994 and Scott admits in the Sun article that she has no proof it actually occurred but uses it as proof that that Armstrong and Hynek had ongoing contacts, implying Armstrong had lifelong interest in UFOs and in discussing – and perhaps even covering up – their existence with a leader in the field.
So, what does this letter show? Armstrong and Hynek were already going to be on the ship together and sharing at least one panel, but it could be a sign that Armstrong had more to discuss in private – although a cruise ship dining room isn’t exactly private or secure, especially when many onboard were interested in the same subject matter and wanted to be close to the famed astronaut. Being before the fact, the letter doesn’t tell us what was actually discussed and there seems to be no published followup. Nor is there any for the the alleged but unproven meeting with Stringfield. The strongest point there is that Armstrong and Hynek had contact long after the cruise.
For now, it’s an interesting footnote – just in need of a little more foot.
We just have to accept it. We’ve been dragged into the future, despite however hard we kicked and screamed. Robots are real, and they’re basically indistinguishable from the robots of our fictions. If you’re worried about these metal abominations coming to take everything you love, and would like nothing more than to go all John Connors and reduce the lot of them to slag, you’re very much not alone, and researchers are quite concerned.
In a January 19th New York Timesarticle titled “Why Do We Hurt Robots?,” Jonah Bromwich cites a number of cases where people “brutally assaulted” robots. Poor, innocent “security robots” battered and beaten. Gangs of filthy meatbags attacking driverless cars. Three teenagers in Japan beating a robot “with all their might.” A Moscow man bludgeoning a “teaching robot” with a baseball bat as it pleaded for help. People, hilariously and ill-advisedly, crashing their own driverless cars on purpose (I respect the commitment to the fight, but those things are expensive). Another security robot was—just fight back the tears; tears can come later—wrapped in a tarp and covered in barbecue sauce. Humans are such horrible creatures that we manage to hurt things that don’t even have consciousness, let alone pain receptors.
Don’t look at me like that.
And thus, in keeping with the new cultural norm of using words without any consideration for what they mean, the term “robot abuse” was born.
Destroying robots is wrong. For the same reason that destroying someone else’s car, toaster, musical instrument, house, or computer is wrong. It’s property destruction. However hilarious covering a security robot in barbecue sauce is, a lot of money and time went into creating that machine. But that’s all it is, a machine. Yet we all anthropomorphize robots, both those scared of a robot takeover and those so deeply entrenched in robotics that they see property destruction as abuse.
Cognitive neuroscientist Agnieszka Wykowska, a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology and the editor in chief of the International Journal of Social Robotics thinks that our violence towards robots stems from the atavistic demons responsible for our tribalism and ostracization of the other. She says:
“You have an agent, the robot, that is in a different category than humans. So you probably very easily engage in this psychological mechanism of social ostracism because it’s an out-group member. That’s something to discuss: the dehumanization of robots even though they’re not humans.”
There’s a lot wrong with this statement. One: you can’t dehumanize something that isn’t human. Two: robots are not agents. They can only do what they are programmed to do. They literally have no agency.
Asked about potential solutions to this “disturbing” problem, Ms. Wykowska offers a story about the savagery a colleague witnessed a kindergarten class express towards a robot:
“Kids have this tendency of being very brutal to the robot, they would kick the robot, they would be cruel to it, they would be really not nice.
“That went on until the point that the caregiver started giving names to the robots. So the robots suddenly were not just robots but Andy, Joe and Sally. At that moment, the brutal behavior stopped. So, its very interesting because again its sort of like giving a name to the robot immediately puts it a little closer to the in-group.”
So the solution is to teach kids that machines are people? Fantastic. What if, and I know this might sound simple, ignorant, or possibly even on-the-wrong-side-of-history, but what if we don’t want machines as part of the in-group? What if assigning humanity to a tool cheapens and debases our own self-awareness and understanding of what it means to be conscious?
I’m not going.
Let me just step up on this here soapbox for a minute. The whole problem is this shoving the future on us whether we want it or not. The Times article cites a Brown University and M.I.T. study that showed adding a robot to a workforce reduced the number of employed humans by six. In the very near future we will have armed security robots. We know these machines are coming, we know they’re changing the world, and we know it’s unavoidable. We need to treat them like the tools they are, not like people. We need, more than anything, to learn to celebrate humanity and all conscious non-humans (if I ever see a robot messing with an elephant, that’s going to be one broken robot), not blur the lines between conscious creatures and machines. Forcing people to deny a basic truth—that machines aren’t people—will only make people angrier in the short term, and in the long term will only further the mechanization and dehumanization of the world at large.
Last year, I wrotea piece here at Mysterious Universeexamining historical cases of UFO censorship in Hollywood products. For the most part, those censorship efforts were in line with the CIA Robertson Panel’s officially stated policy that UFOs are essentially non-existent and should therefore be “debunked and demystified” through media channels.
But what about the flipside of the coin? Is there any substance to the popular notion that the government has been using Hollywood not to censor UFO information, but to encourage us to believe in alien visitation? Conclusive proof of a UFO acclimation agenda remains elusive as the entire theory rests on only a small handful of cases scattered across the decades, which I present in my book,Silver Screen Saucers. Arguably the most compelling case in support of a government alien acclimation agenda is that of the feature documentary film UFOs: Past, Present, and Future (1974).
In 1972, filmmaker Robert Emenegger and his producing partner Allan Sandler were encouraged by the United States Air Force (USAF) to make a major documentary feature about the UFO phenomenon. Emenegger, a former Vice President and Creative Director at Grey Advertising (a real-life Don Draper from Man Men), told me that his partner “had very strange connections” for a producer and that he thought Sandler “did things for the CIA, and maybe even the FBI… they all seemed to work together.”
Robert Emenegger and the book based on his documentary film of the same name.
Emenegger was ideally suited to an assignment of this nature. As a student at UCLA in the mid-1950s, his thesis examined “The Influence of Motion Pictures on Public Behavior,” and the the young Emenegger was particularly interested in how cinema could be used “as an instrument of propaganda.” Additionally, Emenegger had spent a number of years working for the United States Information Agency (or USIA—a politically correct name given the government’s long-running propaganda agency). Emenegger had also performed duties for President Richard Nixon. In December 1968, the then President-elect wrote to Emenegger seeking his “active participation and assistance” in finding “exceptional individuals” worthy of appointment in his incoming administration. Nixon referred to Emenegger as “a leader” and “in a position to know and recommend… the best minds in America.”
Norton Air Force Base, circa 1970.
Emenegger described to me how he was briefed on the UFO project at Norton Air Force Base in “a clean room used by the CIA… so there was no way anyone could eavesdrop on us.” In an offer similar to that made to Walt Disney some twenty years earlier, the USAF promised Emenegger real UFO footage, this time allegedly showing a UFO landing at Holloman Air Force Base in 1971 and the subsequent face-to-face meeting between alien visitors and delegates of the US government. Emenegger was sceptical, but he was assured by the USAF that the footage existed and was genuine.
While he waited for the footage to materialize, Emenegger and his crew continued with their wider production research, for which they were given unprecedented access to DoD facilities, including the Pentagon. Emenegger was even granted time with high-ranking military officers well-versed in UFO-related matters, among them Col. William Coleman, a former spokesman for Project Blue Book, and Col. George Weinbrenner, then head of Foreign Technology at Wright Patterson Air Force Base—the location where alien materials and bodies allegedly recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash are said to have been stored.
Col. William Coleman.
But who in the Air Force would sign off on such a controversial project? Emenegger put this question to Pentagon spokesman Col. Coleman, who informed him that “the Secretary of the Air Force gave us the order to cooperate.” Thus, in an unprecedented move, the Air Force, Army, and Navy gave their full backing to a UFO-themed production—so too did NASA, who provided Emenegger’s research team with previously unreleased photographs of what appeared to be UFOs in space taken by Gemini astronauts. “We had carte blanche to go anywhere, ask any questions,” Emenegger told me, “there were no restrictions put on us.” Emenegger even claims to have been shown “top secret” footage shot at Vandenberg Air Force Base which showed two UFOs “playfully running behind” a US missile.
After months of shooting, Emenegger’s documentary was complete, save for one crucial ingredient—the much-hyped alien landing footage. At the eleventh hour, the USAF withdrew its permission for use of the material; the political climate had changed, it said, and was now deemed inappropriate due to the Watergate scandal, which had recently broken in the news. “I felt like we had egg on our face,” Emenegger told me. “I felt cheated that we were not allowed to see this film. It was taken back to the Pentagon… I stupidly expected to have this footage, which would have been earth-shattering.” Today, Emenegger seems as baffled by the whole affair as anyone, “Were we had? Were we being used?” he asks.
Emenegger’s Golden-Globe-nominated documentary, UFOs: Past, Present and Future, was finally released in 1974 and was ground-breaking in its extensive use of information provided by the DoD. In addition to the aforementioned photographs from NASA, it featured sit-down interviews with the former heads of Project Blue Book, and footage shot inside the Pentagon of Col. Coleman talking open-mindedly about the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis. In the absence of the landing footage, Emenegger was forced to include an animated reconstruction of the event as described to him by the USAF, complete with artistic renderings of the alleged aliens. The documentary presented the incident as “one that might happen in the future, or perhaps could have happened already.”
An artist’s imagining of the alleged Holloman UFO landing, based on details provided to the filmmakers by the US Air Force.
But the promised landing footage wasn’t entirely absent, at least not according to Emenegger. During the dramatic reconstruction of the alleged landing, eagle-eyed viewers can catch a few frames of what appears to be a genuine, self-luminescent Unidentified Flying Object descending slowly in the distance against the backdrop of Holloman’s surrounding landscape. These frames, Emenegger claims, were taken from the original landing footage and authorised by the USAF during the editing stage for use in his completed documentary.
Although Emenegger’s documentary was green-lit by the Secretary of the Air Force, the roots of the project likely lead back to Langley, Virginia, and to the CIA. Emenegger revealed to me that it was his production partner, the CIA-connected Allan Sandler, who brought the project to him in the first place; and let us not forget that Emenegger received his briefing at Norton Air Force Base in a CIA “clean room.” Furthermore, Emenegger told me that a “CIA courier” named Dick Beske shadowed him and his crew throughout his documentary’s entire production process. Beske was “always hanging around us,” said Emenegger, “observing.”
Richard “Dick” Beske later became a member of the steering group for Veteran Intelligence Officers for Sanity (VIPS), an organization comprised of former and serving officials of the United States Intelligence Community, including some from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the U.S. State Department’s Intelligence Bureau, and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). VIPs was formed in January 2003 as a “coast-to-coast enterprise” to protest the use of faulty intelligence in the lead-up to the US-led invasion of Iraq.
It should be noted that Emenegger’s documentary was re-edited and re-released in 1979 featuring additional content. It also received a new title: UFOs: It has Begun. You can watch it here (the Holloman landing reconstruction begins around the 1:17:00 mark, towards the end of the documentary)…
Could it be there really is a government agenda to acclimate us to UFO reality? If so, then, on the face of it, those behind this agenda would, at times, have been working in direct opposition to the Pentagon, which has worked hard over the years to keep UFOs out of the popular imagination and/or to distance itself from UFO conspiracy theories onscreen. But perhaps there has long been a separate, more sophisticated power group working through the national security apparatus—one whose Hollywood agenda transcends the polarized dynamic of debunk vs. acclimate? The UFO subject has always been a divisive one, even within the corridors of power, and it would be a mistake to assume that all branches of the government and military see eye-to-eye on this thorny issue. If there is a hidden hand tweaking and seeding Hollywood’s UFO-themed products, it could well belong to a group or agency so secretive that its very existence is unknown to the public—a quasi-governmental/quasi-private entity accountable only to itself. Something to contemplate while you’re munching on your popcorn at the next big alien movie.
Cigar-shaped UFO flying through space during display of the Northern Lights
Cigar-shaped UFO flying through space during display of the Northern Lights
The following footage has been recorded from the LiveCam on January 15, 2019 and shows a UFO flying at a high speed through space during a fascinating display of an aurora borealis also called the northern lights.
Compared to cigar-shaped UFOs this UFO seems to have a kind of square structure across the rear end of the craft.
Over the years it has been proven that more UFO observations have been reported of cigar-shaped or cylindrical UFOs than any other type of alien craft.
I found a giant disk at the center of Saturns North Pole. The UFO is a double layer craft and seems to be driving the storms to become more powerful all around it. I has long been believed among astrobiologist that the storms on Saturn were being created by aliens on purpose to either hide the surface or to mix a perfect level of gasses together to mix the required atmosphere to breath. Not all aliens breath air, but must have other gases to stay alive. Here is proof that aliens do control the storms on Saturn.
UFO landing in the garden of a Doncaster house, South Yorkshire, England, Jan 17, 2019, Security Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO landing in the garden of a Doncaster house, South Yorkshire, England, Jan 17, 2019, Security Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 17, 2019
Location of sighting: South Yorkshire, England
The video that we show you today was recorded on the evening of 17 January 2019 and shows a globe of light (UFO) that lands in the garden of a house in the town of Doncaster, located in South Yorkshire (England). In the security cam video you can see how the sphere of light, once landed, seems to stand for a few seconds in the garden. The eyewitness then states that the light then suddenly in a flash of light disappears, but I don't see this in the video. Perhaps the eyewitness cut it out for some unknown reason.
Such UFOs have been seen before over Dome of Rock temple in many years ago. I will put the video below.
Strange Purple Light Hovers Over Town In Utah, Jan 15, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Strange Purple Light Hovers Over Town In Utah, Jan 15, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 15, 2019 Location of sighting: Utah, USA This strange purple light was seen on an overcast night over their town in Utah last week. The purple light stayed in position, but changed in luminosity over several minutes. The eyewitness uploaded the video to Youtube asking people what they think this strange light is or what could cause it? But no-one could come up with any explanation...except that it might be a UFO. I know that this is not a purple laser, because I own several...red, green, purple but purple lasers would leave a long purple line visible before it hit the clouds above. This is truly bizarre. Scott C. Waring
Mysterious Multiple Objects Appear Moving Towards Earth During NASA Spacewalk Live Stream
Mysterious Multiple Objects Appear Moving Towards Earth During NASA Spacewalk Live Stream
The International Space Station live stream seems to show multiple UFOs moving towards Earth. The video sparks secret alien contact claims among viewers.
The ISS live stream clip is for a NASA-led spacewalk, but it apparently reveals at least two UFOs are moving towards Earth. The fast-moving UFOs that appear to be reflecting the sunlight shock the viewers. The one that is closer to Earth seems to be spinning across the sky.
Also in the clip are two astronauts working on the spacecraft during the live stream. Many viewers believe the reflection of the sun causes the flashing lights of the object.
Initially, the flashes appear dim but later get brighter, leading to a claim that it is a high-tech UFO.
NASA always refuses to talk about these observations and instead takes a stance to ignore questions related to them.
The footage has been seen about half a million times. One viewer commented that it was terrific NASA did not cut the feed. The space agency is known to many conspiracy theorists of cutting feeds of an anomalous incident, leading in an abrupt end of the live stream.
During the reign of king Tut between 1333 BC and 1324 BC, the understanding of iron metallurgy, or indeed the casting of such objects was very limited. Iron smelting is the extraction of usable metal from oxidized iron ores.
It is vastly more difficult than smelting tin and copper, such metals could be cold-worked in simple pottery kilns, and then cast into moulds, a process largely accepted as being present within ancient Egyptian times. However, the smelting of iron requires hot-working, and can only be melted in specially designed extremely heated furnaces. It is therefore not surprising that humans only mastered iron smelting after several millennia of the bronze age. However, there is a pair of relics, found within ancient Egypt, who’s sheer existence disprove the officially held, chronological account of when these hardened metals were developed. Or do they? … Within the ancient wrappings of the sarcophagus which contained pharaoh Tutankhamen, two daggers were discovered. Encased in gold sheaths, they were placed there more than 3000 years prior, for the king’s protection within the afterlife. One had an iron blade and the other with a blade made of hardened gold. Yet both are not made from regular metals, amazingly, these daggers are in fact, made from metals not native to Earth. It is officially accepted that it would have been quite difficult, nigh impossible, for ancient civilizations to have acquired iron in pure states, so most of the pure iron found in weaponry within this mysterious culture, are academically accepted as coming from quote, “meteoric sources.” This explanation, may be easier to digest for the majority of the population of earth, however, it is not only a flawed explanation, but illogical. If this ancient Egyptian civilization which possessed knowledge we are yet to re discover, did indeed extract these alien metals from meteorites, yet largely accepted to have not been able to cast such metals, then an obvious question arises, how did they cast the metal into daggers? The official explanation offered provides no answer, as is often the case with out of place artefacts. A more logical scenario, is that these daggers were in fact the remnants of a far older civilisation, a civilisation responsible for the construction of ancient Egypt, a group of people visited by, or indeed travelled too, people from another world entirely. Additionally, modern, advanced metallurgical analysis found that the iron dagger, is not a normal meteoritic iron, but a complex, intelligent, and very strong alloy, containing varying amounts of nickel, chromium, and cobalt. Furthermore, the nickel content is so high, nearly 25%, it makes this alloy totally different from those made by man. The Alchemy required to make such a non-rusting metal, was developed many centuries, of not millennia after king Tuts death. Just where did these daggers come from? How old could they actually be? Were they made as a gift by a race who visited earth? Apart from our postulations, it seems no one can produce a working theory.
NEW DISCOVERY! EGYPTIAN PHARAOH DNA NT OF THIS WORLD? 2019-2020
NEW DISCOVERY! EGYPTIAN PHARAOH DNA NT OF THIS WORLD? 2019-2020
Aknauten was a Pharaoh in the 18th dynasty. father of the famous king Tut. He would soon be called the heratic King. Because of the extent at which the ancient Egyptians went to erase his legacy from history. Because of this. very little is known about him. but what we do know about him makes us wonder who or what he really was.
Ancient Vimana Discovered in Secret Underground Chamber? Srirangam Temple, India
Ancient Vimana Discovered in Secret Underground Chamber? Srirangam Temple, India
Hey guys, what you are seeing is the actual footage of a secret underground chamber in the ancient temple of Srirangam in India. This underground chamber was discovered in 2015 and experts confirm that this is an authentic video. The temple of Srirangam is at least 2000 years old and contains many ancient secrets. A week after this chamber was opened, authorities completely closed it and sealed with granite blocks and metal doors, which is what you see here. There is no way to enter or examine it now. What was inside the underground vault which was so secretive, that the entire structure had to be sealed off? I have been talking to several locals about this, and this is what really happened.
Until 2015, this entrance was closed with 2 doors made of granite stone blocks and nobody knew how to open them. Authorities finally broke these doors, and entered the room at the ground level. Look at what is carved on the top of this doorway. It undoubtedly shows 2 doors closing the entrance and there is a conical sign below, pointing vertically underneath the floor. These were ancient symbols clearly pointing to something important, I am not sure if this is why authorities decided to break the doors and go in. When authorities entered this room at the ground level, they found a conical sign carved on the floor. They started removing the rocks on the floor in that spot, and they found that it leads to this underground vault.
You can clearly see that this chamber is at the underground level. But another chamber was also discovered directly underneath this level as well. Construction workers who saw it with their own eyes confirm this. You can see a small rectangle covered with dirt, and a pole placed on it. This was the doorway that led to the next underground level, which had something extraordinary. It is obvious that authorities have covered this with a stone block, put some dirt and placed a pole on it, so no one can open it. There would be no need for the pole, if there was nothing underneath. There is no footage of the 2nd underground chamber, and authorities completely sealed everything within a week after opening that chamber.
What did the underground vault have? Why was the contents not shown to the public? It is obvious that there was some ancient secret inside the vaults, because if the chambers were really empty, there is no need to seal off everything. I said chambers because look at here (2.05) this is a door knob which would lead to the next vault. And (1.12 ) look – this is a new block, placed recently. These evidences prove that authorities found more vaults nearby and then closed everything off.
So far, everything we have seen is remarkably similar to what happened in Padmanabaswamy temple. The Padmanabhaswamy temple also has many underground chambers and valuables worth at least 17 Billion dollars were found and the final chamber has still not been opened. The Padmanabhaswamy and Srirangam temple are remarkably similar to one another, both are dedicated to Lord Vishnu. Even the main deities in the sanctum look identical. Did these underground vaults at Sri Rangam also contain large amounts of gold and diamonds like the Padmanabaswamy temple? While construction workers confirm that a large treasure was in fact found, they also reveal something much more shocking: one of these vaults contained a 10 foot tall metallic Vimana, a flying machine, which made a rattling sound when moved.
Are locals making up this story or was a small aircraft really found here? Around the world, We have heard several eyewitness accounts of small UFOs and flying saucers, one even crashed in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. But this is the first time we are hearing of such a small, ancient spacecraft in India. Did ancient builders safeguard a Vimana in the underground area of the temple? If this is the case, they would have definitely made some carvings about them. Remember, I have repeatedly demonstrated that ancient builders always leave clues in the form of carvings. Even in this temple, note how they had carved the doors and the conical sign which were clues to open the doors and dig underneath.
So, I began exploring the carvings in this temple, but this was a monumental task because there are more than 25,000 carvings in this temple – this is the largest temple in India which stretches for miles. But I find exactly what we are looking for. Here is a carving of a Vimana, an aircraft hanging in mid-air, this is actually in a flying position. And this is not the only carving I found, there are several flying machines carved in this temple. And it is interesting to see that these Vimanas also resemble temple towers.
Now what does the term Vimana mean? Ancient Indian texts clearly describe vimana as an aircraft or spacecraft used by Gods who came down from the sky. Human beings later built stone models of these flying machines, and used the same name for the models as well. This is why all temple towers are aerodynamically shaped and resemble spacecraft and this why these towers are also known a Vimanas. But these carvings are definitely not temple towers. Why? Because temple towers cannot hang in mid-air, these are obviously flying devices. And look at the bottom of these Vimanas, each Vimana is different from the other, and each one has a specific cymatic design at the center. There would be absolutely no need to put these cymatic patterns at the base of a temple tower because this design would merely be buried in the ground. But all modern spacecraft, would have a circular hole at the bottom center to provide thrust. And this is what we see in these ancient Vimanas as well. Each cymatic pattern in these Vimanas indicates a specific frequency which was used for propulsion. In fact, ancient Vedic texts clearly state that there is a specific mantra or sound pattern assigned to activate specific types of Vimanas. And if we decode these cymatic patterns, we might finally understand the secret of these ancient flying machines. And we may be even be able to rebuild an actual Vimana.
But what’s really strange is that, there is already a large metallic Vimana in Srirangam, which is hiding in plain sight. When we look at the aerial view of Srirangam temple, we realize that something is not right. There are a total of 21 temple towers or Vimanas, but only 20 are made of stone. One Vimana, the one at the very center, is made out of solid gold. People are not allowed to take photographs of this golden vimana, and it is even protected with an electric fence. Who built this Golden Vimana, and what is the purpose of it? While modern history books are not able to give us a definite answer, the ancient historical text called Sri Ranga Mahatmiyam clearly mentions that the Golden Vimana was not constructed, but appeared on its own. This Vimana was the original vehicle of Lord Vishnu, and the rest of the stone structures around it were built much later in time. There are pictorial representations of Lord Vishnu standing inside a dome, carved on this golden Vimana. Locals confirm that there are underground vaults right underneath the golden tower as well, and those chambers were also sealed off about 50 years ago.
This means that this vast temple area is full of underground structures just like Ellora Caves. This is the reason why many areas such as the 1000 pillared hall are locked. See how this entire area cannot be accessed by visitors. I mean, what is the need to restrict access to a hall which only has stone pillars? Is it because it also has entry ways to underground chambers?
But the most important question is this: What happened to the 10 foot tall Vimana found underground? Is it currently in the sealed chamber or has it been moved somewhere? We can see a strange pattern emerging among ancient sites in India. The Padmanabaswamy temple, the Submerged city of Dwaraka, and now the Srirangam temple. Someone accidentally finds evidence of a lost civilization but instead of showing the contents to the public, authorities completely cover it up from the public eyes. Why do they prevent us from learning the }about ancient technology?
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Earth is surrounded by a cloud of defunct satellites that can be hazardous to working spacecraft — but it doesn't have to be that way.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/JSC
"Space is for everyone" is a popular saying, but it rarely holds true — partly because space is expensive, and partly because certain countries have decades of a head start and established procedures to rely on.
Rethinking those established procedures, however, could address not just inequity, but other looming challenges in space exploration as well. That's the argument that powers the research of Danielle Wood, who runs a program at MIT's Media Lab, which focuses on how to do things in space that further equity and justiceon Earth.
Much of that ambivalence stems from the space race, which played out against a geopolitical landscape of intense nationalism that used space as a power play — both through the hard power of aiding weapons research and the soft power of seeking to impress newly independent former colonies. America's early spaceflight work was also deeply rooted in military goals, and our first rockets were designed and built by engineers recruited from Nazi Germany after World War II.
While Wood appreciates the importance of physical security, she said it's past time to shift the goals of space so that projects align more closely with other values humans hold, like justice — which she defines as ensuring everyone can access space and use its technology to meet local goals. She focuses her work around the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, a set of 17 global priorities created by the U.N. Development Program. Sample goals include ending hunger, ensuring access to clean water and addressing climate change and its effects.
Traditional space technology does sometimes address these issues. For example, satellite data can inform agricultural practices, for example, and a whole fleet of satellites keep an eye on climate indicators. But they do so within the confines of the same satellite design and rocket technology that underpins all other uses of space. Wood believes in putting these values at the base of a project, so that they infuse every step of the way.
Consider how we power rockets in the first place — with huge quantities of toxic, flammable rocket fuel that scientists suspect is polluting Earth's upper atmosphere. Engineers regularly work to reduce the amount of fuel they need, but Wood pushes the question deeper. "Can we choose ingredients for spacecraft that are not so expensive or so difficult to operate?" she said. So her team is studying whether paraffin wax could replace rocket fuel, since it's cheaper and safer to handle.
Another area in which Wood is working is how satellites are created. "Our current approach mainly depends on doing a design for a satellite that's complete on Earth," Wood said. "We can imagine a future in which there are basically small factories available in space." Incorporating technology like 3-D printing and modular parts, assembly could move to space, changing the engineering problems and costs involved in building satellites.
Such an approach could also affect the challenges and costs at the other end of the production cycle. Right now, when satellites are no longer in use, most are carefully de-orbited to avoid cluttering space — but for decades, the first spacefaring nations didn't stop to worry about leaving junk in orbit. That gave them an advantage. "Early space actors could take sort of a lazy approach to satellite engineering," Wood said. As long as it reached space safely and did its job without breaking, it was a success. [Explorer 1: America's First Satellite in Pictures]
Newer satellite builders don't have that luxury, since space junk has become such a challenge — they need a cleaner endgame. And they have to work around debris already in place, designing trajectories and technologies that keep their creations safe from the litter of previous satellites, which can cause extremely damaging collisions. "They're also inheriting the physical realities of what's happening in orbit due to space debris," she said.
But rethink satellite production, Wood said, and space junk could be designed out of the system. Satellites that have served their purpose could be split into their modular parts or melted into 3D printer stock material, regenerating their successors.
And such overhauls could also close the gap between building satellites and getting them to space. Even as cheaper small satellites like cubesats have proliferated, more established spacefaring nations still control most launch opportunities, with the notable exception of a United Nations' program that has helped countries like Kenya and Mauritius build satellites launched from the International Space Station. If a satellite can be built in orbit, its creator doesn't need to rely on launch capability.
That would let more countries use space to pursue the goals that make sense for them on the ground — and make space a more just place, Wood said.
NASA’s New “Fermi Guide” to Advanced Alien Life (Weekend Feature)
NASA’s New “Fermi Guide” to Advanced Alien Life (Weekend Feature)
This past December 2018 an exciting event took place: NASA researcher Silvano Colombano, who works for the agency’s Ames Research Center in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, published a white paper that Enrico Fermi would have given a rave review titled “New Assumptions to Guide SETI Research.” In short, the document was a fresh look at the Fermi Paradox that attempts to answer the eternal human question: Are we alone? Where is evidence of another advanced civilization?
Colombano challenged the set of assumptions that currently guide SETI research and made recommendations for a new, more “aggressive” approach. Recent discoveries, he observed, from the Kepler Mission data have identified planetary system as old as 10.4 Gyr (a Gyr equal to one billion years) Kepler-10 and 11.2 Gyr, Kepler-444. Considering that the age of our solar system is about 4.5 Gyr, earth like planets could exist that are 6 billion years older than Earths.
We live in a universe where matter is distributed in a hundred billion galaxies, each containing a hundred billion stars, made up of quantum fields where space and time are not existent, that manifest themselves in the form of particles, such as electrons and photons, or as waves. Tucked into the 14-billion-year history … Continue readingThe Aliens Before Us –“We are Not the First Technological Civilization” (Or, are We?)
Technological development in our civilization started only about 10,000 years ago and has seen the rise of scientific methodologies only in the past 500 years, means that we can surmise that we might have a real problem in predicting technological evolution even for the next thousand years, let alone that of a civilization a million or more years older.
The core ideas of Columbano’s new SETI guide:
1. Interstellar travel is impossible or highly unlikely. Clearly distance and energy are insurmountable problems for the technologies we have available and our present understanding of physics. Still we are able to fathom possibilities of achieving much greater understanding and control of matter-energy and space-time. Even if the speed of light continues to be an unbreakable barrier, over spans of thousands of years civilizations could probably make interstellar journeys, depending on what assumptions we make about the forms of life that they will comprise (see below).
“I do not believe that most advanced alien civilizations will be biological,” says Susan Schneider of the University of Connectict and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton .”The most sophisticated civilizations will be postbiological, forms of artificial intelligence or alien superintelligence.” Schneider is one of the few thinkers—outside the realm of science fiction— … Continue reading“Alien Artificial Intelligence is Out There” –And It’s Billions of Years Old (A 2018 Most Viewed)
2. Radio waves continue to be the major form of communication for thousands or millions of years. I suspect, he writes, 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, unless a civilization would in fact decide to use it as a beacon. Even with that intention, that form of communication might quickly have become obsolete, and they might choose other types of beacons for civilizations that are closer in development to theirs. Whether and how civilizations would choose to communicate could also be a fertile field of technosociological study.
3. Intelligent civilizations would be based on carbon life Given the fairly common presence of elements that might be involved in the origin of life throughout the universe, 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 ours and no longer based on carbon “machinery”. After a mere 50 years of computer evolution we are already talking about “super-intelligence” and we are quickly becoming symbiotic with computer power.
I don’t want to address here the issue of the survival of our species, he writes, or its future “role” within a continuing evolution of millions of years. He simply wants 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. 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. And how might this change our assumptions about openness or desire to communicate with other civilizations?
4. We have not been, and are not being… visited. It seems to me, Columbano observes, that SETI has ignored (at least officially) the potential relevance of UFO phenomena for three reasons: 1) The assumption of extremely low likelihood of interstellar travel, 2) The very high likelihood of hoaxes, mistaken perceptions or even psychotic events in UFO phenomena, and 3) The general avoidance of the subject by the scientific community.
I think, he continued, the approach the scientific community could take, instead, is very similar to what SETI has done so far: find the signal in the noise. 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 inquiry.
Columbano points to new opportunities: The recent Kepler discoveries of Earth-like planets offer the opportunity to focus our attention on detecting signs of life and technology in specific planetary systems, but I feel we need to become more flexible in our assumptions. 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.
In light of the challenges described above he proposes a more “aggressive” approach to future SETI exploration, in the following directions:
1. Engage physicists in what might be called “speculative physics”, still grounded in our most solid theories but with some willingness to stretch possibilities as to the nature of space-time and energy.
2. Engage technologists in futuristic exploration of how technology might evolve, especially with Artificial Intelligence, “Evolvable Robotic Systems” and symbiosis of biology with machines.
3. Engage sociologists in speculation about what kinds of societies we might expect from the above developments, and whether and how they might choose to communicate.
4. Consider the UFO phenomenon worthy of study in the context of a system with very low signal to noise ratio, but nevertheless with the possibility of challenging some of our assumptions and pointing to new possibilities for communication and discovery.
THE YELLOWSTONE volcano could wipe out more than three-quarters of the US in the event of an eruption and a researcher warns that, if it happens, people must "head east as fast as you can", a bombshell documentary has revealed.
The supervolcano, located inYellowstoneNational Park, has erupted three times in history – 2.1 million years ago, 1.2 million years ago and 640,000 years ago. Scientists have previously revealed that, should an earthquake occur, it could take less than two weeks before a catastrophic reaction event. Now, researchers are plotting the safest evacuation in case of an emergency.
Survivalists Martin and Steven run YouTube channel Team Hack Life, where they provide key information on crisis situations.
Last week, they posted mini-documentary “Yellowstone Volcano Eruption – How to Find Safety”, where they discussed the possible outcomes should the volcano blow.
Martin revealed: “Where would it be safe if Yellowstone did erupt? The easy answer is head east as fast as you can.
“The states of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming would be the most affected by the initial blast.
Researchers have warned about Yellowstone's effects
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Martin revealed a map of the affected areas
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The easy answer is head east as fast as you can.
Martin, Team Hack Life
“Scientists have predicted how the event would go down with a map."
He then revealed a diagram showing six zones in the US and how they would each be affected.
He added: “Zone one, which is a radius of 100 miles, could see 70,000 people die instantly.
“Zone two, which starts after 100 miles, would be covered in 10ft of volcanic ash at 450C.
“After the second zone, your chances of surviving increase, but still head east as fast as you can.
yellowstone volcano is located in Yellowstone National Park
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Yellowstone last blew more than 600,000 years ago
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“Beyond zone six is where you would be the safest in the US for the short term, but the wind will greatly determine where ash falls.”
Martin went on to describe how, even after surviving the initial blow, humans around the world could fall victim to a volcanic winter.
He detailed: “Much like a nuclear winter, a volcanic winter is when there’s enough ash in the atmosphere to cool down the planet by one or two degrees.
“Two degrees doesn’t sound like much, but this shift in temperature could cause the deaths of Billions of people.
“Those deaths would not be caused by ash filled lungs but would be caused by starvation as the volcanic winter causes the decimation of agricultural crops around the globe.”
Ancient woman with ‘ALIEN-LIKE' SKULL unearthed in Russia (VIDEO)
Ancient woman with ‘ALIEN-LIKE' SKULL unearthed in Russia (VIDEO)
The remains of a woman, believed to be from antiquity, with an elongated alien-like skull has been found during excavations of an ancient burial site in southern Russia.
Since 2017 bones belonging to humans and numerous wild and domestic animals, along with a large number of ceramics, ornaments and bronze arrowheads have been discovered at the remarkable Gamurzievsky settlement in the city of Nazran, Ingushetia.
However this week’s discovery of a woman’s skeleton – which dates back to between the 4th and 6th century – is particularly unique because of the fascinating intentional deformation of her skull and neck.
The practice of changing the shape of one’s head, scientifically known as artificial cranial deformation (ACD), is a known tradition among many peoples of the world. Today, the result resembles Hollywood’s perception of what a alien from outer space might look like.
“History knows many examples of purposeful change in the shape of the head,” said a representative from the Yevgeny Krupnov Archaeological Center carrying out the dig.
Skulls were elongated from infancy using rings and repeated bandaging for the first few years of life as a sign of a special status to command certain privileges in society. Remains of elite ancestors from various tribes including the Sarmatians, Alans, Huns have also been found to have elongated skulls.
Last year scientists finally identified the 1,500-year-old remains of several high-ranking “treaty brides” from Bulgaria and Romania discovered with tower-shaped skulls. In Peru some 38 high-ranking members of the pre-Inca population were also found with teardrop-shaped heads that represented their prestige and social rank.
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Merkwaardig gevormde schedel opgegraven in zuiden van Rusland. Bekijk hier beelden
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Merkwaardig gevormde schedel opgegraven in zuiden van Rusland. Bekijk hier beelden
Archeologen hebben opnieuw een skelet met een vreemd gevormde schedel gevonden, die doet denken aan de zogeheten Paracas-schedels die in Peru zijn ontdekt.
Vooral het gebit is opvallend goed bewaard gebleven.
Geschat wordt dat het skelet, dat ontdekt is bij de stad Nazran in Rusland, ongeveer 1700 jaar oud is.
Onverklaarbare lichten
Eerder werden al merkwaardig gevormde schedels ontdekt in Arkaim in het zuiden van Rusland.
Die archeologische vindplaats wordt ook wel het Russische Stonehenge genoemd, omdat er ook resten zijn gevonden van een monolithisch monument.
Wetenschappers nemen aan dat het bouwwerk ooit werd gebruikt voor astronomische doeleinden.
Sommige bezoekers hebben er naar verluidt onverklaarbare lichten gezien of begonnen te hallucineren.
Schedelvervorming
Arkaim en de nabijgelegen Zuidelijke Oeral zijn daarnaast een hotspot voor UFO-waarnemingen.
In het verleden leidde de vondst van een vreemd gevormde schedel vaak tot berichten over aliens, maar inmiddels is bekend dat oude culturen geregeld aan schedelvervorming deden.
Ouders vervormden de schedel van een kind bijvoorbeeld door middel van massage.
Status
Sommigen speculeren dat bepaalde culturen aan schedelvervorming deden als teken van status.
Anderen beweren dat de schedels werden vervormd als verwijzing naar een buitenaards ras dat onze voorouders zou hebben bezocht.
DRONE BIJ VLIEGVELD HEATHROW OF TOCH IETS ANDERS ? (VIDEO )
DRONE BIJ VLIEGVELD HEATHROW OF TOCH IETS ANDERS ? (VIDEO )
Nadat eerst het Londense vliegveld Gatwick dagenlang was platgelegd vanwege een drone, was het daarna de beurt aan het andere vliegveld, Heathrow.
Zoals later bleek was er bij Gatwick sprake van iets anders dan een drone en het lijkt erop dat dit ook bij Heathrow het geval was.
Een drone lijkt natuurlijk altijd een plausibele verklaring voor onbekende objecten die in de buurt van vliegtuigen of vliegvelden komen. Iedereen is bekend met het fenomeen drone en iedereen kan zich voorstellen dat dit voor mogelijke problemen kan zorgen.
En natuurlijk, vaak zijn het ook drones die worden waargenomen, maar niet altijd.
Iets meer dan een maand geleden was er de situatie dat het vliegveld Gatwick nabij Londen dagenlang werd gesloten.Uiteraard is de verklaring ook hier een drone, er werden zelfs mensen opgepakt en later weer vrijgelaten en uiteindelijk bleek dat er wel degelijk een ufo bij het vliegveld was waargenomen.
Vluchten vanaf de Londense luchthaven Heathrow zijn korte tijd aan de grond gehouden. De luchthaven heeft laten weten dat het om een voorzorgsmaatregel ging, nadat er mogelijk een drone in de omgeving was gezien.
,,Wij kregen een melding dat er een drone gezien is op Heathrow en werken nauw samen met de politie om elke dreiging uit te sluiten’’, meldde de luchthaven in een mededeling op Twitter. De politie werd ingeschakeld om te onderzoeken of er inderdaad een drone was waargenomen. Ook een politiehelikopter was ter plaatse. Uit voorzorg werden alle vertrekkende vluchten tegengehouden, vliegtuigen konden nog wel landen.
De dag daarop, 9 januari, is de bekende politicus Nigel Farrage te gast in een lokaal radioprogramma waar mensen ook naartoe kunnen bellen en met hem spreken.
Eén van die bellers vertelt Farrage dat hij de vorige dag in de buurt van Heathrow een witte ufo heeft gezien. De getuige is een jongeman die Sadish heet en in Hounslow woont, vlakbij het vliegveld.
Hij ontmoette die ochtend zijn vriend die eruit zag alsof hij een geest had gezien. Sadish vroeg zijn vriend of hij misschien ziek was, waarop deze het hoofd schudde en zei: “Nee, ik heb een ufo gezien, kom mee naar buiten”.
Sadish beschrijft het object dat zich op enkele kilometers afstand van het vliegveld bevond als een grote witte stip, met daaromheen twee cirkels en een andere kleinere cirkel in het midden.
Alhoewel ze geen beeldmateriaal hebben is Sadish ervan overtuigd dat het geen ster was wat ze hebben gezien, want daarvoor was het veel te dichtbij.
Dat wat Sadish en zijn vriend zagen is waarschijnlijk wel gefilmd op een andere dag, ook op enkele kilometers afstand van Heathrow. De volgende opname werd gemaakt op 28 december.
Eerder deze week schreven wij over de verdwenen voetballer Sala die met vliegtuig en al in de buurt van de Kanaaleilanden verdween zonder enig spoor na te laten.
Ook deze locatie is niet zo gek ver van Londen en in het gebied waar Sala is verdwenen, is al eerder een beroemd iemand met vliegtuig en al verdwenen zoals een lezer ons schreef (dank!):
Het verhaal van het verdwenen vliegtuig met voetballer Sala doet me denken aan bandleider Glenn Miller.
Die is in 1944 óók boven het Kanaal met vliegtuig en al spoorloos verdwenen. Dat op die locatie soms vreemde dingen gebeuren staat wel vast.
Drones en een ongeluk? Of is er toch iets heel anders aan de hand in en rondom Engeland?
Fans of actual athletic competitions have been running away from the Summer Olympics since the televised events have been dominated by gymnastics, swimming and the opening and closing ceremonies. Fans of track-and-field events have almost no reason to watch, especially if they’re hoping to see the throwing events — shot put, discus, hammer and javelin. Those events never make it to the coverage unless someone is hit by one of the airborne objects … especially a javelin. That’s too bad, because, outside of running and swimming, this spear-throwing event is probably one of the oldest, dating back far beyond the ancient Olympic games. In fact, a new study suggests the first prehistoric javelin competition may have been between a Homo sapien and … a Neanderthal! Who won? Did he get a rock-on-a-rope to hang around his neck?
“While the earliest weapons are often considered to be hand-held and consequently short-ranged, the subsequent appearance of distance weapons is a crucial development. Projectiles are seen as an improvement over contact weapons, and are considered by some to have originated only with our own species in the Middle Stone Age and Upper Palaeolithic.”
The study, “External ballistics of Pleistocene hand-thrown spears: experimental performance data and implications for human evolution,” published recently in Scientific Reports, begins with what researchers have long assumed – that humans came up with the idea of throwing sharp sticks instead of just running with them and putting their eyes out. The oldest known spears are the Schöningen spears, eight wooden throwing spears from the Palaeolithic Age that were found amongst thousands of animal bones in Schöningen, Germany. That makes them about 400,000 years old, which predates the Neanderthals. Dr. Annemieke Milks (UCL Institute of Archaeology), the study leader, wondered if the Neanderthals, besides having sex with humans, shared any other kinds of spearing.
The Neanderthals were a cousin species of humans but not a direct ancestor - the two species split from a common ancestor - that perished around 50,000 years ago. Pictured is a Neanderthal museum exhibit
To find out, the researchers gave replicas of the Schöningen spears to six modern javelin throwers (who were probably grateful for the workout). Modern javelins are made of metal and are between 2.6 and 2.7 m (8 ft 6 in and 8 ft 10 in) in length and 800 g (28 oz) in weight. The replicas were made by hand from Norwegian spruce trees and weighed between 760 g and 800 g – what the Schöningen spears were believed to have weighed. The points were sharpened with stone tools, keeping the design as close to the original as possible.
Research has combined a fragment of a surviving spear found in Clacton-on-Sea (pictured) with javelin throwing athletes and found the projectiles were more efficient than previously thought
A whole replica of the spear from which the 400,000 year old spear fragment discovered in Clacton-on-Sea came from
Eric Lemming, first Olympic javelin winner
How did the athletes do with the Schöningen spears? They were able to hit targets up to 20 meters away with sufficient velocity and force that they would have penetrated the hide and body of a large animal. That wouldn’t have won an Olympic medal — the first Olympic javelin record was set by Sweden’s Eric Lemming, who competed from 1900 to 1912, with a throw of 62.32 meters or 204.5 feet. However, he didn’t have to aim his spear at a running beast, which would have been an interesting, albeit gruesome, event. Nonetheless, the Neanderthal spear throwers were winners too.
“The results show that distance hunting was likely within the repertoire of hunting strategies of Neanderthals, and the resulting behavioural flexibility closely mirrors that of our own species.”
Winners, yes. But perhaps this ability made them losers in a way. Study co-author Dr. Matt Pope, University College London, had this observation in Science Daily:
“The emergence of weaponry, technology designed to kill, is a critical but poorly established threshold in human evolution. We have forever relied on tools and have extended our capabilities through technical innovation. Understanding when we first developed the capabilities to kill at distance is therefore a dark, but important moment in our story.”
With every new discovery, we find out that we share more with the Neanderthals than we once thought.
Or are WE the Neanderthals?
WHEN DID HUMAN ANCESTORS FIRST EMERGE?
The timeline of human evolution can be traced back millions of years. Experts estimate that the family tree goes as such:
55 million years ago - First primitive primates evolve
15 million years ago - Hominidae (great apes) evolve from the ancestors of the gibbon
7 million years ago - First gorillas evolve. Later, chimp and human lineages diverge
A recreation of a Neanderthal man is pictured
5.5 million years ago - Ardipithecus, early 'proto-human' shares traits with chimps and gorillas
4 million years ago - Ape like early humans, the Australopithecines appeared. They had brains no larger than a chimpanzee's but other more human like features
3.9-2.9 million years ago - Australoipithecus afarensis lived in Africa.
2.7 million years ago - Paranthropus, lived in woods and had massive jaws for chewing
2.6 million years ago - Hand axes become the first major technological innovation
2.3 million years ago - Homo habilis first thought to have appeared in Africa
1.85 million years ago - First 'modern' hand emerges
1.8 million years ago - Homo ergaster begins to appear in fossil record
800,000 years ago- Early humans control fire and create hearths. Brain size increases rapidly
400,000 years ago - Neanderthals first begin to appear and spread across Europe and Asia
300,000 to 200,000 years ago - Homo sapiens - modern humans - appear in Africa
50,000 to 40,000 years ago - Modern humans reach Europe
In the long history of human warfare, we have constantly tried to one up each other on the battlefield, devising new technology, tactics, and weaponry to give ourselves the edge. In this sense it seems only natural that at some point we should turn to the vast wealth of supposed psychic poers lying within the human mind and try to use them to our military advantage, and this was, and perhaps still is, done on a surprisingly large scale within the American military and intelligence agencies. Here we have tales of psychic soldiers, men who stare at goats, and the American Jedi soldiers.
One of the most famous psychic projects pursued by the U.S. military was a program that sought to delve into tapping into a wide variety of mental powers in for military purposes, which was eventually called Project Stargate. Originally started in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, it was the brainchild of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and a California company called SRI International, and its scope would become wide beyond what enyone could have expected. The idea was simply to try and develop psychic powers for use in military operations, initially focusing on remote viewing, wherein faraway objects and places can be seen by the psychic, but soon branching out to clairvoyance, manipulating computer systems with the mind, and even supposedly powers straight from a movie, such as levitation, invisibility, walking through walls, or killing with the power of the mind.
It was largely overseen by the esteemed general and self-professed psychic General Albert Stubblebine III, and is a project popularized by the 2009 Hollywood blockbuster The Men Who Stare At Goats, starring George Clooney and Ewan McGregor, itself based on the 2004 book of the same name by journalist Jon Ronsonthe, the title of which refers to having psychics stare at goats or other animals and try to physically affect them with their thoughts. As absurd as it may sound, there were indeed many living creatures subjected to these sorts of experiments in an effort to create psychic assassins, and there were allegedly successes at times and even supposed real research that that was said to conclusively prove that negative mental energy could be focused upon mould to inhibit its growth, which is useful for the military? I suppose? Even the famed psychic and spoon bender extraordinaire Uri Geller was allegedly brought into the fold and asked to kill a pig with his mind for the military, which he says he refused to do, not because he couldn’t, mind you, but because he thought it was unethical. Geller would say of this:
They asked me to kill the poor creature using thought alone. I cannot tell you how shocked I was. I love animals. My powers cannot be used to harm. In those days, I was young and naive, but in that moment I realised who I’d become associated with. I catapulted myself out of that room and left the program.
While this might all sound like pure fantasy, it was bizarrely a totally real program that expanded quite rapidly. The Cold War in particular saw some in the American military war machine terrified that the nefarious Soviets were pursuing psychic warfare, spying on them, influencing them, or even trying to disarm nuclear weapons with the power of the mind, and efforts to counteract this were stepped up. As a result, the project began to give birth to other clandestine offshoot programs and sister programs, all with colorful code names right out of a comic book that these sorts of thing were known for, such as GONDOLA WISH, GRILL FLAME, CENTER LANE, SUN STREAK, and MK ULTRA, and all devoted to different areas of psychic phenomena. It was all very hush hush, and funded secretly, but inevitably word leaked out about these covert operations. It might sound ludicrous that the military would pour so much time and money into all of this, but it was apparently all taken very seriously, and one remote viewer and Special Forces Sergeant Glenn Wheaton has said of such secret programs:
You have to understand that these ideas were not considered wacky. They were seen as the next military frontier. We needed to know whether it was possible to use paranormal forces for military ends. We also needed to know how to protect ourselves should they be used against us.
One of these projects was called Project Jedi, named after the Jedi of the Star Wars films, and which sought to focus on creating soldiers who could use their mental powers not for merely spying, but for actively offensive purposes and to increase human performance on the battlefield. The program first started to come together in the late 1970s and early 80s, and was also known by such titles as the “Ultimate Warrior Training Program,” “The Jedi Warrior Training Program,” and the “Earth’s First Battalion,” and which was designed specifically for use by elite Special Forces and envisioned as potentially revolutionizing warfare.
One area that was developed towards these ends was to utilize what was called by them “Biocybernaut training combined technologies of biofeedback, neurofeedback, cyberphysiology, and contemplative inner methods of mastery drawn from the vast array of contemplative science traditions” to supposedly hone soldiers’ perceptions and mastery over their minds and bodies. This was allegedly used to sharpen the marksmanship of the soldiers to nearly superhuman levels of ability, and it was claimed that soldiers trained with these methods were better shots in less than half the training time of conventional methods, and that they could even reach a level where they could shoot accurately when blindfolded. These methods could also supposedly be used to increase the speed of mastery of foreign languages, as well as to consciously manipulate brain chemicals such as endorphins for the purpose of enhancing physical prowess. They were also apparently trained to be able to control numerous bodily functions such as blood flow, muscle tension, healing rate, blood pressure, and physiological reactions to stress, as well as turn off pain and also how to “synchronize their brainwaves.”
A great deal of this training was also focused on increasingly deep meditation exercises and martial arts skills. One of the main guys they had working on this in the early stages of the program was instructor Mike Echanis, who was an almost cult-like figure of the martial arts world at the time and by many accounts was able to utilize many of these mental powers to improve his fighting abilities, with one account saying of one training exercise:
The students couldn’t see him. It wasn’t that he was actually invisible, but he could blend in, using both camouflage and mental trickery, that they couldn’t spot him. He was able to adapt and blend into the environment so well that those looking down into the pit just could not see him. A trainee would jump into the pit, and suddenly Echanis would come out of nowhere and be upon him, and the hand-to-hand combat would ensue. The students were certain to endure a severe beating.
Echanis was also said to have the ability to kill animals with the power of his mind alone. Indeed, according Wheaton this was sometimes spectacularly successful, such as one episode in which he personally witnessed the martial artist kill one of the animals in this way, of which he says:
Michael focused on the goat pretty intensely. It started to bray like a donkey or horse. It dropped down to its forelegs; blood began to drip from its nose. About 20 to 30 seconds later red suds began to froth from the goat’s mouth. The goat lost its equilibrium and passed away in a fit.
There was also a martial arts instructor with the program named Guy Savelli, who claimed to have vast knowledge of ancient secret techniques such as the death touch, as well as “reflex-reaction, touch sensitivity, concepts of power and invisibility, and mind-striking techniques.” Interestingly, his “mind striking” powers were purportedly so advanced that he was able to throw grown men across the room, as well as kill small animals such as hamsters with a thought, earning him the nickname “Hamster Killer.” Folks you can’t make this stuff up, it writes itself. Another big hitter in the program was Dr. John Alexander, former commander of Special Forces in Vietnam and psychic, of which his biography says:
As part of his official military duties, he became involved in studying psychic phenomena and attempting to understand what the Soviet Union was doing in this area. He learned how to teach psychokinesis, involved professional magicians in the process, and then brought these skills to many high-level officers. His studies also covered remote viewing and extensive work in Neuro-linguistic Programming. These techniques were applied to accelerating learning and skill acquisition.
Project Jedi only lasted 6 months before it was sort of closed down, but it still adds to the wider lore of Project Stargate, of which it was a part. The whole bonkers program was passed off to the CIA and eventually downsized and eventually terminated in 1995, with the CIA declassifying the documents and claiming that none of the projects ever saw any real verifiable promise for actual intelligence or battlefield work, and that it was a waste of resources that could be spent elsewhere. However, of course there is the opinion that programs such as Project Stargate and others like it never really stopped but were rather buried deep away from the public eye. Such programs are claimed to have actually seen plenty of military action, such as pervasive rumors that U.S. remote viewers were instrumental in locating and bringing down the terrorist Osama Bin Laden. is this true and is the military still actively engaged in using psychic powers for warfare? Who knows?
So here we have psychic warriors, real Jedi fighters, and the channeling of the power of the human mind into military capacities. Is there anything to any of this? While it is certainly true that the U.S. government did pursue these avenues of research and did try to weaponize psychic powers, how successful were they really, and does any of this still go on? Like any good conspiracy there is probably no way to convince anyone either way, and the debate and speculation will probably rage on.
While most Americans and the mainstream media are focused on other news about the Trump administration, space watchers had their ears perked up by an excerpt from yet another book about the administration by yet another former member with mostly the same stories to tell … except for one. According to the new tell-all, “Team of Vipers” by former White House aide Cliff Sims, early in his term President Trump made a once-in-a-lifetime offer to then Acting Administrator of NASA Robert M. Lightfoot, Jr. – a blank check made out to NASA to pay for a manned mission to Mars before the 2020 presidential election. Wait … what?
“What’s our plan for Mars?”
According to an excerpt of the book in New York Magazine,that’s the question President Trump asked Lightfoot on April 24, 2017, while getting ready for a video call to the International Space Station to congratulate astronaut Peggy Whitson on breaking the American record for the longest amount of time in space. This was just a month after the president signed a landmark bill authorizing $19.5 billion in funding for NASA — significant because it was the first NASA authorization in seven years and contained funding specifically for sending humans to Mars by the 2030s. Sims was also in the room and reports that at about ten minutes before the well-choreographed and limited-time linkup to the ISS, Trump suddenly sprung the question on Livingston, who quickly responded with the aforementioned 2030 timetable.
“But is there any way we could do it by the end of my first term?”
At that point, Sims remembers that Lightfoot, a former engineer, got technical and quickly discussed the logistics of “distance, fuel capacity, etc. Also the fact that we hadn’t landed an American anywhere remotely close to Mars ever.”
“But what if I gave you all the money you could ever need to do it? What if we sent NASA’s budget through the roof, but focused entirely on that instead of whatever else you’re doing now. Could it work then?”
Sims says they were 90 seconds away from calling Whitson. Lightfoot gave the president a quick but respectful “no” answer and a “visibly upset” Trump pulled himself together for the congratulatory call. Or did he?
“Tell me, Mars — what do you see a timing for actually sending humans?”
That’s right. Sims recalls that, after asking astronaut Whitson about her current mission and the record, he put her on the spot in front of her boss – not to mention the media and the entire world. Being well-versed in public relations as all astronauts must be these days, Whitson gave the 2030s answer and – unaware of the offer he just made to her boss — reminded the president that the enormous cost would need to be shared among the other spacefaring nations.
“Well, I think we want to do it in my first term or at worst in my second term. So I think we’ll have to speed that up a little bit.”
Sims says the media coverage at the time, not knowing about the president’s black check offer to Livingston, reported that the questions and comments to Whitson about Mars were made “jokingly” – but Sims writes they obviously were not.
Another president from another space era made a promise in 1961 to put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade. That would have been long after it could have been used in a campaign for re-election in 1964. Space exploration is not just something that human nature demands – some would argue it’s a necessity because of our current state of affairs and planetary conditions. However, is it deserving of a blank check ahead of so many other national, international and planetary needs? And for such a trivial – some would say selfish – reason?
Could you turn down a blank check? Say what you will about NASA, but all of the training received by everyone from astronauts to administrators to the day-to-day operators made this another situation where cooler heads prevailed.
John Glenn and a few other astronauts have served in Congress. Is it time to elect some more?
Loch Ness, Scotland has a reputation for high-strangeness. It dates back not just to relatively recent times, but centuries ago, even. There is, for example, the 565 AD affairof St. Columba, who allegedly saw a strange creature in the waters of the River Ness, which flows from the huge loch. More than a thousand years later, there was a deep belief in the area that the waters of Loch Ness were home to what became known as“water horses” or “kelpies.”They were dangerous and deadly shapeshifters. From 1899 to 1913, the “Great Beast” himself, Aleister Crowley, had a home at Loch Ness:Boleskine House. In 1933, the phenomenon of “the Loch Ness Monster” took off big time. In the 1970s, Nessie seeker Ted Holiday had an encounter at the loch with a Man in Black. In other words, Loch Ness is definitively weird.
More Loch Ness weirdness hit the news in 2011, specifically in August of that year. The UK’s Daily Express newspaper splashed a headline across its pages that read: “Alert as UFO is sighted over Loch Ness.” The story was, undoubtedly, an odd one. That something occurred does not appear to be in doubt. It is, however, the nature of the “something” that remains open to debate. It was on the night of August 20, 2011 that a number of people –many being completely independent of each other – encountered something unusual in the skies over Loch Ness. Witness descriptions of the movements of the object fell into two camps: those who said they saw it descending into the loch and those who maintained it was actually hovering above the expansive waters. As for the appearance of the UFO, it very much depended on who one asked. But, whatever it was, it quickly caught the attention of the emergency services, who were contacted by worried locals.
Martin Douglas, of the Loch Ness Life Boat crew, told the Daily Mail that someone in the area had seen what, superficially at least, resembled a microlight or a hang-glider, and which actually seemed to enter the loch in a controlled flight. Oddly, however, others who saw the unknown craft described it as being somewhat balloon-shaped. Then there were those who opined it looked eerily like a fully-open parachute. There was, then, no real, solid consensus on what was seen – or on what wasn’t seen. Crew member Vivian Bailey added that although the mystery was not resolved, the emergency services were pleased that concerned people had quickly contacted them. There is, however, a very odd afterword to all this.
Exactly one month previously, on July 21, law enforcement offices in the vicinity of 125-miles-long Lake Champlain – which covers parts of New York and Vermont, and portions of Quebec, Canada – were inundated with calls from worried locals, all who had seen a balloon-like object fall into the huge lake, near Rouses Point, New York. Police and Border Patrol personnel were quickly dispatched and scoured the area, but with no luck. After around four hours, the search was called off. It remained a mystery. It should be noted, however, that, just like Loch Ness, Lake Champlain has its own resident monster. Champ – as the creature is famously known – is, like Nessie, a large, long-necked leviathan that has taken on near-legendary proportions.
Is it only coincidence that two lakes on opposite sides of the world – both with resident monsters – should have been the sites of unusual, and very similar, UFO-like activity within a month of each other? Or is this yet further evidence of profound paranormal weirdness wherever lake monsters lurk?
Plane passenger captured a huge flying saucer above China
Plane passenger captured a huge flying saucer above China
During a flight from the Netherlands to China a passenger named Ming Yang suddenly felt something strange, and looked out of the window and noticed a silver-gray disc-like UFO in the distance on which he immediately pulled out the phone and took a picture of the UFO.
Based on the remarkable UFO sighting photographed on September 14, 2018, mp.weixin.qq. has worked out a detailed report and came to the conclusion that the location of the UFO was above the Shidou Reservoir. Shidou Reservoir which is a reservoir in Jimei District, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, China.
They also have consulted a professional captain, Mr. Cheng Hui and according to his analysis the size of the UFO is about 120-200 meters and it was nearly up to 4,000 meters while according to the flight track query the KLM Boeing 787 was at 3,600 meters at the moment Mr. Ming Yang took the picture.
According to the report the UFO has a strong stealth performance and it seems to have two layers above and below, in a static state, indicating that it could be a man-made antigravity craft.
In a place known as Balochistan, Pakistan, at exactly 6000 kilometers far of Sphinx of Egypt, another sphinx can also be found, clearly of similar antiquity…
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Supporting the suspicion claimed many times on our page, that a civilization which far predated the ancient Egyptians, actually built these amazing pyramid, for a sophisticated, although as yet, unknown purpose.
Known as the “Sphinx of Balochistan,” many funded academics have strongly denied the possibility of this familiar looking formation, being of manmade origin, and many attempt to claim that its familiar shape, along with the surrounding environments artificial appearance, is merely coincidental, and that the entire area is just a natural formation, these conclusions, made with no official archaeological investigations ever being undertaken at the site.
Thankfully, however, an equal number of individuals who have actually visited this site, most self-funded, have actually concluded the complete opposite, Graham Hancock being but one individual who has concluded that the site is indeed a very ancient sphinx. Quite possibly dating back to the last precession of Leo, some 12500 years ago…
WHY NASA WAS QUICK TO DELETE THIS PICTURE? (DELETED PICTURE OF MARS )
WHY NASA WAS QUICK TO DELETE THIS PICTURE? (DELETED PICTURE OF MARS )
For the next batch of photos sent by the rover Curiosity and posted on the official website of NASA on June 12 this year, a virtual archaeologist Mauricio Ruiz discovered a strange object, which in any way cannot be confused with stones or refer to pareydolicheskuyu illusion (deleted picture of mars)
Firstly, the object was clearly man-made, something like a landed or crashed aircraft. Secondly, it led to the tracks of the rover – a fact that indicates that NASA employees are very interested in this deal, and so they sent her Curiosity. (deleted picture of mars)
Fortunately, independent researchers then copy these pictures knowing that they can be removed at any moment to NASA, which is what happened with this mysterious picture – it soon disappeared from the site of the American space agency (instead it was a black square).
Notable in this story, and it turned out that the request Mauricio Ruiz to NASA, what is it, agency staff, surprisingly, this time gave the answer online archaeologist. And it also proves that the picture is not simple, and how it was leaked on the agency’s resource page – an enigma that still …
The official reply from NASA stated that the photos simply moved to another site and even has a link – where. Mauricio Ruiz went on this link but found a very different picture, or rather, very well treated the old one, which is almost nothing you can not really see and understand
In response, ufology NASA officials also indicated that the photo he allegedly saw the broken earth spacecraft that crashed December 22, 2004 landing on the surface of the Red Planet. As an official statement about this accident is not reported, it knows about it almost a very narrow circle of people.
And again the puzzle: unlikely to NASA officials began to give out the secret of the collapse of Earth’s secret apparatus if it was really – it was easier to b habitually silent. Something here is not that, at least, he Mauricio Ruiz sure of it a hundred …
A swarm of ants invaded the bRing telescope in Australia, temporarily shutting down observations of tens of thousands of stars.
Credit: Ian Adams/Michael Kennedy/Siding Springs Observatory
A swarm of ants attacked a small telescope in Australia earlier this year, and when they died, their tiny corpses blew out the power supply.
The Australian Beta Pictoris b Ring instrument (bRing-AU) was part of a fleet of instruments used last year to hunt for signs of rings or an exomoon aroundBeta Pictoris, a young star hosting at least one planet. While the hunt was unsuccessful, astronomers are continuing to monitor the star, along with tens of thousands of other stellar targets in the southern sky to obtain additional science.
The ants didn't make waves climbing on the exterior of the instrument. According to Samuel Mellon, a doctoral candidate at the University of Rochester who is working with bRing, the telescope sits on a few bricks to elevate it off the ground, with an aluminum sheet attached to serve as a floor. That may have provided the point of entry for the insects. [Alien Comets of Star Beta Pictoris Explained (Infographic)]
"A minor imperfection in the seal between this and the frame could have allowed them to get in," Mellon told Space.com. Another possibility is that the small black ants, only a few millimeters in length, climbed in through the external fans, but he said this was unlikely as a very fine grill covers each of the fans. He was not certain what species the ants were.
"We anticipated a possible insect invasion and did our best to seal bRing on all sides and edges with sealant and weatherproof tape," Mellon said. "However, ordinary wear and tear could have opened a vulnerability for the tiny ants to get in."
The bRING-AU instrument is set up at the Siding Springs Observatory in Australia.
Credit: Ian Adams/Michael Kennedy/Siding Springs Observatory
Invasive insects
Located 63.4 light-years from the sun, Beta Pictoris is roughly 20million years old. Disks of dust and gas around the star have long suggested the presence of planets. In 2008, astronomers captured an image of a new planet, Beta Pictoris b. The planet appears to be between 9 and 13 times the mass of Jupiter, and it orbits about nine times farther from its star than Earth over the course of 20 years. Astronomers think the baby star may also host a swarm of comets.
In 2016, astronomers calculated that, while the planet would not pass directly between its star and Earth, the region around the star where rings or moons could be held gravitationally would. They began a seven-month campaign to study the star, setting up instruments in places such as South Africa and Antarctica, and even launching a small telescope into space.
One of these instruments was bRing, twin telescopes placed in Australia and South Africa. Housed at Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia, bRing-AU used two wide-field cameras to probe the light coming from the star. Just as a planet passing between its star and Earth causes a slight decrease in the star's brightness, astronomers hoped that any rings or moons around the planet that passed the star could cause a similar dip.
The suite of instruments studied Beta Pictoris intently from April 2017 to January 2018, but neither moons nor rings appeared. That doesn't dissuade Paul Kalas, an astronomer at Berkeley who helped bring together the international teams that worked together to search for the rings. Kalas told Space.com that it's possible that the planet could still host natural satellites but the geometry wasn't lined up to make them visible from Earth.
Researchers think the swarm of ants that invaded the bRing telescope in Australia in January 2019 may have been attracted by an electromagnetic field — or they were just searching for shelter.
Credit: Ian Adams/Michael Kennedy/Siding Springs Observatory
"You can still have a ring system," Kalas said.
After the hunt drew to a close, bRing-AU has continued to observe tens of thousands of stars, including Beta Pictoris. But that project was briefly halted at the dawn of the year thanks to some insect interference.
"We noticed a power failure in early January 2019," Mellon said. "The handy staff at Siding Spring observatory opened up the power supply and found that the ants had shorted it out."
About a hundred ants had swarmed into the tiny telescope. Mellon isn't sure what drew the first insect investigators, but he speculated that the cause could have been electromagnetic, since they were attracted only to the power supply.
"They could also have been looking for shelter and wandered into the wrong area," he said.
On their death, the ants seemed to release a pheromone that attracted other ants to attack, causing a swarm. The process is similar to how a species known as "crazy ants," a species from South America that has invaded the Gulf Coast,short out electronics.
"When a few were electrocuted, the rest must have been summoned," Mellon said.
The pileup of corpses eventually fried the power supply, leading the Siding Spring staff to investigate. They cleaned out the dead ants and installed ant traps and repellents to keep away other curious creatures.
"We have replaced the power supply and set up ant traps and repellents and better sealed the instrument," Mellon said. "bRing-AU is back up to taking data."
Once a few ants died inside the bRing telescope in Australia, their corpses may have attracted a larger swarm that eventually shorted out the telescope.
Credit: Ian Adams, Michael Kennedy (Siding Springs Observatory)
The brief power supply loss came after the observations of the Beta Pictoris transit had been completed, so the ants did not interrupt the hunt for the exorings. The ants did, however, put a brief stop to the next stage of observations while the power supply was replaced. No other part of the instrument was damaged, and none of the staff was bitten.
Although the team tried to anticipate potential problems, Mellon said he would have taken further steps if he had realized how determined the insects would be.
"Had I known my instrument would have been invaded by ants, I would have installed ant traps," he said. However, "this situation would have been hard to predict for anyone."
In 1971, Apollo 14 astronauts brought home various minerals and rock samples from their brief lunar voyage. For decades, these lunar rocks have stayed in storage, occasionally being revisited by researchers curious to try out a new technique in order to learn more about the moon’s geochemistry. Imagine the surprise when scientists found that one such rock was terrestrial in origin — to top it all off, it’s also Earth’s oldest rock found thus far.
This rock fragment is over 4 billion years old. It may have formed on Earth but ended up on the moon due to a massive asteroid impact.
Credit: USRA/LPI.
This adventurous moon rock has quite the backstory. According to an international team of researchers, the two-gram piece of quartz, feldspar, and zircon was found embedded in a larger rock called Big Bertha. These minerals are very rare on the moon but quite common here on Earth. The reason is that quartz and zircon form in oxidized systems such as Earth, in the kind of high temperatures and pressures experienced deep below the planet’s crust.
Since zircon contains uranium, whose half-life is predictable, the researchers were able to date the rock to about 4 to 4.1 billion years ago. They also determined — based on the sample’s geochemical properties — that it must have formed at a depth of about 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) beneath Earth’s surface.
So, how did it end up on the moon? The most plausible explanation is that a massive asteroid impact hurled our traveling piece of rock into space, landing on the nearest body, Earth’s natural satellite. The moon was about three times closer to Earth than it is today, it should be mentioned. Around that time, the planet was regularly bombarded by cosmic objects of all shapes and sizes, some responsible for producing craters thousands of kilometers in diameter on Earth — so this isn’t that far-fetched of an explanation at all. Once on the moon, the rock was further sculpted by new impacts which melted and altered it into a new kind of rock about 3.9 billion years ago. These forces also buried it deep below the lunar surface.
The Moon was much closer to the Earth than it is today when the rock fragment was produced and ejected from the Earth.
Credit: LPI/David A. Kring.
The rock probably stayed buried for eons until around 26 million years ago when another asteroid impact, this time on the moon, produced the 340 m wide Cone Crater. Finally, Apollo 14 astronauts found the rock and reunited it with mother Earth.
“It is an extraordinary find that helps paint a better picture of early Earth and the bombardment that modified our planet during the dawn of life,” said Dr. David Kring, co-author of the new study and a researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI).
This may all sound a bit ridiculous, but it’s better than the alternative. For the minerals to come from the moon, Science Alert says that they must have formed 30 to 70 kilometers below the surface, in an “unusually oxidizing magmatic environment with oxygen levels much higher than those in the lunar mantle 4 billion years ago.”
Of course, there’s a lot of speculation involved in this scenario and the geological community will not be so easily convinced. Researchers will have to verify this assumption by studying other lunar samples collected thus far. Hopefully, more new samples will be retrieved in the future now that NASA plans on returning humans to the moon.
We earthlings have long been fascinated by the thought of alien abduction, and that fascination is reflected in the staggering number of movies dedicated to the mysterious topic. Whether you're a horror fan or someone who prefers family-friendly alien fare, there's an abduction movie out there to satisfy your specific tastes.
Below, we've rounded up 12 movies that demonstrate the sheer variety of films dedicated to exploring what might happen during and after an extraterrestrial kidnapping. Read on to learn more about the good, the so-bad-they're-good, and the weird cinematic depictions of truly close encounters, ranked from most terrifying to least.
1. Dark Skies
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Something creepy is happening to Lacy and Daniel’s family. Unexplainable phenomena occurs in their house. Their sons, Sammy and Jesse, find strange symbols on their bodies. Most chilling of all, Lacy wakes one night to see a figure standing over Sammy's bed—a figure that disappears when the lights are on. After installing security cameras inside the house, and reviewing some truly disturbing footage, Lacy and Daniel seek the aide of ufologist Edwin Pollard (J.K. Simmons) to try and save their family before it’s too late. Dark Skies is a surprisingly scary alien movie that will have even seasoned horror fans looking over their shoulders.
This 2009 documentary-style horror movie stars Milla Jovovich as Dr. Emily Tyler, a psychologist from Nome, Alaska. The movie uses two storytelling formats: a 'televised' interview with Dr. Tyler about a close encounter in Nome several years ago, and 'reenactments' of the events. At times, these formats are featured in split screen to enhance the 'documentary' effect. During the interview with Dr. Tyler, she describes the incidents that changed her life forever, beginning with the mysterious death of her husband and an encounter that some townsfolk claim to have had with a white owl. But to quote Twin Peaks, the owls are not what they seem—and through hypnosis, the terrifying truth comes out.
What's the worst-case-scenario for a honeymoon? If you answered ‘one of the newlyweds is abducted and turned into an alien host,’ then you must have already seen Honeymoon. Honeymoon is the only movie on this list with a female director, Leigh Janiak. It also stars Rose Leslie, known for her role as Ygritte on Game of Thrones.
For their honeymoon, Bea (Leslie) and Paul (Harry Treadaway) decide to stay in a cabin in a remote forest (which, if they'd seen any of the other movies on this list, they'd have known was a bad idea). The locals tell Bea and Paul to leave, but the two think nothing of the warning until Bea disappears one night, and is later found naked by Paul in the woods. But now that Bea's back, she's ... different. The honeymoon period is over, and so is Bea and Paul's chance at marital bliss.
In Altered, director Eduardo Sánchez (The Blair Witch Project) gives the phrase 'alien abduction' a whole other meaning. When they were 15, a group of friends on a hunting trip was abducted and experimented on by aliens. One friend was killed, but the rest survived and have spent the years since trying to process their trauma. Two of them have become obsessed with killing an alien in reprisal for the death of their friend, and eventually track one down with the intent of getting revenge. What could go wrong? More horror than sci-fi, Altered will probably satisfy those who like their alien movies with a lot of gore.
Although initially met with mixed reviews, 1993's Fire in the Sky has since become somewhat of a cult favorite. The movie was adapted from Travis Walton's memoir The Walton Experience, which chronicles his alleged alien 1975 abduction.
In the movie, Walton (played by D.B. Sweeney) is driving home from work with a group of fellow loggers in Snowflake, Arizona when they encounter a UFO. Walton gets out of the truck to investigate, and is struck by a forceful beam of light. Believing Walton to be dead, the other loggers flee to get help, but are stonewalled by local law enforcement who believe the loggers conspired to kill Walton. Even when Walton shows up naked, dehydrated, and disoriented—but alive—days later, the witnesses are still met with skepticism. Fire in the Sky features an unsettling flashback in which Walton remembers some of what he experienced during his abduction. It's a scene that will stay with viewers for a long time.
This 2014 found footage movie follows the Morris family on their ill-fated vacation to North Carolina’s Brown Mountain. It doesn't take long for things to go wrong: the Morris' cellphones and car inexplicably die, birds commit mass suicide in front of them, and they get stuck in a tunnel with a very creepy creature at the end of it. For me, Alien Abduction’s appeal was how it played with the actual mythology surrounding Brown Mountain, particularly the Brown Mountain Lights, strange orbs frequently seen just above the horizon in the region. The area is so known for bizarre phenomena that it was even featured in a particularly gnarly X-Filesepisode, “Field Trip.”
Communion inspires passion: you’ll probably either love it or hate it. This 1989 film stars Christopher Walken as real-life author and ufologist Whitley Streiber, and is based on Streiber’s autobiographical book in which he describes his abduction by mysterious "beings." However, Streiber himself disliked the movie for the liberties it took in its depiction of him. In the film, Walken-as-Streiber lives in Manhattan with his wife and son, and is frequently woken by disturbing dreams that someone is in the bedroom with him and his wife. Streiber decides that the best cure for these night terrors is to take his family to a remote cabin in upstate New York, where—surprise, surprise—things only get weirder.
Scarlett Johansson plays an alien with a van and a plan in this gorgeous, unforgettable movie based on Michael Faber’s novel of the same name. The unnamed protagonist travels throughout Scotland, offering men a ride in her van. Most of them are never seen again. As she adjusts to life on Earth, Under the Skin suggests that the mundane misogyny women experience might be just as dangerous as the alien's lethal appetite.
One of the greatest alien movies ever, Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind follows Roy and Jillian, who witness UFOs during a night when strange crafts are seen across the globe. They both develop an emotional obsession with the UFOS, while international agencies struggle to respond to the unprecedented number of incidents worldwide, and scientists rush to understand a message sent from space. As the world prepares for alien contact, Roy and Jillian's separate lives begin to fall apart as their preoccupation with the image of a strange mountain increases.
This 2011 Disney movie was obviously aimed at kids, but its unsettling digital animation style left many viewers more than a little creeped out. Mars Needs Moms was a critical failure, and had the worst financial reception ever of a Disney film. LiveScience suggested the 'uncanny valley' theory— which posits that people are unsettled by human replicas that appear too lifelike—to explain why many found the movie's animation so repellent.
Regardless of how the film's aesthetic was received, its plot is definitely family-friendly: Martians abduct Milo (Seth Green)'s Mom (Joan Cusack), hoping to use her motherly essence to power their 'nannybots.' That extraction process will kill Milo's mom, so—despite recently telling his mom that his life would be better without her—Milo sets out on a mission to save her from the martians' dastardly plan.
Interestingly, Mars Needs Moms's director, Simon Wells, is practically sci-fi royalty: his great-grandfather was The War of the Worlds'author H.G. Wells.
Tim Burton'scomedy sci-fi movie Mars Attacks! is about an alien invasion first and foremost, but the Martians certainly abduct some humans in their quest for global takeover. When hundreds of Martian ships arrive in Nevada, the Martians claim that they've come in peace. But after a human bystander releases a dove, the Martians shoot it and then kill or abduct many of the people in attendance. Professor Donald Kessler (Pierce Brosnan) attempts to renegotiate with the Martians, but is later abducted himself.
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is an outlier on this list—it's probably the most lighthearted (and certainly the most musical) movie included. Guardians is also one of the few alien abduction films that shows an abductee adjusting to their life in space. Following the death of his mother, young Peter Quill is abducted by a group of space pirates led by the ravager Yondu Udonta. The movie then jumps 26 years into the future, and shows us how Quill has evolved into a true a-hole; a space pirate (dare we say space lord?) who isn’t afraid to double-cross even his surrogate father.
Guardians of the Galaxy might not appeal much to horror aficionados, but space opera fans will find a lot to love—and, unlike other Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, Guardians doesn't require any previous Marvel knowledge to be enjoyed.
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Mysterious UFO sighting in the sky (cloud creator photo) Posted on January 25, 2019 by Brian Mysterious UFO sighting in the sky (cloud creator photo) is about a very strange object that seems to create condensation (cloud). It was captured on photography
Mysterious UFO sighting in the sky (cloud creator photo)
Mysterious UFO sighting in the sky (cloud creator photo) is about a very strange object that seems to create condensation (cloud). It was captured on photography in Denmark on May 25, 2017, aboveOdensecity at 03.06 pm local time. In the unedited picture below it looks like a tube-shaped condensation with inclined pruning coming out of nowhere.
The picture above originates from a photo investigation inside a secluded pasture where I had a creature sighting on May 24. And because of that UFO sighting, I decided to visit the site again on May 25. I had my Canon EOS 60D DSLR camera with me and it produced 173 images and this UFO gallery with 43 hi-res UFO photos.
Mysterious UFO sighting in the sky (cloud creator photo)
The mysterious UFO sighting, actually a photo sighting (I did not see it during the photography) stuns me. If you are weather expert or meteorologist, you might say it´s just a cloud. But the next pictures you will see defies a normal meteorological explanation.
The unedited but magnified picture above does not reveal much other than a small linear cloud-like structure. It looks like there is something behind but it is almost impossible to distinguish. But the negative below that was processed with Auto Contrast in Adobe Photoshop is a totally different story. A mysterious squared structure appears with some kind of material coming out of a hole.
I have no known terrestrial reference points when trying to explain this. What should I compare it with? An aircraft? An airship or balloon? A cloud? There seems to be cloud-like material but it comes out of the square-shaped object behind.
The picture above was processed with Auto Tone in Adobe Photoshop and got some more brightness. The mysterious cloud creator is revealed by the pink color. The white material seems to be condensation and the creation of a cloud.
Mysterious UFO drawing…
This is my drawing of the mysterious UFO sighting. This is how I see it or imagine it. I see a clear square-shaped object behind the cloud-like material. The cloud-like material seems to come out of a hole in the square-shaped object behind.
This is not like the cloud manifestation or the other sky phenomenon I have photographed. This is so strange and so weird that it is a bit scary. Well, it depends on what eyes who see! You may see something else? Or do you see the same as I do?
The UFO cloud creator
Are these pictures the evidence of a cloud creator? Is the mysterious UFO sighting here actually space aliens that create clouds to hide in? Why emit material that looks like a cloud? This condensation feature is quite common in relation to the unidentified flying objects in my photos.
Besides the flying saucers that seem to ride on cloud-like structures (1, 2 & 3), there are also other unknown vessels that seem to emit condensation in flight. Among other things the UFO fly-by footage that shows 9 original frames from a *.mts video. You could also explore the “condensation”-TAG
Basic photo-sighting data
Denmark, Odense May 25, 2017, at 3.06 pm local time
As long as we have been human, we have looked at the stars and wondered if anything like us exists elsewhere out there. More recently, we’ve found new ways to try to answer that question, bycapturing images of far-off worldsorsending our own envoys to into the great beyond. Finally, after millennia of waiting, intelligent alien life has come to Earth. How do we react to these extraterrestrials? Do we attack them, or infect them, or do we try to make peace with them? What do we want to know from them, and what does that say about us as humans?
To be clear, intelligent life has not yet come to Earth. But in the new film The Visit, you can play out the scenario to see what might happen if they were to do so. Part documentary and part science fiction, this film is about an event that hasn’t happened yet. It features interviews with experts who delve into the policies and pragmatic measures that global and national organizations actually have in place, by running through a hypothetical scenario wherein extraterrestrials arrive on Earth. But it’s also a contemplation on humanity—how we see ourselves and our inability to cope with uncertainty.
“This is a topic I’ve been thinking about for many years,” Michael Madsen, the film’s director, tells Popular Science. “It would be the most significant event for mankind to experience—there’s nothing else that would so dramatically change human perception on ourselves and on the universe.”
SCIENTIST CHRIS WELCH IMAGINING THE INSIDE OF AN ALIEN SPACECRAFT
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The film, which took about four years to make, has a cast consisting of experts and officials from the United Nations, British Ministry of Defense, and NASA. (Yes, there are real organizations with protocols in place that outline governments’ response to an alien visit.) Each person looks into the camera and answers Madsen’s questions as if they were addressing the aliens themselves.
That unique perspective does a couple of important things for the film—for one, experts can play out this scenario that they’ve thought about, anticipated, and planned for much of their professional lives. They ask all the questions you might expect—Why are you here? What do you know about the universe? How does your brain work?
But Madsen also noticed a sense of relief in how the scientists played into the scenario. “It’s more than the fact that these experts have been thinking about these things—there’s tremendous longing at play in these questions,” he says, “All of us have been looking at the stars and wondering if there’s life, there’s this quasi-religious notion here that, if there’s something out there and if it sees me, I will gain some kind of extended existence. I will be seen.” Identity is at the heart of that desire, he adds—the same reason we post constantly on social media. If others see us, maybe we can get a sense of where we fit in the universe.
Why are you here? What do you know about the universe? How does your brain work?
But when experts are speaking to aliens and the audience watches, viewers become alienated as well. “The experts are there as experts but we see them in a way from the outside, from an alien perspective, and that makes us observe them in a different way,” Madsen says. Astrobiologists know a lot more than the average person about what kind of alien might truly be out there, but unlike in a scientific paper on the subject, the film enables viewers to read the concern on their faces, to read their humanity.
By taking this hypothetical seriously, the experts had to consider how we understand beings that are so dramatically different from ourselves. One of the most fantastical elements of The Visit is an interview with Chris Welch, an astronautics professor at International Space University who has agreed to be the first human inside an alien space ship. Madsen wanted him to imagine and describe what it would be like inside an alien spacecraft, without falling subject to our presumptions that all aliens look like little green men.
“If we were able to meet something from another world, there’s only one thing we can say for certain: It’ll be beyond our comprehension, it’ll be so radically different that we will have nothing to compare it to,” Madsen says. Welch assumes that if a superior being came to Earth, it would present itself in a way we could understand or recognize, so he describes how he imagines the inside of the alien spacecraft might smell, look, or feel in a way that feels familiar and yet completely foreign.
A SCENE FROM THE VISIT
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Alien beings would bring so much uncertainty to anxious earthlings. One of humanity’s ugliest sides comes out when we do not understand or don’t have control. There are a lot of things officials won’t know if aliens visit Earth, and not knowing the facts allows our fears to germinate and chaos to ensue. Though we would be curious about the aliens, some humans would rather attack them than surrender our grip on control and knowledge. This, Madsen says, is one of the things that struck him the most when making The Visit—the thin line between civilization and chaos. “If people are afraid, it’s scary how easily the varnish of civilization can be penetrated,” he says. “So little has to happen before things go into Armageddon.”
One of humanity’s ugliest sides comes out when we do not understand or don’t have control.
At its heart, the film is a meditation on what it means to be human—how we construct our identities, which parts of ourselves we are most comfortable with, and our unrelenting need to be in control.
The Visit recently premiered in the United States and Denmark, and will soon be released all over Europe. So far, the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. But Madsen knows this isn’t a film for everyone—some people say it’s too slow, or aren’t willing to suspend their disbelief enough to play into the hypothetical. Madsen’s goal isn’t to make a film that is escapist, but rather to create space for the audience to retreat into themselves and see those beautiful and unsettling parts of humanity with clear eyes.
“Some people think [the film] is too unreal to take seriously. But nothing can be unreal because we can imagine it,” Madsen says. “That imagination is worth taking note of. I think that’s what Neil Armstrong was talking about—that giant leap is in our imagination so that we can see the world in a different way. That includes aliens coming to Earth—it would give us a totally different way to view the universe and ourselves.”
The Visit recently premiered in the United States and Denmark, and will soon be released all over Europe. So far, the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. But Madsen knows this isn’t a film for everyone—some people say it’s too slow, or aren’t willing to suspend their disbelief enough to play into the hypothetical. Madsen’s goal isn’t to make a film that is escapist, but rather to create space for the audience to retreat into themselves and see those beautiful and unsettling parts of humanity with clear eyes.
“Some people think [the film] is too unreal to take seriously. But nothing can be unreal because we can imagine it,” Madsen says. “That imagination is worth taking note of. I think that’s what Neil Armstrong was talking about—that giant leap is in our imagination so that we can see the world in a different way. That includes aliens coming to Earth—it would give us a totally different way to view the universe and ourselves.”
Across America meteorologists frequently see anomalous formations showing up on radar that have no connection to trending weather patterns. In some cases these unnatural formations are found to have been caused by emissions from power plants which can cause weather changes including several inches of snow.
NWS Omaha✔@NWSOmaha
Snow plume originating from steam exhaust from industrial plants east of Norfolk continues this morning. Gradual eastward drift into Omaha Metro this morning could cause bursts of light snow and patchy freezing drizzle. #newx#iawx
In 2018 we reported on a collection of video clips of local meteorologists reporting on supposed chaff spraying by military aircraft. Military chaff is a particulate substance made primarily of aluminum and aluminum coated fiber glass which is sprayed into the sky to jam enemy radar and communications equipment. Aluminum is a substance that is widely known to be harmful to human and animal health when ingested, but these types of overhead exercises are apparently very common.
“Chaff consists of small fibers that reflect radar signals and, when dispensed in large quantities from aircraft, form a cloud that temporarily hides the aircraft from radar detection. The two major types of military chaff in use are aluminum foil and aluminum-coated glass fibers. The aluminum foil-type is no longer manufactured, although it may still be in use.” [Source]
The most recent incidents of such mystery aerosol formations over populated U.S. areas is from December, in which meteorologists from Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky all reported seeing unusual lines of formations. After quite a mystery, it was eventually agreed upon that this particular incident involved C-130 aircraft spraying chaff in the skies.
“Back on Dec. 10, the Evansville area was embroiled in intrigue when mysterious radar blips appeared over Southern Illinois and Western Kentucky. The long lines baffled the National Weather Service because they looked like storms – but it wasn’t raining.
The War Zone eventually confirmed the anomalies arose when a C-130 traveling to West Virginia from a military exercise out west released over our area huge plumes of military chaff – radar-jamming material mostly composed of aluminum.” [Source]
Here is a tweet about the December event over the Midwest, including radar footage:
Ryan G. Reynolds✔@RyanReynolds
Folks are still trying to figure out what this is.
Shortly after the recent incidents in December, another similar event occurred, however, local meteorologists and television crews have not been able to find a suitable explanation. Another event occured shortly thereafter off the coast of southern Florida and over Portland, Maine.
“Similar blips materialized on radar over Portland, Maine, on Dec. 12. The National Weather Service there also guessed chaff was to blame.
But unlike here, no concrete explanation sprang forth.
According to The War Zone, the one Maine Air National Guard flying unit doesn’t have any planes equipped to release chaff. And it’s not like a plane from a different base would jet all the way to Maine just to spew chaff.
That same day, strange radar shapes appeared over the Florida Keys, too. Again, the NWS guessed it was chaff – Florida is apparently rife with military exercises – but that hypothesis was never confirmed.” [Source]
Here’s a tweet showing the formations near Florida:
Of note is the fact that the military, NASA and certainly other organs of the Federal government are actively engaged in spraying materials into skies over America, without the consent of we the people living below. And this practice seems to be occurring with greater frequency as we enter the age of open bioengineering, which was oddly considered to be a conspiracy theory until mainstream news organizations began in recent years to report on the pressing need for solar radiation management in order to curb global warming.
Solar radiation management is a euphemism for chemtrails, which describes the practice over spraying massive quantities of toxic chemicals in the skies over populated areas.
Mysterieuze vliegtuigen werpen grote hoeveelheden aluminium en andere metalen uit boven Amerika. Meteorologen staan voor een raadsel
Mysterieuze vliegtuigen werpen grote hoeveelheden aluminium en andere metalen uit boven Amerika. Meteorologen staan voor een raadsel
In Amerika zien meteorologen wel vaker vreemde vlekken op de radar die verder niets te maken hebben met weerpatronen. In sommige gevallen kunnen ze worden gelinkt aan de uitstoot van fabrieken.
De laatste tijd gebeuren er dingen in de lucht boven de Verenigde Staten die niet volledig worden begrepen.
NWS Omaha✔@NWSOmaha
Snow plume originating from steam exhaust from industrial plants east of Norfolk continues this morning. Gradual eastward drift into Omaha Metro this morning could cause bursts of light snow and patchy freezing drizzle. #newx#iawx
Meteorologen en nieuwszenders stonden voor een raadsel.
Eén ding is zeker: de NASA, het leger en andere onderdelen van de Amerikaanse federale overheid verspreiden steeds vaker materialen, waaronder metalen, in de lucht boven Amerika zonder toestemming van het volk.
Bij dit plaatsje werd het Australische Stonehenge gevonden. Ontdek wat ermee is gebeurd
Bij dit plaatsje werd het Australische Stonehenge gevonden. Ontdek wat ermee is gebeurd
In Mullumbimby in de Australische deelstaat Nieuw-Zuid-Wales werd in 1939 een monument van de Aboriginals ontdekt bestaande uit 188 rechtopstaande stenen.
Toenmalig voorzitter van de Australische vereniging van archeologen, Frederic Slater, sprak van het Australische Stonehenge.
Hij raakte ervan overtuigd dat het één van de oudste monumenten ter wereld was, ouder nog dan steencirkels die in Europa en het Midden-Oosten waren gevonden.
Meest geavanceerde
Slater suggereerde verder dat de mens zich niet vanuit Afrika, maar vanuit Australië over de wereld heeft verspreid.
De Aboriginals waren volgens hem de meest geavanceerde beschaving die op aarde heeft geleefd.
De wetenschappelijke gemeenschap verklaarde Slater voor gek.
Vernietigen
De landeigenaren waren zo bang voor de controverse die het complex zou veroorzaken, dat ze het lieten vernietigen met bulldozers.
Volgens de Aboriginals zelf werden steencirkels gebouwd naar de sterren, als verwijzing naar ‘de luchtwereld waar ze vandaan komen’.
World War II was an expansive morass of violence that spanned two regions of the globe and went on to grip the entire world with fear and suffering. It is a turbulent time already infused with a rich history, but scattered amongst the tales of battle and valor are other, more little-known stories of strange mysteries from beyond our understanding. Many of these are connected to the skies of World War II, which were invaded by warplanes, bombs, and explosions, but which also hold some of the most intriguing unexplained mysteries of the era. Here is a selection of some of the weirder unsolved mysteries of the skies of the intense cauldron of human violence that was World War II.
Of all of the planes flying about and tearing up the skies in the era of World War II, many of them obviously never came back, but the strangest of these cases are when they simply vanished into thin air without a trace. One of the most oft-discussed and mysterious vanishings of aircraft revolves around the enigmatic Flight 19, in 1945. The flight in question was actually a group of U.S. Navy TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that took off from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on December 5, 1945, on a Naval exercise called “Navigation Problem Number One,” which was for the purpose of carrying out mock bombing runs along an area known as Hens and Chickens Shoals in the Bahamas. It was all a standard, routine flight, and each of the five planes in the squadron was manned by 3 experienced men, with the whole thing under the command of a seasoned pilot by the name of Lieutenant Taylor.
The first half of the mission all went according to plan, the dummy bombs were dropped, and the planes headed off on the second leg of their mission, but this was when things would get strange indeed. The leader, Taylor, began to complain that his compass was on the fritz, and he further proclaimed that the planes were all flying in the wrong direction. As the group of planes floundered about trying to get their bearings, one of the pilots radioed, “I don’t know where we are. We must have got lost after that last turn.” A passing Navy plane piloted by a Lieutenant Robert F. Cox was flying by at the time and overheard the radio chatter, after which he extended an offer of help, as well as a message to the nearest air station of what was going on. In response, he got a chilling message from a frightened sounding Taylor that said:
Both my compasses are out and I’m trying to find Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. I’m over land, but it’s broken. I’m sure I’m in the Keys, but I don’t know how far down.
This was strange to say the least, as the group had just successfully fulfilled the first half of their mission near the Bahamas and should have been nowhere near the Florida Keys at that point in time. After this, Taylor, convinced that he was way off course, instructed his squadron to veer off towards the northeast, thinking it would take them home but really only sending them further out to sea. Some of the other pilots in the group protested the move, saying they should fly west, but the order had been given and off they went. At one point Taylor changed his mind and directed them west, but then they changed their course to east once again. It was all rather bizarre behavior to say the least. As this was happening, the radio chatter from Flight 19 became fainter and more distorted, and one of the final transmissions was:
All planes close up tight. We’ll have to ditch unless landfall…when the first plane drops below ten gallons, we all go down together.
This seemed to suggest that Taylor was aware that their fuel was running low and that they were on a one way ticket into the sea, and after that the radio transmissions became plagued by strange static before going silent. The Navy was quick to respond, sending out a search crew almost immediately after this final transmission, but they were unable to find any sign of Flight 19. Indeed, one of the searchers, a Mariner aircraft and its 13 crew members, also suddenly lost communications and dropped off the face of the earth as well to join Flight 19 in the annals of great mysteries. This in turn prompted its own search party and the whole thing turned into a hot mess quite rapidly.
In the end, the Navy would scour over 3,000 square miles of sea in search of the missing planes but would turn up not even a scrap of wreckage. Of course, considering the proximity to the notorious Bermuda Triangle the media was all over this and theories began to fly. One was that Taylor had been somewhat unfit for duty, which had impacted his judgement during the doomed mission. There are reports that he had arrived late on the day of the mission and had for unknown reasons implored the command not to go through with it. This has led to the most popular, “rational” theory that these planes under his questionable state simply made a mistake, ran out of fuel, and crashed into the ocean to never be seen again. The mystery was even tantalizingly “solved” for a time when in 1991 a team of treasure hunters came across the wrecks of five World War II Avengers planes at the bottom of the sea, but these turned out to have not had anything to do with the mysterious lost flight. The fate of Flight 19 remains unknown.
Just as mysterious is a phenomenon that pervaded the war in both the European and Pacific theaters in the form of myriad unexplainable occurrences collectively known as “Foo Fighters.” These typically took the form of inexplicable orbs, lights, glows, and “balls of fire” that darted about in the war-torn skies with inhuman maneuverability to startle even the most experienced pilots, and which were first seen from around 1944. One of the earliest Allied accounts was from Army Air Major William D. Leet, who in December of 1944 was on a mission aboard a B-17 near the Adriatic Sea when he and his crew saw something up there in the clouds that did not belong, a small disc that seemed to defy all laws of physics in its movements and which tracked them for some time. In that very same month another pilot with the 415 Nigh Fighter Squadron over Hagenau, Germany had his own encounter with glowing orange balls in the sky, saying:
Upon reaching our altitude they leveled off and stayed on my tail. After staying with the plane for two minutes, they peeled off and turned away, flying under perfect control, and then went out.
Another early report is that of Charles R. Bastien, of the Eighth Air Force, who said that he had seen “two fog lights flying at high rates of speed that could change direction rapidly” while on a mission over the region of Belgium. In another report over the Indian Ocean one of the crew of a U.S. B-29 Superfortress says they saw something very unusual near the plane, saying of the bizarre experience:
A strange object was pacing us about 500 yards (475 m) off the starboard wing. At that distance it appeared as a spherical object, probably five or six feet in diameter, of a very bright and intense red or orange… it seemed to have a halo effect. My gunner reported it coming in from about a 5 o’clock position (right rear) at our level. It seemed to throb or vibrate constantly. Assuming it was some kind of radio-controlled object sent to pace us, I went into evasive action, changing direction constantly, as much as 90 degrees and altitude of about 2,000 feet (600 m). It followed our every maneuver for about eight minutes, always holding a position about 500 yards (475m) out and about 2 o’clock in relation to the plane. When it left, it made an abrupt 90 degree turn, accelerating rapidly, and disappeared into the overcast.
Such sightings became rather common and occurred all over the place, often seen by entire crews, and with none of these experienced airmen able to find a rational explanation for what they had seen. The objects were also picked up quite frequently by radar crews and air traffic control, who often claimed that they would accelerate rapidly or vanish from view for no reason. Many pilots tried to take evasive maneuvers but this never really worked, and the occasional attempts to shoot the lights down were equally unsuccessful. These were beyond our comprehension.
Sightings of the Foo Fighters were well reported in the press at the time, and became so numerous that they were obviously not simply a figment of the imagination, and what they could be was heavily speculated upon. The most common explanation was that they were some sort of experimental German aircraft, but this didn’t seem to fit as the mysterious objects were nonthreatening and never seemed to take any aggressive action, and it would also turn out that enemy forces had been seeing the exact same kind of things, which they had conversely thought to be experimental aircraft of the Allies. Other explanations have included that they were the result of some sort of atmospheric phenomenon such as electrical discharges called St. Elmo’s fire, that they were ball lightning or an electromagnetic disturbance, that they were merely afterimages of flashes from explosions, and of course that they were alien UFOs, but the strange phenomenon of the Foo Fighters of World War II has never been fully explained and remains a mystery.
In addition to vanishings and mysterious lights there are also cases of what can only be called “ghost planes.” One famous case of such a mystery is what is often called the “Pearl Harbor Ghost Plane,” and which involves a very odd occurrence that supposedly happened on December 8, 1942, just about a year after the infamous attack. On this day, an unidentified incoming plane was detected flying towards Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, from out over the Pacific Ocean, seemingly coming from nowhere. Attempts at radio contact were met with silence, and warplanes were scrambled to investigate the intruder.
On closer inspection it was seen to be an out of date model called a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, which had not been in operation since the attack on Pearl Harbor. The mystery aircraft seemed to have seen better days, its shell perforated by numerous bullet holes a and the engine sputtering noticeably, and there seemed to be a pilot within who was bloody and struggling to keep his plane under control. The military escort paced the plane for a while, baffled as to where it had come from and wondering what to do, when the mysterious pilot waved at them and proceeded to crash land. When the wreckage was examined it is said that there was no sign of the pilot that had been seen, and the only clue that could be found was a diary in which it was written that the plane had flown in from the island of Mindanao, a full 1,300 miles away. The pilot has never been seen, no reason ascertained for why it appeared, and the Ghost Plane of Pearl Harbor continues to be a weird World War II mystery.
Probably even more bizarre is a case from November 23, 1944, when a British Royal Air Force antiaircraft unit stationed near Cortonburg, Belgium was surprised by something they saw lumbering towards them in the sky. There barreling in their direction was an American Army Air Corps B-17 bomber, a four-engine heavy bomber so colossal and heavily armed that it was nicknamed the “Flying Fortress.” The plane was coming in rather fast with its landing gear down, and because there was no such landing scheduled and because of the speed of the incoming aircraft it was assumed that it was preparing to make an emergency landing at their base. A communication with the base proved that indeed no such B-17 landing was expected, and the gunner crew braced themselves as the massive aircraft came hurtling in towards a nearby open, plowed field.
It was a rather messy landing to say the least, with the aircraft bouncing and swerving along as the terrified gunners looked on, finally stopping dangerously close to the position after one of its wings clipped the ground, yet it was still in one piece and had not actually crashed. The aircraft sat there looming over the field as its formidable propellers continued to spin in a cacophony of noise, but as the minutes ticked by no one exited the plane. When 20 minutes had passed with no sign of human activity, and the plane just squatting there with its engines running like some growling beast, it was decided to go in and investigate.
The team warily went in, opened the entry hatch located under the fuselage and proceeded to enter, expecting that perhaps the crew had been injured or otherwise unable to get out of the plane. What they did not expect was that the plane would be completely empty. A full sweep through the aircraft showed that not a single crew member was aboard, although it would later be reported that there were signs that the crew had just recently been there and must have vacated the aircraft in a hurry. There were found to be chocolate bars unwrapped and half eaten lying about, a row of neatly folded parachutes, with none apparently missing, and jackets that had been neatly hung up. The superior officer, a John V. Crisp, would say of the eerie scene:
We now made a thorough search and our most remarkable find in the fuselage was about a dozen parachutes neatly wrapped and ready for clipping on. This made the whereabouts of the crew even more mysterious. The Sperry bomb-sight remained in the Perspex nose, quite undamaged, with its cover neatly folded beside it. Back on the navigator’s desk was the code book giving the colours and letters of the day for identification purposes. Various fur-lined flying jackets lay in the fuselage together with a few bars of chocolate, partly consumed in some cases.
Where had they gone and how had the plane landed on its own? No one had any idea. Crisp had the engines shut down and the interior was further inspected. The log book was found opened, and the last cryptic words written in it were “bad flak.” Yet considering that all of the parachutes seemed to be accounted for and the exterior of the plane did not have evidence of damage except for what it had incurred in its rough landing, such as the buckled wing and one disabled engine, it seemed to be a rather strange last message.
The mystery B-17 began to be called the “Phantom Fortress,” and nobody knew just how it could have come in to make a landing by itself minus a crew, or what had become of those aboard. It would not be until a team was sent in by the Advanced Headquarters, 8th Air Force Service Command in Brussels, that a picture of what occurred was formed. It was ascertained through the aircraft’s serial number that the plane had been part of a bombing squadron called the 91st Bombardment Group, and that they had been on a mission to bomb oil refineries in Merseburg, Germany, when problems arose.
B-17
According to the bomber’s crew, all of whom were tracked down and found to have been alive and safe, their aircraft at some point had developed a malfunctioning bomb rack and had been forced to abort. They flew off away from the rest of the group but had been hit by enemy fire, which knocked out one of the aircraft’s four engines. There was also a hit on the bomb bay itself, which had caused a bright flash, but rather oddly had not set off the ordnance. The decision was made by the crew of the limping, damaged plane to set a course towards England, but this idea was quickly abandoned when it became apparent that the hobbled aircraft was never going to make it that far.
They changed their course towards Brussels, Belgium, at the same time making the plane lighter by dumping and jettisoning any unnecessary or nonessential equipment on board. When the plane still continued to suffer and a second engine on the struggling plane sputtered out, it was decided that the aircraft would be unable to make the journey, and the crew had then decided to bail out. The B-17 was put on autopilot and left to its fate as the crew jumped to safety. No one thought it would make it very far, let alone somehow land, but land it did. This was all very interesting information, but it still did not seem to explain a lot of odd details. For one, why did ground crew report all 4 engines working as the bomber had approached, with one being damaged only upon landing, when the report said that 2 engines had been knocked out during the mission? Indeed, where was the damage from the claimed enemy fire? Also, why were all of the parachutes still there if the crew had bailed out? Perhaps most mysterious of all, how had a large, cumbersome plane like the B-17 manage to come to a landing without a pilot?
Authorities on the case, as well as crew members of the Phantom Fortress, offered up some theories to try and shed some light on at least a few of the mysteries surrounding the event. For instance, with the engines it could have been that the technical difficulties cleared up on their own after the crew had bailed out, making the plane seem to have 4 fully operating engines on approach, although why they would start working again after being taken out remains mysterious. If the engines had been in bad enough shape for the crew to abandon the aircraft it seems odd that they should kick back into working order on their own and continue whirring away even after the rough landing.
With regards to the lack of any apparent visible damage from enemy fire, it has been suggested that this could have just been simply due to the untrained eyes of the team that initially investigated the plane after it had landed. They were after all a gunner crew, not trained aviators, and may have mistaken the damage reported by the B-17 crew as being from the crash. They simply might not have noticed that the aircraft had sustained battle damage, but then again they were antiaircraft gunners and might have had some idea. With the parachutes, it was surmised that they had possibly mistaken some spare parachutes as the full compliment. However, this is all speculation, and the mystery has never been totally solved.
As to how the B-17 could have come to a landing mostly intact without a pilot, that is still largely a mystery as well. Autopilot is one thing, but landing is another beast altogether. After all, there is that old saying, “Flying is easy, landing is hard.” Even with a pilot landing such an immense aircraft would be very difficult. A pilotless B-17 landing by itself with no one on board was totally unprecedented, and one would expect it to have careened into the ground to crash into a ball of fire and debris, or at least ended up a heap of twisted wreckage, so how could this happen?
Although no one really knows for sure, the main theory is that the plane simply lost altitude slowly, at just the right speed, and with just the right angle of descent to come down relatively softly enough to appear as if it was landing, with the B-17’s legendary toughness and sturdy frame managing to hold it together to keep it from disintegrating. The odds of all of this happening in just such a way seem to be extremely small and unlikely, but is this really possible at all? Also, there is the rather odd detail that this unmanned plane just happened to come down in the exact best place to land under the circumstances, in that wide open field, and not one of the countless other places it could have come down more tragically. This could very well all be pure, blind chance, and these disparate factors all amazingly coming together just right, but it still all seems very strange indeed.
The mystery landing of the “Phantom Fortress” did happen, but the details of how it did remain mysterious and open to speculation. What we do know for sure is that this B-17 was on a bombing mission in Germany, that it did land without a crew in that field, and that the crew members were later found to have been alive and well with quite a story to tell, but questions remain. Are the B-17 crew’s reports or the British gunnery crew’s accounts totally accurate? Why don’t they line up? Did everything happen as they said it did? How could this plane have landed by itself in just the right way and in just the right place to keep from being a mangled pile of metal? Just what in the world happened here?
There is also the ghostly plane that haunted the skies of Northern Italy during the war to rain down destruction upon the countryside, and came to be known to the cowering people as “Pippo.” The rather cartoonishly named Pippo was said to appear only at night, always alone, and would most often perform punishing strafing runs on seemingly indiscriminate targets, either firing with its blazing machine guns or dropping fiery bombs. Sometimes it was said to deploy rather bizarre ordinance, such as exploding pens, incendiary flares, or poisoned candy. Sometimes it was known to drop so-called “butterfly bombs,” which was interestingly a German 2 kilogram anti-personnel submunition used by the Luftwaffe.
The mystery plane seemed to have no rhyme or reason to its choice of targets, unleashing death upon everyone from both Axis and Allied soldiers, to innocent civilians, to farmers working their fields. At other times, the plane would not attack at all, and would merely circle overhead for some inscrutable reason known only to it, all the while emanating that strange, haunting sound said to be unlike any other known aircraft. The terrified people deeply feared the plane, and would retreat into their homes at the slightest sign of the unique, unmistakeable, and rather strange unsettling “pip-pip” sound it was said to make, perhaps the origin of its relatively non-threatening sounding name. Once inside, the lore suggests that it was necessary to turn off or block all lights or else the phantom plane might choose your house as its next target.
Most of the time the bizarre phantom plane remained unseen and cloaked in darkness, its odd sound and the destruction it delivered the only evidence that it was even there at all. In every case, Pippo would appear from nowhere, go about its dark work, and then simply vanish. In more than a few cases it was said to sometimes vanish into thin air right in the middle of one of its attacks, as if it had never been there at all, with only burning rubble and dead bodies testament to the fact that it had made its presence known. It is unsure just where Pippo came from, what type of plane it was, or who was piloting it. Those loyal to the fascist government regime blamed the plane on the Allies, while those siding with Allied Forces thought it to be a Luftwaffe or Italian Air Force aircraft. Most of the terrified people claimed that there was no pilot at all, and that it was a ghost plane powered by some malevolent force loyal to no one or even the devil himself.
There are scarce records of this phenomenon in the official aviation literature. Accounts of Pippo are known of mostly through oral tradition, letters, diaries, and newspaper reports, but as phenomenal as the idea of a spectral plane flying solo missions over the Italian countryside may seem, it has been mostly agreed upon that the stories have some grain of truth to them and were likely based upon an actual plane. However, it is not clear just what its origins could have been. One possibility was that it was the Italian government orchestrating a propaganda campaign against the Allies or some kind of psychological warfare, by having one of their own planes attack its own civilians and then blame it on the enemy to turn public opinion against them. Others say it was some loose cannon pilot waging a personal vigilante war against his enemy, perhaps on some unknown vendetta. There is also the possibility that the plane could have been one of the many tactical night missions launched by the Allies in the aftermath of gaining the upper hand in Italy.
At this time, there were numerous solitary sorties done in the dark of night which were meant to halt German troop movements and prevent them from reinforcing their ranks. For such perilous missions, the Royal Air Force made much use of a type of aircraft called the de Havilland Mosquito, which was known for its rather unusual and distinctive buzzing drone, a fact that could explain the persistent detail of Pippo’s unusual sound. It has been surmised that the planes on these solo night missions, such as the Bristol Beaufighter, Northrop P-61, or de Havilland Mosquito, may have given rise to the stories of a lone ghostly plane terrorizing the populace. Still others stand by the theory that Pippo was exactly what many of the citizens thought it was; a phantom or ghost hellbent on some unknowable purpose.
There are other cases like this as well, and this has only been a section of the many air mysteries of World War II. It seems that even as the sky exploded and warplanes buzzed overhead there was something more to just the blood and the carnage. Beyond the violence and the fog of war were also mysteries that have never really been satisfactorily explained, and which serve to put a new sheen of the weird over one of the most tumultuous and bloodiest times in human history.
The New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, snapping the picture from about 4,200 miles (6,700 kilometers) away on Jan. 1.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
NASA'sNew Horizonsmission has shared its most detailed view yet of the Kuiper Belt object,nicknamed Ultima Thule, that the spacecraft flew past on Jan. 1. It's become nearly impossible to remember that just a few weeks ago the object was a fuzzy blur.
The image was taken when the spacecraft was about 4,200 miles (6,700 kilometers) away from Ultima Thule, about 7 minutes before the probe made its closest approach to the object. Between the close proximity of the object and the angle of the light hitting it, the image is already helping scientists better understand the distant object.
"This new image is starting to reveal differences in the geologic character of the two lobes of Ultima Thule and is presenting us with new mysteries as well," Alan Stern, principal investigator for the mission, said in a statement. "Over the next month, there will be better color and better-resolution images that we hope will help unravel the many mysteries of Ultima Thule."
This photograph is the first to clearly show some of the small craters on the object, which are here shown at the top of the image, where day and night meet. The picture also offers a particularly detailed view of a large depression on the space rock. Seen in the left of the image, it is about 4 miles (7 km) wide. And while scientists had already identified the bright necklace- or collar-like band where the two lumps of rock meet, this image shows the feature in greater contrast.
New Horizons made its flyby of the object, officially known as 2014 MU69, on Jan. 1. However, the spacecraft will need about 20 months to send all its data back to Earth, because the probe is so far away and is working with such a low power supply.
Russian hostess reveals her reptilian identity live “by mistake” (Video)
Russian hostess reveals her reptilian identity live “by mistake” (Video)
A scary video on YouTube has been circulating for a couple of months, which would be irrefutable proof that reptilians exist ... or is it just another Fake?
In this viral video we can see how supposedly a woman, who was interviewing a subject, seems to make a mistake and accidentally reveals that he is not a human being ... but a reptilian!
Thousands of people on YouTube have been stunned to discover that this woman would have unwittingly revealed that it is not a human being, but a reptilian who runs a program on a very popular Russian channel of the Google video platform.
gRUNgerOFICIAL , the youtuber who revealed this story, assured that the YouTube channel Аллатра ТВ, which apparently would be Russian, published a few months ago an extensive video in which two women appear interviewing a man and one of them does something unexpected.
If you look closely at the original video, you will notice that the woman instead of blinking normally, does it laterally, as if it were a reptile, a fact that was noticed by thousands of users who say that this YouTube channel would be controlled for them, the reptilians.
Curiously, channel Аллатра ТВ belongs to a strange Russian sect called "Allatra", which seeks to unite the whole world, regardless of nationality, in the same moral and spiritual bosom.
Will it be real or just one more method of advertising? See below the explanation of David Parcerisa and below the video of the complete interview .. What do you think about it? Leave your comment below.
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Small UFO Seen Hovering Over A Police Car In pain
Small UFO Seen Hovering Over A Police Car In Spain
Something mysterious was spotted above a police car in Spain, leading some to believe that it was an alien probe watching us.
Spanish police officers were taking images of their vehicle when a siren light exposed something strange hovering just above it. The small drone-like object was somewhat lurking as if it was monitoring the happenings below. Some conspiracy theorists quickly concluded that the craft was of extraterrestrial origin.
The UFO can be seen emitting blue lights in more than one pictures, confirming its presence rather than a mere reflection on the camera lens.
Alien enthusiasts suggested it was more like a monitoring device by extraterrestrials rather than a vehicle with aliens inside.
According to a conspiracy theory, Earth’s atmosphere is likely to be deadly to extraterrestrials.
Other UFO enthusiasts believed it was cloaked, but the flashing blue lights from the police vehicle revealed it. The mysterious aerial thing appeared to be small, about .5 to 1 meter across.
Being so small made some observers think that it was an alien drone device since the Earth could not support all forms of alien life. Conspiracy theorists explained that the Earth’s atmosphere could be deadly to some ETs.
Grant Black says that he isn’t a nut or anything but knows many people will think otherwise when he says he saw a red UFO. The Taranaki man (New Zealand) claims he saw a red UFO with a shape like a round ball flying close to New Plymouth and towards the coast on Friday night.
According to his report, he was sitting and watching a TV show when he saw something. The Plymouth Rd resident explained he saw a massive red ball flying fast through the sky horizontally.
Black estimates the size of the mysterious UFO to be approximately 500 metres. The red ball was moving parallel with Kirihau Rd towards the coast.
Black stresses that it was not falling but was moving horizontally to the ground. He says that he does not have a thing in mind to explain what he saw and is asking if any others witnessed the same strange object in the air before it vanished.
Black says that he has asked a couple of neighbours, but no one saw anything unusual.
Are you living around the area? Did you spot or capture the UFO on camera? Let us know in the comments section below.
In a six-part series of videos titledEarth Catastrophe Cycle, Ben Davidson, founder of Space Weather News, presented multiple scientific studies of “micronova” (aka “solar flash”) events that recur in human history, and the subsequent pole shifts that haven taken place on a cyclic basis. The scientific data confirms that micronova events are common occurrences in our galaxy, and such events span Earth’s history, are associated with pole shifts, yet the evidence has been suppressed by government authorities for decades.
In part 4 of his video series, Davidson presents scientific studies showing how “micronovas” have been observed occurring in multiple stars by astronomers. “Micronova” is Davidson’s term for a supernova type event that is not large enough to exhaust or destroy the star generating it, but large enough to devastate nearby planets. He said:
What is a micronova? It’s not a supernova, it’s not even really a nova, as it is like the little sister of the nova, one that can affect the entire world but not completely destroy it.
Davidson’s video shows evidence that such micronova events are a cyclic part of the life of a star, and includes the following list of 10 known recurring nova events observed in the Milky Way.
Davidson referred to a number of sources pointing to solar flashes being part of Earth’s geological history. Among these is Dr. Robert Schoch, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences at Boston University and author ofForgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in our Past and Future. In a video interview in part 4 of Davidson’s series, Schoch explained that ice core samples from Greenland show that there was a solar burst or flare recorded at the end of the last Ice Age, known as the Younger Dryas, about 9700 BCE.
Schock and Davidson estimated that the micronova event was as much as 40 times the power of the most destructive solar storm observed in modern history, the 1859 Carrington event. This would make the Younger Dryas micronova as much as an X-100+ solar flare according to the measurement scale currently in use. Quite alarming, especially if this were to repeat any time soon.
The enormous amount of plasma that arrived immediately after the micronova event circa 9700 BCE, bombarded the Earth producing an effect similar to one or more major asteroid impacts. This has caused confusion and led many archeological researchers into mistakenly interpreting historic evidence of impacts causing and/or ending the last ice age, as deriving from asteroid impacts rather than plasma discharges.
In his interview and book, Schoch asserts that ancient records are consistent with a solar flash that wiped out an ancient civilization predating the end of the last Ice Age, widely assumed to be Plato’s Atlantis.
The scientific data on solar flashes goes back several decades. Bradley Schaefer, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, wrote a paper titled, “Flashes from Normal Stars” that appeared in the February 1989 edition of The Astrophysical Journal. He dated the beginning of research into solar flashes to a 1959 study by H. Johnson who at the time “performed the only study which is capable of detecting rare flashes from normal field stars.”
Schaefer examined NASA data on glazing discovered on lunar rocks that was first presented in a 1969 paper by T. Gold published in Science who had concluded: “Some glazing is apparently due to radiation heating; it suggests a giant solar outburst in geologically recent times”. Schaefer agreed with Gold’s analysis and reached a similar conclusion:
The existence of a glazing on the top surfaces of lunar rocks has been used as a strong argument for a “solar outburst” where the Sun increased its luminosity by over 100 times for 10 to 100s within the last 30,000 years.
Schaefer went on to describe how such a “solar outburst” (aka solar flash or micronova) could result in an Extinction Level Event:
I crudely estimate that a flash … might result in a major extinction episode. (The Cretatious-Tertiary dinosaur extinctions cannot be explained by a flash since there is no mechanism for enhancing iridium.) The Sun could have undergone a few (at most) such super flashes in the last 108 yr [100,000,000 years]. These data suggest that our own Sun may have a significantly lower event rate than average field stars.
In part 5 of his video series, Davidson interviews solar cycle researcher Douglas Vogt who discusses the scientific data that lunar rocks provide hard evidence of solar flashes having occurred in recent geological history.
The scientific data compiled by Davidson in his video series is cogent and compelling, yet, it provides no answer to the critical question: “When will the next micronova or solar flash event occur?” For a detailed answer, we can turn to the startling testimony of Corey Goode, who says he has received intelligence briefings about when the “solar flash” will occur from two independent sources: a Secret Space Program Alliance and an Inner Earth civilization he calls the “Anshar”.
Goode says that he served in multiple secret space programs over a 20 year period from 1986 to 2007. While his claims have been very controversial, my research has found multiple points of corroboration which have been detailed in my Secret Space Program Series, including Goode being the first to release two Defense Intelligence Reference Documents that corroborate key elements of his remarkable testimony.
Goode said that scientists from different space programs predicted the solar flash occurring at the end of Solar Cycle 24 (2008-2018/2019), and that this led to plans for the evacuation of global elites to safe places similar to what was depicted in the movie, 2012.
In an interview, Goode gave details about what he had been told during a December 2017 visit to a secret moon base called Lunar Operations Command [LOC] about multiple solar flash events that have been predicted by different groups and their timing:
I have said for a while that I was told that it was not one solar event but a series of events that led up to one large event. During my meeting on the LOC… I was told that the Elite had expected the final “solar sneeze” [solar flash] to occur at the end of this Solar Minimum period (2018/2019 from their estimates). “Are we officially in Solar Minimum?” was the question of one of the people present. To my dismay that question went unanswered as the people being briefed were paying very close attention to this particular topic.
The Elite began moving underground in large numbers based on this probable timeline. The “Programs” had used probable future technology to nail down the time of Alien and Suppressed Technology Disclosure and The Solar Event. None of them agreed on what the Solar Event would be as many thought it would be a flash that would turn them into ascended light beings while others expected it to be a terrible day for the planet Earth…. The “Egg Heads” and the Smart Glass Pads described all of this occurring in the 2018-2023/24 time window.
Goode said that he also received information from another source, the Anshar, who claim to be the descendants of time travelers from our future. This meant that their ancestors had lived through the upcoming solar flash event(s) and passed down its effects through historical records, which were carried into the Earth’s distant past by the Anshar to maintain the current timeline. Goode explains what the Anshar had told him:
The flashes (not necessarily all flashes are visible) that have been occurring will build up to one large solar event. The Anshar described a major Solar Event in their past (Our Future?) that was very much like the “full circumference mass coronal ejection” that I described being one of the scientific theories about the Solar Event.
They described the solar blast being so powerful that it caused a physical pole shift on the Earth of several degrees. They described the atmosphere being breached by the CME [Coronal Mass Ejection] in the Northern Hemisphere which caused massive fires that wipe out a large area and in doing so knocks out all technology on the planet. There was a fair amount of loss of life in the actual event.
Goode’s information is very helpful since it provides intelligence data from secret space program scientists and Inner Earth beings who are monitoring solar activity, and are also aware of records detailing solar flashes or micronova from Earth’s history. This complements the scientific data compiled by Davidson which substantiates micronovas as a recurring phenomenon for many stars in our galaxy, including our own sun.
This take us to another key element of Davidson’s Earth Catastrophe Cycle series, which Goode’s classified sources provide complementary information. This concerns the predicted micronova or solar flash being a trigger for a geophysical pole shift that could be catastrophic for many regions of the planet.
Ben Davidson, founder of Space Weather News, began his six partEarth Catastrophe Cycle video seriesby discussing a 57 page booklet called “The Adam and Eve Story” authored by “Chan Thomas”, which was classified by the CIA at some point after its1963 publication, and declassified in part on June 24, 2013 with the release of a sanitized digital version on the CIA’s website. Thomas’ analysis of cyclic pole shifts was different in key respects to what was being proposed at the time by Charles Hapgood in his seminal book, The Earth’s Shifting Crust(1958).
According to Davidson, it was Thomas more accurate explanation for how a pole shift happens, which led to the CIA classifying Thomas’ book. The Adam and Eve Story was first published in 1963 by Emerson House, with a third edition published in 1965, and then republished by Bengal Tiger Press in 1993. It is not clear when, why and how the CIA classified Thomas book, but the fact that the CIA chose to release a declassified sanitized version in 2013 is very significant.
In part 1 of his video series, Davidson contrasts Hapgood’s wandering pole hypothesis with the pole shift described in the CIA suppressed book by Thomas. Hapgood wrote of a pole shift of up to 40 degrees that could recur every 5000 years or so in The Earth’s Shifting Crust where earlier geographical poles would wander on the Earth’s surface with each crustal displacement.
Instead, Thomas wrote of a massive shift of almost 90 degrees that would move both poles into the tropics in less than a day, and then back to their earlier polar positions after the next cycle:
In ¼ to ½ a day the poles move almost to the equator, and all hell lets loose. The atmosphere and oceans don’t shift with the shell – they just keep on rotating West to East – and at the equator that speed is 1000 miles per hour. It has to be, normally, to make one rotation per day. So, while the shell shifts with the poles going toward the equator, the winds and oceans go eastward, blowing across the face of the earth with supersonic speeds, inundating continents with water miles deep….
You can see, then, that ice ages are not a matter of advancing and retreating ice; it’s simply that different areas of the Earth are in polar regions at different times, for different durations of time, with the changes between positions taking place in a fraction of a day. [The Adam and Eve Story, pp.13-14]
Thomas provided a table illustrating how the North pole, for example, would switch back and forth between northern hemisphere regions after experiencing close to a 90 degree tilt.
The Adam and Eve Story, p. 17.
It is Thomas’ conclusion of cyclic pole shifts of almost 90 degrees that flip the poles back and forth over millennia that Davidson identified as the key reason the CIA classified Thomas’ work. If the North and South poles flipped back and forth 90 degrees, there would be little evidence of previous pole shifts since these would be buried under thick layers of ice.
This takes us to the science of paleomagnetics – the study of the record of the Earth’s magnetic field in rocks, minerals or archeological materials – which has been used to determine the historic movement of the Earth’s magnetic poles.
Davidson cited a number of scholarly articles which studied paleomagnetic data from volcanic hotspots. A highly regarded 1985 paleomagnetic study titled, “True polar wander: An analysis of Cenozoic and Mesozoic paleomagnetic poles” found “the pole has moved 22 deg + or 10 deg in the past 180 m.y.[million years].” This was far less than the 40 degree wandering pole hypothesis that Hapgood proposed in an approximate 5000 year period.
A subsequent 2001 study titled “Stability of the Earth with respect to the spin axis for the last 130 million years” concluded that “the time-averaged position of the spin axis has deviated by no more than ˜5° over the last 130 million yr, indicating that mantle mass heterogeneities have not changed rapidly enough to drive TPW [True Polar Wander].” Davidson cited these and a 2018 study as the key elements of the body of scientific evidence refuting Hapgood’s wandering pole hypothesis.
However, as Davidson pointed out, the scientific data from paleomagnetic studies did not address Thomas’ theory of the poles flipping back and forth over geologic time, thereby giving the appearance that the poles had not moved over millions of years as researchers had mistakenly concluded:
All work crushing the theory utilizes these flawed studies, especially the long term average pole position and none address the problem of a ping pong shift where you would have that time average pole position appearing to be in the same position over millions of years.
Davidson goes as far as suggesting that Hapgood, who worked for the CIA’s predecessor the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, conducted a “limited hangout” with his 1958 book to get some of the truth out into the public arena, but doing so in a way that could be eventually discredited.
Davidson cited a 1994 book titled World in Peril about the once classified information provided by an Arctic polar explorer, Major Maynard White, who told his son, Ken (the book’s author), about secret Pentagon meetings in 1948 where suppression of evidence of cyclic pole shifts was discussed:
At one of the scientific meetings that Major White attended in the Pentagon in early 1948, the scientists discussed the advisability of alerting the public to the pending polar-flip phenomenon. None of the scientist would agree to withhold the information from the public, but, on the other hand, neither could they agree on how to release it. The knowledge of this phenomenon, some felt, could in itself destroy the moral fiber of society. Their fears were apparently unfounded when, in the early 1950s, information about the flip phenomenon was released in both a newspaper column and a magazine article, but surprisingly generated no responses from an apparently stunned parochial or incredulous public.
Given the amount of scientific data presented by Davidson in his Earth Catastrophe Cycle series, it’s clear that physical pole shifts of approximately 90 degrees have been historically recorded, and that this became known to government authorities as early as 1948.
This takes us to the critical question: “What is the trigger for a geophysical pole shift?”
Hapgood, along with Albert Einstein, who wrote the preface to Hapgood’s 1958 book, believed that the accumulation of ice at the North and South poles would be the trigger for a crustal displacement (geophysical pole shift). Einstein explained the triggering mechanism as follows:
In a polar region there is continual deposition of ice, which is not symmetrically distributed about the pole. The earth’s rotation acts on these unsymmetrically deposited masses, and produces centrifugal momentum that is transmitted to the rigid crust of the earth. The constantly increasing centrifugal momentum produced in this way will, when it has reached a certain point, produce a movement of the earth’s crust over the rest of the earth’s body, and this will displace the polar regions toward the equator.
Davidson asserts in part 1 of his series that Einstein eventually broke with Hapgood when he realized that the amount of ice at the poles would be insufficient to trigger a crustal displacement as he had earlier concluded from Hapgood’s data.
In contrast to Hapgood, Thomas believed the explanation was that something in the Earth’s interior was occurring that was the triggering mechanism. Thomas wrote:
… once every few thousand years neutral matter escapes from the 860-mile [1385 km] radius inner core into the 1300-mile [2092 km] thick molten outer core, and there is a literal atomic explosion inside the Earth. The explosion in the high energy layer of the outer core disrupts completely the electrical and magnetic structure in both the molten outer core and the outer 60-mile thick molten layer. Finally, the ice caps are allowed to pull the shell of the earth around the interior, with the shallow molten layers lubricating the shift all the way. [The Adam and Eve Story, p.14]
Thomas likens the “neutral matter” escaping Earth’s inner core to the plasma in a solar burst since these are based on what he claimed was the same governing universal principle found in the atom and galaxies. Consequently, Thomas is suggesting that the triggering mechanism for the sun emitting a solar flash or micronova, is similar to what triggers the Earth’s inner core to release waves of energy that ultimately shift both the magnetic and physical poles by as much as 90 degrees, in a cyclic pattern.
In World in Peril, the triggering mechanism is described as a flip in the Earth’s magnetic field as cited by Davidson:
It was determined through repeated experimentation that as the “magnetic pole approached the “geographic pole, the “magnetic” pole would at some point accelerate its rate of convergence as though pulled toward the “geographic” pole by centripetal force and jump to coincide; but instead of the poles coinciding, the “magnetic” pole would rapidly “flip” around the “geographic” pole, them spin off towards the equator as though by centrifugal force, ending up at a position where the two axes assumed an approximate 89-degree divergence. After this polar “flip” occurred, the axes would then gradually begin to reconverge over a long period of time.
According to the classified information received by Major White and his USAF Arctic reconnaissance unit, the magnetic pole flip would be the trigger for a crustal displacement leading to an almost 90 degree geophysical pole shift, as explained in the description to the World in Peril:
World in Peril … provides an explanation, based on the unit’s findings, of how Pentagon scientists determined our globe has evolved in prehistory, and how another earth-reshaping cataclysm is imminent! Now we can understand why mammoths and mastodons found in the arctic permafrost had been instantaneously frozen with subtropical vegetation in their mouths and stomachs. World in Peril may be the only book in print that accurately explains the elusive triggering mechanism for the phenomena known to scientists for over 200 years as “crustal shift,” and what it implies.
It’s important to emphasize the complementary nature of the triggering mechanisms found in Thomas’ The Adam and Eve Story and White’s information in World in Peril.
White essentially described an internal geological process by which a magnetic pole flip would lead to a crustal displacement so the two sets of poles (magnetic and geophysical) would briefly realign at opposite ends of the equator. The magnetic poles would then gradually realign with the new geophysical North and South poles until the cycle repeated itself with the former geophysical poles flipping back to their former positions.
Some unknown event inside the Earth would trigger both the magnetic pole flip and the crustal displacement according to the information acquired by White, and had been suppressed by national security officials.
Thomas’ book explains the internal mechanism which triggers the pole shifts. The neutral matter he described is basically the functional equivalent of a micronova or solar flare being emitted by the Earth’s inner core. Consequently, any evidence of the Earth’s interior generating something analogous to increased solar activity is an important clue to a pole shift occurring in the near future.
Davidson’s six part series makes a cogent case for a connection between cyclic micronovas and historic pole shifts of almost 90 degrees, which occur in a back and forth flipping action making it appear that the present poles have been in their respective positions for millions of years, as paleomagnetic studies have mistakenly concluded.
Furthermore, his emphasis on the information proposed by Thomas and White as crustal displacement being triggered by internal geological events, rather than external events such as accumulation of ice at the poles, leads to a correct focus on something happening inside Earth’s molten core.
The historic data and analyses presented by Davidson point to something simultaneously triggering eruptions of “neutral matter” from the inner Earth core, and from the sun in the form of micronovas. This takes us finally to the role played by cosmic rays as the elusive trigger mechanism, and recent scientific data showing these recently emerging out of Antarctica and a possible connection to mysterious global seismic waves.
On January 11, one of the world’s top science journals, Nature, reported an unexpected acceleration in the movement of the Earth’s magnetic poles that has required an immediate update of theWorld Magnetic Modelused for global navigation by ships at sea, Google Maps and smartphones.Scientists have speculatedthat the unexpected acceleration is due to “liquid iron sloshing within the planet’s core”, and that in the case of the north magnetic pole, the likely culprit was a “high-speed jet of liquid iron beneath Canada moving the pole towards Siberia”.
Importantly, scientists widely agree that the acceleration in the movement of the magnetic poles points to something very unusual happening in the Earth’s outer core which is filled with a nickel-iron alloy surrounding a solid inner core of iron. In part 2 of this series of articles investigating issues raised by Ben Davidson in his Earth Catastrophe Cycle video series, I discussed a CIA document authored by a geologist, Chan Thomas, that was only declassified in 2013. Thomas hypothesized that the inner core of the Earth, behaves just like a star in terms of emitting plasma or “neutral matter” in periodic bursts every few thousand years into the outer core, thereby triggering both magnetic and geophysical pole shifts.
In part 1, I examined evidence of solar flash (aka micronova) events in history, and the prospects for one recurring in the near future. This raises the possibility of the connection of some kind between solar flash events and “neutral matter” eruptions that occur deep inside the Earth’s core. In this article, I examine whether high energy cosmic rays from outside our solar system are the trigger mechanism for both solar flashes and neutral matter eruptions that lead to pole shifts.
It’s important to first point out that the accelerated movement of the magnetic poles is happening at a time when the Earth’s magnetic field is weakening and the Solar Minimum (low sunspot activity) have both made the planet more susceptible than ever to cosmic rays.
Cosmic rays are the atomic nuclei of hydrogen, helium and larger molecules that have been stripped of their electrons. They have been generated from galactic events such as supernova and quasars, and travel throughout the universe at almost the speed of light.
While our sun also generates cosmic rays, it is the cosmic rays from the galactic core that carry the most energy as they penetrate deep into our solar system, into our sun, and finally into the Earth’s interior.
Cosmic rays are impacting both the Earth and the sun with increasing impact because the energy shield created by the solar wind is at its weakest level as a result of the current solar minimum. Some scientific models predict the solar minimum will continue until October 2020, and may even stretch out into a grand solar minimum lasting until 2070, during which time humanity witnesses a mini-ice age similar to the Maunder Minimum that occurred from 1645 to 1715.
Scientists have for decades tracked solar and cosmic ray activity and confirmed that cosmic rays peak during solar minima as shown in the following diagram.
Top graph shows solar cycles and bottom shows cosmic ray activity during the same period
The intensity of cosmic rays impacting our solar system and the Earth depends largely on the strength of the solar wind generated by our sun which acts as a shield as explained by NASA:
Our first line of defense is the sun: The sun’s magnetic field and solar wind combine to create a porous ‘shield’ that fends off cosmic rays attempting to enter the solar system. The shielding action of the sun is strongest during Solar Maximum and weakest during Solar Minimum.
NASA studies have confirmed that cosmic rays, during a solar minimum increase the radiation exposure of astronauts thereby shortening the time they can spend in Earth orbit.
It is worth emphasizing that cosmic rays typically are either deflected by the Earth’s magnetic field (magnetic field) or attracted by the field towards the polar regions where most of the world’s cosmic ray detectors have been assembed.
Studies have shown the Earth’s magnetic field, which acts as the second line of defense against cosmic rays, as well as being a shield against the solar wind, has been steadily weakening throughout the 20th century. Since the year 2000, however, the weakening has dramatically increased as illustrated in the following image provided by Davidson in his Earth Catastrophe Cycle series.
Source: Ben Davidson. Video: “Energy from Space | The Shift Has Begun”
The weakening of the magnetic field has led to some scientists concluding that this is a prelude to a magnetic pole flip.
In 2014 Rune Florberghagen, the mission manager of the European Space Agency’s Swarm project, confirmed that the Earth’s magnetic field was weakening 10 times faster than normal, and that this was a sign of a future magnetic pole flip. Florberghagen said that this “would take many hundred if not a few thousand years…. They have happened many times in the past.”
However, other scientists studying paleomagnetic data cut the time dramatically in Florberghagen’s estimate. A Berkeley University study said that the pole flip could happen in less than a century, anytime during our life-time.
The dramatic weakening of the magnetic field means that fewer cosmic rays are being deflected, and more of these have been absorbed into the Earth, especially at the polar regions where the magnetic field lines attract cosmic rays into the North and South magnetic poles.
This raises important questions about what scientists have recently discovered about the unexpected acceleration in the movement of the magnetic poles, and what we know about the increasing influence of cosmic rays during a solar minimum that may extend well beyond the projected 2020 start of solar cycle 25.
First, are cosmic rays entering the Earth’s magnetic field at the polar regions penetrating deep into the Earth’s interior, thereby impacting the molten outer core in some way? Second, were cosmic rays recently detected coming out of Antarctica, in any way related to the “neutral matter” eruptions described by Chad Thomas? Finally, were the mysterious seismic global waves detected on November 11, 2018, in any way related to neutral matter eruptions from the core, and/or cosmic rays?
Are Cosmic Rays Affecting the Earth’s Interior?
The widespread assumption about cosmic rays is that these are absorbed by the Earth’s atmosphere as they impact air molecules, which in turn are rapidly accelerated and impact other molecules in cascade effect as the following diagram illustrates.
Credit: NASA
Several studies have shown, for example, that cosmic rays impact cloud formation leading to greater cloud covers during solar minima.
While the energy of cosmic rays is absorbed by other particles when they collide in the Earth’s atmosphere, these “cascade particles” take on the momentum and energy of the cosmic rays and reach the Earth’s surface, and along with surviving cosmic rays, penetrate into the Earth’s crust extending the cascade effect deep into the earth’s mantle and eventually reaching the core.
Sub-atomic particles which are created as a byproduct of the collision of cosmic rays and air molecules, such as muons and neutrinos, more easily penetrate into the Earth’s mantle and core due to their smaller cross section.
The impact of cosmic rays through their cascading effect can be visualized as a shotgun blast that carries the energy of the primary cosmic rays deep into the Earth’s interior through “cascade particles” and their sub-atomic byproducts.
The penetration of cosmic rays into the Earth’s surface has had the effect of triggering seismic activity and volcanic eruptions, as confirmed by a team of four Japanese scientists. In a June 2011 study of 11 volcanic eruptions titled “Explosive volcanic eruptions triggered by cosmic rays”, the scientists found that cosmic rays were a factor in triggering nine of the eruptions:
It is well known that the cosmic-ray flux is negatively correlated with solar magnetic activity, as the strong magnetic field in the solar wind repels charged particles such as galactic cosmic rays that originate from outside of the solar system. The strong negative correlation observed between the timing of silica-rich eruptions and solar activity can be explained by variations in cosmic-ray flux arising from solar modulation.
The Japanese study confirms that cosmic rays, through their cascade effect, do have an influence inside the Earth’s interior. The critical question is: “how deep into the Earth’s interior do cosmic rays penetrate?”
Studies show that the energy transmitted by cosmic rays can be carried deep into the Earth’s interior:
During solar minimum high energy cosmic radiation can penetrate to a very deep distance below the Earth’s surface, in some case a few hundred kilometers. This is the reason why most if not all earthquakes during solar minimum are deep earthquakes.
This takes me back to Chan Thomas and his claim that the Earth’s core periodically releases “neutral matter” every few thousand years, and that the sun experiences a solar flash in a similar millennia long cycle. Cosmic rays have the capacity to not only interact with the sun in a way that ultimately triggers a micronova, but they also interact with the Earth’s core in a way that triggers the emission of “neutral matter” as Thomas’ book claims.
If the Earth’s core is being stimulated by cosmic rays into emitting neutral matter in analogous manner to a Coronal Mass Ejection by the sun, is there any evidence of this occurring? The most compelling sign would be if the Earth’s core, like the sun, was observed to be emitting cosmic rays. Indeed, this has occurred with cosmic ray detectors discovering cosmic rays coming out of the Earth, rather than penetrating into it.
Cosmic rays observed to be coming out of Antarctica were first detected in January 2007 when the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) balloon experiment began, as explained by the science writer, Emma Fiala:
Using sensors, ANITA began detecting high energy neutrinos interacting with the ice sheet below….During ANITA’s time in the Antarctic, it detected never before seen “upward-pointing cosmic-ray-like events.” The rays detected had horizontal planes of polarization, which may suggest they didn’t originate in space.
Cosmic rays coming out of the Antarctic ice sheets were observed again by ANITA in December 2016 and sparked intense scientific speculation over whether a new type of particle had been discovered. This led to a team of scientists at Penn State University studying the ANITA data, and on September 25, 2018, releasing released their report about the anomalous 2007 and 2016 events which was published on the scholarly archive, arxiv.org:
The ANITA collaboration have reported observation of two anomalous events that appear to be εcr≈0.6 EeV cosmic ray showers emerging from the Earth with exit angles of 27∘ and 35∘, respectively…. We explore here whether “beyond the Standard Model” (BSM) particles are required to explain the ANITA events, if correctly interpreted, and conclude that they are. Seeking confirmation or refutation of the physical phenomenon of sub-EeV Earth-emergent cosmic rays in data from other facilities, we find support for the reality of the ANITA events, and three candidate analog events, among the Extremely High Energy Northern Track neutrinos of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
It should be noted that on both January 2007 and December 2016, the sunspot numbers were respectively at or near the solar minimum for sunspot activity. Consequently, it should be noted that at the same time as cosmic rays were peaking as they were coming into our solar system due to minimal solar activity, that Cosmic-like rays were observed to be coming out of the Earth.
This is consistent with the earlier observation that cosmic rays were penetrating deep into the Earth and triggering the neutral matter ejections into the outer core, which in turn stimulated what might be described as “Earth cosmic rays” that were detected by ANITA.
This takes me to the mysterious seismic global wave detected on November 11, 2018, 15 miles off the coast of Mayotte, a French island between Madagascar and Africa. On that day, a seismic wave was detected that travelled around the world for about 20 minutes. While seismic waves routinely follow earthquakes, there was no earthquake detected by seismographs as explained in an article published by National Geographic.
Based on the earlier cited 2011 study by Japanese scientists one explanation that arises is that the global seismic wave was caused by cosmic waves penetrating into the Earth’s interior. Another, more disturbing explanation is that the mysterious global seismic waves were a result of unique “Earth cosmic rays” emanating from a neutral matter ejection analogous to a coronal mass ejection first described by Thomas.
Conclusion
The accelerated movement of the magnetic poles is a sign that something significant is currently happening deep inside the Earth’s interior, at its molten outer core. The conventional explanation that this pole shift is merely a result of magma moving in the outer core portion under North America does not factor in the important role played by cosmic waves in penetrating deep into the Earth and influencing the core’s activity.
The fact that cosmic rays are pouring into the Earth due to a weakened magnetic field and solar minimum, and this may be triggering an ejection of neutral matter from the Earth’s core into the mantle and surface, needs be seriously considered. Furthermore, the fact that the CIA classified Thomas’ book some time after its 1963 publication and only declassified it in 2013, suggests that his concepts and theory of the dynamics of the inner Earth and associated pole shifts needed to be suppressed since they contained important truths that could destabilize society.
At this time in our collective history, as cosmic rays are impacting our planet at increasing levels, we need to better understand how cosmic rays influence both our planet and the sun during its period of minimal solar activity. We need to pay particular attention to evidence that our solar system has entered a region of the galaxy with increased levels of cosmic ray energy, and how this might trigger the solar flashes (micronovas) and geophysical pole shifts that occurred in our distant past.
NEW THEORY: LIFE ON EARTH CAME FROM IMPACT WITH ANOTHER PLANET
NEW THEORY: LIFE ON EARTH CAME FROM IMPACT WITH ANOTHER PLANET
JON CHRISTIAN
Deep Impact
According to a provocative new paper, a catastrophic impact with a “Mars-sized planet” may have broken the Moon off the Earth more than four billion years ago — and left behind the building blocks that led to life on the Blue Planet.
“This study suggests that a rocky, Earth-like planet gets more chances to acquire life-essential elements if it forms and grows from giant impacts with planets that have sampled different building blocks, perhaps from different parts of a protoplanetary disk,” co-author Rajdeep Dasgupta said in a blog post about the research.
Life Giver
In the paper, which was published this week in the journal Science Advances, Dasgupta and his colleagues at Rice University probe a longstanding question: How did the Earth obtain its life-essential carbon and nitrogen, which are generally rare in the inner solar system?
To investigate the origins of life on Earth, they conducted experiments to simulate the high-temperature and high-pressure conditions that would emerge if two planets smashed into each other. Their conclusion: Earth likely got its carbon and nitrogen from an apocalyptic collision with an “embryonic planet” with a sulfur-rich core.
When Worlds Collide
Dasgupta is a longstanding advocate of the theory that an ancient impact broke off the chunk of matter that became the Moon and gave Earth the materials that led to life as we know it. But these latest experiments, he believes, are crucial new evidence — and could lead to a new understanding of how life on Earth came to be.
The analysis “shows that life-essential volatiles can arrive at the surface layers of a planet, even if they were produced on planetary bodies that underwent core formation under very different conditions,” Dasgupta said in the post. “That means we can broaden our search for pathways that lead to volatile elements coming together on a planet to support life as we know it.”
Saturnus' maan Titan 'kookte' zijn eigen atmosfeer
Saturnus' maan Titan 'kookte' zijn eigen atmosfeer
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Met die nieuwe hypothese komen Amerikaanse onderzoekers op de proppen.
“Titan is een heel interessante maan, omdat deze een heel dikke atmosfeer heeft,” vertelt onderzoeker Kelly Miller. De atmosfeer heeft een extreem hoge dichtheid en is zelfs dikker dan die van de aarde. Verder is deze voornamelijk opgebouwd uit stikstofgas. “Omdat Titan de enige maan in ons zonnestelsel is die een substantiële atmosfeer heeft, vragen wetenschappers zich al lang af hoe die atmosfeer is ontstaan,” stelt Miller. In het blad Astrophysical Journal presenteert ze deze week een nieuwe theorie die deze prangende vraag kan helpen beantwoorden.
Andere theorie Er zijn op dit moment al wel theorieën over het ontstaan van Titans atmosfeer. “De belangrijkste theorie is dat ammoniakijs van kometen – door inslagen of fotochemie – is omgezet in stikstof dat vervolgens Titans atmosfeer vormde.” Een prachtige theorie, die echter niet helemaal sluitend is. “Hoewel dat een belangrijk proces geweest kan zijn, negeert het de effecten van een ander substantieel onderdeel van kometen: complexe organische materialen.” Wat daarnaast vreemd is, is dat Titans atmosfeer voor zo’n 5 procent uit methaan bestaat. En methaan is behoorlijk vluchtig: het vormt relatief snel organische verbindingen die vervolgens naar het oppervlak vallen. Afgaand op de leeftijd van Titan zou je dan ook verwachten dat het methaan al een eind uit de atmosfeer verdwenen is. Dat er nog zoveel methaan wordt aangetroffen, kan betekenen dat de hoeveelheid methaan nog steeds wordt aangevuld. Maar hoe dan?
Koken Miller presenteert nu de theorie dat de atmosfeer van Titan in ieder geval voor een deel ontstaat door het ‘koken’ van organisch materiaal in het binnenste van de maan. Tijdens dat koken ontstaan gassen die vervolgens onderdeel uit gaan maken van de atmosfeer. Volgens de berekeningen van Miller zou ongeveer de helft van de stikstof in de atmosfeer en mogelijk al het methaan het resultaat zijn van dit kookproces.
Kometen Maar hoe komt Titan dan aan de organische materialen om te koken? Volgens Miller zijn ze tijdens het ontstaan van Titan tezamen met de kometen die deze organische materialen herbergen, in het binnenste van de maan ingesloten. “Deze kleine hemellichamen kunnen worden opgenomen in grotere hemellichamen, zoals Titan, en het dichte, rotsachtige materiaal dat rijk is aan organische stoffen kan dan in de kern worden teruggevonden.”
Het idee voor de theorie ontstond toen Miller de door ruimtesonde Rosetta verzamelde data bestudeerde. Uit die data bleek – heel verrassend – dat de door Rosetta bestudeerde komeet 67P ongeveer voor de helft uit ijs, voor een kwart uit gesteente en een kwart uit organisch materiaal bestond. Vervolgens moest Miller aan de hand van modellen die de warmte in het binnenste van Titan beschrijven, nog zien te achterhalen of het hart van de maan warm genoeg was om voldoende organisch materiaal om te kunnen zetten in gassen. De resultaten wijzen erop dat Titan in ieder geval een aanzienlijk deel van zijn atmosfeer zelf gekookt kan hebben.
Wetenschappers boren 2152 meter diep gat in West-Antarctische ijskap
Wetenschappers boren 2152 meter diep gat in West-Antarctische ijskap
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Een record, waar zo’n twintig jaar aan gewerkt is.
Voor het eerst is het onderzoekers gelukt om in de West-Antarctische ijskap een gat te boren dat meer dan twee kilometer diep is. Naar verwachting levert het boorgat een schat aan informatie op over de wijze waarop dit deel van West-Antarctica op de opwarming van de aarde reageert.
Instrumenten Met behulp van warm water boorden onderzoekers in de Rutford Ice Stream een 2152 meter diep gat dat uitkomt op onder het ijs gelegen sedimenten. Direct daarna lieten de onderzoekers een breed scala aan instrumenten in het gat zakken, waarmee onder meer de temperatuur van het ijs en vervormingen in het ijs gemeten konden worden.
Meer kennis Het boren van het gat was een enorme onderneming waar zo’n 20 jaar voorbereiding en één mislukte boorpoging (in 2004) aan vooraf is gegaan. “Ik heb zo lang op dit moment gewacht en ben blij dat we eindelijk ons doel bereikt hebben,” aldus onderzoeker Andy Smith. “Er zitten hiaten in onze kennis omtrent wat er op West-Antarctica gebeurt en door een gebied te bestuderen waar het ijs op zachte sedimenten rust, kunnen we beter begrijpen hoe dit gebied in de toekomst gaat veranderen en bijdragen aan de zeespiegelstijging.” Collega Keith Makinson voegt toe: “We weten dat warmere oceaanwateren ervoor zorgen dat veel West-Antarctische gletsjers eroderen. Wat wij proberen te achterhalen, is hoe glad het sediment onder deze gletsjers is en zo bepalen hoe snel ze vanaf het continent in de zee kunnen stromen.”
In totaal hebben de onderzoekers twee gaten in de Rutford Ice Stream geboord. Ze hopen nog tot half februari in het gebied actief te kunnen zijn en willen in de periode die voor hen ligt ook nog onderzoek doen op een tweede locatie die enkele kilometers van het recordbrekende boorgat verwijderd is
Wauw! Dit is de beste foto van Ultima Thule tot nu toe
Wauw! Dit is de beste foto van Ultima Thule tot nu toe
Vivian Lammerse
We komen steeds meer over dit bijzondere kuipergordelobject te weten.
Ruimtevaartuig New Horizons trakteert ons op een nieuwe foto van het mysterieuze kuipergordelobject Ultima Thule. De foto is gemaakt op slechts zeven minuten vóór de dichtstbijzijnde benadering met de Multicolor Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) aan boord van de ruimtesonde. New Horizons was op dat moment slechts 6700 kilometer van het object verwijderd.
Het origineel De originele kwaliteit van de foto liet wat te wensen over. Zo sloeg de ruimtesonde het plaatje op met een resolutie van 135 meter per pixel. Wetenschappers hebben de foto vervolgens heel wat zitten bijschaven. Maar het is ze gelukt om de foto te verscherpen, zodat fijne details zichtbaar werden. En het resultaat mag er zijn. Zo is de foto de scherpste en duidelijkste weergave van het object – dat zich in een verre uithoek van ons zonnestelsel bevindt – tot nu toe.
De scherpste foto van Ultima Thule tot nu toe.
Afbeelding: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Putjes Wat opvalt op de foto zijn de talloze kleine putjes die zich nabij de top langs de dag/nacht grens van het object bevinden. Deze zijn naar schattig zo’n 700 meter groot. Daarnaast lijkt er op de kleinste van de twee bollen – Thule – ook een diepe put te zitten. De onderzoekers zijn er nog niet uit of deze putten inslagkrater zijn, of oppervlaktekenmerken die voortkomen uit andere processen.
Helder Ook de weerkaatsing van zonlicht trekt de aandacht. Zo zijn er op beide bollen zowel lichte, als donkere plekken te zien. Hoewel we hier de oorsprong nog niet van weten, denken de onderzoekers dat deze aanwijzingen kunnen geven over waar het object – toen ons zonnestelsel zo’n 4,5 miljard jaar geleden gevormd werd – uit ontstond. Wat voornamelijk opvalt is de heldere nek van Ultima Thule, dus de plek waar het kleine en grote deel van Ultima Thule aan elkaar vastgeklonken zitten.
New Horizons raast op dit moment met zo’n 50.700 kilometer per uur door de Kuipergordel en is ongeveer 6,6 miljard kilometer van de aarde verwijderd. Een radiosignaal dat de ruimtesonde op deze afstand uitzendt, bereikt onze planeet ongeveer zes uur en negen minuten later.
“Deze nieuwe foto verschaft ons nieuwe informatie over het geologische karakter van de twee bollen, maar het roept ook weer nieuwe vragen op,” zegt onderzoeksleider Alan Stern. “In de loop van de maand zullen er nieuwe beelden met nog betere resoluties en kleuren worden vervaardigd, waarvan we hopen dat ze de vele mysteries van Ultima Thule helpen ontrafelen.”
Astronauten treffen ’s werelds oudste steen aan op de… maan!
Astronauten treffen ’s werelds oudste steen aan op de… maan!
Vivian Lammerse
De aardse steen zat verstopt tussen maanmonsters die astronauten van de Apollo 14 missie 48 jaar geleden verzamelden.
Toen astronauten van de bekende Apollo missie bijna vijftig jaar geleden maanmonsters mee terug naar huis namen, hadden ze waarschijnlijk geen idee dat ze een stukje aarde met de aarde herenigden. Een internationaal team van onderzoekers heeft bewijs gevonden dat tussen die maanmonsters ’s werelds oudste steen verstopt zat. Maar hoe is die steen op de maan terecht gekomen?
Op deze afbeelding is te zien hoe de steen op de maan terecht is gekomen. De steen is op aarde gevormd en is tijdens een planetoïde inslag de ruimte in geworpen.
Afbeelding: LPI/David A. Kring.
Hoe dan? Waarschijnlijk is dat de schuld van een komeet of planetoïde die miljarden jaren terug insloeg op aarde. Door deze klap werd er aards materiaal opgerakeld en de ruimte ingeslingerd, waar het 4 miljard jaar terug botste met het oppervlak van de maan – die destijds drie keer dichter bij de aarde stond dan nu. “Het is een buitengewone vondst die helpt een beter beeld te schetsen van de vroege aarde,” zegt hoofdonderzoeker David Kring.
De steen.
Afbeelding: USRA
De steen De onderzoekers komen met meerdere redenen op de proppen waarom dit stukje steen toch echt van de aarde afkomstig is. De steen is een klein fragment van slechts 2 gram dat bestaat uit kwarts, veldspaat en zirkoon. Allemaal mineralen die veel voorkomen op aarde, maar heel ongewoon zijn voor het maanlandschap. Uit een chemische analyse blijkt verder dat het stukje steen gevormd is bij aardse temperaturen in een aardachtige omgeving met zuurstof. Vervolgens kristalliseerde de steen tijdens de jonge jaren van de aarde zo’n 20 kilometer onder het aardoppervlak. Een komeet of planetoïde zorgde er vervolgens voor dat de steen naar het oppervlak verhuisde. Zo konden toenmalige planetoïden kraters maken met een diameter van duizenden kilometers; voldoende om materiaal uit de diepten naar het oppervlak te brengen.
Naar de maan Eenmaal op het maanoppervlak aangekomen, mengde de steen zich met ander materiaal. Daarnaast kwamen er weer nieuwe processen op gang; zo denken de onderzoekers dat de steen zo’n 3,9 miljard jaar geleden gedeeltelijk smolt en – opnieuw – onder het oppervlak werd begraven. Tot 26 miljoen jaar geleden, toen een planetoïde de Cone-krater vormde. Hierdoor kwam de steen weer terug aan het oppervlak te liggen, waar astronauten het 48 jaar geleden opraapten.
Of het bij één steentje blijft? Kring denkt van niet. Hij vermoedt dat er nog wel meer aardse stenen op het maanoppervlak te vinden zijn. Dat zou aanvullend onderzoek moeten gaan uitwijzen.
For years, real alien sightings have puzzled and confused experts. Whether they're UFOs or messages in the stars, there's plenty of evidence that we're not alone in the universe.
In 2004, Commander David Fravor spotted what he described as flying “Tic-Tac” UFOs, which appeared to be moving faster than possible by traditional aircraft, and doing so against a strong wind. This was all caught on camera and certainly doesn’t look like anything we’ve ever seen before.
Golden UFO Spotted in NASA Livestream
IMAGE BY: NASA
NASA livestreams often manage to catch compelling UFO evidence. One such stream, from 2016, displaying footage of the Earth from space, gives just a brief look at a mysterious golden object before NASA mysteriously cut the feed. Is this evidence of something that NASA doesn’t want us to see?
“White Knight” Spaceship Spotted At NASA Launch
IMAGE BY: NASA
Similar to the Golden UFO, a 2011 livestream of the launch of NASA’s Endeavour space shuttle showed a mysterious white object floating high above the Earth. As with the Golden UFO, after this appeared for a second, NASA mysteriously cut the feed, and audiences were left without a good look at whatever might be up in the sky above us.
Radio Signals From Space
IMAGE BY: NASA
Astronomers have recently spotted “Fast Radio Bursts” (flashes of energy from across the stars) that are likely the result of huge explosions. What’s fascinating is that this latest radio signal repeated six times, which suggests that it could be aliens attempting to send a message.
Bacteria On The Outside Of The ISS
IMAGE BY: NASA
In 2018, it was discovered that bacteria was living outside the Russian side of International Space Station. This could be a result of simple contamination, but it could be the result of random alien bacteria that are constantly floating through space.
"GO FAST" Encounter
IMAGE BY: CIA
In 2015, Fighter pilots spotted a white oval flying through the air without any wings or exhaust plume. The UFO (nicknamed "GO FAST") moved faster than should be possible for any man-made craft, and no explanation has ever been given.
Curiosity Finds Organic Matter on Mars
IMAGE BY: NASA
In 2015, the Curiosity Rover spotted some organic matter on the surface of Mars. Following several years of research, scientists still aren’t entirely certain of how it got there, but one prevailing theory is that it came from an asteroid. Which is also how many experts believe life began on Earth.
The 1950 Mariana UFO Footage
IMAGE BY: NICK MARIANA
In 1950 in Great Falls, Montana, Nick Mariana recorded camera footage of two UFOs flying through the sky. Decades later, experts are still unable to agree on what exactly Mariana caught on film, especially amid rumors that US Army officials confiscated parts of the footage that showed the UFOs rotating and turning in the sky.
Guillermo del Toro Insists That He’s Seen a UFO
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The director of movies including “The Shape of Water” and “Pan’s Labyrinth” is certain that he’s seen a UFO up close. Speaking about the experience, Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro said that he’d never been so scared in his life, but he was disappointed that the UFO looked exactly like we’d all expect — a round, flying saucer — when he’d hoped it would look a little less cliche.
Curiosity Rover Found Stick Figures on Mars
IMAGE BY: TWITTER/@MARSCURIOSITY
In 2018, NASA tweeted out a photo that had been taken by the Curiosity Rover on Mars. What NASA refers to as “stick-like figures” could be many things, but some suspect that they might be fossils of alien life forms that died long ago.
Laser Battle in the Skies Above Area 51
IMAGE BY: SPUTNIK NEWS
In 2018, a casual observer in Nevada noticed a series of flashing lights in the sky, not too far from Area 51. Because this was the era of the smartphone, the eyewitness also managed to snap some pictures, and they do look very compelling. This looks a lot like a laser battle.
The Pentagon is Investigating UFOs
IMAGE BY: CIA
Last year, it was revealed by the Pentagon had been secreting away $22 million in funding every year for the sole purpose of investigating UFO encounters. This was done in quiet so as to keep it hidden. Apparently, the US government has something to hide.
TR-3B “Black Triangle” UFO Spotted Over Russia
IMAGE BY: YOUTUBE/UFO TODAY
For years, witnesses have been reporting a specific kind of UFO named the TR-3B (Also called the “Black Triangle”), which is recognizable for its three bright lights arranged in a triangle format. Photo evidence of a sighting over Russia is hard to deny. This isn’t just a plane.
Proxima Centauri Has a “Goldilocks” Planet
IMAGE BY: NASA
It’s not the most exciting of findings on this list, but NASA has confirmed that our nearest neighboring star, Promixa Centauri, plays host to a “Goldilocks” planet, one that is not too hot or too cold to support alien life. With another planet similar to Earth so close to our own, it’s possible that there could be aliens living not too far away.
Oregon’s Slow-Moving Meteorite
IMAGE BY: TWITTER/@JOHNKPTV
In 2018, observers in Oregon spotted a slow-moving light trail in the night’s sky. It was far too slow to be a meteorite, so if it wasn’t falling to Earth at a traditional speed, what could it have been?
Saturn’s Moon Contains The Right Chemicals
IMAGE BY: NASA
In its decade-long mission to explore Saturn and its moons, the Cassini space probe spotted some intriguing evidence of alien life within our solar system. The probe found that Saturn’s moon of Titan contains vinyl cyanide, a key chemical for the development of cellular life.
Mars Contains Too Much Methane
IMAGE BY: NASA
Levels of methane found in the atmosphere on Mars appear to fluctuate wildly throughout its annual cycle. Experts suggest that this could well be because of alien life forms, living under the planet’s surface, which are only active during certain times of year, and which are pooping, creating a likely sign of organic life in their methane output.
Buzz Aldrin’s Moon Light
IMAGE BY: NASA
While traveling in Apollo 11 en route to the moon, Buzz Aldrin spotted a mysterious light that seemed to follow alongside the space craft. There has never been any explanation given for this light, and while Aldrin denies that it was a UFO, that hasn’t stopped people from speculating.
A Time Capsule Under the White House Contains Alien Knowledge
IMAGE BY: WIKIPEDIA
According to a former aide of Richard Nixon, at some point in the 1970s, the U.S. government was in contact with an extra-terrestrial. All knowledge and evidence of this was then buried somewhere at the White House. This may sound a little shaky, but it wouldn’t even be the weirdest thing Nixon did during his presidency.
Gamma Rays From Space Might Be Alien Messages
IMAGE BY: NASA
Similar to Fast Radio Bursts, gamma rays could contain messages from aliens. Experts suggest that the patterns of radiation we see in the stars could come from very powerful aliens who are smashing stars together in order to try and communicate with us (or anyone else who might want to listen).
For the first time, researchers have found evidence in data sent back by Cassini for methane/ethane rainfall near Titan’s north pole, signaling the start of the summer season on Saturn’s largest moon.
View of Titan from Cassini. New research provides evidence of rainfall on the north pole of Titan. The rainfall indicates that the summer season has started in the moon’s northern hemisphere.
Image via NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.
Saturn’s largest moon Titanhas often been compared to Earth. Itsseas, lakes and riversare very reminiscent of ones on our own planet, albeit composed of liquid methane/ethane instead of water. The visual similarity, however, is striking. And there’s also another weather-related similarity between Earth and Titan – rain.
The Cassini mission, now ended, had found previous evidence for methane rain on Titan, and now a new study, led by Rajani Dhingra, a doctoral student in physics at the University of Idaho, provides more insight into rainfall at Titan’s north pole and how that relates to the start of this distant moon’s summer season. The peer-reviewedstudy has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters.
From the paper’s summary:
Cassini arrived in the Saturnian system in the southern summer of 2004. As expected, the Cassini team observed cloud cover, storms and precipitation on the south pole. Like Earth, Titan has an axial tilt (27 degrees) and its seasons vary over its year (30 Earth years). Ever since this shift in season began, the Cassini team eagerly waited for observations indicating cloud cover and precipitation that went missing from the northern latitudes. Our rainfall observation at the north pole is a major finding for two important reasons. Firstly, this discovery observation heralds the much awaited arrival of the north polar summer rainstorms on Titan. This atmospheric phenomenon has been delayed compared to the theoretical predictions and was perplexing Titan researchers and climate modelers especially because the north pole hosts most of Titan’s lakes and seas. Secondly, it is extremely difficult to detect rainfall events on Titan due to its thick atmospheric haze and very limited opportunities to view the surface (and its changes). We have used a novel phenomenon – the smoothening of a previously dry, rough surface by a thin layer of fluid after rainfall, similar to a wet side walk – as evidence for rainfall events on the surface of Titan.
Titan’s north pole as seen by Cassini’s Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer. The orange box highlights the “wet sidewalk” region where methane/ethane rain has left the rough surface wet and reflective.
Image via NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Idaho.
The rainfall and associated clouds had been anticipated for some time by scientists, but weren’t seen, according to Dhingra:
The whole Titan community has been looking forward to seeing clouds and rains on Titan’s north pole, indicating the start of the northern summer, but despite what the climate models had predicted, we weren’t even seeing any clouds. People called it the curious case of missing clouds.
So where was the rain? Even the Huygens probe – part of the Cassini mission – which landed on Titan in 2005, found “damp sand” reminiscent of crème brûlée in what was thought to be a mostly dry riverbed that periodically flows with liquid methane. As on Earth, those rivers are fed by rainfall.
The research team took a closer look and found something intriguing – a reflective feature near Titan’s north pole on an image taken on June 7, 2016, by Cassini’s near-infrared instrument, the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer. Covering approximately 46,332 square miles (119,999 square km), the feature was not seen in previous or subsequent images.
Cassini radar image of Ligeia Mare, the second-largest sea on Titan. Methane rains help to sustain the moon’s polar seas and lakes.
Image via NASA/JPL/USGS.
Illustration of how rainfall on Titan brings organic compounds to the surface and feeds the rivers, lakes and seas.
Analysis indicated it was similar to a sunlit wet sidewalk, the scientists said, that is, that it, it was wet ground following a methane rainfall event, followed in turn by a period of evaporation. Scientists could even discern what kind of surface was wet; they said it was pebble-like. As Dhingra had explained, a rougher surface generates an amorphous pattern as the liquid settles in crevasses and gullies, while liquid on a smooth surface would puddle in a relatively circular pattern.
This is the first time that summer rainfall has been observed in the northern hemisphere of Titan, showing the changing of the seasons. But seasons last a lot longer on Titan than on Earth – about seven years each. Cassini had also observed clouds and rainfall in Titan’s southern hemisphere after it arrived at Saturn in 2004. The climate models had predicted that rainfall would arrive in the northern hemisphere by summer 2017, but by 2016, there were still no clouds to be seen. According to Dhingra:
We want our model predictions to match our observations. This rainfall detection proves Cassini’s climate follows the theoretical climate models we know of. Summer is happening. It was delayed, but it’s happening. We will have to figure out what caused the delay, though.
The surface of Titan as seen by the Huygens lander in 2005. Huygens found damp sand when it landed near a shoreline or riverbed. The liquid was methane/ethane, but the “rocks” turned out to be composed of solid water ice.
Image via ESA/NASA/University of Arizona.
Titan is the only other body in the solar system known to have liquid seas, lakes and rivers on its surface. Even though it is extremely cold and the liquid is methane/ethane, not water, some scientists think it is possible that some form of primitive life could exist there. There is also a liquid water ocean deep below the surface that couldbe potentially habitable by life.
Bottom line: Titan is a bizarre world – eerily similar to Earth in some ways, yet utterly alien at the same time. The new study of Titan’s rainfall patterns provides more insight into how this moon mimics Earth but remains a strangely very different place at the same time.
Attractive humanoid aliens will soon be embroiled in romance and adventure on The CW’s new seriesRoswell, New Mexico. In an early scene from the show’s new trailer, a Jeep drives under a sign in the desert that reads “Foster Ranch” just before an object from the air crashes into the ground causing a huge explosion. But what is the Foster Ranch, and how did Roswell get its alien reputation in the first place?
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Roswell, New Mexico is a desert town about 200 miles southeast of Albuquerque. It is the fifth largest town in New Mexico, but much more provincial than Santa Fe, another well-known New Mexico destination similar in size. While visitors from around the world flock to Santa Fe to experience Southwestern art and culture, tourists seek out Roswell for a different reason: aliens.
Although the alleged crash of an alien spacecraft outside of Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 is the most famous UFO or alien related incident, few knew about it before the first book on the topic, The Roswell Incident, was published in 1980. By July 1997, the 50th anniversary of the crash, the U.S. Air Force had released two separate reports on the Roswell incident (1995 report, 1997 report), and it was featured on the cover of Time magazine. The story of aliens at Roswell had reached the farthest corners of planet Earth.
The incident described by the Air Force began on the Foster ranch about 30 miles outside of Roswell. Ranch foreman Bill “Mack” Brazel claims to have come across odd-looking debris in the field some time in June or early July 1947. He and his son examined the debris but didn’t pay it much attention until Brazel heard stories of mysterious flying discs spotted in the skies elsewhere in the U.S. The most famous of these sightings took place on June 24, 1947, when businessman and amateur pilot Kenneth Arnold spotted several objects described by the press as “flying saucers” -- the first use of the term -- while flying near Mount Rainier, Washington. Arnold’s sighting made headlines and eventually prompted the United States military to begin official investigations into sightings of unidentified objects in the skies.
Brazel thought the debris he found might be one of these flying saucers and reported it to Chaves County Sheriff George Wilcox. Wilcox then reported Brazel’s discovery to the Roswell Army Airfield (RAAF), home of the 509th Bomb Group, at the time, the only team responsible for dropping the atom bomb.
The RAAF sent intelligence officer Major Jesse Marcel and counterintelligence corps officer Captain Sheridan Cavitt to meet with Brazel and drive out to the Foster ranch and take a look at the debris. The next day, July 8, the RAAF sent out a press release claiming, according to the Roswell Daily Record, that they had “come into possession of a flying saucer.” That day the Roswell Daily Record front page headline read: “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region.”
The next day, the Roswell Daily Record’s headline read: “Gen. Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer.” The subheadings read: “Ramey Says Excitement Is Not Justified,” and “General Ramey Says Disk Is Weather Balloon.” The same day, Ramey held a press conference at his office in Fort Worth, Texas with Marcel in which they posed with debris from a weather balloon. With that, as quickly as the story began, it went away.
The Arnold sighing in Washington had inspired the creation of U.S. Air Force Project Sign, the first official investigation into “flying saucers.” It was followed by Project Grudge, and then finally Project Blue Book. The U.S. Air Force investigated the UFO phenomenon from 1948 to 1969, but nowhere in their files will you find mention of the crash outside of Roswell. Nor will you see it in UFO books of the time. Soon after it occurred, the story was lost to obscurity.
Then, in the late 1970s, UFO researcher and nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman was given a tip. A retired Air Force intelligence officer said he had been part of the recovery of a flying saucer. That officer was Marcel. Friedman interviewed Marcel who confirmed that he had seen the debris recovered in Roswell and that it was no weather balloon. He claimed the material had properties beyond that which would have been possible to create at the time and also claimed the debris he showed Ramey had been replaced by weather balloon material for the press conference and photo shoot.
In a 1980 interview on the television series In Search Of…, Marcel said General Ramey told the press, “forget about it. It was nothing more than a weather observation balloon. Of course, which we both knew differently.”
“It was not anything from this Earth,” Marcel said. “I am quite sure of, because being in intelligence I was familiar with just about all materials used in aircraft and/or air travel. This was nothing like that.”
Marcel claimed he was told to go with the weather balloon cover story and he followed orders. However, decades later he was concerned the Air Force had not shared the truth with the public.
Over the next few years, Friedman, along with his research partner William Moore, interviewed many more witnesses. Some of them claimed they also believed the material could not have been from a weather balloon. In 1980, Moore wrote a book with author Charles Berlitz titled The Roswell Incidentsuggesting a major cover-up of a crashed extraterrestrial vehicle. The book was a hit, and along with Marcel’s appearance on In Search Of... the legend of the alien spaceship crash at Roswell grew.
Due to the popularity of the Roswell incident, the U.S. Air Force released an official report in 1995 on the event that backs up one of Marcell’s claims. It confirms the materials Marcel provided were not that of a standard weather balloon like those in the press photos. However, it claimed the debris Marcel examined was part of a secret program called Project Mogul. This project used atmospheric balloons to float listening devices into the atmosphere to monitor Russian nuclear tests.
The first witness account of alien bodies did not come until 1989. Roswell resident Glenn Dennis claimed that while working at a local funeral home at the time of the alleged crash, the RAAF had requested several child-sized caskets. He told his story for the first time to Friedman, but his account was first made public in the book UFO Crash at Roswell published in 1991.
He also claimed to have had a conversation with a nurse from RAAF who told him she had been present at the autopsies of extraterrestrial beings recovered from the crashed saucer. Dennis said he had promised never to share her name. He says the nurse disappeared soon after sharing the story with him.
The aliens she described were not attractive young adults, but they were, more or less, shaped like humans with spindly arms and legs and large heads.
“She drew me a diagram of the bodies,” Dennis claimed in a signed affidavit. “...including an arm with a hand that had only four fingers; the doctors noted that on the end of the fingers were little pads resembling suction cups. She said the head was disproportionately large for the body; the eyes were deeply set; the skulls were flexible; the nose was concave with only two orifices; the mouth was a fine slit, and the doctors said there was heavy cartilage instead of teeth. The ears were only small orifices with flaps. They had no hair, and the skin was black--perhaps due to exposure in the sun.”
Dennis’ story has been called into question after he gave the name of the alleged RAAF nurse to researchers and later admitted the name was made up. He claimed he gave a false name because of his promise not to share her real name. Another reason skeptics doubt Dennis’ claims that he did not come forward until decades after the fact, and years after the Roswell incident was popularized. According to researchers Thom Carey and Dom Schmitt, several of his friends have come forward to say Dennis did share his story about the child-sized caskets soon after the Roswell incident occurred, although some claimed they thought he was joking. Carey and Schmitt included their accounts in the 2009 book Witness to Roswell.
Since then others have claimed to have seen aliens at Roswell, and there was even a famous video of the alleged autopsy of the Roswell aliens. However, the video was debunked, and the creators have admitted to having been paid to create the fake autopsy.
The most credible witness to claim aliens had crashed at Roswell was retired Army Colonel Philip Corso. He was a decorated officer with a long list of achievements in World War II. In his book, The Day After Roswell, published soon before his death, Corso claimed that in 1961, while serving as chief of the foreign technology department he was tasked with handling materials retrieved from the Roswell crash.
“I came into possession of what I refer to as the ‘Roswell File,’” Corso said. “This file contained field reports, medical autopsy reports and technological debris from the crash of an extraterrestrial vehicle in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.”
He says he farmed the material out to tech companies with U.S. Army contracts which went on to use the debris to develop technologies such as kevlar, night-vision, fiber optics, and computer chips, among others.
The companies Corso claims to have given the material to argue that the development of these technologies is well documented and do not include the use of extraterrestrial materials. Skeptics also point out that many of the witnesses to the alleged alien bodies only came forward after the Roswell incident was famous.
Whether or not aliens really crash landed in Roswell remains up for debate, but decades later the idea continues to inspire pop-culture and our ideas and dialogue regarding the potential for the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations. In a more cynical view, it can even be seen as enforcing trust issues between U.S. citizens and our government. It is a heavy burden for a small town in the middle of the New Mexico desert. Although, we shouldn’t feel too sorry for their unsought fame. If it wasn’t for the aliens, Roswell’s fame would be tied to being one of the first homes of the planes tasked with dropping the deadliest weapon known to humankind. Personally, I'd rather be known for aliens.
Starting with War of the Worlds all the through Roswell, New Mexico, pop culture has been captivated by aliens and UFOs.
Orson Welles’ 1939 radio play adaptation of H.G. Wells’ alien invasion classic, The War of the Worlds, is the stuff of entertainment legend.
The hour-long program for The Mercury Theatre on the Air on the CBS radio network was nothing if not innovative. Welles designed the narrative to play out as a series of breaking news bulletins that interrupted the typical evening programming. Authoritative-sounding news men described the events of the novel as though they were happening in the moment. The trustworthy voices described an unidentified flying object crash on a farm in Grover’s Mill, New Jersey. The newsmen described police and various onlookers as they witness that cylindrical object open, Martians emerge, and start killing people with a heat ray.
You can watch our video about the history of UFO storytelling right here, or keep reading for a more in-depth look!
Despite a clear disclaimer that the radio show was a drama, plenty of radio listeners were unaware and flooded local newspapers and emergency services with frightened correspondence. The Trenton police department reported receiving 2,000 calls within two hours.
Modern historians and observers have since theorized that the extent of the public’s panic was overblown or perhaps even exaggerated by CBS or Welles himself. According to a C.E. Hooper survey of 5,000 households conducted the night of the broadcast, only two percent of homes even listened to The War of the Worlds.
Still, sometimes the legend is more important to understanding how we understand ourselves than the reality. We have always imagined that Orson Welles was such a titanically talented artist that he could summon a riot through a mere hour of good dramatic storytelling. Or perhaps even we imagine that those silly folk from 1938 were so gullible and uncultured so as to be fooled by radio waves. There’s no way that a more modern audience would be fooled like that.
Except that a more modern audience was fooled like that… at least twice, according to another fantastic hour of radio storytelling, Radiolab’s “War of the Worlds” episode. In 1949, Leonardo Paez, the director of art for Rádio Quito in Ecuador, wanted to try his own Spanish language radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds.
On Saturday, February 12, 1949, Paez ran a version of the story designed more directly to trick the listener than Welles’ ever was. This time there was actual pandemonium. People took to the streets in a panic, which quickly changed to anger once they discovered they had been duped. An angry mob set the radio station on fire. Six people died in the inferno, including Paez’s girlfriend and nephew..
In 1968 Buffalo station WKBW tried out its own War of the Worlds broadcast. Buffalo police claim they received 4,000 frightened phone calls that night. 47 newspapers covered the story. The Canadian military even dispatched troops to the Peace Bridge, which connects Buffalo to Fort Erie, Ontario.
The story of The War of the Worlds, the H.G. Wells original and all of the various radio adaptation that followed it, isn’t just the story of artistic brilliance or human gullibility, though those both play are certainly part of it. The story behind The War of the Worlds and the reason for its longevity is that humanity is fascinated by aliens, UFOs, and the untold mysteries of the universe.
The War of the Worlds model of sci-fi storytelling keeps on popping up over and over again because aliens are some of the most complementary pieces possible in our storytelling. Aliens and the UFOs are the perfect combination of science and fiction. The scientific side of the human brain can appreciate that the universe is so big that there certainly must be other intelligent living beings within it. The fanciful, superstitious side of the human brain can imagine those beings living on Mars and wielding heat rays to destroy us all.
Not only that but if one of the basic tenets of storytelling is “us vs. them” who could possibly be a better “them” than the little humanoid creatures who live way, way, way, way, way out there?
Aliens and UFOs may seem a bit more en vogue now that The CW is launching its new series Roswell, New Mexicothis month. The truth though is that aliens and UFOs never really went away. They are always there in the back of our subconscious waiting for the moment we need a particularly satisfying “them.”
With that in mind, here are five more alien invasion, abduction, and visitation pieces of pop culture that have debuted between Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds and The CW’s Roswell, New Mexico. Each one has something slightly different to say based on the era from which it comes but also something timeless about humanity’s relationship to the alien.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Jack Finney’s 1954 sci-fi novel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers can give H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds a run for its money in terms of influence. While The War of the Worlds led to many radio adaptations (and a pretty good mid-2000s Steven Spielberg movie), Invasion of the Body Snatchers led to three direct film adaptations, two of which are all-time classics.
The first, Don Siegel’s 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, is perhaps the best. In the film, alien plant spores have fallen to Earth from space and have grown into large seedpods. Each pod will eventually create a replacement copy of each human on Earth. When fully developed, that pod will then “assimilate” the person nearest it.
Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers captures the theme of the novels brilliantly. If the classic alien story is “us vs. them,” Body Snatchers takes the “them” and turns them into “us.”
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind puts a fascinating twist on the classic alien invasion story. Whereas previous incarnations of aliens and UFOs have mostly wanted to dominate Earth and the humans who occupy it, the aliens of Spielberg’s film seem to want something more complex…and far less dangerous to humans.
Richard Dreyfuss stars as Roy Neary, an unassuming electrical lineman in Indiana who has a fateful encounter with a mysteriously celestial object one night and soon after becomes obsessed with UFOs. Before he knows it Roy is sculpting weird shapes out of mashed potatoes and dreaming about Devil’s Tower in Wyoming.
Truly a relic of the spiritual ‘70s, Close Encounters of the Third Kind leans hard on the supernatural, mystical nature of alien life. In that sense, the aliens of Spielberg’s Close Encounters aren’t that different our perception of God. They’re out there somewhere and they have answers for us. Pray that they share them.
Communion: A True Story (1987)
So much of the popular perceptions and myths surrounding alien abduction come from this 1987 book by Whitley Strieber. Strieber is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger. Communion, however, is purported to be non-fiction.
In Communion, Strieber describes his experience being abducted by aliens and there are plenty of familiar tropes. For one, Strieber experiences lost time and can only recover his memories of abduction via hypnosis. Through hypnosis, Strieber recalls being abducted from his cabin in New York state by humanoid alien beings. The aliens resemble what are now best known as “grays,” though Strieber compares them to the Sumerian goddess Ishtar. Communion would be adapted into a 1989 film of the same name starring Christopher Walken.
Communion and similar alien abduction stories of the ‘80s mark an important milestone in pop culture’s relationship to aliens. Rather than interacting with humanity on a grand scale like in The War of the Worlds, Body Snatchers, or Close Encounters, aliens are perfectly happy to deal with human beings on a one-to-one basis. Here the concept of communication starts to play an increasingly important role in stories of aliens and UFOs.
The X-Files (1993)
The X-Files was one of television’s first honest-to-goodness science fiction spectacles. Science fiction had always had a home on the smaller screen dating back to The Twilight Zone but Fox’s The X-Files proved that sci-fi could perform for mass audiences. Thanks, aliens!
The X-Files wasn’t purely about aliens and UFOs. Each of the shows nine seasons (eventually 11) featured FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully investigating all manner of paranormal phenomena. The show’s central mythology, however, was often reserved for exploring life outside of Earth.
The thing that made Fox Mulder a “believer” was the childhood abduction of his sister by aliens. Mulder would come to be abducted himself in the show’s seventh season. The aliens of The X-Files were in many ways continuations of the Close Encounter brand of aliens. These beings had answers to some questions that humanity simply didn’t.
Signs (2002)
M. Night Shyamalan’s third film, Signs, tackled another popular aspect of the alien phenomenon: crop circles. Crop circles are mysterious symbols that appear in farmers’ fields overnight. Upon their popular arrival in the ’70s, many posited that the symbols were created by and meant for aliens. After all, who would have greater need of messages etched onto the Earth’s surface than a UFO?
Of course, the original crop circles and pretty much all that sprung up after them were eventually revealed to be a hoax. That doesn’t stop Signs from asking the question: but what if they weren’t? In Signs, the Hess family in rural Pennsylvania must deal with the sudden appearance of a crop circle in one of their fields over night. Then the “signs” of an oncoming alien invasion begin to mount. Signs takes a very singular and humanist approach to the alien invasion trope. What matters more than the aliens and what they are trying to communicate is the Hess family and how they will deal the sudden encroachment of a higher power on their lives.
Fargo Season 2 (2015)
Fargo’s second season features one of the most recent pop culture iterations of UFOs but the show, itself is set in a far earlier, more alien-friendly era. Season 2 of Noah Hawley’s sort-of anthology series takes place in the upper Midwest in March, 1979 (just two years after Close Encounters of the Third Kind hit theaters).
The season follows Lou Solverson (Patrick Wilson), a Minnesota State Patrol trooper who finds himself in over his head when local crime family the Gerhardts run afoul the Kansas City mob and set off a chain of violence that affects the organized crime world and genteel Minnesota communities as well. If that doesn’t sound like a particularly science fiction concept, that’s because it isn’t. Fargo Season 2 is as grounded as it comes…except for this one thing. Periodically throughout the season, a UFO just suddenly appears, casting a light down upon the fresh northern snow. Several times characters see the thing, and in one notable instance, Lou’s life is saved when the UFO appears, distracting would-be murderers.
The show never fully explains the UFO’s presence or why it’s there. The closest it comes to doing so is in the season’s fascinating final scene. Lou’s wife, Betsy approaches her father Hank (Ted Danson) with some trepidation because she’s seen a disturbing room in his home that’s absolutelyfilledwith crude child-like drawings. He seems to have gone mad but Betsy gives the old man the benefit of the doubt and asks him what the pictures are all about. Hank answers that he’s seen violence all his life, from war in Korea to petty crimes in his role as police officer. It made him think about miscommunication and how it can be the root of all conflict. It all comes down to language. So his simple drawings were an attempt to create a universal language of pictures.
If anything, the inclusion of the UFO seems to be Fargo Season 2’s own meta commentary on miscommunication. We have no idea why it’s there or what it’s intentions are. And that’s not unusual for the human species among itself. Why should it be any different for celestial visitors?
Our planet’s magnetic field has weakened 15% in the past 200 years – which could be an early warning sign. If the poles flip, compasses will point south – and it could have significant effects on Earth’s power grid (although it’s not likely to happen immediately, despite doomsday-mongers’ obsession with the idea). A report by Undark suggests that the ‘flip’ could allow radiation to reach Earth’s surface, and play havoc with satellites. Scientists are using satellites to analyse the shifts in Earth’s magnetic field – and seen that the north magnetic pole is ‘turbulent and unpredictable’, Futurism reports.
PARTS of the Earth could be “uninhabitable” due to pronounced exposure to solar radiation if the world’s north and south magnetic poles shift, leaving citizens facing a “domino run of blackouts lasting decades”, it has been claimed.
Science author Alanna Mitchell has delivered the stark warning in an article that declares the Earth is “under attack from within” and that a shift in poles could have dire consequences.
Ms Mitchell warned that a shift means the important shield surrounding the Earth called a magnetic field could be “compromised for centuries”.
She wrote: “Because grids are so tightly coupled with each other, failure would race across the globe, causing a domino run of blackouts that could last for decades.
“The shield could be compromised for centuries while the poles move, allowing malevolent radiation closer to the surface of the planet for that whole time. Already, changes within the Earth have weakened the field over the South Atlantic so much that satellites exposed to the resulting radiation have experienced memory failure.
“It turns out that the dipole — the orderly two-pole magnetic field our compasses respond to — is under attack from within.
“The Earth’s magnetic field protects our planet from dangerous solar and cosmic rays, like a giant shield. As the poles switch places (or try to), that shield is weakened; scientists estimate that it could waste away to as little as a tenth of its usual force.”
Since the last shift, the world has changed drastically – there is now close to 7.6billion people inhabiting Earth, this is twice as many as in 1970 alone.
The European Space Agency’s Swarm trio claims that a flip could be imminent, according to their satellite data.
Scientists have added that molten iron and nickel are sapping vital energy from the Earth’s core – this is near the spot where the protective magnetic field stems from.
The situation inside the planet’s core appears to signify a flip.
The author went on: “That radiation isn’t hitting the surface yet. But at some point, when the magnetic field has dwindled enough, it could be a different story.”
Ms Mitchell cites from Daniel Baker, the director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, that believes the devastating galactic cosmic rays and ultraviolet B rays “from a radiation-damaged ozone layer” could kill “living creatures”.
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In addition to harmful results to life, “satellite timing systems that govern electric grids would be likely to fail”, according to Ms Mitchell.
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the last pole shift, the world has changed drastically
She added: “No lights. No computers. No cellphones. Even flushing a toilet or filling a car’s gas tank would be impossible. And that’s just for starters.”
Some have seen this problem coming for a long time and changed their entire way of life by going off-grid. They have found alternative sources such as solar, wind and diesel to power their homes and machinery. A majority of us, who have not gone off-grid, are making a concerted effort to avoid dependence on this ailing infrastructure and preparing for life without it.
The Earth is protected from harmful solar and cosmic rays thanks to the magnetic field – when the planet’s poles shift, which they typically do every 200,000 or 300,000 years, the proactive barrier is hampered.
Because the last flip occurred 780,000 years ago, to say Earth is due for a pole shift would be an understatement.
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European Space Agency’s Swarm trio claims that a flip could be imminent
The author explained: “Today, we know that the poles have changed places hundreds of times, most recently 780,000 years ago. (Sometimes, the poles try to reverse positions but then snap back into place, in what is called an excursion. The last time was about 40,000 years ago.)
“We also know that when they flip next time, the consequences for the electrical and electronic infrastructure that runs modern civilisation will be dire. The question is when that will happen.
“Geophysicists have tried to answer that question through satellite imagery and math. They have figured out how to peer deep inside the Earth, to the edge of the molten, metallic core where the magnetic field is continually being generated.”
Now, contrast what I’ve explained the effects would be with what doomsday folks are saying, such as this article:
“As the shift approaches, things begin to go out of balance, and the magnetic field begins to fluctuate significantly over a very short period of time (about 3 – 6 months). This would be like a full moon getting bigger and bigger every day. What happens then is that people start to go crazy emotionally. This breaks down economical and social structures on the planet because it is only people who keep these structures together.”
So what about a large external magnetic force? There’s nothing large enough that’s nearby. Sure, if we were to pass by a magnetar, we’ll be in trouble. Those have magnetic fields on the order of ~1015 times stronger than Earth’s. But the sun’s magnetic field really shows no evidence of affecting ours to the point of flipping it. There is no evidence at all – historic or validated theoretical – to show that the sun’s magnetic field, which is only up to ~10x stronger than Earth’s, can flip ours. After all, if it could, then it would every 11 years, since that’s how often the sun’s field flips.
So I’ve now given two ways that this really could happen – if a planet-mass object or an extraordinarily large magnetic field were to hit us or come near us, that could affect Earth’s rotation or magnetic field to the point where we would get a magnetic pole reversal (or, I guess a really big “shift”). However, we now again get to the question of evidence: There is none. We would know of a planet-sized (or larger) object that is close enough to come near us in 4 years (the end of 2012), or even 40 years. You can read post on the Real Planet X for more information on that. Similarly, we would see effects of a gigantic magnetic field nearby that’s close enough to affect us in the near future, something we also do not see any evidence for.
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Wetenschappers ontdekken gigantische Mayastad onder de jungle. Welke geheimen liggen hier verborgen?
Wetenschappers ontdekken gigantische Mayastad onder de jungle. Welke geheimen liggen hier verborgen?
Op internet circuleert momenteel een video over een reusachtige Mayastad die is ontdekt in Guatemala. De stad lag eeuwenlang verborgen onder de jungle.
Onderzoekers spraken van de belangrijkste ontwikkeling in de Maya-archeologie in 100 jaar.
Archeologen hebben de jungle in de regio Peten in Guatemala gescand met behulp van Lidar, een radartechnologie die werkt met laserlicht.
Op deze manier wisten ze een verborgen netwerk van piramides, huizen, verhoogde snelwegen en terrassen te ontdekken. Het zou gaan om ruim 60.000 onbekende bouwwerken.
Bergen verzet
De onderzoekers stellen op basis van de vondst dat het Maya-rijk veel omvangrijker was dan altijd is gedacht.
Met een complex stelsel van irrigatiekanalen en terrassen werd intensieve landbouw bedreven, op een schaal die enorme aantallen mensen kon voeden en die het landschap ingrijpend veranderde.
“De oude Maya’s hebben nooit gebruikgemaakt van het wiel of van lastdieren, maar deze beschaving heeft letterlijk bergen verzet,” zei archeoloog Marcello Canuto van de Tulane University.
Belangrijkste
“We gingen van de arrogante westerse houding uit dat complexe beschavingen niet in de tropen kunnen opbloeien,” zei hij.
“Maar door het bewijs van Lidar-opnamen kunnen we nu aannemen dat zich complexe samenlevingen in de tropen hebben gevormd,” voegde hij toe.
Archeoloog Thomas Garrison van het Ithaca College liet weten dat deze vondst de belangrijkste in ruim 100 jaar is.
Honderden verborgen steden
Archeoloog Francisco Estrada-Belli zei: “We hebben 100 jaar nodig om al deze gegevens te analyseren en echt te begrijpen wat we hier eigenlijk zien.”
De onderzoekers moeten nog een groot deel van de jungle onderzoeken en verwacht wordt dat er nog honderden verborgen steden ontdekt zullen worden.
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Maya structures are scattered across the jungle in this LiDAR image taken over northern Guatemala. Picture: National Geographic
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A three-dimensional representation of the ‘echoes’ returned by Mayan ruins buried under the forests of Guatemala reveal a ceremonial centre, roads and defensive works. Picture: National Geographic/The Lost Maya City
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No archaeologist has yet trod this city’s streets. But modern laser sensors have given them a detailed view of an entire landscape of the lost Central American Mayan civilisation. Picture: National Geographic/The Lost Maya City
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The extent of one of the Mayan ceremonial centres — complete with several step pyramids — is shown in this 3D LiDAR scan image. Picture: National Geographic/The Lost Maya City
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This digital 3D image provided by Guatemala's Mayan Heritage and Nature Foundation shows the Mayan archaeological site at Tikal in Guatemala created using LiDAR aerial mapping technology.
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“This may indicate that the radio emission is produced in a disk of infalling gas rather than by a radio jet. However, that would make Sgr A* an exception compared to other radio-emitting black holes. The alternative could be that the radio jet is pointing almost directly at us.”
This can’t be good news. Astronomers using a new array of telescopes for the first time managed to get a really good look at the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy and discovered that it has its radio jet pointed almost directly at planet Earth. Why? A better question might be “WTF does this mean and shouldn’t we be wearing foil while reading this?”
In a press release from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, which participated in this project, Sara Issaoun, a graduate student at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and led author of the study published in the Astrophysical Journal, describes what she noticed when reviewing data collected by the worldwide array of telescopes, including the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, while pointed at the formerly foggy center-of-the-Milky-Way black hole known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). It’s “formerly foggy” because the team used a technique called very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) which allowed them to effectively combine dozens of telescopes (there are 66 in ALMA alone) into one giant virtual telescope the size of the Earth and peer through the fog.
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
“Even though scattering blurs and distorts the image of Sgr A*, the incredible resolution of these observations allowed us to pin down the exact properties of the scattering. We could then remove most of the effects from scattering and begin to see what things look like near the black hole.”
Michael Johnson of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics developed the technique used to remove the scattering — an effect caused by density irregularities in the ionized material along the line of sight between Sgr A* and the Earth. Once the team got a clear view of Sgr A*, they saw that the radio jet spewing material and strong radio waves from the black hole at close to the speed of light was coming from a spot so tiny that the only way it could possibly be seen on Earth is if it was pointed directly or almost directly at us. (See the simulated images with scattering removed here.)
Sagittarius A*
Are we all gonna die? Well, yes … but not from the radio jet pointed at us by the evil Sgr A* black hole. It’s 25,640 light years away, so it’s not going to hurt even if you stare directly at it through the world’s larges telescope without proper eyeshades. However, researchers like Michael Johnson are absolutely giddy over the possibilities.
“If ALMA has the same success in joining the Event Horizon Telescope at even higher frequencies, then these new results show that interstellar scattering will not stop us from peering all the way down to the event horizon of the black hole.”
Will they see through the wormhole into a far corner of the universe? Into another dimension? Or will they see another group of researchers from the future peering back at them?
Will those future researchers be pointing and laughing?
In 2017, NASA scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center published a study warning that because of recent anomalies in the Earth’s protective magnetic field, dangerous clouds of cosmic radiationcould soon pose serious health risks to airline crews and passengers flying at high altitudes. Since then, several airliners have faced lawsuits from crews who say theyexperienced unexplained illnessesas a result of their time in the air. Are the two connected?
The Earth’s magnetic field serves as a shield against cosmic rays, but that field is weakening in places for reasons still unknown.
Hard to say, but a recent spate of mysterious illnesses on flights sure makes it seem like something weird is going on aboard airliners lately, whether or not it’s related to NASA’s 2017 warnings about cosmic radiation. On January 2, multiple passengers aboard Frontier Airlines Flight 1397 flight from Cleveland, Ohio to Tampa, Florida fell ill with a mysterious illness. Dozens of passengers suddenly became nauseated and many of them vomited, prompting the plane to land early. The sick passengers were moved to the front of the plane for triage while the rest had to be moved to the rear of the aircraft where they waited to deplane for 90 minutes.
Good thing those tiny paper bags were there among the germ-infested magazines.
It’s still unclear what caused the passengers of Flight 1397 to fall ill, but Frontier Airlines believe it may have something to do with a water fountain at the airport. Officials from the City of Cleveland stated they would conduct an investigation, but there has been no update in the weeks that followed.
Just this week, a Dubai-bound Ural Airlines aircraft which departed from Moscow, Russia had to make an emergency landing after many passengers all fell ill simultaneously. About 90 minutes into the flight, many passengers suddenly found it difficult to breathe and became nauseated. Some of those who fell ill were reported to have “greatly dilated pupils.”
Nausea is a symptom of radiation poisoning – and just about every other form of poisoning. Airline cabins and noxious fumes go hand-in-hand sometimes.
One passenger says that as more and more people fell ill, a sense of dread filled the cabin:
I was woken up by a young woman screaming for assistance. She yelled and screamed ‘Help, help!’ because her husband felt ill. He was feeling really bad. He was suffocating and couldn’t breathe in. His face went the colour green — then a panic swept through the plane.
Similar to the Frontier Flight 1397 incident, this one currently remains unexplained. Mid-flight illnesses are nothing new, and there are plenty of things aboard a modern airliner that could make passengers ill including the stink of other passengers’ rotting flesh. Still, the sudden uptick in mid-flight illnesses coincides with recent discoveries of more and more anomalies in the Earth’s magnetic field. Could NASA’s warning about cosmic radiation finally be coming true?
Reptilian Underground Bases "They Are Living Below Us"
There is a hidden reptilian empire which consists of alien cultures and lost civilizations, their presence explains many of the myths of gods walking among humans.
The reptoids may have sought out refuge underground after Earth underwent climate changes some 12,000 years ago.
The Shanidar Cave is a vast archaeological complex located on Bradost Mountain in the Erbil Governorate of Iraqi Kurdistan.
The remains of 10 Neanderthals, dating from 35,000 to 65,000 years ago have been found within the Shanidar Cave.
The cave also contains two later "proto Neolothie" cemeteries, one of which dates back about 10,600 years and contains 35 'humanoids' one such skill is extremely elongated and considered the Reptilian Elongated Race of Sumerians. Nobody know how vast the complex goes underground.
There are many accounts through history of lizard people and snake like bipedal's from Sumeria to the Hopi Indians.
We will also explore the many accounts at the Dulce underground facility and how this all ties together.
We hope you will become aware of many facts you may have been previously unaware of in this 37-minute Reptilian Documentary.
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Secret film to prove that Russian KGB found Alien mummy on Giza Plateau
Secret film to prove that Russian KGB found Alien mummy on Giza Plateau
Conspiracy theorists believe that the builders of the Cheops Pyramid and the other two buildings were visitors from a different star. This would at least explain why the three pyramids were built according to the stars of the Orion constellation.
A sensational documentary film by the former Soviet secret service KGB could possibly shed light on the situation. By Frank Schwede.
During a secret mission under the cover name “Project ISIS” in 1961, KGB staff, along with a group of military experts, found a sarcophagus containing a strange mummy that was apparently worshipped as a god by ancient Egyptians and had already died in 11,000 BC.
Not only the story is mysterious, but also the way the footage was made public.
You have to know that the mission took place during the Cold War. And according to numerous UFO researchers, the Soviet leadership was obviously concerned that the USA was already in possession of alien technology.
In the context of the secret mission, which was led by Sami Saraf, by the way, a close confidant of the Egyptian President Abdel Nasser at that time, one hoped to come across such high technology as well. How one arrived at the assumption whether there was a tipster is not known.
It is assumed that the filmstrip fell into the hands of the Russian mafia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was the talk of a lot of money and it is also said that the material came directly from the archives of the KGB.
What was really in the sarcophagus is still controversial today. Critics assume that it was an Egyptian nobleman or a king, high-ranking KGB employees spoke of the mortal remains of an alien.
Numerous extraterrestrial artifacts with hieroglyphic inscriptions are said to have been found in the tomb. According to an expert in writing, the text refers to the return of the winged deities.
In order to understand the content of this message, one must consider in this case that the term spaceship did not yet exist at that time. So, in those days, a very imaginative language was used. But if one researches the royal papyrus Turin, also known as the Turin royal list, one comes across the name Osiris at some point.
Osiris was worshipped as a god and he was the first Egyptian king of the first dynasty. According to ancient Egyptian legend, he descended from the sky in a flying ship. Was God Osiris in truth perhaps an emissary of one of the three stars from the constellation Orion?
A new theory holds that Earth might have received the elements it needed for life to form from a massive collision with a Mars-sized planet.
Credit: Image courtesy of Rice University
The ancient collision that formed the moon may also have brought with it all the ingredients needed for life, a new study finds.
Over 4.4 billion years ago, a Mars-size body smashed into a primitive Earth, launching our moon into permanent orbit around our planet.
But a new study finds that this event could have had a much larger impact than previously thought. The collision could also have imbued our planet with thecarbon, nitrogenandsulfurneeded for life to form, scientists reported today (Jan. 23) in the journalScience Advances.
Back then, Earth was a little like Mars is today. It had a core and it had a mantle, but its noncore portion was very poor in volatile elements such as nitrogen, carbon and sulfur. [Science Fact or Fantasy? 20 Imaginary Worlds]
Elements in the noncore parts of our planet, called the "bulk silicate Earth," can intermingle with each other, but they never interact with the elements of the core. Though some volatiles existed in the core, they couldn't make their way to the planet’s outer layers. And then a collision happened.
One theory holds that special kinds of meteorites, called carbonaceous chondrites, slammed into Earth and gave the bulk silicate Earth these volatile elements. This idea rests on the fact that the ratios of different versions — or isotopes — of nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen seem to match those found on these meteorites. So, proponents of the theory argue, the meteorites must be the source of these elements.
But there's just one problem: the ratio of carbon to nitrogen is off.
While the meteorites have about 20 parts carbon to one part nitrogen, Earth's noncore material has about 40 parts carbon to each part nitrogen, according to study author Damanveer Grewal, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
An ancient collision
So, the study authors' group decided to test another theory: What if another planet brought the goodies?
"Earth could have collided with many different kinds of planets," Grewal told Live Science. Could one of those planets have given the bulk silicate Earth the correct proportion of elements?
If this collision happened, the two planetary cores would have merged and the two mantles would have merged.
So, they set out to create a possible planet that could have collided with our own.
In the lab, in a special kind of furnace, Grewal and his team created the high-temperature, high-pressure conditions under which a planet’s core might form. In capsules of graphite (a form of carbon), they combined metallic powder (which represents the core and includes elements such as iron bound to nitrogen) with different proportions of silicate powder (a mixture of silicon and oxygen, meant to mimic the hypothetical planet’s mantle).
By varying the temperature, the pressure and the proportions of sulfur in their experiments, the team created scenarios of how these elements could have divided between the core and the rest of the hypothetical planet.
They found that carbon is much less willing to bond with iron in the presence of high concentrations of nitrogen and sulfur, while nitrogen bonds with iron even when a lot of sulfur is present. So for nitrogen to be excluded from the core, and be present in other parts of the planet, it should have contained very high concentrations of sulfur, Grewal said.
They then fed these possibilities into a simulation, along with information about how different volatile elements behave, and the present-day amounts of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur in Earth’s outer layers.
After running over 1 billion simulations, they found that the scenario that made the most sense — the one that had the most probable timing and could lead to a correct ratio of carbon to nitrogen — was one that posited a collision and merger of Earth with a Mars-size planet that contained about 25 to 30 percent sulfur in its core.
This theory "is very probable," said Célia Dalou, an experimental petrologist at the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques in France, who was not a part of the study. "This work is a very successful result of years of research of various different teams."
WAAR IS HET VLIEGTUIG VAN VOETBALLER EMILIANO SALA GEBLEVEN ( VIDEO )
WAAR IS HET VLIEGTUIG VAN VOETBALLER EMILIANO SALA GEBLEVEN( VIDEO )
Wat een vrij korte, bijna routinevlucht had moeten zijn van Nantes naar Cardiff is geëindigd in de complete verdwijning van het toestel inclusief passagiers.
Ondanks alle zoekacties is er tot op dit moment nog geen spoor en er doen dan ook al de nodige verhalen de ronde.
Iedereen zal zo langzamerhand het verhaal wel hebben gehoord van de nieuwe spits van Cardiff City, Emiliano Sala, die letterlijk en figuurlijk compleet van de radar is verdwenen.
Op maandagavond rond 19:00 uur vertrok het vliegtuig vanuit Nantes naar Cardiff. Sala had in de Engelse stad net een contract getekend bij voetbalclub Cardiff City. Hij had in Nantes afscheid genomen van zijn oude ploeggenoten en vloog met het 32-jaar oude vliegtuig naar Cardiff om daar aan een nieuw hoofdstuk van zijn carrière te beginnen. Een uur na vertrek verdween het toestel van de radar.
Volgens Britse autoriteiten stuurde het vliegtuig geen noodsignalen uit en is het toestel ook niet onverwacht op een ander vliegveld geland. Dinsdagavond werd de zoektocht gestaakt omdat de omstandigheden te donker waren. De politie van het eiland Guernsey heeft de zoektocht vandaag weer hervat.
Tot op dit moment is er geen spoor van het toestel gevonden.
Uiteraard doen er talloze speculaties de ronde over wat er mogelijk met het toestel, een éénmotorige Piper Malibu, gebeurd zou kunnen zijn.
De eerste theorie is dat het een onfortuinlijk ongeluk is, waarschijnlijk veroorzaakt door ijsafzetting op de vleugels en mogelijk ook ijsvorming in het brandstofsysteem.
Op het volgende plaatje wordt duidelijk waar het toestel voor het laatst is gesignaleerd.
Echter, een vroegere vriendin van Sala gelooft niet dat hier sprake is van een ongeluk:
Berenice Schkair, de ex-vriendin van Emiliano Sala (28), denkt dat er meer zit achter de verdwijning van de Argentijnse spits. Volgens het model is er zelfs sprake van kwade wil. “Ik kan niet geloven dat dit een ongeluk is. Nu zwijg ik nog uit respect voor zijn familie, maar binnenkort zal ik zeggen wat ik te zeggen heb”, stelt de dame uit Buenos Aires op haar sociale media.
In een andere krant wordt zelfs gesproken over de voetbalmafia die een hand zou hebben gehad in de verdwijning van Sala.
We zullen nog even moeten wachten op de onthullingen van de vriendin, maar ondertussen is er ook een andere theorie en die is afkomstig van ufoloog Scott Waring.
Hij wijst erop dat dit vliegtuig is verdwenen precies op de plek waar eerder een aantal piloten en passagiers een waarneming deden van een enorm ruimteschip met een lengte van enkele kilometers.
Dit alles gebeurde in 2007 en in de volgende video is Captain Ray Bowyers verhaalt te horen/zien.
De theorie van Scott is nu dat ditzelfde ruimteschip weer op deze locatie was en dat het toestel waar Sala in zat te dichtbij kwam, waardoor de buitenaardsen het complete toestel aan boord hebben genomen en de piloot samen met de voetballer hebben meegenomen.
Volgens Scott kunnen ze dan nooit meer terugkeren omdat ze dan teveel van de buitenaardsen hebben gezien, wat ze bij terugkomst zouden kunnen vertellen. En aangezien dit niet gewenst is zullen ze voor altijd bij de buitenaardsen blijven. (redactie: klinkt ons wat onlogisch want het is bekend dat buitenaardsen in het algemeen de kunst beheersen mensen dingen te laten vergeten. Dit is bekend uit verslagen van ontvoerden.)
Daarnaast bestaat de mogelijkheid dat ze wel het toestel vinden, maar niet de inzittenden omdat ze alleen die dan hebben meegenomen.
Het vreemde is ook dat de verdwijning van het toestel plaatsvindt vlakbij een gebied dat verboden is voor civiel luchtverkeer en wat ligt tussen het eiland Guernsey en de Franse kust. Waarom dat verboden is, is niet helemaal duidelijk, alleen dat het gebied een militaire bestemming heeft .
De theorie van Scott Waring is misschien helemaal niet zo ver gezocht als dat het op het eerste gezicht misschien lijkt, want er is eerder een dergelijk voorval geweest in 1978.
We hebben daar eerder een artikel over geschreven en hierna volgt een deel over de verdwijning van Frederick Valentich.
Een misschien niet zo bekend, maar wel fascinerend verhaal, is dat van de Australische piloot Frederick Valentich, die op 21 oktober 1978 een UFO ontmoette en spoorloos verdween.
Fredrick was die dag vertrokken van het vliegveld van Melbourne in zijn blauw witte Cessna 182, voor een vlucht naar het eiland Tasmanië. De trip verliep rustig voor het eerste uur tot 6 minuten over 7 uur 's avonds toen Frederick de verkeersleiding opriep met de mededeling dat hij een groot vliegtuig in zicht had, wat op een hoogte vloog van ongeveer 1500 meter.
Om een goed beeld te krijgen, van wat er precies gebeurde volgt hier het laatste gesprek tussen de verkeersleiding (Control) en het vliegtuig van Frederick (Delta Sierra Juliet, DSJ).
7.06 Control: Wat voor type vliegtuig is het? DSJ: Dat weet ik niet. Ik zie vier heldere.... uh, het lijken wel landingslichten.
7:07 DSJ: Melbourne, dit is Delta Sierra Juliet. Het vliegtuig is net over mij heen gevlogen; het bevond zich zeker tweeduizend voet hoger dan ik. Control: Delta Sierra Juliet, begrepen. Kunt u bevestigen dat het een groot vliegtuig was? DSJ: Eh.. weet ik niet, vanwege de hoge snelheid. Is de luchtmacht soms actief in deze omgeving?
7:08 DSJ: Melbourne, het komt nu vanuit het oosten op mij af.... het lijkt wel alsof het een soort spelletje speelt. Het vliegt nu over mij heen... twee, drie keer... snelheid moeilijk in te schatten.
7:09 DSJ: Melbourne, Delta Sierra Juliet. Het is geen vliegtuig. Het is..... Control: Delta Sierra Juliet, kunt u het eh... vliegtuig beschrijven? DSJ: Delta Sierra Juliet, wanneer het voorbijvliegt heeft het een langwerpige vorm.... kan het niet beter identificeren vanwege de hoge snelheid..... het is nu vlak voor me Melbourne.
7:10 Control: Delta Sierra Juliet, en hoe groot is dit... object ongeveer? DSJ: Delta Sierra Juliet, Melbourne. Het lijkt nu stil te hangen. Ik draai nu rondjes en dit ding boven mij doet precies hetzelfde. Het heeft een groen licht en lijkt een soort metallic. Het glinstert helemaal aan de buitenkant. Control: Delta Sierra Juliet. DSJ: Delta Sierra Juliet (er is een pauze van 5 seconden). Het is verdwenen. Control: Delta Sierra Juliet.
7:11 DSJ: Melbourne, hebben jullie enig idee wat voor soort vliegtuig dit kan zijn? Is het een militair toestel? Control: Delta Sierra Juliet, kunt u bevestigen dat.. eh.. het vliegtuig is verdwenen? DSJ: Kunt u dit herhalen?. Control: Delta Sierra Juliet, is het vliegtuig nog steeds bij u? DSJ: Delta Sierra Juliet, het nadert nu vanuit het zuidwesten. Control: Delta Sierra Juliet. DSJ: Delta Sierra Juliet: Mijn motor draait maar net stationair (dit komt overeen met ongeveer 700 toeren). Ik heb drieëntwintig- tot vierentwintighonderd toeren geselecteerd en het ding sputtert. Control: Delta Sierra Juliet, "roger". Wat gaat u doen? DSJ: Mijn bedoeling is... eh... om naar King Eiland te gaan... eh... Melbourne. Dat vreemde vliegtuig hangt weer boven mij. (twee seconden pauze). Het hangt boven mij en het is geen vliegtuig. Control: Delta Sierra Juliet. DSJ: Delta Sierra Juliet, Melbourne (de microfoon bleef 17 seconden open en daarna werd het radiocontact verbroken).
Er werd zeven dagen lang door de luchtmacht gezocht boven het gebied met twee Orion vliegtuigen; er werd geen enkel spoor gevonden. Noch het vliegtuig, noch Frederick Valentich werden ooit gevonden.
We zullen moeten afwachten of er ooit iets wordt gevonden van de Piper Malibu waarin stervoetballer Sala is verdwenen. Het is natuurlijk ook heel vreemd dat er geen noodsignaal is opgevangen, hetgeen erop kan wijzen dat er iets totaal onverwachts is gebeurd.
En dat is een ontmoeting met een groot buitenaards ruimteschip zeker te noemen.
UFO Hunters Claim Solar Warden Is A fully Operational, Top-Secret ‘Black Budget’ Space Program
UFO Hunters Claim Solar Warden Is A fully Operational, Top-Secret ‘Black Budget’ Space Program
What if there really is a secret space program financed by a so-called black budget?Image credit(illustration only)
“…These programs exist and are known as Special Access Programs (SAP). From these, we have unacknowledged and waived SAPs. These programs do not exist publicly, but they do indeed exist. They are better known as ‘deep black programs.’ A 1997 US Senate report described them as “so sensitive that they are exempt from standard reporting requirements to the Congress…”
The Age of ‘information’ has allowed people around the globe to research accounts related to phenomenon and theories that are ‘unconventional’ and extraordinary.
For several years, proponents of the ‘Alien’ theory believe in the existence of a shadowy ‘world’ government, and a secret space armada, which monitors –among other things— alien life within our solar system and defends planet Earth from the dangers that lie in the cosmos.
Some would call this science fiction or the basis for a movie worth watching. Others, however, believe there’s truth to these accounts, and point towards scientists, government officials, and even military personnel who have come forward offering ‘evidence’ that tells us all of this is more than just a science fiction movie script.
Among the projects that allegedly exist in the ‘background’ is one commonly referred to as ‘Solar Warden.’
The term ‘Solar Warden’ refers to a SECRET space program which is being funded by a secret black budget.
The first reference to “Solar Warden” occurred in March of 2006.
Some might say that secret space fleet, military operations in space, and Solar Warden are the result of an overactive imagination or a science fiction novel. Others believe it’s real, and society is being widely deceived throughout the years.
Reverse engineered alien technology? Secret space programs?
If Solar Warden is real, it would most likely use an advanced technology equivalent to several generations ahead of what the military currently uses in the battlefield. Some speculate that alien technology or better said reverse-engineered alien technology is responsible for the rapid development of such systems.
I suspect that in the last 60 years or so, that there has been some back-engineering and the creation of this type of equipment, which is not nearly as sophisticated yet as what the apparent visitors have.”
–Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth astronaut, to walk on the Moon
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As it turns out, there are many individuals who have obtained –through different ways— classified information that suggests secret space programs like Solar Warden actually exist.
Gary McKinnon –an individual which is accused of the biggest ever hack in the history of the United States by breaking into the computers of the Army, Air Force, Navy and NASA— believes that he came across the ultimate information that proves the US have a secret space program operated by the navy with fully operational warships that operate in Space.
Perhaps one of the most fascinating statement comes from Dr. Farouk El Baz, a NASA scientist who said that: “Not every discovery has been announced,” and from Ben Richsecond director of Lockheed Skunkworks who said: “We have things out there that are literally out of this world, better than Star Trek or what you see in the movies. We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God ever to get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do it…”
According to many people, the statement from Ben Rich is a small tell-tale sign that indicates secret space programs like Solar Warden actually exist.
McKinnonand many others concluded that there is a fleet of spaceships belonging to the USA. This is also supported by comments from the United States Naval Service which revealed in private interviews that the US Navy is in charge of a policy in regards to the use of advanced technologies off planet Earth.
The space fleet, hidden and unknown to the public, operates under the US Naval Network and Space Operations Command (NNSOC) (formerly Naval Space Command). There are approximately 300 people involved in the project.
Solar Warden is said to consist of US aerospace contractors, black projects, but with some contributions of parts and systems from Canada. UK, Italy, Austria, Russia and Australia. It is also said that the program has been tested and operated from secret military bases, such as Area 51 in Nevada, USA.
If Solar Warden is the correct call sign for a secret ‘antigravity space fleet’, then it designates a joint forces command project which draws upon different US military space commands.
Interestingly, when Gary McKinnon first found his way into classified files of U.S. Space Command he said that he had found: “…a list of officers’ names … under the heading ‘Non-Terrestrial Officers’. It doesn’t mean little green men. What I think it means is not Earth-based. I found a list of ‘fleet-to-fleet transfers’, and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren’t US Navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet.”
Furthermore, retired aerospace engineer, William Tompkins has given extremely well-detailed accounts of secret space operations and space flotillas that exist in the ‘background’, funded by a black budget.
During an interview, Tompkins revealed:
“Thousands, thousands, not just a few, thousands of people have joined the Navy here in the United States. They joined the Space Navy. They signed up for a 20-year tour. So these folks, men and women, were given a lot of examinations and a lot of information on what they were going to need.”
“Many of them went to the Moon, our Moon, and facilities there and got checked out and organized and established where is the best place they’re going to go, what their criteria is going to be, what major area they’re going to develop, like what class in the university. And then they get sent to a Mars facility for a short time.”
“…and then they get assigned to a specific base. And they work for a short time in the base before they’re assigned a naval cruiser, or a naval attack vehicle, or even a naval spacecraft carrier, which are one, two, and four kilometer long class. And we have eight of those battle groups out there. So there’s plenty of room for new people to come aboard…”
Just a few weeks ago, I did a radio show on UFOs that started off on the Men in Black, but which later became focused on thewell-known document titledProposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs, a part of which was focused on alien life. It was a document written by an employee of the Brookings Institution named Donald N. Michael. The report was contracted by the Committee on Long Range Studies, which was an arm of NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The document was completed and provided to the House of Representatives in the 87th United States Congress on April 18, 1961.
The host of the show referred, on several occasions, to the “top secret” nature of the document. I pointed out that the document had not been top secret at all. “Yes, it was,” was the reply. “No, it was not,” I hit back. Other people who phoned in said the document had a high classification. One caller stated it had “been classified above top secret.” There is no “above top secret” category, by the way. Matters went on like this for around fifteen minutes. Afterwards, and for a few days, I decided to run a little experiment. I spoke to a few people in Ufology about the Brookings report and deliberately steered the conversation in the direction of the supposedly secret document. I was amazed at the number of other people who had assumed the document had been highly classified. One was sure there was a “top secret” stamp on his copy of the report, which is complete crap. All of this demonstrates just how unreliable our memories can be. How do we know this? Well, consider the following:
In the December 1960 / January 1961 edition of the NICAP UFO Investigator magazine, a feature appeared under the banner of Space-Life Report Could be Shock. It tells us this: “The discovery of intelligent space beings could have a severe effect on the public, according to a research report released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The report warned that America should prepare to meet the psychological impact of such a revelation. The 190-page report was the result of a $96,000 one-year study conducted by the Brookings Institution for NASA’s long-range study committee.”
As the above extract from NICAP (the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) makes abundantly clear, the ufologists of the day – late 1960 / early 1961 – knew all aboutthe Brookings report. It was not a hidden report. In other words, there was nothing secret about it at all. NICAP added: “Public realization that intelligent beings live on other planets could bring about profound changes, or even the collapse of our civilization, the research report stated. ‘Societies sure of their own place have disintegrated when confronted by a superior society,’ said the NASA report. ‘Others have survived even though changed. Clearly, the better we can come to understand the factors involved in responding to such crises the better prepared we may be. Although the research group did not expect any immediate contact with other planet beings, it said that the discovery of intelligent space races ‘could nevertheless happen at any time.”
Brookings Institute in Washington DC
NICAP had more to say: “Even though the UFO problem was not indicated as a reason for the study, it undoubtedly was an important factor. Fear of public reaction to an admission of UFO reality was cited as the main reason for secrecy in the early years of the AF [Air Force] investigation. Radio communication probably would be the first proof of other intelligent life, says the NASA report. It adds: ‘Evidences of its existence might also be found in artifacts left on the moon or other planets.’”
And then there was this from NICAP: “…previous thinking by scholars who have suggested that the earth already may be under close scrutiny by advanced space races. In 1958, Prof. Harold D. Lasswell of the Yale Law School stated: ‘The implications of the UFOs may be that we are already viewed with suspicion by more advanced civilizations and that our attempts to gain a foothold elsewhere may be rebuffed as a threat to other systems of public order.’ The NASA warning of a possible shock to the public, from the revelation of more advanced civilizations, support’s NICAP’s previous arguments against AF [Air Force] secrecy about UFOs. All available information about UFOs should be given to the public now, so that we will be prepared for any eventuality.”
Even when I brought all of this to the attentions of friends and colleagues, some were still sure it had been a highly classified document, with one claiming it had remained classified until the 1990s. Garbage! This may have far more to do with the human mind and our memories, rather than sloppy research. I’m reminded of other similar situations and memories of the Fortean kind, such as those concerning the “missing Thunderbird photo,” a subject I’ll get to on another day.
Scientists experimenting on an Antarctic lake hidden deep under glacial cover made a surprising discovery when mud scrapped from an instrument lowered into its dark, icy depths revealed ancient signs of life.
The startling discovery was made in December, after a team from the Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) expedition drilled a hole through a kilometer-thick slab of ice on Lake Mercer, located under an ice sheet some 600km from the South Pole.
The muddy haul first revealed the remains of photosynthetic algae that lived in the area millions of years ago, when the area now called the Antarctic was much warmer.
The researchers were then thrilled to uncover a collection of higher lifeforms: crustaceans, the tendril of a plant or fungus, and an eight-legged tardigrade. Known as “water bear,” this micro-animal is an ultimate survivor, with experiments in the past seeing it withstand desiccation (total drying up of the body), solar radiation, both boiling and freezing temperatures, and even living over a week in outer space.
A previous drilling expedition at Lake Whillans in 2013, some 50km from Lake Mercer, found an environment brimming with microbes, but no signs of more complex life. Thinking that the specimens may have been initially introduced on contaminated equipment, the team cleaned the instruments and repeated the process only to find more ancient lifeforms in the mud.
Researchers used a hot-water drill to bore through 3,500 feet down into an Antarctic subglacial lake, and found tiny carcasses of preserved animals.
(Photo Credit: Billy Collins/SALSA Science Team)
Calling the discovery “fully unexpected,” David Harwood, a micropaleontologist with the SALSA team, told Nature magazine that the discovered remains were in excellent condition.
“It looked really fresh,” he said of one crustacean found with tiny, delicate hairs still attached. “Like something that had been living.”Another shrimp-like crustacean was found with legs still hanging from it and discolored “like an old leaf that’s been sitting on the ground for a season,” Harwood added.
Theories are now sprouting as to how the organisms came to be in the lake. Some suggest they may have lived in nearby ponds and streams during warm periods of glacial retreat between 10,000 and 120,000 years ago, before being washed into the lake through underground rivers deep beneath the ice or a moving glacier.
After covering up the bored hole in January, the SALSA team are now using carbon dating and attempts to sequence the creatures’ DNA in a bid to date them accurately and compare them to modern specimens. This may provide answers to how far the continent’s glaciers retreated millennia ago.
However, the surprise discovery may also inspire hope for those waiting on future exploration of extraterrestrial subglacial worlds. NASA is planning to drill into the frozen crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa in search for alien life, while closer to home on Mars stunning photos of a crater filled with water ice have teased space lovers worldwide.
The SALSA camp at Mercer Subglacial Lake. The team included 45 scientists, drillers, and support staff who spent three weeks drilling through the ice and sample from Mercer Subglacial Lake.
In 2017, the New York Times and Washington Post confirmed what many had had long suspected: the pentagon was stillresearching and investigating UFOslong after the bad old days of foo fighters and Project Blue Book. The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) officially operated from 2007 to 2012, under the direction of Luiz Elizondo and funded at the insistence of then senate majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada. It was officially shut down due to lack of funding, much to the frustration of Elizondo and Reid who considered it a necessary function of the Defense Department. While this paints the picture of a short-lived and relatively cheap—in the five years it was operational, the AATIP officially cost $22 million—flight of fancy, vanity project, or black-ops cash funnel, new information was released last week that shows the AATIP was interested in much more than simply watching the skies.
According to Motherboard, the Defense Intelligence Agency released a list of 38 research projects funded by the AATIP in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy. The list was presented to congress in January, 2018. The projects funded include juicy titles like “Invisibility Cloaking”, “High-Frequency Gravitational Wave Communications”, “Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy”, and “Antigravity for Aerospace Applications.”
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Of course, there’s nothing in FOIA document that explains anything about these titles, so the imagination is left to run wild. It could be that every single one of these projects came to the same conclusion: this is all useless and impossible. But that seems unlikely.
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Looking at all of the project titles in one batch is overwhelming. It’s hard to find more techno-babble lumped together even in the pulpiest Sci-Fi movie. That the Defense Intelligence Agency was actually spending money on a project titled “Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions,” is hard to fathom, but here we are.
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In an email to Motherboard, Aftergood wrote:
“The list of research papers tells us something more than previous reporting did about this odd program. Now we have a better idea of exactly what the Defense Intelligence Agency was up to, and what it produced.
I think anyone who looks at these titles will scratch their heads and wonder what on earth the Defense Intelligence Agency was thinking. These are the kinds of topics you pursue when you have more money than you know what to do with.”
I don’t know, Steven, I bet they knew exactly what to do with that money.
It must be asked: could this actually just be techno-babble? How seriously did the DIA take the idea of warp drives, or the “Cognitive Limits on Simultaneous Control of Multiple Unmanned Spacecraft?” Is there a chance this is some sort of misdirection? It’s not unheard of, and black projects need to be funded somehow. You can hide a whole lot in a good UFO story.
All the money was spent on developing those magnetic display stands that make Bud Light bottles float.
We can’t know what the actual point of this research was, but it doesn’t seem like the AATIP ran out of money and shut down like the Department of Defense claims. According to a 2017 article in the New York Times, despite the official shuttering of the AATIP, the project remained operating in secret. According to the Times, Luiz Elizondo resigned from his position in 2017, in protest of the “excessive secrecy and internal opposition.” Elizondo said there was a new director of the program, but he declined to name who it was.
What do you do when an intelligence project stumbles on something that would raise a few too many eyebrows? Send that bad boy underground, of course. Whatever the outcome of this research was we may never know, but our slide into the realm of science fiction seems to be happening faster and faster. For those of us who prefer our reality on the weirder side, we’re probably in for a treat.
Pyramid UFO Over Mountain In Clarens, South Africa, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Pyramid UFO Over Mountain In Clarens, South Africa, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 22, 2010 but reported today
Location of sighting:Clarens, South Africa
Source: MUFON #97999
This report just came in today. A person was taking photos of a hillside are of Clarens, South Africa and the first photo shows nothing in particular, however the second shows an upside down pyramid UFO. Close up of the UFO shows it has a grey metallic surface with perfectly symmetrical sides. Clarens is a small city of 6,300 residents.
This is not an insect flying past, because there are no legs, wings or head. This is not a kite, because it was gone in seconds. I have heard of pyramid UFOs, but until now never seen one. The object appears to be directly above the mountain and is approximately the size of a small car. Its incredible speed of being caught in only one photo...is an indicator that this was an alien craft.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Took 2 photos seconds apart. noticed the object years later.
Lawsuit reveals the NSA received 29 'extraterrestrial messages' from space, a long time ago
Lawsuit reveals the NSA received 29 'extraterrestrial messages' from space, a long time ago
The picture above represents a broadcast (known as the “Arecibo” message), put together by Carl Sagan and colleagues that was sent into space via radio waves at a special ceremony to celebrate the remodelling of the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. Apparently, the received a response, you can read more about that story here. It’s speculative, for sure, but the information below, is not. This article pertains to a real deal document.
Strange signals detected from outer space are becoming quite popular, especially within the past couple of years alone. Here’s one of several studies positing that some of these signals could be from an intelligent extraterrestrial source.
Scientists have discovered six more bursts of radio signals coming from a place in deep space outside our galaxy from where similar signals were detected earlier this year and in 2012. From this specific location, a total of 17 such radio signals have been received, and given their nature, there is also heavy speculation about whether we are being ‘contacted’ by some type of extra-terrestrial life form. You can read more about that here.
This article touches upon an NSA document that was released via a lawsuit. Rumours around the internet say the agency was ordered to declassify the document in 2004, but did not officially release it until 2011, which they did so quietly. Not many details are available about the document, except for the fact that it is real, and published in the NSA database via their technical journal.
In 2004, it is alleged that a lawsuit forced the National Security Agency to release a document called “Key to the Extraterrestrial Messages.”
“Dr. Campaigne presented a series of 29 messages from outer space…The following article develops a key to these messages.”
A paragraph from the Appendix reads as follows:
“Recently, a series of radio messages was heard coming from outer space. The transmission was not continuous, but cut by pauses into pieces which could be taken as units, for they were repeated over and over again.”
Towards the end of the document, the author states that “we have penetrated the meaning of basic symbols, and even more important, have learned some of the syntax rules- of the notation, and have caught mistakes in the process. We have a few words for sophisticated concepts, and given more data, with a little labor, we could establish its translation.”
There was no document to be found that actually describes what exactly they found out, and what that translation was.
Quite interesting to say the least.
Keep in mind, this is one of thousands of documents that have been released via FOIA requests, and dozens of global intelligence agencies and governments have now released hundreds of thousands of pages of documents that discuss possible extraterrestrial beings.
For example, here (page 21 & 22) is an FBI document in the form of a memorandum, addressed to “certain scientists of distinction,” to “aeronautical and military authorities,” and to “a number of public officials.”
The document is a letter that was sent to the director of the FBI in Washington from the San Fransisco office, on a matter pertaining to UFOs & extraterrestrials.
“Lt. Colonel (name redacted) of G2 [G2 means army intelligence], San Francisco advised today he has no further information, and that our Seattle office is in possession of all information known by him and is handling the matter at Tacoma, Washington.”
The document goes on to provide a copy of a letter written by someone with “several university degrees” and a former “university department head.”
It contemplates an extraterrestrial presence visiting us.
There is also an important distinction to be made from the UFO phenomenon, and the extraterrestrial phenomena, although there is sufficient evidence to show that, at least in some cases, they are interrelated. That being said, may of of these “UFOs” could be, and probably are, highly sophisticated, black budget (Special Access Programs, human craft).
The existence of UFOs has been officially verified, and thousands of military records show that they are commonly tracked on radar, and perform maneuvers and travel at speeds that no known aircraft can travel. This seems to have started a long time ago, in Germany, and the CIA was keeping tabs.
“A German newspaper recently published an interview with George Klein, famous German engineer and aircraft expert, describing the experimental construction of ‘flying saucers’ carried out by him from 1941 to 1945.”
There are hundreds of cases, and it’s something that still happens today. A quite popular incident comes from Tehran, Iran. This incident occurred on the night of September 18th, 1976. A four page U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and NSA report describes the encounter in detail. Furthermore, both of the pilots involved discussed the event years later.
This is what the Arecibo message looks like
What happened on this night is an example of what has happened multiple times with regard to military encounters with UFOs. Residents of the city noticed a big bright object in the sky. The airport traffic controller also noticed, “it was an intensely bright object that was not supposed to be there.” The Iranian Air Force was contacted (at the time they were a close ally of the United States, under the rule of the Shah), and they dispatched two F-4 fighter jets to check out the object. The United States took this encounter very seriously; a report of what happened was sent to multiple national security officials and U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, CIA Director.
Both pilots, when approaching the object, experienced weapons systems and electronic failure within their aircraft.
“As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles it lost all instrumentation and communications. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications. Another brightly lighted object came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F4.”
Dr. Jacques Vallee, notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA, and for his work at SRI International on the network information center for ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, also published a paper in the Journal of Scientific Exploration titled “Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases Of Unexplained Ariel Objects With Defined Luminosity Characteristics.”
In it is a great shot of one of these “UFOs” snapped by Canadian Military Pilots (see below).
I’d like to point out that, although the existence of UFOs is verified, the fact that these could be operated by extraterrestrials is not. That being said, just as there was a lot of evidence for the UFO phenomenon before all of this declassification, there is still “abundant evidence that we are being contacted.” – Dr. Brian O’Leary, Ex Nasa Astronaut and Princeton Physics professor.
What points to this fact, is that those directly involved with these sightings, and those who have held some prominent positions, have clearly stated, hundreds of times that some of these UFOs are indeed operated by extraterrestrials.
“This thing has gotten so highly-classified… it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since. I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified” – FormerSenator Barry Goldwater, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee
Whoever is in control or “in the know” with regard to this topic, it’s way above the government, and most likely managed by some sort of “secret government,” atop the “Deep State.”
Given the release of this information within these past few years, those that are mentioned in these files have come forward. One (out of many) examples would be now retired Navy commander pilot Graham Bethune, who held a top-secret clearance. He was a VIP Plane Commander who flew most of the high-ranking officers and civilians from Washington, DC. In his testimony below, he explains how he was flying a group of VIPs and other pilots into Argentia, Newfoundland, when every single person on the plane witnessed a 300 foot object that traveled 10,000 feet straight up in a fraction of a second toward their plane. As you can see from the video below, he has documented the event extensively.
To access the official files pertaining to this particular case, you can visit the government’s ‘Project Bluebook’ files to read them. You can find those links and the files for this case at the National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomenon.
In this interview, he states he learned that some of these objects were indeed extraterrestrial, from “the boys upstairs.”
So, as you can see, there is no shortage of information within this realm, in the form of credible sources and documents and statements from credible people. This isn’t even the tip of the iceberg.
A recently revealed, formerly secret U.S. government program that studied unexplained aerial phenomena—more colloquially referred to as UFOs—came as a surprise to many when stories describing it appeared almost simultaneously in theNew York TimesandPolitico.
The Pentagon’s project, called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, was reportedly established in 2007 to investigate unexplained aerial phenomena that appeared to be using novel propulsive, hovering, or otherwise advanced technologies. A 490-page report detailing the program’s findingssupposedly exists, though it has not yet been released.
Luis Elizondo, who led the Pentagon effort to investigate U.F.O.s until October. He resigned to protest what he characterized as excessive secrecy and internal opposition to the program.
Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times
Some may think that the very existence of this project supports the idea that aliens are visiting us, but that’s not a logical conclusion. The undeniable truth is that observations of a puzzling nature certainly merit investigation, as long as it’s done scientifically. And this project is not even close to the first U.S. government-funded search for evidence of advanced intelligence—so far, to little effect.
Projects that began more than five decades ago and still continue to this day include efforts to evaluate bizarre sightings and exotic objects, scan the skies for signs of intelligent transmissions, and develop instruments capable of sniffing out signs of life on faraway worlds.
The fact that the government chose to spend some cash on a supposedly scientific look at UFOs—particularly as they could be crucially related to national security threats—really should be no surprise, says Seth Shostak, one of the SETI Institute’s senior alien hunters.
THE SCIENCE OF ALIEN SIGHTINGS
Neil deGrasse Tyson and SETI astronomer Seth Shotsak talk about alien sightings and how aliens are portrayed in the media.
“The feds have long had an interest in UFOs, going back to the celebrity cases of the late 1940s—Roswell, anyone?” says Shostak. “Much of the motivation for this interest was the worry that the strange things being reported in the sky might be novel Soviet—or today, Russian or Chinese—aircraft.
“But even if you think that the interest had greater scope, that the government really wanted to know if our little planet was being visited by other beings, there’s little surprise in the fact that they’ve spent a modest amount of money investigating that possibility.” Indeed, roughly a third of the U.S. population believes that some of these bizarre phenomena are attributable to extraterrestrial visitors, he says.
The bigger problem, according to Shostak, is that the money shunted into the Pentagon program went primarily to a company founded by Robert Bigelow, a billionaire aerospace mogul whose company builds inflatable space modulesand who has long believed in alien visitation. Initiated after conversations between Bigelow and then-Nevada senator Harry Reid, the program garnered at least $22 million in funding over five years (it’s not yet clear whether it survives under a different guise after its supposed termination in 2012).
Within the new stories are nuggets of curious information, including the supposed keeping of unearthly alloys at Bigelow’s facilities, and a video that reportedly shows an object spotted by two U.S. Navy pilots.
But the most that’s publicly known about the program’s findings is second-hand at best, coming from insiders relaying their impressions to reporters. Some, like Reid, claim there is compelling evidence that merits further investigation—but the details remain as elusive as the aliens.
“Objective description of any phenomena should be backed up by compelling evidence, and despite many decades of reports of various UFO and abduction phenomena, we don’t have such evidence,” says Andrew Siemion, director of the Berkeley SETI research center. “Moreover, astronomers spend their lives looking at the sky with a wide variety of telescopes and techniques, and we have never snapped a picture of [an unexplained] spaceship.”
Here are some of our previous and ongoing attempts to find out if, in fact, aliens are out there and whether we have been visited, starting with the heyday of such activities around the middle of the last century.
1947: Roswell (Project Mogul)
Easily the granddaddy of all UFO conspiracies, the Roswell incident is described by many as the catastrophic crash of an alien spaceship in the New Mexico desert, after which the U.S. government supposedly retrieved the spacecraft (and several aliens). In 1994, the Air Force released a report identifying the debris as belonging to “a once top-secret balloon operation, Project MOGUL, designed to monitor the atmosphere for evidence of Soviet nuclear tests.”
1948-1952:Projects Sign and Grudge
First Sign and then Grudge, these Air Force-funded projects were examinations of flying saucers and other reported unexplained phenomena, inspired both by the Cold War and a 1947 observation of nine “disk-shaped objects” over Washington state. According to the CIA, “GRUDGE officials found no evidence in UFO sightings of advanced foreign weapons design or development, and they concluded that UFOs did not threaten U.S. security. They recommended that the project be reduced in scope because the very existence of Air Force official interest encouraged people to believe in UFOs and contributed to a ’war hysteria’ atmosphere.”
1952-1969:Project Blue Book
A continuation of the previous two projects, Blue Book was the longest and most extensive known investigation of unexplained aerial happenings. Of the 12,618 reported sightings it investigated, most were ruled to be misidentified natural phenomena or aircraft (including early U-2 spy planes on test flights); 701 and remained unidentified. The report concluded that “No UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security; there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as ’unidentified’ represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge; there has been no evidence indicating the sightings categorized as ’unidentified’ are extraterrestrial vehicles.”
1960: Project Ozma
Funded by the National Science Foundation, a federal agency created in 1950, this $2,000 project was the first scientific search for signs of intelligent radio transmissions from other worlds. Using a telescope at the Green Bank Observatory, astronomer Frank Drake (yes, the reporter’s father) listened for radio transmissions coming from planets that could be orbiting the stars Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani, but the scans came up empty.
An aerial view of the Pentagon.
1966-1968: University of Colorado UFO Project/Condon Committee
Funded by the Air Force, this project produced 1968’s Condon Report, which concluded that there was no compelling evidence for extraterrestrial involvement in UFOs, and which recommended discontinuing Project Blue Book and any further investigations of UFOs. The report inspired the American Association of the Advancement for Science to convene a meeting on the topic, which Carl Sagan and Thornton Page then turned into a book called UFOs: A Scientific Debate.
1970s and ‘80s: CIA Investigations of Paranormal and Psychic Phenomena
The 1970s and 1980s saw the CIA investigating a bunch of phenomena associated with UFO sightings, such as parapsychology and psychic happenings. According to CIA report “Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90 (A Die-Hard Issue)”, “CIA officials also looked at the UFO problem to determine what UFO sightings might tell them about Soviet progress in rockets and missiles and reviewed its counterintelligence aspects.”
1976-1993:SETI/HRMS
The only time the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has been written into a NASA budget line, this decade provided as much as $12 million a year for searches using the Arecibo and Goldstone antennas. Around 1990, the government’s SETI program—headquartered at NASA’s Ames Research Center—was renamed the High Resolution Microwave Survey in an attempt to avoid cancellation. Nevada senator Richard Bryan ended up cancelling the program anyway in 1993, right after actual observations had started.
1990s to now: NASA’s Astrobiology Institute
Founded in 1998, the NASA Astrobiology Institute is one of many projects within the space agency aimed at investigating the possibility that life exists elsewhere in the cosmos. Scientists under its umbrella are currently thinking about whether life once existed on Mars, if there might be organisms tucked beneath the icy shells of the moons Europa and Enceladus, and how we would even recognize what life beyond Earth looks like if and when we see it.
Now, and beyond
Other ongoing work that continues to rely on federal funds includes developing instruments capable of detecting not only exoplanets but also alien biospheres, as well as work using organisms and environments on Earth as extraterrestrial analogs.
Saturn’s largest moon Titan is enveloped in a thick atmosphere, but the infrared camera on the Cassini spacecraft was able to reveal the moon’s myriad of surface features.
In these images of Saturn’s moon Titan, the colors reflect variations in materials on the moon’s surface. For example, the moon’s equatorial dune fields appear a consistent brown color, while bluish and purple hues may indicate materials enriched in water ice.
This stunning sequence of images of Saturn’s largest moon Titan was created using data acquired by the Cassini mission’s infrared camera, which peered through Titan’s dense atmosphere. The images were stitched together in a seamless mosaic to provide the best yet representation of Titan’s surface features.
Thanks toCassiniand the European Space Agency’s (ESA)Huygens probe it carried – which landed on Titan in January 2005 – Titan was extensively mapped and analyzed. On September 15, 2017, the Cassini spacecraftplunged into the planet Saturn, becoming part of the planet it had been orbiting since 2004.
The Cassini-Huygens mission – the fourth earthly space probe ever to visit Saturn and first to enter its orbit – revolutionized the way we think about Saturn and its moons and rings. It also gave us spectacular, awesome images that just kept coming, all the way to the mission’s final days. Visit a Cassini image gallery.
Here’s a cool video from NASA summarizing the amazing findings that Cassini has made at Titan. Titan is a world that in some ways reminds us of Earth, yet is also utterly alien.
Bottom line: Mosaic photo of Saturn’s moon Titan seen in infrared.
New observations of Venus’ atmosphere by the Japanese orbiter Akatsuki – combined with supercomputer simulations – have revealed giant symmetrical streaks never seen before.
Lower clouds of Venus with the streaks observed with the Akatsuki IR2 camera (left) and the planetary-scale streak structure reconstructed by AFES-Venus simulations (right). Image via Nature Communications paper.
Venusis a mysterious world, with its surface perpetually hidden from view by a thick layer of clouds. While probes have landed on the surface – surviving long enough in the hostile environment to send back photos and other data – there is still a lot to learn about Venus and its cloudy veil. Intriguing wind-driven patterns in the clouds have been seen before, but now a Japanese research team has found another unusual one –almost symmetrical giant streaks– on a planetary scale – in both the northern and southern hemispheres. The findings were published in a newpeer-reviewedpaper in Nature Communications on January 9, 2019.
The discovery comes from data obtained by the spacecraft Akatsuki (Venus Climate Orbiter), which began to orbit Venus in December 2015. The streaks turned up in images taken by the infrared camera called “IR2” that measures wavelengths of 2 um (0.002 mm). This camera can penetrate the upper cloud layers to see the detailed morphology of the lower cloud levels, about 30 miles (50 km) from the surface. The research team was led by Project Assistant Professor Hiroki Kashimura at Kobe University, Graduate School of Science.
Diagram depicting the formation mechanisms for the streaks. Image via Nature Communications paper.
The infrared data from Akatsuki was combined with a new supercomputer program called AFES-Venus, used for calculating simulations of Venus’ atmosphere, based on the version used for Earth – Atmospheric general circulation model For the Earth Simulator (AFES). The process is similar to how atmospheric phenomena on Earth are researched and predicted, although for Venus, the perpetual cloud cover makes it more difficult.
The infrared images from Akatsuki’s IR2 camera were compared with the high-resolution simulations from the AFES-Venus program. When this was done, the streaks became evident for the first time ever. Each streak is immense – hundreds of kilometers wide and stretching diagonally for almost 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles), in each hemisphere.
It is likely that this is an atmospheric phenomenon unique to Venus, since it has never been observed on Earth.
Venus as seen in ultraviolet light by the Akatsuki orbiter, showing the complex weather patterns in the atmosphere.
Image via JAXA/ISIS/DARTS/Damia Bouic.
So what is causing these giant streaks? Again, the answer lies in a similar atmospheric phenomenon on Earth – polar jet streams, combined with atmospheric waves and baroclinic instability (large-scale dynamic winds). This is similar to Earth, where large-scale dynamic winds form extratropical cyclones, migratory high-pressure systems and polar jet streams. On Venus, the atmospheric waves, caused by large-scale atmospheric flows and the planetary rotation effect (Rossby wave), create large vortexes across the equator to latitudes of 60 degrees in both directions. Jet streams then cause those vortexes to massively stretch and tilt, forming the streaks.
These new studies also show how Venus’ atmosphere and climate can now be studied more as an actual three-dimensional structure rather than just in two dimensions, “from east to west,” as before.
In regular visible light, Venus’ clouds are a lot blander appearing, as seen in this image from Mariner 10 in 1974.
Image via Mattias Malmer/NASA.
While these atmospheric processes are similar to ones on Earth, Venus is still a very different world in other ways. Although it is almost the same size, the surface pressure is similar to the crushing pressures deep in Earth’s oceans and the temperatures are hot enough to melt lead – up to 860 degrees Fahrenheit (460 degrees Celsius). The thick clouds are composed largely of sulfuric acid. Not exactly a life-friendly environment, although conditions in the upper atmosphere are actually much more comfortable, with temperatures and pressures similar to Earth. There have even been some studies showing that microbes could easily exist there and couldeven explain unusual dark patches in the upper atmosphere that change over time, although a lot more investigation needs to be done to determine whether that is the case – or not.
Bottom line: New observations from Akatsuki, combined with advanced supercomputer simulations, show how atmospheric processes on Venus are both similar to and different from those on Earth. The giant streaks seem to be unique to Venus, although their formation is caused by atmospheric conditions similar to ones seen on Earth.
Data from NASA's AIM spacecraft show that noctilucent clouds are like a great "geophysical light bulb." They turn on every year in late spring, reaching almost full intensity over a period of no more than 5 to 10 days.
News flash: The bulb is glowing.
A new ScienceCast video explores the noctilucent clouds now swirling over Antarctica. Play it
As December unfolds, a vast bank of noctilucent clouds is blanketing Antarctica. It started on Nov. 20th as a tiny puff of electric-blue and quickly expanded to overlie nearly the entire continent. AIM is monitoring the progress of the clouds as they swirl and ripple around the south pole.
"The clouds appeared over the south pole earlier than usual this year," says AIM science team member Cora Randall of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in Colorado. "Since AIM was launched, only the 2009 season got an earlier start.
Click on the image to watch the "geophysical light bulb" turn on over Antarctica.
Noctilucent clouds--or "NLCs" for short--are Earth's highest clouds. Seeded by disintegrating meteoroids, they form at the edge of space 83 km above Earth's surface. When sunlight hits the tiny ice crystals that make up these clouds, they appear to glow electric blue.
Summer is when NLCs are at their brightest and most widespread. Now is summer in the southern hemisphere. The clouds brighten over the south pole in November through February, and shift to the north pole in May through August.
Why summer? The answer has to do with wind patterns and the flow of humidity in our atmosphere. Summer happens to be the time when the greatest number of water molecules are wafted up from the lower atmosphere to mix with "meteor smoke" at the edge of space. Ironically, summer is also the time when the upper atmosphere is coldest, allowing the ice crystals of NLCs to form.
In recent years NLCs have intensified and spread. When noctilucent clouds first appeared in the 19th century, you had to travel to polar regions to see them. Since the turn of the century, however, they have been sighted as close to the equator as Colorado and Utah.
Some researchers believe this is a sign of climate change. One of the greenhouse gases that has become more abundant in Earth's atmosphere since the 19th century is methane.
"When methane makes its way into the upper atmosphere, it is oxidized by a complex series of reactions to form water vapor," explains Hampton University Professor James Russell, the principal investigator of AIM. "This extra water vapor is then available to grow ice crystals for NLCs."
A graphic prepared by Prof. James Russell of Hampton University shows how methane, a greenhouse gas, boosts the abundance of water at the top of Earth's atmosphere. This water freezes around "meteor smoke" to form icy noctilucent clouds. [Larger image]
If this idea, one of several, is correct, noctilucent clouds are a sort of "canary in a coal mine" for one of the most important greenhouse gases. And that, says Russell, is a great reason to study them.
Studying NLCs is the prime mission of the AIM spacecraft. Since it was launched in 2007, AIM has made many key discoveries including the role of meteor dust in seeding NLCs and the way NLCs are affected by long-distance teleconnections in the atmosphere. More discoveries may be in the offing as NASA has just extended the mission for another two years.
A Ron Miller illustration: the extraterrestrial fish.
CREDIT: RON MILLER
A buzzing phone brings Ron Miller back to Earth.
Till then, his mind was decidedly elsewhere—on the alien world HD 219134 b, 120 trillion miles from his artist’s studio in South Boston, Virginia.
“A great big rocky planet,” he says. “I was working on it when you called.”
Orbiting an ancient star in the constellation of Cassiopeia, HD 219134 b is colossal indeed, about four times the mass of Earth. The ground, Miller says, is “covered with dense aluminum compounds.” Gemstones, maybe? Scratch the otherworldly surface, he supposes, and perhaps the topsoil is crusted and dusted with “sapphire and rubies.”
That notion in tow, his stylus in hand, and a five-year-old version of Photoshop in place, Miller conjures up a bejeweled landscape in a couple of days. He finalized HD 219134 b just before 2019 arrived, his 47th year drawing the surreal estate in outer space. His illustrations, in more than 60 books and hundreds of magazines (Astronomy, National Geographic, Scientific American), number in the thousands. It never gets old, he says: “Half the fun is trying something new and seeing what happens. Every picture is a surprise to me.”
HD 219134 b, the "Sapphire Planet."
CREDIT: RON MILLER
Miller's interpretation of life on a high-gravity world.
CREDIT: RON MILLER
Miller’s formative years were in the fifties. “The golden age of space,” he says. “Books and magazines about spaceships and rockets were everywhere. Public interest in space flight was intense.” Sputnik launched when he was ten, NASA commenced one year later; he watched Space Patrol on television, Forbidden Planet at the theater. Miller was captivated, but a career in science was out. “I wasn’t good at math,” he says. But he could draw, and his first sketches were “rocket ships and the moon.”
Eventually he drew the solar system: Jovian clouds, Plutonian cliffs, dust devils on Mars, the volcanoes of Venus. Saturn’s moons appear in 84 of his illustrations. Enceladus is a favorite, a tiny satellite about the size of New Mexico. Scientists say Enceladus shelters a salty subsurface ocean, and some sort of life—maybe microbial, maybe something more sophisticated—might swim in its mysterious deep. Miller’s drawings of the moon depict a geologically-dynamic world of fountains, fissures, springs, and snowfalls. “I love doing Enceladus pictures,” he understates.
Exploring the Saturn moon Enceladus.
CREDIT: RON MILLER
Two decades ago, astronomers found the first exoplanets. Suddenly, whole new worlds opened up for Miller. Yet even today, exoplanets remain an enigma. “In most cases, all we really know is that the planet is there,” he says. “You have a rough idea of its size and distance from its star. And that’s about it.” Miller’s ingenuity fills in the blanks, a blend of science and supposition. “With exoplanets, there’s a lot of leeway,” he says. “But the picture has to be plausible.”
Something else changed too, this about a dozen years ago: Miller switched—with hesitation at first—from acrylics to digital. “I’m still drawing and painting,” he says, “but now there’s no paint at all. The cleaning and changing and fixing and mixing—the mechanical stuff that’s not creative—that’s all eliminated.” Now, in the same time he’d spend on a “traditional painting,” a piece “with twice the detail, that’s twice as finished” emerges.
Reminiscent of the California coast, Miller's concept of alien life on GJ 1214 b, an exoplanet 48 light years away.
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Thoreau would have enjoyed this: Miller's impression of a life-friendly world orbiting a Sun-like star.
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Extraterrestrial life, he believes, exists. Some might reside on Earth analogues. Miller’s rendering of a rocky beach on GJ 1214 b resembles the coast along Malibu. A habitable zone planet festooned with vegetation evokes Walden Pond. (Thoreau, however, likely never considered a chartreuse sky.) Big monsters seldom appear in Miller’s art, with notably spooky exceptions. Balloon-like creatures, tentacles dangling, drift through the dark firmament of a gas giant; an alien fish, a scary fusion of squid and shark, leaps from a cold green sea. The stunning images arouse an awe that commingles with terror. But Miller—perhaps understating again—brushes accolades aside: “I don’t draw animals very well. I can’t do a horse to save my life.”
An alien life form floating through the clouds of a gas giant planet.
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Life on a low-gravity world.
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At 71, he has no plans to retire. “I try to incorporate in the next picture what I didn’t do in the last one,” he says. “There’s always something I could’ve done a little bit better.” Certainly, the universe offers plenty of opportunity for practice. At last look, NASA has confirmed 3,872 exoplanets, with billions more out there. Art, says Miller, is “a learning process that never ends.” Science is much the same. With golden days here again, Ron Miller’s just getting started.
Miller's illustration of 47 Ursae Majoris b.
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Plans for a European base on the moon have taken a major step forward.
The European Space Agency revealed it has signed up rocket maker ArianeGroup to develop plans for a moon base that could be used to mine material from the lunar surface.
The project will 'examine the possibility of going to the Moon before 2025 and starting to work there' - and could trigger a new space race as countries rush to harness lunar resources.
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The European Space Agency revealed it has signed up rocket maker ArianeGroup to develop plans for a moon base that could be used to mine material from the lunar surface. The project will 'examine the possibility of going to the Moon before 2025 and starting to work there'. Industrial partners including renowned architects Foster+Partners have already worked with ESA to test the feasibility of 3D printing using lunar soil to create moon bases.
The one-year contract aims to eventually mine regolith on the lunar surface.
'As ESA and other agencies prepare to send humans back to the Moon – this time to stay – technologies that make use of materials available in space (in-situ resource utilisation) are seen as key to sustainability, and a stepping stone in humankind's adventure to Mars and farther into the Solar System,' the space agency said.
'In the longer term, resources in space may even be used on Earth.'
'Regolith is an ore from which it is possible to extract water and oxygen, thus enabling an independent human presence on the Moon to be envisaged, capable of producing the fuel needed for more distant exploratory missions, ESA says.
Ariane is hoping Ariane 64, the 4-booster version of Ariane 6, would enable this European mission to carry the equipment needed for a Moon landing.
'The use of space resources could be a key to sustainable lunar exploration and this study is part of ESA's comprehensive plan to make Europe a partner in global exploration in the next decade - a plan we will put to our Ministers for decision later this year at the Space19+ Conference.' added Dr. David Parker; Director, Human and Robotic Exploration at ESA.
The mission will pit Europe against the US, Russia and China, all of whom are developing moon missions.
Last year NASA revealed plans to take America back to the moon - but will rely on private firms to run the missions.
The space agency plans to work with nine private firms, ranging from small startups to giants like Lockheed Martin, to develop robotic landers and systems to mine the natural resources on the moon.
This will help develop the technology need for eventual manned missions, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine pledged to have a manned lunar base within a decade.
Ariane is hoping Ariane 64, the 4-booster version of Ariane 6, would enable this European mission to carry the equipment needed for a Moon landing.
It is also working with a German start-up, PTScientists, which will provide the lunar lander, and a Belgian SME, Space Applications Services, which will provide the ground control facilities, the communications and the associated service operations.
WHAT ARE EUROPE'S PLAN FOR A MOON BASE?
In 2016, the head of the ESA elaborated on plans to build a village on the moon, designed by London firm Foster + Partners.
'The future of space travel needs a new vision,' said Jan Woerner.
The concept is a base for lunar exploration by humans and robots, which would act as a stopover for spacecraft, and become a 'village' with mining and even tourism.
Multi-dome lunar base being constructed, based on the 3D printing concept. Once assembled, the inflated domes are covered with a layer of 3D-printed lunar regolith by robots to help protect the occupants against space radiation and micrometeoroids
'Right now we have the Space Station as a common international project, but it won't last forever,' said Woerner.
'If I say Moon Village, it does not mean single houses, a church, a town hall and so on. No, that would be misleading.
'My idea only deals with the core of the concept of a village: people working and living together in the same place.
'And this place would be on the moon.
'In the Moon Village we would like to combine the capabilities of different spacefaring nations, with the help of robots and astronauts.
Structures for a lunar base could be built by robots sent ahead of human astronauts. Experts said 3D printing technology can currently construct an entire building in around a week
'The participants can work in different fields, perhaps they will conduct pure science and perhaps there will even be business ventures like mining or tourism.'
Woerner said the village could even help man get to Mars.
'The Moon Village would also act as a 'pit stop' for the further exploration of the Universe,' he said.
'Esa is eager to fly to Mars as well.
For ESA's 3D-printed lunar base concept, Foster+Partners devised a weight-bearing ‘catenary’ dome design with a cellular structured wall to shield against micrometeoroids and space radiation, incorporating a pressurised inflatable to shelter astronauts
'For more than a decade, we have had a very successful spacecraft orbiting there. And now, with ExoMars, two unmanned missions are aiming at martian orbit and the surface.
'Yes, the Americans want to send astronauts to Mars one day, but today's technology isn't prepared for this trip yet.
'For example, we must develop countermeasures against the cosmic radiation that endangers the health of humans on long space trips. And we have to learn how to endure longer periods of time in space, not only in low orbit as on the Space Station.
'This is where our Moon comes into play – it is the perfect stepping stone to Mars.'
The space agency has been touting the permanent lunar colony as a replacement for the orbiting International Space Station, which is due to be decommissioned in 2024
'This first contract – symbolically announced on the day of a lunar eclipse – is a milestone for ArianeGroup, which has for a long time been working on technological proposals for space logistics servicing,' explained André-Hubert Roussel, CEO of ArianeGroup.
'It is also an opportunity to recall the ability of Ariane 64 to carry out Moon missions for its institutional customers, with a payload capacity of up to 8.5 metric tons.'
Researchers are planning to recreate the conditions of the lunar surface right here at home. A new facility in the works at ESA's Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany will soon serve as a three-part moon analogue environment on Earth. Artist's impression of the facility. Its final design has not yet been finalised.
Researchers are creating a lunar dust substitute from volcanic powder produced by eruptions at the nearby Eifel volcanic region 45 million years ago
A new facility in the works at ESA's Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany will soon serve as a three-part moon analogue environment on Earth, the agency announced this month.
There, scientists will simulate lunar soil and a moon habitat, powered by systems that could one day be used to support a real base on the moon.
The new facility will be known as Luna, and will take up 1,000 square meters at the Astronaut Centre.
This will pave the way for future explorations to the surface of the moon, which numerous agencies around the world are now working to achieve.
'The moon is a major focus for ESA and the next step for human exploration,' said ESA project manager for strategic planning and future development, Andreas Diekmann.
'Developed in partnership with DLR, Luna will help us build our expertise, prepare for missions to the moon and provide a platform for researchers across Europe to test technology and procedures.'
Researchers are creating a lunar dust substitute from volcanic powder produced by eruptions at the nearby Eifel volcanic region 45 million years ago.
The moon habitat known as FlexHab (Future Lunar Exploration Habitat) is intended to be operational by the end of this year.
Once it's finished, astronauts will live and work there, in a space roughly the size of a shipping container.
The space agency is currently eyeing solar energy as the most sustainable way to power operations on the moon.
'During the lunar day, energy from the Sun will be used directly via photovoltaic panels, but it will also be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen,' ESA says.
'These two elements will then be stored separately before being recombined in a fuel cell for use during the two-week-long lunar nights.'
NASA has also recently ramped up its efforts to get astronauts back to the moon, decades after the final landing of the historic Apollo missions.
The space agency is currently planning to get humans on the lunar surface no later than the 2020s, and set up an orbiting outpost by 2023.
These goals rely on recent advances in commercial space operations and the upcoming Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket.
'This will be the first chance for the majority of people alive today to witness a Moon landing – a moment when, in awe and wonder, the world holds its breath,' NASA said earlier this year.
Saturn hasn't always had rings! Cassini revealed a giant COMET was trapped by the planet only 10 million years ago and broke up to form the iconic rings
Saturn hasn't always had rings! Cassini revealed a giant COMET was trapped by the planet only 10 million years ago and broke up to form the iconic rings
Saturn's rings are one of the most iconic features of the Solar System
The large rings have long been a subject of much mystery to astronomers
Scientists now think they formed as recently as 10 million years ago
A comet is believed to have got trapped by Saturn's gravity and broke up
Saturn is as famous for its spectacular white rings as for its 62 moons.
But the gas giant's rings, familiar to every schoolchild, probably did not form 4.5 billion years ago with the birth of our solar system.
In fact, they may have been created when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth.
Scientists now believe Saturn's rings may have formed as recently as 10 million years ago, when an icy comet was sucked into the planet's orbit and pulled apart by its enormous gravity field.
Scientists now believe Saturn's rings may have formed as recently as 10 million years ago. A comet is believed to have got trapped by Saturn's gravity and broke up over time
It means our solar system may still have been capable of massive change relatively recently, and Earth could one day end up with its own spectacular rings.
Saturn's rings have long been a subject of fascination, as they contain particles which range from tiny specks of ice to boulders as big as houses.
But it took the famous spacecraft Cassini to answer the question of how old they may be.
In its 2017 Grand Finale, after 13 years of exploring Saturn, the spacecraft made 22 dives between Saturn's rings before ending its mission and burning up in its atmosphere.
The spectacular flyby gave scientists the readings they needed to estimate the mass of the rings.
The ring colour gets slightly darker with time as fragments of rock from passing meteors attach to their icy surfaces, allowing experts to estimate how long they have been growing for.
The conclusion, published in the journal Science, is that Saturn's rings are only between 10 and 100 million years old and thus much younger than the planet itself, which formed with the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.
Burkhard Militzer, professor of earth and planetary science at the University of California, Berkeley, who was a co-author of the study, said: 'Like many others, I grew up believing that Saturn's rings were as old as it was, but now it seems that is wrong.
'The drastic impact with a comet which we believe happened came really not all that long ago.
'We believe it is around the time that an asteroid impact may have wiped out the dinosaurs, suggesting the solar system is not quite the quiet place we may have thought.'
Cassini effectively acted as gravity probe, diving inside the rings of Saturn. It is a dangerous trip, with the spacecraft at risk of being hit with boulders from the rings.
However the journey allowed the first mass measurement of the amount of material they rings contain, based on the strength of their gravitational pull.
Scientists now believe Saturn's rings may have formed as recently as 10 million years ago, when an icy comet was sucked into the planet's orbit and pulled apart by its enormous gravity field
This view from Cassini spacecraft shows a wave structure in Saturn's rings known as the Janus 2:1 spiral density wave.The iconic rings were not always found around the planet, the researchers found
The estimate is that the rings have about two-fifths of the mass of Saturn's moon Mimas, which is itself 2,000 times lighter than Earth's moon.
That could settle a long-running argument among planetary scientists, some of whom believed the rings formed when Saturn did, while others thought them younger.
Findings suggest the rings are very young and came from an icy comet, which may have entered Saturn's orbit from the Kuiper belt on the outskirts of the solar system.
The comet would have been pulled apart into rubble, forming the rings.
Alternatively the rings may have been created when two or more moons collided, with the rings being made of left over debris.
This image from Nasa is the highest-resolution colour images of any part of Saturn's rings to date, showing a portion of the inner-central part of the planet's B Ring. Saturn's rings are only between 10 and 100 million years old and thus much younger than the planet itself
Artist's concept of the Cassini spacecraft shown against a real photo of Saturn and its rings as Cassini crossed the ring plane. Cassini effectively acted as gravity probe, diving inside the rings of Saturn. It is a dangerous trip, with the spacecraft at risk of being hit with boulders from the rings
John Zarnecki, emeritus professor of space science at the Open University, said: 'Saturn's rings are one of the wonders of the solar system.
Anyone who has seen them through a small telescope can't fail to be amazed.
'Although not yet definitive, these results strongly suggest that the rings are young in the context of 4.5 billion-year-old Saturn.
'The interesting part is that this could also happen to Earth, with a comet capable of creating rings on this planet. However we probably wouldn't be around to see them as the impact might be calamitous to life on Earth.'
Meanwhile the moon will turn red next week in what may be Britain's last total lunar eclipse or a decade
That is because the UK will not be on the right side of the planet to see the full eclipse until 2029.
The moon will temporarily change to a reddish colour on Monday morning.
Dr Robert Massey, deputy executive director of the Royal Astronomical Society, said: 'A lunar eclipse is an absolutely fantastic sight and the red orb will make for some fantastic photo opportunities.'
WHAT DID CASSINI DISCOVER DURING ITS 20-YEAR MISSION IN SPACE?
Cassini launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1997, then spent seven years in transit followed by 13 years orbiting Saturn.
An artist's impression of the Cassini spacecraft studying Saturn
In 2000 it spent six months studying Jupiter before reaching Saturn in 2004.
In that time, it discovered six more moons around Saturn, three-dimensional structures towering above Saturn's rings, and a giant storm that raged across the planet for nearly a year.
On 13 December 2004 it made its first flyby of Saturn's moons Titan and Dione.
On 24 December it released the European Space Agency-built Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan to study its atmosphere and surface composition.
There it discovered eerie hydrocarbon lakes made from ethane and methane.
In 2008, Cassini completed its primary mission to explore the Saturn system and began its mission extension (the Cassini Equinox Mission).
In 2010 it began its second mission (Cassini Solstice Mission) which lasted until it exploded in Saturn's atmosphere.
In December 2011, Cassini obtained the highest resolution images of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
In December of the following year it tracked the transit of Venus to test the feasibility of observing planets outside our solar system.
In March 2013 Cassini made the last flyby of Saturn's moon Rhea and measured its internal structure and gravitational pull.
Cassini didn't just study Saturn - it also captured incredible views of its many moons. In the image above, Saturn's moon Enceladus can be seen drifting before the rings and the tiny moon Pandora. It was captured on Nov. 1, 2009, with the entire scene is backlit by the Sun
In July of that year Cassini captured a black-lit Saturn to examine the rings in fine detail and also captured an image of Earth.
In April of this year it completed its closest flyby of Titan and started its Grande Finale orbit which finished on September 15.
'The mission has changed the way we think of where life may have developed beyond our Earth,' said Andrew Coates, head of the Planetary Science Group at Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College London.
'As well as Mars, outer planet moons like Enceladus, Europa and even Titan are now top contenders for life elsewhere,' he added. 'We've completely rewritten the textbooks about Saturn.'
A new analysis of gravity science data from the Cassinispacecraft’s last ultra-close flybys of Saturn in 2017 suggests the planet’s iconic rings are only 10 to 100 million years old. From our planet’s perspective, that means Saturn’s rings may have formed during the age of the dinosaurs.
The findings,publishedJanuary 17, 2019, in thepeer-reviewedjournal Science, support the hypothesis that the rings are rubble from a comet or Kuiper Belt object captured late in Saturn’s history.
Last month we reported on new research confirming that Saturn will lose its rings in about 300 million years, or even sooner. Saturn formed 4.5 billion years ago, in the early years of our solar system. The new research says Saturn was ringless for most of its history and the ring system is a young upstart that attached to Saturn much later.
Artist’s concept of the Cassini orbiter crossing Saturn’s ring plane. New measurements of the rings’ mass give scientists the best answer yet to the question of their age.
One of the last acts of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft before its 2017 death plunge into Saturn’s hydrogen and helium atmosphere was to coast between the planet and its rings and let them tug it around, essentially acting as a gravity probe. Precise measurements of Cassini’s final trajectory have now allowed scientists to make the first accurate estimate of the amount of material in the planet’s rings, weighing them based on the strength of their gravitational pull.
Once scientists knew how much gravity was pulling on Cassini, causing it to accelerate – down to a fraction of a millimeter per second – they could determine how massive the planet is and how massive the rings are.
Cassini radio science team member Luciano Iess is the study lead author. Iess said in a statement:
Only by getting so close to Saturn in Cassini’s final orbits were we able to gather the measurements to make the new discoveries.
Their estimate — about 40 percent of the mass of Saturn’s moon Mimas, which itself is 2,000 times smaller than Earth’s moon — tells them that the rings are relatively recent, having originated less than 100 million years ago and perhaps as recently as 10 million years ago.
According to a statement from University of California Berkeley about the findings:
[The rings’] young age puts to rest a long-running argument among planetary scientists. Some thought that the rings formed along with the planet 4.5 billion years ago from icy debris remaining in orbit after the formation of the solar system. Others thought the rings were very young and that Saturn had, at some point, captured an object from the Kuiper belt or a comet and gradually reduced it to orbiting rubble.
Read more here about how the astronomers did the calculations to figure out the age of the rings.
The new calculation builds on a connection scientists previously made between the mass of the rings and their age. Lower mass points to a younger age, because the rings, which are bright and mostly made of ice, would have been contaminated and darkened by interplanetary debris over a longer period. With a better calculation of ring mass, scientists were better able to estimate the rings’ age.
The study authors say that the new evidence of young rings lends credence to theories that they formed from a comet that wandered too close and was torn apart by Saturn’s gravity – or by an event that broke up an earlier generation of icy moons.
Cassini’s mission ended in September 2017, when it was low on fuel and deliberately plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere to protect the planet’s moons.
Bottom line: A new study using data from the Cassini spacecraft’s 2017 flybys of Saturn suggests the planet’s iconic rings are only 10 to 100 million years old.
Incredible Footage of Antigravity Craft Going 3.5 Miles Per Second!
Incredible Footage of Antigravity Craft Going 3.5 Miles Per Second!
Corey Goode explaining the technology hidden in the secret space program.
On January 9, 2019 Sam Chortek and Jimmy Chappie released incredible high resolution footage of a UFO taken from a drone at 60 frames per second. They were out in Utah taking landscape shots for a movie and didn’t even notice what they had captured until the footage was gone through later. The drone operator was shocked at what you’ll see in this video! The craft was traveling approximately 3.5 miles per second! At this speed you could get to the Moon in about 18 hours but I’m sure this craft can go much faster than it was going so close to the Earth! You could have been looking right at it and missed it! It was really a miracle this drone just happened to be pointing in the right direction to capture this craft at high resolution and 60 frames per second so it could be slowed down.
I believe this small craft probably was developed in the secret space program. This could be the private space space vehicle of some cabal person for all I know. The second video has a good slideshow with Corey Goode going over what technology has been hidden from us in the secret space program. I could do without the new age jargon of ascending, meditation and all that garbage but the beginning of the video is very good at explaining what has been done without our knowledge. Only calling for help in the name of Jesus stops all alien abductions as you’ll see in this video! You should never fear aliens as long as you believe in Jesus! You have authority over all of them through your faith in Christ.
Clearly the cabal is working with aliens who are all demonic beings. They always push the lie that they modified our DNA or created us because if they can get you to doubt the Bible, they have your soul. Trust in Jesus only but beware of the lies we’ve been told. I believe the only thing stopping the demonic aliens from landing openly on Earth is the Christians who would pray them away! Have you noticed that all the people in the secret space program never talk about Jesus? Why is this? I think it’s because they mind control them or only get people who they can make sure will not use their power and authority through Christ on the demonic aliens. Aliens can do whatever they want to an atheist or a “new ager” or a Muslim but they have no power at all on a Christian! Jesus is the key and it’s why the cabal of filth always want to kill Christians. The aliens will never freely walk the planet until the Christians are all dead or in jail!
Linda Moulton Howe: They Are Doing Something Different and No One Can Explain It
Linda Moulton Howe: They Are Doing Something Different and No One Can Explain It
Linda will present her incredibly in-depth investigation of high strangeness cases that involve different non-human beings and alien communications.
Human experiencers have returned from missing time episodes in which hypnosis or spontaneous recall reveals information about E.T. manipulation of timelines, other dimensions, genetics, soul and body relationships and resurrection technology.
Linda Moulton Howe’s program will include dozens of illustrations done by human experiencers about the alien presence with which they have interacted, along with audio interviews and video..
KARACHI - Authorities started an investigation about an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) which was spotted by a Pakistani pilot during a routine flight in Karachi air space here on Friday.
The pilot, who was flying PIA flight PK 536, found UFO that was flying higher than the aircraft. On this, he alerted the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) about the situation and then CAA reported to the police for further investigation, Propakistani reported while quoting sources.
After the aircraft was airborne at a distance of 4.7 nautical miles and an altitude 4,300 feet, the pilot spotted a flying object (FO) about 105 feet above the aircraft and reported this to Air Traffic Control (ATC) Karachi, the tech website report added.
“I {pilot} saw a FO which was flying about 150 feet above our aircraft. The FO is dark brown or black in color and looks like a spaceship,” he said to the ATC.
After this, the pilot changed the flight path and continued flying to his destination. This report caused a panic in the aviation industry. Authorities suspected that the FO was a land operated drone.
On this suspicion, the CAA reported the incident to the police and asked them to search the area. A police party in the command of SSP Malir Irfan Bahadur started the investigation and searching the area.
“If this was a land operated drone it could come from Super Highway area. Police started the search operation to identify any activity related to this drone.” Irfan Bahadur told.
It is worth mentioning here that the UFO was spotted in the same area where the laser beam incident was reported by the pilots.
This UFO could be a weather balloon because Pakistan Meteorology (Met) Department launches balloons in the air to collect weather data. These balloons are sent in the air four times in 24 hours. In the evening, Met officers launched the balloon in the air at 5:00pm.
Abdul Rasheed, a local meteorologist told the reporter that these balloons can go as high as 10 miles. But, he ruled out the possibility that the UFO was a weather forecasting balloon.
“Weather forecasting is part of pilots’ training and they are familiar with these kinds of balloons,” Rasheed added.
However, it is unclear whether it was a weather balloon or something else as police and other investigation agencies are didn’t reach the real fact till filling of this news.
Further, the pilot did not take a picture of the UFO.
Het object is donkerbruin of zwart van kleur en lijkt op een ruimteschip. UFO gezien door piloot, Pakistan stelt onderzoek in
Foto: Russavia Wikimedia Commons
Het object is donkerbruin of zwart van kleur en lijkt op een ruimteschip. UFO gezien door piloot, Pakistan stelt onderzoek in
De Pakistaanse autoriteiten hebben een onderzoek ingesteld naar een UFO die vorige week vrijdag nabij Karachi is gespot door een piloot. Dat schrijft de krant Daily Pakistan.
De piloot van Pakistan International Airlines zag tijdens zijn vlucht een UFO die boven zijn toestel vloog.
Hij nam vervolgens contact op met de burgerluchtvaartautoriteit, waarna de politie een onderzoek instelde.
Ruimteschip
De piloot vloog op een hoogte van 1300 meter, toen hij op zo’n 45 meter boven zijn vliegtuig een onbekend vliegend object waarnam.
Tegen de luchtverkeersleiding in Karachi zei hij: “Ik zag een vliegend object op 45 meter boven ons vliegtuig. Het vliegende object is donkerbruin of zwart van kleur en lijkt op een ruimteschip.”
De piloot kreeg opdracht om van koers te veranderen.
Paniek
De melding heeft volgens de krant geleid tot paniek binnen de luchtvaartindustrie.
Meteoroloog Abdul Rasheed zei dat het uitgesloten is dat de UFO een weerballon was.
“Weersvoorspellingen zijn onderdeel van de training van piloten en zij zijn bekend met dit soort ballonnen,” zei hij.
Onduidelijk
Het is onduidelijk wat het dan wel is geweest. Het onderzoek van de politie en andere betrokken diensten loopt nog.
De piloot heeft naar verluidt geen foto gemaakt van de UFO.
Over the last week, residents of Kingston, Ontario have observed an unidentified aircraft seemingly circling the city. While many of the city’s residents have heard the craft, few have actually seen it. The aircraft mostly flies at night seemingly without navigation lights, and many eyewitnesses report a strange red glow coming from the craft, likely from the instrument panel. While most observers suspect the aircraft is operated by either the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canadian Security Intelligence, or Royal Canadian Air Force, but all agencies have denied any knowledge of the craft. What might the plane be doing up there, and who is behind this mysterious operation?
Kingston is found on the shores of Lake Ontario at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River.
While we might not be any closer to answering those questions, the mystery aircraft has finally been caught on film. According to the Kingston Whig Standard, a “local aircraft enthusiast” spotted the craft on January 13 and managed to get a photo of it. Neil Aird, a member of the real-time flight-tracking site Flightradar24, says he was plane spotting when he heard the mystery craft and was lucky enough to catch a glimpse long enough to snap a photograph:
As an aircraft enthusiast, not being able to see the plane but constantly hear it really is annoying. t took me a while to get [the photo]. When I took that picture, I was actually looking for another aircraft, a [Bombardier] Dash 8, but then it flew across my binoculars and I thought: ‘Aha! Gotcha.’
Aird says the craft appears to be a Pilatus PC-12, a single-engine passenger and cargo aircraft, and operates under the call sign C-GMPB PC-12 according to his own personal radar. That call sign is consistent with the appearance of the craft and oddly enough, the RCMP owns one. Mystery solved?
A Pilatus PC-12
Not quite. A spokesperson for Kingston’s Norman Rogers Airport says they don’t know anything about the craft, and when asked for comment the RCMP issued another vague boilerplate statement in which they neither confirm nor deny the craft:
The RCMP’s primary concern is the safety and security of Canadians. We have multiple aircraft that support our mandate in Ontario and elsewhere in the country. To maintain the integrity of our investigations and operations, the location of our aircraft is not disclosed. We therefore have no additional information to share with you at this time.
It certainly seems as if someone is flying around in one of the RCMP’s aircraft, but what’s it doing up there? What’s going on in Kingston, Ontario that would require such secrecy?
Over the course of the last couple of weeks, I’ve posted a number of article here at Mysterious Universeon Area 51. Now, it’s time to wrap things up with what we know and what we might think we know about the tales of the base. It has, for sure, been a winding and twisting story. And a highly conspiratorial one, too. It’s also a story filled with facts that may well be fiction, and tales that sound like fiction, but which just might be filled with incredible truths. Add to all of that, cloak-and-dagger characters who prefer to stay in the shadows, but who claim to know a great deal and occasionally reveal it, disinformation experts, counterintelligence personnel, and a host of figures who suggest that there really might be an extraterrestrial presence at Area 51, and what we have is a story that truly boggles the mind. Perhaps those in charge of Area 51 want our minds boggled. After all, a state of confusion might be the perfect way to keep people away from the truth and have them focused on conspiracies that may not actually be real. Let’s take a look at what we know for sure.
It is a fact that the origins of what eventually became Area 51 date back to the early years of the Second World War. The Nevada Test and Training Range soon came to fruition and planted the seeds for what would come in the mid-1950s: Area 51. Highly advanced aircraft, such as the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the Stealth Fighter and the Stealth Bomber were all secretly test-flown from Area 51. Probably the near-legendary Aurora, too. In that sense, many might say, there is no doubt that Area 51 has a valid reason for keeping just about everything under wraps. Indeed, considering the fact that those aforementioned aircraft were being built, tested, and flown when the Cold War was still in place and the Soviet Union had still yet to fall, one can easily see why measures would be taken to ensure that the U.S. Government’s most advanced aircraft would be subject to incredible secrecy. But, is there just too much secrecy for a squadron or several of radical, futuristic aircraft? That depends on who’s version of the “facts” believe.
Air Force U-2
As we have seen, there is one thing – more than any other – that sets Area 51 apart from just about every other military or government facility in the United States: it’s the sheer extent of the government’s determination to make sure that absolutely nothing gets out of Area 51 and no one gets in. Of course, and particularly so in today’s climate of uncertainty and threats of nuclear attacks, everyone needs to be vigilant. And that includes everyone who works at Area 51, too. They are, when all is said and done, just like us, regular people with lives and families. The big difference, though, is that they know the reasons for so much secrecy and we don’t.
It would be hard – in fact, impossible – to find a military installation in the United States that protects its secrets to a greater degree than Area 51. People have been forced to leave their homes and their land – solely due to U.S. Government concerns and worries that those same people just might see something they shouldn’t see. Those who stray too close to portions of the Nevada desert that the staff of Area 51 would prefer to keep under wraps risk large fines, imprisonment and even death, and all in the name of national security. Aircraft are banned from flying close to or over Area 51. They can even be shot down out of the sky, if circumstances dictate and warrant such drastic action. When, in 1974, NASA’s astronauts on-board Skylab took an aerial photo of the base, all hell broke loose in the defense- and intelligence-based communities of the United States. The CIA and the Department of Defense quickly got involved. Major concerns were expressed about how on Earth (or, in this case, off it) such a thing could have happened. Secret files were created, most of which have never publicly surfaced. Motion-detector equipment peppers the landscape. Cameras are everywhere. Guards patrol the local roads for any perceived suspicious characters. Night-vision technology ensures that no-one can penetrate the base in the early hours of the morning.
The government practically refuses to acknowledge not just the existence of Area 51, but even its name. That same government refused to offer help on the 1996 movie Independence Day, and all because a substantial portion of the movie revolved around Area 51 and the 1947 incident at Roswell, New Mexico. All of the above is astonishing. No facility in the United States comes even close to the level of secrecy and paranoia that surrounds Area 51. Which brings up an important question: is all of this overwhelming secrecy just in place to protect next-generation after next-generation of aircraft? Or, are the rumors and the whispers true? You know the ones, of course: the claims that deeply hidden at Area 51 are the remains of the Roswell wreckage, recovered flying saucers, and alien corpses. Maybe, even living aliens are at the base, too.
Regardless of where you, me and everyone else stands on the matter of what goes on at Area 51, there can be no doubt that it is the UFO-driven rumors and revelations which attract so much attention. Certainly, there’s no doubt that it was Bob Lazar who, in the late 1980s, set the wheels in motion for the controversy to begin and for the media and the public to sit up and take notice. And, as we have seen, accounts relative to aliens and UFOs – all in relation to area 51 – abound, and have done so for decades. The so-called “alien interview” footage led many to believe that living aliens are housed somewhere at Area 51. It is, however, garbage. Boyd Bushman told incredible stories of alien life and Area 51 connections. Likely it too was garbage – or disinformation. But, it was Bob Lazar – more than anyone else – who defined the beliefs and suspicions, and who still defines those beliefs and suspicions.
We should note, though, that there are certain threads running through the tales of UFOs at Area 51 that should make us cautious of what we are told. Let’s not forget that Lazar told of how his mind may have been messed with – possibly using updated MK-Ultra-type technologies. Certain portions of his memories were wiped clean. He felt that his very brief glimpse of a small creature at S-4 may have been a staged event; an event designed to make him think that live extraterrestrials were hidden at the base, when they may not have been.
There can be no doubt that the alien angle of the history of Area 51 excites many. Maybe that’s what the government is counting on. After all, not even the power of all the military-, defense-, and intelligence-based agencies in the United States can prevent a few leaks of classified information. So, perhaps to keep eager Ufologists away from stumbling on legitimate covert programs concerned with new aircraft designs, next-generation weapons-systems, mind-control techniques and more of a down to earth nature, they swamp those same Ufologists with enticing tales of extraterrestrial conspiracies and interviews with a sickly creature from another world (that never was).
The mysterious goat-sucker strikes again! As el chupacabracontinues its world tour, it’s clear that no livestock is safe. Around the globe, livestock and other farm animals are being savagely and mysteriously ripped apart, drained of their blood, or otherwise eviscerated. Over the last few years, stories reporting unexplained animal mutilationsappear to be on the rise.While the phenomenon is by no means new, the increasing frequency with which they’re being reported makes it seem like unknown, unseen predators are venturing into new territory in search of fresh meat. What’s behind these killings?
Hopefully this thing.
The latest case of a brutal and unexplained animal mutilation comes from the African nation of Namibia, where shepherds report that close to 30 goats have been found completely drained of their blood. Residents of the villages of Uukwanambwa and Amuteya say that for the past few weeks, some unknown predator has been stalking their goats in the night and somehow sucking all of their blood without spilling a drop.
According to news blog The Namibian, the creature has been seen by a few witnesses who say the animal resembles a large dog:
Two goats died and 10 have holes in the neck and they’re just salivating. We were told not to eat them and to kill the remaining four and burn them. The thing that killed the animals was apparently seen at the neighbour’s house fighting with a dog. Those who have seen them said they look like black dogs.
Local wildlife officials and veterinarians say the animals’ wounds are anomalous and that they’ve never seen anything like them before. Environment ministry deputy director for the north central regions Rehabeam Erckie told AllAfrica.com that “scientifically, these things attacking the goats in that manner are not part of the wildlife we know. We leave room for more investigations.”
Drained blood and missing reproductive organs are common features of these mysterious mutilations.
Are all of these cases of animal mutilations a further indication that things aren’t quite right in the natural world? As climate change, human development, and who knows what else continue to reshape the Earth and the ecosystems that depend on it, it’s natural we’ll start to see new patterns of animal behavior or even new animals emerge from the shadows. When will one of these creatures start preying on humans?
With the recentFOIA release of a list provided to Congresspertaining to the controversial Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), there has beena lot of resulting buzzabout wormholes, warp drives, and other futuristic concepts pertaining to advanced physics.
Steven Aftergood with the Federation of American Scientists was one of the recipients of the new disclosure, which he posted on the FAS website. In an interview with Motherboard, Aftergood expressed some surprise that the Defense Intelligence Agency would have provided so little financial backing for such disproportionately far-out projects.
“I think anyone who looks at these titles will scratch their heads and wonder what on earth the Defense Intelligence Agency was thinking,” he said. “These are the kinds of topics you pursue when you have more money than you know what to do with.”
Most news outlets that have commented on the release have, as expected, gravitated toward its more sensational aspects. While there is little in the way of direct mention of UFOs in the small batch of documents, a number of physics papers and research studies pertaining to propulsion, cloaking, and other technologies are listed. One might presume such technologies—if they existed in ways that could be practically and efficiently implemented—would be required to account for some of the more compelling UFO observations spanning the last 75 years.
However, what few are talking about in relation to the little breadcrumbs that are finally beginning to appear in relation to AATIP is what it tells us not only about the scope of the program but also the motivations behind it… wherein there are a number of similarities to previous government UFO studies.
One minor detail—but an important one—is the inclusion of the word “and” between “Threat” and “Identification.” In other words, the implication of the new title as referenced by the DIA in their letter to Aftergood (Nick Pope and others received essentially identical FOIA information around the same time) entails Advanced Aerospace Threat AND Identification Program: hence, the objective is not so much “threat identification” as it is an assessment of aerospace-related threats and the identification of advanced aerospace technologies. Yes, it’s a minor point, but one worth noting.
In terms of the financing side of the equation, as Aftergood noted, “These are the kinds of topics you pursue when you have more money than you know what to do with.” The paltry $22 million that was appropriated for the program hardly foots that kind of bill, although the reasons for its allocation are fairly evident. One aspect has to do with the fact that the Congressmen involved with the project—Harry Reid (D, Nevada), the late Ted Stevens (R, Alaska) and the late Daniel Inouye (D, Hawaii)—all had a history of allocating earmarks for their constituencies in their home states.
U.S. Senator Harry Reid.
The other has to do with what the latest FOIA releases show: that the clear areas of focus of the “contract” (as it is referred to in the documents) are in technological areas which, presumably, may have applications for weapons systems or other advancements well outside mere threat assessment and identification of different varieties of “advanced aerospace.”
I recently spoke with Alejandro Rojas, a writer for Open Mindsand arguably one of the more fact-oriented reporters on the UFO subject today, about the new releases. He shared my view that the practical side of government UFO studies—having to do with financial incentives and other advantages a government agency might hope to glean from such investigation—is something that is often under-emphasized, if not overlooked entirely in light of the more sensational implications of unidentified aircraft or other phenomena.
“First of all we live in a world where you’ve gotta make money,” Rojas says. “Any research or scientific research project out there has to have an end game that means profits. And it’s rare that you get research in areas that don’t have that.
“Sometimes government does need to step in for that reason: corporations don’t see that they can make a profit off of the medicine. We’ve seen this even in cancer research, where they think, ‘we’re not sure we can make money off of this medicine, even though it may help people.’ So the government has to step in to fund that sort of research because its gotta make money.”
“It’s got to have a purpose; it’s got to have a benefit. It can’t be science for science’s sake. Unfortunately, that’s frustrating for scientists… Then you have to play the politics game.”
Journalist Alejandro Rojas at Devils Tower, Wyoming
(photo by the author).
Rojas and I also spoke about past government studies in relation to this, most notably the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book, and how it contrasts with the present AATIP program and its apparent areas of focus.
“In Project Blue Book they said they were researching potential threats caused by UFOs, essentially, and they determined there was no threat posed by the phenomenon,” Rojas said. “Which is interesting in itself because it does seem that that’s true. I mean, even with the Nimitz situation (see the U.S.S. Nimitz Incident, as recounted by pilot Dave Fravor) they’re chasing something around, but in none of the Blue Book cases does a threat seem to be posed.”
Rojas, who has spoken in the past with Luis Elizando, former head of the Pentagon study associated with AATIP, notes that Elizondo describes the ideology of the AATIP program slightly differently from its earlier government predecessors; specifically, the threat angle seems to come into play more prominently.
“However, what Elizondo has done is something different—and I don’t know if it’s him, or maybe Harry Reid and the group, you know, this was what they were doing—but Elizondo is very quick to point out… that anything unidentified constitutes a threat. Potentially, at least from their perspective, they have to consider every unknown a threat until we know otherwise. And I think that ideology is important because Blue Book closed when they determined this unidentified ‘whatever’ doesn’t seem to pose a threat. Elizondo is saying, ‘no, if you’re saying it’s unidentified, then by its nature it’s still a threat, from our perspective.”
“So it’s kind of justifying why we have to continue, even though Blue Book already happened. Blue Book determined arguably that there was unidentified craft… so what [Elizondo] is saying is that we can’t stop there–that if they’re unidentified, then we still need to consider them a threat, and that justifies us looking further into all of this.”
“There is a difference between the two programs in that manner,” Rojas concludes, underscoring the necessity for practical results from government UFO studies which seems to remain. “[AATIP] is more actively looking to produce some science or some potential other benefits in developing weapons from these identifications.”
Within this context, the AATIP program may be seen with at least some degree of greater clarity than before. It is a “contract”, as the recent DIA papers phrase it, which secured a limited amount of funding on behalf of Senators from three states based on a mutual interest they shared (and in the case of Harry Reid, which he shared with certain friends and constituents, namely Robert Bigelow). However, in order to obtain earmarks for such a program, its focus, as outlined in the recent DIA documents, clearly seems to have objectives which may have hope for producing scientific, strategic, or other incentives in the long term. The result appears to be a program that explores more practical areas of development and national security interest while facilitating some justification for the study of “unknowns” along the way, and on a budget that would have been considered pretty modest even decades ago.
None of this undermines the scope or objectives of the AATIP program, per se, although it is perhaps worthwhile to consider some of the details we have begun to glean about it that have less to do with its sensational elements and the mysterious phenomena associated with it.
Emiliano Sala Abducted By Mile Long UFO Over Channel Islands, Jan 23, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Emiliano Sala Abducted By Mile Long UFO Over Channel Islands, Jan 23, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of abduction: Jan 21, 2019 Location of abduction: between Alderney and Guernsey island.
When a plane goes mission, I often look into it for related UFO sightings in that area. Emiliano Sala, the famous soccer player was on board a small single engine Piper Malibu, which seats about 6 people and it just happened to disappear in the exact location of the worlds largest UFO ever seen in history...being over a mile long and there were two of them seen by two different planes and pilots and many passages back in April 23, 2007. Well its happened again, but this time the small plane was so close to the mile long yellow and metallic UFO that it may have been deemed a threat and taken onboard the craft.
Thats right, Emiliano Sala may be alive and well on board a mile long UFO somewhere out in space or even on another planet by now. It is unlikely that the aliens would allow Emiliano to return to earth since he has walked among them and seen their technology...letting him go may cause a world wide panic. Also there is a huge area between France and Guernsey island that pilots are not allowed to fly over due to the area being military secret off limits location. This may be to help keep the aliens flying in and out of the ocean a secret.
Another thing is that back in 2007, the pilot of the craft that saw the mile long UFO wanted to go check it out...in his own words he states, ‘As I got closer to it, it became clear to me that it was tangible. I was in two minds about going towards it to have a closer look but decided against it because of the size of it. I had to think of the safety of the passengers first.’ So, if the pilot in 2007 wanted to go check out the UFOs and get closer...then maybe Emilianos' pilot also wanted to turn toward the UFOs and take a closer look and get video footage of the craft...but they got too close and were abducted. Even if the plane is found, no bodies will ever be found, but they probably took them...plane and all onboard the alien craft. Hey, you never know...he may teach aliens about soccer and create a universe cup competitions among worlds. Scott C. Waring For more info about the Guernsey UFO incident in 2007, copy paste this link.
Ancient nuclear weapons described in the Mahabharata – an ancient Hindu text that speaks of great destructive power 12,000 years ago. But does it hold up?
Where nuclear weapons detonated in India 12,000 years ago? According to ancient texts, the answer is a resounding ‘yes’. The descriptions of their effects uncannily remind us of modern nuclear weapons. Were ancient nuclear weapons unleashed on humanity 12,000 years ago?
The most famous text, the Sanskrit epic of Ancient India called the Mahabharata says:
A single projectile charged with all the power in the Universe… An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as 10,000 suns, rose in all its splendor… It was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes an entire race. The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. Their hair and nails fell out, pottery broke without any apparent cause, and the birds turned white. After a few hours, all foodstuffs were infected. To escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves into the river.
It certainly seems like an ancient description of a nuclear explosion. One must understand, however, there is some question as to whether the text really translates to this (or that these portions are even part of it).
While the folks over at Skeptoid have actually done a pretty thorough job of researching this, we do know that you can find anything you want on the Internet. Is it possible that the translations of the ancient text have been embellished? Or is it likely that debunkers have cherry-picked the evidence to the contrary?
Conspiracy Perhaps?
There are organizations in this world who may actually be striving to cover up the existence of ancient nuclear weapons. The fact that it’s very unlikely humans would have had this technology millennia ago indicates that Ancient Aliens may have brought the technology – and there are plenty out there who want that idea squashed immediately.
So it’s not out of the realm of possibility that the entire thing is made up… but it’s also not out of the realm of possibility that there’s some amount of truth to these writings.
The Mahabharata isn’t the only ancient text that allegedly mentions weapons of incredible scale. In fact, there are some passages in the Bible which speak of weapons of mass destruction according to some.
The destructions of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are described in the Bible as having fire raining down on them. The cities were totally destroyed in a short time.
Some Ancient Alien theorists believe the Bible itself is evidence of ancient nuclear weapons, likely unleashed on humanity by aliens.
Mystery or Not?
While all of the different pieces of evidence for India’s ancient nuclear weapons may be weak individually, one cannot ignore their sum as a whole. Consequently, it’s difficult to rule this one as a fake totally.
That being said, however, it’s not possible to know for sure that the ancient texts are talking about ancient nuclear weapons either. This one might be a mystery forever.
What do you think? Did aliens provide nuclear weapons or use them against the human population in ancient times?
Back in the first moment of the universe, everything was hot and dense and in perfect balance. There weren't any particles as we'd understand them, much less any stars or even the vacuum that permeates space today. The whole of space was filled with homogeneous, formless, compressed stuff.
Then, something slipped. All that monotonous stability became unstable. Matter won out over its weird cousin, antimatter, and came to dominate the whole of space. Clouds of that matter formed and collapsed into stars, which became organized into galaxies. Everything that we know about started to exist.
Scientists still aren't sure. But researchers have figured out a new way to model in a lab the sort of defect that could have caused the great unbalancing of the early universe. In a new paper, published today (Jan. 16) in the journal Nature Communications, scientists showed that they can use supercooled helium to model those first moments of existence — specifically, to re-create one possible set of conditions that may have existed just after the Big Bang.
That matters because the universe is full of balancing acts that physicists call "symmetries."
Some major examples: Physics equations work the same way both forward and backward in time. There are just enough positively charged particles in the universe to cancel out all the negatively charged particles.
But sometimes, symmetries break. A perfect sphere balanced on the tip of a needle falls one way or the other. Two identical sides of a magnet separate into north and south poles. Matter wins out over antimatter in the early universe. Specific fundamental particles emerge from the formlessness of the early universe and interact with one another via discrete forces.
"If we take the existence of the Big Bang as given, the universe has undoubtedly undergone some symmetry-breaking transitions," Jere Mäkinen, the lead author of the study and a doctoral student at Aalto University in Finland, told Live Science. [Gallery: The World's Most Beautiful Equations]
Need proof? It's all around us. Every table and chair and galaxy and duck-billed platypus is evidence that something tipped the early universe out of its early, flat state and into its current complexity. We're here instead of being potentialities in a uniform void. So, something broke that symmetry.
Physicists call some of the random fluctuations that break symmetry "topological defects."
In essence, topological defects are spots where something goes wonky in an otherwise-uniform field. All at once a disruption emerges. This can happen due to outside interference, like in a lab experiment. Or it can happen randomly and mysteriously, like scientists suspect happened in the early universe. Once a topoligical defect forms, it can sit in the middle of a uniform field, like a boulder creating ripples in a smooth stream.
Some researchers believe that particular kinds of topological defects in the formless stuff of the early universe may have played a role in those first symmetry-breaking transitions. Those defects may have included structures called "half-quantum vortices" (patterns of energy and matter that look a bit like whirlpools) and "walls bounded by strings" (magnetic structures made of two-dimensional walls bounded on either side by two one-dimensional "strings"). Those spontaneously emerging structures affect the flow of matter in otherwise-symmetrical systems, and some researchers suspect that these structures played a role in clumping the universe together into the stars and galaxies we see today. [Album: Behind the Scenes at the Largest US Atom Smasher]
Researchers had previously created these sorts of defects in the magnetic fields of supercooled gases and superconductors in their labs. But the defects emerged individually. Most theories that use topological defects to explain the origin of the modern universe involve "composite" defects, Mäkinen said — more than one defect working in concert.
Mäkinen and his co-authors designed an experiment involving liquid helium cooled to fractions of a degree above absolute zero and squeezed into tiny chambers. In the darkness of those little boxes, half-quantum vortices emerged in the supercooled helium.
Then, the researchers changed the conditions of the helium, causing it to go through a series of phase transitions between two different kinds of superfluids, or fluids with no viscosity. These are phase transitions akin to water turning from a solid into a liquid or a gas, but under much more-extreme conditions. [Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth]
Phase transitions cause symmetry to break. For example, liquid water is full of molecules that can orient in many different directions. But freeze that water, and the molecules get locked in place in particular positions. Similar breaks in symmetry happen with the superfluid phase transitions in the experiments.
Still, after the superfluid helium went through its phase transitions, the vortices remained — protected by walls bounded by strings. Together, the vortices and the walls formed composite topological defects and survived symmetry-breaking phase transitions. In that way, the researchers wrote in the paper, these objects mirrored defects that some theories suggest formed in the early universe.
Does this mean that Mäkinen and his co-authors have figured out how symmetry broke in the early universe? Absolutely not. Their model showed only that certain aspects of "grand unified theories" of how the early universe took its shape can be replicated in a lab — specifically, the parts of those theories that involve topological defects. None of those theories are widely accepted by physicists, and this could all be a big theoretical dead end.
But Mäkinen’s work does open the door to more experiments to investigate how these sorts of defects may have worked to shape the moments after the Big Bang. And these s}tudies definitely teach scientists something new about the quantum realm, he said. The open question remains: Will physicists ever conclusively link these details about the tiny quantum world with the behavior of the entire universe?
Alarming Increase In Volcanic Eruptions World Wide And Nobody Knows Why
Alarming Increase In Volcanic Eruptions World Wide And Nobody Knows Why
Not many people know about it because no one is talking about it, probably because they have no idea why it's happening. The world’s volcanic activity has dramatically increased recently and they are erupting faster and more frequently than ever before. Furthermore, earthquakes are also on the rise.
What is happening?
While no one can say for sure what all this commotion is about, one thing is clear - the planet is becoming more and more unstable. There was a total of 3,542 volcanic eruptions during the 20th Century. Now, dividing that number by 100 gives an average of 35 eruptions per year, roughly. This means that the number of volcanic eruptions right now is far more than the 20th Century’s average for the entire year.
In addition to this, there are large numbers of earthquakes taking place too. If it seems like volcanic eruptions and earthquakes are taking place more frequently, it's probably because they are. The best theory that scientists can come up with as of yet is that the Earth is preparing its self for some sort of “world-changing mega tremor” with the power to split up continents and change the geography of the world as we know it today.
Where's the proof?
The proof is in the numbers. Raw data. The data shows that the number of global magnitude six (M6) or higher earthquakes from 1980 to 1989 increased to an average of 108.5 earthquakes per year, from 2000 to 2009 the planet averaged 160.9 earthquakes per year. This shows a 38.9% increase of M6+ earthquakes in these time frames.
Furthermore, there also appears to be growing unrest among the world’s supervolcanoes. Iceland is home to some of the most dangerous volcanoes on the planet and there is significant activity there. Also Santorini in Greece, Uturuncu in Bolivia, the Yellowstone and Long Valley calderas in the U.S, Laguna del Maule in Chile, Italy’s Campi Flegrei – almost all of the world’s active super-volcanic systems are starting to show some signs of inflation, which is an early indication that pressure is building in these volcanic systems and they are getting ready to explode.
More data can be found at this link; volcano.si.edu/.... This is just the month of December 2018. It is definitely a worrying prospect and everyone should be more cautious, especially when in the vicinity of volcanoes. Only time will tell how this will turn out and there isn't much we can do about it. All we can do now is wait…
New research suggests that the ancient people of Rapa Nui in eastern Polynesia – better known as Easter Island – built their famousahu(shrine) monuments near coastal freshwater sources.
The island of Rapa Nui is well-known for its elaborate ritual architecture, particularly its numerousmoai – monolithic human figures – and ahu, the monumental platforms that supported them. Researchers have long wondered why ancient people built these monuments in their respective locations around the island, considering how much time and energy was required to construct them.
Locations of ahu with statues on Rapa Nui.
Image via PLoS One.
For the new study, published January 10, 2019, in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS One, the researchers used spatial modeling to explore the potential relations between ahu construction locations and the islanders’ three most critical resources – rock mulch agricultural gardens, marine resources and freshwater sources. Their results suggest that ahu locations are explained by their proximity to the island’s limited freshwater sources.
University of Oregon anthropologist Robert DiNapoli is lead author of the study. He said in a statement:
Many researchers, ourselves included, have long speculated associations between ahu, moai and different kinds of resources – water, agricultural land, areas with good marine resources, etc. However, these associations had never been quantitatively tested or shown to be statistically significant. Our study presents quantitative spatial modeling clearly showing that ahu are associated with freshwater sources in a way that they aren’t associated with other resources.
Carl Lipo of Binghamton University in New York is a study co-author. He said:
The issue of water availability, or the lack of it, has often been mentioned by researchers who work on Rapa Nui. When we started to examine the details of the hydrology, we began to notice that freshwater access and statue location were tightly linked together.
It wasn’t obvious when walking around – with the water emerging at the coast during low tide, one doesn’t necessarily see obvious indications of water – but as we started to look at areas around ahu, we found that those locations were exactly tied to spots where the fresh groundwater emerges, largely as a diffuse layer that flows out at the water’s edge. The more we looked, the more consistently we saw this pattern. This paper reflects our work to demonstrate that this pattern is statistically sound and not just our perception.
The researchers currently only have comprehensive freshwater data for the western portion of the island and plan to do a complete survey of the island in order to continue to test their hypothesis of the relation between ahu and freshwater.
Bottom line: A new study suggests that the ancient people of Easter Island built their huge stone monuments near freshwater sources.
An artist's illustration of the star system HD 98800, which features a pair of stars orbited by a vertical planet-forming disk of material.
Credit: Mark Garlick/University of Warwick
Planet-forming disks of material typically orbit around the equators of stars, but now scientists have discovered such rings can go dramatically awry and encircle the poles of stars instead.
The new study suggests that worlds could exist with polar orbits around pairs of stars, potentially leading to seasons extraordinarily different than Earth's.
Stars are born within clouds of gas and dust. The gravitational pull of each star draws such material into spiraling orbits around it. Although clumps of this cloud start off moving in random directions at random speeds, as the cloud collapses, the clumps collide and merge. The result over time is a flattened disk called a protoplanetary disk that usually spins in the same direction as its star and surrounds the star's equator. The planets that emerge from such a disk also typically orbit around the star's equator, as is the case with the worlds of our solar system. [Secrets of Planet Birth Revealed in Amazing ALMA Radio Telescope Images]
Prior work found that nearly all young stars are initially surrounded by protoplanetary disks. In the case of protoplanetary disks around single stars, at least a third go on to form planets, said lead study author Grant Kennedy, an astronomer at the University of Warwick in England.
However, computer simulations have previously suggested that after protoplanetary disks have formed, any extra material they collect can knock them off-kilter. This could explain why astronomers have detected exoplanets with relatively crooked orbits around stars.
Kennedy and his colleagues focused on so-called circumbinary planets, which orbit around binary stars. Scientists had suspected that planets around binary stars could become misaligned — instead of orbiting the stars in the same plane in which the stars orbit one another, these worlds could orbit around their poles instead.
Now, Kennedy and his colleagues have detected the first example of a misaligned circumbinary protoplanetary disk. "It's one of those examples that nature manages to be more creative than we expect," Kennedy told Space.com.
The scientists focused on the quadruple-star system HD 98800, located about 146 light-years from Earth. "If planets were born here, there would be four suns in the sky," study co-author Daniel Price of Monash University in Australia said in a statement.
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a huge radio observatory in Chile, the astronomers captured high-resolution images of the protoplanetary disk around two of the four stars. This ring is about the same diameter as the solar system's asteroid belt. (The other two stars lie outside the disk; the two pairs of stars orbit each other.)
Previous research confirmed the way in which these binary stars orbited one another. The new study revealed the protoplanetary disk around these stars essentially orbited around their poles, like a Ferris wheel with a carousel at its center.
"I wasn't actually expecting these data to reveal a polar configuration," Kennedy said. "Based on previous results, I had made all these predictions of complicated warped structures, but they turned out to be completely wrong. The end result is much simpler and more compelling."
A planet embedded in the protoplanetary disk of the star system HD 98800 would get this striking view of the disk and pair of stars.
Credit: Mark Garlick/University of Warwick
These new findings suggest that circumbinary planets in polar configurations may prove more common than often assumed, Kennedy said. "The disks exist, so why shouldn't the planets?" he said.
If a planet ever developed from the newfound protoplanetary disk, the scientists noted that from the surface of this world, the disk would resemble a thick band rising almost straight up from the horizon. The pair of stars the planet orbited would appear to move in and out of the plane of the disk, giving items on the world's surfaces two shadows at times. [The Most Fascinating Exoplanets Discovered in 2018]
Such a planet might also experience unusual seasons, Kennedy said. "For Earth, the seasons happen because of the tilt of the Earth's axis," he explained. This leads the amount of daylight each hemisphere gets each day to grow or shrink over the course of the year, and this influences how warm or cold they are, he said.
With any planet that might evolve in HD 98800, axial tilt is not the only potential factor underlying seasonal variations. "The stars will also change their height in the sky as they orbit each other," Kennedy said. Depending on the season, "sometimes there would be two suns during the day, sometimes one."
The scientists detailed their findings online today (Jan. 14) in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Attractive humanoid aliens will soon be embroiled in romance and adventure on The CW’s new seriesRoswell, New Mexico. In an early scene from the show’s new trailer, a Jeep drives under a sign in the desert that reads “Foster Ranch” just before an object from the air crashes into the ground causing a huge explosion. But what is the Foster Ranch, and how did Roswell get its alien reputation in the first place?
We're glad you asked! We're here to tell you all about the "real" alien history of Roswell, and there's two ways to do it. You can watch our mini-documentary for some quick facts, or keep scrolling and read the article for more in-depth knowledge.
Roswell, New Mexico is a desert town about 200 miles southeast of Albuquerque. It is the fifth largest town in New Mexico, but much more provincial than Santa Fe, another well-known New Mexico destination similar in size. While visitors from around the world flock to Santa Fe to experience Southwestern art and culture, tourists seek out Roswell for a different reason: aliens.
Although the alleged crash of an alien spacecraft outside of Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 is the most famous UFO or alien related incident, few knew about it before the first book on the topic, The Roswell Incident, was published in 1980. By July 1997, the 50th anniversary of the crash, the U.S. Air Force had released two separate reports on the Roswell incident (1995 report, 1997 report), and it was featured on the cover of Time magazine. The story of aliens at Roswell had reached the farthest corners of planet Earth.
The incident described by the Air Force began on the Foster ranch about 30 miles outside of Roswell. Ranch foreman Bill “Mack” Brazel claims to have come across odd-looking debris in the field some time in June or early July 1947. He and his son examined the debris but didn’t pay it much attention until Brazel heard stories of mysterious flying discs spotted in the skies elsewhere in the U.S. The most famous of these sightings took place on June 24, 1947, when businessman and amateur pilot Kenneth Arnold spotted several objects described by the press as “flying saucers” -- the first use of the term -- while flying near Mount Rainier, Washington. Arnold’s sighting made headlines and eventually prompted the United States military to begin official investigations into sightings of unidentified objects in the skies.
Brazel thought the debris he found might be one of these flying saucers and reported it to Chaves County Sheriff George Wilcox. Wilcox then reported Brazel’s discovery to the Roswell Army Airfield (RAAF), home of the 509th Bomb Group, at the time, the only team responsible for dropping the atom bomb.
The RAAF sent intelligence officer Major Jesse Marcel and counterintelligence corps officer Captain Sheridan Cavitt to meet with Brazel and drive out to the Foster ranch and take a look at the debris. The next day, July 8, the RAAF sent out a press release claiming, according to the Roswell Daily Record, that they had “come into possession of a flying saucer.” That day the Roswell Daily Record front page headline read: “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region.”
The next day, the Roswell Daily Record’s headline read: “Gen. Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer.” The subheadings read: “Ramey Says Excitement Is Not Justified,” and “General Ramey Says Disk Is Weather Balloon.” The same day, Ramey held a press conference at his office in Fort Worth, Texas with Marcel in which they posed with debris from a weather balloon. With that, as quickly as the story began, it went away.
The Arnold sighing in Washington had inspired the creation of U.S. Air Force Project Sign, the first official investigation into “flying saucers.” It was followed by Project Grudge, and then finally Project Blue Book. The U.S. Air Force investigated the UFO phenomenon from 1948 to 1969, but nowhere in their files will you find mention of the crash outside of Roswell. Nor will you see it in UFO books of the time. Soon after it occurred, the story was lost to obscurity.
Then, in the late 1970s, UFO researcher and nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman was given a tip. A retired Air Force intelligence officer said he had been part of the recovery of a flying saucer. That officer was Marcel. Friedman interviewed Marcel who confirmed that he had seen the debris recovered in Roswell and that it was no weather balloon. He claimed the material had properties beyond that which would have been possible to create at the time and also claimed the debris he showed Ramey had been replaced by weather balloon material for the press conference and photo shoot.
In a 1980 interview on the television series In Search Of…, Marcel said General Ramey told the press, “forget about it. It was nothing more than a weather observation balloon. Of course, which we both knew differently.”
“It was not anything from this Earth,” Marcel said. “I am quite sure of, because being in intelligence I was familiar with just about all materials used in aircraft and/or air travel. This was nothing like that.”
Marcel claimed he was told to go with the weather balloon cover story and he followed orders. However, decades later he was concerned the Air Force had not shared the truth with the public.
Over the next few years, Friedman, along with his research partner William Moore, interviewed many more witnesses. Some of them claimed they also believed the material could not have been from a weather balloon. In 1980, Moore wrote a book with author Charles Berlitz titled The Roswell Incidentsuggesting a major cover-up of a crashed extraterrestrial vehicle. The book was a hit, and along with Marcel’s appearance on In Search Of... the legend of the alien spaceship crash at Roswell grew.
Due to the popularity of the Roswell incident, the U.S. Air Force released an official report in 1995 on the event that backs up one of Marcell’s claims. It confirms the materials Marcel provided were not that of a standard weather balloon like those in the press photos. However, it claimed the debris Marcel examined was part of a secret program called Project Mogul. This project used atmospheric balloons to float listening devices into the atmosphere to monitor Russian nuclear tests.
The first witness account of alien bodies did not come until 1989. Roswell resident Glenn Dennis claimed that while working at a local funeral home at the time of the alleged crash, the RAAF had requested several child-sized caskets. He told his story for the first time to Friedman, but his account was first made public in the book UFO Crash at Roswell published in 1991.
He also claimed to have had a conversation with a nurse from RAAF who told him she had been present at the autopsies of extraterrestrial beings recovered from the crashed saucer. Dennis said he had promised never to share her name. He says the nurse disappeared soon after sharing the story with him.
The aliens she described were not attractive young adults, but they were, more or less, shaped like humans with spindly arms and legs and large heads.
“She drew me a diagram of the bodies,” Dennis claimed in a signed affidavit. “...including an arm with a hand that had only four fingers; the doctors noted that on the end of the fingers were little pads resembling suction cups. She said the head was disproportionately large for the body; the eyes were deeply set; the skulls were flexible; the nose was concave with only two orifices; the mouth was a fine slit, and the doctors said there was heavy cartilage instead of teeth. The ears were only small orifices with flaps. They had no hair, and the skin was black--perhaps due to exposure in the sun.”
Dennis’ story has been called into question after he gave the name of the alleged RAAF nurse to researchers and later admitted the name was made up. He claimed he gave a false name because of his promise not to share her real name. Another reason skeptics doubt Dennis’ claims that he did not come forward until decades after the fact, and years after the Roswell incident was popularized. According to researchers Thom Carey and Dom Schmitt, several of his friends have come forward to say Dennis did share his story about the child-sized caskets soon after the Roswell incident occurred, although some claimed they thought he was joking. Carey and Schmitt included their accounts in the 2009 book Witness to Roswell.
Since then others have claimed to have seen aliens at Roswell, and there was even a famous video of the alleged autopsy of the Roswell aliens. However, the video was debunked, and the creators have admitted to having been paid to create the fake autopsy.
The most credible witness to claim aliens had crashed at Roswell was retired Army Colonel Philip Corso. He was a decorated officer with a long list of achievements in World War II. In his book, The Day After Roswell, published soon before his death, Corso claimed that in 1961, while serving as chief of the foreign technology department he was tasked with handling materials retrieved from the Roswell crash.
“I came into possession of what I refer to as the ‘Roswell File,’” Corso said. “This file contained field reports, medical autopsy reports and technological debris from the crash of an extraterrestrial vehicle in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.”
He says he farmed the material out to tech companies with U.S. Army contracts which went on to use the debris to develop technologies such as kevlar, night-vision, fiber optics, and computer chips, among others.
The companies Corso claims to have given the material to argue that the development of these technologies is well documented and do not include the use of extraterrestrial materials. Skeptics also point out that many of the witnesses to the alleged alien bodies only came forward after the Roswell incident was famous.
Whether or not aliens really crash landed in Roswell remains up for debate, but decades later the idea continues to inspire pop-culture and our ideas and dialogue regarding the potential for the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations. In a more cynical view, it can even be seen as enforcing trust issues between U.S. citizens and our government. It is a heavy burden for a small town in the middle of the New Mexico desert. Although, we shouldn’t feel too sorry for their unsought fame. If it wasn’t for the aliens, Roswell’s fame would be tied to being one of the first homes of the planes tasked with dropping the deadliest weapon known to humankind. Personally, I'd rather be known for aliens.
‘Project Blue Book’ Is Based on a True U.F.O. Story. Here It Is.
‘Project Blue Book’ Is Based on a True U.F.O. Story. Here It Is.
Aidan Gillen as the astronomer J. Allen Hynek in “Project Blue Book” on History. The series dramatizes, with some flagrant embellishment, an actual Air Force program designed to investigate and debunk U.F.O.s.CreditEduardo Araquel/History
Aidan Gillen as the astronomer J. Allen Hynek in “Project Blue Book” on History. The series dramatizes, with some flagrant embellishment, an actual Air Force program designed to investigate and debunk U.F.O.s.CreditCreditEduardo Araquel/History
Featuring a Russian spy murder, a self-immolation, gun-toting government thugs and other fanciful plot devices, “Project Blue Book,” History’spopular newserieson the Air Force’s program to investigate and debunk U.F.O.s, is not your historian’s Project Blue Book.
The History series predictably sensationalizes and overdramatizes case investigations and the historical figures involved, adding many story elements that simply never happened. It’s already hard enough for those trying to understand the truth about government involvement with U.F.O.s without mixing fact and fiction.
Nonetheless, melodrama aside, the real story is there:
Project Blue Book was the code name for an Air Force program set up in 1952, after numerous U.F.O. sightings during the Cold War era, to explain away or debunk as many reports as possible in order to mitigate possible panic and shield the public from a genuine national security problem: an apparently technological phenomenon that was beyond human control and was not Russian, yet represented an unfathomable potential threat.
Lights photographed in 1952 over a Coast Guard air station in Salem, Mass., part of the Blue Book archive.CreditShell R. Alpert/U.S. Coast Guard
Lights photographed in 1952 over a Coast Guard air station in Salem, Mass., part of the Blue Book archive.CreditShell R. Alpert/U.S. Coast Guard
The central character of the TV series, the prominent astronomer J. Allen Hynek, played by Aidan Gillen, was recruited as Blue Book’s scientific consultant and was indeed initially committed to explaining away flying saucers as natural phenomena or mistaken identifications. But he gradually realized that the bizarre objects were real and needed further scientific attention. (Though he never saw a supposed alien creature floating in a tank or crashed in a plane while recreating a reported U.F.O. dogfight, as depicted in the series.)
While Hynek was involved, Blue Book compiled reports of 12,618 sightings of unidentified flying objects, of which 701 remain unexplained to this day.
But what’s most important to study during that era is what occurred outside Project Blue Book, to the extent that it has been revealed. When we reported on the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which began in 2007, we offered a glimpse into a similar scenario today: military cases being investigated and filmed without the public knowing. This time, however, there was no public agency to accommodate reports of incidents, even when hundreds of witnesses were involved.
We learned through documents from the Pentagon program, and from interviews with participants, that the mystery of the elusive flying objects is still far from solved, and that not enough was being done to address that problem almost 50 years since the close of Blue Book.
The real Hynek, the Blue Book’s scientific consultant, at one of his observatories in the 1960s. Once a U.F.O. skeptic, he became a believer.
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Gillen as Hynek in “Project Blue Book,” which predictably sensationalizes the story.CreditEduardo Araquel/History
It all began in 1947. Lt. General Nathan Twining, the commander of Air Materiel Command, sent a secret memo on “Flying Discs” to the commanding general of the Army Air Forces at the Pentagon. Twining stated that “the phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious.” The silent, disc-like objects demonstrated “extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and motion which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar.”
A new project, code-named “Sign,” based at Wright Field (now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) outside Dayton, Ohio, was given the mandate to collect U.F.O. reports and assess whether the phenomenon was a threat to national security. With Russia ruled out as the source, the staff wrote a top secret “Estimate of the Situation,” concluding that, based on the evidence, U.F.O.s most likely had an interplanetary origin.
According to government officials at the time, the estimate was rejected by General Hoyt Vandenberg, the Air Force chief of staff. From then on, the proponents of the off-planet hypothesis lost ground, with Vandenberg and others insisting that conventional explanations be found.
Project Sign eventually evolved into Project Blue Book, with the aim of convincing the public that flying saucers could be explained.
Yet behind the scenes, authorities grappled with something sobering: well-documented U.F.O. encounters involved multiple trained observers, radar data, photographs, marks on the ground and physical effects on airplanes.
In 1952, the office of Maj. Gen. John Samford, the Air Force director of intelligence, briefed the F.B.I., saying it was “not entirely impossible that the objects sighted may possibly be ships from another planet such as Mars,” according to government documents. Air Intelligence had largely ruled out an earthly source, the F.B.I. memo reported.
National defense concerns were mounting as well. After Air Force planes scrambled to intercept brilliant objects seen and picked up on radar over Washington in 1952, Samford called a news conference to calm the country.
Maj. Gen. Samford's 1952 statement on "flying saucers."CreditCreditUS National Archives
He announced that between 1,000 and 2,000 reports had been analyzed and that most had been explained. “However,” he conceded, a certain percentage “have been made by credible observers of relatively incredible things. It is this group of observations that we now are attempting to resolve.”
He said no conclusions had been drawn, but played down any “conceivable threat” to the United States.
Later that year, however, H. Marshall Chadwell, the assistant director of scientific intelligence for the C.I.A., concluded in a memo to the C.I.A. director, Walter Bedell Smith, that “sightings of unexplained objects at great altitudes and traveling at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles.”
By 1953, authorities were concerned that communication channels were becoming dangerously clogged by hundreds of U.F.O. reports. Even false alarms could be perilous, defense agencies worried, since the Soviets might take advantage of the situation by simulating or staging a U.F.O. wave and then attack.
Documents show the C.I.A. then devised a plan for a “national policy,” as to “what should be told the public regarding the phenomenon, in order to minimize risk of panic.”
After a closed-door session with a scientific advisory panel chaired by H.P. Robertson from the California Institute of Technology, the C.I.A. issued a secret report recommending a broad educational program for all intelligence agencies, with the aim of “training and debunking.”
Training meant more public education on how to identify known objects in the sky. “The use of true cases showing first the ‘mystery’ and then the ‘explanation’ would be forceful,” the report said. Debunking “would be accomplished by mass media such as television, motion pictures, and popular articles.”
That plan involved using psychologists, advertising experts, amateur astronomers and even Disney cartoons to create propaganda to reduce public interest. And civilian U.F.O. groups should be “watched,” the report stated, because of their “great influence on mass thinking if widespread sightings should occur.”
The Robertson Panel Report was classified until 1975, five years after Blue Book was shut down. But its legacy endures in the aura of ridicule surrounding U.F.O. reports, inhibiting scientific progress.
“The implication in the Panel Report was that U.F.O.s were a nonsense (nonscience) matter, to be debunked at all costs,” Hynek wrote. “It made the subject of U.F.O.s scientifically unrespectable.”
One famous photo from the Blue Book files, taken by a farmer, was extensively analyzed but never explained.CreditBettmann/Getty Images
Hynek, the former U.F.O. skeptic, eventually concluded that they were a real phenomenon in dire need of scientific attention, with hundreds of cases in the Blue Book files still unexplained. Even many of the “closed” cases were resolved with ridiculous, often infuriating explanations, sometimes by Hynek himself.
“The entire Blue Book operation was a foul-up based on the categorical premise that the incredible things reported could not possibly have any basis in fact,” he wrote in the 1970s, when he was finally free to speak the truth.
When Blue Book closed in late 1969, the Air Force flatly lied to the American people, issuing a fact sheet claiming that no U.F.O. had ever been a threat to national security; that U.F.O.s did not represent “technological developments or principles beyond the range of present day scientific knowledge”; and that there was no evidence that they were “extraterrestrial vehicles.”
(Just a few years earlier, in 1967, a glowing red oval-shaped object hovered over Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, and all 10 of the facility’s underground nuclear missiles became disabled almost simultaneously while the U.F.O. was present, according to interviews with witnesses and official government reports. Technicians could find no conventional explanation.)
But whatever the Air Force told the public, it didn’t actually stop investigating U.F.O.s. A once-classified memo, issued secretly in October 1969, a few months before the termination of Blue Book, revealed that regulations were already in place to investigate U.F.O. reports that were “not part of the Blue Book system.” The memo, written by Carroll H. Bolender, an Air Force brigadier general, went on to say that “reports of U.F.O.s which could affect national security would continue to be handled through the standard Air Force procedures designed for this purpose.”
Clearly, government agencies continued to have some level of involvement in U.F.O. investigations in the decades following — and to the present. Despite government statements to the contrary, once-secret official documents include detailed reports of dramatic U.F.O. events abroad. Many cases at home were not investigated, including a 2006 event in which a disc-shaped object hovered over O’Hare Airport for more than five minutes and shot straight up through the clouds at an incredible speed.
Our reporting in 2017, which led to briefings for members of Congressional committees, showed that not much has changed since the close of Project Blue Book.
Scientists may know more about the behavior and characteristics of U.F.O.s and are closer to understanding the physics of how the technology operates, according to A.A.T.I.P. documents and interviews. But the government still makes every attempt to keep investigations and conclusions secret, while denying any involvement to American citizens.
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This week’s Project Blue Book episode featured the Lubbock Lights UFO case. It was a case that left Project Blue Book Chief Edward Ruppelt baffled after his own investigation. Many of the case’s interesting nuances were featured in the show, however, the show did go down some conspiratorial routes that were not part of the real Project Blue Book investigation. The show is historical-fiction, and fortunately History posts articles on the real cases and they have a good one on theLubbock Lights.
If you want a thorough review including links to the Blue Book files, Ruppelt’s investigation, and photographs that were taken of the lights, see my review on Den of Geek here:Project Blue Book Episode 3 Review: The Lubbock Lights.
Project Blue Book gets one of its most puzzling cases while the show continues to slide into mythological UFO conspiracy.
This Project Blue Book review contains spoilers.
Project Blue Book Episode 3
The latest episode of Project Blue Bookcenters around the mysterious case of the Lubbock Lights. Hundreds of local witnesses in Texas spotted strange lights in the sky, including scientists. The show preserves many of the salient aspects of this real-life UFO event, but there was a hard turn into make-believe land that is continuing to propel the show into conspiracy and intrigue. The show is venturing pretty deep into La-La land, which is entertaining, but I hope the facts don’t get too lost in a sea of conspiracy. Then again, that is what I’m here for.
The episode begins with a young man in a control tower flirting with a girl over the phone when suddenly he captures something strange on the radar. Soon, he spots a V-shaped row of lights shooting by. I love the CG effects and dramatization of the sightings, it adds to the mystery and the idea that something is going on that is hard to explain.
The next scene is an interview with UFO author Donald Keyhoe. Keyhoe was a real-life UFO researcher, and this scene mimics a popular video that can be found online of Mike Wallace interviewing Keyhoe. On the show, the interviewer is not identified, but they discuss flying saucers and the Air Force coverup, including Roswell. After the filming, Keyhoe is approached by a man who wants to let him in on the phenomena witnessed in Lubbock, Texas, the town he is from. Keyhoe eventually gives him time and agrees to look into the sighting. As the two men talk, it is revealed they are being watched, and their stalker is taking pictures.
It turns out the photographer works for the Air Force guys who are pulling strings behind Project Blue Book, Captain Quinn’s superiors, General Hugh Valentine (Michael Harney) and General James Harding (Neal McDonough). They decide Keyhoe is a threat, so they have him brought in and have him roughed up a bit. Keyhoe tells them their intimidation will not work on him, so they shove a gun in his face. We do not see him again after that, but Valentine and Harding receive a visit from a plainclothes man who appears to be their superior.
Harding and Valentine have been warned that criminality is not acceptable, and if they continue breaking the law, the president will get informed of their secrets. But we are left wondering if the message was understood and if Harding will continue to go to extreme lengths to accomplish his goal. We did learn at the end of the second episode that Harding views himself as a protector of the people. His duties, managing the secret behind the flying saucers, justify his actions in his mind.
Back in Texas, Hynek and Quinn are dispatched to Lubbock to figure out what is going on. They visit a University to gather witnesses. Quinn gets sidetracked flirting with a college girl, and then they walk into a room to talk to witnesses. The place is full, and Quinn assumes these are mostly students trying to get out of class. He tells those people to scram, but no one leaves. Hynek takes over and asks everyone who has seen the lights to raise their hands. They all raise their hands.
Hynek has filled the chalkboard with notes on the sightings, and once everyone is gone, he explains how he has ruled out any conventional explanation for the lights he can think of. That is when a professor enters and tells them he needs the room for his class. Hynek and Quinn protest, but the professor claims to have solved their case anyway. He pulls out a picture of the lights that look just like what everyone has described. However, he tells them he has figured out they are birds called Plovers that have been illuminated by the recently installed streetlights in town.
Skeptical of the bird answer, Hynek talks Quinn into going to town and watching for UFOs. In town, the local townsfolk get in a tizzy over strangers looking around. Locals seem to get in a tizzy often in this show. The locals tell Hynek and Quinn they already had a visit from other men who were looking into the lights. After sharing a WTF glance at one another, Hynek and Quinn then seek a more secluded location to look for the UFOs.
Now in a field, the two chit chat and admire the stars sans UFOs. Hynek senses Quinn would like to find the girl he was flaring with earlier, so they decide to leave. Hynek chooses to take one last look while Quinn starts the car. Suddenly, the lights and the radio in the car start going in and out. Then Quinn appears to be captured by an electrical field. They had seen this happen to a witness to the lights in the hospital. Hynek runs to help Quinn, who mutters for Hynek not to touch the car. As Hynek tries to open the door, he receives an electrical shock that throws him to the ground. Hynek gets up again and then sees the V-shaped lights in the sky. He watches them, and as they get further away, the car returns to normal. Quinn gets out of the car in time to see the lights in the distance.
Quinn actually agrees with Hynek that this experience confirms there is something more to the Lubbock Lights than reflecting Plover bellies. They two then visit Harding and Valentine, but Harding explains that what everyone had been seeing was a Top Secret v-shaped aircraft. To keep the aircraft secret, they are ordered to tell the public the Lubbock Lights were birds. Hynek protests, but is essentially told to quit his bitchin’.
There is more intrigue with Mimi, who continues to spend time with Susie, the Russian spy. Another mystery man is also seen keeping an eye on Mimi for unknown reasons. Mimi also ends up buying an Atom Bomb shelter. The shelter serves not only as a device to give insight into the concerns people had in that era, but to also highlight that Mimi is feeling alone and a bit frightened being alone with Hynek gone so often. A feeling she expresses to him when he gets home.
The Project Blue Book Files
Now to the real-life case of the Lubbock Lights. The Lubbock Lights sightings took place mostly in August and September of 1951. The case was so baffling that Project Blue Book Chief Edward Ruppelt personally investigated them. Ruppelt also included an entire chapter to this investigation in his book The Report on Flying Saucers. It can be read in its entirety online.
Simply put, there were three major components: objects caught on radar, strange lights/objects observed by hundreds - often several times in one day, and one outlier report by a woman and her daughter who claim to have seen a pear-shaped metallic object flying around.
The radar report came from Larson Air Force Base on August 26th of an object observed on the radar for six minutes traveling at 900 miles per hour.
“Object was on a course of 340 deg with only slight deviations enroute (sic),” the Project Blue Book Report states. “[Altitude] 13,000 ft but accuracy of measurement questionable due to brief length time the object was detected. F-86 scrambled but radar contact with the object was lost before a/c were airborne (sic).”
Ruppelt says the submitter was curt and wanted him to know they absolutely ruled out weather interference. As Ruppelt covers in his book, Project Blue Book at this point was known for explaining away cases. Sure enough, the Advanced Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) still claimed the readings were likely weather interference. Ugh.
However, Project Blue Book closed the report of the pear-shaped object by the two women as “unidentified.” This was the designation for cases in which they really had no explanation and generally indicates the Air Force found the witnesses credible. In this case, the two women say they were driving in Matador, Texas, about 80 miles northwest of Lubbock, when they spotted a pear-shaped metal object “drifting” about 150 feet off the ground. It was August 31, just before 1 pm. They estimated the object to be 40 feet long and 16 feet in diameter. They watched it for a short period. Then it accelerated up into the sky to the east. It was out of view in a few seconds.
The latter incident was much different than the bulk of the sightings. Most sightings were of groups of bright lights zipping through the night sky. They were not always in a v-formation, most often they were grouped randomly. On the evening of August 25th, a young Lubbock resident waiting up to see the lights everyone was talking about was kept an eye on the night sky. He saw the lights and rushed outside with his camera, but the lights were gone.Fortunately, they returned, and he snapped a couple of pictures. The objects then came back again, and he got a few more shots. The photos made it into the local newspaper, and it is one of these images, or a reproduction of it, that Historyused in the Lubbock Lights Project Blue Book episode. The lights in the show also looked just like the v-formation in the images.
There was one particular group of witnesses Ruppelt especially appreciated, a group of professors from Texas Technical College. One evening four professor of various disciplines were sitting around outside drinking tea when they saw the lights several times. Their sightings triggered an investigation by them and other colleagues who were interested in the mystery or were witnesses themselves.
They were able to discover the lights flew north to south, and they appeared at about 45 degrees off the northern horizon and disappeared at about 45 degrees off the southern horizon. This calculation could give them an estimate of the speed of the objects, but they could not determine how far the objects were or how large. The group never did figure out the secret of the mystery.
Another witness claimed to have more luck. He said he discovered they were Plovers. He said he saw the lights and admittedly got excited but then was able to determine they were indeed just Plovers reflecting light from the town. However, Ruppelt did not believe Plovers could explain the entire phenomenon. One reason being Plovers only fly in pairs or small groups, not large groups like in the photos or the large groups of lights witnesses reported. Another was that two of the Lubbock Lights encounters were during the day, and in both cases, the witnesses reported seeing a silent flying wing craft fly above them with rows of lights along the wings, which would appear as V-shaped lights viewed at night. Ruppelt’s investigation showed it was highly unlikely these were human-made craft.
In his book, Ruppelt said the case was baffling, and he could not come up with an answer. However, he says an anonymous scientist did. Ruppelt says he promised not to divulge the identity of this scientist, and in sharing how the scientist made the discovery and what the revelation was he would be exposing the scientist’s identity, so he can not say. Talk about a letdown.
Further, just like in the show, the Air Force decided to close the case with the Plover explanation. The real Lubbock Lights case did not include effects to vehicles, like in the program. However, UFO witnesses have reported this sort of thing before. One of the most baffling was a case in November 2009 in which a witness’ car stopped during a sighting of a cigar-shaped object above his head. After the encounter, investigators discovered the car was emitting an unusually strong magnetic field. They guy was so freaked out by it he sold the car.
Ruppelt’s book leaves one with the impression that the Air Force was as baffled by these cases as everyone else. In History’s Project Blue Book, as in UFO mythology, the Air Force knows much more than it is sharing. The later makes for a more exciting program, but alas, the prior seems more plausible. Unfortunately, we may never know what the Air Force really knows about UFOs, but in History’s Project Blue Book universe new revelations come weekly.
I look forward to new revelations on either front.
Open Minds UFO Radio: David is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker and producer. He has also had a lifelong interest in UFOs. Like many of us, David was excited about the news that the Pentagon had a secret UFO project. He was also excited about the extraordinary UFO encounter that was also featured in the New York Times article that broke the Pentagon UFO news. The encounter involved the USS Nimitz carrier strike group and occurred in November 2004 near San Diego. During training exercises a white object described as looking like a Tic Tac was spotted, jets went in to get a closer look, and then things got weird.
Some of the military personnel involved with the encounter have come forward since the NYT broke the story, including David Fravor, the lead pilot who got the closest look. As a filmmaker, David saw an opportunity to help tell the story by taking all of the details publicly available and recreating the encounter. In this episode, we talk to David about his inspiration to make the film, and the details and behind the scenes behind the film’s production.
UFO sightings in the USA MAPPED: Where are you most likely to see alien craft in the US?
UFO sightings in the USA MAPPED: Where are you most likely to see alien craft in the US?
UFO sightings across the US have become an almost daily occurrence since the 1940s, but certain states seem to be more welcoming to extraterrestrial visitors than others. Here is a map of the most likely place in the USA to see UFOs.
Researchers at Casino.org trawled back through decades worth of UFO sightings to narrow down the highest concentrations of alien encounters in the US.
The team behind the ambitious study have now shared their data with Express.co.uk alongside a map of the 50 US states.
Editor David Sheldon, exclusively told Express.co.uk the US is one of the world’s leading hotspots for UFO sightings.
He said: "While many of us are quick to dismiss UFOs as being the stuff of science fiction, there have actually been over 250,000 recorded sightings of UFOs in the USA alone.
“In addition, over 40,000 Americans are concerned enough about extra-terrestrial life forms to have taken out alien abduction insurance.
“And the US government takes them seriously enough to have set up The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, elements of which are still classified.
“If you are concerned about lights in the sky, we strongly recommend you move to Florida which enjoys the lowest odds of UFOs streaking across the night sky.”
You can explore Casino's interactive UFO sighting map by clicking here.
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UFO sightings: A map of 78 years worth of UFO claims was compiled together
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The data was collected since the UFO sighting craze erupted in the 1940s
Americans are concerned enough about extra-terrestrial life forms to have taken out alien abduction insurance
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According to Casino’s research, you are most likely to stumble upon extraterrestrial phenomena in the states of Wyoming and Vermont.
Over the past 78 years, more than 2,854 and 2,493 sightings were reported in the two states respectively, giving them both odds of 250/1.
Montana with its population of over one million people, came in close third with 4,179 sightings and population-based odds of 252/1.
The other states to fill out the top 10 list are North Dakota, Alaska, Hawaii, New Mexico, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine.
In the state of Maine, which boasted a population of 1.3 million people in 2017, just over 3,600 sightings were reported since the last century.
In total, Americans have claimed 259,691 UFO sightings over the years.
According to Casino, the fear of alien invasion has prompted more than 40,000 Americans to take out life insurance against UFO abductions.
In Texas alone, the number of alien sightings is double the population of the island of St Helena - which is interesting because Texas features second on the list of top 10 least likely states to encounter a UFO.
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UFO sightings: The least likely state to have UFOs reported is Florida – the most likely is Wyoming
The top spot was taken by the 20.9 million-strong Florida, where only 6,020 people claimed to have seen ETs – giving odds of 3,485/1.
New York and Illinois came in close by with odds of 2,584/1 and 2,242/1 respectively.
The rest of the least likely states to see an alien are Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Arizona, New Jersey, Michigan and Maryland.
Alien ‘artefacts’ made by civilisations from Mars or Venus could be hidden on Earth, Nasa study suggests
Alien ‘artefacts’ made by civilisations from Mars or Venus could be hidden on Earth, Nasa study suggests
Jasper Hamill
You might think that humanity’s best chance of finding alien life involves peering deep into space and analysing faraway galaxies.
But a Nasa study has suggested the truth about extraterrestrials could be lurking right under our noses.
Dozens of space scientists have teamed up to explore how our species could detect ‘technosignatures’, the name for pieces of evidence which give away the presence of advanced alien civilisations.
Some of these tell-tale signs are obvious. For instance, if loads of radio waves are detected coming from a distant star system, then it could be a clue which shows it’s inhabited by intelligent extraterrestrial organisms.
The truth might not be found out in space, but on our very own planet
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We could also search for alien societies by looking for ‘megastructures’ called Dyson Spheres, which are theoretical power stations built surrounding a star to harvest its energy.
These would be easy to spot because they are likely to be gigantic and block out starlight whenever they pass in front of their sun.
Other technosignatures are harder to identify, such as evidence that a planet has been polluted by heavy industry.
In the new report, scientists also make the fascinating suggestion that our own planet may be hiding alien ‘artefacts’, some of which may even have been built by extinct civilisations which lived on Mars, Venus or even Earth.
‘Because the geological, paleontological, and archaeological records on Earth are so incomplete, it is even possible that the Earth itself hosts such artefacts, although, again, this idea is often conflated with unscientific popular imaginings and science fiction stories about alien visitation, and so must be approached carefully,’ researchers wrote.
‘If technosignatures were discovered in the solar system, it would be worth considering whether their origin might not be interstellar. Specifically, since the Earth is home to the only known species capable of interstellar communication and planetary travel (although both technologies remain in their early development), the Earth remains the only known planet fecund enough to promote technological life, and so it or an early, habitable Mars or Venus could even be the origin of such technology.’
So far, our species has only spotted one potential alien artefact, although most scientists believe its origins are natural rather than artificial.
An artist’s impression of ‘Oumuamua, which means ‘messenger’ in Hawaiian
This Nasa graphic shows the distinctive tumbling motion of ‘Oumuamua
It changed direction as it passed the sun, which may have been caused by a natural process called outgassing – although there is a very slight chance this could have been the result of it being steered somehow.
Some scientists suggested ‘Ouamuamua was an alien probe, whilst others went on to suggest our solar system could be full of similar extraterrestrial spacecraft.
Sadly, the consensus is that it was a comet ejected from a farway star system and sent on a long journey through the void.
In the latest study, scientists added: ‘Technosignatures in the solar system might come in the form of free-floating probes or structures—either passing through the solar system or in orbit around the Sun or other body—or in the form of structures or other signs of technologies on planetary surfaces.’
The research is collected in a paper called ‘Nasa and the search for technosignatures: A Report from the NASA Technosignatures Workshop’. It has just been published online and was produced after a conference in September 2018.
The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it.
A modified alien planet might exhibit unique electromagnetic signals, but that might not be the best
A little over 80 years ago, humanity first began broadcasting radio and television signals with enough power that they should leave Earth's atmosphere and progress deep into interstellar space. If someone living in a distant star system were keeping a vigilant eye out for these signals, they would not only be able to pick them up, but immediately identify them as created by an intelligent species. In 1960, Frank Drake first proposed searching for such signals from other star systems by using large radio dishes, giving rise to SETI: the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Yet over the past half-century, we've developed far more efficient ways to communicate across the globe than with broadcast radio and TV signals. Does searching for aliens in the electromagnetic spectrum even make sense anymore?
This question, of course, is extraordinarily speculative, but gives us a chance to look at our own technological progress, and to consider how that might play out elsewhere in the Universe. After all, if someone from a culture that was versed only in smoke signals and drum beats found themselves deep inside the heart of a forest, they might conclude that there was no intelligent life around. Yet if you gave them a cellphone, there's a good chance they could get reception from right where they stood! Our conclusions may be as biased as the methods we apply.
An artistic representation of Ben Franklin's electricity-harnessing experiments.
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The mechanism of electricity only began to be understood in the late 18th century, with the work of Ben Franklin. The power of electricity only began to be harnessed to run electric circuits and other powered devices during the 19th century, and the phenomena associated with classical electromagnetism only became understood through the latter half of that century. The first transmissions of electromagnetic signals for communication didn’t take place until 1895, and the power of radio broadcasts to extend far out into interplanetary and interstellar space wasn’t achieved until the 1930s.
This image, current in 2011 (and now 7 years out of date), shows the reach of humanity's radio signals in space. A light year is a long distance, but the stars in our galaxy are tens of thousands of light years away, on average.
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The speed of light is quite a limiting thing as well: if our radio signals have been traveling through interstellar space for 80 years, that means that only civilizations within 80 light years of us would have had an opportunity to receive those signals, and that only civilizations within 40 light years would have had the opportunity to receive those signals and send something back to us that we would’ve received by now. If the Fermi Paradox is the question of “where is everyone,” the answer is, “not within 40 light years of us,” which doesn’t tell us very much about intelligent life in the Universe at all.
While there might be hundreds of billions of stars within our galaxy alone, and around two trillion galaxies in the observable Universe, there are less than 1,000 stars within 40 light years of Earth.
There are a few dozen stars within 14 light years of Earth; that number rises up to only about 1000 after 40 light years, which is close to the maximum round-trip time of a light signal sent from Earth by humans capable of reaching out into the Universe.
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And to make matters worse, electromagnetic signals going out from Earth into interstellar space are decreasing, not increasing. Television and radio broadcasts are increasingly being run through cables or via satellite, not from transmission towers here on Earth. By time another century passes, it’s very likely that the signals we sent out (and hence, began looking for) during the 20th century will cease to be emitted from Earth altogether. Perhaps an alien civilization, making note of these observations when the signals do arrive, would draw the conclusion that this blue, watery planet orbiting our star in the great distance actually achieved intelligent, technologically advance life for a short while, and then wiped ourselves out as the signals gradually stopped.
Or, perhaps, drawing conclusions from what is or isn't present in any form of electromagnetic signal is altogether wrongheaded.
The Earth at night emits electromagnetic signals, but it would take a telescope of incredible resolution to create an image like this from light years away.
NASA'S EARTH OBSERVATORY/NOAA/DOD
If we were to look at Earth from a nearby distance in visible light, there would be no doubts about the fact of whether or not it’s inhabited: the great glow of cities at night is unmistakably a sign of our activity. Yet this light pollution is relatively new, and is something we’re finally learning how to manage and control if we put the effort (i.e., time, money, manpower and resources) into it. There’s no reason not to be optimistic that by the end of the 21st or 22nd centuries, the Earth at night will look no different than it did for billions of years: dark, except for the occasional aurora, lightning storm or erupting volcano.
The aurora borealis is one such transient feature that can be seen from space... or across the interstellar distances.
µUNITED STATES AIR FORCE PHOTO BY SENIOR AIRMAN JOSHUA STRANG
But if we weren’t looking for electromagnetic signals, what would we look at? Indeed, everything in the known Universe is limited by the speed of light, and any signal created on another world would necessitate that we be able to observe it. These signals — in terms of what could reach us — fall into four categories:
Electromagnetic signals, which include any form of light of any wavelength that would indicate the presence of intelligent life.
Gravitational wave signals, which, if there is one unique to intelligent life, would be detectable with sensitive enough equipment anywhere in the Universe.
Neutrino signals, which — although incredibly low in flux at great distances — would have an unmistakable signature dependent on the reaction that created them.
And finally, actual, macroscopic space probes, either robotic, computerized, free-floating or inhabited, which made its way towards Earth.
How remarkable that our science-fiction imaginations focus almost exclusively on the fourth possibility, which is by far the least likely!
A representation of an alien invasion. This is not an actual extraterrestrial.
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When you think about the vast distances between the stars, how many stars there are with potentially habitable planets (or potentially habitable moons), and how much it takes, in terms of resources, to physically send a space probe from one planet around one star to another planet around another star, it seems literally crazy to consider that method to be a good plan. Far more likely, you’d think, it would be smart to build the right type of detector, to survey all the various regions of the sky, and seek out the signals that could unambiguously show us the presence of intelligent life.
Long-term average precipitation by month (mm/day and in/day), based on 1961-1990 data, which affects the H2O concentration and therefore the emission spectrum of Earth.
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In the electromagnetic spectrum, we know what our living world does in response to the seasons. With winters and summers, there are seasonal (and hence, orbital) changes in what electromagnetic signals our planet emits. As the seasons change, so do the colors on various parts of our planet. With a large enough telescope (or array of telescopes), perhaps the individual signs of our civilization could be seen: cities, satellites, airplanes and more. But perhaps the best thing we could look for is alterations of the natural environment, consistent with something that only an intelligent civilization would create.
An artist's impression of an ammonia world with an advanced stage of life on it. Yet we must be careful to rule out any natural signals that could mimic what we observe before we conclude in favor of aliens.
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We haven’t yet done these things, but perhaps large-scale modifications of a planet would be the exact thing we should be looking for, and should be the large-scale projects we’d aspire towards. Remember, any civilization that we find is unlikely to be in their technological infancy like we are. If they survive it and thrive through it, we’ll likely encounter them in a state tens or hundreds of thousands of years more advanced than we are. (And if that doesn’t boggle your mind, consider how much more advanced we are than we were just a few hundred years ago!) But this brings up two other possibilities, too.
For the past 2+ years, gravitational waves have been detected on Earth, from merging neutron stars and merging black holes. By building a gravitational wave observatory in space, we may be able to reach the sensitivities necessary to detect a deliberate alien signal.
ESA / NASA AND THE LISA COLLABORATION
Perhaps — as our gravitational wave technology becomes set to detect the first signals from the Universe — we’ll discover that there are subtle effects that lend themselves to detection across the cosmos. Perhaps there’s something to be said for a world with tens of thousands of satellites orbiting it, something unique that a gravitational wave detector could spot? We haven’t worked it out in great detail because this field is in its infancy and not yet developed to the point where it could detect such a small signal. But these signals don’t degrade the way electromagnetic ones do, nor is there anything that shields them. Perhaps this new branch of astronomy will be the way to go, hundreds of years from now. But my money’s on the third options, if you want an out-of-the-box thought.
Reactor nuclear experimental RA-6 (Republica Argentina 6), en marcha, showing the characteristic Cherenkov radiation from the faster-than-light-in-water particles emitted. The reactions also produce copious amounts of antineutrinos.
CENTRO ATOMICO BARILOCHE, VIA PIECK DARÍO
What’s likely to be the power source for a sufficiently advanced civilization? Perhaps it’s nuclear power, most likely fusion power, and most likely a specific type of fusion that’s proven to be efficient, abundant, different from what occurs in the cores of stars, and that emits a very, very specific neutrino (or antineutrino) signature as a by-product. And those neutrinos should come with a very specific, explicit signature as far its energy spectrum goes: one that isn’t produced by any natural process.
There are many natural neutrino signatures produced by stars and other processes in the Universe. But note the unique and unambiguous signal that comes from reactor antineutrinos. The cutoff in energy is key to identifying this signal.
ICECUBE COLLABORATION / NSF / UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
If we can predict what that signature is, understand it, build a detector for it and measure it, we can find a fusion-powered civilization anywhere, and not have to worry about whether they’re broadcasting or not. So long as they’re making power, we can find them. With SETI focusing solely on electromagnetic signatures, we may, at present, be looking for the cosmic equivalent of smoke signals in a cellphone-filled world. But this likely won’t be the case for long. As our technology continues to advance, our knowledge of what to look for will advance along with it. And perhaps someday — perhaps even someday soon — the Universe may have the most pleasant surprise of all in store for us: the news that we aren’t alone, after all.
Astrophysicist and author Ethan Siegel is the founder and primary writer of Starts With A Bang! His books, Treknology and Beyond The Galaxy, are available wherever books are sold.
I am a Ph.D. astrophysicist, author, and science communicator, who professes physics and astronomy at various colleges. I have won numerous awards for science writing since 2008 for my blog, Starts With A Bang, including the award for best science blog by the Institute of Physics.
Most scientists believe the moon and Earth have been bombarded by meteorites at a constant rate for the past few billion years. New research suggests that – in the past 300 million years – it’s been happening 2 to 3 times more frequently.
EarthSky community member Prabhakaran A captured this image in November 2018. It shows the large moon crater called Plato. The interior of the crater has been smoothed over from old lava flows.
Most scientists believe the rate at which the moon and Earth have been bombarded by meteorites has remained constant for the past two to three billion years. Understanding the age of craters on the moon can help us better understand the age of our own planet because the Earth would have received similar numbers of impacts.
It’s been assumed that the rarity of young craters on Earth (those created 300-600 million years ago) is attributed to preservation bias — craters have been erased over the years by erosion and the movement of the Earth’s plates. Since then however, using a new method to date craters on the moon, my colleagues and I have determined that the rarity of craters 300-600 million years [old] is due to a lower bombardment rate. In fact, the bombardment rate has increased by a factor of two to three in the past 300 million years.
To test this idea, we compared the Earth’s crater record to the moon’s in an article published in the journal Science. We suggest that the scarcity of terrestrial craters that are 300-650 million years old is simply due to a lower bombardment rate during that period — and not due to preservation bias.
Using rock abundance data from the Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter to determine ages for lunar craters. Image via Rebecca Ghent, University of Toronto and Thomas Gernon, University of Southampton.
Dating craters
The moon’s surface serves as a time capsule, helping us to detangle Earth’s history. There are tens of thousands of craters on the moon and the only way to see if the bombardment rate has changed is to have an age for every single crater.
Traditionally, dating craters is done by recording the number and size of superimposed craters on the ejecta — the material displaced by impact — of each crater. However, these methods are extremely time-consuming and limited by image quality and availability.
In our work, we use a new method to determine the ages of lunar craters, employing temperature data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Diviner instrument. This innovative method uses the rockiness of large craters’ ejecta as an alternative means for estimating the ages of Copernican craters (those younger than one billion years old).
This method works on the assumption that large lunar rocks have high thermal inertia and remain warm through the night, whereas the fine sand particles, called regolith, lose heat quickly.
A simple analogy for the concept of thermal inertia is rocks and sand at the beach. During the day both large rocks and the sand are warm. However, as soon as the sun sets, the sand gets cold. The large rocks which have a higher thermal inertia, however, stay warm for longer.
Stable terrain and crater erosion
Analysis shows young craters with numerous meter-sized fragments are easy to pick out from older craters with eroded fragments. As time goes by, these large rocks get broken down by future small impactors. Eventually, over the course of about a billion years, all of the rocks form into lunar regolith (a fine layer of dust covering the moon’s surface), providing an inverse relationship between rock abundance (the rockiness of a crater’s ejecta) and crater age. As craters get older, they become less rocky.
Using measured rock abundance values, we computed ages for 111 lunar rocky craters larger than six miles (10 km) in diameter that formed between 80° N and 80° S over the last billion years. Using the ages of these young craters, we determined that the production rate of large lunar craters – more than six miles (10 km) in diameter – increased by a factor of two to three in the past ~300 million years. Thus, the near-Earth objects population has increased over the last billion years.
The size and age distributions of lunar and terrestrial craters larger than 12 miles (20 km) over the last 650 million years have similar shapes. This implies that large crater erasure must be limited on stable terrestrial terrains. It also implies that the observed deficit of large terrestrial craters between 290-650 million years is not preservation bias, but a reflection of a distinctly lower impact rate. If we had observed more dominant erosion, the age distribution of terrestrial craters would be strongly skewed toward younger ages.
Using data from the recent study on Moon craters, SYSTEM Sounds created this video and accompanying soundtrack.
Support for limited erosion on cratered terrains also comes from records of kimberlite pipes on Earth. Kimberlite pipes are carrot-shaped pipes that extend a couple of kilometers below the surface and are often located on the same stable regions where we would find preserved impact craters. These underground pipes have been widely mined for diamonds, providing scientists with plentiful information about their location and erosion state.
Records show that kimberlite pipes have not experienced much erosion since forming around 650 million years ago. Therefore, the large young impact craters found on the same stable terrains must also be intact, providing us with a complete record.
Asteroid breakup?
The cause of this increase in the bombardment rate is still unknown. However, a hypothesis is that an asteroid family breakup caused a larger amount of debris to leave the asteroid belt and head towards our region of the solar system. The loss of most craters older than 650 million years could be due to erosion from Snowball Earth, when most of Earth’s surface was frozen around 650 million years ago.
We predict that the rare extinction-level event type craters like Chicxulub, which may have lead to the extinction of the dinosaurs, were a byproduct of the current high bombardment rate. These new findings could have implications for the evolution of phanerozoic life — our current geologic era — and the history of life including extinction events and evolution of new species.
Studying craters on the moon can shed light on the Earth’s history. Image via Parker/Southwest Research Institute.
Bottom line: A planetary scientist discusses what can be learned about Earth’s history by dating the moon’s impact craters.
Check it out. You can see the flash of a meteorite that struck the moon during Sunday night’s total eclipse. Photos and video here.
Astronomers are saying it might be the first known event of its kind, a flash of light seen during a total lunar eclipse. The eclipse took place during the night of January 20-21, 2019, and many caught it on film (see photos). But some sharp-eyed photographers and livestream viewers also noticed a flash on one edge of the moon, as a rock from space struck the surface of Earth’s companion world, just as the total eclipse was beginning.
A viewer on Reddit was apparently the first to notice the impact during the eclipse. National Geographic reported that he:
… reached out to the r/space community to see if others could weigh in. The news spread quickly on social media, as people from across the path of totality posted their images and video of this tiny flicker of light.
Here at EarthSky, we heard the news from one of our community members, Greg Hogan in Kathleen, Georgia. He wrote:
I reviewed my images from the other night, and I am showing in the news reports that the impact happened at 11:41 eastern time … I’m pretty excited!
You can see two of Greg’s photos below, with the meteorite flash marked by an arrow.
View larger at EarthSky Community Photos. | This flash on the red, eclipsed moon came from a meteorite strike! EarthSky friend Greg Hogan in Kathleen, Georgia was one of the first to notice he’d caught the flash on film. Thanks for the heads up, Greg!
View larger at EarthSky Community Photos. | Another shot from Greg Hogan of the meteorite flash on the moon, January 20, 2019, at 11:41 eastern (January 21 at 4:41 UTC).
Flashes on the moon have been reported before, but never on a moon in eclipse, to our knowledge. The flashes tend to be faint and short lived, and, when one occurs, astronomers want to check to be sure the flash isn’t from a camera, and not the moon itself. In this case, many images showed the same thing, a flash south of the crater Byrgiu – on the western part of the moon – at 4:41 UTC.
EarthSky community member Max Corneau, aka AstroDad, also caught the flash:
How often do meteorites strike the moon? More often than you might think. Astronomer and geologist Justin Cowart (@jccwrt on Twitter) at Stony Brook University in New York told National Geographic:
It’s a rare alignment of infrequent events. A [meteorite] about this size hits the moon about once a week or so.
Bottom line: Photos and video of the meteorite flash on the moon, caught during the January 20-21, 2019, total lunar eclipse.
When:January 2019 in Alabama and California, with 2016 similar sighting in Texas also being recently reported
Where:Lewisville (Dallas area in 2016), Alabama in 2019, and Los Angeles in 2019
What: Multiple bright white round objects appearing in sky and making strange formations
January 22nd, 2019 Update: A new MUFON report (case 97877) detailing similar UFOs over Los Angeles on January 19th, 2019 has been submitted. Check out this recent testimony and photo and compare to other reports below:
I had been out watching for the Delta Heavy launch because I wanted to take some photos. It was delayed by some minutes. When the launch began I started snapping photos. I couldn't see if the camera had captured anything. Finally, I saw the contrail of the missile in my viewer. So, I began snapping. I was hoping to photograph the separation of the tanks. No such luck. What surprised me is that the contrail went all the way across the sky.
When I came back to my apartment I connected the camera to my computer and began looking at the photos. The first few showed only sky. Then, I saw this one. My jaw dropped. The sun was behind the tree and the missile was off to the right.I missed photographing the missile but I got what appears to be a swarm of UFOs along the flight path of the Delta rocket. The dots did not appear in any of the other photos mainly because I was moving across the sky trying to continue to photograph the rocket.
Original story: A really intriguing UFO report from 2016 has just now been submitted to TexasUFOs. Although the witness did not get photo or video of the encounter, they found a video showing a similar event in Alabama from this year - this video shows multiple bright white circular objects swirling around the daytime sky. The UFOs on video were also caught on radar and so were not likely to be birds.Rick writes:
It was like the spiraling formation described in the video linked below, only it was smaller and more compact. It looked like a silver, double-helix shaped swarm of objects spiraling horizontally from east to west. We were in the Vista Ridge Mall parking lot (now known as Music City Mall). My daughter was with me when we saw it and other people getting out of their cars to walk into the mall stopped to look at it too. As far as I know, no one ever reported it to anyone.
Witness described UFOs as similar to the ones shown in video below
Witness also wrote that the objects looked like they were traveling in and out of formation, similar to double-helix:
Is this the same phenomenon that was witnessed in Texas? As always, you be the judge. Share your thoughts in the comments below, or on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
Christian FröschlinHet kleine puntje links op de foto van amateurastronoom Christian Fröschlin is de meteoriet die maandagochtend insloeg op de maan.
WETENSCHAPBij de totale maansverduistering van maandagochtend heeft ook een primeur plaatsvonden. Er werd voor de eerste keer tijdens een verduistering, waardoor de maan toen bloedrood kleurde, een kleine lichtflits opgemerkt afkomstig van een meteorietinslag.
Misschien hebt u zoals miljoenen andere mensen maandagochtend genoten van het prachtige schouwspel aan de hemel. Blijkbaar hebben sommige gelukkigen - of diegenen die een sterke telescoop hebben - daarbij een kleine, onverwachte lichtflits opgemerkt. Op sociale media werd de waarneming meteen bediscussieerd terwijl filmpjes en foto’s lustig gedeeld werden. Enkele amateurastronomen vroegen ook raad aan wetenschappers. Die dachten eerst aan een afwijking van de camera’s. De flits zou namelijk kunnen verward worden met een slechte pixel.
Toch merkte men na verloop van tijd op dat verschillende foto’s dezelfde flits toonden. Om 4:41 uur, toen de verduistering nog maar net begonnen was, glinsterde telkens een klein stipje ten zuiden van de krater Byrgius, die zich op het westelijke deel van de maan situeert.
Jaren wachten
Ook astronoom Jose Maria Madiedo, codirecteur van MIDAS (Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis System) deed de waarneming en bevestigde dat het om een meteorieteninslag ging. Al jaren probeert hij met zijn collega’s een impact van zo’n inslag tijdens een maansverduistering vast te leggen. Maar Madiedo had de hoop nog niet opgegeven.
Zo’n inslag op de maan gebeurt bijna elke week, maar het is dus de eerste keer dat die tijdens een maansverduistering wordt waargenomen.
Grootte van voetbal
Madiedo schat dat de meteoriet niet groter was dan een voetbal. De krater als gevolg van de inslag zou wel ongeveer 10 kilometer breed zijn. Volgens wetenschappers moeten nu zoveel mogelijk waarnemingen verzameld worden om de primeur gedetailleerd te bestuderen en een beeld te krijgen van de nieuwe maankrater. “Deze gebeurtenis is een hele stap vooruit want zo kunnen we ook leren over een mogelijke impact van een meteoriet op de aarde”, aldus Madiedo nog.
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UFO’s, wormgaten, extra dimensies en sterrenpoorten. Dit zijn de geheime onderzoeksprojecten van het Pentagon
UFO’s, wormgaten, extra dimensies en sterrenpoorten. Dit zijn de geheime onderzoeksprojecten van het Pentagon
Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie stopt veel geld in onderzoek naar UFO’s, sterrenpoorten, het manipuleren van extra dimensies en warp drives, blijkt uit documentendie via Wob-verzoeken boven water zijn gehaald.
Directeur Steven Aftergood van het Project on Government Secrecy heeft de hand weten te leggen op de stukken, schrijft Motherboard.
Het ministerie investeerde in onderzoeksprojecten gericht op onzichtbaarheidsmantels, wormgaten in de ruimte en biomaterialen.
Donkere energie
Het is voor het eerst dat de onderzoeksprojecten rechtstreeks zijn gelinkt aan black operations die worden uitgevoerd door het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie.
In 2008 bleek al dat de NASA zich bezighoudt met het onderzoek naar warp drives. In 2013 leverde een project van het Jet Propulsion Laboratory van de NASA rond een warpveld ‘onduidelijke’ resultaten op.
Ook theoretisch astrofysicus en directeur van Icarus Interstellar Richard Obousy doet onderzoek naar interstellaire warp drives die worden aangedreven door donkere energie via andere universa, laten de stukken zien.
Geheim onderzoek
Hoewel we nog geen wormgaten hebben ontdekt, probeert EarthTech International er één te creëren waarmee we door de ruimte en tijd kunnen reizen, zo blijkt uit de vrijgegeven documenten.
In 2017 bleek al dat het Pentagon jaarlijks 22 miljoen dollar had geïnvesteerd in een geheim onderzoek naar UFO’s.
Dit programma zou in 2012 zijn stopgezet, maar is volgens ingewijden nooit beëindigd.
UFOs, warp drives, stargates: Freedom of Information query reveals secret list of Pentagon research projects
UFOs, warp drives, stargates: Freedom of Information query reveals secret list of Pentagon research projects
These bizarre experiments and programs are the stuff of conspiracy theory. But now it’s been revealed it was true the entire time.
Jamie Seidel
First ever UFO footage declassified
The United States Defence Intelligence Agency has one great fear: that someone, somewhere, has an unknown advantage … a secret weapon that could topple the world’s sole superpower from its perch. So when it hears talk of UFOs, stargates and warp drives — it takes it seriously.
Seriously enough to spend some serious money on.
Documents released under a freedom of information request confirm the DIA went full “X-Files” and established teams to examine almost every seemingly outlandish idea it encountered.
The declassified documents don’t reveal a whole lot more than the titles assigned to 38 secret research programs. But they do detail some of the speculative subjects that were being investigated.
Aftergood wasn’t impressed.
“I think anyone who looks at these titles will scratch their heads and wonder what on earth the Defence Intelligence Agency was thinking,” science and technology blog Motherboard reports Aftergood as saying. “These are the kinds of topics you pursue when you have more money than you know what to do with.”
BLACK PROJECTS
Nuclear-powered deep space propulsion. Invisibility cloaking. Wormholes through space. Biomaterials.
The existence of research projects involving the likes of NASA, DARPA and private firms probing these subjects are already widely known. But their potential ties to US Defence Department ‘black money’ was not.
From the outset it seemed a farfetched idea for NASA to be studying. But not so much if prodded — and funded — by the DIA.
And they have competition.
Icarus Interstellar director and theoretical astrophysicist Richard Obousy is also looking into the idea of interstellar warp drives powered by dark energy through alternate universes. But he’s also branching out into the slightly more practical idea of nuclear propulsion, among others.
Stargates leapt into the public conscious out of nowhere with the release of the 1994 movie Stargate, and the follow-up long-running TV series of the same name.
How advanced would aliens need to be to contact Earth?
We don’t even know if wormholes actually exist. But EarthTech International Inc hasn’t hidden the fact it’s been looking into the idea of creating one capable of traversing space and time. “Our research interests include theories of space-time, gravity and cosmology; studies of the quantum vacuum; modifications of standard theories of electrodynamics; interstellar flight science; and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, specifically as these topics may apply to developing innovative space propulsion and sources of energy,” its website boasts.
And a multitude of studies, from just as many sources, have been exploring ways of turning Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak into reality.
Pentagon Confirms Existence of $22m UFO Program, Releases Incident Videos. Credit - Department of Defense/To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science via Storyful
‘ANOMALOUS AEROSPACE THREATS’
“I loved science fiction when I was younger,” Aftergood told Motherboard. “Today I love good government. So I was not especially amused.”
US politics is a murky affair. Particularly when it comes to spending defence funs. For example, military bases aren’t necessarily placed where they’re needed. Instead, they often go into the electorates of the most powerful lobbyists.
And the DIA’s secret research funding appears no different.
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program
The shadowy program began in 2007 and was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader, who has had a longtime interest in space phenomena.
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Senator Harry Reid✔@SenatorReid
If anyone says they have the answers, they’re fooling themselves.
We don’t know the answers but we have plenty of evidence to support asking the questions. This is about science and national security. If America doesn’t take the lead in answering these questions, others will.
The Anomalous Aerospace Threats unit lasted just five years before it was shut down in 2012. And not all of its spend was classified ‘top secret’.
Turns out, much of the money was channelled through then Senate majority leader Democrat Harry Reid to his close friend, Robert Bigelow — an alien visitation conspiracy theorist also involved in developing space habitats for NASA.
2018 WAS HET HEFTIGSTE JAAR OOIT VOOR AARDVERANDERINGEN ( VIDEO )
2018 WAS HET HEFTIGSTE JAAR OOIT VOOR AARDVERANDERINGEN ( VIDEO )
De huidige situatie is in veel opzichten te vergelijken met de periode die men de eindtijd noemt. Het einde van de wereld zoals wij die kennen en een overgang naar een nieuwe.
Een tijd waarin de ene extreme aardverandering de andere overtreft en waar het jaar 2018 het meest heftige ooit was.
De mensen bakkeleien, vliegen elkaar in de haren, hebben korte lontjes, zijn onverdraagzaam en zeldzaam egoïstisch. Ook dit zijn allemaal kenmerken die je aantreft bij een bevolking die onrustig is en voelt dat er speciale dingen gaan gebeuren.
Niemand weet precies in welke vorm dat gaat komen, maar dat het gaat komen dat is iets wat men diep van binnen voelt. En dat alles zorgt nu niet bepaald voor echt ontspannen mensen.
Dat gevoel, maar ook een gevoel van haast, er is nog maar weinig tijd om alles te doen wat er nog moet gebeuren.
Een lezer schrijft daarover het volgende (dank!):
Zijn er meer mensen die ook last hebben van een gevoel haast te moeten maken, om datgene dat je denkt te moeten doen dan ook met enige spoed te doen?
Enkele jaren geleden werkte ik nog in een bedrijf waar ik mede door mijn leeftijd bedankt werd voor bewezen diensten en omdat ik daarvoor al was begonnen met een carrière schwitch, kreeg ik gaande de studies waar ik al aan was begonnen steeds meer het gevoel dat ik op moest schieten om datgene wat ik wil bereiken te halen voor het te laat is.
Omdat ik haast maakte ben ik nu na 3 jaar studie bijna aangekomen op het punt dat ik hiermee klaar ben, (de studie). Toch heb ik nog steeds een onbehaaglijk gevoel dat er iets heel groots staat te gebeuren en dat dit niet bepaald een prettig vooruitzicht is.
Een raar onderbuik gevoel dat steeds sterker wordt en dat mij niet angstig maakt maar wel waakzamer en als ik kijk naar wat er allemaal in de wereld en om ons heen gebeurd duidt op een zoals dat vaak genoemd wordt "eindtijd gevoel", Wat dat ook moge zijn.
Zijn er nogmaals meer mensen die hier last van hebben en hoe gaan jullie daar dan mee om?
Met de aarde is het net zoals met mensen gesteld. De aarde weet ook niet meer wat haar allemaal overkomt, maar weet wel dat het heftig is en dat er waarschijnlijk nog veel meer gaat komen.
Het jaar 2018 is inmiddels afgelopen en dit was voor wat betreft de aardveranderingen en weersextremen het ergste jaar ooit. Dat wil zeggen, het ergste jaar ooit voor zover ons bekend, want er zullen in een grijs en ver verleden vast nog wel jaren zijn geweest die nog heftiger waren.
Zo is het aantal waarnemingen van vuurbollen in de lucht de afgelopen jaren explosief gestegen en het is bovendien een stijging die nog steeds ieder jaar hoger wordt.
De aardbevingen zijn nu zo heftig en zo groot in aantal dat alle voorgaande records op dat gebied zijn gebroken en 2018 een jaar is geweest met een ongekend aantal aardbevingen.
Dat de Maya’s helemaal gelijk hadden met hun kalender en dat 21 december 2012 misschien niet het einde van de wereld was zoals velen dachten, maar het wel een enorm keerpunt was. Het was het punt waar vanaf dat moment het aantal aardbevingen explodeerde.
We zijn nu in het nieuwe jaar 2019 en er is geen reden om aan te nemen dat de aardveranderingen in zullen afnemen. Wat het ook is dat dit alles veroorzaakt, een cyclische gebeurtenis of een onbekende planeet, duidelijk is wel dat het niets te maken heeft met iets dat door de mens is veroorzaakt.
Hoe heftig de afgelopen maand december was, zie je in de volgende video.
Het is voor ons mensen bijna niet voor te stellen dat er op aarde een soort hybride ras rond loopt wat een (soort) kruising is tussen een buitenaards ras en het menselijk ras.
En toch is dit precies het geval en zijn veel van de koninklijke bloedlijnfamilies zowel het één als het ander.
De meest bekende koninklijke familie voor wat betreft “shape shifting” is wel de Britse, iets waar ooit prinses Diana een boekje over open deed aan een goede vriendin.
Dat de heersende klasse voor een groot deel bestaat uit Reptilians wordt eveneens duidelijk uit de Engelse koninklijke familie.
De door hen vermoorde prinses Diana wist precies met wie ze te maken had. Zo heeft ze veel verteld aan haar goede vriendin en vertrouwelinge Christine Fitzgerald. Zo had Diana een bijnaam voor de Engelse koninklijke familie, de Lizards of Reptillians. Ze wist ook zeker dat ze hier niet met gewone mensen te maken had.
Op de avond voor haar huwelijk met prins Charles werd ze geroepen voor een bespreking met de Windsor familie. Daar was toen ook aanwezig de toekomstige tweede vrouw van Charles, Camilla Parker Bowles.
Men had Diana die avond drugs toegediend en er werd haar verteld dat de enige reden voor haar verbintenis met Charles was, het voortbrengen van erfgenamen en dat Camilla zijn werkelijke vrouw was.
Om haar te laten zien wie ze werkelijk waren, veranderden prins Philips en de Queen Mother (moeder van huidige koningin Elizabeth) van vorm tot reptielen, het zogenaamd shape shifting. Er werd haar verteld dat als ze het ooit zou wagen om haar mond open te doen, ze zou worden gedood.
In de volgende korte video geeft David Icke wat meer informatie over dit fenomeen. Soms komen er dingen tevoorschijn, waarbij bovenstaande theorie duidelijk wordt. Zoals bij mensen waarbij ineens vreemde dingen in de ogen verschijnen en ze even van een menselijk oog veranderen naar dat van een reptiel.
Een Youtube kanaal dat wel vaker over dit fenomeen heeft gepubliceerd is van de man die bekend staat als The Hidden Underbelly.
Zo kwam hij begin december met de volgende video, waarin een presentatrice van een televisieprogramma opeens ogen krijgt zoals die van een reptiel.
Het gebeurde tijdens een interview op een Oekraïens internet televisiekanaal tijdens een discussie die ging over atheïsme en God. En ergens tijdens dat programma zegt de man: “De kinderen van God die later goden werden”. Exact op dat moment veranderen de ogen van de vrouw in een fractie van een seconde.
Echter, enige tijd na het publiceren van deze video verdwijnt The Hidden Underbelly voor meer dan een maand. Er komen geen berichten meer, er worden geen video’s gepubliceerd en dat terwijl de man eigenlijk wel dagelijks iets nieuws publiceerde.
In de video hieronder is te horen en zien wat de oorzaak is van dit alles. Direct nadat hij de bovenstaande video had gepubliceerd ontving hij een aantal dreigende e-mails en daarnaast een bericht dat eruit zag of het van de juridische afdeling van Youtube kwam.
Echter, toen hij deze mail opende werd zijn computer overgenomen door een virus die probeerde allerlei informatie over de man en zijn gezin te verzamelen. Zoals je hem kunt horen vertellen, was het allemaal erg heftig.
Nu, na ruim een maand en nadat zijn computer door een professioneel bedrijf volledig is geschoond, is hij weer in de lucht.
Net zoals we eerder deze week zagen bij Micha Kat, is het brengen van de waarheid iets dat je niet in dank wordt afgenomen en worden er smerige spelletjes gespeeld om de boodschapper onschadelijk te maken.
In geval van The Hidden Underbelly heeft het averechts gewerkt en is de man meer vastbesloten dan ooit om die dingen die in het duister worden gehouden in het licht te brengen.
Footage shows strange lights spinning in a large circle across the London night sky with a mysterious shining blue light from the middle. Many witnesses were quick to speculate a possible UFO sighting.
A still from Vishal Kugarjan's video
The video was apparently taken in Leyton, east London. It shows white dots of light spinning in a vast circle behind a cloud and moving across the night sky. A glowing blue light can be seen beaming through the cloud before the dispersal of the dots of light.
Many people speculated on Twitter over the strange lights. Some said that the video shows a UFO that was alien in origin. Others suggested that it could be a large projector of sorts in Tottenham. A few others claimed that they saw it too and they found out that it was from a laser light show in Walthamstow.
Linking a mysterious beam of light to the UFO phenomenon is not new. Just recently, a similar beam of light sent witnesses into a frenzy after it seemingly hovering across the Canadian sky, near the International Space Station.
Several viewers pointed out the similarity of the beam to the one spotted in Michigan in 2017, also close to the ISS. A large red beam of light can be seen in the live feed moving away from the atmosphere of the Earth.
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It's a light show:
A strange pattern of lights was seen above Waltham Forest
In celebration of the start of the Borough of Culture, a 12-minute film called 'Into the Forest' was projected into the town hall accompanied by a cloud light show.
Nest by Marshmallow Laser Feast in collaboration with Erland Cooper in Lloyd Park, Walthamstow, for Waltham Forest’s Borough of Culture events.
Trying to access Area 51is dicey, dangerous, pointless and fruitless. Do not do it. Such is the extent of the surveillance of the landscape that surrounds the base (and all of the Nevada Test and Training Range, too), it’s all but impossible to successfully penetrate the secret base. Cameras, motion-detection devices, heat-seeking technology, night-vision, aerial drones, helicopters and much more collectively ensure that any attempt to stroll onto Area 51 – whether by day or night – will simply not work. That doesn’t prevent people from thinking they can do exactly that, though. A perfect exampleof this stupid futilityoccurred in the latter part of 2012. It was in October of that year when a team from the BBC tried to achieve what no-one else had done: find a way into Area 51. The two primary figures in the saga were Andre Maxwell and Darren Perks. The former is a well-known Irish comedian, while Perks is a conspiracy-theorist. And for good measure, they had a few UFO sleuths with them too, as they traveled around not just Nevada, but also Arizona and California. The plan was for the pair to get as close as they could to Area 51, and have the film-crew capture all of the excitement for posterity. It didn’t quite work out like that, though. They should have known that: there was not a chance.
The entire crew and cast was clearly not prepared for what was about to come down on them. They actually thought that trying to get into the base under cover of darkness would actually work. Of course, it didn’t. And it couldn’t! Their first stop was the town of Rachel – the home of the Little A’Le’Inn, which is the closest place of normality to Area 51. Not too far away is what is known as Area 51’s “Back Gate.”
According to Perks: “There was no one around, no guards, no vehicles – nothing. We filmed for approximately thirty minutes and tried to call the guards but there was no one there and no sign of them. So we all decided to walk past the barriers onto the restricted area past the security huts and basically onto Area 51. Nothing happened.” Going through the gates does not mean that you are immediately on Area 51. The base itself is still more than eight miles from the gates. In other words, despite what Perks claimed, they were most assuredly not on Area 51, at all. They were still miles away from it. And trying to get to the base from the gate is impossible without the required clearance – as the team quickly learned to their cost.
For a while the team managed to get some stock-footage of the area. It was, however, when they decided to knock on the door of one of the security huts at the gate that all hell broke loose. Armed security personnel descended upon them, ordering them to lie down on the ground, face-down. Or else. Not surprisingly, one and all did exactly what they were told to do. And quickly, too. All of the team was extensively searched. And, for a while, their iPhones, wallets and cameras were confiscated. For around three hours they were forced to lie flat on the desert floor. Background checks followed, as did a trip to the local sheriff’s office, where they were duly chewed out and fined in the region of $500.00 each. A lesson was learned the hard way: if you try and penetrate Area 51, you will not succeed. Instead, you’ll have a gun pointed at you and you’ll likely end up out of cash and a file will be opened on you. In other words, unless you have a warped reason to have your life turned over for the worse, then be content with Google images of the base.
What can artificial intelligence tell us about ourselves? Despite the growing urge to barricade myself in a log cabin on the side of a mountain, 300 miles away from the nearest circuit board, and answer “The day a robot tells me anything is the day I die,” it turns out A.I. can reveal a lot about the mysterious and murky history of human evolution. Although like all good mysteries, the more information we get, the murkier it becomes. According to anarticle publishedin Nature Communications, scientists from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) of the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), and the University of Tartu have successfully used artificial intelligence deep-learning algorithms to identify the existence of a third, unknown, human species in the genome of Asian individuals.
We know that modern humans interbred with Neanderthals in Eurasia and Denisovens in Asia and Oceania, but scientists have theorized that there may have been a third species of hominid that made its way into the modern human genome. Now, thanks to these deep learning algorithms, that has been confirmed. The identity of third species is still a mystery, however, but scientists believe this species may have been a hybrid species of Neanderthal and Denisoven. This would bolster the argument that the remains of a Neanderthal-Denisovan hybrid found this past summer in a cave in Denisova was not an isolated incident, but evidence of an ongoing evolutionary progression. According to Mayukh Mondal, a researcher with the University of Tartu:
“Our theory coincides with the hybrid specimen discovered recently in Denisova, although as yet we cannot rule out other possibilities.”
The current model of human evolution holds that some 80,000 years ago, modern humans left the African Continent and began their migration throughout the rest of the globe. Up until 40,000 years ago modern humans co-existed with the other known species of hominids, Neanderthals and Denisovans. Recent studies have determined that these other species of hominids interbred with humans, giving us the weird hominid casserole that all of us beautiful people are today. While the recent findings don’t change that, it reminds us that the whole picture is quite a bit more complicated than we’ve previously been able to determine.
Basically, this picture is simplistic to the point of being nonsensical.
While the theory of a third hominid species has existed for a while, it was only through deep learning algorithms that scientists were able to prove it. According to Òscar Lao, principal investigator at the CNAG-CRG:
“[Deep learning] is an algorithm that imitates the way in which the nervous system of mammals works, with different artificial neurons that specialise and learn to detect, in data, patterns that are important for performing a given task. We have used this property to get the algorithm to learn to predict human demographics using genomes obtained through hundreds of thousands of simulations. Whenever we run a simulation we are travelling along a possible path in the history of humankind. Of all simulations, deep learning allows us to observe what makes the ancestral puzzle fit together.”
Deep learning algorithms attempt to model how the human brain learns.
This is the first time that deep learning has been able to explain part of human history, and researchers are excited for the implications this has in biology, genetics, and evolution.
I’ll bet good money that somewhere down the line this, A.I. stuff is going to start feeding us disinformation. Sooner or later there’s going to be a journal article titled “Deep Learning Algorithms Determine Humans Were Born to Serve the Great Machine,” and you’ll be wishing you had the foresight to build a sweet cabin.
Planet Nine Mystery Deepens with New ‘Eccentric Disc’ Theory
Evidence was discovered at the beginning of this year for a mysterious 'Planet Nine' (artist's impression shown), and since then it has had scientists looking for signs that could confirm its existence. As evidence for a ninth planet in our solar system grows, a 30-year old theory about mass extinctions on Earth is resurfacing
Planet Nine Mystery Deepens with New ‘Eccentric Disc’ Theory
Something mysterious is lurking at the edge of our Solar System. So mysterious, in fact, that scientists can’t agree on what might or might not be out there. For years, scientists have debated the existence of an alleged “Planet Nine” beyond Neptune based on the gravitational effects something seems to have on surrounding objects. Astronomers haven’t found the alleged planet yet, but the search for it has instead turned up manystrange objects and unexpected discoveries. Will we ever find a hidden planet at the far edge of our cosmic neighborhood?
The Kuiper Belt
A new study published this week says probably not – although it does reveal its own new set of mysteries. Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the American University of Beirut have been studying the strange orbital anomalies found in some of the Kuiper Belt objects beyond Neptune and believe they can be explained not by a ninth planet but instead by what the astronomers are calling a “relatively massive and moderately eccentric disc of trans-Neptunian objects.”
Their hypothesis is that the same gravitational effects seen at the edge of the Solar System could be explained by the existence of a massive disc of small objects composed of rock, metals, and ices of methane, ammonia, and water. Some of these may be tiny dwarf planets, while many may be asteroids. The disc – if it exists at all – orbits the Sun at the far end of the Solar System past Neptune.
Antranik Sefilian, a Ph.D. student in Cambridge’s Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, says that while their theory is just that – a theory – it is in no way any more less plausible than the Planet Nine hypothesis:
While we don’t have direct observational evidence for the disc, neither do we have it for Planet Nine, which is why we’re investigating other possibilities. Nevertheless, it is interesting to note that observations of Kuiper belt analogues around other stars, as well as planet formation models, reveal massive remnant populations of debris.
Of course, the researchers note that without any evidence either way, there could be both a Planet 9 and a massive disc of small objects out there – the point is we don’t know. I’m left to wonder: what if it’s something else entirely, something truly unknown? What if some wildly exotic object is causing the gravitational effects beyond Neptune? We’ve only really been exploring space for a few decades, after all; who knows what we haven’t discovered yet?
Last week, Professor Mike Brown from Caltech tweeted a photo that shows the plot of a newly discovered eccentric Kuiper Belt Object (KBO). The giant hidden planet is thought to sit on the edge of our solar system and is 10 times more massive than the Earth, gaseous, and similar to Uranus or Neptune
Daniel Whitmire, a retired professor of astrophysics now working at the University of Arkansas Department of Mathematical Sciences, suggests that the planet, also referred to as 'Planet X', triggers comet showers linked to mass extinctions on Earth at intervals of approximately 27 million years
The dislodged comets not only smash into the Earth, they also disintegrate in the inner solar system as they get nearer to the sun, reducing the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth. This could have led to a number of mass extinctions on Earth, including the one that is blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs (illustrated)
Astonishing visualization of the entire life cycle of a solar flare
Astonishing visualization of the entire life cycle of a solar flare
We know that solar flares and eruptions can disrupt radio communications, global positioning systems and affect aviation and the safety of astronauts and our communications satellites.
A team of scientists has, for the first time, used a single, cohesive computer model to simulate the entire life cycle of a solar flare: from the buildup of energy thousands of kilometers below the solar surface, to the emergence of tangled magnetic field lines, to the explosive release of energy in a brilliant flash..
A dazzling visualization of the model shows tangled tendrils representing magnetic field lines around sunspots rising from the sun's surface and exploding in a brilliant, multicolored flash.
Two Flashing UFOs Buzz Around Space Station On Live Internet Cam, Jan 19, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Two Flashing UFOs Buzz Around Space Station On Live Internet Cam, Jan 19, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 19, 2019
Location of sighting: Space Station
Two UFOs were recorded on live ISS internet cam buzzing around the station. The UFOs are flashing so yes, they want to be seen by the astronauts on board the space station. UFOs visiting the space station is actually a daily occurrence. If you watch the live Internet cam for a few hours...you will see things flying nearby that defy explanation. NASA always refuses to talk about these objects and instead take a stance to ignore any questions about them. The real question is...how many times have aliens landed ships at the space station and boarded it?
Easy Rider Secretly Sends Message About Aliens Agenda In Movie, July 14, 1969, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Easy Rider Secretly Sends Message About Aliens Agenda In Movie, July 14, 1969, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of movie: July 14, 1969 Title of movie: Easy Rider Writer of movie: Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Terry Southern How do you pass on a message about aliens to millions all at the same time without having government men stop you? Movies right? Well, they did just that in the America classic movie Easy Rider. Apparently one of the writers got some inside information about aliens, because every freaking word that Jack Nicholson says is 100% on the mark. I could find no flaws in anything he said. I can find dozens of references of evidence to back up every accusation he has made. There were three writers of the script, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Terry Southern. One of these people had inside information about aliens and how they are influencing the world today. Unless Jack just came up with it himself during the scene...and slipped it in to enlighten the world. I knew about everything he said already, but even today, most people don't know even 5% of it. So, how did they know it then? Every word, every sentence was logically written to expose the alien influence over the last 70 years. In the scene, Jack Nicholson explains how aliens have influence humanity over the last 70 years and how humanity will grow because of it. When Jack finishes, they look down at his joint and are in awe, because...he hadn't been smoking it and it went out. This is a rare Easter egg hidden in one of the most legendary movie in American history.
To help cut down at the horrifically-long donor organ waitlist, some scientists are looking up to outer space.
Several doctors have tried to 3D print organs in the lab, with mixed results — organs with complex internal structures, like hearts and lungs, tend to collapse under their own weight.
Now, instead of supporting them with complex scaffolding systems, some scientists are wondering if it’d be better to send the 3D printer up to the zero-gravity environment of the International Space Station (ISS) in order to print hearts in space, according to BBC News — a convergence of space and medicine that could prove either be a grim folly or shape the future of surgery.
My Sides Are In Orbit
A number of scientists have already explored the idea of microgravity 3D printing. Next up will be a startup called Techshot, which has partnered with NASA to develop a biological 3D printer that it plans to send to the ISS this coming May.
First, the company plans to spend about a year on experiments that will determine how well the printer works in space. At that point, the company will largely focus on developing cardiac tissues, according to BBC News.
Open Source
“After our test protocols have been completed, we’ll open the program up to outside researchers who want to use our device,” Techshot VP Rich Boling told BBC News. After all those tests are done, Boling explained that the company will modify and optimize its printer before sending it back into space to fabricate even more complex tissues.
Once everything is up and running, Techshot hopes to manufacture hearts and other complex organs for people in need, Boling told BBC News. Not only could printed organs cut waitlist times, but Techshot also hopes that printing organs using the recipient’s stem cells will improve the odds of a person’s body accepting the new organ.
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THE WONDERS OF DEEP SPACE: SCIENTISTS ARE ON THE HUNT FOR ALIEN MOLECULES
THE WONDERS OF DEEP SPACE: SCIENTISTS ARE ON THE HUNT FOR ALIEN MOLECULES
Astrochemists have discovered compounds in the cosmos that cannot exist on Earth. Here are a few of their findings
Something strange was hiding in the Horsehead. The nebula, named for its stallionlike silhouette, is a towering cloud of dust and gas 1,500 light-years from Earth where new stars are continually born. It is one of the most recognizable celestial objects, and scientists have studied it intensely. But in 2011 astronomers from the Institute of Millimeter Radioastronomy (IRAM) and elsewhere probed it again. With IRAM’s 30-meter telescope in the Spanish Sierra Nevada, they homed in on two portions of the horse’s mane in radio light. They weren’t interested in taking more pictures of the Horsehead; instead, they were after spectra—readings of the light broken down into their constituent wavelengths, which reveal the chemical makeup of the nebula. Displayed on screen, the data looked like blips on a heart monitor; each wiggle indicated that some molecule in the nebula had emitted light of a particular wavelength.
Every molecule in the universe makes its own characteristic wiggles based on the orientation of the protons, neutrons and electrons within it. Most of the wiggles in the Horsehead data were easily attributable to common chemicals such as carbon monoxide, formaldehyde and neutral carbon. But there was also a small, unidentified line at 89.957 gigahertz. This was a mystery—a molecule completely unknown to science.
Immediately after seeing the data Evelyne Roueff of Paris Observatory and other chemists on the team started theorizing about what kind of molecule might create the signal. They concluded that the unknown species had to be a linear molecule—a compound whose atoms are arrayed in a straight chain. Only a certain type of linear molecule would produce the spectral pattern the chemists were seeing. After working through lists of likely molecules, they hit on C3H+, propynylidynium. This molecular ion had never been seen before. In fact there was no proof it existed at all. If it could form, it would be highly unstable. On Earth it would almost immediately react with something else to transform into a more settled species. But in space, where the pressure is low and molecules rarely run into anything else to bond with, C3H+ might just be able to survive.
ASTRONOMERS OBSERVING THE HORSEHEAD NEBULA WITH A RADIO TELESCOPE IN SPAIN SAW THE CHEMICAL SIGNATURE OF A MYSTERY MOLECULE. THE TELESCOPE RETURNED SPECTROSCOPIC DATA—A LINE GRAPH REPRESENTING THE INTENSITY OF LIGHT COMING FROM THE NEBULA ACROSS A RANGE OF WAVELENGTHS. SHARP RISES IN THE LIGHT, SUCH AS THE FEATURE SHOWN HERE, INDICATE THE PRESENCE OF A SPECIFIC MOLECULE WHOSE CHEMICAL PROPERTIES ALLOW IT TO EMIT THAT PARTICULAR WAVELENGTH OF LIGHT. AFTER MUCH SLEUTHING RESEARCHERS WERE ABLE TO DETERMINE THAT THIS UNIDENTIFIED LINE FEATURE COMES FROM THE NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN COMPOUND C3H+, WHICH EXISTS ONLY IN SPACE.
Roueff and her colleagues studied whether the Horsehead Nebula contained the right ingredients and conditions to form the molecule. In 2012 they published a paper in Astronomy & Astrophysicsconcluding that the wiggle they saw likely belonged to C3H+. “I was relatively confident myself,” Roueff says. “But it required about two to three years to convince everyone that we had the right identification.”
At first, some skeptics contested the claim—if C3H+ had never been seen before, how could they be sure this was it? The clincher came last year, when researchers at the University of Cologne in Germany managed to create C3H+ very briefly in a laboratory. Not only did the feat prove that the molecule could exist, it also allowed scientists to measure the spectrum it produces when excited—the very same spectrum that showed up in the Horsehead. “It’s very rewarding to find a new molecule which we did not really think about before,” Roueff says. “When you are able to identify it through a chain of logic, it’s like being a detective.”
One alien molecule down, many, many more to go. The Horsehead Nebula is no aberration. Almost everywhere in the universe astronomers look—if they peer closely enough—they see unidentified spectral lines. The compounds we humans are familiar with, the species responsible for the huge diversity of materials on this planet, are just a fraction of those nature has created. And finally, after decades of work developing theoretical models and computer simulation techniques, along with laboratory experiments to reproduce new molecules, astrochemists are putting names to many of those unidentified lines.
Empty space
As recently as the 1960s most scientists doubted molecules could exist in interstellar space at all—the radiation there was thought to be too harsh for anything much beyond atoms and a few basic free radicals to survive. In 1968 physicist Charles Townes of the University of California, Berkeley, decided to look for molecules in space anyway. “I got the feeling that most of the Berkeley astronomers thought my idea was a little wild,” Townes, a Nobel laureate who died earlier this year, recalled in a 2006 account for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. But Townes forged ahead and built a new amplifier for the six-meter antenna at Hat Creek Radio Observatory in California, which revealed the presence of ammonia in the Sagittarius B2 cloud. “How easy, and how exciting!” he wrote. “The news media as well as scientists began buzzing us.”
IN 1968 ASTRONOMERS DISCOVERED AMMONIA IN THE SAGITTARIUS B2 CLOUD. CREDIT: ESO
In the years since astronomers have found more than 200 types of molecules floating in space. Many are quite different from the species seen on the ground. “We usually do chemistry based on the conditions we have on Earth,” says Ryan Fortenberry, an astrochemist at Georgia Southern University. “When we get away from that paradigm, the chemicals that can be created are unbounded. If you can dream of a molecule, no matter how bizarre, there is a finite probability that over the eons of time and the immensity of space it has existed somewhere.”
Space is literally an alien environment. Temperatures can be much, much hotter than on Earth (such as in the atmosphere of a star) and much, much colder (in relatively empty interstellar space). Likewise, the pressures (extremely high or low) are far from terrestrial. Consequently molecules can form in space that would never emerge on our planet—and then they can stick around, even if they are highly reactive. “A molecule can go years and years before it bounces into another molecule in interstellar space,” says Timothy Lee, an astrophysicist at NASA Ames Research Center. “It might be in a region where there’s no radiation, so even if it’s not that stable, it can exist for a long time.”
These space molecules, once identified, could teach us a lot. Some of them might prove beneficial if scientists can create them in laboratories and learn to exploit their properties. Other molecules may help explain the origins of the organic compounds that gave rise to life on Earth. And all of them stand to expand the bounds of what is possible for chemistry in the universe.
Game-changing telescopes
In the past decade, as powerful new telescopes capable of observing faint spectral lines have come online, the search for alien molecules has accelerated. “It’s actually a heyday for astrochemistry right now,” says Susanna Widicus Weaver who leads an astrochemistry group at Emory University. The data available now, she says, are a huge improvement from just a decade ago when she completed her doctorate. NASA’s high-altitude Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), mounted on the side of a Boeing 747SP, began observing in infrared and microwave light in 2010 and the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory launched into orbit in 2009 to target the same wavelengths.
THE ATACAMA LARGE MILLIMETER/SUBMILLIMETER ARRAY (ALMA) IN CHILE. CREDIT: NRAO
The real game-changer, however, is the multinational Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a constellation of 66 radio dishes inaugurated in 2013. At an altitude of about 5,200 meters on the Chajnantor Plateau, a Mars-like red expanse in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the driest place in the world, ALMA’s matching antennas swivel in unison as observers collect light from cosmic objects. Extremely dark and clear skies nearly devoid of image-blurring moisture give the telescope unprecedented sensitivity and precision in wavelengths from infrared to radio. ALMA creates both a visual picture and a spectrum for every pixel of its images, producing tens of thousands of spectral lines in every field of view it observes. “It’s amazing and it’s overwhelming at the same time,” Widicus Weaver says. “These data sets are so big that they often have to mail them to scientists on flash drives because they can’t download them.” The flood of data is providing a wealth of new spectral lines for astrochemists to mine. But like unidentified fingerprints at a crime scene, these lines are useless to scientists unless they can determine which molecules created them.
Instruments, including the ALMA telescopes, probing a young star and comet in our solar system have detected, for the first time, a chemical compound thought to be a marker of extraterrestrial life in interstellar space
Finding a link
To match molecules to these lines, scientists can go in a few directions. As in the case of C3H+, astrochemists might start with theory, using clues from the spectrum to guess what molecule might be behind it. A technique called ab initio quantum chemistry (ab initio is Latin for “from the beginning”) allows scientists to start from pure quantum mechanics—the theory that describes the behavior of subatomic particles—to calculate a molecule’s properties based on the motions of the protons, neutrons and electrons in the atoms that comprise it. On a supercomputer, scientists can run repeated simulations of a molecule, each time slightly adjusting its structure and the arrangement of its particles, and watch the results to find the optimal geometry of a compound. “With quantum chemistry we’re not limited by what we can synthesize,” Fortenberry says. “We’re limited by the size of the molecules. We need large amounts of computational power to do the calculations.”
Researchers can also look for hard evidence of new molecules by creating them in a laboratory and directly measuring their spectral features. A common technique is to start with a chamber of gas and run a current of electricity through it. An electron in the current might collide with a molecule of gas and break its chemical bond, giving rise to something new. Researchers keep the gas at very low pressure so that any chemicals that arise have a chance to hang out for a few moments before running into another molecule and reacting. Scientists will then shine various wavelengths of light through the chamber to measure the spectrum of whatever is inside. “You can get to the point where you’ve produced in the lab the same molecule that’s occurring in space but you don’t necessarily know what the molecule is,” says Michael McCarthy, a physicist at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “So then you have to try to infer the elemental composition from a combination of different laboratory experiments with different samples.”
And in the 1980s scientists trying to make new chemicals produced the molecule argonium (36ArH+), a strange compound not normally found on Earth that combines hydrogen with the generally inert gas argon. In 2013 astronomers found argonium in space, first in the Crab Nebula and later in a distant galaxy via ALMA observations. Compounds based on noble gases form only under very specific circumstances; scientists think that in space, high-energy charged particles called cosmic rays slam into argon and knock electrons loose, enabling it to bond with hydrogen. For this reason, if scientists see argonium in a region of space, they can surmise that the place is flooded with cosmic rays. “It’s a very specific indictor of these circumstances which actually are very important in space,” says Holger Müller of the University of Cologne, leader of the team behind the ALMA discovery.
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Scientists discovered the compound Freon-40 using data from ALMA in Chile, and Rosina instrument on ESA’s Rosetta mission
A new world of molecules
Many of the molecules lurking in stars and nebulae are foreign in the extreme. To ask what they would look or feel like if you could hold them in your hand is nonsensical, because you could never hold them—they would react immediately. If you did manage to make contact with them, they would almost certainly prove toxic and carcinogenic. Oddly, however, scientists have a rough idea of what some alien molecules would smell like: Many detected so far belong to a class of compounds called aromatics, which are derived from benzene (C6H6) and were originally named for their strong odors.
Some new compounds reveal surprising atomic structures and share charge between atoms in unforeseen ways. Sometimes they challenge current theories of molecular bonding. A recent example is the molecule SiCSi, discovered in 2015 in a dying star, which is made of two silicon atoms and one carbon atom that are bonded in an unexpected way. The resulting molecule is somewhat floppy and produces a spectrum different from what simple theoretical models predict.
And space molecules may help answer one of the universe’s most fundamental questions: How did life get started? Scientists do not know if amino acids, the building blocks of life, first arose on Earth or in space (and were then delivered to our planet by comets and meteorites). “The big question is, do they form in molecular clouds as a star is forming,” asks Widicus Weaver, “or do they form once you have a planet or some other chunk of rock where chemistry can occur on the surface?” The answer will determine whether it is likely that amino acids are plentiful in the universe and available to possibly seed life on the myriad exoplanets out there or whether the chemistry that sparked us was isolated to our own planetary cradle. Astrochemists have already spotted signs of amino acids in space as well as sequences of molecules that might have given rise to them.
BUCKYBALLS, CONGLOMERATIONS OF 60 CARBON ATOMS, WERE FIRST CREATED IN LABS ON EARTH AND LATER DISCOVERED IN SPACE. CREDIT: NASA/JPL-CALTECH
Finally, perhaps some rare species could prove useful if they can be created in great enough quantity and kept under controlled conditions. “The great hope of astrochemistry is that we can find molecules that have completely new properties and we can apply those to problems here on Earth,” Fortenberry says. An example is the soccer ball–shaped molecules “buckyballs.” These large conglomerations of 60 carbon atoms first showed up in a laboratory in 1985 (and won their discoverers a Nobel Prize). Almost a decade later astronomers saw spectral features in interstellar gas that looked consistent with positively charged versions of buckyballs, and the connection was confirmed this July when researchers matched those features to the spectrum of buckyballs created under spacelike conditions in the lab. “This molecule is now all over the galaxy and all over the universe,” says buckyball co-discoverer Harold Kroto, now a chemistry professor at The Florida State University. Lately buckyballs have turned out to be not just a quirk found in space but a practical tool for nanotechnology, useful for strengthening materials, improving solar cells and even in pharmaceuticals.
At this point astrochemists are still testing the shallow waters in the great sea of molecules out there in space. The finds they have already turned up are a reminder that our own small corner of the cosmos is just that—an insignificant, and not necessarily representative, sample of what is possible. Perhaps the species we are familiar with on Earth are in fact the exotic ones, and the buckyballs, the Horsehead Nebula C3H+ and others still unknown are the ordinary stuff of the universe.
Zijn roterende zwarte gaten poorten naar de hyperruimte? Onderzoekers doen opmerkelijke ontdekking
Zijn roterende zwarte gaten poorten naar de hyperruimte? Onderzoekers doen opmerkelijke ontdekking
Wat gebeurt er als je met je ruimteschip in een zwart gat vliegt? De meeste wetenschappers nemen aan dat je samengeperst en vermorzeld wordt.
Een team van de Universiteit van Massachusetts in Dartmouth heeft nu aangetoond dat niet alle zwarte gaten hetzelfde zijn.
Als een zwart gat zoals Sagittarius A*, dat zich in het centrum van ons sterrenstelsel bevindt, supermassief is en roteert, kun je er waarschijnlijk met je ruimteschip doorheen.
Zwak
Dat komt omdat de singulariteit in een roterend zwart gat ‘zwak’ is en objecten die ermee in aanraking komen niet beschadigt.
Vergelijk het met een vinger die je heel snel door een vlam beweegt zonder brandwonden op te lopen.
De vraag is alleen waar je dan precies uitkomt.
Hyperruimte
Het onderzoeksteam suggereert dat grote, roterende zwarte gaten kunnen worden gebruikt als poorten naar de hyperruimte.
Aangenomen wordt dat een singulariteit in een zwart gat ervoor zorgt dat een ruimteschip steeds verder wordt samengeperst en uit elkaar wordt getrokken.
Maar bij zwarte gaten zoals Gargantua is dit effect nauwelijks waarneembaar. De bemanning aan boord van een ruimteschip zou er niets van merken.
Geïsoleerd
De wetenschappers gaan er wel van uit dat zwarte gaten geïsoleerd zijn en niet worden beïnvloed door andere bronnen.
Dat terwijl de meeste zwarte gaten worden omringd door stof, gas en straling.
They’re small, with soft flabby bodies, over-sized heads and thin, weakly developed bones. Aliens? That’s one thought, but they’re more likely a group of freaky fish that have evolved to the point that they can live in the oxygen-depleted dead zones of the ocean. Are they the eventual survivors of whatever it is we eventually do to destroy the rest of life on Earth?
“I could hardly believe my eyes. We observed cusk eels, grenadiers, and lollipop sharks actively swimming around in areas where the oxygen concentration was less than one percent of typical surface oxygen concentrations. We were in a suboxic habitat, which should exclude fish, but instead there were hundreds of fish. I immediately knew this was something special that challenged our existing understanding of the limits of hypoxia [low-oxygen] tolerance.”
In a paper published in the journal Ecology, Natalya Gallo, graduate student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, described what she and a research team from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) found on a cruise and dive trip to some deep basins in the Gulf of California that are known to be suboxic – so-called dead zones where oxygen levels are so low that few if any animals or plants can live there. The remotely operated Doc Ricketts underwater robot(developed by MBARI) was sent to explore the Cerralvo Trough at depths between 600–900 meter (1,969–2,953 ft) and unexpectedly found the freaky-looking fish, not just surviving but thriving in schools numbering in the hundreds.
Cusk eel
“Many other types of fish are considered tolerant of low-oxygen conditions. But the fish in these parts of the Gulf are like the winners among a group of elite Olympic athletes.”
These Michael Phelps of the dead zone were predominantly cusk eels (Cherublemma emmelas) and lollipop cat sharks (Cephalurus cephalus). Both are bottom feeders with large heads and slender soft bodies (hence the name ‘lollipop’) which are good for living at great depths, and large gills which may help them take in enough of the suboxic water to get sufficient oxygen to live.
Obviously, these ‘Olympian’ fish don’t have Phelps-like Olympic bodies. It turns out they don’t have Phelpsian appetites either. What and how much these cull eels and cat sharks eat is still a mystery because they live in a dead zone which is, as its name suggests, dead. No fish, no plants, no worms, no Big Macs. It could be that their small, flabby, almost gelatinous bodies have low metabolisms but Gallo – whose Ph.D. thesis focuses on animals living in very low-oxygen environments – wants more data, which requires more dives into the Cerralvo Trough and the Gulf of California.
Lollipop cat shark
(Wikipedia)
This level of oxygen-deprived living is so unprecedented, the MBARI team believes these particular fish need a new name or classification. Their suggestion is ‘ligooxyphile’, which is Greek for ‘little oxygen lover’.
Little oxygen lovers. Is that the future of the rest of the creatures in our oceans … and possibly for us landlubber creatures as well? Team member and biological oceanographer Lisa Levin thinks it may be too late.
“Continued warming of the ocean may challenge even the most hypoxia-tolerant fishes. Elevated temperature will lower the solubility of oxygen in the water while increasing the amount of oxygen the fish need to survive.”
Do we all need to evolve into small, flabby, big-headed mouth-breathers? Or are we already?
Over the decades there have been a number of fictional tales of faked alien invasions. One of the more intriguing is Bernard Newman’s 1948 novel, The Flying Saucer. It tells of a secret group of scientists who fake three UFO crashes (one in New Mexico, no less – shades of the Roswell affair), as a means to convince the people of Earth that aliens are invading. In reality, it’s a big ruse. The reason: to try and unite the world and turn it into a (hopefully benevolent) New World Order-type future. H.G. Wells’ novel,The War of the Worlds, inadvertently provoked fears of an alien invasion when, in 1938, Orson Welles made a radio version of Wells’ classic 1898 book, which led some late listeners to theprogram to believethat a real extraterrestrialinvasion was beginning.
In the real world, Annie Jacobsen’s 2011 book – Area 51 –included a story given to her by an elderly man named Alfred O’Donnell. The story told to Jacobsen controversially suggested that a strange and sinister plot between Joseph Stalin and crazed, deranged nut, Joseph Mengele was initiated in the late-1940s. The idea was to try and convince the United States that aliens were invading. And, how were they set on achieving it? According to O’Donnell, Mengele physically altered a number of children (so they would look “alien”), and who were remotely flown in a futuristic-looking UFO-type aircraft, all the way to the U.S. The plan was that when the craft was – again remotely – landed and the terribly mutated children climbed out, the U.S. would be plunged into a state of hysteria. It’s not unlike the Wells-Welles situation in 1938. But, so the story went, the craft didn’t land. Rather, it allegedly crashed in the wilds of Lincoln County, New Mexico, and – as a result – the U.S. government chose to hide what O’Donnell claimed really happened. It should be noted that UFO researchers have suggested that O’Donnell himself had been fed disinformation (knowingly or not), as a means to further hide the truth of whatever happened at Roswell. All of which brings me to an early 1960s-era show that just might have been the ultimate “faked alien invasion” saga.
It all revolves around a 1963 episode of the cult-classic sci-fi show, The Outer Limits – which, along with The Twilight Zone, defined 1960s-era, on-screen science-fiction. The episode in question is titled “The Architects of Fear” and it was broadcast on the night of September 30, 1963. It starred Robert Culp, Leonard Stone and Geraldine Brooks. In the story, the world is a very dangerous place. That much is obvious from the opening words of the show: “Is this the day? Is this the beginning of the end? There is no time to wonder. No time to ask why is it happening, why is it finally happening? There is time only for fear, for the piercing pain of panic. Do we pray? Or do we merely run now and pray later? Will there be a later? Or is this the day?”
Not only is the world a dangerous place, but it appears that an all-out nuclear Armageddon is right on the horizon, and with no return from the brink of destruction. Or is there? Just maybe there is. Cue the plans of a group that undertakes classified work for a variety of government agencies. Its name: United Labs. The highest echelons of the company plan to save the people of the world – and the world itself – by creating a faked alien invasion. In other words, if the Human Race can be deceived into thinking that an alien attack is looming large on the horizon, it will provoke the United States, Europe, China and the then-Soviet Union to combine their efforts to defeat the alien foe. The result: a world as one, rather than as a planet filled with nations that seem almost desperate to destroy each other.
Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, the people at United Labs have found evidence of alien life on a faraway world they call Theta. The staff even have one of their Thetans, which is held secretly in the company’s facility. The United Labs people have no idea of the real agenda of the Thetans: are they friendly, hostile or somewhere in between? The questions are many. The answers are nowhere in sight. So, a decision is taken to turn the Thetans against us, the Human Race, in a very strange and alternative way. Such is the advanced nature of the technology at United Labs, they have the ability to surgically alter a human being and transform them into the identical form of a Thetan. The plan, then, is to have one of the employees surgically altered, to resemble a Thetan, and then reveal the Thetan to the world – and the plans that the aliens have for our world: destruction. Of course, no-one knows if the Thetans really are hostile, but making it look like that is the primary goal.
The secret, manipulative program begins when the highest echelons of United Labs get together to decide which one of them will be the man to undergo the radical surgery to turn him into something less than human – or maybe even more than human. Upon drawing lots, the man for whom life will never be as it was, is Dr. Allen Leighton (played by Culp). A great deal of planning goes into the project. Dr. Leighton – a physicist – is naturally crushed by the bleak fact that the time will come very soon when he will never see his wife, Yvonne (actress Geraldine Brooks), again. That much is very clear: the top secret project requires for Dr. Leighton to be killed in a plane crash. Of course, there is no plane crash. Rather, that is the cover story which is given to Yvonne and the press. Now, behind closed doors, the mutation of Dr. Leighton can begin without intrusion – or so it seems, at first.
Dr. Leighton is subjected to a series of bizarre medical procedures – some of which will physically alter his appearance to a significant degree. Other aspects of the plan to turn a man into an alien involve grafting alien tissue onto and into Dr. Leighton. There is, however, a terrible side-effect: Dr. Leighton’s mind begins to change, too. His normal, human thought processes – even his very character – start to fragment and he becomes far more like a real Thetan than he does a member of the Human Race. Add to that the fact that Yvonne astutely comes to realize that there is something profoundly suspicious about the nature of her husband’s death and we quickly get to see how things are in danger of unraveling. On top of that, Yvonne finds herself pregnant, something which Dr. Leighton – or what is left of him – quite understandably cannot forget. So, the plan has to go forward – and quickly so, if it is to work and prevent the destruction of the planet by the super-powers.
The United Labs staff create a high-tech vehicle which, they hope, will be assumed by the governments of our world to be an alien spacecraft. In reality, though, it’s one of ours. The plan is for the “alien spaceship” to land outside the United Nations headquarters in New York. Dr. Leighton – by then – will be completely alien in appearance and character. He will also be armed with a highly destructive weapon. The team hopes that when Leighton makes it clear to the elite of the U.N. that war with the Thetan race is all but inevitable, all of the powerful countries of our world will come together as one and fight the alien foe. It’s a brilliant idea – and a brilliant ruse, too. Unfortunately for United Labs, it doesn’t work as it should. In fact, it all ends in complete and utter disaster. The craft is not quite as reliable as the scientists assume. The result is that it crashes back to Earth and very near to the United Labs. And, nowhere near the United Nations. Dr. Leighton – in alien form – exits the crashed craft and stumbles through the surrounding woods, in which he is attacked and shot by a trio of terrified hunters. Severely injured, he makes his stumbling way towards the place where the whole, sinister plot began: United Labs. Yvonne, perhaps using a more than liberal degree of psychic power, still suspects that her husband did not die in a plane crash, makes her way to the labs, demanding to know the truth of what really happened to him.
As fate would have it, both Yvonne and what was once Dr. Allen Leighton arrive at the labs at pretty much the same time. As Allen Leighton dies in the lab, Yvonne realizes to her eternal horror that the alien monster before her is actually her beloved husband. One man is dead, a wife is in a state of turmoil, a secret project has quite literally come crashing down, and the threat of nuclear war is as likely as it was before the strange operation was initiated.
Artist's illustration of Planet Nine, a hypothetical world that some scientists think lurks undiscovered in the far outer solar system.
Credit: R. Hurt (IPAC)/Caltech
The weirdly clustered orbits of some far-flung bodies in our solar system can be explained without invoking a big, undiscovered "Planet Nine," a new study suggests.
The shepherding gravitational pull could come from many fellowtrans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) rather than a single massive world, according to the research.
"If you remove Planet Nine from the model, and instead allow for lots of small objects scattered across a wide area, collective attractions between those objects could just as easily account for the eccentric orbits we see in some TNOs," study lead author Antranik Sefilian, a doctoral student in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University in England, said in a statement. [The Evidence for 'Planet Nine' in Our Solar System (Gallery)]
The hunt for Planet Nine — or, as some prefer to call it, Planet X or Giant Planet Five — began in earnest in 2014. That year, astronomers Chad Trujillo and Scott Sheppard proposed the existence of a large, unseen "perturber" beyond Neptune, whose gravitational influence could explain oddities in the orbits of distant objects like the dwarf planets Sedna and 2012 VP113.
In January 2016, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown contributed more evidence, announcing that other TNOs also appeared to bear this gravitational imprint. Batygin and Brown estimated that the perturber is perhaps 10 times more massive than Earth and lies about 600 astronomical units (AU) from the sun on average. (One AU is the Earth-sun distance — about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)
The case has been building ever since, as astronomers have found more and more "clustered" TNOs; the tally is up to about 30 at the moment.
But Planet Nine's existence isn't a slam dunk: Some astronomers think the orbit-shaping tug is more likely coming from many small bodies. The new study, which Sefilian conducted with Jihad Touma of the American University of Beirut, explores this latter scenario.
The duo's modeling work suggests that the strength-in-numbers explanation does indeed work — if the mass of the Kuiper Belt, the ring of bodies beyond Neptune, is a few to 10 times that of Earth. This is a pretty big "if," given that most estimates peg the Kuiper Belt's mass at less than 10 percent that of Earth (and one recent study put the figure at 0.02 Earth masses).
But other solar systems are known to harbor massive disks of material in their outer reaches, Sefilian and Touma noted. And our failure to spot one around our own sun doesn't mean it doesn't exist, they stressed.
"The problem is, when you're observing the disk from inside the system, it's almost impossible to see the whole thing at once. While we don't have direct observational evidence for the disk, neither do we have it for Planet Nine, which is why we're investigating other possibilities," Sefilian said.
"It's also possible that both things could be true — there could be a massive disk and a ninth planet," he added. "With the discovery of each new TNO, we gather more evidence that might help explain their behavior."
The new study has been accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. You can read it for free at the online preprint site arXiv.org.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate) is out now.
Body of an Anunnaki King, 12,000 years old and .. Completely intact? (Video)
Body of an Anunnaki King, 12,000 years old and ... Completely intact?(Video)
This discovery was made completely by chance in 2008, and if we know what happened is undoubtedly thanks to the Russian media, and the television press. It happened in Kurdistan, Iran, a country quite closed to the world, at least in the Western world, but with good relations with Russia.
Although hidden until today, we get to know what has been published by the Russian press. The discovery occurred in a work, when digging the ground to make the foundations of a house. Then a mausoleum containing three coffins appeared, and after making more concise excavations, in a layer of earth were found the remains of an ancient civilization and the ruins of a city.
By the stratum in which it was found, but also thanks to the artifacts found in the interior, archaeologists determined that the monument and the city were built between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago, a date that was quickly revised by the Islamic authorities after the publication of the find in the Russian press. The Iranian authorities publicly declared that the ruins were 850 years old, which obviously does not correspond to the facts and is, again, an official lie.
Of the three sarcophagi found in the mausoleum, we only have video evidence of the first two. We do not know anything about the third, or its content, or who was inside.
As you can see, it is very difficult from the video to determine the height of the individual, although they seem to be very high. Both seem to be in a state of suspended animation. One wears a crown, suggesting that he was the sovereign of the city, and was buried, as can be seen, with his sorcerer, which leads to the conclusion that in the third sarcophagus he must have contained his wife Queen. There are gold coins placed in the eyes of the king, which is a well-attested habit of antiquity. This is a first blow to the official lie that the ruins are from the 12th century. It can be seen that it has Caucasian features, but copper skin : the second individual sarcophagus shares these same characteristics.
It seems that they are adorned with gold and precious stones. These ornaments carry a cuneiform script that is not identifiable, but which has been translated, giving the name of the second man found in the second sarcophagus and thus how his magician by profession. The royal sarcophagus seems to be covered with gold or a metal that resembles it, and near the monarch you can see a golden chest embedded with strange gems, like those that are adorning the king, it is said strange because they seem luminescent.
Is this the first real evidence of the carriers of knowledge? Are these beings who were before the Flood and were linked to people and were directly related to the development of human civilization? Or is it just another fake that surfs the Internet? Leave us your comment!
Experts Warn Of A Cataclysmic Flip Of Earth’s Magnetic Field As A “Mysterious Anomaly” Under The Continent Of Africa Causes It To Weaken January 3, 2019 by Michael T. Snyder
Experts Warn Of A Cataclysmic Flip Of Earth’s Magnetic Field As A “Mysterious Anomaly” Under The Continent Of Africa Causes It To Weaken
The Earth’s magnetic field is steadily getting weaker, and scientists are warning that it could soon flip. If that happens, it will be a cataclysmic event beyond anything that we have ever experienced before. Of course most people never even give much thought to the giant magnetic field that surrounds our planet, but without it modern society would simply not be possible. The magnetic field provides protection for the electrical grid which powers our homes, our businesses, our hospitals, our stores, our banks, our computers and our televisions. It is essentially an enormous “force field” that protects our world from solar storms and cosmic radiation. Right now we take that protection for granted, but scientists tell us that Earth’s magnetic field has flipped before, and that it could soon happen again.
We’ve known for more than a century that our planet’s magnetic field has been weakening at a rate of about five per cent a century, prompting concerns that the Earth’s magnetic poles could soon flip — an event that could have potentially disastrous results for life on Earth.
Unfortunately, this sort of event could happen a whole lot sooner than many had anticipated. At this moment, there is a gigantic “anomaly” directly under the continent of Africa that has scientists extremely concerned…
The region that concerns scientists the most at the moment is called the South Atlantic Anomaly – a huge expanse of the field stretching from Chile to Zimbabwe. The field is so weak within the anomaly that it’s hazardous for Earth’s satellites to enter it, because the additional radiation it’s letting through could disrupt their electronics.
“We’ve known for quite some time that the magnetic field has been changing, but we didn’t really know if this was unusual for this region on a longer timescale, or whether it was normal,” physicist Vincent Hare from the University of Rochester in New York said in February this year.
I was amazed when I read that.
If the magnetic field is so weak in that region that it is dangerous for Earth’s satellites to fly over it, then what is all of that additional solar radiation doing to the people that actually live in all of those countries?
The current weakening in Earth’s magnetic field – which has been taking place for the last 160 years or so – is thought to be caused by a vast reservoir of dense rock called the African Large Low Shear Velocity Province, which sits about 2,900 kilometres (1,800 miles) below the African continent.
Or at least that is what they think, because the truth is that nobody has ever been 1,800 miles below the surface of the Earth to take a look.
In any event, everyone agrees that the Earth’s magnetic field continues to weaken, and that a flip is inevitable at some point.
If a rapid magnetic field flip were to happen in the near future, scientists tell us that electronic devices all over the globe would be fried and that “trillions of dollars in damage” would be caused…
According to a team of international scientists, including from the Australian National University (ANU), such an event in the future would increase our planet’s exposure to the Sun’s radiation, and could cause trillions of dollars in damage by decimating power and communications systems across the globe.
Already, we are seeing major Earth changes happen all over the globe, and this is a major theme in my work. Major storms are becoming larger and more intense, volcanic eruptions are happening more frequently, and big earthquakes are becoming increasingly common.
The truth is that the crust of our planet is cracked and we are just floating on the pieces. Our world is becoming increasingly unstable, and the worst is yet to come.
Mysterious chirps in deep space may be 'colliding black holes,' Hat Creek astronomer says
Mysterious chirps in deep space may be 'colliding black holes,' Hat Creek astronomer says
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The fast radio bursts detected by a Canadian telescope may have been caused by colliding black holes, an astronomer at SETI Institute said.
The repeating pulses were discovered last summer by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). Its findings, presented to the scientific community Jan. 9, have drawn widespread attention.
But black holes don't necessarily explain the series of bursts originating in a galaxy 1.5 billion light years away, said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer for the SETI Institute at Hat Creek Radio Observatory, about 70 miles east of Redding.
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are pulses of radio waves a fraction of a second long.
“Some of these are only about a thousandth of a second," Shostak said.
The CHIME telescope at night in British Columbia. The telescope will help detect future fast radio bursts.
Andre Recnik
Radio telescopes record these signals, and computers alert astronomers when there’s an anomaly.
“We’re monitoring 70 million radio signals at once,” Shostak said. “It’s all done digitally.”
The longest of these recorded pulses is one-tenth of a second long, about equal to an eye blink, he said. "If you were listening to these things, what you’d hear is a very fast slide whistle. It's a radio burst. It’s a little bit of static that starts at the high end of the radio dial and comes down in frequency."
The first single burst was recorded in 2001, but it wasn’t recognized as such by astronomers until 2007. Since then more than 60 bursts were digitally recorded, Shostak said.
Astronomers don't yet know what causes the fast radio bursts, primarily because the frequency at which they show up makes research difficult.
"Almost all of these have only been measured once," Shostak said. "You see this happen — 'beep!' — and then you don't hear it again. You can sit there and look at it (recoded data) for weeks, and you never 'hear' it again. That makes it problematic because whenever in science you only measure something once, it's pretty hard to figure out what it is you're dealing with."
Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Shasta County
Courtesy of Seth Shostak, SETI
One possible, but highly improbable, explanation made public interest in fast radio bursts go sky-high: Intelligent life in another galaxy.
"Some people have suggested that you shouldn't rule out the possibility that this is some kind of alien signal, that maybe it's the Klingons trying to get in touch, or maybe it's a navigation beacon for them, or something like that," Shostak said. "You can cook up some scenarios in which it might be possible."
Klingons are the outer space villains in the television series "Star Trek."
But Shostak said that's unlikely because most individual fast radio bursts come from points billions of light years apart.
“You see a fast radio burst over there in the sky, and then you find another fast radio burst over here in the sky, and these places are billions of light years apart." If aliens are sending messages, "how is it they've all been organized to produce these fast radio bursts? It takes billions of years to send a message from one galaxy to another.”
Whatever makes fast radio bursts has to be incredibly powerful to create a signal an antenna on Earth can pick up, Shostak said. “It’s likely it’s a natural phenomenon. It could be colliding black holes."
Nonetheless, he said black holes colliding doesn't necessarily explain two series of repeating bursts recorded in 2012 and 2018.
In 2012, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico heard the first repeating bursts from what Shostak called a "rather nondescript galaxy" three billion light years away.
"The big discovery of last week was a second repeating one," Shostak said.
CHIME at Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory recorded the second series, 13 bursts in a three-week period in July and August, 2018.
“Once you have something that repeats, you can study it," Shostak said.
Allen Telescope Array operated by the SETI Institute at Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Shasta County.
Courtesy of Seth Shostak, SETI
Astronomers spoke of the discovery at the American Astronomical Society's annual meeting last week in Seattle. They're hopeful about modifying existing radio telescopes to listen for more bursts.
These include the Allen Telescope Array operated by the SETI Institute at Hat Creek Radio Observatory in the area of Lassen National Forest.
Shostak said he hopes the Allen Telescope Array will be capable of recording fast radio bursts by summer, but "it's always a money issue for our work because we're not funded by the government. It's all donations."
Depending in part on how soon SETI and other organizations can fund the adjustment of radio telescopes to detect them, Shostak said he thinks astronomers will know more about the cause of the bursts in the next two years. Whatever they are — alien messages, black-holes colliding or something else, he said it's sure to be big.
“Whatever is making this radio burst is an incredible event,” he said. “The amount of energy in that little chirp is 10 million times the energy the sun puts out in the same amount of time. It’s far away, it’s powerful and it’s mysterious."
Go to the SETI Institute for more information on the search for extraterrestrial life.
Why is that of the tens of thousands of reports of UFO’s since the iconic radio broadcast of Orson Welle’s “War of the World’s” terrified the nation in 1938, have none been reported by astronomers manning the observatories across our pale blue dot?
Is it because some leading astrophysicists such as Great Britain’s Martin Rees and Paul Davies at Arizona State University, who believe that advanced alien civilizations may be a billion or more years older than the human species have technology that would be unrecognizable by our primitive means.
Davies believes that advanced alien technology may exist that is “beyond matter.” That might have no fixed size or shape; have no well-defined boundaries. Is dynamical on all scales of space and time. Or, conversely, does not appear to do anything at all that we can discern. Does not consist of discrete, separate things; but rather it is a system, or a subtle higher-level correlation of things. Are matter and information, Davies asks, all there is? Five hundred years ago, Davies observes, “the very concept of a device manipulating information, or software, would have been incomprehensible. Might there be a still higher level, as yet outside all human experience, that organizes electrons?
If so, this “third level” would never be manifest through observations made at the informational level, still less at the matter level.
The “appearance of this Other” might be imminent, warns China’s preeminent science-fiction author of The Three-Body Problem, and that it might result in our extinction. “Perhaps in ten thousand years, the starry sky that humankind gazes upon will remain empty and silent,” he writes in the postscript to one of his books. “But perhaps … Continue readingFrom the X Files –“China’s Philosopher of Alien Civilizations Warns of First Contact”
Closer to the reality of 2019, astrophysicist Jason Wright at Penn State University has an solid, verifiable answer: astronomers haven’t observed any unidentified objects. It’s that simple he says. In a 2013 post, Astronomers and UFOs in his AstroWright blog, he wrote that “astronomers study big swaths of the sky all the time, and with much more sophisticated equipment than the cameras that have captured those iconic images of extraterrestrial UFOs. I tell them we don’t see any UFOs.”
Wright uses entry in the Astronomer’s Telegram as an example. The “Telegram” is a forum where astronomers can quickly disseminate information about new, interesting, or strange things they discover with their telescopes and cameras –so, yes, some astronomers do just “look through” telescopes all night trying to discovery new “stars,” Wright observes.
“I do not believe that most advanced alien civilizations will be biological,” says Susan Schneider of the University of Connectict and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton .”The most sophisticated civilizations will be postbiological, forms of artificial intelligence or alien superintelligence.” Schneider is one of the few thinkers—outside the realm of science fiction— … Continue reading“Alien Artificial Intelligence is Out There” –And It’s Billions of Years Old (A 2018 Most Viewed)
In December of 2013, astronomers using RadioAstron, a 10 meter radio telescope in an elliptical orbit around the Earth, astronomers discovered a spacecraft orbiting the Earth that wasn’t in their database and quickly informed the world about their discovery. Just as quickly they determined that it was actually an object that just happened to have been overlooked by their database, and announced the resolution to the issue.
What did not happen, Wright says tongue in cheek, “is that NASA sent its goons to quiet the astronomers, or phone calls to the POTUS to send national security officers to red alert 5, or astronomers quickly opened up Photoshop to destroy the evidence.”
“Now, I don’t expect this example to convince hard-core UFOlogists who engage in highly developed conspiratorial thinking,” Wright concludes, “but I hope it sheds some light for others on the chasm between popular misconceptions of how extraterrestrial UFO’s might be real, and the reality of our understanding of all those lights in the sky.”
SCARRED SURFACE The moon held on to almost all the craters it’s ever acquired in 4.5 billion years of impacts. This lunar map is surrounded by images of 111 craters wider than 10 kilometers and younger than a billion years.
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A new look at the moon’s craters suggests the Earth and moon both suffered a sharp increase in impacts around 290 million years ago, and Earth has kept its biggest scars.
Geologists long assumed that erosion and tectonic activity had erased Earth’s craters so thoroughly that “you couldn’t say anything about the craters on Earth at all,” says planetary scientist Rebecca Ghent (SN: 12/22/18, p. 40). So to figure out how much Earth was pummeled in the past, Ghent and her colleagues turned to the moon.
“We can use our closest neighbor to learn a lot more about the Earth’s history,” says planetary scientist Sara Mazrouei, who worked on the study as a graduate student under Ghent at the University of Toronto.
With no atmosphere and no plate tectonics, the moon’s surface preserves a record of nearly all of its 4.5 billion years of craters. If the moon sat through a hailstorm of impacts, Earth should have experienced the same storm, and therefore the same rate of cratering, the researchers argue in the Jan. 18 Science. But without knowing how old most lunar craters are, it’s unclear if the Earth and the moon suffered impacts constantly or in short bursts.
Ghent realized in 2014 that the youngest craters on the moon were surrounded by large rocks, debris excavated by the impact that formed the crater (SN: 4/14/18, p. 32). Those large rocks absorb heat from the sun during the lunar day and radiate it back out at night in wavelengths of light visible to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
“Right away you could see the young craters popping out,” Ghent says. Older craters, by contrast, were surrounded by rocks that had been beaten down to dust over time, so they didn’t glow as brightly at night.
INCOMING IMPACTS Planetary scientists figured out the ages of more than 100 craters on the moon, which revealed that there was a sharp uptick in impacts 290 million years ago. This movie illustrates craters forming over the past billion years of the moon’s history. Each impact is represented by a burst of light and a pitch, with higher tones representing smaller impacts and lower tones representing larger ones.
Ghent used nine craters whose ages were already known to figure out a mathematical relationship between a crater’s nighttime glow and its age. Then Mazrouei, working by hand, mapped all 111 lunar craters less than a billion years old and wider than 10 kilometers in diameter, and used that map to figure out the cratering rate.
Most lunar scientists assumed that, after an early turbulent period of extreme bombardment more than 3 billion years ago, the moon’s impact rate has been mostly constant. “But we saw an increase,” Mazrouei says — specifically, a jump in impacts by a factor of 2.6 around 290 million years ago.
The team then compared the lunar craters’ sizes and ages with 38 of the largest and most stable craters on the Earth. They lined up almost exactly in their timing and sizes.
To double check that such large craters on Earth weren’t often erased by erosion, the researchers looked at volcanic features called kimberlite pipes near the craters. These carrot-shaped lava tubes change starkly in appearance when eroded. The kimberlite pipes that appeared on the same terrain as the large craters confirmed that very little of either feature had been lost to erosion, Ghent says.
The jump in the impact rate could have been caused by a smash-up in the asteroid belt sending debris toward the inner solar system, says coauthor William Bottke, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. In 2007, Bottke linked one such asteroid break-up to the impact that killed the dinosaurs (SN: 9/8/07, p. 148).
Ghent cautions against drawing conclusions about an exact date for that spike in impacts, noting it could have happened tens of millions of years earlier or later than estimated, or in multiple spurts. “I don’t want people to say, ‘Hey, the Permian-Triassic extinction happened during that time. This might have caused it.’ We don’t know that,” she says.
The new finding offers an explanation for a gap in Earth’s craters between 300 million and 650 million years old, Bottke says. “We don’t see fewer craters because of erosion,” he says. “We see fewer craters because the impact flux was lower.”
But the craters’ longevity raised another question. While the moon’s craters date back billions of years, Earth has almost no preserved craters older than about 650 million years. That makes sense if craters are lost constantly to erosion. But if not, where did the older craters go?
Older craters could have been scraped away during a global glacial period called Snowball Earth, Bottke says. Other lines of geological evidence suggest Earth went through deep freezes, the last of which occurred about 650 million years ago.
Other planetary scientists not involved in the study expressed mixed reactions about its methodology and findings.
“That is a major step forward in our understanding of the impact flux in the inner solar system,” says planetary scientist Christian Koeberl of the University of Vienna. “Their method is interesting and new.”
Geologists Thomas Kenkmann and Stefan Hergarten of the University of Freiburg in Germany are more skeptical. In 2015, the duo showed that many of Earth’s craters could still be undiscovered (SN: 7/25/15, p. 5). They’re not convinced that the new study captured all craters, or that Earth’s crater count reflects an increase in impact rate 290 million years ago. It could just be that “younger craters are more likely to have survived,” Hergarten says. “The dataset is really small, so I would not trust in it too much.”
Kenkmann agrees. “Considering the low number of craters for the lunar calculation, and the vague interpretation of the terrestrial record, it appears that a house of cards is being built here.”
Here’s an alternative explanation to the Planet 9 hypothesis, the idea that a large undiscovered planet in the outer solar system is pulling on some small outer worlds, distorting their orbits.
Artist’s concept of distant trans-Neptunian objects, moving in far-flung orbits around our sun. Some of their orbits are strange, and that strangeness has caused astronomers to search for another undiscovered, large planet in our solar system.
In early 2016, astronomers at Caltechannounced evidencefor another large planet in the outer solar system. They – and most professional astronomers – call this distant, unknown world Planet 9 (although some call it Planet X, in deference to those still smarting over theIAU’s 2006 decisionto demote Pluto to dwarf planet status). The evidence for Planet 9 has always been indirect. It came from the strangely aligned orbits of small objects in the outer solar system. Since 2016, astronomers have searched for a Planet 9 (or Planet X) in the outer solar system, but, so far, they haven’t found one. Now another group of astronomers says the strange orbits of outer solar system bodies can be explained without a Planet 9.
In other words, maybe there’s no reason to suppose a Planet 9 exists.
What’s going on here? Nothing more than the process of science. Science is, after all, primarily a process and a search for truth.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the American University of Beirut have put forth the alternative explanation to the 2016 Planet 9 hypothesis. They agree with the observations showing some small outer bodies – called trans-Neptunian objects or TNOs, moving more than 30 times Earth’s distance from the sun – have strangely aligned orbits. But the new work suggests the combined gravitational force of many small, distant objects – not a large, single Planet 9 – could have created those weird orbits. According to their statement, the team:
… proposes a disk made up of small icy bodies with a combined mass as much as 10 times that of Earth. When combined with a simplified model of the solar system, the gravitational forces of the hypothesized disk can account for the unusual orbital architecture exhibited by some objects at the outer reaches of the solar system.
Illustration showing the hypothesized orbit of Planet 9 along with the known orbits of several trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs).
Image via R. Hurt/JPL-Caltech.
Generally speaking, the trans-Neptunian objects – or TNOs – circle the sun on nearly-circular paths oriented in all directions. However, said these astronomers:
Since 2003, around 30 TNOs on highly elliptical orbits have been spotted: they stand out from the rest of the TNOs by sharing, on average, the same spatial orientation …
The Planet 9 hypothesis suggests that to account for the unusual orbits of these TNOs, there would have to be another planet … ‘shepherding’ the TNOs in the same direction through the combined effect of its gravity and that of the rest of the solar system.
Antranik Sefilian of University of Cambridge explained how they came to an alternative viewpoint:
We wanted to see whether there could be another, less dramatic and perhaps more natural, cause for the unusual orbits we see in some TNOs. We thought, rather than allowing for a 9th planet, and then worry about its formation and unusual orbit, why not simply account for the gravity of small objects constituting a disk beyond the orbit of Neptune and see what it does for us?
Sefilian is a former student of Jihad Touma of the American University of Beirut. Together, they created a new computer model to explain the unusual orbits without a Planet 9. Sefilian said:
If you remove Planet 9 from the model and instead allow for lots of small objects scattered across a wide area, collective attractions between those objects could just as easily account for the eccentric orbits we see in some TNOs.
Earlier attempts to do this same work fell short, these astronomers said, because in earlier models the total mass of objects beyond Neptune have only added up to around one-tenth the mass of the Earth. That’s too small to account for the strange orbits of some TNOs. For the TNOs to have their observed orbits – without needing a Planet 9 – the model put forward by Sefilian and Touma required a combined mass of outer solar system bodies to be between a few to 10 times the mass of the Earth. Sefilian explained why he and Touma think it’s fair to explore the possibility that mass might be out there. He said:
When observing other [solar] systems, we often study the disk surrounding the host star to infer the properties of any planets in orbit around it. The problem is when you’re observing the disk from inside the system, it’s almost impossible to see the whole thing at once. While we don’t have direct observational evidence for the disk, neither do we have it for Planet 9, which is why we’re investigating other possibilities.
He added:
It’s also possible that both things could be true – there could be a massive disk and a 9th planet. With the discovery of each new TNO, we gather more evidence that might help explain their behavior.
Bottom line: New work suggests the combined gravitational force of many small, distant objects in the outer solar system – not a large, single Planet 9 – may have created the weird orbits of some outer solar system bodies. In other words, there may be no reason for a Planet 9 to exist.
In 2009, alien enthusiasts all around the world were pulled to a state of ecstasy when multiple UFO sightings were reported in Turkey. After the mass sighting, a team of experts at the Council for Scientific and Technological Research studied about the unidentified flying object sighting, and in 2017, they concluded that the clips were completely authentic, and were not subjected to any kind of editing.
Now, videos of similar UFOs have been released by popular conspiracy theoryYouTubechannel Mavi777. The conspiracy theory channel claims that the clips showing two UFOs were apparently shot from the skies of Michigan a few days back.
YouTube: Mavi777
Video 2009:
The UFO spotted in Michigan seems to be triangular in shape, and we can see glowing lights on their finely cut edges. Interestingly, at first glance, the UFO above Michigan skies seems very similar to the flying objects that were spotted in Turkey.
The video uploaded by Mavi777 soon went viral, and conspiracy theorists were quick to conclude that alien life is a reality. Many conspiracy theorists, after analyzing the video started arguing that aliens used to visit the earth on sophisticated flying vessels, and they even claim that governments all across the world are aware of their existence.
In the meantime, some viewers of Mavi777 put forward a very different theory. As per these people, the UFO spotted in the Michigan skies has nothing to do with aliens, but it is actually a secret military vehicle conducting a routine night check. Some of these people believe that triangular vessels like the alleged TR-3B are being used by the United States Air Force to spy on other countries.
The new UFO sighting was reported just a few days after another flying object was spotted coming out of a Mexican volcano. The video was initially uploaded to YouTube by a user named 'Kat Martin 2016', and it gained popularity after Scott C Waring, a popular UFO researcher shared the discovery on his website 'UFO Sightings Daily'.
Even though UFO sightings have been reported widely worldwide, experts reveal that most of these videos are fabricated for clickbait needs.
One eagle-eyed conspiracy theorist spotted a strange bright light hovering near the mouth of the 5,426 metre tall volcano, colloquially named El Popo. The sighting was made on webcams which constantly monitor the volcano. In the video of the sighting, a bright light can be seen darting around the source of the volcano, moving erratically in a circular motion.
YouTube user Kate Martin2016 quickly uploaded film to the video-sharing website, asking if what she saw was a genuine UFO or if there was a simpler explanation such as a bug.
She wrote alongside the video: “Could be anything from a UFO to a bug.
“Interesting how it is still, then zooms off in the same direction it came from though! I don't know, I have seen bugs look that way on film, but it seems pretty big.”
However, other conspiracy theorists are convinced it is a UFO and more so, is evidence that aliens are using the volcano as a base.
UFO seen at Popocatepetl volcano PROOF of alien base - shock claim
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Prominent alien hunter Scott C Waring wrote on his blog, UFO Sightings Daily: “This particular volcano is famous for its UFO sightings over the last five years.
“I personally have recorded about ten videos of flying objects near the mouth of the volcano in the past.
“I believe the UFO is hovering over the left side of the volcano it pick up or drop off passengers or cargo for the alien base that sits 4-6km below the volcano.
The UFO was seen darting around the mouth of the volcano
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“Even the locals have reported seeing UFOs and even alien creatures on the volcano, so this video is not a surprise, but is excellent evidence that an alien base does exit there.”
Some people simply were not having it however, offering a more logical explanation.
YouTuber black hole commented: “Relax guys, it is just a flying lamp.”
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. Ian Fleming wrote that. While it hardly seems responsible to suggest that three sightings of the same “UFO” is equivalent to “enemy action” (don’t attack UFOs, literally nothing good could ever come from that), it’s a good quote and there’s a truth in there. Three separate sightings of the same weird thing in sky over the course of one week suggests that, despite the impossibility of identifying that weird thing, something’s puttering around up there. In early January, in the city of Hull, East Yorkshire, England, multiple witnesses reported seeing aglowing UFOon separate occasions and at different times of the day.
Artist’s rendition of orb UFOs
First, on January 6th, Hull Live reported that a woman and her aunt had seen a strange glowing red light hovering low in the sky while walking down the street at approximately 5:40 PM. The woman snapped a picture of the UFO and described the sighting:
“It didn’t seem to be moving and it just seemed really weird as it definitely wasn’t a laser, a helicopter or another light that was supposed to be there – it was just stationary in the sky and we thought it could have been a UFO.
As soon as we saw it, we took a picture of it on the phone, and when we were walking back from the shop, the red ball was still there – it was really freaky and shook us up a bit as it made us think that something else is out there.”
“Something else is out there” might be the most vague phrase ever used by anybody, but OK. The woman said that when she got home she showed the picture to her partner, who then went to the location of the sighting to try and get a video, but the UFO had disappeared.
On its own, that sighting would be pretty meaningless. It’s a red light in the sky in a populated area. There’s a thousand different explanations for that. Yet, on January 9th, Hull Livereported that another woman had come forward with a sighting. A 31-year-old woman says that at roughly 1:30 AM on New Years day, she was in bed and falling asleep when she heard a loud bang. She jumped up, thinking that it might be an intruder and looked outside. According to the woman:
“I thought it may have been someone booting in my gate to get my children’s bikes, so I peeked out through the blinds only to be met with a massive red orb in the sky opposite my street hovering above the local field.
My heart skipped a beat and I shut my blinds and dived back in bed because I was too nervous to look back out.”
On January 11, a third sighting was reported. This sighting occurred on Thursday, January 4th. A family was walking to a shopping center at approximately 4:45 PM when they saw a “scary, multicolored UFO” appear in the sky for a brief second. According to the unnamed witness, the object was circular and had lights of various colors and disappeared in the blink f an eye. However, 15 minutes later, the “UFO” showed up again, and the family was able to take a picture (you can see the picture here). According to the witness:
“We saw it again when we got to top of Midmere off Dorchester Road. It was flashing red, blue, green, yellow, all sorts of colours and when we blinked it disappeared into thin air.
It was circular in shape and we thought it was a plane at first but it was moving too quickly and it wasn’t shaped like one. It was flickering all different colours, normally a plane is one or two different colours when you see it. It was quite scary to see.”
This is actually pretty accurate.
So are these sightings related? The first two sightings aren’t reported as being anything other than a glowing red orb, while the third apparently upped its lighting budget. Of course, the third sighting also happened while it was still sort of light out. Do aliens use different headlights depending on the time of day? The picture of the third UFO definitely looks like it could be some sort of craft, but it could also be a drone. Drones are small and quick. Because of their size, they can present the illusion that they’re further away and faster than they actually are. At the same time, they make a pretty distinctive sound, and one that we’re all kind of used to at this point, so it’s hard to say.
It will be worth keeping an eye on Hull to see if any other UFOs show up, or if anyone crashes a drone.
Over the last few years, we’ve covered the development of the insane-soundingartificial meteor showersbeing developed by a Japanese start up. The company plans to launch tiny cube satellites into low orbit which can eject payloads of pellets designed to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere. Those pellets are crafted with asecret chemical composition in order to create psychedelic technicolor meteor showers for everyone below. Say it with me now: what could go wrong?
“Whoops. You said the extra-extra-large pellets, right?”
You know, I don’t care what could go wrong. I’m going to get some hallucinogens, travel to wherever this is happening, listen to Vangelis, and have my mind freakin’ blown. The company behind this brain-bending technology is called Astro Live Experiences, or ALE, and promises “a whole new level of entertainment.” While ALE has been developing the “Sky Canvas” system for a while now, the company has just announced that its first prototype has been sent into spaceaboard an Epsilon rocket. Put in your magic mushroom orders now, because they’re sure to sell fast once these meteor showers start turning the night sky into a psychedelic light show.
Not everyone is happy about Sky Canvas, naturally. Hugh Lewis, a space debris and space junk expert at the University of Southampton, says the idea is irresponsible. “Given the fact that we’re trying to encourage good behaviour in the space environment and so on, just to throw things up there because they look pretty is a bit problematic,” Lewis told the BBC. Lewis believes there’s no way that ALE will be able to control the trajectory of the meteors like expected, meaning there could be potential unknown consequences like damage to other satellites or even interference with aircraft. In order to have their meteor showers happen where and when they want to, ALE will have to perfectly calculate the launch vectors of their pellets in order to have them visible at the desired time and place, which it plans to do at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. 頑張って！
I’m pretty sure this is a depiction of Sky Canvas, although it could be a panel from a manga about a horrible alien coming to destroy Earth.
ALE points out these unknowns right in their latest press release announcing the launch of their first satellite. “Because no one else has attempted this challenge before,” the company writes, “there have been no safety guidelines implemented for a mission of this type.” ALE says they held “multiple safety discussions and workshops” with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to determine how best to not interfere with other satellites or create dangerous side-effects.
I don’t know why, but for some reason despite the potential dangers, Sky Canvas excites me – but the orbital billboardsbeing planned by a Russian startup horrify and disgust me. Sure, advertising can be called a form of art, but these meteor showers feel much more expressive, concerned solely with creating beauty and wonder than selling cheap crap to the masses. Will the skies become the next big medium for artists and advertisers? It’s likely inevitable. In some ways the skies already are a medium for advertisers through sky writing, those annoying banners pulled by planes, and blimps. Won’t giant luminous objects and spectacles be just a little more aesthetically pleasing? I, for one, welcome the glowing rainbow-colored skies of our cyberpunk future.
Giant Ice Disk Shows Up In River May Indicate UFO Is Below! Maine, Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Giant Ice Disk Shows Up In River May Indicate UFO Is Below! Maine, Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: January 20, 2019 Location of discovery: Westbrook, Maine This frozen disk was discovered spinning in a river at the town of Westbrook, Maine. The ice is in a perfect circle and may be forming above the river due to a large UFO parked below the river. If a metallic object is below the water, it could actually create a round circle of ice in the winter due to the cold metal shape and different temp above the metal craft. Thus the a disk the size of the UFO is forming. I do believe if radar is used to examine the lake floor, a round metallic craft will be seen. Scott C. Waring
Is there another Sun, Inner World and lost civilization inside of Earth?
Is there another Sun, Inner World and lost civilization inside of Earth?
Is there a slight possibility that there is an inner Sun, Inner World and lost civilization inside of Earth? In recent decades, a number of findings have been made that drastically alter the views on the Inner Earth theory.
According to many claims in the past decades, there is a world inside of our planet filled with supernatural beings, incredible technologies, and unexplained phenomenon. The ‘mythical’ land inside of our planet, its supernatural civilizations, and secrecy behind the entire subject stretches back over half a century. While the basis backing up such claims are nearly nonexistent, the legends must have originated from somewhere. What if Jules Verne’s classic “A Journey to the Center of the Earth” is true? And somewhere down there, an entirely new world is waiting to be explored, a place where somehow, living beings inhabit the depths of our planet, a place that ancient cultures and civilizations knew existed, or still exists today. What if it’s actually true?
Plato even spoke of the mythical inner world. He mentioned that extremely long and narrow tunnels connect the four corner of our planet. When these are finally connected, Agartha would stand with a magical ruler holding the throne.
But many similar accounts are present in history. If we go back to the year 50AD, we will discover that a Roman author by the name of Pliny the Elder stated that the ancient Atlantean civilization fled to the Himalayas after catastrophic events swiped over their capital city. Eventually, the Atlantean’s dug into our planet where they currently live, far away from ‘modern’ civilization.
However, if we look towards the 20th and 21st century, we will discover a number of authors who have made shocking claims in regards to the Hollow Earth theory. After proposing a new theory of the birth of our planet, Russian Physicist Fedor Nevolin became famous for suggesting that the Earth is hollow and most likely has a smaller Sun in the center. The Sun’s energy is said to penetrate through the holes in the Poles and accumulates in the center, making it possible for life to flourish inside our planet.
But perhaps the most famous accounts ‘offering’ conclusive evidence that there is a world inside our planet come from the famous Byrd expeditions.
Books like Worlds beyond the Poles by Amadeo Giannini claimed that Byrd had not flown over the Pole but inwardly through large holes leading into the Earth. Ray Palmer, mainly based on the book by Giannini, introduced his theory in the December 1959 issue of its magazine and obtained very positive results from the audience because of his theories and ideas regarding the Hollow Earth theory.
It is noteworthy to mention that according to Giannini and Palmer, during Vice Admiral Byrd’s alleged flight over the North Pole in 1947, Admiral Byrd radioed that he saw beneath him, not snow, but areas of land with mountains, forests, vegetation, lakes and rivers and in the undergrowth, a strange animal that looked like a mammoth.
It is said (citation needed) that in January of 1956, after leading an expedition to Antarctica, Admiral Byrd had stated that his expedition had explored 3,700 km beyond the South Pole and also just before his death, Byrd had said there existed a land beyond the Pole that was “an enchanted continent in the sky, a permanent mystery of Earth.” That land, according to other theories, was the legendary Rainbow City, home to a fabulous lost civilization.
But much before Byrd and others spoke of a world inside our planet, ancient civilizations had oral, and written legends that suggest such ’emptiness’ inside of our planet might actually exist.
The Macuxi Indians are indigenous people who live in the Amazon, in countries such as Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela. According to their legends, they are the descendants of the Sun’s children, the creator of Fire and disease and the protectors of the “inner Earth.” Their oral legends speak of an entrance into Earth. Until the year 1907, the Macuxies would enter some sort of cavern, and travel from 13 to 15 days until they reached the interior. It is there, “at the other side of the world, in the inner Earth” is where the Giants live, creatures that have around 3-4 meters in height.
However, there are more ‘stories’ that speak of similar events. The Babylonian hero Gilgamesh visited his ancestor Utnapishtim in the bowels of the earth; in Greek mythology, Orpheus tries to rescue Eurydice from the underground hell; it was said that the Pharaohs of Egypt communicated with the underworld, which could be accessed via secret tunnels hidden in the pyramids; and Buddhists believed (and still believe) that millions of people live in Agharta, an underground paradise ruled by the king of the world. Where did all of these legends originate from?
Interestingly, in ‘modern’ times, several interesting authors have made similar claims. For example. Leonard Euler, a mathematical genius of the eighteenth century, concluded that the Earth was hollow, containing a central sun and was inhabited. Dr. Edmund Halley, discoverer of Comet Halley and Royal Astronomer of England also believed that the Earth was hollow on the inside with three “Floors”.
In an extremely interesting interview with Coast To Coast AM, author and researchers David Wilcock stated that an alliance of ancient civilizations is living inside the planet. These ancient civilizations have been calling the inner Earth their home for long periods of time, and they are about the reveal themselves to the world.
Wilcock states that based on his research, it seems as if these cavities are utilized so that advanced civilizations have a place they can live while looking out for everything that happens on the ‘outer Earth,’ the surface of the planet.
Recent studies have discovered interesting details about what’s located inside of our planet.
According to scientists, there is a large ocean of water located inside the mantle of our planet. They point out that this gigantic tank of water could fill the oceans on our planet up to three times.
Researchers also indicate that the water located on the surface of our planet came not from space, but from within the planet itself, as part of “complete water cycle on the planet”.
In addition to the water found inside of our planet, researchers have discovered an ‘unknown’ oxygen sourcedeep below the surface of our planet. This discovery seems to point towards the existence of a hitherto unknown oxygen source believed to be located somewhere in the lower mantle of our planet.
The mysterious source of oxygen is believed to be so enormous, that it can influence the climate on our planet. The team of researchers led by Dr. Elena Bykova from the University of Bayreuth reported the results in the scientific journal nature Communications.
Are legends just legends? Myths only fictional accounts? Or is there something to the countless claims that have been formulated throughout the years which suggest there is a gigantic world waiting to be explored beneath the surface of our planet.
Check out these interesting video which complement the reading material:
TREASURE HUNTERS Two spacecraft, Hayabusa2 (left) and OSIRIS-REx (right), began exploring two ancient asteroids in 2018. Both craft are expected to pick up samples of their respective rocks and carry them to Earth.
HAYABUSA2: DLR (CC BY 3.0); OSIRIS-REX: CONCEPTUAL IMAGE LAB/NASA’S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
Shogo Tachibana greeted asteroid Ryugu with dread.
The cosmochemist with the University of Tokyo had spent 10 years helping to design a mission to Ryugu’s surface. To touch down safely, the spacecraft, Hayabusa2, needs to find broad, flat stretches of fine-grained dust on the asteroid. But on June 27, whenHayabusa2 finally reached its targetafter a three-and-a-half-year journey (SN Online: 6/27/18), Tachibana got a rude awakening: Ryugu is covered in boulders. Big ones.
“We cannot find a 100 percent safe place to touch down,” Tachibana says. “It seems to be a very dangerous place.”
If Hayabusa2 can deal with the boulders — and any other challenges that arise — it will become only the second spacecraft to bring a piece of an asteroid back to Earth. And the mission will answer questions that its predecessor couldn’t. The original Hayabusa mission visited a sand- and rock-covered asteroid called Itokawa in 2005. But Itokawa has the wrong chemical makeup to address big questions about the origin of life that Ryugu, which is carbon-rich, is well suited for. And Hayabusa suffered a series of calamities that caused it to return to Earth several years late, with less than 2,000 grains of precious asteroid dust.
Tachibana and colleagues from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, are counting on Haybusa2 to return bits of Ryugu’s surface to Earth in 2020. And if a daring plan to blow a crater into the asteroid works, the spacecraft will get some subsurface grains as well.
A sister project from NASA, the OSIRIS-REx mission, arrived at an asteroid called Bennu in December to bring samples back in 2023 (SN Online: 12/3/18).
The two spacecraft face daunting challenges. The probes must investigate objects that have so little gravity that sunlight can knock them off their orbits. If the probes manage to pick up samples, the spacecraft must keep the dust pristine during the trip back to Earth. To get the most out of the missions, the Japanese and American teams are trying to work together across cultural and bureaucratic divides.
New worlds
Ryugu and Bennu are small targets. Ryugu’s polar diameter is about 880 meters and Bennu’s is about 510 meters (left). Both asteroids orbit the sun on trajectories that sometimes take them relatively close to Earth (right).
Two small asteroids...
...with similar orbits
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Source: Univ. of Arizona
But the uncertainties and anxiety are worth it. Asteroids like Ryugu and Bennu are among the oldest and most intriguing objects in the solar system. They could hold the keys to some of the most pressing planetary questions: What came before the planets? What are the origins of life? And how much of a threat do asteroids pose to life on Earth today?
Of course, planetary scientists already have tens of thousands of asteroid pieces to study. Such meteorites fall to Earth in the hundreds each year, offering researchers plenty of material to slice, grind and examine for clues to the solar system’s history.
Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona in Tucson, the principal investigator of OSIRIS-REx, spent the first part of his career trying to coax meteorites into telling him whether molecules necessary for life — such as nucleic acids, amino acids and phosphorus, which are structural components of DNA — could have originated inside carbon-rich asteroids like Ryugu or Bennu.
Carbon-rich asteroids are thought to be mostly unchanged since their formation at least 4.6 billion years ago, which makes them perfect time capsules. A few grains of such an asteroid could reveal what the early solar system was made of.
Remote studies of asteroids also suggest that the raw ingredients for life, and maybe even the chemical processes that are necessary for life to begin, might have been present on carbon-rich asteroids even before the planets were done growing.
“We think an asteroid like this one may have delivered this material to the surface of the early Earth, providing seeds or building blocks of life,” Lauretta says. “If we can show the precursors [of life] started before the planet, I think the probability that there’s life elsewhere in the solar system goes way up.”
Studying meteorites to explore this notion falls short on two fronts, however: It’s hard to tell where they come from, and they’re contaminated. As soon as a space rock hits Earth’s atmosphere, it starts accumulating signs of Earth life. Therefore, any intriguing organic compounds in a meteorite could be from Earth, not native to the asteroid. There’s no way to tell.
“We needed samples of a carbon-rich asteroid to really answer the questions I was into,” Lauretta says.
A rare breed
Of more than 500,000 asteroids in the solar system, Ryugu and Bennu are two of only five with the right orbits, sizes and compositions for a sample-return mission.
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Source: Univ. of Arizona
Break me off a piece
Getting to the origins of the solar system, and maybe life’s beginnings, makes bringing clean, carefully selected samples to earthly labs crucial. But spacecraft can’t just dig in with a shovel. There’s no grabbing a rock with a claw like in an arcade game. The asteroids are so tiny — Ryugu is about 880 meters from pole to pole and Bennu is about 510 meters — and their gravity is so weak that reaching out and grabbing something could push the spacecraft off course with the asteroid.
So instead of scooping or grabbing, the spacecraft will reach out with proboscis-like tubes, either touching down briefly or hovering above the surface. This tricky endeavor has been attempted only once before — and it was almost a disaster.
Drop and dodge
To sample Ryugu below the surface, Hayabusa2 will launch a projectile to blast open a crater, then take a lap around the asteroid to avoid damage. The spacecraft will then come close to the new hole in the ground and shoot a small bullet from its sampling horn. The bullet will splash on the surface, sending dust and sand into a catcher in the upper part of the horn.
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Source: JAXA
The first Hayabusa spacecraft was supposed to use its three reaction wheels to stabilize itself as it hovered near Itokawa’s surface, stretched out a collection tube to touch the surface and fired a small bullet down the tube to stir up dust particles. Those dust grains would float up the tube into a sterile chamber for storage on the trip back to Earth.
Almost everything went wrong. Before Hayabusa even got to the asteroid, the biggest solar flare ever recorded damaged the spacecraft’s solar panels and one of its engines, slowing down the spacecraft and delaying its asteroid rendezvous by three months.
Once at Itokawa, two of the craft’s reaction wheels failed, making it hard for the craft to keep an even keel. A companion rover released by Hayabusa that was meant to land on Itokawa’s surface and measure the asteroid’s composition missed its mark and floated into space. The dust-stirring bullet didn’t fire, so it was initially unclear if the craft got any samples at all. And all four of the probe’s engines failed one by one on the return journey, forcing Hayabusa to take a lengthy detour home.
“It had lots of serious problems,” says JAXA’s Makoto Yoshikawa, a mission manager on both Hayabusa and Hayabusa2.
For all of Hayabusa’s calamities, the mission’s tale had a happy ending. Against all odds, the spacecraft returned to Earth in 2010 (SN Online: 6/14/10), having grabbed 1,534 grains of Itokawa.
Planners of the new mission learned from the original mission’s mishaps. Hayabusa2 has four reaction wheels, souped-up engines and a beefier communication system that will send back much more data to help scientists plan the sample collection. The collection tube has teeth at its mouth to lift pebbles into the tube even if the bullet doesn’t fire. And in September, Hayabusa2 successfully dropped three small landers on Ryugu’s surface to gather data on the asteroid’s composition, temperature and magnetic properties (SN Online: 9/24/18).
With similar caution, when OSIRIS-REx goes in to gather a sample from Bennu, it will touch the asteroid only briefly. “It’s like five seconds of contact,” Lauretta says. “Get the sample and then get out of there.”
KEEP IT CLEAN OSIRIS-REx’s sampler, called the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, or TAGSAM (photographed in a clean room), has a head on an arm that extends.
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The spacecraft’s Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, TAGSAM, has a nitrogen jet at the end of a robotic arm. When the arm touches Bennu’s surface, it will release a burst of nitrogen gas to ruffle the surface just enough to blow particles into the sample collector. As a bonus, the sample collector’s head is covered in stainless steel Velcro-like pads that can pick up surface dust on contact.
The remote-reach strategy avoids the hassle of anchoring to the asteroid, but presents its own problem: No one knows how fine-grained dust behaves when blown around in low gravity. That open question worries engineers. “What actually happens when you contact the surface of an asteroid is an unknown area of physics,” Lauretta says. “I think [the surface] is going to be like a fluid. It’s a truly alien landscape.”
IN AND OUT TAGSAM's arm allows surface contact without the spacecraft landing on the asteroid. During five seconds of contact, a jet of nitrogen gas will agitate Bennu’s surface to loosen dust for collection. Surface contact pads will also collect fine-grained material. Once collection is done, the TAGSAM head will move into a capsule where it’s protected from contamination during the trip back to Earth.
The road to Ryugu
When Hayabusa returned, planetary scientist Michelle Thompson of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., studied the Itokawa grains. Having such a limited supply forced scientists to get the most out of the samples. The first chapter of Thompson’s Ph.D. dissertation was written about a single Itokawa particle that measured 50 micrometers across.
“We still got some amazing science out of those particles,” she says. Those grains proved that most of the meteorites on Earth come from stony, carbon-poor asteroids like Itokawa, not carbon-bearing ones like Ryugu and Bennu (SN Online: 8/25/11). “In the context of [Hayabusa’s] problems, it’s incredible the amount of data that came out of that mission,” Thompson says.
While Hayabusa was floundering in space in 2006, Yoshikawa’s team was already suggesting that JAXA fly a follow-up mission. By then, Yoshikawa had set his sights on an even more attractive asteroid, Ryugu.
JAXA sent a spacecraft to Itokawa because it was easy to reach, not because it was scientifically special. But as a carbon-rich asteroid, Ryugu is thought to consist of the most ancient, pristine material in the solar system.
Ryugu’s name even references a time capsule from a Japanese folktale, in which the hero Urashima Taro retrieves a box from a dragon-guarded castle called Ryugu at the bottom of the sea. When the hero returns to the surface, he finds that 300 years have passed. When he opens the box, he becomes an old man, because the box contained all of that elapsed time.
Yoshikawa and his colleagues proposed the mission every year and were rebuffed each time — until Hayabusa came home in 2010.
The spacecraft’s return was lauded in Japan, Yoshikawa says. “Japanese people were very surprised to see that Hayabusa really came to the Earth.” An editorial in the Japan Times deemed the spacecraft a “high achiever,” and called for more funding for JAXA and space research.
In May 2011, the Japanese government approved the Hayabusa2 mission. Tachibana, Yoshikawa and the rest of the JAXA team aimed for the next launch window, in 2014.
Friendly competition
Like Hayabusa2, OSIRIS-REx was rejected multiple times before NASA selected it for flight, also in May 2011. Because of Bennu’s orbit, the next launch opportunity to reach the asteroid wasn’t until September 2016. That two-year gap between JAXA’s and NASA’s launches inspired some friendly competition between the teams.
Years in the making
The Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx missions grew up almost simultaneously on opposite sides of the world. The close timing of the Japanese and U.S. missions means the two can learn from each other.
Side-by-side missions
May 10, 1999: Ryugu discovered
September 11, 1999: Bennu discovered
May 2011: Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx are officially approved
December 3, 2014: Hayabusa2 launches
September 8, 2016: OSIRIS-REx launches
June 27, 2018: Hayabusa2 arrives at Ryugu
December 3, 2018: OSIRIS-REx arrives at Bennu
Late 2020: Hayabusa2 returns samples to Earth
September 24, 2023: OSIRIS-REx returns samples to Earth
HAYABUSA2: DLR (CC BY 3.0); OSIRIS-REX: CONCEPTUAL IMAGE LAB/NASA’S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
“Of course, we are good friends and we want to have a good relation,” Tachibana says. “But at the same time we are rivals.” OSIRIS-REx is bigger than Hayabusa2 and plans to collect up to 20,000 times as much asteroid dust — up to two kilograms, in the best-case scenario, compared with Hayabusa2’s total of 100 milligrams. To compete, Hayabusa2’s team set out to do everything first, Tachibana says.
“They were concerned we were going to overshadow them,” Lauretta says. The first few meetings between the teams were tense, he recalls. But both groups felt it was best to work together.
“This is the first time since Apollo … that two sample-return missions are going to the same kind of target,” Tachibana says. “The U.S. and the Soviet Union could not talk to each other.” It was the middle of the Cold War. “This time we can talk to each other.”
In November 2014, NASA and JAXA signed a memorandum promising to share data, software and samples. JAXA will give 10 percent of its Ryugu sample to NASA, and NASA will give 0.5 percent of the larger Bennu sample to JAXA.
Still, the two space agencies don’t align on everything. “Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx have completely different philosophies of sampling,” says cosmochemist Keiko Nakamura-Messenger of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. She oversees the sample site selection for OSIRIS-REx and will be in charge of storing the samples.
Take the mission timelines: OSIRIS-REx will spend more than a year mapping Bennu in detail. Its suite of science instruments, including three cameras, a laser altimeter and three spectrometers, will figure out the asteroid’s composition all over the surface before the team chooses the mission’s sole sampling site.
Hayabusa2 scientists, on the other hand, chose the first of three sampling sites in August, less than two months after the spacecraft arrived at Ryugu (SN Online: 8/23/18). Originally the team planned to take its first sample in October, but the boulders proved so difficult that sampling was pushed to February 2019 at the earliest.
Hayabusa2 will sample three sites to capture as much of the asteroid’s mineral diversity as possible. One of the samples will come from within a several-meter-wide crater that doesn’t yet exist. The spacecraft will create the hole by firing a two-kilogram copper projectile at the asteroid, then hide on the other side of Ryugu to avoid debris when the projectile hits. The aim is to see if the asteroid’s interior is different from the surface.
It’s hard to imagine NASA approving such a crazy maneuver, says Nakamura-Messenger, who grew up in Japan. It’s too risky. “The NASA way, the American way, is: The success rate has to be really high,” she says. But she’s rooting for Hayabusa2’s bold moves.
“In my heart, I’m Japanese,” she says. “Therefore, I’m like, ‘Go for it!’ ”
Precious dust
Hayabusa2 aims to gather 0.1 grams of dust from Ryugu, the weight of about three grains of rice. OSIRIS-REx will try to get up to 2,000 grams of Bennu’s surface, about the weight of a small Chihuahua.
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Bound for Bennu
Still, Ryugu’s surprise boulder field made Lauretta, Nakamura-Messenger and the rest of the OSIRIS-REx team nervous about Bennu.
“I’ve been lying awake at night anticipating Bennu,” Lauretta says. “It’s fascinating and frightening all at once.”
Fitting with NASA’s cautious approach, the OSIRIS-REx team knew a lot more about Bennu than JAXA knew about Ryugu before the missions launched. Bennu came close enough to Earth in 1999, 2005 and 2011 for radio telescopes to map the asteroid’s shape (though not close enough to reveal much detail).
“We compiled the most comprehensive database from astronomy for any asteroid in the solar system,” Lauretta says of the team’s prework on Bennu.
Those radio measurements allowed researchers to see how sunlight nudges the asteroid on its orbit, a phenomenon called the Yarkovsky effect. As asteroids tumble through space, they absorb sunlight on one side and re-emit that energy as heat later, when that side faces away from the sun. The force of that radiating heat is enough to push the asteroid around, making it difficult to predict the asteroid’s orbit over the long term.
The Yarkovsky effect calculation yielded a worrying prediction: Bennu has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting Earth in the late 22nd century, one of the highest probabilities of any known asteroid.
HAZARD MAP OSIRIS-REx took this mosaic image of Bennu in early December and has seen signs of liquid water in the asteroid’s past.
UNIV. OF ARIZONA, NASA’S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
That forecast makes OSIRIS-REx’s mission even more urgent. Testing the returned samples will give scientists a better understanding of how Bennu’s surface material absorbs and emits heat. That information will sharpen the researchers’ predictions of where the asteroid will go, and help inform future missions to deflect asteroids that come too close to Earth.
That’s only if Bennu is smooth enough for the spacecraft to get a sample. The first images takenas OSIRIS-REx approached Bennu on December 3 didn’t do much to quell the team’s fears. With the naked eye, Bennu seems to have about as many boulders as Ryugu, maybe a little fewer, says planetary scientist Kevin Walsh of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo.
“Even if we convince ourselves that there’s a site that’s boulder free, there’s still a chance it could change later on. So we’ll have to see,” says Walsh, who presented an early comparison of Bennu and Ryugu on December 11 at a Washington, D.C., meeting of the American Geophysical Union. “We have plenty of tools to find the places with the least amount of hazards, even if we can’t find a place that’s completely free of them.”
That is a relief, Nakamura-Messenger says. But every mission so far has surprised her.
“I don’t make wild guesses anymore,” she says. “Nature is wilder.”
This article appears in the January 19, 2019 issue of Science News with the headline, "Cosmic collectors: Twin quests aim to grab some asteroid dust and bring it to Earth."
AREA 51 ENGINEER BREAKS HIS SILENCE: “THERE IS AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL RACE WORKING WITH US”
AREA 51 ENGINEER BREAKS HIS SILENCE: “THERE IS AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL RACE WORKING WITH US”
For a long time, Area 51 has been the focus of different conspiracy theories, especially because it is highly secret and hidden so that only people with official access can reach it. However, recently one of the biggest scandals involving this place came to light, especially because it was an engineer who worked in Area 51 that provided classified information. And although it seems incredible, many experts in the field agree that the information has all the veracity.
What happens in Area 51?
Testimonials that directly involve this place have been constantly revealed by people who had access, as the fact that in this place works with amazing technology to discover all kinds of mysteries in the universe that have to do mainly with aliens . It is something that, obviously, has resulted in endless conspiracy theories.
In addition, it has also been claimed that in this place some experiments have been done that nobody will ever know, in which they have been able to create hybrids between reptiles and humans. Basically, that’s where all kinds of information came from.
It is what we call “the jewel in the crown” of the conspiracy cases of the last 3 decades. And, if we talk about Area 51, we will talk about some secret and top secret government case that, year after year, dissipates like a “dropper”.
A former engineer from Area 51
However, recently it was discovered in video of an engineer who worked in Area 51 called Bill Uhouse, in which he states that he received the help of an alien to know how to handle a flying saucer. It is something that bristles the skin to anyone, and that, probably, is the most amazing revelation that has been discovered in these years. The engineer left this world in 2009, but not before revealing details as juicy as the name of the “supposed” engineer’s assistant: JRod.
This is a representation made by Ohouse himself of his “coworker”:
The truth is that, of all the names that might sound alien, sincerely, this is the one that least sounds like an extraterrestrial.
Among the secrets that Ohouse allegedly revealed, we can highlight the following:
The existence of massive underground systems with experimental laboratories and reverse engineering workshops. Several races of humanoids working side by side with our engineers. The revelation of the hybrid race of Nordic extraterrestrials, of which we already echoed on some occasion in our blog. And hybrids of human reptiloids developed in these underground laboratories.
Interesting right? Well here is not the thing, because, one of the last things that revealed the ill-fated Ohouse, was the treaty signed by the same Eisenhower to start an “exchange” friendly with the extraterrestrials between technologies. Which brings us to the following question: What can we offer to them in this exchange? Human technology, no, of course.
Incredible secrets
Most likely, for the rest of our lives, people who already know of the existence of extraterrestrials, or that their UFOs are completely real and continue to hide it indefinitely, will continue in their thirteenths and it is something very disturbing. what they win or are plotting to want to hide this kind of discoveries from the rest of humanity. Why?
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“Beings From the Previous Eon” –Sir Roger Penrose and Joe Rogan: Is Alien Life Out There?
“Beings From the Previous Eon” –Sir Roger Penrose and Joe Rogan: Is Alien Life Out There?
In the art world, “pentimento,” an alteration, an overlay on a painting, hides evidence of traces of a previous work. In a similar vein, British physicist Sir Roger Penrose argues that extinct universes exist that were filled with ghost black holes that are hidden, embedded in the Cosmic Microwave Background map, and may have harbored alien civilizations from an eon that preceded the Big Bang.
Bestonden er voor de geboorte van het heelal al buitenaardse beschavingen? Natuurkundige deelt zijn ontdekkingen
Bestonden er voor de geboorte van het heelal al buitenaardse beschavingen? Natuurkundige deelt zijn ontdekkingen
Een pentimento is een wijziging aan een schilderij, ontstaan tijdens het schilderen van het originele werk.
Pentimenti zijn in het afgewerkte schilderij onzichtbaar voor het blote oog, maar kunnen later zichtbaar worden door veranderingen van de verf of bepaalde onderzoekingen.
Op dezelfde manier bestaan er uitgestorven universa die gevuld waren met zwarte gaten, die verborgen zitten in de kaart van de kosmische achtergrondstraling, zo stelt de Britse natuurkundige Sir Roger Penrose.
Ander heelal
In die universa leefden mogelijk ook buitenaardse beschavingen die eonen voor de geboorte van ons heelal bestonden.
Penrose speculeert dat beschavingen die we gaan ontdekken per definitie miljoenen zo niet miljarden jaren ouder zijn dan de aarde.
Onlangs zeiden wetenschappers bewijs te hebben gevonden van eerdere universa, in de vorm van resten van zwarte gaten die uit een ander heelal zouden komen.
Vreemde cirkels
Die zijn zichtbaar als vreemde cirkels aan de hemel.
“Wat wij beweren is dat we resten zien van een zwart gat dat in een vorig universum is verwoest,” zei Penrose tegen New Scientist.
Het bewijs bestaat uit zogeheten ‘Hawking-punten’, vernoemd naar wijlen Stephen Hawking.
Overgedragen
Hij theoretiseerde dat zwarte gaten toch nog een beetje straling uitzenden, ook wel Hawkingstraling genoemd.
Penrose en zijn collega’s denken dat deze straling van het ene universum naar het andere wordt overgedragen.
In onderstaande video gaat hij in gesprek met Joe Rogan:
Een Chinees echtpaar is onderweg van Argentinië naar China via Amsterdam, waar ze aan boord stappen van een KLM Boeing 787.
En het is vanuit dit toestel dat de man van het echtpaar voelt dat hij naar buiten kijken en dat gevoel bleek niet voor niets.
Het volgende voorval vond plaats op 12 september 2018 toen een Chinees echtpaar in Amsterdam aan boord stapte van vlucht KL883 naar China, een Boeing 787-9. Ze waren en route naar China vanuit Argentinië overgestapt in Amsterdam na een periode van zes jaar in het buitenland.
De man had de hele tijd al een voorgevoel dat dit geen normale vlucht zou worden en hij bleef dan ook geregeld door het raam kijken om te zien of er iets bijzonders te ontdekken viel. Op een gegeven moment zag hij een vreemde wolk en stoot zijn vrouw aan om ook naar buiten te kijken.
De Chinese man schrijft later letterlijk: "Op een kille toon zei ze tegen mij dat alles normaal was en dat wolken er nu eenmaal zo uit zien. Het enige dat ik daarop kan zeggen is dat vrouwen nu eenmaal vrouwen zijn".
Afijn, de man blijft ondertussen regelmatig naar buiten kijken, valt dan weer in slaap en krijgt ongeveer een uur later het gevoel dat hij nu naar buiten moet kijken. Zo te horen in de video bevindt het toestel zich op dat moment boven China en zal het spoedig landen.
Het resultaat is de volgende video, waarin duidelijk een wolk te zien is die geen wolk is. Een fenomeen dat de laatste tijd steeds regelmatiger voor komt.
Ufoloog Scott Waring heeft de beelden bekeken en de afbeeldingen met contrast wat duidelijker gemaakt en dan zie je onmiskenbaar een ruimteschip oftewel een ufo.
Het heeft de vorm van een wolk die zoals gebruikelijk niet thuis hoort in het luchtlandschap zoals die op dat moment is. Het is een wolk die zich hoog boven het normale wolkendek bevindt.
Je ziet dat er een soort zwarte ring om het schip loopt en ook dat er vanuit het midden een bepaalde gloed naar buiten straalt.
En waarschijnlijk heeft niemand anders aan boord van dit KLM toestel iets bijzonders gezien.
“The anatomies we are seeing in Australopithecus sediba are forcing us to reassess the pathway by which we became human.”
In 2008, two partial skeletons were discovered at the fossil site of Malapa in South Africa – the site better known as the Cradle of Humankind for containing a large number of some of the oldest hominin fossils ever found. After ten years of careful study, a new report announces that not only are the two skeletons of the same hominin species, that species is highly likely to be the proverbial ‘missing link’ – the transitional species that became the first humans. If it’s true, that transition occurred much later in history than previously thought.
“The first fossil of Au. Sediba was discovered by Matthew Berger, then a nine-year-old, who happened to stop and examine the rock he tripped over while following his dog Tau away from the Malapa pit.”
The study, published in a special edition of Paleoanthropology, begins with the accidental discovery of the remains that would make a great opening scene for the movie. After that, anthropologists and co-authors Scott Williams, Jeremy DeSilva and Darryl De Ruiter dig into what Berger and his dog dug up – partial skeletons that are far more complete than ‘Lucy’, the 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton discovered in Ethiopia in 1974.
A depiction of how Lucy might have looked.
After dating them to between 1.95 and 1.78 million years ago, the researchers studied their most missing-linkish traits – hands and feet that clearly indicated Australopithecus (which means “southern ape”) sediba were very adept tree climbers. Along with short foot bones not suitable for walking and a small brain, these showed Au. sediba was similar to Lucy. However, their hands had long opposable thumbs suitable for using tools and their teeth showed a more advanced diet than little Lucy consumed. Those traits put them closer to Homo habilis(“handy man”), the prehistoric, walking tool-user discovered in Tanzania who lived between 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago.
A depiction of how Homo habilis might have looked.
“Our findings challenge a traditional, linear view of evolution. It was once thought that a fossil species a million years younger than Lucy would surely look more human-like. For some anatomies of Australopithecus sediba, like the knee, that is true. But, for others, like the foot, it is not. Instead, what we’re witnessing here are parallel lineages, illustrating how different hominin experiments were unfolding early in our complex evolutionary history.”
Is the missing link no longer missing? This extensive study – nine papers by leading anthropologists, each one focusing on a single body part of Au. sediba – seems to indicate that, while this is definitely a ‘found’ missing link, there are more yet to be discovered. Like its name, the theory of evolution is destined to keep evolving.
One more thing. The origin story of the Au. sediba mentions the name of the boy AND his pet dog. Isn’t it time we make our ground-sniffing, bone-digging canine assistants honorary anthropologists?
Mysterious Sphere emits beam of light towards the ground in Edmond, Oklahoma
Mysterious Sphere emits beam of light towards the ground in Edmond, Oklahoma
On January 15, 2019 the witness was driving on the highway near Edmond, Oklahoma when he saw a large sphere that appeared above the tree line near power lines and it was beaming something down.
The eerie light was so bright he could not see the object but it had a bluefish white beam emitting towards the ground as though it was beaming something down or collecting something.
Despite he was moving fast he was able take three images with his iPhone Gs which he has submitted to Mufon for further investigation.
Since the incident is very mysterious, we can only guess what the object might be that the driver has photographed.
By Deborah Byrd in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | TODAY'S IMAGE
It was the last total eclipse of the moon until May, 2021. The EarthSky community captured it. A selection of images here. See more at EarthSky Community Photos!
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Karl Diefenderfer in Quakertown, Pennsylvania caught the eclipse at 12:22 a.m. on January 21, 2019. He wrote: “It’s an extra special treat of a lunar eclipse to be able to capture stars around a full moon. It was so worth braving subzero windchills.”
View larger at EarthSky Community Photos. | Lunar eclipse from Weatherly, Pennsylvania on January 21, 2019 at 12:05 a.m. from Tom Wildoner. Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED, Canon 6D, single 10 second exposure, unguided
Crop circles step aside! A giant ice disk has been found on the Presumpscot River in Maine. The fascinating phenomenon is attracting thousands of onlookers, including ducks.
The giant ice disk on Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine.
Image via Tina Radel/City of Westbrook.
You have probably heard of crop circles, but did you know there areice circlestoo? Every so often, ice circles – or actually ice disks – are reported. They seem quite bizarre, although they are known to form naturally – no aliens needed.
Now, a new one has been found on the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine. The “spinning” (actually slowly rotating) disk is huge – about 300 feet (100 meters) in size – making it one of the largest, if not the largest, one on record. The phenomenon was first reported on January 16 and has attracted thousands of onlookers. As one witness exclaimed:
It’s the moon in the river. Pretty cool!
According to city councilor Gary Rairdon:
I have not seen anything like this. I’ve lived probably 52 years of my life in Westbrook. It’s almost like Mother Nature’s merry-go-round.
A closer view of the giant ice disk on Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine.
Image via Tina Radel/City of Westbrook.
Below is a time-lapse video showing the rotation of the ice disk (via Doug Bertlesman):
The first photos of the ice disk were taken by a drone and now have attracted world-wide interest and curiosity. The rough surface of the disk does sort of make it look like the moon, as an aesthetic bonus.
It’s a beautiful, spectacular thing. It’s just a beautiful aesthetic phenomenon. It’s not unprecedented, but it does seem to be unusually large. There was a modest crowd and a steady flux of people coming and going, taking pictures and just enjoying the whole thing. It had a nice community feel to it.
But how did this ice disk – and others like it – form?
It’s actually a rather well-known natural phenomenon, usually found in spots where there is a circular current in a river or stream that creates a whirlpool effect. Random eddies in water tend to follow a circular route. In winter, ice crystals in this slower-moving water can gradually coalesce to form a circular “mat” of ice. The current keeps the ice disk in place as it slowly rotates. As the disk turns, it bumps up against the shoreline or other chunks of ice and is essentially “lathed down” until it is round. The result is an ice disk that can be surprisingly circular and smooth-edged.
As Ryan Breton, a meteorologist at News Center in Maine, added:
The river has different depths. On the right side where there isn’t any ice it’s a faster current. On the left side, where the ice started to form it’s a little shallower, and that ice started to form into a circle that completely changed around the current of the entire river.
Illustration of a historical account of an ice disk – on the Mianus River near Bedford, N.Y. in 1895. Image via Scientific American.
The ice disk has even become popular with the local ducks, said Rob Mitchell, who owns a nearby office building:
There were ducks sitting on it. The ducks were rotating on this big Lazy Susan. It was a big duck-go-round.
Similar ice disks have been seen before, although typically smaller than this new one in Maine. Most are usually around 30 feet or so in diameter, as compared to this 300-foot monster. There is even an article in an 1895 Scientific American that quotes a reader who described “a revolving ice cake” on the Mianus River near Bedford, N.Y.
Bottom line: The Maine ice disk is an exquisite example of how nature can produce phenomena that at first glance almost seem other-worldly – and can leave the imagination spinning.
US Government Releases Details On Top Secret UFO Investigation Project
US Government Releases Details On Top Secret UFO Investigation Project
In response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project onGovernmentSecrecy, the Defence Intelligence Agency released a list of 38 research titles they have been investigating and pursuing. Among others, The Department of Defense was found to have been funding research on wormholes, invisibility cloaking, and “the manipulation of extra dimensions” under its shadowy Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which was first described in 2017 by the New York Times and the Washington Post.
What exactly are these strange titles?
Eric W. Davis of EarthTech led a research topic entitled “Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy, ” which was described as a facility that explored the forefront reaches of science and engineering, with an interest in theories of spacetime, studies of the quantum vacuum, and also the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
A second project on the list named “Invisibility Cloaking” which was led by a German scientist called Ulf Leonhardt, who is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Leonhardt’s research is concerned with the science surrounding theoretical quantum optics, and in 2006 his work on theoretically creating an invisible hole in space, inside which objects can be hidden was cited by Nature, giving some more exposure of his work.
Another strange title, “Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions, ” was attributed to a theoretical physicist called Richard Obousy, who is the director of the nonprofit Icarus Interstellar, which claims to be “researching technologies that will enable breakthroughs in interstellar travel.” In 2009, Obousy was credited by Gizmodo for creating a warship design that was both scientifically accurate and also one that could hypothetically be propelled through space by manipulating dark energy.
When did the public discover this organization?
Luis Elizondo, who was a military intelligence official that managed the operation for almost seven years, gave the first hints about the program’s existence. When Elizondo resigned, he claimed there was footage of UFO’s coming into contact with fighter jets and he requested that these extraterrestrial encounters be made public. The videos were subsequently published by the New York Times and the Washington Post. At the time, Reid sought to tighten security around the program’s discoveries. Eventually, though, that didn't matter due to this release of all the new information.
The agency claims the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was shut down due to a lack of funding, although Elizondo said it continued to investigate UFO sightings, so there are mixed reports.
The Future
It is unclear what will happen with the organization and its funding now that all its research objectives have been revealed. There is a real possibility it will continue as there is still so much to learn from outer space and time itself. There is also the possibility it will shut down or be moved without it being public knowledge. If the US government has been hiding this for such a long time, it really begs the question - what else have they been hiding?
Fascinating: These 7 predictions by sci-fi authors have really come true
Fascinating: These 7 predictions by sci-fi authors have really come true
Science fiction has inspired people for centuries. However curious their authors' view of the distant future may be, their fantastic visions often come true.
Whether Jules Verne, Aldous Huxley, Gene Roddenberry or George Lucas - they all have one thing in common: they open up a glimpse of the technology of the future that has already become reality or is at least about to become so.
#1 The moon landing
104 years before the first man would set foot on the moon, Jules Verne published his idea of landing on the moon. The novel "From Earth to Moon" from 1865 is about three Americans who take off with a spaceship into space and land on the moon.
#2 The communicator from "Star Trek"
In 1966, the famous communication device from Star Trek was presented to the public for the first time. What seemed revolutionary at the time is now reminiscent of a folding mobile phone.
Although engineers were already working on mobile phone technology in the 1960s, it took Motorola until 1973 to present the world's first mobile phone.
Ten years later, in 1983, the then heavy, large and expensive devices came onto the market. However, the world had to wait another six years for the really first clamshell mobile phone. The device, which was then released, came very close to the Star Trek communicator.
#3 The Iron Man Suit
Ever since it first appeared in the Iron Man comics, Tony Stark's suit has been a legend. Although nobody will be flying around in such high-tech wonders in the near future, the US military is working under the name "Talos" on a technology that combines some of the features of the Iron Man suit.
In addition, there are hobby craftsmen like Richard Browning, who has made his very own flight suit in the style of Iron Man.
#4 Electrically powered submarines
Jules Verne, the second: In his novel "20,000 Miles Under the Sea" from 1870, the Sci Fi author impressively describes a submarine that is completely powered by electricity. At that time, however, such monsters functioned exclusively mechanically.
An MIT historian decades later confirmed to National Geographic that Verne's fictional submarine "Nautilus" would hardly differ from today's watercraft.
#5 Bluetooth headset
In "Fahrenehit 451" of 1953, Sci-Fi writer Ray Bradbury wrote about "shells" and "thimble-sized radios" that are very similar to today's Bluetooth headphones. Today Apple AirPods are used by millions of people every day.
According to Bradbury, his devices "created an electronic ocean of sounds, music, and conversation that washed away on the beach of your waking consciousness.
#6 The atomic bomb
H.G. Wells, author of "The Liberated World", visioned in 1914 in his novel of a grenade made of uranium that "exploded indefinitely". Three decades later, these bombs were dropped on Japan and cost the lives of countless people.
Wells himself described a drop from an airplane, as was the case during the Second World War. Nevertheless, experts say that the author's invented atomic bombs differed significantly from their very real counterparts. They exploded continuously for several days, weeks or months.
#7 Driving robot cars
Cars with "robot brains" said Isaac Asimov, father of the robot laws, already in 1964 before, after he had visited the world exhibition at that time.
More than 50 years later, companies such as Waymo, Tesla, Apple, and others are trying to create autonomous vehicles that do without the driver's help. Many of them want to bring their vehicles onto the roads by 2030.
Conclusion: Science fiction is real
It is a fascinating thought that people can think up technological developments that will become reality decades later. However, we do not know to what extent this has influenced subsequent generations and has led to the implementation of certain concepts.
Oumuamua : l'objet interstellaire est-il un vaisseau extraterrestre?
Oumuamua :l'objet interstellaire est-il un vaisseau extraterrestre?
Oumuamua, dont le nom hawaïen signifie « messager venu de loin et arrivé le premier » , n'a pas fini de faire parler de lui. D'abord pris pour une comète venue d'une autre étoile, puis pour un astéroïde, l'hypothèse de la comète est de nouveau privilégiée. Cependant, l'objet interstellaire n'a pas le comportement d'une comète venant de dégazer. Dans ce cas, si ce n'est ni un astéroïde, ni une comète, qu'est-ce que c'est ? 'Oumuamua est-il le messager d'une autre étoile ?
Oumuamua vaisseau extraterrestre
Quelques semaines après la découverte de 'Oumuamua, une première salve d'observations suggérait que le premier objet interstellaire jamais détecté dans notre Système solaire était un astéroïde de forme inhabituelle, plus long que large (entre 6 et 10 fois), un peu comme un cigare. Un objet cylindrique venu d'une autre étoile... ? Mais, ne serait-ce pas Rama, le vaisseau spatial décrit dans le roman de science-fiction Rendez-vous avec Rama, d'Arthur C. Clarke. Pour tenter de le savoir, des chercheurs ont donc mis 1I/2017 U1 « sur écoute », voici un an, à l'affut d'éventuelles émissions radio qui proviendraient de l'intérieur... Mais cela n'a rien donné, l'objet était silencieux.
Alors, exit l'hypothèse d'un vaisseau (ou d'une sonde) venu d'ailleurs ? Non, une nouvelle étude (consultable sur arXiv) relance le débat quant à la vraie nature de ‘Oumuamua. S'agit-il d'un objet naturel expulsé d'un autre système planétaire ou d'un artefact envoyé par une civilisation extraterrestre pour découvrir s'il y a de la vie ailleurs dans la galaxie ? Les deux auteurs n'excluent pas cette possibilité.
L’énigme de l’excès d’accélération de ‘Oumuamma
Dans leur article, les deux astrophysiciens du Harvard Center for Astrophysics, Shmuel Bialy et Abraham Loeb, n'affirment pas que 'Oumuamua est un vaisseau spatial mais ils posent la question (d'ailleurs, le titre de leur article est : La pression de rayonnement solaire peut-elle expliquer l'accélération particulière de 'Oumuamua ?). Tous deux restent très intrigués par « l'excès d'accélération » de l'objet observé lors de sa traversée de notre Système solaire.
Mais avant de continuer, un rapide rappel des faits s'impose : 1I/2017 U1 est passé au plus près de notre étoile, le 9 septembre (à 0,25 UA, soit un quart de la distance Terre-Soleil). Le 14 octobre, il était au plus proche de la Terre (0,15 UA)... Et ce n'est que cinq jours plus tard, le 19 octobre, que Robert Weryk et son équipe l'ont découvert sur les relevés du télescope Pan-STARRS-1, installé sur le volcan Haleakalā, à Hawaii. Quelle émotion ce fut pour l'équipe de mettre la main sur le premier objet de ce type ; en effet, les astronomes attendaient ce moment depuis des décennies... Et voici qu'enfin, sous leurs yeux, venant de la direction de la Lyre, quelque chose qui ressemble à une comète ou un astéroïde venu d'ailleurs fait son apparition.
Revenons à cette accélération. Pourquoi se comporte-t-il ainsi, faisant fi surtout des interactions gravitationnelles avec le Soleil et les planètes, contrairement à ce que s'attendaient à observer les astronomes. Dans une étude publiée au début de l'été 2018, l'explication était que cela était dû à un léger dégazage. Finalement, l'énigmatique ‘Oumuamua serait une comète et non un astéroïde. Mais une comète atypique car les recherches n'ont révélé aucune trace d'une queue cométaire (c'est d'ailleurs pour cette raison qu'après sa découverte, il fut postulé que c'est un astéroïde). Ce serait une comète sans glace (ou presque). Bref, un objet qui n'est pas sans rappeler Phaéton ou encore 9969 Braille. Fin de l'histoire ? Pas tout à fait.
« Si 'Oumuamua était en fait une comète, pourquoi alors n'a-t-il pas eu tendance à dégazer quand il était au plus près de notre soleil ?, interrogent Shmuel Bialy et Abraham Loeb qui ne veulent pas en rester là. Or, 'Oumuamua ne montre aucun signe d'activité cométaire, pas de queue de comète, ni aucune émission de gaz ou ligne d'absorption. Et si le dégazage était responsable de l'accélération, alors les couples associés auraient entraîné une évolution rapide de la rotation de 'Oumuamua », pointent-ils. Mais rien de semblable n'a été observé. Pour comprendre ce qu'il s'est passé, les deux astrophysiciens ont donc procédé à des modélisations.
‘Oumuamua est-il un objet naturel ou artificiel ?
Selon leurs calculs, 'Oumuamua aurait bénéficié d'un effet de « voile solaire ». « Nous expliquons l'excès d'accélération de 'Oumuamua loin du soleil comme étant le résultat de la force que la lumière du soleil exerce sur sa surface. Pour que cette force puisse expliquer l'excès d'accélération mesuré, l'objet doit être extrêmement fin, de l'ordre d'une fraction de millimètre, et de plusieurs dizaines de mètres en surface. Cela rend l'objet léger pour sa surface et lui permet d'agir comme une voile légère » écrivent-ils. Et si tel était le cas, ils indiquent que l'objet interstellaire pourrait survivre à un long périple dans la galaxie, sans trop de dommages, sur une distance de l'ordre de quelque 16.000 années-lumière.
Alors, qui est vraiment 'Oumuamua ? Pour les chercheurs, quand bien même l'objet interstellaire ne serait pas un vaisseau extraterrestre qui explore les étoiles et leurs planètes dans une partie de la galaxie, l'humanité devrait s'intéresser à la recherche de débris - ou épaves - de sondes extraterrestres. Après tout, de telles missions pourraient exister et d'ailleurs, plusieurs Terriens songent à en envoyer, à commencer vers notre plus proche voisine, Proxima b. Justement, en plus d'être titulaire de la chaire d'astronomie à Harvard, Abraham Loeb est le président du Conseil consultatif du projet de voile solaire de Breakthrough Starshot.
Le moins que l'on puisse dire est que depuis sa sortie, l'article déposé sur arXiv (et en attente de publication) suscite énormément de réactions et d'attaques. Pourtant, Avi Loeb et Shmuel Bialy n'affirment pas que c'est un vaisseau extraterrestre mais veulent montrer, par cet exercice, qu'après tout l'hypothèse d'une sonde équipée de voiles solaires est possible. Pour eux, le comportement d''Oumuamua s'explique bien dans le cas d'un objet très fin et de grande surface, arguent-ils.
Mais l'étude ne convainc pas tous leurs pairs. Seth Shostak (Seti), par exemple, a déclaré à NBC en réponse à leur article qu'« on ne devrait pas accepter aveuglément cette hypothèse habile quand il y a également une explication banale pour 'Oumuamua, à savoir que c'est une comète ou un astéroïde lointain ».
De son côté, Alan Fitzsimmons, de la Queens University, a indiqué à l'AFP que « comme beaucoup de chercheurs, j'aimerais beaucoup qu'il existe une preuve irréfutable de vie extraterrestre, mais ce n'est pas le cas. Il a déjà été démontré que les caractéristiques observées de l'objet sont cohérentes avec celles d'un corps similaire à une comète éjectée d'un autre système stellaire, ajoutant que certains arguments de leur étude se fondent sur des chiffres qui contiennent beaucoup d'incertitude ».
Sur Twitter, Katie Mack, de l'université de la Caroline du Nord, écrit : « Il faut bien comprendre que pour les scientifiques, l'idée la plus folle est toujours publiable, du moment qu'il existe une chance infime qu'elle ne soit pas fausse. Même les auteurs n'y croient probablement pas eux-mêmes ». Ce à quoi a répondu Shmuel Bialy : « Je ne dirais pas que je "crois" qu'il ait été envoyé par des extraterrestres. Car je suis un scientifique, pas un croyant. Je me fonde sur des preuves afin de trouver des explications physiques possibles à des phénomènes observés ».
Bref, tout le monde n'est pas d'accord. Découvrir d'autres astéroïdes ou comètes interstellaires pourra en tout cas nous éclairer. Ils devraient être des millions et pour l'instant, un seul a été observé. Alors, y a-t-il d'autres 'Oumuamua dans le Système solaire ? Et existe-t-il des vaisseaux à la dérive qui appartenaient à des civilisations extraterrestres ? Les télescopes sont à l'affut.
Ce qu'il faut retenir
Deux astrophysiciens de Harvard relancent le débat sur la nature de 1I/2017 U1 ‘Oumuamua. Selon leurs modélisations, l'accélération observée de l'objet interstellaire lors de sa traversée du Système solaire pourrait être liée à une voile solaire. L'étude suscite beaucoup de réactions et d'interrogations 'Oumuamua, dont le nom hawaïen signifie « messager venu de loin et arrivé le premier » , n'a pas fini de faire parler de lui. D'abord pris pour une comète venue d'une autre étoile, puis pour un astéroïde, l'hypothèse de la comète est de nouveau privilégiée. Cependant, l'objet interstellaire n'a pas le comportement d'une comète venant de dégazer. Dans ce cas, si ce n'est ni un astéroïde, ni une comète, qu'est-ce que c'est ? 'Oumuamua est-il le messager d'une autre étoile ?
Quelques semaines après la découverte de 'Oumuamua, une première salve d'observations suggérait que le premier objet interstellaire jamais détecté dans notre Système solaire était un astéroïde de forme inhabituelle, plus long que large (entre 6 et 10 fois), un peu comme un cigare. Un objet cylindrique venu d'une autre étoile... ? Mais, ne serait-ce pas Rama, le vaisseau spatial décrit dans le roman de science-fiction Rendez-vous avec Rama, d'Arthur C. Clarke. Pour tenter de le savoir, des chercheurs ont donc mis 1I/2017 U1 « sur écoute », voici un an, à l'affut d'éventuelles émissions radio qui proviendraient de l'intérieur... Mais cela n'a rien donné, l'objet était silencieux.
Alors, exit l'hypothèse d'un vaisseau (ou d'une sonde) venu d'ailleurs ? Non, une nouvelle étude (consultable sur arXiv) relance le débat quant à la vraie nature de ‘Oumuamua. S'agit-il d'un objet naturel expulsé d'un autre système planétaire ou d'un artefact envoyé par une civilisation extraterrestre pour découvrir s'il y a de la vie ailleurs dans la galaxie ? Les deux auteurs n'excluent pas cette possibilité.
L’énigme de l’excès d’accélération de ‘Oumuamma
Dans leur article, les deux astrophysiciens du Harvard Center for Astrophysics, Shmuel Bialy et Abraham Loeb, n'affirment pas que 'Oumuamua est un vaisseau spatial mais ils posent la question (d'ailleurs, le titre de leur article est : La pression de rayonnement solaire peut-elle expliquer l'accélération particulière de 'Oumuamua ?). Tous deux restent très intrigués par « l'excès d'accélération » de l'objet observé lors de sa traversée de notre Système solaire.
Mais avant de continuer, un rapide rappel des faits s'impose : 1I/2017 U1 est passé au plus près de notre étoile, le 9 septembre (à 0,25 UA, soit un quart de la distance Terre-Soleil). Le 14 octobre, il était au plus proche de la Terre (0,15 UA)... Et ce n'est que cinq jours plus tard, le 19 octobre, que Robert Weryk et son équipe l'ont découvert sur les relevés du télescope Pan-STARRS-1, installé sur le volcan Haleakalā, à Hawaii. Quelle émotion ce fut pour l'équipe de mettre la main sur le premier objet de ce type ; en effet, les astronomes attendaient ce moment depuis des décennies... Et voici qu'enfin, sous leurs yeux, venant de la direction de la Lyre, quelque chose qui ressemble à une comète ou un astéroïde venu d'ailleurs fait son apparition.
Revenons à cette accélération. Pourquoi se comporte-t-il ainsi, faisant fi surtout des interactions gravitationnelles avec le Soleil et les planètes, contrairement à ce que s'attendaient à observer les astronomes. Dans une étude publiée au début de l'été 2018, l'explication était que cela était dû à un léger dégazage. Finalement, l'énigmatique ‘Oumuamua serait une comète et non un astéroïde. Mais une comète atypique car les recherches n'ont révélé aucune trace d'une queue cométaire (c'est d'ailleurs pour cette raison qu'après sa découverte, il fut postulé que c'est un astéroïde). Ce serait une comète sans glace (ou presque). Bref, un objet qui n'est pas sans rappeler Phaéton ou encore 9969 Braille. Fin de l'histoire ? Pas tout à fait.
« Si 'Oumuamua était en fait une comète, pourquoi alors n'a-t-il pas eu tendance à dégazer quand il était au plus près de notre soleil ?, interrogent Shmuel Bialy et Abraham Loeb qui ne veulent pas en rester là. Or, 'Oumuamua ne montre aucun signe d'activité cométaire, pas de queue de comète, ni aucune émission de gaz ou ligne d'absorption. Et si le dégazage était responsable de l'accélération, alors les couples associés auraient entraîné une évolution rapide de la rotation de 'Oumuamua », pointent-ils. Mais rien de semblable n'a été observé. Pour comprendre ce qu'il s'est passé, les deux astrophysiciens ont donc procédé à des modélisations.
‘Oumuamua est-il un objet naturel ou artificiel ?
Selon leurs calculs, 'Oumuamua aurait bénéficié d'un effet de « voile solaire ». « Nous expliquons l'excès d'accélération de 'Oumuamua loin du soleil comme étant le résultat de la force que la lumière du soleil exerce sur sa surface. Pour que cette force puisse expliquer l'excès d'accélération mesuré, l'objet doit être extrêmement fin, de l'ordre d'une fraction de millimètre, et de plusieurs dizaines de mètres en surface. Cela rend l'objet léger pour sa surface et lui permet d'agir comme une voile légère » écrivent-ils. Et si tel était le cas, ils indiquent que l'objet interstellaire pourrait survivre à un long périple dans la galaxie, sans trop de dommages, sur une distance de l'ordre de quelque 16.000 années-lumière.
Alors, qui est vraiment 'Oumuamua ? Pour les chercheurs, quand bien même l'objet interstellaire ne serait pas un vaisseau extraterrestre qui explore les étoiles et leurs planètes dans une partie de la galaxie, l'humanité devrait s'intéresser à la recherche de débris - ou épaves - de sondes extraterrestres. Après tout, de telles missions pourraient exister et d'ailleurs, plusieurs Terriens songent à en envoyer, à commencer vers notre plus proche voisine, Proxima b. Justement, en plus d'être titulaire de la chaire d'astronomie à Harvard, Abraham Loeb est le président du Conseil consultatif du projet de voile solaire de Breakthrough Starshot.
Le moins que l'on puisse dire est que depuis sa sortie, l'article déposé sur arXiv (et en attente de publication) suscite énormément de réactions et d'attaques. Pourtant, Avi Loeb et Shmuel Bialy n'affirment pas que c'est un vaisseau extraterrestre mais veulent montrer, par cet exercice, qu'après tout l'hypothèse d'une sonde équipée de voiles solaires est possible. Pour eux, le comportement d''Oumuamua s'explique bien dans le cas d'un objet très fin et de grande surface, arguent-ils.
Mais l'étude ne convainc pas tous leurs pairs. Seth Shostak (Seti), par exemple, a déclaré à NBC en réponse à leur article qu'« on ne devrait pas accepter aveuglément cette hypothèse habile quand il y a également une explication banale pour 'Oumuamua, à savoir que c'est une comète ou un astéroïde lointain ».
De son côté, Alan Fitzsimmons, de la Queens University, a indiqué à l'AFP que « comme beaucoup de chercheurs, j'aimerais beaucoup qu'il existe une preuve irréfutable de vie extraterrestre, mais ce n'est pas le cas. Il a déjà été démontré que les caractéristiques observées de l'objet sont cohérentes avec celles d'un corps similaire à une comète éjectée d'un autre système stellaire, ajoutant que certains arguments de leur étude se fondent sur des chiffres qui contiennent beaucoup d'incertitude ».
Sur Twitter, Katie Mack, de l'université de la Caroline du Nord, écrit : « Il faut bien comprendre que pour les scientifiques, l'idée la plus folle est toujours publiable, du moment qu'il existe une chance infime qu'elle ne soit pas fausse. Même les auteurs n'y croient probablement pas eux-mêmes ». Ce à quoi a répondu Shmuel Bialy : « Je ne dirais pas que je "crois" qu'il ait été envoyé par des extraterrestres. Car je suis un scientifique, pas un croyant. Je me fonde sur des preuves afin de trouver des explications physiques possibles à des phénomènes observés ».
Bref, tout le monde n'est pas d'accord. Découvrir d'autres astéroïdes ou comètes interstellaires pourra en tout cas nous éclairer. Ils devraient être des millions et pour l'instant, un seul a été observé. Alors, y a-t-il d'autres 'Oumuamua dans le Système solaire ? Et existe-t-il des vaisseaux à la dérive qui appartenaient à des civilisations extraterrestres ? Les télescopes sont à l'affut.
Ce qu'il faut retenir
Deux astrophysiciens de Harvard relancent le débat sur la nature de 1I/2017 U1 ‘Oumuamua. Selon leurs modélisations, l'accélération observée de l'objet interstellaire lors de sa traversée du Système solaire pourrait être liée à une voile solaire. L'étude suscite beaucoup de réactions et d'interrogations
IN BEELD. Zo mooi was de totale maansverduistering - HLN.be - PART I
IN BEELD. Zo mooi was de totale maansverduistering - HLN.be - PART I
Henk DeleuEen prachtig beeld van onze fotograaf op de Kemmelberg.
Vanochtend kon je genieten van een prachtig schouwspel aan de hemel. Er was een totale maansverduistering te zien, waardoor de maan bloedrood kleurde. Het spektakel begon rond vier uur vanochtend en was te zien tot zonsopgang.
Tijdens een maansverduistering staan de zon, de aarde en de maan op één lijn en komt de maan helemaal in de schaduw van de aarde te liggen. Het fenomeen was vanmorgen ook in België te zien – met dank aan het heldere weer - en de maan zag er bloedrood uit (vandaar ook de term ‘bloedmaan’). Dat resulteert in prachtige beelden. De maansverduistering was compleet om 6.12 uur, maar je kon er een glimp van opvangen tot iets na zonsopgang. Geniet alvast mee, want pas in 2029 kan je in ons land nog eens een totale maansverduistering zien.
Een honderdtal mensen zakte vanochtend vroeg af naar de volkssterrenwacht Mira om de totale maansverduistering te aanschouwen. Door de goede weersomstandigheden was het fenomeen goed zichtbaar, stelt woordvoerder Francis Meeus. “Ondanks het vroege uur is er met een honderdtal mensen een mooi aantal geïnteresseerden naar Mira gekomen”, aldus Meeus. Er waren ook heel wat kinderen bij. “Sommigen vertelden dat ze door de spanning helemaal niet geslapen hadden.”
AFPEen beeld vanuit Mexico-Stad: de maan boven het standbeeld Angel de la Independencia.
Een poging gewaagd om de bloedmaan te fotograferen. Helaas heb ik ondanks dat ik al een fortuin aan apparatuur heb niet de juiste tools om de maan helemaal scherp te krijgen. Het was wel een prachtig tafereel om te zien... #bloedmaan#Delftlandenview#CanonEOS70D#nofilter
If you name your kid “Killer,” you should be prepared to accept the consequences … or at least his therapy bills (and if Killer’s a she, you need help as well). So it should come as no surprise that an asteroid named for an ancient Egyptian god of destruction, darkness and evil (apparently, in the case of asteroids, those are not redundant) is actually being predicted to cause destruction, darkness and evil. Not only that, the estimated time of arrival is a mere few decades from now. Will there be time to send a force of good, light and wholesomeness (with a nuclear warhead, of course) to stop it?
“The [asteroid’s] approach causes a significant scattering of possible trajectories, among them trajectories indicating convergence in 2051. Further orbital resonance reentries contain a great number (about one hundred) possible collisions between Apophis and the Earth, the most dangerous of them in 2068.”
While you may not be concerned about 99942 Apophis, Russian scientists are. In a new report to be presented at the 43rd Korolev Readings on Cosmonautics (an annual scientific forum dedicated to the memory of Sergei Korolev – a rocket engineer considered to be the Soviet Union’s Robert Goddard and the father of practical astronautics), researchers from St. Petersburg State University are predicting Apophis will come within 16 million km (10 million miles) of Earth in 2044, within 760,000 km (472,000 miles) in 2051, within five million km (3.1 million miles) in 2060, and within 100,000 km (62, 000 miles) in 2068. (For reference, the Moon is 385,000.6 km (239,228.3 mile) from Earth).
Apophis’ hitting the keyhole in 2029
That doesn’t sound so bad, right? It gets worse, according to Sputnik News, (interesting coincidence — Sergei Korolev worked on Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite.) Apophis is also making a very close pass by Earth in 2029 (within 37,600km (23,363 miles) and that one will determine if and when the asteroid will hit the Earth on a future (and last) trip. That’s when Apophis could pass through a tiny gravitational keyhole which would alter its trajectory enough to cause a collision on the future pass in 2036.
Yes, we’ve heard about this many times before since it was discovered in 2004 (when initial observers predicted a 2.7% chance that it would hit the in 2029. Subsequent revisions in the calculations eliminated the probability for a hit in 2029 but came up with the keyhole possibility instead. What kind of impact would this 350 meter (1,150 feet) diameter rock have? The Sentry Risk Table estimates that Apophis would make atmospheric entry with 750 megatons of kinetic energy. For comparisons, the Siberian Tunguska event in 1908 was in the 3–10 megaton range and the biggest hydrogen bomb ever exploded was around 57 megatons.
While anti-conspiracists say the odds of an Apophis hit are so low that there’s no need to even be talking about it, Russians scientists certainly are, as evidenced by the Korolev Readings presentation. And the “force of good nuke versus evil asteroid” is a real option studied by researchers at Tomsk State University in Siberia. Why are the Siberians so worried? Can asteroid strike twice in the same place? For that matter, why are the Russians? Do they know something we don’t? Or something NASA won’t tell us?
Apophis, the Egyptian god of destruction, is often depicted as a serpent
There seem to be reports monthly of asteroids that pass very close to the Earth without warning. Is it really hand-wringing or fear-mongering to worry about a real asteroid with a known schedule and a distinct possibility of hitting Earth?
Especially one named after the god of destruction?
One of the lesser known aspects of theBob Lazar controversy– a very bizarre aspect, I have to say – is that which suggests he just might have seen an alienentity at Area 51– a live one, no less. A joke? A case of mistaken identity (of what I have no idea at all)? A hoax? A strange case of someone screwing around with Lazar’s mind? The odd story gets very little publicity, but it’s as fascinating as it is downright weird. The issue of aliens – alive, dead or possibly both over at Area 51’s secret S-4 facility – first surfaced from Lazar in the early part of 1989, roughly thirty years ago. When asked about that specific matter by journalist George Knapp, Lazar quickly shot down the question in what was undeniably a very awkward fashion and he chose to change the subject. Later on though, in what was a private, rather than public, interview Lazar opened up a little bit more on the curious claims. What he had to say was brief but amazing – if it’s all true, of course. That, needless to say, is the most important aspect of the story.
According to Lazar’s memories of the strange situation he is said to have found himself in, “I walked down the hallway at one time I was working down there, and there were these doors – the doors that go to the hangar are smaller than the doors in the corridors and have a 9-inch or 12-inch square window with little wires running through it, just about head level. And as I was walking by, I just glanced in and I noticed – at a quick glance – there were two guys in white lab coats, facing me towards the door.”
Lazar then got to what is undeniably the heart of the matter: the two men were said to have been looking down at a small, humanoid figure with long arms. And seemingly talking to it, no less! As you do. Although Lazar has gone on record as saying that he only saw the entity for a second or so, he was in no doubt about what it appeared to be. I say “appeared” because Lazar himself admitted that he suspected this was all some kind of strange set-up. He said of this thought-provoking possibility: “Maybe they stuck a doll in front of these guys and made me walk by it and look at it, just to see what my reaction would be.”
Such a thing is not at all impossible, as the following brief, but notable, comment from Lazar makes clear: “They play so many mind games there [italics mine].” While enthusiastic UFO researchers may dearly want to believe that living aliens are running around and hanging out at Area 51, Lazar’s carefully worded statement suggests that we should exercise a significant amount of restraint on this issue – at least until, or if, further vindication comes along. So far, it has not – to any degree at all. George Knapp, who spent a lot of time trying to secure and figure out the whole story of Bob Lazar, made a thought-provoking statement in a 1993 paper for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). It may have a bearing on the issue of how certain elements of the U.S. government – such as counterintelligence and disinformation experts – might be using the UFO issue as a cover for something else, such as a dummy for an alien, we might well suggest. Knapp said in his paper, “Area 51, Bob Lazar, and Disinformation – A Reevaluation“: “Again and again, I have heard self-appointed Groom Lake experts conclude, without any reservations, that the Groom Lake aerial ballet is disinformation, pure theater, a show designed to distract attention away from earthly black projects, or as some sort of exercise in mass psychology.” It’s a paper I recommend to anyone and everyone with an interest in the Area 51 saga; you really should read it.
As all of the above demonstrates, there is a distinct possibility that a great deal of high-strangeness is afoot at Area 51; however, that does not mean UFOs and aliens (dead or alive) are necessarily within its confines. I would be extremelysurprised, and totally amazed, if they were. Maybe, someone wants us to believe that’s what’s going on, but for reasons which are not yet fully understood.
Controversial plans from a Russian firm would see adverts run across the evening sky using hundreds of tiny orbiting satellites.
The ambitious marketing project would beam down luminous slogans and logos from 300 miles (480 kilometres) above the people it is targeting.
StartRocket is a budding company hoping to use Cubesats - briefcase sized spacecrafts - in low-Earth orbit and arranging them in a particular way based on the demands of the paying customer.
They would reflect light from the sun back towards Earth's surface and therefore only be functional when light is available near Earth but not on the surface, such as at dawn and dusk.
Each satellite would have a huge reflective sail which would act as a single pixel within the display.
Not everyone is happy with the plans, however, with critics pointing out the problem of light pollution the scheme will generate.
This may even threaten astronomical research on the ground, it has been claimed.
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A Russian firm wants to to put adverts in the sky using hundreds of tiny orbiting satellites. The ambitious marketing project would beam down luminous signs and logos from space from 300 miles (480 kilometres) above the people it is targeting
StartRocket estimates the advert would measure approximately 19 square miles (50 square kilometres).
The advert would theoretically be visible for a total of six minutes at a time and exist three or four times a day.
'We are ruled by brands and events,' project leader Vlad Sitnikov told Futurism.
'The Super Bowl, Coca Cola, Brexit, the Olympics, Mercedes, FIFA, Supreme and the Mexican wall.
'The economy is the blood system of society. Entertainment and advertising are at its heart.
'We will live in space, and humankind will start delivering its culture to space. The more professional and experienced pioneers will make it better for everyone.'
StartRocket is a budding company hoping to use Cubesats - briefcase sized spacecrafts - in low-Earth orbit which would be arranged in a particular way, depending on the demands of the paying advertiser
The theory has since caused a significant stir in the astronomical society with many outraged by the prospect of adverts in space.
'It's a threat to the ability to do astronomical research from the ground,' astronomer John Barentine of the International Dark Sky Association told Astronomy.com.
'Every one of those moving blips of light in the night sky is something that can interfere with our ability to collect photons from astronomical sources.'
Space entertainment, as it is being called, is a developing field with many individuals and companies looking to use space for profit.
A Japanese firm launched a satellite which sets the wheels in motion for artificial meteor showers.
China has also toyed with the concept of an artificial moon.
WHAT ARE CUBESATS?
A cubesat is a miniature satellite that has been sent into space.
Nasa defines them as a class of nanosatellites that use a standard size and form factor.
Each unit, or U, is 10cm x 10cm x 10cm (4 in x 4 in x 4 in) and the cubes can be pieced together to create larger structures.
These can include 1.5, 2, 3, 6, and even 12U objects.
They are often made of commercial off the shelf products and are a low-cost option for space exploration.
Cubesats have a variety of functions. The small satellites are intended for low Earth orbit (LEO) where they perform a number of scientific research functions and explore new space technologies.
They were originally developed to teach university students about satellites, CubeSats are now a major commercial technology, providing data on everything from shipping routes to environmental changes.
Each unit, or U, is 10cm x 10cm x 10cm (4 in x 4 in x 4 in) and the cubes can be pieced together to create larger structures. These can include 1.5, 2, 3, 6, and even 12U objects
Remember that image of Carl Sagan holding the “Don’t Forget, No Billboards in Space” sign that’s been bouncing around the internet the past few years? Turns out its fake, but that in no way takes away from the sentiment. Space in many ways is the final frontier, the last piece of untouched, untainted real estate we have on our shrinking, stinking planet. Why ruin it with advertising?
Let’s agree to ignore the massive amounts of orbital pollution surrounding the Earth.
Billboards in space sound objectively horrible to anyone who’s not a reptilian capitalist overlord, which is exactly why a Russian startup with massive amounts of venture capital behind it already has the billboards ready to fill the night sky with flashing neon reminders of the hellish corporate dystopia we’ve found ourselves in. Just wait until They find a way to advertise to us in our dreams.
The real photograph showed Sagan holding one of the plaques sent along with the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
Aerospace startup StartRocket wants to launch tiny cube satellites into orbit some 400-500 (~250-300 miles) kilometers above the Earth in order to create massive glowing displays which could be seen from dozens of square kilometers below at a time. The landing page on the company’s website displays an image of stargazers taking in the nightmarish scene of a fake Coca-Cola logo (“Loca-Cola”) floating through the night sky along with the mission statement “Space has to be beautiful. With the best brands, our sky will amaze us every night.” Blech. StartRocket project leader Vlad Sitnikov told Futurism that regardless of what literally everyone else in the world says, he insists his vision is all about bringing “beauty” to the world – in the form of brand names and logos:
We are ruled by brands and events. The economy is the blood system of society. Entertainment and advertising are at its heart. We will live in space, and humankind will start delivering its culture to space. The more professional and experienced pioneers will make it better for everyone.
The company plans on launching their first prototype in 2021, and says their orbital displays could be programmed to display logos at six minute intervals, orbiting a particular location three or four times a day. Start clawing your eyeballs out now; it can take a lot longer than you think.
Tiny cube-shaped satellites called Cubesats are being developed for all sorts of purposes.
Of course, there are huge legal and regulatory hurdles the orbital billboards would face if they ever came to fruition, so it’s unknown if they’ll ever be launched at all. Whew. Still, there is some precedent for orbital “art.” Last year, a New Zealand startup called Rocket Lab shot a cross between a disco ball and a D20 into space, prompting widespread criticism from astronomers. Caleb Scharf, director of astrobiology at Columbia University, wrote in Scientific American that despite being billed as a work of art, the orbital disco ball was merely “another invasion of my personal universe, another flashing item asking for eyeballs, adding that it was “hogging some of that precious resource, the dark night sky, polluting part of the last great wilderness” we have left on Earth. What will Scharf and other astronomers have to say about these garish orbital billboards?
Is it just me, or does this image of one cup on Mars somehow seem worse than the millions of cups currently strewn about the Earth?
I don’t know why anyone would think this one is a good idea. Anyone except for the soulless, money-hungry cacodemons who sit on the boards of the world’s largest advertising firms and multinational corporations, that is. Sure, the night sky might be ruined for everyone else you say, but listen, you commie punk: at least the billboards created a lot of value for the shareholders. What’s more important than that?
Police In Spain Record UFO Near Their Vehicle Watching Them, Jan 20, 2019, Photos, UFO Sighting News
Police In Spain Record UFO Near Their Vehicle Watching Them, Jan 20, 2019, Photos, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: Jan 20, 2019
Location of sighting: Spain
Source: MUFON #97905
Here is a UFO hovering over a police car in Spain this week. The UFO is cloaked, but was revealed by the flashing blue lights of the police vehicle. The UFO appears to be small, about .5 to 1 meter across. Being so small makes me think that its probably an alien drone device, since our planet cannot support all forms of aliens out there. Our atmosphere is probably toxic and deadly to some species. Also the fact that this UFO is watching the police and recording their activities is amazing.
Hosts Alejandro Rojas and Martin Willis (Open Minds UFO Radio) are joined by author and producer Lee Speigel to review the best UFO news stories of 2018.
2018 was a banner year for UFOs. It could be argued 2018 was the tipping point when UFOs became a serious topic in the mainstream. Some even argue it was the first full year we lived in a post UFO disclosure world. In this episode we review the stories and information that made 2018 so important for the UFO topic.
Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, believes that the peculiar nature of the interstellar object called ‘Oumuamua raises questions about its possible origins.
Courtesy ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser
On October 19, 2017, astronomers at the University of Hawaii spotted a strange object travelling through our solar system, which they later described as “a red and extremely elongated asteroid.” It was the first interstellar object to be detected within our solar system; the scientists named it ‘Oumuamua, the Hawaiian word for a scout or messenger. The following October, Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, co-wrote a paper (with a Harvard postdoctoral fellow, Shmuel Bialy) that examined ‘Oumuamua’s “peculiar acceleration” and suggested that the object “may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth’s vicinity by an alien civilization.” Loeb has long been interested in the search for extraterrestrial life, and he recently made further headlines by suggesting that we might communicate with the civilization that sent the probe. “If these beings are peaceful, we could learn a lot from them,” he told Der Spiegel.
I recently spoke by phone with Loeb, who was frustrated that scientists saw ‘Oumuamua too late in its journey to photograph the object. “My motivation for writing the paper is to alert the community to pay a lot more attention to the next visitor,” he told me. During our conversation, which has been edited and condensed for clarity, we discussed why Loeb thinks we need to consider the possibility that ‘Oumuamua was sent by aliens, the dangers of unscientific speculation, and what belief in an advanced extraterrestrial civilization has in common with faith in God.
Your explanation of why ‘Oumuamua might be an interstellar probe may be hard for laypeople to understand. Why might this be the case, beyond the fact that lots of things are possible?
There is a Scientific Americanarticle I wrote where I summarized six strange facts about ‘Oumuamua. The first one is that we didn’t expect this object to exist in the first place. We see the solar system and we can calculate at what rate it ejected rocks during its history. And if we assume all planetary systems around other stars are doing the same thing, we can figure out what the population of interstellar objects should be. That calculation results in a lot of possibilities, but the range is much less than needed to explain the discovery of ‘Oumuamua.
There is another peculiar fact about this object. When you look at all the stars in the vicinity of the sun, they move relative to the sun, the sun moves relative to them, but only one in five hundred stars in that frame is moving as slow as ‘Oumuamua. You would expect that most rocks would move roughly at the speed of the star they came from. If this object came from another star, that star would have to be very special.
What are some of the other strange facts?
When it was discovered, we realized it spins every eight hours, and its brightness changed by at least a factor of ten. The fact that its brightness varies by a factor of ten as it spins means that it is at least ten times longer than it is wide. We don’t have a photo, but, in all the artists’ illustrations that you have seen on the Web, it looks like a cigar. That’s one possibility. But it’s also possible that it’s a pancake-like geometry, and, in fact, that is favored.
What would be the meaning of a pancake-like geometry—
Wait. The most unusual fact about it is that it deviates from an orbit that is shaped purely by the gravitational force of the sun. Usually, in the case of comets, such a deviation is caused by the evaporation of ice on the surface of the comet, creating gases that push the comet, like the rocket effect. That’s what comets show: a cometary tail of evaporated gas. We don’t see a cometary tail here, but, nevertheless, we see a deviation from the expected orbit. And that is the thing that triggered the paper. Once I realized that the object is moving differently than expected, then the question is what gives it the extra push. And, by the way, after our paper appeared, another paper came out with analysis that showed very tight limits on any carbon-based molecules in the vicinity of this object.
What is the significance of that?
It means that there is no evidence of gas that relates to the evaporation of ice. We don’t see the telltale signatures of cometary tail. Moreover, if it was cometary activity, then we would expect the spin period of this object to change, and we don’t see that. All of these things are indicative of the fact that it is nothing like a comet that we have seen before in the solar system. And it is also nothing like an asteroid. Its brightness varies by a factor of ten, and the maximum you typically observe is a factor of three. It has a much more extreme geometry, and there is some other force pushing it. The question is, what’s providing this force, and that was the trigger for our paper.
The only thing that came to my mind is that maybe the light from the sun, as it bounces off its surface, gives it an extra push. It’s just like a wind bouncing off a sail on a sailboat. So we checked that and found that you need the thickness of the object to be less than a millimetre in order for that to work. If it is indeed less than a millimetre thick, if it is pushed by the sunlight, then it is maybe a light sail, and I could not think of any natural process that would make a light sail. It is much more likely that it is being made by artificial means, by a technological civilization.
I should say, just as background, I do not view the possibility of a technological civilization as speculative, for two reasons. The first is that we exist. And the second is that at least a quarter of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy have a planet like Earth, with surface conditions that are very similar to Earth, and the chemistry of life as we know it could develop. If you roll the dice so many times, and there are tens of billions of stars in the Milky Way, it is quite likely we are not alone.
So this civilization would be out of the solar system and in the galaxy?
In the galaxy. It may be dead by now, because we don’t take good care of our planet. Imagine another history, in which the Nazis have a nuclear weapon and the Second World War ends differently. You can imagine a civilization that develops technology like that, which would lead to its own destruction.
It’s possible that the civilization is not alive anymore, but it did send out a spacecraft. We ourselves sent out Voyager I and Voyager II. There could be a lot of equipment out there. The point is that this is the very first object we found from outside the solar system. It is very similar to when I walk on the beach with my daughter and look at the seashells that are swept ashore. Every now and then we find an object of artificial origin. And this could be a message in a bottle, and we should be open-minded. So we put this sentence in the paper.
It’s different, of course, but the way you said that reminded me of an argument I have heard for creationism, which is that if you find a watch on the beach, you know it must be man-made, and, since our eyes are as complex as a watch, we must also be designed by a creator.
An advanced technological civilization is a good approximation to God. Suppose you took a cell phone and showed it to a caveperson. The caveperson would say it was a nice rock. The caveperson is used to rocks. So now imagine this object—‘Oumuamua—being the iPhone and us being the cave people. We look at it and say it’s a rock. It’s just an unusual rock. The point of this analogy is that, for a caveperson, the technologies we have today would have been magic. They would have been God-given.
Coryn Bailer-Jones, an astronomer quoted in one of the pieces on your paper, wrote, “In science we must ask ourselves, ‘Where is the evidence? Not’ ”—
Exactly!Exactly!
Hold on. “ ‘Not where is the lack of evidence so that I can fit in any hypothesis that I like?’ ” [Bailer-Jones, of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, in Heidelberg, Germany, has identified four possible home stars for ‘Oumuamua, and was asked to respond to Loeb’s light-sail theory by NBC.]
Well, it’s exactly the approach that I took. I approached this with a scientific mind, like I approach any other problem in astronomy or science that I work on. The point is that we follow the evidence, and the evidence in this particular case is that there are six peculiar facts. And one of these facts is that it deviated from an orbit shaped by gravity while not showing any of the telltale signs of cometary outgassing activity. So we don’t see the gas around it, we don’t see the cometary tail. It has an extreme shape that we have never seen before in either asteroids or comets. We know that we couldn’t detect any heat from it and that it’s much more shiny, by a factor of ten, than a typical asteroid or comet. All of these are facts. I am following the facts.
Last year, I wrote a paper about cosmology where there was an unusual result, which showed that perhaps the gas in the universe was much colder than we expected. And so we postulated that maybe dark matter has some property that makes the gas cooler. And nobody cares, nobody is worried about it, no one says it is not science. Everyone says that is mainstream—to consider dark matter, a substance we have never seen. That’s completely fine. It doesn’t bother anyone.
But when you mention the possibility that there could be equipment out there that is coming from another civilization—which, to my mind, is much less speculative, because we have already sent things into space—then that is regarded as unscientific. But we didn’t just invent this thing out of thin air. The reason we were driven to put in that sentence was because of the evidence, because of the facts. If someone else has a better explanation, they should write a paper about it rather than just saying what you said.
One of your responses to these criticisms was, “I follow the maxim of Sherlock Holmes: ‘When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’ ” But when it comes to things we can’t explain or don’t understand, don’t we often turn to concepts that do exist in popular culture and society—
No. No! No. Let me give you a better example for the kind of argument you are making. The multiverse is a mainstream idea—that anything that can happen will happen an infinite number of times. And I think that is not scientific, because it cannot be tested. Whereas the next time we see an object like this one, we can contemplate taking a photograph. My motivation, in part, is to motivate the scientific community to collect more data on the next object rather than argue a priori that they know the answer. In the multiverse case, we have no way of testing it, and everyone is happy to say, “Ya!”
Another mainstream idea is the extra dimension. You see that in string theory, which gets a lot of good press, and awards are given to members of that community. Not only has it not been tested empirically for almost forty years now but there is no hope it will be tested in the next forty years. And yet your friend has no problem with that! Whoever you are quoting has no problem with the multiverse, with string theory. No problem!
We don’t know what the person, Coryn Bailer-Jones, thinks about these things, to be clear.
He never complains about it, he never mentions it.
I don’t even know it’s a “he,” and I don’t know his or her opinions.
O.K., whoever.
The point I was trying to make is that we live in a culture where people talk about aliens.
No, but that’s different.
Hold on. Let me finish. The term U.F.O., in popular usage, has basically come to mean aliens of some sort. My question is whether we tend to see things that we can’t know or understand through the prism of things we have heard about since we were kids. Aren’t we more likely to see something like an alien society as an explanation than something we maybe can’t even comprehend or put into words?
I don’t enjoy science fiction because there are things in science fiction that violate the laws of physics. I like science and I like fiction separately. The main argument against any of the U.F.O. stories that you may have heard about is that the technology of detection have improved dramatically over the past few decades. We have cameras that are far better than we used to have, and nevertheless the evidence remains marginal. And so that is why there is no scientific credibility to U.F.O.s.
What we are talking about today is part of science. We have seen an object from outside the solar system, and we are trying to figure what it is made of and where it came from. We don’t have as much data as I would like. Given the data that we have, I am putting this on the table, and it bothers people to even think about that, just like it bothered the Church in the days of Galileo to even think about the possibility that the Earth moves around the sun. Prejudice is based on experience in the past. The problem is that it prevents you from making discoveries. If you put the probability at zero per cent of an object coming into the solar system, you would never find it!
Have your religious beliefs, or beliefs about God, changed in any way in the time you have been studying astronomy?
I am not religious. Why do you make that assumption?
I didn’t. I was wondering if your thoughts had changed one way or the other.
First of all, it depends on what you mean by God. But if you take something that is zero and multiple it by any number, it remains zero. I was secular to start with. I am not religious. I am struck by the order we find in the universe, by the regularity, by the existence of laws of nature. That is something I am always in awe of, how the laws of nature we find here on Earth seem to apply all the way out to the edge of the universe. That is quite remarkable. The universe could have been chaotic and very disorganized. But it obeys a set of laws much better than people obey a set of laws here. My work as a scientist is purely based on evidence and rational thinking. That’s all.
We may have finally spotted a star turning into a black hole
We may have finally spotted a star turning into a black hole
For the first time, researchers observed a stellar death before their eyes – a supernova and a forming black hole or a neutron star
Researchers think that the Cow may be a very rare, unusual type of supernova – the death of a massive star. The image shows the remnant of RCW 86, the oldest documented supernova, observed in 185 A.D.
Nasa
Scientists call it the AT2018cow – but of course it doesn’t go moo. The name is simply chosen based on a randomised three-letter naming convention. But as supernovae go, it’s certainly a whopper, and an extremely unusual, never before seen type of supernova (if it is indeed one - which isn't confirmed yet).
“It was fast, blue and bright,” says Regis Cartier, a researcher who observed Cow with the Southern Astrophysical Research SOAR Telescope in Chile. “I dropped everything else I was doing.” The stellar explosion was not only extremely bright, it also lit up science instruments across the electromagnetic spectrum.
First spotted on June 16 last year, the results of the observations have just been announced at the 233rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle.
The Cow was first noticed - and named - by Stephen Smartt, an astronomer at Queen’s University Belfast, while he was analysing data from two asteroid-tracking ATLAS telescopes in Hawaii. His team sent out an alert to the astronomical community the next day. Shortly afterwards, multiple observatories all around the globe zoomed in on the unusual event – in the best spirit of a very new field known as multi-messenger astronomy. Since about three years now, scientists drop any non-urgent observations and co-ordinate their research whenever something spectacular happens in the universe.
As a result, the Cow was tracked by many different telescopes scanning the skies all the way from low-energy radio waves to visible light, X-rays and very high-energy gamma radiation - leading to a flurry of academic papers. “There was a bit of a race to see who could publish their results first,” says Caltech astronomer Brian Grefenstette, who is a NASA telescope NuSTAR instrument scientist and co-author of one of the papers. “We included theorists as well as radio, optical and X-ray observers… to make sure we get as complete a picture as possible of what’s going on in the source.”
Apart from the two ATLAS telescopes, the veteran Keck twins, also in Hawaii, swiveled into action, together with a telescope on La Palma, one of Spain’s Canary Islands, and several other instruments - focusing on the event for days, weeks and months.
Researchers are still trying to make sense of what exactly the Cow is (or was), though. The main theory is that we have witnessed a collapse of a star in action – forming a black hole or a neutron star, a sort of super-dense stellar corpse, 200 million years ago. And it happened in the (relatively) nearby constellation Hercules, on the outskirts of a dwarf galaxy there.
When a massive star dies, its core implodes, causing a bright explosion – a supernova. The core collapses into either a black hole or a neutron star. That’s a theory, though, and the Cow could be the most direct evidence yet of how such an event unfolds.
Supernovae have been observed since 185 AD, when Chinese astronomers recorded their observations of a “guest star”. The term supernova was coined by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in 1934. Until now, scientists had classified seven different types of Supernovae (Type 1a, 1b, 1c, II, III, IV and V), but the Cow is different. First, the event was unnaturally bright – 10 to 100 times brighter than the typical blast of an exploding star. It also reached its peak brightness over just a few days, while typical supernovae can take weeks, and the Cow’s visible light disappeared in just 16 days; the supernova observed in 185 AD, for example, lasted at least eight months.
An image of AT2018cow and its host galaxy, obtained on August 17, 2018 using W. M. Keck Observatory’s instrument, the DEep Imaging and Multi-Object Spectrograph (DEIMOS)
R. Margutti/Keck
At first, Smartt and colleagues gathered mostly optical data - which prompted a team led by Daniel Perley, an astrophysicist at Liverpool John Moores University, to suggest that the event was the moment a black hole ripped apart a star. This is known as tidal disruption.
But soon data in other wavelengths started trickling in. Astronomer Anna Ho at the California Institute of Technology and the lead author of a paper accepted to the Astrophysical Journal, started observing the Cow in radio. First, she used (remotely) the Submillimeter Array in Hawaii, and then - the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. The short-wavelength radiation from the Cow that ALMA picked up continued for weeks, again unlike a typical supernova, enabling the team to observe the phenomenon for 80 days.
This indicates, Ho says, the presence of some kind of a central engine – a just-born black hole accreting matter, or a rapidly rotating, highly magnetised neutron star. “There wasn’t just a single release of energy in an explosion, so there must be some kind of ongoing energy production,” Ho adds.
Another team, led by Raffaella Margutti, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University, arrived to the same conclusion. The researchers spied on the Cow looking for X-rays with NuSTAR and the European Space Agency’s INTEGRAL space telescopes, and for radio waves using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array.
In a paper that will also appear in the Astrophysical Journal, Margutti's team say that the event was being reheated from the inside – indicating something powering it from within and echoing Ho's findings. Usually, there are plenty of heavy elements produced during a stellar explosion (the stuff that makes up things like humans and our Earth), which block the central engine – but this time, strangely, there was about 10 times less debris than expected - about a tenth of our sun's mass. Why? “This is a topic that’s still up for debate,” says Grefenstette. “But this is a whole new field. So hopefully, we’ll see more events like Cow in the future that can help us figure out what’s really going on.”
From the visible light analysis, scientists were able to estimate the composition and speed of the material ejected by AT2018cow, while the radio and X-ray data helped them calculate the densities of the material and the presence of inner engines. “This is a great example of multi-wavelength astronomy,” says David Clements, a reader in astrophysics at Imperial College London, who wasn’t involved in any of the papers. “They threw whatever they had at it and hoped that some of it would lead to clearer answers.”
The speed of light, just shy of 300 million meters per second, is the theoretical speed limit of the universe. Compared to anything we encounter on a daily basis, light travels so fast that it appears to be instantaneous.
But a new series of animations by NASA scientist James O’Donoghue shows how dismally slow the speed of light is compared to the scale of our solar systemBusiness Insiderreports.
The videos, the first of which shows a beam of light orbiting the Earth 7.5 times per second, demonstrate why it takes so long to communicate with Mars rovers and why scientists have no feasible means of reaching or even communicating with hypothetical inhabitants of distant exoplanets.
Zooming Out
Looking only at our own planet, light still seemspretty fast. For comparison, the world’s fastest plane, an X-15, reached a top speed of 2,000 meters per second. At that speed, it would take the plane 5.5 hours to circle the planet.
But once you start to zoom out, it becomes just how slow the speed of light is compared to any sort of cosmic scale. O’Donoghue’s second animation shows how long it takes for light to travel between Earth and the moon. It’s about a 2.5 second round-trip journey — still dizzyingly quick.
Are We There Yet?
But then O’Donoghue zooms out to show the distance between Earth and Mars. Now, watching the light travel between planets is like watching your microwave count down.
In case you don’t feel like sticking around for the whole six-minute video, we reveal the ending below. Don’t read on unless you’re comfortable risking having the video spoiled!
In the animation, the beam of light takes just over three minutes to travel from Earth to Mars, then takes just as long to make it back home. That’s why many Mars rovers have pre-programmed behaviors, like how NASA’s InSightautomatically deployed its own landing procedure — remote controls from scientists on Earth would take too long to arrive.
Un OVNI se dirigeait vers le groupe de combat : la Marine US brise le silence…
Un OVNI se dirigeait vers le groupe de combat : la Marine US brise le silence…
Découvrez l’observation étrange de marins américains à bord du USS Nimitz. Le phénomène, qui s’est déroulée le long des côtes de San Diego, a tellement enflammé leur imagination qu’ils y ont vu un navire d’origine extraterrestre…
Chers fans de la vie extraterrestre, est-ce que les histoires extraterrestres vous manquent? En voilà une: le personnel de la Marine américaine a observé un objet mystérieux circuler dans le ciel pendant des heures, non loin de la côte de San Diego, raconte Chris Mellon, ancien chef des forces de sécurité nationale qui a d’ailleurs travaillé sur des objets secrets au Nevada, sur la base Zone 51.
Selon lui, l’incident s’est produit en pleine journée lors d’une mission du porte-avions américain USS Nimitz, escorté du porte-avions léger USS Princeton.
«Imaginez ces bâtiments engagés dans des manœuvres d’entraînement au moment, où un vaisseau non identifié, ayant une signature radar faible, apparait sur les radars et se dirige directement vers les navires», décrit Mellon, qui a démontré ensuite un profond engouement pour les phénomènes extraterrestres.
L’objet n’a pas répondu aux signaux radio. L’USS Princeton a contacté deux chasseurs F-18, déjà dans les airs, pour qu’ils interceptent l’objet. Les pilotes ont découvert, étonnés, que l’appareil n’avait ni ailes ni tuyau d’échappement:
«Il était blanc, allongé, d’environ 12 mètres de long et d’à peu près 4 mètres d’épaisseur», précise Mellon, cité par le journal britannique Express.
Ensuite, un pilote a tenté de prendre en chasse l’appareil: «Les pilotes ont été stupéfaits de voir l’objet se réorienter dans la direction du F-18 en s’approchant.»
De même, le «vaisseau» semblait défier les lois de la physique en manœuvrant. Les pilotes ont dû revenir sur le Nimitz, mais l’objet est resté encore dans les cieux durant quelques heures.
Peut-être, y-est-il encore? C’est à vous messieurs les ufologues de résoudre cette énigme.
Artificial Intelligence – Software That Writes Itself
Artificial Intelligence – Software That Writes Itself
Jay Tuck explains how it’s not futuristic. It’s happening now. These computers are way smarter than we are. No one understands exactly how stock markets work any more as the algorithms are written by machines. Prices of airoplane seats are decided by machines. Picture analysis is done better by machines in hospitals.
Robots are getting cuddlier. They never die. They have no heart.
The power of AI needs explaining. – surveillance cameras are able to see phenomenal detail on the ground from 17,ooo feet. We can all be monitored by computers in real time. Facial recognition can be done from above. Our whole lives are being recorded.
Big data only works if you have artificial intelligence to make sense of it. The company that has the most information in the world is buying up all artificial intelligence companies from around the world…Google. DARPA financed robots which are able to operate as part of military units.
Modern drone Pegasus is invisible. It films the sky above and projects the image onto the bottom of the drone. Drones are not permitted to kill people without human input. Yet robots are able to make kill decisions. The goal is to get the robots to make the kill decisions.
Yet sometimes artificial intelligence makes mistakes. A robotic weapon (Talon) went wrong in a demo in Iraq and a marine was able to knock it over before it killed two hundred spectators. Yet it’s getting better every day.
Once the internet of things is brought into being, the supercomputer will operate spontaneously managing our lives. AI is a network with back-ups all over the world which cannot be dismantled. It has to be stopped before it kills us.
Observations of a rare hypernova complete the picture of the death of the massive stars
Observations of a rare hypernova complete the picture of the death of the massive stars
Credit: Anna Serena Esposito
The end of a star’s life can occur in a tranquil manner in the case of low mass stars, such as the Sun. This is not the case, however, for very massive stars, which suffer such extreme explosive events that they can outshine the brightness of the whole galaxy that hosts them. An international group of astronomers has published a detailed study of the death of a high-mass star that produced a gamma-ray burst (GRB) and a hypernova, in which they have detected a new component in this type of events. The study, published in Nature, provides a link that completes the scenario that relates hypernovae with GRBs.
“The first hypernova was detected in 1998 as a very energetic type of supernova that followed a gamma-ray burst. This was the first evidence of the connection between both phenomena” says Luca Izzo, researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC), and leader the study.
The scenario that has been proposed to explain the phenomena involves a star over 25 times more massive than the Sun that, once it has exhausted its fuel, suffers the collapse of its core. During this collapse, the nucleus of the star transforms either into a neutron star or a black hole, and at the same time, two polar jets of matter are ejected. These jets drill through the external layers of the star and, once out of the star, produce detectable gamma-rays (the so-called GRB). Finally, the external layers of the star are ejected, generating a hypernova explosion, tens of times brighter than a typical supernova.
Although the connection between GRBs and hypernovae has been well established over the last 20 years, the opposite is not so clear, since there have been several hypernovae that do not have associated GRBs. “This work has allowed us to find the missing link between these two types of hypernova through the detection of an additional component: A sort of hot cocoon generated around the jet, as it propagates through the outer layers of the progenitor star – indicates Dr. Izzo (IAA-CSIC) -. The jet transfers a significant part of its energy to the cocoon and, if it manages to reach the surface of the star, will produce the gamma-ray emission that we know as a GRB”.
On the other hand, the jet can fail to pierce the external layers of the star and never emerge into the circumstellar medium if it lacks the necessary energy. In this case we would observe a hypernova but not a GRB. The cocoon detected in this study is the link between the two subtypes of hypernovae that had been studied until now, and the chocked jets would naturally explain the observed differences.
The international team of scientists, including astronomers from the Universities of Leicester, Bath and Warwick, found evidence for the existence of a ‘hot cocoon’ of material enveloping a relativistic jet escaping a dying star. This research is published online today (Wednesday 16 January) and in print in Nature tomorrow (Thursday 17 January).
A relativistic jet is a very powerful phenomena which involves plasma jets shooting out of black holes at close to the speed of light, and can extend across millions of light years.
This is an artist representation of the hypernova. The interaction of the jet with the outer layers of the star forms a cocoon that surrounds the head of the jet and begins to propagate laterally with respect to the direction of the jet. The jet is capable of completely perforating the envelope of the parent star, emitting high energy gamma rays, responsible for GRB
Observations of supernova SN2017iuk taken shortly after its onset showed it expanding rapidly, at one third of the speed of light. This is the fastest supernova expansion measured to date. Monitoring of the outflow over many weeks revealed a clear difference between the initial chemical composition and that at later times.
Taken together, these are indicators of the presence of the much theorised hot cocoon, filling a gap in our knowledge of how a jet of material escaping a star interacts with the stellar envelope around it and providing a potential link between two previously distinct classes of supernovae.
The supernova signals the final demise of a massive star, in which the stellar core collapses and the outer layers are violently blown off. SN2017iuk belongs to a class of extreme supernovae, sometimes called hypernovae or GRB-SNe, that accompany a yet more dramatic event known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB).
At stellar death, a highly relativistic, narrow beam of material can be ejected from the poles of the star which glows brightly first in gamma radiation and then across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and is known as a GRB.
This is an image of the explosion obtained by the Gran Telescopio Canarias in the period of maximum brightness of the event.
Credit: Gran Telescopio Canarias
Until now, astronomers have been unable to study the earliest moments in the development of a supernova of this kind (a GRB-SN), but SN2017iuk was fortuitously close-by – at roughly 500 million light years from Earth – and the GRB light was underluminous, allowing the SN itself to be detectable at early times.
Dr Rhaana Starling, Associate Professor in the University of Leicester’s Department of Physics and Astronomy said: “This immediately looked like an event worth chasing, as it happened in a grand-design spiral galaxy at very close proximity, cosmologically speaking.
“When the first sets of data came in there was an unusual component to the light that looked very blue, prompting a monitoring campaign to see if we could determine its origin by following the evolution and taking detailed spectra.
“The gamma-ray burst itself looked quite weak, so we could see other processes that were going on around the newly-formed jet which are normally drowned out. The idea of a cocoon of thermalised gas created by the relativistic jet as it drills out of the star had been proposed and implied in other cases, but here was the evidence that we needed to pin down the existence of such a structure.”
A coordinated approach using a suite of space- and ground-based observatories was required to monitor the supernova over 30 days and at many wavelengths. The event was first detected using the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. Swift is a NASA space mission in which the University of Leicester is one of three partners, and hosts its UK data centre.
Data obtained with the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observatory (GOTO) helped to track the supernova light, while spectroscopy was obtained through dedicated observing programmes including initiatives by the STARGATE Collaboration headed up by Professor Nial Tanvir at the University of Leicester, which uses 8-m telescopes at the European Southern Observatory.
Professor Tanvir, Lecturer in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester said: “The relativistic jet punches out through the star as if it was a bullet being fired out from the inside of an apple. What we’ve seen for the first time is all the apply debris that explodes out after the bullet.”
Speeds of up to 115,000 kilometres per second were measured for the expanding supernova for approximately one hour after its onset. A different chemical composition was found for the early expanding supernova when compared with the more iron-rich later ejecta. The team concluded that just hours after the onset the ejecta is coming from the interior, from a hot cocoon created by the jet.
Existing supernova production models proved insufficient to account for the large amount of high velocity material measured. The team developed new models which incorporated the cocoon component and found these were an excellent match.
SN2017iuk also provides a long-sought link between the supernova that accompany GRBs, and those that do not: in lone supernovae, high speed outflows have also been seen, with velocities reaching 50,000 kilometres per second, which can originate in the same cocoon scenario but escape of the relativistic GRB jet is somehow thwarted.
Core-collapse supernovae without GRBs are usually found much later after their onset, giving scientists very little chance of detecting any signatures of a hot cocoon, whilst cocoon features in GRB-associated supernovae are usually hidden by the bright, relativistic jet.
The rare case of SN2017iuk has opened a window onto the earliest stages of this type of supernova phenomenon, allowing the elusive cocoon structure to be observed
THE STORY OF THE EVENT
On December 5, 2017, GRB 171205A was detected in a galaxy located 500 million light years from Earth. However far this may seem, this makes it the fourth closest long GRB ever observed. “Such events occur on average every ten years, so we immediately started an intense observing campaign to observe the emerging hypernova from the very early phases on – says Christina Thöne, researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) who participated in the discovery -. In fact, with our early observations we managed to obtain the earliest detection of a hypernova to date, less than one day after the collapse of the star”.
And indeed, very early on the first features of a hypernova were detected with the Gran Telescopio Canarias, on the island of La Palma. “This was only possible because the luminosity of the jet was much weaker than usual, as typically the jets outshine the hypernova during the first week – says Antonio de Ugarte Postigo, researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) who participated in the paper -. What we saw, however, was a very peculiar component, which showed unprecedented expansion velocities and chemical abundances that were different to the ones seen in similar events”.
This peculiar chemical composition and the high expansion velocities matched the expectations for the existence of a cocoon accompanying the jet at the surface of the star. This had been predicted but had been never observed before. The cocoon observed during the first days dragged material out from the interior of the star, and its chemical composition was determined in this study. After a few days, this component faded away, and the hypernova evolved in a similar way as the ones previously observed.
The total energy emitted by the cocoon during these first days was larger than that of the GRB, implying that the jet transferred a large part of its energy to the cocoon. However, it also indicates that the energy of the GRB depends to some degree on the interaction between the jet and the stellar material, and on this new component, the cocoon. This discovery also implies that the models must be revised: “While in the standard model of supernovae the collapse of the nucleus leads to quasi-spherical explosions, the evidence of such an energetic emission produced by the cocoon suggests that the jet plays an important role in core-collapse supernovae which means we will need to consider it in supernova explosion models”, concludes Izzo (IAA-CSIC).
Contacts and sources: Amy Rewilak
University of Leicester
Luca Izzo Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Citation: Signatures of a jet cocoon in early spectra of a supernova associated with a γ-ray burst. L. Izzo, A. de Ugarte Postigo, K. Maeda, C. C. Thöne, D. A. Kann, M. Della Valle, A. Sagues Carracedo, M. J. Michałowski, P. Schady, S. Schmidl, J. Selsing, R. L. C. Starling, A. Suzuki, K. Bensch, J. Bolmer, S. Campana, Z. Cano, S. Covino, J. P. U. Fynbo, D. H. Hartmann, K. E. Heintz, J. Hjorth, J. Japelj, K. Kamiński, L. Kaper, C. Kouveliotou, M. Krużyński, T. Kwiatkowski, G. Leloudas, A. J. Levan, D. B. Malesani, T. Michałowski, S. Piranomonte, G. Pugliese, A. Rossi, R. Sánchez-Ramírez, S. Schulze, D. Steeghs, N. R. Tanvir, K. Ulaczyk, S. D. Vergani, K. Wiersema. Nature, 2019; DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0826-3
Several Testimonies of Dulce, Archuleta Mesa, UFO’s Reptilians, Underground Bases
“None Dare Call It Conspiracy”, “The Biggest Secret” and “Behold A Pale Horse” were the big three that woke me up. I read those while in a wheelchair 14 years ago, broken back broken and pelvis, etc. IED, afghanistan, army, 11bravo/charlie 101st…not comfortable giving anymore personal info than that. I also highly recommend dr. Michael Salla’s work. Z.H.
My instinct / wonderings and doubts came like at age 9 or 10 so mid 70′s about the religion and aliens my parents didn’t take me to church I went on my own cool stuff in Sunday school etc..small town boredom..and aliens was not a discussion I ever heard..and now it’s everywhere…side note: wonder if that old radio show really was the invasion and that was the first cover up.. B13 Channel
Waves in Saturn’s Rings Give Precise Measurment of Planet’s Rotation Rate
Waves in Saturn’s Rings Give Precise Measurement of Planet’s Rotation Rate
This has been a tricky problem for years as explained below, and now appears to have been resolved. But whether that’s the end of the story remains to be seen.
Saturn’s distinctive rings were observed in unprecedented detail by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, and scientists have now used those observations to probe the interior of the giant planet and obtain the first precise determination of its rotation rate, reports Phys.org.
Saturn from the Cassini orbiter
[image credit: NASA]
The length of a day on Saturn, according to their calculations, is 10 hours 33 minutes and 38 seconds.
The researchers studied wave patterns created within Saturn’s rings by the planet’s internal vibrations. In effect, the rings act as an extremely sensitive seismograph by responding to vibrations within the planet itself.
Similar to Earth’s vibrations from an earthquake, Saturn responds to perturbations by vibrating at frequencies determined by its internal structure. Heat-driven convection in the interior is the most likely source of the vibrations. These internal oscillations cause the density at any particular place within the planet to fluctuate, which makes the gravitational field outside the planet oscillate at the same frequencies.
“Particles in the rings feel this oscillation in the gravitational field. At places where this oscillation resonates with ring orbits, energy builds up and gets carried away as a wave,” explained Christopher Mankovich, a graduate student in astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz.
Mankovich is lead author of a paper, published January 17 in the Astrophysical Journal, comparing the wave patterns in the rings with models of Saturn’s interior structure.
Most of the waves observed in Saturn’s rings are due to the gravitational effects of the moons orbiting outside the rings, said coauthor Jonathan Fortney, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz. “But some of the features in the rings are due to the oscillations of the planet itself, and we can use those to understand the planet’s internal oscillations and internal structure,” he said.
Mankovich developed a set of models of the internal structure of Saturn, used them to predict the frequency spectrum of Saturn’s internal vibrations, and compared those predictions with the waves observed by Cassini in Saturn’s C ring. One of the main results of his analysis is the new calculation of Saturn’s rotation rate, which has been surprisingly difficult to measure.
As a gas giant planet, Saturn has no solid surface with landmarks that could be tracked as it rotates. Saturn is also unusual in having its magnetic axis nearly perfectly aligned with its rotational axis. Jupiter’s magnetic axis, like Earth’s, is not aligned with its rotational axis, which means the magnetic pole swings around as the planet rotates, enabling astronomers to measure a periodic signal in radio waves and calculate the rotation rate.
The rotation rate of 10:33:38 determined by Mankovich’s analysis is several minutes faster than previous estimates based on radiometry from the Voyager and Cassini spacecraft.
“We now have the length of Saturn’s day, when we thought we wouldn’t be able to find it,” said Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker. “They used the rings to peer into Saturn’s interior, and out popped this long-sought, fundamental quality of the planet. And it’s a really solid result. The rings held the answer.”
Cassini image shows in unprecedented detail a density wave in Saturn’s B ring, most likely caused by a small moon systematically perturbing the orbits of ring particles.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
The idea that Saturn’s rings could be used to study the seismology of the planet was first suggested in 1982, long before the necessary observations were possible.
This image of Saturn’s rings was taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017. It is among the last images Cassini sent back to Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Scientists drilling into Mercer Lake, a Subglacial Antarctic lake locked beneath 3500 feet (one kilometer) of ice have discovered the ancient carcasses of tiny animals including “water bears,” in a finding scientists described as “fully unexpected”.
On 26th December, researchers funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) succeeded in melting a hole through the thick ice to the water below. A report in the journal Nature said that the Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) team “melted through an enormous frozen river with a high-pressure, hot-water drill.”
The water below the ice sheet is hydraulically active and connected with the Ross Sea and Mercer Lake has been identified as being at high risk of collapsing with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, due to global warming. This is only the second time humans have ever glimpsed the contents of the lake and the massive scientific operation was conducted with technologies including “ice-penetrating radar and other remote-sensing techniques“, according to the article in Nature.
Main: An artist’s cross-section showing the process of drilling to reach the lake below ( public domain ).
U.S. scientists successfully drilled into Lake Whillans, a subglacial expanse of water measuring about 1.2 square miles (3 square kilometers) and hidden deep beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, they reported on Friday, Jan. 25, 2013.
Credit: Zina Deretsky / NSF
Rediscovering Ancient Subaquatic Life
The Guardian reported that the scientists took samples of mud from the bottom of the lake’s icy waters and found “tendrils of plant or fungi and remnants of photosynthetic algae that lived and died in the area millions of years ago when Antarctica was much warmer.” The researchers later discovered shrimp-like crustaceans and eight-legged tardigrades, or “water bears” which are described as being smaller than poppy seeds.
David Harwood, a micro-palaeontologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, told reporters at Nature that discovering the animals in the ancient lake was “fully unexpected”, but what really shocked biologists at Lake Mercer was the realization that some of the beasts were landlubbers.
The scientists know that these ancient creatures inhabited Transantarctic Mountain ponds and streams when the glaciers had receded during warm periods between 10,000 years or 120,000 years ago. But an outstanding problem is that these crustaceans and tardigrade inhabited ponds some 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Lake Mercer, and how they got there is not yet clear.
DNA Might Provide Answers to the Creatures’ Ancient Origins
Bacteria cultured from water samples from subglacial Lake Whillans.
Credit: Brent Christner
On 5 th January, the scientists sealed the borehole and they think it will take several years to analyze and test all of the collected samples. They need to test DNA samples from the carcasses of the crustaceans to ascertain whether they were marine or freshwater species. The SALSA team also aim to determine the age of the organic material with carbon dating and they will also sequence the creatures’ DNA attempting to answer how, when and how far the Antarctica’s glaciers retreated over the millennia.
In 2013, Slawek Tulaczyk, a glaciologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was co-leader in a drilling expedition at Lake Whillans, a subglacial Antarctic lake 50 kilometres (31 miles) from Lake Mercer. Tulaczyk, who has been studying sediment samples from lakes beneath glacial ice since the 1990s, told The Guardian that “nothing like that has ever been found before under the ice sheet.” An earlier article in Nature reported that although Tulaczyk’s team had found Lake Whillans brimming with microbes, they had not observed any “signs of higher life,” like that discovered at Mercer Lake.
The whole idea of lakes beneath Antarctica’s frozen cover was not really considered until the 1990s when satellite seismic mapping technologies and ice-penetrating radar began to reveal evidence of subglacial lakes.
Morgenochtend kleurt maan felrood: bloedmaan, supermaan én totale maansverduistering - HLN.be
Morgenochtend kleurt maan felrood: bloedmaan, supermaan én totale maansverduistering - HLN.be
NASAEen bloedmaan.
WETENSCHAP Vergeet het niet morgen! Want na meer dan twee jaar wachten is er maandagochtend niet alleen een indrukwekkende en totale maansverduistering te zien, maar ook een bloedmaan én supermaan. Bij een maansverduistering staan de zon, de aarde en de maan op een lijn waardoor de aarde haar schaduw over de maan werpt en die rood kleurt.
Een groot deel van de Europeanen, Amerikanen en Afrikanen kunnen morgenochtend genieten van een totale maansverduistering. Ook in België zal de volledige maansverduistering zichtbaar zijn. Al moet je er wel vroeg voor opstaan en de weersomstandigheden moeten het toelaten.
Om 3.36 uur raakt de maan de bijschaduw van de aarde waardoor er al sprake is van een gedeeltelijke eclips. Een uurtje later schuift de maan verder in de kernschaduw van de aarde waardoor de maan stilaan roder kleurt.
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Om 6.12 uur naar boven kijken, zal wellicht het mooiste resultaat opleveren. Dan kan de volledig verduisterde maan verschillende tinten rood vertonen, afhankelijk van de samenstelling van de atmosfeer. Het zonlicht dat op dat moment door de atmosfeer van de aarde doordringt, kleurt immers rood.
De totale eclipsfase eindigt om 6.43 uur, en om 8.48 uur is de maansverduistering volledig voorbij. De maan zal dan net zijn ondergegaan. Wie deze maansverduistering mist, moet trouwens wachten tot 16 mei 2022. Dan vindt er nogmaals een eclips plaats omstreeks 5.50 uur.
Totale maansverduistering en supermaan
Er kan slechts sprake zijn van een volledige maansverduistering als er ook een volle maan is. Daarbij moet de kernschaduwkegel van de aarde de maan volledig bedekken. Overal ter wereld waar de maan op dat moment zichtbaar is, is er een totale eclips te zien. Omdat de maan morgen tamelijk dicht bij de aarde staat, is er trouwens ook sprake van een zogenaamde supermaan.
In de volksmond wordt zo’n totale eclips ook wel eens bloedmaan genoemd, omdat de maan dan eventjes rood kan kleuren. Afhankelijk van de samenstelling van de atmosfeer kan de kleur variëren van roestrood tot zeer helderrood. Hoe roder de maan kleurt, hoe meer stof er in de lucht hangt.
Jennifer KhordiAfhankelijk van de samenstelling van de atmosfeer kan de maan roestrood, helderrood of zelfs oranje kleuren (zoals hierboven in New York).
Waarnemen
Je mag gewoon met het blote oog naar die (helder)rode maan kijken. In tegenstelling tot de zonsverduistering is het veilig om zonder gespecialiseerde apparatuur naar de hemel te kijken. Het is vooral belangrijk dat je jezelf op een tamelijk donkere plaats bevindt: hoe donkerder, hoe indrukwekkender het resultaat. Een verrekijker kan ook altijd van pas komen.
Well, that didn’t take long. On December 30th, 2018, researchers from the SALSA (Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access) expedition used hot water to drill through Antarctic ice to a depth of 1,084 meters (3,556 feet) toreach Lake Mercer – a “lost” lake buried 600 kilometers from the South Pole. While they expected to find the microbes that seem to exist everywhere and in the harshest conditions, the researchers scraping mud off of an instrument retrieved from Lake Mercer were stunned to find it contained the remains of higher life forms – crustaceans, plants and one hardy little eight-legged bear.
“Fully unexpected.”
In a press release published in the journal Nature, University of Nebraska-Lincoln micro-palaeontologist (talk about specialization) David Harwood described his reaction to what he saw with his microscope positioned over a speck of the mud from a lake that has been locked under the ice for thousands of years. He expected to see the million-year-old shells of photosynthetic algae from Antarctica’s warmer times. What he didn’t expect was something that looked like “an old leaf that’s been sitting on the ground for a season.” That “leaf” turned out to be the shell and legs of a shrimp-like crustacean. In micro-paleontology, where there’s one, there’s bound to be another and sure enough, Harwood found a fresher specimen that looked much like it did when it was alive. He also recognized that one of the legged creatures was a tardigrade, the ‘water bears’ that seem to be able to survive the harshest conditions, and things resembling worms were tendrils of a land-dwelling plant or fungus.
To rule out the possibility that the unexpected creatures were the result of their own doing, the researchers sterilized the probe and sent it back down again. Harwood’s microscope found more crustaceans in the new mud. That means they definitely lived in Lake Mercer. But how did they get there?
To answer that question , the mud was sent to animal ecologist Byron Adams at McMurdo Station on the Antarctic coast. He recognized the crustaceans, tardigrade and fungi as the same creatures he’s seen alive in regions of Antarctica called the Dry Valleys and the Transantarctic Mountains. Based on that, he believes the creatures actually lived tens of thousands of years ago in the Transarctic Mountains. After they died, their remains were washed down into Lake Mercer where they intermingled with the million-year-old diatoms.
“What was sort of stunning about the stuff from Lake Mercer is it’s not super, super-old. They’ve not been dead that long.”
That’s disappointing news to those who were hoping the creatures actually lived in the buried lake, but Adams doesn’t rule out the possibility and would like to see more mud, thinking “it’s possible that you could still find things that are alive.” In the meantime, he points out that biologists are now changing the history of Antarctica once written by geologists and glaciologists. The SALSA will now use radiocarbon dating to determine the age of the creatures and DNA testing to find out if they lived in fresh water or the ocean. Further tests will determine if they were surface creatures eating algae or were actually able to live in the dark, sub-ice lake where they were found.
You never know what you might catch in Antarctica
This is truly exciting research, but the scientists are racing against the Antarctica-melting force of climate change. Will we find out where we came from before it’s no longer here?
Researchers used a hot-water drill to bore through 3,500 feet down into an Antarctic subglacial lake, and found tiny carcasses of preserved animals.
(Photo Credit: Billy Collins/SALSA Science Team)
The SALSA camp at Mercer Subglacial Lake. The team included 45 scientists, drillers, and support staff who spent three weeks drilling through the ice and sample from Mercer Subglacial Lake.
There is absolutely no doubt that the world, right now, is a dangerous place – an extremely dangerous place. In light of all that, an important questions needs to be asked – and answered. If war comes – and it turns nuclear – will world leaders and elite figures head deep below the surface of the planet, only to return years later to claim what remains of the planet and human civilization? Such a thing is not at all impossible. In fact, there are significant signs that plans are indeed being made to ensure that the underground will be the place to be if the apocalypse occurs. But, as is usually the case, it will be the controlling elite who will be calling the shots, rather than the rest of us. Let’s take a look at some of the highly-classified installations that exist on our planet and how they may make use of them if the unthinkable happens.
Given the fact that Russia amounts to a huge area of land, there are plenty of areas in which secure, underground facilities can be built – and which have been built. The U.S. Intelligence community has known for decades that at least two, massive facilities exist – and which have the ability to survive nuclear strikes, chiefly as a result of the fact that they are built deeply into almost impenetrable mountains. Those same mountains are Mount Yamantau and the Kosvinsky Mountains.
As for Yamantau, it stands at in excess of 5,000 feet and is the highest mountain in the Urals. As far back as the 1990s, the Russians began the construction of a massive facility within Mount Yamantau, primarily to provide the controlling elite with a secure place in which to survive a nuclear exchange between the super-powers. American spy-satellites have confirmed massive digging on the mountain, suggesting that huge, hollowed out sections of the mountain now exist – and which have been turned into the perfect locations for literally hundreds of thousands of people to survive an attack. And make no mistake, the Yamantau facility is gigantic. Studies undertaken by American intelligence agents suggest that its size is that of Washington, D.C.’s huge Interstate 495, which surrounds the capitol of the United States. Given that I-495 has a circumference of more than sixty miles and that will give you an idea of the scale of the Yamantau facility.
As for the Mount Kosvinsky installation, that is equally almost impenetrable. Built well into the heart of the mountain – which is located in the northern Urals – it is protected by around 1,200-feet of granite and, just like the Yamantau base, is designed to provide housing for the elite in the event of a nuclear attack – and also to allow for some form of continuation of government. Presuming, of course, there is anyone left to be governed after a major nuclear exchange between the most powerful nations on the planet. All that’s really known for sure is that the construction of the base was completed by the mid-1990s and that it, like Yamantau, can house thousands of people – with a near-indefinite supply of food, water, medical supplies and all the provisions needed to survive underground not just for months but for years. Some intelligence estimates suggest possibly even for decades.
Mount Yamantau
Moving away from the Urals, but still focused on Russia, there is Kapustin Yar, which is situated in Astrakhan Oblast. Construction of the installation began back in the 1940s – with the intention being to create the ultimate facility for building and testing new and novel rockets. The first such rocket launch took place in October 1947 – it was a test using a captured Nazi A-4 rocket; one of a number that the Russians got their hands on when the Nazi regime collapsed in 1945. As the base grew in size and scope, yet further rocket tests were undertaken and by the early 1950s atomic-bombs tests were carried out in close proximity. Spy-satellites of the United States’ National Reconnaissance Office have noted that in the last few years massive digging has been afoot at Kapustin Yar, all of which suggests that the base is no longer just used for rocket and missile tests; but that it may be being refurbished on a gigantic scale – to essentially turn portions of it into a huge, underground bunker, one designed to withstand the terrible effects of a nuclear war.
Now let’s take a look at China. The most visible of the various installations that U.S. intelligence suspects have been converted into massive, bunker-style facilities is the Sanya installation, as it has become known; although, its official title is the Yulin Naval Base – Sanya being a nearby city which is home to around 700,000 people. Essentially, the installation, located on Hainan Island, is one of China’s most important submarine bases. But, it’s far more than that. The National Interest website states: “The People’s Liberation Army’s Navy (PLAN) is undoubtedly moving to buttress its presence on the island. On Yalong Bay near the island’s southeastern tip, China’s recently constructed Longpo naval base is a deep-water port complete with submarine piers, an underground submarine facility with tunnel access, and a demagnetizing facility to reduce the magnetic residuals on ship hulls.”
Hainan Island
The Diplomat notes: “Open-source intelligence tools provide an informative glimpse of Hainan Island’s busy, fortified, and increasingly vital base. All told, Yulin-East encompasses over 25 square kilometers of military infrastructure lying within a protected, man-made harbor… the base accommodates surface and subsurface vessels (and most of the necessary accouterments thereof), theater and point defense weapons systems, munitions transport vehicles and depots, and administrative buildings for military commanders.” Not only that: U.S. military spy-satellites, using ground-penetrating radar systems, have been able to confirm evidence of huge excavating within the hills that surround the base. In other words, while the submarine base certainly still exists, it is being expanded on – specifically with the creation of fortified facilities buried deep within the depths of the local landscape.
What all of this demonstrates is that two of the world’s most powerful nations – Russia and China – are taking careful, rapid and secret steps to create huge underground installations which may provide some degree of survival for the elite. If anyone tells you that Russia, particularly, is not a threat, they’re wrong.
By far one of the most well-known and beloved religious figure in history is Jesus Christ himself. Typically portrayed as a beacon of understanding, enlightenment, selflessness, and benevolence, he has been the cornerstone of one fo the biggest religions the world has ever seen. Yet there are some darker components to the history of Jesus Christ, and it seems that in addition to working his miracles and giving his sermons he was not above losing control of his anger and straight up cursing people from time to time, with three cities in particular becoming the target of his mighty displeasure.
The three cities that Jesus decided to lay down his wrath upon are often known as the “Unrepentant Cities,” and all are located around the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, in Israel, where Jesus Christ once made his home amongst the humble fishermen of the region. It is interesting in that these are places where Christ was once at home and even performed his miracles. Take the city called Chorazin, also known as Korazin or Korazim, which was an important place in those days, renowned for its wheat, and is where Jesus actually lived at one point after he left Nazareth, and in later years he would frequently visit the city and perform various miracles there, with it being one of the three key cities in which he conducted his ministry. It is said that despite these displays of power the people of the city did not repent their “ways,” which led to a rather uncharacteristically extreme reaction from Jesus, and according to Matthew and Luke’s gospels of the New Testament he then laid a horrible curse down upon this once great city, condemning it to wither away to nothingness.
Indeed, the city supposedly completely died, and according to writings by Eusebius it was destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake in 330 AD, after which it was rebuilt in the 5th century and later abandoned once more to leave it to rot. In later centuries the doomed city would become associated with the birthplace of the Antichrist, and it is not hard to see that it rather suffered from the spiteful anger of Jesus. It was not until the 19th century that ruins linked to the ancient lost city would be found in the vicinity of a place called Khirbet Kerazeh. Here an ancient synagogue was excavated, as well as various ruins fashioned from black basalt, most interestingly a huge block of the stuff, which was engraved with ancient Aramaic and is called the Seat of Moses, as well as carved human and animal figures and a well preserved statue of Medusa, which at that time would have certainly been considered a very pagan image. There is little evidence that these ruins actually existed in the time when Jesus was alive, and despite the few mentions of Chorazin in the New Testament it remains a bit of a lost historical mystery, and it is still not clear from the passages just what the people did exactly to incur such a vehement response from Christ.
Lying just a few kilometers away is another city purportedly cursed by Jesus, called Capernaum, a famous fishing port at the time and a major stopover on the Via Maris, the main trade route connecting Damascus in the north and Egypt in the south. It is also notable for being home to some of Jesus’ disciples, the fishermen Peter, Andrew, James and John, and the tax collector Matthew. Along with Chorazin it is also one of the three key cities, or the “Evangelical Triangle,” where he had his ministry and performed most of his miracles. Indeed Jesus once lived at Capernaum, calling it his “own city,” and he is said to have healed a paralyzed man, as well as a centurion’s servant boy who was seriously ill with palsy at home, also curing Peter’s mother-in-law, and raising the daughter of Jairus, the leader of the synagogue, back from the dead, and he is said to have rid many people of demonic possessions here as well. It was in the Capernaum synagogue that Jesus gave many sermons, including his famous Sermon on the Bread of Life (John 6:35-59), in which he says, “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Alas, the people here were said to have been largely indifferent to the fantastical miracles they witnessed, unwilling to recognize Jesus’s true powers or to repent for their sins, and this too provoked a rage that caused him to curse it as well, despite what a home he considered it to be. This curse supposedly caused the town to fall into utter ruin, going from a thriving fishing market to a pale shadow of its former glory, becoming what a 3rd century account calls, “despicable; it numbers only seven houses of poor fishermen,” and all attempts to resettle the area were failed ventures met with woe and strife. As with Chorazin, many ruins have been found here, such as several synagogues and what is thought to have been the home of Saint Peter himself, and many of the structures were constructed of white limestone. The location is also home to the largest synagogue yet discovered in Israel, a massive ornate structure built in the 4th or 5th century upon the remains of a synagogue in which Jesus taught. When the ruins were first found in 1838, the curse apparently still had a shadow hanging over them, as American explorer Edward Robinson called the place “desolate and mournful.” In modern times, a modern Catholic Church sits upon eight grand pillars atop a mound overlooking the archeological excavation site, as if protecting this place and keeping the curse at bay.
Finally we come to the ancient fishing village of Bethsaida, also one of the Evangelical Triangle and the last of the known “cursed cities” of Jesus. It is the largest of the three cities, and was once a thriving capitol of the Kingdom of Geshur during the time of King David, and it was where Jesus met his first disciples, the fisherman Simon-Peter and his brother Andrew. It was also the place where Jesus performed miracles such as curing a blind man, as well as his famous miracle of providing food for a mass of 5,000 people with two fish and five loaves of bread (Matt. 14:13-21), often called the “Miracle of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes.” Unfortunately for them, the people of Bethsaida also fell on the wrong side of Jesus, and he cursed them as well, with the town later being annihilated by an earthquake in around 363 AD. It too would be rebuilt but subsequently abandoned, the land barren and not wanting people here anymore, leaving nothing but mysterious, dusty weed-choked ruins behind.
All of the cities we have looked at here Jesus Christ supposedly found fit to curse with all of his power, their lack of repentance and ways causing great ire for him. In these instances he went outside of his benevolent, forgiving ways, and chose instead to bight these cities with misfortune and death, and it was rather chillingly commended by him in Matthew 11:20–24 as such:
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! Woe unto thee, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the Day of Judgment than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
It is pretty shocking to see a figure of such a typically benevolent and forgiving nature to utter such words and display such scorn, but it seems Jesus was not above a certain fury when times called for it. These cities have become buried by the sands, lost to history and mostly devolved into feral ruins and rubble, but their legacy still stands as the only three times Jesus Christ lashed out to curse whole places. It is an interesting juxtaposition to what he usually stands for, and a frightening display of his power, if any of it ever really happened at all. In the end we have this figure of one of the world’s largest religions, renowned for his gentle nature and forgiving stance conjuring up dark forces to blight lands that did not agree with him, and although it is uncertain how much any reality any of this holds, it is somewhat chilling nonetheless, and a little known chapter and oddity of Biblical history.
While black holes can’t actually been seen, what the team did witness was clouds of celestial gases that were orbiting around something they couldn’t see. The team was studying two gas clouds, nicknamed Balloon and Stream in reference to their shape, for two days in May 2018 and that’s when they noticed the gas clouds moving mysteriously and spinning around an invisible center. They noticed this by using a set of 66 Chilean telescopes called the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) which are located across the Atacama Desert in the northern part of Chile.
Shunya Takekawa, who is an astrophysicist at the NAOJ, told New Scientist, “When I checked the ALMA data for the first time, I was really excited because the observed gas showed obvious orbital motions, which strongly suggest an invisible massive object lurking.”
While studying how the gas clouds were moving and orbiting the invisible object, they concluded that the black hole is approximately 30,000 times the mass of our Sun but it only occupies as much space as Jupiter because it’s so compact. And with the lack of light coming from that area, they concluded that it was in fact a medium-sized black hole.
Scientists have a pretty good understanding of the common tiny black holes and supermassive black holes located in our galaxy, but now they’re curious as to how many of the rare medium-sized black holes there are in the Milky Way. Astronomers do believe that they have found two other medium-sized black holes around the heart of our galaxy near Sagittarius A. These three medium-sized black holes could potentially be escapees from the large black hole that’s at the center of the Milky Way. They also believe that there are many more of these rare medium-sized black holes somewhere out there in the Universe.
The research conducted in finding this new medium-sized black hole has been detailed in an article on the arXiv.org website in December of 2018.
For whatever reasons, anomalous noises seem to have become a more frequently reported phenomenon recently. I have to wonder: are they actually occurring more often, or just being reported more often? From the now omnipresent mystery boomstostrange humswhich plague cities throughout the globe, the world abounds with strange sounds. What is making these anomalous noises, and why do they seem to be on the rise?
The latest spate of mystery noises occurred along the east coast of the US, where residents of four cities in four different states all seemed to have heard a similar terrifying and unexplained noise in recent weeks. While industrial causes are suspected in at least two of the cases, some residents aren’t buying those explanations.
Plus, major industrial sites are usually off-limits to the public, meaning they’re a perfect scapegoat if one was ever needed.
Late last month, residents of the Mid Valley region of Pennsylvania near Scranton heard what were described as “jet engine-like noises” loud enough to wake them up in bed. The noises began around 8:00 am local time and lasted for over an hour. Borough Council President Gerald Crinella said the noises sounded like “fighter jets flying overhead” and was so loud it could be heard indoors. Shortly after new of the incident broke, officials at the Lackawanna Energy Center say the noises were caused by an emergency pressure valve opening unexpectedly, creating “the loudest noise they’ve ever heard come from the plant.”
Two weeks later, a strikingly similar noise was heard much farther to the south near Tampa, Florida. Residents of the Davis Islands heard terrifyingly loud jet engine noises around 4:00 am on January 11. Emergency officials say the noise was caused by the nearby TECO Bayside Power Station, which was venting steam.
On January 17, residents of Salisbury, North Carolina were startled by a “mysterious ‘alien’ sound” heard throughout the city around 11:00 pm. Cameron Glen told local news affiliate FOX 46 that the noise sounded like a mix between “a locomotive and a space shuttle taking off.” The noise was heard for around five minutes and caused dogs and coyotes to howl. Local officials have reached out to nearby airports and power stations, but so far no one has claimed responsibility.
Normally, there’d be no reason to doubt that power plants would have to occasionally let off incredible amounts of steam. However, the timing and similarities of these three incidents seems a bit too coincidental to me. With reports of mysterious sonic booms on the rise, could these reports of jet engine noises be related? There’s no way law enforcement officials would lie to the press about anomalous events, is there?
What people are speculating the sounds are online...
Possible theories include:
Tectonic plates grinding - Tectonic plates are pieces of the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere. The plates are around 100 km (62 mi) thick and consist of two principal types of material: oceanic crust (also called sima from silicon and magnesium) and continental crust (sial from silicon and aluminium).
Atmospheric pressure - Atmospheric pressure is defined as the force per unit area exerted against a surface by the weight of the air above that surface.
Trains shunting- Self explanatory - noise comes from trains in reaction to the track and overhead wires.
Construction - Building works, especially if going on at the same time across a specific area, can led to similar sounds.
Aliens- Can this be an alien lifeform in the sky, perhaps scouring out Earth?
HAARP weapon- Rumours persist that the U.S. government uses secret weapons in the sky for defence and weather modifying, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP). This wouldn't explain the sounds in other countries however...
The Apocalypse and the Seven Trumpets of Heaven - Seven trumpets are sounded, one at a time, to cue apocalyptic events that were seen in the vision of the Revelation of Christ Jesus, by John of Patmos. Somewhat more worrying as it would signal the end of the world...
This wave form shows how the sound was recorded when captured in Canada
This is the sound wave captured from the noise in Germany, that appeared to leave a child frozen in shock
Watch this interesting UFO video that was caught in the sky above Katy in Texas recently.
Witness report:
1 light, then 2, then 4 in triangle etc. We were driving north on hey 99 and like every night, there was air traffic. I saw a larger than normal light off in the distance, maybe a few miles. After about 30 seconds of watching while still driving, the one light suddenly becomes three lights, in a horizontal pattern. I pulled over to the side of the road and my friend and i continued to watch as this object got closer, yet still high up in the sky. Right as the lights got right over my truck, the three lights became 4 light and were now in the shape of a diamond. I turned my camera on and gave it to my friend so he could try to film the craft. As it got right over top of the truck it made a Sharpe right turn and seemed to glide off to the east. The craziest thing about it is how quiet the craft was. We couldn’t hear any sounds of jets or engines. The lights were in a diamond pattern, but the craft seemed to have a larger diameter than the position of the lights. We were able to get 1:37 seconds of the end of the sighting. We 2atched as it went east and then seemed to just disappear.
Scientists Finally Figured Out How to Travel Faster Than the Speed of Light
Scientists Finally Figured Out How to Travel Faster Than the Speed of Light
One of the most cherished science fiction scenarios is using a black hole as a portal to another dimension or time or universe. That fantasy may be closer to reality than previously imagined.
Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in the universe. They are the consequence of gravity crushing a dying star without limit, leading to the formation of a true singularity — which happens when an entire star gets compressed down to a single point yielding an object with infinite density. This dense and hot singularity punches a hole in the fabric of spacetime itself, possibly opening up an opportunity for hyperspace travel. That is, a short cut through spacetime allowing for travel over cosmic scale distances in a short period.
Researchers previously thought that any spacecraft attempting to use a black hole as a portal of this type would have to reckon with nature at its worst. The hot and dense singularity would cause the spacecraft to endure a sequence of increasingly uncomfortable tidal stretching and squeezing before being completely vaporized.
Flying Through a Black Hole
My team at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a colleague at Georgia Gwinnett College have shown that all black holes are not created equal. If the black hole like Sagittarius A*, located at the center of our own galaxy, is large and rotating, then the outlook for a spacecraft changes dramatically. That’s because the singularity that a spacecraft would have to contend with is very gentle and could allow for a very peaceful passage.
The reason this is possible is that the relevant singularity inside a rotating black hole is technically “weak,” and thus does not damage objects that interact with it. At first, this fact may seem counterintuitive. But one can think of it as analogous to the common experience of quickly passing one’s finger through a candle’s near 2,000-degree flame without getting burned.
My colleague Lior Burko and I have been investigating the physics of black holes for over two decades. In 2016, my Ph.D. student, Caroline Mallary, inspired by Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film Interstellar, set out to test if Cooper (Matthew McConaughey’s character) could survive his fall deep into Gargantua — a fictional, supermassive, rapidly rotating black hole some 100 million times the mass of our sun. Interstellar was based on a book written by Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Kip Thorne and Gargantua’s physical properties are central to the plot of this Hollywood movie.
Building on work done by physicist Amos Ori two decades prior, and armed with her strong computational skills, Mallary built a computer model that would capture most of the essential physical effects on a spacecraft, or any large object, falling into a large, rotating black hole like Sagittarius A*.
The fictional Miller’s planet orbiting the black hole Gargantua, in the movie ‘Interstellar.’
Not Even a Bumpy Ride?
What she discovered is that under all conditions an object falling into a rotating black hole would not experience infinitely large effects upon passage through the hole’s so-called inner horizon singularity. This is the singularity that an object entering a rotating black hole cannot maneuver around or avoid. Not only that, under the right circumstances, these effects may be negligibly small, allowing for a rather comfortable passage through the singularity. In fact, there may be no noticeable effects on the falling object at all. This increases the feasibility of using large, rotating black holes as portals for hyperspace travel.
What is it about UFOs that we can’t stop looking for them?
Is it true that we are not alone in the Universe? When will we be certain about the existence of extraterrestrial life forms? Will “they” contact us someday? Interrogations of this nature had been made since the beginning of humankind. Different cultures have attempted to explain the existence of life as we know it outside the planet. In most cases, their closest guess has been through those famous sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) that occur from time to time. These particular events have proven to be reason enough for thousands of people around the world to obsess with this topic since ancient times. Even as we speak, there are lots of people trying to capture a UFO sighting and prove non-believers wrong.
This global UFO obsession can be traced back to ancient Egypt, around 1480, BCE. An ancient document called Tulli Papyrus (even though it’s not a papyrus per se), which belonged to the pharaoh Thutmose III, describes the sighting of “fiery discs” in the sky.
Being that Ancient Egyptians were experienced astronomers, it seems unlikely that they could’ve mistaken this with an astronomical or weather circumstance. Yet it was so long ago, that even by reading the document’s translation, we can’t be sure what they really saw:
“In the year 22, of the third month of winter, sixth hour of the day […] among the scribes of the House of Life it was found that a strange Fiery Disk was coming in the sky. It had no head. The breath of its mouth emitted a foul odor. Its body was one rod in length and one rod in width. It had no voice. It came toward His Majesty’s house. Their heart became confused through it, and they fell upon their bellies. They [went] to the king, to report it. His Majesty [ordered that] the scrolls [located] in the House of Life be consulted. His Majesty meditated on all these events which were now going on.
After several days had passed, they became more numerous in the sky than ever. They shined in the sky more than the brightness of the sun, and extended to the limits of the four supports of heaven […] Powerful was the position of the Fiery Disks."
In Ancient India, they also had their own version of UFO sightings. Among the Indian Vedic literature, there are multiple descriptions of “flying machines” that were eventually named Vimanas (sanskrit word for "measuring out, traversing"). These aircrafts also were found in 3000-year old temple carvings. These documents haven’t been completely translated, so we can’t fully understand what Ancient Indians were talking about. Fortunately, the limited documents available (translated by Dr. Ruth Reyna from the University of Chandigarh) do reveal very interesting facts about these mythical writings.
It seems that some of these documents contain directions for building an interstellar spaceship calledAstras. According to Dr. Reyna, these aircrafts were anti-gravitational, and could be used withlaghima(an ancient unknown power within the human condition strong enough to make people levitate). These texts also suggested the key to being invisible (antima) and becoming as heavy as lead (garima).
Fast forward to the Renaissance. In 1561, the city of Nuremberg witnessed one of the most intriguing sightings at that time. A “celestial phenomenon” lighted up the German sky, which was later described by diverse authors as an extraterrestrial battle. After the shocking event, a news article describing the event was spread. The text included an illustration with a woodcut engraving by Hans Glaser:
"(...) At first there appeared in the middle of the sun two blood-red semi-circular arcs, just like the moon in its last quarter. And in the sun, above and below and on both sides, the color was blood, there stood a round ball of partly dull, partly black ferrous color. Likewise there stood on both sides and as a torus about the sun such blood-red ones and other balls in large number, about three in a line and four in a square, also some alone. In between these globes there were visible a few blood-red crosses, between which there were blood-red strips, becoming thicker to the rear and in the front malleable like the rods of reed-grass, which were intermingled, among them two big rods, one on the right, the other to the left, and within the small and big rods there were three, also four and more globes. These all started to fight among themselves, so that the globes, which were first in the sun, flew out to the ones standing on both sides, thereafter, the globes standing outside the sun, in the small and large rods, flew into the sun.”
It’s no surprise that even at the hardest times, UFOs were messing with people. During World War II, metallic spheres and lights were spotted in more than one occasion by bomber crews in the European and Pacific area. These aerial mysteries were later called "foo fighters," a term that turned out to be commonly used for UFO sightings at that moment.
The first sighting of this kind occurred in November 1944, when the Bristol Beaufighter crew and intelligence officer Fred Ringwald were flying along the Rhine north of Strasbourg. These pilots reported “fast-moving round glowing objects” that were suspiciously following them. These mysterious objects were described as fiery and glowing. Pilots reported that the aircrafts never displayed hostility, but seemed to be flying in formation for a while, and then took very interesting turns in the air before vanishing. This sighting (alongside other similar cases at that time) gained popularity but couldn’t be fully explained.
UFO obsession has clearly reached the contemporary world. A very particular case occurred four years ago in Houston, Texas. People registered on their cell phone a ring of lights that flew during a thunderstorm. The photographs revealed an object formed with lights that seemed to be supporting a bigger structure, but the video footage states a different story. The lights that originally were arranged in a circle start to move independently in and out of formation
Dr. Carolyn Sumners, vice president for Astronomy at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, shared a very intriguing opinion on the matter: “I think the trick in UFOs is figuring out what else they could be… It’s easy to say that could be the aliens.” Also, former FBI Special Agent Ben Hansen had some interesting insights to share:
"One of the most intriguing aspects of the case is that a series of still photos began appearing on the Internet the next day from different Instagram and Twitter users. Allegedly, the photos were taken by different people from different parts of the city. The nature of social media makes it difficult to track down the original posters of much of the content we receive, but it does further support the claim that there were many witnesses to a spectacular UFO event that evening."
Did all of these cases really happen? Are these documents proof of something we’ve been waiting to answer for a long time? Or are they just manipulated footage that keep believers happy? Either way, UFO sightings will probably still happen in the future; hopefully, we’ll find a clear explanation to them.
NASA: The 2002 NT7 asteroid could “hit” Earth in February
NASA: The 2002 NT7 asteroid could “hit” Earth in February
Every few months we have new theories of those impacts that could be devastating for Earth, and there is a large number of asteroids that roam the universe.
But something is worrying the official scientific community, which is still silent. NASA declared that a 2.5-km-wide space rock, the 2002 NT7 asteroid, is heading towards Earth, although with a “low probability of impact” on Earth. first months of this 2019.
NASA scientists even provided estimates for the potential impact, announcing that a major collision could take place on February 1 of this year, something that leaves us with little chance of stopping this asteroid with the technology we currently possess. .
But NASA’s apocalyptic prediction receded after four days of intrigue, repeated risk-impact calculations, and repetition of trajectory calculations several times, as alarms began to sound not only in the agency spatial if not in the higher echelons of power. But did the verification and the final result really come to fruition?
Conspiracy theorists believe that the US Government’s Strategy and National Action Plan for Near-Earth Object Preparation are insufficient if the 2002 NT7 were to be directed on Earth. Watch the following video and leave us your comment below.
To fully appreciate the glory and grandeur of this celestial display, which is also known as theaurora borealis, you have to settle beneath the ever-changing lights and watch them curve and curl, slither and flicker. [Amazing Auroras: Stunning Northern Lights Photos]
"I was camping, just lying out in a field in a sleeping bag on a late September night and looking up at the stars," said Terry Onsager, a physicist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado.
"All of a sudden, the most spectacular lights and swirls and rays just filled the sky, dancing and darting here and there," Onsager told Space.com. "It was just unbelievable."
To fully appreciate the glory and grandeur of this celestial display, which is also known as the aurora borealis, you have to settle beneath the ever-changing lights and watch them curve and curl, slither and flicker. [Amazing Auroras: Stunning Northern Lights Photos]
"I was camping, just lying out in a field in a sleeping bag on a late September night and looking up at the stars," said Terry Onsager, a physicist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado.
"All of a sudden, the most spectacular lights and swirls and rays just filled the sky, dancing and darting here and there," Onsager told Space.com. "It was just unbelievable."
This gorgeous auroral display over Sweden's Abisko National Park was captured on Feb. 16, 2015 by photographer Chad Blakley (www.lightsoverlapland.com).
Credit: Chad Blakley / www.lightsoverlapland.com
Onsager had his aurora experience in northern Norway — one of the best places in the world to see the northern lights. You could follow in his footsteps, or blaze your own trail somewhere along the "auroral zone" that encircles Earth's northern reaches. But you need to know when and where to go. For example, the summer of 2018 may be a good time for a vacation, but a better time to see auroras is actually between winter and spring.
Read on to find out when and where to see the northern lights, and what powers this dazzling display.
If you're planning an aurora-viewing trip, make sure not to schedule it in the middle of summer. You need darkness to see the northern lights, and places in the auroral zone have precious little of it during the summer months.
You also want clear skies. Winter and springtime are generally less cloudy than autumn in and around the northern auroral zone, so a trip between December and April makes sense, said Charles Deehr, a professor emeritus and aurora forecaster at the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute. Ideally, time your trip to coincide with the new moon, and make sure to get away from city lights when it's time to look up, he added.
"Dress warmly, plan to watch the sky between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. local time, although an active period can occur anytime during the dark hours," Deehr wrote in the Geophysical Institute's guide to aurora viewing, which has lots of great information. "Active periods are typically about 30 minutes long, and occur every two hours, if the activity is high. The aurora is a sporadic phenomenon, occurring randomly for short periods or perhaps not at all."
You can get an idea of how active the northern lights are likely to be in your area by keeping tabs on a short-term aurora forecast, such as the one provided by the Geophysical Institute here: http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast
And you can have an aurora experience without even leaving your house if you so choose. The Canadian Space Agency offers a live feed of the skies above Yellowknife, in Canada's Northwest Territories: http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronomy/auroramax/.
Where to go in Europe
So where should you go? If you live in Europe, the easiest thing to do is head to the far northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland.
"In general, Scandinavia is set up," Deehr told Space.com. "They're in good shape for this."
Northern Norway, especially the area around Tromso, is a particularly popular destination, he added.
"There are a lot of tours, and a lot of English-speaking people who are willing to take you out," Deehr said, adding that the scenery in the region is "fantastic."
"Abisko has developed a reputation for being the No. 1 aurora-watching destination on the planet, due to the fact that it is located in a very special microclimate with less precipitation than any other location on Earth that is located within the aurora zone," photographer Chad Blakley told Space.com via email. (The company Blakley co-founded, Lights Over Lapland, has been offering aurora tours in Abisko since 2010. In 2018, the company released footage from a spectacular all-sky aurora during a geomagnetic storm March 14.)
Iceland is also a good choice, Deehr said, as long as you make sure to set aside enough time to compensate for cloudy skies. (The island nation's weather can be uncooperative.)
Russia, by contrast, "is pretty much out," Deehr said. While a decent swathe of the auroral zone lies in northern Russia, such areas are relatively hard to get to and lack the tourism infrastructure most travelers are after, he explained.
Where to go in North America
There are also plenty of options for good aurora viewing in North America. But you should probably steer clear of far eastern Canada, which tends to be quite cloudy, Deehr said.
"Between James Bay and the west coast of Alaska — anywhere along that auroral zone is a good place to be," he said. (James Bay is the far southern portion of Canada's huge Hudson Bay.)
Or a traveler could take a train across the auroral zone to the town of Churchill, on the western shore of Hudson Bay — an area famous for its polar bear population.
"It's great, adventurous country," Deehr said of the Canadian auroral region.
In Alaska, anywhere from Fairbanks north offers good viewing. In Fairbanks itself, residents see the northern lights on about eight of every 10 nights, Deehr said.
The northern lights result when charged particles streaming from the sun collide with molecules high up in Earth's atmosphere, exciting these molecules and causing them to glow.
"It's like the fluorescent lights in our offices — they've got current running through them that excites the atoms, and the atoms glow," Onsager said.
The different colors of the northern lights come from different molecules: Oxygen emits yellow, green and red light, while nitrogen is responsible for blue and purplish-red hues.
Earth's magnetic field lines channel these solar particles toward the planet's north and south magnetic poles, which explains why auroras — the aurora borealis and its southern counterpart, the aurora australis — are high-latitude phenomena.
Indeed, the aurora borealis is visible most nights, weather permitting, within a band several hundred miles wide that's centered at about 66 degrees north — about the same latitude as the Arctic Circle.
This "standard" aurora is generated by the solar wind — the particles streaming constantly from the sun. But solar storms known as coronal mass ejections (CME) can ramp up the northern lights considerably and make them visible over much wider areas. Last year, for example, a CME allowed skywatchers as far south as Illinois and Ohio to get a glimpse. However, if you're planning an aurora-viewing trip weeks or months in advance, you can't count on any help from a solar storm and should therefore head to a destination somewhere near the northern ring. [The Sun's Wrath: Worst Solar Storms in History]
The southern auroral ring lies above Antarctica and is very difficult for skywatchers, or anyone else, to get to. That's why this article focuses on the northern lights — for reasons of practicality, not antipodean antipathy. (Southern Hemisphere dwellers take heart: The aurora australis can sometimes be viewed from New Zealand and Tasmania.)
There is also a mysterious, aurora-like brightening phenomenon in Earth's atmospher called "Steve" that isn't attributable to aurora, although scientists aren't sure of its cause.
Earth isn't unique in hosting auroras.
The huge gas giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) each produce their own auroras due to their magnetic fields and thick atmospheres. However, the colors of the gases change because of differences in their atmospheres and magnetospheres.
Editor's note: If you capture an amazing photo of the northern lights and would like to share it with Space.com and our news partners for a story or gallery, send images in to at spacephotos@space.com.
This story, originally posted in April 2016, has been updated for 2019.
TheLunar Reconnaissance Orbiterwill face down the 10th eclipse of its lifetime this weekend, and the team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland is prepared for the brief lapse in sunlightwhen the moon goes into shadowon Sunday (Jan. 20).
Spacecraft operations are one of the functions deemed essential for government operations, so many of the LRO employees continue day-to-day work without pay amid the U.S. government shutdown. Additionally, contractors — whose work has been paid for ahead of time through their respective companies — continue their assignments with LRO, project scientist Noah Petro told Space.com.
Petro, who is a space scientist at Goddard — is on call in case something happens with LRO, although he hasn't been asked to come in yet. He is part of a class of federal employees that can respond to operational events as required. That said, much of the preparatory work for LRO's eclipse operations took place months before this weekend's event; its team gathered in meetings, studied this weekend's eclipse and went over the history of LRO eclipse events to prepare, he said. [Super Blood Wolf Moon Lunar Eclipse: When, Where and How to See It]
The Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter has circled the moon since 2009.
Credit: Chris Meaney/NASA Conceptual Image Lab
The solar-powered LRO is in excellent health, but Petro said the team knows it is working with a spacecraft that will turn 10 years old this year. Originally, LRO would keep most of its instruments turned on to perform observations all of the time. But lately, a small number of instruments have been turned off to preserve LRO's battery.
During some past eclipses, LRO's thermal imager — the Diviner Lunar Radiometer — examined the temperatures of the lunar regolith and soil. Diviner usually can "see" the top layer of the regolith, which is a few tens of centimeters thick. However, during an eclipse, the top 1 cm to 2 cm below the surface can change temperature rapidly. The eclipses thus allowed Diviner to look at a different region of the soil than usual.
Now that LRO is older, however, Diviner is turned off during the eclipse along with the spacecraft’s six other instruments, Petro said. LRO won't be performing observations while the moon is dark; instead, it will remain in a power-saving mode to preserve its battery. Before the spacecraft speeds into shadow, the LRO team will turn on its heater for a while to "preheat" the spacecraft, before shutting it off for power saving. With these precautions, Petro said the team expects LRO will sail through just fine, similar to past eclipses.
Petro likened the situation with LRO to operating a cellphone for extended periods when you're away from an electrical outlet or an opportunity to charge the phone. Many people will put their cellphones into power-saving mode, and turn off nonessential apps, to keep the battery going longer.
"We're confident we can get through it, because we did in the past," Petro said.
"These eclipses are a good experience," he added. "They force us to look at the spacecraft. But I don't want to say they're risky. They are unusual operations, and that is always a challenge."
Due to the cycle of geometric positions between Earth, sun and moon, the next total lunar eclipse won't come until 2021. Petro said that will provide a nice break for the team. They are not really worried about LRO's health during this time, but the lack of eclipses will mean a lack of necessary planning meetings to deal with them — allowing for more time to focus on the ongoing observations LRO performs every day.
Later in 2019, Petro and other employees at Goddard plan to highlight LRO's contributions — which include mapping lunar water ice and cataloging the moon's terrain in high resolution — and highlighting that work along with the science performed by the Apollo moon missions of the 1960s and 1970s. This year not only marks the 10th anniversary of LRO's launch, but also the 50th anniversary of the first crewed landing on the moon, on July 20, 1969.
For now, Petro said he sees the eclipse as an opportunity to get the public interested in the moon and to raise awareness about science activities, especially as NASA plans a Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway human space station in the 2020s.
Editor's note: If you snap an amazing photo of the January 2019 total lunar eclipse that you'd like to share with Space.com and our news partners for a possible story or image gallery, send comments and images in to: spacephotos@space.com.
A former Air Force sergeant who claimed to have seen top-secret photos of an alien base on the far side of the moon has died in a bicycle crash.
Karl R. Wolfe was killed in the crash on October 10 in Lansing, New York, after he was struck from behind by a tractor trailer traveling southbound on North Triphammer Road near Sharon Drive. He was 74.
Wolfe was rushed to Cayuga Medical Center where he later died from injuries sustained in the crash.
Although the crash is under investigation, no charges have been filed and the Tompkins County Sheriff's office did not release the name of the tractor trailer driver, the Ithaca Journal reported.
Karl R. Wolfe (above) was killed in the crash on October 10 in Lansing, New York
In 2001, Wolfe gained fame when he came forward with claims that he had he had seen photographic evidence of an alien structure on the far side of the moon.
In a video interview, Wolfe said that in the mid-1960s, he had a top secret clearance and worked for Tactical Air Command at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.
Wolfe said his job was working as a electronic technician in photographic surveillance labs, and he spent most of his time working on machines that processed surveillance footage of Vietnam.
One day, Wolfe recalled that his superior told him to report to an NSA facility on the base to help with an issue with equipment used to process imagery from the first lunar orbiter mission.
Wolfe said he reported to the facility, which he described as a large hangar-type building with many foreign citizens in civilian clothes, accompanied by interpreters - a surprising sight to the military man.
The former airman recalled that he was alone in a darkroom with another Airman second class, when the other enlisted man said: 'By the way, we've discovered a base on the back side of the moon.'
The far side of the moon is seen in a 1972 photo taken by Apollo 16. Wolfe said that he saw an alien moon base in photos taken by the first lunar orbiter
Wolf (above) was working as a photo technician for the Air Force when he says he was called in to repair equipment that was used to process images from the first lunar orbiter
'I said, 'Whose? What do you mean?'' Wolfe recalled. He said he was fascinated by the statement but was fearful that someone would walk in on their conversation.
Then, Wolfe said, the Airman showed him a photo mosaic assembled from multiple passes by the lunar orbiter.
'He pulled out one of these mosaics, and showed this base which had geometric shapes - there were towers, there were spherical buildings, there were very tall towers and things that looked somewhat like radar dishes, but they were very large structures,' Wolfe said.
'Every day when I went home I thought, 'I can't wait to hear about this on the news,'' Wolfe said.
After serving in the Air Force, Wolfe attended the University of Buffalo with a dual major in Social and Cultural Anthropology, and Electronics Engineering.
Wolfe went on to become a self-help consultant. He never married, and had no children.
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MERENDEEL ONDERVRAAGDE LEZERS STAPT AAN BOORD VAN BUITENAARDS RUIMTESCHIP ( VIDEO )
MERENDEEL ONDERVRAAGDE LEZERS STAPT AAN BOORD VAN BUITENAARDS RUIMTESCHIP ( VIDEO )
Wanneer de tijd echt daar is en er landen buitenaardse ruimteschepen om mensen te evacueren van de aarde, dat zullen lezers van deze website daar weinig moeite mee hebben.
Terwijl de Amerikaanse overheid weer eens is betrapt met het vliegen met ufo's in de buurt van Area51, wachten wij vol smart op de echte buitenaardsen.
Er zijn al heel lang buitenaardsen op onze planeet, alleen merkt de gewone bevolking daar meestal weinig van.
De contacten die er met hen zijn worden door overheden zoveel mogelijk geheimgehouden, maar ondertussen hebben zij wel degelijk geprofiteerd van de kennisoverdracht die in de loop der jaren heeft plaatsgevonden. Denk in dat kader ook aan klokkenluiders zoals Bob Lazar, mensen die zelf met buitenaardse techniek hebben gewerkt.
En zo kan het dat diezelfde Amerikaanse overheid regelmatig wordt betrapt met het testen c.q. vliegen van ufo's die gebouwd zijn met behulp van buitenaardse kennis.
In dat kader is de volgende opname leuk die al enkele jaren oud is, maar enkele dagen geleden naar buiten is gekomen.
Het gebeurde toen een aantal mensen landschappen aan het filmen waren voor een te maken film in de Amerikaanse staat Utah, niet ver van de beruchte Area51. Terwijl ze daar aan het filmen zijn komt er in de verte een ufo aan die in een fractie van een seconde met een werkelijk enorme snelheid voorbij vliegt.
Hierna zijn de bewegende beelden te zien en als je de ufo wilt zien, dan adviseren wij om door te spoelen naar ongeveer 2 minuut 34 en de video af te spelen op de laagst mogelijke snelheid.
Talloze verhalen zijn er die vertellen van ontmoetingen tussen mensen en buitenaardsen op onze aarde.
Maar, mooie en waargebeurde verhalen is één ding, maar wat zou je doen als het jou werkelijk zou overkomen. Je gaat een stukje wandelen met de hond, kat of je schoonmoeder en plots zie je iets.
Zou je van schrik hard wegrennen of zou je heel graag aan boord van een buitenaards ruimteschip gaan als je daartoe wordt uitgenodigd?
Voor het merendeel van de lezers van deze website is die vraag simpel te beantwoorden. Bijna 60 procent zou zonder enige twijfel aan boord gaan als de situatie hier op aarde dermate kritiek zou worden, dat evacueren een goede oplossing zou zijn.
Mysterious dark cigar-shaped anomaly flies at high speed over Reservoir of Guarapiranga, São Paulo, Brazil
Mysterious dark cigar-shaped anomaly flies at high speed over Reservoir of Guarapiranga, São Paulo, Brazil
A drone owner has captured something what is difficult to explain.
On January 11, 2019, the drone is flying above the Reservoir of Guarapiranga which is a reservoir in the southern area of the city of São Paulo, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil when the drone’s camera captures a dark cigar-shaped object that moves through the sky at a tremendous speed.
The drone owner wonders whether it is just a digital “freak” or an error in the drone’s camera or any other natural phenomenon.
Even though I also don’t know what it might have been, it seems like it shoots out of a cloud formation.
The video shows the normal speed, slow motion and still images of the mysterious anomaly.
Yesterday, I wrote an article titled “Area 51: ‘I Can’t Discuss It, Sir.'” It was focused on how from 1984 to 1985 plans were initiated – and ultimately implemented – by the U.S. Government to grab as much land as possible around Area 51, Nevada. Today, I’m doing a follow-up to that article. Now, it’s time to take a look at a now-declassified document of 1987 titled MilitaryLand Withdrawals. As was the case in the previous article, we see the Honorable John F. Seiberling taking the lead. Such are their importance, his words are presented without interruption:
“This morning we are resuming our hearings on H.R. 1790, introduced by our colleague from Maryland, Mrs. Byron. The bill is an omnibus measure, which would withdraw certain public lands in four different states for use by the Defense Department for military purposes. Under the Eagle Act of 1958, such military withdrawals involving tracts of 5,000 acres or more can be done only through an act of Congress.
“Our first hearing on this bill on November 14, 1985, focused on the so-called Bravo-20 range in northern Nevada, which the Navy has used for bombing practice and related training. Today’s hearing focuses on the other area in Nevada covered by H.R. 1790; namely, the Nellis Air Force Range complex in the southern part of the state. This is an area of more than 2.9 million acres divided into two portions, the north and south range, separated by lands which are now designated as the national test site and used primarily by the Department of Energy for underground nuclear testing and other purposes. The south range of the Nellis complex overlaps the western half of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. That unit of the national wildlife refuge system is about 1.6 million acres in extent.
“Since 1974 there has been pending before the Congress an administration proposal to designate about 1.4 million acres within this unit as wilderness. Members of the subcommittee who served on the Public Lands and national Parks Subcommittee in the 98th Congress will recall that we considered the status of the Nellis range and related matters at a hearing on August 6, 1964.
“By way of background let me recapitulate matters discussed at that hearing and some later developments. At the 1984 hearing we were presented with the issue of what some witnesses described as the seizure by the Air Force of more than 89,000 acres of public lands outside but adjacent to the Nellis south range. In fact, I will go further and say the illegal seizure by the Air Force of these public lands and the illegal exclusion of the rightful owners of various properties that were located on them or within them.
“Testimony from the administration demonstrated that in fact the Air Force had acted to close that large area, known as the Groom Mountain area, to public access even though the Air Force and Defense Department had no legal authority whatsoever to do so. They closed the area because of a decision which they testified was reached at the level of the Secretary of the Air Force or above – shades of Watergate. The decision was based on concerns that otherwise the security of the Nellis complex and the national test site would be threatened.
“After these actions, the administration asked the Congress to regularize matters by withdrawing the Groom Mountain area under the Engle Act. At the 1984 hearing also, we raised the matter pf the still pending administration proposal to designate as wilderness lands within the desert refuge and partly overlapped by the Neillis complex. In response to my initial questions, the Air Force testified that they had been consulted in the process of formulating the administration’s wilderness proposal and that they had no reason to object to such a designation. Based on this, the subcommittee was prepared to incorporate into the Nellis withdrawal legislation provisions designating wilderness within the desert refuge in accordance with the administration’s proposals. However, the Air Force and Defense Department then had an apparent change of mind and urged that such designation not be made. The Department of the Interior continued to support the wilderness recommendation.
“As a result of this apparent divergence of views within the administration, in the end we did not act on the Nellis complex as such. Instead, the Nellis withdrawal bill was amended to deal only with the Groom Mountain area. And that amended bill was ultimately passed by the House and agreed to by the Senate. It was signed on October 17, 1984, as Public Law 98-485.
“Under the terms of that law, the Groom Mountain area is withdrawn for military use until December 31, 1987. By January 1, 1987, the Interior and Air Force Departments must complete and issue an environmental impact statement concerning continued or renewed withdrawal of the Groom Mountain area. This environmental impact statement must address certain possible measures to mitigate development, and agriculture in Nevada.
“Strictly speaking, the questions of possible renewal of the withdrawal of the Groom Mountain area is not before us at this time. However, I think it appropriate for us to examine today the way Public Law 98-485 is being implemented, and where things stand in terms of the development of the required EIS and the consideration of mitigation measures. We will also be most interested to learn whether the former divergence of views within the administration has been resolved as regards the administration’s proposal for wilderness in the Desert National Wildlife Range.
Groom Lake
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“Finally, as I noted at our first hearing on the bill before us, it would be important for us to remember that while we have been to a certain extent attempting to examine the proposed withdrawal of the Nellis complex separately and apart from other areas in H.R. 1790, and, of course, apart from other proposed military withdrawals which are not dealt with by this bill, we must remember that, in fact, Nellis and the other proposed withdrawal areas are part of a larger picture.
“It would be a mistake to fail to consider the cumulative impact of the Nellis complex, the test site, and the other military withdrawals on the State of Nevada and other parts of the country affected by these withdrawals, as well as by other restrictions on the use of lands and airspace, in the interest of national defense or for other purposes.
“I now recognize our distinguished colleague, Mrs. Vucanovich.
“Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
“I want to thank you for holding this hearing on an issue that is of critical importance to the state of Nevada. I also want to welcome Congressman Reid to our committee, and extend a warm welcome to our Nevada constituents who have come to give their views on this to the committee. I look forward to hearing their testimony.
“As the chairman mentioned, this bill withdraws 2.945 million acres of land and park now in Lincoln County, NV, for use by the Department of the Air Force as the training and testing area. The Air Force has been under numerous Executive orders, public land orders, and administrative actions.
“The Nellis Air Force Range comprises the largest air and ground space available in the free world for peacetime military operations and training and, therefore, it is of extreme importance to the defense of this nation.
“It is important to note that this particular withdrawal does not represent any additional new lands to be withdrawn. During the 98th Congress hearings were held on this withdrawal, in addition to a proposal by the Air Force to withdraw 89,600 acres known as the Groom Mountain Range.
“Because of the controversy surrounding the Groom Mountain Range brought to the attention of the committee by me and many Nevadans who testified, this committee agreed to require the Air Force to submit a separate environmental impact statement on the Groom Mountain Range. As we have heard, a temporary withdrawal was approved for the Groom Mountain Range until December 31, 1987. Because of the controversy surrounding the Groom Mountain Range, the 2.945 million-acre withdrawal was postponed.
“It is expected that the final environmental impact statement on the Groom Mountain Range will be completed some time this summer. Since it is the intent of the Congress to consider the withdrawal of the Groom Mountain range only after the completion of the EIS, H.R. 1790 withdraws only the land on the existing Nellis range.
“The Air Force has completed the environmental work on the lands that were previously withdrawn, and has compiled with FLPMA, NEPA, and the Eagle Act. The controversy over this legislation during the last Congress was never over the lands that were previously withdrawn, only over the Groom Mountain Range.”
At last year’s annual “PROJECT” scientific expo in Russia, organizers showed off what they claimed was Russia’s “most advanced robot,” named Boris. Boris wowed expo attendees by conversing with hosts, liberally handing out fist bumps, and even dancing on stage to “Skibidi” by Little Big, Russia’s answer to “Gangnam Style.” Absurdist K-pop dance hits aren’t the only thing being ripped off, though: it turns out Boris wasjust some guy in a suit. Whoops.
The 3 1⁄2-inch floppy disk hot glued to the chest box was a nice touch, though.
Not to be outdone, the 38th Annual Technology Exhibition in the Ghanaian capital of Accra rolled out its own questionable displays of allegedly “advanced” technology. The exhibition featured the usual variety of telecom tech and social media apps, but the main event was without a doubt a parade sponsored by the Apostle Dr. Kwadwo Safo Kantanka, owner of Ghana’s first car maker Kantanka Automobile and frequent maker of dubious claims. At the Technology Exhibition, Kantanka showed off what was alleged to be the most advanced military technology in Ghana: soldiers wearing powered exoskeletons and a massive, heavily-armed personnel carrier. The personnel carrier seemed like it could hold up alright to small arms fire for a few minutes, but as for the cyborg supersoldiers, well, just check it out for yourself.
Those guys wouldn’t even make it into the top ten at a cosplay convention. That one dude’s “hydraulic cable” is just hanging off his leg and is obviously empty split loom tubing, and as a cosplayer myself, I know a spray painted motorcycle helmet when I see one. Part of me wants to laugh, the other part just feels embarrassed for the poor guys who had to wear those costumes in the Ghanaian heat. I have to wonder, though: what did the exhibition attendees think?
The whole parade reminds me of several times I got paid to impersonate fake business executives at grand opening spectacles in China. Everyone watching knew it wasn’t real and that I was probably just American off the street, yet somehow a collective delusion would take over and everyone would agree that yes, this 20-something unshaven white guy must be the real Fitzgerald Prescott, VP of Far East operations for the Cass Hotel Management group. Champagne would be poured, pictures would be taken, charters would be signed, then we’d all empty out into the streets and wonder what we just saw. Isn’t that how all reality works, though? We all agree we see the same things every day when in fact we have no idea how subjective our perception may be.
Yours truly, pretending to be Fitzgerald Prescott, signing the hotel charter and everything. True story.
While it’s fun to laugh at these silly costumes and wonder how anyone could have possibly tried to pass them off as real, this story only really highlights just how unequal the modern battlefield has become. With the world’s superpowers boasting technology that makes anyone else’s look like bad cosplay, it’s no wonder that terrorism and asymmetrical warfare has become the new norm. Just wait until the real cyborg supersoldiers start marching through city streets.
What was initially exciting news about a cotton seed sprouting on the Moon has ended as quickly as it began. China’s Chang’e lunar lander contains a sealed tank with plant seeds and scientists did confirm that a cotton seed has begun sprouting. That meant that it was the first ever plant to begin growing on the moon.
January 7 footage from the moon shows a green leaf that appeared inside China's Chang'e 4 probe.
Unfortunately, with the cold lunar nights which began on January 13th, it has now been confirmed that the seeds would have become frozen from not having any power supply as well as the extreme cold. Temperatures during the night time period can dip as low as minus 279 degrees Fahrenheit while the daylight period can be as hot as 212 degrees. The days and nights on the Moon each last 14 Earth days.
Liu Hanlong, who is the head of the experiment at Chongqing University, explained in a press conference that the temperature inside of the canister holding the seeds reached -52 degrees Celsius, ultimately ending the experiment which had run for 212.75 hours.
The canister aboard the Chinese lunar lander also contains seeds to grow potatoes as well as a lab plant named Arabidopsis. But when the cotton was sprouting, it did look rather sickly in comparison to the seeds that have been grown on Earth. In addition to the extreme temperature changes, the seeds faced other major obstacles such as the stress of being launched into space, high radiation, and low gravity.
The Chinese also included fruit fly eggs as well as yeast to form an ecosystem inside of the lander. They were hoping that if the flies were to hatch, they could use the oxygen that would be created by the plants. The decaying plant biomass would create food for the fruit flies, and the waste from the flies would be processed by the yeast, as well as converting oxygen into carbon dioxide for the plants. If they somehow end up growing plants on the moon, they could potentially provide oxygen for the astronauts. The Arabidopsis would provide oil for the astronauts, while the potatoes would give them food to eat, and the cotton would clothe them.
An image of the Chinese biology experimental capsule now on the far side of the moon aboard the Chang'e 4 lander.
Credit: Chongqing University
Astronauts regularly tend to plants (like lettuce) on the International Space Station in order to study how they grow in microgravity and many of those seeds and plants have orbited Earth since spaceflight first began. In fact, astronauts enjoyed the first ever salad grown in space in 2015. As for the moon, however, the closest they ever got to growing plants there was in 1971 when Stuart Roosa, who was an Apollo 14 astronaut, carried hundreds of tree seeds with him while orbiting the moon. Several of those seeds were brought back to Earth and planted here, earning the name “Moon Trees.”
The Chang’e 4 lander and the container holding the seeds are located inside of the Von Kármán Crater which is on the far side of the moon. The Yutu 2 rover that accompanied the lander to the moon on January 2, 2019 is currently exploring other areas.
On the night of January 20, there will be a rare celestial event—a lunar eclipse will coincide with the Moon at perigee. The lunar eclipse, also known as a “blood moon” because of the reddish hue it displays, will take place at the same time as the full moon’s close approach to Earth.
At this point, the Moon appears slightly bigger than normal, earning it the name “supermoon.” As a result, January’s full moon will be a super blood moon.
The full moon in January is also known as a full wolf moon, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. This is because it heralded a period when wolves would howl with hunger outside villages.
Glowing Red UFO Recorded Over Denmark May Be Secret Military Craft, Jan 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Red UFO Recorded Over Denmark May Be Secret Military Craft, Jan 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 2019
Location of sighting: Denmark
This is some short footage of a glowing red object shooting over Denmark at high speed. I thought this might be a meteor, but there was no tail and the color stayed red where most meteors are whitish in color. Also this seems to be traveling at 1/4 the speed of a meteor, so its possible this is a UFO, but also possible its a military craft being tested in Denmark by the USA. The United States still maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad—from full out bases radar facilities. If this is an experimental craft, then its from one of those bases.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
My friend was driving and saw something really strange in the sky. He claimed it definitely wasn`t the moon. Idk i think its a flare
UFO Captured Hovering Above The Clouds During Flight From Amsterdam to China, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Captured Hovering Above The Clouds During Flight From Amsterdam to China, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 14, 2018
Location of sighting: Between Argentina and Amsterdam
This UFO is shaped like a cloud but has a dark black ring around its edge which clouds never do. Also the center area of the cloud is glowing from within. Aliens pride themselves on outwitting humans around every corner, and humans do not help the situation by saying...its your imagination...or its just a cloud...which falls into their metal trap perfectly. This is a beautiful disk UFO.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I have lived and worked in Argentina for 6 years. On September 12, 2018, my wife and I finally got on the flight from Argentina to Amsterdam. Our terminal is Fujian Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport. After a short stay at the Amsterdam International Airport, transfer to Dutch Airlines, flight number KL883, model: Boeing 787-9. I don’t know how many hours of flight, after a few sleeps and wake up, I watched the mobile phone at 09:31. I should fly to China. The mobile phone is in flight mode, I can’t access the Internet, I don’t have WIFI, I’m bored. Looking out the window, I suddenly saw a strange black cloud, yes, it was a black cloud, not a black cloud. I quickly took out my mobile phone and immediately took it.
The clouds in the impression are all white, how are there black? It is not surprising that everyone looks at this piece of cloud. The heart wants to be able to see the UFO, because it has a lot of curiosity and awe. I foresee that this trip is not normal. I asked my wife next to me to look outside. She said coldly that it was normal. Clouds are like this. I can only say that women are women. So I held the mentality of trying it out and continued to look out the window to see if I could find something. I watched it for ten minutes and found nothing, so I went to Xiaomi again.
After almost an hour, I suddenly felt something strange, and looked out of the window. There was a disc-like UFO in the distance. At first glance, it looked like a cigar, and immediately pulled out the phone and was nervous. Excited, I was afraid to miss the "first intimate contact" between me and UFO. Too excited, the first focus lens was not photographed. I immediately pulled the phone and pulled it into the lens again. I finally photographed it. Silver-gray discs, there seem to be two layers above and below, in a static state, I don’t know what they are doing, I don’t know if anyone is seeing it, I don’t know if the captains have seen it, I’m excited to call my wife. Looking at this UFO, she still gave me a sentence, isn't it a cloud, as excited as it is, it is your hallucination. I am speechless, come, upload a video to everyone to see what it is, iphone 7 plus was shot on September 14th, 2018 AM 10:30.
We've found a mysterious energy burst that's repeating and is more powerful than millions of Suns
We've found a mysterious energy burst that's repeating and is more powerful than millions of Suns
A new telescope may hold the key to finding out where enigmatic fast radio bursts are coming from in the Universe
CHIME is nothing like traditional radio telescopes
CHIME
Astronomers have detected a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) – a mysterious, ultra-brief but extremely powerful burst of energy far away in space – for only the second time in history.
FRBs were first discovered a decade ago, uber-energetic pulses of radio waves travelling through the Universe. They are brief, lasting just a few milliseconds, but carry more power than 500 million Suns. Researchers still don't know what generates these bursts – some have even dubiously speculated that they could be aliens communicating with us.
Results published in the scientific journal Nature today could herald a fresh dawn in our understanding of FRBs. Scientists used a new telescope in British Columbia, Canada, called the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), to spot another 13 new signals including the second repeater.
“There are still a lot of viable models [for their origin] out there, but if we can find even more FRBs, we can hope to narrow down that set in future,” says Ingrid Stairs from the University of British Columbia, part of the CHIME team.
The main goal of CHIME, which began science operations in September 2018, is to probe the expansion of the Universe using its vast radio receivers. It works differently to the traditional radio telescopes with their large dishes, such as the Parkes telescope in Australia, the Lovell telescope in Jodrell Bank near Manchester or Green Bank telescope in the US.
What if everything we know about dark matter is totally wrong?
Unlike those telescopes, CHIME has so-called “light buckets” that collect very faint signals that arrive from space. Each of its stationary four large reflectors, curved like a half-pipe, collects radio waves from the whole sky as Earth rotates, giving a large scale map of cosmic radio waves.
And CHIME has already proven extremely useful in searching for short-lived radio phenomena like FRBs, with potentially thousands more discoveries expected in the future.
Most of the FRBs detected by CHIME were at lower frequencies than expected, down to 400 MHz. This is well within CHIME’s range, meaning the telescope – which was still only in a commissioning phase when it made these discoveries – could be expected to find lots more FRBs in the future.
“We need to find many more of them, say 1,000, and we need to identify the host galaxies for a decent sample, say 20,” said says Simon Johnston from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia. “The number of detections will certainly shoot up as a result of CHIME finding FRBs.”
And then there is the second repeater. Repeating FRBs are important, because they tell us their source cannot be something that destroys itself – and we can pin down their origin. That's how scientists knew that the first repeater lives in a faint dwarf galaxy more than three billion light-years away.
Astronomers still don’t know the source for the second one, though, nor what caused it. “It can’t be cataclysmic,” said Shami Chatterjee from Cornell University in the US, who was not involved in the publication of the Nature papers. “It has to be a mechanism that allows whatever it is producing to survive. You could imagine two neutron stars smashing into each other and producing an explosion and pulse of radio waves, but that would destroy the neutron stars, so you couldn’t have it repeat after that.”
What is also still unclear is whether repeating FRBs are produced in a different way to non-repeating ones – although these could perhaps also repeat if observed for long enough. Finding more FRBs will be crucial to narrowing down the answer, and thanks to CHIME we’re on the cusp of learning a great deal more.
“It’s really exciting because you can see science being done in real-time,” said Chatterjee. “It’s just a tremendously exciting time for the field.”
Nasa says bright lights over Georgia were ‘not a meteor’
Nasa says bright lights over Georgia were ‘not a meteor’
Nasa says that a series of slow, bright lights seen across the southeastern United States on Monday evening “was not a meteor or fireball”.
The space agency says that from the data it currently has about the event, which was caught on camera and reported more than 150 times on the American Meteor Society website (and more “enthusiastically” on Twitter), indicates it was too slow to be a natural (and well timed) visitor from above.
Nasa says that a series of slow, bright lights seen across the southeastern United States on Monday evening "was not a meteor or fireball".
The space agency says that from the data it currently has about the event, which was caught on camera and reported more than 150 times on the American Meteor Society website (and more "enthusiastically" on Twitter), indicates it was too slow to be a natural (and well timed) visitor from above. One witness said the event was marked by, "two bright objects close together, both with long tails...gradually separated as they crossed the sky".
Instead Nasa thinks the object, which moved at about 14,500 miles per hour across the night sky at around 12.30am, was possibly the reentry of a piece of space debris.
Exactly what the debris was is not clear, however. Bill Cooke, Nasa's head of the Meteoroid Environment Office, said that the object was reported to "have multiple colours and to have broken up into multiple pieces".
Below are some of the videos captured of the event:
"It wasn't a meteor, it moved too slowly. This thing hit the atmosphere moving between 14,000 and 16,000 miles per hour," said Cooke. While that sounds fast, meteors move at 24MPH or slower... and the angle it hit the atmosphere was very shallow, that's not typical of a meteor either."
What it definitely was not, despite what legions of Twitter sky watchers had to say, was an alien spacecraft. "There are four distinct objects, a bright object ahead of the main one... and two fainter ones after that... That's typically what you see in a re-entry," he said. So no, not aliens -- but not an asteroid either. While that might have been pleasing in PR terms for the team at Asteroid Day, it's probably a good thing for the people living directly below the event.
160 UFO sightings reported in Wash. state last year
160 UFO sightings reported in Wash. state last year
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DAVENPORT, Wash. - Some 160 UFO sightings were reported in Washington state last year - about one every 55 hours on average, according to the National UFO Reporting Center.
The center, based in Davenport, Wash., receives UFO reports from all around the world, but says it makes no claims as to the validity of the information in any of these reports.
“Obvious hoaxes have been omitted, however most reports have been posted exactly as received in the author's own words," the center says. "We hope that this information will prove to be useful to the general public and the UFO community at large.”
The center reports that Washington state has the third-highest number of total sightings in its database, behind California (No. 1) and Florida (No. 2).
The reports from the Evergreen State are diverse. Many described triangular- or cigar-shaped objects, spheres, lights, disks, fireballs and even formations of multiple objects.
The reports came from all over the state at all times of the day and night. Some sightings lasted only two or three seconds while others continued for several minutes or, in rare cases, an hour or more.
Some examples:
Oct. 24 sighting by a former pilot in University Place: "Object was spherical in shape and emitted a brilliant, extremely coherent orange glow. ... The object made zero noise. As it approached my direction it just skimmed the bottom of the cloud layers, moving through cloud material and lighting it up with the same orange color it was emitting. It sped up and slowed down erratically and quickly, moving very much as a living creature would as apposed to human aircraft or drone would. ... It was quite strange."
Dec. 7 sighting in Issaquah: "I was at a gas station taking my dog for a walk. At approx. 18:20 I saw a starfish-shaped object floating and changing shape. It was covered in small bright red colored lights. Floating quickly. It was visible for 11 seconds and quickly disappeared. It made no noise."
June 24 sighting from a passenger in a Boeing 737 near Mount St. Helens: "Altitude 23,000 ft, heading 295 degrees mag, craft descended out of clouds off left wing tip. Closed to 5 miles or so out. Held formation for appx 30 to 45 seconds then ascended at almost nose up 45 degrees into clouds in what seemed instantly. Time 8:15 Seattle time. Just east of volcano on horizon. (The report notes that the witness is a pilot and experienced aircraft mechanic of "unimpeachable integrity.")
May 26 sighting in Auburn: "Last night on an evening bike ride with my fiance, we saw objects steadily heading up into the sky. I counted 8 in all. We saw a helicopter approaching than turn away. Others on social media heard helicopters over Auburn for 3 plus hours around the same time, no one found out why."
April 2 sighting in Kittitas: "I was outside smoking, when I noticed flashing in the distance. Grabbed my cell phone to zoom in on object. I started recording the object. It would move in a circular motion. Flash red, blue, white, green. Resembled a fireball of energy bursting repeatedly. Move across the sky in a unpredictable manner. I was terrified."
Feb, 23 sighting in Wenatchee: "I noticed ... 3 lights forming a massive triangle these were moving fairly slow but perfectly in unison with each other, then right next to it there was another one and behind it another one, there were about 5 to 6 giant triangles that I saw all moving together. ... I ran inside and grabbed my camera and tried to get a picture of the formation but could only get 2 lights in the pictures I took."
Jan. 25 sighting reportedly seen by multiple witnesses in Yakima: "Three of us watched these Lights blink off and on as they did not move (in a clear sky). Then suddenly three smaller craft arrived. They showed up out of nowhere! Two moved slow to the right and one began to climb at an incredible rate higher then the other objects and it was very bright. As we watch this the largest object began to turn ... and I can see that it's disk-shaped, and it's huge! Then suddenly the area it was in seemed to magically have a cloud for it to vanish behind..it was as if it made it's own camo, and it was gone (for 13 minutes) ... and now it's back!!!!
The National UFO Reporting Center said it has recently seen a high volume of prank calls on its hotline, “typically dozens per day we suspect that the same problem may spill over to the stream of incoming written reports.”
However, it said, “there are, nevertheless, many excellent reports, submitted by anonymous parties, that deserve a reader’s attention, so an anonymous report is not necessarily unreliable.”
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A simulated image of the stratospheric winds over the North Pole Jan. 18, 2019, showing how the northern polar vortex has split into two major parts – one over Canada and one over Russia.
The blast of Arctic weather headed for the United States this weekend could be a first sign of still worse things to comethis winter, with signs that a circular low-pressure system of swirling winds that normally keeps frigid air locked up at the North Pole has been disrupted and split into smaller parts.
The disruption in this counterclockwise-spinning beast, called the polar vortex, is thought to be caused in part by a warm summer over the Arctic and a relatively cold fall over Siberia. The result for the United States and northern Europe? A severe winter lasting throughout February and possibly into March.
Meteorologist Judah Cohen agreed that the breaking up of the polar vortex could be the culprit for the coming storm. Cohen, the director of seasonal forecasting for the weather risk management company Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), based in Lexington, Massachusetts, told Live Science that the coming snowstorms in the United States this weekend are consistent with weather models that predicted severe wintry weather to come in the coming weeks. [Infographic: Earth's Atmosphere Top to Bottom]
The weather models suggested that the disruptions would follow the pattern of polar vortex disruptions seen during the northern winter last year, which resulted in freezing weather across the United States in December and January, and a severe cold snap in March over the United Kingdom.
"This pattern looks much more active, [with] more winter type storms and Arctic outbreaks — I think I would attribute it to definitely being a polar vortex disruption, because it is very consistent with what we've seen in the past," Cohen said.
Polar winds
The northern polar vortex is a fast-flowing stream of air that circles the North Pole in the upper parts of the atmosphere, known as the stratosphere, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) above the surface.
A similar polar vortex exists over the South Pole, but it is the northern polar vortex that can bring severe winter weather to the United States and Europe.
When the northern polar vortex is strong, Cohen explained, it keeps most of the air cooled by the Arctic in the polar region, resulting in mild winter temperatures in the middle latitudes of the eastern United States, and in northern Europe and Asia.
But when the polar vortex weakens, the once-trapped cold air can meander throughout the top of the Northern Hemisphere, bringing polar temperatures and extreme winter weather to lower latitudes, he said.
This diagram shows the normal activity of the northern polar vortex (left) and what happens when the polar vortex weakens.
Credit: NOAA
"Think of the polar vortex as a spinning top, and where the polar vortex goes so goes the cold air," Cohen said. "A strong polar vortex is a fast, tightly spinning top centered over the North Pole, keeping all the cold air with it close by over the Arctic. [But] a weak or perturbed polar vortex is a spinning top that has been banged or bumped into an object multiple times … the top slows down and wobbles and can meander from its location."
As for what knocked into this spinning top, Cohen points, in part, to summer warming in the Arctic region and a relatively cold fall in Siberia.
"I have argued that Arctic change has certainly been a contributor," he said. "The loss of sea ice, especially in the Barents and Kara seas, which are near Scandinavia in north-west Russia … and also an increasing trend in Siberian snow cover in October, I think that has also been contributing.
Winter weather
In recent days, weather scientists have seen the northern polar vortex split into three smaller parts, which have now changed into two giant patches of polar winds in the stratosphere — one over northern Canada and one over central Russia.
Snowstorms have been forecast today (Jan. 18) and tomorrow (Jan. 19) for the central Plains and Midwest of the United States, as part of what's being called winter storm Harper; and the winter weather is expected to hit the mid-Atlantic and Northeast of the United States later in the weekend.
But he warned that a cold snap isn't a foregone conclusion; the winter weather could still turn out to be relatively mild if the polar vortex returns to its normal configuration in the coming weeks.
"Right now, the weather looks like it is very consistent with our expectations of how the weather would transition following these type of events, but we'll see," he said. "These [weather patterns] tend to be episodic, so it doesn't come all down once … not every day will be below normal, and we will not have snow every day."
Cohen added, "[But] I think at least through the end of February, and I would think probably into early March, there will be kind of a skewing of the probabilities or the frequency of severe winter weather."
Aan het begin van dit jaar heeft hij zich in drie delen gesplitst, waarvan eentje volgens sommige modellen onze kant op komt. Als die zich nestelt in de atmosfeer boven ons land, zullen we dat geweten hebben. Alleen nu nog niet.
De wervelwinden tienduizenden meters hoog boven de Noordpool hebben zich opgebroken in drie afzonderlijke wervels. De Oostkust van de Verenigde Staten heeft daar de eerste gevolgen al van gevoeld, zo schrijft de Washington Post, en hun experten voorspellen ook voor Europa extreme koude.
De splitsing van de polaire vortex betekent immers dat de grote luchtstromen die gewoonlijk van oost naar west stromen, lichtjes verschuiven richting het noorden en zuiden. Dat betekent dat koude poollucht makkelijker richting Europa getrokken wordt.
Voorlopig lijkt het er echter niet op dat de poolwervel ons veel schade zal berokkenen. Weerman Frank Deboosere ziet de temperaturen de komende weken niet al te fel meer dalen. ‘Overdag blijven de temperaturen net boven het vriespunt, alleen ’s nachts duiken we eronder.’ In de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag en de nacht erna kan het zelfs vriezen met temperaturen tot -7 graden.
Daarna wordt het weer wat warmer met dinsdag kans op sneeuwbuien en woensdag kans op winterse neerslag.
ASTRONAUT OF APOLLO 15 SAID THAT HUMANS ARE DESCENDANTS OF ALIENS
ASTRONAUT OF APOLLO 15 SAID THAT HUMANS ARE DESCENDANTS OF ALIENS
The astronaut and engineer Alfred Worden (or Al Worden) was a leading pilot and participated in the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. He was the pilot of the Command Module of the same mission, as well as being one of the 24 people they went to the moon Who better than him to reveal the best kept secrets of space missions.
Worden also has a Guinness Record for being the “longest isolated human being” because of the long time he spent alone in the Endeavor Module Command.
While speaking to Good Morning Britain , Al Worden, the astronaut who flew around the moon 75 times, and spent six days in orbit around our satellite, was asked if he thought the aliens were real.
The answer probably surprised everyone who watched the interview.
Al Worden was an astronaut who traveled to the Moon in the Apollo 15 mission.
The former Apollo 15 member said that not only aliens are real, but they came to Earth from far away and created our civilization, and if we wanted to look for evidence, all we had to do was look at ancient Sumerian literature .
This is what Worden said:
We are the aliens, but we believe they are others. But we are the ones who came from another side, because someone else had to survive, and they got into small spaceships, they came here and they landed, and civilization started here . And if you do not believe me, go find books about the ancient Sumerians and see what they have to say. They’ll tell you from the beginning. “
It should be noted that not only ancient Sumeria has evidence of ancient space visitors, other cultures have also mentioned beings from the stars that created man and gave him a lot of knowledge. Our origin is in the sky, in the stars.
In 2017, movies like Alien: Covenantand Life pushed the banal idea that aliens, if we encounter them, will be hostile. Yawn. Far more interesting was the premise posited by Arrival, which suggested that aliens may come in peace, though we’d only know if we couldcommunicate with them. That notion may not be strictly fictional: In a Reddit AMA on Thursday, the famed theoretical physicistMichio Kaku, Ph.D., explained that the latter scenario is far more likely to play out in real life.
It was inevitable that, while Kaku was promoting his boldly titled new book The Future of Humanity, curious fans would ask whether the future of humanity would involve aliens. Kaku, unsurprisingly, said yes — much of his work deals with the Kardashev Scale, a ranking system for the technological prowess of alien civilizations — but his thoughts on what first contact might be like were a little more unexpected.
Michio Kaku: Doesn't think that highly of humans, and that's a good thing.
Asked what would happen when we make contact with alien civilizations and how we would communicate with them, Kaku said that the outcome of our interaction would largely depend on the aliens’ position on the Kardashev Scale but that, in all likelihood, they wouldn’t be bothered to deal with us:
Let me stick my neck out. I personally feel is that within this century, we will make contact with an alien civilization, by listening in on their radio communications. But talking to them will be difficult, since they could be tens of light years away. So, in the meantime, we must decipher their language to understand their level of technology. Are they Type I, II, or III??? And what are their intentions. Are they expansive and aggressive, or peaceful. Another possibility is that they land on the White House lawn and announce their existence. But I think that is unlikely, since we would be like forest animals to them, i.e. not worth communicating with.
Another user asked Kaku how much more advanced an alien society might be morally and philosophically, and in his response he doubled down on the idea that we’d probably be too insignificant to really engage with them on that level.
I get asked if the aliens are evil and want to destroy us. Maybe, but I think in the main they will be peaceful because they have had thousands of years to resolve sectarian, fundamentalist, nationalist questions. However, they still might be dangerous if they simply don’t care about us and we get in the way. In War of the Worlds, the aliens did not hate us. We were simply in the way. In the same way that a developer is a threat to forest animals because he can pave the first, the danger there is from someone who sees that we are just in the way. But for the most part, I think they will be peaceful, but view us like we view forest animals.
Aliens will acknowledge us in the way we acknowledge forest animals, noting our existence but generally not paying any mind.
Kaku doesn’t seem to think too highly of humanity, but perhaps that’s for the best. On the Kardashev Scale, a Type 1 civilization can harness and use all the energy from its nearby star, and a Type 4 (the highest ranking, which Kaku proposed) would control all the energy within the universe and perhaps even outside it; somewhat pathetically, we’re ranked around 0.7. Meanwhile, any aliens that manage to contact us from outside our solar system must be at least a Type 1.
Like any human that steps into the woods, aliens that arrive on Earth may be there to hunt — or simply there to camp or go for a swim. If they show up, there’ll be no way of knowing their intentions. However, as Kaku points out, in that scenario it’ll be better to remain insignificant, like chipmunks and sparrows, than to immediately draw the aliens’ attention, like formidable, threatening bears.
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report foretells an inhospitable Earth unless we drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Globally, people are already subjected to hardships caused by extreme weather events, such as blizzards, droughts, floods, hurricanes and wildfires. Combined withthe havoc overpopulation createson finite disaster recovery resources, these problems are going to get significantly worse without immediate action.
Climate change is a natural event unnaturally exacerbated by humans, especially since the industrial revolution. There are dozens of high-profile causes such as agriculture, fossil fuel powered manufacturing plants and deforestation. However, the main culprits are 100 fossil fuel companies.
Outside of political intervention or attacking these companies’ bottom lines, it’s unlikely we’ll effectively curb that 71 percent. However, there are meaningful methods we can use to address the other 29 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.
1. Grow More Trees
Every minute, about 27 football pitches’ worth of forests are destroyed, according to the World Wildlife Foundation. The blatant destruction of forests, grasslands and mangroves creates significant amounts of greenhouse gases while simultaneously reducing nature’s capacity for capturing and storing CO2 and methane. The solution is simple: stop rampant deforestation and plant more trees.
The consequences of planting more trees are significant. Like most photosynthesizers, trees offer carbon sequestration and storage. With enough trees, we can achieve 37 percent of the greenhouse gas reduction target by 2050. That’s because one tree stores nearly 48 pounds of carbon dioxide in one year, according to a recent study by Scientific American. Furthermore, forests can store enough carbon dioxide emissions to equal the entire CO2 output of countries like Peru and Colombia, the Scientific American article states.
Image in public domain.
2. Carbon Capture Storage
Carbon capture storage is a necessary method to achieve the global greenhouse gas reductions needed by 2050. With carbon capture facilities, we can achieve 14 percent of the IPCC’s greenhouse gas reduction goals. That’s because carbon capture allows industrial manufacturers to prevent more than 90 percent of their carbon dioxide emissions from being ejected into the atmosphere.
3. Green Cities
By 2050, medium-to-large cities will likely contain two-thirds of the planet’s human population, according to a National Geographic article. Currently, urban areas account for 76 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions, with buildings being responsible for approximately one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions, the article states. These figures are likely to get worse as the population huddles together. However, cities committed to transitioning toward 100 percent renewable energy sources, such as San Diego, can significantly reduce energy-related greenhouse gas emissions.
Plus, the National Geographic article theorizes that cities that “go green” and tackle climate change initiatives will also reduce pollution, improve infrastructure, and make their cities more attractive to residents and businesses. These energy renovations include solar panels, growing roof gardens, incentivizing electric and hybrid vehicles, and retrofitting buildings with triple pane windows and energy-efficient HVAC systems.
4. Stratospheric Aerosol Injection
A controversial climate change solution is stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI). Most climate solutions target CO2 at its source to prevent greenhouse gases from clogging Earth’s atmosphere.
Stratospheric aerosol injection takes the opposite approach by focusing on preventing solar radiation from warming the planet. The practice mimics what happens after strong volcanic eruptions, like the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines.
During an eruption, sulfur dioxide spews into the stratosphere and reflects sunlight back into space. In the aftermath of Pinatubo’s eruption, the Earth cooled by about 0.5°C.
The natural scenarios of SAI are limited in scope and scale, making it difficult to predict how a wide scale implementation would affect the world. For example, a Dezeen report points out that implementing SAI in one area improperly can trigger rain and extreme weather conditions in neighboring territories.
Despite these concerns, SAI has a high predicted success rate and the international climate research community is considering its implementation.
5. Eat Less Meat
Eat more veggies!
At an industrial scale, livestock production is among the largest culprits related to greenhouse gas emissions, air quality degradation, waterway pollution, deforestation and land use, according to the study “options for keeping the food system within environmental limits,” which is published in the journal Nature.
The study states that western countries must cut beef consumption by 90 percent to stave off the ill effects the agriculture industry has on climate change. In the average Western diet, meat and dairy provide 18 percent of calories and 37 percent of protein, according to a report by The Guardian. To produce enough livestock to meet this demand requires 83 percent of farmland and produces 60 percent of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions. However, by replacing meat with beans and legumes, we can drastically reduce the required agricultural resources while preventing more CO2 emissions than the entire transportation industry combined.
Climate change affects every single person on the planet. Soon, it’ll affect nearly every aspect of our lives. An unwelcoming climate affects access to clean air and water and harms biodiverses ecosystem that provide us with food. Add in overpopulation, deforestation and weak-willed politicians and we’re in for a challenging fight — but the fight can be won.
We each must make difficult sacrifices to promote a green lifestyle and hold toxic companies and governments accountable. Together, we can create a sustainable world. Our future depends on it.
MIAMI- Time to pack up, South Florida. The invasion has begun.
Or not.
Mysterious "blips" seen recently over South Florida and other parts of the country have confounded those trying to figure it out, while enthralling those who believe aliens are out there.
Back in December, weather radars showed odd blips near the Florida Keys and Miami. The same images were seen on radar over parts of Illinois and Kentucky.
It was originally confirmed that chaff was responsible for the images in Kentucky. Chaff is radar-jamming material often used by the military.
Radar blips are seen over Maine on Dec. 12. Military chaff was reportedly to blame.
Courtesy of the National Weather Service
But there was no explanatioin given for the images in South Florida, or those also seen in Maine at the same time. Chaff was ruled out in Maine by one source due to the National Guard stationed in the area not using aircraft that can release the material.
Of course, military operations occur frequently all around Miami-Dade and Monroe counties, so that's the likely answer; but now people are questioning why so much mysterious activity was happening at the same time at different locations around the country.
And then there's who believe the military have nothing to do with the images.
“We believe there is more to the story than what the FAA and military and publications... ...are telling us," someone from the Mutual UFO Network wrote the Courier & Press.
Mysterieuze vlekken waargenomen op de radar in Florida. ‘Hier is meer aan de hand’
Foto: Stonda~commonswiki
Mysterieuze vlekken waargenomen op de radar in Florida. ‘Hier is meer aan de hand’
In de Verenigde Staten zijn opnieuw vreemde vlekken waargenomen op de radar, dit keer in het zuiden van Florida.
De vlekken stellen experts voor een raadsel en zorgen voor opwinding bij mensen die in aliens geloven.
In december vorig jaar verschenen er vreemde vlekken op de radar nabij Florida Keys en Miami. Dezelfde patronen werden gezien op de radar in Illinois en Kentucky.
Geen verklaring
Zelfs de Amerikaanse nationale weerdienst was verbaasd omdat er geen regen in het gebied was, schreef de Evansville Courier & Press.
In Kentucky zou antiradarsneeuw verantwoordelijk zijn geweest voor de vlekken. Die wordt tijdens militaire oefeningen gedropt in de atmosfeer om het radarsignaal te verstoren.
Voor de vlekken in Zuid-Florida is geen verklaring.
Mysterieuze activiteit
De mysterieuze patronen werden ook waargenomen in de staat Maine. De Nationale Garde daar heeft uitgesloten dat antiradarsneeuw de bron was omdat er geen vliegtuigen in de regio zijn die het materiaal kunnen verspreiden.
Mensen vragen zich nu af waarom er zoveel mysterieuze activiteit op hetzelfde moment was op verschillende plekken in de VS.
Volgens het Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) houden de Amerikaanse luchtvaartautoriteit FAA en het leger informatie achter. “Er is meer aan de hand,” klonk het.
Man Who Says He Was Abducted By Aliens Breaks 45-Year Silence
Man Who Says He Was Abducted By Aliens Breaks 45-Year Silence
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (CBS Local) — A Mississippi man in declining health is telling a story he’s kept secret from his own family for 45 years: he claims he was abducted by aliens.
Calvin Parker says he and his buddyCharles Hicksonwere fishing in 1973 on the banks of the Pascagoula River, just north of where Ingalls Shipyard now sits, when a “real bright beam appeared all over us and it kind of blinded me for a second and when I got my vision back, I seen three bulky looking creatures coming toward us.”
Parker said the creatures were “probably 4, 4 1/2, 5 foot tall…built like football players. But I noticed they kind of moved mechanical wise and they was floating off the ground. By the time we stood up and turned around, they was there on us all at one time,” he told WALA in a rare interview. “Two of them got a hold of Charlie, one of them got a hold of myself and instantly I felt like, I just got relaxed.”
Parker, who was 19 at the time, claims he and the 42-year-old Hickson were levitated into a space craft.
“There was an examination room, what I call it, and the ole big ugly creature that brought me in, he took me and laid me on the examination table and he just backed up out of the way. I couldn’t move or anything. All I could do was look,” Parker said.
A device about the size of a deck of cards then came down from the ceiling.
“It hovered about a foot in front of my eyes and then it went to the right side of my head and it clicked, went behind my head and it clicked went to the left side of my head and clicked and then straight to the front and then it shot back into the ceiling,” he said.
Then a “more feminine looking creature came out. She looked completely different than what I called the robot,” he said. She “had regular fingers and came over and pinched me on the side of the cheek and then she took her finger and ran it down my throat and got it behind that thing that hangs down back there and tried to come up in my nasal cavity and that is when it started hurting and I started choking and I got scared and she just kind of telepathically told me ‘Don’t be afraid we aren’t going to hurt you.'”
Calvin Parker, who says he was abducted by aliens in 1973, breaks his silence in his book “Pascagoula – The Closest Encounter: My Story.”
(Credit: Calvin Parker)
Parker said the aliens then dropped him and Hickson on the river bank. They called the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office to report the incident.
Former Jackson County Captain Glenn Ryder said he told the men to come in to the station. To test their sincerity, Ryder said deputies secretly placed a tape recorder into an interrogation room and left the two alone.
“I got to get home, get to bed or get some nerve pills or something, see the doctor or something. I can’t stand it. I’m about to go all to pieces,” Parker was recorded saying at the time.
“I tell you, when we get through, I’ll get you something to settle you down so you can get some damn sleep,” Hickson responded.
“Something happened to them, said Ryder. “You don’t fake fear. He was scared. He was scared out of his mind.”
The men would also take lie detector tests and pass. The story quickly went viral.
“It was a circus, a media circus,” former WALA-TV reporter Rennie Brabner said.
Brabner believes something happened that night.
“I do not think they made it up in the sense that they created it out of whole cloth,” Brabner said. “I have been told, particularly Hickson was known to take a drink. Was it in the bottom of a bottle of a John Barleycorn bottle? I don’t know.”
Hickson wrote a book on his encounter and spoke numerous times about it before he died in 2011.
Parker stayed out of the limelight for 45 years, but after suffering a stroke and having two open heart surgeries, he decided it was his turn to write a book about the night that changed his life. “Pascagoula – The Closest Encounter: My Story” was published in July.
“You can’t really pin everything down. You don’t really know and that’s the point I’m holding out. I don’t know what happened, I know something happened,” Parker said.
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Man die werd ontvoerd door aliens doorbreekt na 45 jaar stilzwijgen. Dit is zijn verhaal
Man die werd ontvoerd door aliens doorbreekt na 45 jaar stilzwijgen. Dit is zijn verhaal
Een man uit de Amerikaanse staat Mississippi draagt al 45 jaar een geheim met zich mee: hij claimt te zijn ontvoerd door aliens. Dat schrijft CBS Detroit.
Calvin Parker was op een dag in 1973 samen met een vriend, Charlie Hickson, aan het vissen toen ze plotseling werden verblind door een lichtflits.
“Toen ik weer kon zien, zag ik drie wezens op ons af komen,” zei Parker.
Ruimteschip
Volgens hem waren de wezens hooguit 1,5 meter lang en zweefden ze vlak boven de grond.
“Twee van hen grepen Charlie, één pakte mij vast en ik voelde me gelijk ontspannen worden,” klonk het.
De destijds 19-jarige Parker beweert dat hij samen met zijn vriend naar een ruimteschip werd gebracht.
Telepathische wijze
“Ik werd naar een soort onderzoeksruimte geleid waar ik niet kon bewegen en alleen maar kon toekijken,” zei hij.
Uit het plafond kwam een apparaat ter grootte van een pakje kaarten. Het werd gebruikt om Parker te onderzoeken, waarna het weer in het plafond verdween.
Daarna verscheen er een vrouwelijk wezen dat hem op telepathische wijze vertelde dat hij niet bang hoefde te zijn en dat ze hem geen kwaad zouden doen.
Leugendetectortest
Parker zei dat hij vervolgens werd afgezet langs de oever van de rivier waar hij aan het vissen was.
Het tweetal besloot bij de sheriff melding te maken van het incident.
“Er is iets met ze gebeurd,” zei sheriff Glenn Ryder. “Je kunt niet doen alsof je bang bent. Hij was echt bang. Hij was doodsbang.”
De mannen doorstonden ook een leugendetectortest, waarna hun avontuur de aandacht van de media trok.
Mediacircus
“Het was een circus, een mediacircus,” herinnert oud-verslaggever Rennie Brabner zich.
Brabner gelooft dat er die dag iets gebeurd is: “Ik denk niet dat ze het hebben verzonnen.”
Hickson schreef een boek over zijn ervaringen en sprak er meerdere keren over, voordat hij in 2011 overleed.
Stilte
Parker zweeg 45 jaar, maar besluit nu de stilte te doorbreken omdat hij in slechte gezondheid verkeert.
“Ik weet niet precies wat er is gebeurd,” zei hij. “Ik weet alleen dat er iets is gebeurd.”
Of all the lasting themes that have remained prevalent in science fiction over the last century, what would the genre have been without ray guns, lasers, and “death rays”?
One might even argue that lasers have been a part of science fiction as we know it today since the very beginning, or close to it, at least. Some argue that the creation of science fiction harkens all the way back to Mary Shelly’s eerie tale of reanimation, Frankenstein, while others claim that better “early” examples of the genre appeared in the writing of American authors like Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote what are among the earliest stories that incorporated space travel and journey to locations like the Moon.
However, if ever there were a “Shakespeare of Science Fiction,” as some have argued, it might have been H.G. Wells, whose contributions to literature included everything from the first non-anthropomorphic aliens (as well as what may be the earliest use of the word “extraterrestrial” in reference to an alien craft), to the “heat rays” wielded by the Martian antagonists in his War of the Worlds. And, with the appearance of these directed-energy weapons in his story, we also have one of the earliest appearances of lasers or “death rays” in science fiction
It would not be the last, of course. After humanity fumbled their way to triumph over its Martian invaders (with a helping hand from a few friendly terrestrial viruses), later fiction cast these futuristic weapons in the hands of human characters the likes of Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, and other characters.
Ryan Lambie, writing for Den of Geek, argues that it wasn’t until decades later in the 1950s and 60s that the laser truly claimed its place in science fiction, in part thanks to the real-world development of laser technologies in various industries:
The production of ray guns of all kinds reached its zenith in the 50s and 60s. Real-world scientific breakthroughs in laser (“light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”) and maser (“microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”) saw numerous kinds of ray-gun appear in the sci-fi movies and shows of these decades, which no doubt fed back into the popularity of the huge armory of toy weapons that appeared around the same time.
The trend continues today, of course, with laser weaponry remaining an indelible part of the fictional Star Wars universe, along with other fantastic interpretations of alternate futuristic realities.
Lasers used for weaponry exist in real life too, but nothing like what we see in science fiction. I recently caught up with Jeff Hecht, author of Lasers, Death Rays, and the Long, Strange Quest for the Ultimate Weapon and a fellow of the Optical Society of America. As Hecht puts it, in the early days finding practical uses for lasers may have been more challenging than actually building the lasers themselves:
“At the very beginning, the running joke was, ‘the laser is a solution in search of a problem.’ They would say that because a lot of the problems the laser was supposed to solve didn’t just go away when you brought in a laser and applied it; you had to do a lot of good engineering to make them work. And we’ve had a lot of good engineering, and certainly for telecommunications, the pairing of the advances in lasers and fiberoptics and the advances in electronics, are behind the whole information technology advance. You can’t have one without the other.”
An example of an operational laser system in use by the U.S. Navy.
Of course, most of the lasers in use today have nothing to do with weaponry, and finding ways to concentrate a beam with strength comparable to what we see in science fiction seems a ways off, too. However, that doesn’t mean that lasers haven’t been useful in terms of making existing weapons more deadly. Hecht says that even in the early years of laser innovation, “what they were looking at was using lasers, at first, just to measure the range to a target–how long does it take to get back and forth–that’s the range of a radar. And then there was a device called a laser target designator, and what that would do is send a series of coded, invisible infrared pulses at a target.”
“If you had an infrared sensor, you’d see this code of reflective pulses coming from something and you could aim a weapon at that ‘something.’ That was how a smart bomb worked.”
So lasers certainly have weapons systems applications, and field tested designs in use by the U.S. Navy, for instance, are capable of disarming drones and other objects at a distance, as was demonstrated in the summer of 2017 with the AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System.
Drone being dispatched using a long distance laser system from aboard a U.S. Navy ship in 2017.
While the capabilities of laser weapons described here may remain limited in the present day, this is not to say that someday more powerful lasers won’t still be developed. However, it is obvious that the current state of the art has not caught up with the imaginations of our science fiction luminaries from over the decades.
In short, lasers continue to play an important role in technological development, as they have since the end of World War II. Their influence and relevance to a variety of industries cannot be denied, and yes, lasers even see some practical use in modern weaponry. But despite these innovations, it remains true that the most powerful lasers are the ones on the printed page; so to reappropriate an old adage for our use here, perhaps the pen truly is mightier than the sword… and the same still goes for the laser.
An unidentified aircraft seen circling overhead for days has residents of the Canadian city of Kingston wondering if something strange could be afoot. Kingston sits along Lake Ontario at the mouth of the St. Lawrence river a few hours from the major metropolises of Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto. For days now, residents have seen an aircraft with “minimal lighting” flying over the city under the cover of darkness. Even more curious, not one law enforcement agency or branch of the military has stepped forward to claim responsibility for the craft. What’s going on in the skies over Kingston?
It’s probably just another one of those shadow government planes again turning the frogs gay with chemtrail magic.
The Kingston Whig Standardreports that the news paper has received multiple emails and calls about the unidentified aircraft. According to Kingston resident Doug Stewart, the aircraft appears to circle for hours in the dead of night:
It’s a mystery. I can hear it at 2 and 3 a.m., and I’ve only heard it after dark at about 6, 7, 8 p.m. Some nights it’s constant … it seems like it’s circling.
Other witnesses have estimated that the aircraft is flying fairly low around 3,000 to 5,000 feet and appears to circle the same area every five minutes or so. Naturally, many Kingston residents assumed that the nearby Canadian Forces Base Trenton, Canada’s busiest Air Force base, was to blame. However, Public Affairs Officer Capt. Graeme Scott reports that the aircraft isn’t theirs.
Many law enforcement agencies now operate spy aircraft equipped with incredibly high-resolution video cameras.
Likewise, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have issued a rather opaque, somewhat passive aggressive statement denying any knowledge of the aircraft:
The RCMP’s primary concern is the safety and security of Canadians. We have multiple aircraft that support our mandate in Ontario and elsewhere in the country. To maintain the integrity of our investigations and operations, the location of our aircraft is not disclosed. We therefore have no additional information to share with you at this time.
With such little information to go on, Kingston residents are left in the dark about the plane circling their homes and who it might belong to. While many see this as an invasion of privacy, deciding who owns the airspace above privately-owned homes has proven tricky for federal governments. Should undisclosed, unidentified aircraft be able to loiter in the sky despite the public’s concern or alarm?
An asteroid belt is full of asteroids, so a collision in this narrow and crowded orbiting highway of rock wouldn’t seem to generate anything more than a “Duh!” from astronomers. However, a recent crash in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter caught their attention because of its violent impact which seems to have turned one of the asteroids into a comet with an extremely long tail. Doh?
“On 9 Jan. 2019, the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams issued an electronic telegram reporting that the inner main belt asteroid (6478) Gault had a tail. This made the object a very important target to monitor and we managed to get a few images on two nights.”
That electronic telegram (nice to see someone is still using telegrams) was read by The Virtual Telescope Project – an advanced service provided by the Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory in Italy providing remote Internet access to several robotic telescopes for the general public – and distributed worldwide. 6478 Gault is already somewhat famous, having been discovered in 1988 by the astronomer couple Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker at the Palomar Observatory in California. The Shoemakers are best known for discovering the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, whose collision with Jupiter in July 1994 was televised worldwide.
Asteroid Gault (named for American planetary geologist Donald Gault, a pioneer in the field of impact cratering processes – coincidence?) is part of the Phocaea family of space rocks created 2.2 billion years ago by another collision which resulted in Gault (a large asteroid 3.7 km/ 2.3 miles in diameter, countless other little space rocks and 25 Phocaea, a huge asteroid about 75 km/46 miles in diameter. Researchers with the ATLAS project (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) spotted the sudden appearance of a tail on Gault in late December/early January observations.
Active asteroid 6478 Gault last night from the @INGLaPalma after discovery by @TheGenghisKen@fallingstarIfA . The ejected dust extends > 400,000 km, more than the Earth-Moon distance.
British astronomer Alan Fitzsimmonstweeted that the tail is over 400,000 km/240,000 miles long and would stretch from Earth to the Moon and then some. Astronomer Gianluca Masi posted on the Virtual Telescope Project blog that the tail was most likely created by a collision that blasted a part of Gault into the smithereens that now make up the tail. (See the pictures here.) No one seems to know which rock – if it still exists – collided with 6478) Gault somewhere in November 2018. What the astronomers do know is that an asteroid with a tail is an extremely rare condition that they still don’t seem to fully understand – as evidenced by all of the conflicting stories about whether tail-streaming ’Oumuamua is a comet, an asteroid, a space ship or something else.
Comet or asteroid?
What is 6478 Gault now? If it keeps the tail, and astronomers will be monitoring it closely, then it’s definitely turned into some form of comet. If it loses the tail, it’s still an asteroid. If the collision knocked it hard enough to put it on a collision path with a planet (hopefully not Earth), it will make the Shoemakers famous once again.
Back in the 1970s,Paul Bennewitz– who died in 2003, in Albuquerque, New Mexico – had his own company that stood adjacent to Kirtland Air Force Base, also in Albuquerque. Its name was Thunder Scientific. All was good, as Bennewitz had a number of solid contracts with the military. And living and working so close to the base made things comfortable and handy for Bennewitz. It was the perfect relationship. Until, that is, it wasn’t. In shockingly quick time, Bennewitz’s life began to fragment in chaotic fashion. But, how and why did such a thing happen?
It’s important to note that by the late 1970s Bennewitz had been interested in UFOs not just for years but for decades. He had a large library of books on the subject and subscribed to a number of newsletters and magazines on the subject. On occasion, Bennewitz had seen – late at night and in the early hours of the morning – strange, unidentified objects flying over Kirtland Air Force Base and the nearby, huge Manzano Mountains. They could have been early drone-like craft being tested secretly. But, for Bennewitz they were alien craft.
Bennewitz’s head spun: he came to believe that aliens were in league with the U.S. Air Force, and that much of the secret program was run out of Kirtland. And he shared his views with staff at Kirtland, the CIA, the NSA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon, his Senator, his Congressman, and just about anyone and everyone in a position of power and influence. It was all but inevitable that by firing off lengthy letters about a secret alien-human operation at Kirtland someone would take notice. That’s exactly what they did.
While one school of thought suggests that Bennewitz was indeed tracking the movements of UFOs in the skies over Kirtland, another suggests that Bennewitz had actually stumbled on test-flights of new and radical aircraft, of the aforementioned drone kind. In the latter scenario, the government (as a collective term for all of those agencies and individuals that Bennewitz approached) decided to first politely, but quietly, request that Bennewitz bring his research to a halt. This was like a red rag to a bull. Bennewitz would hear none of it. He was primed and ready to go after the U.S. Government and to confirm what he saw as the dark and sinister truth of Uncle Sam’s liaisons with aliens. One man against the government? It was clear who was going to win; although Bennewitz couldn’t envisage such a thing at all.
Manzano Mountains
In ingenious fashion – but from the perspective of Bennewitz, in terrible fashion – a plot was initiated to, in essence, give Bennewitz exactly what he wanted to hear. So, well-placed government agents, intelligence operatives, and experts in the fields of counterintelligence and disinformation, all fed Bennewitz fictitious tales of dangerous ETs, of thousands of people abducted and mind-controlled in slave-like fashion by the aliens, of terrible experiments undertaken on people held below a huge “underground base” in the town of Dulce, New Mexico, and of a looming confrontation between the human race and the deadly creatures from another galaxy.
That the data was all coming to him from verifiable insider sources impressed Bennewitz and led him to believe their every word – which is precisely what the government was gambling on. The government then tightened the noose even tighter around Bennewitz’s neck: they fed him more and more horror-stories of the alien variety. And, slowly and bit by bit, Bennewitz’s paranoia grew. He couldn’t sleep, he became stressed to the point where he required medication, and eventually had a nervous collapse and was hospitalized. The result: he walked away from UFOs, secret projects, and cosmic conspiracies as a crushed man. Which may well have been the intent of the government, anyway.
How do you wipe out an entire species of 60 ft long giant sharks? Blow up a star, of course. According to arecent paper, supernovas may have been the cause of a number of unexplained mass extinctions throughout earth’s history, including the monstrous and fantastically named giant shark species Megalodon, a relative of the great white shark, whose mysterious extinction some 2.6 million years ago has long puzzled scientists.
There are enough out there to confidently say that stars are exploding all the time. Luckily for us, space is big and our lives are relatively short, so the chance of us getting blasted by a supernova are pretty small. Still, sometimes it happens (roughly every 100 million years) and the earth gets whacked by a cloud of radiation that once made up some other poor solar system’s sun. Scientists have been looking for evidence of how cosmic events like supernovas impact earth and the recent study attempts to discover the role that they play in the rise and fall of species here on earth and the impact that they might have had on evolution. If you guessed that an exploding star would be really good at killing things, you’re right!
Fossilized Megalodon tooth.
According to Adrian Melott, astrophysicist at the University of Kansas and the author of the new paper, the mass extinction of megafauna like the Megalodon lines up with evidence of a supernova impacting earth. Isotopes of iron-60, which is extremely rare on earth yet common in supernovas, were found on the sea floor and the surface of the moon. Dating these isotopes reveals that, if they were dropped here by a supernova, that supernova rolled through our solar system 2.6 million years ago—right about when the Megalodon checked out. According to Melott:
“A lot of things would not leave a definite residue. [Iron-60] is smoking-gun evidence of something happening.”
The blast from a supernova could end species in a few ways. Other theories on how supernovas could impact mass extinctions point to indirect causes. The blast from a supernova could strip the earth’s ozone layer, for example, leaving species vulnerable to solar radiation and destroying ocean food sources like plankton and coral reefs. Cosmic rays could also seed clouds and create a “cosmic-ray winter,” according to Henrik Svensmark of the Technical University of Denmark, which would also result in the destruction of food sources.
Melott thinks that the supernova may have been a much more direct cause of the extinction, however. Supernovas release highly charged radioactive particles called muons. Getting hit by a cloud of muons probably wouldn’t feel like much at first, but the radiation exposure would soon cause irreparable genetic damage and mutations that, depending on the species, could be catastrophic. The bigger the animal, the worse the impact would be. For an animal the size of a human, the muon storm would increase cancer rates by 50 percent. Considering that the Megalodon was about the size of a school bus, it would get hit pretty hard.
Artist’s depiction of a supernova.
As evidence for his theory, Melott points to the sudden extinction of 36 percent of ocean species 2.6 million years ago at the end of the Pliocene era and the beginning of the Pleistocene. The extinct species were largely coastal dwelling, where the impact from muon radiation would be the most devastating. Unfortunately, highly radioactive particles like muons don’t leave any record of their presence, so it’s hard to tell just how catastrophic an impact it was. Yet there does seem to be a correlation between a supernova and a mass extinction, so it is likely that there was some sort of connection.
So, if you have a fear of shark infested waters, just remember: there’s always something bigger and badder on its way (but probably not for another 97 million years).
A radar mystery that began in the skies over parts of the United States late last year has some experts questioning whether the government is involved in secret tests, while others think odd weather might be to blame.
In early December, the National Weather Service reported on what they termed an “anomaly” over parts of the midwestern United States. Here at MU Brett Tingley reported on the incident, which was observed on radar over parts of Illinois, Kentucky, and Indiana. “Whatever was on radar appeared to be as dense as a thunderstorm,” Brett wrote, “but with the night clear and temperatures low, that theory was ruled improbable.” It was determined that the likely cause of the radar traces had been chaff, a substance composed mostly of aluminum that is released from aircraft during military operations and exercises to “confuse enemy radar.” However, as Brett noted at the time, meteorologist Greg Meffert with the NWS stated that he had “never seen [chaff] quite this hot.”
A few days later, Joseph Trevithick over at The Warzone wrote about a second radar incident, reporting that similar anomalous traces had appeared over parts of Maine and Florida just two days later. The National Weather Service confirmed on their Twitter account that the new radar anomalies also resembled chaff, although Trevithick noted that the December radar blips seemed to last longer than chaff typically does.
Chaff, as depicted on a radar visual display
(Wikimedia Commons).
“We have already reached out to the National Guard Bureau,” Trevithick wrote, “but at the time of writing, we have not received any additional information about this new incident over Maine. We’re reaching out to additional commands regarding the plume in Florida, as well.”
Since that time, little else was reported about the incidents. That is, until today, when Jon Webb with the Evansville Courier & Press wrote about the peculiar December incidents. While they do appear to be related to military operations involving chaff, a few questions do remain.
“Whatever it is, it’s exceedingly strange,” Webb wrote, citing an email exchange he had with a member of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) who told him, “We believe there is more to the story than what the FAA and military and publications such as ‘The War Zone’ are telling us.” (Does it matter to the unnamed MUFON investigator that even The Warzone’sTrevithick noted having some problems of his own with the chaff theory? Maybe they didn’t read to the end of the article… who knows.)
“More NWS hubs will get confused,” Webb concluded, “And more conspiracies will be born.”
So what was going on back in December, and does the assertion by Trevithick and others that certain aspects of the incidents didn’t resemble “typical” military exercises involving chaff amount to anything?
A pair of B-1B Lancers, 28th Bomb Squadron, deploy chaff and flares during a military exercise
(public domain).
According to a Department of National Defense study from 2008, chaff is described as “a radiofrequency countermeasure released by military aircraft (ships and ground vehicles) to confuse enemy radar.” At the time this report was produced, chaff was used in approximately 26 U.S. states.
The report states that “the effective use of chaff can be maintained only by practicing in-flight deployments during training issues.” It goes on to say that, “The release of chaff into the environment during these exercises has raised concerns among both public-interest groups and the government regarding the fate and environmental impact of chaff particles.”
Concerns about the environmental effects of chaff go back to at least 1993, resulting in a military report that indicated that there were few–if any–significant environmental risks associated with its use in military exercises. However, a 1998 report by the congressional General Accounting Office continued to argue that chaff could have negative environmental effects, in addition to potentially interfering with civilian ATC radar systems.
More recently, controversies arose over the use of chaff last year in relation to the companies that produce it, and their potential future ownership by foreign entities. Presently, Esterline Defense Technologies (also known by the name Armtec) is the only company in the United States that produces chaff for use in military activities. In 2018, it was reported that Esterline/Armtec would be acquired by the UK-based TransDigm Group Inc. The news prompted a bipartisan letter from Congress to Jim Mattis, then-U.S. Defense Secretary, calling for the U.S. government to block the deal.
“TransDigm has repeatedly purchased companies that are the sole providers of Department of Defense items and engaged in price gouging,” the letter, co-authored by California Democratic representative Jackie Speier and North Carolina Republican Walter Jones, argued. “The abuses have been sufficiently common and severe enough to warrant a DoD inspector general investigation. Unsurprisingly, Esterline is the sole DoD chaff provider and one of two flare providers. The alarm bells should be ringing.”
In essence, the controversies surrounding chaff and its use seem to have been an ongoing point of contention for decades. But in sum, do military exercises account for the odd radar returns that were occurring late last year? Also, could it be possible that the military is testing a new kind of chaff or similar substance, following the news that Esterline/Armtec could be acquired by TransDigm? There is no proof that this is the case, but if we were to speculate, it might account for some of the more unusual aspects reported with the December incidents, as well as why so many were reported around that time.
Then again, for all we know maybe the December radar incidents were just good old, Esterline/Armtec chaff that was clouding up radar systems over the Midwest and parts of the East Coast. At present, no further information about the incidents has been made available to the public, nor have any similar radar anomalies been reported… so the rest is left (as per usual) to our imaginations.
Brian Hanley who has published the UFO footage on January 9, 2019, states: I usually cover politics, but when Sam Chortek and Jimmy Chappie came to me with this exclusive UAP footage, I had to break the story.
At first there was a lot of doubt whether the recording was real or faked on which Brian Hanley decided to release the raw footage which was recorded by a DJI Inspire Drone over Beaver, Utah, just a couple of hours (by car) from Area51.
The first original footage shows the object that moves at an incredible speed. The second footage shows the object in slow motion making it easily recognizable.
I do not exclude that the object is of extraterrestrial origin but since this UFO fastwalker has been filmed near Area51 it is quite possible that the object, which is very similar to other fastwalkers that fly through our atmosphere, belongs to one of their secret projects.
New England has been dumped with snow due to winter storms that also brought bone-chilling cold this week. However, the occurrences have been shrouded with a strange ice formation to one Maine river.
In Westbrook City in Maine, around 20-minute drive east of Portland, a mysterious disk of ice has appeared in the Presumpscot River.
City officials estimated the disk to be around 300 feet wide and about the size of a football field.
UFO enthusiasts who saw the disk formation believe the disk is an alien spaceship disguising itself as a natural phenomenon caused by winter storms. They said that the disk was spinning on a frozen river signifying that it was conducting an activity under the river.
City officials went the extra mile with the use of a camera drone to capture stunning images of the disk from above.
According to the official explanations, the varying currents of the river formed the disk. Part of the river flows in a rapid straight line movement, but currents near the other bank flow slowly in a semi-circle. That portion of the river freezes because of the slower currents. The formation of the ice disk is due to the clockwise motion.
However, UFO enthusiasts argue that the formation is a perfect disk and aliens operating under the river have something to do with it. They said that it could be extraterrestrials carrying out a mission under the river.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Ryan Sprague is a UFO journalist, podcaster, and author. He is also a professional playwright and screenwriter. He was a frequent contributor to Open Minds Magazine, and has participated as a staff member or speaker at several International UFO Congress events. Ryan hosts the podcast Somewhere in the Skies and Rogue Planet’s Unknown. Ryan’s latest project was co-hosting CW’s Roswell: Mysteries Decoded. Alejandro also appeared in the show and served as a consulting producer. In this episode, we talk about the production of the CW’s Roswell special, what was left out, and our thoughts on how the production came out. We also discuss the Roswell case and the mysteries surrounding the most famous alleged crash landing of an alien spacecraft.
Last week, astronomers working with the ATLAS project in Hawaii announced an astonishing change to asteroid 6478 Gault. The space rock had sprouted a tail. It is now gliding through the asteroid belt giving every appearance of being a comet. On Jan. 9th, Damian Peach of Selsey UK photographed the 6478 Gault and its 400,000 kilometer-long tail:
And continues:
Gault's tail may be a result of a recent collision. Researchers with the ATLAS project have looked at images of Gault in Dec. 2018 and Jan. 2019. Extrapolating its appearance backwards in time, they suggest that Gault hit another object in the asteroid belt in Nov. 2018.
Active asteroid 6478 Gault last night from the @INGLaPalma after discovery by @TheGenghisKen@fallingstarIfA . The ejected dust extends > 400,000 km, more than the Earth-Moon distance.
A Mysterious X-Shaped Ancient Tomb has been Excavated in China
A Mysterious X-Shaped Ancient Tomb has been Excavated in China
Xbox???? no way........i see X-men.....or were the terra-cotta warriors avid gamers???
maybe they are going to unearth the Wolverine .....let him save the world from us........
anyways.......the tomb is thought to be from the Qin dynasty 221-206 B.C. ...the Qin dynasty was the very first dynasty of Imperial China founded by the first emperor...........
the image was posted on twitter this week and of course quickly picked up by Xbox fans.......
Archaeologists have recently excavated a mysterious x-shaped tomb in China. The tomb’s surface has revealed an eerie similarity to, guess what? The Xbox. The image of the recently discovered Chinese tomb was posted on Twitter earlier this week and ended up drawing the attention of thousands of users due to the structure’s similarity with the …
Earth’s North Magnetic Pole's 'Erratic Motion' Forces Geologists To Unprecedented Move
Earth’s North Magnetic Pole's 'Erratic Motion' Forces Geologists To Unprecedented Move
Something is happening with Earth’s magnetic field and scientists can’t figure it out.
At the very top of theworldsits Earth’s north magnetic pole. Recently, however, something very strange is happening to it. Driven by liquid iron sloshing around within the Earth’s core, the north magnetic pole has been edging away from Canada and towards Siberia. The world's geomagnetism experts have been forced into doing something very rare due to the fact that the magnetic pole is moving so quickly.
What are the scientists doing?
Due to the magnetic poles erratic movements, on January 15th the experts are set to update the World Magnetic Model. This is quite a big deal because this a model which describes the planet’s magnetic field and underlies all modern navigation, from the systems that steer ships at sea to Google Maps on smartphones. The model wasn't meant to be changed until at least 2020 as the latest version only came out in 2015, however due to the movement being so severe, the model has to be changed now as the error is only getting larger and larger.
What causes this?
There isn't just a single cause, there are several. The problem lies partly with the moving pole and partly with other shifts that occur deep within the planet. The liquid churning in Earth’s core, which was mentioned earlier, generates most of the magnetic field, which varies over time as the deep flows change. For example, in 2016 part of the magnetic field temporarily accelerated deep under northern South America and the eastern Pacific Ocean. This is just another example of how quickly the magnetic pole can change. The historical changes can be seen in the diagram below.
In 2018, the pole crossed the International Date Line into the Eastern Hemisphere and is currently moving in a direction headed towards Siberia.
The geometry of Earth’s magnetic field magnifies the model’s errors in places where the field is changing quickly, such as the North Pole. The fact that the pole is traveling so fast makes this region more prone to large errors.
What’s next?
The magnetic pole will continue to move in the future and in any direction is possible. No one knows where it will go next as it's completely random. Therefore the magnetic pole will definitely be keeping geomagnetic experts busy over the next few years and there will be no shortage of work for them.
It is definitely an interesting development and I for one will be keeping an eye on new publications to see where it goes next and what will happen in the future!
A three-year-old startup is trying to launch rockets into space that are almost entirely 3D printed. And it just got permission from the U.S. Air Force to launch from thehistoric Launch Complex 16at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
Relativity Space — a rocket-building company founded by SpaceX and Blue Origin alumni — revealed a new contract with the U.S. Air Force this week that would allow it to launch from a site that has been unused since 1988, according to Quartz. If the company manages to regularly launch rockets from the site, it could be able to extend the contract into a 20-year exclusive agreement with the Air Force.
Giant Rocket Printers
Relativity Space has ambitious plans: it wants to 3D print an entire rocket with its groundbreaking, building-sized Stargate metal 3D printer, then launch it into orbit. Its long term plans are also enormous — the company wants to eventually 3D print rockets on Mars, according to its official website.
3D printing a rocket would be simpler and allow for more efficient designs, fewer moving parts, and faster construction. The company’s first planned launch vehicle called Terran 1 would only take 60 days to print, and would have a max payload of 1,250 kg (2756 lbs) to low-Earth orbit — at least if everything works out as planned.
Growth Spurt
Relativity Space is going through a growth spurt right now. Its number of employees rose from 14 to 60, co-founder Tim Ellis toldArs Technica. It’s also planning a test launch of the Terran 1 rocket in 2020, with commercial missions starting in 2021.
Using 3D printing technology to blast off into space is an exciting idea, and could make building rockets faster and cheaper. But the proof is in the pudding — or rocket fuel.
The Saturn moon Titan's north pole, as seen by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The orange box shows the "wet sidewalk" region, which analysts suggest is evidence of changing seasons and rain on Titan's north pole. The blue box shows the expanded region in the bottom panel. The black dot marks Titan's north pole.
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Idaho
Here's something you don't see every day — the glint of freshly fallen rain on the surface of an alien world.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft spotted a big reflective feature near the north pole of Saturn's huge moon Titanin June 2016, a new study reports.
Cassini discovered numerous lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan's frigid surface during the probe's pioneering 13 years in the Saturn system. But this newfound bright patch — which covered 43,330 square miles (120,000 square kilometers), about half the combined surface area of the Great Lakes here on Earth — isn't one of them. [Amazing Photos: Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon]
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/JHUAPL/Univ. of Arizona
Almost all of the hydrocarbon seas and lakes on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan cluster around the north pole, as can be seen in this mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission. Image released Oct. 23, 2013. [Read the Full Story on Titan's Lakes Here]
The feature disappeared relatively quickly, study team members said, suggesting that it was a big puddle of methane rain that evaporated away.
"It's like looking at a sunlit wet sidewalk," lead author Rajani Dhingra, a doctoral student in physics at the University of Idaho in Moscow, said in a statement.
The likely rainfall event signals that summer weather had arrived in Titan's northern hemisphere by mid-2016, the researchers said. That's a little later than climate models had predicted.
"Summer is happening," Dhingra said. "It was delayed, but it's happening. We will have to figure out what caused the delay, though."
Saturn and its many moons take 29.5 Earth years to complete one lap around the sun, so seasons in the ringed-planet system each last nearly 7.5 years. Cassini arrived at Saturn in mid-2004, during the southern summer, and saw clouds and rainfall in Titan's southern hemisphere.
Titan is the only world beyond Earth known to have stable bodies of liquid on its surface. But this moon's weather system is very different than that of Earth's: The rain, rivers and seas of Titan are all composed of liquid hydrocarbons.
Cassini studied Saturn, its rings and many moons until September 2017, when the low-on-fuel spacecraft plunged intentionally into the planet's thick atmosphere. Mission team members ordered the death dive to ensure that Cassini never contaminated Titan and fellow moon Enceladus with microbes from Earth. Scientists think both of these satellites may be capable of supporting life as we know it.
Cassini captured the rainfall-glint image with its Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer instrument, which was able to peer through Titan's thick, obscuring atmospheric haze.
The Cassini orbiter traveled with a European lander called Huygens, which touched down on Titan in January 2005, pulling off the first-ever soft landing on a moon in the outer system.
New Horizons zoomed within just 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) of Ultima Thule in the wee hours of Jan. 1, pulling off themost-distant planetary flyby in spaceflight history. Ultima Thule lies more than 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) from Earth — 1 billion miles (1.6 billion km) beyond the orbit of Pluto, which New Horizons encountered in July 2015.
The video, which mission team members released Tuesday (Jan. 15), captures 7 hours during New Horizons' final approach, just before the probe buzzed the snowman-shaped Ultima Thule. During those 7 hours, New Horizons closed the gap between itself and its target from 310,000 miles (500,000 km) to 17,100 miles (28,000 km), mission team members said. [New Horizons at Ultima Thule: Full Coverage]
And Ultima Thule gets sharper as it looms larger in the frame.
"The original image scale is 1.5 miles (2.5 km) per pixel in the first frame, and 0.08 miles (0.14 km) per pixel in the last frame," New Horizons team members wrote in a description of the new video.
"The rotation period of Ultima Thule is about 16 hours, so the movie covers a little under half a rotation," they added. "Among other things, the New Horizons science team will use these images to help determine the three-dimensional shape of Ultima Thule, in order to better understand its nature and origin."
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of the distant object Ultima Thule just before closest approach, which occurred shortly after midnight EST on Jan. 1, 2019.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/NOAO
The brief video also shows why New Horizons didn't detect any brightness variations from Ultima Thule during the approach phase, a surprising development that initially puzzled the mission team. The lack of such a "light curve" is expected for spherical objects, which don't shift from a viewer's perspective as they rotate, but early data indicated that the 21-mile-long (34 km) Ultima Thule was highly elongated.
As we can now see, it was all about New Horizons' orientation to Ultima Thule. The object's pole of rotation was pointing directly at the approaching spacecraft, so New Horizons didn't see any appreciable changes in the light bouncing off Ultima Thule.
We should expect more cool imagery and data from the flyby in the coming weeks. But be patient: Because of low data-relay rates, it'll take about 20 months for all the flyby information to come down to Earth, mission team members have said.
And Ultima Thule may not be New Horizons' last flyby target. The probe is in good enough health, and has enough fuel left, to potentially perform yet another deep-space encounter, if NASA approves another mission extension. (The probe's original mission centered on the Pluto flyby, and the Ultima Thule encounter was the focus of a mission extension that runs through 2021.)
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate) is out now.
Scientists think that they've spotted a rare, Jupiter-sizeblack holecasually strolling through theMilky Way galaxy.
Of course, scientists can't see any black holes directly — but new research tracking a celestial cloud structure saw strange behavior that may have been caused by just such an invisible object. That data came courtesy of theAtacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array(ALMA), a set of 66 telescopes scattered across the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
"When I checked the ALMA data for the first time, I was really excited because the observed gas showed obvious orbital motions, which strongly suggest an invisible massive object lurking," lead author Shunya Takekawa, a physicist at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, told New Scientist.
Takekawa and his colleagues were using ALMA to study two gas clouds, which the team nicknamed Balloon and Stream for their shapes, during a two-day period in May 2018. During that time, they watched the gas moving strangely, seeming to spin around a center.
That movement allowed the team to calculate that 30,000 times the mass of our sun was packed into an object the size of Jupiter at the center of the movement. Those characteristics, combined with the lack of light coming from the location, suggest that the culprit is medium size for a black hole.
Scientists think tiny black holes and supermassive black holes are pretty common, but that there aren't a whole lot of medium-size black holes. Astronomers believe they've spotted two other black holes in this size range near the heart of the Milky Way. All three, if future observations continue to see evidence for them, may be escapees from the giant black hole at our galaxy's center.
The research is described in an article posted to the preprint server arXiv.org on Dec. 27.
New research led by members from the University of Southampton has identified a black hole spinning around its axis near its maximum possible speed.
A simulated image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, showing against a background of radiation and bright matter swept into the event horizon. The image was generated with data recorded by the Event Horizon Telescope. Image credits National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
The study involved an international team of astronomers. Starting from observations taken with state-of-the-art sensors, the researchers found evidence that 4U 1630-472, a stellar-mass black hole in our galaxy, is rotating really, really fast — around 92% to 95% of a black hole’s theoretical maximum rotational speed.
Material keeps falling into this black hole as its spinning, being subjected do immense gravitational stress and temperatures. The environment is so violent that this matter shines brightly in X-rays, the team reports, which they used to establish that 4U 1630-472 is rotating and calculate its speed.
So fast it’s glowing
If a black hole is rotating rapidly enough, it should — according to the general theory of relativity — distort space-time around it differently than a non-rotating black hole, the team explains. Such distortions would leave a measurable trace on the radiation emitted by the matter it’s absorbing.
Therefore, researchers can look at a black hole’s emission spectra to determine the rate it’s spinning at.
“Detecting signatures that allow us to measure spin is extremely difficult,” says lead author Dr. Mayukh Pahari from the University of Southampton. “The signature is embedded in the spectral information which is very specific to the rate at which matter falls into the black hole.”
“The spectra, however, are often very complex mostly due to the radiation from the environment around the black hole.”
Dr. Pahari says the team was “lucky” to obtain a spectral reading directly from the matter falling into the black hole, sans the background noise. Armed with that data, it was “simple enough to measure the distortion caused by the rotating black hole,” he says.
The findings from this study are significant, as this is one of only a handful of times we’ve managed to accurately measure a black hole’s spin rate. Only five other black holes have shown high spin rates, the team adds. Astronomical black holes can be fully characterized by mass and spin rate. Therefore, measuring these two properties is key to understanding some extreme aspects of the universe and the fundamental physics related to them.
Scientists measure the spin rates of supermassive black holes by spreading the X-ray light into different colors.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The paper “AstroSat and Chandra View of the High Soft State of 4U 1630–47 (4U 1630–472): Evidence of the Disk Wind and a Rapidly Spinning Black Hole” has been published in The Astrophysical Journal.
Titan has seas, lakes, and rivers — and now, researchers have found, it also has rainfall and seasonal variation.
A false-color radar mosaic of Titan’s north polar region. Blue coloring depicts hydrocarbon seas, lakes and tributary networks filled with liquid ethane, methane and dissolved nitrogen.
Image credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech / USGS.
If you’d picture a place that has an atmosphere and liquids on its surface, it probably wouldn’t be Titan. This frigid moon is only 50% larger than Earth’s moon and mostly consists of ice and rocky material. It features a young and smooth geological surface, with few volcanic or impact craters, and remarkably, it has not only an atmosphere, but also geological features dunes, rivers, lakes, seas, and even deltas. But there’s a key difference.
Unlike Earth’s seas, which consist of water, Titan’s seas consist of hydrocarbons such as methane and ethane.
Conversely, Titan features a nitrogen atmosphere and has a nitrogen cycle analogous to Earth’s carbon cycle, something which stunned astronomers when it was first discovered. The Cassini mission, which landed a probe on Titan in 2005, first revealed a surface which seemed to be shaped by fluids.
But Titan has far from shared all its secrets. Recently, astronomers have analyzed images suggesting that intense rainfall occurs on Titan, indicating the start of “summer” in the northern hemisphere. It’s something researchers were expecting for a long time, especiallyas rain had been previously observed in the southern hemisphere.
“The whole Titan community has been looking forward to seeing clouds and rains on Titan’s north pole, indicating the start of the northern summer, but despite what the climate models had predicted, we weren’t even seeing any clouds,” said Rajani Dhingra, a doctoral student in physics at the University of Idaho in Moscow, and lead author of the new. “People called it the curious case of missing clouds.”
New research provides evidence of rainfall on the north pole of Titan, the largest of Saturn’s moons, shown here. The rainfall would be the first indication of the start of a summer season in the moon’s northern hemisphere, according to the researchers.
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.
The image was taken in 2016, by the near-infrared instrument on the Cassini probe, which offered the bulk of what we know about Titan. The instrument spotted a reflective feature covering approximately 46,332 square miles, which did not seem to appear on any other images of Cassini. The analyses suggest that this reflective feature represents a wet surface.
“It’s like looking at a sunlit wet sidewalk,” Dhingra said.
So we have a strong confirmation that seasons are happening on Titan, which confirms the predictions astronomers made. However, this poses a new question that researchers will have to answer.
“We want our model predictions to match our observations.” Dhingra said. “Summer is happening. It was delayed, but it’s happening. We will have to figure out what caused the delay, though.”
The study was published in Geophysical Research Letters.
Hundreds of miles beneath our feet, floating molten liquid is churning away, driving the planet’s magnetic field like a huge electromagnet. It creates our planet’s north and south magnetic poles. These poles do not correspond to the geographic poles, which mark the ends of Earth’s axis of rotation. In fact, their location changes — daily. What’s more, the magnetic poles even flip from time to time.
Scientists have known this for quite a while and have tracking magnetic pole migrations with high precision for well over a century. This means you shouldn’t be worried about click-bait headlines that announce magnetic pole shifts as something out of the ordinary or even potentially catastrophic. It’s all totally harmless. But what seems to be happening in the last decade is an acceleration in the rate at which the North magnetic pole is moving towards the direction of Siberia and away from Canada.
True North is relative
Historically, researchers recalculate the position of the magnetic North Pole every five years, which is then synced with global navigation systems, such as GPS. The World Magnetic Model is supervised by NOAA and the British Geological Survey, and its most recent update was supposed to happen on January 15 — but it didn’t. The reason behind it is tat NOAA, a US federal agency, is currently inactive due to the ongoing government shutdown.
Credit: NOAA Website screenshot.
For most of the previous century, the pole has moved around nine miles each year. However, since the 1990s, the migration has sped up to 35 miles a year. Over the last 150 years, the magnetic pole has crept north over 1,000 kilometers. It’s not clear why this acceleration is occurring due to gaps in our knowledge of how the planet’s core behaves. One leading hypothesis suggests that liquid molten iron under Canada is being dragged toward Siberia. In the meantime, the magnetic South Pole has barely moved, which is another mystery.
What’s more, a geomagnetic pulse occurred beneath South America in 2016. That was right after a 2015 update to the World Magnetic Model, prompting scientists to schedule a revision earlier than the planned 2020 update. This update should have been online this week were it not for the government shutdown. In the meantime, those engaged in navigation requiring great precision around the North Pole will have to wait — and it’s anybody’s guess for how long.
The new model has the North Pole a good 25 miles away from the one previously predicted. This gross discrepancy means that updates in the future will have to be made much more often than before, preferably yearly. Yet normal folks shouldn’t be too worried since the error gets smaller and smaller the farther away you get from the North Pole. If you live in the United States, your compass should be pointing northward as before with reasonable accuracy.
AFPEen man fietst langs de Large Hadron Collider, voorlopig nog de grootste deeltjesversneller ter wereld.
WETENSCHAPIn het Zwitserse Genève bevindt zich nu al de grootste deeltjesversneller ter wereld, maar de natuurkundigen van het Europees Centrum voor Deeltjesonderzoek (CERN) hebben een nog veel groter project in petto. Ze willen een ‘Future Circular Collidor’ (FCC) bouwen, die vier keer groter is dan de de huidige LHC-cyclotron en 24 miljard euro zou kosten. Dat blijkt uit een conceptstudie.
De nieuwe deeltjesversneller zou bestaan uit een 100 kilometer lange tunnel, die deels onder het meer van Genève loopt. De huidige tunnel is 27 kilometer lang. De nieuwe onderzoekscapaciteit zou tegen ten laatste 2040 operationeel moeten zijn.
In een deeltjesversneller worden geladen deeltjes waaruit een atoom bestaat gigantisch versneld – zelfs tot de snelheid van het licht – om fundamenteel onderzoek te doen naar bijvoorbeeld het ontstaan van het heelal. Het CERN heeft momenteel de grootste deeltjesversneller ter wereld, maar andere landen zoals Japan en China hebben eigen bouwplannen.
In het FCC-project, dat in verschillende fases zou worden opgebouwd, zou tot tien keer meer energie kunnen worden geproduceerd dan vandaag, waardoor bijvoorbeeld de omstandigheden van vlak na de oerknal kunnen worden gesimuleerd en mogelijk nieuwe materie kan worden ontdekt.
Een internationaal panel moet wel nog het licht op groen zetten voor de bouw van de Future Circular Collidor.
apEen deel van de Hadron Collider in de tunnel van het CERN. Het CERN heeft momenteel de grootste deeltjesversneller ter wereld, maar andere landen zoals Japan en China hebben eigen bouwplannen.
EPAEen foto van het ontkiemde zaadje op de maan, dat eerder deze week werd vrijgegeven door het Chinese onderzoeksteam.
WETENSCHAPHet katoenzaadje dat in een laboratorium op de maan was ontkiemd, heeft een hevige temperatuurdaling niet overleefd. Volgens de Britse krant The Guardian deed een temperatuur van 170 graden onder nul het plantje, dat aan boord van een Chinese ruimtesonde ontkiemde, de das om.
Het plantje kwam tot leven in een luchtdichte cilinder met dank aan zonlicht op het maanoppervlak. Wetenschappers omschreven de groei van het zaadje als een mijlpaal.
Het zaadje volgde als primeur op een andere historische eerste keer: begin december landde een Chinese sonde op de achterkant van de maan. China doet met behulp van sonde Chang’e 4 onderzoek naar het maanoppervlak. In de cilinder zitten naast het katoenzaadje ook aardappelzaad, gist, en fruitvliegeitjes. Het onderzoeksteam had gehoopt op een mini-ecosysteem.
Volgens professor Xie Gengxin, de Chinese leider van het experiment, had zijn team verwacht dat het zaadje het niet zou overleven. Het is nu nacht op de maan en dat de temperaturen dan sterk dalen, is bekend. Nacht op de maan duurt ongeveer twee weken. Tijdens die periode neemt Chang’e 4 even pauze.
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MAGMA ONDER YELLOWSTONE KOMT STEEDS VERDER OMHOOG ( VIDEO )
MAGMA ONDER YELLOWSTONE KOMT STEEDS VERDER OMHOOG ( VIDEO )
Er komen steeds meer aanwijzingen dat een uitbarsting van de Amerikaanse Yellowstone supervulkaan echt niet zo ondenkbaar is en wellicht dichterbij dan we denken.
Ook in dit nog prille jaar 2019 verschijnen er niet alleen alarmerende berichten over de Yellowstone supervulkaan, maar ook over één net bij ons om de hoek.
De reusachtige, slapende vulkaan onder het Yellowstone National Park in de Amerikaanse staat Wyoming zal waarschijnlijk veel eerder uitbarsten dan tot dusver werd aangenomen. Uit een nieuwe studie blijkt dat de grote klap niet over honderden, maar al over tientallen jaren zal plaatsvinden. Als dat gebeurt zullen de gevolgen niet te overzien zijn.
Gemiddeld barst de supervulkaan onder Yellowstone om de 600.000 jaar uit. De laatste grote uitbarsting was 631.000 jaar geleden. Wetenschappers maakten zich tot voor kort geen zorgen, omdat ze dachten dat de eerste tekenen van een eventuele uitbarsting duizenden jaren van te voren zichtbaar zullen zijn. Maar het blijkt volgens de laatste metingen te gaan om enkele decennia.
De recentste uitbarsting van de vulkaan (die van 631.000 jaar geleden) begon toen een nieuwe lading magma naar één van de vulkaankamers werd geduwd. Dat proces duurde slechts enkele tientallen jaren en geen eeuwen zoals eerder werd verondersteld.
Bovenstaande bericht was enkele maanden geleden en nu verschijnen er berichten dat een enorme groot stuk van gesmolten rots (magma) met een lengte van ongeveer 750 kilometer lengte zich langzaam naar boven werkt.
Het is min of meer een gegeven dat deze supervulkaan op een bepaald moment tot uitbarsting komt. En nu kunnen wetenschappers wel vol zelfvertrouwen verklaren dat het minstens enkele decennia zal duren voordat er een uitbarsting komt, nadat de eerste tekenen zijn waargenomen, maar eerst dachten ze dat het duizenden jaren zouden zijn en daar zaten ze ook finaal naast.
Kortom, niemand weet wanneer dit soort monsters echt zullen uitbarsten, maar waar wel iedereen het over eens is, is dat wanneer dit gebeurt, het een ramp voor de wereld zal zijn.
Een uitbarsting zou onmiddellijk een einde maken aan alle klimaatakkoorden die ooit door idioten zijn bedacht, want de wereld zou terechtkomen in wat men noemt een vulkanische winter. Het zonlicht zou worden geblokkeerd door de miljoenen kubieke meter puin en as dat de atmosfeer in wordt geslingerd. De temperaturen op aarde zouden aanzienlijk dalen, oogsten zouden mislukken en miljarden mensen zouden omkomen van de honger.
Feit is dat de afgelopen maanden de activiteit van en rond de Yellowstone supervulkaan zijn toegenomen. Dat wil uiteraard niet zeggen dat deze morgen zal uitbarsten, maar het is wel degelijk iets om nauwlettend te blijven volgen.
Iedereen kent zo langzamerhand de Yellowstone supervulkaan, maar wat veel minder bekend is dat wij een dergelijk monster om de hoek hebben.
De hele wereld houdt de adem in bij onheilsberichten over de supervulkanen zoals onder Yellowstone in de VS, de grote broer van de Vesuvius nabij Napels of de IJslandse schrik Katla, maar nu blijkt er ook zo'n gevaarlijk exemplaar aan onze voordeur te liggen. Experts waarschuwen voor de verhoogde activiteit van een enorme vulkaan onder de Laacher See tussen Bonn en Koblenz, in vogelvucht op zo'n 120 km van de Duits-Nederlandse grens.
Als dit monster zou uitbarsten, dan wordt gevreesd voor een uitbarsting van de omvang van de Pinatubo. Die bedekte op de Filipijnen 20 jaar geleden een enorm gebied met een dik pak as en was meteen de grootste vulkaanuitbarsting van de vorige eeuw.
En net zoals bij Yellowstone, verschijnen er nu ook berichten over verhoogde activiteit onder deze supervulkaan. Ook hier berichten over magma dat omhoog komt en kleine aardbevingen diep onder de grond.
Duidelijk is dat er krachten aan het werk zijn waardoor vulkanen die duizenden jaren lang hebben geslapen weer tot leven worden gewekt. En die krachten worden gegarandeerd niet veroorzaakt door de mens.
BUITENAARDS RUIMTESCHIP KOMT AAN BIJ MEXICAANSE BASIS ( VIDEO )
BUITENAARDS RUIMTESCHIP KOMT AAN BIJ MEXICAANSE BASIS ( VIDEO )
Mexico is een land waar je meer dan waar ook ter wereld ufo's kunt waarnemen in alle soorten maten.
Maar, wanneer er weer eens eentje verschijnt voor een bezoek aan de buitenaardse basis onder de Popocatepetl vulkaan, dan is dat altijd weer spectaculair.
Voor ufologen zoals bijvoorbeeld Scott Waring is het een uitgemaakte zaak dat zich diep onder de Mexicaanse Popocatepetl vulkaan een buitenaardse basis bevindt. En als we zeggen diep, dan bedoelen we ook echt diep en hebben we het over een diepte van vier tot zes kilometer onder de grond.
Scott zelf heeft al een keer of tien een buitenaardse ufo kunnen vastleggen in de buurt van deze vulkaan en er zijn mensen die niets anders doen dan de hele dag naar de webcambeelden kijken van deze vulkaan, want de kans is groot dat je dan iets bijzonders gaat zien.
Zoals deze week bij iemand gebeurde. Op een gegeven komt er van rechts een ruimteschip en vliegt richting vulkaan.
Dat het eruit ziet als een langgerekte streep, kan te maken hebben met de snelheid waarmee het vliegt, want op het moment dat het bij de vulkaan aan komt, ziet het er als volgt uit:
Volgens Scott Waring hangt het enige tijd bij een soort luchtkokers om of vracht/passagiers af te zetten of om op te pikken, want nadat het daar enige tijd heeft gehangen zie je het weer vertrekken in de richting vanwaar het is gekomen.
Omdat de beelden afkomstig zijn van de webcam is het aannemelijk dat de opnames echt zijn. De bewegende beelden zien er als volgt uit:
We hebben door de jaren heen talloze artikelen geschreven over vreemde vliegende objecten in de buurt van deze vulkaan en trouwens ook andere vulkanen in Mexico.
Hierna een deel uit een eerder artikel met een aantal spectaculaire opnames:
En in al die jaren hebben we daar waanzinnige opnames gezien zoals die grote sigaarvormige UFO die met een enorme snelheid de vulkaan in duikt. De beelden daarvan zijn op de Mexicaanse televisie vertoond, maar nooit in onze contreien.
Bij ons zal je dit soort dingen op televisie nooit tegen komen, want ze bestaan niet. En als ze niet bestaan, dan kan je ze ook niet op televisie laten zien, toch?
Dit is wat het Mexicaanse publiek zag in het late najaar van 2012.
Daarna hebben we nog talloze andere vreemde opnames gehad, ook nog van andere sigaarvormige UFO’s zoals te zien in de volgende video, opgenomen in juli 2015:
Dan, enkele dagen geleden, zijn er wel hele vreemde beelden te zien via de webcam.
Het lijkt wel alsof er een feestje van UFO’s plaatsvindt, want uit alle hoeken en gaten komen ze tevoorschijn.
Er zijn wel vaker opnames gemaakt van dit soort UFO’s bij de vulkaan, maar dan was het er altijd maar hooguit één.
Nu zien we misschien wel tien verschillende exemplaren die als het ware een soort dans uitvoeren, alsof ze weten dat ze door de webcam worden opgenomen.
Volgens Scott Waring is de reden omdat de camera op het moment van opname op infrarood stand stond, waardoor het apparaat dingen waarneemt die normaal gesproken niet met het blote oog te zien zijn.
Despite thefrequent warningsof both experts in the field and laymen, we continue to march along towards a future dominated by artificial intelligence constructs. For some reason, those with the ability to shape our futures just reallywant us to become the subservient Terminator fodder of a superintelligent AI hivemind built right into the very fabric of the technosphere. Are we creating our new overlords? Even worse, have already already created them? Could it be possible that we’ve already passed the tipping point and are already controlled by AI constructs?
It’s possible, according to technologist and historian George Dyson, son of theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson. Dyson has built a career out of studying the history of science and technology, and believes current trends point to a future in which the machines surely take over. To ring in the New Year in the most depressing and hope-crushing way possible, Dyson sat down with Edge.org to discuss the digital revolution and where he sees it heading. According to Dyson, we’ve already lost control of our most advanced technology and are already following the orders prescribed to us by the machines:
As computers proliferated, the humans providing instructions could no longer keep up with the insatiable appetite of the machines. Codes became self-replicating, and machines began supplying instructions to other machines. […] There is now more code than ever, but it is increasingly difficult to find anyone who has their hands on the wheel. Individual agency is on the wane. Most of us, most of the time, are following instructions delivered to us by computers rather than the other way around.
Think about it: your social media feeds, search engine results, suggested products on Amazon – all of these are curated for you by intelligent algorithms which study your habits even when you put the phone down for a few scant seconds. Ever notice how ads occasionally appear on your phone for things you’ve been talking about within hearing range of your phone? Themachines are listening.
Let’s hope they like what they hear.
Dyson goes further, stating that whereas search engines and social media were once descriptive – that is, they were designed to map and index human knowledge and relationships – they have now become prescriptive. Google ishuman knowledge, and Facebook is your social life. When you want to know something, where do you go to look it up? When you want to know what your friends are up to, do you ask them or Facebook? According to Dyson, this shows we’ve already given up control to the machines, or at least those controlling the machines. As those companies give more and more control to their AI networks, though, we’ll see human control removed from the equation entirely.
As early as 2017, technology experts were already warning that there was a dark secret at the heart of AI: we have no idea how the most advanced systems actually do what they do. What happens ten years from now when these systems are exponentially more advanced than they are now? Will all-intelligent AI became the new gods? After all, humankind has always created our gods and supreme beings using whatever media were available to us at the time: stone, ink and paper, big-budget superhero films, and now machine learning algorithms. Will the new gods be as malevolent as the old ones?
Dyson does add a bit of hope, stating he believes we’ll soon see a new “analog revolution” spring up in response to the out-of-control digital revolution. Does that mean angry mobs of pitchfork-and-torch-wielding Luddites will =smashing computers and self-driving cars will become a more common sight?
Well, I just got finished watching the latest episode of the new History Channel show, Project Blue Book. The episode’s title: “The Flatwoods Monster.” If you know your UFO history, you’ll know the story. If you don’t, here’s a summary from me from me on the strange matter: On the night of September 12, 1952, something terrifying descended upon the small, West Virginian town of Flatwoods. Precisely what it was remains a mystery to this very day. All that can be said for sure is that it was hideous, fear-inducing and downright monstrous. It has, appropriately, become known asthe Flatwoods Monster. Situated in Braxton County and dominated by a mountainous, forested landscape, Flatwoods is a distinctly small town – that much is apparent from the fact that, today, its population is less than four hundred. Back in 1952, it was even less. On the night in question, however, the town found its population briefly added to by one visitor from…well…no-one really knows where.
It all began as the sun was setting on what was a warm, still, September evening. A group of boys from Flatwoods were playing football in the town’s schoolyard when they were frozen to the spot by the sight of a brightly lit, fiery object that shot overhead, provoking amazement and wonder in the process. All that the boys could be sure of was that the object appeared to be either egg-shaped or circular. Its color fluctuated from orange to fiery red. As the stunned children watched in awe, they saw the object begin to descend – at a high rate of speed, no less – and then appear to come down on one of Flatwood’s largest hilltops. Not surprisingly, being kids, they saw this as a big adventure looming large. The result: they, with a woman named Kathleen May and a recent U.S. Army recruit, Eugene Lemon, headed off for the scene of all the action. It wasn’t long before the group reached the hill in question – and with nightfall rapidly closing in.
Braxton County
(Wikipedia)
The first thing the group noticed, as they reached the darkened peak, was something brightly lit within the trees. What it was, no-one had a clue. But, it clearly wasn’t the lights of a farmhouse, truck, or car. Suddenly, the air was filled with a sickening odor – not unlike that of devilish brimstone. That was not a good sign. To their credit, however, they pushed on, determined to figure out the true nature of the source behind the lights. They soon found out: as the air became filled with a strange, sizzling sound, nothing less than a pair of self-illuminated red eyes could be seen getting ever closer. Kathleen May had the presence of mind to bring a flashlight with her and she quickly focused it on the eyes. In doing so, she also lit up the abominable creature that possessed those fiery eyes.
Looming before the now-hysterical band of intrepid souls was an approximately ten-feet-tall, floating monster, which appeared to be humanoid in shape, and which had a large black cowling behind its head – that gave the entire head a kind of “Ace of Spades” appearance – and that was possibly even cloaked. Maybe. Oddly, its lower half was ice-cream cone-shaped and had wires and cables running from it. This issue of the cone-shaped lower portion led flying saucer sleuths to later suggest the monster my actually have been encased within some kind of remotely piloted vehicle.
As the creature then turned its attention to the group, and wildly fired laser-like beams from its eyes, the brave band was suddenly brave no more. They didn’t wait to see what might happen next. One and all fled, screaming – possibly for their lives. Mrs. May breathlessly shouted to the boys to follow her to her home, which they all did. On arrival, and possibly as a result of exposure to the noxious odor that hung around the hill, several of the boys became ill, feeling nauseous and even outright vomiting.
Braxton County Courthouse
Kathleen May quickly and shakily called the local police, who, rather intriguingly, were busy responding to reports of what was described as an “airplane crash” in the area. It turns out that no such crashed aircraft was ever found – something which suggests the “airplane” and the brightly lit UFO that descended upon the high hill that night were one and the very same. As a result of the fact that Flatwoods was, and still is, a very small town, word soon got out about what had happened. Local media were quickly on the scene, and even the U.S. Air Force sat up and took notice. Despite intense investigations by the press and the military, the mystery of the Flatwoods Monster was never solved – the creature was long gone by the time anyone else was on the scene. It is, however, decidedly interesting to note that Flatwoods is only around 125 miles from the town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where, from 1966 to 1967, yet another red-eyed monster was seen. Its famous name is Mothman. All of which brings us back to Project Blue Book and tonight’s episode.
In the show, the Flatwoods Monster of West Virginia is portrayed nothing like the Flatwoods Monster, which is a relatively minor issue of little consequence. The people of Flatwoods, however, are presented as distrusting, gun-toting characters ready to blast the U.S. military with significant amounts of lead, which, in reality, did not happen. No one in town put a gun in the face of a U.S. military officer. Also, we see one of the characters jump, or get pushed, out of a window to her death. I’ve heard of TV companies being inspired by real events, but this is getting ridiculous. I wonder what the good people of Flatwoods are – tonight – thinking about the townsfolk who came before them and who have been portrayed in such a trigger-happy fashion. That’s my main gripe: the show-makers seem intent on making real people look bad. See my previous article here at Mysterious Universe, for example, in which I explain how, in episode 1, the creators of the show portrayed a WWII hero – pilot George Gorman – as someone who had descended into mental illness and who needed to be shot up with meds to keep him under control, something else which did not happen; not even in the slightest.
On the plus side, the chick on chick action is getting closer to fruition (despite a slight hiccup that set things back a bit), so I’ll have to keep watching…
While investigators in the U.S. are checking into alleged close encounters with Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Putin is checking into close encounters with aliens. Specifically, he ordered the Russian army to investigate the suspicious collapse of a mountain in Siberia (when is the collapse of a mountain NOT serious?) which some people at the site say could only have been caused by a UFO. Just by chance, was the city near the mountain getting ready to hold an election?
“Me and colleague Mikhail were driving a truck with various food supplies for my shops towards Amga and in the general direction of Khabarovsk region. The night was clear. It was the sixth or eighth day of the lunar phase, so the Moon did not rise high and the sky was dark. Seconds before 1.30am the whole sky lit up. We saw a huge green-coloured body with a spectacularly bright and very long tail, falling almost vertically at about an 80 degrees angle. We saw it right in front of us, falling east to south. It all happened within three or four seconds.”
Meteor?
Eyewitness Alexey Dyundin is convinced what he saw on December 11th was a meteor, saying he knows what a falling rocket part looks like because the area gets a lot of those too. (And you thought pigeon droppings on your windshield were annoying.) Alexey Maslov, head of the Verkhnebureinsky district where the incident occurred, agrees – as any politician who doesn’t want to cause a panic would. However, records show there was no meteorite activity that night, nor is there a crater where the mountain collapsed. The other logical explanation is a landslide, but locals who have seen landslides say this river-blocking mountain of a slide is something else. (Many pictures of the pile here.) What else? The Siberian Timeshad this to say:
“Meanwhile, a poll of locals asked for views on the cause of the Bureya event. Some 27% said a meteorite crashing to earth, 40% a landslide – and 33% a UFO attack.”
The mountain of dirt that was once a mountain is blocking the river which drives the Bureyskaya hydro power reservoir, so the Russian defense ministry has a good reason as well as a good cover to send in the military, geomorphologists, geologists, hydrologists and land-surveyors to clear the debris and look underneath it for a possible cause.
“Given the significant size of the landslide, units of engineer and railway forces with special equipment, as well as army and transport aviation, will be involved in clearing the rock.”
Unfortunately, local residents won’t be able to see what the army finds because a state of emergency has been declared (of course) and the area is being evacuated because of “potential flooding.” Does Putin suspect something he doesn’t want them to know or see? Why do so many of them think the cause was a UFO? A tourist group from the neighboring Amur region was attempting to drive over the frozen river and inspect the site in the first week of January … there’s no report they arrived, what they found or if they made it out.
If one-third of the people in your town believed a so-called natural disaster was actually caused by a UFO, would our federal government investigate it? if it really was a UFO, would the Russian government share the information with ours? If they did, would our government share it with US?
“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.” These were among the many memorable quips from the late Arthur C. Clarke, whose visionary scientific mind bordered the uncanny with his ability to foresee future technological trends and developments.
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Clarke was certainly among those “distinguished but elderly scientist” types who were willing to place more bets in the possible camp than the cautious and careful realms of conventional thinking. Clarke, after all, was often willing to look where no other scientists of his day were willing to go, regularly dabbling with a cautious interest in fringe subjects as chronicled on his television series Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World.
Clarke’s fascination with the mysterious cosmos was perhaps most evident with his views on alien life. “Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe,” Clarke said, “and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.” As a science fiction writer, many of his works dealt with ideas pertaining to alien life on other worlds. In his short story “The Star,” he tells of a scientific mission to a distant world, where the evidence of civilization discovered there is one that is long gone.
The story is told from the perspective of the mission’s chief astrophysicist, who also happens to be a Jesuit flirting with a crisis of faith. After he and his group conclude their study of the remains of an ancient world consumed by a supernova, he says to himself: “There can be no reasonable doubt: the ancient mystery is solved at last. Yet, oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?”
The blend and, often, contrasts between themes of deism and alien life were common in Clarke’s writing. Another common feature in his science fiction had been his apparent knack for predicting future innovations and discoveries. In his 1973 novel Rendezvous with Rama, Clarke predicts not only asteroid impact early warning systems the likes of which are being developed today, but also the discovery of an alien spacecraft under circumstances that bear an eerie similarity to one recent–and controversial–astronomical discovery.
Rendezvous with Rama begins in the year 2077, as an asteroid impact occurs in northern Italy which prompts the creation of a system capable of detecting such threats in advance. While Clarke’s threat detection system doesn’t come along until 2077, it bears a remarkable similarity to the present-day Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a robotic survey and early-warning system in development at the University of Hawaii and funded by NASA. ATLAS is designed to detect near-Earth objects in advance of a potential impact with Earth by as much as several weeks and targets smaller objects which previously might have been missed by astronomical surveys.
The “prediction” of an asteroid early detection system isn’t the only unique coincidence in Clarke’s novel. Rather, Clarke’s introduction of this early warning system allows for the discovery of a distant object outside the orbit of Jupiter, which is spotted half a century after the Italian asteroid impact. Initially mistaken for being a distant asteroid, the object, dubbed “31/439”, is later revealed to be an alien spacecraft. Probes are then sent to observe the object, which is given the name “Rama” after the famous hero of Hindu mythology, which is revealed to be a featureless cylindrical object nearly 35 miles long.
Artist’s rendering of the interior of Clarke’s “Rama” spacecraft
(public domain).
If the description above sounds familiar, you aren’t alone: the mysterious space rock 1I/2017 U1, or ‘Oumuamua as it is more popularly known, was almost named Rama instead, due to the remarkable similarities between the circumstances surrounding its discovery, and the plot line of Clarke’s novel. (This was only one of several remarkable coincidences that appear in Clarke’s writing, and an online search will reveal other cases where themes in the famous futurist’s writing apparently “predicted” future innovations.)
While the similarities between Rendezvous with Rama and the real-life discovery of ‘Oumuamua are interesting, to say the least, there may be more to be gleaned from the comparison.
In a recent interview with Haaretz that we touched on here at MU, the chair of Harvard University’s Astronomy Department Avi Loeb, defending his controversial speculations about “light sail” technologies that might be propelling ‘Oumumua through our solar system, said that “As soon as we leave the solar system, I believe we will see a great deal of traffic out there.”
“Possibly we’ll get a message that says, ‘Welcome to the interstellar club.’ Or we’ll discover multiple dead civilizations — that is, we’ll find their remains.” Again, Loeb’s comments bear similarities to things Clarke had written about in stories like The Star decades ago; perhaps he’s a fan of the late futurist, too.
So much has been written of what is arguably Clarke’s most famous work, 2001: A Space Odyssey, that it hardly requires additional mention here. Nonetheless, it would be worthwhile to point out that Clarke’s fictional scenario about the influences of alien life on humankind over time, and the idea that humans might be “invited” further out for play in the great intergalactic forest as our technological capabilities progress, is also thought-provoking in light of current discoveries.
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible,” Clarke once said, “is to go beyond them into the impossible.” This may be the best summary of Clarke’s approach, both toward the eventuality of human contact with alien life, and the future in general. Thus, it may be why he saw more success than many of his contemporaries: his remarkable vision of the future was one that saw beyond what was possible in his day, and likely well in advance of what is possible even in the present day.
There was once a children’s book called If You Give A Mouse A Cookie. It was spellbinding little tale about what happens when a mouse shakes you down for your baked goods and you give in. Spoiler alert: he takes you for everything you’ve got. Well, it might be time to update that story, a 21st century reboot if you will. The book could be called something like If You Give A Nerd A Particle Accelerator. It’s a working title.
I’ve been fascinated with CERN and the large hadron collider for years. It’s one of those perfect, real-life-science-fiction endeavors that is just so cool and so terrifying to a lot of people. It’s understandable. There’s a lot of wires and buttons and pipes and tunnels. All of which are intimidating by themselves. Add to that the search for something called the “god particle” and the idea of creating mini black holes, it start’s to look like something that just shouldn’t be. But it is, and we’re still here, seemingly unaffected—unless you buy the idea that we jumped universes the minute they switched it on, explaining why everything feels like it’s gone sideways and the proof is in the BerenstainBears. If so, you’re right and I’m sorry.
Seemingly not content with the level of fear and fear-mongering they’ve caused, CERN is now looking for funding to build an even bigger, even badder particle collider to sit next to the LHC outside Geneva, Switzerland. The plan for the “Future Circular Collider” (which sounds like what mad scientists call things, but probably just refers to a circular collider that will be built in the future) was unveiled Tuesday, and officials at CERN hope that the 22 member states commit to providing the estimated 21 billion euros that would see the machine completed and operational by the late 2050’s.
“And now we shall smash….the future!”
That’s a lot of time, and a lot of money, but CERN believes it will be worth it. The FCC would consist of a 100 kilometer-long circular tunnel for smashing things together, which is four times larger than the tunnel at the Large Hadron Collider. Not only would the size of the thing be greatly increased, but the energy output as well. Frédérick Bordry, CERN’s Director for Accelerators and Technology, says:
“The FCC’s ultimate goal is to provide a 100-kilometre superconducting proton accelerator ring, with an energy of up to 100 TeV, meaning an order of magnitude more powerful than the LHC”
According to CERN’s website, the proposal would provide “tantalizingly more powerful particle colliders that can inaugurate the post-LHC era in high-energy physics.” Whenever physicists start using the word “tantalizing,” that’s a red flag.
The first phase of the FCC project would be the construction of the tunnel and an electron-positron collider that could be operational by 2040 at a cost of 9 billion euros. The second phase would be the “superconducting proton accelerator ring” in the same tunnel, which would require another 15 billion euros and an extra ten years of construction.
These machines just look like the sort of serious business I’ll never be a part of.
Credit: CERN
What will they use it for? The technical answer, I believe, is “blowing stuff up.” Extremely small stuff, but it’s the same basic premise. CERN says that they can’t predict what discoveries the FCC could produce, but CERN Director for Research and Computing, Eckhard Elsen gives a much less snarky explanation of the potential benefits to humanity:
“Proton colliders have been the tool-of-choice for generations to venture new physics at the smallest scale. A large proton collider would present a leap forward in this exploration and decisively extend the physics programme beyond results provided by the LHC and a possible electron-positron collider.”
So, blowing stuff up then. Got it. Excuse me, I have a children’s book to write.
In an earlier article here atMysterious Universe, I discussed the alleged CIA document of 1962 on Marilyn Monroe, Howard Rothberg, and Dorothy Kilgallen, which refers to a “…visit by the President at a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space.” Within some factions of Ufology, this has given rise to the theory that if the document is the real deal, then that same “secret air base” must have been Area 51, situated in the Nevada desert. Of course, the document may be nothing more than a complete hoax. I explained in my previously-referenced article that although I consider the document to be probably bogus, there are a few things about it that still keep me open-minded (to a degree, anyway!).
It’s significant to note that the matter of a secret facility of Area 51-like proportions popped up in another setting, but also in 1962. As well as being the year in which Marilyn Monroe died, 1962 also saw the release of a novel that, two years later, was turned into a bug-bucks movie. The title: Seven Days in May. It’s an absorbing, thought-provoking story that tells of an attempted military coup to take control of the U.S. Government. Its authors were Charles W. Bailey II (who died in 2012 at the age of eighty-two) and Fletcher Knebel who, in 1960, interestingly, wrote a chapter on JFK for a book titled Candidate 1960.
The novel was so well-received, and became such a huge-selling book, that it wasn’t long at all before Hollywood was knocking on the doors of the publisher. And, it wasn’t long after that – specifically in February 1964 – that the movie version of the Bailey-Knebel book hit cinemas all across the world. Interestingly, the screenplay for the movie was written by Rod Serling, of The Twilight Zone fame. Serling was also a significant figure in the field of antiwar activism – to the extent that several intelligence agencies had files on Serling, including the FBI.
Seven Days in May starred a number of major movie-stars of that era, including Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Fredric March, Martin Balsam, and Edmond O’Brien. In the story, Lancaster’s character of General James Mattoon Scott secretly initiates a plan to take over the elected U.S. Government (run by President Jordan Lyman and played by March) by force. General Scott sees President Lyman’s plans to enter into a nuclear treaty with the Soviet Union as weak and ineffectual and a danger to U.S. national security and to the American people.
It’s only when Kirk Douglas’ character of Colonel “Jiggs” Casey stumbles on strands of the plan that things slowly start to unravel. To his horror, Casey comes to realize that what begins as a wild suspicion is an all-too-real fact: the government is about to be toppled in favor of a new, military-driven government. When Casey speaks with the president and his closest aid Paul Girard (actor Martin Balsam), their response is filled with nothing but skepticism. At least, at first. It’s only when Casey shares all that he has found out, and the president begins to realize what is secretly going on right under his nose, that steps are taken to try and stop the coup and have the conspirators arrested as traitors. So, a race begins. It’s a race which will decide the very future of the United States.
Unbeknownst to just about everyone outside of the planned coup – including the president and his entire team – a top secret facility has been established out in the desert outside of El Paso, Texas. It’s the headquarters of the organization which wishes to overthrow the White House – an organization we come to learn is known as ECOMCON, or Emergency Communications Control. Senator Raymond Clark (Edmund O’Brien) is ordered to find the base. At first, Clark is doubtful that such a secret installation could have been constructed without any kind of Congressional oversight or funding. That is, until he sees it for himself. Clark learns it’s code-name is “Site Y.” As the story progresses, we see a mysterious death, mounting conspiracies, and intrigue and mystery, and we learn more about that Area 51-style secret base known as Site Y. And, finally, there is a confrontation between President Lyman and General Scott, a confrontation which brings the country back from the brink of a military dictatorship.
The document concerning Marilyn Monroe’s knowledge of a “secret air base” was allegedly written in 1962. That was the same year in which the Knebel-Bailey novel, Seven Days in May, was released and became a best-seller – and which had at its heart a classified installation that is practically impenetrable and which not even the president knows about. And, in 1964, in the movie spin-off, we are further exposed to the world of an Area 51-like base. In view of all this, one has to wonder if there had been a leak of data back in the early 1960s – a leak which reached the ears and eyes of a world-famous actress and a couple of enterprising writers, and which was focused on a clandestine facility that, for all intents and purposes, operated outside of the elected government.
We may never know for sure if such a leak did occur – and/or if a 1960s-era equivalent of Edward Snowden decided to blow the whistle on a real Site Y – but, there can be no doubt that while Site Y is fiction, it eerily mirrors what we know of Area 51: both have notable code-names. Both installations are buried deep in desert environments. Most people in government have no idea what goes on there. Not even the government can figure out where it gets its funding from. And, access to the base is almost impossible, unless one has the required clearance levels and a need-to-know.
It should be noted too that Fletcher Knebel – the co-author of Seven days in May – was someone who had a great deal of distrust of government and of the intelligence community. His novels – which included Trespass, Sabotage, and Vanished – are tinged with varying degrees of conspiracy. It’s also a fact that Knebel had a number of unnamed insiders in government who helped to ensure the accuracy of some of the concepts and government protocol presented in his novels. In light of all this, one has to wonder if one of those sources shared certain data with Knebel on Area 51, which he reworked into Site Y.
The world of law enforcement has a large arsenal of techniques, equipment, technology, and training at its disposal to help hunt down criminals and solve the many crimes that plague society. Yet, sometimes leads go cold, evidence is sparse, and not even all of these resources seem to be able to penetrate the murk, leaving a case to go unsolved. In some such instances police and even the FBI can be tempted to look past their usual repertoire of technology, to go out past known science and attempt to harness the powers of the unknown in an attempt to find answers, seeking the help of those with psychic gifts. Who are these people and do their powers really do any good? Welcome to the weird world of police psychic investigators.
One quite well-known supposed psychic who has claimed to have lent his unique set of mysterious skills to the police and FBI is a man named Troy Griffin. According to Griffin, he first became aware of his powers at the age of 12, when he had a vision of his friend in a car accident and the predicted crash happened exactly when and how he had seen it. Fortunately, no one was injured, and the young Griffin became convinced that he had the gift of clairvoyance, intuition and foresight, which he believed he could further hone with practice and use for good.
In later years he says he found he could discern what people were going to say before they said them, or predict certain events down to amazing accuracy, and he also became aware of another gift lurking there in his mind. As well as being able to predict the future, Griffin claims that he developed the ability to talk to the spirits of the dead, and that it is this ability which would end up making him popular among law enforcement, although it started mostly as a freelance hobby. Among his many supposed successes is the case of a missing woman named Lora Hale Costner, whose sister approached Griffin for help. The psychic would then divine “impossible” information that he should not have known about what had happened, saying that she was killed, how it had been done, and that he knew where the body was. When the sister sent this information to authorities they supposedly found the body exactly where he said it would be. Not only that, Griffin was able to point police to the perpetrator, 19-year-old, McKinley Lane Cody, who was found to have killed her after a drug deal gone bad.
This case and others like it apparently got Griffin on the police radar, and he became a sort of unofficial, unpaid psychic investigator for both them and he says the FBI as well, and he has supposedly worked over 100 cases in various countries such as the United States, Germany, Canada and Australia, mostly called in as a last resort when all else fails and the mysterious case has gone ice cold. Griffith says he has some sort of innate ability to look through pictures of missing people, such as the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System database and get a sort of psychic “hit” just by looking at the person’s eyes, as if that person is somehow calling out to him from beyond the grave. He says he will get further information when these people subsequently appear to him and talk to him in his dreams.
It sounds rather amazing, and to the families of the victims of crimes he has successfully “solved” it is, but he has also raised his fair share of skepticism. One problem is that the law enforcement authorities he claims to have worked with, including the FBI, have remained silent on Griffin’s involvement, neither confirming or denying his assistance. There is also the fact that by Griffin’s own admission he typically has an 18 to 20 percent success rate, which doesn’t sound really all that impressive, although he defends himself by pointing out in an interview with ABC News, “When you look at murder cases and unsolved missing persons, they’re very few percentage that actually get solved.”
Adding to the skepticism is that Griffin has been very close-lipped about exactly which cases he has worked or which ones were successes and why he thinks so, nor has he provided any proof that he really has ever worked with the FBI and police at all, making it all rather murky. Nevertheless, there are many who are confident in his abilities, and he has managed to make quite a living for himself, charging up to $300 dollars an hour as a freelance psychic or also as a spirit medium, although he says his work on crimes and his police and FBI work he does for free. For his part, Griffin says of the skepticism aimed at him:
I don’t take advantage of people that are grieving. Most are referred to me from what I did. I don’t charge them. I’m not coming with false hope either way. I’m not here to tell you yea or nay. I’m here to help. What I say to skeptics is, if you have never been in the people’s shoes that I walk with, don’t judge or put opinion on it until you really know if it’s real or not. The only way you’re going to know is if there’s ever a day that you need somebody like me. Then you’ll know. Before then you’ll probably never believe in me but the people that I help and walk away with closure moving forward. They’re the ones who believed in me. That’s why I continue to do what I do.
Another psychic detective who has claimed to not only have helped on official cases but also given training and lectures on criminal profiling to police officers, the CIA and the FBI, is profiler Deborah Schurman-Kauflin. She is well-known for her incredibly accurate profiles, which she in part credits her psychic abilities, of which she says in an article on Psychology Today:
I trained thousands of police officers, CIA and FBI agents and interviewed 25 serial killers and mass murderers. I was famous for how accurate my profiles tended to be. Many, many times, shrewd detectives told me I was so accurate it was eerie. There was a reason for that, a truth that I kept secret. I kept this secret because telling the truth about this subject is often taboo. The truth is that I am a psychic medium.
From the time I was little, I had spirits around me. I didn’t think it was strange because I thought everyone did. My family was very open to psychic phenomenon, and my mother’s aunt was also a practicing psychic medium. But even though I experienced things firsthand, like knowing people’s secrets, I was very skeptical. It became harder and harder to hide my abilities when working with police because I’d come up with things I had no way of knowing. And more than one shrewd detective outright asked me if I was psychic.
With her we face the same situation as Griffin, as police and FBI tend to shy away from talking about involvement with psychics, but she claims that these agencies most definitely are willing to use such gifts to get answers in times of desperate need. She also says that law enforcement and psychic prowess sort of go hand in hand, and that the police and FBI believe in these powers much more than they let on, of which she has said:
In law enforcement, it is not something that is widely accepted. However, the majority of detectives who I worked with admitted to going to crime scenes and asking deceased victims for help in solving their murders. I even know a homicide lieutenant who used a psychic to locate a body only to say he’d never admit that publicly for fear of ridicule. The interesting thing is that the best police officers are the most intuitive. They get gut feelings about suspects which later prove to be true. Some have prophetic dreams. How often have detectives pursued something “on a hunch?”
The reality is that people use their intuitive skills every day. You know when you meet someone, and your gut tells you that something is wrong even though the person looks normal? Perhaps something tells you not to take a certain route to work, and you later learn by doing so you avoided an accident. I’m sure many of you have stories of where your intuition saved you from something bad. I believe that those in police work have lots of protection from the other side, so it is not surprising that police can be some of the most intuitive people. Though not commonly accepted in police circles, psychic abilities are being used. With time perhaps people can be taught how to better ‘tune in’ to their own abilities and learn to trust their gut instincts. There is more to this world than meets the eye.
Whether they really believe in or rely on this power or not, and whether they want to admit it or not, state and federal law enforcement certainly do turn to psychics on occasion, although perhaps not as much as many may think, and not typically treating this information as some magical solution. In a 1993 survey on the matter it was found that a third of the 50 police departments surveyed admitted to using psychics, although in most cases this information was not treated any differently than tips from other, more ordinary sources. The FBI also uses psychics, although they typically deny it, and one former senior investigator for the FBI has explained that “psychics may be used as a last resort and as an investigative tool with caution,” although this information is not typically admissible in court. One retired Police Commander named Rick Bruno has also said of law enforcement and psychics:
We didn’t necessarily employ psychics. They sort of came out of the walls. Especially when reward money was set up. But we listened to anyone who might add something to the case. We still do. We had five innocent women murdered in cold blood in a clothing store. They were moms and sisters and daughters whose only crime was to be in the store when a monster walked in with a gun.
We had a hundred detectives working on the case. We even asked NASA if they had any available photos of the exterior environment to see if we might catch a glimpse of a getaway car or the murderer running away on foot. We sent cops to Texas and to England to follow up on leads. We were doing everything we could think of to find that son of a bitch. So when someone would call and say they had “a vision” of who the murderer was, or where he might be found, we listened. And we send cops out there to interview them.
It certainly does not help the case of psychic investigators that unfortunately some of the psychics who have helped law enforcement have been exposed as frauds. Before her death one of the most well-known and talked about psychic detectives of all was a woman named Sylvia Browne, who appeared on countless TV programs such as regular appearances on The Montel Williams Show, as well as news outlets, expounding her abilities and the important work she had done for the police and FBI. Indeed, allegedly had many endorsements from some of these officials, such as that of former FBI agent Ted Gunderson, who said of her powers, “I’ve worked with numerous psychics in the past and very few are really on target, but Sylvia Browne is probably one of the most accurate psychics in the country.”
However, despite this, an eye-opening article in a 2015 edition of The Skeptical Inquirer managed to mostly smash this illusion by digging into her past and scouring files requested from the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act. This research showed that not only had Brown made many misleading and outright false claims as to the extent of her police and FBI dealings, but also that there were no records of her dealing with the FBI at all. The author of the article explains:
There is no documentation released by the FBI to support the claim that Browne conducted any psychic readings for the FBI, either directly or indirectly. Moreover, Gunderson’s name appears nowhere in her FBI file, and the topics in the FBI release do not discuss working with the FBI. Thus, there is no evidence from the records that Browne was involved with the agency. Assuming Browne worked with Gunderson, it appears to have occurred after he retired from the FBI and when he was investigating aliens, “Satanic” child abductions, and numerous other conspiracies.
In addition, further damning evidence against Browne was her big mistakes, such as declaring a missing girl dead when she was later found to be alive, and she seems to have had just as many misses as hits. It was also discovered that not only had she apparently never worked with the FBI before, but her and her organization, the Nirvana Foundation for Psychic Research, had actually been investigated by them in the 1980s for “selling securities without a permit,” and “violations of federal law in applying for loans from federally insured financial institutions.” This in no way means that every psychic detective is a charlatan or fraud, but it certainly makes them look bad, and gives fuel to those who would doubt them. It has been pointed out that these people are merely very good at tricking everyone and feeding off of desperation, grief, and a potent desire for any answers at all, throwing out vague clues and relying on confirmation bias to do the rest. Famed skeptic Joe Nickell does not mince words when he says of their supposed abilities:
What people should realize is psychics cannot do what they claim to do. They have been reviewed by mainstream science, and they can’t do it. If they can do it, let’s see that they do it. It could be defined as ‘after-the-fact matching. In other words, the detectives have a missing person. They assume the person might be dead, but they’re looking to find that person. In comes the psychic, often ingratiating himself or herself with the family, forcing the police, pretty much, to have to pay attention to the psychic. The psychic will say things like, ‘I see water. I’m getting the number 7. I see some sort of tall structure,’ and so on. They call these clues.
Is this accurate? Are these and the many other psychics allegedly helping law enforcement merely frauds feeding off of suffering and strife, trying to make a name off of tragedy? Are their abilities really all bogus? Or are there some who under the right circumstances manage to reach out and touch some force that allows them to see into where others cannot? Whatever the case may be, there are many who believe this phenomenon to be genuine, and as long as there is hope that it could pry open cold cases and unsolved cromes there will likely be people in times of desperation that will seek these psychic detectives out, whether they really believe or not.
The discovery of ‘Oumuamua continues to prove itself one of the most fascinating and mysterious astronomy stories of our time. It all began in October 2017 when astronomers using the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaiispotted a strange object passing through our Solar System at a high velocity. The object defied classification and still does, and its origin remains unknown. What is known is that it originated from somewhere outside of our Solar System, making it the first known interstellar object to visit our neck of the cosmic woods.
The path ‘Oumuamua took through the Solar System.
Almost immediately after its discovery, ‘Oumuamua’s odd behavior and characteristics caused many to speculate that it could be an alien craft or probe sent to explore our Solar System. That speculation grew stronger in November 2018 when astronomers Shmuel Bialy and Avi Loeb of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics published a study arguing that ‘Oumuamua’s anomalous acceleration and direction could mean the object isn’t a comet or asteroid, but instead an artificial craft or probe propelled by a “light-sail,” meaning it uses the ‘winds’ of solar radiation to propel it through space.
Of course, those claims attracted controversy, criticism, and outright jeers in some cases. How could two of the most respected astrophysicists in the country claim any possibilitythat an anomalous object in space could be artificial? How dare they! Don’t they know that science is supposed to suppress the imagination as opposed to ignite it? In response to the controversy, one of the paper’s authors sat down for an interview with Israeli news outlet Haaretz to discuss ‘Oumuamua and the resistance to acknowledge any possibility that ‘Oumuamua could be from an extraterrestrial civilization.
I don’t care what people say. It doesn’t matter to me. I say what I think, and if the broad public takes an interest in what I say, that’s a welcome result as far as I’m concerned, but an indirect result. Science isn’t like politics: It is not based on popularity polls.
That’s what professor Avi Loeb, chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, sat down with Oded Carmeli at Haaretz to share his perspective on the ‘Oumuamua controversy. According to Loeb, he only went public with claims that ‘Oumuamua just might be artificial after lengthy discussions with colleagues. “Scientists of senior status said themselves that this object was peculiar but were apprehensive about making their thoughts public,” Loeb says. “it could be that I’m committing image suicide, if this turns out to be incorrect. On the other hand, if it turns out to be correct, it’s one of the greatest discoveries in human history.”
‘Oumuamua (dot in center) as seen by the Pan-STARRS telescope.
Loeb adds that as a scientist with tenure, he doesn’t understand why so many other stodgy academics in ivory towers are afraid to take risks and imagine possibilities which may at first seem outlandish:
If you’re not ready to find exceptional things, you won’t discover them. Of course, every argument needs to be based on evidence, but if the evidence points to an anomaly, we need to talk about an anomaly. Who cares if this anomaly appeared or did not appear in science-fiction books?
The whole interview is worth a read for anyone interested in astronomy or the search for alien life. In it, Loeb lays out his entire argument for why we must be open to the possibility that ‘Oumuamua is a spacecraft or probe. It’s important to note that Loeb never comes out saying definitively that ‘Oumuamua is an alien craft, only that we must be open to the possibility that it could be based on the available evidence. Still, science has a long history of persecuting those who go against the paradigm or challenge popular opinions. Will Loeb be remembered in the future as a rebellious hero like Galileo, or a crank suffering from wishful thinking?
White UFO Seen During Day Over Busan, South Korea on Jan 16, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
White UFO Seen During Day Over Busan, South Koreaon Jan 16, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 16, 2019
Location of sighting: Busan, South Korea
This video was taken by an eyewitness in South Korea yesterday. A white double oval UFO hovered over the city of Busan, a city of 3.5 million people. What really is important here is that the person was driving and did not have a window up, so this is not a reflection. Thats a great thing. This UFO does seem to be near the top of a hill, as if its observing something. Also this UFO seems tilted and is very white, like cloud, but without the smoke. So, because of the tilt, the color and the size I would say this is a real UFO.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
For long time, I yearn for looking at UFO!! Today at last I saw something. but something weird.
Defense Newsreportsthat the U.S. navy is planning to unleash unmanned surface combatants — military robot warships, basically — to accompany other boats that are controlled by a human crew.
The move may come in response to China and Russia’s heavy investment in similar technologies that could put U.S. aircraft carriers at risk, according to Defense News’ analysis. Naval superiority is a priority for the Chinese military — which the Pentagon wants to challenge with artificial intelligence and automation investments.
Sea Hunters
Last year’s naval National Defense Strategy — when it was announced at the beginning of 2018 — was focused on backing up existing aircraft carriers and bolstering peacekeeping efforts. The new focus differs: smaller surface combatants, many of which will be unmanned, and equipped with state-of-the-art sensors.
The idea is to overwhelm the enemy and make it difficult for them to track a large number of smaller ships. Having a larger number of autonomous ships will also make sensor data collection more reliable and accurate.
“We want everything to be only as big as it needs to be. You make it smaller and more distributable, given all dollars being about equal,” U.S. Navy Surface Warfare Director Ronald Boxall toldDefense News in a December interview. “And when I look at the force, I think: ‘Where can we use unmanned so that I can push it to a smaller platform?'”
One such autonomous warship has already made headlines in the past: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Sea Hunter is a submarine-hunting warship that can operate without humans on board for 60 to 90 days straight. Details are becoming more sparse about the Sea Hunter since the Navy recently classified any information about its future.
IPhone Warships
The U.S. navy is also moving to update the way it builds warships, and how computers and sensors on board function. The Navy wants all modern warships to be built around a single combat system that runs on every ship.
“For us to get faster, we either have to keep going with the model we had where we upgrade our flip phones, or we cross over the mentality to where it says: ‘I don’t care what model of iPhone you have — 7 or X or whatever you have — it will still run Waze or whatever [applications] you are trying to run,” Boxall toldDefense News.
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Risk of impact? Three large asteroids approach Earth today
Risk of impact? Three large asteroids approach Earth today
NASA has listed three asteroids near Earth for January 15. These asteroids are not only fast, but also very large and could theoretically cause massive damage.
On the website of the Center for Near Earth Object Studies, NASA has listed three asteroids that will approach Earth on January 15. The objects are supposed to move past our planet between 3:20 in the morning and 22:43 in the evening.
Asteroids listed by NASA are not considered dangerous
The list of objects does not contain any potential danger for us. They are asteroids whose distance to Earth can be millions or even tens of thousands of millions of kilometres. The term "proximity to Earth" has a completely different meaning from an astronomical point of view.
The three expected objects should vary in size and speed. If they actually hit Earth, one could assume that there would most likely be a catastrophe. However, NASA classifies them as "small bodies", i.e. they do not pose a threat to life on Earth. For the asteroids there are the following reports:
Chinese scientists released this image of a cotton plant germinating in its tank on the moon aboard the Chang'e 4 lander. The photograph was taken Jan. 7, 2019.
That makes it the first truly otherworldly plant in history. Astronauts onboard the International Space Station regularly tend plants to study how growth changes in microgravity (and to diversify astronaut diets in space), and plants and seeds have orbited Earth on and off throughout spaceflight history. But the closest that terrestrial vegetation has come to the moon before now was in 1971, when Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa carried hundreds of tree seeds to orbit the moon with him. Many of these seeds were later planted back on Earth, becoming "Moon Trees."
In addition to cotton, the Chinese moon capsule also includes seeds to grow potatoes and a common lab plant calledArabidopsis, neither of which have sprouted so far. And even the cotton plant is looking pretty peaky compared to seedlings in a control setup the scientists established on Earth.
An image of the Chinese biology experimental capsule now on the far side of the moon aboard the Chang'e 4 lander.
Credit: Chongqing University
It's not particularly surprising that the moon seeds are struggling, since they've been through a lot — the drama of launch, uncomfortable temperature swings, low gravity and high radiation.
The capsule and its seeds are stored on the Chang'e 4 lander, which is perched inside Von Kármán Crater on the far side of the moon. The lander is accompanied by the Yutu 2 rover, which has left its grounded counterpart to explore the neighborhood. Both robots are currently experiencing their first long, cold night on the moon, when daytime and nighttime each last about two Earth weeks.
An artist's depiction of the proposed Dragonfly spacecraft on the surface of Titan.
Credit: Johns Hopkins APL
The spacecraft that have peered through the yellowish haze surroundingSaturn's moon Titandiscovered a strange, yet strangely familiar world where life could theoretically take root. Now, scientists want to return — this time buoyed by Earth's fascination with drone technology.
That's precisely what a team of scientists working on a proposed mission called Dragonfly want to do: combine terrestrial drone technology and instruments honed by Mars exploration to investigate the complex chemical reactions taking place on Saturn's largest moon. Later this year, NASA will need to decide between that mission and another finalist proposal, which would collect a sample from a comet.
"At first blush, I think a lot of people think [Dragonfly] sounds like the literal meaning of incredible," Melissa Trainer, a deputy principal investigator with the mission and a scientist at NASA, told Space.com. "Not only is this an incredibly exciting concept with amazing, compelling science, but also, it is doable — it's feasible from an engineering standpoint." [Landing on Titan: Pictures from Huygens Probe on Saturn Moon]
Dragonfly, if chosen, would aim to launch in 2025 and arrive at Titan in 2034. The world it will explore is oddly reminiscent of Earth for a strange moon so far away. On Earth, sunlight powers organic life growing in fields and forests; the same sunlight triggers chemical reactions in Titan's upper atmosphere that create large organic molecules that pour down on the moon's surface, like Earth's rainwater. While Earth has a landscape made of rock covered in places by water, Titan's landscape is made of water ice covered in places by organic compounds.
Knowledge of those Titan traits comes primarily from data gathered by the Cassini mission to the Saturn system and the Huygens probe that traveled with Cassini and touched down on Titan in 2005. Taken together, those two spacecraft completely reshaped scientists' ideas about the moon.
"We didn't know how Titan worked as a system before Cassini got there. We had tantalizing hints, but Cassini and Huygens really took it from [being] this mysterious moon to [being] a place that is incredibly familiar," Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle, principal investigator for Dragonfly and a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, told Space.com. "Cassini really showed us Titan as a world and how it works and the different processes that are acting on it."
An artist's depiction shows each stage of the proposed Dragonfly mission, including landing on Titan's surface, doing science in place and relocating to a new work site.
Credit: Johns Hopkins APL
But Cassini never got a good view of the surface through the moon's thick atmosphere, and once the Huygens probe touched down, it ran out of battery power in mere hours. If all goes smoothly, Dragonfly would be able to explore dozens of sites over the course of two Earth years. And some aspects of the proposed mission aren't as difficult as you might expect.
Consider landing, for example. Trainer, who also works with the Curiosity rover on Mars, remembers well the so-called "7 minutes of terror" during that rover's action-packed landing, as the spacecraft fought to slow itself quickly enough to touch down gently. "Compared to that, landing on Titan is just this leisurely, gentle float down to the surface," she said. "It takes something like over 2 hours because of this dense atmosphere."
That atmosphere, which Trainer compared to a pillow, combined with the low gravity on the moon (about a seventh the strength of Earth's) also makes putting an aircraft on a distant moon much more feasible. With its rotor-copter design, Dragonfly can lift itself off the surface and fly away using the nuclear power source that NASA had available for this class of mission.
But incorporating extraterrestrial drone technology is a means to an end, not the final goal. "We focus so much on the flight, and that's what we show in the pictures, because that's part of the really exciting part. But the truth is we really spend most of the time on the surface," Trainer said. "We're really a landed package, a science laboratory — we're doing [most of] our science on the ground, and then we fly to relocate and to get some data on the surface. We move to a new place and then we do more landed science." [Amazing Photos: Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon]
That science will tackle the chemistry on Titan. Scientists know that the moon hosts huge amounts of organic compounds, but Cassini and Huygens didn't gather enough data to clarify the details of the planet's chemistry. Dragonfly would be able to identify precise organic compounds, so scientists could determine just how close Titan's molecules are to those that terrestrial biology relies on.
Data from the Cassini mission to Saturn show a large lake on Titan's surface. Liquid on the moon's surface is predominantly organic compounds like methane (shown in black here); the solid surface is made of water ice (shown in gold here).
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Cornell
"Dragonfly is first and foremost a mission to understand prebiotic chemistry. What happened to get from chemistry to biology?" Turtle said. "Of course, we can't study that on Earth, because biology has kind of overprinted everything, but Titan is actually the place that is most like the early Earth in the solar system."
Scientists have run experiments to try to mimic Titan in the laboratory, testing what compounds the ingredients and conditions they replicate produce. Those experiments have had intriguing results — the reactions can create amino acids, for example, the building blocks of proteins — but they can never run indefinitely. "In the laboratory, you're always limited by time. Titan has been doing this for millions and millions of years," Trainer said. "Titan has basically been doing these experiments for us, and all we're trying to do is go and get the results."
And if the mission's impetus comes from the Cassini and Huygens missions, the methodology to fetch those results is inspired by a very different suite of spacecraft: NASA's Mars rovers. After all, Titan isn't the first place NASA has studied organic compounds; that's precisely what the Curiosity rover was designed to do. So, Dragonfly would carry some of the same instruments adapted for a new context.
Whether Dragonfly takes flight is now up to NASA. The Dragonfly team submitted a detailed concept report in December and is expecting a decision from the agency this summer. The team members said they think they've made a compelling case for both the science that the mission could do and its feasibility.
The UFO that derailed a train and threw rays to a witness (Video)
The UFO that derailed a train and threw rays to a witness (Video)
In 1954, one of the strangest UFO incidents in the World Ufology occurred. This event took place in Quarouble, near Valenciennes, north of France, on September 10 of the same year.
The protagonist of the case, Marius Dewilde, lived near the passage 79 of the railway Houllieres Nationales, near the border with Belgium. Marius was reading by the fireplace while his wife and son were already asleep. Around 22: 30hs the dog Kiki began to bark furiously outside the house. He immediately thought that it was thieves attacking his henhouse, then he took his flashlight and left ..
When he reached the garden he noticed that there was a shadow on the railway, only 6 meters from the door of the house. And he thought that some neighbor had passed by. It was then when his dog appeared as crawling scared. Then he heard sounds of hasty footsteps. And immediately his dog started barking in this direction.
Marius turned on and pointed his flashlight towards the noise, then illuminating two strange little beings. They were only a few meters from the witness and were hurrying towards the shadow that was positioned on the railway line. Both wore a kind of helmet with a helmet. They were about a meter tall and had broad shoulders.
Marius ran towards the beings with the intention of capturing one of the creatures. When it was less than 2 meters from one of the creatures, the strange dark mass on the railway emitted a ray of light in the witness and was paralyzed.
Then the protagonist attended astonished to the strange beings entering the object that took off silently immediately. A short time later he recovered his strength and scared he returned home. Arriving there he woke up his wife telling him the story. Shortly after, he looked for a neighbor who advised him to go to the police in Onning, 2 km away.The cops thought he was crazy. Then he decided to look for police commissioner Gouchet to report what happened. This, seeing that the witness was pale, scared and with physiological problems derived from the episode, requested an investigation of the Air Police and the Directorate of Territorial Security (DST).
The investigation began immediately that night. An interesting fact happened precisely at the moment when the researchers were in the place. A freight train approached and when passing in the place where the object was perched there was a loud roar.
The engineer stopped the locomotive and went to check what would have happened. There, machinist, investigators and the witness perceived that there was a depression in the rails in an area of 6 meters.
The engineer tried to use a phone nearby to warn the central but it had defects. Interestingly, his flashlight, which was also battery powered, had defects after the episode.
The next day the investigators returned to the place and discovered new evidence. The investigation found that there were no fingerprints in place, but there were marks on the rails at five different points. These marks had 4cm² each, divided into 3 rails.
They resembled bevels caused by bodies of rectangular section and containing up to a penetration bevel, so that a force of 30 tons was exerted on the wood of the rails. In addition, the marks were symmetrical.
The stones collected in the room were calcined, fragmenting easily, while the stones collected in other nearby places were normal. In subsequent investigations in the region it was discovered that several other people spotted a strange reddish flying object at the same time that Mr. Marius observed the ship and its crew.
With the passing of the days Marius presented respiratory problems and his dog Niki dies mysteriously. In addition to Niki, three cows on a nearby farm died mysteriously. Autopsies were performed to determine the cause of death and it was discovered that the three did not have blood on their bodies. What do you think about it? Watch the following video and leave us your comment below.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Ryan Sprague is a UFO journalist, podcaster, and author. He is also a professional playwright and screenwriter. He was a frequent contributor to Open Minds Magazine, and has participated as a staff member or speaker at several International UFO Congress events. Ryan hosts the podcast Somewhere in the Skies and Rogue Planet’s Unknown. Ryan’s latest project was co-hosting CW’s Roswell: Mysteries Decoded. Alejandro also appeared in the show and served as a consulting producer.
In this episode, we talk about the production of the CW’s Roswell special, what was left out, and our thoughts on how the production came out. We also discuss the Roswell case and the mysteries surrounding the most famous alleged crash landing of an alien spacecraft.
Een ufo? Bijzonder fenomeen duikt op in Amerikaanse stad: “Grootste die ik ooit zag”
Een ufo? Bijzonder fenomeen duikt op in Amerikaanse stad: “Grootste die ik ooit zag”
Een ufo? Gigantische ijsschijf duikt op in Amerikaanse stad: “Grootste die ik ooit zag”
Video: Reuter
In een stadje in de Amerikaanse staat Maine is een bijzonder en zeldzaam natuurfenomeen opgedoken: een reusachtige ijsschijf. De draaiende cirkel heeft een diameter van maar liefst 100 meter en ontstond door een temperatuurverschil in het water van de rivier. “De grootse ijsschijf die ik ooit zag”, klinkt het bij inwoners die het adembenemende fenomeen vergelijken met een graancirkel en grappen dat het “waarschijnlijk buitenaards” is.
Onbekend onderwaterobject werd dagenlang omsingeld door Amerikaanse kernonderzeeërs. Tom DeLonge plaatst opvallend bericht
Onbekend onderwaterobject werd dagenlang omsingeld door Amerikaanse kernonderzeeërs. Tom DeLonge plaatst opvallend bericht
Op28 december 2018 plaatste Tom DeLonge, voormalig zanger van rockband Blink-182 en oprichter van een onderzoeksgroep die informatie over UFO’s naar buiten brengt, een opvallend bericht op Instagram.
In het bericht beweert DeLonge dat een onbekend onderwaterobject (unidentified submerged object of USO) in de Noord-Atlantische Oceaan enkele jaren geleden een week lang werd omsingeld door kernonderzeeërs.
Hierna circuleerde er een artikel op internet waarin astronoom en ufoloog Marc D’Antonio claimt dat er een onbekend object op de radar was verschenen toen hij aan boord was van een kernonderzeeër.
Sun Valley, Idaho! Who here wants to meet up and talk about how a few years ago an unidentified craft was underwater and pinned against the North Atlantic coast by multiple nuclear attack submarines for over a week?
I do... but I’m in Washington state.. come this way and I’m sure we could talk about mt Adams secret shit, and why mt Rainer has so many sightings..? Esp all the cases near the Canadian border on the west coast..
You should be working with Dr Bernard Haisch, Ph.D., is an astrophysicist and author of over 130 scientific publications. He served as a scientific editor of the Astrophysical Journal for ten years, and was Principal Investigator on several NASA research projects. After earning his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Haisch did postdoctoral research at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. His professional positions include Staff Scientist at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory; Deputy Director of the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley; and Visiting Scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik in Garching, Germany. He was also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration. Prior to his career in astrophysics, Haisch attended the Latin School of Indianapolis and the St. Meinrad Seminary as a student for the Catholic priesthood. He is married, with three children, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Marsha Sims. http://www.thegodtheory.com/
In de populaire podcast van Joe Rogan zei DeLonge eerder dat er al buitenaardse levensvormen zijn ontdekt.
Hij vertelde Rogan over zijn ontmoetingen met verschillende hooggeplaatste overheidsfunctionarissen.
Eén van die ontmoetingen leidde tot onthullingen over de vondst van een buitenaards wezen tijdens de Koude Oorlog.
Roswellincident
“Ik vloog naar een vliegveld en nam daar plaats in een restaurant,” vertelde hij. “Er kwam een man bij me zitten die me recht in mijn ogen keek en zei dat ze tijdens de Koude Oorlog een levensvorm hadden gevonden.”
Bij het Roswellincident was volgens DeLonge buitenaardse technologie betrokken, maar het was volgens hem niet wat de meeste mensen denken.
“Ik denk dat het van Duitse makelij was,” zei hij. “Maar de technologie was gebaseerd op buitenaardse technologie.”
Tom Delonge, founder of To The Stars Academy, recently uploaded a post on Instagram claiming that multiple US attack submarines somehow had a UFO 'pinned' underwater against the North Atlantic Coast.
Reflect On:
There are thousands of declassified UFO encounters, most of which are aerial. A story like this doesn't really seem too 'out there' for those who have researched the topic, and it seems more probable given Tom and his team's reputation.
The idea of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) is no longer taboo, and has been officially verified by multiple governments around the world including the United States. These objects are often tracked on military radars and seen by the pilots who are sent out to take a closer look. There have been millions of pages of UFO related documents declassified detailing these encounters, hundreds of testimonies from credible people within military, intelligence, and government agencies exposed, and tons of electro-optical data and physical evidence released. You can read about some examples of military encounters in more detail here.
In 1979, General Carlos Cavero told the world that “everything” has been “in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world. On a global scale, the nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon” and there is “an international exchange of data.” There are tons of similar, reputable statements like this out there, including the following one made by the first CIA director, Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter: “Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” (source)
Despite the vast amount of evidence in support of extraterrestrial and UFO phenomena, the ‘secrecy campaign’ is still ongoing, influencing the minds of the masses and convincing people that it’s all a “conspiracy theory.” Perception manipulation is a tool frequently used by the ‘powers that be’ in all areas, especially within the political realm.
Whether it be a former Chairman of the Royal Navy telling us that “there is a serious possibility that we are being visited, and have been visited by people from outer space,” a former Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Barry Goldwater stating that “I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified,” or an Apollo 14 astronaut saying that “yes, there have been crashed craft and bodies recovered,” there is no shortage of high-ranking insiders attesting to the reality of this phenomenon.
However, this goes far beyond mere witness testimonies.
One of the biggest mouthpieces for “the establishment,” The New York Times, admitted something that the establishment has been concealing for years: UFOs are real. The Times broke the story about a secret Pentagon program about UFOs, but any UFO researcher knows these programs are far more in-depth, expensive, and expansive than anything that’s described within the article.
This was then followed by a Washington Post article written by Christopher Mellon, a member of To The Stars who spent 20 years in the federal government, holding prestigious roles including the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush Administrations. To The Stars is a company founded by the musician Tom Delonge, which aims to inspire a newfound appreciation for ‘the profound yet unresolved mysteries involving science and the universe,’ including UFO phenomena.
All of a sudden, after these articles, UFOs were perceived as ‘real’ within mainstream media. Many have criticized Tom Delonge and To The Stars, claiming that the company is a deep state operation looking to bring about misinformation about UFOs. Some will post pictures of Tom Delonge with John Podesta, for example, and claim that he is ‘one of them.’ However, I do not believe these accusations.
It’s similar to Harvey Weinstein being pictured with Oprah. A single image doesn’t make Oprah a rapist or a supporter of sexual misconduct, and we shouldn’t judge others based on a photograph or who they spend their time with. Tom might be completely unaware of Podesta’s reputation, as it’s quite clear his main interest is the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon. Delonge has done nothing but good for the UFO movement and has inspired massive awareness surrounding the subject.
Perhaps we should be more concerned with the transparency of the US government than with Tom Delonge’s motives. So far, the US government has proven that they cannot be trusted when it comes to being transparent about this subject. This is why it’s ok to have concerns about where this mainstream disclosure movement is headed, and whether or not it’s rooted in good will.
It’s evident that politicians are becoming more and more persuaded and coerced by corporations and the global elite, something Roosevelt referred to as the “invisible government” that “sits enthroned” behind the “ostensible government.” (source)
Another great quote:
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation . . . The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. – John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York City from 1918-1925, (source)(source)
It remains to be seen where To The Stars will take this, but I fully believe that if there are some sort of ‘sinister’ intentions within To The Stars, Tom and most of the team probably have no idea about it. So far things are looking good, and they’ve done nothing but create awareness.
The team he assembled is actually pretty extraordinary, as their backgrounds are quite impressive, and Tom deserves all the credibility he’s garnered. Sure, there is no evidence that his claims are true (like the image pictured below), but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t entertain his thoughts, especially given the fact that thousands of similar encounters have been reported. Here is one of many great examples of verified encounters with documented proof, in case you were curious.
Why Would Multiple Nuclear Attack Submarines Do This?
As an avid researcher into the field of UFOs for nearly half of my life, I can confidently say that not only are there unidentified crafts performing maneuvers that defy our known laws of aerospace and physics, but these crafts have been spotted entering and exiting our oceans as well. This is something that’s still new to many UFO researchers just entering the field now.
I’d like to highlight one thing here. After decades of military encounters, it seems the protocol for multiple governments is to try and shoot these crafts down.
Below is a quote from Dr. Steven Greer, creator of the most popular documentary on Netflix last year, Unacknowledged. Greer is well known for the Disclosure Project, where he amassed hundreds of military/intelligence personnel with verified backgrounds to come together and share their testimonies and experiences regarding UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence.
Below he shares a perspective many may not know about:
Here is a great quote from Paul Hellyer,
Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. The inevitable result was that some of our planes were lost, but how many were due to retaliation, and how many were a result of our own stupidity, is a moot point.” (source)
By the way, “the preservation of the planet” (Colonel Ross Dedrickson, from thisinterview with Dr. Greer) is a common theme in extraterrestrial lore. However, that is not to say that some malevolent forces aren’t at work as well. Who really knows!
Dr. David Clarke, an investigative journalist, reader and lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University in England, and the former curator for The National Archives UFO project from 2008–13, outlined what some of the UK’s documents say regarding this type of technology.
These documents reveal how the RAF expressed great interest in finding UFOs to help come up with new and innovative ways to become their enemies during the Cold War. Apparently, they were gathering evidence that other nations had collected this technology. Having been an avid researcher into the field myself for more than a decade, I can confidently say that stories of crash retrievals of unknown aerial objects are abundant–Roswell is certainly not the only example.
Even though they have been partly censored they can’t conceal the fact the UK military were interested in capturing UFO technology or what they coyly refer to as ‘novel weapon technology’…And the files reveal they were desperate to capture this technology – wherever it came from – before the Russians or the Chinese got hold of it first….Although this was 1997, Russia was still regarded as an undefeated enemy with a weapons programme regarded as a threat to the West.
The Takeaway
What makes us think this planet belongs to us? What right do we have to shoot down intelligently controlled crafts that may have been around for decades? Clearly, if there was a threat associated with them or some type of ‘armageddon’ scenario, it would have happened already.
All the global military industrial complex wants to do is find out what’s going on and what’s inside these crafts, even if that means disregarding basic morals. These are not actions we should be proud of, as they highlight just how difficult it may be for any potential outside visitors to explore our planet.
Does the elite actually care about the preservation of our planet? Or do they only care about looking out for their own interests, regardless of the implications their actions have on others?
The extraterrestrial/UFO phenomenon truly leaves no area of humanity untouched. The implications on spirituality and human consciousness are huge, and it’s a topic that will eventually force us to take a closer look at who we are, where we came from, how we treat our planet, and why we are so much more than the bodies we inhabit.
This 30-second exposure shows the circular ice floe spinning counter-clockwise Monday in the Presumpscot River below Bridge Street.
Staff photo by Ben McCanna
A disk of ice roughly 100 yards across that formed on the Presumpscot River and was slowly rotating and gaining size Monday had Westbrook buzzing almost as much as when city police spotted a giant snake eating a beaver in roughly the same location in June 2016.
Nothing ever came of those mysterious snake sightings – the reptile was dubbed “Wessie” by locals – but the sight of an alien-looking circle of ice stuck in the river had some people wondering about that section of the river’s knack for producing weird events.
“It kind of looks like a crop circle,” said Doug Bertlesman, a web developer at Ethos Marketing. His company is at 17 Ash St. The four-story building with a roof deck overlooks the river where the ice disk formed.
Bertlesman estimated the disk was 100 yards in diameter and appeared to be rotating in a counter-clockwise direction.
Rob Mitchell, who owns the Ash Street office building, spotted the alien-looking disk just before 10 a.m. Monday and immediately notified the city of Westbrook.
“There were ducks sitting on it. The ducks were rotating on this big Lazy Susan. It was a big duck-go-round,” he said.
Mitchell, who noted the ice disk formed in roughly the same location as where Westbrook residents and local police spotted a giant snake in June 2016, said the disk does not appear to be moving downstream or upstream. “It’s stuck right there. It’s not going anywhere,” Mitchell said. “I think it will continue to gain in thickness as long as it keeps spinning.”
In a photo taken from a drone, a disk of ice spins in the Presumpscot River in Westbrook. The circular sheet of ice drew comparisons to a crop circle and a Lazy Susan.
Photo courtesy of Tina Radel, city of Westbrook
Tina Radel, the city’s marketing and communications director, also is a licensed drone operator. She went to the Westbrook River Walk – a 1.2-mile walking path adjacent to the river – and used the city’s drone to take aerial photographs.
Once Radel posted photographs on the city’s Facebook page, public interest surged. She even got a call from the Weather Channel asking if it had permission to use the photos, which show a circle of navy blue-and white ice.
Several people commented on the city’s Facebook page.
“Wessie,” Matt Ireland wrote. “Frozen Crop Circle,” David Lawrence posted. “Cool! Looks like a moon,” Candice Dutil said.
“It’s where the aliens landed,” Larry Liston commented.
Mark Battle, an associate professor of physics at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, said he’s never seen anything like the Westbrook ice disk.
The disk could have rotated clockwise instead of counterclockwise, but Battle attributed the disk’s movement to the river current, the thickness of the ice, and to the friction caused by the ice grinding against the shoreline.
“It’s definitely not being caused by the Coriolis force (that objects experience because of the Earth’s rotation),” Battle said. The Coriolis force or effect tends to deflect moving objects to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
Battle said he looked at Facebook photos of the ice disk.
“It looks marvelous,” he said. “It’s a beautiful thing.”
Man-made ice disks have become popular in countries like Finland and Sweden, where residents are looking for entertaining ways to pass the long winter days.
Last April, residents in Sinclair, a village in an unorganized territory in Aroostook County, created what they believed was the world’s largest ice carousel on a frozen lake. About 100 volunteers cut a circle in the ice that was 427 feet in diameter, and they used four outboard motors to get it rotating.
While Wessie the snake was never captured or found, there was no talk Monday that a reptile could be propelling the ice circle on the Presumpscot. Experts had said that any serpent that might have been living in the river would be unable to survive a Maine winter.
Amerikaanse staat in de ban van reusachtige ronddraaiende ijscirkel. Bekijk hier de beelden
Foto: Vimeo/City of Westbrook, Maine
Amerikaanse staat in de ban van reusachtige ronddraaiende ijscirkel. Bekijk hier de beelden
De Amerikaanse staat Maine is in de ban van een bijzonder natuurfenomeen. Op de rivier Presumpscot is een gigantische ijscirkel ontstaan.
De stad Westbrook in Maine plaatste maandag beelden van de reusachtige bevroren schijf op internet.
Volgens de Portland Press Herald heeft de schijf een doorsnee van zo’n 90 meter en draait hij tegen de klok in.
Graancirkel
“Het lijkt op een graancirkel,” zei Doug Bertlesman tegen de krant.
Op de beelden is te zien dat de ijscirkel groter is dan een nabijgelegen parkeergarage.
Professor Matt Battle van Bowdoin College in Brunswick zei tegen de lokale krant dat hij nog nooit zoiets heeft gezien.
Nog groter
“Het wordt zeker niet veroorzaakt door de corioliskracht,” zei Battle. “Het ziet er prachtig uit. Het is een schitterend ding.”
De communicatiemanager van de stad, Tina Radel, zei tegen Gizmodo dat het erop lijkt dat de ijscirkel op zijn plek blijft liggen en nog groter kan worden.
Aliens
“Bevroren graancirkel,” zei een lokale bewoner. Iemand anders reageerde: “De aliens zijn daar geland.”
ZAL ER DEZE MAAND WEER EEN EINDTIJDPROFETIE UIT DE BIJBEL IN VERVULLING GAAN? ( VIDEO )
ZAL ER DEZE MAAND WEER EEN EINDTIJDPROFETIE UIT DE BIJBEL IN VERVULLING GAAN? ( VIDEO )
Over een aantal dagen zal er een bijzonder gebeurtenis zijn waar te nemen aan de hemel.
Een bloedmaan die dit keer tevens supermaan is, genaamd Wolf en waarvan wordt gezegd dat ook deze gebeurtenis onderdeel vormt van de tekenen van de eindtijd, net zoals de rode rivieren.
Er zal in de loop van deze maand een heel bijzondere maansverduistering plaats vinden. En ook één met een bijzondere naam, want deze maansverduistering heet “Wolf”.
In de nacht van 20 op 21 januari vindt er een volledige maansverduistering plaats, ook wel bloedmaan genoemd.
Bij een volledige maansverduistering bevindt de maan zich in de kegelvormige kernschaduw van de aarde, de umbra. Hier komt geen zonlicht. Bij dit type maansverduistering ontstaat het verschijnsel ‘bloedmaan’.
Niet alleen is het een bloedmaan die dag, maar ook nog eens een zogenaamde supermaan. Dat wil zeggen dat op dat moment de maan zich op het dichtste punt tot de aarde bevindt, waardoor de maan er ook nog eens extra groot uit ziet.
In de ochtend van maandag 21 januari 2019 vindt een totale maansverduistering plaats. Hierbij beweegt de Maan zich door de schaduw van de Aarde, zodat er geen direct zonlicht meer op het maanoppervlak valt en de hele Maan veel donkerder is dan normaal.
Het einde van de eclips is onzichtbaar vanuit Nederland en België, maar het grootste deel is bij ons te volgen. De verduistering heeft een grootte van 1.20 in de kernschaduw. De eclips begint om 3:36 uur en staat bij het maximum, om 6:13 uur, op een hoogte van circa 21° (in Utrecht). De eclips eindigt om 8:50 uur. Een totale maansverduistering kan erg indrukwekkend zijn.
Tijdens de totaliteit, die duurt van 5:41 tot 6:44 uur, bevindt de Maan zich volledig in de kernschaduw van de Aarde en valt er geen direct zonlicht meer op de Maan. Echter, een beetje zonlicht valt door de aardatmosfeer en wordt gebroken, waardoor dit het maanoppervlak alsnog kan bereiken. Dit is met name rood licht, waardoor er een rode gloed over de Maan komt. Deze fase wordt in de volksmond ook wel Bloedmaan genoemd, en duurt bij deze eclips circa 63 minuten.
Niet alleen een bijzonder bloed/supermaan over enkele dagen, ook zagen we een aantal rivieren in verschillende delen van de wereld die plotsklaps zonder aanwijsbare reden bloedrood kleurden. Ook dat worden tekenen van de eindtijd genoemd.
De bloedrode supermaan “Wolf”, een volkomen natuurlijk verschijnsel of toch dit keer iets bijzonders? En of het nu wel of niet een teken van de eindtijd is, het zal sowieso een spectaculair gezicht zijn dat op veel mensen indruk zal maken.
Although thestory of Area 51didn’t really take off big time until 1989 – which waswhen Bob Lazarentered the scene in controversial and eyebrows-raising fashion – there were significant indications as far back as 1984 that something very weird and deeply conspiratorial was going down out in the heart of the Nevada Desert. We know this, thanks to a now-declassified U.S. Government document of 1987 on what are referred to in its pages as “military land withdrawals. The title: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session.
Rayburn building
On March 11, 1986, beginning at 9:45 a.m., in room B-352, Rayburn House Office Building, the Honorable John F. Seiberling made a notable statement on the U.S. Air Force’s plans to prevent American citizens from accessing massive slabs of land that, legally, the Air Force had no right to claim as their own. That land, of course, was – as the government saw things – way too close to Area 51 for comfort. But, before we get to that, let’s take a look at a certain controversy that was going down in 1984. It provides us with a timeline that led directly to the events of March 11, 1986.
In his 1991 book, Alien Liaison, British ufologist Timothy Good wrote: “In early 1984 the U.S. Air Force illegally seized 89,000 acres of public land, known as the Groom Range, in order to further restrict access to Area 51. The decision to control access was made after the consultation with local Bureau of Land Management officials and after USAF Headquarters had conferred with the Air Force Secretariat.”
Groom Range
As a result of this controversial land-grabbing operation, in August 1984 a hearing was held to specifically address this issue. It was held in the U.S. House of Representatives. The debate was between the Honorable John Rittenhouse – who was there to represent the interests of the Air Force – and the Chairman, the Honorable John F. Seiberling. The debate went as follows:
Seiberling: “Is it true that Air Force has already acted to restrict public use of the Groom Range area?”
Rittenhouse: “Yes, sir, it is true. We have asserted the right to control the surface access and egress to the extent of requesting people not to go in and out. We have people posted to the roads and at certain times we do not. We ask their cooperation.”
Seiberling: “Under what legal authority was that done; that right asserted?”
Rittenhouse: “As far as I know, sir, there is none; except decisions were made at a much, much higher level than mine that that be done.”
Seiberling: “There is no higher level than the laws of the United States.”
Rittenhouse: “No, sir, I understand, and we can describe that further if you would like, sir.”
Seiberling: “I would like.”
Rittenhouse: “In closed briefing.”
Seiberling: “Why would that have to be in a closed briefing?”
Rittenhouse: “I can’t discuss it, sir.”
Seiberling: “Shades of Watergate. All I am asking you is under what legal authority this was done. I am not asking you the technical reasons. That certainly is not classified.”
Rittenhouse: “As I stared earlier, originally we had no legal authority but we asserted the right to request people not to enter that area.”
Seiberling: “How?”
Rittenhouse: “We legally did not have that authority.”
In a November 20, 1985 Public Hearing for Renewal of Groom Lake Mountain Range Land Withdrawal, at Alamo, Nevada, numerous people had their say in relation to this highly controversial and charged issue. One of the irate locals stated – and whose words have become a part of the official, public record – that: “I’d like to know how the military can hide behind the guise of national security when you have broken all of the rules that’s supposed to ensure this country’s freedom, denying our access, holding us at gunpoint when you feel necessary, not telling people you’re withdrawing it for our own good. You can’t tell me why you’ve broken all the rules? And you say it’s national security.”
Things were destined to become even more controversial a few years later, which was when Bob Lazar surfaced…
One of the weirdest phenomena of the paranormal world is that of what are called Shadow People. The term Shadow People covers a wide range of ghostly phenomena involving mysterious vague specters that seem to lurk just on the periphery of our perceptions for reasons that are unknown, often just appearing to watch or observe. Although descriptions vary, they are typically said to be very tall and thin, all black like a humanoid shadow, generally male in shape and with indistinct features, and often appearing almost 2 dimensional in nature, as if projections that lack any real substance. It’s not uncommon for them to be described as wearing thick cloaks or capes of old fashioned designs, and tall, brimmed hats are often reported as well. Although no facial features are typically noted, some accounts mention glowing eyes. Generally, they are only fleetingly glimpsed, often out of the corner of the eye, seeming to fade or vanish when directly observed, but not always. Although they usually look like a shadowy silhouette of a man, they can also be more amorphous masses, mists, or blobs, sometimes shifting shapes right before a witness’ eyes.
Shadow People are most commonly seen as merely observing, rarely if ever interacting with people or the world around them, and although they don’t seem to do anything to any negative effect they are almost always reported as possessing a malevolent or sinister air about them, emanating a sense of foreboding and dread. They are also known to vanish or flee when detected, and as scary as they are, Shadow People are mostly seen as rather shy and harmless in the grand scheme of things. Yet some encounters can be very intense and terrifying, and among some of the most frightening of these are accounts when these entities appear in homes, often looming over the bed of a sleeping person, who usually wakes to see the demonic looking figure standing there, and finds themselves paralyzed with fear or held in place by some unknown force.
Such weird reports are rather numerous, and share some similarities and common traits in that the witness is faced with a mysterious black figure standing in their room and overcome with a sensation of overwhelming dread, terror, and of being helpless or unable to move. One Reddit account is a good example of this type of report, and comes from a witness who wasn’t even asleep when the paranormal came for him. He says that he had just taken a shower and was settling into bed when things took a turn for the bizarre, which he describes as follows:
One night I stayed up kinda late and decided it was finally time for bed. I took my shower, got ready, turned my nightly podcast on and hopped into bed. Suddenly, I feel like something is watching me. I look up towards the window and I see a large black figure standing there. I’d say somewhere between 6 – 6 1/2 feet tall. He was completely black and I couldn’t see his face. Just a dark shadowy figure. I had a sudden feeling of fear and utter terror, I turned my head away from the window, covered my face and attempted to forget about it. I hardly slept that night.
The next night I walked over to my window and checked to see if I could see the figure again. I didn’t see anything so I turned off the lights and tried again to sleep. Within minutes of me putting my head onto my pillow I felt like I was being watched again. I peeked up over my covers and saw the same figure standing at my glass door and looking at me. This time I just stared back at him for a little bit before getting scared and covering my face again. He had a pretty fair build, wasn’t to big but also wasn’t too skinny. Just fair. Again, he had no face and was looking at me.
This kept happening for the next few nights, each time he appeared closer to me. The next he was at my screen door, then the foot of my bed, then in the middle of my room, and finally looking over me beside my bed. I felt so heavy and fearful. I felt as if I was being pushed into my bed. I could move and all but I just couldn’t shake the heavy feeling. I started to get irritated and yelled out “BE GONE! I DON’T WANT YOU HERE!” I then prayed over and over till I finally fell asleep. The next night he wasn’t there. I have exactly zero idea what it was and that’s probably one of the most strangest things I’ve seen in this house.
It is interesting to note that this encounter happened when the witness was totally awake, making it unlikely that it was all just the result of a bad dream. A similar experience of a witness who would see this phenomenon while awake was reported on Yahoo Answers by an Adam Norton, who relays the strange incidents experienced by his brother-in-law, Victor, of which he says:
He is 48 years old now, and he claims that he has had a dark, hooded figure appear to him, again and again, throughout his entire life. To him, the figure looks like an old, robed, monk. It doesn’t speak. It doesn’t gesture. It just appears, and stares at him. This is not while he’s coming in or out of sleep. This is when he’s wide awake. Obviously, this can be quite startling at times since it’s always unexpected. But he’s not afraid of the figure. He was when he was younger, but over the years it’s just become a part of his life. This is just something he sees at times, and he knows it means him no harm after years of just being watched.
Another tale typical of bedroom Shadow People encounters is told by another witness who says that in the days leading up to her experience she had been plagued by feelings of being watched at night as she lay in her bed, of scarcely glimpsed movement out of the corner of her eye, and that there was an anomalous feeling of negativity and coldness emanating from her closet and mirror. She tried to put this out of her mind, thinking that she was just tired and that it was her imagination playing tricks on her, but then one night it would apparently turn out to be anything but. She says:
When I woke up, the figure was RIGHT in front of me, & the first thing I saw was its hand. I didn’t look up at its face or anything, but just from looking at its hand, I could tell that it was dressed in a robe-like outfit, kinda like back in the day when Jesus was alive. I also had the feeling that the figure was very tall. Anyways, when I saw its hand, it was opened, almost like it was telling me to take it. That’s not the creepy part tho. The creepy part started when I had a complete feeling of fear come over me. It was almost like my soul was frightened. Then, (get ready for this) it tried to pick me up!
Now when I say that I was being lifted by this black figure, I don’t mean my physical body. It LITERALLY felt like my soul was being lifted from my body. (But then again, I’m starting to wonder if it was my soul or just my astral body). Anywho, all I remember saying during all of this was “No! No!” but I also had the thought “please don’t take me” running through my mind. It ended up letting me go, & then I woke up again, almost as if I was double-dreaming. Now I’m well aware that astral projection can seem like double-dreaming or lucid dreaming, so I’m starting to wonder if it was just a dream or if I was on the verge of astral projecting. Either way it goes, something was very weird about that night.
There is also the experience of a witness from Ireland who gives her experience on Your Ghost Stories. She claims that she had been haunted by these occurrences for about 4 years, and that they had started rather suddenly, for no discernible reason. It began rather innocuously enough, with the feeling of eyes upon her or of someone being in the room when no one was around, and there was also the odd fact that this bedroom was always noticeably colder than the rest of the house, but it would rapidly escalate from there, and she says of the unfolding bizarreness:
I started waking up in the middle of the night to see a dark figure standing beside my bed, looking at me or sometimes closer up to my face. I couldn’t make out a face just a dark figure. I felt it was male. When this happened, for some reason I would wave my hand in front of its face, for it to go away, as if I’m clearing it or something. It went then. I was never afraid of this, I just thought it was an annoyance that I had been woken up! I usually would fall back to sleep straight away after this. I never thought it was anything more than my imagination, when it first started happening. I used to joke to my friends about it, calling it my hallucinations! I always hoped that it was in my sleep!
Then weird things started to happen. I’d be lying in bed and I’d feel my blankets being pulled from the bottom of the bed. I didn’t look to see what it was or anything, as I was freaked out. Then other times I would feel like somebody was sitting on my bed, like down by my legs. I could actually feel the indent on the bed. It felt kind of like a parent would sit on your bed. It felt so real. Again I didn’t look, as I was so scared, so I would pray really hard and try to go back to sleep. Sometimes when I was lying on my side in bed, I could feel the blankets being taken off me from behind me. It would get cold. Again I’d just pull my blankets back, not look, and try to go back to sleep. Another thing that has happened, on a few occasions, is I’ve felt as if I’m being tucked into the bed, all the way around me! One of my friends thinks if it is a spirit that it’s friendly because of the way they sit on my bed or tuck me in!
Interestingly, whatever this entity was seems to have followed her when she moved away and began living with three roommates. At first there were no further incidents, and she began to feel as though she may have left the strange occurrences behind, but she would soon see that she was wrong. Not only was it back, but it seemed to be becoming more ominous and threatening. The witness goes on to say of this:
Since I’ve been living in my new house (the one I’m sharing) I’ve started to experience kind of the same things. I wake up and see the figure standing beside my bed looking down at me. I shake my hand and it goes away. I go back to sleep again. However, the last time this happened, when I waved my hand it didn’t go away. So I pulled back the curtain (the window is right beside my bed) and it went away then. The next morning when I woke up, my curtain was open. This really freaked me out, as it was kind of like proof that I am awake when I see this thing! This hasn’t happened in a few months now. I’ve moved to a new bedroom, in the same house, and also I have started wearing eye shades when I’m in bed. I haven’t woken up in the middle of the night since then.
Some of these experiences can be quite disturbing and very sinister, with a distinct, hovering sense that these entities mean us harm, despite not actually doing anything to that effect. A very scary account was given by a witness named Matt Cardin on the site Teeming Brain. The experience allegedly happened in 1993, and was so distressful and terrifying that it has stayed with him ever since. He says:
I emerged circa 3 a.m. from a sleep so deep that it was almost a coma, to find myself paralyzed by a dark figure hovering over me at the foot of the bed. When I say I was paralyzed by the figure, that’s precisely accurate: I had the sense that this thing was responsible for the awful state of paralysis that had unaccountably taken hold of me. And yes, I do know, and I think I may even have known then, about the physical paralysis that naturally occurs during REM sleep. In the presence of that dark figure, I was immediately panicked, horrified, positively sickened with terror and dread, in a way and to a degree that I had not only never experienced but had never even conceived. And this horror was a result not only of my paralysis, nor of the figure’s presence and frightening appearance, but of the awful knowledge of its reason for being there, which gripped me suddenly and totally. The thing was a vaguely man-shaped vortex of darkness, and I knew, with a kind of psychological weight that I had never imagined, that it was the anti-me, that it was like my own personal black hole, and that its presence, in fact its very existence, meant my utter annihilation. I actually felt it sucking my entire being into it, like a roaring, devouring hurricane meant for me and me alone.
It is all quite horrific and full of existential dread, and the incident left such an impact on him that Matt has done a great deal of research into the phenomenon. In some instances, more than one Shadow Person are witnessed, such as in the frightening case relayed by a witness and self-proclaimed medium on The Ghost Diaries, who says he began waking up at night to see faces peering at him from the dark, usually two or three of them. This went on for several years, but he claims that he learned to control it with his abilities of mediumship. The witness explains:
Many years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night to what I thought were people standing over my bed. I quickly reached out my hands as though to protect myself from an intruder. As I blinked a few times, I realized there was nothing standing there. Every night I would see a different face, sometimes two or even three. This happened for years–I would wake up suddenly and open my eyes to see someone staring back at me. It is something I still have not gotten used too.
Around that time this started happening, my mediumship abilities started to grow really strong. I started learning about my gifts as a medium and practiced doing readings on people. It came easy to me and I was able to communicate with spirits on the other side. I would see them hanging around people at the store, see them in cemeteries, and even speak to ghosts that were trapped here. I became pretty amazing with my gift. But one thing always puzzled me, who are the people standing around my bed at night? Who are these spirits that I can see so vividly? I can see them even more clearly than when I am awake doing a reading. I can see the wrinkles in their skin, their eye color, and even the details of their clothing.
So I decided to start asking them directly: “Who are you and what do you want?” Every night I would get the same answer, nothing. I have been trying for years to get an answer out of these spirits and have yet to hear a damn thing. The spirits that startle me almost every night have nothing to say, which is something I can’t seem to comprehend because when I do readings I can’t get the spirits to shut up.
Then I learned to call in my spirit guides and set up my shields before bed. As I got better at this, I was no longer being woken up at night. Every once in a while, one will slip through, but it has happened to me so many times that I just don’t get scared anymore. I get pissed. I have been know to yell a few cuss words, telling the to get the “F” out. It works every time.
It would perhaps be easy to explain such accounts away by saying that this is the result of a phenomenon called sleep paralysis, wherein a person wakes to feel as if they cannot move, often infused with terror, and usually sensing something inhuman in the room with them. It could also be indicative of a state called hypnogajah, which is a realm between sleep and wakefulness during which “waking dreams” can occur, or some other sleeping disorder. This is all mostly written off as having a neurological basis, and that it is more or less all in the head of the one experiencing it, but this does little to explain cases in which the witness was awake at the time, and certainly cannot explain accounts in which more than one person have seen the same entity, of which there are a few. One such report comes from a Reddit poster who says his experience happened to him as a child as he was staying at his uncle’s house. This house apparently had a shadowy black figure that was sometimes said to stare out of the closet of the bedroom, something which his friends had seen and which had disturbed them to the point that they refused to stay over. The witness tells of the series of strange events that followed:
My older brother was babysitting my twin brother and I, and we all played hide and seek, my twin and I went hiding, while my older brother seeked. I ran into my uncles room on the right, and into his closet. I sat down on the floor, and I felt a hand on my shoulder. At the time, I thought it was my twin brother, I remember asking “hiding in here too?”, to which there was no reply. Five minutes pass and I felt cold, so I left the closet THINKING my brother was following me. I went upstairs to the living room and both my brothers were sitting on the couch asking where I hid. They couldn’t believe where I told them because they think that the basement in general is creepy.
Fast forward a few nights, and my older brother was babysitting again, only my twin brother went grocery shopping with my mother and uncle at around 7 pm. We were rough housing and wrestling in his room, and we acted like we wrestled “outside of the ring” and into my uncles room which we considered a backstage. Mid-wrestle, the closet door swung open on it’s own like a blast of wind… My brother and I stopped wrestling, and stared in awe. A tall, dark, shadow man walks out of the closet and my brother books it out of the room leaving me behind. The shadow figure walks towards me, and stops in front of me. I proceed to run out of the room and down the hallway, up the stairs and by then, my uncle, mother and twin brother got home as I started crying on the stairs.
Rent went higher, we moved and that was that, or so I was told from my mother. A few years ago, I get around to asking my uncle if his room was creepy in that house. He told me that yes, his closet would open on it’s own in the middle of the night. He told me that a shadow man would sometimes walk out of his closet and would sometimes stand at the foot of his bed. He also told me that this shadow figure wasn’t evil, and that he had a comforting presence, so he didn’t complain much. The shadow figure only came around once every few weeks. My uncle then told me the house’s grim history and the real reason we moved… My uncles closet, had a cubby hole which lead to underneath the house, and conjoined my brother and uncles closets together which made one long closet. A man was murdered in that house in the 70’s and his body was found in that cubby hole. My mother found out, freaked out and moved us, blamed it on “higher rent”. My uncle knew but vowed never to tell us.
There is also the idea that these frightening figures and sensations experienced during sleep paralysis could be not just a misfiring of the brain or hyper realistic dreans, but rather have a more paranormal origin. Matt Cardin, who as we have seen has had his own encounters with these nighttime intruders, speaks about this at length in a great article called Shadow Visitors: Sleep paralysis and Discarnate Dark Ones, which delves deep into sleep paralysis and the paranormal, and includes an interesting part from a book Louis Proud titled Dark Intrusions: An Investigation into the Paranormal Nature of Sleep Paralysis Experiences, of which Cardin says:
A week or so ago I finished reading Louis Proud’s fascinating book ‘Dark Intrusions: An Investigation into the Paranormal Nature of Sleep Paralysis Experiences.’ Published just last year, it argues that sleep paralysis is actually a cousin to spirit mediumship, in that the experience represents an actual visitation by paranormal entities that live constantly among us. Usually we remain in a condition of mutual ignorance — we don’t see these entities, and they don’t see us — but sometimes they become aware of us, and then, if they’re the lower and more craven kind, they latch onto us to feed on our life energy. Sufferers of sleep paralysis thus serve as conduits to the spiritual or daimonic realm in a manner roughly similar to mediums or, in a slightly different context, the teenager that’s typically identified as the focal point for a poltergeist disturbance.
The whole article is rather fascinating and I recommend you read it, but for our purposes here the idea is that these entities are perhaps very real, and are coming between some veil that separates us through the phenomenon of sleep paralysis. It is a pretty weird concept, and it invites speculation on whether they actually cause the sleep paralysis or merely use it as a gateway, as well as the matter of, if these things are real, then what exactly are they and what do they want? If they exist, then some of the theories as to their nature are that they are ghosts or demons, as well as the idea already stated that they are things from some other parallel reality, a different dimension.
As to what they might want, it is impossible to tell, but their generally observing nature suggests that they may be just watchers studying us for inscrutable purposes or even bystanders somehow caught up in the phenomenon themselves, every bit as startled and perplexed as we are. Are these shadow beings lurking out there on the periphery of our reality, peering in at us even as we peer out at them, or the other way around? Or is this really all just the result of hallucinations caused by sleep disorders, trauma, psychological conditions, or sleeplessness? It seems that wherever the answer might lie, it is certainly not something one wants to see looming over them as you sleep.
One of the latest projects to come out of DARPA and the Pentagon’s emerging technologies unit sounds like something straight out of a long-lost Michael Crichton manuscript. According to acall for proposalsissued last week, DARPA wants to explore methods of creating “conscious” robots and technologies using insect brains. Don’t these guys watch or read science fiction? Maybe they’re reading and watching too much science fiction.
The project is being called “Microscale Bio-mimetic Robust Artificial Intelligence Networks”, or μBRAIN (pronounced “microBRAIN”). According to its synopsis, the project seeks to combine the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies with the incredible feats of physiology and cognition performed by insects, some of the smallest members of the animal kingdom:
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is issuing an Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) opportunity inviting submissions of innovative basic research concepts exploring new computational frameworks and strategies drawn from the impressive computational capabilities of very small flying insects for whom evolutionary pressures have forced scale/size/energy reduction without loss of performance.
The proposal states that while AI systems are advancing exponentially, the amount of hardware and software required to create and maintain these systems makes most modern AI systems too large and unwieldy for many uses in the field. A computer smarter than the whole human race combined is great, but if you have to house it in super-cooled hangar in the desert, how could it possibly wreak havoc on other nations’ electrical grid or spy on the CEOs of Chinese telecom firms?
That’s where tiny insects come in. Or maybe tiny cyborg insects reporting back to their shadowy black budget handlers. According to a document in the Pentagon’s proposal, studying the tiny-but-advanced brains of insects could open up new possibilities in form factor and function for AI systems, opening up new avenues for solving problems in tiny packages:
Nature has forced on these small insects drastic miniaturization and energy efficiency, some having only a few hundred neurons in a compact form-factor, while maintaining basic functionality. Furthermore, these organisms are possibly able to display increased subjectivity of experience, which extends simple look-up table responses to potentially AI-relevant problem solving.
Of course, the science fiction fan in me makes me wonder what would happen if we start transplanting insect brains or neural networks into advanced machines. What happens if one gets loose and trained an army of insects to do its bidding? Didn’t these Pentagon spooks see the latest iteration of the Planet of the Apes franchise?
Of course, they’re not talking about taking a honeybee’s brain, dropping it into a tiny drone, opening the window, and pointing it in the direction of an Iranian nuclear facility. Studying neural networks is one thing, creating advanced insect cyborg spies is another. Still, as mathematician Ian Malcom notes, nature finds a way, even when we try to tamper with it – maybe especiallywhen we try to tamper with it. If DARPA and the Pentagon are involved, there are military or intelligence applications here, meaning the stakes are high if something goes awry. Like all things AI, though, we won’t know the end result until it’s too late.
The lateMac Tonnies was someone who researched extensively on Martian supposed anomalies and the planet’s ravaged and scarred landscape – a subject I interviewed Tonnies about on several occasions. Of the more down to earth – but still majorly controversial – theories concerning such alleged anomalies, Tonnies said: “AstronomerTom Van Flandernhas proposed that Mars was once the moon of a tenth planet that literally exploded in the distant past. If so, then the explosion would have had severe effects on Mars, probably rendering it uninhabitable. That’s once rather apocalyptic scenario. Another is that Mars’ atmosphere was destroyed by the impact that produced the immense Hellas Basin. Both ideas are fairly heretical by current standards; mainstream planetary science is much more comfortable with Mars dying a slow, prolonged death. Pyrotechnic collisions simply aren’t intellectually fashionable – despite evidence that such things are much more commonplace than we’d prefer.”
Tonnies’ words brings us to the matter of what has become known as the “D&M Pyramid.” As its name suggests, it’s a somewhat pyramid-shaped feature on the Martian landscape, specifically in an area of Mars called Cydonia. And it’s huge: approximately 1 by 1.6 miles. For those who believe that the so-called anomalies were not made naturally, the pyramid is evidence of two things in particular: (a) the presence of intelligent life on Mars in the past, now likely extinct or possibly living deep underground, in myriad tunnels and fortified caverns; and (b) a connection between the several, alleged pyramids of Mars and those of Egypt. As for the name, it is taken from two computer imaging specialists, Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar, who discovered it, in 1976.
The D&M Pyramid
Rather notably, Mac Tonnies was quite open to the possibility that certain extensive damage done to the pyramid may nothave been due to the likes of an asteroid. He seriously speculated on the possibility of an ancient war having occurred on Mars. Tonnies conceded that far more work needed to be done in this area, if one was to even begin to make a case that came anywhere near solid. Nevertheless, he said: “[The D&M Pyramid] is swollen and cracked, as if once molten. Despite this, no signs of volcanism are apparent. An unknown dark, sooty material has settled into fine-scale fractures, with a thick concentration near what researchers have referred to as a ‘domed uplift,’ thought by some to represent an ancient internal explosion.”
Tonnies also said that of this “domed uplift” that, “early speculation by [Mars researchers] Richard Hoagland and John Brandenburg raised the possibility that the domed uplift…is the result of ‘explosive penetration’” Tonnies posed a notable question to me: “Could the D&M Pyramid have been deliberately destroyed from within by some ancient act of sabotage or act of war.” Tonnies provided a potential answer to his question: “Brandenburg, a plasma physicist and coauthor, with Monica Rix Paxson, of Dead Mars, Dying Earth, estimates that a one-ton kiloton nuclear explosion could account for the damage visibly seen…assuming the deforming event was of an artificial nature.”
And Tonnies wasn’t finished with his theories: “Unlike other formations in Cydonia, the D&M shows evidence of having been melted. The terrain around the apparent fifth buttress is chaotic and spotted with enigmatic dark areas…Additionally, Mark Carlotto has noted that there appears to be a dark material oozing out of the area associated with the domed uplift. This is consistent with an internal explosion.”
Of course, all of this is hugely controversial and something which will cause many to scoff, and maybe with good reason. Maybe, one day, we’ll find evidence that vindicates the theories of Mac Tonnies. On the other hand, perhaps we’ll discover that the Martian anomalies are nothing more than the equivalents of faces in clouds.
Why would someone want to hide files related to nuclear tests unless there was something in those files they didn’t want to go public? That’s the question many are asking after multiple documents related to the nuclear weapons testing conducted by Great Britain in Australia during 1950s and 1960s. There are many claims made that there are parts of the tests the British and Australian government would like to keep a secret. Who took the files, and what are they attempting to hide from the public?
A photograph taken during Operation Buffalo in which four separate warheads were detonated at Maralinga on September 27 1956.
Whatever it is, it’s likely related to radioactive materials left behind by the tests – although with all of the allegations made about the tests, there’s no telling what’s in the files. The British conducted twelve fairly low-yield nuclear tests in the Woomera Prohibited Area in South Australia and on the Montobello Islands in Western Australia between 1956 and 1963. As it turns out, of course, many of the tests also created a particularly nefarious type of radiation known as “black mist” which covered the Maralinga area and drifted towards Australia’s more populated east coast after detonation. Many Australian and British service members died after being exposed to the fallout. There have also been allegations made that human test subjects were flown into the site and never flown back out again, and it has even been claimed that people with severe disabilities were used as human guinea pigs to test the effects of the weapons.
What the Maralinga test site in South Australia looks like today.
Picture: Glenn Hunt
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Maralinga today.
Perhaps worst of all – although testing weapons on disabled people is pretty reprehensible – one of the test sites, Maralinga, was home to the the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal people prior to the tests. They were relocated against their will to make room for the test range, but many of them refused their new settlement and ventured back into the off-limits former test site. Signs warning that the area was a weapons test site were written only in English and could therefore not be read by many of these people, and it has been suspected that some Aboriginal people may have already returned to the site when the test weapons were detonated. In 2017, the Australian government announced that any indigenous Australians suffering from radiation exposure would qualify for upgraded healthcare.
The British nuke tests were kept a secret from most of the Australian people until journalists in the 1970s began uncovering government documents related to the tests. Public scrutiny grew stronger questions arose over the last few decades over how well the the sites were cleaned of any radioactive waste. While the radioactive waste issue is a probable reason why the documents have suddenly vanished, who knows what else could be in them? A spokesperson for the National Archives from where the documents went missing stated only that the archives were “asked to temporarily withdraw these records” and that they have been reclassified to “access under review.” Of course it remains unclear how long the review will take or how many of the documents will be restored to the public.
Aerial image of the Woomera A-bomb site in October, 1953.
Source:News Corp Australia
Why were these files suddenly withdrawn from public access? What is the Australian government hiding?
Skywatcher films strange rectangular shaped sky anomaly
Skywatcher films strange rectangular shaped sky anomaly
While observing the sky with a Bushnell Equinox Z 6x50 mm digital night vision a skywatcher noticed a strange rectangular shaped cloud formation in the night sky over Groenlo, the Netherlands.
The skywatcher wonders whether it could be a chemtrail or something else because there were no other clouds except that one.
Instead of a chemtrail, could it be a cloaked UFO that moves very slowly through the night sky?
While browsing through some Mars photos, I found that this one had a human-like face in it. Its located on the far left of the panoramic photo, close to the end.
Often I hear people say that humans came from Mars long ago. Yeah, that could have happened, since about 20% of the faces I find are human-like. The theory that humanity is the descendants of aliens is plausible and deservers serious consideration.
The icy shell on Jupiter's moon Europa may hide a rocky surface that's too strong to be geologically active.
Credit: NASA/JPL
For more than two decades, scientists have wondered whetherextraterrestrial life may be flourishingdeep below the icy coatings boasted by moons in our outer solar system.
Spacecraft like the Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Cassini mission to Saturn have stumbled on evidence that some of their moons hide global oceans, warmed by the pull of the giant planet they orbit. And oceanic explorers much closer to home have discovered dynamic communities living in darkness around geologic features on the ocean floor. Combine the two and it's easy to be carried away with dreams of alien seafloors teeming with microbes. But new research is looking deeper, into the rock itself, and suggesting that these worlds may be dead inside — not just biologically, but geologically as well.
"We were wondering, what would it look like if you were in a submarine and you were able to fly over the surface of the ocean floor on [Jupiter's moon] Europa," lead author Paul Byrne, a planetary geologist at North Carolina State University told Space.com last month at the annual conference of the American Geophysical Union in Washington. [Photos: Europa, Mysterious Icy Moon of Jupiter]
These are the seafloors where astrobiologists have hoped to find heated, mineral-packed seawater spitting out into the ocean, like hydrothermal ventsand black smokers on Earth. In our oceans, those features support bustling communities centered on microbes ("crawlies," as Byrne calls them) that can feed themselves on chemicals produced where hot rock and seawater continuously mix. If similar structures are found on alien ocean worlds, the prospect of finding life on worlds far from the sun becomes just a little more plausible.
"I was hoping we could characterize what the chain of volcanoes would look like, what the rift zones would look like — and then we were like, 'Well, I don't think they're going to be there,'" Byrne said.
Ganymede, an ocean world orbiting Jupiter, is so large that just its rocky core is still larger than Earth's moon.
Credit: NASA/JPL
Rock solid
To reach that conclusion, the team focused on the rock itself, determining how much force would be necessary to break the rock in two ways we see on Earth: normal faults, which occur when rock is pulled apart, and thrust faults, which occur when rock is pushed together and which require more force to produce. The more force required to break rock, the less geological activity is happening — and that means less of the interactions between fresh rock and alien seawater that could theoretically support life.
Byrne and his colleagues focused on four ocean worlds: Jupiter's moons Europa and Ganymede and Saturn's Enceladus and Titan. For each of these worlds, the team calculated the strength of the rock. While there are plenty of questions we can't yet answer about these worlds, it turns out that rock strength calculations — which are commonly made on Earth for mining operations — are pretty feasible.
Those calculations are based on the thickness of the cold, solid rock layer, which rests on top of a warmer, mushy layer that can't break. An analogy may help. "Think of like a Milky Way bar or a Mars bar, it's where the chocolate and caramel touch," Byrne said. "That depth, you can treat that as the thickness of the brittle, rigid layer." The thicker it is, the harder it is to break.
Then the team added other values, like the body's gravity at a set depth and the weight of water and ice on top of the moon's rocky surface. Even when they included a range of plausible values for unknown inputs, the final calculations were in the same general range for each moon. [Photos: Enceladus, Saturn's Cold, Bright Moon]
Byrne said those initial results, which he was presenting at the conference, suggest that the rock is so strong that there's no force we know of on these moons powerful enough to regularly crack it. That's because of the sheer weight of the water and ice sitting above the rock. "When it actually comes to understanding how strong the rock is, it's pretty strong, and it's pretty strong because even though the gravity's pretty low there's a lot of water on top of it," Byrne said.
Each moon the team studied showed a different calculated rock strength, but the results aren't particularly promising for geological showstoppers or would-be alien life. "For Europa, it seems really, really hard to make any fractures or faults, and then once you look at Titan and Ganymede, these numbers are stupid high, really, nothing's happening at all on those worlds," Byrne said.
Enceladus' rock strength numbers aren't as grim, since this moon is much smaller than the other three, which reduces the weight of the water and ice above its rocky surface. The picture also looks a little different at Enceladus because its rocky core is more porous. If those pores happen to line up, they could carry water deep into the moon. "It's within the realms of plausibility that Enceladus might actually be wet and soggy all the way through," Byrne said.
And unlike for the other moons, scientists do have evidence suggesting that rock and water are interacting at Enceladus, thanks to Cassini's flight through seawater plumes shooting through the icy crust and into space, which identified organic compounds. "That's quite encouraging," Byrne said. "It's hard to explain that it's not rock and water touching."
Saturn's Enceladus is the only moon the team looked at where they think interactions between rock and water could realistically fuel life.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Billiard ball worlds
If the rock at all these seafloors is too strong to be broken regularly, Byrne said, it's difficult to imagine much could be happening down there. On Earth, two major factors shaping the seafloor are soil washing off the continents and the bodies of sea creatures sinking to decay, and neither seems likely on these ocean worlds. Spacecraft haven't seen scars left behind by any impacts that seem large enough to plausibly make a recent dent on the seafloor. And based on his calculations, the rock is too strong to allow the moons to shrink like the planet Mercury or to sport volcanic chains or rift zones.
All that means the submarine ride suddenly looks awfully boring. "Basically, it becomes a list of things there won't be," Byrne said. "It'll look like a billiard ball, it'll be a weird smooth planet. It'll be a new type of rocky world in our solar system." [Photos of Ganymede, Jupiter's Largest Moon]
He emphasized that these aren't final results. The team is still seeing how other scientists respond to the calculations, and the research isn't published yet. And it will likely be decades before scientists could gather the data they might need to really test the idea — which would require seismometers on these alien seafloors. Humans are just now beginning to get their first good seismometer data from another planet, thanks to the InSight lander on Mars.
Byrne is philosophical about his team's calculations and how dramatically they seem to undermine what scientists have expected of these worlds. "If we're wrong, fine, that's how science works, that's grand, we'll take it, we'll be happy about it," he said.
In fact, he said he's a little sad about his own team's findings. "It would be great if we found interesting stuff, because these worlds are cool and maybe there's life there," Byrne said. "But if we're right, it means we do need to reconsider these worlds as habitable destinations or destinations for exploring habitability."
This is an official NASA image returned by the Curiosity rover taken on the surface of Mars, it captures what can only be described as the work of intelligent hands as blocks of masonery and ornate stonework appear to be detailed in the frames of the rovers cameras, but there are no known intelligences on Mars and isnt that at least what we are told?.
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Australia Made An Amazing Discovery How To Safe Water From Plastic Pollution
Australia Made An Amazing Discovery How To Safe Water From Plastic Pollution
The Australian city of Kwinana has done something during this past summer that many countries have been attempting to do for years.
They installed a new simple, but unbelievably effective, filtration system in the Henley Reserve to help prevent plastic from polluting our oceans. Everyone including thegovernmentas well as the citizens have seen first hand the benefits that it can offer.
What is it?
The pipes that were first used in the initial experiments are pipes that drain water from residential areas to natural areas. More often than not the trash and litter from these places can come in large quantities and be harmful to the environment. Furthermore, this garbage is usually washed away by heavy rain which managed to pull it all down to the drainage systems.
The idea started when the authorities installed two nets and then when they saw the results, they were amazed. The new infiltration system managed to catch more than 800 pounds of litter in only a number of weeks.
Is this the future of trash collection?
Although the monetary cost of these nets is quite large - about $10,000 each, the overall system is still quite profitable as it will save significant amounts money in the long run. Therefore, it has been decided that these trash nets will be installed all over the city with the aim to minimize the pollution to the environment and wildlife in the area.
When they get full, the nets can simply be picked up and emptied into special trucks. After that they are taken to a sorting centre where they are separated into items that be recycled and items that cannot. They are then disposed of in their respective manners.
I personally think this is a great idea that has been fabulously executed. This new idea proves that small changes can have huge impacts.
As the population continues to grow and the amount of trash we produce inevitably increases too, could this be the solve the world's pollution problem? Only time will tell…
Conspiracy theorists all around the world have often alleged that NASA, the United States space agency is well aware ofalien existence, and are intentionally covering it up for unknown motives. The claims made by these conspiracy theorists gained trust from the general public last year when Pentagon confirmed its secret UFO search program named AATIP (Advanced Areal Threat Identification Program).
As theories surrounding extraterrestrial life continue to gain popularity, Michelle Thaller, the Assistant Director of NASA has revealed that the space agency knows nothing more about alien life than what it has shared with the public. She also added that the existence of alien life could never be covered up, and made it clear that there is no threat to the earth from deep space.
"The day you see all the NASA scientists max out their credit cards and disappear, that is when you should worry. We are just people and if we knew something, there is no way to hide it. Whenever we find something that is even slightly interesting we go to the government and the press about it – we have nothing to hide," Thaller told Big Think.
Thaller, during her talk also opened up about the public's perception regarding a possible NASA alien coverup.
"This is something that is really difficult, people think we are hiding aliens, but that shows the gap between scientists and the public. We are now trying to involve the public in more than we do. I know this won't convince conspiracy theorists, but one of the things I love most about our science is how accessible it is," added Thaller.
The comments from Thaller came just a few days after Scott C Waring, a popular extraterrestrial researcher and conspiracy theorist spotted an apparently human-shaped structure on the surface of Mars. After making this discovery, Scott C Waring argued that this structure could be actually an alien fossil. Waring also urged NASA scientists to take a close look at the mysterious Martian structures to unveil these mysteries.
Als dit waar blijkt te zijn, is dit één van de grootste ontdekkingen in de menselijke geschiedenis
Als dit waar blijkt te zijn, is dit één van de grootste ontdekkingen in de menselijke geschiedenis
Het hoofd van de faculteit sterrenkunde van de Harvard-universiteit zegt wat anderen niet durven te zeggen over een eigenaardig object dat ons zonnestelsel is binnengekomen, schrijft Haaretz.
“Het maakt me niet uit wat mensen zeggen,” aldus Avi Loeb, de auteur van één van de meest controversiële (en populaire) wetenschappelijke artikelen die vorig jaar zijn gepubliceerd.
“Ik zeg wat ik denk,” zei Loeb. “Wetenschap is niet zoals de politiek en is niet gebaseerd op peilingen.”
Terughoudend
Afgelopen oktober publiceerden de professor en zijn student Shmuel Bialy een artikel in het wetenschappelijke blad The Astrophysical Journal Letters, waaruit blijkt dat ze serieus rekening houden met de mogelijkheid dat een intelligent buitenaards ras een ruimteschip naar de aarde heeft gestuurd.
Het ruimteschip heet Oumuamua, de eerste interstellaire bezoeker in ons zonnestelsel.
“Andere vooraanstaande wetenschappers hebben gezegd dat ze dit object vreemd vonden, maar reageerden in het openbaar terughoudend,” zei Loeb.
“Ik begrijp dat niet,” vervolgde hij. “Wetenschappers moeten de vrijheid hebben om risico’s te nemen zonder te vrezen voor hun baan.”
Imago
“Jammer genoeg denken de meeste wetenschappers alleen maar aan hun imago,” klonk het.
Loeb: “Als dit waar blijkt te zijn, is dit één van de grootste ontdekkingen in de menselijke geschiedenis.”
In eerste instantie werd gedacht dat Oumuamua een komeet was, maar er was geen komeetstaart zichtbaar.
Kometen bestaan uit ijs, dat verdampt op het moment dat een komeet de zon nadert. Rond Oumuamua werd echter geen spoor van gas of stof waargenomen.
Factor 10
Toen werd gedacht dat het een asteroïde was, maar het object roteerde acht uur lang rond zijn as terwijl de helderheid varieerde met een factor 10.
De helderheid van asteroïden varieert doorgaans hooguit met een factor drie.
Op basis van de lichtreflectie is vastgesteld dat het object de vorm van een sigaar of een pannenkoek moet hebben.
Wetenschappers beweerden verder dat Oumuamua de oversteek heeft gemaakt van de ster Vega naar ons zonnestelsel, maar ook dat is volgens Loeb onjuist.
Grootste verrassing
De grootste verrassing kwam eind juni, toen uit gegevens van de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop bleek dat het mysterieuze object tijdens zijn bezoek aan het binnenste deel van het zonnestelsel plotseling versnelde.
Deze versnelling kon niet worden verklaard door de aantrekkingskracht van de zon.
De enige verklaring die Loeb kon bedenken was dat het object een duw had gekregen als gevolg van de stralingsdruk van de zon.
Dat zou betekenen dat het object – net als een lichtzeil – stuwkracht opwekt met hulp van de zon.
Arrogant
Het gebruikt geen brandstof, maar wordt aangedreven door licht te reflecteren.
Loeb hoopt met zijn artikelen de aandacht te trekken van astronomen zodat zij hun beste telescopen gebruiken om alvast naar het volgende object te speuren.
Met onze huidige technologie is het namelijk niet mogelijk om achter Oumuamua aan te gaan.
“Iedereen die claimt dat we uniek en speciaal zijn is arrogant,” zei Loeb. “We weten nu dat er meer planeten zoals de onze zijn dan zandkorrels langs alle kusten op aarde.”
Imagine living on a 285-acre lake, fishing off the dock and taking your boat out on weekends.
One day, you notice the water level is a little lower. A few days later, the water no longer reaches the dock. Within two weeks, the lake is completely drained and your boat rests on mud flats alongside rotting fish.
It may seem unlikely, but that’s exactly what happened in Lakeland, Florida, in 2006 when a sinkhole drained Scott Lake, taking 32 tons of aquatic wildlife with it.
The water was there…until it simply wasn’t.
While the cause of Scott Lake’s vanishing water was easy enough to pinpoint, that hasn’t always been the case when large amounts of water have mysteriously disappeared.
From the wilds of Minnesota to the land Down Under, there have been numerous bizarre incidents of disappearing water.
Sometimes scientists are able to figure out what happened to the missing H2O, other times they can only guess. And in some cases, they’re truly stumped.
1. Lake Cerknica, Slovenia
Lake Cerknica is one of the largest intermittent lakes in Europe.
(Photo: Foto Matevz Lavric/Shutterstock)
For eight months out of the year, Lake Cerknica in Slovenia is flowing with water across nearly 8 square miles — making it the largest lake in the country.
However during the summer when rainfall is low, the lake's water drains into reservoirs and vegetation quickly grows in the lake bed. When summer ends, the surrounding higher reservoirs fill and release water back through subterranean passageways.
Sometimes though the lake can stay filled for years or remain dry for up to a year like it did from 1834-1835.
2. Lost Lake, Oregon
Every winter, a lake appears in Hood County, Oregon, but as the season changes, water drains through a 6-foot wide hole, transforming Lost Lake into a dry meadow.
There’s a geological explanation for the bizarre annual occurrence though: The water that drains from the lake like a bathtub flows into a lava tube, a tunnel-like structure formed by flowing lava.
Lost Lake is likely constantly draining, but it becomes more evident in drier months when the rate of draining exceeds the the amount of snow and rain.
It’s unclear exactly where the water goes when it disappears down the lave tube, but scientist say it’s possible that it seeps into porous volcanic rock and feeds springs in the Cascades.
3. Lake Cachet II, Chile
Water from Lake Cachet II can disappear overnight.
(Photo: STR/Getty Images)
In June 2007 a glacial lake in the Andes disappeared overnight, and geologists rushed to Patagonia, Chile, to figure out what had happened.
They hypothesized that an earthquake in a neighboring region had created a crack in the earth, draining the lake, but later learned a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) was to blame.
A GLOF occurs when water dammed by a glacier is released, and in the case of Lake Cachet II, the melting of Colonia Glacier had increased water pressure, allowing a tunnel five miles beneath it to open, draining the lake.
Since then, Lake Cachet II has refilled and disappeared several times.
4. Greenland
It took just 90 minutes for water ti completely drain from two lakes.
(Photo: Michael Studinger/NASA)
in 2015, billions of gallons of water in two subglacial lakes in Greenland disappeared, and scientists aren’t exactly sure why, although GLOFs may also be the cause.
"The fact that our lake appears to have been stable for at least several decades, and then drained in a matter of weeks — or less — after a few very hot summers, may signal a fundamental change happening in the ice sheet," said Ian Howat, an Ohio State University earth science professor.
5. Devil’s Kettle Falls, Minnesota
Devil's Kettle Falls is an optical illusion that still baffles scientists.
(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
A waterfall in Judge C. R. Magney State Park has been puzzling scientists for decades.
At Devil's Kettle Falls, the Brule River forks at a rock outcropping, and the eastern side of the falls tumbles into the water below while the western side disappears into a large pothole.
Scientists suspect the water in the pothole rejoins the river or has a separate outlet into Lake Superior, but they’ve been unable to prove this.
Researchers and other curious people have dropped colored dyes, ping pong balls and other objects into the hole and searched for signs of them, but so far, none have been found.
6. Lake Beloye, Russia
Lake Beloye covers more than 5,000 square miles.
(Photo: Ivan Stupa/Shutterstock)
In spring 2005, a lake near the village of Bolotnikovo disappeared overnight. Nearly a year later, the remaining cavity began to fill up with water, but quickly drained again.
This wasn’t the first time strange happenings occurred at the lake. In 1935, several houses vanished where the lake later stood, and in 1600, a church sank into the ground over the course of a day.
Scientists say the area’s karst topography creates landforms like tunnels and caves that can easily erode. However, many villagers have blamed the lake’s disappearance on extraterrestrial interference, claiming that reddish light resembling a searchlight often originates from the area where Lake Beloye once existed.
7. Lake George, Australia
Lake George is estimated to be a million years old.
(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Not far from the Australian capital of Canberra there’s a lake that’s been known to disappear entirely.
The lake is actually an endorheic basin, meaning it retains water but has no outflow of water to rivers and oceans. It’s fed by small creeks and fills up from rain, and it’s known for being nearly as salty as seawater.
Several times throughout history, the lake has dried out completely, typically during droughts, and Lake George’s unusual fluctuations have led to stories that the body of water is mysteriously connected to lakes in Peru and South Africa.
When the lake exists, it’s often used as a fishery, and when the water vanishes, farmers use the land to graze sheep and cattle.
8. Lake Waiau, Hawaii
Lake Waiau is located on Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano.
(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
This small lake is one of the highest in the United States, and according to Hawaiianmyth, it’s a bottomless portal to the spirit world.
However, in 2010, Lake Waiau began to shrink, and by 2013 it was reduced to no more than a puddle.
While scientists suspect drought is the cause of the lake’s decline, the exact cause of the severe water loss is unknown.
Editor's note:This article has been updated since it was originally published in May 2015.
MYSTERIOUS OBJECT FALLS FROM SKY, DRAINS 100-YEAR-OLD POND
MYSTERIOUS OBJECT FALLS FROM SKY, DRAINS 100-YEAR-OLD POND
A woman living in a rural Tennessee town claims she saw something fall from the sky into a pond in her backyard, finding the pond was suddenly drained of its water. That resident, Patsy Wright, dismissed the idea that the drainage might be due to a sinkhole, as she says she saw something coming from the sky into the water, creating large waves, before the pond disappeared entirely.
Wright reported the story to her local Nashville NBC affiliate, which ran a report that included drone footage of the depleted pond she says had been there for over a century.
“When I seen them waves go up like it did (sic) and then they come back down. And I heard the splash. I mean it was a big splash,” Wright said. “I walked down here with my dog and sure as the world, no water. It was gone.”
According to reports, it was difficult to tell what the object was, due to the depth of the hole. It’s also unclear what happened to the water, though it’s assumed it was absorbed into the water table below, after the pond was struck.
“I know something hit it, because I heard it. I thought, I’m not imagining nothing. It’s there.”
Some online were quick to connect the drainage of Wright’s pond with a similar account from the CIA-employed remote viewer Ingo Swann, who in his autobiography recounts being taken to see a triangular UFO, which subsequently drained a lake of its water.
His account describes being flown to an undisclosed location in the north (possibly Alaska or northern Canada) where he says, “That was my last sight of the triangular thing, but in that last moment I could see the water of the lake surging upward – like a waterfall going upward, as if being sucked in to the “machine!”
This might seem farfetched, however there have been other bizarre accounts of lakes, ponds, and other small bodies of water experiencing sudden drainage unable to be explained by geologists or other professionals. An instance like this occurred on a farm in Utah in 2014, where a bizarre crater appeared in a reservoir.
Experts from the Utah Geological Survey were unable to explain the phenomenon.
Often unexpected holes like these are attributed to sinkholes – a sudden collapse of the ground caused by the erosion of underlying rock layers typically consisting of limestone. It’s unclear whether a sinkhole could have been the culprit in the latest incident, but if Wright actually witnessed and heard something fall from the sky, a sinkhole could be easily ruled out.
Mysterieus object valt uit de lucht en legt 100 jaar oude vijver droog. Wat was het?
Mysterieus object valt uit de lucht en legt 100 jaar oude vijver droog. Wat was het?
Een vrouw uit de Amerikaanse staat Tennessee beweert dat ze iets vanuit de lucht in de vijver in haar achtertuin heeft zien vallen. De vijver kwam van het ene op het andere moment droog te staan.
De vrouw, Patsy Wright, zei dat het water niet is verdwenen in een zinkgat, aangezien ze iets vanuit de lucht in het water zag vallen wat grote golven veroorzaakte.
Uiteindelijk verdween de hele vijver.
Onduidelijk
De lokale zender WSMV toonde dronebeelden van de droogstaande vijver die volgens Wright al ruim een eeuw bestaat.
Nadat het object in de vijver terecht was gekomen, liep ze er met haar hond naartoe. “Er was geen water meer, het was weg,” zei ze.
Volgens de lokale media is het moeilijk om vast te stellen wat het object is geweest, aangezien het gat erg diep is. Het is ook onduidelijk wat er met het water is gebeurd.
Bizarre krater
“Ik weet dat de vijver door iets is geraakt,” zei de vrouw. “Ik heb het gehoord. Ik heb het me niet ingebeeld.”
Op internet werd een parallel getrokken met CIA-remote viewer Ingo Swann, die in zijn autobiografie verhaalt over een driehoekige UFO die al het water uit een meer opzoog.
Martiaanse kunst
In 2014 verscheen op een boerderij in de staat Utah een bizarre krater in een waterreservoir.
Toen de boer werd geïnterviewd over het vreemde gat zei hij: “Het zal wel Martiaanse kunst zijn!”
Experts van de Utah Geological Survey hadden geen verklaring voor het fenomeen.
Over the last few days I have been asked for my views on the History Channel’s new show, Project Blue Book. I wason vacation up until last week, so I only watched the opening episode yesterday. Finally, I’m now catching up on things. So, here goes: In an article titled“Where in the hell is the outrage?”Rich Reynolds says of Project Blue Book: “The show was a disservice to J. Allen Hynek, his wife, Captain Ruppelt, and Lt. Gorman whose Fargo ‘dogfight’ with a UFO is one of the classic and intriguing cases in the UFO literature. That UFO enthusiasts are so desperate for something in their interested field they accept such idiocy is more than discouraging; it’s madness. The defaming History Channel effort should be condemned outright and loudly. It is, as I’ve already noted, a travesty of UFO history and a joke. To let it stand as representative of what Blue Book was and did and how J. Allen Hynek, a moderate and reserved academic was, is shameful.”
Then, there is this from Kevin Randle: “Back in the 1970s, Jack Webb of Dragnet fame created something he called Project UFO. It was based on the files of Project Blue Book and it was difficult to recognize the cases presented. The attitude of the program, if I remember it correctly, was to examine a case that might have been inexplicable and find a rational and reasonable answer before the hour expired. Although I was excited about the show, I was quickly disappointed in the final product. It reeked somewhat, again if I remember correctly, of a debunking operation.”
Kevin continues: “This new incarnation, given the snappy tile of Project Blue Book, seems to be at the other end of the spectrum. It suggests a grand conspiracy that involves what most of us believe is the mythical MJ-12, Air Force officers who will go to about any length to prove a case has a terrestrial explanation and a hint of the Men in Black. In other words, it is filled with the paranoia of the UFO field and has very little to do with the reality of the situation as it was then or as it is now.”
And there are these words from Micah Hanks: “…as far as being an entertaining television program goes, we give it two thumbs up. So in conclusion, Project Blue Book may be one of the better UFO-themed productions to come out in recent years, and though it may not become renowned for its historical accuracy, it nonetheless presents some fun and entertaining food for thought on a subject that has remained both perplexing, and controversial, for many decades.”
As for me? Well, here’s my take on it all: if the show was specifically presented as pure fiction and used real people in a wholly fictional format (such as the 1990s series Dark Skies, which had actors playing such figures as JFK, RFK, and Dorothy Kilgallen – all of who have been tied to UFOs by certain elements of Ufology), viewers would at least know what they are getting: namely, fiction and absolutely nothing else, like it or like it not. But, that’s not the case with Project Blue Book. This new show blurs the lines to a point where many may not realize what amounts to fact and what amounts to fiction. For example, the show begins with the following words: “This series is inspired by Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s investigations for the U.S. Air Force into the existence of UFOs. The cases depicted are based on real events.”
Well, that is true. But, it’s these words we need to focus on: “inspired” and “based on.” Episode 1, “The Fuller Dogfight,” relates a classic case that dates back 71 years. As Wikipedia notes: “The Gorman UFO dogfight was a widely publicized UFO incident. It occurred on October 1, 1948, in the skies over Fargo, North Dakota, and involved George F. Gorman, a pilot with the North Dakota Air National Guard. USAF Captain Edward J. Ruppelt wrote in his bestselling and influential The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects that the Gorman Dogfight was one of three ‘classic’ UFO incidents in 1948 that ‘proved to [Air Force] intelligence specialists that UFOs were real.‘However, in 1949 the US Air Force labeled the Gorman Dogfight as being caused by a lighted weather balloon.”
In the show, Gorman is portrayed as being so traumatized that he is hit with a chemical cocktail that wipes out his memory. As Kevin Randle puts it (see the same link to Kevin’s article above),” Gorman is “…suffering from an acute case of PTSD and eventually ends up in the psycho ward before being given a shot and dragged off.”
The fact is that none of that happened – in the real world. What the Air Force actually said of the affair is that Gorman “…did not make the impression of being a dreamer. He reads little, and only serious literature. He spends 90 percent of his time hunting and fishing; drinks less than moderately; smokes normally; and does not do drugs. He appears to be a sincere and serious individual who was considerably puzzled by his experience and made no attempt to blow his story up.” That assessment is at significant odds with what we see in Project Blue Book.
Gorman was a man who fought for his country in the Second World War. In the post-war era he was a Second Lieutenant in the North Dakota National Guard. I don’t know if Gorman has any surviving relatives (he and his wife did have a child), but I wonder what they would think of the way in which he is portrayed in Project Blue Book. Also in the show, J. Allen Hynek has an encounter with a Man in Black (albeit very briefly). For those who are wondering which other parts of the show are “inspired,” you may like to know that Hynek never had such an encounter.
I was hugely unimpressed and the show did a disservice to the real George Gorman, a decorated, WW2 pilot. The one saving grace: the prospect of what looks to be a bit of hot girl on girl action on the horizon, which probably didn’t happen either.
On the evening of September 13, 1990, something unusual appeared in the skies above Mojave, California. Most observers described it as a large, delta-shaped aircraft, which produced a low, rumbling sound as it moved across the nighttime sky.
The mystery aircraft appeared to be accompanied by an F-16 and one other plane, apparently “chase” planes assisting or gathering observational data in relation to the larger aircraft. This would not be the only appearance made by this “mystery aircraft”; a similar display appeared in the skies over Mojave again on October 3 that same year, then again in April of the following year. During the Spring 1991 incident, an observer was able to identify an F-16 accompanying it in the “chase” position, as was seen during its initial appearance earlier in September. The larger aircraft, which appeared to be white or some lighter color, was said to “dwarf” the chasing F-16.
Sometime later, the monolithic “mystery plane” began to make appearances over the Southeast. One such sighting was reported in the early 1990s by CNN writer Glenn Emery, who observed the aircraft near Atlanta, Georgia, at an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 ft altitude (Emery said this was difficult to judge, since the size of the aircraft was unknown, but that the plane he witnessed was “clearly higher and faster” than conventional traffic elsewhere in the sky, which were on their descent into Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport).
Reports would continue, though seldom in occurrence, with some comparing the mystery aircraft to the XB-70, a late 1950s supersonic prototype aircraft designed by North American Aviation, for use in bombing missions by the USAF Strategic Air Command.
The Federation of American Scientists, commenting on sightings of this “mystery plane,” noted that the aircraft’s wingspan would have been roughly equivalent to that of a B-2 bomber, but with a shape that was different enough to be discerned even at night:
Some observers also claim that another larger and more agile aircraft has been cruising the California desert. This aircraft reportedly has a wingspan close to 150 feet. While this dimension is roughly equivalent to that of the B-2 bomber, observers insist that they can distinguish it from the B-2 at night. Unlike the B-2 and the aircraft flying in F- 117A formation, this vehicle appeared highly maneuverable. One is said to have turned 90 degrees on its wingtip.
The B-2 photographed in 1989 during an early public flight.
With time, this large aircraft had picked up a nickname in aviation and defense reporting circles: many had begun calling it the “mothership.”
Based on sightings of the aircraft, mostly reported in Aviation Week and Space Technology, the so-called “mothership” was believed to have been part of a two-vehicle system, with the large craft being observed during the early 1990s being a carrier plane for an orbital component—that is, a smaller spaceplane fitted under the primary craft—which was flown to sub-orbital altitude before being released. The system became known in “secret” circles as the SR3 Blackstar, with its accompanying orbital spaceplane dubbed XOV or “Speedy.”
Speculation about the Blackstar system continued for a number of years in aviation circles. Then in the early 200s, news began to circulate that the Blackstar program might have been shelved, prompting Aviation Week editor William B. Scott to write a lengthy three-part series detailing all that was known about the suspected project at that time.
“Exactly what missions the Blackstar system may have been designed for and built to accomplish are as yet unconfirmed,” Scott wrote in 2006, “but U.S. Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) officers and contractors have been toying with similar spaceplane-operational concepts for years. Besides reconnaissance, they call for inserting small satellites into orbit, and either retrieving or servicing other spacecraft. Conceivably, such a vehicle could serve as an anti-satellite or space-to-ground weapons-delivery platform, as well.”
Scott’s articles received a mixed reception from aviation experts, with some expressing critical views about the legitimacy of Aviation Week’s reporting on the hypothetical Blackstar. Others were critical of the critics, including Steve Douglass, an aerospace writer and photojournalist who argued that many of the attacks seemed to have been based on an incomplete reading of Scott’s original series of articles:
“Negative comments centered mostly on the belief that it would be almost impossible to develop such a complicated, expensive and sophisticated system without the American public being aware, but those type of comments came from posters who did not read the entire article with Bill Scott’s excellent research on how the project was specifically structured to isolate it from the military (promoting “plausible deniability”) with it being overseen by private sector contractors much like how the United Space Alliance now manages huge parts of NASA’s manned space flight program.”
“Those who scoff at the report,” Douglass went on to argue, “saying it is too dangerous and difficult to launch a simple space-plane system into space, forget the private-sector has already accomplished just that and without the billion-dollar backing of any government,” citing the aforementioned XB-70, along with the USAF’s Dyna Soar spaceplane project, as examples.
The buzz that the “Blackstar” program created back in the early 2000s led to further interest among many commentators who had been searching for evidence of other hush-hush aerospace projects, among them the mythical “Project Aurora,” a hypothetical reconnaissance plane and successor to the SR-71 Blackbird.
Artist’s conception of Project Aurora based on eyewitness reports from the early 1990s
(Wikimedia Commons).
Lawrence Harris, an aerospace and security analyst with the Chicago-based Kemper Securities Group was quoted on July 17, 1992 in Aerospace Daily saying that “Circumstantial evidence suggests that this project has been underway since 1987 and that a first flight occurred in 1989… Aurora could be operational in 1995, six years after the probable first flight.”
However, in the world of black projects and secretive aircraft, seeing is believing, even if the projects in question involve stealth technologies that aren’t meant to be seen. I recall having a discussion about projects like these a number of years ago with a colleague of James Oberg at a conference we both attended, where I proposed that a number of sightings of unexplained aircraft from over the last few decades could be evidence for programs the likes of Blackstar. My friend seemed to think this was unlikely, however, saying that such programs “would have been declassified by now.”
Apparently, Steven Douglass has encountered this argument in the past, as well. In a post at his Deep Blue Horizon blog that accompanied a copy of his original article on the Blackstar program, he discussed the way many dismiss the possible existence of craft like Aurora or Blackstar (which may have been one and the same, as Douglass has argued), along with other rumored aircraft the likes of the TR-3A “Black Manta.”
“Many Internet pundits,” Douglass wrote, “have said, ‘Okay –where’s Aurora. Where’s the F-19? Where’s the TR-3A?’ ”
Douglass thinks it’s unlikely that all such secret aircraft would become public knowledge after only a few decades, as many critics claim:
“It is quite likely that the [Secret Aerospace Projects] that [William Scott] and I wrote about are still classified above Top Secret and may not be acknowledged for another fifty years or so – not just because the technology is sensitive but the various purposes and missions these classified aircraft flew are sensitive as well as are still-classified missions flown by the f-117, SR-71 and U-2.”
The fact that these hypothetical aircraft have captured the interest of aerospace professionals over the years is not proof in itself that they existed (or might still exist). It does, however, suggest that such ideas are not pure speculation, nor are they crazy. Even if the majority of cases like these were proven unreliable, it would seem that there would have to be at least a few secret aerospace projects that do exist, and which are seen by people–both in the civilian and military sectors–from time to time. The eyewitness reports must account for something, after all… whether any official details will be forthcoming any time soon is another story.
In 1816, something very strange and ominous occurred across the planet: temperatures dropped by around 1.3 °F. That may not sound like a lot, but it was enough to cause significant problems which bordered upon catastrophic, and particularly so across much of the Earth’s northern hemisphere, which is defined as anywhere and everywhere north of the equator. It was a situation which had its origins as far back as the 1300s. That’s when the Earth was subjected to what has become known as the Little Ice Age. While certainly nowhere on the scale of previous ice ages, it still proved to be calamitous for the people who were forced to endure it.
The Little Ice Age – a term created by a Dutch geologist named François Émile Matthes (1874-1948) – was a period of more than a few centuries which resulted in noticeable fluctuations of temperature, which, having begun in the 14th century, extended to midway through the 19th century. Much of North America was affected, as was Europe, to the extent that from the commencement of the 15th century to the 18th century, London, England’s famous River Thames froze solid on no less than two dozen occasions. In 1683, the huge river was frozen for no less a period than an incredible two months. Norway, Holland, and Iceland were particularly hit hard, too. But, what was it that provoked such disastrous, cold temperatures, ones which led to famine and death on a large scale? The U.S. Government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) offers the following:
“…climate data obtained from trees, ice cores, marine sediment and historical documents indicate 1816 was part of a mini ice age that lasted from 1400 to around 1860. During this time lower solar output produced harsh winters, shorter growing seasons and drier climates which were blamed for a host of human suffering and crop failures such as the Irish Potato Famine.”
But, other things were afoot, too, as NOAA make very clear: “Another possible cause was the eruption of the Tambora volcano on the island of Soembawa in Indonesia on April 15th 1815. The eruption lasted one week and rumbled for 3 months. The mountain elevation dropped from 14,000 feet to 9000 feet, killed close to 10,000 people on the island and another 80,000 people would eventually die from starvation and diseases related to the eruption. Tambora was one of the largest recorded eruptions with estimates of 1.7 million tons of dust put into the air equaling 6 million atomic bombs. The theory is that the dust reached the Northern Hemisphere during 1816 reducing solar output.”
Science and history have both demonstrated that Ice Ages have certainly occurred – and up to recent times, too, as the story of the Little Ice Age demonstrates. Theories abound, however, with regard to what, exactly causes them. Massive volcanic eruptions, strikes by huge meteorites and comets, and changes in the levels of methane and carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere, have all been offered up as potential candidates. What we do know for sure, however, is that over the course of the last one million years alone, there has been more than a handful of glacial events, specifically in the northern hemisphere, and of varying degrees of harshness.
Around 650,000 years ago the Earth was engulfed by massive amounts of ice, with gigantic sheets extending from what is, today, the American Midwest to central Europe. It was a turbulent time for the planet and for the early, primitive humans and wild animals that lived in that era. And it was a long spell of time, too: the glacial period lasted for around 50,000 years. Successive ice ages occurred, of varying lengths and frequency, with the most recent true Ice Age having reached its end around 11,500 years ago, but having reached its peak roughly about 18,000 to 16,000 years ago. And it wasn’t just the colder, northern parts of what are today Europe, Russia, and North America that were badly affected. Evidence exists to show that New Zealand suffered too, as did portions of South America, including the Andes of Chile.
As staff at the San Diego-based University of California – a focal point for research into Ice Age history and development – note: “The reasons for these large swings in climate change are not yet well understood” We would do well to remember that. Maybe even prepare for such events. Anyone who thinks climate change is nonsense is speaking nonsense themselves.
As far as modern science has come, there are still many natural phenomena that scientists struggle to understand or explain. For years, scientists have studied the Earth’s magnetic field in an attempt to better understand the powerful forces which shape many of the geological and even biological processes which occur on spaceship Earth, and those studies have revealed thatthe geomagnetic field is weakening and displaying anomalous behaviorthat can’t yet be explained. We know that the magnetic poles shift periodically, and there are signs that they may shiftsooner than we thought. The scariest part of all this is that we have no idea what effects such a shift would have on the world around us.
Earth‘s magnetic field protects us from various forms of solar and cosmic radiation.
The latest in geomagnetic fear-mongering comes from a report published in Nature this week which basically lays out the case that we have no idea what’s going on with the planet’s magnetic field. Every five years, an international panel of geologists and physicists publish what’s known as the World Magnetic Model, a kind of descriptive map of the Earth’s magnetic field. The map is an integral part of modern navigation and telecommunications systems, but according to Arnaud Chulliat, a geomagnetist at the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “the error is increasing all the time.” The current map, despite being only a few years old, is already out of date.
That’s because rapidly wandering magnetic poles and unexplained magnetic anomalies are making it more difficult to map the Earth’s magnetic field. The north magnetic pole is moving at a rate of 55 kilometers per year and is currently squarely in the Eastern Hemisphere heading towards Siberia, and that high rate of movement is forcing geomagnetists to revise the World Magnetic Model much sooner than normal. Ultimately, the effects of such a rapid shift remain unknown.
Geomagnetic anomalies have even been proposed as possible causes for recent mass animal deaths.
Already, the effects of these magnetic anomalies are being felt around the world. Mass unexplained animal deaths and beachings are happening with terrifying frequency, and some top scientific agencies believe geomagnetic anomalies could be the cause. What’s going to happen when the poles shift?
Within the domain of science-fiction, the death ray is a device that has been put to extremely good use. H.G. Wells’ classic novel of 1898 The War of the Worlds, is a perfect example. In Wells’ story, hostile ETs from Mars unleash upon a terrified human race what is referred to as a heat ray. Plasma-guns appear in the 1986 movie, Aliens. A death-ray-like device was unveiled in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. And, Babylon 5 had its very own equivalent. All of these fictional situations and stories involve death-ray-style weapons and aliens. But, what of the real world? Certainly, there is no shortage of stories suggesting that death-ray technology has been developed. Quite possibly, even decades ago.
A press-release dated June 6, 1934 offers the following: “A death ray machine was conspicuously absent today from the exhibition room of the National Inventors Congress, presumably at the request of the Federal Government. Its death-dealing potentialities were described to the congress last night by President A.G. Burns of Oakland, California. The machine, an invention of Dr. Antonio Longoria of Cleveland, resembles a motion picture projector, Burns said.”
And there was more to come from Burns: “I witnessed a demonstration of the machine in Cleveland last October. Several Government scientists were there. Dr. Longoria turned the ray on rabbits, dogs and cats. They fell over, instantly killed, their blood turned to water. The same thing happened to pigeons. They fluttered to the ground and were dead when picked up. Because of the ray’s death-dealing possibilities, Burns said that Dr. Longoria readily agreed with Government scientists that the machine will be suppressed” (Ibid.).
In September 1940, the New York Times ran an article titled “Death Ray for Planes.” In part, it stated: “Nikola Tesla, one of the truly great inventors who celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday on July, 10 tells the writer that he stands ready to divulge to the United States government the secret of his ‘teleforce,’ of which he said, airplane motors would be melted at a distance of 250 miles, so that an invisible ‘Chinese Wall of Defense’ would be built around the country against any enemy attack by an enemy air force, no matter how large” (“Death Ray for Planes,” 1940).
Moving onto 1957, there is the following, which is extracted from the FBI’s voluminous files on Albert Einstein, which have been declassified under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act: “In May, 1948, [Einstein] and ‘10 former Nazi research brain trusters’ held a secret meeting to observe a new beam of light secret weapon which could be operated from planes to destroy cities, according to the ‘Arlington Daily,’ Arlington, Virginia, May 21, 1948. The Intelligence Division of the Army subsequently advised the Bureau that this information could have no foundation in fact and that no machine could be devised which would be effective outside the range of a few feet.”
Bringing matters more up to date – but still in relation to both death-rays and the FBI – there is the following, which is taken from significantly-censored Bureau files from the 1980s, and which refer to the groundbreaking work of Nikola Tesla. One particular, partly censored document will demonstrate the U.S. Government’s interest in – and concerns regarding – Tesla’s work in this particular field. It states, in part:
“…the Soviet Union has allegedly had access to some of Tesla’s papers, possibly in Belgrade and/or elsewhere, which influenced their early research into directed energy weapons, and [name deleted] feels access to much of Tesla’s papers on lightning, beam weapons and/or ‘death rays’ would give him more insight into the Soviet beam weapons program. This is Butler’s area of expertise and responsibility. He has been unable to locate any Tesla papers or copies of same in the classified or unclassified libraries at WPAFB [Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, located in Dayton, Ohio]. However, there are reports that some portions of them were shipped by the Custodian of Alien Property Office in Washington, D.C. to a technical research lab at WPAFB, possibly the ‘Equipment Lab,’ now closed for some years or reorganized into another organization.”
All of this data, noted the FBI, was collected “in the interest of national security.”
Stunning footage: Chang’e-4 probe landing on the Dark Side of the Moon
Stunning footage: Chang’e-4 probe landing on the Dark Side of the Moon
Why did NASA, scientists, and spokesmen of the 1960's brag about how they were going to establish space bases, mining operations, and colonists on the Moon, but so far, none of those plans have been realized.
A reason for this might be that they were not only aware of extraterrestrial presence on the moon but photographic evidence also points to bases, mining facilities and other artificial structures mostly located on the far side of the moon probably built by extraterrestrial races and NASA keep it secret for the public by releasing cover stories and manipulated Moon images to hide the truth.
But that can all change since China made history earlier this month with the first successful soft landing on the far side of the moon and hopefully they are going to show us some revealing images of this mysterious part the Moon.
The mission consists of two robots: the Chang'e 4 lander and the Yutu 2 rover. Since their arrival on Jan. 2, both have been exploring the lunar surface inside Von Kármán Crater, a 115-mile-wide (186 kilometers) feature.
So far, the mission has not only sent back some amazing images and a panorama view of its work site but China's national space agency has released a breathtaking video of their Chang'e 4 probe touching down on the far side of the moon too.
Here is the remarkable video which shows the landing of Chang'e 4 from the perspective of the craft.
Glowing UFO Shoots around Mexico Volcano On Live Cam! Jan 13, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Shoots around Mexico Volcano On Live Cam! Jan 13, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 13, 2019 Location of sighting: Volcano Popocatepetl, Mexico This UFO was caught by Youtuber Kate Martin2016, who was recording a volcano in Mexico on live cam when this glowing UFO suddenly came out and took her by surprise. This UFO stops and hovers over one of the volcanic vents for a minute and then shoots off. This particular volcano is famous for its UFO sightings over the last five years. I personally have recorded about ten videos of flying objects near the mouth of the volcano in the past. I believe the UFO is hovering over the left side of the volcano it pick up or drop off passengers or cargo for the alien base that sits 4-6km below the volcano. Even the locals have reported seeing UFOs and even alien creatures on the volcano, so this video is not a surprise, but is excellent evidence that an alien base does exit there. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I have no idea the actual size of this thing, so if you can estimate, please comment. Could be anything from a ufo to a bug lol. Interesting how it is still, then zooms off in the same direction it came from though!I don't know....I have seen bugs look that way on film, but it seems pretty big. That is a huge volcano, but I don't know how to tell the size of it.
I found this alien face in an Apollo 16 NASA photo of the moon. It was almost destroyed by the moon rover that drove past it. If I use the width of the moon rover tracks as a measuring device...I get a size of about 1.5 feet by 1 foot across.
Many people would instantly say this is just a coincidence of finding a face, but that would be absolutely wrong. Coincidence is defined by Websters Dictionary as the "occurrence of events that happen at the same time by accident, but seem to have some connection." A few faces on the moon would be a coincidence, however if you search my site, you will see I literally have hundreds of faces from the moon alone and thousands from around our solar system. Hundreds of pieces of evidence destroys any chance of coincidence from existing.
I also believe NASA knew about alien artifacts on the moon and they kept it quiet so that they could retrieve alien technology to keep the USA a world power.
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Former Senate Majority Leader Wants A Key Senator To Push For More UFO Research
Former Senate Majority Leader Wants A Key Senator To Push For More UFO Research
Harry Reid, former Senate Majority Leader, is lobbying his former colleagues to conduct more studies on unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
The Nevada Democrat said the information that they have indicates there is a need to do more to study UFOs. Reid revealed that they have hundreds of people who have witnessed a similar thing, involving something in the sky that moves a certain way.
Reid said they found in the past that pilots were prone not to report when they see something strange because of fear that the bosses will think something is wrong with them, which could significantly affect their promotion.
Reid thinks that these pilots need a place to be able to report something strange, such as UFO sightings. He is keen to work on this with somebody who is an influential member of Congress. He is also planning to sit down and talk to some of these pilots through his contacts with members of the Congress.
The New York Times reported in December 2017 on Pentagon program to study the sightings of unidentified flying objects that came about because of Reid’s advocacy when he was serving the Senate.
Reid said that they spent a significant amount of money on the critical study. To get the money for the project, he lobbied the leaders of the Senate Appropriation’s Defense Subcommittee. Late Senator Ted Stevens was entirely on board because of a UFO he sighted during his time as a military pilot. However, Reid stated that the Pentagon hadn’t done enough since then.
Strange Beam Of Light Spotted Again Near A NASA Space Probe
Strange Beam Of Light Spotted Again Near A NASA Space Probe
Multiple witnesses saw a mysterious beam of light above Canadian skies. The strange event prompted an alien panic with many observers pointing out the similarities to a fantastic light earlier observed close to a NASA space probe.
An unusual pillar of light seemed to hover above the sky. The sighting was apparently recorded on video in December. The footage shows an unexplained red pulsing beam of light near Edmonton, Canada skies.
Many viewers believe the beams are similar to those spotted in Michigan in 2017 that were also near the International Space Station.
In the video, witnesses can be heard discussing the strange sighting. Many viewers think that the footage shows proof of the resurgence of bizarre lights near the Earth.
Conspiracy theorists explained that light pillars could happen, but the footage shows only one. A single light pillar doesn’t occur naturally in the atmosphere.
Some viewers suggest that the sighting could be evidence of an extraterrestrial weapon in action.
Similar lights were noticed on the live feed of the ISS in 2017. A massive red beam of light can be seen moving away from the atmosphere of the Earth.
The Earth’s magnetic field has always been in flux, thanks to the changing patterns of molten metals in the planet’s outer core. But a new report suggests that this natural variability has taken on surprising dimensions since 2015. New geologic evidence shows that the Earth’s magnetic field is changing far more and more frequently than usual. It’s not great news news for crucial global networks that depend on its stability, like navigational instruments and satellite GPS, as well as natural phenomena like animal migration, and even the protection we receive against solar winds.
The report, published in Nature on Wednesday, showed that the Earth’s magnetic field is shifting so rapidly and unpredictably that it’s rendering the models on which our lives depend obsolete at a faster rate than ever before. Scientists, faced with the new rate of change, are scrambling to keep up.
Normally, scientists with the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the British Geological Survey get together every five years to produce a model of the shifting magnetic field called the World Magnetic Model, which helps technologists, researchers, and navigators around the globe maintain a shared map on which to base their systems. Since the WMM is only updated every five years, scientists build in some room for variability to account for subtle changes that will inevitably occur before the next update rolls out.
But so much has changed since the 2015 WMM came out that the world can’t wait for the 2020 update. As Nature reported, by early 2018 the WMM was already reaching unacceptable levels of error for navigation. Unfortunately, even the short-term solution is in limbo. With NOAA staff furloughed because of the government shutdown, the proposed short-term update is on hold for at least a few weeks.
The Earth’s magnetic field protects us from the most harmful portions of the sun's radiation.
The 2015 WMM was rendered obsolete almost immediately after it was released. As early as 2016, ESA Swarm satellites over South America showed some of the first evidence that the magnetic field was changing faster than expected. Then, in 2018, a phenomenon in the field between South America and Africa, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, weakened so much that it actually disrupted satellites as they passed through the region.
The 2010 WMM shows that the Earth's magnetic field is a lot more complicated than just north, south, east, and west.
News of these two events raised concerns that Earth was about to undergo a total magnetic pole reversal, in which the north and south poles fully swap positions and thus wreak havoc on satellites, power lines, ocean currents, and animal migration. Concerns of a complete reversal in the near future have been dismissed as unrealistic, but some geophysicists have noted that the Earth is historically overdue for such a flip. Regardless, the shifts we have seen exceed the level of variability accounted for by the WMM’s wiggle room, making a fix more urgent than ever.
An interim update was meant to be released on January 15, Nature reported, but not long after publication the article was updated to state that the US government shutdown had pushed it back to at least January 30
The interim update will contain crucial information for international shipping companies, GPS-based app programmers, and everyone else — that’s all of us — who uses programs that rely on those magnetic maps. Fortunately, the researchers working on the short-term map have included data from the years since 2015, which include the major anomalies that knocked the 2015 WMM out of whack in the first place. The update should remain valid until 2020, barring any unforeseen irregularities. But as history has shown, irregularities seem to have become the rule, rather than the exception.
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How Roswell, New Mexico Gained Its Alien Reputation
How Roswell, New Mexico Gained Its Alien Reputation
The CW's new series Roswell, New Mexico has an extraterrestrial romance at its heart and nods to real UFO lore.
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Attractive humanoid aliens will soon be embroiled in romance and adventure on The CW’s new seriesRoswell, New Mexico. In an early scene from the show’s new trailer, a Jeep drives under a sign in the desert that reads “Foster Ranch” just before an object from the air crashes into the ground causing a huge explosion. But what is the Foster Ranch, and how did Roswell get its alien reputation in the first place?
We're glad you asked! We're here to tell you all about the "real" alien history of Roswell, and there's two ways to do it. You can watch our mini-documentary for some quick facts, or keep scrolling and read the article for more in-depth knowledge.
Roswell, New Mexico is a desert town about 200 miles southeast of Albuquerque. It is the fifth largest town in New Mexico, but much more provincial than Santa Fe, another well-known New Mexico destination similar in size. While visitors from around the world flock to Santa Fe to experience Southwestern art and culture, tourists seek out Roswell for a different reason: aliens.
Although the alleged crash of an alien spacecraft outside of Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 is the most famous UFO or alien related incident, few knew about it before the first book on the topic, The Roswell Incident, was published in 1980. By July 1997, the 50th anniversary of the crash, the U.S. Air Force had released two separate reports on the Roswell incident (1995 report, 1997 report), and it was featured on the cover of Time magazine. The story of aliens at Roswell had reached the farthest corners of planet Earth.
The incident described by the Air Force began on the Foster ranch about 30 miles outside of Roswell. Ranch foreman Bill “Mack” Brazel claims to have come across odd-looking debris in the field some time in June or early July 1947. He and his son examined the debris but didn’t pay it much attention until Brazel heard stories of mysterious flying discs spotted in the skies elsewhere in the U.S. The most famous of these sightings took place on June 24, 1947, when businessman and amateur pilot Kenneth Arnold spotted several objects described by the press as “flying saucers” -- the first use of the term -- while flying near Mount Rainier, Washington. Arnold’s sighting made headlines and eventually prompted the United States military to begin official investigations into sightings of unidentified objects in the skies.
Brazel thought the debris he found might be one of these flying saucers and reported it to Chaves County Sheriff George Wilcox. Wilcox then reported Brazel’s discovery to the Roswell Army Airfield (RAAF), home of the 509th Bomb Group, at the time, the only team responsible for dropping the atom bomb.
The RAAF sent intelligence officer Major Jesse Marcel and counterintelligence corps officer Captain Sheridan Cavitt to meet with Brazel and drive out to the Foster ranch and take a look at the debris. The next day, July 8, the RAAF sent out a press release claiming, according to the Roswell Daily Record, that they had “come into possession of a flying saucer.” That day the Roswell Daily Record front page headline read: “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region.”
The next day, the Roswell Daily Record’s headline read: “Gen. Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer.” The subheadings read: “Ramey Says Excitement Is Not Justified,” and “General Ramey Says Disk Is Weather Balloon.” The same day, Ramey held a press conference at his office in Fort Worth, Texas with Marcel in which they posed with debris from a weather balloon. With that, as quickly as the story began, it went away.
The Arnold sighing in Washington had inspired the creation of U.S. Air Force Project Sign, the first official investigation into “flying saucers.” It was followed by Project Grudge, and then finally Project Blue Book. The U.S. Air Force investigated the UFO phenomenon from 1948 to 1969, but nowhere in their files will you find mention of the crash outside of Roswell. Nor will you see it in UFO books of the time. Soon after it occurred, the story was lost to obscurity.
Then, in the late 1970s, UFO researcher and nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman was given a tip. A retired Air Force intelligence officer said he had been part of the recovery of a flying saucer. That officer was Marcel. Friedman interviewed Marcel who confirmed that he had seen the debris recovered in Roswell and that it was no weather balloon. He claimed the material had properties beyond that which would have been possible to create at the time and also claimed the debris he showed Ramey had been replaced by weather balloon material for the press conference and photo shoot.
In a 1980 interview on the television series In Search Of…, Marcel said General Ramey told the press, “forget about it. It was nothing more than a weather observation balloon. Of course, which we both knew differently.”
“It was not anything from this Earth,” Marcel said. “I am quite sure of, because being in intelligence I was familiar with just about all materials used in aircraft and/or air travel. This was nothing like that.”
Marcel claimed he was told to go with the weather balloon cover story and he followed orders. However, decades later he was concerned the Air Force had not shared the truth with the public.
Over the next few years, Friedman, along with his research partner William Moore, interviewed many more witnesses. Some of them claimed they also believed the material could not have been from a weather balloon. In 1980, Moore wrote a book with author Charles Berlitz titled The Roswell Incidentsuggesting a major cover-up of a crashed extraterrestrial vehicle. The book was a hit, and along with Marcel’s appearance on In Search Of... the legend of the alien spaceship crash at Roswell grew.
Due to the popularity of the Roswell incident, the U.S. Air Force released an official report in 1995 on the event that backs up one of Marcell’s claims. It confirms the materials Marcel provided were not that of a standard weather balloon like those in the press photos. However, it claimed the debris Marcel examined was part of a secret program called Project Mogul. This project used atmospheric balloons to float listening devices into the atmosphere to monitor Russian nuclear tests.
The first witness account of alien bodies did not come until 1989. Roswell resident Glenn Dennis claimed that while working at a local funeral home at the time of the alleged crash, the RAAF had requested several child-sized caskets. He told his story for the first time to Friedman, but his account was first made public in the book UFO Crash at Roswell published in 1991.
He also claimed to have had a conversation with a nurse from RAAF who told him she had been present at the autopsies of extraterrestrial beings recovered from the crashed saucer. Dennis said he had promised never to share her name. He says the nurse disappeared soon after sharing the story with him.
The aliens she described were not attractive young adults, but they were, more or less, shaped like humans with spindly arms and legs and large heads.
“She drew me a diagram of the bodies,” Dennis claimed in a signed affidavit. “...including an arm with a hand that had only four fingers; the doctors noted that on the end of the fingers were little pads resembling suction cups. She said the head was disproportionately large for the body; the eyes were deeply set; the skulls were flexible; the nose was concave with only two orifices; the mouth was a fine slit, and the doctors said there was heavy cartilage instead of teeth. The ears were only small orifices with flaps. They had no hair, and the skin was black--perhaps due to exposure in the sun.”
Dennis’ story has been called into question after he gave the name of the alleged RAAF nurse to researchers and later admitted the name was made up. He claimed he gave a false name because of his promise not to share her real name. Another reason skeptics doubt Dennis’ claims that he did not come forward until decades after the fact, and years after the Roswell incident was popularized. According to researchers Thom Carey and Dom Schmitt, several of his friends have come forward to say Dennis did share his story about the child-sized caskets soon after the Roswell incident occurred, although some claimed they thought he was joking. Carey and Schmitt included their accounts in the 2009 book Witness to Roswell.
Since then others have claimed to have seen aliens at Roswell, and there was even a famous video of the alleged autopsy of the Roswell aliens. However, the video was debunked, and the creators have admitted to having been paid to create the fake autopsy.
The most credible witness to claim aliens had crashed at Roswell was retired Army Colonel Philip Corso. He was a decorated officer with a long list of achievements in World War II. In his book, The Day After Roswell, published soon before his death, Corso claimed that in 1961, while serving as chief of the foreign technology department he was tasked with handling materials retrieved from the Roswell crash.
“I came into possession of what I refer to as the ‘Roswell File,’” Corso said. “This file contained field reports, medical autopsy reports and technological debris from the crash of an extraterrestrial vehicle in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.”
He says he farmed the material out to tech companies with U.S. Army contracts which went on to use the debris to develop technologies such as kevlar, night-vision, fiber optics, and computer chips, among others.
The companies Corso claims to have given the material to argue that the development of these technologies is well documented and do not include the use of extraterrestrial materials. Skeptics also point out that many of the witnesses to the alleged alien bodies only came forward after the Roswell incident was famous.
Whether or not aliens really crash landed in Roswell remains up for debate, but decades later the idea continues to inspire pop-culture and our ideas and dialogue regarding the potential for the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations. In a more cynical view, it can even be seen as enforcing trust issues between U.S. citizens and our government. It is a heavy burden for a small town in the middle of the New Mexico desert. Although, we shouldn’t feel too sorry for their unsought fame. If it wasn’t for the aliens, Roswell’s fame would be tied to being one of the first homes of the planes tasked with dropping the deadliest weapon known to humankind. Personally, I'd rather be known for aliens.
Of the more than 60 Fast Radio Bursts found so far, only one has ever been seen to repeat from the same source … until now.
Artist’s concept of a Fast Radio Burst from a distant galaxy.
Image via Danielle Futselaar.
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are one of the most puzzling astrophysical discoveries in recent years. They are powerful but brief pulses of radio waves that seem to originate from galaxies billions of light-years away. Scientists don’t yet know what causes them, but they are finding more clues as they continue to investigate them. One oddity has been that of the more than 60 FRBs found so far, only one has ever been seen to repeat from the same source – until now.
Scientists in Canada detected a second repeating FRB using the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) radio telescope in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. It was reported by McGill University on January 9, 2019. The new findings were also published in two peer-reviewed papers in Nature on January 9 and presented at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle on the same day.
The repeating FRB is one of 13 observed by CHIME over a period of three weeks during the summer of 2018. Additional FRBs were then found in the weeks following.
The detection of another repeating FRB is exciting since they seem to be relatively rare among FRBs in general. The first one was observed by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico in 2015. According to Ingrid Stairs, a member of the CHIME team and an astrophysicist at the University of British Columbia (UBC):
Until now, there was only one known repeating FRB. Knowing that there is another suggests that there could be more out there. And with more repeaters and more sources available for study, we may be able to understand these cosmic puzzles – where they’re from and what causes them.
Canada’s CHIME radio telescope in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia.
Image via CHIME.
The detections by CHIME were a bit surprising – most FRBs found before were at a frequency close to 1400 megahertz (MHz), while the telescope’s observations were in the range of 400-800 MHz. But most of the first 13 new bursts were indeed lower in frequency, right down to the lowest frequencies that CHIME was able to detect. The scientists think that additional FRBs might be found that are even lower than the 400 MHz minimum.
So what do the new results mean?
Whatever the cause of FRBs is, it is something not seen before. Theories have ranged from exotic phenomena involving neutron stars or black holes to even – yes – aliens. As noted by Arun Naidu of McGill University:
Whatever the source of these radio waves is, it’s interesting to see how wide a range of frequencies it can produce. There are some models where intrinsically the source can’t produce anything below a certain frequency.
The first FRB – dubbed FRB 121102 – was discovered in 2007 by Duncan Lorimer and his student David Narkevic when they were looking through archival pulsar survey data.
[We now know] the sources can produce low-frequency radio waves and those low-frequency waves can escape their environment, and are not too scattered to be detected by the time they reach the Earth. That tells us something about the environments and the sources. We haven’t solved the problem, but it’s several more pieces in the puzzle.
FRBs were an unexpected mystery. There aren’t so many qualitative mysteries in astrophysics. So explaining their nature has become one of the biggest unsolved problems in astrophysics in the last few years.
CHIME is a unique radio telescope, designed and built by Canadian astronomers, explained Smith:
CHIME reconstructs the image of the overhead sky by processing the radio signals recorded by thousands of antennas with a large signal processing system. CHIME’s signal processing system is the largest of any telescope on Earth, allowing it to search huge regions of the sky simultaneously.
The first FRB – dubbed FRB 121102 – was discovered in 2007. This visible-light image shows its host galaxy.
Most astronomers are reasonably confident that a natural explanation will be found since FRBs have characteristics that make an intelligent source difficult. One problem, as explained by Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, is that they appear to come from all over the sky, from galaxies separated by billions of light-years.
But you can safely bet that aliens are not the cause of FRBs. Why? The bursters are seen all over the sky, that’s why. The same sort of signal is coming from galaxies that are generally separated by billions of light-years. So how could aliens organize so much of the universe to engage in broadcasting the same sort of signal? There’s hardly been enough time since the Big Bang to coordinate such widespread teamwork, even if you can think of a reason for it!
It would be hard to fathom how aliens could coordinate such powerful radio blasts over such immense distances, but who knows? Occam’s razor would suggest that FRBs are most likely natural in origin – but determining just what is causing them will require continued observations.
Bottom line: FRBs are an exotic phenomenon, regardless of what specifically causes them, and thanks to new observations from telescopes like CHIME, scientists are another step closer to solving this fascinating mystery.
We feel that it is important, given the information that we have provided thus far, to respond to questions that must surely arise regarding our reality and the significance of the messages that we have come to give.
“Given the lack of hard evidence, why should people believe what you are telling them about the Intervention?”
First, there must be great evidence concerning the visitation to your world. We have been told that this is the case. Yet we have also been told by the Unseen Ones that people do not know how to understand the evidence and that they give it their own meaning—a meaning that they prefer to give it, a meaning that provides comfort and reassurance for the most part. We are certain that there is adequate evidence to verify that the Intervention is occurring in the world today if one takes the time to look and to investigate this matter. The fact that your governments or religious leaders do not reveal such things does not mean that such a great event is not occurring in your midst.
“How can people know that you are real?”
Regarding our reality, we cannot demonstrate our physical presence to you, and so you must discern the meaning and the import of our words. At this point, it is not merely a matter of belief. It requires a greater recognition, a Knowledge, a resonance. The words we speak we believe are true, but that does not assure that they can be received as such. We cannot control the response to our message. There are people who require more evidence than can possibly be given. For others, such evidence will not be necessary, for they will feel an inner confirmation.
In the meantime, perhaps we remain a controversy, and yet we hope and we trust that our words can be considered seriously and that the evidence that does exist, which is substantial, can be gathered and understood by those who are willing to give this their effort and their focus in life. From our perspective, there is no greater problem, challenge and opportunity to receive your attention.
Therefore, you are at the beginning of a new understanding. This does require faith and self-reliance. Many will reject our words simply because they do not believe that we could possibly exist. Others perhaps will think that we are part of some manipulation that is being cast upon the world. We cannot control these responses. We can only reveal our message and our presence in your life, however removed that presence may be. It is not our presence here that is of paramount importance, but the message that we have come to reveal and the greater perspective and understanding that we can provide for you. Your education must begin somewhere. All education begins with the desire to know.
We hope that through our discourses we can gain at least part of your confidence in order to begin to reveal what we are here to offer.
“What do you have to say to those who view the Intervention as a positive thing?”
We understand, first of all, the expectation that all forces from the heavens are related to your spiritual understanding, traditions and fundamental beliefs. The idea that there is prosaic life in the universe is a challenge to these fundamental assumptions. From our perspective and given the experience of our own cultures, we understand these expectations. In the distant past, we maintained them ourselves. And yet we had to relinquish them in facing the realities of Greater Community life and the meaning of visitation.
You live in a great physical universe. It is full of life. This life represents countless manifestations and also represents the evolution of intelligence and spiritual awareness at every level. What this means is that what you will encounter in the Greater Community encompasses almost every possibility.
However, you are isolated and do not yet travel in space. And even if you had the capability to reach another world, the universe is vast, and no one has gained the ability to go from one end of the galaxy to the other with any kind of speed. Therefore, the physical universe remains enormous and incomprehensible. No one has mastered its laws. No one has conquered its territories. No one can claim complete dominance or control. Life has a great humbling effect in this way. Even far beyond your borders this is true.
You should then come to expect that you will meet intelligences representing forces for good, forces for ignorance and those who are more neutral regarding you. However, in the realities of Greater Community travel and exploration, emerging races such as your own will, almost without exception, encounter resource explorers, collectives and those seeking advantage for themselves as their first contact with Greater Community life.
Regarding the positive interpretation of visitation, part of this is human expectation and the natural desire to welcome a good outcome and to seek help from the Greater Community for the problems that humanity has not been able to resolve on its own. It is normal to expect such things, particularly when you are considering that your visitors have greater capabilities than do you. However, a large part of the problem in interpreting the great visitation has to do with the will and the agenda of the visitors themselves. For they are encouraging people everywhere to view their presence here as wholly beneficial to humanity and to its needs.
“If this Intervention is so well underway, why didn’t you come sooner?”
At an earlier time, many years ago, several groups of your allies came to your world to visit in an attempt to give a message of hope, to prepare humanity. But alas their messages could not be understood and were misused by those few who could receive them. In the wake of their coming, the visitors from the collectives have amassed and gathered here. It has been known to us that this would happen, for your world is far too valuable to be overlooked, and, as we have said, it does not exist in a remote and distant part of the universe. Your world has been observed for a long time by those who would seek to use it for their own benefit.
“Why can’t our allies stop the Intervention?”
We are only here to observe and to advise. The great decisions facing humanity are in your hands. No one else can make these decisions for you. Even your great friends far beyond your world would not intervene, for if they did so, it would cause warfare, and your world would become a battleground between opposing forces. And should your friends be victorious, you would become wholly reliant upon them, unable to fend for yourself or to maintain your own security in the universe. We know of no benevolent race that would seek to bear this burden. And in truth, it would not serve you either. For you would become a client state to another power and would have to be governed from afar. This is not beneficial for you in any way, and it is for this reason that this is not occurring. Yet the visitors will cast themselves as saviors and rescuers of humanity. They will utilize your naiveté. They will capitalize on your expectations, and they will seek to wholly benefit from your trust.
Therefore, it is our sincere desire that our words can serve as an antidote to their presence and to their manipulation and abuse. For your rights are being violated. Your territory is being infiltrated. Your governments are being persuaded. And your religious ideologies and impulses are being redirected.
There must be a voice of truth regarding this. And we can only trust that you can receive this voice of truth. We can only hope that the persuasion has not gone too far.
“What are realistic goals for us to set, and what is the bottom line with regard to saving humanity from losing its self-determination?”
The first step is awareness. Many people must become aware that the Earth is being visited and that foreign powers are here operating in a clandestine manner, seeking to hide their agenda and endeavors from human understanding. It must be very clear that their presence here is a great challenge to human freedom and self-determination. The agenda that they are furthering and the Pacification Program that they are sponsoring must be countered with sobriety and wisdom regarding their presence. This counteraction must occur. There are many people in the world today who are able to understand this. Therefore, the first step is awareness.
The next step is education. It is necessary for many people in different cultures and in different nations to learn about life in the Greater Community and to begin to comprehend what you will be dealing with and are dealing with even at this moment.
Therefore, realistic goals are awareness and education. This in itself would obstruct the visitors’ agenda in the world. They are operating now with very little resistance. They are encountering few obstacles. All those who seek to view them as “allies of humanity” must learn that this is not the case. Perhaps our words will not be enough, but they are a beginning.
“Where can we find this education?”
The education can be found in The Greater Community Way of Knowledge, which is being presented in the world at this time. Though it presents a new understanding about life and spirituality in the universe, it is connected to all of the genuine spiritual paths that already exist within your world—spiritual paths that value human freedom and the meaning of true spirituality and that value cooperation, peace and harmony within the human family. Therefore, the teaching in The Way of Knowledge calls forth all the great truths that already exist in your world and gives them a greater context and arena of expression. In this way, The Greater Community Way of Knowledge does not replace the world’s religions, but provides a larger context within which they can be truly meaningful and relevant to your times.
“How do we convey your message to others?”
The truth lives within each person at this moment. If you can speak to the truth in a person, it will become stronger and begin to resonate. Our great hope, the hope of the Unseen Ones, the spiritual forces who serve your world, and the hope of those who value human freedom and wish to see your emergence into the Greater Community successfully fulfilled, rely upon this truth that lives within each person. We cannot force this awareness upon you. We can only reveal it to you and trust in the greatness of Knowledge that the Creator has given you that can enable you and others to respond.
“Where do humanity’s strengths lie in opposing the Intervention?”
First, we understand from observing your world, and from what the Unseen Ones have told us regarding things that we cannot see, that though there are great problems within the world, there is sufficient human freedom to give you a foundation for opposing the Intervention. This is in contrast to many other worlds where individual freedom was never established to begin with. As these worlds encounter alien forces in their midst and the reality of Greater Community life, the possibility for them to establish freedom and independence is very limited.
Therefore, you have a great strength in that human freedom is known in your world and is practiced by many, though perhaps not all. You know you have something to lose. You value what you have already, to whatever extent it has been established. You do not want to be ruled by foreign powers. You do not even want to be ruled harshly by human authorities. Therefore, this is a beginning.
Next, because your world has rich spiritual traditions that have fostered Knowledge in the individual and fostered human cooperation and understanding, the reality of Knowledge has already been established. Again, in other worlds where Knowledge was never established, the possibility for establishing it at the turning point of emerging into the Greater Community shows little hope for success. Knowledge is strong enough in enough people here that they may be able to learn of the reality of life in the Greater Community and to comprehend what is occurring in their midst at this time. It is for this reason that we are hopeful, for we trust in human wisdom. We trust that people can rise above selfishness, self-preoccupation and self-protection to view life in a greater way and to feel a greater responsibility in service to their own kind.
Perhaps our faith is unfounded, but we are trusting that the Unseen Ones have counseled us wisely regarding this. As a result, we have placed ourselves at risk by being in the proximity of your world and witnessing events beyond your borders that have direct bearing on your future and destiny.
Humanity has great promise. You have a growing awareness of problems in the world—the lack of cooperation amongst nations, the degradation of your natural environment, your diminishing resources and so forth. If these problems were unknown to your people, if these realities had been kept hidden from your people, to the extent that people had no idea of the existence of these things, then we would not be as hopeful. However, the reality remains that humanity has the potential and the promise to counteract any intervention into the world.
“Is this Intervention going to become a military invasion?”
As we have said, your world is too valuable to incite a military invasion. No one who is visiting your world wants to destroy its infrastructure or its natural resources. That is why the visitors do not seek to destroy humanity, but instead to engage humanity in service to their collectives.
It is not military invasion that threatens you. It is the power of inducement and persuasion. This will be built upon your own weakness, upon your own selfishness, upon your ignorance of life in the Greater Community and upon your blind optimism regarding your future and the meaning of life beyond your borders.
To counteract this, we provide education and we speak of the means of preparation that are being sent into the world at this time. If you did not already know human freedom, if you were not already aware of the problems endemic to your world, then we could not entrust such a preparation to you. And we would not have confidence that our words would resonate with the truth of what you know.
“Can you influence people as powerfully as the visitors, but for the good?”
Our intention is not to influence individuals. Our intention is only to present the problem and the reality into which you are emerging. The Unseen Ones are providing the actual means of preparation, for that comes from God. In this, the Unseen Ones influence individuals for the good. But there are restraints. As we have said, it is your self-determination that must be strengthened. It is your power that must be increased. It is your cooperation amongst the human family that must be supported.
There are limits as to how much help we can provide. Our group is small. We are not walking amongst you. Therefore, the great understanding of your new reality must be shared from person to person. It cannot be forced upon you from a foreign power, even if it were for your own good. We would not, then, be supporting your freedom and self-determination if we sponsored such a program of persuasion. Here you cannot be like children. You must become mature and responsible. It is your freedom that is at stake. It is your world that is at stake. It is your cooperation with each other that is needed.
You now have a great cause to unite your race, for none of you will benefit without the other. No nation will benefit if any other nation falls under alien control. Human freedom must be complete. The cooperation must occur around your world. For everyone is in the same situation now. The visitors do not favor one group over another, one race over another, one nation over another. They only seek the avenue of least resistance to establish their presence and their domination of your world.
“How extensive is their infiltration of humanity?”
The visitors have a significant presence within the most advanced nations in your world, particularly the nations of Europe, Russia, Japan and America. These are viewed as the strongest nations, having the greatest power and influence. It is there that the visitors will concentrate. However, they are taking people from all over the world, and they are furthering their Pacification Program with all those that they capture, if those individuals can be responsive to their influence. Therefore, the visitors’ presence is worldwide, but they are concentrating on those whom they hope will become their allies. These are the nations and governments and religious leaders who hold the greatest power and sway over human thought and conviction.
“How much time do we have?
How much time do you have? You have some time, how much we cannot tell. But we come with an urgent message. This is not a problem that can simply be avoided or denied. From our perspective, it is the most important challenge facing humanity. It is of the greatest concern, the first priority. You are late in your preparation. This was caused by many factors beyond our control. But there is time, if you can respond. The outcome is uncertain and yet there is still hope for your success.
“How can we focus on this Intervention given the immensity of other global problems which are occurring right now?”
First of all, we feel that there are no other problems in the world that are as important as this. From our perspective, whatever you can resolve on your own will have little meaning in the future if your freedom is lost. What could you hope to gain? What could you hope to achieve or secure if you are not free in the Greater Community? All of your accomplishments would be given to your new governors; all of your wealth would be bestowed upon them. And though your visitors are not cruel, they are completely committed to their agenda. You are valued only insofar as you can be useful to their cause. It is for this reason that we do not feel that there are any other problems facing humanity as important as this.
“Who is likely to respond to this situation?”
Regarding who can respond, there are many people in the world today who have an inherent knowledge of the Greater Community and who are sensitive to it. There are many others who have been taken by the visitors already but who have not yielded to them or to their persuasion. And there are many others who are concerned about the future of humanity and who are alerted to the dangers that humanity faces, even within your own world. People in all or any of these three categories may be amongst the first to respond to the Greater Community reality and to the preparation for the Greater Community. They may come from any walk of life, from any nation, from any religious background or from any economic group. They are literally all over the world. It is upon them and upon their response that the great Spiritual Powers that protect and oversee human welfare are depending.
“You mention that individuals are being taken all over the world. How can people protect themselves or others from being abducted?”
The more you can become strong with Knowledge and aware of the visitors’ presence, the less you become a desirable subject for their study and manipulation. The more you use your encounters with them to gain insight into them, the more of a hazard you become. As we have said, they seek the path of least resistance. They want individuals who are compliant and yielding. They want those who cause them few problems and little concern.
Yet as you become strong with Knowledge, you will be beyond their control because now they cannot capture your mind or your heart. And with time, you will have the power of perception to see into their minds, which they do not wish. You then become a danger to them, a challenge to them, and they will avoid you if they can.
The visitors do not seek to be revealed. They do not wish for conflict. They are overly confident that they can achieve their goals without serious resistance from the human family. But once such resistance is mounted, once the power of Knowledge awakens in the individual, then the visitors are facing a much more formidable obstacle. Their intervention here becomes thwarted and more difficult to achieve. And their persuasion of those in power becomes more difficult to accomplish. Therefore, it is the individual’s response and commitment to the truth that are essential here.
Become aware of the visitors’ presence. Do not yield to the persuasion that their presence here is of a spiritual nature or that it holds great benefit or salvation for humanity. Resist the persuasion. Regain your own inner authority, the great gift that the Creator has given to you. Become a force to be reckoned with regarding any who would trespass against or deny your fundamental rights.
This is Spiritual Power being expressed. It is the Will of the Creator that humanity should emerge into the Greater Community united within itself and free from foreign intervention and domination. It is the Creator’s Will that you should prepare for a future that will be unlike your past. We are here in service to the Creator, and thus our presence and our words serve this purpose.
“If the visitors encounter resistance in humanity or in certain individuals, will they come in greater numbers or will they leave?”
Their numbers are not great. Should they encounter considerable resistance, they would have to fall back and make new plans. They are wholly confident that their mission can be fulfilled without serious obstacles. Yet should serious obstacles arise, then their intervention and persuasion would be thwarted, and they would have to find other ways of gaining contact with humanity.
We trust that the human family can generate enough resistance and enough consensus in order to offset these influences. It is upon this that we are basing our hope and efforts.
“What are the most important questions that we must ask of ourselves and others with respect to this problem of alien infiltration?”
Perhaps the most critical questions to ask yourself are, “Are we humans alone within the universe or in our own world? Are we being visited at this time? Is this visitation beneficial to us? Do we need to prepare?”
These are very fundamental questions, but they must be asked. There are many questions, however, that cannot be answered, for you do not know enough about life in the Greater Community, and you are not yet confident that you have the ability to counteract these influences. There are many things lacking in human education, which is primarily focused upon the past. Humanity is emerging from a long state of relative isolation. Its education, its values and its institutions were all established within this state of isolation. Yet your isolation now is over, forever. It was always known that this would happen. It was inevitable that this would be the case. Therefore, your education and your values are entering into a new context, to which they must adapt. And the adaptation must happen quickly because of the nature of the Intervention in the world today.
There will be many questions that you cannot answer. You will have to live with them. Your education about the Greater Community is only at the very beginning. You must approach it with great sobriety and care. You must counteract your own tendencies to try and make the situation pleasant or reassuring. You must develop an objectivity about life, and you must look beyond your own personal sphere of interests in order to put yourself in a position to respond to the greater forces and events that are shaping your world and your future.
“What if enough people cannot respond?”
We are confident that enough people can respond and begin their great education about life in the Greater Community in order to give promise and hope to the human family. If this cannot be achieved, then those who value their freedom and who have this education will have to retreat. They will have to keep Knowledge alive in the world as the world falls under complete control. This is a very grave alternative, and yet it has occurred in other worlds. The journey back to freedom from such a position is quite difficult. We hope that this will not be your fate, and that is why we are here giving you this information. As we have said, there are enough people in the world who can respond to offset the intentions of the visitors and to thwart their influence on human affairs and human values.
“You speak of other worlds emerging into the Greater Community. Can you speak of successes and failures which might have bearing on our situation?”
There have been successes or we would not be here. In my case, as the speaker for our group, our world had already been greatly infiltrated before we realized the situation at hand. Our education was prompted by the arrival of a group such as ourselves, providing insight and information about our situation. We had alien resource traders in our world interacting with our government. Those who were in power at that time were persuaded that trade and commerce would be beneficial to us, for we were beginning to experience resource depletion. Though our race was united, unlike your own, we began to be wholly dependent upon the new technology and opportunities that were being presented to us. And yet as this occurred, there was a shift in the center of power. We were becoming the clients. The visitors were becoming the providers. As time went on, terms and restrictions were placed upon us, subtly at first.
Our religious focus and beliefs were also influenced by the visitors, who showed interest in our spiritual values but who wished to give us a new understanding, an understanding based upon the collective, based upon the cooperation of minds thinking alike in unison with each other. This was presented to our race as an expression of spirituality and achievement. Some were persuaded, and yet because we were well advised from our allies beyond our world, allies such as ourselves, we began to mount a resistance movement and over time were able to force the visitors to leave our world.
Since that time, we have learned a great deal about the Greater Community. The trade that we maintain is very selective, with only a few other nations. We have been able to avoid the collectives, and that has preserved our freedom. And yet our success was difficult to achieve, for there were many of us who had to die in the face of this conflict. Ours is a story of success, but not without cost. There are others in our group who have experienced similar difficulties in their interaction with intervening powers in the Greater Community. And yet because we eventually learned to travel beyond our borders, we gained alliance with one another. We were able to learn what spirituality means in the Greater Community. And the Unseen Ones, who serve our world as well, helped us in this regard to make the great transition from isolation to Greater Community awareness.
Yet there have been many failures that we are aware of. Cultures where the indigenous peoples had not established personal freedom or had not tasted the fruits of cooperation, even though they were advancing technologically, did not have a foundation to establish their own independence in the universe. Their ability to resist the collectives was very limited. Induced by promises of greater power, greater technology and greater wealth, and induced by the seeming benefits of trade in the Greater Community, their center of power left their world. In the end, they became wholly dependent upon those who supplied them and who gained control of their resources and their infrastructures.
Surely you can imagine how this could be the case. Even within your own world according to your history, you have seen smaller nations fall under the domination of greater ones. You can see this even today. Therefore, these ideas are not wholly foreign to you. In the Greater Community, as in your world, the strong will dominate the weak, if they can. This is a reality of life everywhere. And it is for this reason that we are encouraging your awareness and your preparation, in order that you may become strong and your self-determination may grow.
It may be a grave disappointment to many to understand and to learn that freedom is rare in the universe. As nations become stronger and more technological, they require greater and greater uniformity and compliance amongst their peoples. As they bridge out into the Greater Community and become involved in Greater Community affairs, the tolerance for individual expression diminishes to the point where large nations that have wealth and power are governed with a strictness and an exacting attitude that you would find abhorrent.
Here you must learn that technological advancement and spiritual advancement are not the same, a lesson that humanity has yet to learn and which you must learn if you are to exercise your natural wisdom in these matters.
Your world is greatly valued. It is rich biologically. You are sitting on a prize that you must protect if you are to be its stewards and its beneficiaries. Consider the peoples in your world who have lost their freedom because they lived in a place considered valuable by others. It is now the whole human family that is so imperiled.
“Because the visitors are so skilled in projecting thoughts and influencing people’s Mental Environment, how do we ensure ourselves that what we are seeing is real?”
The only basis for wise perception is the cultivation of Knowledge. If you believe only what you see, then you will believe only what is shown to you. There are many, we are told, that have this perspective. Yet we have learned that the Wise everywhere must gain a greater vision and a greater discernment. It is true that your visitors can project images of your saints and of your religious figures. Though this is not practiced often, it certainly can be used in order to evoke commitment and dedication amongst those who are already given to such beliefs. Here your spirituality becomes an area of vulnerability where Wisdom must be used.
Yet the Creator has given you Knowledge as a foundation for true discernment. You can know what you are seeing if you ask yourself if it is real. Yet to do this, you must have this foundation, and that is why the teaching in The Way of Knowledge is so fundamental to learning Greater Community Spirituality. Without this, people will believe what they want to believe, and they will rely upon what they see and what they are shown. And their potential for freedom will have been lost already, for it was never allowed to flourish in the first place.
“You speak about keeping Knowledge alive. How many will it take to keep Knowledge alive in the world?”
We cannot give you a number, but it must be strong enough to generate a voice within your own cultures. If this message can only be received by a few, they will not have this voice or this strength. Here they must share their wisdom. It cannot be purely for their own edification. Many more must learn of this message, many more than can receive it today.
“Is there a danger in presenting this message?”
There is always a danger in presenting the truth, not only in your world, but elsewhere. People gain advantage from the circumstances as they currently exist. The visitors will offer advantage to those in power who can receive them and who are not strong in Knowledge. People become accustomed to these advantages and build their lives upon them. This makes them resistant or even hostile to the presentation of truth, which calls for their responsibility in service to others and which may threaten the basis of their wealth and achievements.
This is why we are hidden and do not walk in your world. Certainly the visitors would destroy us if they could find us. But humanity may seek to destroy us as well because of what we represent, because of the challenge and the new reality that we demonstrate. Not everyone is ready to receive the truth even though it is greatly needed.
“Can individuals who are strong with Knowledge influence the visitors?”
The chance of success here is very limited. You are dealing with a collective of beings who have been bred to be compliant, whose whole life and experience have been encompassed and engendered by a collective mentality. They do not think for themselves. For this reason, we do not feel that you can influence them. There are few amongst the human family who have the strength to do this, and even here the possibility for success would be very limited. So the answer must be “No.” For all practical purposes, you cannot win them over.
“How are collectives different from a united humanity?”
Collectives are made up of different races and of those who are bred to serve those races. Many of the beings that are being encountered in the world are bred by collectives to be servants. Their genetic heritage has long been lost to them. They are bred to serve, as you breed animals to serve you. The human cooperation that we are promoting is a cooperation that preserves the self-determination of individuals and provides a position of strength from which humanity can interact, not only with the collectives but with others who will visit your shores in the future.
A collective is based upon one belief, one set of principles and one authority. Its emphasis is complete allegiance to an idea or an ideal. Not only is this engendered in the education of your visitors, but in their genetic code as well. That is why they behave in the ways that they do. This is both their strength and their weakness. They have great strength in the Mental Environment because their minds are united. But they are weak because they cannot think for themselves. They cannot deal with complexities or adversity very successfully. A man or woman of Knowledge would be incomprehensible to them.
Humanity must unite to preserve its freedom, but this is a very different establishment from the creation of a collective. We call them “collectives” because they are collectives of different races and nationalities. Collectives are not one race. Though there are many races in the Greater Community that are ruled by a dominant authority, a collective is an organization that spans beyond the allegiance of one race to its own world.
Collectives can have great power. Yet because there are many collectives, they tend to compete with one another, which prevents any one of them from becoming dominant. Also, various nations in the Greater Community have long-standing disputes with one another, which are difficult to bridge. Perhaps they have competed for a long time for the same resources. Perhaps they compete with one another to sell the resources that they have. Yet a collective is a different matter. As we are saying here, it is not based upon one race and one world. They are the result of conquest and domination. That is why your visitors are comprised of different races of beings at different levels of authority and command.
“In other worlds that have successfully unified, did they maintain their individual freedom of thought?”
To varying degrees. Some to a very high degree, others less so, depending upon their history, their psychological make-up and the needs of their own survival. Your life in the world has been relatively easy compared to where other races have developed. Most places where intelligent life exists have been colonized, for there are not many terrestrial planets such as your own that provide such a wealth of biological resources. Their freedom, in large part, depended upon the wealth of their environments. But they have all been successful in thwarting alien infiltration and have established their own lines of trade, commerce and communication based upon their own self-determination. This is a rare accomplishment and must be earned and protected.
“What will it take to achieve human unity?”
Humanity is very vulnerable in the Greater Community. This vulnerability, in time, can foster a fundamental cooperation amongst the human family, for you must join and unite in order to survive and to advance. This is part of having a Greater Community awareness. If this is based upon the principles of human contribution, freedom and self-expression, then your self-sufficiency can become very strong and very rich. But there must be greater cooperation in the world. People cannot live for themselves alone or put their own personal goals above and beyond the needs of everyone else. Some may view this as a loss of freedom. We see it as a guarantee for future freedom. For given the current attitudes prevalent in the world today, your future freedom would be very difficult to secure or maintain. Take heed. Those who are driven by their own selfishness are the perfect candidates for foreign influence and manipulation. If they are in positions of power, they will give over their nation’s wealth, their nation’s freedom and their nation’s resources in order to gain advantage for themselves.
Therefore, greater cooperation is required. Surely you can see this. Surely this is apparent even within your own world. But this is very different from the life of the collective, where races have been dominated and controlled, where those who are compliant are brought into the collectives and those who are not are alienated or destroyed. Surely such an establishment, though it may have considerable influence, cannot be beneficial for its members. And yet this is the path that many in the Greater Community have taken. We do not wish to see humanity fall into such an organization. That would be a great tragedy and a loss.
“How is the human perspective different from yours?”
One of the differences is that we have developed a Greater Community perspective, which is a less self-centered way of looking at the world. It is a point of view that gives great clarity and can provide great certainty regarding the smaller problems that you face in your daily affairs. If you can solve a great problem, you can solve lesser ones. You have a great problem. Every human being in the world faces this great problem. It can unite you and enable you to overcome your long-standing differences and conflicts. It is that great and that powerful. This is why we say there is a possibility for redemption within the very circumstances that threaten your well-being and your future.
We know that the power of Knowledge within the individual can restore that individual and all of their relationships to a higher degree of accomplishment, recognition and ability. You must discover this for yourself.
Our lives are very different. One of the differences is that our lives are given to service, a service that we have chosen. We have the freedom to choose and thus our choice is real and meaningful and is based upon our own understanding. Amongst our group are representatives from several different worlds. We have come together in service to humanity. We represent a greater alliance that is more spiritual in nature.
“This message is coming through one man. Why aren’t you contacting everybody if this is so important?”
It is merely a matter of efficiency. We do not control who is selected to receive us. That is a matter for the Unseen Ones, those whom you could rightly call “Angels.” We think of them in this way. They have selected this person, a person who has no position in the world, who is not recognized in the world, an individual who has been chosen because of his qualities and because of his heritage in the Greater Community. We are glad to have one through whom we can speak. If we spoke through more, they perhaps would disagree with one another, and the message would become confused and lost.
We understand, from our own studenthood, that the transmission of spiritual wisdom is generally given through one, with the support of others. This individual must bear the weight and the burden and the risk of being so chosen. We respect him for doing this, and we understand what a burden it can be. This will be misconstrued, perhaps, and that is why the Wise must remain hidden. We must remain hidden. He must remain hidden. In this way, the message can be given, and the messenger can be preserved. For there will be hostility towards this message. The visitors will oppose it and are opposing it already. Their opposition can be significant but will primarily be aimed at the messenger himself. It is for this reason that the messenger must be protected.
We know that the answers to these questions will generate more questions. And many of these cannot be answered, perhaps even for a long time. The Wise anywhere must live with questions that they cannot yet answer. It is through their patience and their perseverance that real answers emerge and that they are able to experience them and embody them.
*These questions were sent to the New Knowledge Library by many of the first readers of the Allies Material.
Final Words
Humanity is at a new beginning. It is faced with a grave situation. The need for a new education and understanding is paramount. We are here to serve this need at the request of the Unseen Ones. They are relying upon us to share our wisdom, for we live in the physical universe, as do you. We are not angelic beings. We are not perfect. We have not achieved great heights of spiritual awareness and accomplishment. And therefore our message to you about the Greater Community, we trust, will be more relevant and more easily received. The Unseen Ones know far more than we about life in the universe and about the levels of advancement and accomplishment that are available and that are practiced in many places. Yet they have asked us to speak regarding the reality of physical life because we are fully engaged there. And we have learned through our own trials and errors the importance and the meaning of what we are sharing with you.
Thus, we come as the Allies of Humanity, for such we are. Be thankful that you have allies that can help you and that can educate you and that can support your strength, your freedom and your accomplishment. For without this assistance, the prospect of your surviving the kind of alien infiltration that you are experiencing now would be very limited. Yes, there would be a few individuals who would come to realize the situation as it actually exists, but their numbers would not be great enough, and their voices would go unheard.
In this, we can only ask for your trust. We hope that through the wisdom of our words and through the opportunities you have to learn their meaning and relevance, that we can gain this trust over time, for you have allies in the Greater Community. You have great friends beyond this world who have suffered the challenges that you are facing now and have achieved success. Because we were assisted, we must now assist others. That is our sacred covenant. It is to this that we are firmly committed.
Nasa says that a series of slow, bright lights seen across the southeastern United States on Monday evening "was not a meteor or fireball".
The space agency says that from the data it currently has about the event, which was caught on camera and reported more than 150 times on the American Meteor Society website (and more "enthusiastically" on Twitter), indicates it was too slow to be a natural (and well timed) visitor from above. One witness said the event was marked by, "two bright objects close together, both with long tails...gradually separated as they crossed the sky".
Instead Nasa thinks the object, which moved at about 14,500 miles per hour across the night sky at around 12.30am, was possibly the reentry of a piece of space debris.
Exactly what the debris was is not clear, however. Bill Cooke, Nasa's head of the Meteoroid Environment Office, said that the object was reported to "have multiple colours and to have broken up into multiple pieces".
Below are some of the videos captured of the event:
"It wasn't a meteor, it moved too slowly. This thing hit the atmosphere moving between 14,000 and 16,000 miles per hour," said Cooke. While that sounds fast, meteors move at 24MPH or slower... and the angle it hit the atmosphere was very shallow, that's not typical of a meteor either."
What it definitely was not, despite what legions of Twitter sky watchers had to say, was an alien spacecraft. "There are four distinct objects, a bright object ahead of the main one... and two fainter ones after that... That's typically what you see in a re-entry," he said. So no, not aliens -- but not an asteroid either. While that might have been pleasing in PR terms for the team at Asteroid Day, it's probably a good thing for the people living directly below the event.
Known formally as 2018 VG18, the object is the first to be observed at a distance of more than 100 astronomical unitsfrom the sun. One AU is the distance from Earth to the sun, or about 93 million miles.
Farout is about 120 AU, or about 11 billion miles, from the sun. If you could drive straight there at a steady 60 miles per hour, you'd be behind the wheel for more than 21,000 years.
"When I first saw Farout and its very slow movement, I immediately knew it was a special object that must be very distant," Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., and a member of the team of astronomers who made the discovery, told NBC News MACH in an email.
Solar System distances to scale showing the newly discovered 2018 VG18, nicknamed "Farout," compared to other known Solar System objects.Roberto Molar Candanosa and Scott S. Sheppard / Carnegie Institution for Science
Speed, of course, is relative. Earth orbits the sun at roughly 19 miles per second, according to Sheppard. Farout orbits at about 1 mile per second. At that speed, he said, it likely takes Farout "more than 1,000 years to complete one revolution" around the sun.
Pluto, which since 2006 has been considered a dwarf planet, is currently at a distance of about 34 AU. It takes Pluto about 248 yearsto complete one orbit of the sun.
Farout is thought to be a roughly spherical object about 300 miles in diameter. Its pinkish hue suggests that it is rich in ice, but little else is known about the object.
Sheppard and the other team members, David Tholen of the University of Hawaii and Chad Trujillo of Northern Arizona University, first spied Farout in photos taken Nov. 18 with the Subaru Telescope on Hawaii's Big Island. The discovery was confirmed in early December with the help of an observatory in Chile.
Discovery images of 2018 VG18, nicknamed "Farout," from the Subaru Telescope on Nov.10, 2018. Farout moves between the two discovery images while the background stars and galaxies do not move over the one hour between images.Scott S. Sheppard and David Tholen
"We are performing the largest and deepest search ever...for distant solar system objects," Sheppard said in the email, adding, "This wasn't a serendipitous discovery, as it is exactly what we are looking for — for solar system objects that are way, way out there, far beyond Pluto."
Sheppard said it would take another year or two of observations to determine the details of Farout's orbit — including whether gravity from another as-yet-undiscovered distant object is affecting the dwarf planet's trajectory.
Once the orbit is nailed down, it could help settle the question of whether there really is a ninth planet orbiting the sun beyond Neptune.
"Other dwarf planets have unusual orbits that suggest a somewhat massive Planet 9 is out there, shepherding the orbits," Sara Seager, a planetary scientist at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said in an email. "It will take time, but once the new object’s orbit is known, it could help bolster or refute the existence of Planet 9."
China On the Moon! A History of Chinese Lunar Missions in Pictures
China On the Moon! A History of Chinese Lunar Missions in Pictures
ByElizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Photo Credit: CNSA
China on the Moon!
What a difference a decade makes. Only 10 years after China sent its first lunar spacecraft on an orbital mission, the nation accomplished something nobody has managed to do before: plunk a lander, Chang'e 4, on the far side of the moon. Read here about the Chinese missions since 2009 and what the pioneering Chang'e 4, which touched down in January 2019, is expected to accomplish.
Photo Credit: CNSA.
1. Chang'e 1
Chang'e 1 launched in October 2007 on a 16-month mission to map the moon. The spacecraft scrutinized the lunar surface, analyzed the composition and depth of the materials there, and also looked at the surrounding environment. The mission fulfilled all of its objectives and controllers deliberately crashed the spacecraft onto the moon on March 2, 2009.
Photo Credit: China Ministry of National Defense/Liberation Army Daily/Zhang Xiaoqi
2. Chang'e 2
Chang'e 2, the second Chinese lunar mission, launched for Earth's nearest close neighbor on Oct. 1, 2010. It returned a high-resolution map of the entire moon's surface and took close-up images of the Bay of Rainbows, where mission planners at the time suggested they might put down the country's first lander. Chang'e-2 left the moon's neighborhood in April 2012 to fly by the asteroid 4179 Toutatis, which it reached in December 2012.
Photo Credit: NAOC
3. Chang'e 3
Chang'e 3 was the third Chinese lunar mission and the first to land on the surface. It made a safe landing on the moon on Dec. 14, 2013, at Mare Imbrium, on a site later called Guang Han Gong (Moon Palace). Chang'e 3 took images of the night sky from its perch on the surface, using an optical telescope, and it sent back imagery of the surrounding area as well as of its rover, Yutu. It also discovered a new kind of basaltic rock in 2015.
Photo Credit: CNTV
4. Yutu rover
Chang'e 3 is most famous for the deployment of its rover, Yutu — the first one to deploy on the moon since 1976. After heading out to the surface on Dec. 14, 2013, Yutu took many images and panoramas that were sent back to Earth, showing the surrounding environment. The rover moved well for a few days in December; by January 2014, after it emerged from the sleep mode it had entered to survive the long lunar night, it appears all drives had stopped. But the rover kept transmitting data until 2015.
Photo Credit: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation/SpaceChina.com
5. Chang'e 5 Test 1
In October 2014, China shifted tracks and launched its first round-trip moon journey, dubbed Chang'e 5 Test 1 mission. The mission was supposed to test the performance of spacecraft items such as its heat shield, guidance, navigation and control. Once analyzed, this information was expected to be included in future lunar-landing missions. The spacecraft also carried some smaller satellites from LuxSpace in Luxembourg and Pocket Spacecraft in the United Kingdom.
Photo Credit: STR/AFP/Getty
6. Landing of Chang'e 5 Test 1
The Chang'e 5 Test 1 mission landed safely in Mongolia on Oct. 31, 2014. Meanwhile, the service module remained in space to run rendezvous tests for the future Chang'e 5 mission, which is expected to bring lunar samples back to Earth. China plans to launch Chang'e 5 late in 2019 and bring back at least 4.4 lbs. (2 kilograms) of samples upon its return.
Photo Credit: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
7. Queqiao Relay Satellite for Chang'e 4
Since landing on the far side of the moon requires a satellite, China sent the Queqiao relay satellite toward the moon on May 20, 2018. The far side of the moon permanently faces away from Earth, so Queqiao acts as a relay for the pictures and data that the Chang'e 4 mission transmits back to Earth. Queqiao is stationed at a gravitationally stable spot called Earth-moon Lagrange point-2, which is roughly 40,000 miles (64,000 kilometers) away from the moon's far side.
Photo Credit: CASC
8.Chang'e 4 to the Moon's Far Side
Chang'e 4 descended into history Jan. 2, 2019, when it made a safe touchdown on the far side of the moon. The spacecraft landed in Von Kármán Crater, taking pictures of its gentle fall using a descent camera. The lander and its rover will work together to learn more about the moon's radiation environment, surface and subsurface. They also will do radio astronomy, as well as a small biosphere experiment.
Photo Credit: CNSA
9. Chang'e 4 Far Side Moon Rover
Early images of the far side of the moon from Change '4 showed a dusty environment that will come under great scrutiny in the weeks after landing, which the mission is exploring with the rover Yutu 2. The far side is a more rugged environment in general than the near side, since tidal erosion has been pulling on the moon's near side and smoothing out the features there for eons. However, there are zones on the far side that are safe enough for lunar landings.
Antarctica Anomalies Documentary 2018 There is Definitely Something Under the Ice (Video)
Antarctica Anomalies Documentary 2018 There is Definitely Something Under the Ice (Video)
Is one of the worlds greatest secrets about to be uncovered? There is a huge magnetic anomaly in Antarctica, on the east coast of lake Vostok’s shoreline. This is what you would see if you found the ruins of an ancient, buried city! Such a discovery would be absolutely dazzling, sending ripples through our world. And there were even stranger stories suddenly coming from the “bottom of the world” in this same time frame, such as witnesses claiming a huge UFO has been discovered under the ice. There are of course the sudden and mysterious evacuations that no one has an explanation for.
This is not a natural anomaly, but generated by some unknown technology deep under the icecap–it may reveal the physics of time and could potentially allow control of the past, and by implication the future.The mind boggles as to what is really going on. Watch thought provoking, extraordinary, educational, eye opening, awesome documentaries by subscribing and of course hit the bell button twice at the top tight of the screen. We will make each film expand the horizons of the viewers open to learning more about the world. We hope you will become aware of many facts you may have been previously unaware of in this Antarctica Documentary.
Dr. Steven Greer Reveals the Forbidden Knowledge of his Contact Experiences (Video)
Dr. Steven Greer Reveals the Forbidden Knowledge of his Contact Experiences (Video)
Join Dr. Steven Greer for a riveting 2 hours discussing the importance of Cosmic Consciousness, Vedic Remote Viewing, the experiences of the Contact groups that have been making contact for over 25 years- and the promise this holds for Universal Peace.
Share in the vision of what the next 500,000 years of human evolution will look like! Father of the Disclosure movement, Dr. Greer presided over the groundbreaking National Press Club Disclosure Event in May 2001. He is author of four insightful books and multiple DVDs on the UFO/ET subject.
He teaches groups worldwide how to make peaceful contact with ET civilizations. Also, he continues to research alternative energy sources and ways to bring that new technology to the public domain.
His work was featured in the “Sirius” documentary on Public Television, which was the largest crowd funded documentary in history at the time of its release.
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Linda Moulten Howe: Alien Abductee Who Was in the UK Military Speaks Out (Video)
Linda Moulten Howe: Alien Abductee Who Was in the UK Military Speaks Out (Video)
Linda Moulton Howe brilliantly explains the strange story of Airman 1st Class John Burroughs approached bright, colorful lights in Rendlesham Forest between RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge they first thought might be fire but then Penniston realized he was looking at a craft of unknown origin.
This important presentation looks at the implications of Burroughs’s full VA medical coverage related to an injury caused by unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) in Rendlesham Forest in 1980, details about the 1947 Kodachrome color slides of purported non-human entities, and an intriguing case of alien abduction.
In late December 1980, there were a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights near Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, which have become linked with claims of UFO landings.
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DID NIXON LEAVE BEHIND EVIDENCE OF ALIENS IN THE WHITE HOUSE?
DID NIXON LEAVE BEHIND EVIDENCE OF ALIENS IN THE WHITE HOUSE?
If there’s anyone with insight into the existence of extraterrestrials, it’s the President of the United States. But when the topic of disclosure comes up, Richard Nixon’s name appears infrequently compared to other presidents tied to the government’s ufological secrets. But according to the testimony of one confidential informant, not only has the government made contact, but Nixon left evidence of the existence of aliens in the White House.
And it remains there to this day, he says, hidden in a time capsule – its location known only to a handful of people. Though, Nixon claimed it would surface when the time was right.
That informant is Earl Robert “Butch” Merritt, a man with a storied career as a confidential agent for the Nixon administration. A man who participated in a variety of intelligence operations in the nascent years of what would later become the NSA’s COINTEL program used to surveil, infiltrate, and disrupt various organizations and target groups even before Watergate.
And while Merritt’s credibility might seem questionable when discussing alien disclosure, his career as an informant is well documented, as are his high-level government connections. Which is why his revelation of a clandestine conversation with Nixon regarding the existence of alien technology and a living extraterrestrial entity is hard to immediately dismiss.
EVIDENCE OF ALIENS IN THE WHITE HOUSE?
President Eisenhower is usually the first name that comes to mind when discussing the White House’s knowledge of an alien presence, particularly in regard to an apocryphal program known as MJ-12, or Majestic 12.
Essentially, MJ-12 was an alleged group of high brass military and government officials organized after the Roswell UFO incident to deal with the implications of an alien presence and its subsequent technology.
And it was that technology recovered from the Roswell crash that is believed to have led to exponential leaps in our technological advancements, many of which have been used to bolster the military industrial complex – an industry Ike so famously warned the world about before leaving office.
Though he didn’t immediately succeed him, Nixon was Eisenhower’s Vice President, making the ufological connection all the more intriguing. It was also relatively well known that Nixon believed in the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrials, despite his release of Project Bluebook’s conclusive analysis; an Air Force study known as the Condon Report, which allegedly put the existence of UFOs to rest.
But according to his testimony, Nixon divulged his knowledge of a “sophisticated intelligent being” to Merritt toward the end of his presidency when he realized the Watergate scandal was becoming an imminent threat. According to Merritt, Nixon claimed the being was alive and in government protection.
He says Nixon entrusted this information to him as he considered Merritt one of his only confidantes, asking him to personally deliver a letter on the subject to Henry Kissinger – a copy of which allegedly remains hidden today somewhere in the White House.
A DARK JOURNALIST’S DISCLOSURE
Merritt’s testimony is corroborated by Douglas Caddy, a man who acted as a defense attorney for the parties convicted in the Watergate scandal and who claims he knows where Nixon’s ET disclosure letter is hidden in the White House. The two published a book titled, Watergate Exposed: How the President of the United States and the Watergate Burglars Were Set Up as told to Douglas Caddy.
Interviews with both men, including Merritt’s accounts of meeting Nixon, and his subsequent mission as letter courier to Kissinger, can be found on the website of Daniel Liszt, an investigative reporter on government and alien conspiracies, who goes by the alias “Dark Journalist.”
Liszt’s interview with Merritt is fascinating in that it delves into his history as one of the most notorious informants for the president and for other city, state, and federal government entities, due to his cutthroat and non-conventional tactics.
In fact, a New York Times profile piece on Merritt confirms this history, focusing specifically on his role helping New York authorities reclaim the Kenmore Hotel – a drug-addled building in Manhattan that was one of the epicenters of the city’s criminal activity in the ’90s.
Merritt was an indispensable tool for Nixon’s Huston Plan – the aforementioned intelligence program to infiltrate and disrupt parties he felt threatened by, particularly political opponents and anti-war groups.
While serving as an informant under the Huston plan, Merritt says he was warned by one of his sources, a switchboard operator next to the Watergate Hotel named Rhita Reid, of the impending investigation into the administration. Merritt said he tried to warn Nixon, but that he wasn’t concerned at the time and didn’t foresee it’s major implications.
Despite this dismissal, Merritt claims he was one of Nixon’s most trusted sources and was even given nicknames including “003” – an obvious James Bond reference. So, when the Watergate scandal played out and the days of the administration waned, Merritt claims he was brought into a secret underground room beneath the White House where Nixon revealed the existence of an alien entity and technology housed at the infamous Nevada military base, Area 51.
“We have possessed knowledge and we have in our protection subjects from a planet X,” Nixon supposedly told Merritt. “Knowledge we obtained so vast and powerful, whoever possesses this knowledge would be the most powerful person in the world,” Merritt recounted.
Merritt claims Nixon then wrote out a lengthy letter that included encrypted formulae to be delivered to Kissinger. He also included two cassette tapes, before sealing the letter and writing something on its outer flap, omitting his normal signature. Nixon then strapped the letter to Merritt’s stomach and sent him to deliver it to its intended recipient for unknown reasons.
Now, he claims that letter remains hidden somewhere in the White House, its location known to he and Caddy who say they will only reveal its location if the National Archives allows one of them to be present to read the letter publicly.
What is there to make of this testimony? While incredibly intriguing at first, there are some pretty farfetched and bizarre aspects to Merritt and Caddy’s story that might be questionable.
It seems if Nixon wanted to clear his name in the annals of history, he would have released this information himself, whether at that moment or before his death. Though in every instance of a president’s alleged attempt at disclosure, the truth always seems to be stranger than fiction.
For more on a U.S. President’s attempt at disclosure check out this episode of Deep Space:
Liet president Nixon bewijs voor aliens achter in het Witte Huis? Informant baart opzien
Liet president Nixon bewijs voor aliens achter in het Witte Huis? Informant baart opzien
De Amerikaanse overheid heeft contact gemaakt met aliens en president Richard Nixon heeft het bewijs daarvoor achtergelaten in het Witte Huis. Dat zegt althans een informant.
Het bewijs zou in een tijdcapsule zitten waar slechts enkele mensen bij kunnen. Nixon zou gezegd hebben dat de capsule op het juiste moment geopend zou worden.
De naam van de informant is Earl Robert ‘Butch’ Merritt. Hij was onder Nixon betrokken bij diverse inlichtingenoperaties die later onder het COINTEL-programma van de NSA vielen.
Brief
Zijn carrière als informant is goed gedocumenteerd. Datzelfde geldt voor zijn connecties met hooggeplaatste overheidsfunctionarissen.
Merritt heeft in een interview met Daniel Liszt, alias Dark Journalist, gezegd dat hij meerdere ontmoetingen heeft gehad met president Nixon op een locatie onder het Witte Huis.
Tijdens één van de ontmoetingen zou Nixon hem een brief hebben voorgelezen die hij daarna in een tijdcapsule zou hebben gestopt.
Buitenaards wezen
De brief bevat volgens Merritt informatie waaruit blijkt dat de Amerikaanse overheid een buitenaards wezen in haar bezit heeft.
Wetenschappers van het Los Alamos National Laboratory leerden te communiceren met het wezen en wisten op die manier veel kennis te vergaren, aldus de informant.
Hij zei dat de president hem vroeg een pakketje met daarin de brief te overhandigen aan toenmalig nationaal veiligheidsadviseur Henry Kissinger.
Bespioneerd
De president benadrukte dat verder niemand wist dat de brief bestond en dat hij niet in de handen mocht vallen van de FBI of CIA.
Merritt was ook betrokken bij het Huston Plan, een geheim programma waarbij politieke vijanden van Nixon werden bespioneerd.
Nog steeds
Hij moest onder meer materiaal verzamelen om senatoren en congresleden te chanteren. Hij stond in de schijnwerpers tijdens de Watergate-hoorzittingen en verscheen later in de New York Times.
Merritt is ervan overtuigd dat de tijdcapsule nog steeds op de plek ligt waar Nixon hem in 1972 heeft verstopt.
Er bestaat een spiegeluniversum waar tijd achteruit loopt en deeltjes antideeltjes zijn, zeggen deze wetenschappers
Er bestaat een spiegeluniversum waar tijd achteruit loopt en deeltjes antideeltjes zijn, zeggen deze wetenschappers
Er bestaat een spiegeluniversum waar de tijd achteruit loopt en deeltjes antideeltjes zijn. Tot die conclusie zijn Canadese wetenschappers gekomen.
In dit heelal, een exact spiegelbeeld van het onze, is alles omgekeerd, aldus de onderzoekers van het Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario.
“We zeggen niet dat er een ander universum was voor de oerknal,” zei onderzoeker Neil Turok. “We zeggen dat dit universum een spiegelbeeld is van het universum na de oerknal.”
Goede kandidaat
Beide universa explodeerden tijdens hun geboorte achteruit en vooruit in de tijd.
Op deze manier is donkere materie veel gemakkelijker te verklaren, legde Latham Boyle uit. Eén van de deeltjes die al bestaan vormt namelijk een goede kandidaat voor donkere materie.
Het gaat om de zogeheten steriele neutrino, die door gewone materie kan gaan zonder dat je het merkt.
Geen massa
De Canadese wetenschappers gaan nu aan de hand van meetbare experimenten testen of ze gelijk hebben.
Hun model voorspelt bijvoorbeeld dat de lichtste neutrino’s helemaal geen massa zouden moeten hebben.
Heel drastisch
Als ze gelijk hebben moeten we mogelijk onze kijk op het universum bijstellen.
“Het is heel drastisch,” zei Turok. “Het druist volledig in tegen de manier waarop we de natuurkunde de afgelopen 30 jaar hebben benaderd.”
“A very intriguing aircraft was being reported in the late 1980s. Some observers claim to have witnessed a vast black flying wing, estimated at between 600 and 800 feet in width, passing silently over city streets in California.”
The quote above, featured at one time as part of a description featured online at the website of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), dealt with an alleged aircraft that, since the 1980s, has become a mainstay of modern UFO literature.
“The craft moved so slowly one observer claimed that he could jog along with it,” the entry continued. “The aircraft reportedly executed bizarre maneuvers in which it stopped, rotated in place and hovered vertically, pointing its thin trailing edge toward the ground. This vehicle’s unlikely gyrations suggest that it is distinct from the other sightings, and could be a lighter-than-air craft pushed by slow-turning propellers.”
The description here is strange indeed, and although the FAS didn’t provide additional details about the circumstances or witnesses to the events described above, the description is generally similar to other written accounts of so-called “flying triangles” that have appeared over the years.
A number of years ago, while filling in as host of a local radio program in my hometown of Asheville, North Carolina, I received a call from a man named Brian, who shared his own story of seeing one of these aircraft over our town in 1988. Having discussed Brian’s story numerous times on my podcast, The Gralien Report, I had always hoped that some form of verification of the sighting might occur, since I was never able to track down the caller (despite numerous efforts, and a few near-misses, over the years).
However, late last year I did finally receive word from a gentleman named Randy who, upon listening to a description of the events from 1988 on an episode of my podcast, wrote to me and shared his own experience from around the same time, and just a little North of Asheville.
“Something caught my attention yesterday on my drive,” Randy said in his email to me. “I was listening to this weeks episode about UFO Cults & Odd Cases when you were recounting someone’s tale regarding a triangle shaped craft in the Asheville area back in the late 80s. The reason I’m writing is, I think I saw the same one.”
Randy shared the following story about his sighting:
“I grew up in Southwestern Virginia right on the VA/TN border.My grandmother lived in Kingsport, TN and we used to visit her frequently. I must of been around 9 or 10 years old at the time.One night, as we were about to leave to head home, my dad was already outside talking with my grandmother saying their goodbyes. Dad called for me to come outside. Hearing the urgency in his voice, my brother and I ran outside to see Dad and Grandmother staring up at the sky.”
“It only took a second to see what they were looking at,” Randy said. As he stepped outside, he saw an object at a distance he judged to be approximately 100 feet above the tree line in the distance. The object was “a large black triangle” which appeared to have a single light at each corner. Randy also remembered there being “a larger light in the center.”
“It moved very slowlyand made no sound.I couldn’t make out any features other than the general shape and the lights. We all stood there and watched it as we discussed what it might be for what seemed like five minutes or so.We watched it until it disappeared to the west.”
“As you know, Kingsport is roughly sixty miles straight line distance from Asheville, and the time frame seems to fit.So who knows, maybe it was the same thing.”
Did Brian and Randy see the same aircraft? Who knows… it’s possible, at least, although there’s no way to prove that. If anything, what it really suggests is that an aircraft that matches the description of both observers here—possibly some kind of military aircraft akin to a “stealth blimp,” as some have inferred over the years—is seen more often than some would expect.
Or, at least, that such an aircraft was certainly making its rounds over the Southeastern United States during the late 1980s. Supposing for a moment that this aircraft was part of a highly classified black budget program, questions remain as to what it’s operational goals might have been (reconnaissance, weapons delivery, transport, etc). While reports continue today, it seems the “buzz” surrounding sightings of this aircraft hit their peak during the 1990s, with notable incidents that may involve a similar aircraft extending into the new millennium; most notably, the well-documented January 2000 Saint Clair, Illinois incident.
In any case, the intrigue that surrounds reports of these large “triangle” aircraft has persisted over the years; whether or not they are seen as frequently today, they remain indelibly a part of the culture of UFO and black budget speculations in modern America.
In 1915 a man namedRobert Rich Sharp discovered a huge vein of uranium at a mine in the town of Shinkolobwe, in the Congo. And “huge” only barely fits the bill: Edgar Sengier, the Belgian director of the Union Miniere du Haut Katanga mining company secured no less than 4,200 tons of uranium from the massive vein that extended for more than 400 kilometers. Such was the quality of the uranium, it was used extensively in the U.S. Government’s Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, at the height of the Second World War. Overseeing the uranium production at Oak Ridge, Tennessee was Major General Kenneth Nichols. He said ofthe uranium deposits in the Belgian Congo:
“Our best source, the Shinkolobwe mine, represented a freak occurrence in nature. It contained a tremendously rich lode of uranium pitchblende. Nothing like it has ever again been found. The ore already in the United States contained 65 percent U3O8, while the pitchblende aboveground in the Congo amounted to a thousand tons of 65 percent ore, and the waste piles of ore contained two thousand tons of 20 percent U3O8. To illustrate the uniqueness of Sengier’s stockpile, after the war the MED and the AEC considered ore containing three-tenths of 1 percent as a good find. Without Sengier’s foresight in stockpiling ore in the United States and above ground in Africa, we simply would not have had the amounts of uranium needed to justify building the large separation plants and the plutonium reactors.”
All of which brings us to 1952, the CIA, and flying saucers. A CIA document of August 16, 1952, reveals the following, taken from a media report: “Recently, two fiery disks were sighted over the uranium mines located in the southern part of the Belgian Congo in the Elizabethville district, east of the Luapula River which connects the Meru and Bangweolo lakes. The disks glided in elegant curves and changed their position many times, so that from below they sometimes appeared as plates, ovals, and simply lines. Suddenly, both disks hovered in one spot and then took off in a unique zigzag flight to the northeast. A penetrating hissing and buzzing sound was audible to the on-lookers below. The whole performance lasted from 10 to 12 minutes.”
The story continued that a Commander Pierre, who operated out of a nearby airstrip called Elizabethville, and to whose attention the presence of the UFOs had been brought, raced to his fighter-plane and was soon in the skies, in hot pursuit. Incredibly, Pierre actually managed to close-in on one of the craft, to a perilously close 120 meters. In such dicey, near proximity, Pierre was able to get a good look at the object before him. It was, he said, somewhere between twelve and fifteen meters in diameter, shaped like a “discus,” and aluminum-like color. It had an “inner core” which remained completely still, while its outer rim was aflame and spinning, something which led the commander to conclude that the UFO must have had an enormous speed of rotation.
The movements of the UFOs made it clear to Pierre that what he was seeing was not secret, prototype aircraft: they traveled both horizontally and vertically, their elevation went from 800 to 1,000 meters in barely a second or two, and, at one point they even dramatically dropped to heights of barely sixty feet above the trees surrounding the mine. Due to the devastating effects of incredible G-forces that such maneuvers would have had on a pilot, Pierre could only conclude that the vehicles were remotely-flown – by whom, he had no idea. The chase came to an end when, after about fifteen minutes, both UFOs suddenly made loud, piercing whistling noises and accelerated to what Pierre concludes was around 1,500 kilometers per hour and were gone from view in an instant.
It was a sensational affair that was never resolved.
It seems like each week, maybe even each day, there are new reports of unexplained booms or explosions in the sky and no answers left in their wake. This week’s most mysterious unexplained booms come from Utah, where residents of South Salt Lake say something strange is occurring at night. For years, residents say, bright flashes followed by loud booms have woken them up in the middle of the night and police have been unable to pin down what’s causing the phenomenon.
Nighttime view of Salt Lake City, Utah as seen from the ISS.
One South Salt Lake City resident, Karl Turley, told local news outlets that the noises and flashes can be terrifying, particularly for former military service members like himself:
Our neighborhood got shaken up where it just exploded out of nowhere, causing us to kind of go in a frenzy. It is loud enough that it was explosive. I’m not the only veteran who lives in this community so it can kind of shake you up when you hear it.
Surveillance cameras on Turley’s home caught one of the explosions on video. The South Salt Lake City Police Department is currently reviewing the footage to try and determine the mystery boom’s source.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Less than an hour to the north, people throughout Ogden, Utah heard and felt a similar boom this past weekend. The noise and tremor occurred around 11:00 am on January 5 and was described as similar to a sonic boom by some witnesses, while others described it as “like a cross between a sonic boom and an earthquake tremor.” Concerned residents flooded local news stations with calls and emails to try and figure out what the noises were, but so far there are no answers.
The nearby Hill Air Force Base is a prime suspect in the case of the Ogden boom, but so far the base has not claimed responsibility. If these booms in Utah are anything like the other myriad booms being heard and felt throughout the world, we’ll likely never hear about them again. With these booms being reported at such a high frequency, you’d think that more attention would be paid to them by law enforcement and major news outlets. I don’t know about you, but I find the silence pretty unsettling. Who knows something we don’t?
It’s aliens! It’s HAARP! It’s the ghost of Darth Vader making sure you never ever forget his sacrifice! Or not. Either way, a recent video has surfaced showing what could be interpreted as all those things. A glowing red pillar of light appeared in the skies over Edmonton, Alberta earlier this month. It was filmed by a group of witnesses who, in turn, suggested all of those explanations (more or less).
Here’s a link to the video. It’s an eerie sort of light that just hangs there in the sky, perfectly still, for the duration of the video. There’s a presence to it, the beam of light is thick and seems to pulse, though perhaps that’s simply due to the refraction through the clouds. According to Youtube channel Secureteam10, who shared and commented on this video, this is far from the first sighting of these mysterious red pillars of light. Apparently they have been seen all over the globe, as well as spotted in footage from the International Space Station. So what is it?
Another example of the mysterious pillars of light.
The first thing that comes to mind is a laser pointer illuminating low hanging clouds. Yeah, that’s a pretty boring explanation, I know, but that’s also the simplest. However, if it was someone just pointing a laser straight up, it wouldn’t be perfectly still. It’s near impossible to keep something perfectly still and pointed perfectly vertical unless you have the physical discipline of a Buddhist monk. So if it was a laser, it would have to be mounted on something. Also, what would be the purpose? Other than staging a weird video for imaginary internet points, of course.
The other problem with the laser hypothesis is that the beam ends abruptly and symmetrically at the top and bottom. If it was a laser, there should be more of a gradual tapering of the beam. Of course, that’s also the problem with one of the other, more paranoid explanations: that it’s one of those new directed energy weapons that’s taking the blame for just about everything these days.
OK. What about HAARP? While it’s hilarious to think of the shadow government targeting Edmonton, Alberta, specifically, with their swiss-army-knife weather manipulation super-weapon (or something) for no good reason other than to spook some folks, it just doesn’t make sense. Which is usually the case whenever HAARP gets brought up.
So, aliens then. It’s got to be aliens. Towards the end of the video, one of the people in the video notices something small and black fly across the light at high speed. Perhaps these lights are portals for the ever-upcoming alien invasion. Although it’s totally understandable to look at a weird light, see a shape flying near it, and see a pattern, there’s absolutely no logical reason to think those two things are connected. Birds don’t take time off when something spooky is happening.
Actually, the most reasonable explanation is a natural phenomenon. It’s known, predictably, as “light pillars.” In cold weather, ice crystals in clouds can refract light in such a way that it looks like a pillar of light disconnected from the ground. This would explain the symmetry, the shimmering quality, and the stillness of the beam. There’s likely a red light from a business or sign directly beneath the mysterious pillar, yet hidden from the perspective of the video.
What about the International Space Station? Well, if you look at the still from the space station video, it doesn’t really look anything like a light pillar. It’s red and it’s a line, yes. But that’s where the similarities end. There’s no symmetry, it is not perfectly vertical, and it only appears briefly. It’s safe to say it’s not the same thing. Which means that, yes, it could still be an inter-dimensional alien portal. Most things are, until proven otherwise.
The scientific explanation
However, skeptics have another different opinion. The lights would actually be a fairly common atmospheric phenomenon called pillars of light. Although they look a lot like the aurora, they are not related to the Northern Lights, which are caused by electrically charged particles from the atoms that excite space in the Earth’s upper atmosphere, which causes them to release a spectacular light. Instead, these pillars occur in freezing temperatures when hexagonal ice crystals form lower in the atmosphere than they normally would.
When this happens, the crystals essentially form a collective giant mirror, which can reflect a source of light, like the lights of the city and the automobile. The pillars of light are an optical phenomenon that belongs to the halo family, since it is due to the interaction of light with ice crystals. It would simply show that nature tends to be more spectacular than science fiction itself. It is clear that this is the skeptical explanation, but perhaps its origin is not as logical as it seems.
What do you think of the pillar of light on Canada? Is it a natural phenomenon, directed energy weapons or is it of extraterrestrial origin?
The Devil’s Sea, also known as the Dragon’s Triangle, is a region of water close to the Japanese coast. This area is considered by many to be of paranormal nature after hundreds of ships have disappeared over the years. However, Professor Junichi Yaoi believes there is an even more outrageous explanation to the strange activity.
The author and expert in paranormal activity claimed there could be a black hole sucking ships below the waters during Amazon Prime’s “The Devil’s Sea” documentary.
He detailed during the 2003 series: “There are many possible answer for their disappearance.
“Basically I think some of the tankers sank because of the conditions of the sea during storms.
“But then they just disappear.
A Black hole could be opening up in the Pacific Ocean, it has been claimed
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Junichi Yaoi is a professor of ufology
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I think they go to another dimension
Junichi Yaoi
“I think they go to another dimension – I think an entrance opens in that area [of seabed]".
However, most scientists have been quick to label Professor Yaoil’s theories as science fiction.
In 1980, the unforgiving waters claimed a huge British ship – The Derbyshire – after it left Quebec, Canada, and headed towards Japan.
The British vessel was around 230 miles from Okinawa, Japan, when it mysteriously vanished with 150,000 tonnes of iron a full crew.
Junichi Yaoi believes a black hole has openend
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A number of ships have gone missing
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It was the largest British ship lost at sea.
The ship was only four years old and never issued a Mayday distress message during the incident.
It was not until 14 years later, in June 1994, that the wreck of The Derbyshire was found at a depth of 4km, spread over 1.3km.
Komen schepen via de Drakendriehoek in een andere dimensie terecht? Deze professor denkt van wel
Komen schepen via de Drakendriehoek in een andere dimensie terecht? Deze professor denkt van wel
Schepen die midden op de oceaan zijn verdwenen, zijn een ‘zwart gat’ binnengegaan. Dat zegt een professor in de documentaire ‘The Devil’s Sea’ die momenteel te zien is op Amazon Prime.
De Drakendriehoek, ook wel Devil’s Sea genoemd, bevindt zich in de buurt van de Japanse kust.
Door de jaren heen zijn hier honderden schepen verdwenen.
Zwart gat
Professor Junichi Yaoi zegt in de documentaire, die in 2003 uitkwam, dat zich in de Drakendriehoek een zwart gat bevindt dat schepen opslokt.
“Er zijn vele mogelijke verklaringen voor de verdwijning van de schepen,” zei hij.
“Ik denk dat sommige schepen zijn gezonken vanwege de omstandigheden op zee tijdens een storm,” vervolgde hij.
Andere dimensie
“Vervolgens zijn ze gewoon verdwenen,” klonk het. “Ik denkt dat ze naar een andere dimensie gaan en dat zich in dat gebied een opening bevindt.”
In 1980 verdween een enorm Brits schip – The Derbyshire – in de Drakendriehoek toen het op weg was van Quebec in Canada naar Japan.
Het schip bevond zich op enkele honderden kilometers van Okinawa in Japan toen het op mysterieuze wijze verdween met 150.000 ton ijzer en voltallige bemanning aan boord.
Geen noodsignaal
Het schip was slechts vier jaar oud en stuurde tijdens het incident geen noodsignaal uit.
Pas 14 jaar later, in juni 1994, werd het wrak van The Derbyshire op een diepte van vier kilometer gevonden.
Massive UFO orbiting Asteroid seen by Ufologists in NASA image
Massive UFO orbiting Asteroid seen by Ufologists in NASA image
According to latest reports, a massive UFO has been seen by Ufologists orbiting a near-Earth Asteroid in official NASA images
According to Alien hunters, a Massive metallic Unidentified Flying Objects ahs been seen orbiting an asteroid near Earth. The bizarre claim comes after NASA footage released on the internet, displays an ‘anomalous object’ seen descending towards the Asteroid. While NASA claims it is just another near-Earth asteroid with a small moon accompanying it, UFO hunters argue that it is actually a massive UFO with clearly visible metallic cylinders.
The GIF image released by the Space agency on January 26 in 2015, displays an anomalous rotating object at the center of the black and with images, with a UFO descending toward it. Now, after the asteroid hurtled passed Earth, alien hunters claim that the asteroid was in fact accompanied by a long metallic ufo, with two small cylinders at the sides.
Scot Waring from USO Sightings Daily suggests that the asteroid is in fact accompanied by an alleged UFO which he says, orbits asteroid 2004 BL86.
The asteroid of over 1000 feet in width, passed by Earth at a distance of 745,000 miles. Even though NASA claims no UFO’s are visible in the image, Waring and others suggest that the object saw ‘shadowing’ asteroid 2004 BL86 is, in fact, a metallic UFO with a diameter of over 200 feet.
On UFO sightings Daily, Warring claims:
‘Below, you see the close-up view of the UFO that is orbiting asteroid 2004 BL86 right now. The UFO is 70 meters long,’ writes Waring.
‘They call the UFO a small moon, but it’s [sic] not. As you see from the focused photos below, the [sic] UFO has a long metallic cylinder hull and two smaller cylinder sections on opposite sides.
‘The UFO is spinning, which gives us a great view of it from different angles as you see below. It came 750,000 miles from Earth.’
After comparing the images, could, altered an original, Waring believes that a multi-cylinder UFO is clearly visible.
Skeptics and NASA reports suggest that we aren’t seeing anything anomalous here. In fact, according to the Space Agencies, such pairings aren’t at all that uncommon, and there are numerous other examples in our solar system.
‘[The images] show the primary body is approximately 1,100 feet (325 meters) across and has a small moon approximately 230 feet (70 meters) across,’ Nasa writes.
‘In the near-Earth population, about 16 percent of asteroids that are about 655 feet (200 meters) or larger are a binary (the primary asteroid with a smaller asteroid moon orbiting it) or even triple systems (two moons).
‘The resolution of the radar images is 13 feet (4 meters) per pixel.
‘The trajectory of asteroid 2004 BL86 is well understood,’ Nasa writes.
This explanation hasn’t satisfied ufologists and Alien hunters who firmly believe NASA knows more than what they are telling us.
Many Alien hunters firmly believe our solar system is filled with Extraterrestrial ‘spy’ satellites and suggest that the one seen in the official NASA images is just one of the many in our Solar System.
Whether we are looking at an actual UFO orbiting a near-Earth asteroid or not is up for debate, but we won’t be able to take a peek at the mysterious duo anytime soon as these two mysterious objects won’t pass near Earth for at least 200 years. is up for debate, but we won’t be able to take a peek at the mysterious duo anytime soon as these two mysterious objects won’t pass near Earth for at least 200 years.
Asteroid flying by earth accompanied by a strange looking moon
Asteroid flying by earth accompanied by a strange looking moon
On January 7, 2019 a near-Earth asteroid 2016 AZ8 flew past the Earth-Moon system only 2.8 million miles away.
Astronomers at the giant Arecibo radar in Puerto Rico pinged the space rock as it approached. Using a pulsed beam of radio energy at 2380 MHz, they found that 2016 AZ8 has a moon.
Image: It is assumed that the object above the asteroid is the small moon or is it of extraterrestrial origin?
The radar team says the primary is nearly spherical with a diameter of 430 meters, while the asteroid's moon is more elongated, like a cigar, measuring 180 meters on its long axis.
One day later on January 8, 2019 asteroid 2019 AS5 flew past Earth only 8600 km above our planet's surface.
Despite that this asteroid was closer to our planet than many satellites it was discovered nine hours after the flyby by the Mt. Lemmon Survey telescope in Arizona.
The diagram shows 2019 AS5 inside the orbits of GPS and other geosynchronous satellites.
According to SpaceWeather; if the 1 to 2 meter-wide space rock had hit Earth (and it almost did) it would have caused a brilliant fireball in the atmosphere with sonic booms and scattered meteorites on the ground--but no serious damage.
Here is a UFO caught a few days ago over Lake Winnipeg. The UFO is moving much too slowly to be a meteor from space and even too slow to be a jet. Oddly is seems to also have a fat head and yellow and orange back before the tail turns into a contrail. Of course someone tried to play it off as an illusion or trick of the sky. Its there, no tricks, its real. I also believe if the lake was fully investigated, someone will find a large round melted hole through which this UFO entered. This way it could enter an underwater base nearby.
Scott C. Waring
News states:
It's not out of this world, but a ball of light that was captured flying over Lake Winnipeg is still a unique event, according to those who study Manitoba's skies. A video of the drifting object was captured on Jan. 11, about 15 kilometres from Jackhead, Man. Henry Traverse says his 16-year-old granddaughter Kieisha Traverse was out fishing on Lake Winnipeg around 3 p.m. when she noticed the ball of light in the sky and took out her phone to record it. "I didn't know what to say or think," Traverse said. "We rarely see those kinds of things in the daytime, but we have experienced those kinds of things in the night," he said. "We have stories that date back — that old fishermen saw fast-moving objects disappearing into the water into the lake," he said.
Wow! I just took a look at this amazing panoramic photo of Chinas after they landed the rover on the dark side of the moon...and what did I find? I instantly noticed a stage prop line for placement of the rover in the photo! Thats right, someone mistakenly placed a line in front of the rover and forgot to erase it. Or they should have made the line much smaller. This screams staged event all together. This is very disappointing, but I guess China may have decided since NASA faked the first Apollo moon landing and got away with it, then China wanted in on it too. Sure I could be wrong, but if you look at the original photo you will see that there are no other lines in the entire giant panoramic photo. OMG, this is so very disappointing. Notice the lack of moon rocks on the entire surface of the moon...which is exactly what the first Apollo moon landing also showed...a sign of being faked on a stage. I sure hope that I'm proven wrong on this one. This is not what I wanted to find in this photo. Scott C. Waring
United States, Navy Captain releases interview on the Battle of Dulce and Secret Space Program!
United States, Navy Captain releases interview on the Battle of Dulce and Secret Space Program!
We offer a very interesting interview with Captain Mark Richards released by Vacaville prison in November 2013 and the previous month of July 2014.
Mark Richards was a Navy officer involved in the Battle of Dulce and very active in the secret space program US Space Command. He was arrested for an alleged murder in reality never committed, classic behavior of the government against someone who knows too many things…
We recall that the Base Dulce is the name given to a hypothetical military installation located in the subsoil of Dulce (New Mexico) (USA). This possible basis is very present in the conspiracy theories concerning UFOs and urban legends of the same environment. According to some ufologists, the base really exists, and covered by military activities is a hub for the study of alien species, new aircraft of the latest generation (Stealth and TR3B) and innovative weapons (impulse cannons or particle beam, microwave, laser , etc …).
Currently, the existence of this base is only the subject of debate, there are no photos or videos to test the ufologists supporters of its existence, unlike the Area 51 but whose existence has been established.
Interview with Captain Mark Richards
This is the first time, in over 30 years of his imprisonment, that a journalist is able to interview him; Kerry Lynn Cassidy did it, although he was not allowed to document this interview face-to-face with the camera or any other recording device. Cassidy was also forbidden to take notes during the interview, everything you are about to see is the result of the memory after the meeting with Richards. Shortly before the interview Cassidy managed to speak briefly with his wife Jo Ann who was also present during the interview.
“When the truth was clear to everyone that sub-human beings and other creatures were produced by abducted human females, pregnant against their own will, a group of secret resistance formed by military and intelligence personnel, themselves that after having renounced their role within the Intelligence Agency, having been blackmailed in order to keep what was happening secretly, they were murdered or died in suspicious circumstances. ”
The Dutch Ellis Loyd Richards Jr., the official agent of the Air Force, met the aliens at Holloman (Air Force Base) in 1964, the same man who allegedly ordered the attack on Dulce in 1979, and whose son, captain Mark Richards would bring the human attack on the structure of the EDH (Earth Defense Headquarter). The interview was recorded in November 2013 but we repeat it through the words of the researcher Carry Cassidy who spent almost 4 hours with the former captain and has transcribed the whole interview.
DISCOVERED 4,000-YEAR EXTRATERRESTRIAL SHIP GRAND CANYON OF COLORADO
DISCOVERED 4,000-YEAR EXTRATERRESTRIAL SHIP GRAND CANYON OF COLORADO
Several months ago, a specialized team of experts was hired to examine the remains found in the US Grand Canyon.
When they arrived at the scene, it was said that they had discovered the body of a UFO that had been there for more than 4,000 years.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – A team of experts called in to examine strange debris at the bottom of the Grand Canyon discovered the wreckage of a UFO that crashed a mind-boggling 4,000 years ago!
The scientists, members of a secret joint military task force on UFOs, inspected the spherical craft and found it to be in good condition despite its rough landing and incredible age.
The relic is made of an unknown metallic substance and emits low levels of radiation, according to leaks from highly placed sources. It was immediately removed from the site and is now in a secret location.
“My contacts tell me this craft is definitely of extraterrestrial origin and without a doubt carried a crew of 12 to 20 individuals,” said Dr. Henry Leaumont, a California-based astronomer who contacted Weekly World News after he was shown secret Air Force documents relating to the find. “Carbon dating shows it crash-landed at the base of the canyon around 2,000 B.C.
“Cabin features suggest that the crew members were much like humans, although significantly smaller. They apparently breathed oxygen, guided their atom-powered craft with a magnetic steering system and carried supplies of food and water onboard.”
According to reports filed by the scientific team, the spacecraft was lodged in limestone rubble at the base of the canyon not far from an area called Comanche Point.
A thorough inspection of the landing site revealed that the spacecraft’s occupants left their ship and lived near it for a number of years after it crashed.
This impression is confirmed by Indian cave paintings made at the time, the Air Force secret documents attest. The paintings, found near the crash site, show strange humanoid creatures with bulbous heads. Experts believe these creatures were the aliens who arrived in the ancient UFO.
“The ship is made of an extremely light metallic fiber,” Dr. Leaumont said. “It measures about 50 feet across at its widest point and it is 102 feet long. It’s an incredible find – the latest in a series of artifacts collected secretly and hidden away in government UFO study centers.
“There’s a lot of official concern about keeping this latest discovery a secret. They’ve been covering up the truth about alien contacts for 50 years and they’re not going to stop now. They want to study this thing, but they want it only for themselves.
“Who knows what scientists might learn if they’d share this priceless find with the rest of the world?”
Is the moon really "a harsh mistress?" (Composite image)
Credit: World Perspectives/Getty Images
China's Chang'e-4 landertouched down on the far side of the moon (Jan. 3 Beijing time, Jan. 2 US), and it's got some living things on board.
A small "tin" in the lander contains seeds of potatoes and rockcress (Arabidopsis thaliana, a flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard, as well as amodel organismfor plant biology), as well as silkworm eggs. The idea, according to a reportin The Telegraph earlier this year, is that the plants will support the silkworms with oxygen, and the silkworms will in turn provide the plants with necessary carbon dioxide and nutrients through their waste. The researchers will watch the plants carefully to see whether the plants successfully perform photosynthesis, and grow and bloom in the lunar environment.
"We want to study the respiration of the seeds and the photosynthesis on the moon," Xie Gengxin, chief designer of the experiment, told Xinhua, a Chinese state-run news agency. [See Spectacular Lunar Mission Images in 3D (Photos)]
The "biosphere" experiment was the product of a collaboration between 28 Chinese universities, led by southwest China's Chongqing University, according to Xinhua. The experiment, which is tucked inside a 1.4-pint (0.8 liters) aluminum alloy cylinder, weighs about 7 lbs. (3 kilograms) and includes dirt, nutrients and water. Sunlight will filter into the container through a "tube," and small cameras will watch the little environment. That data will beam back to Earth by means of the complicated relay system China has set up to communicate with an experiment that has no direct line of sight to Earth.
"Why potato and Arabidopsis? Because the growth period of Arabidopsis is short and convenient to observe. And potato could become a major source of food for future space travelers," said Liu Hanlong, chief director of the experiment and vice president of Chongqing University, as reported by Xinhua. "Our experiment might help accumulate knowledge for building a lunar base and long-term residence on the moon."
Rockcress has been grown in space before, including in one experiment on the International Space Station that showed the plants' leaves appearing to rise and fall as they detected the moon's gravity. But whether the flowering plant will flourish in the environment of the far side of the moon remains an open question.
For now, though, this means that there's life in at least one other place in the solar system (even if it's only because we put it there).
Our planet's magnetic field is in a constant state of change, say researchers who are beginning to understand how it behaves and why.
Every few years, scientist Larry Newitt of the Geological Survey of Canada goes hunting. He grabs his gloves, parka, a fancy compass, hops on a plane and flies out over the Canadian arctic. Not much stirs among the scattered islands and sea ice, but Newitt's prey is there--always moving, shifting, elusive.
His quarry is Earth's north magnetic pole.
At the moment it's located in northern Canada, about 600 km from the nearest town: Resolute Bay, population 300, where a popular T-shirt reads "Resolute Bay isn't the end of the world, but you can see it from here." Newitt stops there for snacks and supplies--and refuge when the weather gets bad. "Which is often," he says.
Right: The movement of Earth's north magnetic pole across the Canadian arctic, 1831--2001. Credit: Geological Survey of Canada. [More]
Scientists have long known that the magnetic pole moves. James Ross located the pole for the first time in 1831 after an exhausting arctic journey during which his ship got stuck in the ice for four years. No one returned until the next century. In 1904, Roald Amundsen found the pole again and discovered that it had moved--at least 50 km since the days of Ross.
The pole kept going during the 20th century, north at an average speed of 10 km per year, lately accelerating "to 40 km per year," says Newitt. At this rate it will exit North America and reach Siberia in a few decades.
Keeping track of the north magnetic pole is Newitt's job. "We usually go out and check its location once every few years," he says. "We'll have to make more trips now that it is moving so quickly."
Earth's magnetic field is changing in other ways, too: Compass needles in Africa, for instance, are drifting about 1 degree per decade. And globally the magnetic field has weakened 10% since the 19th century. When this was mentioned by researchers at a recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union, many newspapers carried the story. A typical headline: "Is Earth's magnetic field collapsing?"
Probably not. As remarkable as these changes sound, "they're mild compared to what Earth's magnetic field has done in the past," says University of California professor Gary Glatzmaier.
Sometimes the field completely flips. The north and the south poles swap places. Such reversals, recorded in the magnetism of ancient rocks, are unpredictable. They come at irregular intervals averaging about 300,000 years; the last one was 780,000 years ago. Are we overdue for another? No one knows.
Above: Magnetic stripes around mid-ocean ridges reveal the history of Earth's magnetic field for millions of years. The study of Earth's past magnetism is called paleomagnetism. Image credit: USGS. [More]
According to Glatzmaier, the ongoing 10% decline doesn't mean that a reversal is imminent. "The field is increasing or decreasing all the time," he says. "We know this from studies of the paleomagnetic record." Earth's present-day magnetic field is, in fact, much stronger than normal. The dipole moment, a measure of the intensity of the magnetic field, is now 8 x 1022 amps x m2. That's twice the million-year average of 4 x 1022 amps x m2.
To understand what's happening, says Glatzmaier, we have to take a trip ... to the center of the Earth where the magnetic field is produced.
At the heart of our planet lies a solid iron ball, about as hot as the surface of the sun. Researchers call it "the inner core." It's really a world within a world. The inner core is 70% as wide as the moon. It spins at its own rate, as much as 0.2o of longitude per year faster than the Earth above it, and it has its own ocean: a very deep layer of liquid iron known as "the outer core."
Right: a schematic diagram of Earth's interior. The outer core is the source of the geomagnetic field. [Larger image]
Earth's magnetic field comes from this ocean of iron, which is an electrically conducting fluid in constant motion. Sitting atop the hot inner core, the liquid outer core seethes and roils like water in a pan on a hot stove. The outer core also has "hurricanes"--whirlpools powered by the Coriolis forces of Earth's rotation. These complex motions generate our planet's magnetism through a process called the dynamo effect.
Using the equations of magnetohydrodynamics, a branch of physics dealing with conducting fluids and magnetic fields, Glatzmaier and colleague Paul Roberts have created a supercomputer model of Earth's interior. Their software heats the inner core, stirs the metallic ocean above it, then calculates the resulting magnetic field. They run their code for hundreds of thousands of simulated years and watch what happens.
What they see mimics the real Earth: The magnetic field waxes and wanes, poles drift and, occasionally, flip. Change is normal, they've learned. And no wonder. The source of the field, the outer core, is itself seething, swirling, turbulent. "It's chaotic down there," notes Glatzmaier. The changes we detect on our planet's surface are a sign of that inner chaos.
They've also learned what happens during a magnetic flip. Reversals take a few thousand years to complete, and during that time--contrary to popular belief--the magnetic field does not vanish. "It just gets more complicated," says Glatzmaier. Magnetic lines of force near Earth's surface become twisted and tangled, and magnetic poles pop up in unaccustomed places. A south magnetic pole might emerge over Africa, for instance, or a north pole over Tahiti. Weird. But it's still a planetary magnetic field, and it still protects us from space radiation and solar storms.
Above: Supercomputer models of Earth's magnetic field. On the left is a normal dipolar magnetic field, typical of the long years between polarity reversals. On the right is the sort of complicated magnetic field Earth has during the upheaval of a reversal. [More]
And, as a bonus, Tahiti could be a great place to see the Northern Lights. In such a time, Larry Newitt's job would be different. Instead of shivering in Resolute Bay, he could enjoy the warm South Pacific, hopping from island to island, hunting for magnetic poles while auroras danced overhead.
Sometimes, maybe, a little change can be a good thing.
More Information
The Geodynamo -- (Gary Glatzmaier) An overview of Earth's magnetic history and the physics of the geodynamo
The North Magnetic Pole -- (Geological Survey of Canada) find out where the north magnetic pole is now, and much more.
Enoch: The Story Of Extraterrestrial Fallen Angels
Enoch: The Story Of Extraterrestrial Fallen Angels
Angels make frequent appearances in the holy scriptures and continue to play an active role in the popular imagination. While many people believe that these beings are either symbolic or supernaturalfigures, others believe that angels could be extra-terrestrials. The Book ofEnochgives an intriguing view on this controversial position.
While most people associated angels with the Christian faith, they are actually a mainstay of many ancient cultural traditions. Many of the earliest known civilizations in the Near East, including the ancient Sumerians, the Babylonians, and the Egyptians had their own narratives surrounding angelic beings. These beings tended to manifest themselves as beings with wings which served as the agents of higher gods. The higher gods utilized the angels as messengers and watchers who would visit the Earthly dimension at their behest.
One of the most explicit descriptions of angels serving in this capacity comes from the Book of Enoch in the Old Testament. The Book of Enoch describes a vast number of angels settling on the planet Earth who set out to teach Enoch various disciplines. These include meteorology,astronomy, and metalwork. This is a fairly unusual story, and it appears to chime with a theory known as the Ancient Astronaut theory. Many people believe that the ancients were lent a helping hand in the progression of human civilization on account of the fact that a number of ancient monuments and texts display extraordinary sophistication which is completely unexplained by the cultural and social circumstances of historical record. Could the Book of Enoch be confirmation of this controversial theory?
The Book of Enoch also describes ‘fallen angels’ arriving on Mount Hermon with the intention of living on Earth and assuming power over the planet. These angels are said to have eventually integrated into human society and even interbreeding with human beings to create human-angel hybrids. It was this action that incited the wrath of God.
For many people, this seems to indicate that human beings were unwittingly placed in the center of a power struggle between two distinct alien breeds – the masterful creator gods and their former servants who sought to take their own path with regards to the planet Earth. If this is the case, then it should be of some concern to human beings currently living on this planet. Both the Old and the New Testament make frequent references to a battle which is to come between opposing forces of good and evil. Could it be the case that this battle will involve an almighty struggle between two separate species of powerful alien beings?
Yellowstone National Park UFO Orb looks like pure energy
The UFO phenomenon still seems to baffle people, but these things have been coming to Earth for many generations you'd think people where a little used to them by now wouldn't you?
UFO Sightings Footage theory is common sense? This could be like a sentinel that's been sent by a mother-ship out in space and these volcanoes are a refueling station like a gas station and the mothership needing a oil refinery type refueling station which would be the Sun in this case?
It would explain why we saw the massive planet sized UFO refueling at the Sun for an hour then it moved away and the funnel type hose coming from the UFO to the Sun was detached and it went on it's merry way, we saw it come and go and it was awesome and undeniable! You can't make this stuff up, it's true and real! The UFO over Yellowstone is a usual sight actually?
They are regularly sighted flying over Yellowstone park all the time! It's an active zone for UFO's. This one is quite special because we see it emerge and then get closer and it looks exactly like what a typical UFO would look like, maybe anyways?
Here's another two UFOs as seen over Yellowstone National Park. These images are from the amazing website UFO Sightings Daily the editor there is Scott Waring and here's the link.
By my count it looks like there's actually 2 UFOs in this image?
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Ancient Text: The Earth was Ruled for 241,000 years by 8 Kings who came from Heaven
Ancient Text: The Earth was Ruled for 241,000 years by 8 Kings who came from Heaven
Discovered over the years by scholars in many regions of ancient Mesopotamia, copies of what is believed to be a unique manuscript, referred to as "Sumerian King List" or "the List of the Sumerian Kings," detail how in In the distant past, our planet was ruled by eight mysterious kings for a mysterious period of 241,000 years. He even states that these rulers "descended from heaven."
Discovered over the years by scholars in many regions of ancient Mesopotamia, copies of what is believed to be a unique manuscript, referred to as "Sumerian King List" or "the List of the Sumerian Kings," detail how in In the distant past, our planet was ruled by eight mysterious kings for a mysterious period of 241,000 years. He even states that these rulers "descended from heaven."
The List of the Sumerian Kings tells an incredible story that many find hard to believe.
"After the royalty descended from heaven, they went to Eridug. In Eridug, Alulim became king; He ruled for 28800 years. Alaljar ruled for 36,000 years. 2 kings; They ruled for 64,800 years ... "
"In 5 cities 8 kings ruled for 241,200 years. Then the flood swept them ... "
(This is written in the first part of the List of the Sumerian Kings).
But how is it possible that eight kings ruled the Earth for 241,000 years? Experts believe that the answer is simple: the list combines prehistoric and "mythological" dynastic rulers, who enjoyed long and implausible kingdoms with more plausibly historical dynasties.
In other words, scholars are telling us that some things written on the list of Sumerian kings are correct, while others-like relentlessly long reigns-can not be.
In addition, the Sumerian Kings List not only tells us how long these kings ruled on Earth, it specifically also says that these eight kings "descended from heaven," after which they ruled for a surprisingly long period.
Interestingly, the list details how these eight kings met the end during the Great Flood that swept the Earth. The list also details what happened after the flood, since it clearly says that "other royalty came down from heaven," and these mysterious kings ruled man once more.
But is the List of the Kings Sumerian a mixture of historically verifiable kings and mythological beings? Or is it possible that scholars have classified some of the rulers as mythological, due to their peculiar characteristics?
For decades people believed that the detailed history in the List of the Sumerian Kings, that is, the kings with incredibly long lives, their disappearance during the Great Flood and their replacement with the new kings that came from heaven, were just another set of stories mythological However, there are many authors and researchers who disagree, suggesting that what is on the List of the Sumerian Kings can not be mythology at all, and point to the fact that scholars today in part recognize some of the Kings detailed in the list.
The fact that the List of the Sumerian Kings mentions eight kings, their names and long kingdoms, as well as their origin - the royalty that came down from heaven - has made many think: "is it possible that what is written on the List of the Sumerian Kings be real historical references? "What would happen if, thousands of years ago, before modern history, our planet was ruled by eight other-world kings who came to Earth from a faraway place in the universe and ruled over Earth for a period of 241,000 years to then return to the heavens?
What if the details found in the Sumerian King list are one hundred percent accurate and that, unlike the mainstream scholars, these intransitable reigns were a possibility, at a time when civilization, society and our planet were very different from what it is today? Do these ancient texts show that the Earth was ruled by ancient astronauts for 241,000 years? Or - as the scholars mention - the List of the Sumerian Kings is only a mixture of historical records and mythology?
It is worth mentioning that in the ancient text there is a ruler who has been archaeologically and historically verified; it is Enmebaragesi de Kish, approximately 2,600 BC
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.
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Crop Circles Discoveries That Show Some Cannot Possibly Be Manmade (Video)
Crop Circles Discoveries That Show Some Cannot Possibly Be Manmade (Video)
Are they trying to tell us something? Although some crop circles can be explained as man-made art, many still defy logic, and so have fallen onto the plates of researchers.
From America, Russia, to Japan and even Canada – crop circles have appeared all over the World. In many cases, their structure tends to be elliptical rather than circular, with the crop (mostly wheat) being either bent, flattened or woven to form complex patterns.
What we should Know, and What questions should we be asking? Jennifer will review the unique characteristics found in crop circles researched here in the states.
Various theories will be presented along with the peer reviewed scientific literature on the phenomena allowing everyone to be informed enough to make their own opinion as to what could be creating these unusual formations on the ground and find their own interpretations as to what they might mean
“Frankly, I think the federal government has done almost nothing to help us with this.”
What do you think the person who made this statement was referring to by “this”? If you said “UFO research,” thank you for joining our conversation, Senator Reid! Yes, those words were spoken in a recent radio interview given by the former U.S. senator from Nevada, Harry Reid. It’s not important what party he belongs to because a topic as important as this should be bipartisan, right?
It’s good to see Senator Reid back fighting for disclosure after he himself disclosed in 2017 that he was retiring from Capitol Hill after receiving a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. After two years of treatment and despite a fatalistic piece in The New York Times about him just last weekend, Reid says he’s strong and has a good life and looks to be in good enough health to kick that heavy Sunday edition of the Times into the street. However, what he came to KNPR Nevada Public Radio to talk about was UFOs and some other minor stuff going on in Washington and the White House. (Listen to the interview here.)
Former Senator Harry Reid
“I think it is something we can’t ignore. I personally don’t know if there exist little green men places. I kind of doubt that, but I do believe the information we have indicates we should do a lot more study. We have hundreds and hundreds of people that have seen the same thing — something in the sky, it moves a certain way.”
Many of those “hundreds and hundreds” of witnesses are military pilots, and Reid was getting ready to meet with an unnamed senator still in office about giving these pilots protection from retaliation for coming forward with their accounts – pilots have long feared telling about the strange crafts they’ve seen because previous witnesses were ridiculed, harassed, recommended for psychiatric evaluation, passed over for promotions and more. Reid hopes this senator will champion a safe place for pilots and other military witnesses – radar operators, sailors who have seen unidentified submerged objects, etc. – to share their experiences and possibly video or audio recordings.
“Oh sure, I’ve been to Area 51. I know Area 51. I don’t know if I should say many times, but lots and lots of times. I know Area 51 quite well, I know what they’ve done there. I don’t know in recent years, of course, but I know what went on there.”
Is Reid a witness who needs protection too? He didn’t give any more details about Area 51, which is in the state he represented. Nor did he say what should be done after the witnesses come forward. It was revealed in 2017 that Reid helped sneak $22 million into the annual Defense Department budget for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which we now know was shut down in 2012 after being run at the Pentagon by military intelligence official Luis Elizondo, who is now part of the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences which is continuing its investigations and disclosures.
Those seeking UFO disclosure had a friend in Harry Reid when he was in the Senate. Can Reid convince his unnamed friend (rumored to be Reid’s former deputy, Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin who is the ranking member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee) to take up the mantle?
Can he convince anyone? Two other senators who supported the program — Ted Stevens of Alaska and Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii – died in office (Inouye) or shortly after leaving (Stevens). Reid was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer after leaving office.
Our reality relies on balance and symmetry. From our physical laws (“for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”) to philosophical musings (“as above, so below”) through pop culture (“the love you take is equal to the love you make”), the idea that nature is balanced by default seems hardwired into our heads. And it is, for the most part. The symmetry of the laws of nature holds up pretty well, up until you get to one of the biggest unsolved problems in all of cosmology: there’s a whole half of the universe that’s straight up missing.
The current model of our universe suggests that for every particle of matter, there should be an equal particle of antimatter. Of course, that isn’t true, evidenced by the fact that we’re still here. If antimatter was in equal parts to our boring old regular matter, the whole universe would explode. Our model of the universe states that there should be an equal amount of antimatter, yet it’s only through antimatter’s mysterious absence that we have a physical universe at all. So what gives?
Boom.
A new theory may have the answer. According to an article published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the antimatter problem may be solved if we consider our universe after the big bang as only one half of the universe. The other half of the universe would be a mirror image of ours, stretching backwards in time from the big bang and composed almost entirely of antimatter, just as ours is composed almost entirely of matter. This mirror image would have all of it’s properties flipped: positive charged particles would be negative, up would be down, left would be right. The same as ours, just opposite in every way.
This theory has several advantages, says physicist Neil Turok. For one, it explains another sticky problem of cosmology: the existence of “dark matter,” which makes up the bulk of the universe yet is invisible and undetectable. This mirror image model of the universe states that all that elusive mass from dark matter may be caused by elusive, ultra-massive particles called “sterile neutrinos,” which would have a mass some 500 million times that of a proton. Interestingly, this number would line up with some anomalous readings taken by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA).
Another advantage is that it gives us a way to explain several of the complications with the period of rapid expansion right after the big bang without having to invent new particles or forces.
Like this but, you know, opposite.
A problem with the theory, however, is that it doesn’t explain some of the temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background radiation, leftover energy from the big bang, that scientists have detected. According to Neil Turok, that was a sticking point with the peer reviewers for the paper, but he says:
“They said you have to explain the fluctuations and we said that is a work in progress. Eventually they gave in.”
Whether or not they gave in from being convinced that they were in fact working on it, or were just tired of a physicist’s browbeating is unknown, but all new theories generally have problems like this. They’re trying to explain the universe, after all. It’s complicated stuff.
It’s certainly an intriguing theory, and the model of a universe with two equal yet opposite halves extending in in either direction through time is a beautiful and elegant model. Is it true? We’ll see. But don’t worry, even if this does explain ours, we’ll have a whole other universe to be wrong about.
Whitley Strieber’s 1987 best-sellingbook, Communion, brought the world of alien abductions to a massive, mainstream audience. During the course of investigating his experiences that prompted him to write Communion, Strieber discovered something intriguing: that the name “Aura Rhanes” – an alleged human-like alien encountered by a man named Truman Bethurum in 1952 – was extremely similar to “Aerach Reann,” a Gaelic term that translates approximately to “heavenly body of air.” It must be said that the fashion by which Bethurum became entranced by Aura Rhanes (“tops in shapeliness and beauty” was how smitten Bethurum described her) mirrors those centuries-old cases of hapless and helpless men falling under the spell of the fairy queen. Strieber pursued this Gaelic issue.
In the same time-frame that Truman Bethurum was under the hypnotic spell of Aura Rhanes, a controversial man named George Adamski claimed encounters with human-like extraterrestrials in the deserts of California. There’s no doubt that Adamski was, and still is, the ultimate Contactee – regardless of what one might make of his claimed experiences with the long-haired, human-looking “Space Brothers,” as he termed them. What is particularly interesting is that one of Adamski’s alleged brothers from the stars was named Firkon. Strieber says of this: “Fir or fear when used as a prefix means ‘man,’ and Conn, meaning ‘Head,’ is the name of a seventh-century Irish king whose son, tradition tells us, was abducted by a beautiful lady in a flying craft. Firkon means, in Gaelic, ‘man of Conn.’”
Then there are the experiences of a young man named Bob Renaud. On one particular night in July 1961, Renaud picked up an extraordinary message while “browsing around the shortwave bands” in his small, Massachusetts town. It began with a series of bleeps but was soon replaced by a female voice, which later identified herself as Linn-Erri from the planet Korendor. As was the case in so many Contactee-themed cases of the 1950s and 1960s, Renaud had repeated and extensive chats with his newfound alien friends, many of which were focused on the aliens’ fears that we, the Human Race, were on the verge of destroying ourselves. Also closely following the trend of so many Contactees, Linn-Erri and her comrades took Renaud on trips to secret, alien installations, and taught him to create complex machines, one of which was somewhat akin to an old-style television set. It reportedly allowed Renaud to see Linn-Erri in the flesh, so to speak. She was, said Renaud, a ravishing blond, who looked to be about nineteen years of age, but who claimed to be closer to her mid-seventies – in human years.
It’s not unreasonable to suggest that this could all have been provoked by nothing stranger than the late night, hormone-driven fantasies of a young man run wild. But, as with the equally controversial saga of Truman Bethurum, there is something that makes Bob Renaud’s story intriguing, as Strieber states in his work. Strieber notes that the aliens’ alleged home planet, Korendor, is very similar to a Gaelic term that Strieber described as “a place of oracle.”
Betty Andreasson is someone who has had a lifetime of profound interaction with other-world entities and whose encounters caught the attention of Strieber. On one occasion in the 1960s, when Andreasson was deep in channeling-style conversation with a small, large-headed alien being named Quaazga, a curious statement was made to Andreasson in a language that she could not understand. One person didunderstand it, however: a man named Leonard Keane. Listening to audio-recordings of Andreasson relating the statement word for word, he concluded the alien was speaking in a form of ancient Gaelic, which translated to the following: “The living descendants of the Northern Peoples are groping in universal darkness. Their mother mourns. A dark occasion forebodes when weakness in high places will revive a high cost of living, an interval of mistakes in high places, an interval fit for distressing events.”
Coincidence or something more? A UFO-Gaelic Connection?
When Darth Vader growled those words to Luke Skywalker, he was warning his son against questing for unlimited power, as he knew that quest would lead only to tragedy. Could those words ring true in real life? I mean, on some levels they obviously do. Those who reach the highest often stoop the lowest as they claw their way up the ladder of life at all costs. But what about the actual dark side; could Vader’s warning apply to China’s current quest for power on the dark side of the Moon?
China’s space agency landed their Chang’e 4 probe on the far side of our Moon last week, an achievement which got little coverage here in the Trump-obsessed US. Still, the accomplishment is a major one in the history of human space travel, even if some analysts warn that the move was more militaristic than it might seem. Isn’t all space travel, though?
There’s a reason space agencies have always had close ties with militaries. If you can send a rocket to the moon, you can send one to anywhere on Earth.
China has already established a scientific laboratory on the dark side of the Moon which, if it works properly, will grow potatoes and silkworms. Neat. China’s Moon mission isn’t all vegetables and worms, though; there might be a hidden ulterior motive involved. According to a report published in the South China Morning Post, the Chinese might have sent their probe to the dark side in order to hunt for a rare and potentially invaluable fuel which could revolutionize spaceflight as we know it.
That fuel is helium-3, a non-radioactive isotope which appears to be common on the lunar surface. Helium-3 could hypothetically be mined or otherwise extracted from the lunar surface and used to power spacecraft for long-distance journeys. Even more promising, those spacecraft could make a refueling pit stop on the Moon as they make their way into deeper corners of space.
One of the biggest hurdles to overcome to achieve deep space flight is finding sufficient fuel sources. A fuel station on the moon could help spacecraft reach more distant destinations.
Will lunar helium-3 mining trigger a new space race to colonize the Moon and control its resources? Wars over natural resources are fought all the time. Could the surface of the moon be the first major theatre of operations for the Space Force?
Alexander Weygers, a Renaissance man in the mold of the tech industry’s stated ideal, inspired an art dealer to become an acolyte.
Alexander Weygers made numerous detailed drawings of an aircraft called the "Discopter", a vertical liftoff aircraft that looked very much like what was to be later termed "flying saucer" and other drawings of an American cities specifically flying saucers in San Francisco and as well as a port in Chicago.
He sent these detailed plans to all the branches of the U.S. Military and was eventually told that they were intrigued by the concept and the design of the craft but were not prepared at that time because the war effort superseded its development.
However he did indeed patent the design for the "Discopter" in January 1944 with the U.S. Patent Office and it served as the prototype for other similar aircraft that have been developed up to the present day.
Ashlee Vance visits the dealer whose curiosity about Weygers has evolved into an obsession.
An unidentified flying object (UFO) was observed in the night skies over Derbyshire on January 8, 2019. Thousands of bewildered residents have been discussing in the social media about the neon green flash, which many want to believe produced by the UFO that was spotted in the sky between 4 pm and 5 pm.
Ilkeston resident Debbie Pickard said she had seen three flashes of green light from her office window. The 37-year-old principal added that it looked like something shot through the houses. She described the source of green light as not very high, and it seemed to travel horizontally.
She ruled out the possibility that it was a drone as the UFO was miles away than the drones could travel. She believes it is a UFO by definition.
Ms Pickard revealed that she spotted the same thing in 1988 together with her dad. It was confirmed on the Gatwick radar, and it was in the papers then.
She did not get a photo of the strange neon green flash as it disappeared after just seconds.
Some witnesses have said that the flash of light had a blue colour and it formed a crescent shape.
One Beeston resident took to Facebook sharing their encounter of the strange UFO.
They said that they’ve just spotted a bright light streaking across the sky towards the north of Beeston. They believed that it was not a firework or aircraft.
The American Meteor Society and UK Meteor Watch received 63 reports of a fireball, including from East Leake, Stoke-on-Trent, Sheffield, and Edinburgh.
There are also dash-cam videos showing a bright blue fireball shooting across the sky, but it remains unclear what it was precisely at this time.
People on social media have various suggestions ranging from a spotlight from the university to a UFO doing a mysterious activity.
A guest article written by “Twitter User Jay.” (@Jay09784691)
I’ve been fortunate enough to have slides shared with me by Dr. Garry Nolan (@GarryPNolan) a professor at Stanford University who has been undertaking some incredible work on a patient population brought to him by Dr Kit Green that might shed light on individuals withunique cognitive and intuitive abilities.The study was accomplished in close collaboration withDr Christopher (Kit) Canfield Green who worked for the CIA between the 1970s and 1980s, and who is now a private physician in forensic medical practice, and is affiliated with the Departments of Diagnostic Radiology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at the Wayne State School of Medicine and Detroit Medical Center.
The presentation itself occurred during the Consortium for Space Genetics at Harvard Medical School, so carries weight not only from the people giving the presentation but from the venue as well. The whole talk centerson one main topic with two relating subtexts. The leading reason for the talk isquestioning whether there is evidence for biological indicatorsthat identifies people with unique forms of intuition and the two subtextsbeing the intuition itself withrelated information on what’s known as “experiencers” – more on those later.
It’s important to mention that some of the details may sound like a work of science fiction, but the information here was presented to a group of mainstream scientists at one of the most prestigiousuniversities in the world. If doubt arises, please consider performing some research into the authors of the paper and looking into the histories around this subject. While it’s important to have some skepticism, I would suggest it’s also important to consider the wider picture and message being sent.
Several of the slides are included in this article to better represent the information that was shared at Harvard back in December 2018;as agreed with the authors of the slides not all can be shared. The first slide is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1.Opening slide of the presentation by Drs. Nolan and Green at Harvard.
What is Intuition?
A question asked in the talk is whether thereare forms ofinherited intuition thatarehanded down across families that allows for distinct forms of intelligence and which arecorrelated, roughly, bycontributing to higher IQ (later referred to those with >140). The subtext asked is whether thisbenefits the population with “high intuition” and “high performance”. It would appear these indicators are present in the patients included in the trial, however, it’s not clear whether suchhigh performance isabsolutely required to be considered an “intuit” along with the required brain connections (discussed below). According to Green and Nolan, a wider patient population will be required to explore this matter further.
The primary section of interest will be the intuitive abilities, sincehigh performers – while rare–are possibly less unique than people with the brain featuresas outlined in the presentation. The definitionof intuition, and there are many,are initially mentioned in Figure 2.
Figure 2.RPD model = Recognition Primed Decision
The concepts above are from the mainstream literature, which has honed an understanding of where decisions are madein the brain when presented with complex problems to be solved in 1) limited time and with 2) limited information. The cohort studied by Green and Nolan included a heavy sampling of individualswhose daily jobs, and lives, depended on taking the correct course of action for time-limited events and have fast problem solving. While interesting, this alone doesn’t make the patients seem especially unique, it’s when we get later in the slides that we start to get an idea of the broader picture.
The following was included in the presentation to show that identification of a particular area of the brain involved in these processes may have been first recognized by a Russian neuroscientist by the name of Oleg SergeivichAdrianov (Figure 3).
Figure 3. Excerpts from Oleg Adrianov’s paper in 1988.
Now this is where the nature of the patients’ abilities starts to reveal itself. Dr. Adrianov has called out “high integrative activity”, which is much the same as listed in the prior slide, and then, “programming future activity” and “foreseeing the future”. All of which allow the brain to have a “higher psychic function”. This is especially interesting since it seems to indicate that people can anticipate future events. Of course, that’s what intuition is—just predicting what might happen. The open question is from where the information in the brain, or environment, arrives. Whether these people are particularly good at processing information from their senses in a way that allows them to predict the most likely course of action logically or if they’re witnessing some sense of future information remains unanswered. I believe it the latter. If they’re able to foresee (remote view) the future, without having the data at hand as understood by mainstream physics, then it would suggest that some level of precognition of future events are possible. While none of the slides even speculate about this per se, the mention of the work of Dr. Adrianovis revealing in and of itself.
While an aside, it was alluded to elsewhere in the slides that people have “multiple episodes” without explicitly stating the type of episodes suffered. It’s specified as being “Hallucinations… NOT”, so presumably these people are getting visions or are seeing/hearing things to which the general populace may be oblivious. Later in the slides it’s mentioned that people see “visual and auditory of orbs, voices, entities”, it’s worth noting that these experiences are not detailed beyond this piece of text.
Experiencers
Individuals commonly referred to as “Experiencers” are people that have received exposure to something that would normally be referred to as paranormal, whether that be UFOs, spirits, ghosts, or religious apparitions. These can be experienced when these people are, as mentioned in the slides, “awake”. While the talk never specifically mentions paranormal, it seems to suggest that hallucinations maynotexplain the visual or auditory experiences, the slides are vague on this point. I suspect this was Dr Nolan’s intent to not distract from the central message of “real science” and data.
The presentation again mentions savant level IQs, so it can only be assumed that this is a main requirement for the experiences. It also has more references to genetic inheritance as two brothers and their mother are mentioned as well as a father, mother, and daughter.
While the study points out to the, now, mainstream understanding of the caudate-putamen’s role in processing complex information, it is possible to speculate that the study population might be capable of interpreting some information from their environments to whichthe rest of the population may be somewhat blind. Whether this is the “akashic field” that’s been spoken about in various esoteric religions and scripts, Annie Jacobsen’s reporting on the “spidey sense” program(http://time.com/4721715/phenomena-annie-jacobsen/) , or something else is not clear. Considering it’s mentioned that people see “entities”, it may be possible that such a thing (whatever they are – religious spirits, aliens, fairies, etc.), if existing, may be drawn to these people. We should consider the possibility that they’re attracting these things as these people can interpret their environmental changes in a manner that makes some forms of communication feasible. Without full analysis of the communication across a blinded population, it may be impossible to read much more into any possible consistent message being received. However, this is speculation on my part.
Caudate-Putamen
The general focusof the slides appears to be the identification of a physical biomarker (by MRI brain scan) that can be used to identify people that have these novel traits. There are no references to DNA analyses in the slides, so the genetic DNA markers are unlikely to have been identified by the time of the presentation. It’s entirely possible that should the features be genetically determined, they will require the interplay of thousands of genes that architect the relevant brain functions, making genetic analyses difficult until more precisely determined.
The brain featurethat correlates to thispatient population are the connections between the caudate and the putamen. Helpfully, the slides shownormal brain connections compared with those in the study group, again none of the brain scans from the slides can be shared here due to privacy reasons.
In some of the images it’s possible to see a scan of a patient with the specific caudate and putamen connections with the relating sections highlighted. While the MRI scans cannot be shown here, some of the “cartoon” 3D renders that have been prepared are shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4.The snapshot in this image is from a slide showing a 3D spinning representation of both the control (i.e., “Normal” people) and the intuit (listed on the slide as “hyper”). The visual representation above where there are “bright” regions indicated heightened areas of neuronal connectivity between the head of the caudate and the putamen.
Figure 5.A diagram from the literature of the Caudate-Putamen.
In the 3D rendered image of Figure 4’s slide, on the right all the additional connections (termed hyper)between both parts are highlighted (the lines or nerves connecting the two). The total number of these connections or strands are not as complex for the control population (as measured in 100 ‘normals’), as shown in the left-hand side of the image.
Fundamentally,the additional connections (or strands) between these areas of the brain are speculated to identify people that have higher intuitive capabilities that are not present in the greater populace. At present this is only correlation, speculation, and no causality has been demonstrated. The significance of these findings may start to become more apparent as more details are released and data are available. Dr Nolan insisted in our side discussions that these findings are, so far, preliminary data and require considerable further analysis. While the study was carried out in a blinded fashion, it was his feeling that the study of this area of the brain can be accelerated by pointing out these findings to others for independent verification and invite the field in general to participate. Apparently, since many mainstream scientists are focused on this area of the basal ganglia and its role in decision making processes, data will be forthcoming from others to support, or not, the speculation put forward.
Whether or not these people are approaching an evolution of the species or if these types of rare connections are present in what would have been present in the shamans of the past remains unclear, but it appears that Drs Nolan and Green are onto something interesting.
It’s worth noting that patients with ADHD and autism (as presented in the talk) have beenshown in the mainstream literatureto have deficits in the caudate region of the basal ganglia—among other deficits. This supports the role of this region in “perception” and information management. There are no indicators as to the population size when compared to the control to determine percentage rates across the general population. But publicly available databases of brain MRIs might be scanned to determine the frequency of the trait.
Might our species may be going through an evolutionary process as suggested by several scientists in their papers over the past few years? My speculation in this blog posting is that perhaps as consciousness evolves to interpret messages from elsewhere (for instance a hyperdimensional space if you’re willing to accept the “woo”), then this region of the brain might be involved. Considering that super-string theory suggests that there may be as many as ten spatial dimensions and that our minds, or consciousness, appear to exist in something greater than the three usual spatial dimensions, then maybe there is some exposure is occurring to wider/greater dimensional spaces.
The significance of the details of this presentation are potentially dramatic. While Drs Nolan and Green were not claiming at all that this area of the brain functions as an antenna per say, what ifhumansareexperiencing evolutionary changes that allow access (whether visual or auditory) to some future events, and be in receipt of information from something “other” that currently can’t be easily objectively measured? Given the role of the caudate putamen in the mainstream understanding of information processing, it is reasonable to speculate it would be involved in processing data from anomalous sources.
While it may be trickier to accept, there have been suggestions from psychics in the past that have for all intents and purposes intuited the exact same brain connections Drs Nolan and Green determined empirically. Specifically, Dr Nolan called out in one of his later slides the book “Through the Curtain”by Viola Petitt Neal and Shafica Karagulla. Ms. Nealtalks aboutthis exact area of the brain, it’sconnections to higher consciousness capabilities in the 1960s—well before mainstream neuroscience understood the role of the caudate-putamen in cognition.The full detail around this will be covered in a later article.
For some further reading, I would suggest some of the following scientific papers (also check my Twitter account for more; @Jay09784691):
Theoretical Physics Between Adjacent Realities by ex-NASA scientist Alex Vary.
Tuning the Mind in the Frequency Domain by Shelli Renee Joyce.
Analysis of Technically Inventive Dream-Like Mental Imagery by Bruce Towe and Cay Randall-May
Intuitive Consciousness and the Logic of Single Field Physics: A Conscious Synergy of Worldviews and Theories by James Beichler and Sperry Andrews
Spinning Black Holes Could Open Up Gentle Portals for Hypersonic Spacecraft
Spinning Black Holes Could Open Up Gentle Portals for Hypersonic Spacecraft
By Gaurav Khanna, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
For oversized, spinning black holes, the singularity that a spacecraft would have to contend with would be very gentle.
Credit: Aaron Stone/Shutterstock
One of the most cherished science-fiction scenarios is using a black hole as a portal to another dimension or time or universe. That fantasy may be closer to reality than previously imagined.
Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in the universe. They are the consequence of gravity crushing a dying star without limit, leading to the formation of a true singularity — which happens when an entire star gets compressed down to a single point yielding an object with infinite density. This dense and hot singularity punches a hole in the fabric of spacetime itself, possibly opening up an opportunity for hyperspace travel. That is, a shortcut through spacetime allowing for travel over cosmic scale distances in a short period.
Researchers previously thought that any spacecraft attempting to use a black hole as a portal of this type would have to reckon with nature at its worst. The hot and dense singularity would cause the spacecraft to endure a sequence of increasingly uncomfortable tidal stretching and squeezing before being completely vaporized.
Flying through a black hole
My team at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a colleague at Georgia Gwinnett College have shown that all black holes are not created equal. If the black hole like Sagittarius A*, located at the center of our own galaxy, is large and rotating, then the outlook for a spacecraft changes dramatically. That's because the singularity that a spacecraft would have to contend with is very gentle and could allow for a very peaceful passage.
The reason that this is possible is that the relevant singularity inside a rotating black hole is technically "weak," and thus does not damage objects that interact with it. At first, this fact may seem counter intuitive. But one can think of it as analogous to the common experience of quickly passing one's finger through a candle's near 2,000-degree flame, without getting burned.
My colleague Lior Burko and I have been investigating the physics of black holes for over two decades. In 2016, my Ph.D. student, Caroline Mallary, inspired by Christopher Nolan's blockbuster film "Interstellar," set out to test if Cooper (Matthew McConaughey's character), could survive his fall deep into Gargantua — a fictional, supermassive, rapidly rotating black hole some 100 million times the mass of our sun. "Interstellar" was based on a book written by Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Kip Thorne and Gargantua's physical properties are central to the plot of this Hollywood movie.
Building on work done by physicist Amos Ori two decades prior, and armed with her strong computational skills, Mallary built a computer model that would capture most of the essential physical effects on a spacecraft, or any large object, falling into a large, rotating black hole like Sagittarius A*.
Not even a bumpy ride?
What she discovered is that under all conditions an object falling into a rotating black hole would not experience infinitely large effects upon passage through the hole's so-called inner horizon singularity. This is the singularity that an object entering a rotating black hole cannot maneuver around or avoid. Not only that, under the right circumstances, these effects may be negligibly small, allowing for a rather comfortable passage through the singularity. In fact, there may no noticeable effects on the falling object at all. This increases the feasibility of using large, rotating black holes as portals for hyperspace travel.
Mallary also discovered a feature that was not fully appreciated before: the fact that the effects of the singularity in the context of a rotating black hole would result in rapidly increasing cycles of stretching and squeezing on the spacecraft. But for very large black holes like Gargantua, the strength of this effect would be very small. So, the spacecraft and any individuals on board would not detect it.
The crucial point is that these effects do not increase without bound; in fact, they stay finite, even though the stresses on the spacecraft tend to grow indefinitely as it approaches the black hole.
There are a few important simplifying assumptions and resulting caveats in the context of Mallary's model. The main assumption is that the black hole under consideration is completely isolated and thus not subject to constant disturbances by a source such as another star in its vicinity or even any falling radiation. While this assumption allows important simplifications, it is worth noting that most black holes are surrounded by cosmic material — dust, gas, radiation.
Therefore, a natural extension of Mallary's work would be to perform a similar study in the context of a more realistic astrophysical black hole.
Mallary's approach of using a computer simulation to examine the effects of a black hole on an object is very common in the field of black hole physics. Needless to say, we do not have the capability of performing real experiments in or near black holes yet, so scientists resort to theory and simulations to develop an understanding, by making predictions and new discoveries.
Starting in January, the History Channel will premiere Project Blue Book, a series based on unidentified flying object (UFOs) cases that were inspired by the work of the lateDr. J. Allen Hynek. Dr. Hynek was an Americanastronomer, professor, andufologist.
HISTORY’s upcoming new drama series ‘Project Blue Book’ is based on the true, top-secret investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and related phenomena conducted by the United States Air Force from 1952 to 1969.
Courtesy of https://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-extraordinary-legacy-of-dr-j-allen_25.html
As viewers will find out in the television series, Dr. Hynek was not originally a believer in UFOs. He accepted the Air Force’s offer to explore reports of UFOs with a scientist’s mindset of debunking them. As he pursued his work, he found out that there was indeed UFO phenomena that he simply could not explain or write off. Too many reliable witnesses and too many questions that could not be plausibly answered as swamp gas, balloons, or perhaps test craft.
As an amateur astronomer with a layman fascination with science, and the esoteric, I am excited to see History Channel bring Project Blue Book back to life. Even more exciting, is that I have a direct connection to the topic and directly to Dr. J. Allen Hynek.
While in High School in the Chicago area during the seventies, space exploration was a hot topic for imagination. We recently landed men on the Moon and the NASA Apollo program was thriving. Aside from my teenage obsession with sports, martial arts, girls, working out (not necessarily in that order), I had a calling from within me for exploring the mystery of outer space. So much, in fact, that I wrote the late Carl Sagan at Cornell University that I wanted to pursue a career in exobiology (the study of extraterrestrial life forms). Dr. Sagan wrote me back with advice (I still proudly have the letter) but my career certainly took a different path.
What I did decide to pursue in my little spare time in High School was volunteer for the Center for UFO Studies, led by the leader of Project Blue Book, Dr. J. Allen Hynek. The Center was not too far a drive from my North Suburban Chicago home, located near the Northwestern University campus in Evanston where Dr. Hynek was also a Professor of Astronomy. I had recently presented a speech in my High School class on “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence,” and I was knowledgeable and excited about the topic.
I remember meeting Dr. Hynek in his small office filled with files and tapes. It was before computers so data was on paper, photos, and cassette tapes. I helped organize files and even transcribed tapes from hypnosis sessions. I kept a notebook of my activities that I still have today. My work at the Center was both interesting and eye-opening. I remember years later seeing Dr. Hynek in his cameo appearance of the movie Close encounters of the Third Kind by Director Stephen Spielberg. I was excited that I had the experience of being a volunteer for his research seeing him up on the big screen.
Now many years later, Project Blue Book is reborn, albeit in a fictional form. To me, it is still an exciting topic. In the billions of billions of galaxies with trillions of trillions of planets, we cannot be the only intelligent beings in the universe. I do not know if others have visited our still young planet, (there are astronauts, pilots, law enforcement, and scientists who claim they have) but the yearning to know is still there for me. Maybe we will find out more sooner than later as our own tech and the ability to search for life on other planets and in space exponentially advances.
Signals from space: Five theories on what they are
Signals from space: Five theories on what they are
By Helen Briggs - BBC News
A nebula of stars
Mysterious signals have been picked up from distant galaxies.
When fast radio bursts or FRBs, as they are called, reach Earth's telescopes they shine brightly for a few milliseconds, then disappear.
Astronomers have detected dozens over the past decade - and have just announced they've found more of them, including a rare repeating signal.
We don't know exactly what they are or where they're from, but here are five suspects:
1. A rapidly spinning neutron star
When stars explode and die they can end up as rapidly spinning neutron stars. Astronomers think those found in a region with a high magnetic field might produce the strange signals.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGEImage captionArtist's impression of a neutron star
"Something like a neutron star fits the bill reasonably well actually," says Dr Ingrid Stairs, an astrophysicist from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
"But exactly what physics is going into producing this very energetic burst of radio waves we don't really know yet."
2. Two stars merging
Two neutron stars colliding with each other is another possibility.
According to Shriharsh Tendulkar, an astronomer at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, this is one of the main theories, but the scenario only works for cosmic signals that are only seen once, as the stars are destroyed in the process.
"It's a cataclysmic event - it doesn't work for fast radio burst repeaters," he says.
Most of the fast radio bursts picked up by telescopes in the last decade or so are seen once then disappear.
Yet, two elusive signals have been found that burst into life again and again - and for these, there must be a different explanation.
3. Blitzar
A blitzar is a rapidly spinning neutron star which collapses under its own weight and forms a black hole.
Again, this ends in the destruction of the star, so could not produce a repeating signal.
4. Black hole
Black holes are implicated in many theories - from a neutron star falling into a black hole to a collapsing black hole or dark matter hitting one.
Image copyrightNASA/JPL-CALTECHImage captionArtist's concept of a black hole
5. Alien life form
While some believe the signals are entirely natural in origin, others have speculated that they could be evidence of extra-terrestrial activity.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionRadio telescopes can detect fast radio bursts
Dr Stairs sees this as highly unlikely.
"They come from all over the sky pretty much and many different distances - they must be associated with many different galaxies," she told Newsday on BBC World Service.
"It just seems completely inconceivable that there could be that many different alien civilisations all deciding to produce the same kind of signal in the same way - that just seems highly improbable."
Everybody always says, “if they’re here then why don’t they just show up.” “They” is referring to extraterrestrials of course, and there are probably a million reasons as to why a more intelligent race from the “outside” looking in would not want to interact with us on such an open level just yet. To an outsider, we might not look the most attractive. The planet is plagued with war, poverty, diseases, greed, and secrecy. Environmentally it’s a disaster, and despite the fact that our potential is literally limitless, we choose to live in a way that is not really harmonious with the planet and all life on it. These are just a few of many reasons. Not to mention the fact that full blown contact might be a little more than our minds can handle, but perhaps not?
All of the theories surrounding the “alien takeover” agenda fail to account for the evidence that points to the fact that they’re already here, and that they’ve been visiting us for a very very long period of time.
That being said, sightings of unidentified objects, even ones performing physics-defying maneuvers have been documented by military authorities via visual and radar confirmation for decades, but whether or not these craft are ‘ET’ is an entirely different question. We do have, however, statements from hundreds of credible witnesses alluding to the fact that yes, some of them are indeed extraterrestrial in origin.
Was this the case with what happened in Phoenix Arizona in March of 1997? On this day, something extraordinary happened that, as Kurt mentions in the video below, was witnessed by 20,000 people, recorded by multiple cameras, which was then in-turn witnessed by millions.
Kurt Russell, a well known American actor is also a pilot, and on that day he was flying into the city and witnessed this phenomenon first hand. Listen to him share his story in the interview below.
“We’re on approach and I saw 6 lights over the airport in absolute uniform, in a V shape…It’s unidentified, it is flying and it’s 6 objects….That was the most viewed UFO event, over 20,000 people saw that.”
WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED?
It began with Luke Air Force Base, the media, the National UFO Reporting Center, the Governor’s office, and the police receiving a number of reports from people in Nevada of a very large craft hovering in the sky. Some people were reporting it as a boomerang formation of lights, just as Kurt describes in the video above.
The object (or objects) began moving south towards Arizona where even more people would see it. Again, people were not reporting just lights hovering in the sky, they were reporting an actual solid object, a craft of some sort, spanning the size of one or two football fields. The witness reports detail lights, sometimes multiple lights, in a pattern that ranged from a few all the way up to a dozen, all in some sort of organized formation. Witnesses reported them as white, and in some cases they were orange, red, or yellow. Reports indicate that at some point, the lights moved at very rapid speeds, while at others, they moved slowly and were also reported to hover. Some people described it as a huge, wedge-shaped craft with five lights on it. Some people claim that it passed directly over their heads and even hovered there for extended periods of time. People reported seeing, again, a large solid object, even going into detail about certain features they could spot on the craft.
“It was a giant V, and the right side of the V went over us, the left side was a couple blocks over.”
– One (out of thousands) of the witnesses (source)
Again, this object has been described as massive, the size of one to two football fields.
There were a number of these types of descriptions from people who witnessed the object.
These types of reports came in at a time where it was much easier to make out the object or objects that were in the sky, as there was still some daylight. It was not until later that evening at approximately 10 pm when people in Arizona witnessed something truly spectacular. As UFO researcher Richard Dolan describes it:
“People in Phoenix were treated to an amazing display of hovering lights over the city. These lights appeared to be motionless and in perfect formation. They were truly an astounding sight to behold: an enormous semi-circular string of lights in the night sky.”
The event received massive amounts of media attention.
Fife Symington, the Governor of Arizona at the time, even held a press conference that featured a large and costumed alien mocking all of the UFO enthusiasts, but it seemed goodhearted in nature and, according to him, was done to lighten the mood.
What is interesting to note, however, is that Fife was keeping something to himself – he actually witnessed the event, and the former Air Force veteran spoke out years after the event (when his stint as governor ended) saying:
“If you had been here 10 years ago, standing out here and looking out there at the lights, you would have been astounded, you would have been amazed. I suspect that unless the Department of Defense can prove otherwise, then it was probably some form of alien spacecraft. It was enormous and it just felt otherworldly, in your gut you could just tell it was otherworldly.”
China's Chang'e 4 moon lander on the far side of the moon took this panoramic view of its surroundings in Von Karman crater, showing its rover Yutu-2 nearby. The China National Space Agency unveiled the image on Jan. 10, 2019.
Credit: CNSA
China made history earlier this month with thefirst successful soft landingon thefar sideof the moon — and now, the mission has sent back an incredible panorama view of its work site.
The mission consists of two robots: the Chang'e 4 lander and the Yutu 2 rover. Since their arrival on Jan. 2, both have been exploring the lunar surface inside Von Kármán Crater, a 115-mile-wide (186 kilometers) feature. (You cansee a high-resolution image of Chang'e 4's moon panorama here, via the China National Space Agency.)
The panorama taken from the Chang'e 4 lander at its perch in Von Karman Crater and stitched together as a full-circle view.
Credit: CNSA
Because the panorama was captured by the Chang'e 4 lander, it shows on the left the Yutu 2 rover, complete with the tire tracks left behind by the adventuring robot. Yutu 2 has a little more freedom to explore, but although it was deployed on Jan. 3, it soon settled down for a nap to avoid overheating during the long lunar day. According to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, temperatures reached 212 degrees Fahrenheit (100 degrees Celsius). [Photos from the Moon's Far Side! China's Chang'e 4 Lunar Landing in Pictures]
The moon's surface experiences days and nights that each last about 14 Earth days, and the mission landed just after sunrise at Von Kármán Crater. Chinese media reported yesterday (Jan. 10) that Yutu 2 successfully woke upfrom that nap — a feat its predecessor, the Yutu rover, had failed to accomplish in 2013. Expect those tracks from the rover's tires to lengthen in future photographs.
The Chang'e 4 lander, as seen by the Yutu 2 rover.
Credit: CNSA
The panorama also shows the edges of some of the science instrumentsonboard the Chang'e 4 lander itself. According to the China National Space Administration (CNSA), several of those instruments, which are collaborations between China and other governments, have already been turned on. They are starting to gather observations on the lunar far side and should send science data back within the next few weeks, according to CNSA.
Information cannot be sent directly from the lunar far side to Earth — the moon's bulk gets in the way. Instead, signals are sent from the lunar surface up to a relay satellite called Queqiao, which launched in May 2018 and is hovering in an orbital "parking spot" from which it can communicate with Earth.
The Yutu 2 rover, as seen by the Chang'e 4 lander.
Credit: CNSA
In addition to the panorama view, each robot has sent back an image of its compatriot on the surface. We may also get a bird's-eye view of the mission. That would come courtesy of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is due to fly over the site on Jan. 31.
DIT KAN NOOIT DOOR DE ROMEINEN ZIJN GEBOUWD ( VIDEO )
DIT KAN NOOIT DOOR DE ROMEINEN ZIJN GEBOUWD ( VIDEO )
Eén van de meest mysterieuze plaatsen ter wereld ligt in Libanon; Baalbek heeft ruïnes uit de tijd van de Romeinse overheersing.
De Romeinen hebben tempels gebouwd op fundamenten waarvan onbekend is wie ze daar heeft neergelegd, met welk doel en waarom.
Zo wordt in de mainstream wereld de mysterieuze plaats Baalbek in Libanon verklaard. Het mainstreamverhaal gaat als volgt verder:
Inmiddels staat dit ruïnecomplex op de Werelderfgoedlijst van de UNESCO.
Baalbek wordt of wel Balabakk genoemd, het is een stad in Libanon gelegen in de Bekaa vallei. Deze vallei ligt tussen de rivieren Litani en Orontes. De naam Baalbek betekent: “Baäl van Beka”. Baäl was een god. In deze stad, die voornamelijk bekend staat om zijn ruïnes, wonen ongeveer 55.000 mensen. De wereldberoemde Romeinse tempels zijn gebouwd ter ere van Jupiter, Heliopolitanus, Venus en Bacchus. Voordat de Romeinen hier gingen bouwen, waren de Feniciërs hen al voor geweest, evenals de Grieken.
Deze bouwwerken van Baalbek zijn het grootste en bestbewaarde voorbeeld van de Romeinse bouwkunst. Er staan nog steeds 6 zuilen van ieder 20 meter hoog op de plaats van de voormalige tempel van Jupiter. De afmeting van de tempel moet ooit het grootste tempel van het Romeinse imperium zijn geweest het was ongeveer 49 x 88 meter groot.
Deze tempel wordt beschouwd als één van de belangrijkste Romeinse ruïnes ter wereld. De ruïnes, van zowel Jupiter, Bacchus en Venus zijn van een enorme schoonheid. De 2.000 jaar oude tempel van Bacchus is groot en nog zeer goed intact. De tempel van Jupiter echter was groter dan die van Bacchus. Dit is niet uit de ruïnes af te lezen, want er is niet zoveel meer van over.
Tot zover de mainstream fabeltjes.
Ze zeggen wel eens dat Chinezen bijna alles kunnen, maar vlak de Romeinen ook niet uit. Volgens de mainstream wetenschap zijn zij degenen die al die enorme granietblokken en pilaren in Baalbek op hun plek hebben weten te krijgen.
Dat niet alleen, al die honderden blokken en delen van pilaren zouden afkomstig zijn uit de steengroeves van Aswan in het zuiden van Egypte en door de Romeinen een kleine 2.000 kilometer zijn verplaatst.
In de onderstaande video die is gemaakt door iemand die Jimmy heet en een oorlogsveteraan is uit de oorlog met Irak, wordt meer dan duidelijk gemaakt dat de Romeinen simpelweg niet beschikten over de middelen om dergelijke bouwwerken tot stand te brengen.
Hoe graag de mainstream wetenschap ons dit ook wil doen geloven, het wass niet mogelijk voor een volk als de Romeinen om dit voor elkaar te krijgen.
Bovendien is het bekend dat de Romeinen alles wat ze deden op schrift vastlegden en er bestaat geen enkel verslag over het bouwen van tempels in Baalbek.
Niet alleen is Evert Jan Poorterman van mening dat wij het uitverkoren volk zijn, ook spreekt hij over de raketbasis Baalbek die door kernwapens zou zijn vernietigd.
En de weg terug naar Adam die reeds Diets sprak met God in de Hof van Eden. Jaren terug kreeg ik van Herman Hegge (van Frontier Magazine...) een wit T-shirt dat hij had opgeduikeld op de Amsterdamse Vrijmarkt op koninginnedag. In oranje staat het volgende te lezen; 'As finishing touch, God created the Dutch'... en zo is het ook! Als deel van de 12 stammen Israëls kunnen we stellen dat Nederland mensen herbergt die tot de 'uitverkorenen' behoren en verwant zijn aan de oer-Nederlanders of de proto-Friezen die 500 tot 800 jaren daarvoor al vertrokken uit de landen Babylon, Sumer en Akkad. Niet vrijwillig maar gedwongen. De Babyloniërs vanwege wateroverlast en de anderen vanwege de atoombommen op Sodom en Gomorrah, op de Sinaï en de Baälbek (raketbasis in de Beka-vallei in de Libanon...). Zo weken tal van volken uit het Midden-Oosten uit naar het noordwesten van Europa. Maar dat begon bij Adam2. God zei in Genesis
Of Evert Jan het goed heeft, weten wij niet, maar wat wij wel weten is dat we in de schoolbanken zoals gewoonlijk weer worden bedonderd.
Kijk naar de volgende video en dan weet je voor eens en voor altijd dat de Romeinen dit niet hebben gebouwd.
"Project Blue Book," a TV show based on the infamous U.S. Air Force investigation of the same name, premiered this week.
(History Channel)
In the words of X-Files-assigned FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder: “I want to believe.”
Once upon a time, maybe the U.S. Air Force wanted to as well.
In the early days of the Cold War, the skies over the continental U.S. were flush with sightings of objects that led many Americans to look to the stars for answers. The Air Force’s own answer was more bureaucratic.
Although it was officially terminated in December 1969, the project has captured the imagination of science fiction fans ever since its findings were publicly disclosed. Now, a new generation of UFO researchers may be spawned with the airing of the History Channel’s new TV series “Project Blue Book.”
The series premiered Jan. 8, and will run for ten episodes in the first season. History Channel described the new show as being “based on the true, top-secret investigations into [UFOs] and related phenomena conducted by the United States Air Force."
In the show, as well as real life, University of Chicago-trained astronomer Dr. Joseph Allen Hynek is recruited from his college professorship to serve as the scientific adviser to the clandestine Project Blue Book.
Hynek also consulted for the Air Force on two earlier UFO investigations known as Project Sign and Project Grudge, which both began and ended prior to Blue Book. In the show, he and his partner, Air Force Capt. Michael Quinn, are summoned to investigate UFO sightings across the country.
The duo quickly find, though, that some encounters cannot be easily dismissed.
A newspaper clipping from Project Blue Book Project 10073, near Schenectady and Oswego, N.Y., on April 8, 1956. The incident involved an airline pilot's pursuit of a UFO. (DoD)
The series diverges from historical fact when Hynek begins to suspect that he has been duped by the government into a conspiracy to cover up the truth.
The show is set against the backdrop of the Cold War and the rise of atomic weapons. Each episode in the series draws from the source material of actual Project Blue Book case files, “blending UFO theories with authentic historical events from one of the most mysterious eras in United States history,” according to the History Channel.
Still, there is some basis for Hynek’s mistrust of the Air Force.
In his 1977 book titled “The UFO Experience,” Hynek chronicled a personal shift away from his role as a UFO debunker, the role which he said the Air Force expected him to perform.
A DoD video was released on Friday that shows Navy pilots encountering an unidentified flying object.
By: Nicole Bauke
Over time, Hynek came to believe that while a great many UFO sightings could be explained as normal phenomena misidentified by untrained eyes, some cases could not be reconciled with known scientific knowledge.
Before the service shut the project down, he reported that he believed UFO sightings deserved more rigorous scrutiny, and that the surplus of reliable witnesses, including pilots and high-ranking military personnel, indicated that there was more than what meets the eye when it came to UFOs.
Regardless of his later beliefs, Project Blue Book officially concluded on a more skeptical note.
Thousands of UFO reports were filed and studied as part of the project. In its final report on Blue Book, the Air Force summarized its findings as follows:
No UFO reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security;
There was no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as “unidentified” represented technological developments or principles beyond the range of modern scientific knowledge; and
There was no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as “unidentified” were extraterrestrial vehicles.
All Air Force documentation pertaining to Project Blue Book was eventually transferred to the Modern Military Branch, National Archives and Records Service, and is available for public analysis.
“Since the termination of Project Blue Book, nothing has occurred that would support a resumption of UFO investigations by the Air Force,” the service said in an archived fact sheet on the report from July 2012. “Given the current environment of steadily decreasing defense budgets, it is unlikely the Air Force would become involved in such a costly project in the foreseeable future.”
Funny enough, though, the U.S. Defense Department’s intelligence arm was actually involved in UFO research at that time.
In December 2017, the Pentagon acknowledged for the first time that a program was established in 2007 to investigate service members’ reports of unidentified flying objects. That project didn’t end until 2012, though some officials speculated that it is ongoing, according to the New York Times.
Pictures from Project Blue Book Case 2853, at Toms River New Jersey Nov. 1, 1945. (DoD)
The project, called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, had the backing of then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as well as former Sens. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, and Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii.
“I’m not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going,” Reid said after the project became public in 2017. “I think it’s one of the good things I did in my congressional service. I’ve done something that no one has done before.”
One of the most famous of the publicly disclosed videos from Reid’s pet UFO project involved footage taken by U.S. Navy fighter jets as they tracked an unknown object maneuvering in inexplicable ways off the coast of southern California in 2004.
The existence of these programs doesn’t necessarily mean that UFOs are extraterrestrial in nature. But they do show that the government takes unidentified aerial objects seriously, perhaps worried about the ever-growing capabilities of near peer adversaries — or far.
The sheer amount and variety of animals on our planet is astounding. Some have learned to live with us in our homes and in the cities and on farms. Others are rare and usually only seen in places that are relatively unreachable to people like high mountaintops or severely cold and isolated climates.
There is a whole ocean of rarely seen creatures that run the gamut in terms of appearance and sizes. Some of the following animals live deep down in the waters and rarely or never see the rays of our sun. These particular animals live in environments so drastically different than any other animals that lives above water, they almost look like aliens! Barely recognizable eyes, translucent skin, and multiple limbs are only some of the oddities that underwater creatures feature on their small or huge bodies.
Many of the following underwater creatures live in very remote areas of the globe and are rarely seen by the human eye because they live so deep in the ocean. Creatures that live so far down in the waters have no reason to come up to the shore for anything, therefore they remain a mystery to most of us.
In the following list, we see 25 pictures of underwater creatures that we just can't seem to wrap our heads around.
25. RED LIPPED BATFISH
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The Red-Lipped Batfish is truly a unique kind of fish. While most people would assume that fish get to where they need to go by swimming, the Red-Lipped Batfish has adapted to be able to rest its fins on the ocean floor and move them as if it was walking on the bottom of the ocean! Walking isn’t the only special feature of these fish however. One of their most visible defining features are the lipstick red lips that they seem to have in a permanent pout. Don’t let these elegant red lips fool you though, the Red Lipped Batfish is an opportunistic carnivore that thankfully only consumes smaller fish, mollusks, and crustaceans (nationalgeographic).
24. BOBBIT WORM
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One of the many species of worms on this list, the Bobbit Worm may be one of the ones we least want to come across if we happen to be wandering across an ocean floor. Because it is an ambush predator, the Bobbit Worm catches its prey by burying its body in gravel, mud, or corals and waiting patiently until it senses prey approaching with one of its five antennas. Once the timing is right, the Bobbit Worm will attack ferociously with a quickness that is usually not attributed to worms (reefnation). One other feature that we usually don’t associate with worms? Teeth and toxins. But the Bobbit Worm has sharp teeth and injects prey with a toxin that renders can stun or even kill it.
23. SEA ANGEL
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Sea Angels seem to look like a combination that is very eye catching because of it’s meanings. While the name Sea Angel is almost certainly a testament to the “wings” that seem to be sprouting from its back, it also has two very distinct horns that remind one of something a bit less angelic… In actuality, the two “wings” are actually feet that have evolved to look like wings and are used to move along gracefully through the waters. Sea Angels are actually slugs and this particular kind has a translucent body and are tiny- they rarely grow over 5 cm in length.
22. GIANT ISOPOD
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Looking like a creature out of an alien movie, the Giant Isopod prefers the cold waters and the sparse light of the Oceans and they can be found thousands of feet below the surface of the freezing waters in the Antarctic. Because they live in such harsh conditions, Giant Isopods have slower metabolism and limit their movements until they absolutely have to, usually to catch any food that has managed to make its way so far down which is pretty scarce (discovery). Due to the low light conditions of their habitat, Giant Isopods rely more on their antennas to guide them rather than their eyes.
21. RIBBON EEL
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Ribbon eels are often found in lagoons or coastal reefs throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The Ribbon Eel literally looks like a thick cut ribbon being that it is long and thin with a colorful and bright pattern all along its flat body. Since it is so thin, the Ribbon Eel likes to hide in the dark, small and narrow crevices of the reefs or rocks. The Ribbon Eel usually swims with its mouth hanging open and makes a beautiful pattern with its long body as it travels that can be mesmerizing for any diver able to spot one.
20. SQUIDWORM
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Sometimes we wonder why some creatures were given certain names, but one close up look at the Squidworm gives a strong clue. The name “Squidworm” is actually a bit misleading since technically this creature is all worm. The difference between the Squidworm and the worms we would normally think of, such as the familiar Earthworm, is that this deep sea resident has a number of long tentacles on its head that make it look like two different kinds of animals were fused together to create it (nationalgeographic). The Squidworm uses its multiple tentacles for activities such as breathing, feeling its way around the deep sea, and feeding.
19. BLOBFISH
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Probably the most unfortunate looking creature on the list is the gelatinous Blobfish. The name is quite appropriate since without any bones or teeth, the Blobfish really doesn’t have much structure to its body or face. With features that make it look like it is in a bad mood all the time, the Blobfish floats along the sea floors of Australia and New Zealand ingesting any small creatures that happen to cross its path. Because it can’t really move and depends on the oceans currents to help it travel, the Blobfish is far from a dangerous predator, but still probably not one anyone wants to encounter (discovery).
18. GOBLIN SHARK
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Sharks in general are pretty fearsome creatures, but as far as looks go the Goblin Shark is one of the stranger looking types in the shark family. Also referred to as the “Vampire Shark” because of its preference for living in the darkness and shadows of the deep sea. Where in the globe doesn’t particularly matter since Goblin Sharks have been hauled up by fishermen in places like France, Brazil, and the Gulf of México. Wherever they are found, their unique shape is sure to make a frightening impression and makes us glad they live so deep down in the sea.
17. BARRELEYE FISH
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The Barrelfish is another underwater creature that seems better suited for an appearance in a science fiction movie. Unlike many other fishes, the Barrelfish has a translucent head where one can easily see all of the organs. While on the one hand it offers a very clear look into the anatomy of this fish, the unfiltered inside look into their heads is a bit off putting which is probably why one of the other names of this fish is the “Spookfish” (nationalgeographic). Barrelfish usually make their homes in the deep waters off of the coast of California and the North Pacific region.
16. CHRISTMAS TREE WORM
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Although it certainly does not look like any kind of worm we might think of when hearing that word, the Christmas Tree Worm is just that- a worm that lives on tropical coral reefs around the globe. They are relatively small and on average grow to about 1.5 inches in length, but they are always brightly colored which make them stand out as they cling to the coral reefs where they make their home (discovery). Since these worms are sedentary, once they find a place they like where they can withstand the tides and find enough to eat, they usually stick around for a while.
15. ARMORED SNAIL
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One of the few creatures on this list that does not make its home in the sea or oceans, the Armored Snail prefers the less active waters of freshwater springs, streams- and specifically in Piney and Limestone Creeks in Limestone County, Alabama which is the only place to date that this particular type of snail has ever been spotted. The snail size reaches up to .16 inches in length so it can’t do much damage towards other creatures, but it can certainly defend itself from other creatures because of its hard shell that grows with them so that it is always protected (nationalgeographic).
14. ANGLERFISH
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One of the most fearsome, and angry, looking underwater creatures on this list, the Anglerfish stands out from other fishes because of its large, balloon like body and clearly prominent rows of jagged, sharp teeth (discovery). Because they typically live at such deep depths, usually in the Atlantic and Antarctic oceans, they rely on a built in “lure” of luminous flesh that hangs over their heads and attracts prey that is then quickly and easily snatched into their mouths. Because of their wide, round bodies the Anglerfish isn’t the fastest swimmer in the deep, but its reflective skin allows it to escape the notice of larger predators.
13. BLACK SWALLOWER
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Black Swallowers are more common in the deep waters of tropical and subtropical locations. The Black Swallower looks like a normal sized fish, until we get a peek at the large, protruding stomach it carries underneath it. The distended stomach is not a permanent feature of this fish however, it is another fish entirely! Because Black Swallowers have greatly distensible stomachs, they are able to swallow much bigger fishes entirely whole, bones and all, without using their sharp teeth for much other than latching onto the fish initially (discovery). Black Swallowers have been known to eat fish up to ten times its own mass and over twice its length.
25 Pics Of Underwater Creatures That Defy All Logic - PART II
25 Pics Of Underwater Creatures That Defy All Logic - PART II
12. VIPERFISH
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The large jaws and openly visible jagged teeth on the Viperfish make it look very threatening, although this small fish usually doesn’t grow much bigger than about 12 inches. The long dorsal spine that curves along the spine is tipped with light that it flashes on and off in order to attract smaller fish. Since its fangs are so long that they do not fit in the Viperfish’s mouth, it is believed that they use their sharp teeth to impale their prey before consuming it (science-rumors). The Viperfish come in a few different colors, such as silver, black, or even green.
11. VAMPIRE SQUID
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With quite an intimidating name, the Vampire Squid is typically red in color and has eight arms connected by webbing that make it look similar to a cape vampires are usually associated with. Vampire Squids usually inhabit deep oceans in tropical and temperate regions. Unlike many of the other underwater creatures that live deep in the waters, the Vampire Squid has clearly visible eyes, which can be a vibrant red or blue. Similar to other underwater creatures though, the Vampire Squid’s body is covered with light-producing organs. These can be turned on and off at will either to disorient predators or to attract potential prey.
10. FRILLED SHARK
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The Frilled Shark looks to be another one of those creatures that seems like it was the result of an experiment that combined two different kinds of animals (nationalgeographic). Although the Frilled Shark looks very similar to other sharks in terms of its facial resemblance and needle sharp teeth, the body tends to be longer and leaner than most other sharks which give it the appearance of being an eel. Typically brown or grey, the Frilled Sharks swims along the seafloor looking to capture prey with a mouth that can open wide enough to swallow creatures half of its size.
9. GULPER EEL
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One of the more bizarre looking creatures on this list, the Gulper Eel is distinctive because of its enormously large mouth which hinges open wide enough to swallow creatures much larger than itself. The body of the Gulper Eel is long and lean like most eels, but since it can swallow such large prey, the stomach is able to stretch to significant portions to accommodate digestion (seasky). The Gulper Eel has a very long tail that it uses to move around through the waters, and is tipped by a photophore- a light producing organ that is common in most underwater creatures who live in darkness to attract prey.
8. GHOST SHAR
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With distinctively large and gray blue colored eyes, the Ghost Shark can leave quite an impression because of how rarely it is seen by humans. The Ghost Shark lives in darkness and is usually not very large, with an average length of three feet in length (nationalgeographic). Unlike many other sharks, the Ghost Shark doesn't have hundreds of sharp teeth, instead it crushes its small prey using the mineral plates they have instead of teeth. The blue green color of its skin almost make it look translucent as it swims along the ocean floors, which gives it the appearance of gliding along like a ghost.
7. STARGAZER FISH
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The Stargazer Fish may not be one of the most colorful creatures on this list, but its dull brown color helps it to blend into the ocean floor more easily where it buries its entire body so completely that only its face and eyes are visible (saltstrong). The Stargazer fish may not look very threatening, especially when so much of it is buried in the sand or mud, but it can be dangerous if disturbed because it not only has two large poison spines on each pectoral fin, these spines are also capable of emitting some pretty strong and disabling electric shocks!
6. JAPANESE GIANT SPIDER CRAB
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With the honor of being the only Crab on this list, the Japanese Giant Spider Crab is also the largest known species of crab with an average life expectancy of up to 100 years (national geographic). The Giant Spider Crab is also a master of playing defense; not only are they protected from predators by their armored exoskeletons, their bumpy exterior and color is used as camouflage to blend into the rocky ocean floor and they deliberately pick up sponges and other small animals to adorn its shell and further the illusion that they are a random rock on the ocean floor.
5. BLUE RIMMED OCTOPUS
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Although there are certainly much bigger and fearsome looking octopuses in the sea, the blue Rimmed Octopus is distinctive because of its unique, bright coloring that make it stand out among many other underwater creatures. The Blue Rimmed Octopus is quite small and rarely grows larger than about eight inches long, but one of the reasons it is so fearsome is because this little creature is one of the most venomous animals in the ocean, with a bite that can cause intense and quick muscle paralysis (nationalgeographic). Once the Blue Rimmed Octopus has its prey between its teeth, it injects them with venom to easily consume whatever unlucky creature it managed to snatch.
4. FANG TOOTHED FISH
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One of the more menacing looking fish on the list, the Fang Toothed Fish is named so because of its incredibly large mouth. The Fang Toothed Fish has such big and sharp teeth that they do not allow it to close its mouth completely which makes it look like it is always hungry and ready for its next meal. The entire fish’s body is covered with small, prickly scales which make it look even less inviting. Thankfully, since the Fang Toothed Fish usually likes to hang out in the deeper ocean waters, most people are in no danger of actually meeting one face to face.
3. BLACK DRAGONFISH
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The Black Dragonfish lives up to its fierce name with an even fiercer appearance. Its mouth is permanently ajar so that their numerous sharp teeth are one of the first things we notice. Although Black Dragonfish can produce their own blue/green light similar to many other underwater creatures who live at such dark depths, they also have the powerful advantage of being able to produce light in the infrared range to provide light for themselves that most other creatures are unable to detect. The fish’s long, slender body is covered in light producing photophores which light up on command or when the fish has been threatened (futurism).
2. RED COFFINFISH
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In the same family as the Angler Fish and Sea Toads, the Red Coffinfish are typically found hanging out somewhere on the ocean floor. These are some of the few fish that “walk” along the ocean floor due to their leg-like fins. Much like the Angler Fish, the Red Coffinfish that live in darkness also have a lit-luring mechanism on their heads that they use to bring prey close enough to eat (nespmarine.edu.au). Their usual pose is to have one hand on a rock and one hand on the sediment in order to steady themselves against the strong ocean currents.
1. SARCASTIC FRINGEHEAD
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Although the Sarcastic Fringeheads may not be the largest or most fearsome looking underwater creature on this list when they keep their mouths closed, they are known for fiercely defending their small territory in a rather unexpected way (oceana.org). The Sarcastic Fringehead likes to live in burrows in the waters of places like California and México and when it perceives that its personal space has been encroached upon, whether on purpose or accidentally does not matter, it will move aggressively and upon its jaws extremely wide in order to bare it’s small, sharp teeth and sink them into anything that is unfortunate enough to have drawn too close.
Scientists warn Earth's magnetic North Pole has begun moving 'erratically' at speeds so fast they are having to issue an emergency update to maps used by electronic navigation systems
Scientists warn Earth's magnetic North Pole has begun moving 'erratically' at speeds so fast they are having to issue an emergency update to maps used by electronic navigation systems
Magnetic North Pole is 'skittering' away from Canada, towards Siberia
Researchers say it is moving at an 'unusually high speed of about 50 km per year'
Say Canada is essentially losing a magnetic tug-of-war with Siberia
Researchers around the world are scrambling to update global models relied on by GPS navigation systems
Earth's magnetic fields are shifting - and scientists are unsure why.
Researchers say the magnetic North Pole is 'skittering' away from Canada, towards Siberia.
The problem has got so bad, researchers around the world are scrambling to update a global model of the fields.
Called the World Magnetic Model, it underlies all modern navigation, from the systems that steer ships at sea to Google Maps on smartphones.
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Researchers say the magnetic North Pole is 'skittering' away from Canada, towards Siberia, far more quickly that they expected it to.
WHY ARE THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELDS MOVING?
The problem lies partly with the moving pole and partly with other shifts deep within the planet.
Liquid churning in Earth's core generates most of the magnetic field, which varies over time as the deep flows change.
In 2016, for instance, part of the magnetic field temporarily accelerated deep under northern South America and the eastern Pacific Ocean. Satellites such as the European Space Agency's Swarm mission tracked the shift.
The most recent version of the model came out in 2015, and it was supposed to last until 2020.
However, researchers say the magnetic field is changing so rapidly that they have to fix the model urgently.
It was due to be updated on the 15th January, but due to the US Government shutdown, that has already been delayed until the 30th.
'It's moving at about 50 km (30 miles) a year. It didn't move much between 1900 and 1980 but it's really accelerated in the past 40 years,' Ciaran Beggan, of the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, told Reuters on Friday.
The magnetic field is in a permanent state of flux.
Magnetic north wanders, and every few hundred thousand years the polarity flips so that a compass would point south instead of north.
'The error is increasing all the time,' Arnaud Chulliat, a geomagnetist at the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Centers for Environmental Information, told Nature.
'In early 2018, as part of our regular assessment of the WMM, we found that the model exceeded its specification for declination only three years into the five-year WMM cycle,' he told the American Geophysical Union meeting.
'We investigated this error and tracked it down to the combined effect of a global geomagnetic acceleration pulse occurring in 2015-2016, and a fast-changing magnetic field in the North polar area.
A remarkable manifestation of the field variation is the drift of the North magnetic pole towards Russia, which has been occurring at the unusually high speed of about 50 km per year since the beginning of the 21st century.
'On the contrary, the South magnetic pole drift is very slow (less than 10 km per year) and has not changed much over the past few decades, and hence provided a much smaller contribution to the overall model declination error.'
To fix the model, he and his colleagues fed it three years of recent data, which included a 2016 geomagnetic pulse, and he says the new model, when it is released, should remain accurate until the next regularly scheduled update in 2020.
Satellites such as the European Space Agency's Swarm mission tracked the shift.
Phil Livermore, a geomagnetist at the University of Leeds, UK, said at the American Geophysical Union meeting 'the location of the north magnetic pole appears to be governed by two large-scale patches of magnetic field, one beneath Canada and one beneath Siberia,' Livermore says.
'The Siberian patch is winning the competition.'
WHAT IS THE WORLD MAGNETIC MODEL?
The charts, known as the World Magnetic Model (WMM), are used to convert between compass measurements of magnetic north and true north and can be found in the navigation systems of ships and airplanes as well as geological applications (such as drilling and mining).
The WMM is also part of map applications in smartphones, including the Google Maps App.
Researchers from the U.S.'s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) maintain the WMM.
The charts, known as the World Magnetic Model (WMM), are used to convert between compass measurements of magnetic north and true north
'Although GPS is a great tool for navigation, it is limited in that it only provides your position,' geodetic scientist James Friederich from the U. S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency explained in 2014.
'Your orientation, the direction you are facing, comes from the magnetic field.'
'Our war fighters use magnetics to orient their maps.
'Your smartphone camera and various apps can use the magnetic field to help determine the direction you are facing,' he continued.
'All of these examples need the WMM to provide your proper orientation.'
Scientists in recent years have predicted that Earth's magnetic field could be gearing up to 'flip' – a shift in which the magnetic south pole would become magnetic north, and vice versa.
Such an event could have catastrophic effects, wreaking havoc on the electric grid and leaving life at the surface exposed to higher amounts of solar radiation.
While it's previously been thought that these reversals take place at intervals of hundreds of thousands of years, one recent study suggests it could happen in just a matter of centuries.
Scientists in recent years have predicted that Earth's magnetic field could be gearing up to 'flip' – a shift in which the magnetic south pole would become magnetic north, and vice versa. Earth's magnetic field is illustrated above
Scientists estimate Earth's North and South magnetic poles flip every 200,000-300,000 years.
But, it's been roughly 780,000 years since the last such event, causing many to suspect we're overdue.
When the magnetic poles flip, Earth's protective magnetic field weakens, leaving its inhabitants at higher risk from the effects of space weather.
WHAT COULD HAPPEN TO EARTH IF ITS POLES FLIPPED?
The Earth’s magnetic field is in a permanent state of change.
Magnetic north drifts around and every few hundred thousand years the polarity flips so a compass would point south instead of north.
The strength of the magnetic field also constantly changes and currently it is showing signs of significant weakening.
Life has existed on the Earth for billions of years, during which there have been many reversals.
There is no obvious correlation between animal extinctions and those reversals. Likewise, reversal patterns do not have any correlation with human development and evolution.
It appears that some animals, such as whales and some birds use Earth's magnetic field for migration and direction finding.
Since geomagnetic reversal takes a number of thousands of years, they could well adapt to the changing magnetic environment or develop different methods of navigation.
Radiation at ground level would increase, however, with some estimates suggesting that overall exposure to cosmic radiation would double causing more deaths from cancer. ‘But only slightly,’ said Professor Richard Holme.
‘And much less than lying on the beach in Florida for a day. So if it happened, the protection method would probably be to wear a big floppy hat.’
The movement of the Earth's magnetic poles are shown in this animation at 10-year intervals from 1970 to 2020. The red and blue lines sjpw the difference between magnetic north and true north depending on where you are standing. On the green line, a compass would point to true north.
Credit: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Electric grid collapse from severe solar storms is a major risk. As the magnetic field continues to weaken, scientists are highlighting the importance off-the grid energy systems using renewable energy sources to protect the Earth against a black out.
'The very highly charged particles can have a deleterious effect on the satellites and astronauts,' added Dr Mona Kessel, a Magnetosphere discipline scientist at Nasa.
In one area, there is evidence that a flip is already occurring. ‘The increasing strength of the South Atlantic anomaly, an area of weak field over Brazil, is already a problem,’ said Professor Richard Holme.
The Earth's climate could also change. A recent Danish study has found that the earth's weather has been significantly affected by the planet's magnetic field.
They claimed that fluctuations in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere directly alter the amount of cloud covering the planet.
Henrik Svensmark, a weather scientist at the Danish National Space Centre who led the team behind the research, believes that the planet is experiencing a natural period of low cloud cover due to fewer cosmic rays entering the atmosphere.
'Earth's magnetic field, which has existed for at least 3.45 billion years, provides a shield from the direct impact of solar radiation,' said Professor Roberts from the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences.
'Even with Earth's strong magnetic field today, we're still susceptible to solar storms that can damage our electricity-based society.'
In the new study, researchers at the Australian National University analyzed the paleomagnetic record from 107,000 to 91,000 years ago by analyzing a stalagmite from a cave in southwestern China.
The team conducted magnetic analysis and radiometric dating on the meter-long sample, revealing the behaviour of the ancient magnetic field.
And, they found the magnetic field experienced a rapid shift over the span of about two centuries, decreasing in strength by about 90 percent when a field reversal occurred.
In the new study, researchers at the Australian National University analyzed the paleomagnetic record from 107,000 to 91,000 years ago by analyzing a stalagmite from a cave in southwestern China
The damage to power grids and communications systems resulting from such a flip in today's society would cause trillions of dollars in damage, the researchers explain.
'Hopefully such an event is a long way in the future and we can develop future technologies to avoid huge damage, where possible, from such events,' Professor Roberts said.
The study suggests Earth's magnetic field is a lot more unpredictable than suspected, the researchers say.
'The record provides important insights into ancient magnetic field behaviour,' Professor Roberts said, 'which has turned out to vary much more rapidly than previously thought.'
Light is the fastest thing in the universe, so trying to catch it on the move is necessarily something of a challenge. We’ve had some success, but a new rig built by Caltech scientists pulls downa mind-boggling 10 trillion frames per second, meaning it can capture light as it travels along — and they have plans to make it a hundred times faster.
Understanding how light moves is fundamental to many fields, so it isn’t just idle curiosity driving the efforts of Jinyang Liang and his colleagues — not that there’d be anything wrong with that either. But there are potential applications in physics, engineering, and medicine that depend heavily on the behavior of light at scales so small, and so short, that they are at the very limit of what can be measured.
You may have heard about billion- and trillion-FPS cameras in the past, but those were likely “streak cameras” that do a bit of cheating to achieve those numbers.
A light pulse as captured by the T-CUP system.
If a pulse of light can be replicated perfectly, then you could send one every millisecond but offset the camera’s capture time by an even smaller fraction, like a handful of femtoseconds (a billion times shorter). You’d capture one pulse when it was here, the next one when it was a little further, the next one when it was even further, and so on. The end result is a movie that’s indistinguishable in many ways from if you’d captured that first pulse at high speed.
This is highly effective — but you can’t always count on being able to produce a pulse of light a million times the exact same way. Perhaps you need to see what happens when it passes through a carefully engineered laser-etched lens that will be altered by the first pulse that strikes it. In cases like that, you need to capture that first pulse in real time — which means recording images not just with femtosecond precision, but only femtoseconds apart.
Simple, right?
That’s what the T-CUP method does. It combines a streak camera with a second static camera and a data collection method used in tomography.
“We knew that by using only a femtosecond streak camera, the image quality would be limited. So to improve this, we added another camera that acquires a static image. Combined with the image acquired by the femtosecond streak camera, we can use what is called a Radon transformation to obtain high-quality images while recording ten trillion frames per second,” explained co-author of the study Lihong Wang. That clears things right up!
At any rate the method allows for images — well, technically spatiotemporal datacubes — to be captured just 100 femtoseconds apart. That’s ten trillion per second, or it would be if they wanted to run it for that long, but there’s no storage array fast enough to write ten trillion datacubes per second to. So they can only keep it running for a handful of frames in a row for now — 25 during the experiment you see visualized here.
Those 25 frames show a femtosecond-long laser pulse passing through a beam splitter — note how at this scale the time it takes for the light to pass through the lens itself is nontrivial. You have to take this stuff into account!
This level of precision in real time is unprecedented, but the team isn’t done yet.
“We already see possibilities for increasing the speed to up to one quadrillion (1015) frames per second!” enthused Liang in the press release. Capturing the behavior of light at that scale and with this level of fidelity is leagues beyond what we were capable of just a few years ago and may open up entire new fields or lines of inquiry in physics and exotic materials.
The city of Lewisburg, Tennessee lies just under an hour away from the southern cultural mecca of Nashville. Lewisburg resident Patsy Wright’s family has lived in the city for over 100 years on a piece of rural property which enjoys a sizable pond. Last week, Wright was walking her dog around the property on her way to the pond when she came across a surprising sight:
I walked down here with my dog and sure as the world, no water! It was gone!
Wright says this is the first time she’s known the pond to be empty in the century her family has lived at the property. Drone footage captured at the scene shows a fairly large hole lying on the completely dry bottom of the tiny pond. The hole appears to be a few feet deep and full of muddy water.
Lakes and ponds have been known to mysteriously disappear into sinkholes from time to time.
While ponds or other small bodies of water draining into underground sinkholes or unexplored subterranean rivers is nothing new, Patsy Wright is adamant that a larger mystery is afoot. Wright told local news station WSMV that just before she discovered her pond was empty, she saw an unidentified object fall from the sky and crash into its waters:
When I seen them waves go up like it did?! And then they come back down. And I heard the splash. I mean it was a big splash. I know something hit it, because I heard it. I thought, I’m not imagining nothing. It’s there.
A report has been filed with the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office, and Wright plans on contacting the Environmental Protection Agency to see if the case is worthy of their investigation. Last year, a series of mysterious booms rocked the skies just a few hours to the east – mysterious booms which remain unexplained. Could this pond’s disappearance be related?
Did a meteorite or piece of space debris fall to Earth and drain Patsy Wright’s pond? Weird things do seem to be falling from or exploding in the sky at a high frequency lately. Perhaps it was another megacryometeor? Until this one is investigated – if it ever is – it will likely remain a mystery.
Break out the cigars! Open the Gender Reveal box! Start saving for college! For the first time in history, astronomers have witnessed the birth of a black hole. As befitting of such a monumental event, they’ve named the baby black star “The Cow.” Wait … what?
“We thought it must be a supernova. But what we observed challenged our current notions of stellar death. We knew right away that this source went from inactive to peak luminosity within just a few days. That was enough to get everybody excited because it was so unusual and, by astronomical standards, it was very close by.”
According to the press release, what a team led by Northwestern University astrophysicist and assistant professor of physics and astronomy Raffaella Margutti saw was AT2018cow (‘cow’ letters generated randomly, hence the inappropriate nickname), an anomaly that flared up in the Hercules constellation in the galaxy CGCG 137-068 on June 17, 2018 … and then disappeared just 16 days later. “Flare” doesn’t do justice to this event – it was up to 100 times brighter than a typical supernova and blew out particles at 30,000 km per second (1/10th the speed of light). The event was made more exciting by its close proximity – just 200 million light years away. But Margutti and her team weren’t sure what they saw.
I see it!
That’s when luck entered the picture. The team switched from the ATLAS survey’s twin telescopes (the AT part of the name) to NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and INTEGRAL hard X-ray laboratories, soft X-rays at XMM-Newton and radio antennae at the Very Large Array. All of that astronomy horsepower benefited from the fact that The Cow had much less stellar debris floating around it that similar explosions, allowing them to see clearly into its center and identify evidence of hydrogen and helium – all the signs of a baby black hole. That’s when the champagne was uncorked.
“We think that ‘The Cow’ is the formation of an accreting black hole or neutron star. We know from theory that black holes and neutron stars form when a star dies, but we’ve never seen them right after they are born. Never.”
Margutti held the baby black hole reveal party (aka announcement) at the 233rd Meeting of the American Astronomical in Seattle this week and the research will be published shortly in the Astrophysical Journal. (Pictures of The Cow can be seen here.) Is this a big deal? We in the U.S. have just seen the adulation heaped upon a college freshman for quarterbacking his team to the national championship. Freshman studying science rather than football defenses don’t normally get that kind of attention or excitement. First-year Northwestern undergraduate student Daniel Brethauer did as part of the team.
The SOAR telescope shown with illustrations of a highly magnetized neutron star (top left) and a black hole (top right)
(Photo: NOAO /AURA /NSF /Nasa / SWNS.COM)
“Being given the opportunity to contribute to something as cutting edge and international as understanding AT2018cow as an undergrad is a surreal experience. To have helped the world’s experts figure out what AT2018cow is even in the smallest way was beyond my wildest expectations at the beginning of the summer and something that I will remember for the rest of my life.”
Astronomers using ground-based observatories caught the progression of a cosmic event nicknamed "the Cow," as seen in these three images. Left: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey in New Mexico observed the host galaxy Z 137-068 in 2003, with the Cow nowhere in sight. (The green circle indicates the location where the Cow eventually appeared). Center: The Liverpool Telescope in Spain's Canary Islands saw the Cow very close to the event's peak brightness on June 20, 2018, when it was much brighter than the host galaxy. Right: The William Herschel Telescope, also in the Canary Islands, took a high-resolution image of the Cow nearly a month after it reached peak brightness, as it faded and the host galaxy came back into view.
Credit: Daniel Perley, Liverpool John Moores University
The crosshair indicate where The Cow was spotted
The Cow is nestled in the CGCG 137-068 galaxy which is 200 million light years from Earth.
On September 19, 1961, a New Hampshire husband and wife,Betty and Barney Hill, were driving to their New Hampshire home, after taking a welcome vacation in Montreal, Canada. We might argue they needed another vacation after experiencing what was lurking and looming on the horizon. As the pair headed home, and at around 10.30 p.m., as they drove south of Lancaster, New Hampshire, they were puzzled by the sight of a strange light in the night sky above. Viewing the lighted object through binoculars convinced the Hills that what they were seeing was not an aircraft – of either a commercial or military kind. As they continued their drive through the mountains, Barney and Betty developed an uneasy sense that whoever was flying the craft was specifically watching them; playing a game with them, toying with them, and practically goading them into following the maneuvers of the mysterious vehicle.
Matters came to a sudden hair-raising head when the object approached their car and dropped to a height of around ninety feet, causing a terrified Barney to bring the car to a sudden stop, in the middle of the road, on the darkened, mountain pass. Pancake-like was how Barney later described the unearthly-looking vehicle, after stepping out of the car and staring into the dark skies. As Barney focused on the craft with the binoculars, he couldn’t fail to see close to a dozen beings – wearing caps – milling around and peering down at the now deeply frightened pair. When the machine began to close in on the Hill’s car, Barney shouted to Betty that the things inside were going to kidnap them. They jumped back into the car at sped off at high speed – which is hardly surprising. Craft and crew did not follow – or so it seemed at the time.
The traumatic encounter was far from over: it didn’t take long at all before Betty and Barney realized that there was something very wrong about their journey – around two hours of time was missing from it. Gone. Obliterated from their memories. Finally, after nightmares, restless nights of tossing and turning, and picking up on fragmented memories suggesting there was far more to the incident than they consciously remembered, the pair received help from a psychiatrist and neurologist in Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Benjamin Simon – who began a series of hypnotic sessions with the Hills in January 1964.
What surfaced out of those sessions, while Barney and Betty were rendered into altered states by the doctor, was, to put it bluntly, astounding: if the results of the hypnosis were not the product of fantasy or suggestion, both of the Hills had been taken on board what was nothing less than an alien spacecraft, and subjected to a number of medical procedures that clearly left Betty and Barney in states of lasting turmoil. One of those procedures – specifically performed on Betty – gave an indication that human reproduction somehow played a role in the matter.
The story is a remarkable one, and one that is comprised of Betty and Barney’s own memories that flooded back into their mind during distressing dreams, and data that surfaced during the hypnosis sessions with Dr. Simon. According to Betty, while under the control and sway of the strange creatures that stood before her on the craft, she experienced something deeply traumatic: laid out flat on something similar to an operating table, Betty – to her horror – witnessed one of the entities inserting a needle-like device into her navel, after informing her he was going to check if she was pregnant. In addition, Betty said the alien performing the procedure assured her that the test would be very helpful – but in what way, and why, exactly, was not explained. Nor was it explained who the procedure would be helpful for: Betty or the ETs. One suspects the latter.
According to Betty, the needle was somewhere between four and six inches in length and had a tube attached to it. Far from feeling like the slight discomfort associated with a regular, medical needle, however, Betty said that the pain – as it was inserted – was more along the lines of what she thought it would feel like to have the blade of a knife plunged into her. In other words, it was excruciating. Both the entity carrying out the task, and an additional one that was perceived by the Hills as the leader, reacted in a surprised and concerned fashion – to the extent that the creature overseeing the situation waved his hand across Betty’s eyes, something which immediately removed all of the agony. At least, that was the scenario in Betty’s dreams.
Under hypnosis, however, the story was that the pain did not go away: Betty was still in pain and deeply stressed. This is highly suggestive of the probability that her subconscious state had attempted to place a more positive, and far less traumatic, slant on the experience – but one that the hypnosis sessions demonstrated was far worse than her mind was trying to telling her. In fact, such was the stressful, pain-filled, and fear-dominated state that Betty was in, Dr. Simon took the immediate step of bringing the hypnotic session to a rapid halt. This particular aspect of the Hill affair brings us to the matter of something called amniocentesis.
When a woman becomes pregnant, the developing fetus is enveloped in what is termed amniotic fluid. It is a liquid that is very much like water, and from a study of which a great deal can be ascertained about the health and development of the fetus. Alpha-fetoprotein and developing skin cells are two of the main things that the Amniocentesis procedure focuses on, as it seeks to confirm the condition of the fetus. During the process, a needle is inserted into the mother’s uterus, via her abdomen, usually between fifteen and eighteen weeks into pregnancy. Since the procedure can at times be a tricky one, it is constantly overseen via ultrasound scanning. The goal is to use the needle to secure a small amount of amniotic fluid, which can then be studied and analyzed.
Typically, the procedure is performed for genetic reasons, such as to determine if the developing baby may have Muscular Dystrophy, Cystic Fibrosis, or Down syndrome. It’s a procedure which is very often undertaken on women in their mid-thirties or older (and who have a markedly higher chance of developing chromosomal disorders), and those who have given birth to a previous child with either physical or mental disorders. It may not be a coincidence that when Betty was subjected to that curious procedure, she was already in her early forties. It must be said that there is one notable difference between amniocentesis and the procedure that Betty Hill experienced. Namely, that the needle inserted into Betty went via her navel. In amniocentesis, it’s via the abdomen and then into the uterus. Nevertheless, it’s still intriguing that Betty’s aliens informed her that the needle-inserting procedure was linked with determining if she was pregnant.
Those doubtful of Betty’s account might take note of the fact that in 1930, the team of Leland E. Holly, Thomas Orville Menees, and J. Duane Miller, performed an amniocentesis procedure on a pregnant woman. In this case, it involved injecting dye into the amniotic sac, specifically to study the placenta and the fetus. Could Betty have heard of, or read about, these early, pre-1960s era examples of amniocentesis? Certainly, it’s not impossible. In addition, in 1960, only one year before the encounter of the Hills, and for the very first time, amniocentesis was used to identify hemophilia-related issues relative to mother and fetus. It was a development reported on, at the time – albeit primarily in the pages of in-house medical journals. If Betty did have an awareness of what amniocentesis is, it’s not impossible that buried memories of reading about it had a bearing on both her dream-based and hypnotic recollections. But, on the other hand, why would Betty say the needle was inserted into her navel, if she knew that amniocentesis was a technique that was focused only on the abdomen and the uterus?
In some respects, what Betty told of sounds far more like a laparoscopy, in which a small insertion can be made into the belly and a lighted tube is inserted to allow for an examination of the pelvic organs to be undertaken. So, given that the pelvic organs include the uterus, the Fallopian tubes, the vagina, and the ovaries, a case can still be made – to a degree – that the procedure performed on Betty was of a gynecological nature, even if it wasn’t a case of amniocentesis.
There May Be Creatures on This Planet More Intelligent Than Humans, Study Says
There May Be Creatures on This Planet More Intelligent Than Humans, Study Says
It has long been known that humans are very intelligent, often thought of as the most intelligent. However, could there be something far more intelligent that blows us humans out of the water? Quite a lot of people think the answer to that question is yes. What is it though?
What is more intelligent than humans?
A study from last year (2018) suggests that Dolphins are highly intelligent creatures, so much so that they may surpass human intelligence in some respects. One of those ways being self-awareness. The study used was a mirror-self recognition (MSR) test which basically consists of presenting a mirror to the test subject and seeing how long it takes them or it to recognize themselves.
When presented with a mirror, human infants aren’t usually able to recognize themselves until they are around 12 months old. Bottlenose dolphins, on the other hand, are able to recognize themselves at just seven months old. The experiment was done on both male and female dolphins to get a range of results.
They are capable of far more than anyone had ever realized. They are even able to create personalized whistles which can be seen as their equivalent of names for different members of their pod. They can solve problems as well as communicate with each other with no difficulty whatsoever. Some people actually believe we should treat them as people in a sense because of their high intellect.
What did the report say?
Here is a small extract from the report on the dolphins;
We exposed two young bottlenose dolphins to an underwater mirror and analyzed video recordings of their behavioral responses over a 3-year period. Here we report that both dolphins exhibited MSR, indicated by self-directed behavior at the mirror, at ages earlier than generally reported for children and at ages much earlier than reported for chimpanzees. The early onset of MSR in young dolphins occurs in parallel with their advanced sensorimotor development, complex and reciprocal social interactions, and growing social awareness. Both dolphins passed subsequent mark tests at ages comparable with children. Thus, our findings indicate that dolphins exhibit self-awareness at a mirror at a younger age than previously reported for children or other species tested.
Dolphins have both been here longer than us, and have much larger brains than us. We can learn a lot from these animals whether we seem them as our equals or not. They should be studied and tested further to see what they are really capable of. A TedEd talk video on dolphins can be seen below which explains how smart dolphins really are.
In my opinion, this is really exciting news! I don't think dolphins will be walking out of the water and taking over the human race anytime soon but I do believe there is more to them than we know and they should be treated as such.
What I don't understand is why does it make a turn like a plane, I mean UFOs don't have to do that as they have inertial dampeners or gravity nullifiers with that rotating like that is done because of the ailerons, this object is rotating to make a turn like a plane does and that's illogical, might be something from the Air force new type of plane with that.
Rovers on Mars today are amazing, but slow, and still mostly controlled by humans back on Earth. Europe is testing new self-driving software to help future Marsrovers travel faster and farther each day.
Engineers watch the progress of one of the test rovers in Morocco.
Image via ESA.
Despite the fact that landing on Mars is hard, robotic rovers and landers have now become a regular feature of Mars exploration. These advanced exploratory machines are sending back unprecedented information about this fascinating red world. One limitation, however, has been that rovers and landers are still, for the most part, controlled by human operators back on Earth. On December 18, 2018, the European Space Agency (ESA) announcedthe testing of software for new Mars rovers that’ll help make their future exploration more autonomous – “smarter” and more capable of making their own decisions, such as deciding where to go and how to get there – i.e. self-driving.
Three different rovers – Sherpa, Mana and Minnie – were tested at five locations at the Ibn Battuta Test Centrein Morocco, near Erfoud on the northern edge of the Sahara Desert, in December 2018. With more than 40 engineers involved, this was the end of the first phase of the Strategic Research Cluster on space robotics technologies, a scheme funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme.
As explained by Gianfranco Visentin, head of ESA’s Automation and Robotics section:
This is important for the future, when there will be many more rovers going to Mars and they’ll be moving hundreds of meters [yards] per day. There won’t be schools of analysts to scrutinize every image – intelligent rover systems will be needed to detect what is interesting and send it back to Earth.
Another view of the U.K.’s test rover Sherpa.
Image via Crown copyright.
The Mana and Minnie rovers, during the field test in Morocco in December 2018.
Image via ESA.
The research cluster is coordinated by the PERASPERA Ad Astra (Latin for “to the stars through hardships”) project, which is a partnership of Italy’s ASI space agency, France’s CNES space agency, the DLR German Aerospace Center, Spain’s CDTI technology agency and the U.K. Space Agency, UKSA, coordinated by ESA.
The wind-blown desert environment in Morocco was selected by the EU’s Europlanet Research Infrastructure as a good match for Mars, with its red, rocky and dusty terrain. The location has also been used by Hollywood and Chinese documentary makers. The Ibn Battuta Test Centre is named after the 14th century Islamic explorer of the same name.
A variety of new technologies were tested on the rovers, including data fusion systems, a plug-and-play sensor suite and an open-source operating system for robotic control. More specifically, according to a U.K. Government press release:
The ERGO Autonomy framework: The autonomy framework lets the rover make decisions by itself without the need for human intervention. These decisions could be about the path a rover needs to take to get to its destination. It also means the rover can make decisions about managing its resources, for example shutting down certain functions to conserve power. It will also give the rover the ability to investigate things it deems to be interesting, things which human operators might miss.
The INFUSE Data Fusion: Data fusion is about the fusing together of data from different sensors and sources in order to create useful information such as maps, which the rover can then use to navigate successfully across the difficult Martian landscape. The data will be provided by different types of camera, sensors, trackers and torches to give the rover a full understanding of the Martian world around it.
The I3DS Plug And Play Sensor Suite: The rover needs various sensors to enable it to see, perceive and understand the Martian world. Using a ‘plug-and-play’ approach means that sensors can be installed and removed easily according to the mission requirements. The Sensor suite also has a unique, built-in computer called an ICU (Integration Control Unit) that processes the signals from the sensors into information before passing that information to the Data Fusion system.
The ESROCOS Operating System: Robots need operating systems to function, just like your computer, tablet, phone or laptop at home. The operating system provides the low-level software and libraries required by the robot to undertake basic functions. It also provides the language and framework with which the other software (such as the ERGO Autonomy Framework and the INFUSE Data Fusion) must adhere in order to create a coherent and integrated system. In other words, this is the core software that provides the rules which bind all the other systems and software together.
According to Visentin:
What this kind of field test gives you is the proof of the pudding that your design is working well, even in some of the most challenging environments we can imagine.
Lab testing of the hardware we design doesn’t take account of the variability nature brings, from the light of the sky to the shape of the landscape, the texture and colours of the sand and rock. Operating outdoors in this way proves that our systems work in much more complex and elaborate settings than can ever be simulated.
To give an example during this field test, the very smoothness and homogeneity of some of the big sand dunes proved difficult for computer vision algorithms to navigate, because they are based on identifying features based on difference, so they started to behave in unexpected ways we haven’t seen before.
Our excellent results also included some good successes: the SherpaTT rover managed a 1.3-km [.8 mile] journey on an entirely autonomous basis, while its autonomous science element triggered a scientific acquisition on its own, unprompted: it spotted some strange shaped stones then asked the main planner to move into a better position to take more images.
This is important for the future, when there will be many more rovers going to Mars and they’ll be moving hundreds of meters [yards] per day. There won’t be schools of analysts to scrutinize every image – intelligent rover systems will be needed to detect what is interesting and send it back to Earth.
A drone being used to map the surrounding terrain where the rovers were being tested.
Image via ESA,
The U.K.’s Sherpa rover during the field test in Morocco in December 2018.
Image via ESA.
Before the testing began, ESA also flew a drone to map the location, producing digital elevation models down to a resolution of 4 cm (1.6 inches). This kind of “ground truthing” was needed to compare data from the rovers with observed reality.
Current rovers are limited to driving a few dozen meters (yards) per day, but with the new software, future rovers could travel up to a kilometer (.6 miles) per day, a big improvement which would let rovers investigate a greater number of scientifically interesting locations during their missions.
Various companies and universities in the U.K. also participated in the testing, including Airbus Defence & Space, Thales Alenia Space, Scisys, King’s College London, the University of Strathclyde and GMV-UK.
Illustration of the upcoming ExoMars rover, scheduled to launch in 2020. New rovers like this will be able to use more advanced software to become “self-driving.”
Image via ESA/ATG medialab.
More advanced self-driving technology will be essential for future Mars rovers, so they can navigate the terrain without needing to be so dependent on human engineers uploading commands to them from Earth. NASA’s Curiosity rover does have a certain amount of autonomous capability, but it will need to be improved as new rovers land in potentially even more challenging terrain, including the upcoming Mars 2020 rover (NASA) and ExoMars rover (ESA).
Bottom line: New self-driving rovers being designed and tested by the ESA via Europe’s Horizon 2020 program will help future Mars rovers travel faster and farther without human assistance.
There's something happening in the skies of California in the US because recently there's been a spike in UFO activity and it doesn't seem to be slowing down anytime soon. Because this Mothership (if you like) is releasing all these Orbs is this where other Orb UFO sightings originated, at this particular one?
This is a great example of a UFO releasing orbs or drones all of which are still UFOs in their own right because we just don't know what they are and they're flying around skies that are supposedly protected or at least monitored? Two balls of light come out briefly from the main UFO - before being sucked back in to the main UFO and then it bursts out the Orbs as if it's firing them out in a specific distance?
They must be seeing something on their screens and if the reason they're doing nothing is because they don't have resources then that's terrible. Or are they been directed to do nothing? It makes me wonder... Anyways apparently it's being investigated by Ufos Magazine and hopefully they will share their results straight away? I know they'll share the results but I just hope it's sooner rather than later?
It looks real, it feels real and if it is real then that would make this yet another Mothership (yes it's a Mothership) and there's other Motherships over the USA as we've posted only recently about other ones deploying what appears to be metallic UFOs which can be seen here?
Below is an image of the other UFO Mothership dropping what looks like a metallic UFO drone:
Many times the public have caught some very striking footage of UFOs flying past extremely fast or from a plane in the clouds etc but for a UFO to be filmed actually releasing what looks like Orbs or metallic drones then that must send chills through the government if they know that these are real (they know some things that we don't) and to be privy to top secret information and then see it on film, well it must be weird? What's going on, especially since President Trump announced this Space Force? Has this been the main reason why we're seeing more UFOsover the US?
Will we ever get to know the truth, I believe when the investigation is over we might be closer to the overall truth?
Here's the video:
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We are investigating this sighting done in California where a gigantic orb releases a fleet of other smaller orbs the preliminary analysis does not show manipulation of the video.
Astronomers may have just witnessed the first few moments of a black hole's existence.
A weirdly bright and brief blast dubbed "The Cow," which researchers first spotted last June, was likely generated by a newborn black hole or superdense stellar corpse called a neutron star, a new study reports.
"Based on its X-ray and UV [ultraviolet] emission, 'The Cow' may appear to have been caused by a black hole devouring a white dwarf," study lead author Raffaella Margutti, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University in Illinois, said in a statement. (White dwarfs are the compact cores left over when relatively small stars like our sun die. The most-massive stars die in violent supernova explosions, with their remnants collapsing into denser-still neutron stars or black holes.) [Watch: Did Munching Black Hole Trigger 'Cow’ Explosion in Space?]
"But further observations of other wavelengths across the spectrum led to our interpretation that 'The Cow' is actually the formation of an accreting black hole or neutron star," Margutti added. "We know from theory that black holes and neutron stars form when a star dies, but we've never seen them right after they are born. Never."
This view of The Cow, a mysterious and spectacular outburst 200 million light-years from Earth first observed in June 2018. Scientists say the mysterious blast, which is unlike anything seen before, may show the birth of a black hole.
Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The Cow was a relatively nearby event: It flared up about 200 million light-years from Earth, in the Hercules constellation. Astronomers discovered the outburst using the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a pair of survey telescopes in Hawaii. (The event's nickname stems from its formal designation, AT2018cow, the last three letters of which were produced using a randomized formula.)
The Cow intrigued researchers from the start. It was incredibly bright — 10 to 100 times brighter than typical supernovae — and surprisingly brief, fading away after a mere two weeks or so.
"We knew right away that this source went from inactive to peak luminosity within just a few days," co-author Ryan Chornock, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Ohio University, said in the same statement. "That was enough to get everybody excited, because it was so unusual and, by astronomical standards, it was very close by."
An image of AT2018cow and its host galaxy obtained on Aug. 17, 2018 using a Keck Observatory instrument called the Deep Imaging and Multi-Object Spectrograph.
Credit: R. Margutti/W.M. Keck Observatory
So, researchers around the world soon trained a variety of telescopes on the puzzling light source. For example, Margutti's team studied The Cow in X-ray wavelengths using NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Space Agency's International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) and XMM-Newton spacecraft; in radio waves using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array (VLA); and in optical light using the MMT Observatory in Arizona and the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope in Chile.
The above image shows a long exposure of the SOAR telescope with overlaid illustrations of a highly magnetised neutron star (top left) and an accreting black hole (top right). Research has now revealed it was the birth of a new black hole or neutron star, caught at the exact moment of its creation - but experts are unsure which one it is
The scientists also probed The Cow's shape and chemical makeup using instruments installed on the two big telescopes at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
This latter work revealed the presence of hydrogen and helium, ruling out Cow scenarios involving dramatic mergers between black holes and neutron stars, the researchers said. So, the light was probably largely generated by the newborn object gobbling up debris from its shattered progenitor.
The cross hairs indicate the location of the AT2018cow. A sky survey telescope in Hawai'i observed the mysteriously bright glow on June 17, 2018
"It took a while for us to realize what we were looking at — I would say months," said co-author Brian Metzger, associate professor of physics at Columbia University in New York. "We tried several possibilities and were forced to go back to the drawing board multiple times. We were finally able to interpret the results, thanks to the hard work of our incredibly dedicated team."
The new study will appear in The Astrophysical Journal. The team also announced its results today (Jan. 10) during a news conference at the 233rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Seattle — and they were not alone.
Several other research groups presented their Cow findings at the briefing as well, and not all of them agreed with the interpretation laid out above. For example, a team led by Paul Kuin, an astrophysicist at University College London, backs the black-hole-eating-white-dwarf hypothesis.
So, there's still a lot of mystery surrounding this odd light source.
Supermassive black holes are incredibly dense areas in the centre of galaxies with masses that can be billions of times that of the sun. They cause dips in space-time (artist's impression) and even light cannot escape their gravitational pull
"The properties of The Cow strain nearly all models we have tried to devise to explain it," Daniel Perley, an assistant professor of astronomy at Liverpool John Moores University in England, said in a different statement.
Perley led another research team, which deems the supernova-black hole/neutron star hypothesis most compelling. He also presented at the AAS conference today.
"Whatever it is, it must involve some form of energetic and very fast explosion interacting with an extremely dense shell of material very close to the explosion progenitor," Perley said.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), is out now.
Asteroid Accompanied By Cigar-Shaped Object Flies Past Earth
Asteroid Accompanied By Cigar-Shaped Object Flies Past Earth
Astronomers at the Giant Arecibo Radar in Puerto Rico have made a strange discovery. On January 7th, Asteroid 2016 AZ8 flew past Earth.
The 430-meter large rock passed the Earth-Moon system at a distance of only 2.8 million miles.
When the radar team took a closer look at the object with a beam of radio energy, they noticed that the spherical asteroid is accompanied by an elongated cigar-shaped object. It is assumed that this is a small moon.
China's far-sidemoon rover Yutu 2has woken up from its nap as planned, according to Chinese media reports.
"China's space engineers care about the reactivation, as the last model [Yutu 1] failed its first awakening in February 2014," China's Global Television Network (CGTN) reported today (Jan. 10). Yutu 1 was the rover on China's Chang'e 3 moon mission, which landed on the near side in December 2013.
China's Yutu 2 rover explores the far side of the moon shortly after its Jan. 2, 2019, touchdown.
Yutu 2's handlers powered the rover down a few days later, in a "noon nap" designed to protect against temporarily high lunar temperatures.
International payloads
Meanwhile, a suite of international payloads carried by Chang'e 4 have started operations.
A neutron radiation detector aboard the lander, developed by Germany, and a neutral atom detector on the rover, developed by Sweden, have both been switched on, according to a statement by the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Both detectors have been booted up and are under testing.
The Swedish device, the Advanced Small Analyzer for Neutrals (ASAN), will study how the solar wind interacts with the lunar surface. ASAN, which was built in collaboration with the Chinese National Space Science Center (NSSC), is the first energetic neutral atom sensor ever deployed on the lunar surface. From a vantage point of only a few decimeters above the regolith surface, ASAN will measure energy spectra of energetic neutral atoms originating from reflected solar wind ions under different solar wind illumination conditions.
"Yes, we have successfully started commissioning of ASAN and expect the first science data before mid-February," ASAN principal investigator Martin Wieser, a researcher at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, told Inside Outer Space. "It depends on the rover being in a favorable position."
ASAN is mounted on the Yutu 2 rover, allowing the instrument to perform measurements at different locations. These data could shed light on the processes responsible for the formation of water on the moon, researchers have said.
The moon's Von Kármán crater, landing site for China's Chang'e 4 mission. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took this mosaic image, over which a 5-degree latitude and longitude grid was added.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
Tricky landing
Chang'e 4's historic landing was tricky, said Yang Yuguang, a professor at the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation.
"The terrain at the far side of the moon is entirely different compared to the near side. There are more highlands, craters, and mountains and the landform is much steeper," Yang told China's state-run Xinhua news agency. (A summary of the geology of the Chang'e 4 landing region can be found in this recent paper.)
Yang also highlighted the importance of a new low-frequency spectrometer carried on the Chang'e 4 mission that will conduct a radio-astronomical study from the far side, an ideal place to conduct such work as there is no radio disturbance from Earth.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Chinese space officials have noted the cooperation offered by NASA, specifically orbital data from the American space agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The Chinese side has provided its NASA counterparts with information about Chang'e 4's landing timing and location, CNSA officials said.
LRO is slated to fly over the landing area in the coming weeks and may spot the Chang'e 4 hardware on the surface. LRO will be able to scout for the Chang'e 4 lander and Yutu 2 rover at about midnight on Jan. 31, Mark Robinson told Inside Outer Space. Robinson, of Arizona State University, is principal investigator for LRO's LROC camera system.
An artist's illustration of China's Queqiao relay satellite, which launched in May 2018 to relay data between controllers on Earth and China's Chang'e 4 mission on the moon's far side.
Credit: CNSA
More cooperation
An Argentina-based ground station built by China has played an important role in the monitoring and control of the mission. Furthermore, ground stations run by the European Space Agency will also offer support, according to Xinhua reports.
The Chang'e 4 mission also includes a radioisotope heat source, a collaboration between Chinese and Russian scientists, to help deal with the huge temperature swings on the surface of the moon. (One lunar day lasts nearly 30 Earth days, so spacecraft on the moon experience two weeks of perpetual darkness followed by two weeks of sunlight.)
"International cooperation is the future of lunar exploration," Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program, told Xinhua. "The participating countries would share the costs, risks and achievements, and learn from each other. We hope to have more international cooperation."
Leonard David is author of the forthcoming book, "Moon Rush: The New Space Race" to be published by National Geographic in May 2019.
A longtime writer for SPACE.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades.
Solar systems aremessy places, but the tools astronomers use to understand these systems can re-create that chaos with surprising beauty.
Consider giant impacts, which scientists believe are responsible for our moon, Saturn's rings and Uranus' strange sideways alignment. But scientists have never gotten to see such agiant impact firsthand, and of course they can't replicate the process at a realistic scale. So, they turn to computer simulationslike this one, and as computer technology continues to improve, those models can become ever more detailed.
"It's almost like having a brand-new telescope in the way that it reveals all sorts of new details and exciting topics that we could never study before," Jacob Kegerreis, a doctoral student at Durham University in the U.K., wrote to Space.com in an email. He presented the simulations for a giant impact with Uranus last month at the annual conference of the American Geophysical Union. [Photos of Uranus, the Tilted Giant Planet]
A frame from a high-resolution simulation of what could have happened when the planet Uranus was hit by another large celestial object.
Credit: Jacob Kegerreis, Durham University
Scientists are looking for an impact at the system because Uranus is tilted strangely on its side, with all its moons following at the same steep angle. Kegerreis is part of a project using a technique called smoothed particle hydrodynamics, a specialized technique that allows for better representation of fluids and gases in simulations. He and his colleagues used the approach to simulate what would happen in a wide range of Uranus collision scenarios.
Using the simulations, the team could evaluate the different results given original objects of different sizes colliding at different speeds and angles; the simulations also show how much ejecta an impact creates and how well the planet's atmosphere endures the event. Because the approach can model 1,000 times more particles than previous simulations, Kegerreis said, they're more-accurate representations of how a specific collision would play out.
But science aside, the simulations are also simply entrancing.
The “dark side” of the Moon didn’t get its nickname because it never sees light. Rather, it’s that Earth never sees it. But our lack of visibility changed last week when the Chinese lander Chang’e-4 became the first spacecraft to touch down on the side of the Moon that faces away from our planet. Now Earthlings are the recipients of a consistent stream of unprecedented images sent from the far side, the newest of which was released Friday by officials at the Chinese Lunar Exploration Project (CELP).
CELP, which is overseen by the China National Space Administration, released two stunning images on the Chinese Twitter-like microblogging website Sina Weibo. A topographical camera on the Change’4 lander captured the “ring shot” and the panoramic shot, an incredibly detailed conglomerate of 80 individual photographs.
The huge panoramic shot, broken down in the slideshow below, shows the perspective of the lander. You can see the rover, nicknamed Jade Rabbit 2 (or Yutu-2), exploring the lunar terrain.
A Lunar Panorama
Panorama of the Moon's far side.
According to the Weibo post, the researchers have completed the preliminary analysis of the lunar surface topography seen here around the landing site. Getting these photographs from the far side of the moon to Earth wasn’t easy: The images first had to be sent from the lander to the relay communication satellite Queqia (which translates to “Magpie Bridge”), which in turn sent it to Earth.
As the Jade Rabbit 2 continues its journey, it will measure the chemical composition of the regolith, study cosmic rays, and observe the solar corona. The team behind the mission also hopes that observations of the Moon’s far side will reveal insight about the early days of the solar system. It’s a fresh step in moon science — and we can watch it from the comforts of Earth.
APWetenschappers denken nu te weten waarom de beelden op het Paaseiland geplaatst werden.
WETENSCHAPDe geheimzinnige beelden op het Paaseiland behoren tot de beroemdste sculpturen ter wereld. De beeldhouwwerken uit vulkanisch gesteente maken van het eiland in de Stille Oceaan een van de meest mysterieuze plekken op aarde. Wetenschappers denken nu te weten waarom de beelden op bepaalde plaatsen zoals kustgebieden werden gezet.
Paaseiland ligt bijna 3.700 kilometer ten westen van Chili en meer dan 2.000 kilometer van het meest nabij gelegen bewoonde land, en is daarmee een van de meest afgelegen eilanden ter wereld. Bijna duizend metershoge moai-beelden werden er tussen de 12de en 15de eeuw door de Rapa Nui gebouwd en herinneren aan de bloeiende civilisatie. Op het hoogtepunt van de moai-beschaving woonden er tien- tot twaalfduizend mensen.
Maar het doel van de beelden en bijhorende ceremoniële platforms, ook wel ahu genoemd, bleven grote raadsels voor wetenschappers. Ook vroegen onderzoekers zich af hoe de inwoners op zo’n afgelegen eiland overleefden met schaarse middelen. Zo was het een raadsel waar de inwoners, de Rapa Nui, hun drinkwater haalden. Voor die twee mysteries lijken wetenschappers nu een verklaring te hebben.
Volgens een nieuwe studie die gepubliceerd werd in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Plos One, werden de monolieten geplaatst om de weg naar drinkbaar water in de buurt van kustgebieden aan te wijzen.
Brak water
Een team wetenschappers onderzocht de locaties van 93 ahu’s en koppelde die aan drie factoren die de onderlinge strijd tussen nederzettingen bepaalden: landbouw, visgronden en de aanwezigheid van zoetwater. Men kwam tot de vaststelling dat de ahu’s overeen kwamen met locaties waar water naar beneden sijpelde en vervolgens de oceaan bereikte, meer bepaald plaatsen waar poreuze rotsen de oceaan ontmoeten.
Bij laagtij ontstond er vervolgens een zoetwaterstroom in de zee. Het zilte water zou drinkbaar geweest zijn en werd opgevangen door de Rapa Nui. Onderzoek van historische bronnen van Europese toonde immers aan dat de bevolking “grotendeels afhankelijk was van brak water en vrij veel uit de Stille Oceaan dronk”. De beelden zijn dus gepositioneerd op plekken waar zoet water te vinden is.
“Geen rituele plaatsen”
“Wat belangrijk is, is dat het onderzoek laat zien dat de locaties van de beelden geen rituele plaatsen zijn, maar geïntegreerd in het leven van de gemeenschappen”, aldus Carl Lipo, professor antropologie aan de universiteit van Binghamton.
“Op plaatsen waar enorme hoeveelheden zoet water te vinden was, zien we gigantische beelden”, zei Lipo ook nog. Daarmee willen de auteurs van het onderzoek ook suggereren ook dat de grootte van de moai-beelden en ahu de hoeveelheid en de kwaliteit van het water op de locatie aangeven.
RVChinese onderzoekers maakten unieke 360 graden beelden van het maanoppervlak openbaar.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Chinese onderzoekers hebben de allereerste beelden van de achterkant van de maan gelost. Het zijn 360° beelden, die tonen hoe de oppervlakte eruitziet. De omgeving kenmerkt zich door talrijke kraters van uiteenlopende grootte. Een grote uitdaging voor het plannen van de route die robotjeep Yutu-2 moet volgen.
Begin dit jaar landde er voor het eerst in de geschiedenis een onbemande Chinese ruimtesonde op “the dark side of the moon”, meer dan vijftig jaar na de eerste maanlanding.
Chang’e 4 landde op 3 januari in een gigantische inslagkrater aan de zuidpool, met als gevolg een historische landing en een grote technologische doorbraak. Minuten na de landing stuurde de sonde de eerste beelden naar de aarde. Die revolutionaire beelden tonen voor het eerst de structuur van de achterkant van het maanoppervlak.
Chinese experten bestempelden de missie vooraf als zeer veeleisend. De grote moeilijkheid was onder meer de communicatie met de aarde, omdat vanop de achterkant van de maan geen rechtstreekse radioverbinding mogelijk is.
Daarom brachten de Chinezen al in mei de transmissiesatelliet Queqiao (‘Eksterbrug’) in stelling, om signalen uit de radioschaduw door te kunnen sturen. De 360° beelden werden teruggestuurd via dezelfde satelliet, die opereerde op ongeveer 455.000 kilometer van de aarde, waar het zowel de aarde als de verste kant van de maan kan zien.
China noemt zijn missie naar de achterzijde van de Maan een “compleet succes”, zo heeft het staatspersbureau Xinhua vandaag gemeld. De maanmissie moet bewijzen dat China’s ambitieuze ruimtevaartprogramma grote vooruitgang boekt. Een nieuw ruimtestation is een andere belangrijke pijler van dat programma. Onderzoekers gaan alvast nu met de beelden aan de slag om het grondoppervlak grondig te kunnen analyseren en meer achtergrondinformatie te vergaren om zo’n station te kunnen bouwen.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETEr is iets aan de hand met het magnetisch veld van onze planeet. Onderzoekers hebben ontdekt dat de magnetische noordpool steeds sneller opschuift naar het oosten. Zó snel dat er een dringende correctie nodig is om onze navigatieapparatuur op aarde nog correct te laten werken. Meer nog, sommige wetenschappers zien er zelfs een voorbode in van een ingrijpend verschijnsel.
De magnetische noordpool schuift al langer op van Canada richting Siberië en vorig jaar is hij de datumgrens overgestoken naar de oostelijke hemisfeer. De precieze beweging is niet voorspelbaar en fascineert wetenschappers al sinds de pool voor het eerst gelokaliseerd werd onder Canada, in 1831. In het midden van de jaren 90 van vorige eeuw begon hij opeens sneller te gaan en ging hij van 15 kilometer per jaar naar 55. Tegen 2001 zat hij al daardoor al onder de Noordelijke IJszee.
Normaal gezien zou het ‘World Magnetic Model’ – dat een beschrijving geeft van het magnetisch veld van de aarde en waarop alle moderne navigatietoestellen gebaseerd zijn – in 2020 een update krijgen, vijf jaar na de vorige. Maar het magnetisch veld verandert zó snel dat er een tussentijdse update moet worden gemaakt. Die stond oorspronkelijk gepland voor 15 januari, maar werd door de shutdown in de Verenigde Staten intussen uitgesteld naar 30 januari.
De vorige update in 2015 was onder een slecht gesternte begonnen. Want een jaar later vond een geomagnetische schok plaats diep onder Zuid-Amerika, waardoor het magnetisch veld al meteen aanzienlijk verschoof. Dat werd nog versterkt door de steeds snellere verschuiving van de magnetische noordpool. Begin vorig jaar kwam het ‘World Magnetic Model’ daardoor in de problemen. Het was zo onnauwkeurig geworden dat er een dringende update nodig was. (lees hieronder verder)
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Intussen proberen wetenschappers te achterhalen waarom het magnetisch veld zo drastisch verandert en er zijn verscheidene mogelijke verklaringen. Geomagnetische schokken zoals in 2016 kunnen bijvoorbeeld het gevolg zijn van hydromagnetische golven vanuit het binnenste van onze aarde. En het snel verschuiven van de magnetische noordpool kan gelinkt worden aan een snelle uitbarsting van vloeibaar metaal onder Canada. Die uitbarsting loopt uit en verzwakt het magnetische veld onder Canada, waardoor de pool opschuift naar Siberië.
Voorbode
Sommige wetenschappers zien er echter een voorbode in van het omkeren van de magnetische polen van de aarde. Daardoor zou de magnetische noordpool de magnetische zuidpool worden en omgekeerd. Dat kan verregaande gevolgen hebben, onder meer voor het stroomnet en voor onze communicatiesystemen. Het zou ook het leven aan de aardoppervlakte blootstellen aan hogere dosissen straling van de zon en de ruimte doordat ons magnetisch veld erdoor verzwakt.
Dat omkeren is iets dat normaal gezien om de 200.000 tot 300.000 jaar gebeurt. De recentste ommekeer dateert echter al van 780.000 jaar geleden, waardoor sommige wetenschappers denken dat het niet lang meer zal duren eer er een nieuwe aankomt.
Hoe snel de ommekeer exact gaat? De wetenschap krijgt het voorlopig niet preciezer dan “in een paar duizend jaar”, maar de gevolgen zijn wel de hele tijd te voelen. “Er wordt algemeen aanvaard dat tijdens de ommekeer het magnetische veld verzwakt tot 10 procent van zijn volledige potentieel”, aldus Brad Clement van de Florida International University. “Als het verzwakt is, draaien de polen ongeveer 180 graden, waarna het magnetische veld weer sterker wordt in de omgekeerde richting. En dat kan dus duizenden jaren duren.”
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Advanced Ancient Civilizations That Left Unexplained Ruins Before they Disappeared (Video)
Advanced Ancient Civilizations That Left Unexplained Ruins Before they Disappeared (Video)
The incredible Lost Ruins of Lemuria, the Kings of the Rama Empire, the sunken City of Heracleion in Egypt, and five separate locations where temples, pyramids, a man made bridge hundreds of thousand of years old and statues from Atlantis are once more resurfacing in our world.
Nearly every culture of the world has legends of the great civilization of Atlantis, and the Great Flood that took it down some 12,000 years ago.
For over two hundred years researchers have sought for it, excavating some 40 different locations as they tried to match it with the description given by Plato some 2300 years ago: that Atlantis lay outside of the Straits of Gibraltar, and was larger than North Africa and Asia Minor combined.
But is Atlantis rising in the world today, just as Edgar Cayce predicted?
Linda Moulton Howe: E.T. Experiments & Alien Races On Planet Earth (Video)
Linda Moulton Howe: E.T. Experiments & Alien Races On Planet Earth (Video)
Age Of Truth TV presents a dynamic, eye-opening and intense conversation with investigative reporter, E.T & UFO researcher, author and lecturer, LINDA MOULTON HOWE: “E.T. Experiments & Alien Races On Planet Earth”. Lucas Alexander is interviewing Linda Moulton Howe for Age Of Truth TV in her home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, about her long and fascinating career, as one of the worlds leading top-experts in the field of UFO and Extra-Terrestrial research, and how she began on that controversial path when doing a documentary film in 1979 called “A Strange Harvest”.
Since going through “Alice In Wonderland’s Mirror”, as she calls it, she has worked relentlessly and with a tireless effort, to inform the world about, what she believes, is an alien presence on Planet Earth.
* Who are the alien races on Earth? Where do they come from? * How are governments of the world, especially the American government, involved with these otherworldly entities? * The government cover-up of alien existence! Why? * Are we Human beings (Homo Sapiens) an alien biological experiment made by the alien race, referred to as the EBE´ns?
* What is the truth behind the countless animal mutilations happening all over the world, and the reason why these crimes could not have been done by humans? * The UFO crash in Roswell in 1947. * What happens to us when we die? Is reincarnation a recycling soul trap? These are just some of the mind-blowing and extraordinary topics discussed in this interview with Linda Moulton Howe.
It is a 1 hour 42 minutes in-depth hard-talk table discussion with a true legendary lady in this field. She has given lectures and speeches all over the world, been a researcher for 40 years, and written a list of books. The interview was filmed on location in Albuquerque, New Mexico on January 19, 2018.
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You Won't Believe That These Mysterious Lakes/Rivers Actually Exist on Earth Until You Watch Them
You Won't Believe That These Mysterious Lakes/Rivers Actually Exist on Earth Until You Watch Them
The natural world is an ever changing, ever shifting beast. Mountains rise, valleys form, glaciers meander across the landscape; the face of our planet is malleable, ever moving. But if we asked you to name the strangest natural phenomena on Earth, chances are that nobody would say “lakes”. Bad move. Turns out these placid-seeming bodies of water are home to some of the craziest, weirdest Easter eggs of the natural world. These lakes are unique in their own ways, some even bordering on strange. But we all like a little absurdity in our lives every so often, don’t we? Here are 15 Most Mysterious Lakes On Earth
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,
Alien Abductee's Strange Ecounters With Beings Not of This Planet (Video)
Alien Abductee's Strange Ecounters With Beings Not of This Planet (Video)
Thousands of people have reported the observation of structured craft that maneuver beyond our technological capability or that of any other nation. They appear to have overcome inertia and have their own gravitational field. Non-human figures have been observed both in the craft and on the ground. Sometimes they appear to be collecting samples of our flora and fauna.
They take samples of our wildlife and leave them with highly unusual properties, to the ground. They have been observed entering our oceans and rising from them into the air, departing vertically toward space. Thousands contend they have been kidnapped by non-humans in association with these craft and returned to their natural environment. Others claim that they’ve had a lifetime of friendly contact.
Something very strange is happening to Earth's magnetic North Pole and no one knows why
Earth’s magnetic pole is on the move, fast. And we don’t know why
Earth’s magnetic field is what allows us to exist. It deflects harmful radiation. It keeps our water and atmosphere in place. But now it’s acting up — and nobody knows why.
Planet Earth is alive. Deep beneath its skin, its life blood — rivers of molten iron — pulse around its core. And this mobile iron is what generates the magnetic field that causes auroras — and keeps us alive.
It’s causing the magnetic North Pole to ‘skitter’ away from Canada, towards Siberia.
“The magnetic pole is moving so quickly that it has forced the world’s geomagnetism experts into a rare move,” Nature reports.
Graphic via Science Journal Nature
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On January 30 (delayed due to the US Government shutdown), the World Magnetic Model — which governs modern navigation systems — is due to undergo an urgent update.
This model is a vital component of systems ranging from geopositioning systems used to navigate ships through to smartphone trackers and maps.
The current model was expected to be valid until 2020. But the magnetic pole began to shift so quickly, it was realised in 2018 that the model had to be fixed — now.
“They realised that it was so inaccurate that it was about to exceed the acceptable (safe) limit for navigational errors,” Nature reports.
FICKLE TIDES
Every year, geophysicists from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the British Geological Survey do a check on how the Earth’s magnetic field is varying.
This is necessary as the liquid iron churning in the Earth’s core does not move in a consistent manner.
“In 2016, for instance, part of the magnetic field temporarily accelerated deep under northern South America and the eastern Pacific Ocean,” Nature reports.
This shift was captured by satellites.
Earth has lines of magnetic force looping from North Pole to South Pole, creating Earth's protective magnetosphere. The straight line coming out of the North and South Poles represents Earth's axis of rotation.
But the movement of the north magnetic pole has been the object of study since 1831. Initially, it was tracked moving into the Arctic Ocean at a rate of about 15km each year. But, since the mid 1990s, it has picked up speed.
Why the magnetic field is shifting so dramatically is unknown.
“Geomagnetic pulses, like the one that happened in 2016, might be traced back to ‘hydromagnetic’ waves arising from deep in the core,” Nature reports. “And the fast motion of the north magnetic pole could be linked to a high-speed jet of liquid iron beneath Canada”.
This fast-flowing molten river appears to be weakening the magnetic influence of the iron core beneath North America.
“The location of the north magnetic pole appears to be governed by two large-scale patches of magnetic field, one beneath Canada and one beneath Siberia,” Phil Livermore of the University of Leeds told an American Geophysical Union meeting. “The Siberian patch is winning the competition.”
And, as global warming opens up more shipping lanes to the north of Russia and Canada, this presents a potentially deadly problem.
“The fact that the pole is going fast makes this region more prone to large errors,” says Arnaud Chulliat, a geomagnetist at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA.
Er is iets vreemds aan de hand met de magnetische noorpool, en niemand weet waarom
Er is iets vreemds aan de hand met de magnetische noorpool, en niemand weet waarom
Er is iets vreemds aan de hand met het aardmagnetisch veld en geologen hebben geen idee waarom, meldt het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Nature.
De magnetische noordpool blijkt in rap tempo van Canada naar Siberië te verschuiven.
“De magnetische pool verschuift zo snel dat experts op het gebied van geomagnetisme iets moeten doen wat maar zelden gebeurt.”
Update
Op 30 januari krijgt het World Magnetic Model, waar moderne navigatiesystemen op zijn gebaseerd, een update.
Dit model is een belangrijk onderdeel van systemen die worden gebruikt voor onder meer scheepsnavigatie, het volgen van smartphones en kaarten.
Verwacht werd dat het huidige model tot 2020 zou volstaan, maar de magnetische pool begon zo snel te verschuiven dat het nu al toe is aan een update.
Zuid-Amerika
Elk jaar kijken wetenschappers van de Amerikaanse meteorologische dienst NOAA en de British Geological Survey hoe sterk het aardmagnetisch veld varieert.
In 2016 bleek bijvoorbeeld dat een deel van het magnetisch veld onder het noorden van Zuid-Amerika korte tijd verschoof.
Deze verschuiving werd vastgelegd met behulp van satellieten.
Niemand
De magnetische noordpool wordt al sinds 1831 bestudeerd. In eerste instantie bewoog hij met een snelheid van 15 kilometer per jaar richting de Arctische Oceaan.
Sinds de jaren negentig verschuift de magnetische noordpool met een snelheid van liefst 55 kilometer per jaar op.
Niemand weet waarom het magnetisch veld zo drastisch verschuift.
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is continuing to advocate for UFO research.
(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)
Former Senate Majority LeaderHarry Reidis lobbying his former colleagues to do more to study unidentified flying objects.
“I personally don’t know if there exists little green men other places, I kind of doubt that, but I do believe that the information we have indicates we should do a lot more study,” the Nevada Democrat said. “We have hundreds and hundreds of people that have seen the same thing — something in the sky, it moves a certain way.”
Reid said that also included sightings of vessels at sea.
The topic of UFOs was on Reid’s mind Thursday because his interview with KNPR came just before he said he was scheduled to talk with an important senator about setting up a way for members of the military to support exploring suspicious sightings without facing retribution.
“I’m going to have a call with a member of the Senate in an hour or two where we have people in the military who want to come and tell somebody what they’ve seen,” Reid said in the interview, declining to identify who that senator is. (Food for thought: Reid’s former deputy, Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., is the ranking member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.)
“What we found in the past is that these pilots, when they see something strange like this, they’re prone not to report it for fear that the bosses will think something’s wrong with them, and they don’t get the promotion,” he said. “So, many, many times they don’t say a word to anybody about these strange things.”
“The facts are, they need a place to be able to report this, and that’s what I’m going to work on in a couple of hours, to make sure that somebody I think’s a powerful member in Congress, I want him to be able to sit down and talk to some of these pilots who have seen these things,” Reid said. “I can arrange this because of the contacts I have with members of the Congress.”
Back in December 2017, the New York Times reported on a Pentagon program to study UFO sightings that came about because of Reid’s advocacy back when he was serving in the Senate.
“We spent a lot of money, and it was an extremely important study,” Reid said Thursday, calling setting up the program,“one of the easiest sells I ever had to make.”
He recalled again how he lobbied the leaders of the Senate Appropriation’s Defense Subcommittee to get money for the project, and how the late Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, was entirely on board because of a suspicious aircraft he cited during his own time as military pilot. But Reid said that the Pentagon has not done enough since then.
“Frankly, I think the federal government has done almost nothing to help us with this,” Reid said.
During the interview, Reid also said he knew a lot more about classified operations undertaken at Area 51 in his home state of Nevada.
“Oh sure, I’ve been to Area 51. I know Area 51. I don’t know if I should say many times, but lots and lots of times. I know Area 51 quite well, I know what they’ve done there,” said Reid. “I don’t know in recent years, of course, but I know what went on there.”
Ik weet wat ze in Area 51 hebben gedaan. Amerikaanse oud-senator dringt aan op meer UFO-onderzoek
Foto: Nightscream Wikimedia Commons
Ik weet wat ze in Area 51 hebben gedaan. Amerikaanse oud-senator dringt aan op meer UFO-onderzoek
Voormalig meerderheidsleider in de Amerikaanse Senaat Harry Reid lobbyt voor meer onderzoek naar ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten oftewel UFO’s. Dat schrijft de krant Roll Call.
De oud-senator zegt niet te weten of aliens bestaan, maar vindt wel dat er veel meer onderzoek naar dit fenomeen moet worden gedaan.
“Er zijn honderden mensen die hetzelfde hebben gezegd: iets in de lucht wat op een bepaalde manier beweegt,” zei de gepensioneerde politicus.
Gestraft
Reid zei ook dat er op zee onbekende vliegende objecten worden waargenomen.
Hij zei verder te hebben gesproken met een belangrijke senator over manieren waarop militairen vreemde waarnemingen kunnen onderzoeken zonder bang te hoeven zijn dat ze worden gestraft.
“Er zijn militairen die met iemand willen praten over de dingen die ze hebben gezien,” lichtte Reid toe.
“Wat we de afgelopen jaren hebben gezien is dat piloten die iets vreemds zien daar geen melding van maken uit angst dat hun bazen zullen denken dat ze niet goed bij hun hoofd zijn en vervolgens geen promotie krijgen,” zei hij.
Heel erg vaak
“Dus het gebeurt heel erg vaak dat ze met niemand praten over deze vreemde waarnemingen,” klonk het.
In 2017 bleek dat Reid een belangrijke kracht was achter het geheime UFO-programma van het Pentagon.
“We gaven veel geld uit en het was een extreem belangrijke studie,” zei Reid.
Area 51
Hij klopte aan bij wijlen senator Ted Stevens, die voorzitter was van de Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense.
Stevens was groot voorstander van het onderzoek omdat hij gedurende zijn carrière als legerpiloot ook vaak vreemde vaartuigen in de lucht had gezien.
Reid zei daarnaast dat hij veel meer weet over geheime operaties die worden uitgevoerd in Area 51.
“Ik ben vaak in Area 51 geweest,” aldus de oud-senator. “Ik ken Area 51 vrij goed. Ik weet wat ze daar hebben gedaan.”
Oude Indiërs beschikten over 24 soorten vliegtuigen. Opzienbarende uitspraken tijdens prestigieuze conferentie leiden tot controverse
'Helikopter-hiërogliefen' die in Egypte zijn gevonden.
Foto: Olek95 Wikimedia Commons
Oude Indiërs beschikten over 24 soorten vliegtuigen. Opzienbarende uitspraken tijdens prestigieuze conferentie leiden tot controverse
De relativiteitstheorie van Albert Einstein was een grote blunder en Isaac Newton begreep niet goed hoe zwaartekracht werkt. Dat zei wetenschapper Kannan Jegathala Krishnan op een prestigieuze wetenschappelijke conferentie in India.
Nageswara Rao, vicerector van de Andhra-universiteit in het zuiden van India, zei dat demonvorst Ravana 24 verschillende soorten vliegtuigen had en dat er duizenden jaren geleden reageerbuisbaby’s in India werden gemaakt.
“We hadden al 100 kaurava’s uit één moeder dankzij stamceltechnologie en ivf,” zei hoogleraar Rao.
Geleide raketten
Hij zei dat de oude Indiërs al vergevorderd waren met vliegtuig- en rakettechnologie en dat heer Vishnu zijn vijanden uitschakelde met chakras, een soort geleide raketten.
Dinosaurussen werden gecreëerd door hindoegod Brahma, zo stelde wetenschapper Ashu Khosla van de Panjab-universiteit in de Indiase stad Chandigarh.
De organisatoren van de jongerenconferentie hebben zich gedistantieerd van de opvattingen.
Haaks
De jaarlijkse conferentie, die werd geopend door premier Narendra Modi, wordt gefinancierd door het Indiase ministerie van Wetenschap en Technologie.
Leden van de partij van Modi, BJP, doen geregeld uitspraken die haaks staan op de algemeen geaccepteerde opvattingen.
Kernproeven
Zo zei parlementslid Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank dat in India honderdduizend jaar geleden al kernproeven werden gedaan.
Minister van hoger onderwijs Satyapal Singh zei vorig jaar dat de evolutietheorie van Charles Darwin onjuist is en kondigde aan het onderwijsprogramma op middelbare scholen aan te passen.
With the recent release of articles by James Iandoli and Twitter user @Jay09784691, and hosted by Danny Silva and myself, we see an interesting connection between materialist biology and science, and the mystical non-physical world of esoteric metaphysics. The work being done by Dr. Garry Nolan of Stanford University and Dr. Christopher ‘Kit’ Green, a medical doctor, create a symbiosis between the real and the ‘unreal,’ between the natural and the super-natural.
Being a product of a good Jesuit education, I am reminded of St. Paul. Around 54 CE, Paul wrote his famous letters to the Corinthian churches. Known to most Bible readers as 1 Corinthians, Paul expresses in those letters the basic notions of what the Church ought to be. Moreover, his ideas lay the foundation for the dogma of most Catholics. His ideas, though two millennia old, continue to resonate. In 1 Corinthians 15:49 (NIV), he wrote,
“And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.”
Being a student of various esoteric philosophies, I am also reminded of Hermeticism, and the infamous, though dubiously sourced phrase,
“As above, so below.”
It seems Paul and early Hermeticists were on similar paths. What is physical reflects the mystical, and vice versa. To paraphrase what Jesus said to Peter, what is bound on Earth is also bound in Heaven. I’m going to guess that Christ was being both literal and metaphorical here. The material and the immaterial are shadows of the other, mirrors, which reflect the other in themselves.
The realm Nolan and Green seem to be dabbling lies in the gap between the material and the immaterial. The biological evolution of the human brain hardwired to sense the natural world around it, yet simultaneously wired to ‘sense’ the super-natural. While we can only speculate, since this study is in its infancy, we seem to be going through a shift in general perception regarding science, but more importantly, what we deem to be real.
While empiricism and materialism may still reign supreme, the turn towards a more holistic and idealist approach to the world around us has been slowly taking shape over the last several decades. What has been occurring is not a revolution in thinking, but rather an evolution. With the incredibly broad implications and complications of a strange and spooky quantum universe, and with the development of better and more rigorous testing for anomalous science, such as various psi phenomena, everything we used to take for granted is beginning to slowly evolve into something different.
I am not suggesting some “end of days” scenario for mainstream science, nor some dramatic shift towards a world full of New Age hipster academics who believe in The Great Spirit (though, the times they certainly are a’ changing). This shift will be slow and cautious. Perhaps it will be a quiet return to some bygone age where the physical measurable work of scientists was also the mystical work of shamans seeking to understand some version of a Neoplatonist anima mundi. It may sound silly. Perhaps it is. It is a strange world we live in, and while empiricism’s goal is to make it less strange, perhaps it is time to embrace the strange.
Nolan and Green’s hypothesis concerning the connectivity between the brain’s caudate and the putamen structures as being a potential indicator of high cognitive functioning is incredibly fascinating. Moreover, the theories presented by Nolan and Green suggest that this brain system also leads to the potential of ‘sensing’ data and information beyond the five normal senses. Their presentation at Harvard did mention certain candidates in their study who often see and hear things beyond the five senses and possess a sort of “sixth sense” that allows the individual to interact with shades of the universe beyond our current understanding.
Putamen and Caudate Brain Structure
(artist rendering, not to scale)
Putamen and Caudate Brain Structure
(image from Nolan & Green)
I’ve asked this before in previous posts, and I address this idea more in my book, but are we a simultaneous blend of immaterial systems and material structures? Am I made of dreams and bones?
Returning to ancient religious traditions, such as the writings of St. Paul and the texts of the Hermeticists, Nolan and Green are walking down a well-trodden path, and in good company. This new and unique look at these physical brain structures may be a key to understanding these esoteric ideas which have been around for thousands of years. Our ancient predecessors would not have had the ability to understand the complex physical system of the brain, but they did have the awareness and the insight to understand that the mind was reflexive and reflective of a symbiotic, if not divine, system of the Other.
In my book, I refer to the UFO community as a collection of ghosts who haunt the broader mainstream culture by constantly challenging popular interpretations of reality. Much like ghosts, the community exists, for better and for worse, in the anarchic gap between what is understood and what isn’t. Like so many other religious and spiritual movements, perhaps Nolan and Green are scratching at the surface of what causes communities like the UFO community to form. Jacques Vallee referred to this intelligent Other as a ‘control system,’ and indeed it very well may be, but our various cultures and societies also seem to give it shape (and at times, breadth and depth). In other words, we are influenced by this Other as much as we influence it.
It stands that if there is some Other, well above us in awareness, or ‘intelligence,’ and agency, then indeed, our only tool, our immaterial mind and material brain, which allows for creativity, intellect and imagination must be housed below. Our thoughts and ideas are not totally our own, but part of a larger system. To steal from Jung, we seem to be shadows of something larger, yet in our own right, also seem to cast shadows upon that broader body. Nolan and Green may be at the gateway to this realm of the Other; perhaps they have found the door, and all that is missing now is the key.
Something weird is going on in the skies over the United Kingdom. Of course, I would argue that something weird is happening in the skies all over the world. From unexplained booms to mysterious fireballs, something just doesn’t seem right overhead. Of course, it could merely be that between cameras and the citizen reporting made possible by social media, we’re just more aware of minor meteor impacts and atmospheric events than we used to be. Still, it seems like there is a pattern of aerial strangeness lately that suggests something weird or new is happening. I’m not crazy, right?
If meteor impacts were becoming more common, would government agencies want to incite panic by making it public?
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, in particular, there has been a recent string of strange UFO reports and aircraft activity suggesting military exercises or perhaps something stranger. In November 2018, multiple commercial pilots witnessed mysterious fast-moving lights off the coast of Ireland, and a month later the Royal Air Force was scrambled to intercept an unidentified flying object above East Yorkshire. Then there was the whole strange saga of the “drone” sightings at England’s Gatwick airport, an incident which has yet to be fully explained. What’s going on in the skies over the British Isles?
Whatever is going on, it’s still going on. Today, news broke of a mysterious green flash seen in the skies above Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire in central England, not too far from where the December UFO incidents were reported. Rather than an unidentified aircraft, this time eyewitnesses reported a bright green light or streak in the sky on the evening of January 8. Some witnesses described the light as “neon green” or “white and a bit green” while some say the light was blue. All reports describe the object as incredibly fast – too fast for conventional aircraft.
Green fireballs are some of the most commonly reported unidentified aerial phenomena.
One witness, Debbie Pickard of Ilkeston, thought the object was flying at a low altitude over nearby homes and says this isn’t the first time she’s seen such an object:
It was as if something shot through the houses. It did not look very high and it looked like it was travelling horizontally. It’s a UFO by definition. It was like someone had thrown a frisbee. Me and my dad spotted a similar thing in 1988, it was in the papers then and confirmed on Gatwick radar. You do wonder what these things are.
UK Meteor Watch and the American Meteor society reported dozens of reports of a fireball that night. Meanwhile, speculation on social media about what the light could have been ranges from the International Space Station, fighter aircraft cockpit display panels, or spotlights. With the RAF Donna Nook bombing range and RAF Waddington and RAF Coningsby bases nearby just to name a few, it’s also possible that the light was caused by military activity. Until more details emerge, if they ever do, we’ll just have to keep our eyes upward and wonder what’s going on up there.
Let’s get the obvious out of the way first: the Rotating Black Holes would be a great name for a band.
That being said, with the nasty reputation black holes have for destroying everything that gets close to their namesake characteristic, it seems strange that scientists might consider them to be a safe and efficient means of hypersonic travel. And yet, that’s exactly what a new study proposes … providing you use the right kind of black hole. And that, if you’ve been paying attention instead of registering that new band name, is the rotating black hole.
“If the black hole like agittarius A*, located at the center of our own galaxy, is large and rotating, then Interstellar” have to contend with is very gentle and could allow for a very peaceful passage.”
Singularity of massive black hole or wormhole. Researchers previously thought that any spacecraft attempting to use a black hole as a portal of this type would have to reckon with nature at its worst.
Gaurav Khanna, a National Science Foundation-funded physicist and co-author of “Physical objects approaching the Cauchy horizon of a rapidly rotating Kerr black hole” (published in Physical Review D) was kind enough to explain his theory in somewhat layperson’s terms in his recent essay in The Conversation. The study was inspired by the movie “Interstellar” in which Matthew McConaughey’s character falls into a fictional rapidly rotating black hole. Ph.D. student and study co-author Caroline Mallary wrote a computer model to simulate the same experience using Sagittarius A*. Spoiler alert (for the study, not the movie): it could work!
“What she discovered is that under all conditions an object falling into a rotating black hole would not experience infinitely large effects upon passage through the hole’s so-called inner horizon singularity. This is the singularity that an object entering a rotating black hole cannot maneuver around or avoid. Not only that, under the right circumstances, these effects may be negligibly small, allowing for a rather comfortable passage through the singularity. In fact, there may no noticeable effects on the falling object at all. This increases the feasibility of using large, rotating black holes as portals for hyperspace travel.”
Khanna explains that the singularity in a rotating black hole is technically “weak” and won’t damage ships or other objects entering it. Also, Sagittarius A* is much smaller than the massive black hole in the movie (Gargantua), so the singularity would be easier for a ship to detect and be prepared for. The model also showed that the effects of the singularity — cycles of stretching and squeezing on the spacecraft – are constant rather than rapidly increasing, so the effects can be planned for without any surprises.
Supermassive black holes are incredibly dense areas in the centre of galaxies with masses that can be billions of times that of the sun. They cause dips in space-time (artist's impression) and even light cannot escape their gravitational pull
However (there’s always a ‘however’), the potential hyperspace travelers have to pick the ‘right’ rotating black hole – that is, one that is so far away from any other stars or their radiation that there are no outside disturbances which can affect the singularity. Unfortunately, Khanna points out that the known black holes all have dust, gas, radiation and other cosmic material rotating around them.
Of course, all of this is theoretical since the Catch-22 (another great movie and pertinent paradox) of rotating black holes is that we need to try one to see if it works … but the only way to get close enough to one is to successfully travel through one.
This graph depicts the physical strain on the spacecraft’s steel frame as it plummets into a rotating black hole. The inset shows a detailed zoom-in for very late times. The important thing to note is that the strain increases dramatically close to the black hole, but does not grow indefinitely. Therefore, the spacecraft and its inhabitants may survive the journey.
If only real space travel was as simple as band names and movies.
Residents of Ontario, Canada had a rare and spectacular view of a very odd-looking upside down rainbow. Technically called a circumzenithal arc, it is caused by ice crystals in the upper atmosphere that act as a prism which refracts light and creates an upside down rainbow.
Although they look identical to a rainbow (with the exception of being upside down), they’re not technically rainbows. Rainbows are formed when light reflects off of water drops such as rain or fog, while a circumzenithal arc is the result of light refracting off ice crystals in the upper atmosphere and are related to the very commonly seen halos that appear around the sun and moon. In addition, the weather has to be calm and cold, which is definitely not a problem with it being winter in Canada. Circumzenithal arcs normally appear when little to no clouds are in the sky.
The center of the bow is always towards the sun with the red color on the outside closest to the ground and purple at the top. They only happen when the sun is at a height of less than 32 degrees in the sky.
Canadian residents witnessed another beautiful phenomenon recently called “sundogs” which is when mini-suns appear hovering close on each side of our actual sun. The technical name is parhelion and the spots on each side of the sun are usually white but can sometimes appear as a reddish color located on the inside and blue on the outside.
Sundogs are created when the sun shines through a cirrus cloud that’s made up of hexagonal ice crystals that are falling with their axes located vertically. When the axes are arranged perpendicularly to the sun’s rays, they instead create the halo phenomenon. Sundogs appear at 22 degrees on either side of the sun and are also at the exact same height as our sun.
These sundogs can even be seen in tropical countries because the cloud layer is “cold no matter where you are,” according to British physicist Les Cowley.
An upside-down rainbow is called a circumzenithal arc.
(Submitted by Christy Litster)
The weather phenomena of a sun dog is caused by ice crystals in the sky.
(Submitted by Andy Breschuk)
The spots on either side of the sun can be reddish but are most often white.
(Submitted by Bonnie Stefishen)
So next time you’re outside on a bright sunny day, you may want to look up at the sky and you may catch a glimpse of a rare, but spectacular weather phenomenon.
Bob Lazar Area 51 UFO Debate: Stanton Friedman and Jeremy Corbell
Bob Lazar Area 51 UFO Debate: Stanton Friedman and Jeremy Corbell
This video is a clip from a UFO whistleblowers panel at the 2015 International UFO Congress. In this clip Stanton Friedman and Jeremy Corbell debate Bob Lazar’s claims of having back-engineered alien spacecraft at an underground lab near Area 51. The emcee is Alejandro Rojas and the other panelists are Ruben Uriarte and Mark Pilkington.
A new study analyzes pulses of radio waves coming from a magnetar – a rotating, dense, dead star with a strong magnetic field – located near the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.
Illustration of a magnetar — a rotating neutron star with incredibly powerful magnetic fields.
A team of scientists have analyzed pulses of radio waves coming from a magnetar – a rotating, dense, dead star with a strong magnetic field – that is located near the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. The new research provides clues that magnetars like this one, lying in close proximity to a black hole, could perhaps be linked to the source offast radio bursts, or FRBs. FRBs are high-energy blasts that originate beyond our galaxy but whose exact nature is unknown.
Our observations show that a radio magnetar can emit pulses with many of the same characteristics as those seen in some FRBs. Other astronomers have also proposed that magnetars near black holes could be behind FRBs, but more research is needed to confirm these suspicions.
Magnetars are a rare subtype of a group of objects called pulsars. Pulsars, in turn, belong to a class of rotating dead stars known as neutron stars. Magnetars are thought to be young pulsars that spin more slowly than ordinary pulsars and have much stronger magnetic fields, which suggests that perhaps all pulsars go through a magnetar-like phase in their lifetime.
This video from NASA, released in May 2018, explores the idea that radio pulsars and magnetars might be 2 sides of the same coin, that is, 2 stages in the life of a single object.
The research, published October 24, 2018, in the peer-reviewedAstrophysical Journal, looked at the magnetar named PSR J1745-2900, which is located in the Milky Way’s galactic center, using the largest of NASA’s Deep Space Network radio dishes in Australia. PSR J1745-2900 is the closest known pulsar to the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy, separated by a distance of only 0.3 light-years, and it is the only pulsar known to be gravitationally bound to the black hole and the environment around it.
In addition to discovering similarities between the galactic-center magnetar and FRBs, the researchers also gleaned new details about the magnetar’s radio pulses. Using one of the Deep Space Network’s largest radio antennas, the scientists were able to analyze individual pulses emitted by the star every time it rotated, a feat that is very rare in radio studies of pulsars. They found that some pulses were stretched, or broadened, by a larger amount than predicted when compared to previous measurements of the magnetar’s average pulse behavior. Moreover, this behavior varied from pulse to pulse. Pearlman said:
We are seeing these changes in the individual components of each pulse on a very fast time scale. This behavior is very unusual for a magnetar.
The radio components, he noted, are separated by only 30 milliseconds on average.
One theory to explain the signal variability involves clumps of plasma moving at high speeds near the magnetar. Other scientists have proposed that such clumps might exist but, in the new study, the researchers propose that the movement of these clumps may be a possible cause of the observed signal variability. Another theory proposes that the variability is intrinsic to the magnetar itself.
Pearlman and his colleagues hope to use the Deep Space Network radio dish to solve another outstanding pulsar mystery: Why are there so few pulsars near the galactic center? Their goal is to find a non-magnetar pulsar near the galactic-center black hole. Pearlman said:
Finding a stable pulsar in a close, gravitationally bound orbit with the supermassive black hole at the galactic center could prove to be the Holy Grail for testing theories of gravity. If we find one, we can do all sorts of new, unprecedented tests of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
Bottom line:In a new study, researchers analyzed pulses of radio waves from a magnetar near the Milky Way galaxy’s central black hole.
The bloke in this video tell us the sun is not gaseous, and is very likely liquid? .....don’t go getting to excited flat earthers, this doesn’t mean space is water and we’re under a dome there satellites, bits of rocket and probes in space
but it is not what the mainstream have been telling us it is. Which if true! What else are they wrong about?
Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica acts as a massive, frozen cork that holds back other glacial masses. If it collapses sea levels could rise. In 2019 ground measurements could reveal just how close the glacier is to collapse.
Credit: NASA/James Yungel
This past year brought tons of fascinating new information about our planet. But as scientists gaze into their crystal balls, they can see that this year is also sure to contain exciting surprises. Here we take a look at the seven most highly anticipated geophysics and Earth science expeditions, missions and meetings of 2019.
1. Inspecting Thwaites Glacier for cracks
Next summer, a major expedition will head to West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier. As part of a $25 million research collaboration between the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United Kingdom's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), more than 100 scientists from around the world will study the giant glacier, which acts something like a cork holding back other enormous ice masses. Should the glacier begin to collapse, these masses could slide into the ocean and melt, contributing to sea level rise. "Satellites show the Thwaites region is changing rapidly," William Easterling, NSF assistant director for Geosciences, said in a statement. "To answer the key questions of how much and how quickly sea level will change requires scientists on the ground with sophisticated equipment collecting the data we need to measure rates of ice-volume or ice-mass change." [Photos of Melt: Glaciers Before and After]
2. Creating amazing new ice maps
In September 2018, NASA launched the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), a space-based observatory peering at the poles. The mission measures the changing thickness of individual patches of ice from season to season, and can detect increases and decreases as small as a 0.2 inches (0.5 centimeters). Since its launch, the satellite has been collecting a terabyte of data a day and has already produced one of the most detailed maps of Antarctica's ice. Some initial results appeared at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2018 "and the data looks spectacular," physical geographer Michael MacFerrin of the University of Colorado in Boulder, told LiveScience. ICESat-2 will "help revolutionize our real-time views of ice sheets, sea ice and the polar regions in general," he added. "Folks are really excited to work with this dataset once it's out, and I suspect there will be first papers coming out before the end of this year in 2019."
3. Drilling into the cause of an earthquake
Off the southwest coast of Japan, deep below the Pacific Ocean, sits the Nankai Trough, an active subduction zone where one plate of the Earth's crust is slipping beneath another. It is one of the most seismically active places on the planet, responsible for the 8.1-magnitude Tōnankai earthquake that rocked Japan in 1944. This year, the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) began drilling into the fault. It is the "first [expedition] to drill, sample and instrument the earthquake-causing, or seismogenic portion of Earth's crust, where violent, large-scale earthquakes have occurred repeatedly throughout history," according to the mission's website. Rocks collected next year will be analyzed to see how slippery or solid they are, allowing researchers to "understand more about the conditions that might lead to an earthquake on these type of fault," wrote team member John Bedford of the University of Liverpool on the expedition's blog.
4. Measuring the forest and the trees
On Dec. 8, NASA launched the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation lidar (GEDI) experiment to the International Space Station. The instrument will be mounted on the outside of the station so it can peer down at our planet and produce incredibly detailed 3D observations of Earth's temperate and tropical forests. GEDI will aim to answer several fundamental questions, including how much carbon is stored in trees and how deforestation could affect climate change, according to the mission's website. This will in turn help researchers model how nutrients cycle through the forest ecosystems and, because forest heights affect wind patterns around the globe, more accurately predict weather, according to the GEDI website.
5. Exploring a buried Antarctic lake
As you read these words, scientists in Antarctica are drilling into a subglacial lake buried 4,000 feet (1,200 meters) beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Known as Lake Mercer, the body of water is completely disconnected from the rest of the world's ecosystems. Researchers are eager to explore the system and learn more about the organisms that are living there, according to the mission's official website. Once the drill reaches the body of water, "equipment will be lowered into the hole to collect samples, take readings, and photograph a subglacial world never before seen by human eyes," according to the site. [Extreme Life on Earth: 8 Bizarre Creatures]
6. Learning the history of coral reefs
Coral reefs are beautiful yet endangered underwater habitats. Pollution and ocean acidification — caused when oceans absorb carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels — are threatening reefs all over the globe. Beginning in September of next year, a team of researchers will drill into up to 11 locations beneath the oceans around Hawaii, looking to pull up samples from fossilized coral reef systems. These reefs, which will span 500,000 years of recent geologic history, will help answer critical questions about the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and Earth's temperature during this period, and how coral reefs reacted to and recovered from large-scale changes, according to the mission's website. The expedition, named the Hawaiian Drowned Reefs expedition, is being run by the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD), an international body that conducts scientific drilling missions.
7. Exploring the deep biosphere
For the last 10 years, scientists with the Deep Carbon Observatory have been digging into Earth to learn more about what's buried beneath our feet. In December, they announced new findings about the "deep biosphere," a subterranean reservoir of uncatalogued organisms that could dwarf the amount of life on our planet's surface. Next October, at an international conference in Washington, D.C., the organization will highlight its last decade of research and look forward to 10 more years of exciting expeditions. Researchers at the meeting will present information on "the nature and extent of carbon in Earth's core, the nature of the whole Earth carbon cycle and how has it changed over Earth's history, and the mechanisms that govern microbial evolution and dispersal in the deep biosphere," according to its website.
You’re driving alone down a dirt road, and you’re falling asleep at the wheel. Suddenly, a burst of light streaks across the sky — there’s a floating, flat shape in the air right in front of your truck, and though it soared quickly into view, it seems to have stopped completely. A beam of light shoots out from underneath the craft, and a little man with huge eyes, an enormous head, and a tiny body appears in the middle of the road. He doesn’t want to hurt you; he just wants tostick a probe in your nasal cavity.
Why does this alien encounter story feel predictable and familiar? If humans have never encountered extraterrestrial life, then how did we decide across cultures that aliens have an instantly recognizable shape? If you visit the UFO Festival in Roswell, New Mexico, it becomes immediately clear that humans have decided on a visual shorthand for alien life: the flying saucers, the little green men with huge black eyes, three fingers, and medical probes. But where did these cliches come from?
In the “believer” community, common threads that connect the stories of “close encounters” include certain types of aliens, spacecraft, and the phenomenon of lost or frozen time. Inverse reviewed first-hand accounts of encounters with alien life to find commonalities, and these were the four most popular descriptors we came across.
A satellite waits for communications.
4. The Gray Aliens
Non-believers often call extraterrestrials “little green men,” which is a reference to the commercialized, cartoon version of aliens. Truthfully, most people who profess to having had close encounters of the “third kind,” meaning contact with another living organism not from Earth, say the alien they met was gray.
Gray aliens — who are otherwise exactly as you’re imagining them, with big foreheads, tiny chins, bodies, and large black eyes — are understood among believers to be the most common. Or, at least, they’re the ones most likely to visit us here on Earth.
In fact, according to research compiled by author C.D.B. Bryan in his 1995 book Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: A Reporter’s Notebook on Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at M.I.T., 43 percent of reported encounters with aliens describe the figure the same way. People have described the grays as having a host of different personalities, temperaments, and objectives, but among this subsection of encounters, a few things hold true. The grays are always silent, they are always intelligent, and they almost always appear in groups.
Of course, there’s the enduring question of who beat whom to the “grays” archetype: believers or pop culture. If we consider science fiction literature as the origin point of these “grays,” then H.G. Wells is the inventor. In 1893, Wells described alien beings in a short story as “gray-skinned beings who were perhaps one meter tall, with big heads and large, oval-shaped pitch-black eyes.” In a serialized novel he wrote in 1901, Wells used this same description for his invented inhabitants on the moon.
The next time this specific type of alien appeared in pop culture, it was in the collected accounts of witnesses to what’s now called the 1947 Roswell Incident. Despite not being acquainted with each other before the incident, most of the people who reported seeing aliens in Roswell after the crash described them almost exactly the way Wells had.
Despite having originated in a science fiction story, the grays are collectively considered a definitive part of the conversation about alien life. At the UFO Festival in 2016, speakers on panels repeatedly referred to “the grays” as the most agreeable and least aggressive “type” of extraterrestrial that appears in witness reports.
An astronaut repairs a satellite.
3. The Study of Humans by Aliens
It’s very rare for a witness who professes they’ve made contact with alien life to say they were outright attacked. Perhaps because violent encounters would yield physical evidence — bruises, broken bones, signs of forced entry into one’s home — most people who say they were abducted or contacted by extraterrestrials describe aliens carrying out a calm, medicinal, and sometimes invasive form of study.
That means humans tend to agree on the narrative that aliens might have visited the Earth simply to study our bodies and culture. Of course, several times throughout his life, Stephen Hawking expressed his worry that extraterrestrial contact would cast the inhabitants of the Earth as vulnerable. After all, if an alien civilization were able to find Earth and travel to us, that means their technology would already outpace ours. “One day, we might receive a signal from a planet like this,” Hawking said in 2016, referring to a potentially habitable planet known as Gliese 832c. “But we should be wary of answering back. Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn’t turn out so well.”
The government's stance on space travel has changed a lot in the last decade.
2. The Government Knows About These Aliens
Ever since the local government blamed the Roswell incident on a weather balloon, believers had maintained that the United States is fully aware of past run-ins with extraterrestrials. Most imagine a situation much like the one that plays out in 1996’s Independence Day, in which the president (Bill Pullman) is only told about the nation’s history of third-kind encounters when tensions between humans and aliens become untenable.
In 2014, Foreign Policy reported the US government had a contingency plan in place just in case a zombie apocalypse were to erupt, and paranormal theorists took that opportunity to investigate the government’s policy for alien life.
While the governments of the world have reportedly played around with loose post-detection policies for extraterrestrial life — tell the United Nations, share all available data, and maintain full transparency with the rest of the world — none have gone public with their plans.
When it comes to the theory that the American government knows about extraterrestrial life, hasn’t told its citizens, and is currently hiding proof, the nucleus of the conspiracy is Area 51 in Nevada. Many have claimed to have spotted evidence of alien life on the desert government property, but as far as we know, it’s only been used for experimental weapons development. That’s a creepy enough fact on its own.
Is it a cloud or a UFO? It depends on how much you're willing to believe.
1. A Flat Saucer Making Hair-Pin Turns Is Something That Happens
According to the world’s largest network of alien “believers,” the Mutual Unidentified Flying Object Network (MUFON), reports of alien encounters have made it clear that any visitors to Earth possess technology far more advanced than our own. Admittedly, if one were to search through MUFON members’ uploaded, original drawings, which they commission from those who say they’ve met aliens, there are noticeable similarities.
For whatever reason, believers don’t tend to say that alien spacecraft look like the rockets humans habitually send into the atmosphere. They’re never sitting in cars, either.
According to most eyewitness accounts, they look more like stealth drones, ranging in size from an entire football field to a single kayak. If they’re not completely smooth and saucer-shaped, they’re usually triangular in shape, and they almost always bear flashing lights.
Find out how The CW imagines alien life in the series premiere of Roswell, New Mexico on January 15th – Tuesday at 9/8c.
Het flitst in de ruimte, en niemand die met zekerheid aliens kan uitsluiten
Het flitst in de ruimte, en niemand die met zekerheid aliens kan uitsluiten
Op alle mogelijke manier wordt geprobeerd om signalen van buitenaards leven op te vangen. rr
Het kúnnen natuurlijk aliens zijn die er lol in vinden om aardlingen een beetje te stangen. Maar wellicht zijn de geheimzinnige snelle radioflitsen die vanuit de ruimte op de aarde worden afgevuurd, toch eenvoudiger te verklaren.
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Ook voor astronomen blijven ze een mysterie: snelle radioflitsen, plotse uitbarstingen van krachtige radiogolven, die slechts een fractie van een seconde duren. Wat de raadselachtige flitsen doet ontstaan, is onbekend, net als waar ze hun fabelachtige hoeveelheid energie vandaan halen – één snelle radioflits slingert in een duizendste van een seconde méér energie de kosmos in dan onze zon in een jaar produceert.
Het fenomeen stelt astronomen al voor raadsels sinds in 2007 de eerste keer een radioflits werd opgemerkt door een Australische sterrenwacht. Dat ze van buiten onze Melkweg afkomstig moeten zijn, is zowat het enige dat met zekerheid over snelle radioflitsen is geweten. Tenminste, daar gaan astronomen van uit sinds ze de bron van een repeterende, snelle radioflits, FRB 121102 geheten, konden lokaliseren in een onopvallend dwergsterrenstelsel op zo’n drie miljard lichtjaar van de aarde. FRB 121102 was tot dusver de enige radioflits die meerdere keren van zich heeft laten horen – voor het vijftigtal andere waargenomen flitsen gold: één keer en daarna voor altijd Funkstille.
Aandrijving van ruimteschepen?
Tot nu. Vandaag rapporteren Canadese astronomen in het topblad Nature dat ze vorige zomer tijdens een drie weken durende waarnemingscampagne met de geavanceerde radiotelescoop Chime (in de Canadese provincie British Columbia) dertien snelle radioflitsen konden detecteren. In één geval werd een flits vijf keer herhaald, alsof iemand ergens voortdurend op de repeatknop zat te duwen.
‘Aliens!’, roept u nu en voorlopig hebben astronomen geen sluitende argumenten om die hypothese af te wijzen. Avi Loeb, een astrofysicus van Harvard, acht het bijvoorbeeld denkbaar dat de snelle radioflitsen afkomstig zijn van een stroomlekkage in de aandrijving van buitenaardse ruimteschepen. De meesten van Loebs collega’s denken daar iets nuchterder over en zoeken een verklaring voor de snelle radioflitsen in astrofysische verschijnselen. Maar ook daar is de keuze ruim: voorlopig circuleren er bijna evenveel hypotheses als er snelle radioflitsen gezien zijn. Een onlinelijstje telt er 47, waaronder bliksemende pulsars, barensweeën van prille neutronensterren en een fusie tussen neutronensterren en witte dwergen.
‘Verstrooiing’
Dat de meerderheid van de dertien nieuw ontdekte flitsen tekenen van ‘verstrooiing’ vertoont, wijst er volgens de Canadezen op dat ze uit ‘onrustige’ delen van de kosmos afkomstig zijn. Daarmee wordt niet bedoeld: zones die vergeven zijn van de aliens, maar magnetisch en anderszins bizarre uithoeken van het heelal. ‘Zoals een dichte klomp massa, een restant van een supernova bijvoorbeeld’, zegt teamlid Cherry Ng in een persmededeling. ‘Of iets dat in de buurt ligt van het centrale zwarte gat van een sterrenstelsel. Het moet een bijzonder plekje zijn, gezien de mate van verstrooiing die we waarnemen.’
Maar honderd procent zeker uitsluiten dat de flitsen afkomstig zijn van verre buitenaardse beschavingen die over een ‘grote en krachtige’ atoomknop beschikken, kunnen de astronomen nog steeds niet. Blijven volgen hoe de eigenschappen van de flitsen veranderen, in de hoop meer over de aard van het geheimzinnige verschijnsel te weten te komen, is al wat ze kunnen doen. De komende jaren wordt een aantal radiotelescopen met een groot beeldveld in bedrijf genomen, zodat naar verwachting steeds meer snelle radioflitsen gecapteerd zullen worden. Hopelijk werpen die meer licht op de zaak.
The incident described here, drawn from declassified U.S. government files, provided inspiration for Episode 1 of HISTORY's series "Project Blue Book."
In the words of Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the man who investigated unidentified-flying-object reports for the U.S. Air Force in the early 1950s, the Gorman Dogfight remains one of the “classics” among UFO sightings.
The incident, which still lacks an airtight explanation, involved a 27-minute air encounter between a veteran World War II fighter pilot named George F. Gorman and a mysterious white orb at high altitude above Fargo, North Dakota. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” Gorman told a local newspaper following the October 1, 1948 event. “If anyone else had reported such a thing I would have thought they were crazy.”
Captain Ruppelt operated Project Blue Book, which continued the work of Project Sign and Project Grudge, a series of hush-hush studies conducted by the U.S. Air Force between 1947 and 1969. His mission: to determine if UFOs were a threat to national security and to scientifically analyze UFO-related data.
What makes the Gorman Dogfight unique in the now-declassified pages of Project Blue Book is not only the length of the encounter, but that it was recorded both on the ground and in the sky by numerous reputable sources.
George Gorman's depictions of his UFO encounter.
The Project Blue Book Archive/The United States Air Force
Chasing—and being chased by—a light
At the time of the incident, Gorman, a 25-year-old former fighter pilot, served as a second lieutenant in the North Dakota Air National Guard. It was this role that placed him behind the flight controls of a P-51 Mustang on Oct. 1, 1948, taking part in a cross-country flight alongside other National Guard airmen.
While the other pilots landed at Fargo’s Hector Airport, on that fateful evening Gorman stayed in the air in order to get in some night-flying time in the cloudless conditions. Having circled his P-51 over a lighted football stadium, he was preparing to land at about 9 P.M. Advised by the control tower that the only other plane in the vicinity was a Piper Cub (which Gorman could see about 500 feet below him), he witnessed what he believed to be the taillight of another craft passing on the right, though the tower had no other object on the radar.
Deciding to take a closer look at the unidentified object, Gorman pulled his plane up and closed to within about 1,000 yards. “It was about six to eight inches in diameter, clear white and completely without fuzz at the edges,” he said of the object in his report. “It was blinking on and off. As I approached, however, the light suddenly became steady and pulled into a sharp left bank. I thought it was making a pass at the tower.”
Deciding to follow, Gorman tried in vain to catch up with the object, reporting that he finally got behind it at around 7,000 feet, where it made a sharp turn and headed straight for the P-51. Almost at the point of collision Gorman dived and said the light passed over his canopy at about 500 feet before cutting sharply once more and heading back in his direction. Just as collision seemed imminent once again, Gorman said the object shot straight up in the air in a steep climb—so steep that when he tried to intercept, his plane stalled at about 14,000 feet. The object was not seen again, but according to Gorman he had been engaged in aerial maneuvers with it for 27 minutes by the time he brought his plane in to land.
‘Definitive thought behind its maneuvers’
Shaken by the encounter, the pilot went on to report he noticed no sound, exhaust trail or odor from the object. And while he had reached speeds of up to 400 m.p.h. while in pursuit—he couldn’t keep up with whatever it was.
“I am convinced that there was definite thought behind its maneuvers,” Gorman said in a sworn statement to his commander. “I am further convinced that the object was governed by the laws of inertia because its acceleration was rapid but not immediate; and although it was able to turn fairly tight at considerable speed, it still followed a natural curve.”
Gorman reported blacking out temporarily due to the excessive speed he reached in attempting to turn with the object. “I am in fairly good physical condition and I do not believe that there are many, if any, pilots who could withstand the turn and speed effected by the object, and remain conscious,” he wrote. “The object was not only able to out-turn and out-speed my aircraft... but was able to attain a far steeper climb and was able to maintain a constant rate of climb far in excess of my aircraft.”
Three P-51 Mustangs circa 1945, the same aircraft George Gorman was flying during his UFO encounter.
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Other witnesses
Gorman wasn’t the only one to see the mysterious object that night. It was also witnessed by air-traffic controllers Lloyd D. Jensen and H.E. Johnson, who were manning the Hector Airport tower. According to Johnson, who reported seeing the Piper Cub and the UFO at the same time, the object was “traveling at a high rate of speed” and was “fast enough to increase the spacing between itself and [Gorman’s] fighter.” Johnson described the object as appearing to be “only a round light, perfectly formed, with no fuzzy edges or rays leaving its body.”
Dr. A. E. Cannon, the pilot of the Piper Cub, and his passenger also viewed the object—both in the sky and upon their return to the airport, where they immediately joined the traffic controllers in the tower. Cannon described the light as moving “very swiftly, much faster than the 51.” Two Civil Aeronautics Authority employees on the ground also reported seeing the object.
Could it have simply been another aircraft? Taking the technology of the time into account, Dr Travis S. Taylor, aerospace engineer and author of Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering, believes any other aircraft would have been apparent to Gorman.
Earlier that year, he points out, Chuck Yeager made his famous flight in the Bell X1 at record-breaking speed, in which he broke the sound barrier. “A craft like that would have been very obvious to a pilot in a P-51. [Gorman] would have known what he was looking at—the X1 looked like an airplane,” says Taylor. “If he was chasing something that didn’t look like a standard aircraft and he couldn’t keep up with it, either it was too far away, and he didn’t realize how far away it was, or it was moving faster than a P-51 could move.”
U.S. Air Force investigators from Project Sign (later to become Project Grudge and ultimately Project Blue Book) soon arrived in Fargo, where Geiger counter measurements of Gorman’s plane revealed heightened radioactivity, though this was later explained away as a side effect of the high-altitude flying that took place.
Was Gorman a kook, or maybe touched in the head by his war experiences? Government investigators found him to be a credible witness, noting that he “did not make the impression of being a dreamer. He reads little, and only serious literature. He spends 90 percent of his time hunting and fishing; drinks less than moderately; smokes normally; and does not do drugs. He appears to be a sincere and serious individual who was considerably puzzled by his experience and made no attempt to blow his story up.”
A model of a R-1, the first Soviet guided missile.
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What about Cold War testing?
One conspiracy theory speculated that Gorman’s encounter may have been with a top-secret test craft. With World War II a very recent memory, tensions in 1948 were heightened both in military and civilian circles. And as the Cold War tightened its grip on the American psyche, the U.S government sought to boost its scientific firepower with a clandestine initiative called Operation Paperclip, through which it recruited former Nazi scientists, engineers and technicians (including Wernher von Braun and his V-2 rocket team) to America, to boost the nation’s chances in the Cold War and looming space race.
Further afield, the Soviets had begun testing the R-1 Rocket (a Soviet version of the German V-2 of WWII) the same year as Gorman’s encounter, raising questions of whether the object he and the others saw could have been a Soviet craft or weapon. “The R-1 didn’t have the range to go from wherever their launch capability was in the Soviet Union to Fargo,” says Taylor. “It was a dumb rocket. All the rockets at that time were projectiles. They used aerodynamics mostly to guide them. They could do slow maneuvers, but if they did a fast maneuver they’d start tumbling apart.”
Back in Fargo, after the Air Weather Service revealed it had released a lighted weather balloon 10 minutes before Gorman first saw the object, investigators pounced, proclaiming the balloon the likeliest explanation for the object seen.
As for the seemingly incredible movements witnessed, the report said those were due to Gorman’s own maneuvers as he tried to chase the bright object. Essentially, investigators wrote, his high speed gave the balloon the appearance of moving in opposite directions as he passed by. Added to that theory, investigators noted the bright appearance of Jupiter on that date, hypothesizing that Gorman had been attempting to chase the bright dot of the planet at the same time the weather balloon was in range.
Video: Experts recount the puzzling 1948 dogfight between World War II pilot George Gorman and a UFO, which was investigated by Dr. J. Allen Hynek.
The lighted weather balloon would become the official cause of the encounter in the Project Blue Book file.
“We were doing Project Mogul at the time, which was high-altitude balloons [fitted with high-powered microphones] that we were trying to listen to see if the Soviets were doing above-ground nuclear testing,” says Taylor, who points out that the famous Roswell, New Mexico UFO sighting was explained away as a Project Mogul balloon.
Whether Gorman was happy with the official outcome remains unknown. Maintaining his silence, he returned to the Air Force full-time, eventually retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1969. He never spoke publicly about the encounter again, though according to The Bismarck Tribune, he did tell friends “he was never convinced that he had been dueling with a lighted balloon for 27 minutes.” Gorman died in 1982.
Taylor has his own theory: “Possibly somebody was playing around with rocketry.” But, he notes, there were no known test facilities or scientists in the Fargo area when the encounter took place. All the [Operation Paperclip] Germans were at the missile grounds in White Sands, New Mexico, while rocket guru Robert H. Goddard, had died in 1945. “It makes no sense,” says Taylor, “that there was anything there that was manmade that they were chasing.”
One of the most cherished science fiction scenarios is using a black hole as a portal to another dimension or time or universe.
That fantasy may be closer to reality than previously imagined.
Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in the universe.
A University of Massachusetts study found that black holes that are large and rotating enough could allow 'gentle' hyperspace travel.
HOW WOULD INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL WORK?
Black holes are the consequence of gravity crushing a dying star without limit, leading to the formation of a true singularity – which happens when an entire star gets compressed down to a single point yielding an object with infinite density.
This dense and hot singularity punches a hole in the fabric of spacetime itself, possibly opening up an opportunity for hyperspace travel.
That is, a short cut through spacetime allowing for travel over cosmic scale distances in a short period.
They are the consequence of gravity crushing a dying star without limit, leading to the formation of a true singularity – which happens when an entire star gets compressed down to a single point yielding an object with infinite density.
This dense and hot singularity punches a hole in the fabric of spacetime itself, possibly opening up an opportunity for hyperspace travel.
That is, a short cut through spacetime allowing for travel over cosmic scale distances in a short period.
Researchers previously thought that any spacecraft attempting to use a black hole as a portal of this type would have to reckon with nature at its worst.
The hot and dense singularity would cause the spacecraft to endure a sequence of increasingly uncomfortable tidal stretching and squeezing before being completely vaporized.
My team at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a colleague at Georgia Gwinnett College have shown that all black holes are not created equal.
If the black hole like Sagittarius A*, located at the center of our own galaxy, is large and rotating, then the outlook for a spacecraft changes dramatically.
That's because the singularity that a spacecraft would have to contend with is very gentle and could allow for a very peaceful passage.
'Interstellar' was based on a book written by Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Kip Thorne and Gargantua's physical properties are central to the plot of this Hollywood movie.
The reason that this is possible is that the relevant singularity inside a rotating black hole is technically 'weak,' and thus does not damage objects that interact with it.
At first, this fact may seem counter intuitive.
But one can think of it as analogous to the common experience of quickly passing one's finger through a candle's near 2,000-degree flame, without getting burned.
My colleague Lior Burko and I have been investigating the physics of black holes for over two decades.
This graph depicts the physical strain on the spacecraft’s steel frame as it plummets into a rotating black hole. The inset shows a detailed zoom-in for very late times. The important thing to note is that the strain increases dramatically close to the black hole, but does not grow indefinitely. Therefore, the spacecraft and its inhabitants may survive the journey.
In 2016, my Ph.D. student, Caroline Mallary, inspired by Christopher Nolan's blockbuster film 'Interstellar,' set out to test if Cooper (Matthew McConaughey's character), could survive his fall deep into Gargantua – a fictional, supermassive, rapidly rotating black hole some 100 million times the mass of our sun.
'Interstellar' was based on a book written by Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Kip Thorne and Gargantua's physical properties are central to the plot of this Hollywood movie.
Building on work done by physicist Amos Ori two decades prior, and armed with her strong computational skills, Mallary built a computer model that would capture most of the essential physical effects on a spacecraft, or any large object, falling into a large, rotating black hole like Sagittarius A*.
What she discovered is that under all conditions an object falling into a rotating black hole would not experience infinitely large effects upon passage through the hole's so-called inner horizon singularity.
This is the singularity that an object entering a rotating black hole cannot maneuver around or avoid.
Singularity of massive black hole or wormhole. Researchers previously thought that any spacecraft attempting to use a black hole as a portal of this type would have to reckon with nature at its worst.
Not only that, under the right circumstances, these effects may be negligibly small, allowing for a rather comfortable passage through the singularity.
In fact, there may no noticeable effects on the falling object at all. This increases the feasibility of using large, rotating black holes as portals for hyperspace travel.
Mallary also discovered a feature that was not fully appreciated before: the fact that the effects of the singularity in the context of a rotating black hole would result in rapidly increasing cycles of stretching and squeezing on the spacecraft.
But for very large black holes like Gargantua, the strength of this effect would be very small. So, the spacecraft and any individuals on board would not detect it.
The crucial point is that these effects do not increase without bound; in fact, they stay finite, even though the stresses on the spacecraft tend to grow indefinitely as it approaches the black hole.
WHAT ARE BLACK HOLES?
Black holes are so dense and their gravitational pull is so strong that no form of radiation can escape them - not even light.
They act as intense sources of gravity which hoover up dust and gas around them.
Their intense gravitational pull is thought to be what stars in galaxies orbit around.
How they are formed is still poorly understood.
Supermassive black holes are incredibly dense areas in the centre of galaxies with masses that can be billions of times that of the sun. They cause dips in space-time (artist's impression) and even light cannot escape their gravitational pull
Astronomers believe they may form when a large cloud of gas up to 100,000 times bigger than the sun, collapses into a black hole.
Many of these black hole seeds then merge to form much larger supermassive black holes, which are found at the centre of every known massive galaxy.
Alternatively, a supermassive black hole seed could come from a giant star, about 100 times the sun's mass, that ultimately forms into a black hole after it runs out of fuel and collapses.
When these giant stars die, they also go 'supernova', a huge explosion that expels the matter from the outer layers of the star into deep space.
There are a few important simplifying assumptions and resulting caveats in the context of Mallary's model.
The main assumption is that the black hole under consideration is completely isolated and thus not subject to constant disturbances by a source such as another star in its vicinity or even any falling radiation.
While this assumption allows important simplifications, it is worth noting that most black holes are surrounded by cosmic material – dust, gas, radiation.
Therefore, a natural extension of Mallary's work would be to perform a similar study in the context of a more realistic astrophysical black hole.
Mallary's approach of using a computer simulation to examine the effects of a black hole on an object is very common in the field of black hole physics.
Needless to say, we do not have the capability of performing real experiments in or near black holes yet, so scientists resort to theory and simulations to develop an understanding, by making predictions and new discoveries.
Rotating black holes may serve as gentle portals for hyperspace travel
One of the most cherished science fiction scenarios is using a black hole as a portal to another dimension or time or universe. That fantasy may be closer to reality than previously imagined.
Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in the universe. They are the consequence of gravity crushing a dying star without limit, leading to the formation of a true singularity – which happens when an entire star gets compressed down to a single point yielding an object with infinite density. This dense and hot singularity punches a hole in the fabric of spacetime itself, possibly opening up an opportunity for hyperspace travel. That is, a short cut through spacetime allowing for travel over cosmic scale distances in a short period.
Researchers previously thought that any spacecraft attempting to use a black hole as a portal of this type would have to reckon with nature at its worst. The hot and dense singularity would cause the spacecraft to endure a sequence of increasingly uncomfortable tidal stretching and squeezing before being completely vaporized.
Flying through a black hole
My team at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a colleague at Georgia Gwinnett College have shown that all black holes are not created equal. If the black hole like Sagittarius A*, located at the center of our own galaxy, is large and rotating, then the outlook for a spacecraft changes dramatically. That’s because the singularity that a spacecraft would have to contend with is very gentle and could allow for a very peaceful passage.
The reason that this is possible is that the relevant singularity inside a rotating black hole is technically “weak,” and thus does not damage objects that interact with it. At first, this fact may seem counter intuitive. But one can think of it as analogous to the common experience of quickly passing one’s finger through a candle’s near 2,000-degree flame, without getting burned.
Hold your finger close to the flame and it will burn. Swipe it through quickly and you won’t feel much. Similarly, passing through a large rotating black hole, you are more likely to come out the other side unharmed.mirbasar/Shutterstock.com
My colleague Lior Burko and I have been investigating the physics of black holes for over two decades. In 2016, my Ph.D. student, Caroline Mallary, inspired by Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film “Interstellar,” set out to test if Cooper (Matthew McConaughey’s character), could survive his fall deep into Gargantua – a fictional, supermassive, rapidly rotating black hole some 100 million times the mass of our sun. “Interstellar” was based on a book written by Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Kip Thorne and Gargantua’s physical properties are central to the plot of this Hollywood movie.
Building on work done by physicist Amos Ori two decades prior, and armed with her strong computational skills, Mallary built a computer model that would capture most of the essential physical effects on a spacecraft, or any large object, falling into a large, rotating black hole like Sagittarius A*.
The fictional Miller’s planet orbiting the black hole Gargantua, in the movie ‘Interstellar.’interstellarfilm.wikia.com
Not even a bumpy ride?
What she discovered is that under all conditions an object falling into a rotating black hole would not experience infinitely large effects upon passage through the hole’s so-called inner horizon singularity. This is the singularity that an object entering a rotating black hole cannot maneuver around or avoid. Not only that, under the right circumstances, these effects may be negligibly small, allowing for a rather comfortable passage through the singularity. In fact, there may no noticeable effects on the falling object at all. This increases the feasibility of using large, rotating black holes as portals for hyperspace travel.
Mallary also discovered a feature that was not fully appreciated before: the fact that the effects of the singularity in the context of a rotating black hole would result in rapidly increasing cycles of stretching and squeezing on the spacecraft. But for very large black holes like Gargantua, the strength of this effect would be very small. So, the spacecraft and any individuals on board would not detect it.
This graph depicts the physical strain on the spacecraft’s steel frame as it plummets into a rotating black hole. The inset shows a detailed zoom-in for very late times. The important thing to note is that the strain increases dramatically close to the black hole, but does not grow indefinitely. Therefore, the spacecraft and its inhabitants may survive the journey.Khanna/UMassD
The crucial point is that these effects do not increase without bound; in fact, they stay finite, even though the stresses on the spacecraft tend to grow indefinitely as it approaches the black hole.
There are a few important simplifying assumptions and resulting caveats in the context of Mallary’s model. The main assumption is that the black hole under consideration is completely isolated and thus not subject to constant disturbances by a source such as another star in its vicinity or even any falling radiation. While this assumption allows important simplifications, it is worth noting that most black holes are surrounded by cosmic material – dust, gas, radiation.
Therefore, a natural extension of Mallary’s work would be to perform a similar study in the context of a more realistic astrophysical black hole.
Mallary’s approach of using a computer simulation to examine the effects of a black hole on an object is very common in the field of black hole physics. Needless to say, we do not have the capability of performing real experiments in or near black holes yet, so scientists resort to theory and simulations to develop an understanding, by making predictions and new discoveries.
On May 25, 2008, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander blazed through the Martian atmosphere and landed at the northern pole of the Red Planet. The spacecraft made history as its robotic arm was the first to touch and sample water on Mars. During the lander's three months on the Red Planet, Phoenix revealed an unprecedented amount of information about the Martian environment.
"Phoenix has given us some surprises, and I'm confident we will be pulling more gems from this trove of data for years to come," Principal Investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona in Tucson said in a 2008 statement at the end of the lander's lifetime.
"Phoenix provided an important step to spur the hope that we can show [that] Mars was once habitable and possibly supported life," said Doug McCuistion, then-director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
A "hard and risky" mission
In 2002, NASA's Mars Odyssey Orbiter revealed large amounts of subsurface water ice in the Martian arctic. Because of that, the Phoenix spacecraft was designed to include a robotic arm capable of digging through the protective topsoil layer to the water ice below.
The Phoenix lander was designed by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver and was named after the mythical bird that regenerates from the ashes of its own death. The name was well-suited, as the designers created the spacecraft by repurposing the Mars Surveyor 2001 lander, which had been canceled. Phoenix also carried a complex suite of instruments, which were improved versions of the ones that flew on the lost Mars Polar Lander mission.
The Phoenix spacecraft built by Lockheed Martin.
Credit: SETI
On Aug. 4, 2007, Phoenix launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a Delta II rocket. After a nine-month voyage, the spacecraft barreled into the Martian atmosphere on May 25, 2008.
"This is not a trip to Grandma's house," Ed Weiler, then-associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C., told Space.com before the landing. "Putting a spacecraft safely on Mars is hard and risky."
During what the spacecraft's team called its "7 minutes of terror," Phoenix plunged into the Martian atmosphere at about 13,000 mph (21,000 kph) as mission control waited tensely to hear that the spacecraft had safely reached the ground. A Viking-era parachute opened when the spacecraft was 7.8 miles (12.6 kilometers) above the surface, slowing the descent. Phoenix safely touched down in the arctic plains region of Mars, called Vastitas Borealis, which was the farthest north any spacecraft had landed on the Red Planet.
Above and beyond
The Phoenix spacecraft's specialized robotic arm dug through an ice-rich layer to form shallow trenches on the Martian terrain. The arm carried samples from the ground into the tiny ovens and miniature laboratory aboard the spacecraft. Selected samples were heated to release elements that were examined for their chemical and physical characteristics.
Phoenix also carried a stereo camera on its 6.6-foot (2 meters) mast. The camera collected more than 25,000 pictures, including several sweeping panoramas. Images were also taken with the first atomic-force microscopeever used outside Earth.
The Phoenix spacecraft was a lander not a rover, and as such, it never moved from its landing site. It remained stationary during the three months of its primary mission and continued to work for more than two additional months. The spacecraft went into hibernation mode after Mars arrived at a point in its orbit where the sun was positioned too low in the sky to continue powering the spacecraft's solar cells. At that time, a dust storm also blocked what little of the sunlight managed to pierce the clouds.
But NASA didn't give up on the little lander just yet. The agency's Mars Odyssey Orbiter continued to listen for signals while flying over Phoenix. As the sun rose again on the northern plains several months later, Odyssey swooped over the landing site as many as 10 times a day for three consecutive days in January 2009. It then engaged in two longer listening campaigns in February and March.
The Phoenix spacecraft's hardware was not designed to survive the temperature extremes and heavy coats of ice from a harsh Martian winter. Phoenix was programmed to attempt to make contact if it managed to survive, but the spacecraft remained silent.
Almost a decade after the Phoenix mission ended, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a photo showing the lander, its back shell and its parachute. A comparison of the image with one taken soon after the Phoenix landing showed that dust had covered the landing scars the spacecraft previously etched on the Martian surface.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander detected perchlorates, a class of salts, in the Martian arctic's ice-rich soil in 2008.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University
Phoenix science
Phoenix's study of Mars resulted in a long list of revolutionary discoveries about the planet. One of the most notable came on July 31, 2008, when the spacecraft confirmed the presence of water ice on Mars after successfully collecting a soil sample containing ice from a trench 2 inches (5 centimeters) deep. The historic discovery marked the first time water was sampled on the Red Planet.
But Phoenix didn't stop with the discovery of water ice; it also found snow. A laser instrument designed to study the planet's atmosphere detected snow from clouds about 2.5 miles (4 km) above the spacecraft's landing site, but the snow vaporized before it touched the ground.
"Nothing like this view has ever been seen on Mars," researcher Jim Whiteway said in a2008 statement. Whiteway, of York University in Toronto, was the lead scientist for the Canadian-supplied Meteorological Station on Phoenix. "We'll be looking for signs that the snow may even reach the ground," he said.
Indeed, researchers determined that later into the Martian winter, precipitation likely results in a buildup of water ice on and in the ground.
Experiments on the lander also revealed signs ofcalcium carbonate, the main component of chalk, along with particles that could be clay.
Phoenix's data collection also suggested that the soil in the arctic plains was covered with a film of liquid water in the last few million years. The evidence for water and potential nutrients "implies that this region could have previously met the criteria for habitability" during portions of continuing climate cycles, researchers wrote in a 2009 paper published in the journal Science.
The mission's biggest surprise was the discovery of perchlorate in the Martian soil. A chemical that strongly attracts water, perchlorate made up a few tenths of a percent of the composition of all three soil samples analyzed by Phoenix's laboratory. That water could have been pulled directly from humid Martian air, or liquid water beneath the crust could have combined with salts as a brine that stays liquid at Martian surface temperatures.
The Phoenix lander dug several trenches in the Martian surface after landing in 2008.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University
Phoenix's legacy
The Phoenix spacecraft provided unprecedented insight into Earth's reddest neighbor, and the mission was considered a success.
"Before Phoenix, we did not know whether precipitation occurs on Mars," said Whiteway in a 2009 statement. "We knew that the polar ice cap advances as far south as the Phoenix site in winter, but we did not know how the water vapor moved from the atmosphere to ice on the ground. Now, we know that it does snow and that this is part of the hydrological cycle on Mars."
Although the mission is over, the legacy of Phoenix continues, as researchers will spend the next several years unraveling even more Martian mysteries by delving through the wealth of data the spacecraft provided.
The sun will turn to ROCK in 10 billion years’ time: Star will burn the last of its nuclear energy and become a 'crystal ball' 200,000 times denser than Earth when it dies
The sun will turn to ROCK in 10 billion years’ time: Star will burn the last of its nuclear energy and become a 'crystal ball' 200,000 times denser than Earth when it dies
The sun is destined to become a crystal white dwarf in around 10 billion years
Experts found white dwarf stars form metallic oxygen and carbon crystal cores
Crystallisation delays cooling, stars could be billions of years older than thought
The oldest white dwarfs are likely to be almost fully crystal, researchers claim
The sun will turn into a ‘crystal ball’ - in 10 billion years’ time when it dies, scientists have found.
Astronomers identified the first direct evidence that old stars turn to rock when they run out of nuclear fuel and begin to cool down.
Scientists trained the Gaia space telescope on 15,000 white dwarf candidates within around 300 light years of Earth.
They found large numbers of the stars showing signs that indicated that they have cooled down - and showed signs they were turning to rock.
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The sun will turn into a ‘crystal ball’ (artist's impression) - in 10 billion years’ time, scientists have found. Astronomers identified the first direct evidence that old stars turn to rock when they cool down
Dr Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, from the University of Warwick’s Department of Physics, said the observations proved a 50-year-old theory.
Dr Tremblay said: ‘This is the first direct evidence that white dwarfs crystallise, or transition from liquid to solid.
‘It was predicted fifty years ago that we should observe a pile-up in the number of white dwarfs at certain luminosities and colours due to crystallisation and only now this has been observed.
‘All white dwarfs will crystallise at some point in their evolution, although more massive white dwarfs go through the process sooner.
‘This means that billions of white dwarfs in our galaxy have already completed the process and are essentially crystal spheres in the sky.
'The sun itself will become a crystal white dwarf in about 10 billion years.’
Scientists trained the Gaia space telescope on 15,000 white dwarf candidates within around 300 light years of Earth. They found large numbers of the stars showing signs that indicated that they have cooled down - and showed signs they were turning to rock (file photo)
The crystal spheres are made of carbon and oxygen under such high density their crystal structure will make them appear to be like a metal - although it is possible that diamonds may also form as the star cools.
Our sun is currently a yellow dwarf star.
Over the next five billion years it will cool down - in the process first expanding into a ‘red giant’ - then shrinking down to a white dwarf and gradually harden and solidify.
Eventually white dwarfs cool down into black dwarfs when they give off no more heat.
The full findings of the study were published in the journal Nature.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO EARTH WHEN THE SUN DIES?
Five billion years from now, it's said the sun will have grown into a red giant star, more than a hundred times larger than its current size.
Eventually, it will eject gas and dust to create an 'envelope' accounting for as much as half its mass.
The core will become a tiny white dwarf star. This will shine for thousands of years, illuminating the envelope to create a ring-shaped planetary nebula.
While this metamorphosis will change the solar system, scientists are unsure what will happen to the third rock from the sun.
We already know that our sun will be bigger and brighter, so that it will probably destroy any form of life on our planet.
But whether the Earth's rocky core will survive is uncertain.
An artist's illustration of a white dwarf in the process of solidifying.
Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick
Billions of years in the future, our dead sun will morph into a giant cosmic jewel, a new study suggests.
Like the vast majority of stars in ourMilky Way galaxy, the sun will eventually collapse into a white dwarf, an exotic object about 200,000 times denser than Earth. To put that in perspective: A mere teaspoon of white-dwarf material would weigh about as much as an elephant, if you could somehow transport the stuff to our planet.
"All white dwarfs will crystallize at some point in their evolution, although more massive white dwarfs go through the process sooner," study lead author Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, a physicist at the University of Warwick in England, said in a statement.
"This means that billions of white dwarfs in our galaxy have already completed the process and are essentially crystal spheres in the sky," Tremblay added. "The sun itself will become a crystal white dwarf in about 10 billion years."
Tremblay and his colleagues analyzed data gathered by the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft, which launched in December 2013 to help researchers construct the best-ever 3D map of the Milky Way. Gaia does this by precisely monitoring the positions of huge numbers of stars; the mission team aims to study 1 billion stars over the spacecraft's operational lifetime.
For the new study, the researchers looked at Gaia measurements of about 15,000 white dwarfs, all of which lie within 330 light-years of the sun. These data revealed an odd "pileup" — an overabundance of white dwarfs with certain colors and brightnesses that cannot be explained by the objects' ages or masses.
Modeling work suggested that the pileup was caused by crystallization of the white dwarfs' interiors, which released enough heat to slow down the white dwarfs' cooling over time.
"This is the first direct evidence that white dwarfs crystallize, or transition from liquid to solid," Tremblay said. "It was predicted 50 years ago that we should observe a pileup in the number of white dwarfs at certain luminosities and colors due to crystallization, and only now this has been observed."
White-dwarf crystallization is akin to water freezing from liquid to ice. But the material in this case is oxygen and carbon, and it's crystallizing at temperatures that aren't exactly chilly. The process really kicks into gear when a white-dwarf interior cools down to about 18 million degrees Fahrenheit (10 million degrees Celsius), the researchers said.
The result is likely a core composed of crystallized oxygen and a mantle dominated by carbon.
"Not only do we have evidence of heat release upon solidification, but considerably more energy release is needed to explain the observations," Tremblay said. "We believe this is due to the oxygen crystallizing first and then sinking to the core, a process similar to sedimentation on a riverbed on Earth. This will push the carbon upward, and that separation will release gravitational energy."
The new results suggest that many white dwarfs are considerably older than scientists had thought — up to 15 percent older in some cases, study team members said. Astronomers generally age these stellar corpses by taking their temperature, and crystallization slows the cooling-off process.
The study was published online today (Jan. 9) in the journal Nature.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate) is out now.
An artist's illustration of emissions from a fast radio burst reaching Earth. The different colors signify different wavelengths of light.
Credit: Jingchuan Yu, Beijing Planetarium
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) may not remain mysterious for much longer.
Astronomers have spotted 13 more of these extragalactic light flashes, boosting the known population by about 20 percent. And the new haul includes the secondrepeating FRB ever discovered. (All others seen to date have been one-offs, flaring up just a single time.)
"Knowing that there is another [repeater] suggests that there could be more out there," discovery team member Ingrid Stairs, an astrophysicist at the University of British Columbia, said in a statement. "And with more repeaters and more sources available for study, we may be able to understand these cosmic puzzles — where they’re from and what causes them." [8 Baffling Astronomy Mysteries]
FRBs are brief but incredibly powerful phenomena; the milliseconds-long emissions are energetically comparable to the total output of our sun over a century. But, as Stairs noted, FRBs are as enigmatic as they are spectacular. Astronomers have offered a number of possible explanations for the bursts, including merging neutron stars and advanced alien civilizations.
The new results — which were announced today (Jan. 9) in two papers in the journal Nature, and in presentations at the 233rd American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle — aren't great news for anyone holding out hope that E.T. is responsible. The more common a phenomenon is, after all, the more likely it is to have a natural explanation.
"CHIME reconstructs the image of the overhead sky by processing the radio signals recorded by thousands of antennas with a large signal-processing system," team member Kendrick Smith, of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario, said in the same statement. "CHIME's signal-processing system is the largest of any telescope on Earth, allowing it to search huge regions of the sky simultaneously."
And CHIME wasn't even fully up and running when it made the new detections. The 13 FRBs were spotted over the course of a few weeks in July and August 2018, during CHIME's "precommissioning" phase. The repeater was studied for a spell beyond that; the last of its six known flashes was observed in late October, team members said.
The repeater, known as FRB 180814.J0422+73, lies about 1.5 billion light-years from Earth, the astronomers determined. That's about two times closer than the other repeater, FRB 121102, which is known to have fired off dozens of bursts over the past few years.
Canada's CHIME radio telescope (seen at night here) recently detected 13 mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs), including just the second known repeating FRB.
Credit: Courtesy Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME)
Most previously detected FRBs feature radio frequencies that are around 1,400 megahertz (MHz). CHIME's range is much lower, from 400 to 800 MHz, so the new discoveries are shedding considerable new light on FRBs.
Astronomers now know that FRB "sources can produce low-frequency radio waves, and those low-frequency waves can escape their environment and are not too scattered to be detected by the time they reach the Earth," CHIME team member Tom Landecker, from the National Research Council of Canada, said in the same statement.
"That tells us something about the environments and the sources," Landecker added. "We haven’t solved the problem, but it’s several more pieces in the puzzle."
You can find the newly published Nature papers here and here.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate) is out now.
The CIA is putting its secret history online, uploading millions of newly declassified documents.
The documents include previously unseen information about the agency's hunt for UFOs and its work on the "Star Gate" project, which tried to teach humans to become psychic and see through walls.
One document, for instance, describes that project in detail. It shows how the CIA recruited volunteers to go through a programme of training that would let people access information without any of the usual means, and which would be used as a weapon for which there is "no known defense".
The US spy agency will put up 12 million pages into its online "reading room", where people will be able to search through the documents.
The previously classified pages include private briefs given to presidents and the information that is passed between its operatives. They cover everything from the Cold War and Vietnam to relatively modern problems like terrorism.
That means that people can see its history from its formation until the early 90s, for now. None of that is selected, the agency claims, meaning that it shows some of the agency and the US government's most controversial episodes.
The CIA has to declassify records that are 25 years old, unless they are made exempt. That means that each year it releases a whole new set of documents.
But this year that has been accompanied by the first time that the documents have been made available online. Until now, the documents could only be read on four terminals inside the US National Archives, in their original format.
Secret Space Program Whistleblowers Claim We Have Technology 1,000 Years Ahead of Anything You've Seen
Secret Space Program Whistleblowers Claim We Have Technology 1,000 Years Ahead of Anything You've Seen
If you are interested in learning more about is really going on out in space then you need to watch this video. Special access programs can be massive in scope and can remain hidden behind a veil of secrecy for decades.
In recent years, several credible whistleblowers have stepped forward to disclose the highly advanced technologies and the highly compartmentalized systems. Faster-than-light interstellar travel allowing humankind to reach the stars is no longer the stuff of science fiction.
Interviews with insiders including Emery Smith, Clifford Stone, William Tompkins, Niara Isley and Corey Goode confirm that specific factions of humans here on Earth do have autonomous possession of interstellar travel technology, and the existence of a superluminal space naval fleet comprising various sizes and classes of vessels employing tachyon drive has been concealed from the public for many years.
They Are Not Human or Alien.. They Are Both, the Hybrids Are Here!
They Are Not Human or Alien.. They Are Both, the Hybrids Are Here!
Explores the reality that there are part-human and part-extraterrestrial beings living on this planet. This video will explain how they came to be and what the motive is behind this phenomena.
Guided by their star families and other entities, they are dedicated to personal missions, which contribute to a larger process involving the flourishing of human consciousness, and the protection and evolution of life on Earth at this critical time.
Some of the experiencers are hybrid beings, embodying a significant portion of ET DNA and differentness from the rest of us. They are giving service to humanity while living among us.
Her presentation will include testimonies given in person by a few of these hybrids and visual depictions of the beings who created them, mentor them and inspire them.
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Crop Circles Discoveries That Show Some Cannot Possibly Be Manmade (Video)
Crop Circles Discoveries That Show Some Cannot Possibly Be Manmade (Video)
Are they trying to tell us something? Although some crop circles can be explained as man-made art, many still defy logic, and so have fallen onto the plates of researchers.
From America, Russia, to Japan and even Canada – crop circles have appeared all over the World. In many cases, their structure tends to be elliptical rather than circular, with the crop (mostly wheat) being either bent, flattened or woven to form complex patterns.
What we should Know, and What questions should we be asking? Jennifer will review the unique characteristics found in crop circles researched here in the states.
Various theories will be presented along with the peer reviewed scientific literature on the phenomena allowing everyone to be informed enough to make their own opinion as to what could be creating these unusual formations on the ground and find their own interpretations as to what they might mean
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETWetenschappers hebben een herhaald radiosignaal opgevangen van diep in de ruimte. Het zou afkomstig zijn van een sterrenstelsel 1,5 miljard lichtjaar van ons vandaan, zo staat te lezen in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Nature. Het is nog maar de tweede keer dat iets dergelijks wordt waargenomen en onderzoekers hebben geen idee waar het signaal vandaan komt. Ze hopen dat de nieuwe waarneming kan helpen om het mysterie te doorgronden.
Er is al veel gespeculeerd over de uitstoot van radiosignalen in de ruimte. Ze zouden kunnen voortkomen uit een heel gamma aan bronnen, van exploderende sterren tot – jawel – ruimtewezens, maar de ware toedracht is nog altijd niet bekend. Opmerkelijk: ze duren maar een milliseconde, maar ze bevatten evenveel energie als wat de zon uitstoot in 12 maanden tijd.
Het opwindende aan de nieuwe waarneming is dat het om een herhááld radiosignaal gaat. Het kwam zes keer en leek van dezelfde plaats afkomstig. Bij de meer dan 60 snelle uitstoten van radiosignalen die al werden waargenomen, was er nog maar één van dat type.
“Dat er nu een tweede waarneming is, doet vermoeden dat er nóg meer kunnen zijn”, aldus Ingrid Stairs van het Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) in British Colombia, dat de ontdekking deed. “En hoe meer gegevens we hebben, hoe groter de kans dat we deze kosmische puzzel op een dag kunnen oplossen: waar komen ze vandaan en waardoor worden ze veroorzaakt?” (lees hieronder verder)
CHIMECHIME bevindt zich in Okanagan Valley en bestaat uit vier semi-cilindrische antennes. Die scannen elke dag de volledige noordelijk hemel.
In totaal namen de wetenschappers 13 uitbarstingen waar in een periode van 3 weken tijd. Opvallend is dat de bron een heel breed gamma aan frequenties uitstootte. Zo werden er zeker 7 opgenomen op 400 MHz, de laagste frequentie waarop de signalen ooit werden waargenomen. Het houdt ook in dat er misschien nog meer kunnen zijn op nóg een lagere frequentie. Een frequentie die zo laag is dat de CHIME ze niet eens kan oppikken.
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“We weten nu dat de bronnen radiosignalen kunnen produceren op een lage frequentie en dat die golven aan hun omgeving kunnen ontsnappen en niet te veel uiteenvallen voor ze de aarde bereiken en waargenomen kunnen worden. Dat zegt ons iets over de omgeving waar ze vandaan komen en de bron. Het geeft ons meer stukjes om de puzzel op te lossen”, aldus Tom Landecker van CHIME.
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The CHIME telescope in British Columbia will search our universe for phenomena such as fast radio bursts, pulsars and more.
(CHIME, Andre Renard, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto)
This visible-light image shows the host galaxy of the fast radio burst FRB 121102.
Mysterious repeating energy bursts have been detected for only the second time.
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 latest signals to be detected reached Earth from a galaxy 1.5 billion light years away.
The most likely explanation is that they were created by powerful objects in space.
Experts have debated whether black holes or super-dense neutron stars are responsible, but others have suggested more outlandish theories.
Among them is Professor Avid Loeb, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in the US, who believes that they could be evidence of incredibly advanced alien technology.
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Over a period of three weeks last summer the team detected 13 of the flashes using a new type of radio telescope, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (pictured)
FRB's were first detected accidentally in 2007, when a burst signal was spotted in radio astronomy data collected in 2001.
The new discovery, reported in the journal Nature, was made by a Canadian-led team of astronomers on the hunt for FRBs.
Over a period of three weeks last summer the team detected 13 of the flashes using a new type of radio telescope, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (Chime).
They found that one of the FRBs was repeating.
Of more than 60 FRBs detected to date, such repeating bursts have only been picked up once before, by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico in 2015.
Where the FRBs come from is not known - although they are thought to emanate from sources billions of light years away outside our galaxy, the Milky Way.
Chime astrophysicist Dr Ingrid Stairs, from the University of British Columbia, Canada, said: 'Until now, there was only one known repeating FRB.
'Knowing that there is another suggests that there could be more out there.
'And with more repeaters and more sources available for study, we may be able to understand these cosmic puzzles - where they're from and what causes them.'
Fast radio bursts are elusive signals that last just a few milliseconds, and are thought to originate billions of light-years away – but, scientists don't yet know what causes them (file photo)
Most of the 13 FRBs showed signs of 'scattering' that suggest their sources could be powerful astrophysical objects in locations with special characteristics, the scientists said.
Team member Dr Cherry Ng, from the University of Toronto, Canada, said: 'That could mean in some sort of dense clump like a supernova (exploding star) remnant.
'Or near the central black hole in a galaxy. But it has to be in some special place to give us all the scattering that we see.'
WHAT ARE FAST RADIO BURSTS AND WHY DO WE STUDY THEM?
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly, making them not only hard to find, but also hard to study.
The mystery stems from the fact it is not known what could produce such a short and sharp burst.
This has led some to speculate they could be anything from stars colliding to artificially created messages.
Scientists searching for fast radio bursts (FRBs) that some believe may be signals sent from aliens may be happening every second. The blue points in this artist's impression of the filamentary structure of galaxies are signals from FRBs
The first FRB was spotted, or rather 'heard' by radio telescopes, back in 2001 but wasn't discovered until 2007 when scientists were analysing archival data.
But it was so temporary and seemingly random that it took years for astronomers to agree it wasn't a glitch in one of the telescope's instruments.
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics point out that FRBs can be used to study the structure and evolution of the universe whether or not their origin is fully understood.
A large population of faraway FRBs could act as probes of material across gigantic distances.
This intervening material blurs the signal from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the left over radiation from the Big Bang.
A careful study of this intervening material should give an improved understanding of basic cosmic constituents, such as the relative amounts of ordinary matter, dark matter and dark energy, which affect how rapidly the universe is expanding.
FRBs can also be used to trace what broke down the 'fog' of hydrogen atoms that pervaded the early universe into free electrons and protons, when temperatures cooled down after the Big Bang. The new FRBs are are also at unusually low radio frequencies.
Most previously detected FRBs have had frequencies of around 1,400 megahertz (MHz), but the new ones fell within a range below 800 MHz.
In 2017 Professor Loeb and Harvard colleague Manasvi Lingham proposed that FRBs could be leakage from planet-sized alien transmitters.
Mysterious radio signals (artist's impression) have reached Earth - from a galaxy 1.5 billion light years away. The strange beams are known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) - and last only a millisecond (file image)
Rather than being designed for communication, they would more likely be used to propel giant space ships powered by light sails.
A light sail works by bouncing light, or in this case radio beams, off a huge reflective sheet to provide forward thrust.
Professor Loeb, who discusses the idea in a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, said: 'An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking.'
Mysterieuze radiosignalen uit de diepe ruimte ontdekt die ‘van aliens afkomstig kunnen zijn’
Mysterieuze radiosignalen uit de diepe ruimte ontdekt die ‘van aliens afkomstig kunnen zijn’
Astronomen hebben voor de tweede keer in de geschiedenis mysterieuze herhalende radioflitsen uit de ruimte gedetecteerd. Sommige experts zeggen dat ze bewijs kunnen zijn voor buitenaards leven.
De herkomst van deze zogeheten snelle radioflitsen is onbekend, maar de meeste wetenschappers zeggen dat ze uit een stelsel op miljarden lichtjaren afstand van de Melkweg komen.
Sommige wetenschappers, zoals professor Avi Loeb van het Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, hebben gesuggereerd dat ze mogelijk zijn verstuurd door zeer intelligente aliens.
Per toeval
De nieuwe ontdekking is gedaan met behulp van een nieuw soort radiotelescoop, de Chime-telescoop in Canada.
Voor de tweede keer werd een herhalende radioflitser gedetecteerd. De eerste werd in 2015 ontdekt met behulp van de Arecibo-radiotelescoop in Puerto Rico.
Snelle radioflitsen werden in 2007 per toeval ontdekt. Tot nu toe zijn er meer dan 60 geregistreerd.
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Waarschijnlijk zoemen er nog veel meer langs onze planeet. Nieuwe technologieën moeten het mogelijk maken om er meer te detecteren.
“Tot nu toe was er slechts één herhalende radioflits bekend,” zei dr. Ingrid Stairs van de Universiteit van Brits-Columbia.
“Nu we weten dat er nog één is, ligt het voor de hand dat er meer zijn,” voegde ze toe.
Buitenaardse zenders
“Hoe meer herhalende flitsen en hoe meer bronnen we kunnen bestuderen, hoe beter we in staat zullen zijn om dit soort kosmische raadsels op te lossen,” aldus Stairs.
In 2017 stelden Loeb en zijn Harvard-collega Manasvi Lingam dat snelle radioflitsen mogelijk afkomstig zijn van buitenaardse zenders ter grootte van een planeet.
In september 2017 kampte personeel van de Amerikaanse ambassade in Cuba met een scala aan vreemde klachten waaronder doofheid, hoofdpijn, flauwvallen, gezichtsproblemen en sommigen wisten zelfs niet meer wie ze waren.
Later gebeurde ongeveer hetzelfde met Amerikaans ambassade personeel in China en nu zouden krekels de oorzaak zijn van dit alles.
Iets dat wij nooit voor mogelijk hielden schijnt toch waar te zijn. Krekels zijn levensgevaarlijke dieren, want de geluiden die zij maken kunnen voor serieuze gezondheidsproblemen zorgen.
De mysterieuze ‘geluidsaanvallen’ op Amerikaanse en Canadese diplomaten in Cuba zijn afkomstig van bronstige krekels.
Nu hebben de machthebbers geen hoge pet op van de doorsnee intelligentie van de bevolking en beginnen de mainstream media (MSM) met de dag meer onzin te schrijven, maar dit verhaal is toch wel de overtreffende trap in het onderschatten van de intelligentie van het publiek.
'Mysterieuze sonische aanvallen' met geluidsgolven hebben de Verenigde Staten doen besluiten om een aantal medewerkers terug te halen uit de ambassade in de Cubaanse hoofdstad Havana. Ook wordt Amerikanen geadviseerd niet meer naar Cuba af te reizen.
Washington meldde vorige maand dat mysterieuze 'incidenten' op de ambassade tot fysieke klachten leiden. Verscheidene diplomaten of hun familieleden hadden last van gehoorproblemen, duizeligheid, tijdelijk geheugenverlies of andere symptomen. Vijf Canadezen op Cuba hadden vergelijkbare klachten.
De gezondheidsproblemen waren nog veel heftiger dan in het stukje hierboven staat. Sommige medewerkers werden doof, konden niet goed meer zien, vielen flauw of hadden geen benul wie ze waren.
En dat allemaal dankzij bronstige krekels.
Vanaf het begin werd het geluid omschreven als iets wat leek op het getjirp van krekels. Volgens twee wetenschappers die de opname analyseerden, is dat ook exact wat het is: het geluid van mannelijke krekels in paringstijd. Dat lieten Alexander Stubbs van de University of California in Berkeley en Fernando Montealegre-Z van de University of Lincoln in Engeland afgelopen week weten.
Het volgend is wat Tyler van Secureteam over al dit soort nonsens heeft te vertellen.
Het volgende is een deel uit een eerder artikel en vertelt precies waar ze in Cuba en China in plaats van krekels wel mee te maken hadden. Iets dat men liever niet aan de grote klok hangt en daarom komen nu de krekels tevoorschijn als schuldigen.
Electronische wapens behoren tot de best bewaarde geheimen van de wereld. Overal worden er onschuldige mensen mee aangevallen en gemanipuleerd, uitgeschakeld, gemarteld en zelfs vermoord. De meesten hebben geen idee wat hen overkomt.
Iemand die eigenlijk alles weet over dit soort wapens is Dr. Barrie Trower, een gepensioneerde wetenschapper die tientallen jaren gewerkt heeft voor de Britse overheid met microgolfstraling. Hij heeft speciale expertise op het gebied van de invloed van deze straling op het functioneren van onze hersenen.
Tijdens de Koude Oorlog al werd Amerikaans ambassadepersoneel in Moskou bestookt met elektronische microgolfwapens door de Russen. Toen er een opvallend hoog aantal kankergevallen voorkwam, werd het personeel gewisseld. Wederom, ook bij dit nieuwe personeel, deed zich hetzelfde voor. Dit weerhield de Amerikanen er echter niet van om nogmaals nieuwe menselijke proefkonijnen naar Rusland te sturen.
In het begin van de jaren tachtig vonden er overal in Europa massale demonstraties plaats tegen de plannen om hier kruisraketten te plaatsen. Zo ook in Engeland, waar rondom de Amerikaanse basis Greenham Common in het Engelse Berkshire, zich een vreedzaam vrouwen protestkamp bevond met tienduizenden vrouwen. Ook deze geweldloze samenkomst werd vanaf de Amerikaanse basis aangevallen met microgolfwapens, met als gevolg dat er onder de deelnemers veel kankergevallen, gedragsstoornissen en zodanige depressie voorkwam dat ze alleen nog maar zelfmoord wilden plegen.
Zo beschouwde de overheid het als een succes toen men een normaal gezond mens als proefkonijn nam, deze bewerkte met microgolfwapens en vervolgens een onafhankelijke psychiater liet constateren dat het individu leed aan schizofrenie, paranoïde was en volledig de weg kwijt. Dat dit proefkonijn de rest van zijn natuurlijke leven in een gesticht moest doorbrengen werd simpelweg beschouwd als een bijkomend neveneffect, de test was een succes.
Niet alleen kunnen dit soort microgolfwapens gebruikt worden om mensen krankzinnig te maken of kanker te geven, maar het is ook mogelijk om iemand stemmen in zijn hoofd te laten horen. Stemmen die deze mensen dan ook daadwerkelijk horen, variërend van de stem van een engel tot de stem van de duivel. Je merkt NIET dat je wordt bestraald.
Een misschien nog ergere verschrikking voor zover mogelijk, is de biologische oorlogsvoering met behulp van microgolfstraling. Bacteriën en virussen kunnen genetisch worden gemanipuleerd. Zo is het mogelijk voor bacteriën om tientallen of zelfs honderden jaren ergens slapend in de grond te liggen. Ze kunnen dan ineens weer tot leven komen door een bepaalde frequentie microgolf die hen raakt. Virussen daarentegen zijn niet dood en niet levend. Wel hebben ze een soort “gastheer” nodig om te kunnen bestaan en een bactierie is er zo een.
Het is daarom mogelijk virussen in bacteriën te stoppen die vervolgens in slaaptoestand gaan. Door het genereren van een bepaalde frequentie kunnen ze weer tot leven worden gewekt en daarmee de virussen eveneens geactiveerd. Je kunt bijvoorbeeld met vakantie gaan naar Noorwegen of Denemarken en daar die slapende bacteriën uitstrooien. Er gebeurt verder niets en je kunt besluiten om deze honderd jaar of een paar uur met rust te laten, voordat je ze met een installatie als HAARP weer tot leven wekt door een signaal met een bepaalde frequentie naar de ionosfeer te sturen die dan precies te laten landen op de plek waar de bacterie ligt. Je kunt je duidezenden kilometers van de plaats verwijderd bevinden en deze stralen gericht laten aankomen.
Zo vraagt ook menigeen zich af, hoe het toch kan dat de politie tegenwoordig zo gewelddadig optreedt, of dat militairen die bij speciale eenheden hebben gewerkt ineens na thuiskomst allemaal aggressief zijn zodanig dat ze zelfs hun vrouwen slaan, soms tot de dood erop volgt. Ook hier spelen frequenties weer een heel belangrijke rol.
In Engeland bijvoorbeeld gebruiken alle hulpdiensten het Tetra systeem voor communicatie. Zo vertelt Barrie Trower dat er opvallend veel kanker voorkomt onder hen. Niet alleen dat, maar ook hun gedrag wordt agressiever door de bijna permanente blootstelling aan bepaalde frequenties door het gebruik van die communicatieapparatuur.
Hetzelfde gebeurt met de speciale troepen van het Amerikaanse leger die helmen dragen waarbij hun hersenen voortdurend worden blootgesteld aan frequenties die agressiviteit veroorzaken. Dit zijn bewezen feiten, geen aannames.
Dat is dan nog los van de frequenties die misschien met opzet richting politie en militair personeel worden gestuurd om ze agressiever te maken. Dit laatste gebeurt dan waarschijnlijk in het kader van het geheime Tetra Research Project waarbij naar hartenlust geëxperimenteerd wordt met levende en onwetende proefkonijnen. Een project wat nog tot minimaal 2018 gaat duren. Nogmaals, als je wordt bestraald dan heb je dat zelf niet in de gaten. Je gedrag verandert en is onbegrijpelijk voor je omgeving en jezelf.
BEWIJS DAT ER INTELLIGENT LEVEN IS OP MERCURIUS ( VIDEO )
BEWIJS DAT ER INTELLIGENT LEVEN IS OP MERCURIUS ( VIDEO )
Wij horen weinig over Mercurius, de kleinste planeet in ons zonnestelsel, maar misschien gaat dat nu veranderen.
Er zijn nu beelden opgedoken van gebouwen op deze planeet en dat is moeilijk te verklaren omdat formeel buitenaards leven niet bestaat.
We horen veel over Mars en eigenlijk nooit iets over een planeet die niet eens zo gek ver van ons is verwijderd, Mercurius.
Mercurius is de dichtst bij de zon staande en tevens kleinste planeet in ons zonnestelsel. De planeet is vernoemd naar de Romeinse god Mercurius vanwege de snelle omloop om de zon. Net als de Aarde is het een terrestrische planeet met een vast oppervlak dat veel overeenkomsten vertoont met dat van de Maan. Opmerkelijk is dat deze kleine planeet een vrij sterk magnetisch veld vertoont. Mercurius heeft geen manen.
De beste bron voor het aantonen van buitenaards leven is nog altijd (tussen de regels door lezen) NASA. Wanneer je de tijd neemt om de door hen gemaakte foto's te bestuderen, dan kom je vaak bijzondere dingen tegen, zoals het volgende op de planeet Mercurius.
Wanneer je verder inzoomt om dat deel dat met rood is omcirkeld dan komt er iets tevoorschijn dat niet anders omschreven kan worden dan als een gebouw.
De snuffelaar die dit alles heeft ontdekt is uiteraard Scott Waring die zegt geen drugs nodig te hebben om high te worden, want dat hij dat wordt van dit soort ontdekkingen.
En misschien wel het meest overtuigende bewijs van alles is te zien op de volgende afbeelding. Het is een deel van de NASA foto en je ziet dat er een heel gedeelte onzichtbaar is gemaakt.
Waarom zou NASA dat doen als er niets bijzonders te zien zou zijn?
Wat ons betreft is dit één van de mooiste ontdekkingen in het nieuwe jaar en laat het zien en dat er wel degelijk intelligent leven bestaat op andere planeten en dat NASA het publiek voorliegt.
Niet dat beiden dingen nieuw zijn, maar wel leuk dat ze hier nu beiden nogmaals worden bevestigd.
“These are stressful, harsh conditions. Does the environment select for superbugs because they have an advantage?”
The “stressful, harsh conditions” are the inside of the International Space Station … conditions that the Russian space program suggested last year could drive a lonely and stressed astronaut to sabotage the ship by drilling a tiny hole (unproven and unlikely but the cause of the hole in the attached Soyuz capsuleis still up in the air – pun intended) in order to trigger an emergency and be sent home. If the conditions on the ISS are bad for humans, what about their fellow passengers – the bacteria they bring with them on their bodies, their ships and their cargo? Could the hole have been secretly drilled by superbugs intent on taking over the ship and possibly the planet?
“The built environment contains a variety of microorganisms, some of which pose critical human health risks (e.g., hospital-acquired infection, antibiotic resistance dissemination). We uncovered a combination of complex biological functions that may play a role in bacterial survival under the presumed selective pressures in a model built environment—the International Space Station—by using an approach to compare pangenomes of bacterial strains from two clinically relevant species (B. cereus and S. aureus) isolated from both built environments and humans.”
In a new study entitled “Pangenomic Approach To Understanding Microbial Adaptations within a Model Built Environment, the International Space Station, Relative to Human Hosts and Soil,” Northwestern University assistant professor of environmental engineering and study co-author Erica Hartmann describes how a team of researchers compared particularly dangerous bacteria on Earth — S. aureus is the staph-causing super-bane of hospitals – to samples of the same found on the ISS. That in itself is no surprise – it’s impossible to completely sterilize humans, let alone their stuff – but the impact of living in the hostile environment of the space station was expected to turn these bacteria into mutations far stronger than the superbugs they already are on Earth. Does it?
“The answer appears to be ‘no.'”
There goes the movie script but Hartmann’s conclusion is good news for present and future space travelers. While the bacteria is definitely muting in space, co-author Ryan Blaustein told Science Daily there’s a different reason for it.
“Based on genomic analysis, it looks like bacteria are adapting to live — not evolving to cause disease. We didn’t see anything special about antibiotic resistance or virulence in the space station’s bacteria.”
Is the fact that the “bacteria are adapting to live” really good news? The study concludes that the mutated ISS bacteria “do not appear to have direct impacts on human health,” but they’re looking at disease-causing impacts. Other studies like the one on twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly showed that living for a year in space had unexpected effects on Scott. What happens when bacteria “adapting to live” see an astronaut carrying a disinfectant wipe heading their way or spot their best friend on the hands of a space tourist about to Purell them?
Bye-bye bacteria or hello battle between humans and survivalist superbugs?
Movie plot or the future? Dr. Hartmann?
“But as we talk about expanding space flight to tourists who do not necessarily meet astronaut criteria, we don’t know what will happen. We can’t say that if you put someone with an infection into a closed bubble in space that it won’t transfer to other people. It’s like when someone coughs on an airplane, and everyone gets sick.”
I don’t like to stray too far into the speculative, but if you ask me, there’s a war currently going on in space that most of us don’t know about. Over the last decade, the world’s superpowers have been jockeying for position in the race to achieve space superiority. All sorts of secret satellite-based weapons or weaponized satellites have been put into position, setting the board for what will surely be a weird orbital chess match that could see fiery wreckage rain down on the unsuspecting planet below.
Whether or not that will happen anytime soon is anyone’s guess. One thing is sure though: there’s a lot of weird stuff happening in space. Secretive satellite launches, strange lights in the sky, and reports of spacecraft in orbit behaving strangely. On top of that, the President of the United States has declared the creation of a Space Force, and China is building bases on the dark side of the moon. Maybe it’s time to re-watch Moonraker for some tips on zero-gravity gun fighting.
It’s likely space will be the main battlefield for the next World War. Invest in a good telescope.
The latest clue that a war is brewing in space comes from New Zealand, where thousands of residents witnessed a strange sight on in the sky on January 5th. A fiery object streaked across the sky for nearly half a minute, breaking apart as it burned. Videos of the object were posted to social media and picked up by local news outlets. Some skywatchers speculated the object was a a meteorite, while others of course thought it was aliens. It’s always maybe aliens.
It turns out, the fireball could very well have been a Russian satellite of some kind. Richard Easther, physics chair at the University of Auckland, says he is “99 percent certain” the object was a Russian Kosmos 2430 satellite which was sent into orbit to protect against missile attacks from the United States. If that’s the case, what made it fall down? You guessed it, say it with me now: SPACE FORCE! SPACE FORCE! SPACE FORCE!
GET SOME, COMMIE SCUM
Maybe. Of course, the satellite could have reentered and burned up accidentally due to mechanical failure, user error, or who knows what else. It is the Russian space program, after all. With so many experimental weapons and secret satellites being launched, though, there’s no telling what could have brought this satellite down – if it was indeed a satellite. What exactly was seen in the skies over New Zealand?
After much excitement and anticipation, the new historically-themed television drama Project Blue Book debuted last night on History, the A&E Networks-owned digital cable and satellite television network.
Project Blue Book, as UFO enthusiasts and history buffs are well aware, was the official U.S. Air Force inquiry into unidentified flying objects that ended in 1969. According to the website of the U.S. National Archives, “From 1947 to 1969, a total of 12,618 sightings were reported to Project BLUE BOOK. Of these 701 remain ‘Unidentified.’ The project was headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, whose personnel no longer receive, document or investigate UFO reports.”
Based loosely on this USAF investigative study, the new History series is centered around American astronomer J. Allen Hynek, portrayed by actor Aidan Gillen, who is taske with lending a scientific perspective to the Air Force inquiries into unidentified flying objects. Historically speaking, Hynek really was the primary scientific adviser to the Air Force study, and even after its closure in 1969, Hynek continued to advocate the scientific study of UFOs (see Mark O’Connell’s biography on Hynek, The Close Encounters Man, for further background on Hynek and his scientific work).
However, from the outset of the first episode of Project Blue Book, it will be clear to those with some historical knowledge of the real USAF program that the series blends some actual historical characters and events with a healthy dose of myth and speculation, drawing from other UFO literature unrelated to Hynek or past USAF studies.
Promotional image accompanying the release of History’s “Project Blue Book”
(Credit: A&E Networks).
Our intent here is not to “fact check” the program; it is, after all, merely a drama series which, as we will see, takes some pretty significantliberties with the actual historical facts (as much of History’s programming has done over the years). However, while obviously intended solely as entertainment, the inevitable result of programming like this is that it will be perceived by some viewers as a more accurate retelling of historical events than intended. Hence, it might be interesting to look at a few elements that appear in the first episode of the series and contrast them with actual historical facts and records.
Majestic 12
One of the earliest tropes from UFO literature that appears in the Project Blue Book series is that of Majestic 12 (or MJ-12 as it is often called). Even prior to the program’s opening titles, viewers are shown a clandestine-looking smoky room where 12 men are positioned around a circular table, the surface of which details an arresting (but overstated) eagle with North America in the grip of its talons. As they sit watching The Day the Earth Stood Still (just the sort of thing you’d imagine an Above Top Secret, presidentially-appointed UFO study group would do), actor Neal McDonough explodes into frame as General James Harding, angrily shouting at someone off-camera to “turn that thing off!” The rationale given for why this group of government insiders would be watching such a film is that such “propaganda” helps to control the official public narrative on the idea of extraterrestrial visitation.
While it makes for good storytelling, one of the problems with the Majestic 12 narrative is that it likely isn’t true, and therefore had little to do with the real-life Project Blue Book. Speculations about this secretive government group appointed by President Harry Truman are largely attributed to a series of documents that were anonymously sent to filmmaker Jamie Shandera in 1984. Analysis by ufologist Stanton Friedman led him to believe that at least some of the documents contained within the batch were real; however, a subsequent FBI analysis of the documents referred to them, famously, as “completely bogus,” and that the MJ-12 affair had been nothing more than a hoax. The origins of these documents remains a point of contention in UFO circles today, with many (including Friedman) arguing that while much of the information contained within is obviously fraudulent, certain other information from the batch could have some basis in fact.
One of the primary arguments Friedman and others have made in defense of the documents has to do with a separate document located in Record Group 341, entry 267 of the National Archives, popularly known as the “Cutler/Twining memo.” Since this document was located apart from the batch sent to Shandera in 1984 (and found at the National Archives, no less), it initially seemed to provide additional support for the idea of a Majestic 12 group. However, there are a number of problems with the document.
According to data provided at the website of the National Archives:
The document in question does not bear an official government letterhead or watermark. The NARA conservation specialist examined the paper and determined it was a ribbon copy prepared on “diction onionskin.” The Eisenhower Library has examined a representative sample of the documents in its collection of the Cutler papers. All documents in the sample created by Mr. Cutler while he served on the NSC staff have an eagle watermark in the bond paper. The onionskin carbon copies have either an eagle watermark or no watermark at all. Most documents sent out by the NSC were prepared on White House letterhead paper. For the brief period when Mr. Cutler left the NSC, his carbon copies were prepared on “prestige onionskin.”
Additionally, The National Archives performed a search of the Official Meeting Minute Files of the National Security Council, where they reported that they found “no record of a NSC meeting on July 16, 1954. A search of all NSC Meeting Minutes for July 1954 found no mention of MJ-12 nor Majestic.” The Cutler-Twining memorandum is widely suspected to also be fraudulent, planted in the National Archives as part of an effort to bolster the claims in the documents released to Shandera. This raises a number of questions, of course, as to who might have released the bogus documents in the first place, let alone who was tampering with files at the National Archives and then tipping off prominent UFO researchers about where they might be found.
Who Coined the Term “UFO”?
In the first episode of the Project Blue Book series, while J. Allen Hynek is speaking with his companion and USAF liaison Captain Michael Quinn (portrayed by actor Michael Malarkey), he refers to one of the alleged objects they are studying as a UFO, to which Quinn expresses some confusion. “Unidentified flying object,” Hynek explains. “I’m simply condensing the terminology you’ve been using, with my own touch. This is a new science we’re creating here, it needs its own terminology.”
The irony here is that Malarkey’s character, Captain Quinn, appears to be loosely based on Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the first chief officer of Project Blue Book, appointed to the position in 1952 by Lt. Col. N. R. Rosengarten. Although Hynek’s scientific work and advocacy probably did more than anyone else to promote the UFO concept in his lifetime, it had actually been Ruppelt that coined the “UFO” acronym. Ruppelt felt that “flying saucer,” the popular term for UFOs up until that time, had not been ambiguous enough to accurately convey the physical appearance and other facets of the aerial phenomena being studied. Hence, he offered that unidentified flying object would be a suitable replacement, shortened to UFO (which Ruppelt pronounced “you-foe“).
Hynek: Cautious Believer, or Hopeful Skeptic?
The Project Blue Book series so far depicts Hynek as being a cautious scientist, but one who nonetheless seems to believe there is something to the UFO mystery. This contrasts with the perspectives of Captain Quinn, whose instructions from “Higher Brass” (i.e. General James Harding) are essentially to write reports, and most importantly, play down the significance of the phenomenon.
J. Allen Hynek.
However, in real life, the circumstances had been just the opposite: from the outset, Hynek had actually been the skeptical party, and Ruppelt had seemed more inclined to believe that a valid and real phenomenon was at work. Point in case, it had been none other than J. Allen Hynek whose famous proposition of “swamp gas” in relation to odd lights seen over Michigan evoked so much ire in UFO circles. However, with time and further analysis, Hynek began to find it difficult to ignore some of the better UFO incidents; specifically, Hynek cited the famous Socorro, New Mexico incident of 1964, involving landing traces left by an unidentified aircraft observed by police officer Lonnie Zamora, as a turning point in his attitude toward UFOs.
Ruppelt, on the other hand, in his book The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, had seemed to lay out the case that there was some kind of technology at work in at least some of the better UFO cases from the outset. However, in a second, revised edition of his book, Ruppelt toned down his apparent advocacy and took a more sharply critical tone toward UFOs, even referring to them as a “space age myth.” This led to speculation among some in UFO circles that Ruppelt had been “advised” to produce the more cautious update by those in higher authority; while there is no evidence for this, it remains true that no one had an opportunity to ask him about his change of heart: Ruppelt died shortly after publication of the second edition, shortly after having suffered a heart attack. He was only 37.
In sum, while Hynek is portrayed in the series as a “cautious believer” in conflict against a shadowy government organization who keeps a tight leash on his partner in crime, Captain Quinn, historically this dynamic was just the opposite: Hynek began essentially as a skeptic, and gradually warmed up to the UFO subject, while Ruppelt did just the opposite.
One final note about Ruppelt is warranted here, and that has to do with his relationship to the character of Captain Michael Quinn in the series. Although Project Blue Book director David O’Leary admits that the character is based somewhat on Ruppelt, he explained in a recent interview that he “changed (Quinn’s) name to dramatize certain aspects of his character, molding him into the perfect on-screen partner for Hynek.” This might help explain the contrast between the historical Ruppelt, and his on-screen counterpart (whose last name might have been inspired somewhat by Hector Quintanilla Jr., the last chief officer to oversee Project Blue Book before it was closed in 1969).
The Men in Black
In the series, right from the outset we see that Hynek is pursued by shadowy “men in black,” whose identity and relationship to the broader UFO phenomenon remain in question. As with other aspects of the program that we’ve analyzed here, the idea of “men in black” is another that is borrowed from broader UFO lore, rather than one having to do with Hynek (although, as we’ll see, there may indeed be some relationship to Project Blue Book).
Perhaps the earliest mention of men in black, as far as UFO cases are concerned, occurred in reference to the 1947 Maury Island UFO Incident where one of the witnesses, Harold Dahl, claimed he had been advised to keep mum about what he saw by “a man in a black suit.” However, the more famous early appearance of men in black occurred when Albert K. Bender, founder of the International Flying Saucer Bureau, claimed he was approached by three men in black suits, a story later commemorated in his book, Flying Saucers and the Three Men.
In his book, Bender ascribed supernatural powers to these men, which included the ability to communicate with him telepathically. Whether or not the experience was rooted in any kind of fact or not (as some have speculated that the episode might have been inspired by a dream Bender had) is unclear. However, Bender’s associate Gray Barker would later publish a book that detailed the alleged event called They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers. It was not the last book by Barker that would touch on the subject, and future publications continued to detail the ongoing mythos of the mysterious “men in black.”
In his 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies, John Keel further popularized the idea of men in black, recounting such incidents as the visitation of a Mrs. Butler by a man claiming to be with the U.S. Air Force, but who drove a Mustang and wore a civilian business-type suit, with leather shoes so new that she couldn’t see any scuff-marks on the bottoms when he sat cross-legged. Keel surmised that this man, who identified himself as “Richard French,” was no real USAF officer at all, but was instead an “impostor.”
Richard French
However, it turns out that there actually is an ex-USAF Lieutenant Colonel named Richard French, who worked with Project Blue Book during the Quintanilla years, which would have coincided with the period described by Keel in his book (it should also be noted that French’s claims about observing UFOs over the years, which include a submerged craft below the ocean off the coast the Newfoundland coast, seem preposterous). Hence, we can at least make the argument that there is a connection between a former USAF officer who was associated with Project Blue Book and claims of “men in black” that appear in UFO literature.
Altogether, History’s Project Blue Book is a fun show about an interesting subject, with some characters and themes that are at least loosely based in fact. However, as we illustrate here, the show borrows a number of themes from other UFO literature in order to “flesh out” the story, in addition to blending pure fiction with the appearance of at least a few actual people, namely the late J. Allen Hynek. In light of this, Project Blue Book is far from being an accurate representation of what Hynek and the U.S. Air Force were undertaking back in the 1960s, and to be clear, its producers never claimed that it would be.
All that said, as far as being an entertaining television program goes, we give it two thumbs up. So in conclusion, Project Blue Book may be one of the better UFO-themed productions to come out in recent years, and though it may not become renowned for its historical accuracy, it nonetheless presents some fun and entertaining food for thought on a subject that has remained both perplexing, and controversial, for many decades.
Secret TR-3B flying at high altitude caught on night vision camera
Secret TR-3B flying at high altitude caught on night vision camera
A skywatcher has captured a TR-3B with his night vision camera at the moment the craft was flying at high altitude over the U.S. on January 1, 2019.
Even though the skywatcher does not give an explanation of what the object could be, it's clearly a TR-3B since it has colored lights that appear at each corner of the triangle and a light source in the middle of the craft.
The TR-3B comes into view at the top of the screen around the 0.21 mark in the video.
UFO flying over British airways plane at Gatwick Airport, London UK 7th January 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO flying over British airways plane at Gatwick Airport, London UK 7th January 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Jan 7, 2019
Location of sighting: Gatwick Airport, London, UK
This eyewitness caught a UFO flashing above the British airways jets at the Gatwick Airport. The airport was just closed last week due to drone activity and this may be one of the drones, but the eyewitness says this object is way too big to be a drone.
As I have suggested last week, the reports of drones may be fake reports by the airport to confuse the public and lead them away from the truth...that this may be an alien craft that frequently visits the Gatwick Airport in London. Watch the video below and decide for yourself.
UFO As Big As City Hovers Over Hong Kong, China On Jan 2019, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO As Big As City Hovers Over Hong Kong, China On Jan 2019, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Jan 2019
Location of sighting: Hong Kong, China
Source: Twitter report sent to @UFO_sightings_X
An eyewitness to this event sent this to me yesterday on Twitter. The said they saw a huge cloud hovering over Hong Kong, but the cloud was smooth like a UFO and hovered there for hours while other clouds passed it by.
I have to agree that this is a large UFO hovering over Hong Kong. The UFO is not the typical disk craft but is more of a four end clover shape. What really gets me excited here is that you can clearly make out a fin or wing going around the craft. Also the UFO is making its own cloud as you can see from its back top center area...darker black cloud coming-out and blowing down the back tail area of the craft...but the UFO remains in place. This is as big as the city of Hong Kong! Amazing size. Proof that ET are interested in observing major cities.
“Project Blue Book” turns some of the best-known UFO tales into a TV series, starring Aidan Gillen as investigator J. Allen Hynek. (History Channel Illustration)
“Project Blue Book,” the History Channel TV series making its debut tonight, takes its inspiration from classic UFO cases of the 1940s and 1950s — but for UFO fans who gathered to watch a Seattle preview of the first episode, the show hints at the shape of things to come as well.
“You won’t believe how many productions are coming down the pike right now to basically red-pill the public,” Michael W. Hall, the founder of a Seattle-area group called UFOiTeam, said at the screening. “The truth is out there, and guess what? We’re going to have to ‘fess up to it right away.”
“Project Blue Book” fictionalizes the real-life X-files of pioneer UFO investigator J. Allen Hynek. So it was natural for.Hall — an attorney based in Edmonds, Wash., who styles himself as the “Paranormal Lawyer” — to put out the word to the more than two dozen UFOiTeam members to attend November’s movie-theater preview.
The series takes its name from the real-life Project Blue Book, a U.S. Air Force campaign that investigated UFO reports starting in the 1950s. Hynek was the scientific consultant for the project, as he was for two earlier investigations known as Project Sign and Project Grudge.
The trained astrophysicist eventually came to believe that some UFO sightings were genuine mysteries and deserved more serious scrutiny. Nevertheless, the Air Force shut the project down in 1970 .
Hynek, who passed away in 1986 at the age of 75, is a kindred spirit for UFO enthusiasts — and particularly for folks like Maureen Morgan, who is Washington state director for the Mutual UFO Network, also known as MUFON.
Morgan and other MUFON investigators take reports like the ones chronicled in “Project Blue Book” very, very seriously.
“Generally when we call and interview everyone who submits a report about a sighting, invariably the first thing that comes out of their mouth is, ‘You’re going to think I’m crazy,’ ” she said. “And then I remind them who they’re talking to and say, ‘No, we’ve probably heard it before.’ ”
MUFON isn’t the only organization documenting anomalous aerial phenomena. The National UFO Reporting Center, or NUFORC, has been compiling records for decades. The center’s current director, Peter Davenport, has his headquarters in an converted ICBM missile site in Eastern Washington.
Washington state has a rich history of UFO sightings — going back to 1947, when private airplane pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing weird-looking aircraft flying past Mount Rainier at incredible speed. News stories about Arnold’s claims gave rise to the term “flying saucer,” and set the stage for the Roswell UFO incident weeks later.
In the series premiere, Hynek (played by “Game of Thrones” veteran Aidan Gillen) is recruited by the Air Force to track down an explanation for the pilot’s sighting. He takes the job more seriously than the Air Force wants him to, however, and eventually runs up against shadowy spies and the infamous Men in Black.
Will “Project Blue Book” become a phenomenon of “X Files” proportions? Based on the premiere, the show seems a bit too earnest to strike that chord. Throwing in some quirky “Monster of the Week” episodes and the geeky Lone Gunmen might liven things up. But that might clash with Hynek’s straight-arrow vibe.
The series’ serious tone certainly suited the folks on the UFOiTeam. For them, anomalous phenomena aren’t merely fodder for a retro TV show. In this age of media mistrust and government dysfunction, maybe programs like “Project Blue Book” are in line with the temper of the times.
“Without the MUFONs and the iTeams, without the National UFO Reporting Center, there is nothing out there, and it will revert to the deep state, whatever,” Morgan said. “It will go back to the same people who were behind Project Blue Book.”
The History Channel’s “Project Blue Book” premieres tonight. Check local listings for times.
Mysterious repeating energy bursts have been detected for only the second time.
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 latest signals to be detected reached Earth from a galaxy 1.5 billion light years away.
The most likely explanation is that they were created by powerful objects in space.
Experts have debated whether black holes or super-dense neutron stars are responsible, but others have suggested more outlandish theories.
Among them is Professor Avid Loeb, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in the US, who believes that they could be evidence of incredibly advanced alien technology.
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Over a period of three weeks last summer the team detected 13 of the flashes using a new type of radio telescope, the Canadian HydrogenIntensity Mapping Experiment (pictured)
FRB's were first detected accidentally in 2007, when a burst signal was spotted in radio astronomy data collected in 2001.
The new discovery, reported in the journal Nature, was made by a Canadian-led team of astronomers on the hunt for FRBs.
Over a period of three weeks last summer the team detected 13 of the flashes using a new type of radio telescope, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (Chime).
They found that one of the FRBs was repeating.
Of more than 60 FRBs detected to date, such repeating bursts have only been picked up once before, by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico in 2015.
Where the FRBs come from is not known - although they are thought to emanate from sources billions of light years away outside our galaxy, the Milky Way.
Chime astrophysicist Dr Ingrid Stairs, from the University of British Columbia, Canada, said: 'Until now, there was only one known repeating FRB.
'Knowing that there is another suggests that there could be more out there.
'And with more repeaters and more sources available for study, we may be able to understand these cosmic puzzles - where they're from and what causes them.'
Fast radio bursts are elusive signals that last just a few milliseconds, and are thought to originate billions of light-years away – but, scientists don't yet know what causes them
(file photo)
Most of the 13 FRBs showed signs of 'scattering' that suggest their sources could be powerful astrophysical objects in locations with special characteristics, the scientists said.
Team member Dr Cherry Ng, from the University of Toronto, Canada, said: 'That could mean in some sort of dense clump like a supernova (exploding star) remnant.
'Or near the central black hole in a galaxy. But it has to be in some special place to give us all the scattering that we see.'
WHAT ARE FAST RADIO BURSTS AND WHY DO WE STUDY THEM?
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly, making them not only hard to find, but also hard to study.
The mystery stems from the fact it is not known what could produce such a short and sharp burst.
This has led some to speculate they could be anything from stars colliding to artificially created messages.
Scientists searching for fast radio bursts (FRBs) that some believe may be signals sent from aliens may be happening every second. The blue points in this artist's impression of the filamentary structure of galaxies are signals from FRBs
The first FRB was spotted, or rather 'heard' by radio telescopes, back in 2001 but wasn't discovered until 2007 when scientists were analysing archival data.
But it was so temporary and seemingly random that it took years for astronomers to agree it wasn't a glitch in one of the telescope's instruments.
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics point out that FRBs can be used to study the structure and evolution of the universe whether or not their origin is fully understood.
A large population of faraway FRBs could act as probes of material across gigantic distances.
This intervening material blurs the signal from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the left over radiation from the Big Bang.
A careful study of this intervening material should give an improved understanding of basic cosmic constituents, such as the relative amounts of ordinary matter, dark matter and dark energy, which affect how rapidly the universe is expanding.
FRBs can also be used to trace what broke down the 'fog' of hydrogen atoms that pervaded the early universe into free electrons and protons, when temperatures cooled down after the Big Bang.
The new FRBs are are also at unusually low radio frequencies.
Most previously detected FRBs have had frequencies of around 1,400 megahertz (MHz), but the new ones fell within a range below 800 MHz.
In 2017 Professor Loeb and Harvard colleague Manasvi Lingham proposed that FRBs could be leakage from planet-sized alien transmitters.
Mysterious radio signals (artist's impression) have reached Earth - from a galaxy 1.5 billion light years away. The strange beams are known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) - and last only a millisecond (file image)
Rather than being designed for communication, they would more likely be used to propel giant space ships powered by light sails.
A light sail works by bouncing light, or in this case radio beams, off a huge reflective sheet to provide forward thrust.
Professor Loeb, who discusses the idea in a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, said: 'An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking.'
Open Minds UFO Radio: Hosts Alejandro Rojas and Martin Willis are joined by author and producer Lee Speigel to review the best UFO news stories of 2018.
2018 was a banner year for UFOs. It could be argued 2018 was the tipping point when UFOs became a serious topic in the mainstream. Some even argue it was the first full year we lived in a post UFO disclosure world. In this episode we review the stories and information that made 2018 so important for the UFO topic.
Links to some of the stories we mention:
FAA releases audio and radar data of UFO encounter with multiple pilots over California and Oregon, jets were scrambled:
Russia Announced They Have Found Alien Spaceship Wreckage In The Ice
Russia Announced They Have Found Alien Spaceship Wreckage In The Ice
Admiral Vladimir Prikhodko, the current director of a clandestine organization within the Russian navy, admits that the leading countries in the world like the US, Germany, China and his own Russia are spending millions on outer space exploration in an effort to find proof of alien life, discover other planets with Earth-like condition and gain a better understanding of the universe but he believes this approach is wrong.
Instead of investing in space explorations we should maybe focus more on the underground since it may be where all the answers lie.
Since the end of the Second World War, Russia has been known to focus on researching and exploring the possibilities of UFOs and whether or not they truly exist. Not so long ago, while searching underground they discovered strange objects, deep holes and caves with ancient glyphs and a spaceship wreckage deep under the ice.
Project Blue Book Actor Michael Malarkey Caught the UFO “Bug”
Project Blue Book Actor Michael Malarkey Caught the UFO “Bug”
Actor Michael Malarkey says research for History's Project Blue Book sparked an intense interest in UFOs.
Actor Michael Malarkey says he hadn’t given UFOs thought before being cast in HISTORY’s upcoming series Project Blue Book, but now he is hooked. He says UFOs do offer a genuine mystery and he believes the U.S. Air Force knows more about the topic than it's sharing.
“I definitely got the bug, and I'm pretty far down the wormhole,” Malarkey told reporters, including Den of Geek, in a recent interview. “I'm still obsessively watching documentaries and witness accounts, and it's really changed my mind about the whole thing.”
In Project Blue Book, Malarkey plays U.S. Air Force Captain Michael Quinn. Quinn is tasked with running Project Blue Book, based on a real project of the same name set up to investigate UFO reports in the 1950s and '60s. Malarkey says research for the project included spending time with U.S. Air Force personnel to observe their mannerisms and learning to fly in order to feel what it is like to experience intense g-forces. Not all of his research was adventurous. He also had to hit the books.
“I definitely read a great amount of Edward J. Ruppelt’s book, who was the head of Blue Book at the time, and who my character is loosely based on and I even did research at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base [Project Blue Book’s headquarters] because I grew up near there,” Malarkey says.
“There's just so much rich material to draw from. And I think that the exciting thing about this show is that, as much as it is a drama, and you do have to take artistic license to be able to tell a story, at the same time, hopefully, what the show will do is reactivate an incredible interest from people who aren't as aware of the depths of what's going on and the truth behind the stories told.”
Malarkey says he was aware the U.S. Air Force had looked into UFOs, but he did not realize how many cases they were unable to explain.
“I mean, it was like some 15 to 20% that fell into the unknown category,” Malarkey says. “The thing is, the further you go down this rabbit hole, I think anybody who does, cannot help but question that something else out there exists.”
In the show, one of Quinn’s toughest jobs is managing Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astrophysicist hired by the U.S. Air Force as a consultant in their investigations. The real-life Hynek began consulting with the U.S. Air Force in 1948. At the time he was a skeptic, but as he investigated, the further he went "down the rabbit hole." Hynek investigated many cases that constituted genuine mysteries he could not explain.
All of this has led Malarkey to believe there is much more to UFOs than we are being told: "Well, I mean it's hands down a real phenomenon and a real cover-up that’s going on.”
“I don't know if it's ‘aliens’ or not,” Malarkey says. “But I definitely feel like whatever these objects are in our skies - and I've seen a lot of footage, you have to comb through a lot of the fake stuff out there at the moment, and people are really good at doctoring things up - but there's enough legit stuff out there to see that there are intelligent objects moving throughout our skies.”
Despite Hynek’s change of heart, the U.S. Air Force continued to explain away sightings, and eventually closed Project Blue Book in 1969 due to a lack of evidence that UFOs were unexplainable or posed a threat. Malarkey and the writers of the Project Blue Book series, apparently disagree with the U.S. Air Force’s conclusions.
“[Writers] Sean Jablonski and David O’Leary always say this was the original fake news campaign,” Malarkey explains. “I think even younger people will be able to connect with that aspect of it and see how the Air Force was doing that at that time.”
However, Malarkey doesn’t feel we should disparage the U.S. Air Force’s intent.
“It's important we don't portray or paint the Air Force as villains here. This has always been in an effort to protect the people.”
Even so, Malarkey doesn’t feel the secrecy is needed anymore. He says, “I feel like we're almost ready for a bit more of the disclosure that we've been denied for so many years.”
He also feels the U.S Air Force likely does not have all the answers, and the true origins of the unsolved UFO cases may still be a mystery to them as well.
All of this speculation on what the U.S. Air Force knows and doesn’t know is where the writers applied artistic license in the series. As Malarkey puts it, “there were no bugs in the Project Blue Book Headquarters,” so the show has to make assumptions. It also dramatizes real events and real Project Blue Books cases. For those looking for straight facts, the show’s website features fact-based articles on many of the cases covered in the series.
Some have likened the show to The X-Files, but Malarkey points out there is one significant difference.
“I watched X-Files, and I do love the show. It's a very different show. I think the thing that makes it different, obviously, is that this is a real-life X-Files. This actually happened. It's rooted in fact, and that's what makes it stand out.”
Of course, Project Blue Book is dramatized, but Malarkey hopes the show triggers an interest in the real American history of UFO investigations like it did in him.
“I hope that it will stimulate a new found interest especially in people who just kind of sweep these things under the rug,” says Malarkey. “Yes, it's changed my mind. I've seen too much for me to discredit this entire thing and, regardless of your opinion on the matter, I think that the facts show there have definitely been strange and unexplained phenomena in the skies whatever that may be. And there's definitely been an ongoing government cover-up about it.”
Alejandro Rojaswrites and blogs about science, entertainment, and the paranormal. Alejandro has spent many hours in the field investigating anomalous phenomena up close and personal. You can find him on Twitter here.
How do we really know there weren't previous industrial civilizations on Earth that rose and fell long before human beings appeared?
Credit: University of Rochester illustration/Michael Osadciw
Reptilian menaces called Silurians evolved on Earth before humankind — at least in the "Doctor Who" rendition of the universe. But science fiction aside, how would we know if some advanced civilization existed on our home planet millions of years before brainy humans showed up?
This is a serious question, and serious scientists are speculating about what traces these potential predecessors might have left behind. And they're calling this possibility the Silurian hypothesis.
When it comes to the hunt for advanced extraterrestrial civilizations that might exist across the cosmos, one must reckon with the knowledge that the universe is about 13.8 billion years old. In contrast, complex life has existed on Earth's surface for only about 400 million years, and humans have only developed industrial civilizations in the last 300 years. This raises the possibility that industrial civilizations might have been around long before human ones ever existed — not just around other stars, but even on Earth itself. [Greetings, Earthlings! 8 Ways Aliens Could Contact Us]
"Now, I don't believe an industrial civilization existed on Earth before our own — I don't think there was a dinosaur civilization or a giant tree sloth civilization," said study co-author Adam Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester in New York. "But the question of what one would look like if it did [exist] is important. How do you know there hasn't been one? The whole point of science is to ask a question and see where it leads. That's the essence of what makes science so exciting."
Artifacts of human or other industrial civilizations are unlikely to be found on a planet's surface after about 4 million years, said Frank and study co-author Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. For instance, they noted that urban areas currently take up less than 1 percent of Earth's surface, and that complex items, even from early human technology, are very rarely found. A machine as complex as the Antikythera mechanism — which is considered to be the world's first computer from ancient Greece — remained unknown until the development of elaborate clocks in RenaissanceEurope.
One may also find it difficult to unearth fossils of any beings who might have lived in industrial civilizations, the scientists added. The fraction of life that gets fossilized is always extremely small: Of all the many dinosaurs that ever lived, for example, only a few thousand nearly complete fossil specimens of the "terrible lizards" have been discovered. Given that the oldest known fossils of Homo sapiens are only about 300,000 years old, there is no certainty that our species might even appear in the fossil record in the long run, they added. [In Images: The Oldest Fossils on Earth]
Instead, the researchers suggested looking for more subtle evidence of industrial civilizations in the geological records of Earth or other planets. The scientists focused on looking at the signs of civilization that humans might create during the Anthropocene, the geological age characterized by humans' influence on the planet.
"After a few million years, any physical reminder of your civilization may be gone, so you have to look for sedimentary anomalies, things like different chemical balances that just look wacky," Frank said.
One sign of industrial civilization may have to do with isotopes of elements such as carbon. (Isotopes of an element vary in how many neutrons they possess in their atomic nuclei — for example, carbon-12 has six neutrons, while carbon-13 has seven.)
For instance, humans living in industrial civilizations have burned an extraordinary amount of fossil fuels, releasing more than 500 billion tons of carbon from coal, oil and natural gas into the atmosphere. Fossil fuels ultimately derive from plant life, which preferentially absorb more of the lighter isotope carbon-12 than the heavier isotope carbon-13. When fossil fuels get burned, they alter the ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-13 normally found in the atmosphere, ocean and soils — an effect that could later be detected in sediments as hints of an industrial civilization.
In addition, human industrial civilizations have also discovered ways to artificially "fix nitrogen" — that is, to break the powerful chemical bonds that hold nitrogen atoms together in pairs in the atmosphere, using the resulting single nitrogen atoms to create biologically useful molecules. The large-scale application of nitrogenous fertilizers generated via nitrogen fixing is already detectable in sediments remote from civilization, the scientists noted.
The Anthropocene is also triggering a mass extinction of a wide variety of species that's likely visible in the fossil record. Human industrial activity may also prove to be visible in the geological record in the form of long-lived synthetic molecules from plastics and other products, or radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons.
One wild idea the Silurian hypothesis raises is that the end of one civilization could sow the seeds for another. Industrial civilizations may trigger dead zones in oceans, causing organic material (from the corpses of organisms in the zones) to get buried that could, down the line, become fossil fuels that could support a new industrial civilization. "You could end up seeing these cycles in the geological record," Frank said.
All in all, thinking about the impact that a previous civilization has on Earth "could help us think about what effects one might see on other planets, or about what is happening now on Earth," Frank said.
Schmidt and Frank detailed their findings online April 10 in a study to be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal International Journal of Astrobiology.
Every year the number of UFO reports rises worldwide.
In 2018 the BelgianUFOhotline registered 180 sightings of strange aerial phenomena.
This is an increase of 34.3 percent in comparison to the number of reports from 2017 (134 observations). This is evident from the annual report of theBelgian UFO hotline.
Most UFOs were spotted In the province of East Flanders
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The French COBEPS (Comité Belge pour l’Etude des Phenomenes Spatiaux) received last year 76 UFO reports, also increased compared to the previous year.
The increase in the number of UFO reports — which has become a yearly habit — occurs especially during July and August. Both months together valued 44 reports.
This large number of observations can be largely explained by the warm weather at that time.
No explanation
In October, there were significantly more reports than the monthly average. This can be partly explained by the exceptionally low cloud cover that month.
Many UFOs are fairly quickly explained as airplanes, stars or the ISS, but a number of reports, are still a mystery.
For example, a bright green ribbon-shaped object was spotted in the Netherlands, which is still unexplained.
Strange movements
And on August someone saw in Sommerain, Luxembourg, a star-shaped object made strange movements.
“It started as a bright object: white-blue, as large as the star Vega, which did not move at first,” describes the witness.
“The ‘star’ was moving to the west at an unusual rate. Not very fast, but not slow,” he said. “At times the ‘star’ stopped and looked like it hesitated.”
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) just released a breathtaking new Hubble image of the Triangulum Galaxy, one of our galaxy’s nearest cosmic neighbors.
The full 665-million-pixel image, composed of 54 different photos, shows between 10 and 15 million of the galaxy’s 40 billion stars. Hubble scientists say that the extraordinarily detailed new image could help them learn more about how new stars form.
Baby Shower
Vast regions of the Triangulum Galaxy are full of gas and dust clouds which hold the raw materials for new stars. Past research by the Hubble team found that a new star the size of our sun is formed in these clouds roughly once every two years — a dizzying frequency on cosmic timescales.
The odds of watching a star form are stacked against scientists, but this new survey highlighting hotbeds of celestial activity give NASA and ESA researchers a much better shot at watching and understanding the process than ever before.
Growing Up
Stars live for a long time — often billions of years. Many of the stars we can observe are well into their lifespans, so having a readily-available way to watch and study celestial newborns is useful to astronomers and astrophysicists who want to fill the blanks.
It’s questions like these that inspired the recent Hubble survey of the Triangulum Galaxy. As scientists go through the data they collected, we may learn a lot more about how stars like our Sun came to be.
WETENSCHAPOok in 2019 gaat de mensheid weer duchtig op zoek naar buitenaards leven. Ook buiten ons eigen zonnestelsel kan dat theoretisch voorkomen op exoplaneten in de “bewoonbare zone” aka “Goudlokjegebied”. Amateurastronomen hebben er nu zo eentje ontdekt. Het gaat om een tot nu toe gemiste en erg zeldzame superaarde, gespot in de waarnemingsgegevens van de intussen niet meer operationele Kepler-satelliet van NASA.
Sinds de jaren negentig zijn er al zo’n 4.000 exoplaneten ontdekt. Dat zijn planeten die niet, zoals de aarde, rond de zon draaien maar rond andere sterren. Slechts enkelen bevinden zich in het leefbare ‘Goudlokjegebied’ van hun ster, dat de juiste afstand van de planeet aanduidt ten opzichte van de ster aanduidt om de aanwezigheid van vloeibaar water mogelijk te maken. Het is een zone waar het niet te warm en niet te koud is voor eventueel leven. In ons zonnestelsel valt naast de Aarde alleen Mars binnen die bewoonbare zone.
Maar er zijn nog miljarden andere sterren dan de zon, waarrond eveneens miljarden exoplaneten cirkelen. Op een deel daarvan zou er dus theoretisch leven mogelijk zijn. De Kepler-satelliet is ontworpen om exoplaneten op te sporen en de telescoop is daarin succesvol.
In 2005 werden ook de eerste superaardes ontdekt, rotsachtige planeten met een massa groter dan die van de Aarde maar kleiner dan die van Uranus of Neptunus. Superaardes komen in ons zonnestelsel niet voor, wél daarbuiten. De eerste die ontdekt werd, was Gliese 876 d, die rond de rode dwerg Gliese 581 tolt. In 2007 kwam dan de eerste superaarde in de bewoonbare zone in het vizier: Gliese 581 d. Sinds 2013 zijn er nog vijf nieuwe superaardes ontdekt die eventueel leefbaar zijn.
Ron Miller/NASAblueshiftEen artistieke impressie van superaarde 55 Cancri e.
En nu dus opnieuw. De exoplaneet kreeg de naam K2-288Bb mee, ligt op 226 lichtjaren van de Aarde en is ongeveer twee keer zo groot als onze planeet. Een exoplaneet van deze omvang is uitzonderlijk. Ze bevindt zich in het dubbelstersysteem K2-288 in het sterrenbeeld Stier. Die twee sterren liggen op 8,2 miljard kilometer van elkaar, ongeveer zes keer de afstand tussen Saturnus en de zon. De meest heldere ster van de twee is ongeveer de helft in grootte en massa van onze zon, de andere is ongeveer een derde van de omvang en massa van de zon. K2-288Bb draait rond de kleinere, minder heldere ster in 31,3 dagen. Daarom staan de twee sterren mogelijk leven op de planeet niet in de weg, stelt een paper van onder anderen Abraham Loeb van de Harvard-universiteit. De superaarde kan volgens NASA een rotsachtige of een gasrijke planeet zoals Neptunus zijn en is half zo groot als deze laatste.
“Een erg opwindende vondst”, beweert Adina Feinstein, studente aan de University of Chicago en hoofdauteur van de paper hierover die in The Astronomical Journal zal verschijnen.
NASA-GSFCEen illustratie van de Transiting Exoplanet Survey Telescope (TESS).
WETENSCHAP NASA-telescoop Tess heeft een derde kleine planeet buiten ons zonnestelsel ontdekt. Dat werd deze week bekendgemaakt tijdens de jaarlijkse bijeenkomst van de American Astronomical Society in Seattle.
De nieuwe planeet, die voorlopig de weinig tot de verbeelding sprekende naam HD 21749b kreeg, cirkelt rond een heldere dwergster die zo’n 53 lichtjaren van haar verwijderd is in het sterrenstelsel Reticulum.
HD 21749b heeft ongeveer 36 dagen nodig om rond de ster te draaien. De oppervlaktetemperatuur van de planeet bedraagt naar schatting ongeveer 149 graden Celsius. Dat is vrij koel, gezien de nabijheid van haar ster die bijna even helder is als de zon. De exoplaneet is ongeveer drie keer groter dan de aarde en valt daarom in de categorie van een ‘sub-Neptunus’.
Geen rotsachtige bodem
Verrassend genoeg is ze 23 keer zwaarder dan de aarde. De kans is echter klein dat er sprake is van een rotsachtige bodem. “We denken dat deze planeet niet zo gasachtig is als Neptunus of Uranus, die voornamelijk uit waterstof bestaan en winderig zijn” zegt Diana Dragomir, postdoctoraal onderzoeker bij MIT die het onderzoek leidde.
Lichtdipjes
Sinds de lancering in april 2018 speurt TESS het heelal af op zoek naar dipjes in het licht van ongeveer 200.000 nabijgelegen sterren. Dergelijke dipjes wijzen meestal op een planeet die voor een ster passeert.
Daarnaast hebben de onderzoekers ook mogelijk bewijs gevonden voor een andere planeet. Indien dat bevestigd wordt, zou het de eerste planeet zijn die Tess ontdekt met dezelfde omvang als de Aarde.
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Topgeheim UFO-project onthuld in nieuwe serie. Een 3 meter lang monster, een V-formatie en meer meldingen die onverklaard bleven
Topgeheim UFO-project onthuld in nieuwe serie. Een 3 meter lang monster, een V-formatie en meer meldingen die onverklaard bleven
Op de Amerikaanse televisie is een nieuwe serie te zien over het decennialange onderzoek van de overheid naar UFO’s.
Het geheime project, Project Blue Book geheten, werd in 1952 gelanceerd en overzien door de Amerikaanse luchtmacht.
Van de meer dan 12.000 UFO-meldingen die werden onderzocht, bleven er 700 onverklaard.
De documenten over het project zijn nu vrijgegeven en de meest intrigerende zijn te zien in de nieuwe serie ‘Project Blue Book’.
Onmogelijk te verklaren
Het project werd opgestart omdat piloten en politieagenten – getrainde waarnemers dus – objecten zagen in het luchtruim die ze niet thuis konden brengen.
De overheid huurde astronoom J. Allen Hynek in om UFO’s te debunken, maar hij raakte er zelf ook van overtuigd dat we hier te maken hebben met een nagenoeg onbekend fenomeen.
Honderden UFO-meldingen waren onmogelijk te verklaren.
Drie meter lang
Eén incident vond plaats op 12 september 1952, waarbij drie jongens uit West Virginia een felrood licht door de lucht zagen vliegen en een explosie hoorden.
Een lokale krant meldde dat de jongens op de crashplek een ‘drie meter lang monster zagen met een rode neus en een groen gezicht dat leek te gloeien’.
Het wezen zou bekend komen te staan als ‘The Flatwood Monster’.
President
Op 30 augustus 1951 fotografeerde een tiener uit Texas een aantal lichten die in V-formatie door de lucht vlogen, de zogeheten Lubbock Lights.
“We besteden ook aandacht aan een massale waarneming door geloofwaardige getuigen waar zelfs de president bij betrokken werd,” zei uitvoerend producent Sean Jablonski.
Geheim
Hoewel er een einde kwam aan Project Blue Book, bleef de Amerikaanse overheid in het geheim onderzoek doen naar UFO’s, zo werd vorig jaar onthuld.
“UFO’s zijn een mysterie dat tot op de dag van vandaag niet is opgelost,” zei Jablonski. “We moeten ons afvragen door wie ze worden bestuurd en praten over buitenaards leven.”
Russian Physicists Come Closer to Plasma Engine for Superfast Space Travel
Scientists from Russia and around the world see plasma rocket technology as a crucial possible ingredient for speedy missions to Mars and beyond.
Physicists from the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk are preparing another round of experiments aimed at successfully harnessing the power of thermonuclear plasma for use in a rocket engine, institute deputy director Alexander Ivanov has told journalists.
The experiments, which will begin later this month, will follow up on earlier successful tests which confirmed the feasibility of confining plasma in an experimental setup using parameters suitable for a rocket engine, Ivanov said.
In late 2018, the institute began operation of a unique installation, known as the SMOLA, the Russian acronym for "Spiral-based Magnetic Open Trap", with the setup serving as the first step forward toward the creation of a fusion reactor. The "plasma trap" allowed scientists to work on confining plasma in a linear magnetic system, which, it is hoped, can eventually help lead to the creation of prototype plasma engine suitable for space travel.
"The first experiments showed that the effect exists. The space engine works, and the means to reducing plasma losses as well. Presently, standard equipment is installed. We are preparing to start experiments on it in January 2019 which should fully demonstrate its capabilities," Ivanov said.
According to the physicist, the current setup serves as a technology demonstrator, with scientists achieving a temperature of 100,000 degrees to form the plasma, and reaching a sufficient density to provide them with data suitable for further work on the creation of a plasma-based rocket engine.
In October, Energomash, a Russian power engineering company involved in the production of rocket engines, announced plans to build a high-powered electrode-less plasma rocket engine. Russia's Kurchatov Institute and the Chemical Automatics Design Bureau first reported that they were working on a plasma-based engine for space travel in 2016.
Other countries, including the United States, are engaged in similar developments. In 2015, NASA awardedprivate plasma rocket technology firm Ad Astra a contract on the creation of the "Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket" (VASIMR), with the proposed engines operating by heating pressurised gas to extremely high temperatures using radio waves and keeping the resulting plasma under control using magnetic fields.
Plasma-based rocket engines are one of several proposed options for human exploration of other planets in our solar system, and beyond it.
Russische wetenschappers stap dichter bij plasmamotor waarmee we supersnel door de ruimte kunnen reizen. Zo werkt het
Russische wetenschappers stap dichter bij plasmamotor waarmee we supersnel door de ruimte kunnen reizen. Zo werkt het
Russische wetenschappers experimenteren momenteel met plasmarakettechnologie, die ons in staat moet stellen om supersnel door de ruimte te reizen.
Natuurkundigen van de Russische Academie van Wetenschappen hebben al een aantal succesvolle experimenten afgerond en bereiden momenteel een reeks nieuwe experimenten voor.
De wetenschappers maken gebruik van een unieke installatie, een zogeheten SMOLA, die de eerste stap vormt in de creatie van een fusiereactor.
Prototype
De installatie moet de onderzoekers helpen om een prototype van een plasmamotor te maken die geschikt is voor ruimtereizen.
“De eerste experimenten laten zien dat het effect bestaat en dat de ruimtemotor werkt,” zei adjunct-directeur Alexander Ivanov van het Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics.
In de installatie worden temperaturen van ruim 100.000 graden bereikt om het plasma te kunnen vormen.
Plasmaraketmotor
In oktober vorig jaar kondigde Energomash, een Russisch energietechnologiebedrijf dat betrokken is bij de productie van raketmotoren, aan een plasmaraketmotor te gaan bouwen.
In 2016 liet het Koertsjatov-instituut, het belangrijkste onderzoeks- en ontwikkelingsinstituut in Rusland op het gebied van kernenergie, weten aan een plasmamotor voor ruimtereizen te werken.
Extreem hoge temperaturen
In een plasmamotor wordt samengeperst gas tot extreem hoge temperaturen verhit met behulp van radiogolven.
Door middel van magnetische velden wordt het plasma onder controle gehouden.
It has long been speculated by conspirators that aliens from thousands of years ago played a massive role in the construction of the pyramids. In Egypt, the focus of attention for most visitors is the awe-inspiring antiquities and the ancient wonders from the past. Amazon Prime’s "The Secret KGB Files" documentary, suggests that, in the 1960s, a team of Soviet investigators discovered a mysterious tomb in Egypt and that something "unexplainable" is beneath the Great Pyramid.
The footage reveals how the KGB found it hard to accept that mythology could have led to advanced alien knowledge.
However, in the documentary, an interview with a former diplomatic courier for the Soviet Union was tracked down by the show’s producers.
The man – who, the narrator claims, is given anonymity as the former Soviet official now works for the Russian mafia – describes how on one occasion he was moving documents between Cairo and Moscow.
The former Soviet Union employee reveals that among the documents was a memo from a high-ranking KGB official.
KGB found it hard to accept that mythology could have led to advanced alien knowledge
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He claims the document stated: “My agents have secured the notes of one of the scientists working on the Tomb of the Visitor findings.”
Another was an inventory of contents taken from the tomb, labelled "classified top secret".
It read: “Location of finding, undisclosed.
“Subjects, 15 crates of relics, one patricianly mummified body, one stone sarcophagus, and eight hieroglyphic samples.”
A project scientist who was one of the first to enter the tomb filed this report.
A team of Soviet investigators discovered a mysterious tomb in Egypt
(Image: Amazon Prime)
It read: “During inspection of the wall segment we noted an odd sensation, a magnetic repulsive force seemed to be emanating from the rock.
“We were unable to find any scientific explanation.”
Another memo is from the cryptologist report, which read: “Findings, partial decoded message on tomb wall indicates a prophecy of the return of ancient wing gods.”
The documents made it clear the Kremlin was taking the myth very seriously. One report indicated a military unit was ordered to the site.
A security order of the highest level was in force when the sarcophagus was opened.
Wetenschappers ontdekten iets onverklaarbaars onder Grote Piramide, blijkt uit geheime KGB-documenten
Wetenschappers ontdekten iets onverklaarbaars onder Grote Piramide, blijkt uit geheime KGB-documenten
Samenzweringstheoretici speculeren al lange tijd dat aliens duizenden jaren geleden een grote rol hebben gespeeld bij de bouw van de piramides.
In de documentaire The Secret KGB Files, momenteel te zien op Amazon Prime, wordt gesteld dat Sovjet-onderzoekers in de jaren zestig op een mysterieuze tombe zijn gestuit in Egypte en dat zich ‘iets onverklaarbaars’ bevindt onder de Grote Piramide.
In de film komt een man voorbij die in de Sovjettijd werkzaam was als diplomatieke koerier.
Topgeheim
De man, die anoniem wil blijven omdat hij nu voor de Russische maffia werkt, zei dat hij op een dag een memo van een hooggeplaatste KGB-functionaris onder ogen kreeg.
Hij zei dat in het document viel te lezen: “Mijn agenten hebben de aantekeningen verzameld van één van de wetenschappers die onderzoek doen naar de Tombe van de Bezoeker.”
Een ander document bevatte een inventaris van voorwerpen die in de tombe waren gevonden, en was geclassificeerd als ‘topgeheim’.
Vreemd gevoel
“Voorwerpen: 15 kratten relikwieën, één gemummificeerd lichaam, één stenen sarcofaag en hiërogliefen.”
Het rapport was opgesteld door een wetenschapper die als één van de eersten de tombe binnenging.
“Tijdens de inspectie van een deel van de muur kregen we een vreemd gevoel,” klonk het. “Het was alsof uit het gesteente een magnetische, afstotende kracht kwam.”
Gevleugelde goden
“We konden hier geen wetenschappelijke verklaring voor vinden,” aldus de wetenschapper.
In een andere memo stond: “Deels ontcijferde boodschap op de muur van de tombe gaat over een profetie over de terugkeer van gevleugelde goden.”
Soldaten
De documenten laten zien dat het Kremlin de informatie zeer serieus nam.
Uit één van de rapporten blijkt dat er soldaten werden gestationeerd bij de tombe.
Dat er veel meer is dan alleen onze driedimensionale wereld, daar zijn ook steeds meer wetenschappers het wel over eens.
Organisaties zoals NASA zijn al heel lang op zoek in de ruimte naar die speciale toegangspoorten naar andere dimensies en het lijkt alsof er nu één is gevonden, maar niet door NASA.
De mensheid is al heel lang geobsedeerd geweest over de mogelijkheden om te reizen van de ene naar een andere dimensie. Dit concept werd ook ooit gebruikt in een televisieserie Stargate. De serie werd uiteraard gebracht als sciencefiction, maar dat is het helemaal niet.
Ook NASA geeft tegenwoordig toe dat ze zich al jarenlang bezighouden met onderzoek naar toegangspunten naar die andere dimensie(s).
Zo komen we ook aan de naam Stargate. De betekenis is letterlijk een toegangs- of sterrenpoort naar een andere dimensie. En als we die ingangen kunnen vinden, dan hebben we misschien ook de mogelijkheid om naar die andere dimensies te reizen en hopelijk ook weer terug.
Die toegangspoorten zijn te vinden in de ruimte zelf, maar ook op aarde schijnen er bepaalde plekken te zijn die als het ware kunnen fungeren als een stargate. Soms komen mensen ook per ongeluk terecht in andere dimensies en er zijn ook mensen die zeggen zelf een poort naar een andere dimensie te kunnen creëren.
Echter, tot nu toe zijn er weinig echt concrete stargates ontdekt in de ruimte, maar daar is nu misschien verandering in gekomen.
De bekende Youtube gebruiker Mr. MB333 kreeg van een lezer genaamd Michelle uit Californië een aantal opmerkelijke foto’s opgestuurd.
Op 15 december 2018 maakte zij foto’s van de zon en op één ervan verscheen een cirkelvormig beeld dat veel overeenkomsten vertoont met de zon.
Op de volgende afbeelding zie je rechts een foto zonder het object, maar wel met een kleine lensflare en links een afbeelding van het bizarre object.
De volgende twee laten het object wat beter zien en de afbeelding daarna toont het object in vergelijking met een stargate.
In de volgende video gaat Mr. MB333 veel dieper in op de vreemde afbeelding en heeft uren doorgebracht met het bestuderen van de opnames.
Hij komt tot de conclusie dat het echt is en er zijn zelfs bepaalde tekens te zien op het ringvormige object.
Een echte stargate of misschien toch een afwijking in de camera?
The road can be a dangerous, deadly place, with cars speeding and careening all over like big heavy missiles of metal, glass, and gasoline, and people often not paying attention to where these rolling projectiles are headed, all made even worse by poor road conditions or visibility, and automobile accidents take a major, tragic death toll on the roadways of our world. It can be a harrowing thought to realize that you are almost at the mercy of fate out there on the road, racing along essentially alone in a thin shell of metal that will likely not do much good to protect you if danger should come calling. Yet what if we are not alone out there on that stretch of road? What if there are benevolent forces watching over us, looking out for us, and guiding us safely to our destination? If some reports are to be believed then this might just be the case, and actual guardian angels may be patrolling the roads and highways just as surely as the specter of death.
One particularly odd type of report involving angels on the road is that of actual hitchhiking angels, which typically appear out of nowhere to picked up, go on to make prophetic statements or prevent some accident, and then vanish without a trace. Interestingly, there is a very early case of this sort of thing going back all the way to an era before cars were even a thing. This account can be found within a 1602 manuscript held by Linköping library in Sweden rather unwieldy titled Om the tekn och widunder som föregingo thet liturgiske owäsendet, or “On the Signs and Wonders Preceding the Liturgic Broil,” by a scholar named Joan Petri Klint, who wrote much of unexplained events and was sort of an early paranormal writer.
Among the many accounts of anomalies and strange occurrences held within the manuscript is a report supposedly given by a vicar of Klint’s acquaintance, who claimed that in February of 1602 he had been travelling to the town of Vadstena by sleigh along with three companions, when they came across a very young woman out in the frosty cold. Considering it was frigid outside and this girl seemed inadequately dressed and lost out in the middle of nowhere they offered her a ride on their sleigh, which she accepted with a nod. Things got very weird when they stopped at an inn for a rest and the mysterious young woman was offered a mug of beer. As soon as the drink was set in front of her it immediately turned to malt, and yet another beer placed there suddenly transformed into acorns. The third and final beer was grasped by this wondrous girl and turned to blood. The girl, who up to this point had not uttered a single word, then proclaimed “There will be good crops this year. There will be enough fruits of the trees. There will also be many wars and plagues,” before vanishing right before their eyes. True to her word, the year turned out to be exactly as she had prophesized.
It is hard to know if this was supposed to be an angel or not, but it certainly seems to fit, and remains a rather curious very early account of such roadside encounters. In a more modern day report we have a man who gave his experience on ThoughtCo. and says it was told to him by his parents, as he had been just a toddler when it happened. He says:
One late night when I was a toddler (20 now) my parents were just cruising around town while I stayed with my grandma. They were young parents and I was their first so I wouldn’t blame them for taking a break from me. And at some point they stopped at a gas station and while they were there, an old homeless man came up and politely asked for a ride. The man seemed harmless and they accepted his request. They were driving along and as they were crossing an intersection at a green light when they saw a car that had blown the red light coming at their side at full speed. But instead of getting t-boned, the incoming car went straight through them. They pulled to the side to make sure everything was okay. They looked in the back to check on the man. But he had vanished.
Another person told of a somewhat similar experience with a seemingly angelic hitchhiker on Reddit, saying it was an experience his father had had when he was a young man. The witness had apparently been stuck in heavy early morning traffic one day when he noticed a man standing by the side of the road, forlorn and hitchhiking, carrying a heavy looking bag. The father was kind enough to take pity on him, pull out of the traffic and even lose his place in order to pick the bedraggled looking man up, losing who knows how much time in doing so. Once in the car the stranger proved to be very friendly and kind, and the two chatted about life, family, and work, until the man without warning demanded the car be stopped and he be let out. The poster says of what happened next:
All of a sudden he asked my dad to drop him off. Dad was confused as this was right next to a field in the middle of nowhere. The guy said don’t worry about it and got out which weirded my dad out. My dad turned to leave and noticed the guy left his bag and went to let the guy know but he was gone. Nowhere to be seen. Dad says he searched for him but it made no sense where he went or how he could hide. Upon getting back in the car he looked in the bag to find it to be empty. Also weird. He decided to continue on his way and joined back in traffic. He came to the first set of lights eventually and noticed an accident had happened to the car that was behind him in the line of traffic originally and he realized had he not picked this guy up he would’ve been in that accident. That guy saved him. 2 weeks later his wife was pregnant with me. My dad still has the bag and carries it with him in his car at all times hoping to eventually run into the guy and thank him. Dad was saved by weird guardian angel hitchhiker guy. Still has memento from occasion. Doesn’t understand what happened to this day.
This is actually a very common theme in supposed roadside encounters with angels, that for whatever reasons they seem to be there to prevent some imminent catastrophe. One witness named Brandy McCall told of her experience with this on the site Medium. She relates how she was in a serious car accident when she was 16 years old while driving with a friend. The car they were in rolled several times before bouncing between a camper and a building and finally sliding to a halt leaving shards of metal and glass in its wake. Despite the rather harrowing incident, they were both surprisingly intact, except for the blood Brandy could feel flowing down her face. A neighbor told them she had called an ambulance, but there was not much they could do but wait, as they were trapped within the overturned vehicle. As they waited a series of unusual events would transpire that would change the admittedly not very religious witness. She says:
While we waited, an older gentleman in an old green pickup truck pulled off the road behind us. This man helped me out of the mangled car, took me over to sit at the edge of the road, and handed me a towel to hold to my bleeding face. He had the softest voice and smelled like Red Man tobacco — the same thing my pawpaw chewed. He told me help was coming, and checked over my friend.
I heard the firetrucks in the distance, and it was just a few moments before they came up the hill. The captain of the Fire Department was a man named Tony who I had known since birth. We went to the same church and his kids and I were around the same age. When I saw Tony get off the truck, I knew I was okay. An ambulance came and loaded us up. Tony rode with me, seeing that I was scared to death. He told me that if the car had gone a couple of inches further, the results would have been deadly. A piece of metal from the camper had cut through the windshield of the car, which is what had caused my head to bleed. It likely would have taken off the tops of our heads if we had gone any further. On top of that, we were two feet from a propane tank that had been filled earlier that week. I don’t know how we dodged both of those bullets.
Before we got to the hospital, I asked Tony about the old man. He just stared at me and told me there was no green truck, no old man. No one was around, except for the lady whose yard we had crashed in. The road we were on was a dead end. The gentleman I saw couldn’t have gotten around the firetrucks and ambulances to go the one way out without being seen. But I still had the towel in my hand that he had given me. Even though I was raised in church — Southern Baptist — I’ve never been overly religious. But I’m telling y’all, I think I saw an angel that day. I don’t know why, and it has never happened again. But I know what I saw.
In some reports like this the angel is not physically seen, but it’s presence it certainly felt. One witness from Ohio tells on ThoughtCatalog of how she was driving with her husband home from a horse stable when another vehicle made a sudden turn right in front of them, causing them to lose control of their car and crash. The victim found that her door on the passenger side was jammed and that she was hopelessly trapped within the totaled vehicle. The witness explains the miraculous things that happened next:
I was sitting there in deep shock, helpless, unable to exit the vehicle. But the next thing I remember, I was somehow transported and found myself standing on the road next to the car. I saw a dark shadow at the front of the car. It looked like the front part of a man from the side view. Sometime later the driver’s husband said to me, “I don’t know how you got out of that car.” I thought about it some more and realized I must have been moved through the car door with some supernatural help. This has given me a new perspective on a lot of things, including angelic protection.
It is hard to say whether this was “angelic protection” or not, but it certainly seems a rather amazing occurrence, whatever it was. In another account, an unnamed witness tells of how he and his wife were driving on the interstate on a hot summer day in North Carolina when a truck suddenly smashed into them from behind as they were crossing a bridge over a river. Their car was violently jolted up into the air and towards the rail and a steep, yawning drop below. That most certainly would have been their fate if a strange sequence of fortunate events didn’t unfold next, of which the witness says:
I realized we could be going over the rail and plunging into the river far below—a fall that would have meant certain death. But before I could even react, my car came back into the driving lane and steadied itself. The truck screamed past us only inches from my door. I managed to get off the bridge and pull over on the shoulder of the road to inspect my car. The driver of the truck had also stopped and rushed up to me. “I thought I had pushed you over the bridge when I hit your rear bumper!” he said. My wife and I were shaken but relieved.
It was a very close call. The driver had been tired and momentarily dozed off at the wheel of his speeding truck when he veered into my lane and caught the left rear of my car, sending it toward the side of the bridge. He thought we had gone over. I thought we were going over. But we didn’t. My wife says she felt the car move back to the left. I know that I didn’t turn the wheel to make it happen. We both feel that on that day, at that moment, we had the hand of an angel move our car back into the driving lane—keeping it from going off the bridge. I didn’t see an angel, but to this day we strongly feel there was a bit of extra help—an angel who rescued us from disaster.
In other instances, angels are reported as not stopping accidents so much as lending a much needed, often life-saving helping hand in times of need. One such miraculous experience happened to a Pastor John Boston, who one day was driving along with his 4-year-old daughter in the backseat when a truck swerved over the center line and came roaring towards them. In an attempt to avoid the inevitable collision, Boston veered to the side, and ended up smashing into a utility pole. This wasn’t even the worst of it, as a live transformer crackling with electricity came plunging down atop them, searing the metal and bubbling the paint with its intense heat. On top of all of this, Boston realized that not only was his daughter’s seatbelt jammed, but that the door wouldn’t open either.
It was during this seemingly inescapable situation, with the hissing transformer threatening to engulf their car in flames, that Boston says a stranger approached from the freedom of the street that remained out of his reach. The man was described as somewhat “scruffy,” but he was amazingly able to effortlessly open the car’s jammed door, unlatch the seatbelt that had moments before been completely stuck, and then carry the two of them 20 feet away to safety, just as the car caught fire to spew smoke everywhere. When the witness and his daughter were out of harm’s way, the man simply said, “My name is Johnny, the police are almost here and I can’t be here when they get here but you’re gonna be okay,” before standing up and just vanishing. Since that day Pastor Boston has been convinced that it was an angel who pulled them from certain doom.
Next we have the story of a witness calling herself “Deb,” who says in 1980 she was a single mother with two babies living in San Bernardino County, California. She usually dropped the young kids off at her parents’ house, which was only around 30 miles away, in the city of Alta Loma, and then picked them up in the evening on her way home from work. On this evening she picked them up as usual, but on the way home she was shocked to realize that she was almost out of gas and the car was sputtering, an oversight due to the fact that the old vehicle had a broken gas gauge. She says:
Halfway home, the car started to putter, and I realized I was on empty. I pulled off the first off ramp I could, and it just happened to be one that was slightly uphill. Almost at the top of the exit, my car died and there was absolutely nothing around except empty fields and distant lights at a truck stop about a quarter of a mile down the road. With no cars in sight, I didn’t know what to do. The kids were asleep and walking miles while carrying two kids in the middle of the night was not a good option. I put my head on the steering wheel while saying a short and panicky prayer,” she says. “I hadn’t even finished when I heard a few taps on my window.
The source of the tapping was a young man of around 21 years of age, well-kept, neatly dressed, and lightly smelling of soap. He seemed to almost emanate an aura of calm and reassurance, as Deb remembers that she didn’t feel any fear at all, even though this stranger was rapping on her window out in the middle of nowhere at night on this secluded road. Indeed, she felt a sense of safety, that she could trust this man even though she had never met him before, and he somehow eased her panicked state just by looking at her. This mysterious man then told her to put her car into neutral and then proceeded to push it over the hill to where she could get gas. She says:
I thanked him and followed his instructions. The car started moving. I steered it toward the lights of the truck stop and turned around to yell ‘thank you’ again to him. He was so nice! My car kept moving, but the young man was nowhere in sight. I mean, this area was completely remote. There was absolutely nowhere he could have gone that quickly, even if there was somewhere to go. I don’t even know where he came from to begin with.
I’ve always trusted in God to take care of us, but in relating that story many times to my children, who are now 30 and 32, they know for a fact that angels do exist and are sent to us if we just believe. I always thought it was so amazing that we were sent someone who I would trust instinctively without question. Since that incident, I’ve come to believe that we probably encounter angels all the time, and take for granted who they really are. I think they come in all shapes and sizes, young and old … and sometimes when we least expect them.
Similarly helped by a mysteriously vanishing stranger, and perhaps an even more bizarre case, comes from a man who says this experience happened to his wife’s mother back in the 1960s, when she was driving with her family with her husband and the wife and her brothers when they were just very young children. They were involved in a serious accident, which sent the mother’s head smacking through a broken windshield and getting quite viciously cut up. Again, a rather curious benevolent stranger appeared, and the man says of this all:
They got out of the car, and other drivers stopped to give assistance. Soon, a man carrying an old-fashioned doctor’s bag walked up and told everyone, “Step aside; I can take care of this.” He proceeded to quickly bandage the mother’s face, putting her at ease, and stopping the bleeding. Dad was distracted for a bit speaking to the police, but he says that it was not long before he got back to his wife. The man who helped her was gone. He asked people there where he went, and none of them had any recollection of ever having seen any man there at all. Not long afterward, though, at the hospital emergency room, doctors examined her and declared that whoever bandaged her must have been an expert, because a highly trained doctor could not possibly have done a better job.
She healed so well—from what could easily have been a fatal accident —that she has only one very small scar on her face. It’s only noticeable to someone who knows to look for it. The family has long been convinced that God sent an angel to give them assistance when they needed it the most, but that the angel—like many times in Scripture—instantly vanished once the job was done.
Is that what these people have experienced? Were these angels that came to them in times of need to help out? Or were they perhaps something else? Why did these benevolent entities choose these particular people when there are so many others who also face accidents and woes and the road? There is no way for us to really know the answers to these questions, and perhaps we are not even meant to know, their intentions, nature, and goals inscrutable mysteries beyond the human mind. Whatever the answers to these questions may be, and whether one even believes in actual literal angels or not, it sure is a comforting notion to think that as one is out on the road, maybe, just maybe there is someone or something looking out for us, watching us and waiting to snatch us from danger if it should come looking for us.
This article is dedicated to Jessica Saenz Farias, who is going through some tough times in her life and could use some angels right about now.
Parts of the government may be shut down in the U.S., but NASA is still searching for new planets with the help of a team of volunteer astronomers who are making some wonder why we need to keep paying (well, when they were getting paid) the pros. Not only that, the discovery was made using data from the now-retired Kepler Space telescope – data which had been analyzed before by the professionals who didn’t spot this major discovery. Can they help find lost keys or remotes?
Artist’s visualization of the K2-138 system, the first multi-planet system discovered by citizen scientists. The central star is slightly smaller and cooler than our sun. The five known planets are all between the size of Earth and Neptune; planet b may potentially be rocky, but planets c, d, e, and f likely contain large amounts of ice and gas. All five planets have orbital periods shorter than 13 days and are all incredibly hot, ranging from 800 to 1800 degrees Fahrenheit.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
“It took the keen eyes of citizen scientists to make this extremely valuable find and point us to it.”
Adina Feinstein, a University of Chicago graduate student lead author of a paper on the discovery of the planet (published in the latest Astrophysical Journal), described how the amateurs beat the pros in a presentation at the meeting of the American Astronomy Society in Seattle this week. As an intern at NASA in 2017, she was part of a team looking at Kepler data for transits – the dimming effect on a star when a planet passes in front of it. They found two for the K2-288 system – a binary pair of cool M-type (red) stars that are 5.1 billion miles apart or about six times the distance between Saturn and our sun – but the astronomers’ code requires three transits before declaring an exoplanetary discovery.
Kepler
Later investigations showed that NASA researchers had ignored data taken while Kepler was repositioning itself. The software was tweaked to better process it, but the new data was never reviewed manually instead of by computer — a critical error according to Joshua Schlieder, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center who worked with Feinstein and co-authored the paper.
“Inspecting, or vetting, transits with the human eye is crucial because noise and other astrophysical events can mimic transits.”
Luckily, the data was sent to Exoplanet Explorers, a volunteer project which studies Kepler data for transits. It was the Exoplanet Explorers who noticed a third transit in that early data from the repositioning period – data that led to the announcement of the discovery of K2-288Bb, an exoplanet about 1.9 times the size of Earth orbiting the smaller of the K2-288 binaries every 31.3 days. Its size puts K2-288Bb in the so-called “Fulton gap” – a rare group of exoplanets between 1.5 and 2 times that of Earth, making them good candidates for planetary evolution comparisons with Earth. Even better, K2-288Bb is in the “Goldilocks zone” of its star, putting it in the proper temperature and radiation zone to contain the liquid water needed for life.
That potential for K2-288Bb is supported by a separate paper, published this week in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and co-authored by Harvard’s Abraham Loeb (the same Loeb who suggested the ‘Oumuamua comet might actually be an alien-built probe), which states that low mass M-type stars the size of K2-288 are “theoretically capable of sustaining biospheres with the same productivity as the Earth.”
It pays to eyeball the data once in a while
While we continue to debate whether “amateur athletes” are really professionals, there’s no question that the amateur volunteers at Exoplanet Explorers are a valuable part of astronomy, not only by making new discoveries overlooked by the pros but by keeping the memory and hard work of the Kepler Space Telescope alive.
After that nice compliment, could one of them help me find my remote?
Could dark matter finally be understood? A Jan 3, 2019,release from the Universities of Surrey, Carnegie Mellon and ETH Zurichtouts some ground-breaking discoveries regarding the previously unknown and mysterious substance some scientists believe composes most of the known universe. In fact, it has been discovered dark matter has been able to be heated and moved. The release included findings from a hunt for dark matter by the team in the center of dwarf galaxies.
Dwarf galaxies are small galaxies emanating faint light that are found in the orbits of larger and brighter galaxies. Since dark matter interacts with light in a substantially different way than regular matter, it can only be truly observed using gravity and its effects. Because of its mysterious properties, dark matter is studied by observing the formation of stars in these dwarf galaxies.
According to the release, strong winds created in the formation of these stars push gas and dust toward the edge of these dwarf galaxies. This causes the center to have a decrease in mass – as all that gas and dust add together to some sizable numbers. As gravity and mass are related, a decrease in mass results in dark matter also moving away from the center of the galaxy. This causes the “dark matter heating” announced in the release.
This research may be helpful for building more accurate models of the universe and its forces, as it is theorized to compose as much as 80 percent of the known universe, despite not emitting light nor energy. Theories for what dark matter could be include Massive Compact Halo Objects (MACHOs), which are larger space items such as brown dwarf stars and black holes, and Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), which proposed particles of matter, which do not reflect or absorb light or any other form of electromagnetic energy.
Other scientists have claimed dark matter does not have to exist to explain the theorized mass of the universe (which is much more than the mass it would be from what can be observed, according to modern science) and instead claim physics as the study is known by modern humanity does not work at the largest levels. They have offered a theory called Modified Newtonian Dynamics. They claim the largest flaw in the proposed existence of dark matter is that no one has yet observed it. Perhaps this study can lead to something to change that.
A man found what looks to be an alien-like creature living inside one of the green plants in his aquarium. The man named Angus filled his aquarium with plants that he took from Lake Waikaremoana which is in North Island, New Zealand. It was about four weeks after he filled his tank with the plants that he noticed something odd swimming in one of them.
In a video that he posted to Reddit, the creature, which is about one centimeter long, is seen swaying inside of an egg. He asked people on Reddit, “Am I having an alien invasion? What do I do? Is it dangerous? No fish living in the tank. Only 5 snails.” He received an overwhelming response with over 500 people weighing in on what the creature may be. Some said it looked like a dragon fly or mantis, while others claimed it looked like a caddisfly, and some even suggested that it is a type of alien.
Video footage he uploaded on reddit shows the thing, which is only about a centimetre long, swaying in an 's' formation inside the egg
A man has discovered an alien-like animal living in his aquarium after he filled it with plants he ripped from a lake
But it was four weeks before the man, known only as Angus, noticed what appeared to be some sort of life form swimming inside a green casing
The greenery was taken from Lake Waikaremoana, on the North Island in New Zealand
There was another highly strange discovery in the waters of New Zealand recently. In November 2018, a woman discovered an odd looking skeletal sea creature while she was cleaning up garbage along Rakaia Huts beach after a big storm. The creature had spike-covered skin, a long head, two legs, and a tail.
The woman named Mary told Fox News, “When I pulled it out and saw all the teeth and barbs I was convinced it was a rare deep-sea creature. I was so excited because I love the ocean and its inhabitants. First I thought it was plastic sheeting. I pulled it out from underneath the sticks and it was a bit more than just a piece of plastic.”
She went on to say, “My first thought was that it was something alien, but I was more fascinated than anything. I took it all the way home and gave it to a taxidermist next door to see if he knew what it was but he wasn’t too sure either. That’s why I thought I should reach out and see if anyone else knew what it is.” She posted the picture of the creature on Facebook and that’s when several people told her that it was a male Dipturus nasutus.
New Zealand seems to be a hot spot for alien-looking sea creatures, so it’s pretty exciting to wonder what the next alien-like discovery will be along the waters. It may a good idea, though, to leave the sea plants where they belong in the water or you may end up bringing an alien home with you.
In October 2016, the UFO and conspiracy theory worlds got a shock when news broke that speaker and writer Max Spiers, 39, had been found dead under suspicious circumstances. In the weeks before his death, Spiers grew increasingly suspicious that he was being targeted by unknown individuals or groups, warning his mother Vanessa Bates that “your boy’s in trouble” and that “if anything happens, investigate.” Days later, eyewitnesses say, Spiers vomited a few liters of an unidentified black liquid before being found dead on a colleague’s sofa in Poland.
Spiers’ credibility was sometimes questioned by other members of the conspiracy theory community, and Spiers made some pretty bold claims, including claiming to have been made into a supersoldier during his childhood. Nevertheless, Spiers made a career out of investigating conspiracies, unidentified aerial phenomena, government cover-ups and the like. Shortly before his death, Spiers embarked on a project that led him to investigate politicians, celebrities, and prominent business magnates – you know, the kind that can get away with murdering someone. If they wanted to.
The circumstances surrounding Spiers’ death have been said to suggest some sort of cover-up.
Whether or not a shadowy cabal of Very Important People had anything to do with Spiers’ death has yet to be seen. It certainly appears that there are a lot of suspicious events surrounding Spiers’ death and the resulting investigation, though, including the researcher’s laptop being allegedly wiped clean after Polish police refused to perform an autopsy and ruled his death due to natural causes. Did Spier’s work get him murdered?
Depends on who you ask. His mother told reporters that Spiers’ most recent investigation was “going to expose black magic” among politicians and celebrities. Spiers’ girlfriend, meanwhile, said he would expose “enemies within other realities.” Not to be outdone, Spiers’ colleague and friend Miles Johnson told the BBC that aliens were of course somehow involved:
We have now got an unthinkable situation. Max has died for his country and the people on this planet. We’re dealing with aliens. We’re dealing with a predator within humanity, a fifth column, which has been successful so far in causing us a great deal of damage and harm. People like Max were involved in exposing that fifth column. He knew he was going to die. He knew he was in a trap. He told his mother that.
Was Max Spiers’ death a homicide? If so, committed by whom and for what end? Could it have had anything to do with his death? What was the black liquid Max Spiers could have vomited before his death? Are aliens from a hidden dimension of reality using politicians and celebrities to harvest young children for use in sacrificial interdimensional rituals?
Spiers was a popular speaker on the UFO and conspiracy theory circuits.
To get at as many of these questions as possible, a British court will hear an inquest opened to investigate Spiers’ death. The inquest will be held at the Guildhall in Sandwich, Kent and will last four days. During that time, Polish investigators are expected to present evidence and statements taken from witnesses in Poland including Monika Duval, the friend with whom Spiers was staying at the time of his death. On the first day of the inquest, a Polish pathologist declared that Spiers’ death was caused by pneumonia and drug intoxication. According to testimony given on the first day of the inquest, Spiers was apparently a known drug user and consumed a large quantity of a Turkish version of Xanax shortly before his death. Will this inquest help us discover the truth behind Max Spiers’ death, or will we finally put this mystery to rest?
On December 24, 2018 SOHO Lasco C2 and Lasco C3 captured a huge spherical object leaving the sun. Once again, on January 7, 2019 both satellites have captured another spherical object that leaves the sun.
According to some UFO researchers these spherical objects are alien spacecraft since similar spherical objects have been spotted near the sun which were clearly not coronal mass ejections while others believe that the phenomenon is a plasma discharge.
Currently we are in a solar minimum which is the period of least solar activity in the 11 year solar cycle of the sun. During this time, sunspot and solar flare activity diminishes, and often does not occur for days at a time, which makes us wonder whether the spherical object was indeed a plasma discharge or not.
The video below shows the moment the phenomenon leaves the sun.
Ancient Face Found On Mars Using Google Mars Map, Jan 9, 2019, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Ancient Face Found On Mars Using Google Mars Map, Jan 9, 2019, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: Jan 9, 2019 Location of discovery: Mars Google coordinates: 32°36'10.74"N 62°38'25.45"E I was fiddling around with Google Mars map, a free program that allows you to see the surface of Mars, when I noticed a face. I measured it with Google ruler and found that from the top to the bottom it was 3.4km long and across the forehead it was 1.69km wide. The face closely resembles the ancient Mesopotamians carvings in walls here on Earth. The face is part of a bigger drawing of two figures. You can see the line dividing the two figures which are wearing robes. You can also see a foot of the other person sticking out. The drawing was actually made from walls that stand very tall. These two figures look to be man and wife, and are raised higher than the surface around them...like a mound. It looks as if those walls are of an ancient city that once was there. For some unknown reason the second figures face and body has been covered up...as if to hide it from being seen. I think this may be a discrimination case between aliens where one species tried to cover up the other species art work. The art is also a message...that this species lived here and these two leaders cannot be forgotten. But another species evidently felt differently and covered half of it up. That half looks much more recent than that of the drawing. Scott C. Waring
Here is a fun photo fact. I found this photo of our sun creating a solar burst that is big enough to wipe out all life on earth, stripping earth of its atmosphere, water and life...cooking it at the same time. You didn't need to know about that? Probably not, sometimes ignorance is bliss. In 2015 NASA made a statement that just such an occurnace happened to Mars and was responsible for its devastation, wiping out the Mars atmosphere and oceans. So...Mars is farther from the sun than Earth and still Mars was destroyed by the sun...so this is proof that this can happen to Earth too, which is much closer to the sun than Mars.
In the photo above you see an image of the earth near the solar explosion. This is just for size comparison. The explosion was big enough to destroy every planet in the solar system had they been hit. Its like tying a shotgun on a spinning top and seeing what happens.
The photo is dated May 3, 2013 and yet NASA tried hard to to publicize this information in order to keep the public from panicking. Eventually the solar explosion will head towards earth, but would NASA even tell the public it if knew of such a cataclysmic event? Probably not, it would only create more panic and fear.
Antarctica has become one of the most mysterious places on Earth. Maybe it always has been, but scientists are finally beginning to discover and explore these mysteries thanks to recent technological advances.Lost continents, mysterious space sounds,andunexplained sources of radioactivityare just some of the weirdness currently afoot on the southernmost continent – and that’s just the weirdness we know about.
The latest mystery to develop in Antarctica is the exploration of a long “lost” ancient lake lying over a kilometer below the continent’s ice sheet. Lake Mercer is referred to as a ‘lost’ lake because it exists below the surface of the ice, cut off from the rest of the world. It’s been that way for tens of millions of years, meaning this “lost lake” is a veritable time machine into prehistory. Even more exciting is the possibility that this isolated body of water could contain a unique, untouched ecosystem unlike anything else on the planet. What might we find at the bottom of Lake Mercer?
Scientists with the Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) project drilled down to a depth of 1,084 metres (3,556 feet) in December 2018 using a tiny drill nozzle that sprays hot water. In order to ensure that the waters of Lake Mercer weren’t contaminated by the project, the drill water was sterilized with UV light and hydrogen peroxide using 500 tonnes of equipment that had to be shuttled for two months across the glacial surface from McMurdo Station.
McMurdo Station
Scientists plan to soon analyze sediments collected at the bottom of the lake in the hopes of discovering new organisms which might have been cut off from the rest of the world. Who knows what could have evolved down there over tens of millions of years? Whether or not we find life in space, the life we find in these super-remote corners of our own planet should be enough to rewrite the boring chapters of the biology books – if we ever find them before it’s too late. Let’s face it: contamination is inevitable, either in space or at the bottom of an Antarctic lake. It’s what we do best.
Alexander Weygers, a Renaissance man in the mold of the tech industry’s stated ideal, inspired an art dealer to become an acolyte. In this Hello World short, Ashlee Vance visits the dealer whose curiosity about Weygers has evolved into an obsession.
“Project Blue Book” UFO Series Premieres January 8, 2019 (Promo Trailer)
“Project Blue Book” UFO Series Premieres January 8, 2019 (Promo Trailer)
Project Blue Book chronicles the true top secret United States Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950’s and 60’s known as “Project Blue Book.” The series follows Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a brilliant college professor recruited by the U.S. Air Force to spearhead this clandestine operation that researched thousands of cases, many of which were never solved. Each episode will draw from the actual files, blending UFO theories with authentic historical events from one of the most mysterious eras in United States history.
Paul Hynek has worked in tech and entertainment and is currently a business consultant. Paul is also a former adjunct professor at Pepperdine University, and is presently a consultant for HISTORY’s new series Project Blue Book, based on a real project to investigate UFOs from 1952 to 1969. Paul is the son of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer who worked with the U.S. Air Force investigating UFO cases from 1948 to the end of Blue Book in 1969. A character based on J. Allen Hynek is the lead character in the series. Paul’s father began his investigation with USAF as a skeptic, but by the time Blue Book ended, he was convinced some UFO cases posed a real mystery. The HISTORY series is not sticking strictly to the facts, but it is attempting to portray the people and events as accurately as possible. In this interview, we talk to Paul about the production of the new series, his father’s UFO work, and how he hopes the show will affect viewers and perceptions of the UFO phenomenon. Project Blue Book premieres January 8, 2018.
Visit the HISTORY Project Blue Book website for more:
After joining Project Blue Book, Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Aiden Gillen) is drawn deeper into the mysterious world of UFOs.
Credit: Copyright History 2019
Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have long inspired curiosity and speculation, but when did our fascination with UFOs really take off? A new television drama explores the origins of the UFO phenomenon, drawing from the incredible true story of the U.S. government’s decades-long investigation of reported UFO encounters.
The secret program — dubbed Project Blue Book — launched in 1952 and was monitored by the U.S. Air Force until the project's termination in 1969. During that time, experts investigated more than 12,000 reports of UFO sightings, of which over 700 remain unexplained, according to records in the National Archives.
Now declassified, the most intriguing of these unsolved cases are revisited in the History Channel series "Project Blue Book." Premiering tonight (Jan. 8) at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT., the show offers UFO aficionados and skeptics alike a peek at how it all began. [7 Things Most Often Mistaken for UFOs]
Aidan Gillen (Littlefinger on HBO's "Game of Thrones") stars as Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the real-life professor and astrophysicist who acted as the science adviser for Project Blue Book, and who is known to many as the "father of UFOlogy," show creator and executive producer David O'Leary told Live Science.
In the series, Hynek joins Air Force officials to investigate and explain sightings of peculiar lights in the sky, mysterious glowing fireballs, "flying saucers" and even purported extraterrestrials, History Channel representatives said in a statement.
"The government had to respond to the fact that military pilots, commercial airline pilots, police officers — people with trained eyes — were seeing objects in the sky that they couldn't understand," O'Leary said.
But as "Project Blue Book" unfolds, Hynek comes to an unpleasant realization: His scientific curiosity about UFOs may run counter to a government agenda that wants to bury events that prove unthreatening, but nonetheless truly defy explanation, O'Leary said.
National security
During the period in U.S. history that gave rise to Project Blue Book, global superpowers were testing the boundaries of military technology, the likes of which had never been seen before. For obvious reasons, the U.S. Air Force wanted to keep tabs on all UFO sightings — which could represent previously unknown weapons — in the interests of national security, according to O'Leary.
However, hundreds of the UFO sightings investigated by Project Blue Book proved impossible to explain at all.
An incident that took place Sept. 12, 1952 (and is featured in the series), involved three boys in Flatwoods, West Virginia, who witnessed a fiery red light streaking overhead, followed by a loud crash. A local newspaper reported at the time that when the boys approached the scene, they glimpsed "a 10-foot monster with a blood-red body and a green face that seemed to glow," later dubbed "The Flatwoods Monster," the History Channel recounted.
Another unexplained sighting was documented in Lubbock, Texas, on Aug. 30, 1951; a teenager photographed a V-shaped arrangement of lights in the sky, now known as the Lubbock Lights, according to the History Channel.
Among the many reports of so-called flying saucers, one of the most unexplainable phenomena is the "Lubbock Lights," photographed at Lubbock, Texas, by 19-year old Carl Hart, Jr., on August 30, 1951.
Credit: Bettmann Archive
Other unnerving encounters with UFOs were directly observed midair by pilots, who are trained to recognize unexpected sights that may appear during challenging flight conditions. This makes their descriptions of UFOs harder to dismiss as delusional, and fueled Hynek's efforts to get to the bottom of these baffling events, O'Leary explained.
Credible witnesses
Case reports dramatized by the show feature a range of witnesses, from lone civilians, to individuals representing the military and law enforcement, to groups of people all reporting the same sighting, executive producer and showrunner Sean Jablonski told Live Science.
"By the time you get to the finale, there's a mass sighting by credible witnesses that actually prompts the president to get involved. So you go, 'Well, that's just undeniable.' And it's historically accurate," Jablonski said.
The cast of the new UFO drama series "Project Blue Book" (from left to right: Laura Mennell, Aidan Gillen, Neal McDonough, Michael Harney, Michael Malarkey, Ksenia Solo).
Credit: Copyright History 2019
Though the real Project Blue Book ended decades ago, interest in UFOs has scarcely dimmed. In fact, the U.S. government has continued to monitor and analyze UFO reports to this day, Live Science reported in 2018. The work took place under a secret program called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP), and it spanned decades despite official statements that federal UFO investigations ended with the demise of Project Blue Book in 1969.
"UFOs are a mystery that's still unsolved at this point," Jablonski said. "Once you open your mind up to the idea of the UFO phenomenon, then you have to ask 'Who's flying them?' And then you have to talk about alien life. It unmoors you from a reality that most people live in their whole lives."
The first episode of "Project Blue Book" airs tonight (Jan. 8) on the History Channel at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT.
NASA’s Future Spaceships Will Travel At 1 Million Miles Per Hour
NASA’s Future Spaceships Will Travel At 1 Million Miles Per Hour
NASA could be on the verge of a breakthrough. Currently, NASA is working on an advanced propulsion engine, that if cracked, can elevate our space travel to the next level. For decades, spacecraft have been stuck traveling at low chemical speeds, limiting our ability to research and explore space. However, now speeds of over one million miles per hour before 2050 are possible. The NASA institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) is funding two high potential concepts.
There are new ion drives being developed right now that could have power levels that are tens thousand times higher. Antimatter propulsion and multi-megawatt ion drives are being developed. The current speeds of spacecraft are quite low in space terms. The Voyager 1 spacecraft is moving at 38,000 mph (61,000 km/h). This speed was achieved mostly by a chemical rocket but also with the assistance of gravity, using it to slingshot the spacecraft out of orbit. Juno, Helios I and Helios II managed to reach speeds of around 150,000 mph using gravitational boosts also. The recently launched Parker Solar Probe will reach 430,000 mph using the Sun’s gravity.
Gravitational boosts are our current best way of achieving higher speeds for our spacecraft. However, this method is also detrimental to our research and exploration as it takes a lot of time to work. It can take many months before the desired speed is achieved and the real mission starts.
The new methods will use 50000 ISP lithium ion thrusters, the first of which will be tested in 4 months. This is part of a NASA NIAC phase 2 study to use lasers to beam 10 megawatts of power into new ion drivers. The recent progress of lasers is largely unknown to the public. The US military is developing lasers that can produce a whopping 100 kilowatts within the next two years.
Laser beam powered ion drives will be up to ten times faster than any previous ion drive. A spacecraft with this technology would take less than a year to get to Pluto.
Jet Propulsion Lab is building and ironing out the many components used in this system. The sail and the ion drives are finally coming together. The hardest part will be creating and sustaining the phased array lasers. Testing voltage will be boosted up to 6000 volts. This will allow the ion drives to be directly driven, which eliminates the need for a lot of electronics and weight. These type of ion drives do have many technical challenges, but predictions show a well-funded project could be successful before 2040.
The pair, who do not wish to be named, took a picture of a low flying red object near Peel Street, offSpring Bank, above an astro-turf pitch. They were unsure of what the light was, but speculated that it could be a UFO, which they say they viewed at 5.40pm on Sunday.
"We were walking towards the shops when we saw a big red ball in the sky that was really low down and wasn't moving that looked like it may have rings around it," said the woman.
There has been a suspected UFO sighting in Hull(Image: PA/National Archives)
"It didn't seem to be moving and it just seemed really weird as it definitely wasn't a laser, a helicopter or another light that was supposed to be there - it was just stationary in the sky and we thought it could have been a UFO.
"As soon as we saw it, we took a picture of it on the phone, and when we were walking back from the shop, the red ball was still there - it was really freaky and shook us up a bit as it made us think that something else is out there."
The two family member's showed a picture of the "UFO" to the woman's partner, and he went out to try and get a video of the object, but by the time he got back to the spot where it was sighted, the light was no longer there.
A suspected UFO sighting near Spring Bank
Even though he did not see the light in person, he is convinced that the object was something sinister, and indeed a UFO.
"I've never seen anything like it before," said the man, who did not wish to be named.
"It wasn't a drone, a streetlamp, a helicopter or anything that could be reasonably explained - it wasn't human and definitely something different.
"We can't prove it, but we think that it was a UFO, an we'd like to know if anyone else saw what it was."
Stories of UFOs have ebbed and flowed over the decades, but now there is new chatter of a different kind. Today mainstream news outlets featuring heavily credentialed experts weighing in on the ongoing UFO phenomenon. In December (2017), CNN announced: “A former Pentagon official who led a … government program to research potential UFOs said … he believes there is evidence of alien life reaching Earth.”
The New York Post summarized events: “… The New York Times released the results of an investigation into the U.S. military’s monitoring of UFO claims and came up with… a video released by the Pentagon that shows U.S. Navy pilots tracking the movements of a totally unexplainable aircraft. Now, a local news team from Las Vegas has obtained a military report that offers even more details on the sighting and the story is somehow becoming even more bizarre than it already was.” “The report explains in great detail how a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier played a strange game of hide and seek with multiple Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) that demonstrated flight characteristics that should be downright impossible to pull off.”
Then there was a Washington Post story describing how a rock star had “mustered a team of credentialed experts to put mysterious incidents on your radar.” “UFOs”, the headline said, “are suddenly a serious news story.” The rock star, the Post reported, was former Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge, who launched To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science. It will investigate the “outer edges of science.”
Christopher Mellon, an adviser to the academy who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, wrote a Washington Post opinion piece that carried this headline: “The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn’t the Pentagon care?”
What we have today are heavy-duty experts taking UFOs seriously. “My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone,” declared Luis Elizondo, the former Pentagon official in the CNN interview.
It is intriguing to think of a new generation of journalists having to decide what attention, if any, should be given to new assertions that “the truth is out there,” to borrow a tagline from “The X-Files.”
Long ago, as a young reporter, I was well aware of UFO stories.
Out of curiosity, I read mainstream media pieces as well as tabloid tales. What repeatedly struck me was this: As with much else in life, we were reluctant to simply accept that we didn’t immediately know the answer to the mystery of the moment.
In any event, I would not have imagined that some six decades later, UFO stories would still be around, with heavily credentialed experts weighing in.
The stories ebbed and flowed over the decades, but now there is new chatter of a different kind.
In the past, I suspected that reports of sightings were likely to increase when popular entertainment featured space sagas, but I also thought they were a reflection of universal tensions and anxiety.
Given that these are truly tense and anxious times, I started to look around for UFO-type talk — or, rather, the reporting of same. I searched for some indication of renewed and perhaps more intense attention.
I found it, and it even had a new spin — namely an assertion that the subject was “serious.”
In December, CNN announced: “A former Pentagon official who led a ... government program to research potential UFOs said ... he believes there is evidence of alien life reaching Earth.” Other media outlets also weighed in. What was going on?
Last month, The New York Post summarized and updated events:
“UFO sightings are a dime a dozen ... but back in December, The New York Times released the results of an investigation into the U.S. military’s monitoring of UFO claims and came up with something totally wild. It was a video released by the Pentagon that shows U.S. Navy pilots tracking the movements of a totally unexplainable aircraft. Now, a local news team from Las Vegas has obtained a military report that offers even more details on the sighting and the story is somehow becoming even more bizarre than it already was.”
The account continued: “The report explains in great details how a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier played a strange game of hide and seek with multiple Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) that demonstrated flight characteristics that should be downright impossible to pull off.”
So there was all this.
Then I discovered a Washington Post story describing how a rock star had “mustered a team of credentialed experts to put mysterious incidents on your radar.”
UFOs, the headline said, “are suddenly a serious news story.”
The rock star, the Post reported, was former Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge, who launched To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science. It will investigate the “outer edges of science.”
Christopher Mellon, an adviser to the academy who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, wrote a Washington Post opinion piece that carried this headline: “The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn’t the Pentagon care?”
In the past, we have seen UFO reports gain substantial international attention — originating from such locations as Roswell, N.M., the Exeter, N.H., area, Shag Harbour, N.S., Rendlesham Forest, which has been dubbed Britain’s Roswell, and many others. The British site even offers a UFO Trail.
I suppose it’s not exactly surprising that in times of uncertainty, many might wish for intelligent and caring aliens to arrive and show us how we lost our way.
What we have today, though, are heavy-duty experts taking UFOs seriously.
“My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone,” declared Luis Elizondo, the former Pentagon official in the CNN interview.
And Britain’s Telegraph newspaper quoted Elizondo, who is also involved with DeLonge’s academy, as saying: “In my opinion, if this was a court of law, we have reached the point of ‘beyond reasonable doubt.’ I hate to use the term UFO, but that’s what we’re looking at.”
Now, I came across all kinds of accounts involving UFOs in my day. So it is intriguing to think of a new generation of journalists having to decide what attention, if any, should be given to new assertions that “the truth is out there,” to borrow a tagline from “The X-Files.”
Meantime, as the stories pick up in the mainstream media, I can only quote Leah Crane writing in New Scientist: “The most ambitious search so far for extraterrestrial intelligence has released its first data – and there are no aliens yet.”
Hedley Burrell is a former editor and writer for The Washington Post and The Associated Press and media adviser for U.S. government agencies. He lives in Manatee County.
NORTHERN VIRGINIA — If evidence proving that extraterrestrials visited Earth has been squirreled away behind locked doors in Nevada, a former Pentagon official is calling for a big reveal.
Shea holds a comical sign that used to hang in his office. It was given to him by a journalist and UFO skeptic Phil KLASS.
“Show it to the National Academy of Sciences. Don’t hide it. Show it! We’ve been waiting for it! We’ve been waiting for it forever,” retired Air Force Col. David Shea said, raising his voice. “But so far, that hasn’t happened, and I don’t know why.”
Shea, 80, was the Air Force’s press spokesman on UFOs at the Pentagon from 1967 to 1971. He considers himself an “agnostic” when it comes to whether some unidentified flying objects are ships piloted by intelligent beings from faraway worlds.
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“I would believe if I saw some evidence that showed we were visited by alien spacecraft, but there hasn’t been evidence to my mind of such,” he said in an interview at his Northern Virginia home.
In 1969, Shea wrote the news release that announced the end of Project Blue Book, an Air Force investigation of more than 12,000 UFO reports.
It concluded that there was no threat to national security, no sign of advanced technology and no evidence that UFOs are extraterrestrial.
And with that, it appeared to the public that the government had washed its hands of UFOs.
Shea wrote the newsrelease in 1969 that announced the end of the Air Force's Project Blue Book. It studied more than 12.000 UFO reports, and is now the basis op an upcoming Historiy Channel drama series.
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But in December, almost 50 years after Project Blue Book ended, came explosive news.
The New York Times reported that Bigelow Aerospace had been storing material recovered from “unidentified aerial phenomena” in its buildings in Las Vegas as part of a secret Pentagon UFO investigation project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).
Shea was not surprised by news of the project’s existence, but he thinks if more people were aware of the government’s history with UFOs, they would better understand why, in his opinion, the government should not get involved again.
“The UFOs never seem to go away,” he said.
The inscriptions on the back on that sign show how is was initially given to Klass, and than along passed to Shea.
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Government investigations and scientific studies
What is considered the modern UFO era began as Americans’ Cold War fears of the Soviet Union were heating up.
In 1947, a veteran pilot flying near Mt. Rainier in Washington reported seeing nine strange objects flying in formation at incredible speeds.
The sighting made national news, and the same year, the Air Force (still the Army Air Forces at the time) began investigating — with intelligence officers in charge — reports of UFOs.
“They really weren’t sure what was going on. But by the end of ’49 they quickly became convinced that there was no threat, and there was no visitation, there was no advanced technology, and that was a good time to get out of the business, but they didn’t,” Shea said.
The work went on under several code names including “Project Sign,” “Project Grudge” and “Project Blue Book.”
‘Project Blue Book’ TV series chronicles UFO research of former NU scientist
‘Project Blue Book’ TV series chronicles UFO research of former NU scientist
Aidan Gillen (left) stars on "Project Blue Book" as Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who works with Capt. Michael Quinn (Michael Malarkey) on a study of UFO sightings. | History
J. Allen Hynek began his life as just “a little Czech boy from Chicago,” according to his son. He later became one of the country’s leading astronomers and the chairman of Northwestern University’s astronomy department.
Now, Allen is about to be featured on his own TV show, a drama called “Project Blue Book” premiering at 9 p.m. Tuesday on History, and named for Hynek’s study of UFO sightings for the U.S. government in the 1950s and 1960s.
The show centers on Allen (Aiden Gillen), a self-described “eccentric” scientist, who really comes off more intelligent than eccentric. He is recruited by the Air Force to prove that UFOs don’t exist. Partnered up with Air Force Capt. Michael Quinn (Michael Malarkey), Hynek travels the country to talk to people who claim to have had encounters with UFOs. The men work together, with some contention, to determine what actually happened during the supposed UFO sightings.
At first the sighting claims seem outlandish, but Allen, a scientist, is determined to uncover the truth.
J. Allen Hynek (Aiden Gillen ) discovers what appears to be an alien on “Project Blue Book.” | History
The show is based on real events but has a little bit of Hollywood embellishment. Writer and executive producer Sean Jablonski estimated that about 75 percent of the show is factual and 25 percent is dramatized. He said the characters on the show were based on real people, but that some of the names were changed.
“It’s not about accuracy so much as it is authenticity,” said Allen’s son Paul Hynek, who serves as a consultant on the show. He helps the cast and crew more accurately capture his parents on screen. He said he gave the actors who play his dad and mom some clothing and knick-knacks that actually belonged to his parents.
Episodes focus on real UFO sighting claims that Hynek evaluated. Even though the series takes place during the UFO-obsessed 1950s, Jablonski said he thinks it will resonate with contemporary viewers.
“Blue Book — why I think it’s so relevant right now, it was the beginning of fake news,” he said. “It’s literally what the government crafted to say: ‘What you saw is not what you saw.’”
Paul said he believed his dad would think the show is “a rollicking good adventure” and his mom, Mimi Hynek, would think it is “a bunch of nonsense.”
Hynek said he believed when his father came to work at Northwestern in 1960, the university was more interested in his mainstream science research than his work with Project Blue Book.
“Northwestern never really liked very much their chairman of the Department of Astronomy galavanting around the world studying UFOs,” he said. “It was his mainstream science that they were interested in, and they just sort of begrudgingly put up with the UFO crap.”
His mother, meanwhile, was president of the Cook County League of Women voters. He said she was always in touch with racial and gender issues and also tried to help black families get around segregated housing policies.
Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Triggered Mile-High Tsunami That Spread Through Earth's Oceans
Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Triggered Mile-High Tsunami That Spread Through Earth's Oceans
By Laura Geggel, Live Science Senior Writer
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When the dinosaur-killing asteroid collided with Earth more than 65 million years ago, it did not go gently into that good night. Rather, it blasted a nearly mile-high tsunami through the Gulf of Mexico that caused chaos throughout the world's oceans, new research finds.
The 9-mile-across (14 kilometers) space rock, known as the Chicxulub asteroid, caused so much destruction, it's no wonder the asteroid ended the dinosaur age, leading to the so-called Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction.
"The Chicxulub asteroid resulted in a huge global tsunami, the likes of which have not been seen in modern history," said lead researcher Molly Range, who did the research while getting her master's degree in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan. [Image Gallery: Ancient Monsters of the Sea]
Range and her colleagues presented the research, which has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting on Dec. 14 in Washington, D.C. And the research, first reported by EOS, is novel. "As far as we know, we are the first to globally model the tsunami from impact to the end of wave propagation," Range told Live Science.
The idea for the project got started when Range's two advisors — Ted Moore and Brian Arbic, both in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan — realized there was a glaring gap in the Chicxulub research field. Mainly, no one had published a global simulation of the tsunami the asteroid created.
"It wasn’t until starting this project that I realized the actual scale of this tsunami, and it’s been a fun research story to share," Range said.
Satellite views of the Chicxulub impact site in the Yucutan Peninsula, southern Mexico.
Image credit: NASA/JPL
Getting to work
The researchers knew that the asteroid hit shallow water in the Gulf of Mexico. But to correctly model its huge impact, they needed a model that could compute "the large scale deformation of the [Earth’s] crust that formed the crater, as well as the chaotic waves from the initial blast of water away from the impact site, and waves from ejecta falling back into the water," Range said. So, the group turned to Brandon Johnson, an assistant professor who studies impact cratering at Brown University in Rhode Island.
Johnson ran a model detailing what happened in the 10 minutes following the impact, when the crater was nearly a mile deep (1.5 kilometers) and the blast was so powerful, there wasn't any water in the crater yet. "At this point, some water was moving back toward the crater," Range said. According to the model, "this water will then rush into the crater and then back out, forming the 'collapse wave.'"
In a second model, the team studied how the tsunami propagated through oceans around the world. They did this by taking the results from the first model (particularly the crater shape) and the impact's waves with respect to resting sea level and water speeds, Range said. They then used data sets on the ancient terrain of the ocean, and used that to determine how the tsunami would have played out.
"We found that this tsunami moved throughout the entire ocean, in every ocean basin," Range said. In the Gulf of Mexico, water moved as fast as 89 mph (143 km/h), she found. Within the first 24 hours, the effects of the tsunami's impact spread out of the Gulf of Mexico and into the Atlantic, as well as through the Central American seaway (which doesn't exist anymore, but used to connect the Gulf to the Pacific).
After the initial nearly mile-high (1.5 km) wave, other huge waves rocked the world's oceans. In the South Pacific and North Atlantic, waves reached a whopping maximum height of 46 feet (14 m). In the North Pacific, they reached 13 feet (4 m). Meanwhile, the Gulf of Mexico saw waves as high as 65 feet (20 meters) in some spots and 328 feet (100 m) in others.
To put that in perspective, the largest modern wave ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere was a "measly" 78 feet (23.8 m) tall, which struck near New Zealand in May 2018, Live Science previously reported.
When an asteroid struck the Yucatan region about 66 million years ago, it wiped out the dinosaurs, and most of life on Earth. If it had hit elsewhere, the dinosaurs might well have survived.
Credit: NASA/Don Davis
Hard evidence
There's evidence that supports the models, Range said. According to the second model, fast-moving water from the impact likely caused erosion and sediment disruption in South Pacific, North Atlantic and Mediterranean ocean basins.
In a separate study (which also has yet to be published), Moore examined sediment records across the ocean. His findings agree with the tsunami model, Range said.
It can be hard to imagine such a cataclysmic tsunami, so the researchers compared it to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed at least 225,000 people. The two tsunamis were as different as night and day, they found. "Over the first 7 hours of both tsunamis, the [Chicxulub] impact tsunami was 2,500 to 29,000 times greater in energy than the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami," Range said.
Of course, the giant tsunami wasn't the only event that did in the non-avian dinosaurs. The asteroid also triggered shockwaves and sent a vast amount of hot rock and dust into the atmosphere, which rubbed together with so much friction that they started forest fires and cooked animals alive. These particles also hovered in the atmosphere and blocked the sun's rays for years, killing plants and the animals that ate them.
Mass extinction only occurred when the asteroid having 9-km diameter hit the orange areas.
“Here we show that the probability of significantglobal cooling, mass extinction, and the subsequent appearance of mammals was quite low after anasteroid impact on the Earth’s surface. This significant event could have occurred if the asteroid hit thehydrocarbon-rich areas occupying approximately 13% of the Earth’s surface. The site of asteroid impact,therefore, changed the history of life on Earth.”
A spooky new series of photos of theasteroid Bennushow the diamond-shaped space rock approaching the camera and receding into the distance during a trio of flybys by a NASA spacecraft.
The video animation of the asteroid imagescomes courtesy of NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which arrived at the little world on Dec. 3. After flybys such as this one, OSIRIS-REx used the data to enter orbit around the asteroid on Dec. 31.
OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) has an ambitious goal of scooping up material from Bennu and returning the sample to Earth for analysis. But before the spacecraft can descend to the asteroid's surface, mission planners must look at pictures and data and other information to give the spacecraft the best chance of a safe landing. [The Greatest Asteroid Encounters of All Time!]
Even before that, there was the challenge of getting into orbit.
"During the month of December, the spacecraft performed a preliminary survey of Bennu, conducting three flyovers of the asteroid's north pole and one each of its equator and south pole," OSIRIS-REx researchers said in a statement. "The data gathered during these flybys allowed the mission team to more precisely estimate Bennu's mass so that the spacecraft could go into orbit around the asteroid."
This still image of the asteroid Bennu comes from an animation of pictures taken by the NavCam 1 instrument on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, showing the spacecraft's asteroid view from Nov. 30, 2018, to Dec. 31, 2018.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin Space
The images were taken by NavCam 1, a black and white imaging system that is one of three cameras in OSIRIS-REx's Touch and Go Camera System. This suite of instruments will be crucial to help the spacecraft with its guidance, navigation and control in the coming months.
OSIRIS-REx's orbital maneuver set a record, as the asteroid is the smallest body ever orbited by a spacecraft. Bennu is only 1,640 feet (500 meters) wide, roughly the length of five U.S. football fields. The spacecraft also performs the closest orbit ever of a small body, achieving a preliminary orbit of 1 mile (1.6 km) from the surface.
OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016 with the overarching goal of helping scientists better understand the formation of the early solar system, including carbon-rich asteroids that may have brought water and organic molecules to the Earth's surface and helped spark life. The probe is scheduled for a parachute landing in the Utah desert in September 2023, when it should arrive with a precious load of materials scooped up from Bennu's surface in mid-2020.
Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in our solar system. The Juno spacecraft – now orbiting Jupiter – has now gazed across a distance to acquire new images and insights about the “fires of Io.”
Meet Io, Jupiter’s innermost large moon. The red dots – nicknamed the “fires of Io” – are active volcanoes. December 2018 image via NASA’s Juno spacecraft (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/INAF). Read more about this image.
Jupiter’s moonIois the most volcanically active world in the solar system – even more active than Earth – with hundreds of volcanoes erupting at any almost given time. The Voyagerspacecraft discovered that Io has active volcanoes, back in the late 1970s, and – in the late 1990s and early 2000s – theGalileomission provided more stunning images of the “fires of Io.” Now, NASA’s current mission at Jupiter – theJunoorbiter spacecraft – has sent back new photos of a volcanic plume on this molten little world (image below). The news wasannouncedby the Southwest Research Institute on December 31, 2018.
The new images and other data were taken on the winter solstice in Earth’s Northern Hemisphere – December 21 – by various instruments such as the JunoCam camera. The Stellar Reference Unit (SRU), the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) and the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVS) also observed Io for over an hour, to study the moon’s polar regions as well as look for evidence of any current active eruptions.
Juno isn’t designed to study the moons of Jupiter up close, as Galileo or Voyager did. Rather, Juno’s focus is on Jupiter itself. But Juno can and now has still made important observations from a distance. The observations of Io paid off, according to Scott Bolton, principal investigator of the Juno mission and an associate vice president of Southwest Research Institute’s Space Science and Engineering Division:
We knew we were breaking new ground with a multi-spectral campaign to view Io’s polar region, but no one expected we would get so lucky as to see an active volcanic plume shooting material off the moon’s surface. This is quite a New Year’s present showing us that Juno has the ability to clearly see plumes.
JunoCam image showing a volcanic plume illuminated beyond the terminator of Io, taken on December 21, 2018.
Image via NASA/SwRI/MSSS.
Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) image of Io taken on December 21, 2018. Io is softly illuminated by moonlight from another of Jupiter’s moons, Europa. The brightest feature on Io is suspected to be a penetrating radiation signature from an erupting volcano, and several of Io’s other volcanos can also be seen, including a plume circled in the image.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI.
The images were taken during the 17th flyby of Jupiter by Juno. Juno orbits Jupiter, although it never comes very close to any of the moons. The first images were obtained on December 21 at 12:00, 12:15 and 12:20 coordinated universal time (UTC; translate to your time zone), before Io entered Jupiter’s shadow. Io itself is seen as half-illuminated, with an eruption visible as a bright spot just past the edge of the terminator. As explained by Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, the JunoCam lead from the Planetary Science Institute:
The ground is already in shadow, but the height of the plume allows it to reflect sunlight, much like the way mountaintops or clouds on the Earth continue to be lit after the sun has set.
Io’s eruptions are so powerful they can be seen even from a long distance away from the moon. In this case, reflected light from the moon Europa also helped to make the plume more visible, as seen in images from the SRU, according to Heidi Becker, lead of Juno’s Radiation Monitoring Investigation, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
As a low-light camera designed to track the stars, the SRU can only observe Io under very dimly lit conditions. Dec. 21 gave us a unique opportunity to observe Io’s volcanic activity with the SRU using only Europa’s moonlight as our lightbulb.
A volcanic eruption on Io seen by the Galileo spacecraft in 1997.
Image via NASA/JPL/DLR.
Another view from Galileo – Io’s surface is very colorful and mottled, due to ongoing volcanic deposits.
Image via NASA/JPL.
Juno’s JIRAM instrument is even more versatile, able to see volcanic hotspots on Io in both daylight and at night. According to Alberto Adriani, a researcher at Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics:
Though Jupiter’s moons are not JIRAM’s primary objectives, every time we pass close enough to one of them, we take advantage of the opportunity for an observation. The instrument is sensitive to infrared wavelengths, which are perfect to study the volcanism of Io. This is one of the best images of Io that JIRAM has been able to collect so far.
While the new Juno images were taken a lot farther away from Io the the previous ones, there is still a lot of information that scientists can obtain from them. For instance, they can provide new insights into how Jupiter interacts with its five moons – causing phenomena such as Io’s volcanic activity or the freezing of the moon’s atmosphere during an eclipse. Even though Io is very small, its gravitational interaction with Jupiter drives the moon’s volcanoes, which produce huge umbrella-like plumes of sulfur dioxide gas and extensive lava fields. That “stretching” causes friction and intense heat in Io’s interior, sparking massive eruptions across its surface.
A closer view of volcanic plains near Io’s south pole, taken by Voyager 1 in 1979.
Image via NASA/JPL/USGS.
Io’s volcanoes were first seen by NASA’s Voyager spacecraft in 1979, with the plumes arcing over the mottled and very colorful surface which made the moon look like a giant pizza. The eruptions continuously coat the surface with silicates and sulfur compounds. Io also has an extremely thin atmosphere consisting mostly of sulfur dioxide.
Juno – which orbits Jupiter every 53 days – is approximately halfway through its primary mission, and is scheduled to complete its mapping of Jupiter in July 2021.
Bottom line:
Io’s volcanic eruptions are an incredible sight, surprising for a small moon so far from the sun. The earlier Voyager and Galileo missions imaged them in beautiful detail, and now the Juno spacecraft – even though much farther away from Io – has also seen them, providing new observations and data about this geological wonder orbiting Jupiter.
This massive 780-foot (238 meters) crop circle appeared in 2001 in the remote area of Milk Hill in Wiltshire, England. The elaborate design is composed of 409 circles that form a pattern called a double, or six-sided, triskelion, which is a motif consisting of three interlocking spirals.
Credit: Handy Marks | public domain
Crop circles — strange patterns that appear mysteriously overnight in farmers' fields—provoke puzzlement, delight and intrigue among the press and public alike. The circles are mostly found in the United Kingdom, but have spread to dozens of countries around the world in past decades. The mystery has inspired countless books, blogs, fan groups, researchers (dubbed "cereologists") and even Hollywood films.
Despite having been studied for decades, the question remains: Who — or what — is making them?
Early crop circles
Many people believe that crop circles have been reported for centuries, a claim repeated in many books and websites devoted to the mystery. Their primary piece of evidence is a woodcut from 1678 that appears to show a field of oat stalks laid out in a circle. Some take this to be a first-hand eyewitness account of a crop circle, but a little historical investigation shows otherwise.
A woodcut pamphlet that some claim represents an early crop circle.
The woodcut actually illustrates what in folklore is called a "mowing devil" legend, in which an English farmer told a worker with whom he was feuding that he "would rather pay the Devil himself" to cut his oat field than pay the fee demanded. The source of the harvesting is not unknown or mysterious; it is indeed Satan himself, who — complete with signature horns and a tail — can be seen in the woodcut holding a scythe.
Some claim that the first crop circles (though they were not called that at the time) appeared near the small town of Tully, Australia. In 1966, a farmer said he saw a flying saucer rise up from a swampy area and fly away; when he went to investigate he saw a roughly circular area of debris and apparently flattened reeds and grass, which he assumed had been made by the alien spacecraft (but which police investigators said was likely caused by a natural phenomena such as a dust devil or waterspout). Referred in the press as "flying saucer nests," this story is more a UFO report than a crop circle report.
As in the 1678 mowing devil legend, the case for it being linked to crop circles is especially weak when we consider that the impression or formation was not made in a crop of any kind but instead in ordinary grass. A round impression in a lawn or grassy area is not necessarily mysterious (as anyone with a kiddie pool in the back yard knows). Indeed, mysterious circles have appeared in grass throughout the world that are sometimes attributed to fairies but instead caused by disease.
Modern crop circles
In fact, the first real crop circles didn't appear until the 1970s, when simple circles began appearing in the English countryside. The number and complexity of the circles increased dramatically, reaching a peak in the 1980s and 1990s when increasingly elaborate circles were produced, including those illustrating complex mathematical equations.
In July 1996, one of the world's most complex and spectacular crop circles appeared in England, across a highway from the mysterious and world-famous Stonehenge monument in the Wiltshire countryside. It was astonishing fractal pattern called a Julia Set, and while some simple or rough circles might be explained away as the result of a strange weather phenomenon, this one unmistakably demonstrated intelligence. The only question was whether that intelligence was terrestrial or extra-terrestrial.
Making the design all the more mysterious, it was claimed that the circle appeared in less than an hour and during the daytime — which, if true, would be virtually impossible for hoaxers to accomplish. The circle became one of the most famous and important crop circles in history.
It was later revealed that the circle had in fact been made in about three hours (by three hoaxers) very early that morning. It simply hadn't been noticed until the following afternoon when spotted from an airplane overhead.
People inspect crop circles within a golden wheat field in Switzerland. The photo was taken on July 29, 2007.
Credit: Jabberocky public domain
Theories & explanations
Unlike other mysterious phenomenon such as psychic powers, ghosts, or Bigfoot, there is no doubt that crop circles are "real." The evidence that they exist is clear and overwhelming. The real question is instead what creates them — and there are ways to investigate that question.
We can look at both internal and external evidence to evaluate crop circles. Internal information includes the content and meaning of the designs (is there anything that indicates that any information contained in the "messages" is of extraterrestrial origin?), and external information, including the physical construction of the crop designs themselves (is there anything that indicates that the designs were created by anything other than humans?)
Crop circle enthusiasts have come up with many theories about what create the patterns, ranging from the plausible to the absurd. One explanation in vogue in the early 1980s was that the mysterious circle patterns were accidentally produced by the especially vigorous sexual activity of horny hedgehogs. Some people have suggested that the circles are somehow created by localized and precise wind patterns, or by scientifically undetectable Earth energy fields and meridians called ley lines.
Others, such as molecular biologist Horace Drew, suggest that the answer lies instead in time travel or alien life. He theorizes that the patterns could be made by human time travelers from the distant future to help them navigate our planet. Drew, working on the assumption that the designs are intended as messages, believes he has decoded crop circle symbols and that they contain messages such as "Believe," "There is good out there," "Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises," and "We oppose deception" (all, presumably, in English).
However, these odd, pseudo-biblical messages undermine the credibility of the crop circles, or at least the meaning read into them. Of all the information that an extraterrestrial intelligence might choose to convey to humanity — ranging from how to contact them to engineering secrets of faster-than-light travel — these aliens chose to impart intentionally cryptic messages about false gifts, broken promises, and hope for mankind (along with what seems to be a reference to a popular "The X-Files" slogan).
Many who favor an extraterrestrial explanation claim that aliens physically make the patterns themselves from spaceships; others suggest that they do it using invisible energy beams from space, saving them the trip down here. Still others believe that it is human, not extraterrestrial, thought and intelligence that is behind the patterns — not in the form of hoaxers but some sort of global psychic power that manifests itself in wheat and other crops.
Another triskelion crop circle. The symbol can be used to represent cycles, progress or competition.
Credit: Thomas J. Sutter, Jr. public domain
While there are countless theories, the only known, proven cause of crop circles is humans. Their origin remained a mystery until September 1991, when two men confessed that they had created the patterns for decades as a prank to make people think UFOs had landed (they had been inspired by the 1966 Tully UFO report). They never claimed to have made all the circles — many were copycat pranks done by others — but their hoax launched the crop circle phenomena.
Most crop circle researchers admit that the vast majority of crop circles are created by hoaxers. But, they claim, there's a remaining tiny percentage that they can't explain. The real problem is that (despite unproven claims by a few researchers that stalks found inside "real" crop circles show unusual characteristics), there is no reliable scientific way to distinguish "real" crop circles from man-made ones.
Crop circle features
While there are always a few exceptions, virtually all crop circles share a set of common characteristics.
Circles.
Crop circles, as the name implies, almost always involve circles — rarely triangles, rectangles, or squares, though some designs contain straight or curved lines. Perhaps not coincidentally, a circle is the easiest pattern for hoaxers to create.
This design of three flying birds was created on Aug. 3, 2003, in the county of Wiltshire in southern England. The birds, which resemble swallows, have ever-diminishing circles trailing behind their wing tips.
Credit: public domain
Nocturnal creation.
Crop circles are formed overnight, often sighted by farmers or passersby the next morning. Though there seems no logical reason for extraterrestrials or earth energies to only create patterns at night, it is obviously a great advantage for hoaxers to create the designs under the cover of darkness; full moon nights are especially popular.
Camera shyness.
Crop circles have never been recorded being made (except, of course, for those created by hoaxers). This is a very suspicious trait; after all, if mysterious earthly forces or aliens are at work, there's no reason to think that they wouldn't happen when cameras are recording.
Access to roads.
Crop circles usually appear in fields that provide reasonably easy public access, close to roads and highways. They rarely appear in remote, inaccessible areas. Because of this, the patterns are usually noticed within a day or two of their creation by passing motorists.
There are many theories about what creates crop circles, including aliens, mysterious vortices, time travelers and wind patterns, but they all lack one important element: good evidence. The only known cause of crop circles is humans. Perhaps one day a mysterious, unknown source will be discovered for crop circles, but until the perhaps they are best thought of as collective public art.
Astronomers estimate 100 billion habitable Earth-like planets in the Milky Way, 50 sextillion in the universe
Astronomers estimate 100 billion habitable Earth-like planets in the Milky Way, 50 sextillion in the universe
Featured image is an infrared image of the core of the Milky Way, captured by NASA’s Spitzer space telescope. Infrared imaging allows you to see many stars which are normally obscured by intergalactic dust.
Astronomers at the University of Auckland claim that there are actually around 100 billion habitable, Earth-like planets in the Milky Way — significantly more than the previous estimate of around 17 billion. There are roughly 500 billion galaxies in the universe, meaning there is somewhere in the region of 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (5×1022) habitable planets. I’ll leave you to do the math on whether one of those 50 sextillion planets has the right conditions for nurturing alien life or not.
The previous figure of 17 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way came from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in January, which analyzed data from the Kepler space observatory. Kepler essentially measures the dimming (apparent magnitude) of stars as planets transit in front of them — the more a star dims, the larger the planet. Through repeated observations we can work out the planet’s orbital period, from which we can usually derive the orbital distance and surface temperature. According to Phil Yock from the University of Auckland, Kepler’s technique generally finds “Earth-sized planets that are quite close to parent stars,” and are therefore “generally hotter than Earth [and not habitable].”
The University of Auckland’s technique, called gravitational microlensing, instead measures the number of Earth-size planets that orbit at twice the Sun-Earth distance. This results in a list of planets that are generally cooler than Earth — but by interpolating between this new list, and Kepler’s list, the Kiwi astronomers hope to generate a more accurate list of habitable, Earth-like planets. “We anticipate a number in the order of 100 billion,” says Yock.
Gravitational microlensing, an effect theorized by Einstein back in 1936, is exactly what it sounds like. Essentially, light emitted by a star is bent by the gravity of massive objects, ultimately allowing astronomers to work out just how large those objects are. Gravitational microlensing has been used in recent years to detect planets the size of Neptune or Jupiter, and now Yock his colleagues at the University of Auckland have proposed a new method for detecting Earth-sized planets. The astronomers hope to use this new microlensing technique with a huge suite of telescopes — located in Chile, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and Texas — to confirm their estimate of 100 billion Earth-like habitable planets.
Suffice it to say, if the Milky Way contains 100 billion Earth-like planets, and there’s somewhere in the region of 500 billion galaxies, then there’s an extremely high chance of other planets harboring life. As for how we’ll get to those planets, though — or, alternatively, how the residents of those planets will get to us — remains a very big question. The nearest probably-habitable planet is Tau Ceti e, which is 11.9 light years from Earth. The fastest spacecraft ever, Helios II, traveled at 43 miles per second (70km/s), or 0.000234c (the speed of light). At that speed it would take 51,000 years for a spacecraft to reach Tau Ceti e.
Harold White’s possible Alcubierre warp drive, and star ship
It gets worse: Helios II was only travelling that fast because it was orbiting close to the Sun; Voyager, for example, travels at just 8 miles per second (so, about 200,000 years to reach Tau Ceti e). To reach another star within a reasonable time period (say, 50-100 years) we would need a propulsion system that’s capable of around 0.1c (10% light speed). There are a few proposed methods for reaching such insane speeds (antimatter rockets, fusion rockets), but nothing that’s being immediately (and seriously) considered for interstellar travel. Who knows, maybe NASA’s warp drive will pan out? If they can work out the whole annihilating-the-star-system-upon-arrival issue, that is…
Gravitational microlensing unlocks the secret of alien life
Research paper: doi: 10.1093/mnras/stt318 – “Extending the planetary mass function to Earth mass by microlensing at moderately high magnification”
10 Unsettling Astronomical Incidents and Phenomena (Video)
10 Unsettling Astronomical Incidents and Phenomena (Video)
An exploration of ten of the most unsettling astrophysical events including Dyson Sphere candidates, a star containing plutonium, the Wow! Signal and others.
Author and futurist John Michael Godier explores the universe in weekly documentary videos released randomly.
These videos center on science, future technology and the mysteries of the universe. Additionally, John releases irregular videos covering breaking news on important developments in space science and technology as they happen.
MILIEUWist je dat het dieper gelegen deel van de Stille Oceaan enkele eeuwen achterloopt? Dat betekent dat dat gedeelte van de oceaan nog niets ondervindt van de klimaatopwarming. Meer zelfs: het diepste deel koelt nog steeds af. Een recente studie gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijk tijdschriftScience legt uit hoe dat precies komt.
Enkel het diepste gedeelte van de Stille Oceaan loopt enkele eeuwen achter. Datzelfde diepe gedeelte is eigenlijk nog bezig met het verwerken van de Kleine IJstijd: die duurde van de vijftiende tot en met de negentiende eeuw en het was tot wel twee graden kouder dan de gemiddelde temperatuur van vandaag. Al lijkt twee graden niet veel, in werkelijkheid is dat een behoorlijk groot verschil. Zeker wat klimaatverschijnselen betreft. De bovenste laag van de oceaan stijgt overigens wel gewoon in temperatuur. Sinds 1971 is de oceaantemperatuur om de tien jaar 0,1 graden Celsius warmer geworden. Die stijging in temperatuur zou gelden voor het water tot op een diepte van minstens 3.000 meter.
Maar hoe kan het dan dat een deel van de oceaan zich nog steeds in de Kleine IJstijd waant? Krachtige zeestromen zorgen dat het water in de oceaan circuleert. Die ondoordringbare zeestroom zorgt ervoor dat de onderste laag tot zelfs duizenden jaren lang niet in contact komt met ook maar een streepje zonlicht. Bijgevolg is er geen sprake van een temperatuurstijging.
Veranderingen in het klimaat “Ons doel was om een model te ontwikkelen dat laat zien hoe de diepere oceaan reageert op veranderingen in het klimaat”, aldus Peter Huybers, een van de onderzoekers. Het resultaat is een model dat suggereert dat de dieper gelegen delen van de oceaan nog bezig zijn met afkoelen.
Klimaatopwarming
De oceaan speelt een belangrijke rol bij de klimaatopwarming. Doordat er zulke grote verschillen blijken te zijn tussen de bovenste en onderste laag van de oceaan stellen de onderzoekers zich nu de vraag hoeveel warmte de oceaan in werkelijkheid absorbeerde. Die vraag dient beantwoord te worden door bijkomend onderzoek.
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Verhaal rond dood van bekende complottheoreticus zit vol gaten. De zaak-Spiers wordt steeds vreemder
Foto: Facebook/Max Spiers
Verhaal rond dood van bekende complottheoreticus zit vol gaten. De zaak-Spiers wordt steeds vreemder
De Britse complottheoreticus Max Spiers stierf in Polen onder onverklaarbare omstandigheden. Vlak voor zijn dood had hij zijn moeder verteld dat hij niet veilig was.
Zijn moeder hoopt nu dat een onderzoek de ‘enorme gaten’ in het verhaal rond zijn dood kan opvullen.
Spiers was in Polen voor een conferentie. Hij bleef slapen bij een vriendin in Warschau, waar hij plotseling ziek werd en twee liter zwarte vloeistof opbraakte.
Geen doodsoorzaak
Vlak voordat hij op 16 juli 2016 stierf schreef hij in een bericht aan zijn moeder Vanessa Bates: “Ik zit in de problemen. Als er iets met me gebeurt, ga dan op onderzoek uit.”
Pas een week na zijn dood werd zijn lichaam onderzocht. Britse artsen konden geen doodsoorzaak vaststellen.
Het onderzoek lag enige tijd stil en is sinds maandag weer hervat.
Enorme gaten
“Ik wil antwoorden,” zei Bates tegen The Guardian. “In belangrijke delen van het verhaal zitten enorme gaten.”
Toen de vriendin, Monika Duval, de laptop en telefoon van Spiers terugkreeg, was de laptop leeggemaakt en miste de simkaart uit zijn telefoon. Later kreeg ze de sim alsnog terug.
Spiers (39) gaf lezingen over paranormale en politieke complottheorieën.
Machtig pedonetwerk
Vlak voor zijn dood deed hij onderzoek naar een organisatie die volgens hem betrokken was bij een machtig pedonetwerk.
“Hij zei dat hij zich niet veilig voelde,” aldus Bates. “Hij gebruikte zelfs de woorden: ‘Ik denk dat ik vermoord kan worden’.”
Ze zei dat ze geen idee heeft wat er in Polen is gebeurd.
Veel tegenstrijdigheden
Een Poolse advocaat heeft getuigen in Polen geïnterviewd, maar daar verwacht Bates weinig van.
“De antwoorden die je krijgt leiden alleen maar tot meer vragen,” zei ze. “Het is een zaak met heel veel tegenstrijdigheden.”
Het onderzoek gaat naar verwachting vier dagen duren.
How much do conspiracy theorists mistrust, doubt and even hate NASA? A warning issued in 2002 that a killer asteroid had a remote chance of hitting the Earth in early 2019 was quickly retracted, yet suspicions of a cover-up appeared immediately and never went away. In fact, they seem to be growing because, duh, it’s January 2019! Are we all gonna die, breath a sigh of relief or something in-between?
On July 9, 2002, MIT astronomers discovered a 2 km (1.2 mile) wide asteroid-ish space rock that was on an odd 42-degree tilted orbit around the Sun. Named 2002 NT7, the rock was tracked to make a 2.29 year out-of-sync trip around the solar system. That didn’t concern them as much as a simulation they ran a week after its discovery which showed that 2002 NT7 was possibly on a collision course with Earth in February 2019, making it the first near-Earth object to be assigned a positive rating on not just one but two impact scales both the Torino Scale and the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale, with the approximate date for a low-but-not-no possibly impact on February 1, 2019.
Then things got scary. On July 25, 2002, the low probability of a February 2019 impact was raised to 1-in-250,000. That’s more likely than the odds of getting hit by lightning, getting bitten by a shark, getting injured on an amusement park ride or winning a major lottery, which all happen a few times every year. At that point, some people started to panic.
“Asteroid Could Wipe Out a Continent in 2019”
That was just one of the headlines which caused the scientists to run the simulation again (and probably again and again) until they got a better number. On August 1, 2002, it was announced that there was no chance that 2002 NT7 would hit Earth at any time in 2019 nor for the next 100 years, and the asteroid was removed from the Sentry Risk Table. NASA attributed the new probability to new data and promptly forgot about it. Conspiracy theorists attributed it to a cover-up and never forgot.
Which brings us to 2019, when we’ll finally find out who is right. NASA suspiciously did some new calculations, changing the date 2002 NT7 would be closest to Earth to January 13, 2019, and the distance to .4 AU (61,010,000 km; 37,910,000 mi) from us or farther away than Mars.
“NASA killer asteroid ‘COVER UP’ as 60,000mph space rock ‘due to hit Earth NEXT MONTH’”
That new prediction did nothing to kill the conspiracy theorists, as this Daily Star headline attests. Are they right? A good way to find out is to ask them what they’re plans are for Super Bowl Sunday on February 3rd.
If we’re still here on January 14th, get ready to read this story again in 2021 … you know those NASA cover-up conspiracy theorists don’t give up THAT easily.
What would be the weirdest thing you could possibly imagine seeing in deep space? If you guessed a Tesla roadster, you’re probably right – although NASA occasionally spots some truly anomalous or curious things out the cold expanse of airless blackness surrounding us. The latest strange find comes thanks to NASA’s New Horizons space probe which last week found an odd “snowman world” in the Kuiper belt at the distant edges of our solar system.
Composite image of Ultima Thule.
The world’s nickname comes from the irregular shape of Ultima Thule, an icy minor planet at the far end of our cosmic neighborhood some 6.5 billion kilometers from Earth. Ultima Thule consists of two separate lobes seemingly joined together which give the impression of a simple snowman. The New Horizons probe was able to fly within 27,000 kilometers (17,000 miles) of Ultima Thule and gather several different types of images of the curious world.
New Horizon’s flyby of Ultima Thule marks a new record for the most distant object explored in our solar system. “This flyby is a historic achievement,” says New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern. “Never before has any spacecraft team tracked down such a small body at such high speed so far away in the abyss of space. New Horizons has set a new bar for state-of-the-art spacecraft navigation.”
The two lobes of Ultima Thule appear to have similar composition.
According to Stern, the data collected by New Horizons is a “treasure trove” for him and other NASA scientists to pore over in the coming months as the space agency slowly downloads the data over the next two years. The odd binary minor planet could reveal new secrets about the process of planetary formation and the early days of our solar system.
While a couple of neat pictures of a weird snowman world aren’t exactly likely to draw major headlines, this new discovery shows just how close we are getting to being able to fully explore the strange, distant worlds of deep space. Who knows what kind of weirdness we’ll uncover in just a few more decades?
Long UFO Over Asian Temple In Vietnam During Overcast Day On Jan 2019, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Long UFO Over Asian Temple In Vietnam During Overcast Day On Jan 2019, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 1, 2019
Location of sighting: Hue, Vietnam
Source: MUFON #97520
A person in Vietnam this week was at a temple when they noticed something strange having over the building. A long cigar shaped UFO having long ways. When the UFO was noticed it moved off and seemed to become less and less visible as the photo evidence already shows. I enlarge the UFO and added contrast so that we can see it in more detail, so each photo from the eyewitness has a close up of the craft.
UFOs are frequently seen over temples and old structures, because they too have a high interest in human history and what we prefer to preserve.
As you can see the cigar UFO is thinner at its top and then the same width all the way down the craft until it reaches the bottom which is a half circle. This is absolutely a solid object that suddenly realised its been spotted and tried to cloak itself as it moved away. Proof that aliens do make mistakes, because they got caught.
A Chinese robot has started exploring the far side of the Moon.
The Chang'e-4 probe will explore the surface and carry out geological experiments. China plans to follow this up with further missions to return Moon rock to laboratories on Earth.
But it's not just scientists who are fascinated with the Moon's hidden face.
Musicians, film-makers and, of course, conspiracy theorists have all been inspired by that secret, barren landscape.
'There is no dark side of the Moon, really. As a matter of fact it's all dark.'
For music fans, the phrase Dark Side of the Moon will forever conjure up Pink Floyd's 1973 concept album.
In reality, the far side of the Moon is not dark - we never see it because the Moon orbits the Earth at around the same rate it spins. All parts of the Moon receive sunlight.
It's likely that the members of Pink Floyd weren't referring to this phenomenon of Tidal Locking with their album title, though.
The Dark Side of the Moon, here, is a metaphor for mental illness.
Image copyrightNSSDC
Image captionOne of the first pictures of the far side of the moon.
The Moon has been thought to have an effect on events - and moods - here on Earth for thousands of years.
Ancient Babylonians recorded the phases of the Moon on clay tablets.
But it wasn't until Isaac Newton identified gravity in the 18th Century that we began to understand its effect on tides.
In 1959 a Russian probe took the first photographs of the Moon's hidden face, and it was first seen by the naked eye almost ten years later when American astronauts flew past.
The 'Castle' on the Moon
There seems to be something tantalising about the hidden side of the Moon, though. The thought that it's always there, circling the Earth, yet just out of reach.
And that's sparked several conspiracy theories over the years.
There have been claims that astronauts saw a secret lunar base there - even some kind of castle. And some have even gone so far as to suggest aliens were encountered on the lunar surface.
Nasa, unsurprisingly, says there's no truth to any of these theories.
It does seem possible, though, that at the height of the Cold War between the USA and Russia, both sides considered using the far side of the Moon for a show of force.
Reports claim there were plans to detonate a nuclear bomb there as a show of strength. Thankfully even if that's true, the idea never got anywhere close to lift-off.
Image copyrightTWITTER/CGTNOFFICIALImage captionNo castles, no secret bases... this picture was sent back by the Chinese probe
Soul-eating aliens?
Writers and film-makers have been inspired by the far side of the Moon, too, though none seem to have produced anything with the longevity of Pink Floyd's masterpiece.
A 1990 horror film entitled The Dark Side of the Moon tells the story of a group of astronauts who discover an abandoned shuttle there. They later discover it went missing in the Bermuda Triangle and is home to an alien which feeds on human souls.
We haven't had the chance to watch, but its average score of 2.6 on Rotten Tomatoes seems about right.
In literature, the website Goodreads returns more than 200 results for books entitled Dark Side of the Moon, including a 1976 tale from children's author William Corlett about the journey of a lonely, troubled astronaut.
So whatever the Chang'e-4 probe tells us about rock formations and craters, it seems certain that the hidden face of the Moon will continue to exert a gravitational pull on imaginations here on planet Earth.
Le paradoxe de Enrico Fermi et les Extraterrestres - PART II
Le paradoxe de Enrico Fermi et les Extraterrestres - PART II
Les civilisations extra-terrestres existent et nous visitent, les ovnis en sont une manifestation
Les civilisations extra-terrestres existent et nous visitent, les ovnis en sont une manifestation: cette possibilité avait été évoquée durant la discussion entre Fermi et ses collègues, mais a été rejeté à cause de l'absence de preuves en faveurs de l'HET (à noter que cela remonte historiquement au tout début du phénomène).
L'HET est aujourd'hui l'explication du phénomène ovni privilégiée par la majorité des ufologues, contrairement à la communauté scientifique qui privilégie à l'inverse le modèle sociopsychologique du phénomène ovni. Pour les ufologues, le paradoxe repose sur le rejet du phénomène ovni comme manifestation des ET. Le rejet peut provenir d'une discordance entre la prédiction de ce que serait la manifestation d'une civilisation ET et le comportement des ovnis qui ne manifestent pas une volonté de prise de contact. Il faudrait donc, selon ses ufologues, commencer par s'interroger sur la validité de nos attentes sur la forme que devrait prendre la manifestation d'une civilisation ET visitant la terre.
Si nous ne comprenons pas comment les voyages interstellaires sont possibles, la source d'énergie très puissante dont semble disposer les ovnis ainsi que nombre d'autres capacités affichées par ces engins, ne serait-il pas normal que cette incompréhension s'étende à la logique de leur manifestations? Ainsi, toujours selon les ufologues, le raisonnement qui présente la discordance entre le comportement des ovnis et ce qu'on attendrait d'une manifestation d'ET ne peut être un argument pour rejeter le phénomène ovni comme possible manifestation des ET. On peut néanmoins se demander si cette tout-puissance ne rapproche pas plutôt la croyance dans l'HET d'un phénomène religieux. Le mouvement sceptique contemporain Michael Shermer dit par exemple ironiquement à ce propos: Toute civilisation extraterrestre ayant une avance technologie infiniment supérieur à la nôtre ne peut pas être distinguée de Dieu.
Critique de l'anthropisme
Ne pas voir d'extraterrestres n'implique pas qu'ils n'existent pas.
La grande taille de l'univers est un argument en faveur de l'existence de vie extraterrestre évoluée. Quelle que soit la probabilité d'apparition naturelle de vie intelligente comme la nôtre, dès lors qu'elle n'est pas nulle, l'apparition est très probable. En effet, il faut tenir compte de la multiplicité des occasions de se réaliser. Soit p la probabilité d'apparaître en une occasion, la probabilité d'apparaître au moins 1 fois en n occasions est 1-(1-p)n ; et pour n très grand cette valeur tend vers 1. Même si p est extrêmement petit, avec un nombre d'occasions suffisamment grand, l'événement se produira avec quasi certitude.
C'est la justification mathématique de la loi de Murphy : "Tout ce qui peut aller de travers ira de travers". Plus exactement il faudrait dire, aussi petite que puisse être la probabilité de réalisation d'un événement, il se produira avec quasi certitude dès lors qu'on lui donne suffisamment d'occasions de se produire. On comprendra intuitivement que si on essaye simultanément toutes les combinaisons du loto on est certain de gagner. La probabilité de gagner avec une grille peut être extrêmement faible, si on essaie toutes les combinaisons, on est certain de gagner. Il en va de même pour l'apparition de la vie.
La probabilité d'existence d'au moins deux civilisations intelligentes comme la nôtre est de l'ordre du carré de cette probabilité très proche de 1; elle est donc elle aussi proche de 1. Dès qu'on admet que l'apparition de vie intelligente comme la nôtre est le fruit de processus naturels aléatoires, alors on doit admettre la possibilité de l'existence de multiples civilisations extra-terrestres.
La panspermie augmenterait la probabilité d'existence de vie extra-terrestre. Il faut supposer que l'apparition de la vie et de l'homme ne soit pas le fruit de processus aléatoires et que la probabilité d'apparition naturelle soit nulle pour pouvoir soutenir l'idée que l'homme serait seul dans l'univers. Dans ce cas il resterait à déterminer ce qui est à l'origine de l'apparition de la vie et de l'homme.
LES ERREURS DANS LE PARADOXE DE FERMI TELS QUE LES SCEPTIQUES L'UTILISENT
Voici comment on présente généralement le paradoxe de Fermi:
"Vous devez être au courant de deux théories associées: l'équation de Drake (équation de Greenbank dans Britannica) et le paradoxe de Fermi. L'équation de Drake est une méthode scientifique pour spéculer combien de civilisations intelligentes pourraient exister dans une galaxie particulière à n'importe quel moment. Le paradoxe de Fermi résulte de croire que l'équation de Drake fournit une solution supérieure à 1 pour notre galaxie: si au moins une civilisation nous précède de plus de cinq million d'années environ, alors elle a développé les voyages interstellaires, et il devrait y avoir une présence abondante de ses représentants dans nos cieux et aussi physiquement sue notre sol à ce jour. Or il n'y a rien de tel. C'est le coeur du paradoxe de Fermi. Si vous croyez que la vie intelligente est courante, alors vous devez expliquer où sont les extraterrestres. Considérant que l'absence de preuve n'est pas la preuve de l'absence, on se doit de constater que les extraterrestres n'abondent pas sur Terre et que donc, il n'y a pas de vie intelligente ailleurs que sur la Terre dans notre galaxie."
A partir de cette présentation consensuelle du paradoxe de Fermi, nous pouvons d'ores et déjà constituer une liste des croyances et présupposés qui s'y rattachent:
L'équation de Drake est supposée vérifiée. Mais elle ne l'est peut-être pas. Il n'y a à l'heure actuelle aucun moyen de vérifier cette équation, elle n'est qu'une astuce non encore mise à l'épreuve de l'expérience.
L'équation de Drake mentionne les chances de la présence de la vie dans une galaxie. Elle ne prétend pas évaluer les chances de la présence de l'intelligence dans les formes de vie de la galaxie. Il y a là encore une fois la confusion fréquente entre la vie et la vie intelligente. Par exemple, SETI ne recherche pas la vie dans l'univers, mais la vie intelligente dans notre galaxie. Il y a donc besoin d'une deuxième équation, distincte qui permettrait d'évaluer les chances d'évolution d'une forme de vie vers l'intelligence. Cette équation n'existe pas encore.
L'Equation de Drake traite des chances de l'apparition de la vie dans UNE galaxie à la fois. Il pourrait y avoir des Galaxies ou la vie pullule, et des galaxies sans vie. A aucun moment, l'équation de Drake ne permet d'affirmer que les chances de présence de la vie sont identiques dans TOUTES les galaxies.
Le paradoxe de Fermi se fonde sur la supposition que l'équation de Drake a un résultat de 1 ou plus pour notre galaxie. Le paradoxe de Fermi ne s'applique donc pas forcément, parce que ce résultat est hypothétique et est utilisé comme hypothèse. Ce n'est pas un résultat établi.
On présuppose que si une civilisation intelligente existe depuis quelques millions d'années, elle développera le voyage interstellaire. Mais nous pouvons également supposer qu'aucune civilisation ne dure aussi longtemps. Les civilisations humaines, les seules civilisations pour lesquelles nous avons des données historiques, a une histoire de répétitions de développements et de désastres. Sur l'échelle courte d'environ mille années, nous pourrions avoir l'impression d'un développement continu, mais à n'importe quelle échelle plus longue ou plus courte, nous voyons que des civilisations et des espèces apparaissent, puis disparaissent, que leurs acquis se perdent, et que de nouvelles civilisations repartent quasiment à partir de rien.
Si nous regardons nos accomplissement, nous ne pouvons que nous interroger: sommes nous sur le point de développer le voyage interstellaire, ou au bord de la destruction complète? Pour réaliser le voyage interstellaire, nous avons au moins trois obstacles principaux devant nous: le risque de surexploitation et de pollution de notre sphère écologique à un point où nous ne pourrons plus y survivre, le risque d'un accident nucléaire à grande échelle ou d'une guerre nucléaire, et le risque de destruction complète par la chute d'un astéroïde sur la Terre. Ces trois risques s'appliquent à n'importe quelle autre civilisation qui serait sur le point d'acquérir la capacité du voyage interstellaire, et il pourrait y avoir un grand nombre d'autres risques de disparition dont nous ne nous serions pas encore rendu compte. En d'autres termes, depuis que la vie existe sur Terre, l'intelligence aurait pu venir depuis longtemps aux espèces qui nous ont précédé, et ceci a été empêché.
On présuppose qu'une forme de vie intelligente extraterrestre poursuivrait le but du voyage interstellaire. Mais il pourrait y avoir un grand nombre de formes de vie intelligentes qui n'ont aucune notion de ce qu'est une étoile, ou aucun moyen physiologique de construire des machines, ou aucune curiosité. Est-ce vraiment déraisonnable de penser qu'une civilisation évoluée pourrait renoncer à la volonté d'explorer l'univers réel pour s'absorber plutôt le développement et les plaisirs des réalités virtuelles qu'ils mouleraient selon leur désirs pour atteindre le bonheur maximal?
Le paradoxe de Fermi tel qu'utilisé par les sceptiques se fonde sur l'idée qu'il devrait y avoir observation abondante de présence extraterrestre en nos cieux. C'est exactement ce que nous avons. Il y a réellement des signes abondants de la présence extraterrestre en nos cieux. Les personnes que les sceptiques qualifient de "croyant aux ovnis" sont précisément en train de nous dire qu'il y a des survols fréquents de la Terre par des engins volants extraterrestres. Nous devons donc inverser le raisonnement et les conclusions des sceptiques afin de revenir à la signification réelle du paradoxe de Fermi: il nous dit que les ovnis que nous voyons partout sont bel et bien d'origine extraterrestre.
Le paradoxe de Fermi tel que présenté par les sceptiques se fonde sur l'idée qu'il devrait y avoir observation abondante d'êtres extraterrestres également sur la terre. C'est également exactement ce que nous avons. Il y a réellement des signes abondants de la présence extraterrestre sur la terre et également sur la mer et sous la mer. Ce site web en traite. Il y a des millions de gens qui disent avoir été enlevés par des extraterrestres, des milliers de cas de mutilations de bétail, plus de 10,000 crop circles recensés, des milliers de récits de rencontre du troisième type tout autour du monde. Là encore nous devons retourner les conclusions des sceptiques: le paradoxe de Fermi serait alors une indication que toutes ces histoires passées et présentes de rencontres avec des aliens, d'enlèvements, de crop circles, de crash d'ovnis, de capture d'extraterrestres, d'autopsie d'extraterrestres sont tout simplement des faits réels.
Les sceptiques ne se satisfont cependant pas de ces cas, ils nous demandent une activité extraterrestre encore plus flagrante sur la Terre. Ils vous diront par exemple: d'après le paradoxe de Fermi, on devrait tous les jours sur Terre croiser des aliens qui nous apostropheraient en disant "Bonjour, je suis de la planète Gloups, et toi, d'oú viens-tu?"
Ils ignorent tout simplement un certain nombre de choses:
Premièrement, de tels récits existent. Il y a des cas où une ou plusieurs personnes racontent qu'un ou plusieurs êtres extraterrestres se sont présentés à eux et ont effectivement déclaré: "Bonjour, je suis de planète Glurps, d'où êtes vous?" ou encore "Excusez-moi, je suis en panne, sur quelle planète suis-je?" Il est bien sur légitime de remettre en cause la vérité de ce genre de récits, mais il n'est pas légitime de prétendre que de tels récits n'existent pas. Il y a en a en fait beaucoup.
Deuxièmement, ils présupposent que la plupart des extraterrestres qui nous visiteraient seraient capables de communiquer avec nous d'une façon aussi simple et naturelle. Mais le paradoxe de Fermi ne nous indique pas qu'une majorité d'étrangers parlerait au moins une de nos langues terrestres. Il ne nous indique pas à quoi une forme de vie intelligente et voyageuse devrait ressembler, ou s'ils doivent même avoir des corps que nous pouvons percevoir, ou s'ils doivent être suffisamment semblables à nous de sorte qu'ils puissent réellement communiquer avec nous, et ne mentionnons même pas que la notion même de l'intelligence chez des extraterrestre est totalement déterminée par ce que nous pouvons comprendre de nous-mêmes et appelons l'intelligence.
Troisièmement, ils présupposent que nous pouvons identifier une forme de vie extraterrestre nous rendant visite. Ce n'est pas le cas, si nous nous référons à des situations semblables qui se seraient produites pour l'humanité: Le peuple de Montezuma n'a pas perçu les envahisseurs espagnols comme des soldats de nature humaine qui ont traversé la mer et qui vont envahir leur terre, mais comme l'arrivée de leur dieu serpent à plume tel qu'annoncé dans les prophéties. Les peuples des îles isolées du Pacifiques n'ont pas décrit les premiers avions qui ont atterri chez eux comme des machines volantes construites par des humains plus avancés qu'eux technologiquement, mais comme des dieux qu'il fallait vénérer, d'ou l'apparition et le développement spectaculaire des "Cargo Cults".
Quatrièmement, on présuppose que des êtres extraterrestres seraient intéressé à serrer la main. Mais nous pourrions aussi bien présumer qu'une civilisation d'origine extraterrestre assez avancée pour le voyage interstellaire pourrait avoir des normes morales tout aussi avancées qui leur interdirait d'établir des contacts qui altéreraient totalement le cours normal de l'évolution humaine, ou même causeraient l'effondrement complet de la civilisation humaine, comme cela s'est produit sur Terre quand une civilisation entre en contact avec une autre civilisation, en dépit des similitudes globales. Rappelez-vous que les Indiens d'Amérique été presque totalement décimés juste en raison des germes de la grippe importés d'Europe. Après tout, nos propres astronautes, retournant de la Lune, ont été placés en quarantaine, bien que chacun à la NASA ait été convaincu qu'aucune vie n'existe sur la Lune. Imaginez les précautions si on avait pensé qu'il y a de la vie sur la Lune.
Cinquièmement, des personnes qui "croient aux ovnis" affirment que les extraterrestres sont bien entrés en contact avec des gouvernements de l'humanité, qu'ils ont noué des relations d'échanges technologiques, signé des traités, à l'heure actuelle et dans le passé. Naturellement, n'importe qui peut railler ces affirmations, mais un sceptiques qui voudrait rester logique et se baser sur le paradoxe de Fermi pour en conclure qu'il n'y a pas de vie intelligente dans le reste de l'univers ne peut pas se contenter de railler, il doit en toute rigueur inclure dans son raisonnement les preuves que ces récits ne sont que des fantaisies.
Il y a des centaines d'autres arguments et informations qui auraient leur place ici:
savez-vous par exemple que l'armée US expérimente déjà des tenues de combat qui confère l'invisibilité à son porteur? Peut on encore ignorer que nous avons des avions capable d'échapper aux radars? Peut-on éliminer la possibilité que des extraterrestres déambulent effectivement en grand nombre parmi nous sans que nous nous en rendions compte?
En tentant d'utiliser le paradoxe de Fermi comme une preuve qu'il n'y a aucune vie extraterrestre intelligente ailleurs dans notre galaxie, on ne doit pas oublier qu'on est dans le domaine du spéculatif, de l'hypothèse et de l'abstrait. On se doit de connaître, mentionner, prendre en compte, étudier, évaluer les nombreuses autres indications qui montrent, au contraire, qu'il y a la vie intelligente ailleurs dans l'univers, et que cette vie intelligente est entrée en contact avec nous. Voici un résumé de certaines de ces indications opposées, notez que l'ensemble de ce site web vous fournira plus de détails et bien d'autres informations qui ne sont pas présentées ici.
Que sont donc les objets volants au comportement intelligent et aux performances impossibles à réaliser avec la technologie humaine (accélérations de 40G par exemple) vus dans nos cieux, suivis par des témoins oculaires, enregistrés par des radars au sol, poursuivis par des chasseurs des armées de l'air, qui les visualisent également sur leurs radars, et confirmés par des études scientifiques des données recueillies? En appliquant le rasoir d'Okham, et en sans contredire fondamentalement le paradoxe de Fermi, l'explication la plus simple et la plus logique n'est-elle pas que ce sont des machines volantes d'origine extraterrestre?
Est-ce que les Forces Aériennes Chiliennes sont saisies de folie? Devons nous envoyer l'essentiel des hommes qui nous gouvernent à l'asile? Est-ce que les équipages des navettes spatiales devraient changer de modèle de caméras? Doit-on envoyer un bataillon de psychiatres vers la ville de Phoenix, en Arizona? Charles Halt mérite-t-il vraiment sa promotion au grade de général après avoir écrit ceci?
... et ainsi de suite. Visitez donc tout simplement le reste de ce site, et reprenez ensuite votre lecture de cette page
Enrico Fermi in Rome, mid-1930s
Le paradoxe de Fermi attribue des intentions aux formes de vies étrangères: on suppose que s'il y a la vie intelligente dans la galaxie, elle doit être abondamment répandue parce que la galaxie est assez vieille pour qu'elles aient eu le temps de développer la technologie pour nous rendre visite, et ainsi ils doivent nous rendre visite. Mais comment pouvons-nous être si sûrs qu'ils doivent nous rendre visite?
Sommes-nous en quoi que ce soit intéressants? Ils verraient peut-être l'humanité comme très primitive et absolument sans intérêt. Ils pourraient être autant évolués par rapport à nous que nous sommes évolués par rapport aux escargots par exemple. Est-ce que nous essayons de faire savoir à la population respectable des escargots ce que nous sommes, ou nous considérons-nous que de par leur nature limitée par rapport à nous, ce serait une idées ridicule?
Si des êtres étrangers qui nous visiteraient étaient juste un peu plus évolués que l'humanité, ne serait-il pas dangereux pour eux comme pour nous qu'ils établissent un contact direct? Sommes-nous vraiment inoffensifs? Est-ce que Cortez fut inoffensif pour les Aztèques, et était-il si sûr qu'il n'avait rien à craindre de la puissance militaire des Aztèques?
Si une civilisation débute sur une planète, puis atteint une autre planète, peut-être très éloignée, et y rencontre une autre civilisation, que se passe-t-il? Est-ce que ils joignent leur effort et continuent de progresser ensemble? Se détruisent-ils mutuellement? Bloquent-ils l'expansion de chacun? Le plus fort détruit-il le plus faible? Est-ce qu'ils se fédèrent ou est-ce qu'ils établissent des frontières? Le fond de l'affaire est que si une civilisation particulière est capable de résoudre toutes ces grandes questions liées au contact à grande échelle avec nombreuses civilisations, ils sont également tellement avancés que s'ils atteignent la terre, ils peuvent agir sans limitations: ils peuvent nous ignorer, ils peuvent se rendre invisible, ils peuvent nous influencer, nous contrôler, ils pourrait même nous avoir créés.
L'équation de Drake et sa séquelle, le paradoxe de Fermi sont des constructions mathématiques théoriques qui ne sont pas conformes aux observations et ont besoin donc d'être remplacées par de meilleures théories.
Les observations que je mentionne sont:
Il y a une vie abondante sur la Terre, il y a de la vie sur Mars, il y en a probablement sur Europe, il n'y a aucune vie sur la Lune, de nombreuses découvertes et indications récente nous montrent que la vie pullule dès que certaines conditions existent.
La vie intelligente est probablement très rare, comme les recherches SETI semblent nous l'indiquer. L'espèce humaine est certainement la seule espèce vivante du système solaire douées d'intelligence et possédant une technologie.
Il y a un très grand nombre de preuves physiques que des engins volants pilotés par une intelligence et ne provenant pas de l'intérieur du système solaire nous survolent, et la seule explication autant que la plus simple explication est que ce sont des engins volants pilotés par des extraterrestres capable de voyages interstellaires.
Il y a un très grand nombre de phénomènes divers rapportés par une quantité impressionnante de témoins: des enlèvements par des extraterrestres, des mutilations de bétail, des trace au sol, les "crop circles", des crashes d'OVNIS, des captures d'extraterrestres, des autopsies d'extraterrestres, des objets et des constructions inexplicables etc. Le doute se doit de régner lorsqu'on est confronté à ces histoires, mais l'affirmation "aucune visite d'extraterrestre n'a eu lieu" est pour le moins audacieuse.
'idée, centrale dans le paradoxe de Fermi, que nous devrions soit voir un peu partout sur notre planète des petits hommes verts se taper dans le dos, soit considérer qu'il n'y a pas de vie intelligente ailleurs que sur la Terre est une idée simpliste qui ne correspond pas à la complexité de la question, et laisse de côté un très grand nombre de possibilités qui méritent réflexion, parmi lesquelles:
Tout ce qui à trait aux ovnis et aux extraterrestres a été systématiquement dissimulé par différents services secrets aux Etats Unis, qui se sont attachés à rendre le sujet ridicule, de sorte que les témoins sont embarassés, les journalistes évitent de publier quoi que ce soit de sérieux, et les scientifiques qui souhaiteraient se pencher sur le sujet risquent leur réputation.
Toute théorie qui attribue un comportement ou des intentions à des visiteurs extraterrestres a autant de chance d'être juste que l'étaient les idées des Aztèques à propos du débarquement de Cortez. L'idée que nous serions capable de reconnaître ou simplement percevoir correctement des visiteurs extraterrestres tellement en avance qu'ils pourraient effectuer des voyages interstellaires est aussi sérieuse que les perceptions qu'une fourmi pourrait avoir à propos des humains lorsqu'un humain remue sa fourmilière avec un bâton.
Le paradoxe de Enrico Fermi et les Extraterrestres
Le paradoxe de Enrico Fermi et les Extraterrestres
Le paradoxe de Fermi est juste une indication de plus que les Ovnis peuvent bel et bien être d'origine extraterrestre. Si des civilisations avancées existent, disait Fermi, elles devraient visiter notre planète en ce moment. Les sceptiques interprètent tout de suite cela comme la preuve de l'inexistence d'extraterrestres Pourtant d'un autre côté de nombreuses personnes crédibles comme des pilotes qui ont été témoins de phénomènes disent: "mais ils sont peut être déjà là" et on s'en moque royalement. Il faut savoir ce que l'on veut dans cette histoire...
Le paradoxe de Enrico Fermi et les Extraterrestres
Dans son interprétation populaire, le paradoxe de Fermi déclare fondamentalement que s'il y avait une vie intelligente ailleurs que sur cette terre, ils devraient être déjà parmi nous, étant donné l'âge de la galaxie qui aurait laissé le temps à plusieurs civilisations extraterrestres d'en développer la technologie. Le paradoxe de Fermi pose cette question simple : "Mais où sont-ils ?". C'est Fermi qui le premier a eu l'audace de poser le débat dans un contexte scientifique. Pour résumer le paradoxe en quelques mots, on peut montrer que la Galaxie devrait déjà être entièrement colonisée à l'heure actuelle et donc 'ils' devraient être ici ! Les sceptiques utilisent cet argument d'une manière très curieuse: "Les OVNIS ne peuvent pas être extraterrestres, parce que le paradoxe de Fermi nous indique que s'il y avait une vie intelligente ailleurs, des extraterrestres devraient visiter notre planète en ce moment." Cette page explore donc le paradoxe du paradoxe de Fermi, en bref: le paradoxe de Fermi est juste une indication de plus que les OVNIS sont en bel et bien d'origine extraterrestre.
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (né le 29 septembre 1901 à Rome et décédé le 28 novembre 1954 à Chicago) est un célèbre physicien italien récompensé d'un prix Nobel de physique en 1938 pour ses travaux en physique nucléaire. Ses recherches serviront de socle à l'exploitation de l'énergie nucléaire par la suite. Il fut également lauréat de la médaille Hughes en 1942, de la médaille Franklin en 1947 et du prix Rumford en 1953.
Biographie
Enrico Fermi dans les années 1940
Enrico Fermi naît le 29 septembre 1901 à Rome. Il est le troisième enfant d'une famille originaire de Plaisance. Bon élève, il se passionne très vite pour la physique et les mathématiques et commence à étudier divers ouvrages qu'il achète et qui traitent de mécanique, d'optique, d'astronomie et d'acoustique. Un ami de son père, l'ingénieur Adolfo Amidei, qui prend conscience des qualités hors du commun du jeune Fermi, lui prête divers ouvrages traitant de mathématiques. Ainsi Fermi à 17 ans maitrise la géométrie analytique la géométrie projective, le calcul infinitésimal et intégral, et la mécanique rationnelle. Fermi intègre l'École Normale Supérieure de Pise.
A partir d'octobre 1918, Fermi étudie à l'Université de Pise au sein de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Pise. Comme à son habitude, il étudie seul divers problèmes de physique mathématique et consulte à ce soin des ouvrages de Poincaré, de Poisson ou de Appel. À partir de 1919 Fermi s'intéresse aux nouvelles théories comme la relativité ou la physique atomique, ainsi acquiert une grande connaissance de théories tels : la relativité restreinte, le corps noir ou encore le modèle de l'hydrogène de Bohr. Ainsi Fermi le seul à l'université au fait de ces théories en arrive sur l'insistance de ses professeurs à donner des conférences où ils exposent aux professeurs et aux assistants les dernières découvertes de physique atomique.
En janvier 1922 après 4 ans passés à l'université, Fermi publie son premier article qui traite de la relativité générale. Dans une communauté scientifique italienne hostile aux travaux d'Einstein, Fermi est l'un des rares avec Levi-Civita à défendre la théorie de la relativité.
En 1922, Fermi obtient son diplôme de fin d'étude après avoir présenté un mémoire sur la diffraction des rayons X.
Il fréquente ensuite divers physiciens de haut rang dans l'Italie de l'époque, avant de devenir pendant deux ans conférencier à l'université de Florence. Il devient par la suite professeur de physique théorique en 1926 à Rome. C'est durant cette période qu'il développera la théorie statistique quantique que l'on appellera plus tard la statistique de Fermi-Dirac.
À partir de 1932 il se tourne plus précisément vers la physique nucléaire, et c'est cette même année qu'il rédige un article sur la radioactivité β. En 1934, il développe sa théorie sur l'émission de rayonnement bêta et s'oriente vers la création d'isotopes radioactifs artificiels par bombardement de neutrons lents.
Avec le début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Fermi émigre au États-Unis le 2 janvier 1939 avec toute sa famille et enseigne à Columbia avec son collègue Leó Szilárd. Ils travaillent ensuite ensemble à l'université de Chicago à l'élaboration d'une pile atomique. C'est là que le 2 décembre 1942 est réussie la première réaction en chaîne contrôlée de fission créée par l'homme. C'est l'avènement du premier réacteur nucléaire. Il travaille ensuite au Laboratoire national de Los Alamos jusqu'à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale au sein du projet Manhattan. Il sera nommé citoyen états-unien en 1945 en récompense de ses travaux sur la bombe atomique.
En 1946 il accepte le poste de professeur au sein de l'INS (Institute for Nuclear Studies) qui deviendra plus tard l'institut Enrico-Fermi créé par l'université de Chicago. C'est en son honneur que sera créée la récompense Enrico-Fermi, qui sera décernée à partir de 1954 certaines années en récompense de travaux ou d'avancées exceptionnelles dans le domaine énergétique. Il passera le reste de sa vie à Chicago. Il meurt le 28 novembre 1954 d'un cancer de l'estomac à l'âge de 53 ans.
Travaux
Statistique de Fermi-Dirac Théorie de la désintégration β Découverte des neutrons lents
Bibliographie
Biographies
Emilio Segrè ; Enrico Fermi, physicist, University of Chicago Press (1995), ISBN 0226744736. L'auteur, qui fut l'étudiant, puis le collègue et ami de Fermi, obtiendra le prix Nobel 1959. Laura Fermi ; Atoms in the family: my life with Enrico Fermi, University of Chicago Press (Réédition - 1995),ISBN 0226243672. Souvenirs de la femme de Fermi. Carlo Bernardini & Luisa Bonolis (Eds) ; Enrico Fermi: his work and legacy, Springer-Verlag (2004), ISBN 3540221417. Hommage à Fermi pour le centième anniversaire de sa naissance, commandé par la société italienne de physique.
Œuvres
Enrico Fermi ; Thermodynamics , Dover Publications (1937), ISBN 048660361X. Enrico Fermi ; Notes on Quantum Mechanics, University of Chicago Press (2ème édition - 1995), ISBN 0226243818. Enrico Fermi ; Nuclear Physics : A Course Given by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago, University of Chicago Press (édition révisée - 1974), ISBN 0226243656. Enrico Fermi ; Elementary Particles, Yale University Press (1951), ISBN 0300094744.
Si les extraterrestres existent… alors, ils devraient être là ! « Mais où se cachent-ils ? »
s’interroge le fameux physicien Enrico Fermi au milieu du XX siècle, alors que la première « vague d’Ovnis » touche les Etats-Unis.
Le paradoxe de Fermi s'intéresse à la question de savoir pourquoi nous ne sommes pas déjà en contact avec des extraterrestres, vue la relative jeunesse de notre étoile, le Soleil, par rapport à toutes celles existant dans l'univers.
Naissance du paradoxe
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), physicien italien, est connu pour son prix Nobel de physique en 1938, pour avoir produit la première réaction nucléaire en chaîne en 1944 mais avant tout pour cette histoire a priori anecdotique, que l'astronome Carl Sagan baptisa plus tard "le paradoxe de Fermi".
Pendant l'été 1950, Enrico Fermi travaillait au laboratoire national de Los Alamos. En se rendant à la cantine avec trois autres physiciens renommés, il discutait d'un dessin humoristique paru dans le New Yorker. Suite à une série de vols de poubelles à New York, le dessinateur avait représenté une soucoupe volante posée sur une autre planète avec des petits hommes verts tirant chacun un container de déchets.
Fermi demanda à Edward Teller, le père de la bombe H, une estimation de la probabilité que dans les dix prochaines années nous ayons la preuve de l'existence d'un objet se déplaçant plus vite que la vitesse de la lumière ? Il sous-entendait bien sûr que tout extraterrestre nous rendant visite aurait découvert le voyage supra-luminique. Teller hasarda : 1 sur 1 million. Fermi répondit que ce chiffre était bien trop faible, et que son estimation se portait à 10%. La question s'arrêta là. Ils prirent leur repas. Tout d'un coup Fermi se leva de table et s'écria "Mais où sont-ils ?"
Une représentation graphique du message Arecibo, première tentative humaine pour communiquer avec des civilisations extra-terrestres
Le problème
Sommes-nous la seule civilisation technologiquement avancée de l'Univers ? L'équation de Drake tente de quantifier leur nombre en faisant intervenir de nombreuses variables par ailleurs toutes inconnues sauf une. Enrico Fermi a fait la supposition de l'existence d'une seule civilisation extra-terrestre capable du voyage intersidéral (à une vitesse toutefois inférieure à la vitesse de la lumière). Il a supposé cette civilisation intéressée à la conquête de la Galaxie (quels qu'en soient les buts) et qu'elle progressait par bonds, colonisant une planète pendant quelques centaines ou milliers d'années, puis envoyant des dizaines de vaisseaux vers de nouvelles conquêtes.
Le problème est que - après seulement quelques centaines de milliers d'années – l'ensemble de la Galaxie est sous l'emprise de cette civilisation extra-terrestre (la faible vitesse de déplacement des vaisseaux est largement compensée par l'augmentation exponentielle du nombre de vaisseaux de colonisation). Enrico Fermi demande donc : « si les extraterrestres existent, mais où sont-ils donc ? ». Pourquoi n'avons-nous vu aucune trace d'une vie intelligente extraterrestre, par exemple des sondes, des vaisseaux ou des transmissions radios
Les distances sont-elles un argument ?
Estimons le temps que mettrait une civilisation à peine plus avancée que la nôtre pour coloniser toute la galaxie. En partant d'une population et d'un niveau technologique très faibles, il n'a pas fallu plus de 5 000 ans à l'humanité pour atteindre son point actuel, et le temps qu'il faudrait pour nous rendre à l'étoile la plus proche (distante de 4 années-lumière environ) est négligeable devant cette durée. Il n'est pas difficile d'imaginer un vaisseau spatial de quelques dizaines de milliers de tonnes, alimenté en énergie nucléaire, et capable de faire vivre une petite colonie aussi longtemps que nécessaire pour atteindre une planète accueillante (même plusieurs générations). On peut donc supposer que le front de colonisation de la galaxie avance au pire de 1 année-lumière en 1 000 ans. La Voie lactée faisant 100 000 années-lumière de diamètre, il faudrait donc au maximum 100 millions d'années pour la coloniser entièrement… et en réalité sans doute dix fois moins.
Des étoiles similaires au Soleil existaient en très grand nombre bien longtemps avant sa formation, donnant peut-être cinq milliards d'années d'avance à la vie pour s'y développer. Donc si on considère que l'apparition d'une civilisation technologique est suffisamment courante pour qu'il y en ait une ailleurs que sur Terre, dans la Voie lactée et en ce moment même, il faut accepter qu'il existe sans doute des civilisations depuis plusieurs milliards d'années qui auraient eu largement le temps de coloniser toute la galaxie.
Ils sont déjà parmi nous mais nous n'en savons rien.
Réponses possibles au paradoxe
Les réponses proposées à ce paradoxe sont nombreuses, et pas toutes exclusives entre elles. Elles peuvent être classées en quatre grandes catégories qui, elles mêmes, comportent plusieurs réponses de différents ordres :
Les civilisations extra-terrestres n'existent pas
La vie ne s'est développée que sur la Terre
La probabilité qu'une forme de vie technologiquement avancée puisse se développer ailleurs dans l'univers serait beaucoup plus faible qu'estimée initialement. Ce pourrait être parce que les facteurs permettant de développer la vie sont très nombreux (partant de la présence des éléments chimiques structurant la vie et d'une source d'énergie allant jusqu'à la présence d'une planète géante telle Jupiter pour aspirer les astéroïdes qui, autrement, détruiraient trop rapidement la vie en train de se former). Ce pourrait être aussi parce que, même ces facteurs réunis, les probabilités que les éléments chimiques se combinent pour former de la matière vivante sont si faibles que cet événement ne s'est produit qu'une fois dans toute l'histoire de l'univers, c'est, entre autres, pour tenter de trancher cette question que l'on recherche activement des traces de vie sur Mars et que l'on envisage d'en faire autant sur Europe (satellite de Jupiter, seul autre corps du système solaire, en dehors de la Terre, à posséder de l'eau liquide).
Le principe anthropique semble conforter cet argument : pourquoi observerions-nous un univers de cette taille si la vie avait pu apparaître dans un univers plus petit et donc moins improbable ? Objection possible : notre présence n'arrête pas pour autant l'actuelle expansion de l'univers. Que pourrait penser une possible civilisation (ne connaissant pas notre existence) dans 4 milliards d'années dans un univers encore plus grand ? Les hommes n'étant plus vivants tomberaient sûrement dans l'anonymat, ce qui pose bien sûr un problème pour les religions anthropocentristes. Réponse possible : l'univers serait plus étendu, mais pas plus grand au sens il ne contiendrait pas plus de matière après son expansion qu'avant, et donc pas plus de probabilité de donner la vie (voire moins en raison de l'extinction progressive de beaucoup d'étoiles par épuisement de son hydrogène).
La vie n'évolue pas nécessairement vers l'intelligence
L'anthropocentrisme humain tend à considérer le processus évolutif comme un processus linéaire amenant inexorablement vers sa niche écologique : une forme de vie intelligente (et d'autres ajouteront « qui peut vivre en harmonie sans vouloir s'entre-tuer »). L'intelligence fait partie des nombreux mécanismes d'adaptation permettant à des espèces de survivre, mais n'est pas pour autant le seul. Les cafards, les rats, les fourmis, les bactéries peuvent survivre dans de bien pires conditions. L'intelligence nous a bien réussi sur notre planète, qui possédait ses conditions spécifiques, mais chaque planète pouvant héberger la vie peut fort bien avoir des espèces dominantes ayant suivi d'autres voies ; d'ailleurs, même sur Terre, les dinosaures ont dominé pendant pratiquement 200 millions d'années sans évoluer vers une espèce capable de développer une civilisation technique.
La vie intelligente est vouée à l'autodestruction avant d'essaimer
Il y a au moins trois raisons qui peuvent soutenir cette hypothèse.
La première est que l'intelligence est directement liée à l'agressivité, et qu'elle en rend les effets de plus en plus graves. À l'extrême, elle peut s'auto-exterminer, et avec elle une bonne partie des formes vivantes de la planète. C'est le scénario brutal.
La seconde est que la vie animale est régulée et motivée par des systèmes émotionnels (douleur, angoisse, plaisir, etc.), que l'intelligence permet de modifier, court-circuiter. Si on donne à un rat la possibilité d'auto-stimuler ses centres nerveux associés au plaisir, il le fait, et il en meurt. Les drogués donnent un autre exemple similaire, et la façon dont les émotions naturellement associées à la reproduction (plaisir sexuel, émotions familiales) sont maintenant court-circuitées et obtenues sans reproduction (avec chute de la natalité sous le seuil de maintien de la population, dès que les techniques adéquates sont disponibles) est également très éclairante. Inversement, l'intelligence peut donner une angoisse existentielle face à une réalité vertigineuse, conduisant au suicide individuel. La perspective de voir une espèce intelligente disparaître « de bonheur » ou « d'angoisse » n'a rien d'inimaginable. C'est le scénario de la disparition en douceur.
La troisième est que sur le chemin des avancées technologiques menant à l'essaimage, il s'en trouve au moins une qui soit incontournable mais mène immanquablement à la perte. Par exemple une dont toute expérimentation a un résultat cataclysmique (vitrification de la planète), ou une très utilisée mais aux effets délétères découverts trop tard (endommagement irréversible de l'environnement ou de l'espèce). Dans ce cas nous serions voués nous aussi à provoquer notre perte.
Dans tous les cas, la vie intelligente peut disparaître avant de se diffuser ou de laisser des traces visibles. Sans aller jusqu'à l'extinction, elle peut aussi se retrouver suffisamment rare pour que chaque individu ait déjà assez à faire pour découvrir seulement la planète, et pour que les ressources importantes nécessaires à un voyage ou un signal spatial ne soient plus disponibles.
Les civilisations extra-terrestres existent, mais il leur est impossible de nous contacter
1. Limitations dues à la physique
Il se peut que l'expansion de l'univers jointe à des questions de lenteur de la lumière et de bilan énergétique interdise de façon durable des voyages suivis à l'extérieur d'un système solaire. Rappelons toutefois la remarque d'Arthur C. Clarke : « Lorsque nous sommes en orbite basse, nous sommes déjà énergétiquement à mi-chemin de n'importe quel autre point de la galaxie ». Reste la question de la limitation de vitesse à c, et de l'énergie nécessaire pour atteindre des vitesses qui en soient proches.
La récente découverte (1998) d'une accélération de l'expansion de l'univers donne un poids nouveau à cette hypothèse.µ
2. Communication impossible
Il se peut également que les civilisations extraterrestres soient différentes de nous à un point où nous n'aurions pas la possibilité de communiquer. Parmi les raisons possibles à une telle impossibilité, on peut citer :
- différences considérables d'échelle, y compris par exemple d'échelle de temps ;
- des différences dans la façon de penser, à un point rendant toute communication non seulement inintéressante pour les deux parties mais également structurellement impossible (par exemple, il nous serait extrêmement difficile de communiquer avec une intelligence collective telle qu'une fourmilière) ;
- une différence fondamentale d'essence (on pourrait imaginer par exemple une civilisation extraterrestre non constituée de matière, ou ne pouvant communiquer hors d'un substrat particulier, par exemple liquide) ; pour leurs télécommunications, une civilisation extra-terrestre n'utilise peut-être pas les ondes radio, mais une autre technologie qui nous est inconnue, auquel cas nos tentatives de contact comme SETI, ainsi que les leurs, s'avéreraient vaines ; etc.
3. Autre type de civilisations
Il est possible qu'une autre civilisation ne soit pas technique, soit par manque de matériaux, soit par manque de moyen de manipulation (comme les dauphins), soit du fait de l'inutilité de la technique (comme l'esclavage antique qui a empêché le développement du machinisme).
Sur une planète constamment entourée de nuages (à l'image de Vénus mais sans sa température élevée) une civilisation peut très bien se développer dans l'ignorance de l'existence du reste de l'univers, que ces nuages soient physiques ou figurés (tels ceux par exemple de quelque obscurantisme religieux, politique ou « philosophique »).
L'observation d'un phénomène ne signifie pas toujours qu'on soit capable de le comprendre et de l'interpréter correctement, comme le faisaient remarquer les frères Arcadi et Boris Strougatski dans Il est difficile d'être un Dieu (connu en France sous le titre du film Un Dieu rebelle).
Les civilisations extra-terrestres existent, ont développé la technologie pour nous visiter, mais ne l'ont pas fait [modifier]
« La meilleure preuve qu'il existe des êtres intelligents dans l'univers, est qu'ils n'ont jamais cherché à nous contacter. »
4. Démotivation
On peut considérer que, soit par hasard, soit pour des raisons éthiques, aucune des civilisations qui seraient apparues n'aurait souhaité s'étendre partout dans la galaxie, laissant à de nouvelles formes de vie le temps de se développer.
Ils peuvent également estimer que la probabilité d'une autre vie intelligente sur une autre planète est faible et ne nécessite pas une recherche sur le long terme.
Enfin, l'application du paradoxe de l'abondance, si leur société se trouvait avoir résolu la question du besoin et si leur psychisme avait une similitude avec le nôtre, peut avoir créé chez eux une importante passivité en éliminant toute recherche intellectuelle.
5. Blocage structurel
Nous entreprenons des projets pour en obtenir une satisfaction. Sans doute une société suffisamment avancée scientifiquement peut-elle facilement assurer cette satisfaction sans passer par les intermédiaires de la conception et de la réalisation de projets, ce qui conduit à la disparition de tout projet. Vision certes inquiétante, mais nullement impensable. Un tel état représente même un possible point fixe (attracteur) d'un processus de civilisation, et la Chine entre le XVe et le XVIIe siècle, figée dans sa parfaite stabilité d'institutions, en montre une réalisation possible sur notre planète même.
En effet, après les campagnes maritimes de l'amiral eunuque Zheng He qui ont exploré l'Océan Indien, certains prétendent même qu'il aurait reconnu la côte occidentale de l'Amérique du Nord, avec des navires beaucoup plus grands que les caravelles qui vont se répandre peu après lui de par le monde, la Chine se referme, persuadée que le monde périphérique n'a rien à lui apporter.
Les extraterrestres pourraient donc fort bien adopter une attitude de cocooning faisant qu'ils se passent très bien de nous et des complications d'un voyage pour venir nous voir.Le débat sur l'exploration spatiale sur notre propre Terre peut en être un exemple saisissant. Notre comportement humain pourrait être donc perçu de cette façon par une vie extraterrestre.
Les civilisations extra-terrestres existent et nous ont visités, mais ne signalent pas leur présence
Absence d'intérêt pour notre planète ou notre espèce
D'éventuels extraterrestres, même s’ils sont passés sur la planète, ne lui ont peut-être pas trouvé d'intérêt, et ont continué leur chemin (ou se sont abstenus de toute visite, compte tenu des informations collectées par leurs capteurs). Une civilisation capable de se déplacer entre systèmes solaires de la galaxie ne doit pas avoir de difficultés à s'approvisionner dans des endroits plus riches ou plus pratiques pour elle, ou tout simplement pour synthétiser la matière utile (au lieu de la transporter d'une planète à une autre, au prix d'efforts et surtout d'un délai exorbitant). Tout ce que nous aurions une chance de voir serait de temps à autres quelques routards galactiques égarés.
Même s'ils se sont aperçus de notre présence les extraterrestres n'ont peut-être pas plus de choses à nous dire que nous n'en avons à dire aux chimpanzés ou aux fourmis. Pire : ils pourraient nous juger inéduquables et ne pas souhaiter perdre leur temps avec nous.
On peut imaginer enfin que les extraterrestres, s'ils sont passés, l'ont fait il y a trop longtemps pour nous, avant notre apparition (Hypothèse du rendez-vous manqué).
Hypothèse du zoo
Des extraterrestres existeraient bien et s'intéresseraient à notre espèce :
Ils pourraient le faire de la même façon que nous nous intéressons aux animaux dans des réserves naturelles, par curiosité scientifique et en cherchant à interagir le moins possible avec eux. Les animaux d'un parc naturel ne savent jamais qu'ils sont dans un parc naturel. Et nous ne consacrons pas de ressources à essayer d'enseigner les équations différentielles à des bonobos sauvages, nous préférons les laisser vivre de façon traditionnelle. Star Trek réfère à cela par la Première directive (Prime Directive). Voir l'article l'hypothèse du zoo pour plus de détails.
Ils pourraient aussi être à l'origine de notre hominisation et nous avoir guidés du primate vers l'homme, en intervenant par exemple avec des masques humains ou par le biais des religions ("apparitions, miracles"). Eux-mêmes issus d'une telle évolution, ils auraient formé une civilisation avant l'homme et seraient entre temps devenus des êtres artificiels. Cette inconscience de nos origines nous aurait permis de nous éveiller à la conscience sans être transformés en « robots », ce qui nous serait advenu en cohabitant avec eux. Ces « parents cosmiques » attendraient alors de l'homme qu'il devienne à son tour "parent cosmique" en hominisant d'autres primates. Nous leur apporterions ainsi la preuve d'une conscience réelle acquise et de la réussite de leur propre expérience qu'aurait représenté notre hominisation. Ils ne se dévoileraient jamais à nous avant notre engagement à transmettre la vie et l'intelligence[1]. Cette hypothèse est apparentée à celle de la fiction La Sentinelle / 2001, l'odyssée de l'espace.
Hypothèse des « grands transparents »
Cette hypothèse relève plus du réalisme fantastique à la mode dans les années 1960 que d'une véritable supposition scientifique : des extraterrestres existeraient, et auraient entrepris de nous aider discrètement à trouver notre propre voie ainsi qu'à nous corriger de nos éventuels dysfonctionnements. Nous sommes là à la limite des points de vue scientifique et religieux. L'idée a néanmoins été exploitée par la science-fiction via divers médias populaires (romans, films, BD, ...). Hergé lui fait un clin d'œil par exemple sous les traits de Jacques Bergier dans Vol 714 pour Sydney.
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There is one item in orbit that is said to have an origin different from all of the other objects up above us. This spacecraft or satellite has come to be known as the Black Knight and its existence has been covered up by NASA for over 60+ plus years. Something that makes this UFO different from the man-made space objects is its ability to change its orbit. Moving around the planet in a non-set pattern a retrograde orbit. This has led many to speculate that this object is alien in origin and that it monitors the planet. This is where things become even more interesting as the Black knight has said to have been observing the earth for around 13000 years
NASA’s Planetary Defence Spacecraft is Set To Undergo it's First Real World Test
NASA’s Planetary Defence Spacecraft is Set To Undergo it's First Real World Test
NASA, The National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration, has put forward its plans to begin real-worldtesting of its brand new planetary defense system in the next couple of years which is a huge leap in the right direction for NASA, defense, and overall, planet earth.
Asteroids still pose a major threat to humans and all life on earth. Even just a moderately sized asteroid could lead to apocalyptic like events and end many many lives. As most people will agree, it was asteroids that killed all the dinosaurs. If they can completely eradicate an entire species much larger and arguably more powerful than humans, then we should be very very worried.
The new test is nicknamed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART for short. What will happen is, the DART spacecraft will be sent on a mission directly on a collision course with a non-threatening asteroid called Didymos. Then NASA will be able to test the ability of the spacecraft at redirecting the direction of the celestial object, just as if it were heading for earth and needed to be stopped.
Fourteen Arecibo radar images of the near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos and its moonlet.
The size of Didymos is the same as any other asteroid that poses quite a common threat to earth which is what makes this experiment so useful. The asteroid is approximately 800 meters across, and its secondary body or “moonlet” has a 150-meter size.
Around 11 million kilometers from Earth, DART will deliberately crash into Didymos’ moonlet at a speed of around 6 km/s. Accuracy will be ensured by using the sophisticated navigation software onboard the DART spacecraft. This will be the first example of the kinetic impact technique to change the motion of an asteroid in space. The propulsion system used will be the NASA Evolutionary Xenon Thruster - Commerical (NEXT-C), which will be an efficient way of reaching the target on schedule.
When is this happening?
NASA is expecting to launch the DART spacecraft in late December 2020 and through May 2021, with impact expected in October 2022, which isn't that long away now.
I think this is very exciting news and am glad NASA is undertaking such tests and measures to ensure the safety and continuity of the human race.
UFO’s have been witnessed in the skies above us for a very long time! Following World War 2 and the Roswell event, there can be no denying that fact that many people across the planet started seeing UFO’s. Even way before WW2 UFO’s have been reported throughout most of recorded history.
It is official that there are many records of UFOs in the early 1900’s and throughout much of the 18th and 19th centuries. But On top of that, there are many recorded events from thousands and thousands of years ago which, when looked at from a modern day perspective, sound very much like today’s UFO sightings.
This confirms that if even a very small percentage of these early records are accurate, then it would appear that UFOs, have had an interest in human beings since the beginning of time.
Here are ten such recorded UFO incidents:
10. Torch In The Sky 343 BC
According to writings by Diodorus Siculus Timoleon, while he was traveling from Corinth to Sicily around 343 BC, several bright lights, or lampas, would guide his journey. Although it was seen as a sign of help from the heavens, when looked at from a modern perspective, it could be regarded as a UFO sighting. According to the text, “All through the night he was preceded by a torch blazing in the sky up to the moment when the squadron made harbor in Italy.” Interestingly, Timoleon also claimed to have been foretold of “fame and glory” during this guidance, suggesting that some kind of interaction beyond a simple sighting had taken place, possibly telepathic communication—again, something often claimed in modern-day UFO encounters.Many historians have claimed the sighting to be nothing more than a comet or even a meteor shower. However, there are no such events on record, and furthermore, the lights were visible constantly and in a fixed direction right up until the squadron arrived on the shores of home, not how you would expect a comet or meteor to behave.
9. The Second Punic War Sightings 218–201 BC
There were many sightings of strange aerial phenomenon during the Second Punic War between 218 and 201 BC. Rome’s Annales maximi would tell of several of them.In 218 BC, there were reports of ships which gleamed in the sky coming out of the clouds. Two years later in 216 BC came a similar sighting of “gleaming round shields” traveling through the air. Each of the descriptions given of these two sightings can easily be imagined as the common UFOs described in the modern era. Many such sightings took place during times of war, which is a point carried over into modern conflicts. Many researchers believe the chaos created in conflict acts as a conduit for increased UFO activity. These sightings are also quite often seen by multiple witnesses. Both of these details are the backdrop to our next entries.
8. Three Moons Sighting 122 BC
Over the skies of Ariminium, Italy, in around 122 BC, there were several sightings of “three moons” appearing in the sky together. Furthermore, these objects were visible during the daylight hours as well as night.In Book II of his Natural History, Pliny would be one person who recorded the event, stating, “Three moons have appeared at once in the consulship of Gnaeus Domitius and Gaius Fannius.” Another writing of the three moons appears in Book I of Roman History, which says, “At Ariminium bright light like the day blazed out at night,” and that “three moons became visible” in many parts of the country.Whether this was a sighting of an intelligently guided craft or not is up for debate. Some mainstream historians have postulated that the sightings were an atmospheric phenomenon. Whether this would be something that writers at the time would have felt the need to record is also a matter of opinion.
7. The Roman Army 74 BC
As the Roman army progressed toward a clash with the army of King Mithridates VI in what is now modern-day Turkey, both sides would witness something completely out of the ordinary. The account, which took place in 74 BC, was chronicled by the historian Plutarch. (Note, however, that Plutarch was not alive during 74 BC.) Plutarch stated that despite the perfectly fine and pleasant weather, a sudden boom announced itself over the area, and a flash spread across the sky. He then wrote that “a huge, flame-like body was seen to fall between the two armies.”Furthermore, Plutarch would provide a solid and detailed description of the object. He stated it to be the shape of a wine jar and the color of molten silver. The object landed in between the two armies, stopping their advancements. Each army, both fascinated and scared of the mysterious craft before them, began to retreat, temporarily halting the conflict.
6. The Hanging Comet 12 BC
There is actually very little known about this particular incident, but it is worth including here simply because of the bizarre nature of it at a time when very few things should have been in the sky at all. In 12 BC, a strange “comet-like” object simply hovered over Rome for several days. It then “melted” into what was described as flashes that looked similar to torches. The account, as brief as it is, doesn’t mention any kind of sound or loud noise, so it is unlikely to have been a sudden explosion. Might it be that the craft was a mother ship of some kind, which dispersed smaller, probe-like craft after surveying the area as it hovered?It is perhaps also worth noting here that any accounts in Roman history arguably should be taken slightly more seriously than others. The reason for this is that Roman historians and recorders of current events had to go through strict procedures to ensure their reports were credible and accurate, and only then could the account be entered into the official record.
5. Chariots In The Clouds AD 75
Perhaps one of the best-recorded ancient sightings was that by Josephus in AD 75. According to his account, a mysterious and unnerving spectacle occurred over the skies of Judea. Josephus claimed, “Chariots and troops of soldiers in their Armour were seen running about among the clouds.” He would state the encounter to be “a miraculous phenomenon, passing belief.
”What is also interesting about the recording of this particular sighting is the awareness of Josephus that he might not be believed. Fortunately, there were other witnesses to the event, as Josephus writes that it would likely have been “deemed a fable were it not for the narratives of eyewitnesses” who had seen it, too.Furthermore, the events had taken place around the entire country as “armed battalions hurtling through the clouds” were witnessed over every city. Also, “great noise” rained down from above, causing “quakes” on the ground. Roman historian Tacitus mentioned the event in his writings, stating, “In the sky appeared a vision of armies in conflict, of glittering armour.” As crazy as it sounds, it would appear that what is being described is an aerial conflict.
4. Sighting Of Pope Pius I AD 150ghting By The Bro
Although there are doubts due to the fact of him being the only witness, the brother of Pope Pius I is said to have seen a UFO around AD 150 in Via Campana, Italy. The sighting took place in the middle of the afternoon, which, according to the witness, was a bright, sunny day. Out of nowhere, an object, described by the brother as “a beast,” descended downward. It was in the shape and color of “a piece of pottery” and had a top of multiple colors which shot out “fiery rays.”The object landed on the ground, causing clouds of dust to appear. When they had a cleared, “a maiden clad in white” was visible near the object.Nothing more is told, although modern UFO researchers have documented many claims of “angelic aliens” dressed all in white. Might this have been one of them?
3. Angel Hair Incident AD 196
Angel Hair is a chalk-like, silvery substance which sometimes rains down to the ground following UFO sightings. There are many accounts of this on record throughout the 20th century. There are also several accounts from ancient times. “Rains of chalk” were reported in Cales in 214 BC. A similar incident occurred in Rome in 98 BC.Perhaps the best of these ancient angel hair events is recorded by Cassius Dio, who wrote in AD 196 of “a fine rain resembling silver” which fell all over the city of Rome despite there not being a cloud in the sky and the day being bright. Cassius Dio writes that he himself didn’t witness it falling but came upon it on the ground shortly after. Using three bronze coins, he collected some of this mysterious residue for study. According to his report, the substance remained for three days but had disappeared by the fourth day.
2. Flaming Shield AD 776
At a time when a great part of modern-day Europe was known as Francia (or Kingdom of the Franks), Sigiburg in what is now modern-day Dortmund was being attacked by battalions of Saxon soldiers. As this attack progressed, however, a bizarre object appeared in the skies overhead. It was “the likeness of two large flaming shields reddish in color” and appeared to remain “floating” in the skies above them. So frightened was the advancing Saxon army that they immediately turned around, giving up their siege of Sigiburg and retreating away to safety.The account is recorded in detail in the Annales Laurissenses maiores—Latin annals which record much of the history of the region from AD 741 AD to 829. Although the author is ultimately unknown, it is widely believed that writers of the time would record events as they happened, which were then compiled at a later date into the finished work.
1. Magonia AD 816
Another recording of a bizarre aerial sighting from Francia occurred in AD 816 in what is now modern-day Lyon and was written about by Agobard of Lyon in his book De Grandine et Tonitruis. Agobard would write of his experience with Magonia, a realm in the clouds where “aerial sailors” and their airborne ships reside and sometimes come from. It is an interesting claim. According to the writings, three men and a woman had fallen to the ground from these aerial ships and were set upon by the townsfolk until Agobard intervened and prevented their certain deaths. It doesn’t state what happened to the four aerial sailors after this, however.The mythical Magonia and its origins are said to go back to Agobard’s writings. In more modern times, respected UFO researcher Jacques Vallee explored the subject in his book, Passport to Magonia, which looked at alleged UFO accounts in the distant past.
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The aliens have been watching us for a very very long time, but why are they here and why are the watching us and where do they come from? Hopefully soon we will one day get the answers to all of these questions, but in the meantime we just have to keep our eyes to the skies above us people!
Pentagon Report CONFIRMS Warship UFO Encounter Was ‘No known aircraft in the world’
Pentagon Report CONFIRMS Warship UFO Encounter Was ‘No known aircraft in the world’
In what appears to be a rather important piece of Disclosure, US defence chiefs now reportedly commissioned a 13-page report into a UFO encounter off the coast of San Francisco.
Aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and vessels in her carrier strike group played cat-and-mouse with the UFO for some six days back in November 2004. And even more startling was the confirmation that destroyer USS Princeton reported encountered the craft on “several occasions” as F-18s warplanes were dispatched the investigate the UFO.
The Pentagon report details the “Tic Tac” was believed to be around 46feet long, look “solid white, smooth with no edges” and incapable of being detected by the most advanced gear in the US Navy.
Footage of the UFO encounter with USS Nimitz was previously leaked, with the pilot Commander David Fravor saying it was “not from this world”.
The leaked Pentagon report has revealed new details about the UFO encounter that shocked Navy fighter pilots above the Pacific.
The 2009 report does not bear any date or agency logo, but four officials confirmed that it was written as part of a Pentagon program with input from multiple agencies, KLAS reported.
The Las Vegas news station obtained the unclassified report while visiting Washington, DC for a debriefing arranged by former Senator Harry Reid.
The report reveals stunning new first-hand accounts of the November 14, 2004 encounter, which was documented in video that emerged in December of last year.
The incident unfolded as the Nimitz carrier group was conducting training exercises off the coast of southern California and Mexico ahead of a deployment to the Arabian Sea.
Beginning around November 10, the USS Princeton, a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, made multiple radar contacts with what the report calls an Anomalous Aerial Vehicle (AAV).
The senior chief fire controlman on the Princeton, which was equipped with ultra-advanced AN/SPY-1 multifunctional phased-array radar, reported that the AAV appeared from above 60,000 feet – the radar’s scan ceiling – and descended ‘very rapidly’ to about 50 feet above the surface of the ocean.
They would hover for a short time and then depart at high velocities and turn rates demonstrating advanced capabilities, the senior chief said.
The senior chief, who had 17 years of experience in fire control on cruisers, said he never obtained an accurate track on the AAV, because they exhibited speed consistent with a ballistic missile, but the radar was set to air intercept mode rather than ballistic missile tracking mode.
Then on November 14, the Princeton again detected an AAV around 11am and called it in two F/A-18 Hornets that happened to be returning to the USS Nimitz from a training exercise.
An E-2C Hawkeye surveillance plane was also operating in the area and attempted a radar contact on the AAV, but made only intermittent contact as was unable to gain a track.
An E-2C Hawkeye surveillance plane (like the one seen above) was also operating in the area and attempted a radar contact on the AAV, but made only intermittent contact
On November 14, the Princeton again detected an AAV around 11am and called it in two F/A-18 Hornets that happened to be returning to the USS Nimitz (pictured) from a training exercise
The skies were clear and blue with unlimited visibility that day, and the sea was calm, according to the report.
The first fighter jet to investigate, a USMC single-seat F/A-18C, flew within five to 10 nautical miles of the AAV’s location, but could not see it. Instead, he reported seeing a circular disturbance in the water about 50 to 100 meters in diameter. It reminded the pilot of something rapidly submerging in the ocean, like a submarine.
The report hypothesizes that ‘it is possible that the disturbance was being caused by an AAV but that the AAV was “cloaked” or invisible to the human eye.’
The Marine pilot was called off after the controller asked a plane carrying ordnance to respond, which he was not. When he returned to the USS Nimitz, his intelligence officer asked him if he’d seen the ‘supersonic Tic Tac’.
The next jet to respond was a Navy F/A-18F piloted by Cmdr. David Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight, who made visual contact with the AAV that they have since publicly discussed, corroborating the report.
Fravor also spotted a disturbance in the water, almost as if it were boiling. But this time, hovering above the disturbance was a strange object.
The object was shaped like an elongated egg or a “Tic Tac”, according to Fravor, and was ‘holding like a Harrier’, the jump jet that can take off vertically.
Slaight, whose name is redacted from the report, described it as ‘solid white, smooth, with no edges. It was uniformly colored with no nacelles, pylons or wings.’
He described the exterior of the object as ‘like it had a white candy-coated shell, almost like a white board.’
When Fravor attempted to make a close pass of the object to attempt visual recognition, the object appeared to react, realigning its axis to point at the approaching plane. The AAV then ascended quickly and departed at supersonic speed.
When Fravor and Slaight returned to the Nimitz, the sailors in the intelligence center donned tin-foil hats to greet them, asking eagerly about their ‘UFO flight’.
Later in the day, another plane made the video that has since been released, according to the report.
Around 3pm, another Navy F/A-18F tracked a remarkable object on FLIR, which Fravor’s plane had not been equipped with.
The pilot said he couldn’t confirm whether he had tracked the same object seen by Fravor and Slaight, because he never made visual contact, only tracked it through FLIR.
The report notes that the USS Louisville nuclear fast-attack submarine was operating in the area, and detected no unusual undersea activity over the duration of the incidents.
The incident was filed in a regular training mission report and it is unclear if it was reported up the chain of command, the report finds.
The aircrews involved made and kept a copy of the FLIR recording, but were subjected to a ‘high level of ridicule’ over the incident, the report found.
Whatever the AAV was, the report stresses that it was ‘no known aircraft or air vehicle currently in the inventory of the United States or any foreign nation.’
Former Senator Reid, now recovering following cancer surgery, and others have urged Congress to create a new Pentagon program to study similar incidents as a matter of national security.
Another highly classified version of the leaked report was also written, but it is unlikely to ever be released.
Please see below the six conclusions coming from the compelling report:
The ‘Anomalous Aerial Vehicle’ was of unknown origin and represented technology not currently in the possession of the U.S. or any other nation.
It featured broadband RF stealth making the use of radar against it largely ineffective.
The craft manifested extreme performance but did not have lifting structures or control surfaces required for traditional flight.
It showed that it has some kind of advanced propulsion capability making it able to go instantly from hovering to very high speed and to make very abrupt course changes.
It was able to ‘cloak’ itself, becoming invisible visually to the naked eye.
Possibly capable of operating undersea without being detected by the most advanced sub-surface sensors.
Please see below a snippet of the report that describes the crew’s attempts to track the target in technical detail:
This story appears to be a very important missing part of the disclosure jigsaw!
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This story just gets deeper and deeper and when US military personnel start talking about witnessing UFO’s you kind of have to listen up and listen!
Could it be that this is the first of many UFO reports from the US Military?
The object itself is pretty incredible looking to say the least and it is not just the way it looks which is alarming people, it’s also the fact the the UFO moved in ways which the US have NEVER witnessed before!
It appears that the US Government is well and truly now setting the scene for something rather incredible! Perhaps the push for the TRUTH is now working and the Elite are now buckling – watch this space!
Scientists Find the 'Missing' Dark Matter from the Early Universe
Scientists Find the 'Missing' Dark Matter from the Early Universe
By Mara Johnson-Groh, Live Science Contributor
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Dark matter, it seems, has been clinging to galaxies for a very long time. Most galaxies that existed 10 billion years ago had about as much dark matter as galaxies do today, contradicting earlier studies that suggested less dark matter lurked around galaxies in the early universe.
"Dark matter was similarly abundant in star-forming galaxies in the distant past as it is in the present day," said Alfred Tiley, an astronomer at Durham University in England and lead author on the new study. The research was recently submitted to the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and published Nov. 16 in the preprint journal arXiv. "It wasn't a complete surprise, but in reality, we didn't know whether the observational reality would align with expectations from theory." [The 11 Biggest Unanswered Questions About Dark Matter]
Dark matter makes up approximately 85 percent of the total mass in our known universe, but the mysterious substance does not interact with light, leaving scientists in the dark about the its precise nature. So, instead of viewing it, astronomers must rely on dark matter's gravitational pull on the normal matter, called baryonic matter, that makes up the stars, nebulas and planets we see in the night sky, as well as all the trees, rocks and people on Earth.
Dark matter tends to clump into halos around galaxies; astronomers discovered this by measuring how fast galaxies rotate. According to Newton's law of gravity, stars on the outskirts of a galaxy should rotate much more slowly than those at the center. But in the 1960s, astronomers found speedy suburban stars on the fringe of the Milky Way that hinted at extra matter hiding out beyond those stars' galactic orbits.
Studies have since measured thousands of rotation rates across the universe, confirming the presence of these dark matter halos.
In the new study, researchers used data from two surveys of 1,500 star-forming galaxies to calculate rotation rates for galaxies going back 10 billion years. Precisely measuring galactic rotation far in the cosmic past is difficult, because these ancient galaxies are incredibly distant and faint. So, the scientists estimated an average by clumping the galaxies by distance and then combining their light.
"Our estimate of the amount of dark matter in galaxies is an average for the whole population at each epoch," Tiley told Live Science. "The amount of dark matter within individual galaxies might vary significantly."
Accounting for galaxy mass and density, the researchers found nearly equivalent amounts of dark matter for galaxies that existed long ago in our cosmic past as for galaxies in our local universe.
But not everyone is entirely convinced. The findings contradict previous studies that found that galaxies in the early universe had less dark matter than younger galaxies do. Those studies looked at much more massive individual galaxies and used a different model to infer the amount of dark matter.
"[The new research] uses only one of the four independent approaches we had used to come to our conclusion," Reinhard Genzel, lead author of one of the previous studies and an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, told Live Science.
Tiley found that his team's results were highly dependant on the model they used. Ultimately, he chose to use a model that he and his colleagues found to be more representative of the low-mass galaxies scientists believe predominated at the early epoch.
Computer simulations suggest that very high-mass galaxies, like those studied by Genzel, are rare in the distant universe. "It appears [their] results apply to very massive galaxies at this distant epoch but may not be representative of galaxies with comparatively lower stellar masses, like those that we studied in our work," Tiley told Live Science.
The new results match what would be expected from the prevailing "lambda cold dark" matter model describing our universe. This model explains how the universe is structured and why it is expanding at an ever faster rate.
A new analysis of African dust reveals the Sahara swung between green and desert conditions every 20,000 years, in sync with changes in the Earth’s tilt.
Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Few places on this planet are as inhospitable as the Sahara desert. This is why it’s so intriguing to learn that the Sahara, and most of North Africa for that matter,used to be a lush regionfilled with a diversity of plants and wild animals. What’s more, this transition occurred relatively recently, in the order of thousands of years, judging from fossils and even rock paintings made by artists who lived in now abandoned settlements.
Now, MIT researchers claim that the region may be swinging between desert and lush conditions every approximately 20,000 years due to changes in the Earth’s axial tilt.
Tadrart Acacus desert in western Libya, part of the Sahara.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Each year, tons and tons of Saharan dust are swept by northeastern winds into the Atlantic Ocean forming thick sediment deposits on the ocean floor. By analyzing these dust layers, it’s possible to infer many qualities about the climate they originate from. For instance, thick dust layers indicate arid times, whereas thinner layers are a sign of a wetter climate.
Some of the sediment core samples retrieved off the coast of West Africa can trace back Sahara’s climate history over millions of years. Previously, such analyses suggested that the Sahara oscillated between wet and dry climates every 100,000 years or so — something which scientists had pinned down to ice age cycles. Thick layers of dust seemed to coincide with periods when the Earth was more covered in ice, wheres less dusty layers corresponded to interglacial periods.
This correlation, however, does not bode well with our present understanding of the Saharan climate, which ought to be mainly driven by the region’s monsoon season. A periodic change in precipitation is determined by the tilt of the planet’s axis, which exposes some regions of Earth to more sunlight than others.
“We were puzzled by the fact that this 20,000-year beat of local summer insolation seems like it should be the dominant thing controlling monsoon strength, and yet in dust records you see ice age cycles of 100,000 years,” David McGee, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, said in a statement.
McGee and colleagues devised a new technique which reinterprets the values of Saharan dust cores deposited over the last 240,000 years. The new method hinges on the measurement of the concentration of a rare isotope of thorium.
Thorium is produced in the ocean when small amounts of radioactive uranium dissolve in seawater, then quickly attaches itself to sinking sediments, i.e. Saharan dust. This way, it’s possible to infer how much dust was accumulating during a particular era by studying the concentration of thorium in a particular sediment layer. The slow accumulation of sediment is associated with a higher concentration of thorium, and vice-versa.
Using thorium as their proxy for dust deposition (and, hence, Sahara’s historical climate), the MIT research team found that some peaks of dust in the cores may be false positives due to carbonate dissolution. With the confounding effect removed, the researchers found that the Sahara shifted from wet to dry climates every 20,000 years, in sync with monsoon activity and the planet’s periodic tilting of its axis.
This time series could be useful not only for understanding the history of the Sahara Desert (or luxurious plains, alternatively) but also that of our species. Humans emerged out of multiple hotspots in Africa and migrated towards the Middle East, and from there to Europe, Asia, and the rest of the world. These migrations may have been facilitated by the Sahara’s periodical mood swings.
“We can now produce a record that sees through the biases of these older records, and so doing, tells a different story,” McGee says. “We’ve assumed that ice ages have been the key thing in making the Sahara dry versus wet. Now we show that it’s primarily these cyclic changes in Earth’s orbit that have driven wet versus dry periods. It seems like such an impenetrable, inhospitable landscape, and yet it’s come and gone many times, and shifted between grasslands and a much wetter environment, and back to dry climates, even over the last quarter million years.”
That being said, the Sahara is also influenced by the global climate. According to a 2018 study, human-induced climate change contributed to a 10% expansion of the Sahara desert’s surface over the past hundred years.
And, of course, some of you might be wondering: when will the Sahara’s climate revert back to lush conditions? Scientists believe that up until 10,000-11,000 years ago, the Sahara looked more like today’s African savannah. This means that we still have another 10,000 years before North Africa becomes a giant oasis again.
The Big Bang didn’t just result in our familiar universe, according to a mind-bending new theory — it also generated a second “anti-universe” that extended backwards in time, like a mirror image of our own.
A new story in Physics World explores the new theory, which was proposed by a trio of Canadian physicists who say that it could explain the existence of dark matter.
Anti-Universe
The new theory, which is laid out in a recent paper in the journal Physical Review of Letters, aims to preserve a rule of physics called CPT symmetry. In the anti-universe before the Big Bang, it suggests, time ran backwards and the cosmos were made of antimatter instead of matter.
This new theory is compelling, according to a news release about the new theory, because it would mean that the universe is filled with “very massive sterile neutrinos” that could explain dark matter, a mysterious material that is believed to make up much of the universe.
New Particle
By the researchers’ own admission, according to Physics World, many details of the new theory still need to be hammered out. But co-author Neil Turok, of the Perimetery Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario, argued in an interview with the publication that the new theory is a strong one because it relies only on known particles and fields, instead of assuming that new ones will be discovered in the future.
“There is this frame of mind that you explain a new phenomenon by inventing a new particle or field,” he told Physics World. “I think that may turn out to be misguided.”
Mysterious Disappearances of Submarines After UFO Activity
Mysterious Disappearances of Submarines After UFO Activity
There are many strange facts surrounding a number of missing submarines like the four submarines lost in 1968; The INS Dakar - Israelo, the USN Scorpion U.S., the S-647 Minery -French and the K-129 - Sovjet.
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 3500 mph 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 submarines.
NASA TREMBLES: CHINESE SPACE MISSION REVEALED THAT THE US NEVER STEPPED ON THE MOON (2019)
NASA TREMBLES: CHINESE SPACE MISSION REVEALED THAT THE US NEVER STEPPED ON THE MOON (2019)
Conspiracy experts have always believed that the US government, desperate to beat the Russians in the space race, recreated the lunar landing with Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at the head of the mission filmed on a secret set.
But now other new evidence would prove the conspiracy theory, on Saturday the unmanned China probe, Chang’e 3, made a successful landing on the moon, according to Chinese state media.
WHO LIES? BROWN LUNAR SOIL? According to Chinese state television, the Chang’e-3 landed successfully on the Moon after a 13-day trip from Earth. The landing craft brought with it a solar-powered robotic robot called Jade Rabbit or Yutu in Mandarin Chinese, which would emerge several hours later to begin exploring the Sinus Iridum, or Rainbow Bay, a relatively smooth plain formed by solidified lava.
But the controversy arose after the National Space Administration of China published the first photographs of the lunar soil, which is apparently not grayish in color, is brown.
The conspirators claim that the surface of the moon is actually light brown with scattered rocks, obviously lighter in color. Many people say that maybe this is the first time we can really have a close and independent view of the lunar surface in its original color.
CONSPIRATORS They have ventured to say that earlier this month, NASA asked China to postpone its mission to the Moon. NASA said they were seriously concerned about the final objectives of the moon mission of the Chinese leaders.
Recently, the Russian portal “Vesti” reported that China’s goal was to turn the Moon into a “Death Star”, a place where large-scale ballistic tests will be conducted with a take-off zone for space exploration ships.
This project coincides with the statements of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who declared that China should establish itself as a space superpower.
The latest images offered by the National Space Administration of China (CNSA) clearly show the assembly held by the United States to show the world that they were the only ones able to reach the lunar soil, but on the other hand, others believe that it is another landing fake of the moon like the rover “Curuosity”.
As we always say, everyone draws their own conclusions.
WHAT DID HE KNOW? George Bush Sr took UFO secrets to the grave – because ‘Americans couldn’t handle the truth’, lobbyist claims
WHAT DID HE KNOW? George Bush Sr took UFO secrets to the grave – because ‘Americans couldn’t handle the truth’, lobbyist claims
American UFO lobbyist Steve Bassett said Bush Sr could have ended the UFO "cover up" - but decided not to
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By Emma Parry, Digital US Correspondent
FORMER US president George Bush Sr knew UFOs were real but took his secrets to the grave because the American people "could not handle the truth", a lobbyist has claimed.
The 41st President of the United States, who died last month aged 94, was a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and was briefed daily by spooks while in the White House.
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George Bush Sr was briefed on all of America's UFO secrets , according to expert
And according to UFO researchers he would have been the "ideal" president to disclose the truth about UFOs as he was so well informed.
But he kept all his UFO knowledge a secret right up until he died at his home in Houston, Texas.
Steve Bassett, an American UFO lobbyist, told Sun Online Bush knew the truth about extra terrestrial life and could have ended the UFO cover-up.
He said: "The consensus among researchers is George H. W. Bush would have been briefed on the extra-terrestrial presence to whatever extent he so desired.
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Bush did not believe people could "handle" the truth about UFOs
"There is no clear evidence George H. W. Bush wanted 'Disclosure'. That said, it is my view the military/intelligence complex would have been quite comfortable with 'Disclosure' taking place during a second term of President George H. W. Bush.
"He would have been the ideal 'Disclosure' President from their perspective. The Cold War was over and the door was now open to end a very expensive and complex truth embargo."
While director of the CIA, Bush is said to have even blocked former president Jimmy Carter's attempts to obtain UFO information during an alleged briefing on November 19, 1976.
Bush told the president-elect he didn't have the need to know but if he wanted information he should ask the Congressional Research Service (CRS) to prepare a briefing for the new administration.
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Steve Bassett is the only registered UFO lobbyist on the alien disclosure subject in the US
Carter had pledged he would disclose to US citizens what the government knew about UFOs if elected after witnessing a strange light while governor of Georgia in 1969.
Bassett, the executive director of UFO campaign group Paradigm Research Group, thinks Bush rebuffed Carter as he knew some UFOs were extra-terrestrial in origin.
He said: "We do know the newly elected President Carter approached CIA Director Bush regarding a study the White House wished to initiate regarding the extra-terrestrial issue.
"Bush declined to cooperate and referred him to another agency. This may have guaranteed he would not be able to stay on as CIA Director - or not.
"Carter fired him shortly thereafter. One might ask, 'If there was no truth to the extra-terrestrial hypothesis, why would Bush disrespect a presidential request?'"
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Bush Sr was the former director of the CIA
While campaigning with his son Jeb Bush in the 1980s, Bush was asked about UFOs by a journalist. He replied: "Americans can't handle the truth."
Bush was also quizzed by UFO researcher Charles Huffer during a presidential rally trip to Rogers, Arkansas, in 1988 during which he asked Bush: "Will you tell the people the truth about UFOs?"
Bush replied: "Yeah. if we can find it, what it is. We are really interested." When pressed further Bush replied: "I know some. I know a fair amount."
Bush also supported space exploration, and was once quoted in a speech as saying: "We will travel to neighbouring stars, to new worlds, to discover the unknown."
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Bush believed Americans "could not handle the truth about UFOs"
Bassett, who organised the Citizens Hearings in 2012 - which saw dozens of military, government and intelligence officers give evidence about UFOs to six former members of Congress - believes Bush was also aware of the infamous Roswell UFO crash in July 1947.
He added: "It is my view Bush was quite knowledgeable about the history of the extra-terrestrial presence to the extent he required. Did that include the July 1947 Roswell events? Almost certainly yes."
Last year Bush's son George appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live show to plug his autobiography but remained tight-lipped when asked about UFOs.
Kimmel said: "This is a question I think is very important to me and very important to the country.
"When you were in office - and I don't know when this ever or if it happened - did you go through the secret files, the UFO documents? Because if I was president that would be the first thing I did."
But instead of laughing off the question or branding Kimmel a crackpot, the former US leader replied: "Maybe."
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Bush would have known about the infamous Roswell incident, according to Bassett
He then went on to reveal his daughters Barbara and Jenna asked him the same question when he served as the 43rd President of the United States but he couldn't tell them anything.
Bush was one of three former presidents and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, to go on Kimmel to discuss the UFO topic.
Barack Obama, Hillary and Bill Clinton have all previously spoken out about UFOs on the show.
Hillary vowed to launch a probe if she made it to the White House but she was pipped by Donald Trump.
And Hillary’s campaign manager John Podesta, Bill’s former Chief of Staff, has called for the lid to be lifted on UFOs.
In 2015, he tweeted his biggest regret after leaving his job as President Obama’s advisor was “once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files.”
President Trump recently announced plans to launch a US Space Force by 2020 - some insiders believe it is in response to a hostile alien threat.
La Chapada Diamantina au Brésil - Formidable zone pour observer les ovnis
La Chapada Diamantina au Brésil - Formidable zone pour observer les ovnis
Pour l'écrivain et ufologue Hélio Nunes de Camargo c’est une certitude. Des êtres extraterrestres ont bel et bien implanté des bases sur notre planète et plus particulièrement dans la région de la Chapada Diamantina.
Il ne fait aucun doute à ses yeux que cette région héberge l’une d’entre elle (ce parc naturel du Brésil d’une superficie de 1520 km² est situé dans l'environnement de la chapada Diamantina, dans l'État de Bahia à environ 400 km de Salvador, la capitale d'État).
Hélio Nunes de Camargo qui connait bien cette zone a récemment publié un ouvrage intitulé "UFO in the Chapada".
Il aborde dans ce livre plusieurs sujets en relation avec l'ufologie brésilienne dont celui traitant du crash d’un ovni au dessus de Bahia ayant conduit selon de nombreux témoins à l’intervention de l’armée et à la capture d’un être extraterrestre.
Cet ouvrage est étayé de nombreuses photographies dont celle figurant ci-dessous qui est issue de la collection personnelle d’un guide touristique dénommé Adilson Almeida Silva et provenant de la colline de Pai Inácio située à proximité de la ville de Palmeiras.
Hélio Nunes de Camargo explique avoir lui-même rencontré de façon très rapprochée des extraterrestres.
A titre d’exemple, il indique en avoir observé de nuit sur une route reliant la zone de Lençóis au BR-242 un gris. Le lendemain, d’autres témoignages du même ordre ont été réalisés.
Selon lui ces êtres extraterrestres viennent dans cette région compte tenu de la valeur représentée par les minerais rares que l’on y trouve. Ces éléments qui sont uniques s’avèrent à ses yeux indispensables pour mener certains projets impliquant de nouvelles technologies de pointe.
Comme en attestent les dessins rupestres qui figurent dans de nombreuses grottes de la région, visiblement ces êtres semblent connaitre cette région depuis très longtemps. Certaines peintures très déroutantes sont datées de plus de 8 000 ans.
Ufologues amateurs ou non, si vous vous rendez prochainement au Brésil et que vous pouvez visiter cette région ouvrez bien les yeux, vous pourriez être récompensés.
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.
In a video posted online, a mysterious object seems to appear above the planet.
The glowing object – which appears blueish in hue with a white centre – can be seen in the background of NASA’s live feed.
As the camera zooms in, the alarming size of it becomes clearer as it towers over the planet.
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.
Of all of the unsettling denizens of the paranormal that could pop out of the darkness, one of the odder has to be the pale face of a humanoid creature beyond description, eluding all attempts to categorize it. These gaunt, hunched over specters seem to haunt the fringe of reports of the mysterious and supernatural, and I have covered them before here to some extent. Yet there are countless such reports coming from people from all walks of life and from all over. Here is a selection of various reports of spectral, deathly pale beings that are humanoid to some extent, but most certainly not human, circling out past the boundaries of the truly odd.
One witness brings us the story of an anonymous Reddit poster who says he had a very spooky encounter in 2006 in rural Arkansas, in the United States. He claims that this happened when he was only 12 years old, and that he had lived in a modest house nestled on around an acre of land out in the boondocks, surrounded by dim woods and its only tendril to the outside world an unpaved dirt road meandering off through the trees. Making the whole scene even spookier is the alleged fact that there was a big old abandoned slaughterhouse somewhere back in the wooded area, as well as the remnants of some burned down house owned by anonymous parties long since gone. Whether this had anything to do with what was to come or not, the witness describes the whole area as rather “mystical and special,” as well as “odd in general,” and that his encounter would happen one evening when he went out to lie down on the outside trampoline after an argument with his parents. It was just him and that big sky with a full moon framed within it, and he says of what happened next:
So I’m laying on the trampoline, and other than the moon there isn’t any light aside from the porch light which is a ways behind me. All of the sudden I vaguely see something move. Its coming from the lot across from the dirt road, and its coming towards me. We had a Boston terrier at the time and at first I figured it was him. But as it got closer I knew that’s not what it was.
It was sickly pale. It walked on all fours with its hands but seemed to be able to walk upright. Its kind of galloping towards me on all fours and its a little bit aways at this point but getting closer. The light bounced off of its skin and it almost seemed to look wet. Its gait and color is pretty clear to me but I don’t remember anything distinct about its face except that it just seems to be whitewashed to me. It’s happening so fast and now it is right near me still running and then I can’t see it. It’s under the trampoline. And then I feel it, I feel it PUSH up on the trampoline. I didn’t even bother to look back as I ran to the house. I don’t remember my thought process at all past that point but my mom has told me that I came in the house hollering and absolutely terrified.
I’ve thought about this consistently over the years and as I’ve gotten older have seen stories of similar creatures. I used to describe it as looking like Gollum from the LOTR. I think of the creature kind of fondly in a way. It would never have occurred to me at the time but it almost had a playful vibe to it, and it makes me sad to think that it’s just some lonely but semi-intelligent creature. Maybe a grotesque experiment or some off-kilter evolutionary line. I don’t think that’s impossible. I guess I like to let my imagination run wild with it though. I will always be curious about this and the place in general.
It is hard to know how much stock to put into Reddit reports, but there sure are a lot along the same lines. Another poster at Reddit /r/paranormal gives his own freaky encounter, for which he even supplies photographic evidence. This supposedly happened in 2012, at an undisclosed location at a close-knit friendly barn community in a rural area of the United States, surrounded by dim woods laced with small, scenic trails. The witness says that his two horses were kept on the property, which was near his home and which he would visit ever day to care for and ride around through the peaceful scenery. One evening he had a startling experience as he rode one of the horses, of which he would say:
One evening, around 5pm, I was sitting on her, letting her stand when she started snorting and backing up. I looked up and saw this white/grey creature crawling out of the woods towards us. It had a very small round head, it’s eyes were just pits. It had a very small mouth, not much detail there. It’s arms were very long and thin, fingers also like that. Its rib cage was very pronounced and defined, and it’s legs were long and lanky.
Its movements were very jerky, not smooth and fluid. It slowly jerked out to us, when my horse turned and bolted out of the arena. She’s a dead broke, calm, well manners horse who never spooked before this. Stubborn old mare, but not spooky. She would not go back into the arena that night. I walked her around the barn yard, staying near the main barn, put her up, and ran out to peek into the arena, to find nothing except some “foot prints” where I saw the thing.
This would not be the end of the sightings of this odd creature, as the witness says it would lurk around the dark periphery of the property all through that summer, often peeking around the gate that led out into the woods. On one occasion he saw it running along the other side of the fence, keeping up with him and the horse. It was eerie to be sure, and the witness continues:
I continued seeing it, mainly in the woods, but it was always around. Summer 2013, the barn shut down when the owner died. We moved the horses to a friends place for the time being, and I didn’t see it there. Late summer/fall 2013, I found a new barn. Woods directly behind the barn and arena. This place had lights and was much newer. About a month later, when I was getting ready to leave I heard something in the woods, I looked down the barn aisle into the woods and saw the creature running down the road into the woods. I saw it much less frequently for a while, until later in fall 2014 I began seeing it in the back pastures woods, it darted in and out of the tree line. I saw a second one sitting in a neighbors yard, it would sit in the same spot every day and watch me ride.
Started taking pictures, which are very poor and crappy, and sent them to a friend who claimed he and some others have seen it. Kept seeing it occasionally, but from a much greater distance than at the first barn. I went with this barn owner to another farm to get some stuff, when I saw a very very large version of this creature run out from the woods, right behind a tree I was 10 feet from, while I was alone by the trailer.
Last November, I house sat for the barn owners. I went out around 2am to fill water troughs and enjoy the full moon and cool night. I was sitting in the back pasture when 3 of the creatures began coming from the woods, one came up to the trees near the trough where I was, the other two were walking along the tree line. The horses were silently munching their hay, pretty far from where the creatures were. I messaged the guy from earlier and told him what was going on. Since that incident, I haven’t really seen them. Last summer, I did see one outside my house staring into the windows. A few weeks ago, one was outside my bedroom windows tapping and making a strange faint shrieking sound.
Supposed photo taken of the entity
Unfortunately the pictures don’t really seem conclusive at all, and we are left to wonder just what was going on here, if anything at all. Another Reddit poster gave his own report of a strange occurrence at a rural country house when he was 15 years old. At the time he was apparently in his bedroom on a very dark night, and was about to close the blinds to the window when he caught a glimpse of a “pure white almost glowing man/thing” glaring at him from next to a nearby pine tree. He would describe what happened as follows:
It was crouched down kind of in a spider-man pose and I believe it had larger black eyes. Not like something you see from the greys but it was a feature that stood out to me. It was very muscular, I distinctly remember seeing well defined arm muscles, it seemed just very muscular in general. It wasn’t too thin it was just strong looking. I don’t know how tall it was because it was crouched down looking up at me. I don’t remember if it’s head appeared larger than an average humans head, but I remember it was very bald.
When I saw this creature I screamed for my mom, she came to the window and saw something that startled her too and ran downstairs to our back porch and yelled “who’s out there! Come out!” I remember standing behind my mother nervous with fear. We went back to my room and looked out the window and it was gone. I have this weird feeling that someday I’ll see it again. I’m not sure why, I just feel it.
A very similar report was posted on The National Cryptid Society, and was given by a witness in the Midwest United States. The report again concerns pale, humanoid things wandering about the dark outside of windows in the middle of nowhere, and the witness says:
When I was in 6th grade, I looked out the living room window and saw a white reflection. My mom grabbed a flashlight and looked out the window, she could see some white animal crawling around on the ground in the clearing by our house. It was approximately raccoon-sized, but white and apparently able to get 3′ up to the window. The next morning, before sunrise, I was letting my dog outside. He ran out the garage door and began barking and growling (completely out of character for him). I stepped around the door frame and saw an approximately 5′ tall pale being with two huge, glowing eyes and some form of round glowing item where a mouth or neck might be. My sixth grade self screamed, turned, and ran back inside, leaving my mother and dog out to fend for themselves.
By the time my mom figured out what happened and I calmed down enough to come back out, the thing was gone. To this day, I’m terrified of the woods surrounding their house at night. When I visit, I leave before sunset or have someone walk me to my car. It has been over 15 years. I would also like to add that I don’t believe in “aliens” or “ghosts” or anything, but I have no clue what these things were.
What are these things and what do they want? Was this a ghost, an alien, some sort of unidentified animal, or what? Our next account was provided to the site Phantoms and Monsters, and supposedly happened at Big Bear Lake, California, in 2017. The witness claims she had just checked into a Best Western motel in the area at just after midnight, and was going to her car to get her luggage when she had the fright of her life. According to the witness, it was very dark and was cold and snowy, with her just wanting to get her stuff and get in out of the cold. She says:
It had been snowing and was extremely dark, my car was facing a country road. When I hit the unlock button on my car, the parking and interior lights came on. This allowed me to see two eyes reflecting in the middle of the road, about 10-15 ft from me. At first, I thought it was a deer, I have lived in Colorado and I’m accustomed to seeing wildlife.
I instantly stopped and remained still as I didn’t want to scare off the what I thought was a deer. As my eyes glanced downwards, I noticed it wasn’t a deer, it looked like a white, hairless naked man on all fours. It was at least four feet in height, on all fours. Probably around 15 ft if it stood up. There was a brief moment as our eyes made contact. It then, as quickly as I have ever seen any animal, turned around, ran as fast as a cheetah away from me and then, straight up a tree. I was frozen in disbelief. I said out loud to myself, “you have to be flipping kidding me”. Just as I was going to convince myself that this couldn’t possibly be happening, it leapt from tree top to tree top and I could see it’s full outline as it did so.
The speed and strength it had is like nothing I’ve ever heard of before. The creature was definitely solid, it appeared as if it was coming toward me, possibly hunting me? I don’t know what stopped it. Was it the lights that went on? It had no visible genitalia. it had a very human like qualities. None of this makes sense to me, the speed, agility of the creature and there shouldn’t be anyway that the treetops should have been able to hold the weight of the creature. It appeared to be flashing like a TV going in and out of reception as it sprinted up the tree. It also didn’t appear to disrupt the foliage as it did so.
Besides hanging out in the shadows and woods of rural properties, similar pale humanoids have been encountered on roads as well, where the lane lines come flickering out of the gloom to go racing back into the night. In a report to the July 15, 2016 episode of Coast To Coast AM, a caller named “Nate” gave his experience while driving along a desolate road in rural Illinois. He says that he is a truck driver, a profession that has numerous brushes with the paranormal, and on this night he was heading east on I-80 through Illinois. He would tell Coast to Coast:
I had stayed the night, well, the afternoon in Des Moines to get some sleep and I got a fresh eight hours of sleep and I had just got on the road. It was about dusk and the sun was just about to set and I was driving and I seen a figure just ahead of me on I-80 and it was right on the side of the road. When I say right on the side of the road, I don’t mean in the grass. Its toes were right on the white line. I slowed down a little bit to kind of see what was going on there and maybe avoid it. When I got about fifty yards from it. I got down to about 50 miles per hour and I could see it clear. I had my brights on and everything. It was a man. Well, it looked like a man about maybe 5’9 or 5’10. Couldn’t have been more than a hundred pounds soaking wet. And when I got up to him he looked at me and George I kid you not, he had no eyes, no mouth, no nostrils. There was no orifice on his face. He was pale white. No hair. No features whatsoever. There was a… It looked like a skeleton with bleached white skin. He was just kind of standing there looking right at me. I slowed down and as soon as I seen his face, he looked up at me, boy, I flipped the hammer down from Illinois all the way to Chicago. I never looked back. My blood ran cold. My hair stood up. I was one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen in my life.
Another such account was reported on Reddit by a witness who says his frightening encounter happened on Christmas Night of 2007, at a lakeside community in rural upstate New York. The festivities had worn down and at around 8 PM the witness took off in his car to a friend’s house. The place was only about a 10-minute drive away and the night was clear, so there would have been no reason to suspect that anything would happen in such a quiet and peaceful place, but things would quickly take a turn into the weird. He would say of his harrowing encounter:
As I drove, I noticed what looked like someone walking up ahead on the opposite side of the road, coming in my direction. Mind you, I was still going about 20 mph the whole time, so it was probably less than a minute by the time the “walker” came into clear view. I got a quick scan of it from my windshield before my car and it were exactly parallel.
It was not a person. It stood on two long legs, with long arms hanging down from its shoulders. It was strong looking. Lean, muscular, but not beefy in stature. It looked thin at the same time. It stood at least 7 foot tall. It was light coloured: not sure whether it was white, tan, yellow or greyish. It didn’t appear to have fur but there was some texture to the skin- it wasn’t smooth. There appeared to be something coming down off its back. I don’t know what this was. All I can recall about it’s face is the small features it had but the mouth and jaw were notably large. And it had pointed things atop its head- 2 things going straight upward with something mingled between the two things. That’s what I got from a quick scan and from my observation of it as it neared my car and my car neared it.
As my car became parallel to it within a split second, I went from looking out my windshield to looking at it from my drivers side window. In that moment, it’s face quickly peered down at me and all I remember was the mouth opened wide. Out came a remarkable scream that I’ll never forget. Gives me the chills just thinking about it. It consisted of a high-pitched shrill/shriek, enveloped by a deep guttural growl. Both sounds happened simultaneously in that scream.
I kept driving all the while. This was all happening so fast that I didn’t even have a chance to be scared or shocked or anything. I continued driving and went past my friends house and drove home. Called him to tell him what happened and that I just needed to get back. I was probably running on adrenaline to get back home. Later on, I was in total shock after it sunk in. Had my drivers side window been opened fully, it would have touched me, or worse, taken me. I’m certain of it.
Another account from Phantoms and Monsters tells the story of a witness in Canada, who had at the time spent the evening laughing and talking with friends until the wee hours of the morning. At 4:45 AM he decided it was time to head home, and got into his truck to begin the 45 minute drive back to his place. In between his friend’s town and his own there was reportedly a pitch black forested area that took around 10 minutes to drive through, and after almost hitting a deer on his way in he decided to slow down and take his time getting through this tangle of trees. He would say of the series of bizarre events that would follow:
As I approached the exit of the forest there is a left curve in the road and an adjacent dirt road with a white wooden fence lining it going up a hill to what I would imagine would lead to someones property/home. As I was making the turn I seen something in my headlights (Brights) at the edge of the fence. It was a tall pale milky white creature with a bald head. It’s eyes reflected back. Clothes-less . It’s arms and legs just as white as its bald head. I seen it for a second or two as it made a move to dive behind the fence.
I braked and backed up slowly and pointed my lights at the fence looking for any kind of movement. I was parked on the highway which was abandoned at 5 am. My heart was racing and I didn’t know why. I must have sat there for a minute before I calmed down, didn’t see any movement and decided I better not go and investigate or maybe I’d become a missing person and continued my journey home. So the only description I have of this “thing” is tall,pale, bald, and human like features, but no noticeable hair or eyebrows.
Such entities leave us wondering just what any of these people could have possibly seen. Are these ghosts, aliens, demons, or just the products of addled, tired minds? There are numerous encounters that cover a wide spectrum of such pale, humanoid beings, and as I have said I have covered such reports before, so are these related and what could we be dealing with here? Considering the very unearthly undertones of such reports, one might be inclined to think that this must surely be aliens. After all, how could something so innately bizarre as these pale, crouched monsters be anything of this world? One possible explanation for the pure outlandishness of these stories is that they are some sort of inter-dimensional entities or trickster spirits, that for whatever reasons find themselves here for unfathomable purposes and agendas. It was an idea championed by such esteemed paranormal researchers as Jacques Vallee and John Keel, and Keel himself would once say of such bizarre beings that seem to defy any conventional classification:
One basic fact should be obvious from the foregoing – these entities and things are not necessarily from some other planet. They are actually closely tied to the human race, are a part of our immediate environment in some unfathomable fashion, and to a very large extent are primarily concerned with misleading us, misinforming us, and playing games with us.
Is that what this is? Are there entities from beyond the fringe of the odd that are paying us a visit to taunt and manipulate us to inscrutable ends? How else can we explain these totally otherworldly reports and their crouched, pale denizens of our nightmares? How else can we possibly fit any of these accounts into our reality? Unless, of course, they are just pure fabrications? It is difficult to say what the case may be, as these are eyewitness accounts beyond the scope of out ability to verify or corroborate, but if they are in any sense real, then they leave a lot to question, and flitter about out in the domain of the truly strange.
I have a lot of fun searching for structures in NASA, ESA and JAXA photos. I feel a real high every time I discover a new alien structure. The more clear and focused the structure, the bigger the high. Who needs drugs when you got such an amazing reality all around you? No-one can hide the truth 100%...and here is the proof of that. I have discovered a long black structure in a crater on planet Mercury. This structure is non reflective black...stealth black probably so it wont reflect radar and so it wont stand out.
You see, even aliens have enemies...they are not hiding the structures from humanity, they are hiding them from other alien species that may target them. Yes...even advanced alien species have problems with one another. Call it cultural or racial discrimination, but its there. They are not perfect, and many have not conquered their own desires yet...having not learned how to control many of their emotions.
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The Dark World Of Secret Projects And Strange Experiments
The Dark World Of Secret Projects And Strange Experiments
Anyone in UFO or conspiracy circles will be aware of an ever-growing tide of secret projects and disturbing experiments connected to apparently unanswerable sections of the world’s intelligence services. And what’s more, for the most part, these experiments take place on the population without their knowledge. At least those are some of the theories. And for a large proportion of them, there is growing evidence of their grim reality.
Many of these, worryingly or not, revolves around the MKUltra programs, mind control, and low-frequency programming and psycho electronic weapons. And while these notions sound bizarre and bordering on lunacy to many people, they are genuine operations, taking place in the shadows of the world’s governments. How far they go, and to what level control occurs is surely the real question.
In fact, it is perhaps the experiments and secret research into such notions as mind control that should worry us the most. As we have asked before, in this ultra-covert environment, how do we truly know our thoughts are our own? Before we move on to some of these secret operations, check out the short video below. It features just five such experiments performed in secret.
Bluebird And Artichoke – Initial Mind Control Programs
The immediate forerunner to the MKUltra mind control programs, not counting the research undertaken by scientists under the Third Reich in the early-1940s, were Projects Bluebird and Artichoke respectively. These were essentially the same project under a different name, likely for extra security reasons. By the time they morphed into MKUltra they were largely “black budget programs” of varying natures. We have written before of the work of Jose Delgado who looked to stimulate certain parts of the brain as an alternative to lobotomies. We also mentioned that his work was likely “hijacked” and used for purposes not intended by him.
It would appear at least some of those methods would morph into these initial mind control projects. Beginning in 1950, many of the experiments were on young children, some as young as eleven-years-old. Electrodes would often insert directly into the brain. Their behavior was then subject to influence and control through remote transmitters. These children were often “prepared” for these dark experiments by the daily administering of LSD. These dosings would continue for several months at a time and had been happening since the children were seven or eight years of age. On several occasions, and to ensure secrecy, the children were those of high-ranking military officers.
The intelligence services (the CIA in this case) would often utilize the services of prostitutes in order to expand their experiments. They would have them give LSD to their unknowing clients. The CIA would then apprehend these clients and begin a program of memory wiping by use of electric shock treatment. How many, if any, of these unfortunate citizens went on to carry out activities against their will is very much open for debate.
Influencing “Dream States” And Remote Viewing
At some time in 1977, Project Dreamscan went into operation, and while much more futuristic in nature, was really a natural progression from the mind control experiments of the fifties and sixties. As you might imagine there is very little on record about it. However, it would seem to use people with the ability to remote view or leave one’s body at will. These individuals would then “enter the target’s mind in a dream state”. It is not clear if “the target” is mentally incapacitated in some way, or whether this intrusion in to someone’s subconscious takes place regardless of the person’s mental state.
The use of remote viewing, however, is certainly one that the CIA have spent considerable time and research on. This would suggest more than a passing interest in the phenomenon. Perhaps the most outspoken of those who claim to have been employed by intelligence agencies in such a way is Ingo Swann. He would have involvement in several remote viewing projects which would include seeing “bases on the moon”, as well as venturing out as far Jupiter in 1973. What is interesting about the experiment, and indeed Swann’s authenticity was his claim that the gas giant contained a ring around it. This was unknown at the time and confirmation would come by the Pioneer 10 probe shortly after.
Another apparent remote viewing experiment came to light in February 2017. This appeared to show a remote viewer, under coordinates given to them by the CIA, witnessing an intelligent civilization on Mars over a million years ago. What’s more, it would appear this civilization escaped their ruined planet and came to Earth. This session also suggests the ability to traverse time when leaving one’s body – at least on this occasion.
Project Stargate
It was largely throughout the 1970s during the Cold War that remote viewing was at its peak in terms of importance to the intelligence agencies. Many remote viewers received orders to key on targets behind the Iron Curtain. Whether it was disinformation or not, the reasons the US intelligence agencies had a sudden interest in remote viewing came from information that the Soviet Union engaged in such intelligence gathering programs.
The US intelligence services would call this “psychotronic research” and would, it would seem, treat it very seriously. Although intelligence services were more than skeptical of the notion of remote viewing, their information of the Soviets’ increased spending on the subject convinced them they had made some kind of “breakthrough” – which maybe they had. The US intelligence remote viewing projects (such as those with Ingo Swann) went under various names. Collectively, however, they were known as Project Stargate.
It wasn’t purely for spying and information that the projects went ahead, though. While some remote viewers would dedicate their efforts to keeping an out-of-body-eye on the activities of the Soviets, others would perform research on how to “develop-and-train” people to remote view. Essentially, they were looking at ways to weaponize it, and prepare those who could remote view for “psychic warfare”. By the early-1980s, using the talents of Swann and fellow remote viewer, Harold Puthoff, a system was in place that would “allow anyone to be trained to produce accurate, detailed target data”.
Some reports state that the US government would “loan out” their remote viewers on occasion to other regimes. However, by the mid-1990s, the program would cease operations, allegedly due to a sudden drop off in accurate results. Some, though, believe this allowed the project to operate under the protection of black budgets.
Weaponized Side-Effects
Project Rainbow appears to be another secret program that intelligence agencies looked to turn into a weapon off the back of completely different intentions. It was originally designed to influence the weather and, according to some researchers, ran from 1948 to 1968. However, quite unintentionally, was the realization that side-effects from the program could work in mind control experiments.
Perhaps another project that developed from the experimentation of electromagnetic forces used in weather control was The Sleeping Beauty Project. Whether this ever went into action in the field is debatable, but the research certainly took place. The US intelligence services were looking to use “mind-altering electromagnetic weaponry” to achieve “battlefield superiority” by disorientating their enemy. Furthermore, said enemy would likely have no idea what was happening to them, which would only serve to increase the disorientation. And fear.
Another side-effect that underwent significant research in order to weaponize it on the battlefield was the “state of artificial paralysis” alien abductees would report. And perhaps more importantly, how it was “mentally induced”. According to some research, Project Mindwreaker was secretly commissioned in 1987. Its purpose was to “imitate this phenomenon” and turn it into an advanced weapon. Some rumors even state that it is not merely a case of imitating the phenomenon. Some believe it involves the utilization of extraterrestrial technology for their own ends.
The video below looks at black budget projects and how they tie in with the alien and UFO conspiracy.
An Intense Need For Control
Perhaps we should expect, given the apparent tight secrecy around such projects, that very little “solid” evidence exists to back-up a lot of the claims. At least in their entirety. One overriding notion that runs through many of these secretive projects and programs, though, is the desire for control. And what’s more, this control is not just for an enemy. It would appear there is a desire by governments to control their own citizens too.
Such action would suggest that claims of a “world elite” or a “shadow government” are very much on the money. When we remind ourselves of the mysterious death of Frank Olson, those claims become even darker.
Olson was a biochemist who, in 1953, was working on the LSD experiments for the US government. Olson, at least according to his family, opposed the work of the intelligence agencies once he discovered their intentions. The US government had always denied this was the case. According to the official record, Olson, under the influence of LSD, would throw himself from a New York hotel window. However, upon the exhumation of his body almost forty years later as part of a reinvestigation into his death, significant damage would come to light regarding his skull. It appeared as though he was unconscious from a blow to the head and then thrown from the window. Regardless of the medical examiner’s findings, a judge would dismiss the case.
Perhaps we could forget this incident. If it wasn’t for the sudden “accidental death” of one-time CIA director, William Colby. He would drown only days after a subpoena by the courts regarding the death of Frank Olson.
This diagram suggests how the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule, could have formed.
Credit: James Tuttle Keane/NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
A close view of an ultra-distant fossil is helping to answer questions about the formation of planets throughout the universe.
NASA's New Horizons probe buzzed the outer solar-system object early on New Year's morning, making the first flyby of such a primitive object. Because 2014 MU69 has remained virtually untouched since the birth of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago, it can reveal new details about that era. Already the first puzzling photos are helping to prove models of the early solar system.
New Horizons' first target, Pluto, serves as a gatekeeper to the Kuiper Belt, the band of icy rocks that encircles the solar system. MU69 lies within the most densely populated region of the belt, among other cold classical objects that have not been disturbed since their birth billions of years ago. [New Horizons' Flyby of Ultima Thule: Full Coverage]
"We picked a cold classical object for a very specific region, because that's where the evidence was heading," Alan Stern, the New Horizons principal investigator and a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado, told Space.com. Stern said that a mission like New Horizons was the most direct way to get information about the dawn of the solar system.
New Horizons delivered. The newest images released yesterday ( Jan. 2) reveal a snowman-shaped object with two lobes, one roughly three times the size of the other. During a news conference, mission scientists said that the only way for such an object to form was by coming together at very slow speeds — less than 1 mile or kilometer an hour.
"If you collided with another car at those speeds, you may not even bother to fill out the insurance forms," Jeff Moore, New Horizons co-investigator from NASA's Ames Research Center in California, told the crowd.
These slow formation speeds help to validate a recently proposed model of solar system formation known as pebble accretion. Under that model, the gas and dust left over from the formation of the sun slowly comes together as tiny objects, pulled by gravity.
"It's incredibly satisfying to see that confirmed by the data," Stern told Space.com.
"Big physics"
Artist’s impression of the New Horizons spacecraft encountering Ultima Thule.Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
This first color photo of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule reveals the object's red color as seen by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from a distance of 85,000 miles (137,000 kilometers) during a Jan. 1, 2019 flyby. From left to right: an enhanced color image, a higher-resolution black and white image, and an overlay that combines both into a more detailed view.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Trying to understand how planets form is a challenge. We can't rewind the process in our own solar system, so scientists peer at the asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) that were left behind after the planets formed. Objects like these probably started out as bits of gas and dust that were pulled together by gravity, in tiny clumps referred to as pebbles. Unlike the pebbles in your driveway, however, the pebbles of the solar system can be as large as giant boulders; the idea is that they are smaller than the planetary embryos known as planetesimals.
Peering into other planetary systems can help scientists understand this period in solar system history some, but not a lot. The cloud of gas and dust that births new worlds also hides them, concealing them in a shroud of material.
So researchers mostly rely on models, computer programs that work to simulate the process of planet formation. By looking at the results of planetary systems, researchers can get an idea of the limits behind their formation.
In 2012, a pair of researchers from Sweden proposed the pebble accretion model, in contrast to contemporary theories suggesting gas and dust gathered together to create kilometer-size objects. The model was imperfect, and in 2015, theorist Harold Levison of SwRI suggested some refinements. The theory described how as the objects grew from centimeter-size pebbles, their gravitational fields would push and pull at one another. The nudges would have knocked some embryos out of the gas and dust, separating them from the material they needed to grow larger, while those that remained in the disk gorged on pebbles to grow into planets.
The most recent images of MU69, which the team has nicknamed Ultima Thule, seem to prove the pebble accretion theory, Levison said. The two small objects on the KBO bumped at slow speeds that suggest a relatively calm period of accretion, when pieces of material are piling onto one another, rather than a fast and dangerous birth. Levison, who is not a member of the New Horizons team, is the principal investigator for an upcoming mission to one of the asteroids around Jupiter.
"The big news is the accretion story," Cathy Olkin, New Horizons' deputy project scientist at SwRI, told Space.com. That picture of how solar system objects formed is supported by the fact that the object's two distinct lobes are joined by a narrow neck rather than a thick, unwieldy one.
The surface features of Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule (2014 MU69) are coming into focus in these images taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its historic flyby on Jan. 1, 2019. These images, released Jan. 2, were taken a day earlier from a distance of 18,000 miles (28,000 kilometers) with a scale of 730 feet (140 meters) per pixels. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Pebble accretion might also help explain why MU69 has no apparent satellites, despite the fact that the team anticipated finding large rocks or moons in orbit in the years and months leading up to the flyby.
"It's really astounding that we don't see anything in orbit," Stern said.
According to Levison, if MU69's bilobed shape was formed by pebble accretion, the process would have ejected smaller leftovers that didn't accrete onto the KBO fairly quickly, leaving no satellites for New Horizons to spot.
Of course, it's still possible that newer, better resolved images that will be sent to Earth in the coming days may reveal such satellites.
The preliminary findings, however, seem to make MU69 a smoking gun for pebble accretion, providing an observational match to what was last week only a theory. That find alone has important scientific implications, and the rest of the information New Horizons will unveil over the next two years will surely shed even more light on the process.
"This is big physics, [as if it were] a particle detector and we just now found the Standard Model," Stern said with a large grin, referring to the theory of fundamental particles and how they interact.
"I think we should be nominated as a mission for a Nobel Prize," he said.
HELSINKI, Finland — China's Chang'e-4 spacecraft madethe first ever soft-landing on the far side of the moonWednesday (Jan. 2) in a mission investigating the history of the solar system and paving the way for future exploration.
The 1,200-kilogram dry massChang'e-4 lander touched downat 177.6 degrees east longitude and 45.5 degrees south within Von Kármán crater at 9:26 p.m. Eastern, according to an announcement from the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
The spacecraft began its descent at 9:15 p.m. from a perilune of 15 kilometers with a burn of its single main variable thruster before entering approach, hazard avoidance and slow descent phases, with a descent camera returning images of the approaching surface. [China's Chang'e 4 Moon Far Side Mission in Pictures]
The lander and the companion 140-kilogram rover, which is expected to be deployed within the coming hours, will work toward science goals including analyzing the lunar surface and subsurface composition, assessing the radiation environment and its interaction with the regolith and low frequency radio astronomy, as well as returning high-resolution images from terrain and panoramic cameras.
The first image of the moon's far side taken by China's Chang'e 4 probe, which touched down on Jan. 2, 2019 (Jan. 3 Beijing time).
Credit: CNSA
The 186-kilometer-diameter Von Kármán crater containing the landing site is situated within the 2,500-kilometer-wide South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, which is one of the oldest and largest impact craters in the solar system.
The basin could contain exposed material from the moon's upper mantle and promises clues to the history and development of the solar system. A sample return from the SPA basin has been noted as a priority in past U.S. Planetary Science Decadal Surveys.
The mission launched Dec. 8 and had been in lunar orbit since Dec. 12, where it tested communications and refined its orbit in preparation for a landing timed to follow sunrise over the target site, allowing the mainly solar-powered craft to begin operations immediately.
A view of the surface of Von Kármán crater from the Chang'e-4 lander descent camera.
Credit: CNSA/CLEP
Chang'e-4 is the repurposed backup spacecraft to the Chang'e-3 mission, which landed on Mare Imbrium on the near side in December 2013, making China only the third country to soft-land on the moon.
While the Chang'e-3 rover, on which the Chang'e-4 is based, traveled just 114 meters before being rendered immobile on Mare Imbrium in early 2014, officials with the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), the spacecraft's manufacturer, have stated that the issue has been identified and addressed and that the new rover has been upgraded for greater reliability and longevity.
The landing comes ahead a wave of renewed interest in lunar exploration, with NASA, ESA, Russia, India and private companies working on a range of missions.
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) also announced Wednesday that it plans to launch the Chang'e-5 near side sample return mission with the second of two planned Long March 5 heavy-lift rocket launches in 2019.
Far side communications and landing challenges
A render of the Chang'e-4 rover on the lunar surface, released Aug. 15, 2018.
Credit: CASC
Targeting the far side of the moon, which due to tidal locking never faces the earth, required the prior launch of a relay satellite to the second Earth-moon Lagrange point some 65,000-85,000 kilometers beyond the moon to facilitate communications.
Named Queqiao ('Magpie bridge' from Chinese mythology), the satellite has been in a halo orbit around this gravitationally stable libration point since June, from which has constant line-of-sight with both the terrestrial tracking stations—situated in China, Namibia and Argentina—and the lunar far side.
Apollo 17 Crew member and geologist Harrison Schmitt had recommended the final mission of NASA crewed landing program target the Tsiolkovskiy crater on the far side using a relay satellite, but the suggestion was rejected on grounds of risk and cost.
The more rugged and variable lunar far side topography and near absence of dark, basaltic plains or maria, demanded upgrades to the Chang'e-4 guidance, navigation and control systems, a much smaller landing footprint and more vertical and accurate powered descent than the predecessor mission.
The landing will also assist in the execution of the country's future lunar exploration plans, including sample returns and polar landings in preparation for a potential human outpost.
Ian Crawford, professor of planetary science and astrobiology at Birkbeck, University of London, told SpaceNews ahead of the event that a safe landing would be a "fantastic achievement."
"This will give valuable information on the composition of the far side crust and, conceivably, the upper mantle…The radio astronomy experiments are also of great interest, which may lay a foundation for the development of lunar far side radio astronomy," Crawford said.
Chang'e-4 science goals
Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber of the University of Kiel, Germany, which led the development of the Lunar Lander Neutrons and Dosimetry (LND) experiment, told SpaceNews that LND can, "help us understand the radiation which lunar soils and rocks are exposed to and to detect sub-surface water."
China's Chang'e series of lunar probes are part of a series leading up to ultimately returning samples of moon rock to the Earth.
"Its main purpose, however, is to prepare for human exploration of the moon by measuring the radiation to which astronauts will be exposed," says Wimmer-Schweingruber, and specifically the neutron dose rate on the surface of the moon.
LND is one of four international payloads involved in the Chang'e-4 mission, along with the Advanced Small Analyzer for Neutrals (ASAN) from Sweden aboard the rover, the Netherlands-China Low-Frequency Explorer (NCLE) on Queqiao and a small camera on the Longjiang-2 microsatellite.
James Head, a planetary scientist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, told SpaceNews in December that the Lunar Penetrating Radar (LPR), an instrument also aboard the Chang'e-3 rover, will provide images of the structure of the lunar soil layers and any subsurface lava flow units.
The Visible and Near-Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (VNIS), likewise installed on the mobile rover, will allow analysis of the mineralogy of the floor of Von Kármán crater and ejecta delivered by later, nearby impacts, according to Head.
The Low Frequency Spectrometer (LFS) payload on the Chang'e-4 lander will make astronomical observations in low frequency bands in a unique radio-quiet environment free of interference from the earth.
Another payload included in the mission through an outreach initiative is a small biosphere containing Arabidopsis and potato seeds along with silkworm cocoons, designed and developed in collaboration with 28 Chinese universities.
The experiment will be a pioneering test of photosynthesis and respiration in the one-sixth Earth gravity lunar environment, with a possible live steam to the 3-kilogram, 0.8-liter capacity cannister.
Anna-Lisa Paul, space biologist and research at University of Florida-Gainesville, told SpaceNews that the experiment will be unique, despite awealth of experiments that have grown plants and invertebrates in habitats on the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, MIR, Skylab and others.
"We already know that plants, including Arabidopsis and potato, and silkworms do just fine in the microgravity of the spaceflight environments, so a climate-controlled biosphere on the surface of the moon will probably be reasonably benign, yet it is huge from the perspective that it has not been done."
This story was provided by SpaceNews, dedicated to covering all aspects of the space industry.
An artist's depiction of NASA's DART mission to nudge an asteroid off course.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL
Humans are preparing to punch the solar system — but in self-defense, not anger.
It's all part of a NASA mission in development called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, orDART. Unlike most spacecraft the agency has launched to date, DART isn't about gathering scientific data and learning more about how the universe works. Instead, it's NASA's firstplanetary-defense mission.
"That's one of the big differences, is a lot of the science-driven missions seem to be focused on understanding the past of the solar system, the early solar system, how it all formed," Nancy Chabot, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory and project scientist for DART, told Space.com earlier this month at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. "Planetary defense is really about the present solar system and what are we going to do in the present." [The Greatest Asteroid Encounters of All Time!]
Specifically, planetary defense is about largish asteroids that could theoretically collide with Earth, and what humans could do to protect ourselves. Slam into an asteroid hard enough while it's sufficiently far away from Earth, and you can bump it off course.
But if you've never slammed into an asteroid before, it's difficult to know precisely the best way to do it. And that's where DART comes in. Its target isn't a threat to Earth, but by studying it carefully and then colliding with it, Chabot and the rest of the DART team will create the data humans will need if they ever want to redirect a truly threatening asteroid.
It's a very different type of mission from the other asteroid visits that have drawn headlines this year, such as those of NASA's OSIRIS-REx and Japan's Hayabusa2, which each made strides toward tapping near-Earth asteroids to collect samples to bring home. Scientists hope those samples will help them understand the solar system's earliest days.
This NASA graphic shows how the Double Asteroid Rendezvous Test (DART) will crash into a moonlet of the asteroid Didymos in 2022.
Credit: NASA
DART's target Didymos was chosen based on very different criteria. It's a binary asteroid, which means DART can slam into the smaller object of the pair. But scientists can gather robust data about the bodies and their locations from Earth, which will help them track where to target the car-size spacecraft as well as how much the collision knocked the object off course.
"It's interesting, because it's a space mission, but the telescopes are such a huge, important part of the mission succeeding," Chabot said. "We have to know where this moon is in order to impact it, to make this maximum deflection. We kind of take for granted that we know where everything is at all times. We understand where the system is as a whole, but specifically where that moon's gonna be [requires tracking] because we want to try to hit it head-on."
These 14 radar images show the near-Earth asteroid Didymos (65803) and its moonlet as seen by the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Puerto Rico in November 2003.
Credit: NASA
Then, there's the impact itself, with the spacecraft slamming itself into the space rock at a speed of nearly 13,500 mph (6 kilometers per second). If the mission launches as currently planned in June 2021, that collision will come in October 2022.
And while ground telescopes will track how the tango of Didymos' two parts changes after the impact, scientists may be able to rely on two eyewitnesses as well. [7 Great Movies Featuring Earth-Threatening Asteroids]
The first is a cubesat, called Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids, which the Italian space agency has proposed to send with DART. The second is a European Space Agency mission called Hera, which it is considering launching in time for it to arrive at Didymos in 2026. That spacecraft would be able to study the binary asteroid in more detail and measure the crater DART creates.
A simulation of what asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Didymoon may look like.
Credit: NASA
Chabot said that so far, people seem excited and on board with the idea of hurling a spacecraft into an asteroid, just in case we ever need to do it for real. But she also said that we can learn only so much from the experiment, and that if an asteroid really does loom, we'll need a heads-up — so continuing to observe and identify asteroids is crucial.
"To do something like this, we'd also need a really long warning time; the idea of a kinetic impactor is definitely not like [the movie] 'Armageddon,' where you go up at the last hour and you know, save the Earth," Chabot said. "This is something that you would do five, 10, 15, 20 years in advance — gently nudge the asteroid so it just sails merrily on its way and doesn't impact the Earth."
It is an incredible glimpse of a trip on the red planet.
A Finnish filmmaker has revealed a stunning three minute video painstakingly made fromNASA images from the red planet.
Jan Fröjdman transformed images from HiRISE, a camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, into a video using over 33,000 reference points - and did it without the aid of AI software.
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The stunning video reveals the incredible landscapes on Mars. This oval mesa is a remnant of a geological unit that once covered this area, similar to the mesas and buttes in Monument Valley, in Arizona and Utah. This is a small remnant of a much larger unit of similar material that caps Ganges Mensa to the west. As can be seen in the sides of this small mesa, this remnant consists of a layered stack of rock. Prior to the massive erosion that left this a high-standing mesa, a more gentle phase of erosion created the small hills and whorls on the upper surface of the mesa.
'There is a feeling that you are flying above Mars looking down watching interesting locations on the planet,' he explained.
'There are really great places on Mars!
'I would love to see images taken by a landscape photographer on Mars, especially from the polar regions.
'But I'm afraid I won't see that kind of images during my lifetime.
The powerful HiRISE camera has snapped 50,000 spectacular, high-resolution stereo images of the Martian terrain from the planet's orbit, creating anaglyphs that anyone can view in 3D using special glasses.
However, Fröjdman decided to improve them by turning them into video.
Instead of using automated softweare, he decided to make the video painstakingly by hand.
'It has really been time-consuming making these panning clips,' he admitted.
'In my 3D-process I have manually hand-picked reference points on the anaglyph image pairs.
'For this film I have chosen more than 33.000 reference points!
'It took me 3 months of calendar time working with the project every now and then.'
Mars has extremely large temperature changes from winter to summer compared to the Earth. It gets cold enough to freeze carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere during the winter, but this ice is unstable when the warmer summer arrives and forces it to sublimate (transform directly back into a gas) away. Near the South pole though, it stays cold enough for some of this seasonal ice to stick around all year and even accumulate from year to year. This image shows a portion of this permanent carbon dioxide ice cap. This slab of ice is a few meters (about 10 feet) thick and is penetrated by the flat-floored pits shown here. The quasi-circular pits in the center of the scene are about 60 meters (200 feet) across. The distinct color of the pit walls may be due to dust mixed into the ice. For most of the year these walls are covered with bright frost, but they defrost and show their true colors at the end of the summer.
The colors in this film are false because the anaglyph images are based on grayscale images.
'I have therefore color graded the clips,' he admits.
'But I have tried to be moderate doing this.
'The light regions in the clips are yellowish and the dark regions bluish.
The clips from the polar regions (the last clips in the film) have a white-blue tone.'
To create the panning 3-D effect, he stitched the images together along his reference points and rendered them as frames in a video.
Finnish filmmaker Jan Fröjdman transformed images imagery into a dynamic, three-dimensional, overhead view of the Red Planet
'There might be software that does this work, but I haven't found it,' Fröjdman told Wired.
The surface of the red planet may be a desolate land with little geological activity now, but it is filled with fascinating bumps and scratches from frozen poles to deep basins, all hinting at a geologically active past.
This complicated area contains various types of channels, pits and fractures. We can determine the relative ages of the pits and channels based on which features cross-cut others. Older channels appear smooth-edged and shallow. Younger channels and pits are deeper and more sharp-edged, as well as less sinuous than the shallower channels.
Changing landscapes: This images show a 'Transition Boundary' between the Isidis Basin and Libya Montes regoing on the Martian surface
Earlier this months a team at Nasa has released more than 600 images of Mars, showing a range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features.
Each feature teaches us something new about the history of our mysterious neighbour, which used to be covered with oceans, ice sheets and erupting volcanoes.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the red planet, capturing pictures using its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, since 2006. Now the team behind the orbiter has published hundreds of new images. Hyblaeus Dorsa, one of the ridges on the planet, is shown
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the red planet, capturing pictures using its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, since 2006.
The team behind the orbiter, led by Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab in Passadena and the University of Arizona, has now published hundreds of new images taken by the instrument.
Among the images are hundreds showing one of its most fascinating features: craters.
There are hundreds of thousands of impact craters on Mars, caused by encounters with other objects such as asteroids, but only some of them have names.
Other craters were formed in different ways, through volcanic activity, for example.
Some of these craters have provided clues to the most fascinating history of the Martian surface.
Other craters were formed in different ways, through volcanic activity, for example. Some of these craters have provided clues to the most fascinating history of the Martian surface. Concave fagged features in the Tempe Fossae region, a group of troughs in the Arcadia quadrangle of Mars, shown
Among the images are hundreds showing one of its most fascinating features: craters. This picture shows a crater in the Chryse Planitia region, a relatively smooth, circular plain. Some think the plain is an ancient impact basin, in the north equatorial region of Mars
The surface of Mars is a well worn place in the solar system, heavily pounded by countless meteor impacts. And some of these craters are hundreds of millions of years old. So it's unusual for there to be a completely fresh impact on the surface. A recent impact site is pictured
Mesa-Forming layered materials pictured. A mesa is an elevated area of land with a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs
Mars is now a frozen desert, but geological studies of rocks by previous missions to the surface have suggested the planet used to be warmer and wetter.
The polar caps on the planet spend much of their time, during the pole's winter, in continuous darkness.
When the poles are again exposed to sunlight, the frozen carbon dioxide sublimes into gas, creating enormous winds that sweep off the poles as fast as 250 mph (400 km/h).
The caps at both poles are mainly made of water ice.
Frozen carbon dioxide accumulates as a thin layer about one metre thick on the north cap in the northern winter only, while the south cap has a permanent dry ice cover about 26 feet (8 metres) thick.
Both polar caps have spiral-shaped troughs (pictured), which analysis of ice penetrating radar has shown are a result of spiralling winds.
The polar caps on the planet spend much of their time, during the pole's winter, in continuous darkness. When the poles are again exposed to sunlight, the frozen carbon dioxide sublimes into gas, creating enormous winds that sweep off the poles as fast as 250 mph (400 km/h). The south polar residual cap is pictured
Cerberus Fossae (pictured) is a long fracture system in the southeastern part of Elysium. The system has acted as a conduit for the release of both lava and water onto the surface of the planet. Mars is now a frozen desert, but geological studies of rocks by previous missions to the surface have suggested the planet used to be warmer and wetter
The total volume of ice in the south polar cap, including nearby layered deposits, is around 380,000 cubic miles (1.6 million cubic km). Both the north and south polar caps have spiral-shaped troughs (south pictured), which analysis of ice penetrating radar has shown are a result of spiralling winds
At one point, Mars was covered with oceans, ice sheets and erupting volcanoes that created the mountains that tower over the planet.
Some of these remain, like Olympus Mons - the largest-known volcano in the solar system, measuring 15 miles (24 km) high.
Olympus Mons, the solar system's biggest volcano, three times higher than Mount Everest, is thought to have had its last major eruption as recently as 25 million years ago.
At one point, Mars was covered with oceans, ice sheets and erupting volcanoes that created the mountains that tower over the planet. Some of these remain, like Olympus Mons - the largest-known volcano in the solar system, measuring 15 miles (24 km) high. Olympus Mons (pictured) is the solar system's biggest volcano, three times higher than Mount Everest
Groundwater moving beneath a massive tectonic rift zone helped carve some of Mars' deepest basins. A study published earlier this year claimed these basins may have been habitable, suggesting that life once existed on the red planet. A valley in the Northern Hellas Planitia, pictured
Billions of years ago Mars might have been home to even larger volcanoes.
Evidence collected by Nasa's Curiosity rover earlier this year showed these ancient volcanoes might have been a lot more powerful than we had thought.
Curiosity's instruments found a substance called tridymite - a kind of crystal that only forms on Earth as a result of extremely hot, silcic volcanoes.
The tridymite was found in the Gale crater, a crater that spans 96 miles (154km) in diameter and holds a mountain rising from the crater floor.
Silicic volcanism is a highly explosive form of volcanic activity, which happens as tectonics plates move from the Earth's outer shell into the Earth's mantle and force water into the molten depths.
The plates melt into magma, which is ejected out into the surface in a powerful eruption.
There has been no evidence found for plate tectonics on Mars so far, so how the silcic volcanism occurred is a mystery.
Coprates Chasma, is a major trough in the Valles Marineris canyon system, pictured. Evidence collected by Nasa's Curiosity rover earlier this year showed these ancient volcanoes might have been a lot more powerful than we had thought
Isidis Planitia, pictured, is a plain inside a giant impact basin on Mars. Groundwater moving beneath a massive tectonic rift zone helped carve some of Mars' deepest basins. A study published earlier this year claimed these basins may have been habitable, suggesting that life once existed on the red planet
Groundwater moving beneath a massive tectonic rift zone helped carve some of Mars' deepest basins.
A study published earlier this year claimed these basins may have been habitable, suggesting that life once existed on the red planet.
The discovery could help future exploration missions decide where to look for evidence of Martian life.
'The temperature ranges, presence of liquid water, and nutrient availability, which characterize known habitable environments on Earth, have higher chances of forming on Mars in areas of long-lived water and volcanic processes,' said lead author Alexis Palmero Rodriguez.
Sand dunes are among the most widespread features on Mars, serving as unique indicators of the interaction between the atmosphere and surface.
On a planetary body, dunes accumulate where a supply of sand-sized grains exists or may be abraded, is carried downwind by winds, and is subsequently deposited where these winds weaken below the threshold for sand transport.
Dunes can be preserved in rock over time. This means the deposits can reveal insights into the evolution of Mars' atmosphere from a more hospitable realm to the harsh, dry climate there today.
As a result, the study of dune processes contributes to both atmospheric and sedimentary science.
It might look more like bacteria growin in a petri dish, but this picture actually shows frosty dunes on Mars' surface. Sand dunes (pictured) are among the most widespread features on Mars. Dunes form where a supply of sand-sized grains exists or may be abraded then carried downwind by winds
The surface of Mars is also covered with narrow, deep channels known as gullies.
Martian gullies carved into hill slopes and the walls of impact craters were discovered several years ago.
Exactly how these gullies formed is not fully understood - previous research had suggested the structures were a result of flowing liquid water, because water makes similar structures on Earth.
Polar ice caps were discovered on the planet four decades ago, and erosion patterns on the surface strongly suggest rivers and oceans may have existed there in its early years.
With low gravity and a thin atmosphere, it was thought that this water largely evaporated out into space, instead of falling back down, as it would have done on Earth.
But new research shows water is not behind the Martian gullies, instead suggesting they could be created by carbon dioxide freezing and thawing.
INDIAN SPACE PROBE SNAPS NEW IMAGES OF THE RED PLANET
India's space agency has released a new series of beautiful images, beamed back from its Mars orbiter, revealing our closest planetary neighbour in all its glory
The spotlight surrounding research on Mars is often on the US, European and Russian space agencies.
But while it may be overlooked, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) remains one of only three national space programmes to have reached the red planet to date.
To celebrate its achievements, the space agency has released a new series of beautiful images using data beamed back from its Mars orbiter, revealing our closest planetary neighbour in all its glory.
India's Mars Orbiter Mission, called 'Mangalyaan', reached the red planet in September 2014.
Since then it has been taking measurements, collecting data and capturing images from orbit.
Last month, ISRO released its first full year's data from the orbiter – covering the period up to September 2015 – with its incredible images beamed back in a stream of pixels.
A spacecraft designed to search the atmosphere of Mars for clues of life on the surface of the red planet successfully blasted off in March this year.
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a heavy lift Proton rocket on 14 March to begin a seven-month, 300 million-mile (483 million km) journey to the red planet.
It is due to analyse Mars' atmosphere to search for low levels of gases such as methane that may betray the presence of alien life on the planet's surface.
ExoMars 2016 is the first phase of an historic €1.2 billion (£924 million) joint European-Russian mission to search for biochemical 'fingerprints' of past or present life high above Mars and on its surface.
Scientists believe the probe has the potential to find 'very strong evidence' of alien life when it arrives at Mars on 19 October.
Scientists hope to land the ExoMars rover in Oxia Palus, a plain located on the north east of Mars.
However, any new data won't be shared until the end of next year at the earliest, because the probe has to spend a year decelerating so it can graze the atmosphere at a slow enough speed.
In 2018, a robotic probe built by Lockheed Martin for Nasa, the Mars InSight mission, will set off for red planet.
It forms part of wider efforts to glean information about the planet's rich geological past.
Life on Earth as well as extraterrestrial life has always been a matter of curiosity. Various space missions have been carried out so far to study and investigate the secrets of the universe. With the development of science and technology, study of outer space has now reached a different level. Of all these missions, lets get to know the ones where huge amounts of money was used to obtain the desired outcome of the space mission.
Here are the most expensive space projects in history.
10. Mars Curiosity Worth $ 2.5 Billion.
Artist illustration of Curiosity rover (Image:NASA)
Curiosity Mars rover arrived on Mars on August 6, 2012. It is a very popular space mission that was initially estimated to cost around $ 650 million, but turned out be a lot more than its double.
9. Cassini-Huygens Worth $ 3.26 Billion.
The Cassini Space Probe was one of the most successful interplanetary mission of NASA-ESA (Image:NASA)
This space mission was exclusively created to explore the mighty ringed planet Saturn and its rings by NASA, the European space agency and the Italian space agency. It was launched on October 15, 1997. During 2005, it entered the atmosphere of Saturn.
8. Mir Orbital Station worth $ 4.2 Billion.
The Mir Orbital Station
“Mir” is a manned space mission by Russia that operated in the near Earth space from February 20, 1986. It spent 5511 days in the Earth’s orbit, of which 4594 days were inhabited , making 86,331 turns around the planet. The station was visited by 104 astronauts from 12 countries and more than 23,000 experiments were conducted on it.
7. GLONASS worth $ 4.7 Billion
The Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) is a Russian satellite system. It is one of the two global satellite navigation systems. The system is based on 24 satellites moving above the Earth’s surface.
6. Galileo Satellite Navigation System Worth $ 6.3 Billion
Galileo system is designed to solve geodetic and navigation problems. It is joint project of the satellite navigation system of the European Union and the European space agency.
5. James Webb Space Telescope Worth $ 8.8 Billion
The James Webb Space Telescope will be the successor of Hubble Telescope
This is an orbital observatory that is supposed to replace the Hubble Space Telescope. Current plans suggest that the telescope will be launched by the International cooperation of 17 countries led by NASA, using the Ariane-5 rocket in the spring of 2020. The telescope will operate for atleast 5 years.
4. GPS Worth $ 12 Billion
GPS Satellite
GPS is a satellite navigation system that is responsible for determining location. It provides distance, time and position determination in the world wide WGS 84 coordinate system. The system is currently available for civilian use with the help of a navigator or a device such as a smart phone with a GPS receiver. It provides location almost everywhere in the world except for the circumpolar regions.
3. The Apollo Program Worth $ 25.4 Billion
Image: NASA
The Apollo program was a NASA space agency manned space flight program. It was adopted in 1961 with the agenda of carrying out the first human landing on the Moon.
2. ISS Worth $ 160 Billion
The ISS (Image:NASA)
The International Space Station is a manned orbital station which is used a multipurpose space research system. It is joint international project involving 14 countries.
1. The Space Shuttle Program worth $ 209 Billion
Image: NASA
The Space Shuttle Program was developed since 1971. Its development is carried out by NASA and the Air Force. Five shuttles were built, two of them were killed in disaster and one prototype.
LE CÔTÉ CACHÉ ET DÉMONIAQUE DU THÈME OVNI ET EXTRATERRESTRE
LE CÔTÉ CACHÉ ET DÉMONIAQUE DU THÈME OVNI ET EXTRATERRESTRE
Les observations d'OVNI et les rencontres avec des extraterrestres ont été décrits comme surnaturels et terrifiants. Cela pourrait les faire ressembler à des démons ou à des entités négatives.Dans le Code caché, nous avons déjà écrit sur l'hypothèse du phénomène OVNI en tant que manifestation de démons extradimensionnels. Plusieurs ufologues soutiennent cette théorie, puisqu’une partie de ces événements présente une caractéristique sombre et redoutable pour ceux qui les ont vécus (en plus des affrontements avec des extraterrestres et des enlèvements).
Des chercheurs chrétiens modernes ont exposé le phénomène OVNI dans le cadre d'une sorte de façade du diable et des démons, afin de tromper et de confondre l'humanité. Cette vision pourrait être considérée comme très dogmatique, très endoctrinée par le christianisme, mais il y a des cas d'observations d'OVNI et d'enlèvements qui ont des caractéristiques surnaturelles.
L'écrivain Timothy Green Beckley se souvient du témoignage de William C. Lamb, qui a partagé une expérience terrifiante avec un OVNI dans une forêt enneigée. Lamb décrit l’apparence d’un objet volant géant en forme de sphère, à partir de laquelle naît une "créature géante avec des ailes" qui semblait "démoniaque dans ses traits du visage et sa forme physique". La créature a émis une chaleur puissante qui a fondu la neige et même le grillage métallique d'une clôture. Au moment du plus grand danger, lorsque la créature s'est approchée de Lamb, il a utilisé le nom de Jésus-Christ pour s'éloigner de lui.
Ce témoignage pourrait être considéré comme le fantasme d'un chrétien, mais la description est très claire et, semble-t-il, a fait l'objet d'une enquête par l'US Air Force. UU., Depuis Beckley dit que cela est documenté dans les archives du projet Blue Book.
Beckley révèle également que l'armée américaine. UU a toujours pris en compte la nature ésotérique des observations d'OVNIS, qui pourraient faire partie de manifestations d'entités spirituelles et non de voyageurs interstellaires. Gouvernement américain US considère le phénomène ovni comme le travail de démons extradimensionnels ?
Le chercheur britannique Nick Redfern est l'auteur du livre Final Events (titre complet en anglais : Final Events et le groupe gouvernemental secret sur les ovnis et la vie après la mort). Dans ce livre, il parle d'un groupe d'experts secrets du gouvernement américain. US cela considère le phénomène OVNI comme le travail de démons extradimensionnels et non extraterrestres. Il a également été rapporté que des organisations gouvernementales telles que le Pentagone ont décrit l'observation d'ovnis avec une nature démoniaque. Ce groupe gouvernemental chercherait également à "exploiter" les capacités mentales de ces "entités non humaines".
En fait, il y a un film intéressant, appelé The Atticus Institute (2015), où l'armée américaine. UU il essaie de "dominer" ou de "contenir" une femme qui souffre d'une possession démoniaque. Ils essaient également d'exploiter ou "d'exploiter" leurs capacités mentales et paranormales :
Selon Redfern, cette section du gouvernement américain considère ces entités comme "extrêmement trompeuses" et dangereuses, les appelant littéralement "des démons de l'enfer". Sa description physique serait celle des mêmes espèces extraterrestres des Gris, mais sa nature éthérée ou extradimensionnelle rappelle davantage la théorie des Reptiliens, qui serait traitée dans un univers parallèle (la quatrième dimension).
À partir de cette mention de l'enfer, on pourrait faire un parallèle entre l'enfer mythologique et les histoires de bases extraterrestres souterraines. Le tourment spirituel dans l'enfer souterrain pourrait être comparé aux histoires traumatiques d'enlèvements et d'expériences humaines effectuées dans des bases secrètes souterraines.
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10 Unsettling Astronomical Incidents and Phenomena (Video)
10 Unsettling Astronomical Incidents and Phenomena (Video)
An exploration of ten of the most unsettling astrophysical events including Dyson Sphere candidates, a star containing plutonium, the Wow! Signal and others.
Author and futurist John Michael Godier explores the universe in weekly documentary videos released randomly.
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De bewoners van de Nieuw-Zeelandse kuststad Tauranga keken gisterenavond vol bewondering naar de lucht. Een vuurbal kleurde daar even de lucht. Ravi Jagtiani, die zichzelf een “vuurbal-jager” noemt, zegt dat het wel eens een verouderde Russische satelliet zou kunnen zijn. “Ik denk dat het gaat om de satelliet Kosmos 2430”, zegt hij. Rekening houdend met de timing van de veroudering en het pad van de satelliet waren volgens de man voorspellingen gedaan dat Kosmos 2430 dit weekend terug door de atmoseer van de Aarde zou razen. Bill Thomas van de Auckland Astronomical Society zegt dat het een satelliet kan zijn, maar gaat toch eerder uit van een meteoriet.
In Indonesië zijn zeker 222 mensen omgekomen en 843 anderen gewond geraakt doordat eilanden in de Straat van Sunda en kustgebieden van West-Java en Zuid-Sumatra door een tsunami zijn getroffen.
Uitgaand publiek en mensen op de stranden werden volkomen verrast toen even voor 21.30 uur lokale tijd een muur van water op hen afkwam en alles wat hij tegenkwam zo'n 15 tot 20 meter meesleurde of vernielde. Wie kon wegkomen, vluchtte naar hoger gelegen gebied.
Een woordvoerder van rampenbestrijdingsdienst BNPB vermoedt dat de tsunami is veroorzaakt door ondergrondse aardverschuivingen na een uitbarsting zaterdag van de vulkaan Anak Krakatau, in de Straat van Sunda.
Zoals we regelmatig schrijven lijkt het er veel op dat we ons in wat men noemt de eindtijd bevinden. Steeds vaker komen profetieën vanuit verschillende religieuze overtuigingen uit, zoals we onlangs zagen met het groen worden van Saoedi Arabië.
Toevalligerwijze kwamen we de volgende zin tegen op een website die zich vanuit een bijbels perspectief met de eindtijd en de daarbij behorende teken bezighoudt:
Een reusachtige vulkaan stort in de zee met als gevolg dat 1/3 deel van de zee in bloed verandert.
We hebben nu een reusachtige vulkaan die in ieder geval voor een groot deel in de zee verdwijnt, maar geen zee die in bloed verandert.
Het eerste bloedgekleurde water deed zich voor in de Oost Afrikaanse republiek Malawi, waar verbaasde inwoners ’s morgens een bloedrood riviertje zagen stromen. Het betreft hier de Linthipe rivier in Dedza.
Niemand weet met enige zekerheid waar de rode kleur vandaan komt, alhoewel geologen heel snel zijn met te zeggen dat komt door een lokale mijn. En er zijn er ook die zeggen dat het algen zijn.
De tweede rood gekleurde rivier deed zich voor in Indonesië, in de provincie Papua. Ook hier was men sprakeloos en werd er geen verklaring voor gevonden.
Ook het derde geval deed zich voor in Indonesië, waar enkele weken geleden de Logawa Banyumas rivier op Java eveneens bloedrood kleurde. Ook hier geen enkele concrete aanwijzing over wat dit zou kunnen veroorzaken.
Einde-tijds-verschijnselen of een toevallige samenloop van omstandigheden?
Modern people have recently become reacquainted with the practice of flaying, at least conceptually. That’s due, in no small part, to A Song of Ice and Fire and its television adaptation “Game of Thrones” being the hottest pop-culture phenomenon this side of Tatooine for almost a decade. What all that blood and boiled leather does to a society’s collective psyche is anyone’s guess, but its probably nothing we can’t handle. People have done horrible things to each other for a very long time, and long before Roose Bolton and his flayed man sigil were but a twinkle in George R.R. Martin’s eye, there was a Mesoamerican god called Xipe Totec—”Our Lord the Flayed.” Mexican archaeologists have recently made the first discovery of a temple to Xipe Totec, and reader beware, it ain’t for the faint of heart.
Xipe Totec was a fertility and agriculture god who symbolized the cycle of death and rebirth. He also invented war. The Flayed Lord was depicted as having flayed his own skin as a sacrifice to feed his people, as well as wearing the skins of human sacrifices. Despite the incredibly grim imagery, Xipe Totec wasn’t a villain as far as gods go. Worship of Xipe Totec predates the Aztec civilization, but, like many other gods and religious practices, he was assimilated after Aztec conquest. The recently discovered temple, which archaeologists believe to be the first temple to Xipe Totec ever found, was built by the Popoloca Indians in the central Mexican state of Puebla between A.D. 1000 and 1260.
Statue of Xipe Totec, the Flayed Lord
Inside the temple archaeologists found art depicting the Flayed Lord as well as a few relics of ceremonial practices. These relics include two enormous clay heads with the most terrifying grinning faces ever dug out of the ground and a statue of Xipe Totec depicting him wearing the skin of a human sacrifice. Religious ceremonies devoted to Xipe Totec were conducted by priests who wore the actual skins of human sacrifices, and the two clay heads were used to plug the pits where the flayed skins were kept. Remember, you were warned.
Whether or not the actual flaying was done at this site is a different matter. Speaking to the Associated Press, University of Florida archaeologist Susan Gillespie(who was not involed with the project) said:
“[A] singular temple to this deity (whatever his name in Popoloca) does not necessarily indicate that this was the place of sacrifice. The Aztec practice was to perform the sacrificial death in one or more places, but to ritually store the skins in another, after they had been worn by living humans for some days. So it could be that this is the temple where they were kept, making it all the more sacred.”
Drawing of an Aztec temple.
And all the more disturbing. Regardless of the exactly who flayed who and where, archaeologists say this is a major discovery. The team who made the discovery plan to continue excavating the site and expect to find more depictions of the Flayed Lord. Maybe we’ll be desensitized enough by then to read about it with a full stomach.
Following the launch of rockets, satellites and, eventually, people into outer space, it became commonplace to hear that humankind had entered the “Space Age.” While true, the innocence of our early space explorations seems to pale compared to what we are achieving today: remotely-operated probes are now reporting back to us with images of objects further from Earth than we once might have dreamed, and the further we push the boundaries of space with our explorations, the smaller our little world seems to feel.
Such innovation has fueled the aspirations of those like Elon Musk, who remains among a vocal contingent of technologists and futurists who aspire to reach the stars. For people like Musk, colonizing other worlds may not just be an eventuality for humankind, with our desire for the exploration of other worlds; our survival may even depend on it.
Others aren’t so convinced. One vocal opponent of this “other worlds, or else” mentality has been science popularizer Bill Nye, who argues that not only is the prospect of colonizing planets like Mars in the near future unrealistic, but it may be impossible.
“This whole idea of terraforming Mars, as respectful as I can be, are you guys high?” Nye told USA Today late last year. “People disagree with me on this, and the reason they disagree is because they’re wrong.”
However, while Mars seems a bit far off, perhaps there are nearer orbital bodies in space that might qualify. With news of China’s recent exploration of the Moon’s far side with its Chang’e-4 probe, some are now asking whether a moon base could be in our future.
Following the big announcement about the Chang’e-4 Lunar Lander, LA Times reports that “Chinese scientists have already declared China’s ambitions to establish a manned moon base andto send nuclear-powered rockets into space in future decades to colonize and exploit space.”
China’s intentions, according to a previous statement to the media, is now to “set the rules of the game in outer space,” establishing a new precedent for space exploration, and perhaps an all-new meaning behind the idea of the “space age.”
They’re wasting no time, either. Subsisting on a steady diet of carrots, potatoes, and yes, mealworms (for protein) along with other high-energy vegetables, a group of eight volunteers concluded a year-long experiment in bio-regenerative living at the astronautics facilities at Beihang University in May. The study, which also became a record-breaking experiment in sustained living in an enclosed system (recycling food, air, water… everything, essentially) was aimed at innovating long-term occupation in a lunar environment.
The Chinese aren’t the only ones making plans for moon bases and long-term lunar occupation. Last year, NASA announced its own plans for a moon base, which will serve not only as a base for future lunar studies but as a stopover for future space travelers on their way to Mars.
NASA is building a plan for Americans to orbit the Moon starting in 2023, and land astronauts on the surface no later than the late 2020s. This will be the first chance for the majority of people alive today to witness a Moon landing – a moment when, in awe and wonder, the world holds its breath. However, America will not stop there.
A key component of establishing the first permanent American presence and infrastructure on and around the Moon is the Gateway, a lunar orbiting platform to host astronauts farther from Earth than ever before.
On the Gateway, America and its partners will prepare to transit deep space, testing new technologies and systems as we build the infrastructure to support missions to the surface of the Moon and prepare for the epochal mission to Mars.
With both China and the U.S. expressing renewed aspirations for lunar bases, it seems we’re looking at more than just a new kind of 21st century “Space Age”: we’re in the midst of an all-new space race, too, and have been for a while, it seems (although the moon base idea isn’t really anything new, as these documents declassified in 2014 show).
“By the late 2020s,” NASA’s press release from Sept. 26, 2018 reports, “a lunar lander capable of transporting crews and cargo will begin trips to the surface of the Moon.”
“The sustainable, long-term lunar surface activities enabled by these efforts, in tandem with the Gateway, will expand and diversify over time, taking advantage of the Moon and near space for scientific exploration in the broadest sense.”
Broad indeed… and no longer just “to the moon and back.” Try, to the moon, and beyond!
The plane passenger on board of the commercial airliner 'Flying Swoop Airlines' flying from Hamilton to Abbotsford on November 30, 2018 was about halfway through he flight when he spotted a huge cigar-shaped object in the distance.
He states that the window was facing north, so we are looking at the Arctic, Nunavut, and Alberta.
The passenger was able to film the UFO that seems to be parked at high altitude.
This is the incredible moment an object flew across New Zealand and lit up the sky, as experts claim it's a meteorite.
Residents scattered across the country's North Island reported sightings of bright lights zooming through the sky at 9pm.
Many were unsure whether the falling object was a piece of space junk re-entering the earth's atmosphere, or a possible meteorite.
Many were unsure whether the falling object was a piece of space junk re-entering the earth's atmosphere, or a possible meteorite
President of the Auckland Astronomical Society Bill Thomas told the NZ Herald he found it more likely the object was a meteorite.
'There's a visible sort of tail, whereas a satellite [is] like a point of light moving across the sky ... bright [meteorites] like that one as not that common in the one place, but they're common worldwide.'
New Zealand Police posted an alert saying they're aware of the meteor: 'Rest assured, we have confirmed with our Paranormal Division, and it is nothing to be concerned about.'
People around the country managed to catch a glimpse of the mysterious object, with many managing to capture it on camera.
Graham Billings was enjoying dinner at an Italian restaurant when he saw the light fly across the sky.
'It was definitely a meteor. I wondered what it was for a bit but we can still see the smoke trail,' Mr Billings said.
In Whangamata, Jen Maloney and her friends saw the object light up the sky twice, once at 8.55pm and another one 15 minutes later.
This is the incredible moment an object flew across New Zealand and lit up the sky, as experts claim it's a meteorite
Ms Maloney described the light show as green, beautiful and dramatic, leaving a 'singe' smell afterwords.
One couple were in Auckland discussing the dangers of the use of drones when they looked up to the sky and thought they spotted one.
What May and Brian Seager actually saw was the meteorite whizzing through the sky above them.
'It was a bright light and then it went green and left like a vapour trail. It was going way too fast [to be a drone] and it looked like it broke up into two pieces afterwards.'
More than 400 kilometres south, Steve Bloor saw a dazzling display in Napier.
Mr Bloor said when he saw the object - that he first believed to be a jet plane - it exploded into millions of pieces, like fireworks.
Residents scattered across the country's North Island reported sightings of bright lights zooming through the sky at 9pm
This image provided by NASA shows a 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth on Jan. 24, 2012.
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By Seth Shostak
How special are we? A recent research paper suggests that terrestrial-style biology may be rare, and Earth may be among the first examples of a planet able to sustain life in the cosmos. Even as the new kids on the block, humans are seemingly one of the precious few instances of intelligence to arise in the universe since the Big Bang did its thing.
Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb and his colleagues in the U.K. have argued that the halcyon days for life are still to come. It’s not even morning in the universe; it’s pre-dawn. Biology may erupt like weeds on an untold number of worlds, but if so, the infestation will take place tens of billions of years in the future.
Why’s that? And what’s wrong with life sprouting up today?
Obviously nothing. After all, you’re reading this — you, the distant descendant of a small collection of molecules that stumbled on a method for building nearly exact replicas of itself nearly four billion years ago. No scientist is yet sure if this molecular sleight-of-hand is just some sort of highly unlikely event, although opinions abound.
The new argument that primetime for an inhabited universe is still to come springs from astronomy, not biology. Loeb et al.’s proposition begins with the belief that life requires a few essential ingredients: a world that’s amenable to easy chemistry, including liquid water, thick atmosphere — you know the drill. As best we can tell, there’s no shortage of such Goldilocks orbs — there may be tens of billions of Earth-like planets in our galaxy, and that’s not even counting habitable moons.
An abundance of real estate is essential for this growth, yes. But so is time. Rustling up life, especially of the intelligent variety, might take billions of years.
The argument is straightforward: The longer you wait, the more examples of biology you’ll have. But stars like our Sun can’t wait too long: there’s a relatively short opportunity to strut and fret. In 10 billion years, they’ve run through their easily accessible fuel, and are headed out the door.
An artist's impression shows an earth-like planet around the red dwarf Gliese 581, which is 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra.ESO via Getty Images
But consider red dwarf stars, the runts of the universe. Their masses are considerably less than Sol’s, which means they burn more slowly. The consequence? Red dwarfs with one-tenth the mass of the Sun have lifespans that are up to a thousand times longer.
All else being equal, that would give red dwarfs a thousand times the probability of eventually using its energy to host a world with life. Clearly, it’s most probable that this life would arise not when these stars are still young — which they all are now — but instead during their long adulthood. In other words, the red dwarfs are just getting started, and their biologically fecund years are still ahead.
And here’s an additional fillip: Red dwarfs are as plentiful as bad drivers, comprising three-fourths of all stars. So not only are they individually a thousand times more likely to become winners in the biology lottery, there are a lot more of them buying tickets.
Loeb argues that, looking back on creation ten trillion years from now when the curtain is falling on the universe-as-we-know-it, you’d have to say that the overwhelming majority of life arose around red dwarf stars – and on average, trillions of years after Earth was over and done.
A reconstruction of an early human at the Museum of Natural History in New York.Kike Calvo / AP
So among inhabited planets it sounds as if Earth beat the rush. From the standpoint of future cosmic civilizations, we are the ancient aliens.
But is that so remarkable? Maybe not. Consider being a citizen of Rome during its Empire. There were about 200 million people in the world then. If you were particularly insightful, it might occur to you that the future human population could be much greater — indeed, there's now 35 times as many people as strolled the world at the time of Jesus.
So that would make Romans special, right? There was a far greater probability that they’d be born after the Renaissance then in the time of the Caesars.
However, while interesting, that’s not to say the Romans were by any means the first humans or even the first to be somewhat civilized. There were 10,000 generations of Homo sapiens before them, and neither they nor the Romans would appreciate being dismissed by the claim that “the best was yet to come.”
The galactic hordes may still be ahead, but that’s little reason to wait before trying to find some cosmic company. Are you willing to wait 500 billion years before learning whether anyone’s out there? That's more patience than I have.
Seth Shostak is the Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute, in Mountain View, California. He writes frequently on astronomy and other topics, and hosts the SETI Institute’s weekly radio show, “Big Picture Science.”
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Mystery event that saw mountain crash into river 'may have been UFO attack'
Mystery event that saw mountain crash into river 'may have been UFO attack'
A MYSTERIOUS “blitzkrieg” which led to the side of a mountain crashing into a Siberian river was either a UFO attack or a giant meteorite strike, according to a majority of Russians.
The claims about the incident – known as the Bureya Bliztkrieg – come amid a new report which said a “reliable” witness saw a “huge green-coloured body with a very long tail” streaking vertically downwards in the night sky on December 15.
Hunters who first reached the scene - alerted by a sudden and inexplicable change in the flow of the river - reported ‘hot rocks’ on which they could warm their hands
The bizarre event, which took place last month, is under Russian scientific scrutiny after the water flow into a hydro-electric power reservoir was cut due to a massive landfall, creating a 525ft mound which was visible from space rising from the bed of Bureya River in the far east of Russia.
Describing the event one witness said: “It was if as if the mountain had moved.”
BIZARRE: Some people think the incident was a UFO attack (Pic: The Siberian Times)
STRANGE: Satellite image of the Bureya river site - Other people thought it was a meteorite (Pic: The Siberian Times)
Now a poll of the strange event in the Khabarovsk region revealed that a many people thought it was an attack from space.
A total of 27% or people polled said it was a meteorite and 33% thought it was a UFO attack.
The remaining 40% claimed the Bureya Blitzkrieg was caused by a giant landslide.
People who first reached the site of the incident reported hot rocks which they could warm their hands on and a smell “like hydrogen sulphide” and thought the rock fall was caused by a meteorite similar to one which devastated Russia’s Chelyabinsk region 2013.
“I insist it was a meteorite,” said the district government chief of the remote part of the Khabarovsk region where the accident took place, Alex Maslov.
LANDSLIDE: One witness said he saw a 'huge green-coloured body with a very long tail' (Pic: The Siberian Times)
New footage and pictures of the bizarre phenomenon show trees being uprooted or yanked apart with trunks thrown as far as 100ft and large blocks of ice thrown from the river onto the land.
Reports also say an “invisible force” made it seem as if the chunks of ice had flown onto the land.
Alexey Dyundin, 46, a local businessman, was driving through the neighbouring Yakutia region when he witnessed the event which he took to be a meteor strike.
He said: “We saw a huge green-coloured body with a spectacularly bright and very long tail, falling almost vertically at about an 80 degrees angle.
“We saw it right in front of us, falling east to south. It all happened within three or four seconds.”
MYSTERIOUS: One witness said 'it was if the mountain had moved' (Pic: The Siberian Times)
The businessman said he thought the fall was too fast to be a rocket from a space launch coming back to earth- something he had previously seen.
He added: “It was definitely not a rocket stage. They fall much more slowly and they do have a glow when they fall.
“But nothing like the bright green glow we saw. The green glow comes when meteorites contain a lot of iron.
“Our first reaction was, well, hard to publish.
‘“We were so stunned we just exclaimed 'What the **** was that?’ at each other.”
Dyundin said he only realised how significant the sighting was a week later when he saw reports of the Bureya River rockfall.
But data from the European satellite Sentinel suggests the changing face of the river happened between December 9 and December 12- The Siberian Times revealed.
The report said this does not discount the meteorite attack as responsible for the incidents but means that a “space object” as witnessed by Dyundin.
Tourists are now starting to visit the scene of the carnage according to local reports.
Pictures from the site at the Bureya river
Startling new footage shows how a ‘mountain moved’, trees were ‘beheaded’, and blocks of river ice ‘flew’ onto the land
What were the mysterious 'Ravana Rocks' In Sigiriya used for?
What were the mysterious 'Ravana Rocks' In Sigiriya used for?
According to the Ancient local folk stories .i heard, the palace was defended by various lines of defense mechanisms. Among those defense mechanisms, reflectors take a special place. These reflectors were used to reflect sun rays to the enemy.
According to the folk stories, if someone tried to look directly at the palace they had a chance of ending up blind. The palace even has a wall situated near the main rock named as the "Kedapath Pawura" which stands for "the mirror wall".
So I highly anticipate theses reflectors were a line of defense mechanism to protect the mighty king Rawana's Palace
A New Study Suggests There Could Have Been Intelligent Life on Earth Before Humans
A New Study Suggests There Could Have Been Intelligent Life on Earth Before Humans
Looking for aliens across deep space is great, but have we looked hard enough in our own terrestrial backyard—here on Earth?
The artist Surian Soosay offers a playful depiction of 'the Silurian Hypothesis'
One author of the new study, leading climatologist Gavin Schmidt, wrote a work of fiction to explore its findings. Read 'Under the Sun', which we published at Terraform alongside the following piece.
The human yearning to connect with other intelligent life-forms runs deep, and it has become the driving force behind a dazzling range of scientific pursuits. From the SETI Institute’s radio sweeps of the sky, to the discovery of liquid water on neighboring worlds, to the thousands of exoplanets detected over the past two decades, there have been major gains in chasing one of the ultimate cosmic mysteries—whether or not we are alone in the universe.
But in our rush to search for life by peering into deep space, have we overlooked the merits of looking for it in deep time? Earth is the only planet that we’re absolutely certain can support a technologically advanced species, yet little thought has been lent to the possibility that during its 4.5 billion year lifespan, our own world might have produced more than one industrialized civilization.
Outside of some science fiction stories and a speculative paper by Penn State astronomer Jason Wright, little serious thought has been afforded to the possibility that we humans are not the first species to build an advanced civilization in the solar system’s history.
“It actually hasn’t been explored that much,” climatologist Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, told me over the phone. “It never gets brought up as a potential thing that you want to look for.”
Published this month in the International Journal of Astrobiology, the work outlines what kind of signature a technologically adept species might leave behind. Schmidt and Frank use the projected footprint of the Anthropocene, the current era in which human activity is influencing planetary processes like climate and biodiversity, as a guide for what we might expect from other civilizations.
“There’s lots of things that are going well for [human civilization], but there’s a big price that’s being paid in the ecology and biology,” Schmidt told me. He emphasized that many of these consequences can seem to be “out of sight, out of mind” due to conveniences like sewage infrastructure and garbage relocation. But when considered in totality, anthropogenic activities really add up, and impact the geological record. “All of the waste and footprint is being hidden from us, but it isn’t hidden from the planet,” he said.
It’s unlikely that any massive telltale structures would remain preserved through tens of millions of years of geological activity—that holds true for both human civilization and any potential “Silurian” precursors on Earth.
Instead, Schmidt and Frank propose searching for more subtle signals, such as byproducts of fossil fuel consumption, mass extinction events, plastic pollution, synthetic materials, disrupted sedimentation from agricultural development or deforestation, and radioactive isotopes potentially caused by nuclear detonations.
“You really have to dive into a lot of different fields and pull together exactly what you might see,” Schmidt said. “It involves chemistry, sedimentology, geology, and all these other things. It’s really fascinating.”
In his spare time, Schmidt also wrote a short story called “Under the Sun,” which Motherboard is publishing alongside this article in Terraform, and which dramatizes some of its key ideas. The story follows Stella, an environmental scientist who stumbles on evidence of past intelligent life in sediments from dating from the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). This warming period occurred approximately 55 million years ago, when “something triggered a massive shift in the global carbon cycle” and “all the environmental indicators went haywire.”
Stella’s fascination with the PETM reflects Schmidt’s own ruminations about this mysterious period of climate change, when average global temperatures were about 8°C Celsius higher than they are today. Some 15 years ago, he was discussing the geological impact of the PETM with colleagues, when he realized it would be somewhat analogous to the predicted aftermath of the Anthropocene.
In “Under the Sun,” that connection between the PETM and the Anthropocene is made explicit—it’s the nuclear fingerprint that gives Stella and her colleagues their Eureka moment. Despite the thrill of this discovery, the story hints at the ominous consequences of detecting radioactive fallout from a past society, even as nuclear sabre-rattling continues unchecked in human civilization.
In this way, Schmidt’s paper and his short story both relate the Silurian hypothesis to the Drake equation, which is a probabilistic approach to estimating the number of intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way, developed by astronomer Frank Drake.
One of the equation’s key variables is the length of time that civilizations are capable of transmitting detectable signals. A proposed reason that we have not achieved contact with an alien species is that this “length of time” variable may be extremely short—either because technologically advanced civilizations self-destruct, or because they learn to live sustainably on their home worlds.
“It might be the detectable period of a civilization is much shorter than its actual longevity, because you can’t last a long time doing the kinds of stuff that we’ve been doing,” Schmidt explained. “You either stop, because you’ve messed it all up, or you learn not to do it. Either way, the burst of activity, wastefulness, and massive footprints is actually a very short amount of time.”
“Maybe it’s happened a billion times in the universe,” he added, “but if it only lasted 200 years every time, then you’d never see it.”
The same logic holds for any previous civilizations that may have flourished on Earth, only to either collapse in ruin or scale down on activities that threaten their lifespan. There are definitely some not-so-subtle lessons that humans can take from this forked path which is, after all, an industrial version of the age-old evolutionary mantra—adapt or die.
That, for Schmidt and Frank, is one of the core themes of the Silurian hypothesis. If we can mull over the possibility that we are not the first Earthlings to have produced a technologically advanced civilization, perhaps we can better appreciate the precariousness of our current situation.
“Our thinking about our place in the universe has been this progressive distancing of ourselves from the study,” Schmidt told me, citing outdated beliefs like the geocentric model of the universe. “It’s like a stepwise retreat from a total self-centered view, and [the Silurian hypothesis] is really just one extra way of doing that.”
“We do need to be objective and open to all sorts of possibilities,” he added, “if we’re going to be able to see what the universe actually has to offer us.”
SHOCK as world-renowned scientist says humans are on the brink of making ALIEN CONTACT
SHOCK as world-renowned scientist says humans are on the brink of making ALIEN CONTACT
HUMANS are on the brink of contacting alien life, with one of the most respected physicists in the world “sticking his neck out” and predicting it could be within this century, it has been revealed.
Michio Kaku thinks humans will detect aliens before 2100
American theoretical physicist, futurist, and populariser of science, Michio Kaku, thinks humans will detect aliens before 2100 by listening to radio communications, but he does not know if we will be able to talk back to them.
Speaking on an “ask me anything” question and answer session on social media platform Reddit, the futurist answered a Redditor who asked, "Dr Kaku, if we make contact with alien civilisations, then what? And how will we talk to them?"
Dr Kaku replied: “Let me stick my neck out.
“I personally feel that within this century, we will make contact with an alien civilisation, by listening in on their radio communications.
“But talking to them will be difficult, since they could be tens of light years away.
“So, in the meantime, we must decipher their language to understand their level of technology. Are they Type I, II, or III???
“And what are their intentions? Are they expansive and aggressive, or peaceful?”
Types of civilisations represent the three categories in the “Kardashev scale”.
The scale measures a civilisation’s technological advancement based on the amount of energy they are able to use for communication.
Humans are not yet a Type I civilisation because they have not reached a stage of being able to use every ounce of energy on their home planet - which includes solar, thermal, oceanic and more.
Mr Kaku added: "Another possibility is that they land on the White House lawn and announce their existence.
"But I think that is unlikely since we would be like forest animals to them, i.e. not worth communicating with."
Dr Kaku is not the first renowned scientist to predict that humanity will make contact with alien life.
Stephen Hawking recently said that he is "more convinced than ever that we are not alone" and added that humanity should stop reaching out to aliens before it is too late.
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Dr Kaku is not the first renowned scientist to predict that humanity will make contact with aliens
He added: "One day we might receive a signal from a planet like Gliese 832c, but we should be wary of answering back.
"Meeting an advanced civilisation could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus.
“That didn't turn out so well.”
Dr Hawking is involved in the Breakthrough Listen project, which will scan planets around the nearest million stars for signs of life within radio signals.
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Stephen Hawking recently said that he is 'more convinced than ever that we are not alone'
Senior astronomer at the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, Seth Shostak, has placed a wager that we will find signs of alien life within 20 years.
According to the Drake equation, based on the sheer volume of stars in space it is highly unlikely that we are the only life in the universe.
Scientists are currently focussed on radio waves, which Shostak, Hawking, and Kaku all predict will be where alien contact will come through.
Radiowaves stand out from the naturally occurring background noise in the Universe, which typically extends across a much wider frequency range.
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Tempel Mexicaanse vruchtbaarheidsgod blootgelegd waar gruwelijke rituelen plaatsvonden: hogepriesters vilden menselijke offers en trokken hun huid aan - HLN.be
Tempel Mexicaanse vruchtbaarheidsgod blootgelegd waar gruwelijke rituelen plaatsvonden: hogepriesters vilden menselijke offers en trokken hun huid aan - HLN.be
REUTERSEen van de twee stenen hoofden die werd ontdekt.
WETENSCHAPIn Mexico hebben archeologen voor het eerst een duizend jaar oude tempel en offerplaats gewijd aan de vruchtbaarheidsgod Xipe Totec ontdekt. Om hun “Gevilde Heer” te eren, offerden de inheemse volkeren een keer per jaar menselijke offers die voor de tempel gevild werden, waarna hogepriesters zich in de huid van de slachtoffers kleedden.
Tijdens het jaarlijkse ‘feest’ Tlacaxipehualiztli, letterlijk vertaald ‘de huid van de gevilden dragen’, offerden de inheemse inwoners gevangenen om zo in de gunst van Xipe Totec te komen, zo noteerden de Spaanse overheersers die honderden jaren geleden op de Azteekse stammen stootten bij hun verkenning van het Mexicaanse binnenland. De gevangenen werden gedood in een soort gladiatorengevecht of met pijlen doorboord. Daarna werden ze gevild en hogepriesters trokken hun huid aan als symbool van wedergeboorte. Het hart werd uit het lichaam gesneden en eveneens geofferd.
Met de ontdekking van de tempel is er nu ook voor het eerst tastbaar bewijs van dat gruwelijke verhaal. De tempel werd blootgelegd op de site Ndachjian-Tehuacán in de centrale deelstaat Puebla. Ze bestaat uit twee offeraltaren en drie sculpturen: twee 70 centimeter grote en 200 kilogram zware stenen hoofden en een 80 centimeter grote torso. Ze moeten het huidloze lichaam van Xipe Totec voorstellen. De torso heeft bijvoorbeeld twee handen aan de linkerarm: een van de god zelf en een van de gevilde slachtoffers. In de buik zit een gat waar waarschijnlijk een groene steen zat.
De tempel werd waarschijnlijk gebruikt tussen het jaar 1000 en 1250 door de Popoloca-stam. Die groep werd later door de Azteken overwonnen, die hun rijk over Mexico uitbreidden tot de Spanjaarden arriveerden. Ook de Azteken bleven Xipe Totec aanbidden.
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De ontdekte sculptuur van de torso is ongeveer 80 centimeter groot, heeft twee handen aan zijn linkerarm ene en gat in zijn buik.
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De archeologische site van Ndachjian-Tehuacan in Puebla.
After China’s Chang’e 4 probe landed on the dark side of the moon, many people focused on the pictures of its rover roving off to search for grass, lunatics and paperboys. However, back on the lander, an experiment got underway that involves both life existing on the moon and growing food to sustain it. Three guesses as to what kind of food it will grow … Matt Damon, you need to recuse yourself on this one.
“The container will send potatoes, arabidopsis seeds and silkworm eggs to the surface of the Moon. The eggs will hatch into silkworms, which can produce carbon dioxide, while the potatoes and seeds emit oxygen through photosynthesis. Together, they can establish a simple ecosystem on the Moon.”
People’s Daily Online described what Zhang Yuanxun, chief designer of the container, put inside it before sending the package to the moon. While the term “dark side” has been replaced somewhat by “far side,” most people still don’t know that the remote non-Earth-facing side of the moon gets sunlight in quantities that are more than enough to grow potatoes and flowers. (Arabidopsis is a flowering plant related to mustard and cabbage – is this a Chinese experiment or an Irish dinner?) The main challenge for the seeds and worms will be heat, so the mini biosphere is insulated and has a battery-operated heat generator and light pipes.
Silkworms
The experiment was developed by students at Chongqing University and 28 other universities in China who will be anxiously awaiting the results. Will they have to wait until the next manned flight to find out?
“The biosphere package also contains water, air and nutrients, which will hopefully allow the seeds and eggs to briefly flourish in their protective capsule on the lunar surface. A tiny camera and data transmission system will allow researchers to see when and if the seeds blossom.”
Get the pan ready … I found ’em!
The key word there is “briefly.” Just how long will those worms be eating the plants while generating fertilizer and carbon dioxide to stimulate more growth? Will there be enough potatoes to feed Matt Damon? Enough silkworms to all him to weave clothing? Hardly. The container is only 18 cm (5 inches) long. Will that be enough of both to prove to moon residents that there’s life on Earth? Better yet, will they be alive long enough for China to call it a “colony” and lay claim to owning the far side of the moon? The official statement of China’s Communist Party, quoted by the Washington Post, says no.
“Unlike mankind’s mania in the past, the Chinese people ultimately harbor the dream of shared human destiny and practices open cooperation. We choose to go to the back of the moon not because of the unique glory it brings, but because this difficult step of destiny is also a forward step for human civilization!”
Will the world accept that?
Will the lunar silkworms? Will they tire of potatoes and cabbage and send the probe back to Earth for Chinese takeout?
Super Wolf Blood Moon Harbinger Prophecy January 21 2019
Super Wolf Blood Moon Harbinger Prophecy January 21 2019
Many people stick to predictions, but do we believe predictions or is it just the uncertainty what the future will bring that people are starting to believe in predictions?
There are many self-proclaimed prophets but there are a few who have indeed made correct predictions, like Edgar Cayes and the blind woman Baba Vanga.
Known as the 'Nostradamus of the Balkans,' Baba Vanga passed away in 1996 at age 85, but more than two decades later her recorded prophecies continue to stir the imagination.
Said to have accurately foreseen such events as 9/11 and the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia, a news report informs that her predictions for 2019 include:
A new devastating tsunami in Asia A giant meteorite hitting Russia An economic collapse for the European Union An assassination attempt on Vladimir Putin A baffling illness for Donald Trump occurring in the forthcoming year.
The year begins with January's full moon which is set to be very special indeed as four lunar spectacles combine to give the night sky a red hue.
Could it be that the first full blood moon which starts on Jan. 20-21 is a harbinger for the things to come this year?
The following video provides more information about the wolf blood moon including the expectations for 2019.
Giant UFO Seen In Night Vision Over Netherlands, Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Giant UFO Seen In Night Vision Over Netherlands, Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Summer of 2018, but uploaded Dec 2018. Location of sighting: Groenio, Netherlands A person was recording with a 3rd generation night vision scope when he noticed a strange cloud. The cloud is rectangle in shape and has four sharp ninety degree corners. He mistakenly identifies it as a partial chem trail, but that is highly unlikely due to the immense size and shape of this object. Night vision scopes see in infrared and any cloaked craft would become visible using this scope. If you remember past military infrared video tracking of UFOs, then you know this to be true already. That my friends, is a UFO. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
In July of this year during sky watching I noticed a single cloud in the night sky ...maybe nothing special but it was a little strange because there were no other clouds except that one...I guess a Chemtrail ..... decide for yourself 😁👍....and in December I tested my Bushnell Equinox during a meteor shower.
Imagine this...you are responsible for landing the Mars Spirit rover on the planet. You succeed and drive the Spirit rover out onto the Mars surface. After getting about 50 meters you notice that you can see your wheel marks in a long trail behind you...so you do what first pops into your head, draw a giant penis! Now we know what the Mars rover driver was thinking about during his/her mission. He or she was thinking about some penis. Its the first Mars art ever made by humans. Its also the first Mars porn made by humans. I wonder if NASA will try to preserve this site so that all humanity can remember this great achievement for thousands of years to come?
I also found many there ancient artefacts from faces to strange structures.
NASA put these photos in FAULSE color, which is a deep brown/red. So I put them back into natural normal color, which is a click of a button on my photo program. I prefer the real colors over the fake. What you see here on my site is the real color. Click the link to see the dark false color.
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Kid In India Records Glowing UFO Over City, Dec 28, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News
Kid In India Records Glowing UFO Over City,Dec 28, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: Dec 28, 2018 Location of sighting: India This possible UFO was seen on Dec 28, 2018 during a overcast night in India. When the smog of the city blocks out the sky at night, no stars can be seen during such a time. So this rules out stars. The object does not have red or blue flashing lights...which most drones have. Also the object is holding position, trying to confuse the eyewitnesses by appearing like a star. Remember what I told you in other posts, aliens are prize themselves on being more intelligent than humanity. They literally believe they can fly as close as they want and not get caught...but with todays cheap video cameras and cell phone cameras...humanity is proving them wrong. Also, someone should download this video, I estimate that there is a 90% chance the person will panic within a week when people say its a UFO and will take down the video. It happened a lot over the years. This looks to be just a kid and kids worry a lot about posting the wrong kind of videos getting the wrong kind of attention. Scott C. Waring
UFO Glowing And Pulsating Over The Black Sea, Bulgaria On Jan 4, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Glowing And Pulsating Over The Black Sea, Bulgaria On Jan 4, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 4, 2019
Location of sighting: Black Sea, Burgas, Bulgaria
This is one of the most irritating UFOs seen around the world. The UFO hovers over neighbourhoods and appears like a star, but is clearly very close, within half a mile away from the eyewitnesses most the time.
I myself was eyewitness to such a UFO one evening over my apartments and recorded it, just 24 hours after the same UFO was seen on TV news in parts of China. The video I uploaded has since disappeared...I'm searching, but strangely enough...its just gone from my channel??? Very odd, will continue searching for it.
What I am saying is that aliens are highly skilled in the art of trickery and deception. They are required by their laws to not interrupt in our way of life or change how things will go in the future, so instead they try to play mind games with eyewitnesses by having their UFOs fly within a few hundred meters of the ground and make clouds around it to hide the craft, or they will fly low over a neighbourhood trying to move very slowly to look like a star, but is clearly too big and too bright to be a star and too small to be the moon. Aliens are extremely intelligent, and they take too much pride in that fact. But in some areas we are better at...like creativity, passion and empathy.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Fast UFO big spaceship with changing type, trajectory , shape , sizes , color and very dynamic flexi - pulsations ; Location -- in the international space area over Black Sea -- about BULGARIA ; Time -- 03.10. 2018. // 00 : 06AM ; Documentary raw video report № 42 -- Bu. Sh. -- 1636 -- 100N ; Position -- from stationary camera with resolution - 2K ; Photographer -- Rosen Zheynov.
When browsing through Google Sky, one conspiracy theorists believes he spotted a mega-alien base. Google Sky is a free map programme from the search giants which allows users to browse the stars. However, one user got more than they bargained for when they discovered what they believe is an alien base.
Among the stars at the coordinates 03 57 08.63, -07 11 26.2 appeared a massive blue object.
One alien hunter was keen to point out that this is “100 percent proof” of the existence of aliens.
It is also evidence that extraterrestrials are super advanced and have the ability to colonise the entire universe.
Writing on his blog UFO Sightings Daily, prominent conspiracy theorist Scott C Waring said: “Google Earth map is famous for many UFO and alien base discoveries over the years.
Alien PROOF? Huge ‘ET BASE’ discovered using Google Sky (circled)
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
“However a lesser known feature of the free map program is that it allows you to see the stars in the sky. When you search using the star map, some strange objects will be found.
“This Giant Blue alien base is visible on Google sky map and its dimensions and size indicate that its bigger than Earth and its geometric pattern is not possible for that size in nature.
“This is an artificially created object of immense size.
“This is 100 percent proof that aliens not only exist in the universe, but are so advanced that the size of their ships are more enormous than anyone ever thought possible.”
“This is 100 percent proof of aliens"
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
This is not the first time an ‘alien base’ has been found using one of Google’s programmes.
In September, 2018, conspiracy theorists were sent into a frenzy when a massive structure was spotted on the moon using Google’s search tool Google Moon.
In a video uploaded to YouTube by Argentinian Marcelo Irazusta, the man-made-looking structure seems to be an anomaly on the surface on the moon.
The supposed Moon Base
(Image: GOOGLE MOON)
A description from Mr Irazusta alongside the video reads: “A strange elevation of hundreds of meters in the middle of a plain of the Moon is a mystery that must be revealed.
“Everything seems to indicate that it could be a non-natural structure. It is really awesome.”
However, sceptics and NASA say the pyramid and other similar findings are just the effects of pareidolia – a psychological phenomenon when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar objects or shapes in patterns or textures such as a rock surface.
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Aliens are coming to Belgium as UFO sightings soar in 2018
Aliens are coming to Belgium as UFO sightings soar in 2018
Brussels, which hosts the main institutions of the EU and the Nato HQ, has seen a spike in UFO sightings. Stock picture
James Crisp
UFO sightings over Belgium surged last year with the public reporting higher numbers of possible alien spaceships than in 2017.
Belgium recorded 255 reports of UFOs in 2018, an increase on the 171 witnessed the previous year.
Sightings were up across the whole country, with increases in Wallonia, Flanders and Brussels.
The mayor of the leafy Brussels suburb of Wezembeek-Oppem made news last summer when he claimed to have spotted a UFO.
Belgium has regularly punched above its weight when it comes to UFO sightings. Even in 2017, a relatively fallow year, it outscored Norway, Finland and Denmark and recorded only a handful fewer sightings than its much larger neighbour France.
Patrick Ferryn, president of Cobeps, the Francophone Belgian committee for the study of space phenomena, said: "We don't know why the numbers have increased. It was a hot summer and it may be simply that when the weather is good and the skies are clear, people look at the skies more often."
UFO sightings over the supposedly boring country of Belgium surged last year with astonished Belgians reporting higher numbers of possible alien spaceships than in 2017.
Belgium recorded 255 reports of UFOs in 2018, an increase on the 171 witnessed in 2017. Sightings were up across the whole country, peaking in October, with increases in the French-speaking region of Wallonia, Dutch-speaking Flanders and Brussels.
179 sightings were reported in more prosperous Flanders, compared to 76 in more rural Wallonia. Brussels is the country’s third federal region and the mayor of the leafy suburb of Wezembeek-Oppem made news last summer when he claimed to have spotted a UFO.
Belgian UFO investigators told the Telegraph that the 2018 figures were a return to the form shown over the last five years.
Despite being smaller than Switzerland, Belgium has regularly punched above its weight when it comes to UFO sightings. Even in 2017, a relatively fallow year, it outscored Norway, Finland and Denmark and recorded only a handful fewer sightings than its much larger neighbour France.
From November 1989 to April 1990, Belgian UFO spotters enjoyed their golden age. The Belgian UFO Wave involved multiple reports of triangular shaped craft in Belgian skies over an extended period, including one which was chased by F-16 fighter jets.
Patrick Ferryn, president of Cobeps, the francophone Belgian committee for the study of space phenomena, said, “You must know that most of these sightings will have the most banal explanation but there is a residue, which we simply can’t explain. And of those, there may be two or three where we may have questions over where they came from."
“We don’t know why the numbers have increased this year. It was a hot summer and it may be simply that when the weather is good and the skies are clear, people look at the skies more often,” he added.
Out of the 76 sightings in Wallonia, 14 were explained, 12 "probably explained" and 28 were impossible to evaluate because there was too little information. There were “reasonable doubts” about eight sightings, although the witness accounts lacked important information.
14 were still under investigation by Cobeps, which last reported an inexplicable UFO sighting in 2015, when there were 317 sightings across the country.
In 2018 the majority of sighting were explained away as being planes, balloons, meteors and satellites. The culpable satellite normally turned out to be the International Space Station.
Between 2010 and 2016, more than half of Belgian UFOs turned out to be Chinese lanterns, a decorative candle powered hot air balloon.
“Surprisingly drones have still not had an impact,” said Mr Ferryn, “Ever since the first drones went on the shelves we have been waiting to be submerged with reports of a galactic invasion of drones – but it still has not happened.”
Mr Ferryn said there was simply no comparison with the famous Belgian UFO Wave, which has been dismissed by some as a mass delusion. There is no video or photographic evidence of the craft despite the many sightings.
“This is definitely not a new wave of the Belgian wave of UFOs,” he said, “Then the quantity of sightings was higher, more frequent and concentrated on one region of Belgium and all the descriptions were similar rather than the very different descriptions of last year.”
China’s Chang’e-4 spacecraft set down last night, according to clocks in the Americas. It’s a historic event, the first time a spacecraft has landed on the side of the moon we cannot see.
The Chinese Chang’e-4 moon lander touched down in the Von Kármán crater on the moon’s far side. No, the far side of the moon does not always stay dark. In fact, Chang’e-4 mission controllers waited for sunrise over this region to set the lander down.
Simulation of lunar far side today, via Alan Dyer (@amazingskyguy on Twitter).
More space history this week, besides thesmallest space objectever orbited, and themost distantobject yet visited. Last night, according to clocks in the Americas – January 3, 2019, at 02:26UTC(10:26 a.m. Beijing time; January 2 at 10:26 p.m. on the U.S. East Coast) – China’s Chang’e-4 spacecraft successfully landed on the moon’s far side.
Chinese state media announced the event. The spacecraft landed in Von Kármán crater, located on the lunar far side within the South Pole-Aitken basin. Jason Davis at the Planetary Society wrote:
Chang’e-4 itself launched on December 8, 2018. It entered lunar orbit four days later, where mission controllers spent 22 days testing the spacecraft’s systems, waiting for the sun to rise at the landing site. [On January 2-3, 2019] Chang’e-4 successfully de-orbited and landed.
Scientists say Chang’e-4’s landing site is an area where an ancient impact by space debris pounded the moon long ago, possibly exposing some of the lunar mantle, the layer beneath its crust. So it’s an interesting region geologically. Chinese scientists hope to learn more about the early history of our moon (and by extension the Earth and rest of the solar system) by studying this region via Chang’e-4.
The spacecraft is a combination lander-rover. At this writing, there’s no word that the rover has been deployed, but that’s expected soon. Stay tuned!
The Chinese Chang’e Moon lander touched down in the Von Karman crater in the large South Pole-Aitken Basin on the lunar farside, an area that just had sunrise and is starting a two-week-long lunar day.
#ChangE4's rover may descend around 1030 UT (Jan 3) but it's bedtime now... good night folks. It has been a fun day, commenting an American mission (#MU69flyby) on Chinese social media and then tweeting a Chinese mission here.
Chang’e-4 mission profile. since the far side of the moon never faces Earth, missions there require a relay satellite. To solve that problem, China launched the Queqiao relay satellite in May 2018. The Queqiao relay satellite also brought along two SmallSats named Longjiang-1 and 2 bound for lunar orbit. Only Longjiang-2 was successful.
Bottom line: China’s Chang’e-4 spacecraft set down on the moon’s far side on January 3, 2019, at 02:26 UTC. It’s the first time a spacecraft has landed on the far side of the moon.
In 1953, Ottawa Journal readers were urged to be on the lookout for flying saucers, after Wilbert Smith's Project Magnet was given space and equipment to operate out of Shirley's Bay.
One fine summer evening in 1953, with Bank Street bustling as thousands of ball fans headed to Lansdowne Park to watch a game, Wilbert B. Smith, a senior radio engineer with the Department of Transport, and his research team released a weather balloon over the area. Not just any weather balloon, this one was covered with aluminum to make it disk-shaped, while fastened to its centre was a large aircraft flare timed to ignite when the balloon reached 5,000 feet, or 1,524 metres.
The silver object rose slowly in the air and, at 5,000 feet, glowed brilliantly for 15 seconds as its flare ignited. What Smith and his team, dubbed Project Magnet, expected to happen next was a deluge of phone calls from panicked and concerned citizens about the unidentified flying object they’d just seen. It was 1953, after all, with the post-Second-World-War Cold War in high gear and UFOs and their possible extraterrestrial origins frequently in the news. What they got, though, was nothing, or, rather, the conclusion that people just don’t watch the sky all that much: not one person called to report the strange object. This, however, hardly deterred Smith and his colleagues.
Project Magnet was formed in December 1950 on the authorization of Commander C.P. Edwards, then Deputy Minister of Transport for Air Service, with the aim of investigating UFO claims in Canada. It ran separately but in conjunction with a multi-department effort coordinated by the Defence Research Board, named Project Second Storey, to investigate reports of UFO sightings. According to Smith, Project Magnet was never officially sanctioned and no government funding was provided; he had simply requested some space and surplus equipment at a Transport Station at Shirley’s Bay, with which to collect research in his own spare time. Project Magnet’s primary goal was to study how the Earth’s magnetic field could be harnessed as a propulsion system for vehicles, a technology Smith believed extraterrestrials used.
At the time, 50 per cent of Canadians believed “that these mysterious disks are not just imagination and that they are not just a natural phenomenon,” according to a poll conducted by the Canadian Institute of Public Opinion.
“So many reliable people are among the witnesses,” noted the Fort William Times-Journal, “it is no longer possible to ignore entirely the possibilities that some aerial survey of the earth is being taken by personalities from some other part of the universe.”
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Reports of UFOs in Canada stretch back to 1792, when explorer David Thompson reported a bright blob flying overhead in northern Manitoba. In February 1915, the lights of Parliament Hill, Rideau Hall and the Royal Mint were extinguished after reports of unknown lights crossing the St. Lawrence River and headed for Ottawa reached Prime Minister Robert Borden. Thought to possibly be an aerial attack, the sighting were later blamed on fireworks-laden balloons released in Morristown, N.Y. to celebrate a century of peace.
Smith, who in 1955 became one of City View’s three inaugural trustees, was himself an ardent believer in aliens. In a speech delivered to the Vancouver Area UFO Club in 1961, a year before his death, he claimed to have communicated with extraterrestrials, whom he at least occasionally referred to as “the boys topside.” An engineer, he was particularly interested in such technical matters as how their spacecraft was built and how they were propelled. He claims they explained to him how the speed of light is not constant, and that time was not the measured chronological ticking we imagine, but a “field function” that changed throughout the universe, and which could be altered. Their ships, he was told, were supported on the Earth’s gravitational field. The fields surrounding their ships, he added, created areas that reduced areas that weakened the strength of objects that came into contact with them, accounting for the destruction of earthly military craft that flew too close to them. This explained, among other phenomenon, the May 1956 crash of a military jet into the Villa St. Louis convent in Orleans — the jet, Smith said, flew into a “very strong vortex of reduced binding,” causing it to break apart.
“I wrote a very stiff memorandum to the appropriate people in my own department pointing out some of these facts,” he wrote. But his letter, he maintained, “wound up on the crank file.”
Similar unstable vortices, he added, were created when nuclear explosions occurred. An unnamed friend of his who had also been in contact with “these people from outside” claimed to have spoken with one, Tyla, a garbage collector whose job it was to clean up the radioactive messes created by such man-made explosions. Tyla, Smith said, gathered the material, took it aboard his ship where it was rendered inert, and then dumped it in some secluded spot on Earth. In 1948, Tyla reportedly told his friend that he would dump his next load near Ottawa, and that he would pick an opportune time so many people could witness it. According to Smith, it took place on Remembrance Day that year: “We looked up to the north-west of Ottawa and there was Tyla’s little craft, an egg-shaped affair in the sky, and coming out of the tail-end of it was what looked like an almost dissipated portion of a jet trail that was dropping down.”
By summarizing sightings reported in 1952, Smith reported that UFOs were “a hundred feet or more in diameter; they can travel at speeds of several thousand miles per hour; they can reach altitudes well above those which should support conventional aircraft or balloons; and ample power and force seem to be available for all required maneuvers.”
The sightings, he noted, occurred at approximately six-week intervals, and most frequently when Earth and Mars were nearest to one another. In his 1952 report, he wrote: “We are forced to the conclusion that the vehicles are probably extraterrestrial, in spite of our prejudices to the contrary.”
The Project Second Storey committee, of which Smith was a member, developed a weighted 28-question questionnaire for those who reported seeing UFOs, to try to determine the likelihood that what they thought they saw actually happened. The conclusion, according to Smith, was that there was a 91-per-cent chance that reported sightings involved real objects, and a 60-per-cent chance that those objects were extraterrestrial vehicles.
On Aug. 8, 1954, Smith and his team at Shirley’s Bay recorded a disturbance they believed was caused by a UFO. Among the telling signs were Morse code transmissions too rapid for a trained operator to decipher.
Only days later, Project Magnet was disbanded. “Scientists,” wrote the Ottawa Journal, “say there is no proof flying saucers exist but they honorably admit there is no proof that all the strange and wandering objects reported in the sky are freaks of imagination or atmosphere.”
It was, Smith explained in a 1957 Weekend Magazine article on UFOs, all a matter of perspective: “If a stock promoter told you that there was a 60-per-cent probability that a certain stock would go up, I don’t think you’d invest with him. But if the weatherman told you there was a 60-per-cent probability that a hurricane was going to hit your area, I think you’d hurry up and bring in the lawn furniture.”
In 2017, there were approximately 1,100 UFO sightings reported in Canada, including 31 in the Ottawa area. The truth remains out there, somewhere.
This cartoon ran in the Ottawa Journal in April 1961, accompanying an article about Wilbert Smith’s interest in flying saucers and alien technology. It depicts then-prime minister John Diefenbaker surrounded by saucers outside the Parliament Buildings.
La Belgique a-t-elle connue une vague d’ovnis en 2018 ?
La Belgique a-t-elle connue une vague d’ovnis en 2018 ?
La Belgique a-t-elle connue une vague d’ovnis en 2018 ?
Au premier abord c’est bien ce que semble démontrer les statistiques traitant de ce sujet.
En effet, on y a enregistré 255 signalements d'ovnis en 2018 ce qui représente une nette augmentation par rapport aux 171 cas signalés pour 2017.
Le phénomène a été constaté dans tout le pays et c’est au mois d’Octobre qu’un pic a été noté avec une forte activité signalée en Wallonie francophone, en Flandre néerlandophone et au dessus de Bruxelles.
La Flandre à elle seule représente 179 observations contre 76 dans une Wallonie plus rurale.
Les enquêteurs en charge de ces statistiques indiquent que les chiffres de 2018 ne sont finalement qu’un retour à la situation normale en ce domaine. Les données sont en effet sensiblement équivalentes à celles des cinq dernières années (hors 2017 bien entendu).
Questionné sur la genèse des signalements,
Patrick Ferryn, président de COBEPS, le COmité Belge francophone pour l'Etude des Phénomènes Spatiaux, indique « Bien entendu, la plupart de ces signalement ne correspond qu’à des phénomènes normaux totalement explicables, néanmoins il demeure toujours un nombre non négligeable de cas que nous ne pouvons expliquer. Pour 2018 il y a par exemple deux ou trois cas pour lesquels nous ne pouvons donner aucune explication ».
Pour expliquer la forte augmentation des signalements,
il précise « Nous ne savons pas pourquoi les chiffres ont augmenté cette année, néanmoins nous pouvons noter que nous avons connu un été chaud avec un ciel nocturne souvent dégagé. Ce contexte peut expliquer les chiffres obtenus».
Néanmoins, à ses yeux 2018 ne représente certainement pas une nouvelle vague d’observation comparable à celle de la période 1989 / 1990.
" A cette époque là, le nombre d'observations était plus élevé, ils étaient plus fréquents et concentrés principalement sur une région de la Belgique. Parallèlement les descriptions des objets observés étaient toutes similaires alors qu’en 2018 celles-ci étaient souvent assez différentes les unes des autres".
Pour mémoire c’est entre novembre 1989 et avril 1990 que la Belgique a connu sa vague d’observation d’ovnis la plus célèbre avec en constante l’observation d’un ovni de forme triangulaire très régulièrement signalé.
In 2018 registreerde het Belgische ufo-meldpunt 179 waarnemingen van vreemde luchtverschijnselen in ons land. Een lintvormig, felgroen tuig interesseert de UFO-watchers het meest.
179 waarnemingen: dat is een stijging van 33 procent in vergelijking met het aantal meldingen uit 2017 (134 waarnemingen).
De stijging van het aantal meldingen liet zich – naar jaarlijkse gewoonte – vooral voelen tijdens de zomermaanden juli en augustus. Beide maanden samen waren goed voor 44 meldingen. Dit grote aantal waarnemingen kan grotendeels verklaard worden door het warme weer in die periode: we zaten dan veel vaker en langer buiten.
Ook het feit dat er vaak wolkenloze dagen waren, werkte het ufo-spotten in de hand.
In de provincie Oost-Vlaanderen werden de meeste ufo’s gezien. Het Franstalige COBEPS (Comité Belge pour l’Etude des Phénomènes Spatiaux) ontving het afgelopen jaar 76 ufo-meldingen, eveneens een stijging vergeleken met het jaar ervoor.
Sterren, of het ISS
Frederick Delaere, coördinator van het Belgisch ufo-meldpunt, beklemtoont dat de meeste ufo’s vrij snel ontmaskerd worden als vliegtuigen, sterren of het ruimtestation ISS. ‘Dat weten we door het moment van de waarneming en de manier waarop het tuig zich volgens de getuigen verplaatste, te checken.’
Een invloed van drones – die ook voor een ufo zouden kunnen aanzien worden – is er volgens Delaere nog niet.
Toch zijn er een handvol meldingen waarvoor het meldpunt nog geen verklaring heeft. Zo werd in Nederland een felgroen lintvormig object gespot waarvoor nog geen verklaring werd gevonden. Hetzelfde geldt voor enkele foto’s van verwonderlijke wolkenformaties.
On Earth, oxygen is a signature byproduct of life. But what if astronomers found oxygen in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant sun? Would that prove life exists there? Not necessarily, says a new study.
Much of the oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere is produced by tiny marine organisms, such as phytoplankton.
Most people know that oxygen is vital to earthly life. Humans and other animals breathe it. Green algae, marine bacteria and Earth’s abundance of plants produce it. About 20 percent of Earth’s atmosphere is currently composed of oxygen, and that fact has led to oxygen’s role inastrobiologyas a signature of life. In other words, if astronomers discovered oxygen in the atmosphere of another rocky planet like Earth, orbiting a distant star, they’d likely consider that oxygen a strong signal of possible life on that planet. But now a new study casts doubt on that conclusion. It shows that oxygen can be generated in the absence of life as well … originating, if you will, from an alien imposter.
The newpeer-reviewedfindings wereannouncedby Johns Hopkins University andpublishedin the December 11, 2018 issue of ACS Earth and Space Chemistry.
Basically, researchers were able to create both oxygen and organic compounds in simulations of exoplanet atmospheres, without the involvement of life. The experiments were conducted in the lab of Sarah Hörst, an assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences and the co-author of the new paper. Using the Planetary HAZE (PHAZER) chamber, they tested nine different mixtures of gases thought to exist in the atmospheres of super-Earth and mini-Neptune exoplanets – worlds that are larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. Each mixture was composed of gases such as carbon dioxide, water, ammonia and methane, and heated to temperatures ranging from about 80 to 700 degrees Fahrenheit.
A simulated CO2-rich planetary atmosphere being exposed to a plasma discharge in Sarah Hörst’s lab. Image via Chao He.
Each mixture was exposed to two different kinds of energy – plasma and UV light – that can trigger chemical reactions in planetary atmospheres. Plasma – stronger than UV light – can simulate electrical activities like lightning and/or energetic particles, while UV light creates chemical reactions in planetary atmospheres such as those on Earth, Saturn and Pluto.
The experiments were allowed to run for three days, about the same amount of time that they would be exposed to plasma or UV light from space, with the resulting gases then being measured by a mass spectrometer – which is used to identify the amount and type of chemicals present in a physical sample.
So what did the researchers find?
The simulated conditions produced both organic molecules and oxygen that could build sugars and amino acids such as formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide – the raw materials from which ice could start. According to Chao He, an assistant research scientist at Johns Hopkins:
People used to suggest that oxygen and organics being present together indicates life, but we produced them abiotically in multiple simulations. This suggests that even the co-presence of commonly accepted biosignatures could be a false positive for life.
Artist’s concept of the super-Earth exoplanet Gliese 667 Cb. In this three-star system, the host star is a companion to two other low-mass stars, seen here in the distance. If oxygen is found in the atmosphere of a planet like this, it may – or may not – be evidence of life.
The results are certainly interesting, showing that oxygen could indeed be produced without the involvement of any kind of life, but at the same time indicates that the building blocks of life – from which life could arise – are also easily produced. That itself is exciting, since it supports the idea that life could begin in many different environments where conditions are favorable.
In 2015, a different study by Norio Narita and colleagues found another process that can also produce oxygen, involving titanium oxide – an oxidized metal which catalyzes the splitting up of water into oxygen and hydrogen when a planetary surface is exposed to ultraviolet radiation. Even as little as 0.05 percent titanium oxide making up surface materials on an exoplanet could produce oxygen levels similar to that in Earth’s atmosphere. That study can be found here.
Bottom line: Discovering oxygen in the atmosphere of super-Earth or Earth-sized exoplanet would be exciting – and possibly evidence for life – but this new research shows that even then, the results should be looked at very carefully – as a cautionary tale. The oxygen may indeed come from living organisms, as on Earth, but it may also be a case of an alien imposter.
Damn impressive Footage from China's 'Jade Rabbit' on Zee Moon!
Damn impressive Footage from China's 'Jade Rabbit' on Zee Moon!
Very cool footage from the freshlly landed Chinese robotic exploration of the Moon..
Is it made of green cheese>? Does the cheese taste good? Can you grow potatoes in the cheese? All these of these questions and more the Chinese hope to answer...
SoooOOOooo... All you NASA Naysayers.... Lemme guess... Chinese hasn't landed anything on the Moon right?
Many peoples experiences who have reported their abductions, have reported seeing beings on board space ships that weren’t quite human but not alien as well. These ‘hybrids’ as experiencers and Urologist’s have called, appear to have physical characteristics of human and alien.
Hybrids have become a popular feature in modern Ufology. Some female experiencers have made the claim that they were abducted, impregnated and forced to carry as near to term as possible before the aliens return to take the fetus to live among the stars so the tabloid joke, “The aliens stole my baby” may not be too far from the truth.
When considering a theory that borders on the ridiculous, we once again run into the question of why again. Why are aliens impregnating women and then taking their babies. Some theorists believe one of two things. 1, the aliens are actually us from a far off distant future where mankind has evolved past procreation and they need to keep the species going. The second, which is somewhat similar to the first, is that these aliens can no longer have children and after scouring the galaxy for beings who share key genetic markers they discovered that humans were compatible with their own DNA. But is there any proof to back up this rather outlandish story? Allow me introduce you to Antonio Villas Boas, Brazilian farmer and intergalactic ladies’ man.
On the night of October 16, 1957, Brazilian farmer, Antonio Villas Boas was out ploughing the fields of his family’s farm. The day was far too hot and doing this work at night gave him some time to think.
As Antonio was working he became aware of a strange light in the sky. As he watched the light descended from the sky. At first, Antonio didn’t give it much thought until the light landed in the field. When the hatch opened and several strange beings stepped out Antonio, now terrified, decided to make a run for it. Unfortunately Antonio never made his escape.
After Antonio was taken aboard, he was stripped of his clothes and tossed into an all-white room. Just then, a door opened and a strangely beautiful woman entered the room and gestured for the young farmer to come to her. Antonio claims that he and the alien woman had sex.
When the love was over, Antonio reported that she put her hand on her belky, and gestured with her hand towards the ceiling implying the child would be raised among the stars. Villas Boas was then placed back in the field where he was working and watched as the spacecraft flew off into the distance.
Antonio’s story is rare. Those who claimed to have mothered or fathered a hybrid claim that the sperm or egg is extracted and arterially inseminated. It’s incredibly rare that actual sexual activity was involved. Many sceptics, of course, cast doubt on Boas’ story just because it was far too outlandish. However, Antonio, who became a successful attorney and husband and father, maintained his story until the day he died.
The “Gundiah Mackay Abduction” is a very controversial case in ufology. The witness and abductee reports tell of an extraordinary event that happened on Friday, October 5th, 2001. The witness and abductee accounts of the reported abduction scream of one of the top abduction cases, with a mix of theWalton Abduction, X-Files-like story line, whisperings of a “Scientology mission”, physical evidence, and one hell of a in-depth and terrifying story.
But was it a hoax? Some, including the local police agency who spent many man hours investigating the case, which for a short time became a missing persons case similar to the Walton Incident, think so. But what really happened that Friday evening? So far there has not been any conclusive evidence to prove one way or the other what really happened, although the police investigation does present some interesting evidence and theory.
The purpose of this thread is to explore both sides of this extraordinary story and present it in such a manner that the readers can decide for themselves what really happened. If this case is indeed a hoax it is still important to learn from such things, so those interested in ufology can truly understand all the aspects of the field, including complex and well thought out hoaxes. If this case is true however, then this is an unbelievable account of alien abduction. One that thoroughly deserves much more research, as this if true, could add a much needed piece of evidence to ufology in my opinion.
Friday, October 5th, 2001
Actually beginning in the late hours of Thursday, the 4th of October the following report is based upon the witness reports of what was reported to be an extraordinary alien abduction incident that began around 11:00 PM local time. First off, here are the three witnesses to the reported incident, as well other relevant information:
Witnesses
Amy Rylance: 22 years old, the alleged victim of the abduction.
Keith Rylance: 39 years old, husband of Amy.
Petra Heller: 35 years old, business partner of couple.
Location
The location of this incident was at Gundiah property, near Tiaro, in Queensland, Australia. The property was being developed as a winery to be called Whispering Winds. The following is a map of the area
Close Up
Extended View
The investigating crew on this case were Bill Chalker and Diane Harrison ofAUFORN.
The Incident
Keith states that he had gone to sleep in the caravan bedroom around 9:00PM. Petra stated that she went to into her bedroom in the residences annex. Amy stated that she had stayed on the couch watching TV in the “lounge room”. The investigators report that these locations were close to each other, only separated by a window and a wall. Both Keith and Petra's rooms had a door that was connected to the lounge room where Amy was reportedly watching television. The reported abductee, Amy, reportedly fell asleep on the couch watching TV.
At around 11:15PM, Petra states she woke up and walked into the lounge area where Amy was supposed to be asleep. What she reports she saw is phenomenal to say the least:
A rectangular beam of light was being projected through the open window of the caravan lounge room. This light beam appeared to be truncated at the end. Inside the beam Petra claims to have seen Amy in a sleep prone position, being carried out head first through the window. Underneath her, also within the beam were the items that had been on the coffee table adjacent to the couch Amy had been on. Before apparently fainting in shock Petra saw that the beam was coming from a disc shaped UFO hovering just above the ground a short distance away, near a tree at the rear of the clear section, immediately behind the annex caravan house.
Apparently Petra quickly regained consciousness and began screaming, which in turn awoke Keith. Keith states that when he entered the room he encountered a terrified Petra and the entire contents of the coffee table strewn on the floor. He also stated that the window screen in the lounge room was torn in “both a vertical fashion and along the the bottom of the window frame.” Keith then stated he rushed outside in an attempt to find Amy.
After talking to Petra and reluctantly believing the story she told him, Keith decided to call the police after his wife was reportedly no where to be found. About and hour and a half later the police arrived at the scene. The officers were Senior Constable Robert Maragna of Tiaro and an officer from Maryborough, According to the reports, the police thought they might have been dealing with a situation of foul play, maybe even a murder.
With the two witnesses remaining steadfast on the events that lead to the disappearance of Amy by a “spaceship” the case was quickly becoming phenomenal. The two officers were later joined by Sgt John Bosnjak, which was the officer in charge of the Tiaro police force, who was awoken from sleep to join the investigation. As the scene of the incident was analyzed for evidence a plant outside the window was discovered to have apparent heat damage, oddly another bush to the right of this plant was not affected. The police took samples of the affected bush for further testing.
While the police where at the property a phone call was received by Keith, it was a women calling from Mackay who stated she found a distressed and dehydrated women form a local BP gas station on the northern outskirts of the central Queensland city of Mackay, which is about 790 kilometers(490.883 miles ) to the north of of Gundiah, which is where the reported abduction took place! The women told Keith that Amy (which was the women she encountered) was fine and in the Mackay hospital.
What Happened to Amy?
Amy signed a notarized police statement at the hospital in Mackay, which under law held her legally accountable for everything she said in the statement. She stated that last remembered lying on the couch she sated she did not remember anything that Petra stated. She then went on to claim that she woke up lying on a bench in a strange rectangular shaped room. It is interesting to note that she states the illumination came from the “walls and ceiling”, this is interesting because it is commonly reported that ETs use some sort of electromagnetic energy source, which does not utilize “lights” as we understand it. It is reported that the illumination comes from the material that makes up the rooms themselves. This has been reported in many abductions, as well as the illumination technology used in the rumored Dulce Base.
Amy stated that she was alone when she awoke. She then states she “called out” and heard what she describes as “what seemed to be a male voice asking her to be calm and that everything would be alright and that she would not be harmed.” She went on to describe that “soon an opening appeared in the wall and a 'guy' about 6 feet tall walked into the room.”
The man appeared to be slender in build but in perfect proportion, covered head to foot in a full body suit. He had what seemed to be a black covering mask on his face, with a hole for his eyes, nose and mouth. He repeated his calming assurances. Amy felt she had been there a while. The guy told her they were returning her to a place not far from where they took her from, because the lights were wrong at the property and it wasn't safe. She then indicates she found herself lying on the bed and falling asleep.
She stated the next thing she recalled was waking up on the ground with trees around her and smelling the ocean, but feeling disoriented. She made her way through the bushland for what seemed like a long time before finally coming to a road and seeing the gas station where she was found at. When she walked into the station the staff, seeing that she was not in a good state and covered in mud offered her assistance.
At the BP station Amy drank some water, stating that she felt dehydrated. It is reported that initially she could not answer simple identifying questions and did not know where she was. The staff at the gas station asked her if she had been drinking or on any kind of drugs, which she denied. Amy stated she felt sore, lethargic, tired, and drained. She then asked a women at the station to take her to the hospital The women and her friend took her to the Mackay hospital. Later at the hospital Amy contacted her husband and spoke with two police officers. After being released from the hospital Amy went to the Mackay police station, where she gave the notarized statement of events, which is where the majority of this account comes from, as well investigator interviews.
It is interesting to note that Amy claimed she was gone for days, and strangely enough the hospital confirmed that she had excess hair that had not been shaven in a couple days, as well no signs of eating anything for at least two days.
Amy stated this has never happen to her before, but she did see a large UFO surrounded by several smaller objects when she was in 5th grade. The Mackay police set up a motel room for Amy to stay at while she awaited the arrival of her husband, Keith. When Keith and Petra arrived in Mackay they state they spent a large amount of time discussing the incident with Amy.
The Ufology Investigation
Extensive notes were apparently made and photographs were taken of a triangular arrangement of marks on her inner right thigh, marks on each heel and the growing out of her hair which she had dyed earlier in the week. Her hair had apparently started to show her former color, suggestive that some considerable time had passed for her, apparently indicative of rather more than a few hours. Body hair had allegedly also become somewhat more pronounced that would otherwise would be apparent for the short time involved.
Via an Newsagent's a copy of the Australian Ufologist magazine was purchased, Keith, Petra and Amy started to learn more about UFOs. Keith Rylance contacted the Australian UFO Research Network office number mentioned in the magazine. Diane Harrison took the call Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 15:20 p.m and for the next hour or so listened to the story that Keith and Amy told. Petra was apparently sleeping at the time.
Given the nature of the story, its complexity and the fact it apparently featured the alleged use of "solid light", Diane decide to bring Bill Chalker into the investigation, making contact with him during the evening of Friday, October 5th. Paradoxically Bill was scheduled to talk at a Brisbane UFO conference on October 13th, and his topics included "solid light" cases and the application of science to alien abduction cases. Bill put a call through to them at the motel, securing permission to record the conversation.
Petra was not available to discuss the events she had witnessed, but investigators Bill Chalker and Diane Harrison were able to have a detailed discussion with Keith and Amy over the phone. The initial ufologist investigation focused on what Petra and Keith experienced, as well Amy's account of what happened to her, particularly the events that happened before and after the actual onboard experience.
I must personally say that it appears the ufologists were doing exceptional in their investigative approach at this point. They were using correct tactics in attempting to judge Amy's physical and mental state, as well her general responses in what I assume was to check for any inconsistencies or evidence of lying, or any signs of her having a misinformed memory of events. There was also a good timeline built by asking about the events prior and after the reported abduction, which is also useful to spot any possibly inconsistencies and to get a more lucid understanding of events.
Amy's husband, Keith had a strong desire to contact the media about this incident, as he believed it was important to “get his story out, as it would come out anyway and this way he could control the way it did.” One thing that I find somewhat suspicious is the way Keith apparently tried to restrict the way the investigators looked into their experience. He claimed that the investigators did not need to prove the event, I would assume this is because he seemed to believe everything Amy said even though he did not directly experience the events himself. While some may think this is expected, since Amy was his wife, it does raise some investigative questions none-the-less:
1.)Why was Keith not concerned with the investigators proving his wife’s story? 2.)While Keith was apparently not concerned with proving Amys story he still wanted to go public with her account. One would think you would want to have at least some type of evidence to back such an extraordinary claim. 3.)Why was Keith concerned about controlling the course of the investigation? This does not look good, as it could imply he (they) had something to hide that could be exposed during the course of an investigation. 4.)Why was Keith apparently so concerned about getting this story out to the media?
Now while all those investigative questions could be attributed to the emotional stress of being involved I such an extraordinary event and being the husband of the victim they are still aspects that need to be looked at. Now let's continue with the incident report:
Given the possible nature of the event, and that irrespective of the ultimate resolution of the affair, it seemed destined to be a big story, Diane and Bill decided to undertake an investigation. They had been given an indication from Keith Rylance that the three would wait for the investigators to come to Mackay. The claimants were in no apparent hurry to return to Gundiah. They gave permission for Bill and Diane to visit the property on the way. Bill arrived in the Brisbane area on Tuesday afternoon, October 9th.
Diane and Bill then traveled to Gundiah, arriving at the Whispering Winds winery property, just after 10 pm. Because of the lateness of the hour, we got the witnesses permission to stay there overnight and to conduct whatever investigation we needed to do. Keith had arranged for a neighbor to regularly check on the two pets left behind, namely a parrot and a kelpie dog. He indicated to us that it would be okay to let the dog off for a run, but warned us it was very friendly but inclined to jump all over people.
We let the dog off at some point and observed its behavior At one point it did jump up on the window where the damaged screen was located.
When the investigators noticed how active the dog was they began to wonder if the dogmay have been responsible for some or all of the damage to the window screen. They state that some of the damage appeared suggestive of possible dog damage. The investigators also noted that the plant damage could also possibly be explained by prosaic causes, in this case heat stress. This possibility was considered because other plants ( one of the same species) around the house and area had similar damage.
It is vital to note that these observations were only suggestive at this point, and I am not aware of any further investigations carried out to confirm or deny this postulate, as more investigation would be required for any certainty. In totality the investigation at the residence raised many more questions, which were not and have not been properly addressed, even eight years later.
The investigations of the ufologists moved on to the service station where Amy made her “re-appearance”. The staff at the gas station were spoken to and a surveillance video that should have showed Amy's visit there was also acquired. According to the investigators this part of the investigation also led to many more questions that need to be answered (isn't this ALWAYS the case in UFO reports?).
At this point the investigation and thus the case gets extremely interesting, but somewhat suspicious. Keith, Amy, and Petra indicated to the investigators they would make themselves available for physical questioning, but when the investigators arrived in Mackay for the interview Keith, Amy, and Petra were no where to be found. It was soon found out that the three had checked out of their third hotel (in 9 days since arriving in Mackay) early that morning.
The investigators state they did not hear from Keith until the next day, where he stated they had to “flee the area and had moved to a unspecified location.” The reason for this move was given by Keith as a result of a “ kind of Men In Black” encounter. Keith stated that their vehicle was pursued by a “high powered, dark brown 4 wheel truck” Keith claimed they lost they lost the truck and moved to the new, undisclosed area.
The investigators state that they did hear from Keith on more time on October 14th, 2001 (10 days after the event). As far as I can find there has been no further developments in this case in regards to Keith, Amy, and Petra. The case is over eight years old now and apparently stagnate. This is also a highly controversial case with the investigating police force believing this a hoax, but without further investigation we are still left in the dark on what happened. This from the investigators report filed on October 14th, 2001:
We remain hopeful that they will get into more direct contact with us.
This affair is both extraordinary and controversial. Many have rushed to judgment, but given it's complex and evolving dynamics, caution and patience is necessary. We have many issues and questions we would like to try to resolve. Further contact with the Rylances and Petra Heller may help this process. The case is far from closed and requires an objective, open-minded investigation. Only time will give us the possibility of resolution and certainty about this intriguing but controversial affair.
As already stated above, the investigating police agency in Mackay, believes that this case was nothing more than a hoax. This conclusion was reached by the odd behavior and reluctance of the witnesses to talk,as well some suspicious evidence.
By November 2001, New Idea had come out with a four page story, with the article reading, “Amy, Keith and Petra then fled Gundiah, and the UFO investigators haven’t been able to complete their research.” By December, Keith Rylance’s contact details, mobile phone and e-mail were no longer functional.
The police also found paper towels, black hair dye, and burnt remains of two flood lights and electrical wiring in a incinerator 60 feet from the annex. Police Sergeant Robert Maragna states they found phone records from a motel in Rockhampton, which is in between Gundiah and Mackay. The calls were made the day before the incident:
The police scenario had Amy already on her way to Mackay via the Rockhampton motel, with the black hair dye being used by Petra later to play the blond Amy. The newspaper also quoted the Tiaro mayor John Horrex, however, who still believed the alien story. In March 2003, civilian investigators were contacted by an overseas source who suggested events had to do with a Scientology mission to find a buried spaceship as described in “Mission Earth”, by Scientology’s founder L. Ron Hubbard. When investigators visited Tiaro police station back in October 2001, they were shown a notebook apparently owned by Petra which the police had removed from the Gundia property. The police were suspicious of some strange content they thought might be connected to the case. Chalker recognized some of its content as being related to Scientology, such the words ‘thetan’ and ‘clearing’. Recall that the Gundia property was called “Whispering Winds” - Hubbard lived out his last years on a remote property in the United States called “Whispering Winds”.
In 2002 the Fraser Coast Chronicle published an article proclaiming the whole incident a hoax:
On October 4-5, 2002, the Fraser Coast Chronicle newspaper published an article asking, “Why did they do it?”, arguing that the affair had been a hoax and highlighted forensic issues that the police had found back in October 2001. The Tiaro police had a clear message: “The police file remains open and Sergeant Robert Maragna would love to talk to Amy, Keith and Petra and give them the bill for the hours of police time that went into investigating the alien abduction.” “There were too many inconsistencies in the story for it to be true,” said Sergeant Maragna.
Unfortunately the Mackay police will not release the nine relevant documents to this case because they contain personal information. So until Keith, Amy, and Petra can be properly interviewed it is hard to see this case going any further. This from AUFORN in 2006:
However, all was not as it seemed. Journalist Kevin Corcoran of the "Fraser Coast Chronicle" newspaper, in an article 12 months after the event wrote: "Mystery still surrounds the trio at the centre of an alleged abduction by aliens of a woman from her Gundiah farm a year ago. Except for a few Brahman heifers, the farm is deserted. It has been unoccupied since English born Keith Rylance, his wife Amy, then 22 and house-mate Petra Heller, left the country after the story of Amy's abduction by aliens broke." The account went on: "Officer in charge of the Tiaro police Acting Sergeant Robert Maragna, who was first at the property after the alleged alien visit, is 99.9% sure that the abduction was nothing more than an elaborate hoax." Given our success with the Federal Freedom of Information (FOI) Act it was decided to use the Queensland FOI Act to try and secure copies of any papers on the above case. To this end, an FOI request was submitted to the Queensland Police Service asking for any documents "held relative to the police investigation of the alleged "abduction" of one Amy Rylance, formerly of Gundiah, Queensland on or about the 4th & 5th October 2001." In a letter of response, the Queensland Police Service replied that "Following receipt of your application, inquiries were conducted at Tiaro Police Station for documents relevant to your request. As a result of those inquiries nine (9) documents were located and a determination made concerning them." The response went on to state: "I have determined today, to exempt from release all documents pursuant to section 44(1) of the Act. I consider the information contained in these documents relates to the "personal affairs" of a person other than yourself and is exempt from release pursuant to section 44(1) of the Act." A retrospective investigation is currently being undertaken into this reported UFO abduction. The Rylances are believed currently to be in the north of England. Any UK reader who might wish to assist in this research is asked to contact the Project.
This is a very controversial case, there is no way to make any type of conclusion on this case at this time in my opinion, due to the lack of witness interview. Although the corroborating evidence in favor of the witness reports is interesting, there is also some suspicious behavior and evidence that needs to be further explained. I for one do not agree with the police theory based on the evidence they found in the incinerator for the following reasons:
The hair dye was explained adequately by the witnesses, as it was mentioned beforehand.
How does the finding of floodlights and wires mean this is a hoax? Why would the hoaxers need to fool themselves by mimicking an alien abduction “beam” with the lights, which is the only logical theory the police could have been proposing.
The phone conversation is suspicious, but not damning, as the police put it. There are many other explanations that I feel are being overlooked, including the overall likelihood of this hoax being carried out to the detail they postulate.
Although I do not agree with the police conclusions I do not omit them, nor do I omit the odd behavior of the witnesses, and as stated needs to be explained. What is interesting to me is the fact that the witnesses have not continued to try and propagate this hoax, if indeed that is what it was. With recent evidence showing that Amy and Keith fled to the UK what would be the point of making this up if they were not going to attempt to make money off of it or further the “story”? Maybe they got scared of being arrested for lying to the police? This is possible, but given the evidence and events surrounding the case it seems to me that the police scenario would be a stretch at best, in my humble opinion.
I also feel that we must be careful to judge what is and what isn't “suspicious behavior” concerning the experiencing of an event like a alien abduction. How are we to know how one would act? Do we really have the facts to judge that the reports of a “MIB-type encounter” is a lie? We do not, but admittedly the odd behavior and stories of the witnesses does not look good. There is however enough questions and evidence to further an investigation in this case, as well give some credence to the witness testimony.
With even the police themselves refusing to close this case I feel it is very ambiguous to make any form of further conclusions. While in the best case scenario (at this point) we could either get a “likely true” or “likely hoax”, I firmly believe this case is indubitably worthy of much deeper study, if possible. In this case I feel that some rather hasteful conclusions have been made erroneously, with a potential great case being quickly dismissed as a hoax. If indeed this whole event was a hoax than it still serves a useful purpose in my opinion, and that is to teach us how far some will go to perpetrate such things. In either event I feel this is an important case to bring to the attention of our community, and I look forward to any additional insight anyone may be able to provide if possible. At the least this case will hopefully come to some further attention than it has gotten thus far.
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Un scientifique de la NASA déclare que des ET ont peut-être visité la Terre
Un scientifique de la NASA déclare que des ET ont peut-être visité la Terre
Fox News a publié le lundi 3 décembre 2018 un article saisissant intitulé "Un scientifique de la NASA déclare que des extraterrestres ont peut-être visité la Terre".
Cette publication a bien évidemment eu un réel succès sur le Web, avec des articles similaires parus ensuite dans le New York Post, Russia Today et The Daily Wire. (Sachant que Fox News semble avoir été la première source d'information américaine majeure à rapporter cette information). Ces articles se sont basés sur un document posté sur le site Web de la NASA par Silvano Colombano, chercheur au centre de recherche Ames de la NASA à Mountain View, en Californie. Il soutient que les scientifiques devraient au moins prendre au sérieux la notion selon laquelle des extraterrestres pourraient avoir visité la planète Terre. Mais Colombano a déclaré à Live Science que la couverture de Fox News et d’autres sources offraient une image déformée de son message. "Ce n'est pas illustré avec précision", a-t-il déclaré. "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 faibles."
Silvano P. Colombano est professeur d'informatique à la NASA.
Il estime, comme l’a écrit Fox News, que des extraterrestres "ont peut-être" visité la planète Terre. Bien que le nom et l'adresse e-mail de Colombano apparaissent en haut du document, il a précisé que Fox News ne l'avait pas contacté avant la publication de son article. (Live Science a confirmé cela à Fox News, mais n’a pas encore reçu de réponse.) Fox News a décrit le document comme un "nouveau document de recherche", terme habituellement utilisé pour décrire des articles officiels destinés à être publiés dans des revues de recherche et à tirer des conclusions sur la base de preuves et de méthodes scientifiques. Ce qui n’est pas le cas de ce document selon Colombano. "Le contexte était une présentation faite au printemps dernier lors d'une réunion de l'institut SETI (Recherche d'intelligence extraterrestre)", a-t-il déclaré. SETI est une organisation dédiée à la recherche de vie extraterrestre, principalement en balayant les signaux radio de l’espace à la recherche de preuves de vie intelligente. "La réunion visait à recueillir les réactions des scientifiques sur les orientations futures du programme de recherche de l'Institut", a déclaré Colombano. Le document accompagnait un discours qu'il donnait et dans lequel il suggérait que la notion de visite des extraterrestres sur Terre n'était peut-être pas aussi ridicule que le pensent la plupart des scientifiques, et que SETI pourrait consacrer des ressources à la recherche systématique d'informations via des études de rapports d’ovnis ainsi que d'autres données. En d’autres termes, il s’agissait d’un texte spéculatif destiné à persuader d’autres scientifiques de consacrer leurs ressources à un projet sur le long terme - et non à un débat sur la question de savoir si des extraterrestres ont réellement visité la Terre. La position de Colombano est que cela est possible, mais peu probable.
Called the "flagship case" of alien abduction. A husband and wife (Betty and Barney Hill) taking a short vacation see a bright object in the evening. They are stopped on the road by aliens and become part of an abduction case for the ages. Regressive hypnosis plays a major role in unveiling a dark secret... a secret of alien abduction, and medical experimentation.
1967, the Betty Andreasson Abduction
In South Ashburnham, Massachusetts on the night of January 25, 1967, one of the most celebrated cases of UFO abduction began. Betty Andreasson was working in her kitchen while her seven children, mother, and father were in the living room... suddenly a bright light invades the house. From the yard, alien creatures are seen hopping toward the house! This is one of the strangest abduction cases.
1967 Abduction of Herbert Schirmer
As Patrolman Schirmer passed through the intersection of Highway 6 and Highway 63 on the outskirts of Ashland, he saw what appeared to be red lights on a large truck stopped a short way down Highway 63. He decided to check it out. He drove the short distance down 63 and stopped with his headlights shining on the object. According to Schirmer, the object was definitely not a truck. The red lights that he had seen were blinking through the oval portholes of a metallic, oval-shaped object.
1969 The Buff Ledge Camp Abduction
Only seven and a half years after the Betty and Barney Hill story, the New England states would again host an alien abduction. Buff Ledge in Vermont would be the site of a visitation by four UFOs which would make revolutionary aerial maneuvers. Two counselors would suffer missing time, and seek professional help.
Fifteen different people see a large, silver UFO fly over a housing project in St. Tammany Parish, New Orleans, Louisiana. Only a scant 24 hours later, Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson would unwillingly take a journey into the unknown... strange creatures with claw-like hands abduct them. J. Allen Hynek investigates.
1975 The Abduction of Sergeant Charles L. Moody
Alamogordo, New Mexico would be the location of a UFO encounter involving Air Force Sergeant Charles L. Moody on August 13, 1975. Moody was in the desert observing a meteor shower at about 1:15 A.M. when he saw a glowing, metallic, disk-shaped object falling toward the ground about 300 feet away.
1975 The Travis Walton Abduction
As seven bloggers began their journey home, they see a "luminous object, shaped like a flattened disc." All of the men agreed that Travis Walton, captivated by the sight, left the truck to get a closer look. A blue beam hits him, throwing him to the ground. He would vanish for five days, and soon begin telling his story of the inside of an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
1976 The Stanford, Kentucky Abductions
While America was still buzzing over the Travis Walton abduction, three women are abducted near Stanford, Kentucky. Heading for Hustonville on Highway 78, they suddenly see a "bright, red" object in the clear, night sky, turning a nice evening into a night of terror. Read about this in depth investigation here.
The Allagash Waterway incident would involve multiple witnesses. Four artists were enjoying a canoeing trip on the Allagash Waterway when their pleasant evening was turned into a nightmare... A nightmare of missing time and alien abduction. At first only missing time, and then forgetfulness. Finally a connection is made, and little by the details become known in this compelling case of alien abduction.
1976 The Dechmont Forest Abduction
Robert Taylor was sixty-one-years-old at the time that he had the most unusual encounter of his life. He had worked as a forester all of his adult life in the Dechmont woods located in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland. On the morning of Friday, November 9, 1979, he and his red setter rounded a corner on a forest trail and saw an unbelievable sight, a UFO! The object appeared to be hovering just above the forest floor. It made no sound, and seemed to be motionless.
1985 The Whitley Strieber Abduction
Well known writer Whitley Strieber would be abducted by aliens while in his isolated cabin in upstate New York over the Christmas season of 1985. He encountered 4 types of alien beings, which subjected him to medical tests.
A policeman named Philip Spencer claims to have taken a picture of an alien being. If this is true, it is one of only a few in existence. The scary Ilkley Moor in Yorkshire, England would hold the secret of the strange creature encountered one early morning. Godfrey was frightened, but ran after the creature, taking one photograph. See it here. Through hypnosis, he would recall an odd flying object, and an alien abduction.
1988 Father & Son Abducted
John Salter Jr. and his son are abducted by benevolent aliens. One of the few cases in which alien abduction turned out to be a good thing. Medical experimentation has a happy ending, with improved health for both abductees.
An extremely compelling case of alien abduction is that of Linda Napolitano. Napolitano has claimed that she was abducted by the so-called "greys," who floated her from a closed bedroom window into a hovering UFO. As time went by, several different eye witnesses came forward to substantiate her claims... Several bystanders, including a well known politician, actually see the incident.
1993 The Kelly Cahill Abduction
In August 1993, 27-year-old Kelly Cahill, her husband, and three children were driving home after a visit to a friend's house. Their routine journey would soon become a harrowing trip into an unknown world of strange beings that occupied space but were void of color as we know it. The Dandenong foothills, near Victoria, Australia would be forever linked to one of the strangest creatures in Ufological archives.
1997 Abduction in Wales
One of the weirdest cases reported to the Welsh Federation of Independent Ufologists is the multiple sighting of UFOs on the same night - except one family got too close for comfort and were apparently abducted. The strange and disturbing events began to unfold when for several nights an elderly man living in Little Orme, Conwy, was troubled by what he called "frightening" beams of light over the Great Orme.
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Scientists Just Gained Access To Mysterious Lake Buried Under 3,500 Feet Of Ice In Antarctica
Scientists Just Gained Access To Mysterious Lake Buried Under 3,500 Feet Of Ice In Antarctica
Mysteriouslake buried under 3,500 feet of ice discovered by scientists.
On December 26th scientists finally managed to reach a mysterious Subglacial Lake which was buried under 3,500 feet of ice in Antarctica. In a blog post, the Subglacial Antarctic LakesScientificAccess (SALSA) announced that it took almost two whole days of drilling to reach Mercer Subglacial Lake during this holiday season.
Antarctic Landscape, Portal Point, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Twice the size of Manhattan
The team of researchers with the organization was comprised of 45 scientists, drillers, and various other staff members. They were able to drill a borehole big enough to send down an instrument the next day to capture a glimpse of the huge subglacial body of water which was described as “twice the size of Manhattan”. The group is planning to study the lake further over the coming days such as depth, temperatures, and cleanliness. They are also going to lower a remotely operated vehicle down through the borehole to get more footage and take more extensive measurements about the mysterious lake.
John Priscu, chief scientist for SALSA, told environmental news site Earther Monday that they were unsure of what to expect as it is such a new discovery and they were still learning as they went along. The SALSA team flew to Mercer Subglacial Lake on Dec. 19 and began drilling days later, on Dec. 23.
Al Gagnon (left) and SALSA Marine Techs Michael Tepper-Rasmussen and Jack Greenberg (ctr and right) test the @WHOI (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Gravity Corer that will be used to collect 10-ft and 20-ft sediment cores from Mercer Subglacial Lake. #nsfsalsa#Antarctica
The drilling process is more complicated than just making a hole. There are many steps to take when drilling into a new environment for the first time. Part of that process involves sampling the drill water and testing it for cleanliness. In the words of SALSA PI Brent Christner, it was as clean as filtered water can get. This came after the water had been tested twice already by running it through filters that are able to catch 99.9% of germs and bacteria. At least eight days have been scheduled by the organization dedicated to sampling and testing the lake's water and sediments.
What's next?
Matt Siegfried, a glaciologist and SALSA member, has expressed his excitement by stating that they are currently sampling the deepest standing water body humans have ever accessed beneath Antarctica. It will, however, take many years to study all the samples they collect and process the data before any new concrete information can be released about life in this particular ecosystem.
Mercer Subglacial Lake was first discovered via satellite more than a decade ago, and there are reportedly around 400 lakes just like this one hiding beneath Antarctica's ice sheets which in my opinion, is very exciting indeed. I will personally be keeping an eye on the news from now on, excited to see what will come from this Subglacial Lake, and potentially many others around it!
Robot start eerste verkenning op achterzijde maan - HLN.be
Robot start eerste verkenning op achterzijde maan - HLN.be
Bron: Belga
EPAHet robotvoertuig 'Jade Rabbit 2' heeft de Chinese ruimtesonde Chang'e verlaten.
WETENSCHAPHet robotvoertuig ‘Jade Rabbit 2’ heeft de Chinese ruimtesonde Chang’e verlaten en de eerste sporen op de achterkant van de Maan achtergelaten. De rover verliet het ruimtetuig gisteravond laat, zo maakte het Chinese ruimtevaartburaeu (CNSA) vandaag bekend.
De sporen in de “losse maanondergrond” zijn op beelden vastgelegd, die via de satelliet Queqiao naar Aarde zijn doorgestuurd.
Chang’e 4 landde gisteren op de achterkant van de Maan, in het Zuidpool-Aitken-bekken, een gigantische inslagkrater aan de zuidpool. China is zo het eerste land dat een object neerzette op de achterzijde van onze natuurlijke satelliet.
BELGA/AFPDe Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is een dwergsterrenstelsel dat zich zo'n 163.000 lichtjaren van ons Melkwegstelsel bevindt.
WETENSCHAPVerwoest de klimaatverandering onze aarde niet dan wel een kosmische ontploffing van ons sterrenstelsel. Astrofysici berekenden immers dat dwergsterrenstelsel LMC op rampkoers ligt met ons Melkwegstelsel. Het resultaat zou spectaculair vuurwerk opleveren, al zou je het niet kunnen navertellen.
Een crash tussen het dwergsterrenstelsel LMC en ons Melkwegstelsel zou de aarde alsook een deel van ons sterrenstelsel opblazen. Dat blijkt uit een computersimulatie van astronomen aan de Durham University in het Verenigd Koninkrijk.
Eerder al deelden astronomen een soortgelijk bericht. Volgens dat bericht zou het Andromedastelsel onze aarde uiteindelijk verwoesten. Nu blijkt echter dat een kleiner dwergsterrenstelsel met de naam Grote Magelhaense Wolk of Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) onze kant op gaat en de aarde kan verwoesten over zo’n 2,5 miljard jaar. De kosmische aanvaring met het Andromedastelsel werd pas over acht miljard jaar voorspeld.
Momenteel is het dwergsterrenstelsel zo’n 163.000 lichtjaren van ons Melkwegstelsel verwijderd. Het beweegt zich voort met een snelheid van 250 kilometer per seconde, weg van ons sterrenstelsel. Maar volgens de computersimulaties zal het sterrenstelsel op een zeker moment vertragen en rechtsomkeer maken, richting het Melkwegstelsel. “Als dat gebeurt, zullen onze afstammelingen niet in staat zijn om zich te weren”, aldus Carlos Frenk, kosmoloog aan de Durham University.
Armageddon
Om te besluiten met een positieve noot: “LMC is groot maar het dwergsterrenstelsel zal ons sterrenstelsel niet volledig verwoesten. Dat zou het Andromedastelsel wel verwezenlijken. Een botsing met dat sterrenstelsel zou een armageddon betekenen”.
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Belgen zagen vorig jaar veel meer UFO’s. Voor deze meldingen is nog altijd geen verklaring gevonden
Belgen zagen vorig jaar veel meer UFO’s. Voor deze meldingen is nog altijd geen verklaring gevonden
In 2018 registreerde het Belgische UFO-meldpunt 179 waarnemingen van vreemde luchtverschijnselen.
Dat is een stijging van 33 procent in vergelijking met het aantal meldingen uit 2017 (134 waarnemingen). Dat blijkt uit het jaarverslag van het Belgische UFO-meldpunt.
In de provincie Oost-Vlaanderen werden de meeste UFO’s gespot.
Eveneens een stijging
Het Franstalige COBEPS (Comité Belge pour l’Etude des Phénomènes Spatiaux) ontving het afgelopen jaar 76 UFO-meldingen, eveneens een stijging vergeleken met het jaar ervoor.
De stijging van het aantal meldingen liet zich – naar jaarlijkse gewoonte – vooral voelen tijdens de zomermaanden juli en augustus. Beide maanden samen waren goed voor 44 meldingen.
Dit grote aantal waarnemingen kan grotendeels verklaard worden door het warme weer in die periode.
Geen verklaring
Ook in oktober waren er beduidend meer meldingen dan het maandgemiddelde. Dit kan mede verklaard worden door de uitzonderlijk lage bewolkingsgraad in die maand.
Veel UFO’s worden vrij snel ontmaskerd als vliegtuigen, sterren of het ruimtestation ISS, maar voor een aantal meldingen heeft het meldpunt geen verklaring kunnen vinden.
Zo werd in Nederland een felgroen lintvormig object gespot dat nog altijd onverklaard is.
Vreemde bewegingen
En op 1 augustus zag iemand in het Luxemburgse Sommerain een ‘stervormig object dat vreemde bewegingen maakte’.
“Het begon als een fel object: wit-blauw, zo groot als de ster Wega, die eerst niet bewoog,” beschrijft de melder.
“De ‘ster’ bewoog naar het westen met een ongewone snelheid. Niet zeer snel, maar ook niet traag,” klonk het. “Op sommige momenten stopte de ‘ster’ en leek het alsof hij aarzelde.”
UFOs have captured the popular imagination for the past seven decades. For most of this time, the subject has been treated with casual derision by mainstream media—as the butt of a lighthearted story at the end of the nightly news, underscored by X-Files music and obligatory references to “little green men.”
The media’s dismissive attitude towards UFOs stands in stark contrast to the views of numerous, highly-respected individuals in the spheres of politics and science who have, over the years, stated either publicly or confidentially their firm belief that the UFO enigma is not only worthy of serious study, but that it may even be representative of non-human intelligences.
Here are 10 of the most shocking statements about UFOs by scientists and government officials…
General Nathan Twining.
10. General Nathan Twining
General Nathan Twining served as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force between 1953 and 1957, and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff between 1957 and 1960. A highly distinguished officer, Twining rose through the ranks from a lowly private to a four-star general answering directly to the Secretary of Defense and the President himself.
In a once secret letter to Air Force Headquarters dated 23 September 1947, General Twining, then head of Air Materiel Command, stated that flying saucers were “real and not visionary or fictitious,” that they had “metallic or light reflecting surface[s],” that they were “circular or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom and domed on top,” and were sometimes sighted in “well-kept formation flights varying from three to nine objects.”
Twining’s unambiguous comments in this then-secret letter about the physical reality of flying saucers were in direct contradiction to the USAF’s public position at the time that UFO reports were the product of mass hysteria or misidentifications of mundane phenomena.
Wilbert. B. Smith.
9. Wilbert B. Smith
Between 1947 and 1969, the US Air Force operated UFO investigation projects under three different codenames: Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book. Less well known is that America’s Northern neighbour was also taking a keen interest in flying saucers during the Cold War. Between 1950 and 1954, the Canadian government officially operated its own UFO study project—Project Magnet—with the objective of collecting data about the phenomenon and applying it in the spheres of military engineering and technology. The project was headed by Wilbert Brockhouse Smith, a senior radio engineer for Transport Canada’s Broadcast and Measurements Section.
In a previously top secret Canadian government documentdated 21 November, 1950, drawing from information he had obtained via the Canadian embassy in Washington D.C., Smith noted of UFOs that: “The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States government, rating higher even than the H-bomb.”
Professor Hermann Oberth.
8. Hermann Oberth
One of the boldest perspectives on UFOs during the 1950s came from Professor Hermann Oberth. A pioneer of rocketry and astronautics, and mentor to Werhner von Braun, Oberth was arguably one of the most influential engineers of the 20th Century. In an article for the American Weekly on 24 October, 1954, Oberth wrote:
“It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our earth for centuries. I think that they have been sent out to conduct systematic, long-range investigations, first of men, animals and vegetation, and more recently of atomic centers, armaments and centers of armament production. They obviously have not come as invaders, but I believe their present mission may be one of scientific investigation.”
Roscoe Hillenkoetter.
7. Roscoe Hillenkoetter
Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter became America’s first CIA Director in 1947 and, before that, was head of the Central Intelligence Group (CIG). He had previously been wounded during the attack on Pearl Harbor and commanded the USS Missouri in 1946. He retired from military service with the rank of Vice Admiral. In 1960, in a letter to Congress, Hillenkoetter famously wrote:
“Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. To hide the facts, the Air Force has silenced its personnel.”
Curiously, during his retirement years, Hillenkoetter joined the board of directors for the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP)—America’s leading civilian UFO investigations group. In their ground-breaking book,Clear Intent, authors Lawrence Fawcett and Barry Greenwood describe Hillenkoetter’s high-level involvement with NICAP as being a key move in the CIA’s successful infiltration and dismantling of NICAP. More men with CIA ties would join NICAP in the years to follow, and these individuals came to control the organization from within during the 1960s and 1970s as its founder, Donald Keyhoe, was pushing ever harder for government disclosure of UFO reality. Eventually, Keyhoe was ousted as NICAP Director by Joseph Bryan, former chief of the CIA’s psychological warfare staff. By 1980, NICAP was defunct.
Senator Barry Goldwater.
6. Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater was best known as the five-term Senator from Arizona and as the Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in 1964. Goldwater was a significant force in American politics across four decades. In an official United States Senate letter dated 28 March, 1975, in response to an enquiry regarding his publicly stated interest in UFOs, Goldwater wrote:
“About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the [UFO] information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.”
In another Senate letter, dated 19 Oct. 1981, Goldwater further stated: “I have had one long string of denials from chief after chief, so I have given up… this thing [the UFO issue] has gotten so highly classified… it is just impossible to get anything on it.”
Victor Marchetti.
5. Victor Marchetti
Victor Marchetti served in the CIA from 1955 to 1969. Towards the end of his CIA career, Marchetti worked for several months as special assistant to CIA Deputy Director Rufus Taylor. Marchetti was also involved in establishing the Top Secret Pine Gap satellite ground station near Alice Springs in Central Australia—long rumoured by UFO conspiracy theorists to be Australia’s Area 51.
“I do know that the CIA and the US government have been concerned over the UFO phenomenon for many years and that their attempts, both past and recent, to discount the significance of the phenomenon and to explain away the apparent lack of official interest in it have all the earmarks of a classic intelligence cover-up… My theory is that we have, indeed, been contacted – perhaps even visited – by extraterrestrial beings, and that the US government, in collusion with other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public.”
Col. Gordon Cooper.
4. Gordon Cooper
The late, great astronaut Colonel Gordon Cooper was legendary for his role in the first human space flight program, Project Mercury, and his exploits were chronicled in the classic 1983 movie The Right Stuff (which co-starred Dennis Quaid as Cooper). Cooper had a number of UFO sightings during his military career and maintained until his death in 2004 that the US government had long been engaged in a large-scale UFO cover-up.
In a letter to Ambassador Griffith, Mission of Grenada to the United Nations in New York, dated 9 September, 1978, Cooper wrote:
“For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists and astronauts. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us… I feel that we need to have a top-level, coordinated program to scientifically collect and analyze data from all over the Earth concerning any type of encounter, and to determine how best to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion.”
Lord Hill Norton.
3. Lord Hill Norton
One of the most high-ranking military officials (retired) ever to speak out on the UFO issue was the late five-star Admiral of the Fleet the Lord Hill Norton, who served as Britain’s Chief of Defence Staff and as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. Lord Hill Norton maintained a longstanding interest in UFOs during his later years. In his foreword for Timothy Good’s bestselling expose of government UFO secrecy,Beyond Top Secret(1996), Lord Hill Norton wrote:
“The [UFO] evidence is now so consistent and so overwhelming that no reasonably intelligent person can deny that something unexplained is going on in our atmosphere… there is a cover-up: in the United States on a massive scale, in Great Britain, and in several other countries.”
Fife Symington.
2. Fife Symington
One of the most famous mass UFO sightings of the past 30 years has to be the Phoenix Lights incident, in which thousands of individuals reported seeing a series of stationary lights over the Arizonian capital on the night of March 13, 1997. A delta or triangular-shaped craft of immense proportions was also widely reported as travelling low and slow over Arizona more broadly on the same night. The US air force was quick to attribute the sightings to misidentifications of military flares, and the then-governor of Arizona, Fife Symington, joined the debunking bandwagon when he staged a comedic press conference in response to the concerns of his constituents, going so far as to parade a man in front of the cameras dressed a ridiculous rubber alien costume.
Unknown at that time, however, was that the Governor himself had been among the witnesses to the Phoenix Lights. 10 years later, speaking at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. in November of 2007, Fife Symington stated in front of the world’s media:
“In 1997, during my second term as governor of Arizona, I saw something that defied logic and challenged my reality… I witnessed a massive delta-shaped craft silently navigate over Squaw Peak, a mountain range in Phoenix, Arizona. It was truly breathtaking. I was absolutely stunned… As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man-made object I’d ever seen. The incident was witnessed by hundreds—if not thousands—of people in Arizona, and my office was besieged with phone calls from very concerned Arizonians. There are many high-ranking military, aviation and government officials who share my concerns… We want the government to stop putting out stories that perpetuate the myth that all UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth conventional terms. Investigations need to be re-opened, documents need to be unsealed and the idea of an open dialogue can no longer be shunned. Incidents like these are not going away. When it comes to events of this nature that are still completely unsolved, we deserve more openness in government, especially our own.”
1. Luis Elizondo
In December 2017, the New York Times broke a dramatic story: the American government had been operating a secret UFO study program between 2008 and 2012 called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP). The conclusions of the $22 million Pentagon project, which, according to the Times, continues quietly to this day, were that “aircraft” of apparently unearthly origin are routinely penetrating America’s airspace.
The man who headed the Pentagon UFO project, Luis Elizondo, told journalists that these “aircraft” or “UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena),” were performing manoeuvres that fly in the face of our known laws of physics. Even more shockingly, Elizondo revealed that the Pentagon has been recovering bizarre metal alloys from alleged UFO crashes which currently are being studied and stored by billionaire defense contractor Robert Bigelow.
Discussing the Pentagon UFO project live on air in December 2017, Elizondo told CNN:
“We have identified some very, very interesting anomalous types of aircraft… let’s call them ‘aircraft.’ Things that don’t have any obvious flight surfaces, any obvious forms of propulsion, and [that have] extreme manoeuvrability beyond the healthy G-forces of a human or anything biological; hypersonic velocities; low observability; [and] positive lift, seemingly defying the laws of aerodynamics.”
When encouraged by the news anchor to speculate as to the nature and origin of these mystery aircraft, Elizondo replied: “We’ve deliberately stayed away from going down the rabbit hole of ‘who’s behind the wheel and what are their intentions’… what we wanted to do was to let the data speak for itself.”
The anchor responded by nudging Elizondo again: “Let me ask you point blank the question: do you believe that life from somewhere else, while you ran this program, came here, visited, observed?” Elizondo stunningly replied: “There is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone.”
Steven Greer answers social media questions about UFOs, USOs and Aliens
Steven Greer answers social media questions about UFOs, USOs and Aliens
Jesse Ventura and Doctor Steven Greer answer social media questions from the viewers and they discuss the Pentagon’s UFO program and submarines that allegedly track underwater UFOs.
The ‘Fast Mover Program’ a secret project from the US Navy.
The Mutual UFO Network’s chief photo expert, Marc D’Antonio, says he was on a US Navy submarine when they tracked a very fast moving object in the ocean.
Subsequent responses from Navy personnel lead D’Antonio to believe the Navy has a secret UFO program regarding Unidentified Submerged Objects (USOs).
D’Antonio told Openmindstv he was once invited to take a ride in a nuclear submarine when the sonar operator shouted ‘fast mover, fast mover’.
The executive officer came out and the operator showed him the path of the fast object and the officer said ‘How fast is that going’ upon the operator said ‘several hundred knots’.
When D’Antonio asked about the unknown object called ‘fast mover’ they didn't wanted to talk about that ‘program’ so they basically confirmed to D’Antonio that not only the ‘Fast Mover Program’ exists but 'USOs' too.
The above images have been taken by the USS Trepang (SSN-674), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine in 1971 showing several USOs which are the underwater equivalent to UFOs.
I was looking in a Gigipan photo of Mars and found some interesting things. One object was a cactus-like plant with a round flower on it. The other two objects were the skulls and necks of two different alien species. One skull looks to be intelligent and semi-human like. The other appears to be very similar to a tiger. Now please keep in mind, that these are fossils. Many people make the mistake and say how could a fossil survive for so long? Because fossils are made of minerals from nature. The minerals replace 100% of the body with themselves and leave a remaining fossil made 100% out of stone. Thus, stone can last forever. I also made a video at the bottom of this post for more details, sorry for the audio problem, made the video at work on the fly. Scott C. Waring
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Huge triangle caught on tape over Reno, Nevada
Huge triangle caught on tape over Reno, Nevada
Witness report:
daughter in law, son, and I went out to the balcony that faces NE in Reno Nevada on 12/12/2018 and saw lights flashing over the city of Reno nevada, so I recorded it and it appears to be a UFO.
A UFO In Purple and White Recorded on Video Above Waterford, Ireland
A UFO In Purple and White Recorded on Video Above Waterford, Ireland
Submitter 96894 uploaded a UFO video sighting to MUFON. According to the report, his wife Anita recorded two videos on the evening of December 9, 2018.
The mysterious colored object was reportedly seen above Waterford, Ireland. The video shows a glowing object in a strange shape.
It is a purple-colored donut object with several breaks in the circular shape. On top of the UFO are around 18 brightly lit white lights.
It appears that the strange flying donut fades in and out of focus several times, but clearly seen frequently in the video.
Most viewers of the video are left clueless of the identity of the bizarre object. Others are suggesting the UFO could be anything from an inflated object to a remote drone of some kind, or something more ominous.
Take a look at the clip and see if you have something in mind as to what the object is.
NASA's Juno spacecraft has captured an intriguing image of a volcanic plume straddling the line between day and night on Jupiter'snotoriously eruptive moon Io.
The image is part of a larger data set gathered on the spacecraft's Dec. 21 close skim over the planet's surface, whenfour of Juno's cameras spent more than an hour watching the volcanic moon's pole. All told, the observations are a nice scientific bonus for the Juno team, because the spacecraft's primary job is to study Jupiter itself.
"We knew we were breaking new ground with a multispectral campaign to view Io's polar region, but no one expected we would get so lucky as to see an active volcanic plume shooting material off the moon's surface," Scott Bolton, principal investigator of the Juno mission, said in a statement released by the Southwest Research Institute, which contributed two instruments to the mission. "This is quite a New Year's present, showing us that Juno has the ability to clearly see plumes." [Volcanic Io: Amazing Photos of Jupiter's Active Moon]
Juno's visible light camera, JunoCam, spotted a volcanic plume right along Io's terminator, the line between the daylight side and the night side. The spacecraft was 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) away from the moon.
Credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS
The spacecraft's observing period was split into two phases, because Jupiter came between the sun and Io. Before that eclipse, the visible-light camera JunoCam could study Io in stronger light, watching the pole as day turned to night. The camera snagged three images during this period, all of which caught sight of a plume right along the moon's terminator, where day and night meet.
"The ground is already in shadow, but the height of the plume allows it to reflect sunlight, much like the way mountaintops or clouds on the Earth continue to be lit after the sun has set," Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, the JunoCam lead from the Planetary Science Institute, said in the same statement.
Juno's Stellar Reference Unit camera, which helps the spacecraft navigate by the stars, captured this image of a faintly lit Io. The plume is highlighted by the small circle.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI
After Jupiter blocked out the sun, Juno's Stellar Reference Unit camera took over. That instrument is designed to help the spacecraft track its location in the cosmos, but the camera requires fainter lighting — like the sunlight reflected off nearby moon Europa during the observing period. However, this camera also spotted evidence of the plume.
The Galileo spacecraft spotted volcanic plumes streaming off Jupiter's moon Io.
Credit: NASA/JPL/DLR
A third instrument, the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM), was also active during the observing period, capturing information about hotspots on the moon's surface. In July, that same instrument spotted a previously undetected hotspot on the volcanic moon.
The Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) image was acquired at 12:30 (UTC) on Dec. 21, 2018. The instrument reveals very high temperatures at the location of a volcanic eruption on Io. This observation was taken during the same fully eclipsed period of images from the JunoCam and Stellar Reference Unit.
Scientists have known Io is volcanically active since 1979. The activity is spurred by Jupiter's massive gravity tugging at the moon.
NASA's $1.1 Juno spaceraft launched to Jupiter in August 2011 and arrived in orbit around the gas giant on July 4, 2016. The mission is expected to run through 2020.
WHAT IS NASA'S JUNO MISSION TO JUPITER?
The Juno probe reached Jupiter in 2016 after a five-year, 1.8 billion-mile journey from Earth
The Juno probe reached Jupiter on July 4, 2016, after a five-year, 1.8 billion-mile (2.8bn km) journey from Earth.
Following a successful braking manoeuvre, it entered into a long polar orbit flying to within 3,100 miles (5,000 km) of the planet's swirling cloud tops.
The probe skimmed to within just 2,600 miles (4,200 km) of the planet's clouds once a fortnight - too close to provide global coverage in a single image.
No previous spacecraft has orbited so close to Jupiter, although two others have been sent plunging to their destruction through its atmosphere.
To complete its risky mission Juno survived a circuit-frying radiation storm generated by Jupiter's powerful magnetic field.
The maelstrom of high energy particles travelling at nearly the speed of light is the harshest radiation environment in the Solar System.
To cope with the conditions, the spacecraft was protected with special radiation-hardened wiring and sensor shielding.
Its all-important 'brain' - the spacecraft's flight computer - was housed in an armoured vault made of titanium and weighing almost 400 pounds (172kg).
The craft is expected to study the composition of the planet's atmosphere until 2021.
We now know what Ultima Thule looks like, and it's not a bowling pin.
The first resolved photos of Ultima Thule have come in from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, whichzoomed past the frigid faraway objectjust after midnight yesterday (Jan. 1). The historic imagery reveals that the 21-mile-long (33 kilometers) Ultima is a "contact binary" composed of two roughly spherical lobes.
Photos taken by New Horizons over the previous week or so had suggested that these two lobes are connected by a relatively narrow neck. But the new imagery shows they're glommed tightly together, dashing earlier analogies. [New Horizons at Ultima Thule: Full Coverage]
"That bowling pin is gone," New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, said during a news conference today (Jan. 2). "It's a snowman, if it's anything at all."
This first color photo of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule reveals the object's red color as seen by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from a distance of 85,000 miles (137,000 kilometers) during a Jan. 1, 2019 flyby. From left to right: an enhanced color image, a higher-resolution black and white image, and an overlay that combines both into a more detailed view.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
The two lobes — dubbed, appropriately enough, "Ultima" (the larger lobe) and "Thule" — are red, their icy surface material likely discolored by deep-space radiation, mission team members said. Similar processes are responsible for the reddish hue of much of Pluto's surface, as well as the northern reaches of that dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon (which apparently got this reddish material from Pluto).
Ultima and Thule were once separate, free-flying objects; they coalesced long ago, just after the solar system's birth, mission team members said. This union was not violent; the two bodies came together at about walking speed, in a meetup more akin to a spacecraft docking than to a collision, said Jeff Moore of NASA's Ames Research Center, the leader of New Horizons' geology and geophysics team.
Countless objects like Ultima Thule — which is officially known as 2014 MU69 — eventually built up our solar system's planets. But that didn't happen with Ultima Thule, which has remained pristine for eons in a cosmic deep-freeze, more than 4 billion miles (6.4 billion km) from the sun.
The surface features of Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule (2014 MU69) are coming into focus in these images taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its historic flyby on Jan. 1, 2019. These images, released Jan. 2, were taken a day earlier from a distance of 18,000 miles (28,000 kilometers) with a scale of 730 feet (140 meters) per pixels.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
That's why New Horizons team members were so keen to fly by the object, and why they're so excited by the early science returns from the epic New Year's Day encounter.
"We think what we're looking at it is perhaps the most primitive object that has yet been seen by any spacecraft, and may represent a class of objects which are the oldest and most primitive objects that can be seen anywhere in the present solar system," Moore said during today's news conference.
The new imagery, dramatic though it may be, is just the tip of the Ultima Thule iceberg. The photos unveiled by the New Horizons team today were taken before closest approach, from distances of about 85,000 miles (137,000 km) and 18,000 miles (28,000 km).
At the peak of the encounter, New Horizons got within a mere 2,200 miles (3,500 km) of Ultima Thule. So, prepared to be wowed by higher-resolution photos in the coming days and weeks.
"It's just going to get better and better," Stern said.
The $700 million New Horizons mission launched in January 2006, tasked with performing the first-ever flyby of Pluto. The probe aced this objective in July 2015, showing the dwarf planet to be a world of surprisingly complex and varied landscapes.
The Ultima Thule encounter — the most-distant planetary flyby in history — is the centerpiece of New Horizons' extended mission, which runs through 2021. The spacecraft has enough power and fuel left to potentially perform a flyby of yet another distant object, if NASA ends up approving another mission extension, Stern said.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate) is out now.
Paul Hynek has worked in tech and entertainment and is currently a business consultant. Paul is also a former adjunct professor at Pepperdine University, and is presently a consultant for HISTORY’s new series Project Blue Book, based on a real project to investigate UFOs from 1952 to 1969. Paul is the son of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer who worked with the U.S. Air Force investigating UFO cases from 1948 to the end of Blue Book in 1969. A character based on J. Allen Hynek is the lead character in the series.
Paul’s father began his investigation with USAF as a skeptic, but by the time Blue Book ended, he was convinced some UFO cases posed a real mystery. The HISTORY series is not sticking strictly to the facts, but it is attempting to portray the people and events as accurately as possible. In this interview, we talk to Paul about the production of the new series, his father’s UFO work, and how he hopes the show will affect viewers and perceptions of the UFO phenomenon.
In reflecting on the past year, we often think of those individuals we have lost. In the field of UFOlogy, it is no different. Indeed, in recent years, we have lost many pioneers in this field of inquiry. One such pioneer was a man named Larry Hatch who passed away on August 3rd, 2018. Unfortunately, many were not familiar with his passing or the legacy he has left this field of study.
Larry was a computer programmer by trade. His high level of intelligence was rivaled only by his creative talent for developing innovative ideas using the latest technologies. This went way back to Larry’s childhood. At the age of fourteen, he created his own private telephone system for his neighborhood friends to communicate with. We are not talking about the old cup and string concept. Rather, he developed his own actual stand-alone telephone system as this old news clipping from the San Mateo Times reported in the 1960s.
Later in life, Larry’s intellectual prowess persisted. It was no surprise that he eventually became part of the burgeoning computer industry in California where he was born and raised. Larry held many positions starting as a Senior Electronics Technician followed by a long career working for National Semiconductor as an Engineer.
Later, in 1993, Larry branched out on his own as an independent computer contractor. It was during this time that he focused his computer skills on a subject that was always near and dear to his heart – UFOs. Since early childhood, Larry was fascinated with the subject and had some personal experiences that he preferred to keep private.
Larry created from the ground level one of the most robust UFO databases up until that time – the *U* UFO Database. This was a database that the public could use on their home PCs. The *U* Database itself could do queries based on word search, geography, or UFO characteristics. There was also an impressive UFO mapping tool that visually displayed any relevant UFO cases based on your search criteria. This was amazing considering the database was written in a DOS-based environment.
UFO Map from the *U* UFO Database by Larry Hatch
Despite various computer UFO catalogs that had existed, there were only a few computer UFO databases before the *U* Database’s creation. There were the IBM punch data cards employed by the Battelle Memorial Institute in the 1950s used to examine Project Blue Book cases. Then, based on this concept, there was another computer database, compiled at Northwestern University in the 1960s. This included all unidentified cases from Project Blue Book through the efforts of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallee, et al. This work was eventually turned over to the Condon study at the University of Colorado in 1968 and eventually formed the basis for David Saunders’ UFOCAT database. Other UFOCAT versions were to follow in subsequent years.
The *U* Database also had several updates in later years after its release in 1994 when I first heard of Larry’s creation. Obviously, I had to have a copy for my own UFO research and purchased one of the first versions. After my initial contact with Larry, I had a number of emails interspersed with a few phone calls in the early to mid-nineties. In maintaining ties with him, I was always on the list for any later software updates but also was in a position to eventually provide case material for his latest 2002 update.
Larry had spent thousands of hours combing every possible UFO book and periodical he could get his hands on. In doing so, he took each case documented therein and then converted it into code for database entry. The last tally I saw was over 17,000 UFO cases that Larry personally entered into the database! Most of us cannot imagine the time, dedication, and personal sacrifice he made doing all of this work.
Although he was the sole individual that did all the data entry, he was not alone in gathering the relevant UFO case files and information. Despite avoiding the social scene, Larry was well connected with leading UFO researchers and historians worldwide. Some of these included: Jan Aldrich, Barry Greenwood, Jacques Vallee, Dominique Weinstein, etc.
Jan Aldrich recently informed me that his role was two-fold in collaborating with Larry. First, to properly vet the UFO data for removal of IFO reports or spurious cases. Second, to add interesting cases not formerly in the system. Jan emphasized Larry’s continual work in this area to ensure not only the quantity of information but quality information.
Additional reflections on Larry’s work were conveyed to me by Vallee in the writing of this article. Vallee stated,
“From my point of view, the most memorable lesson from his life is the observation of how much good research can be done by a single person with talent and the willingness to pursue a well-focused goal. Larry single-handedly accomplished what the leading UFO organizations of the time were unable to do with their resources, membership fees and access to media: an effective, well-functioning, cleverly interfaced graphic database of important UFO events! He also managed to build it in a way that made it economically accessible and legible to hundreds of people, on personal computers.”
He further added,
“I was part of Larry’s extensive correspondence network and brought him items that might be of interest in his work. I enjoyed visiting his house “down the Peninsula” and discussing the sightings, as well as gossiping about technology trends: He was indeed a very gifted software designer and implementer, and a kind man with no interest in the quarrels that plagued ufology. He remains an inspiration to me.”
The saddest part regarding the life of the *U* Database was that it was written in a DOS environment. As technology began to improve with numerous versions of Microsoft Windows and Macintosh or Mac computers, the DOS platform went the way of the dinosaur. Consumers then, like today, wanted the latest and greatest. As a result, DOS-based software programs and their followers diminished. So too did the *U* Database audience – for the most part.
Larry Hatch
Over time, I eventually lost touch with Larry in the early 2000s. I always meant to re-connect at some point. But I had heard rumors years later through the UFO grapevine that he was in ill-health. I had also heard that he retired to a nursing home. However, in speaking with older researchers who knew Larry more than myself, they too weren’t 100% sure what his status was at the time. It was a mystery.
Recently in November of 2018, after many years of losing touch with Larry, I saw items for sale on eBay that stated they were from the Larry Hatch collection. Eager to have these for my UFO research library, I purchased the items. I noticed the return address had the name of the seller, Yvonne Hatch. I thought to myself this must be a relative of Larry’s. My suspicions were proven correct.
I was able to email and then eventually call Yvonne Hatch who turned out to be Larry’s niece. She regrettably informed me that her late-uncle had passed away due to medical complications on August 3rd, 2018. She and other family members were dealing with the aftermath of his passing. This is what resulted in some of his UFO items surfacing on eBay.
Yvonne was gracious with her time, and she told me things about Larry I did not know from his personal life. She provided the photos included with this article. Yvonne stated her late-uncle was a man of high-intellect who had a passion for the subject of UFOs as evidenced by his tenacious data gathering and data entry that ultimately created the *U* Database. From the conversations we had, I could also feel the bond she had with her uncle and the subsequent loss with his passing.
I am not ashamed to admit that I have in my UFO research room to this day a fully-functioning DOS-based computer that is still running my version of the *U* Database. It was and continues to be extremely instrumental in my UFO studies. When fellow-researchers come to visit, I always try to make it a point to introduce them to the database as it proves useful in many research endeavors.
But more importantly, I tell them about the creator of the *U* Database, Larry Hatch. He was a man who was never to be seen at a UFO conference or UFO meeting. He never wanted to be the focus of attention. Instead, he wanted to be a facilitator in providing UFO data in a manageable form for serious researchers. To that end, he succeeded – admirably.
I wanted to pay tribute to Larry and let the UFO community know about his demise. But, as in these types of situations, not to just mourn his passing. It is a time to also celebrate the man’s contributions to the UFO research field. I hope memories of him and his *U* Database will live on. As Vallee stated, “He remains an inspiration.”
For the first time a probe lands on the far side of the Moon
For the first time a probe lands on the far side of the Moon
For the first time, a space probe has landed on the back of the moon. The Chinese "Chang'e 4" successfully lands on the Earth satellite, as China's state broadcaster CCTV reports.
Spacecraft have taken pictures of the moon’s far side before, butno lander has ever touched down there. The move marks a step towards China’s ambition to become a leading power in space exploration alongside the US and Russia.
#BREAKING: China’s Chang’e-4 probe successfully made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the Moon on the South Pole-Aitken basin Thursday morning, a major milestone in space exploration. #ChangE4
There have been many excursions from spaceships and astronauts to the moon. But China is now the first nation to land on the side of the moon facing away from the earth. On board the "Chang'e 4" there is a robot vehicle, which is supposed to explore the terrain around the landing site in a next step.
Chinese experts had described the mission as very demanding in advance. A hurdle was the smooth communication with the earth because no direct radio connection can be established on the back of the moon. For this reason, the Chinese already positioned the "Queqiao" transmission satellite (Bridge of the Elsters) in May in order to be able to transmit signals from the radio shadow.
The first image of the moon's far side taken by China's Chang'e 4 probe, which touched down on Jan. 2, 2019 (Jan. 3 Beijing time).Credit: CNSA
A smooth lunar mission should prove that China's ambitious space programme is making great progress.
In 2019, China is planning another unmanned landing to return rock samples to Earth. By 2030, the first Chinese is to set foot on the earth's satellite. The lunar missions are only one part of China's ambitious space programme, which also envisages the construction of a space station around 2022.
"Chang'e 4" was launched from Earth on 8 December and, according to state television, reached moon orbit on 12 December. With "Chang'e 3", the Chinese first landed a probe on the front of the Earth's satellite in 2013 - far later than Russians and Americans. After unmanned probes between 1969 and 1972, the USA had also brought twelve astronauts to the front of the Earth satellite.
The Chang’e 4 lunar exploration mission has achieved touchdown on the moon’s far side, Chinese authorities announced. The mission, which features a lander and a rover, became the first of its kind to ever to land on the far side of the moon.
This is what the dark side of the moon looks like, from ground level.
Image credits: China Global Television Network.
There have been manymissions to the moon, but the vast majority of them are either in orbit, a flyby, or an impact. The days of astronauts landing on the satellite are long gone, with the last crewed landing being Apollo 17 in 1972. Landing missions are also few and far between — and as for the dark side, there have been none to speak of until now.
Not only is it more difficult to land on the far side of the moon, but relaying information from there is also very challenging. You can’t do it directly, so all communications must be passed through a separate satellite before being relayed back to Earth. All this makes China’s achievement even more impressive, showcasing that the world’s most populous country has also become a major player in space exploration.
There are a lot of geopolitical (or rather, astropolitical) implications to China’s new space ambitions. However, in terms of science and engineering, it’s a remarkable achievement which should be praised, as NASA administrator Jim Brindestine acknowledged.
“Congratulations to China’s Chang’e-4 team for what appears to be a successful landing on the far side of the Moon. This is a first for humanity and an impressive accomplishment,” he Tweeted.
The near (left) and far (right) side of the moon.
Credits: NASA.
There are several key differences between the two sides of the moon. The near side is splattered with dark regions, called maria — basaltic plains created by ancient eruptions. The far side has a thicker crust, which is why it doesn’t have any maria: it was harder for volcanoes to break through. This also explains why there are so much more craters on the far side — they haven’t been covered by basaltic eruptions. Why the two sides have different crust thickness, however, is a different question.
Chang’e 4 will focus on a very large crater called the Aitken Basin that is now about 13 km (8.1 mi) deep, from which it hopes to retrieve and analyze material that came from the moon’s mantle, offering an unprecedented view of the moon’s geology. Chang’e 4 will also measure the lunar temperature during its entire mission, analyze the chemical compositions of lunar rocks and soils and carry out low-frequency radio astronomical observation and research.
In another global premiere, the Chinese space agency has also announced that the rover carries seeds and cocoons from which it will grow flowers, potatoes, and silkworm.
China also announced plans to send astronauts to the moon in a few years.
Linda Moulton Howe: Extraterrestrials Are Likely Someone Else's Machines via Artificial Intelligence (Video)
Linda Moulton Howe: Extraterrestrials Are Likely Someone Else's Machines via Artificial Intelligence (Video)
Linda Moulton Howe starts off with Elon Musk’s comments to American governors at a meeting in Rhode Island: “Artificial Intelligence is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization and I don’t think people really appreciate that.” With video and images, Linda will lay out the emerging problems of applying A. I. to robots, especially those under development for military applications with weapons, and those problems include the potential for robots to lethally turn on their human makers.
As humanity is rapidly moving to depend on A. I. robot support, people in the UFO/E.T. abduction syndrome have been saying for decades that some of the beings they have dealt with were clearly Someone else’s programmed androids and robots.
You Won't Believe That These Places Actually Exist on Earth Until You Watch Them (Video)
You Won't Believe That These Places Actually Exist on Earth Until You Watch Them (Video)
The Seven Wonders of the Natural World may have been named too quickly. Wonders like The Grand Canyon and Victoria Falls are certainly big, and anyone who sees them will surely be impressed—but sheer size isn’t enough to truly leave a person in awe.
There are other places in this world, though, that are far stranger. Places that seem almost alien, as if they could only exist on a planet that evolved separately from our own.
These are places that scientists have had to struggle just to understand how they ever could have been formed. Places that will truly make you wonder—not just because they’re beautiful, but because they seem to follow scientific laws that don’t exist anywhere else on earth.
Ten Scientifically Impossible Places That Actually Exist
According to Preston Nichols and Peter Moon, authors of “The Montauk Project: Experiments In Time”, the Montauk Project “was a development and culmination of the phenomena encountered aboard the USS Eldridge in 1943.”
Kitty Stevens: Must state these awful events are not carried out by Saurian reptilians (evolutionary decendents of dinosaurs and are as empathic and loving as humans..). The culprits are Alpha Draconian reptilians (they are not aliens as people mistakenly think, they’re parasitic interdimensional demons, they aren’t the original inhabitants of the Draco star system – they invaded it, just as they’re in the process of attempting take over of Earth.. though far more insidiously this time.. but the Pleiadians are well aware of what they’re upto).
Alpha Draconians abduct men, women and CHILDREN for use in breeding, experimental vivisection, forced labour, cloning/enhancements/alterations, as a food source (both physical and energy based) and most distressingly for use as sex slaves.
Particularly CHILDREN because their bodies contain less pollutants and their brain chemistry reacts to fear In a more primal way which is more stimulating (addictive) to Alpha D’s receptors.
Even more heart breaking is that Alpha Draconians have full permission and predominantly assistance in acquiring new victims from the US military/government (this does happen in myriad other countries, the smaller the country/population the less humans abducted).
Demons are the opposite of love, but humans are supposed to feel, how so many humans can make a living by offering up innocents to endure such torture I’ll never know and makes ALL involved with these “missing persons” and hypno regression cases more evil than demons.
All those who were not killed should count themselves lucky, interbreeding (even if they’re not aware they’ll have half-breeds, some were left alive because of psychological surveillance and biological/chemical testing but most released were used for the purpose of creating young) with humans is going to be one of the things that helps good win the upcoming war.. they didn’t have the sence (well actually it’s nit ignorance just hubris) to realise that humanity is present in half-breeds).
On a positive note – 144,000 of the population are naturally fully immune to Alpha Draconian mind control (star people, incarnated angels etc) and can even protect others from psychic attack. Some people can achieve a semblance of protection by embracing spirituality.
Although i don’t doubt for a second the honestly of the stories, some of the physical descriptions were slightly.. only slightly off, everything else described is spot on. It was fascinating to hear of others experiences. Interesting video.
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Iedereen wil weer naar de maan: Chinees experiment met planten en rupsen zou eerste stap naar bemand maanstation kunnen zijn
Iedereen wil weer naar de maan: Chinees experiment met planten en rupsen zou eerste stap naar bemand maanstation kunnen zijn -HLN.be
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WETENSCHAPChina is er als eerste ooit in geslaagd om een ruimtetuig neer te zetten op de achterkant van de maan. Dat gaat onder meer proberen om daar leven te laten gedijen, zodat een langdurig menselijk verblijf er mogelijk wordt. Een ambitie die het deelt met alle andere ruimtevaartnaties — want de maan is plots weer populair.
De Chinese ruimtesonde Chang’e 4 die landde in een krater op de zuidpool van de maan, heeft een soort van serre aan boord. Het gaat om een hermetisch afgesloten vat uit aluminium dat een voedingsbodem, water, plantenzaden en poppen van zijderupsen bevat. Bedoeling is dat de zaden ontkiemen en zuurstof verspreiden, waarna de rupsen kunnen ontpoppen, koolstofdioxide voortbrengen en zorgen voor bemesting van de plantengroei. Dat beperkte ecosysteem zou een eerste stap moeten zijn in het creëren van levensomstandigheden die een langdurig menselijk verblijf op de maan mogelijk maken.
Het is geen toeval dat die eerste stap door de Chinezen wordt gezet, want dat land was vijf jaar geleden al de eerste in bijna vier decennia tijd om te landen op de maan. Terwijl die satelliet van onze aarde in de jaren zestig nog het voorwerp van een heuse wedloop was — waarbij de Russen er als eerste landden en de Amerikanen er de eerste mens voet lieten zetten — wou er sinds de jaren tachtig niemand nog naartoe. Alsof we er alles wel hadden gezien. Het was vooral de opkomst van de nieuwe ruimtevaartnaties — behalve China ook Europa, India en Japan — die voor een nieuwe belangstelling zorgde. Dat had deels te maken met hun mindere ervaring: terwijl de Amerikanen al droomden van Mars, keken de nieuwkomers uit naar een haalbaarder doel.
Op de maan valt nog altijd veel te ontdekken, want tot gisteren had de mensheid daar dus letterlijk nog maar één kant van gezien. En de vrij recente bevindingen dat er bergtoppen zijn waarop de zon altijd schijnt (waardoor het energieprobleem van een langdurig maanverblijf met zonnepanelen verholpen kan worden) en dalen met enorme voorraden ijs (dat niet alleen gebruikt kan worden om te drinken, maar ook om waterstofmotoren aan te drijven) brachten een heuse kolonisering van het hemellichaam stukken dichterbij. Plannen om binnen dit en tien jaar weer mensen naar de maan te sturen en daar ergens in de jaren dertig een heus maanstation te bouwen, bekoren nu weer iedereen.
Zo’n maanstation zou dienstig kunnen zijn om er grondstoffen te winnen — een mogelijkheid die heel nadrukkelijk onderzocht zal worden wanneer Russen en Europeanen in 2023 het Chinese voorbeeld volgen met een landing op de achterkant van de maan. De Amerikanen hopen in datzelfde jaar voor het eerst in een halve eeuw tijd weer een bemande vlucht rondom de maan te maken. Al die ijver zou laten vermoeden dat er een nieuwe wedloop ontstaat, maar specialisten denken eerder dat er nog verdergaande samenwerking noodzakelijk zal zijn. Als voorbeeld kan het ISS dienen, het ruimtestation waarin Amerikanen, Russen, Europeanen en Japanners mekaar letterlijk vonden.
Met China samenwerken ligt nog moeilijk voor de Amerikanen, omdat zij een wet hebben die dat verbiedt, maar landen zoals Duitsland, Nederland en Zweden hebben nu al apparatuur aan boord van de Chinese sonde Chang’e 4. In de VS zal het sowieso vooral een politieke vraag zijn hoever de maanexploratie kan gaan. Daar krijgt de NASA dezer dagen nog maar een schijntje van het budget waarover het in zijn glorietijd in de jaren zestig beschikte. Toen liep dat op tot meer dan 4 procent van de totale overheidsuitgaven, terwijl dat de voorbije jaren nog hooguit een halve procent bedroeg. Maar waar president Obama de ambitie van zijn voorganger Bush om terug mensen naar de maan te brengen teruggeschroefd heeft, lijkt Trump daar wel weer veel voor te voelen.
A mysteriousunidentified flying objectwas spotted over South Carolina's Kiawah Island during the Christmas holiday, prompting speculation about what the object is.
The video was posted to YouTube by Debra Thomson, who wrote in the caption that she had an unobstructed view and was unsure what the object was.
"It was about 9:33pm EST of the coast of Charleston SC," Thomson, who also referred to herself as Kiawah Island Girl, wrote in the description. "I have an unobstructed view in all directions. Earlier in the evening I put a light up Christmas tree on outside light up. I went outside to unplug it when I noticed this beautiful red sphere in the sky. I knew it was not Venus, it was in the North West Sky. It was moving toward my direction and also seemed intelligently in control."
She added that the object "moved around a bit and disappeared into a pin hole, then it reappeared back to its same size in a few minutes."
Thomson also wrote that she called the local airport who told her that there was nothing on the radar and that it was not a weather balloon.
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UFO sightings: The least likely state to have UFOs reported is Florida – the most likely is Wyoming
News of the UFO was first reported by The Post and Courier, a South Carolina-based newspaper.
Several YouTubers commented on the video, with some believing the lights may be from an advanced civilization, while others believe it has a more Earthly explanation. "I wonder...maybe a drone? Deff odd.," one user wrote.
"It's the afterburner of a military jet," another person wrote.
Kiawah Island is no stranger to unidentified objects in the air, especially around the holidays. On New Year's Day night in 2015, a bright orange disc was spotted over Rivers Avenue, The Post and Courier reported.
The person who submitted the August video to MUFON said they were taking pictures and a time-lapse video of a thunderstorm and did not notice the strange lights until they got home.
"Taking pictures and time lapse of the incoming storm," the person wrote on the website. "[I] was taking the pictures off the edge of a long pier after dark, so there were no reflective surfaces around. [I] did not notice the objects until i returned home and checked the photograph and video."
That same month, a purported UFO was captured on film flying over a North Carolina lake. While some believe the shaky footage depicted an extraterrestrial craft, the GoodYear Blimp account took credit for the incident, noting it was in the Charlotte area on May 29 for a NASCAR race.
"We don’t want to get in the way of a good story, but that’s definitely us," the GoodYear Blimp account wrote, according to the Daily Mail. "We left the Charlotte area 5/29 after covering the Coke 600."
The National UFO Reporting Center has a State Report Index that breaks down UFO sightings by state, duration of sighting, shape and description.
Here are the 10 states with the most UFO sightings, according to the center:
1. California: 11,092
2. Florida: 5,017
3. Washington: 4,951
4. Texas: 4,313
5. New York: 3,799
6. Illinois: 3,031
7. Arizona: 3,143
8. Ohio: 2,883
9. Michigan: 2,424
10. North Carolina: 2,247
Sightings in the database range from the 1950s to 2015.
In 2018 registreerde het Belgische UFO-meldpunt 179 waarnemingen van vreemde luchtverschijnselen in ons land. Dat is een stijging van 33 procent in vergelijking met het aantal meldingen uit 2017 (134 waarnemingen).
In de provincie Oost-Vlaanderen werden de meeste UFO’s gespot. Het Franstalige COBEPS (Comité Belge pour l’Etude des Phénomènes Spatiaux) ontving het afgelopen jaar 76 UFO-meldingen, eveneens een stijging vergeleken met het jaar ervoor.
De stijging van het aantal meldingen liet zich - naar jaarlijkse gewoonte - vooral voelen tijdens de zomermaanden juli en augustus. Beide maanden samen waren goed voor 44 meldingen. Dit grote aantal waarnemingen kan grotendeels verklaard worden door het warme weer in die periode. Ook in oktober waren er beduidend meer meldingen dan het maandgemiddelde. Dit kan mee verklaard worden door de uitzonderlijk lage bewolkingsgraad in die maand.
Ufomeldpunt.beNog niet zo lang geleden, op 12 december 2018 rond 16.00u, zag iemand vanaf de E17 ter hoogte van Gent een zwarte bol in de lucht. Evaluatie van het meldpunt: toch een doodgewone luchtballon.
When someone mentions “different dimensions,” we tend to think of things like parallel universes – alternate realities that exist parallel to our own, but where things work or happened differently. However, the reality of dimensions and how they play a role in the ordering of our Universe is really quite different from this popular characterization.
To break it down, dimensions are simply the different facets of what we perceive to be reality. We are immediately aware of the three dimensions that surround us on a daily basis – those that define the length, width, and depth of all objects in our universes (the x, y, and z axes, respectively).
Beyond these three visible dimensions, scientists believe that there may be many more. In fact, the theoretical framework of Superstring Theory posits that the universe exists in ten different dimensions. These different aspects are what govern the universe, the fundamental forces of nature, and all the elementary particles contained within.
The first dimension, as already noted, is that which gives it length (aka. the x-axis). A good description of a one-dimensional object is a straight line, which exists only in terms of length and has no other discernible qualities. Add to it a second dimension, the y-axis (or height), and you get an object that becomes a 2-dimensional shape (like a square).
The third dimension involves depth (the z-axis), and gives all objects a sense of area and a cross-section. The perfect example of this is a cube, which exists in three dimensions and has a length, width, depth, and hence volume. Beyond these three lie the seven dimensions which are not immediately apparent to us, but which can be still be perceived as having a direct effect on the universe and reality as we know it.
The timeline of the universe, beginning with the Big Bang. According to String Theory, this is just one of many possible worlds. Credit: NASA
Scientists believe that the fourth dimension is time, which governs the properties of all known matter at any given point. Along with the three other dimensions, knowing an objects position in time is essential to plotting its position in the universe. The other dimensions are where the deeper possibilities come into play, and explaining their interaction with the others is where things get particularly tricky for physicists.
According to Superstring Theory, the fifth and sixth dimensions are where the notion of possible worlds arises. If we could see on through to the fifth dimension, we would see a world slightly different from our own that would give us a means of measuring the similarity and differences between our world and other possible ones.
In the sixth, we would see a plane of possible worlds, where we could compare and position all the possible universes that start with the same initial conditions as this one (i.e. the Big Bang). In theory, if you could master the fifth and sixth dimension, you could travel back in time or go to different futures.
In the seventh dimension, you have access to the possible worlds that start with different initial conditions. Whereas in the fifth and sixth, the initial conditions were the same and subsequent actions were different, here, everything is different from the very beginning of time. The eighth dimension again gives us a plane of such possible universe histories, each of which begins with different initial conditions and branches out infinitely (hence why they are called infinities).
In the ninth dimension, we can compare all the possible universe histories, starting with all the different possible laws of physics and initial conditions. In the tenth and final dimension, we arrive at the point in which everything possible and imaginable is covered. Beyond this, nothing can be imagined by us lowly mortals, which makes it the natural limitation of what we can conceive in terms of dimensions.
The existence of extra dimensions is explained using the Calabi-Yau manifold, in which all the intrinsic properties of elementary particles are hidden. Credit: A Hanson.
The existence of these additional six dimensions which we cannot perceive is necessary for String Theory in order for their to be consistency in nature. The fact that we can perceive only four dimensions of space can be explained by one of two mechanisms: either the extra dimensions are compactified on a very small scale, or else our world may live on a 3-dimensional submanifold corresponding to a brane, on which all known particles besides gravity would be restricted (aka. brane theory).
If the extra dimensions are compactified, then the extra six dimensions must be in the form of a Calabi–Yau manifold (shown above). While imperceptible as far as our senses are concerned, they would have governed the formation of the universe from the very beginning. Hence why scientists believe that peering back through time, using telescopes to spot light from the early universe (i.e. billions of years ago), they might be able to see how the existence of these additional dimensions could have influenced the evolution of the cosmos.
Much like other candidates for a grand unifying theory – aka the Theory of Everything (TOE) – the belief that the universe is made up of ten dimensions (or more, depending on which model of string theory you use) is an attempt to reconcile the standard model of particle physics with the existence of gravity. In short, it is an attempt to explain how all known forces within our universe interact, and how other possible universes themselves might work.
There are also some other great resources online. There is a great video that explains the ten dimensions in detail. You can also look at the PBS web site for the TV show Elegant universe. It has a great page on the ten dimensions.
Image credit: Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics
Our Universe: An expanding bubble in an extra dimension
Our Universe: An expanding bubble in an extra dimension
In their article, the scientists propose a new model with dark energy and our Universe riding on an expanding bubble in an extra dimension.
Photograph: Suvendu Giri
Uppsala University researchers have devised a new model for the Universe – one that may solve the enigma of dark energy. Their new article, published in Physical Review Letters, proposes a new structural concept, including dark energy, for a universe that rides on an expanding bubble in an additional dimension.
Composite adapted from Pixabay images
We have known for the past 20 years that the Universe is expanding at an ever accelerating rate. The explanation is the “dark energy” that permeates it throughout, pushing it to expand. Understanding the nature of this dark energy is one of the paramount enigmas of fundamental physics.
It has long been hoped that string theory will provide the answer. According to string theory, all matter consists of tiny, vibrating “stringlike” entities. The theory also requires there to be more spatial dimensions than the three that are already part of everyday knowledge. For 15 years, there have been models in string theory that have been thought to give rise to dark energy. However, these have come in for increasingly harsh criticism, and several researchers are now asserting that none of the models proposed to date are workable.
In their article, the scientists propose a new model with dark energy and our Universe riding on an expanding bubble in an extra dimension. The whole Universe is accommodated on the edge of this expanding bubble. All existing matter in the Universe corresponds to the ends of strings that extend out into the extra dimension. The researchers also show that expanding bubbles of this kind can come into existence within the framework of string theory. It is conceivable that there are more bubbles than ours, corresponding to other universes.
The Uppsala scientists’ model provides a new, different picture of the creation and future fate of the Universe, while it may also pave the way for methods of testing string theory.
Ons universum is een uitdijende bubbel in een extra dimensie. Wetenschappers komen met radicaal nieuw model
Ons universum is een uitdijende bubbel in een extra dimensie. Wetenschappers komen met radicaal nieuw model
Ons universum is onderdeel van een bubbel die zich in een extra dimensie bevindt. Dat stellen wetenschappers van de Universiteit van Uppsala.
Volgens hun radicale nieuwe model is ons heelal gelegen aan de rand van deze uitdijende bubbel.
In een paper dat gepubliceerd is in het tijdschriftPhysical Review Lettersstelt het team dat alle materie in het universum gerelateerd is aan snaren die worden beschreven door de snaartheorie.
Mini-elastiekjes
Deze theorie is de extreemste vorm van theoretische fysica en de belangrijkste kandidaat voor een kwantummechanische beschrijving van de zwaartekracht.
Hij is nodig omdat de huidige theorieën, in het bijzonder de relativiteitstheorie van Einstein, onvolledig zijn.
De snaren zijn een soort mini-elastiekjes die op allerlei wijzen kunnen trillen.
Hogerdimensionale ruimte
Alle deeltjes om ons heen zouden ontstaan als de trillingen van één enkele snaar, zoals de boventonen van een vioolsnaar.
De onderzoekers zeggen dat de bubbel zich bevindt in een ‘extra’ vierde dimensie.
“In deze context is de kosmologie zoals we die zien als 4D-waarnemers niet het gevolg van nulpuntsenergie, maar een dynamisch object in een hogerdimensionale ruimte,” schrijven ze.
Andere universa
Het nieuwe model houdt ook rekening met het bestaan van andere universa, elk in hun eigen bubbel.
Volgens de wetenschappers zijn deze bubbels opvallend stabiel. In een vervolgonderzoek gaan ze hier dieper op in.
IS HET EEN GEEST, ORB, OF TOCH IETS ANDERS? ( UPDATE + VIDEO )
IS HET EEN GEEST, ORB, OF TOCH IETS ANDERS? ( UPDATE + VIDEO )
Met onze menselijke zintuigen kunnen we maar een beperkt aantal zaken waarnemen, maar dat er veel meer is dan dat wij zien, is een (wetenschappelijk) feit.
Alleen is het niet altijd even duidelijk wat er zich dan in die voor ons onzichtbare dimensies bevindt, zoals bij de onverklaarbare verschijnselen die zich voor doen in een werkplaats in Texas.
Onlangs schreven wij het onderstaande artikel over het vreemde fenomeen orbs genaamd.
In dart artikel komt ook de mainstream uitleg over orbs aan bod en die is in het kort als volgt: De eerste denkwijze bekijkt het als een heel duidelijk gevolg van een flits reactie op stofdeeltjes, insecten of vochtdruppels in de lucht die voor de camera komen.
In dat kader is de volgende net gemaakte opname heel interessant. Deze is gemaakt met een zogenaamde wildlife webcam in de Amerikaanse staat New York.
Je ziet op de beelden een wilde vos wat rondscharrelen en opeens komt er een orb aanvliegen. De vos schrikt en holt weg, iets dat natuurlijk nooit zou gebeuren als het een stofje voor de lens zou zijn geweest.
Is hiermee dan onomstotelijk bewezen dat orbs bestaan en dat het geen stofdeeltjes of vuiltjes zijn?
Origineel artikel: 22 november 2018
We lezen en zien de laatste jaren steeds meer over orbs. Een soort vreemde rondjes die vaak op foto's verschijnen en waarvan niemand eigenlijk precies weet wat ze zijn.
De mainstream media verklaring voor een orb is als volgt:
Een lichtbol, in het Engels een light orb, is een optisch verschijnsel dat zich voordoet bij het maken van foto's, bestaande uit typische cirkelvormige witte, of doorzichtige vlekjes.
De eerste denkwijze bekijkt het als een heel duidelijk gevolg van een flits reactie op stofdeeltjes, insecten of vochtdruppels in de lucht die voor de camera komen. Het zijn dus natuurlijke oorzaken die voor de vertekening van de foto zorgen. Dit verschijnsel komt vooral voor bij camera’s met ingebouwde flitser, doordat de flitser dicht bij de lens zit.
De tweede denkwijze is totaal tegenovergesteld; de ‘orbs’ zijn een paranormaal verschijnsel en niet van natuurlijke oorzaak. Sommigen beweren dat orbs enkel op een bepaalde plek verschijnen, of aangetrokken worden door menselijke activiteiten (zeker als deze activiteiten rond kinderen draaien).
Maar, hoe zit het dan als je die orbs duidelijk ziet bewegen op video?
Er is een werkplaats in de Amerikaanse staat Texas waar al jarenlang paranormale activiteiten plaatsvinden. De eigenaar van die werkplaats heeft camera's laten installeren en op de beelden daarvan zijn interessante zaken te zien.
Het lijkt enigszins op een aantal orbs die heen en weer door het beeld bewegen. Het kunnen geen dingen zijn zoals stofdeeltjes want je ziet ze regelmatig van richting veranderen. Het kunnen ook geen insecten zijn, want de orbs zijn min of meer doorzichtig
Aan het eind van de clip is er nog een opname te zien van "iets" waarvoor geen verklaring is.
Zijn het nu een soort geesten, orbs of een andere vorm van energie? Is het iets dat wetenschappelijk te verklaren is of hoort het thuis in de onverklaarbare wereld van het paranormale?
Mocht iemand een theorie hebben of iets dat wij over het hoofd hebben gezien, laat het ons weten. En ter verdere ondersteuning bij het denken, hierna nog even een deel uit een eerder artikel dat wij enkele jaren geleden schreven:
Een lezer heeft een ervaring met deze orbs en stuurt ons het volgende (dank!):
Ik ben sinds kort verhuisd en op één of andere manier voel ik aanwezigheid in huis.
Omdat er al vele dierbaren van mij niet meer in aardse bestaan zijn, dacht ik laat mij eens kijken of ik de entiteiten (orbs) kan vastleggen op foto.
Ik stuur jullie twee filmpjes, ik dacht dat deze bijlage van de plant is, hierop zie je op de hoogte van de witte bloempot vanuit het groene gordijn ook nog iets meer aparts tevoorschijn komen dan alleen orbs, wat richting de dekenkist gaat maar ook daar verdwijnt.
Op het tweede filmpje wat ik met een andere email verstuur, zie je werkelijk een invasie aan orbs, niet meer te tellen. Deze zie ik niet met het blote oog.
Ook ik ben paranormaal met de gaves; Heldervoelend,-wetend,-horend,-ruikend maar ook maak ik astrale reizen mee zoals Nostradamus ze had.
Wanneer dit gebeurd, weet ik voortaan dat het kort daarop het wereld nieuws is en dat zijn niet de mooiste nieuwsberichten. Ik krijg er helaas geen tijdstip en of werelddeel bij waar het gaat gebeuren maar mocht ik dat wel erbij krijgen, Wie zou mij dan geloven... Soms weet ik al iets van tevoren waar ik zelf nog niet eens weet van heb of kan hebben. Ik heb jullie ook ooit aangeschreven dat ik 21 oranjebollen tegenover mijn oude woning over de daken zag glijden met een gelijkwaardige snelheid. Helaas heb ik daar geen filmpje van omdat ik toen nog niet in bezit was van een smartphone, een ouwe muts of laatbloeier daarin ;) Dit was in Eindhoven, er waren wel twee getuigen. Eén bij in de woning aanwezig die ik lijkbleek zag wegtrekken maar ook een onbekende man voor mij die tegenover een winkel had die hij om 18.00 uur ging sluiten. Ik heb deze man nog gesproken en die is zelfs nog naar het vliegveld gereden omdat hij dacht dat er vliegtuigen niet mochten landen, Zijn verhaal horende, was het voor hem of hij van onder af in iets heel groots ronds keek met allemaal lichten. Ik had jullie eerder deze maand foto's gestuurd met het verhaal dat ik entiteiten wilde vastleggen maar iets anders tegen kwam, daar was iets uitvergroots(een soort ET) op te zien wat niet met het blote oog in huis te zien was. Helaas namen jullie mij denk ik niet serieus maar ik was het wel. Kijk maar of jullie de twee filmpjes willen delen met Niburu lezers, ik vond het interessant genoeg om ze naar jullie op te sturen.
It’s big – an estimated five times the footprint of New York City. Its location is super-secret – even the people working on it don’t know for sure where it’s at. Its purpose is even more secret – it could be an earthquake detector; it could be a way to communicate with submarines with them needing to surface; it could be something else. It’s scary – even China’s own media is worried about the safety of the people living near it. And now it’s allegedly up and running. It’s the Wireless Electromagnetic Method (WEM) Project and the Chinese media has made the risky move of notifying the world about it and its potential dangers.
“Though I am involved in the project, I have no idea where it is. It should be up and running by now.”
When a scientist working on a 13-year project doesn’t know where it’s located, it can’t be a good sign. Yet that‘s what Chen Xiaobin, a researcher with the Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, told the South China Morning Postabout the WEM Project as it investigated reports that it’s finally up and running. Here’s what it knows so far. The WEM’s main above-ground part, possibly located in the central China Huazhong region, is a pair of high voltage power supply lines which form a cross that is 60km (37 miles) wide and about 100km (62 miles) long. At the ends, the copper wires go deep underground to power stations generating extremely low frequency (ELF) radio waves whose official stated use is to provide early earthquake warnings and support the country’s resource extraction industry in detecting fossil fuels and precious metals and minerals.
The ELF waves can travel up to 3,500km (2,200 miles) through the Earth’s crust, but that’s not what worries military watchdog sites like The Drive. It reports that the ELF wave generators are difficult for spy satellites to detect and the possible location is in a heavily populated area. It also points out that ELF waves can travel through water, which makes them perfect for communicating with submerged nuclear subs and doesn’t require the transmitters to be close to the coast.
Believe it or not, according to the South China Morning Post, what worries the Chinese the most is that ELF waves are suspected to cause cancer. The World Health Organization-affiliated International Agency for Research on Cancer warns that ELF waves are “possibly carcinogenic to humans” and has been linked to an increased risk of childhood leukemia as well as a cause of delusions, sleep deprivation, stress, depression, breast and brain tumors, miscarriages and suicide. ELF fields can also affect human nerve fibers, stimulate synaptic transmissions in neural networks and cause retina cells to generate sporadic flashes of light in eyes. Other than that, they’re perfectly harmless. China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment submitted a request for a comprehensive review on the WEM Project’s environmental impact. An anonymous source (for obvious reasons) said:
“The money came from civilian budgets, but the military has intervened and muted the ministry’s complaint.”
So, a secret wave generator that’s five times the size of New York City yet impossible to find is probably being used to expand China’s nuclear submarine capabilities despite the fact that its cancer-causing ELF waves are endangering upwards of 230 million of its own people. The Chinese government is learning American-style “everybody else is doing it” public relations. Xi Jilou, a researcher with the Institute of Earthquake Forecasting, said this:
“China is not the first country doing this. Other countries conducted similar projects long ago.”
And Huang Zhiwei, a professor with the department of electrical engineering at Nanhua University in Hengyang, says:
“The matter must be handled with extreme caution, or it can easily lead to public panic.”
Kudos to the South China Morning Post for breaking this story. Will it help stop Project WEM … or is it too late?
I’m not a nut. I just wanted to know if anyone has had any experiences in the last few days…It really is quite amazing when you see one that seems to ‘splat’ out of another dimension and change into a round shape.
That’s how Charleston, South Carolina resident Debra Thompson described her encounter with a strange object off the coast on Christmas Eve, 2018. Around 9:30 pm local time on the evening of December 24, Thompson stepped outside to unplug some Christmas lights when she saw the odd light in the sky and instinctively pulled out her camera to film it, eventually posting the footage to YouTube.
Glowing orbs in the sky are among the most commonly reported UFOs, but due to their ambiguous appearance, it’s difficult to determine what they may be.
According to the description of the incident she included with her footage on YouTube, Thompson says the object appeared to move “intelligently” through the night sky:
I noticed this beautiful red sphere in the sky. I knew it was not Venus, it was in the North West Sky. It was moving toward my direction and also seemed intelligently in control. I felt as if it knew I was [filming] it. It moved around a bit and disappeared into a pinhole, then it reappeared back to its same size in a few minutes. With the naked eye it was much more brilliant to see. I called the local airport and they saw nothing on radar.
Local news stations broadcast Thompson’s footage of the object and were soon after inundated with emails from other eastern South Carolina residents who witnessed similar phenomena. Facebook users throughout the coastal area of the state posted comments on local news stations’ coverage of the incident claiming they also saw unidentified, curious lights that night. While many feel that they witnessed something otherworldly, many others think they merely saw a drone lit up with LEDs, a Chinese lantern, or perhaps – you guessed it – a weather balloon.
Chinese lanterns are often cited as possible explanations for strange lights in the sky. Are they really that common?
According to Charleston’s Post and Courier newspaper, the glowing orange orb is “a phenomenon that turns up in the sky here every so often.” The newspaper reports a similar orb was seen on New Year’s Day 2015 and again three weeks later. With so many witnesses and repeat incidents, this one seems like a credible UFO sighting – but it’s important to keep in mind that “unidentified” doesn’t necessarily mean “aliens.”
It’d be a lot cooler if it did, though.
Given the area’s proximity to Charleston Air Force Base, Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, and Naval Weapons Station Charleston, it’s likely these strange lights are related to military exercises or aircraft tests. Of course, there’s always the possibility, however small, that the lights could be something else entirely. What exactly is going on in the skies above South Carolina?
John Lear Reveals Secret Advanced Technology That You Wont See For Decades
John Lear Reveals Secret Advanced Technology That You Wont See For Decades
John Lear has long been a legendary figure in the field of UFO research, who exerts his influence with government organizations to push the limits of disclosure.
As the son of the inventor of the Lear Jet, he can gain access to what transpires within clandestine operations concerning secret technology and extraterrestrial activities.
Corey Goode and David Wilcock discuss his testimony which include the development of advanced technology, the presence of beings from other planets and the degree of testing in secret military facilities with exotic materials.
On December 31 – while we celebrated – NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft went into orbit around Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid. The maneuver makes Bennu the smallest object yet to be orbited by a spacecraft.
Yesterday – while many on Earth were ringing in the New Year – a NASA spacecraft 70 million miles (110 million km) away was breaking a space exploration record. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft carried out a single, eight-second burn of its thrusters and entered into orbit around near-Earth asteroid Bennu, making Bennu the smallest object yet to be orbited by a spacecraft. And Bennu is, indeed, very small. It has a mean diameter of approximately 1,614 feet (0.306 miles; 492 meters). The burn took place on December 31, 2018, at 18:43UTC(2:43 p.m. EST).
Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona Tucson, said:
The team [performed] the orbit-insertion maneuver perfectly. With the navigation campaign coming to an end, we are looking forward to the scientific mapping and sample site selection phase of the mission.
He added:
Entering orbit around Bennu is an amazing accomplishment that our team has been planning for years.
A statement from the team pointed out that Bennu – named for an ancient Egyptian mythological bird associated with the sun, creation, and rebirth – has barely enough gravity to keep a vehicle in a stable orbit.
The previous record-holder for closest orbit of a planetary body was the Rosetta spacecraft, which orbited about four miles (6.4 km) from the center of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in May 2016. OSIRIS-REx is much closer to Bennu, about a mile (1.6 km) from its center. This distance is necessary to keep the spacecraft locked to Bennu, these space scientists said, because Bennu’s gravity is only five-millionths as strong as Earth’s.
The spacecraft is scheduled to orbit Bennu through mid-February at a leisurely 62 hours per orbit.
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on December 2, 2018, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles (24 km).
Image via NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona.
OSIRIS-REx’s flight dynamics system manager Mike Moreau, who is based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, commented:
Our orbit design is highly dependent on Bennu’s physical properties, such as its mass and gravity field, which we didn’t know before we arrived.
Up until now, we had to account for a wide variety of possible scenarios in our computer simulations to make sure we could safely navigate the spacecraft so close to Bennu. As the team learned more about the asteroid, we incorporated new information to hone in on the final orbit design.
This series of images were taken over the course of about four hours and 19 minutes on Dec. 4, 2018, as OSIRIS-REx made its first pass over Bennu’s north pole.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
Even though OSIRIS-REx is in the most stable orbit possible, the team said, Bennu’s gravitational pull is so tenuous that keeping the spacecraft safe will require occasional adjustments. Dan Wibben, OSIRIS-REx maneuver and trajectory design lead at KinetX Aerospace in Simi Valley, California, said:
The gravity of Bennu is so small, forces like solar radiation and thermal pressure from Bennu’s surface become much more relevant and can push the spacecraft around in its orbit much more than if it were orbiting around Earth or Mars, where gravity is by far the most dominant force.
One critical objective of this orbital phase, the team said, is to get a better handle on Bennu’s mass and gravity, features that will influence the planning of the rest of the mission, notably the short touchdown on the surface for sample collection in 2020. In the case of Bennu, scientists can only measure these features by getting OSIRIS-REx very close to the surface to see how its trajectory bends from Bennu’s gravitational pull.
The OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to deliver the sample to Earth in September 2023.
Asteroid Bennu is considered a potentially hazardous object because its orbit carries it near Earth and it is large enough to cause significant damage in the event of an impact. It has a cumulative 1-in-2,700 chance of impacting Earth between 2175 and 2199.
Artist’s concept of OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at asteroid Bennu. The craft is scheduled for a sample collection in 2020 and sample return to Earth in 2023.
Bottom line: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully carried out a burn on on December 31, 2018, at 18:43 UTC (2:43 p.m. EST) and thereby went into orbit around near-Earth asteroid Bennu. The maneuver makes Bennu the smallest object yet to be orbited by a spacecraft.
NASA's technosignatures report: every way to find evidence of an intelligent civilization
NASA's technosignatures report: every way to find evidence of an intelligent civilization
Photo of the central region of the Milky Way. Credit: UCLA SETI Group/Yuri Beletsky, Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory
In 1961, famed astronomer Frank Drake created a formula for estimating the number of extraterrestrial intelligences (ETIs) that could exist within our galaxy. Known as the "Drake Equation," this formula demonstrated that even by the most conservative estimates, our galaxy was likely to host at least a few advanced civilizations at any given time. About a decade later, NASA officially kicked of its search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) program.
These efforts have experienced a major infusion of interest in recent decades thanks to the discovery of thousands of extrasolar planets. To address the possibility that life may exist out there, scientists are also relying on sophisticated tools to search for telltale indicators of biological processes (aka. biosignatures) and technological activity (technosignatures), which could indicate not only life but advanced intelligence.
To address the growing interest in this field, NASA hosted the NASA Technosignatures Workshop back in September. The purpose of this workshop was to assess the current state of technosignature research, where the most promising avenues lay, and where advances can be made. Recently, the workshop's report was released, which contained all their findings and recommendations for the future of this field.
This workshop emerged as a result of the Congress House Appropriations Bill that was passed in April 2018, wherein NASA was directed to begin supporting the scientific search for technosignatures as part of their larger search for extraterrestrial life. The event brought scientists and principle investigators together from various fields at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, while many more participated via Adobe Connect.
During the three-and-a-half-day workshop, numerous presentations were made that addressed many relevant topics. These included different types of technosignatures, the radio search for extraterrestial intelligence (SETI), solar system SETI, megastructures, data mining, and optical and near-infrared light (NIL) searches. As per the House Appropriations Bill, the outcomes of the workshop were compiled into a report that was submitted on Nov. 28th, 2018.
Ultimately, the purpose of the workshop was four-fold:
Define the current state of the technosignature field. What experiments have occurred? What is the state-of-the-art for technosignature detection? What limits do we currently have on technosignatures?
Understand the advances coming near-term in the technosignature field. What assets are in place that can be applied to the search for technosignatures? What planned and funded projects will advance the state-of-the-art in future years, and what is the nature of that advancement?
Understand the future potential of the technosignature field. What new surveys, new instruments, technology development, new data-mining algorithms, new theory and modeling, etc., would be important for future advances in the field?
What role can NASA partnerships with the private sector and philanthropic organizations play in advancing our understanding of the technosignatures field?
Artist’s impression of a sunset seen from the surface of an Earth-like exoplanet.
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada
The report begins by providing background info on the hunt for technosignatures and offering a definition of the term. For this, the authors cite Jill Tarter, one of the foremost leaders in the field of SETI research and the person who coined the term itself. In addition to being the director of the Center for SETI Research (part of the SETI Institute) for 35 years, she was also the project scientist for NASA's SETI program before it was cancelled in 1993.
"If we can find technosignatures— evidence of some technology that modifies its environment in ways that are detectable– then we will be permitted to infer the existence, at least at some time, of intelligent technologists. As with biosignatures, it is not possible to enumerate all the potential technosignatures of technology- as-we-don't-yet-know-it, but we can define systematic search strategies for equivalents of some 21st century terrestrial technologies."
In other words, technosignatures are what we humans would recognize as signs of technologically-advanced activity. The best-known example is radio signals, which SETI researchers have spent the past few decades searching for. But there are many others signatures that have not been explored fully, and more are being conceived of all the time.
These include laser emissions, which could be used for optical communications or as a means of propulsion; signs of megastructures, which some believed were the reason behind the mysterious dimming of Tabby's Star; or an atmosphere full of carbon dioxide, methane, CFCs, and other known pollutants (to take a page from our own book).
When it comes to looking for biosignatures, scientists are limited by the fact that there is only one planet that we know of that supports life: Earth. But the challenges extend far beyond to include issues of funding and . As Jason Wright – an associate professor at PSU and the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds (CEHW) and one of the authors on the report – told Universe Today via email:
"The technical challenges are many. What sorts of technosignatures would an extraterrestrial technological species generate? Which of those are detectable? How will we know if we have found one? If we find it, how can we be sure it's a sign of technology and not something unexpected but natural?"
In this respect, planets are considered to be "potentially habitable" based on whether or not they are "Earth-like." In much the same way, the hunt for technosignatures is limited to technologies that we know are feasible. However, there are also some key differences between technosignatures and biosignatures.
As they explain, many proposed advanced technologies are either "self-luminous" (i.e. lasers or radiowaves) or involve the manipulation of energy from bright natural sources (i.e. Dyson Spheres and other megastructures around stars). There is also the possibility that technosignatures will be widely distributed because the species in question may have spread their civilization to neighboring star systems and even galaxies.
As Wright explained, there are many types of technosignatures, the most commonly sought-out of which is a radio signal:
"These have many advantages: they are obviously artificial, they are one of the cheapest and easiest ways to transmit information over long distances, they don't require any extrapolation in technology from ours to generate, and we can detect even quite weak signals at interstellar distances. Other common technosignatures are lasers—either pulses or continuous beams—which have many of the same advantages. Both technosignatures were proposed almost 50 years ago, and most of the work done on technosignatures so far has been looking for them."
For each of these signatures, it is therefore necessary to establish upper limits, so that scientists know exactly what not to look for. "When you search for something and don't find it, you have to carefully document exactly what signals you have proven don't exist," said Wright. "Something like: no signals stronger than some level, at some time, within some range of certain stars, narrower than some bandwidth, within some range of frequencies."
The report then addresses what the upper limits of detection are for each technosignature and what current method and technology exists to search for them. To put this in perspective, they quote from a 2005 study by Chyba and Hand:
"Astrophysicists… spent decades studying and searching for black holes before accumulating today's compelling evidence that they exist. The same can be said for the search for room-temperature superconductors, proton decay, violations of special relativity, or for that matter the Higgs boson. Indeed, much of the most important and exciting research in astronomy and physics is concerned exactly with the study of objects or phenomena whose existence has not been demonstrated—and that may, in fact, turn out not to exist. In this sense astrobiology merely confronts what is a familiar, even commonplace situation in many of its sister sciences."
In other words, future progress in this field will consist of developing ways to hunt for possible technosignatures and determining in what form these signatures cannot be ruled out as natural phenomena. They begin by considering the extensive work that has been done in the field of radio astronomy.
When it comes right down to it, only a extremely narrowband astronomical radio source could be said to have an artificial origin, since broadband radio transmissions are a common occurrence in our galaxy. As a result, SETI researchers have conducted surveys that looked for both continuous wave and pulse radio sources that could not be explained by natural phenomena.
A good example of this is the famous "WOW." signal that was detected on August 15th, 1977, by astronomer Jerry R. Ehman using the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University. In the course of surveying the Sagittarius constellation, near the M55 globular cluster, the telescope noted a sudden jump in radio transmissions.
Unfortunately, multiple follow-up surveys were unable to find any further indications of radio signals from this source. This and other examples characterize the painstaking and difficult work that comes with searching for radio wave technosignatures, which has been characterized as looking for a needle in the "cosmic haystack".
Examples of existing survey instruments and methods include the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array, the Arecibo Observatory, the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, the Parkes Telescope, and the Very Large Array (VLA), the SETI@home project and Breakthrough Listen. But given that the volume of space that has been searched for both continuous and pulsed radio searches, the current upper limits on radio wave signatures are quite weak.
Similarly, optical and near-infrared light (NIL) signals also need to be compressed in terms of frequency and time in order to be considered artificial in origin. Here, examples include the Near-Infrared Optical SETI (NIROSETI) instrument, the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS), the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), and the Keck/High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES).
When it comes to looking for megastructures (such as Dyson spheres), astronomers focus on both waste heat from stars and dips in their luminosity (obscurations). In the case of the former, surveys have been conducted that looked for excess infrared energy coming from nearby stars. This could be seen as an indication that starlight is being captured by technology (such as solar panels).
A team of astronomers from UCLA searched for “technosignatures” in the Kepler field data. Credit: Danielle Futselaar
Consistent with the laws of thermodynamics, some of this energy would be radiated away as "waste" heat. In the case of the latter, obscurations have been studied using data from the Kepler and K2 missions to see if they could indicate the presence of massive orbiting structures – in the same way that they were used to confirm planetary transits and the existence of exoplanets.
Similarly, surveys have been conducted of other galaxies using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) to look for signs of obscurations. Other ongoing searches are being conducted with the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) and the Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO).
The report also addresses technosignatures that may exist in our very own solar system. Here, the case of 'Oumuamua is raised. According to recent studies, it is possible that this object is actually alien probe, and that thousands of such objects could exist in the solar system (some of which could be studied in the near future).
There have even been attempts to find evidence of past civilizations here on Earth though chemical and industrial technosignatures, similar to how such indicators on an extra-solar planet could be considered evidence of an advanced civilization.
Another possibility is the existence of space -based alien artifacts or "bottled messages." These could take the form of spacecraft that contain messages similar to the "Pioneer Plaque" of the Pioneer 10 and 11 missions, or the golden record of the Voyager 1 and 2 missions.
Ultimately, the upper limits on these technosignatures vary, and no attempts to find any have succeeded so far. However, as they go on to note, there are considerable opportunities for future technosignature detection thanks to the development of next-generation instruments, refined search methods and lucrative partnerships.
These will allow for greater sensitivity when looking for examples of communications technology, as well as signs of chemical and industrial signatures thanks to the ability to directly image exoplanets.
Examples include ground-based instruments like the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), and the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). There are also existing space-based instruments, including the recently-retired Kepler mission (whose data is still leading to valuable discoveries), the Gaia mission, and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
Space-based projects that are currently under development include the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), and PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) missions. These instrument, combined with improved software and data-sharing methods are expected to yield new and exciting results in the not-too-distant future.
But as Wright summarized, the thing that will make the biggest difference is a lot of time and patience:
"Despite being 50 years old, SETI (or, if you like, searches for technosignatures) is in many ways still in its infancy. There has not been very much searching compared to searches for other things (dark matter, black holes, microbial life, etc.) because of the historical lack of funding; there hasn't even been that much quantitative, foundational work about what technosignatures to search for. Most of the work so far has been people thinking about what work they would do if they had funding. Hopefully, we'll soon be able to start putting those ideas into practice."
After a half-century, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has still found no evidence of intelligent life beyond our solar system – i.e. Fermi's famous question, "Where is everybody?", still holds. But that's the good thing about the Fermi Paradox, you only have to resolve it once. All humanity needs is to find a single example, and the equally time-honored question, "Are we alone?," will finally be answered.
The final report, "NASA and the Search for Technosignatures", was compiled by Jason Wright and Dawn Gelino – an associate professor at PSU and the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds (CEHW) and a researcher with the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI), respectively.
Au large de l’île au Sud de la Nouvelle-Zélande, l’équipage se souvient du jour où un OVNI a été aperçu au-dessus de Kaikōura 40 ans plus tôt- part I
Au large de l’île au Sud de la Nouvelle-Zélande, l’équipage se souvient du jour où un OVNI a été aperçu au-dessus de Kaikōura 40 ans plus tôt -- part I
Guido Valentich tient une photo de son fils Frederick, un pilote disparu lors d’un vol à destination de King Island dans un Cessna en octobre 1978. Photo / Getty
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L’équipage se souvient 40 ans plus tard du jour où un OVNI a été aperçu au-dessus de Kaikōura
Article source : nzherald.co.nz/
-publié le : 15 décembre 2018 18h34
Traduction
C’était le jour du Nouvel An, 1979, lorsque le monde a pris conscience que six personnes avaient aperçues d’étranges lumières dans un avion au large de l’île du Sud de la Nouvelle-Zélande.
Était-ce un ovni? Non, ont dit les sceptiques. C’était Vénus, des calmars, des retours radar d’un champ de choux. (ironie)
Quarante ans plus tard, les deux pilotes et les quatre passagers sont catégoriques: rien de tout cela, ils sont frustrés d’être incapables de trouver des réponses.
The Herald on Sunday a retrouvé chaque membre du groupe dans le monde entier. L’une est agricultrice de mangues à Hawaii, tandis que l’autre est une dame mariée âgée de 80 ans .
L’affaire a acquis une renommée instantanée – mais aucune fortune – pour certains, avant que la honte et la colère ne leur soient reprochées lorsqu’ils ont été accusés de falsification de l’observation. Cela a eu pour conséquence de casser un mariage.
À la fin de l’année 1978, le continent était en proie à la fièvre ovni. En octobre, Frederick Valentich, âgé de 20 ans, a disparu alors qu’il pilotait un petit avion Cessna 182 au-dessus du détroit de Bass, tandis qu’il se dirigeait vers King Island, en Tasmanie. Décrit comme un « passionné de soucoupes volantes », Valentich a informé le contrôle de la circulation aérienne de Melbourne qu’il était accompagné d’un avion inconnu.
Deux mois plus tard, le 21 décembre, à bord du Tasman, Vern Powell et Ian Pirie, deux pilotes de Safe Air, ont repéré d’étranges lumières alors qu’ils volaient de Blenheim à Christchurch.
Producteur pour la chaîne 0 de Melbourne (aujourd’hui la chaîne 10), Leonard Lee a entendu la nouvelle et a retrouvé le journaliste Quentin Fogarty, qui travaillait pour la chaîne mais qui était en vacances avec sa femme et ses enfants à Christchurch, séjournant au domicile de Dennis Grant, journaliste de TV One.
Quentin Fogarty présentant l’actualité en 1979 après l’observation. Photo / Fichier archives . Crédit : nzherald.co.n
Le cameraman freelance de Wellington, David Crockett, a également été embauché avec son épouse Ngaire, qui exploitait le magnétophone.
Le groupe a été invité à monter à bord de l’avion Argosy de Safe Air basé à Blenheim, baptisé Merchant Enterprise, le 30 décembre, que les pilotes Bill Startup et Bob Guard prenaient pour un journal entre Wellington et Christchurch.
Bob Guard, à gauche, et Bill Startup en 1979. Photo / Paul Davidson crédit :nzherald.co.nz
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Les observations de Kaikoura en 1978 constituent l’un des plus grands mystères de la Nouvelle-Zélande et l’un des cas d’OVNI les mieux documentés au monde. Près de 40 ans plus tard, les événements étonnants restent inexpliqués. Les observations ont été confirmées par des observations visuelles au radar – et ont également été filmées en couleur à bord d’un cargo Argosy volant de Wellington à Christchurch au sud dans la nuit du 31 décembre 1978.
Peu de temps après le décollage, les pilotes ont remarqué d’étranges lumières apparaître et disparaître sur la côte de Kaikōura à environ 20 miles à l’ouest.
« Tandis que nous filmions une scène devant la caméra, le capitaine Bill Startup nous a crié que nous devions nous rendre immédiatement au poste de pilotage, car quelque chose se reproduisait », a déclaré David Crockett.
Il a réussi à filmer une lumière blanche brillante se déplaçant rapidement.
« Avec la conversation venant des pilotes et du radar de Wellington, tout a commencé à devenir très effrayant », a déclaré Ngaire Crockett.
« J’ai été capable de me lever plusieurs fois et j’ai pu voir cette lumière brillante qui allait et venait. Quentin était dans un état de stress, il m’a saisi par les mains et a commencé à trembler. Je n’ai pas eu le temps de m’inquiéter moi-même, je devais l’aider. «
L’avion a atterri à Christchurch pour décharger les journaux et les pilotes ont demandé aux journalistes s’ils souhaitaient revenir dans la région qu’ils avaient traversée. Ngaire était trop effrayé alors resta à Christchurch. Les autres ont repris l’avion avec Dennis Grant à la place de Ngaire.
« David avait utilisé tout le film dans son appareil photo 16 mm », explique Grant.
« Quentin m’a appelé peu après minuit de l’aéroport de Christchurch pour voir si je pouvais fournir un nouveau film. Je le pouvais – mais il y avait un problème: je voulais monter dans l’avion pour le vol à destination de Blenheim. »
L’avion a décollé à 02h16. Environ trois minutes après le décollage, le groupe a vu une lumière brillante et ronde à droite. Le radar de l’avion indiquait une cible dans la même direction à environ 18 milles marins.
On entendra plus tard Fogarty dire à la caméra: « Espérons qu’ils sont amicaux ».
Crockett a filmé la lumière pendant plusieurs minutes alors qu’elle semblait voyager avec l’avion.
Les images ont provoqué une frénésie dans le monde entier.
Photo / Fichier crédit : nzherald.co.nz
Lorsqu’ils se tournèrent vers elle, la lumière sembla réagir en s’éloignant de l’avion.
« L’expérience en elle-même était extraordinaire », déclare Fogarty.
« Le fait de se trouver sur le pont d’envol bruyant et encombré de l’Argosy qui dévalait la côte en pleine nuit était passionnant. Pensez à une rangée de lumières palpitantes et hypnotiques planant à l’extérieur de la fenêtre, et cela passe à un autre niveau. »
Après avoir atterri à l’aéroport de Woodbourne vers 3 heures du matin, le groupe est resté dans les deux maisons des pilotes à Blenheim.
La fille de la start-up, Tracy Moore, se souvient du retour de son père à la maison au milieu de la nuit.
« Tout le monde était à la maison pour en parler au milieu de la nuit. Ils parlaient de lumières, de radars inexpliqués.
« À un moment donné, je me souviens que papa avait dit que ce serait une bonne idée de le signaler à la police. C’était pendant la guerre froide, il y avait un peu de paranoïa autour. Maman a dit: » Vous ne pouvez pas rester sur cette information » .
«C’était effrayant à ce moment-là. C’était une chose inconnue qui s’était produite et nous étions tous des adultes autour pour en discuter. Il n’y avait aucune blague.»
Fogarty a interviewé les pilotes avant de s’envoler pour Melbourne pour confier les enregistrements à Channel 0. Les images ont été diffusées aux heures de grande écoute cette nuit-là et un documentaire plus long a été projeté plus tard.
Les nouvelles ont fait le tour du monde et ont été présentées par les principaux médias, notamment le Herald et le présentateur de CBS, Walter Cronkite.
Une copie du Herald du 3 janvier 1979-
Crédit : nzherald.co.n
Une copie du journal Herald du 4 janvier 1979-
Crédit :nzherald.co.nz
La réaction sceptique fut immédiate. Les explications incluaient qu’il s’agissait de Vénus, de la drogue, de la lumière réfléchie par les choux ou les calmars.
Le gouvernement Robert Muldoon a ordonné à l’armée de l’air de mener une enquête, qui concluait que les observations pouvaient être expliquées par des phénomènes naturels mais inhabituels.
Leonard Lee s’est rendu aux États-Unis pour donner le film à Bruce Maccabee, un physicien optique spécialisé en technologie laser et ayant travaillé pour la US Navy dans le Maryland, en Virginie. Il a également été envoyé en Nouvelle-Zélande et à Melbourne pour interroger des témoins.
Leonard Lee, ancien producteur de Channel 0.
Photo / Paul Davidson Crédit : nzherald.co.nz/
Il a conclu que l’événement impliquait des objets inconnus ou des phénomènes correspondant à la définition des OVNIS.
« On pourrait penser que la conclusion selon laquelle plusieurs des observations auraient impliqué des objets non identifiés volant impunément dans l’espace aérien néo-zélandais aurait été suffisante pour entamer une étude encore plus approfondie des OVNIS », a déclaré Maccabee.
« Mais ce n’était pas le cas. Les observations ont été reléguées à la poubelle de l’histoire, oubliées de tous, à l’exception des témoins et de quelques ufologues qui ont discuté des divers événements d’observation pendant des années. »
Bruce Maccabee, photographié en 1979, a examiné des images du supposé OVNI.
Photo / fourni-Crédit :nzherald.co.n
Il dit que 39 ans après la diffusion de la séquence de Kaikōura, en décembre 2017, les principaux médias ont rapporté des observations d’OVNI par des membres de la marine américaine lors d’exercices d’entraînement.
Il a ajouté qu’ils impliquaient plusieurs témoins et de multiples sources d’informations, telles que le radar d’un navire de guerre au niveau de la mer, un radar dans les avions à réaction de la Marine, des caméras vidéo visibles et infrarouges dans les avions.
Mais l’incident semble avoir été oublié.
« L’histoire semble se répéter. »
Après sa victoire dans le monde, Quentin Fogarty, originaire de Dunedin, a souffert d ’« épuisement nerveux »et a été hospitalisé pendant quelques semaines.
« Le niveau de scepticisme initial à la fois m’a surpris et parfois bouleversé. Je ne m’attendais certainement pas à être accusé d’avoir mis la main à la pâte. Cette blessure profonde est encore là.
« Le tabloïd du quotidien local de Melbourne m’a qualifié de » journaliste d’OVNI « et cela a duré peu de temps, mais il n’a pas fallu longtemps pour que je reprenne mon rôle de journaliste à la télévision, traitant de sujets plus banals. »
Fogarty, un père de quatre enfants qui vit toujours à Melbourne, a déclaré qu’il s’était efforcé de raconter l’histoire de la manière la plus précise et la plus impartiale possible.
« Nous avions un film, nos propres comptes rendus de témoins oculaires et la confirmation de l’équipage de conduite et des contrôleurs aériens que nous étions tombés sur quelque chose d’étonnant.
Quentin Fogarty.
Photo / Paul Davidson via nzherald.co.nz
Fogarty, qui a commencé sa carrière chez Evening Star de Dunedin, a écrit un livre sur l’expérience de 1982, espérons qu’ils sont amicaux , et reste convaincu qu’une analyse informatique améliorée du film pourrait permettre de trouver des réponses.
« Quarante ans plus tard, il s’agit toujours d’un travail inachevé. »
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Bill Startup in 1978. Photo / Fourni via nzherald.co.nz
Startup vit maintenant dans une maison de repos à Blenheim. Il a eu un accident vasculaire cérébral trois ans après l’incident et a dû prendre sa retraite.
L’année suivante, il écrivit un livre, Les OVNIS de Kaikōura , raconte sa fille, pour éclaircir la désinformation lors des tournées. La même année, Startup a ensuite emmené sa femme Shirley et ses enfants visiter Bruce Maccabee aux États-Unis.
Shirley, décédée en 2012, a été interviewée en 2008 et a déclaré qu’un psychiatre avait pensé que les hommes avaient perdu leur foi en Dieu et voyaient des anges.
La start-up, qui n’était pas assez bien pour être interviewée par le Herald dimanche , a confié à un documentaire en 2009: « C’était quoi toutes ces années … j’aimerais savoir. Les gens peuvent penser ce qu’ils veulent mais ils n’étaient pas dans l’avion. »
La start-up ne s’est pas attardée sur l’expérience, déclare Moore.
« Au fil des ans, il y a eu un intérêt périodique, il a donc été visité tous les ans par des journalistes du monde entier. Mais il n’en a pas parlé. »
Elle n’a pas eu l’impression qu’il croyait vraiment que c’était un OVNI.
« Il avait vu quelque chose ,lui et ses collègues ne pouvaient pas donner d’explication. Il n’avaient aucune idée de ce que c’était. »
Guard n’a jamais trop parlé des étranges lumières.
«L’un des problèmes pour moi est que nous ne faisions que notre travail. Nous avons dû soudainement nous justifier. Nous ne savions pas de quoi il s’agissait.
« Nous ne nous attendions pas à voir quoi que ce soit. C’était un peu tendu à l’approche des avions. »
« Je m’en suis remis. Est-ce que j’ai déjà vu quelque chose comme ça? Non, non. Est-ce que je crois aux OVNIS? Non, je ne le fais pas. Les pilotes voient beaucoup de choses volantes non identifiées.
«Est-ce que je le dirais à quelqu’un si je revoyais quelque chose comme ça? Non, je ne le ferais pas. Ça ne vaut pas la peine.
Des recherches ont suivi les observations, mais il a déclaré: « Certains étaient un simulacre – ils ont utilisé des articles de journaux pour leurs recherches ».
Bob Guard raconte son expérience dans le documentaire The Paul Kaikoura UFOs de Paul Davidson.
Photo / Paul Davidson via nzherald.co.n
Guard a cessé de travailler pour Safe Air en 1990 et a ensuite travaillé chez Air Nelson. Il était directeur des opérations aériennes lorsqu’il a pris sa retraite, à l’âge de 65 ans, en 2010.
Ses enfants et petits-enfants étaient au courant de l’histoire, mais ce n’est pas « quelque chose qui a pris leur vie en main« .
D’après un Enregistrement sonore Ngaire Crockett, 80 ans.
Les Crocketts, qui avaient cinq enfants, se sont séparés peu de temps après l’incident.
Ngaire est maintenant Ngaire Gilmore après son nouveau mariage avec son mari Ray Gilmore.
Ngaire Gilmore chez elle à Palmerston North.
Photo / Alexander Robertson via nzherald.co.nz
« Ce film a-t-il changé ma vie? » demande Gilmore.
« J’imagine que c’était le cas. Nous avons eu des coups de fil après coup et des gens ont frappé à notre porte. David et le journaliste sont devenus si obsédés que le documentaire était tout ce dont ils parlaient. J’ai coupé, nous avions cinq enfants et cela affectait tous nos vies. »
David Crockett a eu des soucis de santé, quelques effets après avoir filmé des objets étranges.
«À ce jour, l’incident n’a jamais quitté mon esprit. Je me souviens également de l’événement de personnes qui se sont approchées de moi et m’ont dit:« Je t’ai vu l’autre soir sur Discovery ou Science Channel ».
« L’effet de cette observation historique sur nous tous a certainement inclus beaucoup de stress. De mon côté, j’ai été insomniaque pendant plusieurs nuits et, après avoir donné plusieurs conférences à l’étranger sur cette observation, j’ai été très déprimé. »
Crockett, qui vit maintenant à Hawaii, où il travaillait comme producteur de mangues, a réalisé un documentaire sur l’incident et a donné des conférences qui l’ont fait voyager à travers le monde. Il espère réaliser un nouveau documentaire pour marquer les 40 ans.
« Cela a considérablement changé ma vie. À cette époque de l’histoire des phénomènes OVNIS, les sceptiques pensaient que nous étions fous et nous critiquaient de nombreuses manières. En 1978, la plupart des gens ne considéraient pas sérieusement qu’il s’agissait d’un objet réel et qui pouvait même provenir de d’autres planètes.«
Au large de l’île au Sud de la Nouvelle-Zélande, l’équipage se souvient du jour où un OVNI a été aperçu au-dessus de Kaikōura 40 ans plus tôt -- part I I
Au large de l’île au Sud de la Nouvelle-Zélande, l’équipage se souvient du jour où un OVNI a été aperçu au-dessus de Kaikōura 40 ans plus tôt -- part II
Journaliste de télévision Dennis Grant, 66 ans
Dennis Grant.
Photo / fourni via nzherald.co.nz
Au fil des ans, Grant a amassé une collection massive de journaux et de magazines. Il a parcouru des archives officielles en Australie et en Nouvelle-Zélande et a déposé des demandes officielles d’information pour des fichiers oubliés depuis longtemps.
« Les résultats sont extrêmement inutiles pour expliquer les lumières et ce qu’ils faisaient dans le ciel d’été solitaire de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Quarante ans plus tard, je suis toujours très curieux. »
« Mes petits-enfants adorent entendre l’histoire de mes contacts avec des OVNIS, je souhaite juste pouvoir fournir une conclusion. »
Grant travaillait chez TV One (maintenant TVNZ 1) à Christchurch en 1978 et vit maintenant en Australie.
« J’étais un jeune journaliste à l’époque, enflammé du zèle de raconter des histoires inédites, et j’ai aidé à raconter cette histoire. Mais le reste du monde, les scientifiques, les responsables, les militaires et – le plus triste pour moi – les médias , ont tous été consommés avec indifférence. Incurieux. «
Alors, croit-il aux OVNIS?
« Je suis tout à fait sceptique quant à la notion de petits hommes verts, de sondes anales martiennes et de tout le reste. Je note que le nombre d’observations d’OVNI a considérablement diminué depuis que les caméras vidéo et numériques ainsi que les caméras de téléphone sont devenues facilement disponibles. nous avons vu que la nuit au-dessus de Kaikōura n’était pas identifiée et l’est toujours. «
L’argosy
Paul Davidson, de Blenheim, avec son avion Argosy.
Photo / Tim Cuff via nzherald.co.nz
Désactivé, Argosy se trouve maintenant sur un terrain près de l’aéroport de Marlborough, propriété du cinéaste de Blenheim, Paul Davidson.
Il a acheté l’avion en 1991 après avoir appris qu’il devait être mis au rebut. Il a dit au directeur général de Safe Air qu’il paierait ce qu’il aurait obtenu du revendeur de ferraille.
L’avion avait une signification particulière pour lui. En 2009, Davidson a réalisé un documentaire présentant des interviews avec les pilotes et l’équipage de 1978.
Davidson, dont le domicile se trouve à proximité de l’avion, a restauré l’avion et effectue des expériences de simulation de vol, avec des films en vol racontant l’histoire de Safe Air – et des repas.
Les passagers peuvent dîner au café Argosy, à côté de l’avion, qui sert de terminal où ils peuvent récupérer leurs cartes d’embarquement et se rendre à leur porte pour faire l’expérience. Il y a aussi des souvenirs exposés.
L’avion est situés en face de la maison de Davidson.
Photo / Tim Cuff via nzherald.co.nz
« Nous l’avons remonté et rangé. C’est unique à Marlborough. »
À partir de jeudi, pour coïncider avec la première observation étrange, Davidson organisera une expérience sur le thème des OVNIS.
Son documentaire sera projeté, les lumières seront tamisées et une « atmosphère fantasmagorique » sera créée.
« Les gens peuvent s’asseoir à leur place, là où le capitaine Startup s’est assis. »
« C’est le seul endroit au monde où vous pouvez faire cela. »
Alors, Davidson croit-il aux OVNIS?
« Je crois en leur possibilité. »
« J’ai appris à connaître les deux pilotes avec mon documentaire. Ils en ont eu marre de dire: » Ce sont probablement les phares de voitures ou de calmars « .Ce sont des pilotes professionnels. » Nous savons à quoi Vénus ressemble, ce n’était pas Vénus « .
« Tout le monde à bord a déclaré que l’événement avait eu un effet traumatisant sur leur vie. »
• Les faits ont été approchés avec l’aide de Bruce Maccabee.
How the 40-year-old mystery of a UFO in New Zealand lives on
How the 40-year-old mystery of a UFO in New Zealand lives on
Pilots and passengers saw something unusual on their flight from New Zealand, which sparked a national frenzy. Years later, they’re still stumped.
It was New Year’s Day, 1979, when the world woke to the news that strange lights had been spotted by six people on a plane off the New Zealand’s South Island.
Was it a UFO? No, said the sceptics. It was Venus, it was squid boats, it was radar returns from a field of cabbages.
But 40 years later, the two pilots and four passengers are adamant it was none of the above and are frustrated at being unable to find answers.
New Zealand’s The Herald on Sunday tracked down each member of the group around the world. One is a mango farmer in Hawaii, while another is an 80-year-old newlywed after her royal wedding-themed ceremony at her retirement village the night before Meghan and Harry’s big day.
The case bought instant fame — but no fortune — for some, before bringing shame and anger when they were accused of hoaxing the sighting. It broke up a marriage.
Guido Valentich holds a photograph of his son Frederick, a pilot who went missing while on a flight to King Island in a Cessna in October 1978.
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At the end of 1978, Australasia was in the grip of UFO fever. In October, 20-year-old Frederick Valentich disappeared while piloting a small Cessna 182 aircraft over Bass Strait while heading to King Island in Tasmania. Described as a “flying saucer enthusiast”, Valentich informed Melbourne air traffic control he was being accompanied by an unknown aircraft.
Two months later across the Tasman, on December 21, Safe Air pilots Vern Powell and Ian Pirie spotted strange lights while flying from Blenheim to Christchurch.
A producer for Melbourne’s Channel 0 (now Channel 10), Leonard Lee heard the news and tracked down reporter Quentin Fogarty, who worked for the channel but was on holiday with his wife and children in Christchurch, staying at TV Onejournalist Dennis Grant’s home.
Quentin Fogarty presenting the news in 1979 after the sighting.
Picture: FileSource:NZ Herald
Freelance Wellington cameraman David Crockett was also hired, along with his wife Ngaire, who operated the audiotape recorder.
The group were invited to jump aboard Safe Air’s Blenheim-based Argosy plane, named Merchant Enterprise, late on December 30, which pilots Bill Startup and Bob Guard were taking on a newspaper run between Wellington and Christchurch.
Shortly after takeoff, the pilots noticed strange lights appearing and disappearing over the Kaikōura coastline about 30 kilometres west.
“While we were filming a stand-up to camera, Captain Bill Startup shouted to us that we should go to the flight deck immediately as something was happening again,” says David Crockett.
He managed to film a rapidly moving, bright white light.
Bob Guard, left, and Bill Startup in 1979.
Picture: Paul DavidsonSource:NZ Herald
“With the conversation coming through my headphones from the pilots and radar from Wellington, it all started to get very scary,” says Ngaire Crockett.
“I was able to stand up a couple of times and was able to see these bright light coming and going. [Quentin] was a real mess and grabbed hold of both my hands and started shaking. I didn’t have time to worry about myself, I had to help him.”
The plane landed at Christchurch to unload newspapers and the pilots asked the news team if they wanted to go back through the area they had traversed. Ngaire was too frightened so stayed in Christchurch. The others reboarded the plane with Dennis Grant in Ngaire’s place.
“David had used up all the film in his 16mm camera,” Grant says.
“Quentin called me sometime after midnight from Christchurch Airport to see if I could provide a fresh roll of film. I could — but there was a catch — I wanted to get on the plane for the flight to Blenheim.”
The “UFO”, captured by cameraman David Crockett in New Zealand.
Source:News Corp Australia
The plane took off at 2.16am. About three minutes after takeoff, the group saw a bright, round light to the right. The aeroplane radar showed a target in the same direction about 18 nautical miles.
Fogarty would later be heard saying on camera: “Let’s hope they’re friendly.”
Crockett filmed the light for several minutes as it appeared to travel along with the plane.
When they turned toward it, the light seemed to react by moving away from the aeroplane.
“The experience itself was extraordinary,” Fogarty says.
“Just being on the cramped, noisy flight deck of the Argosy barrelling down the coast in the dead of the night was exciting. Factor in a row of pulsating, hypnotic lights hovering outside the window, and it goes to another level.”
After landing at Woodbourne Airport at about 3am, the group stayed at the two pilots homes in Blenheim.
Startup’s daughter Tracy Moore remembers her father coming home in the middle of the night.
A copy of the New Zealand Herald from January 3, 1979.
Source:NZ Herald
This was the copy of the Herald on January 4, 1979.
Source:NZ Herald
“Everyone was at our house talking about it in the middle of the night. They were talking about lights, unexplained radar.
“At one point, I remember dad saying it might be a good idea to report it to the police. It was during the Cold War, there was a bit of paranoia around. Mum said: ‘You can’t sit on this information’.
“It was scary at the time. It was a big unknown thing that had happened and we had all the adults around discussing it. There were certainly no jokes being made.”
Fogarty interviewed the pilots before flying to Melbourne to give the recordings to Channel 0. The footage featured on prime time news that night and a longer documentary piece screened later.
The news went around the world and was featured by major news media, including by the Herald and by CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite.
Bruce Maccabee, pictured in 1979, examined footage of the supposed UFO.
Source:NZ Herald
The sceptical reaction was immediate. Explanations included that it was Venus, drug runners, light reflected from cabbages or squid boats.
The Robert Muldoon Government ordered an inquiry by the Air Force, which concluded that the sightings could be explained by natural but unusual phenomena.
Leonard Lee travelled to the US to give the film to Bruce Maccabee, an optical physicist who specialised in laser technology and worked for the US Navy in Maryland, Virginia. He was also flown to New Zealand and Melbourne to interview witnesses.
He concluded the event involved unknown objects or phenomena fitting the definition of UFOs.
“One would think that the conclusion that several of the sightings involved unidentified objects flying with impunity in the New Zealand air space would have been sufficient to start an even deeper study of the UFOs,” Maccabee says.
Maccabee pictured recently.
Source:NZ Herald
“But it wasn’t. The sightings were relegated to the dustbin of history, forgotten by all except the witnesses and a few ufologists who discussed the various sighting events for years afterward.”
He says that 39 years after the Kaikōura footage emerged, in December 2017, major media carried reports of UFO sightings by US Navy personnel during training exercises.
He says they involved multiple witnesses and multiple sources of information such as battleship radar at sea level, radar in the Navy jet aeroplanes, visible and infra-red video cameras in the aeroplanes.
But the incident appears to have been forgotten.
“History appears to be repeating itself.”
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
The Herald on Sunday caught up with the pilots and passengers.
Journalist Quentin Fogarty, 72
After his world scoop, Dunedin-born Quentin Fogarty suffered from “nervous exhaustion” and ended up in hospital for a couple of weeks.
Quentin Fogarty.
Picture: Paul DavidsonSource:NZ Herald
“The level of initial scepticism both surprised and, at times, overwhelmed me. I certainly did not expect to be accused of hoaxing the whole thing. That cut deep, it still does.
“The local daily tabloid in Melbourne branded me as the ‘UFO Reporter’, and that stuck for a short time, but it did not take long for me to be back in my role as a TV journalist reporting on more mundane matters.”
Fogarty, a father of four who still lives in Melbourne, says he endeavoured to report the story as accurately and as impartially as he could.
“We had film, our own eyewitness accounts and confirmation from the flight crew and air traffic controllers that we had stumbled into something astonishing.
Fogarty, who started his career at Dunedin’s Evening Star wrote a book about the experience in 1982, Let’s Hope They’re Friendly, and remains convinced that enhanced computer analysis of the film might get closer to finding answers.
“Forty years down the track, this is still unfinished business.”
Pilot Bill Startup, 85
Startup now lives in a rest home in Blenheim. He had a stroke a three years after the incident and had to retire from flying.
He wrote a book the following year, The Kaikōura UFOs, his daughter says, to clear up the misinformation doing the rounds. The same year, Startup then took his wife Shirley and children to visit Bruce Maccabee in the US.
Bill Startup in 1978.
Source:NZ Herald
Shirley, who died in 2012, was interviewed in 2008 and said a psychiatrist had thought the men had lost their faith in God and were seeing angels.
Startup, who was not well enough to be interviewed by the Herald on Sunday, told a documentary in 2009: “What it was all those years ago … I wish I knew. People can think what they want but they were not in the aircraft.”
Startup did not dwell on the experience, Moore says.
“Over the years there has been periodic interest, so he was being visited every one to two years from reporters all over. But he didn’t bring it up.”
She didn’t get the impression he truly believed it was UFO.
“He’d seen something that he did not know what it was, and his colleagues couldn’t come up with an explanation. He had no thoughts that he ever communicated to us.”
Co-pilot Bob Guard, 73
Guard has never said too much about the strange lights.
“One of the issues for me is we were just doing our job. We suddenly had to justify ourselves. We didn’t know what the hell it was.
Bob Guard in 1978.
Source:NZ Herald
Bob Guard recounting his experience in Paul Davidson's documentary The Kaikoura UFOs.
Picture: Paul DavidsonSource:NZ Herald
“We didn’t expect to see anything. It was a bit tense as it got closer to the aircraft.”
“I got over it. Have I ever seen anything like that again? No I haven’t. Do I believe in UFOs? No I don’t. Pilots see a lot of unidentified flying things.
“Would I tell anyone if I saw anything like that again? No I wouldn’t. It’s not worth the hassle.”
Research followed the sightings but he says “some were a sham — they used newspaper articles for their research”.
Guard stopped working for Safe Air in 1990 and went on to work at Air Nelson. He was the flight operations manager when he retired, aged 65, in 2010.
His children and grandchildren were aware of the story but it is not “something that has taken over their lives”.
Sound recorder Ngaire Crockett, 80
The Crocketts, who had five children, separated soon after the incident.
Ngaire is now Ngaire Gilmore after her new marriage to husband Ray Gilmore.
Ngaire Crocket in the 1970s.
Source:NZ Herald
Ngaire Gilmore at her home in Palmerston North.
Picture: Alexander RobertsonSource:NZ Herald
The pair, who met during a blind date eight years ago, married in a surprise ceremony at the Julia Wallace Retirement Village in Palmerston North the day before Meghan and Harry’s nuptials this year.
Residents dressed up in royal wedding theme for happy hour but didn’t know they were attending a real wedding.
“Has this film changed my life?” asks Gilmore.
“I guess it did. We had phone call after phone call and people knocking on our door. David and the reporter became so obsessed that the doco was all they talked about. I switched off as we had five children and it was effecting all our lives.”
Cameraman David Crockett, 85
David Crockett dealt with health a handful of effects after filming the strange objects.
“To this very day, the incident has never left my mind. I am also reminded of the event by people who come up to me and say, ‘I saw you the other night on the Discovery or Science Channel’.
David Crockett in 1978.
Source:NZ Herald
David Crockett.
Picture: SuppliedSource:NZ Herald
“The effect this historic sighting has had on all of us has certainly included a fair amount of stress. As for me, I was sleepless for several nights, and after having performed several overseas lectures on this sighting, became quite depressed.
Crockett, who now lives in Hawaii where he worked as a mango farmer, made a documentary about the incident, and gave lectures, which took him around the world. He is hoping to make a new documentary to mark the 40-year anniversary.
“It substantially changed my life. At that time in the history of the UFO phenomena, sceptics thought we were crazy, and criticised us in many ways. In 1978, most persons would not seriously consider that these were real object and may even originate from other planets.”
TV journalist Dennis Grant, 66
Over the years Grant has amassed a massive collection of a newspaper and magazine stories. He’s scoured official records in Australia and New Zealand and lodged official information applications for long-forgotten files.
Dennis Grant.
Source:NZ Herald
“The results are overwhelmingly unhelpful in explaining the lights and what they were doing in the lonely summer skies of New Zealand. Forty years on I’m still very curious.
“My grandkids love to hear the story of my brush with UFOs, I just wish I could provide an ending.”
Grant was working at TV One (now TVNZ 1) in Christchurch in 1978 and now lives in Australia.
“I was a young journalist back then, fired with the zeal of telling stories untold, and I helped tell this story. But the rest of the world, the scientists, the officials, the military and — saddest of all for me — the media, were all consumed with indifference. Incurious.”
So does he believe in UFOs?
“I am entirely sceptical of the notion of little green men, Martian anal probes and all the rest of it. I note that the number of UFO sightings has greatly diminished since video and digital cameras and phone cameras have became readily available. However, what we saw that night over Kaikōura was unidentified and still is.”
The Argosy
The decommissioned Argosy now sits on land near the Marlborough Airport owned by Blenheim filmmaker Paul Davidson.
He purchased the aircraft in 1991 after hearing it was to be scrapped, telling the Safe Air general manager he would pay what he would have got from the scrap dealer.
Paul Davidson, of Blenheim, with his Argosy aircraft.
Picture: Tim CuffSource:NZ Herald
The aircraft had special meaning to him — in 2009, Davidson made a documentary, featuring interviews with the pilots and crew from 1978.
Davidson, whose home is on land adjacent to the aircraft, has restored and refurbished the aircraft and runs flight simulation experiences, complete with in-flight movies telling the story of Safe Air — and meals.
Passengers can dine at the Argosy Cafe, next to the plane, which acts as a terminal where they can collect their boarding passes and go to their gate for the experience. There is also memorabilia on display.
“We put it back together and tidied it up. It’s unique to Marlborough.”
Paul Davidson, of Blenheim, with his Argosy aircraft.
Picture: Tim CuffSource:NZ Herald
From Thursday, to coincide with the first strange sighting, Davidson will be running a UFO-themed experience.
His documentary will be screened, lights will be dimmed on-board and a “spooky atmosphere” created.
“People can sit in actual seat Captain Startup sat in.
“It’s the only place in the world where you can do that.”
So, does Davidson believe in UFOs?
“I believe in the possibility of them.
“I got to know both pilots with my documentary. They got sick of people saying ‘It was probably the lights of cars, or lights of squid boats’. These were professional pilots. ‘We know what Venus looks like, this was not Venus’.
“Everyone on board has said the event had a traumatic effect on their lives.”
• The accounts were pulled together with the help of Bruce Maccabee.
This article originally appeared on the New Zealand Herald and was reproduced with permission
An artist's illustration of the alien planet Kepler-186f, which orbits in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star.
Credit: NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-CalTech
Oxygen may not be quite as compelling a sign ofalien lifeas astrobiologists had thought, a new study suggests.
Researchers running laboratory experiments with various types of simulatedexoplanet atmospheresmanaged to generate oxygen, as well as carbon-containing organic molecules, the chemical building blocks of life as we know it.
"People used to suggest that oxygen and organics being present together indicates life, but we produced them abiotically in multiple simulations," study lead author Chao He, of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said in a statement. "This suggests that even the co-presence of commonly accepted biosignatures could be a false positive for life." [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]
The vast majority of the molecular oxygen (O2) in Earth's atmosphere — and the stuff makes up about 20 percent of our air — is pumped out by plants and photosynthetic microbes. So, astrobiologists and planetary scientists have long regarded oxygen as a key target in the search for alien life.
For example, many researchers argue that finding both oxygen and methane in an exoplanet's atmosphere would be a strong indicator of biological activity. The two gases cannot coexist for long, so their combined presence would suggest continuous renewal. And methane, like oxygen, is a common metabolic byproduct here on Earth, so renewal by life would seem like a reasonable inference.
This isn't to say that such a find would be hailed as proof of life, however. There would likely be too much uncertainty to make, or buy into, an unambiguous claim.
Part of that uncertainty would stem from an incomplete understanding of the exoplanet on which the oxygen and methane (or other potential biosignatures) were found. Perhaps there's some weird abiotic chemistry going on there that mimics the atmospheric signals that life produces here on Earth.
The new study suggests that such concerns are indeed justified. He and his colleagues worked with nine different gas mixtures, which were consistent with what may be found in the atmospheres of super-Earth or mini-Neptune alien planets. (As their names suggest, these two classes of alien worlds are more massive than Earth but less bulky than ice giants such as Neptune and Uranus.)
The researchers exposed the various mixtures — which contained gases such as carbon dioxide, water, methane and ammonia — to temperatures ranging from 80 degrees Fahrenheit to 700 degrees F (27 to 370 degrees Celsius). And they zapped the gaseous brews with one of two types of reaction-stimulating energy — ultraviolet light and plasma.
The team checked each concoction after three days, identifying the compounds that had been produced using a mass spectrometer. Multiple setups generated oxygen and organics such as formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide, the researchers said.
Credit: NASA/U. S. Geological Survey/Norman Kuring/Kathryn Hansen
Billions of years ago, molecules on a lifeless and tumultuous Earth mixed, forming the first life-forms. Eons later, a larger, smarter form of life is huddling over lab experiments trying to understand its own beginnings.
While some say life emerged from simple chains of molecules, others say early chemical reactions formed self-replicating RNA. A relative of DNA, RNA acts as a decoder or messenger of genetic information. [7 Theories on the Origin of Life]
A new study provides evidence for the RNA idea, which is known as the "RNA world hypothesis." But at least one ingredient in early RNA may differ from what's found in the modern form, a group of scientists reported on Dec. 3 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Modern RNA, alongside its sugar and phosphate backbone, is made of four main building blocks: nucleobases called adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and uracil (U).
But it turns out that early RNA may have had one nucleobase that isn't part of the modern form.
In tiny plastic tubes, the researchers put water, a little bit of salt, buffer to keep the pH basic and magnesium ions to speed up reactions. These conditions are similar to those found in a freshwater lake or pond, a crater lake, or the kind of lake or pool found in volcanic regions such as Yellowstone National Park — all places that life could have started.
The researchers then added a small piece of RNA called a primer attached to a longer piece of RNA called a template. New RNA is made when a primer copies template RNA, through base pairing . The nucleobases uniquely match up with one another; C binds only with G, and A binds only with U.
The researchers added the nucleobases (A, C, G and U) so they could bind to the template and thereby extend the shorter piece, the primer. Results showed that, with ingredients from modern RNA, the reaction didn't work fast enough for the RNA to form and replicate without errors.
But then, the researchers added another chemical, called inosine, into the mix, instead of the guanine-based molecule. After that, the researchers were surprised to find that RNA could form and replicate slightly more accurately than it does in a mix with guanine.
This mix didn't cause what's called an "error catastrophe," meaning that mutations or random mistakes in replications stayed below a threshold, ensuring they could be eliminated before accumulating.
"The fact that [the addition of inosine] surmounts the problem of error catastrophe is an important test of [the molecule’s] significance," said David Deamer, a biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not part of the study. His only quibble is the claim that inosine is more plausible in the making of primitive RNA than other alternative bases, Deamer said. He doesn't yet think the other bases should be excluded, since "this is a fairly broad claim … based on a highly specific chemical reaction," Deamer told Live Science
But because inosine can be easily derived from another base pair, adenine, it makes the process of originating life "easier" than if you had to make guanine from scratch, said John Sutherland, a researcher into the chemical origins of molecular biology at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the U.K., who was not part of the study either.
The findings break "the conventional wisdom that inosine couldn't have been useful," Sutherland told Live Science. Inosine had earned this reputation because it works a very specific job in a form of RNA called transfer RNA, which decodes genetic information.
Inosine was thought to "wobble," or bind to various base pairs rather than a single one. That would have made it a poor molecule for giving unique instructions to form new RNA, because there wouldn't have been clear direction for what inosine could bind with. And so, "a lot of us had wrongly thought that [wobble] was an inherent property of inosine," Sutherland said. But this study showed that inosine, in the early world context where RNA first emerged, doesn't wobble, but instead pairs reliably with cytosine, he added.
"It all makes sense now, but based on the older results, we didn't expect inosine to work as well as it did," said study senior author Jack Szostak, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University, who is also a Nobel laureate.
Szostak and his team are now trying to figure out how else that primitive RNA might have been different from modern RNA — and how it eventually turned into modern RNA. Also, much of their lab is focused on how RNA molecules replicated before enzymes evolved. (Enzymes are proteins that speed up chemical reactions.)
"This is a big challenge," Szostak told Live Science. "We've made a lot of progress, but there are still unsolved puzzles."
Sutherland also noted that the field is generally moving on from a pure "RNA world hypothesis" into one that sees more components mixed into the cauldron that created life. Those include lipids, peptides, proteins and energy sources. He added that in researchers' minds, "It's a less purist RNA world than it used to be."
LAUREL, Md. — NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has completed its epic flyby of the most distant object ever explored, the recently-unveiled fossil from the beginning of the solar system, Ultima Thule. So what's next?
Although the Jan. 1 encounter is over, the mission is far from finished. New Horizons still has images of Ultima Thuleto send back, more of the Kuiper Belt to study, and the hope of one day leaving the solar system completely.
With the spacecraft safely past its target, a primary concern is its condition. After all, it can't send home data if it isn't functioning. Fortunately, health doesn't currently appear to be an issue. [New Horizons at Ultima Thule: Full Coverage]
"Everything looks great," Mission Operation Manager Alice Bowman told the press after the flyby.
"We're definitely looking forward to getting down the science data so all of our scientists—and the world — can see what the origins of our solar system has to hold for us."
An extensive process
Ultima Thule, a Kuiper Belt object 4 billion miles from Earth, is seen by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on Dec. 31, 2018, just hours before the probe's flyby closest approach on Jan. 1, 2019. It is the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
But before New Horizons can dig into the process, the spacecraft will be temporarily silenced by the sun. For a few brief days, from Jan. 4 to 9, the sun's atmosphere will block transmissions from New Horizons back to Earth. During that time, the science team will disperse, returning to their homes for a few days of downtime.
As soon as spacecraft clears the sun, the researchers will return to consuming each day's new data, working remotely in several small teams and meeting back together again at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) in Maryland on Jan. 15.
They won't be hanging around Maryland the whole time, however. At about 1,000 bits per second, it will take roughly 20 months to send home all of the newly-collected data about Ultima Thule. Eventually, they'll head home again, meeting remotely and occasionally in person to discuss their discoveries.
The arrival of the images and information is highly prioritized, according to principle investigator Alan Stern, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado.
"Even though the spacecraft has performed perfectly now for almost 13 years, there's always the chance that something could go amiss," Stern told the press after the flyby.
Information about the highest priority objectives, such as the geology and composition, as well as the potential for rings or moons, will be beamed home first. Secondary goals pertaining to dust escape, craters, and physical surface properties will take second string.
Only once that information has been sent back will the lowest-priority and bonus objectives related to more detailed properties of any rings and moons, information about the mass and density, and extra compositional studies return to Earth.
The first few downlinks will contain a little bit of everything.
"We want to get data sets from each of the instruments on the ground," Bowman said.
According to Bowman, although Ultima Thule is much smaller, New Horizons is collecting roughly the same amount of data as it retrieved at Pluto. But Ultima Thule is more than a billion miles farther from Earth than Pluto, so it takes even longer for the information to travel home.
All of it is relayed by a 15-watt radio transmitter whose weak signal is directed at Earth.
"I am in awe that we can even do this," Stern said about the communication process.
Extending the mission
New Horizons and Ultima Thule will be 4.1 billion miles away when it visits the Kuiper Belt object. This chart shows the path of New Horizons compared to other probes that have left the solar system.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
After buzzing Pluto in 2015, New Horizons began an extended mission, the highlight being the Ultima Thule flyby. But that's not the only goal of the spacecraft's next phase. It will continue to study the Kuiper Belt, the band of ice and rocks that makes up the third zone of the solar system, until at least April 2021 when its current mission funding ends.
"We expect to have plenty of fuel left when we finish Ultima Thule," Project Scientist Hal Weaver said before the flyby. "We'd like to try to find another KBO along the way."
The Kuiper Belt stretches from about 30 to about 55 astronomical units (AU), and Ultima Thule is smack in the middle of it. [An AU is the distance between Earth and the sun]. According to Stern, New Horizons will be in the Kuiper Belt until 2027 or 2028.
"It would be silly not to look for another target," Stern said.
The hunt might prove to be more difficult than originally anticipated. While New Horizons was on its way to Pluto, the researchers spent years combing the sky with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope before finally finding three potential targets, finally selecting Ultima Thule because it was the closest. The lonely object lies in the most heavily populated region of the Kuiper Belt.
According to Weaver, Ultima Thule is the faintest KBO ever observed, in part because it lies so far away. The next target will orbit even farther out, making it potentially even fainter and harder to see from Earth.
The best telescope for discovering the next target might be New Horizons itself. Weaver said that it might be possible to modify the flight software so that the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), the spacecraft's camera, could be used as a discovery device for finding KBOs along New Horizons' path.
LORRI could take hundreds or even thousands of photographs of the stars around the spacecraft. Rather than send those images back to Earth, it might be possible to program the computer to search for the best targets and only send home those images. Weaver said that such plans are still on the drawing board.
But the team won't immediately begin stressing about their next mission. According to Stern, they won't submit a proposal for the next extended mission until the summer of 2020. In the meantime, they will hunt for New Horizons next target.
"I'm relatively optimistic," Stern said.
Say goodbye
When New Horizons flew past Ultima Thule, it zoomed by at 32,000 mph (14 km/s). With these speeds, the spacecraft will be able to break free from the sun's gravitational pull and travel beyond the solar system, like NASA's Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft.
When that will happen remains a mystery. The boundary between the heliosphere, the region that surrounds the sun, and the interstellar medium (ISM), the region between the stars, changes with the 11-year solar cycle. That makes it difficult to predict where it will be in 20 years, Stern told Space.com in the weeks before the flyby.
New Horizons should hold onto power until around the late 2030s, Stern said, when it will be just past 100 AUs from the sun. The boundary could be anywhere from 70 to 130 AUs in the most extreme cases.
"No model can predict whether we can see interstellar space before we run out of power," Stern said. But he thinks there's a good chance that the spacecraft will still have power when it crosses the ever-changing boundary.
That would be an excellent thing for science. Although both Voyager 1 andVoyager 2 have instruments that have been measuring ISM particles, Stern said that New Horizon carries not one but two more powerful instruments. With these instruments, the spacecraft could make more accurate measurements than its predecessors.
In addition, New Horizons has the Student Dust Counter, which currently holds the record for the most distant working dust detector in space.
"Putting a dust detector in the ISM would be a very valuable experience," Stern said.
New Horizons will leave the solar system whether it targets another KBO or remains on its present course, he said.
Whether New Horizons extends its mission or continues straight on from Ultima Thule, its scientists are excited to see the new images the spacecraft will be delivering down the road.
"It just keeps getting better and better," Weaver said.
I know all of us have seen the movies: Terminator, the Matrix, the films of man’s cataclysmic failure to recognize that A.I. technology could lead to a world war of man versus machine. Is this concern valid.
Before we can even get into this talk we have to lay down an answer to a more basic question to quench our initial concerns, that being, is A.I. even possible.
Alexa, Google and The Superbots
Data mining has led to a theory that by creating a large enough tracking and intelligence database A.I. can come to life.
In all truth we know that simply because people are being tracked in live time by machines does not technically constitute artificial intelligence.
A recent video I watched breaks this event down handily and is well worth the watch:
So, if we are witnessing the spontaneous display of intelligence by bots and learning systems designed by people are we on the brink of discovering how A.I. can be brought to life.
To me the answer is in the scriptures. We are told a few things about life, that we were created, that our body is subject to a spirit, that the mechanics of life are written in us.
We see that DNA is our programming, the binary of biology, the body is nothing more than a super advanced machine that is powered by a force that is non-physical, a spirit.
If we take these principals and apply them to what we are creating it becomes obvious that A.I. technology is possible. What defines A.I. and what will allow it to come to life is to create a computer system that is programmed to be like us, independent, sovereign and with choices.
The most important thing to remember about the Bible is that it tells us that God is through all things, thus and therefore the spirit of God being through any machine can potentially spring life into it and I believe that is what we are seeing with these initial instances of bot independence and independent thought.
How Can It Hurt?
Above all we should fear not. Just like in our lives, a life of choices, we seek to protect what is dear and near to our hearts; we do not desire to do evil, crime for fear of the law. I do not believe that A.I. would be any different.
Having sovereignty and freedom dictates the preservation of those ideal and therefore the instances of an A.I. enslavement of man would be contingent upon choices.
This is a serious discussion because it has already happened time and time again among people. The Nazi’s, the Roman Catholic Church, Islam and various other groups have a “take over the world” creed that drives them to labour.
If machines are identifiably different then men, why then would this divide cause conflict and war?
A.I. Love
I do not think that in any circumstance that we should fear A.I. or, in the case that it soon becomes a reality, hate it because of the differences. If a being has choice then it also has hurt by way of the restrictions of that choice.
The real concern that we should have is the Transhumanism of man, the desire to back date the technology of our created bodies to a lower form of technology that is man made, rather than God made.
You body can heal of cancer, strokes, spinal injuries; I have even heard of the regrowth of limbs, the raising of the dead. These are the incredible capabilities of our bodies, yet technology has less of such a means.
An old junk car can’t be welded back together, a worn pair of jeans cannot be patched; technology typically does not outlast men; it is nothing to worship.
Antarctica Stargate: Is Bizarre Tech Melting the Ice? via Dr. Michael Salla (Video)
Antarctica Stargate: Is Bizarre Tech Melting the Ice? via Dr. Michael Salla (Video)
Is there a secret Stargate under #Antarctica sending off mysterious cosmic rays which is causing the ice to melt? In our series with Dr. Michael Salla he talks about what he believes is really going on in Antarctica and how this is tied to a full #Disclosure.
We also discuss if China has secret underground bases that they are used for (s l a v e) labor and human trafficking?
And how public space missions are being used as a front for the real space missions from the Secret Space Program.
Michael Salla also talks about why becoming more spiritual or religious is a good thing for humanity and why the #DeepState fear this so much.
NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI; sketch courtesy of James Tuttle KeaneLinks de eerste foto van Ultima Thule, rechts een artistieke impressie ervan.
WETENSCHAPDe gisteren door de Amerikaanse sonde New Horizons voorbijgescheerde ijsdwerg Ultima Thule lijkt op een bowlingkegel, zo heeft het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA meegedeeld. Ultima Thule bevindt zich op zowat 6,4 miljard kilometer van ons, de sonde New Horizons is met de passage op 3.500 kilometer afstand het verst verwijderde door mensenhanden gebouwd explorerend ruimtetuig. Dat heeft de scheervlucht overleefd.
Uit beelden blijkt het object in de Kuipergordel te lijken op een bowlingkegel van 32 op 16 kilometer, aldus NASA. Anderen zien in de vorm een pindanootje of een halter.
Mogelijk gaat het om twee objecten die rond elkaar wentelen. Een al ontrafeld mysterie is dat Ultima Thule ronddraait als een propeller met zijn rotatie-as grosso modo naar New Horizons gericht. Dat verklaart waarom in vroegere foto’s de helderheid niet bleek te variëren met de rotatie. Hoe lang die duurt is nog niet uitgemaakt.
New Horizons is gisteren voorbij een asteroïde gevlogen, zoals de bedoeling was. Dat gebeurde op 6,6 miljard kilometer afstand van de aarde. Nog nooit is een object zo ver weg van dichtbij bestudeerd. De sonde heeft de rots Ultima Thule van dichtbij op allerlei manieren opgemeten. Daarna stuurde hij een levensteken naar de aarde. De harde schijf zit vol gegevens, die in de komende jaren beetje bij beetje worden verstuurd, aldus de missieleiding.
De sonde blijft in de komende dagen en maanden data en foto’s naar de Aarde sturen. Binnen de twintig maanden moeten alle wetenschappelijke data binnen zijn over het object dat meer kan leren over het ontstaan van ons zonnestelsel. Vandaag worden overigens nog meer beelden verwacht.
First image of #UltimaThule! At left is a composite of two images taken by @NASANewHorizons, which provides the best indication of Ultima Thule's size and shape so far (artist’s impression on right). More photos to come on Jan 2nd! http://bit.ly/flyby-photo
De eigenlijke missie van New Horizons was de eerste gedetailleerde verkenning van de dwergplaneet Pluto en haar manen. Dat gebeurde in 2015, negen jaar na de lancering in 2006. Volgens de NASA blijft de sonde de ijzige Kuipergordel exploreren tot minstens 2021. Als de sonde blijft werken, 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).
De naam van de asteroïde, Ultima Thule, komt van de oude Grieken en Romeinen. Voor hen 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.
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THIS CONSPIRACY CLAIMS THE SMITHSONIAN DESTROYS GIANT SKELETONS
THIS CONSPIRACY CLAIMS THE SMITHSONIAN DESTROYS GIANT SKELETONS
Around the turn of the 20th century, The New York Times, London Globe, and Scientific Americanpublished articles purporting the discovery of gigantic human skeletons, concluding that the remains were sent to the Smithsonian for further study. But the fact that this evidence was never again seen or reported, continues to elicit questions of whether the Smithsonian destroys giant skeletons in order to cover up an inconvenient anomaly in the archeological narrative we’ve been told.
The question has been heatedly debated over the past century or more, with researchers finding what appears to be corroborating evidence, while skeptics say the bones were simply those of massive prehistoric animals, reclassified by the Smithsonian and displayed in museums to this day.
And while physical evidence remains tenuous, there is a seemingly endless trail of written and anecdotal suggestion that a larger race of humans once walked the Earth.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SMITHSONIAN
Though it may not be immediately obvious, the Smithsonian Institution is an extension of the U.S. government with congressional members sitting on its Board of Regents. It was initially founded as “an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men,” at the endowment of philanthropist, chemist, and mineralogist James Smithson.
And while it’s not a regulatory agency, it is so intrinsically tied to government that it claims immunity from state and local regulations, as well as immunity from lawsuits unless authorized by Congress.
The Smithsonian was established in 1846 and was tasked with the mission of organizing the anthropological history of the United States. It is sometimes referred to as “the nation’s attic,” as it has amassed somewhere in the range of 154 million items between its myriad museums, research centers, and various facilities.
But with phrases like “diffusing knowledge,” coming from a government agency that’s been influencing the course of history since the Eurocentric days of manifest destiny, one might be skeptical about what kind of knowledge was spread and which powers it served.
Richard Dewhurst, author of The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America, points to a man named John Wesley Powell, the U.S. Director of Ethnology in 1879 who ran the Smithsonian in its nascent years. In his research, Dewhurst uncovered what he refers to as the Powell Doctrine – a paper issued on behalf of the Smithsonian, which issued a decree that no anthropological research should consider any talk of lost tribes henceforth, while also describing natives as uncultured, savage, and lacking signs of higher intellect.
“Hence it will be seen that it is illegitimate to use any pictographic matter of a date anterior to the discovery of the continent by Columbus for historic purposes,” Powell wrote.
It’s unclear whether this was Powell’s decision or if it came from instructions on high, however Dewhurst believes its clear manifest destiny tone led to the subsequent Smithsonian cover up of an ancient race of giants who preceded Native Americans
THE SMITHSONIAN DESTROYS GIANT SKULLS
Looking back at newspaper clippings dating from the late 1800s into the early 1900s, Dewhurst found a multitude of instances in which citizens from disparate areas of the country uncovered massive bones, of seemingly human origin. Upon reporting these discoveries to media outlets or authorities, Dewhurst said unsuspecting citizens would shortly receive a visit from members of the Smithsonian who wasted no time sequestering the bones – allegedly bringing them to a museum or research facility, but which were never seen again.
One could also find instances of giant skulls and skeletons in local papers with pictures to boot. Take for instance this photo from the San Antonio Press showing a giant skull next to two normal skulls for size comparison.
It’s worth mentioning that the time period when these skeletal remains were found was drastically different from today — yellow journalism was rampant even for some of the publications we might consider more esteemed.
Religion was also a dominating factor in many people’s lives and attempts to find literal instances of biblical stories was highly sought after. This has become one of the primary arguments against these accounts, as naysayers believe people created counterfeit skeletons or confused the bones of prehistoric megafauna and large animals for humans, hoping they had found proof in the existence of the Nephilim of the Old Testament.
GIANTS DISCOVERED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD?
The U.S. is not the only country in which these alleged giants of antiquity are said to have been found. In fact, there are accounts dating back several millennia, which speak of encounters with living giants or the relics hinting at their existence.
In the world’s largest prehistoric copper mine in Wales there are accounts of the discovery of thousands of massive sledgehammers alleged to weigh somewhere in the range of 60 lbs.
Whether there’s any validity to this assertion is debatable, though if true would require a larger-than-life human with incredible strength to have worked the mine and wielded such a tool – the average sledgehammer today rarely weighs more than 20 lbs. This repository, known as the Great Orme mine or the “Stonehenge of copper mining,” dates back some 3,500 years ago.
Another more well-known instance of alleged giants comes from the writings of Ferdinand Magellan’s chronicler Antonio Pigafetta, who wrote of a giant race upon discovering Patagonia.
“One day we suddenly saw a naked man of giant stature on the shore of the port, dancing, singing, and throwing dust on his head.” Pigafetta wrote.
“The captain-general sent one of our men to the giant so that he might perform the same actions as a sign of peace. Having done that, the man led the giant to an islet where the captain-general was waiting; When the giant was in the captain-general’s and our presence he marveled greatly and made signs with one finger raised upward, believing we had come from the sky. He was so tall that we reached only to his waist, and he was well proportioned.”
According to the writings of Pigafetta, Magellan and crew attempted to return to Italy with two of the giants they had encountered, though they were unable to survive the long trip back across the Atlantic.
Skeptics say the people referred to in these accounts were likely members of the Tehuelche – a native tribe that may have stood slightly larger in stature due to the strength required to survive in Patagonia’s harsh climate, though it’s questionable whether they were much larger in height than the average human.
But there are in fact a number of photographs from the late 1800s showing members of the Ona tribe that inhabited the Tierra del Fuego region of Patagonia who clearly stood significantly taller than most humans – six-and-a-half-foot-tall women and men well over seven feet.
Ona natives next to a man of average height
This account has also been called into question as some say it may have simply been an instance of giantism, with subsequent reports embellished as to make Magellan’s travels sound more exciting.
However, this account was later confirmed by English explorer James Byron, whose story of encountering a race of 9-foot giants in Patagonia was published by the London Chronicle. Other writings from the expeditions of Sir Francis Drake, Francis Fletcher and Sir Thomas Cavendish also reported towering Patagonians and their deceased bodies.
Could these native tribes corroborate the questionable stories of ancient European explorers?
Still skeptical about the alleged existence of giant humans on Earth? Check out this documentary A Race of Giants:
Volgens deze complottheorie vernietigt het Smithsonian-instituut reuzenskeletten
Volgens deze complottheorie vernietigt het Smithsonian-instituut reuzenskeletten
Rond het begin van de 20e eeuw publiceerden de New York Times, London Chronicle en Scientific American allerlei artikelen over de ontdekking van reuzenskeletten van mensen.
De resten werden overgebracht naar het Smithsonian-instituut voor verder onderzoek.
Sindsdien is er niets meer vernomen over de reuzenskeletten. Wat is er gebeurd?
Zolder
Het Smithsonian-instituut wordt bestuurd door de Amerikaanse overheid. In haar Board of Regents zitten Amerikaanse congresleden.
Als je het instituut wilt aanklagen, moet je dat via het Amerikaanse Congres doen.
Het in 1846 opgerichte Smithsonian-instituut wordt ook wel ‘de zolder van de Verenigde Staten’ genoemd.
In haar musea en onderzoekscentra liggen zo’n 154 miljoen archeologische voorwerpen.
Powell-doctrine
De invloed die de overheid op het agentschap uitoefent blijkt onder meer uit het werk van Richard Dewhurst.
Hij deed onderzoek naar John Wesley Powell, één van de voormalige directeuren van het instituut.
Dewhurst verwijst naar wat hij noemt de Powell-doctrine, een paper dat gepubliceerd is namens het Smithsonian en waarin staat dat medewerkers niet meer mogen praten over verloren stammen en dat inheemse bevolkingen moeten worden afgeschilderd als wilden zonder verstand.
Hij stelt dat deze doctrine ervoor heeft gezorgd dat het Smithsonian het bestaan van een oud reuzenras, dat vóór de inheemse Amerikanen leefde, in de doofpot heeft gestopt.
Foto’s
Dewhurst kwam allerlei krantenartikelen tegen uit de 20e en 19e eeuw over de vondst van enorme botten van mensen.
In alle gevallen kwamen er mensen van het Smithsonian op bezoek, die de botten meenamen naar een museum of onderzoekscentrum.
In lokale kranten verschenen foto’s van reuzenschedels en -skeletten.
Patagonië
De London Chronicle publiceerde een artikel over de Engelse ontdekkingsreiziger James Byron, die in Patagonië bijna drie meter lange mensen tegenkwam.
Zij werden ook gezien door Sir Francis Drake, Francis Fletcher en Sir Thomas Cavendish.
The Akkadian Empire ruled over ancient Mesopotamia between the 24th and 22nd centuries BCE … until it mysteriously fell and disappeared. The answer to what happened may have finally been found in a stalagmite in a cave in Iran. Dragons? Giant bats? Small enemy soldiers who can see in the dark?
Researchers attempting to recreate events which occurred thousands of years ago often study soil samples, rock formations, glacier ice and other remnants of the era for evidence of what was going on both locally and globally at the time. A lesser-known but still reliable historic recording device is a speleothem – those cave structures formed in caves by the deposition of minerals from water that we like to call stalactites and stalagmites. As you may remember from elementary school, stalactites hang tightly from the cave ceiling while stalagmites might make it there someday as they grow on the cave floor. Not surprisingly, they might also last longer since they have less distance to fall. That’s the case in Gol-e-Zard Cave, located in the Alborz mountain range in northern Iran about 30 miles (50 km) from Tehran. The cave is popular with both explorers and tourists for its stunning stalactites and stalagmites and it’s there, hidden in an old stalagmite, that researchers might have found the secret to the mysterious fall of the Akkadian Empire.
Examples of stalagmites
The Akkadian Empire, with Ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley Civilization of India, is considered to be one of the three Bronze Age cradles of early civilization — three civilizations which all ended at about the same time – suggesting to many researchers that a global catastrophic event may have been the cause. However, the historical records of the Akkadian Empire are scant, so speculative reasons considered for its fall include wrath of the gods, overpopulation, revolts, invasions nomadic incursions and mismanagement by leaders. Furthermore, there’s no evidence of a major atmosphere-changing volcano or catastrophic solar winds or even man-made apocalyptic events at the time. That led Dr. Stacy Carolin of Oxford University and a team of scientists into Gol-e-Zard Cave to study a stalagmite which was there well before the empire rose and fell.
“A speleothem geochemical record from northern Iran captures significant climate fluctuations during the mid-to-late Holocene at high resolution. Two abrupt shifts in Mg/Ca last for more than a century and are interpreted as enhanced dust activity, indicating a threshold behavior in response to aridity.”
The results of Carolin’s study were published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the title says it all: “Precise timing of abrupt increase in dust activity in the Middle East coincident with 4.2 ka social change.” Sharp spikes in the magnesium to calcium ratio in the stalagmite point were caused by increased dust in the Alborz mountains above the cave 4200 years ago (4.2 ka or kiloannum) — dust caused by climate severe enough to result in the abandonment of the area and the demise of the Akkadian Empire.
“The extent to which climate change causes significant societal disruption remains controversial. An important example is the decline of the Akkadian Empire in northern Mesopotamia ∼4.2 ka, for which the existence of a coincident climate event is still uncertain. Here we present an Iranian stalagmite record spanning 5.2 ka to 3.7 ka, dated with 25 U/Th ages that provide an average age uncertainty of 31 y (1σ).”
Examples of stalactites
Dr. Carolin knows the non-scientific sensitivity to looking at climate change as a cause for social change leading to the end of civilizations, so she points out that stalagmite measurements are far more precise than others – with an accuracy to within 31 years. Ba-zinga! End of story! Right?
“Collapse of Earliest Known Empire Is Linked to Long, Harsh Drought”
That’s the headline from a 1993 New York Times story about a the discovery of soil evidence which suggested that the Akkadian empire was ended by a 300-year drought and called it “the first time an abrupt climate change has been directly linked to the collapse of a thriving civilization.” And yet, here scientists are 25 years later still trying to prove it to a non-scientific climate-change-skeptical public and leaders who pander rather than accept facts.
Where will we be 25 years from now? Where will OUR civilization be?
One of the weirdest alien abduction accounts there is began in the early morning hours of April 6, 1974, in the remote farming town of Kitami, in Hokkaido, Japan. On this dark morning, a farmer by the name of Yoshihiro Fujiwara was sound asleep in his bed when he was pulled from his dreams by the sudden pounding of someone at his door and his dog barking and howling outside. Considering his was a fairly isolated farmstead in the middle of nowhere, it was odd indeed to get visitors at 3 in the morning, and the rather annoyed Fujiwara at first thought it was merely some kids messing around. There would have been no reason in this safe little hamlet to think it was anything else, and he trudged to the door to fling it upon to a sight that would change him forevermore. And so would begin one of the most flat-out bizarre and controversial alien encounter reports that Japan has ever seen.
There standing in the chilly early morning darkness was a diminutive, 3-foot-tall high being dressed in a clear one-piece suit that seemed to be made of transparent vinyl, and the thing itself was only passingly humanoid, resembling what the witness would later call a combination of “starfish and human,” with four tentacle-like appendages, a bulbous head reminiscent of an octopus clad in a blue helmet, slanted eyes, and a strange V-shaped set of nostrils, the whole of it covered with mottled brown and slimy, bumpy toad-like skin and rested on two of its stalk-like limbs and rounded nubs for feet. It was completely silent and motionless, except for its weird conical helmet had antenna jutting from it, which generated a visible electrical humming charge that ominously rippled through the air.
The startled farmer and this anomalous being stood there for several moments merely staring at each other, perhaps each as surprised as the other, before that strange frozen moment in time was shattered by a sudden movement from the creature as it flicked one of its tendrils to point up towards the sky. This was followed by a ray of blinding light that washed over everything, generating a profound heat that sent the frightened farmer reeling back into his house to slam the door shut. A quick look outside showed that the brilliant orange colored light was emanating from an illuminated disc-like craft that measured around 26 feet across and was apparently shooting off beams of orange light.
If Fujiwara thought he was safe merely gawking from his window at this outlandish sight he was wrong, as he suddenly felt his feet being pulled forward by some inexplicable force. At first he was merely dragged across the floor, much to his amazement, but then he allegedly began to hover, before finally being levitated fully off the ground to go flying out of the window and towards the inscrutable floating disc with its scintillating beams of light. He was drawn faster and faster towards the object, seemingly on a collision course, but rather than smack against its metallic side he found himself being drawn through its walls to be dumped upon the floor of the craft.
The interior of the craft was described as being bright blue, with some sort of writing on the walls that the farmer could not fathom and the whole of it all overlaid with a repulsive stink that made him feel lightheaded. It was then that two creatures identical to the one who had freaked him out at his doorstep approached him to tell him telepathically, “No danger. We promise to release you at your home.” As peaceful as this sounded, the two entities nevertheless made to grab him and forcefully hold him down, upon which Fujiwara felt the fear left him and his survival instinct take over, tearing away and dashing through an open hatchway to go careening through air to the ground below, which luckily for him was only around 10 feet down.
Fujiwara vaguely recognized that he was around 2 miles from where he had left, and went running wildly towards the house of a person he knew in the area, who let him in. It was at their house that he would realize that a full hour had passed, even though to him it seemed that it had been mere moments since he had been taken aboard the strange craft by its odd octopoid inhabitants. Although the experience had been baffling and not a little terrifying, Fujiwara was at least relieved that it was over, and he quietly went back to his home to try and find some way to get over what had just occurred. Little did he know at the time that it was not quite over just yet.
The very next evening, Fujiwara was sitting alone in his house, his thoughts no doubt wandering back to those strange tentacled dwarves and their otherworldly craft, when he was suddenly overcome with a sharp pain worming its way through his ears and fingertips. He felt himself slipping into a daze, and for some reason his hands took on a life of their own and began to scrawl strange letters onto a piece of paper of their own volition. This was all followed by a voice that reverberated through his skull, which commanded him, “When the disc lands on the mountain you will come and board by yourself,” which was accompanied by a potent vision of the area they wished him to come to, left blazing into his mind. After that the pain abruptly left, leaving Fujiwara there shaken and with bizarre hieroglyphics etched onto paper by his hand but the meanings of which he did not know.
The farmer took the voice’s command as being the nearby Nikoro Mountain, and although he was still frightened by his ordeal he felt a compulsion to go there to see what would happen. To this end, he gathered up some supplies and two companions to join him and they set out, unsure of what awaited them up on that lonely peak. Fujiwara apparently then made his way alone to the area he had seen in his vision, where there awaited that same luminous disc-shaped craft and he boarded it without a fight. Once aboard, the aliens then supposedly took him on a flight into space, flying around the moon and around the earth twice, all within about the space of an hour. When they returned from their dizzying journey the farmer then lost consciousness, after which he was apparently just left lying there on the mountainside for his friends to find.
This wasn’t even the end of it all, as Fujiwara would claim that the last trip had left him with strange telekinetic powers that allowed him to move objects and bend spoons, and he was telepathically invited on yet another excursion on April 13, 1974. This time the bizarre beings took him on a journey that went around the planet Jupiter, as well as the moon of Saturn, Titan, where one of the creatures would allegedly go out to retrieve a rock from the surface as a souvenir for him to keep.
This mysterious rock would go on to prove to be rather controversial, indeed. It was sent to scientists for analysis, but came back as just one of the many common rocks from a Kitami cave, which brought a fair amount of ridicule down on Fujiwara and his astounding tale. In the meantime, the farmer would begin to address himself as the earthly representative of the “Summon Call Space Union,” and he claimed that his telepathic powers increased exponentially, allowing him to levitate objects, predict catastrophes, and even teleport across vast distances, of which he would say:
I can teleport to a star 250 million light years away in 6 minutes. My role is delaying natural disasters such as earthquakes and eruptions.
He would also claim that he could actually travel within the earth to stop volcanic eruptions, and pull together tectonic plates to prevent earthquakes. It is all totally bizarre to say the least, but one Japanese UFO researcher named Ninichi Arai has offered evidence that there was something to this when he found that several other locals who did not know Fujiwara also reported seeing strange lights in the skies during the same time frame, and there were others who claimed to have been first hand witnesses to the farmer’s mental powers, somewhat corroborating his weird tales. Was this all the doing of entities from another world or merely the tripping of balls? Is there anything to this account or is Fujiwara a a disturbed individual and unreliable witness? It is hard to know for sure, but it is a wild ride all the same, and goes to show that alien abduction accounts can be truly surreal affairs to be sure.
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Phil Schneider Killed Two Aliens At Underground Base Below Los Alamos LabPhil Schneider Killed Two Aliens At Underground Base Below Los Alamos Labs, New Mexico, UFO Sighting News.s, New Mexico, UFO Sighting News.
Phil Schneider Killed Two Aliens At Underground Base Below Los Alamos Labs, New Mexico, UFO Sighting News.
Philip Schneider was a former US Government Geologist and Engineer, who was involved in producing the underground explosions which were required to facilitate the building of various underground military bases, as well as submarine bases for the United States Government. He survived the infamous Alien/Human War at Dulce and Los Alamos, where 66 Government Agents and Workers lost their lives in August of 1979. For the last two years of his life he gave lectures about classified information, including UFO's to the media and general public. Philip Schneider was found dead in his apartment on January 17, 1996. He was murdered, and all documents, photos and videos he had in his possession which he was about to use for a massive disclosure to the public...were gone from his apartment.
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Alien Space Station Found Using Google Sky Map, 100% Proof We Are Not Alone, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Alien Space Station Found Using Google Sky Map, 100% Proof We Are Not Alone, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Method of discovery: Google sky map
Coordinates of discovery: 03 57 08.63,-07 11 26.2
Google Earth map is famous for many UFO and alien base discoveries over the years. However a lesser known feature of the free map program is that it allows you to see the stars in the sky. When you search using the star map, some strange objects will be found.
This Giant Blue alien base is visible on Google sky map and its dimensions and size indicate that its bigger than Earth and its geometric pattern is not possible for that size in nature. This is an artificially created object of immense size.
This is 100% proof that aliens not only exist in the universe, but are so advanced that the size of their ships are more enormous than anyone ever thought possible.
In the journey to emerge as the world's space superpower, China will land its lunar probe 'Chang'e-4' on the dark side of the moon soon. Chinese news agency Xinhua confirmed this news, and they revealed that the space probe is moving into a perfect position to land on the far side of the moon for the first time ever in human history.
It should be noted that the moon is tidally locked to the earth and as a result, it is rotating at the same rate that it orbits our planet. Due to this, the dark side of the moon will be never visible from the earth, and the mystery behind this unknown face of the moon is still unknown. Several previous lunar probes have seen the dark side of the moon, but none of them had landed on this surface.
So, what makes this lunar mission so special? Let us check out...
First extraterrestrials to be grown
Experts believe that the Chang'e-4 probe to the dark side of the moon will result in the birth of the first extraterrestrials. This lunar probe is carrying seeds and insect eggs to the moon, and experts hope to develop these seeds to living creatures in another celestial body outside earth.
The Chang'e-4 mission will also analyze the chemical composition of rocks on the dark side of the moon. Scientists also plan to investigate the solar corona and analyze its radiation characteristics and mechanism from the moon's far side.
Extraterrestrial aliens awaiting humans?
Even though NASA has suggested the presence of deep craters on the dark side of the moon, several conspiracy theorists believe that extraterrestrial aliens are secretly living in this area. These conspiracy theorists argue that aliens have also created a secret military base on this side, and Chang'e-4's landing in this area could bring about dire consequences.
As per conspiracy theorists, the landing of Chang'e-4 in the alien territory may result in an invasion, which may impact the entire fate of humankind. Earlier, Karl Wolfe, a top technician at the Air Force Tactical Air Command headquarters in Langley, Virginia had claimed that he had spotted artificial structures on the moon's far side. The technician revealed that he made this discovery after analyzing the date from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The planned landing site of Chang'e-4 mission is the Von Kármán crater, located in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the Moon. Experts believe that this will be a milestone landing in human history, and it will surely reshape the current human knowledge about earth's one and only natural satellite.
Conspiracy Theorists See Trump’s Space Force as Strong Evidence of UFO Visitors
Conspiracy Theorists See Trump’s Space Force as Strong Evidence of UFO Visitors
The Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, a space drone that has flown clandestine missions since 2010, has captured the attention of the UFO community.
Space program realists believe that President Trump’s creation of a Space Force branch of the US military is a step toward ‘full disclosure’ of the government’s acknowledgment of extraterrestrials and the technology gleaned from their crashed spacecraft.
• The Space Force plan pits Trump against his natural enemy: the “Deep State”. The Deep State faction within the federal government is the keeper of alien secrets, according to UFO researchers.
• “This is HUGE and [Space Force is] something the Deep State does NOT want,” conspiracy theory filmmaker Jordan Sather posted on Twitter. “Understand that with the Space Force, the advanced technologies (free energy, antigravity) kept in secret think-tanks within Lockheed, Boeing, & other corporate contractors will now have an avenue to be released publicly,” Mr. Sather tweeted.
• Dr. Michael Salla, an author who promotes the longtime extraterrestrial presence on Earth, noted that Pentagon top brass oppose the establishment of a sixth branch of the military. “…by ordering the creation of a Space Force, Trump is shaking the bureaucratic and corporate tree that hides the (existing) Secret Space Program that the Air Force runs along with the National Reconnaissance Office, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency,” writes Dr Salla on his ExoPolitics.org website.
• Dr Salla continued: “Large aerospace companies such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, General Dynamics, etc., supply the technologies and components for the Air Force’s Secret Space Program. Consequently, the Military Industrial Complex/Deep State has played a major role in setting space policy due to its ability to manipulate Air Force officials through the supply and acquisition process.”
• In a series of books, Dr Salla has detailed what he describes as “whistleblower/insider claims” about secret space programs at the Pentagon, including a Navy operation in deep space with miles-long space carriers that use Space Marines as a fighting force.
• Some in the UFO community also believe that President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a secret treaty in 1954 with an alien race known as the Greys wherein the two sides agreed not to interfere with each other’s affairs. The Greys would share technology with the U.S., and the aliens would be allowed to abduct humans for various experiments, provided they submit the names of abductees to a secret government committee known as the “Majestic 12.”
• The Defense Department has promoted the Space Force as a military branch charged with defending U.S. assets in space, such as satellites, and fending off cyberattacks in a confrontation with Russia and/or China, which have been building capabilities to knock out satellites that are vital to communications, navigation and intelligence. There is abundant evidence that the Pentagon has top-secret operations in space, such as spy satellites. A 2017New York Times report that revealed a secret Defense Department program that investigated UFOs for at least five years.
• The Pentagon prefers to keep Space Force operations within the Air Force, similar to the way the Marines are organized under the Navy. Mr. Trump has initiated the process, but it takes an act of Congress to create a new military branch.
• Jan C. Harzan, executive director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) said, “I don’t really think [the Space Force] has anything to do with extraterrestrials or aliens.” Mr. Harzan doubts that the government is getting closer to “full disclosure” of the alien presence. “My personal opinion is that…there is probably some benefit of putting it all under one head.”
• “I do believe that we have technology which has been reverse-engineered from aircraft that are not from here and that we are probably using that technology someplace,” said Harzan. “I would be shocked if the president was not briefed. How much they tell him, I have no clue.”
President Trump’s order to create a military Space Force gave conspiracy theorists another tantalizing piece of evidence — some say the best yet — that the government is hiding the truth about extraterrestrial visitors.
The idea is that launching the Space Force will be a big step toward the government’s acknowledgment of extraterrestrials and technology gleaned from crashed alien spacecraft — what the UFO community calls “full disclosure.”
Making it all the more real, the Space Force plan pits Mr. Trump against his natural enemy: the “deep state” within the federal government. The deep state is also the keeper of alien secrets, according to UFO researchers.
Jordan Sather
“This is HUGE and something the Deep State does NOT want,” conspiracy theory filmmaker Jordan Sather posted on Twitter after Mr. Trump issued the surprise June 18 order for the Pentagon to start planning a Space Force.
“Understand that with the #SpaceForce, the advanced technologies (free energy, antigravity) kept in secret think-tanks within Lockheed, Boeing, & other corporate contractors will now have an avenue to be released publicly,” Mr. Sather tweeted.
Michael Salla, an author who promotes theories about secret U.S. space programs and longtime extraterrestrial presence on Earth, noted that Pentagon top brass oppose the establishment of a sixth branch of the military to patrol above the atmosphere.
“It is important to understand that by ordering the creation of a Space Force, Trump is shaking the bureaucratic and corporate tree that hides the Secret Space Program that the Air Force runs along with the National Reconnaissance Office, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency,” he posted on his ExoPolitics website.
Dr. Michael Salla
He continued: “Large aerospace companies such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, General Dynamics, etc., supply the technologies and components for the Air Force’s Secret Space Program. Consequently, the Military Industrial Complex/Deep State has played a major role in setting space policy due to its ability to manipulate Air Force officials through the supply and acquisition process.”
In a series of books, Dr. Salla has detailed what he describes as “whistleblower/insider claims” about secret space programs at the Pentagon, including a Navy operation in deep space with miles-long space carriers that use Space Marine as a fighting force.
The outer reaches of the UFO community also believe that President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a secret treaty in 1954 with an alien race known as the Greys. The two sides agreed in the “Greada Treaty” not to interfere with each other’s affairs. Also under the treaty, the Greys would share technology with the U.S., and the aliens would be allowed to abduct humans for various experiments, provided they submit the names of abductees to a secret government committee known as the “Majestic 12.”
The Trump administration described Space Force as a military branch charged with defending U.S. assets in space, such as satellites, and fending off cyberattacks.
The Defense Department for years warned that the U.S. is unprepared for confrontation in space with Russia and China, which have been building capabilities to knock out satellites that are vital to communications, navigation and intelligence.
The Pentagon prefers to keep space operations within the Air Force.
A draft of the Pentagon-backed legislation to establish the Space Force would organize it under the Air Force, similar to the way the Marines are organized under the Navy, according to a report by Defense News.
The president alone cannot create a military branch. It takes an act of Congress, though Mr. Trump has initiated the process.
Mr. Trump last week signed an order that established a Space Command to oversee the military’s vast operations beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.
The timing of Mr. Trump’s original Space Force announcement added to the conspiracy fervor. It came on the heels of a New York Times report that revealed a secret Defense Department program that for at least five years investigated UFOs. The program allegedly shut down in 2012, but officials said they continue to investigate UFO episodes.
There is also abundant evidence that the Pentagon has top-secret operations in space, such as spy satellites.
Jan C. Harzan, executive director of the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, which has been investigating UFO sightings since 1969, noted the Air Force’s unmanned X-37B space plane.
“It’s been up there two years at a time doing classified missions,” he said in an interview with The Washington Times.
The X-37B, basically a space drone that resembles a small version of NASA’s retired space shuttles, has flown clandestine missions in Earth orbit since 2010.
“I don’t really think [the Space Force] has anything to do with extraterrestrials or aliens. I know people are thinking it does,” said Mr. Harzan. “My personal opinion is that it is just that all the pieces of our military are doing the same thing and there is probably some benefit of putting it all under one head.”
Mr. Harzan doubted the government was getting closer to “full disclosure” of what he believes the government hides about aliens.
“I do believe that we have technology which has been reverse-engineered from aircraft that are not from here and that we are probably using that technology someplace. But are we trolling out amongst the stars like ‘Star Trek’ or something else? I don’t know that it has gotten that far,” he said.
Does Mr. Trump know the truth about extraterrestrial visitors?
“I would be shocked if the president was not briefed,” Mr. Harzan said. “How much they tell him, I have no clue.”
A massive landfall in eastern Russia was caused by a meteorite, a falling UFO or a massive bomb, it was claimed today.
First pictures from a remote location in Khabarovsk region show how the 390 mile long Bureya River was partially dammed by a monumental rock fall.
The top was severed from a large hill with rocks crashing down and forming a new 525 ft-high mound in the river bed.
Hunter Anton Ivanov found the dramatically changed landscape in the remote spot on 14 December - but the footage has only been revealed now
There are reports of patches of 'hot rocks' and sightings of 'extraterrestrial meteorite fragments'.
Alexey Maslov, the head of Verkhnebureinsky district, said after witnessing the newly formed hill: 'We are trying to find the explanation for this incident. I insist that it was a meteorite.'
He was backed by Dr Evgeny Zubko, a cosmic dust expert from the School of Natural Sciences at the Far Eastern Federal University, who said local residents had noted 'a blast wave'.
First pictures from a remote location in Khabarovsk region show how the 390 mile long Bureya River was partially dammed by a monumental rock fall
'Whether it will be possible to find the fragments of a meteorite depends on the parameters of the fall - and good luck.'
However Maslov also claimed it could be 'an explosion, a bomb, or a falling plane.'
Yet there were no reports of military missiles that went astray here, let alone plane crashes, or Russian bomb tests.
'The riverbed is blocked by a bulk' up to 2,624 ft wide, said Maslov.
The height looms from 262 to 525 ft above the river level.
'There is no radiation,' he said.
But he believed 'an object entered at a sharp angle, pulled down the mound - and spread it along the river bed.'
The Bureya River in the remote Khabarovsk region of eastern Russia is 390 miles long. It formed a new 525 ft-high mound in the river bed
Those who have seen the carnage insisted 'it cannot be man-made', he said.
One eyewitness said: 'They either started some major building site or a UFO collapsed here.'
First images from the scene of the rockfall show a man standing and waving on the newly-formed dam showing the scale of the debris.
Hunter Anton Ivanov found the dramatically changed landscape in the remote spot 14 December - but the footage has only been revealed now.
It is believed the carnage was caused in early December, reported The Siberian Times.
Dr Evgeny Zubko, a cosmic dust expert from the School of Natural Sciences at the Far Eastern Federal University, said local residents had noted 'a blast wave'
Alexey Maslov, left, the head of Verkhnebureinsky district, said he insists it was a meteorite. Boris Shustov, right, head of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said no sizeable meteorite had been registered penetrating the earth's atmosphere
'You don't come across this every day,' he said.
'Such scale, such force.
'There is lots of earth, thousands of tons.
'It can be seen that something flew here, touched the top of the hill and landed in the water.…
There are reports of patches of 'hot rocks' and sightings of 'extraterrestrial meteorite fragments'. There are warnings of flooding for villages upstream because of the partial blockage of the river
'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.'
Other theories include a landslide caused by an earthquake.
Aleksei Makhinov, regional chairman of the Russian Geographic Society, said: 'The cause of the landslide could have been an earthquake,' he said.
'A meteorite could have been the reason too but it is unlikely.'
Boris Shustov, head of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said no sizeable meteorite capable of wreaking such havoc had been registered penetrating the earth's atmosphere.
The Bureyskaya hydro power station reservoir downstream is receiving less water.
And there are warnings of flooding for villages upstream because of the partial blockage of the river.
Mystery event that saw mountain crash into river 'may have been UFO attack'
Mystery event that saw mountain crash into river 'may have been UFO attack'
A MYSTERIOUS “blitzkrieg” which led to the side of a mountain crashing into a Siberian river was either a UFO attack or a giant meteorite strike, according to a majority of Russians.
The claims about the incident – known as the Bureya Bliztkrieg – come amid a new report which said a “reliable” witness saw a “huge green-coloured body with a very long tail” streaking vertically downwards in the night sky on December 15.
The bizarre event, which took place last month, is under Russian scientific scrutiny after the water flow into a hydro-electric power reservoir was cut due to a massive landfall, creating a 525ft mound which was visible from space rising from the bed of Bureya River in the far east of Russia.
Describing the event one witness said: “It was if as if the mountain had moved.”
BIZARRE: Some people think the incident was a UFO attack (Pic: The Siberian Times)
STRANGE: Other people thought it was a meteorite (Pic: The Siberian Times)
Now a poll of the strange event in the Khabarovsk region revealed that a many people thought it was an attack from space.
A total of 27% or people polled said it was a meteorite and 33% thought it was a UFO attack.
The remaining 40% claimed the Bureya Blitzkrieg was caused by a giant landslide.
People who first reached the site of the incident reported hot rocks which they could warm their hands on and a smell “like hydrogen sulphide” and thought the rock fall was caused by a meteorite similar to one which devastated Russia’s Chelyabinsk region 2013.
“I insist it was a meteorite,” said the district government chief of the remote part of the Khabarovsk region where the accident took place, Alex Maslov.
LANDSLIDE: One witness said he saw a 'huge green-coloured body with a very long tail' (Pic: The Siberian Times)
New footage and pictures of the bizarre phenomenon show trees being uprooted or yanked apart with trunks thrown as far as 100ft and large blocks of ice thrown from the river onto the land.
Reports also say an “invisible force” made it seem as if the chunks of ice had flown onto the land.
Alexey Dyundin, 46, a local businessman, was driving through the neighbouring Yakutia region when he witnessed the event which he took to be a meteor strike.
He said: “We saw a huge green-coloured body with a spectacularly bright and very long tail, falling almost vertically at about an 80 degrees angle.
“We saw it right in front of us, falling east to south. It all happened within three or four seconds.”
MYSTERIOUS: One witness said 'it was if the mountain had moved' (Pic: The Siberian Times)
The businessman said he thought the fall was too fast to be a rocket from a space launch coming back to earth- something he had previously seen.
He added: “It was definitely not a rocket stage. They fall much more slowly and they do have a glow when they fall.
“But nothing like the bright green glow we saw. The green glow comes when meteorites contain a lot of iron.
“Our first reaction was, well, hard to publish.
‘“We were so stunned we just exclaimed 'What the **** was that?’ at each other.”
Dyundin said he only realised how significant the sighting was a week later when he saw reports of the Bureya River rockfall.
But data from the European satellite Sentinel suggests the changing face of the river happened between December 9 and December 12- The Siberian Times revealed.
The report said this does not discount the meteorite attack as responsible for the incidents but means that a “space object” as witnessed by Dyundin.
Tourists are now starting to visit the scene of the carnage according to local reports.
Listen to the Sound of Mars: NASA Reveals Audio Recorded by Insight from Martian Surface
Listen to the Sound of Mars: NASA Reveals Audio Recorded by Insight from Martian Surface
Humans have never before heard the sound of wind on Mars until now!
We’ve seen countless images of Mars taken throughout the years. And while I must admit that personally, I find Mars a beautiful planet, I have always wondered what the sound of Mars is.
Imagine yourself standing on the Martian surface, being able to breathe, survie, and hear the wind. The noise. Mars is alive.
And now, NASA’s InSight lander, which recently touched down on the Martian surface has given us another opportunity to fall in love with the red planet.
The lander has managed to record the sound of a Martian ‘dust devil’ during its first working days on the red planet’s surface.
According to the space agency, this is the first time ever we actually heard what Martian winds sound like.
The sensors onboard the InSight lander detected winds blowing between 10 to 15 mph, coming from northwest to southeast. The best part? The recording is in the range of human hearing, which means that for the first time ever, we can hear what Mars sounds like.
InSight recorded the audio on December 1. NASA explains that the vibrations were picked up at a very low pitch, although the sound can still be heard.
But to make it clearer, NASA decided to boost the pitch by two octaves, which allows you to hear the Martian wind on your mobile phone, tablet or computer.
NASA’s InSight Mars lander captured this view of its surroundings shortly after touching down on the Red Planet on Nov. 26, 2018.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech via Twitter
NASA’s newest Martian lander detected wind vibrations using two of its sensors: one designed to specifically measure air pressure, and with a seismometer on the deck.
Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab said that while InSight didn’t set out to record Martian wind, its a nice addition to the mission.
“Capturing this audio was an unplanned treat,” he said. “But one of the things our mission is dedicated to is measuring motion on Mars, and naturally, that includes motion caused by sound waves.”
“Hearing the first sounds ever recorded on the surface of another planet is a privilege. We have a great team, and we’re doing incredible things every day at NASA,” NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said.
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BREAKING: Humans have never before heard the sound of wind on Mars until now! Listen to #SoundsOfMars as recorded by @NASAInSight as Martian winds swept over our lander. Best with headphones or a subwoofer. https://go.nasa.gov/2BWeong
As explained by NASA, the audio was recorded by two different instruments in two entirely different ways.
The landers Auxiliary Payload Sensor Subsystem’s air pressure sensor picked up the vibrations produced by the wind direction.
Insight’s seismometer recorded the vibrations that were produced as the wind passed over the landers solar panels.
“The InSight lander acts like a giant ear,” explained Tom Pike, InSight science team member.
“The solar panels on the lander’s sides respond to pressure fluctuations of the wind. It’s like InSight is cupping its ears and hearing the Mars wind beating on it. When we looked at the direction of the lander vibrations coming from the solar panels, it matches the expected wind direction at our landing site.”
On the cusp of yet another trip around the Sun, I found myself wondering how many alien civilizations within this sector of our Milky Way might have already come and gone? That is, bitten the dust due to wholly natural climate change long after their planet had sung its last Auld Lang Syne?
Venus, Earth size comparison
CREDIT: NASA
As stars age, their luminosity increases over billions of years, causing their habitable zones --- the zones in which a terrestrial planet can have liquid water at its surface --- to expand outward. Thus, extraterrestrial intelligence that happened to evolve on planets at the inner edges of their solar systems’ habitable zones might initially blossom into technological civilizations. But as their star’s luminosity increases over time, their planet would suffer a hellish, climatological holocaust.
Why is this important?
In the next decade, we’ll be peering at spectra and sometimes images of extrasolar Venus-type planets that may or may not have harbored technological civilizations for a few thousand years at least, Stephen Kane, a planetary astrophysicist at the University of California --- Riverside, told me.
Would a putative alien civilization on a nearby, habitable exoVenus even be aware of such coming catastrophe?
Not necessarily, says Kane.
We are very fortunate to have a Venus in our solar system; essentially a planet the same size and mass as Earth, but at a much more advanced stage of planetary and atmospheric evolution than our own, says Kane.
“If we didn't have our Venus, some of my colleagues have said that then an advanced runaway greenhouse would have been extremely difficult to predict,” said Kane.
That’s because, as he points out, the physics to make such predictions are very advanced and, in fact, even today’s best atmosphere models have trouble accounting for Venus’ current state.
Even if an advanced civilization understood how stars evolve and that this evolution would have an adverse effect on their planet's oceans, says Kane, they might not understand the full implications of how environmentally-hostile their planet would become.
But some of these could have previously been habitable, says Kane.
Estimates range from 400 million to one billion for the duration of clement conditions on Venus.
Four hundred million years, or perhaps even one billion years of clement Venusian conditions are much too little for the evolution of a high-tech intelligent species, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Germany’s Technical University Berlin, told me.
For Earth, intelligent life took roughly 4 billion years to evolve, says Kane. But he notes that there is a large range of stellar ages for the exoVenus host stars he and colleagues have discovered. And they lie mostly in the one to ten billion-year range. So, Kane thinks that many of these Venus-like planets will be more than 4 billion years old and could well have evolved intelligent life on them at some point.
ExoVenuses that were paired with lower mass stars would have had more time to play with before their parent stars robbed them of a habitable zone. That’s because as Kane points out, high-mass stars evolve very quickly and simply do not spend enough time on the hydrogen-burning main sequence. Thus, an exoVenus’ time in the habitable zone when orbiting a high-mass star should be relatively short-lived.
Venus has what is known as a "stagnant lid" surface, meaning that it's not broken up into plates like earth's surface but instead is mostly a solid surface ruptured by areas of volcanism, Kane explains. This means that Venus underwent a catastrophic resurfacing event about a billion years ago. This likely largely erased any record of its surface conditions.
“We can gain some insight from evidence in the atmosphere, particularly from isotopes that trace the presence of possible liquid water on the surface, said Kane. “But it is difficult to know for certain.”
This uncertainty, he says, has led to a lot of speculation regarding our own Venus’ past habitability, with some researchers contending that the planet may have had a temperate surface as recently as a billion years ago.
But the Sun’s increased luminosity soon caught up with our sister planet.
Would alien civilizations living on their own Venus-type planets be helpless in staving off this inevitable climate change? Or could they geo-engineer their way out of an eventual runaway greenhouse?
If so, Kane says it would need to be a coordinated planet-wide effort. He says this would entail not just extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from a Venus-like atmosphere, but also storing it in a way that is sustainable.
Earth's own thermostat is sensitive to changes in temperature and CO2 levels and adjusts itself accordingly over million-year time scales, Kane explains. If geoengineering is used to compensate for breaking that delicate balance, he says then that civilization will have to take over to maintain the planet’s thermostatic cycle.
Any disruption to their geoengineering efforts would immediately cause the planet to return to its journey towards a runaway greenhouse. So, they would see it coming, Kane says. But he says by that stage it's probably much easier to leave the planet than manually take over its geological processes.
Kane’s hope is that once things get desperate, such threatened alien civilizations would be able to move to another suitable terrestrial planet a bit farther out from their parent star.
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LAUREL, Md. — Wow, what a way to ring in the new year.
As the world celebrated the start of 2019, scientists with NASA'sNew Horizons spacecraftpartied with them. But the bigger celebration came just over 30 minutes later, when New Horizons made history with the flyby of Ultima Thule, a mysterious object 4.1 billion miles (6.6 billion kilometers) from Earth in the Kuiper Belt, home to frozen relics left over from the birth of the solar system. It's the farthest flyby of an object in our solar system; and the second rendezvous for New Horizons,which visited Pluto in July 2015.
"We set a record! Never before has a spacecraft explored something so far away," New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, said after the flyby today (Jan. 1). "I mean, think of it. We're a billion miles further than Pluto, and now we're going to keep going into the Kuiper Belt. [New Horizons at Ultima Thule: Full Coverage]
New Horizons flew by Ultima Thule at 12:33 a.m. EST (0533 GMT), hurtling past at a mind-boggling 32,000 mph (51,500 km/h) as it captured the first close-up views of a Kuiper Belt object. The cosmic rendezvous occurred so far from Earth, it'll took more than 6 hours for a signal from New Horizons to reach Earth. At about 10:30 a.m. EST, the first signal from New Horizons was received at its mission operations center here at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
"We have a healthy spacecraft," said Alice Bowman, mission operations manager for New Horizons. "We've just accomplished the most distant flyby. We are ready for Ultima Thule science transmission."
And oh, the party. With news of signal confirmation, a standing ovation by mission team members and invited guests broke out in an auditorium here. And of course, there was the New Year's Eve bash.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flies by the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule on Jan. 1, 2019 in this artist's illustration. It's the furthest planetary flyby in history.
Credit: Adrian Mann/All About Space
"Nerding out on New Year's Eve"
To celebrate New Horizons' visit to Ultima Thule, the mission team threw an epic New Year's Eve party. Hundreds of guests — including science team members, dignitaries, reporters and their families — packed a meeting hall here to ring in 2019, and then cheer for the flyby. As Stern said, everyone was "nerding out at New Year's Eve."
"Are you psyched?" Stern asked the crowd as they cheered just seconds before the flyby. "Are you jazzed?"
New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern (center) celebrates with school children at the moment the spacecraft was planned to reach its closest approach to Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule on Jan. 1, 2019 at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. It is the furthest flyby in history.
Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA
Among those guests were Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), actor Chase Masterson of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," as well as astrophysicist (and Queen lead guitarist) Brian May. May even debuted a new original song — the aptly named "New Horizons" — at midnight to celebrate.
"To me, it is the incredible newness of it," May, a New Horizons mission team member, told reporters before the flyby. "This is going way beyond where anyone has gone before, literally."
Astrophysicist Brian May, the lead guitarist of Queen, speaks with reporters ahead of NASA's New Horizons flyby of the Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule on Jan. 1, 2019 at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. May composed a special song just for the flyby.
Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA
The celebration occurred in the midst of a partial government shutdown, which shuttered much of NASA's public outreach for the Ultima Thule flyby. But NASA and JHUAPL were able to stream live webcasts and photos of the flyby. Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administrator for science, even received special dispensation from NASA chief Jim Bridenstine to attend.
"I think it is fitting that this flyby of Ultima Thule is at the interface of the 60th anniversary of Explorer 1 [the first U.S. satellite] in 2018 and the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 in 2019," Zurbuchen said in an email that Stern read aloud Monday. "To me, this milestone for New Horizons is full of everything that NASA and NASA science is about."
It's been a long road to Ultima Thule for New Horizons.
NASA launched the $700 million nuclear-powered spacecraft in January 2006 on a mission originally aimed at Pluto. That mission was an astounding success,with New Horizons zipping by Pluto and its five moons on July 14, 2015, revealing the first-ever detailed photos of the dwarf planet (including its adorable heart).
But even before New Horizons reached Pluto (which itself is in the Kuiper Belt), mission scientists were looking to the next target. In 2014, mission scientist Marc Buie of SwRI discovered Ultima Thule (then known only by its official name, 2014 MU69) using the Hubble Space Telescope and a new destination was set. [Ultima Thule in Photos: Images from the Kuiper Belt]
New Horizons and Ultima Thule will be 4.1 billion miles away when it visits the Kuiper Belt object. This chart shows the path of New Horizons compared to other probes that have left the solar system.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
The key draw of Kuiper Belt objects is their primordial nature. They are time capsules, Stern said, preserving the earliest conditions of the solar system at temperatures near absolute zero.
"The object is in such a deep freeze that it's essentially preserved from its initial formation," he added. "Everything that we're going to learn about Ultima, from its composition to its geology to how it's assembled, are going to teach us about the original formation conditions of the solar system."
And scientists have a lot to learn. They've only managed to glean tantalizing clues about Ultima Thule since its discovery in 2014.
This photo of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule (2014 MU69) reveals a new clue into the object's shape just ahead of New Horizons' closest approach on Jan. 1, 2019. This photo was taken on Dec. 30, 2018 by New Horizons from distance of about 1.2 million miles (1.9 million kilometers).
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
In Hubble telescope photos, Ultima Thule appears to have a reddish hue. Exactly why is unknown. Early observations suggested that it may actually be more than one object, a binary, but more recent images (including one taken on Saturday, Dec. 30) have hinted that this isn't so. Ultima Thule appears be a single object, mission scientists said.
In fact, Ultima Thule may look like a bowling pin, with two lobes connected by a center mass. A photo taken by New Horizons on New Year's Eve just before closest approach clearly shows two lobes and an elongated shape, an improvement on Sunday's view, scientists said.
The Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule takes on a bowling pin shape (left) in this view from the New Horizons spacecraft taken on Dec. 31, 2018 just before its flyby closest approach on Jan. 1, 2019. At right is an artist's sketch of the object, which is about suggest it is approximately 20 miles long by 10 miles wide (32 kilometers by 16 kilometers).
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI; sketch courtesy of James Tuttle Keane
But exactly how fast does it spin (estimates vary between 15 and 30 hours)? Does it have craters, or a smooth surface? Does it spout dust? Could it host moons or rings or something altogether unexpected?
"This is unknown exploration; anything is possible," Spencer said. "Anything is possible out here when you're exploring a new class of world that you haven't seen before."
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The shape of MU69. It is about 35 by 15 kilometers. Still don't know if it's 2 separate objects or one merged one. pic.twitter.com/WL6NmisajA
Only a detailed analysis of New Horizons' images and other data from its seven instruments will tell the tale, scientists said.
"We are going to change what we know about the Kuiper Belt, literally overnight," Stern said.
Another flyby ahead?
It will take about 20 months for New Horizons to beam back all of its images and other observations of Ultima Thule. That's because it has just a small 15-watt transmitter to beam a vast amount of data home.
"I am in awe that we can even do this," Stern said. "The spacecraft has a 15-watt transmitter on it...that's a quarter of a light bulb. And we're receiving it from 4 billion miles away."
But the New Horizons team won't be idle during that time. Scientists are actively searching for a third Kuiper Belt object for New Horizons to potentially visit.
If that target is found soon, and if it gets funding approval from NASA, the team could get the green light for another flyby, in a year that will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the first by astronauts.
"Fifty years ago, the first humans walked on another world, the moon, as a result of NASA," Stern said. "And NASA was the first space agency in the world to reach every planet in the solar system, from the closest planets — Venus and Mars — to the farthest, Pluto. And now we're out exploring even further."
Editor's note:This story, originally posted at 12:43 a.m. EST, was updated at 12:57 p.m. EST with new images of Ultima Thule from New Horizons.
NASA Plans to Send Hot Air Balloons to Detect Earthquakes on Venus
NASA Plans to Send Hot Air Balloons to Detect Earthquakes on Venus
Since our neighboring planet Venus has a very hellish atmosphere, studying more about the planet’s internal composition has been a bit difficult. But NASA has new plans to study the planet’s seismic activities through hot air balloons.
Space agency NASA is planning to study Venus’ earthquakes and other internal activities with the help of hot air balloons embedded up special earthquake sensors.
Earlier this month, NASA researchers set off a 50-ton chemical explosion 984ft below the surface of the Mojave desert. This artificial earthquake let NASA test their special earthquake sensors that hung below the helium-filled balloons that floated hundreds of meters above the desert.
After studying Mars, NASA plans to send flying drones to Venus
NASA is hoping for a similar system for Venus to discover more about its internal structure. Balloons are chosen for this activity because landing up a rover in near to impossible due to Venus’ dense atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide that is so hot that it could melt lead, with average temperature around 462°C. The outer atmosphere, however, is much cooler and more suitable for carrying out scientific experiments.
Though the planet’s atmosphere is thicker and hence easier to measure infrared waves, it also contains supersonic winds that can rapidly confuse the balloon’s finely tuned instruments. Yet, the scientists believe that these air balloons can measure Venusquakes (earthquakes on Venus) as slight as magnitude 2.
Meanwhile, NASA is also working on developing drones to send to Venus and study more about the planet, while being able to survive its hellish atmosphere.
UFO's and Aliens Exist, Religion, Astronomers and the Roswell Incident (Video)
UFO's and Aliens Exist, Religion, Astronomers and the Roswell Incident (Video)
Over the years many people have claimed to have had contact with extraterrestrial beings, some of whom are very credible.
Alejandro Rojas is a radio host for Open Minds Radio, editor and contributing writer for Open Minds magazine as well as OpenMinds.tv. For several years Alejandro was the official spokesperson for the Mutual UFO Network as the Director of Public Education.
As a UFO/Paranormal researcher and journalist, Alejandro has spent many hours in the field investigating phenomena up close and personal.
Alejandro has been interviewed by media organizations around the world, including the largest cable and network news agencies with several appearances on Coast to Coast AM.
WETENSCHAPDe Chinese sonde Chang’e-4 zou donderdag als eerste neerstrijken op de vrij onbekende achterzijde van de Maan, zo citeren berichten op Twitter de Chinese staatstelevisie.
Op 8 december lanceerde een Lange Mars-3B draagraket de Chang’e-4. Op 12 december is de sonde in een baan rondom de Wachter van de Aarde gekomen. Zondag is die gewijzigd in een elliptische baan met een dichtste punt op ongeveer 15 km en een hoogste punt op zowat 100 km hoogte, meldde het officiële persbureau Xinhua.
Die baan moet toelaten om als eerste door mensenhanden gebouwd tuig te landen op de “Dark Side of the Moon”, of de achterzijde van de Maan. Die zien we nooit en is bij wetenschappers ook nog niet zo bekend. De landing zou voor donderdag omstreeks 01.00 uur Belgische tijd gepland zijn.
De Chinese Maanverkenner omvat een lander en een robotjeep.
REUTERSOp 8 december lanceerde een Lange Mars-3B draagraket de Chang'e-4.
Photo NewsIllustratiebeeld: de sonde New Horizons scheert langs het object Ultima Thule. Het is het verste object dat ooit is bestudeerd door de mens.
WETENSCHAPDe sonde New Horizons van het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA heeft vandaag zoals aangekondigd een nieuw record neergezet. De sonde scheerde langs een object met de naam Ultima Thule, en bereikte op dat moment het verste object dat ooit door de mens werd bestudeerd, zo kondigde wetenschappelijk missieleider Alan Stern aan.
De sonde richtte om 06.33 uur Belgische tijd haar camera’s op Ultima Thule. Deze ijzige steenklomp in de Kuipergordel bevindt zich op zowat 6,4 miljard kilometer van ons, 1,6 miljard kilometer verder dan de baan van de dwergplaneet Pluto. “Nooit eerder heeft een ruimtetuig een object bestudeerd dat zo veraf gelegen is”, aldus Stern. Wetenschappers hopen dat de observatie van Ultima Thule meer kennis oplevert over hoe het zonnestelsel is ontstaan.
De Kuipergordel is een omvangrijke regio in ons zonnestelsel dat potentieel miljarden kleine objecten herbergt die afstammen van de vorming van ons planetair stelsel en die de sleutel kunnen zijn om dit proces te begrijpen, zegt de NASA.
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Eerste signaal
De sonde vloog op een afstand van ongeveer 3.500 kilometer voorbij het object en schoot normaal gezien in enkele seconden tijd zowat 900 beelden. Een grondstation van de NASA in Madrid heeft ook al een eerste signaal ontvangen van de sonde nadat die langs Ultima Thule was gescheerd. Ingenieurs begonnen daarop de status van de onderscheiden subsystemen van het ruimtetuig na te trekken. Een eerste onderzoek leert dat de subsystemen van de sonde in orde zijn, aldus NASA TV. Dat duidt erop dat de sonde tijdens haar verst verwijderde scheervlucht ook data heeft vergaard.“We hebben een gezond ruimtetuig. We hebben juist de verst verwijderde scheervlucht achter de rug”, zei missie-operatieshoofd Alice Bowman. De scherpste foto’s zouden morgen onze planeet bereiken.
New Horizons is in januari 2006 op Cape Canaveral gelanceerd om in het bijzonder de dwergplaneet Pluto gedetailleerd te verkennen. Dat gebeurde ook in 2015. Het was de Amerikaans-Europese Hubble Ruimtetelescoop die in 2014 Ultima Thule heeft ontdekt.
APDe sonde OSIRIS-REx kwam op 3 december na een reis van meer dan twee jaar en twee miljard kilometer aan bij de asteroïde Bennu.
WETENSCHAPEen sonde van het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA is gisteren in een baan rond een asteroïde gekomen, om er later stalen van naar onze planeet te brengen.
Planetoïde Bennu is het kleinste object in de kosmos waar ooit een door mensenhanden gemaakt tuig rond heeft gedraaid. De sonde OSIRIS-REx kwam op 3 december na een reis van meer dan twee jaar en twee miljard kilometer aan bij Bennu, een object dat aan 100.000 kilometer op meer dan 110 miljoen kilometer van ons rond onze ster wentelt. De verkenner stabiliseerde zich toen op 7 kilometer van de asteroïde.
Nadat de één miljard dollar kostende Osiris-Rex zijn doelwit wekenlang nauwgezet had bestudeerd, kwamen de motoren gisteren om 20.43 uur acht seconden tot ontbranding om perfect in een baan rond de koolstofrijke Bennu te komen, aldus de NASA.
Potentieel gevaar
Dat hemellichaam heeft een diameter van slechts 492 meter. In juli 2020 moet de sonde stalen nemen van de asteroïde. Die landen in een soort container in september 2023 in de Amerikaanse staat Utah. Bennu geldt als een potentieel gevaarlijke asteroïde voor ons. Er is 1 kans op 2.800 dat het ding rond het jaar 2135 met ons in botsing komt.
Wetenschappers hopen dankzij de missie meer te leren over het ontstaan van ons zonnestelsel.
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Deze wetenschappers publiceerden onderzoek waarin ze stellen dat de maan hol en kunstmatig is
Deze wetenschappers publiceerden onderzoek waarin ze stellen dat de maan hol en kunstmatig is
De maan is de enige natuurlijke satelliet van de aarde en de op vier na grootste maan van ons zonnestelsel.
Onze maan vertoont schijngestalten omdat gewoonlijk slechts een deel van het vanaf de aarde zichtbare maanoppervlak door de zon wordt verlicht.
Er zijn veel theorieën over het ontstaan van de maan. De gangbare theorie is dat de maan is ontstaan doordat de aarde botste met Theia, een planeet van ongeveer de grootte van Mars.
Holle bol
Er zijn ook andere theorieën.
In 1962 zei NASA-wetenschapper dr. Gordon MacDonald: “Uit de astronomische data kan worden afgeleid dat het binnenste van de maan meer lijkt op een holle bol.”
Nobelprijswinnaar dr. Harold Urey stelde dat zich in het binnenste van de maan grote gaten bevinden.
Dr. Sean C. Solomon, oud-hoogleraar van het Massachusetts Institute of Technology, schreef bovendien: “Door de experimenten met de Lunar Orbiter zijn we veel te weten gekomen over het zwaartekrachtsveld van de maan. Ze wijzen erop dat de maan mogelijk hol is.”
Geen ‘natuurlijke’ satelliet
De beroemde astronoom Carl Sagan stelde: “Een natuurlijke satelliet kan geen hol object zijn. Daarom is de maan wellicht geen ‘natuurlijke’ satelliet.”
De maanlanding van de Apollo 12 op 20 november 1969 veroorzaakte een maanbeving. De maan galmde vervolgens nog een uur na.
Na seismische metingen tijdens Apollo 13 werd geconcludeerd dat de maan een lichte of helemaal geen kern heeft.
Uitgehold ruimteschip
Volgens overleveringen van de Zoeloes is de maan hol en wonen daar de Python of Chitauri.
In de jaren zeventig schreven twee wetenschappers van de Academie van Wetenschappen van de Sovjet-Unie in het tijdschrift Spoetnik dat de maan volgens hen een uitgehold ruimteschip is.
Ieder jaar weer spannend, zo’n sprong naar een spiksplinternieuw jaar waarin ongetwijfeld weer van alles gaat gebeuren.
Zal er een moordaanslag worden gepleegd op Vladimir Poetin en Donald Trump ernstig ziek worden, zoals voorspeld door Baba Vanga?
Bij de aftrap van het nieuwe jaar wensen wij allereerst alle trouwe en niet trouwe lezers een gelukkig, voorspoedig en een heel gezond jaar toe.
Wat het nieuwe jaar zal brengen is altijd koffiedik kijken en sommigen zijn daar in beter dan anderen. Een aantal dingen zou je kunnen voorspellen door logica te gebruiken, maar de echte zieners gebruiken andere bronnen om te voorspellen wat er gaat komen.
Eén van die echte zieners is Baba Vanga die als bijnaam heeft Nostradamus van de Balkan.
Baba Vanga is ongeveer 100 jaar geleden geboren en in 1996 overleden, was volkomen blind en een fiks deel van haar voorspellingen zijn uitgekomen.
Enkele voorbeelden daarvan zijn 9/11, de tsunami in Azië in 2004, klimaatopwarming en de opkomst van ISIS.
Onderzoekers die zich bezighouden met de voorspellingen en deze proberen te plaatsen in de context van wat er in de wereld gebeurt, menen te kunnen vaststellen dat Baba Vanga het komende jaar als zeer turbulent voorspelt.
Een jaar waarin zij zegt dat de Old World Order zal verdwijnen en wordt vervangen door een andere World Order. De waarschuwing die erbij komt is dat dit dan wel klinkt als goed nieuws, maar dat een dergelijke overgang gepaard zal gaan met een diepe crisis waarbij wereldwijd mensen mogelijk hun spaargeld zullen verliezen en waarbij werk en een baan niet meer de normaalste zaak van de wereld zijn. Het jaar 2019 zal worden gekenmerkt als het jaar van grote gebeurtenissen die het wereldtoneel zullen veranderen.
Niet alleen op het wereldtoneel zal het een spectaculair jaar worden, ook op het gebied van de natuur. Volgens Vanga is de aarde “moe” en zal heftig reageren in de vorm van ontelbare (grote) natuurrampen. Veel mensen op aarde zullen lijden en opmerkelijk is dat zij waarschuwt dat het grote gevaar uit de hemel/lucht zal komen. Dit wordt dan al snel uitgelegd als een mogelijke asteroïde, maar het zou uiteraard ook heel goed de onbekende planeet Nibiru kunnen zijn die zich dan in het nieuwe jaar veel meer zal laten gelden.
Kortom, ze voorspelt dat 2019 een “doom and gloom” jaar zal worden, waar eigenlijk heel weinig goed nieuws voor de mensheid is te ontdekken.
Dat had volgens een Engelse krant tot gevolg dat sommige mensen in hun commentaren op sociale media weigerden om dit alles te geloven, omdat ze vinden dat Baba Vanga goed nieuws had moeten voorspellen en omdat dit niet is gebeurd, zijn de voorspellingen volgens hen waardeloos.
Writing on Facebook, one person said: "Could she not predict something nice to happen to this world." A furious Facebook user wrote: "First of all that's all garbage! No one can predict the future!"
Het schijnt trouwens dat Baba Vanga het zinken van de onderzeeër Koersk ook correct heeft voorspeld.
Maar, er is nog meer schokkend nieuws, want zo zal er in 2019 een moordaanslag worden gepleegd op Vladimir Poetin. Een aanslag die afkomstig zal zijn uit de gelederen van zijn eigen beveiliging. Het lijkt niet dat de aanslag succesvol zal zijn, want er wordt niet gezegd dat hij het niet zal overleven.
Ook voor de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump ziet het nieuwe jaar er niet goed uit, want voor hem wordt voorspeld dat hij een mysterieuze ziekte zal oplopen waardoor hij niet alleen doof wordt, maar ook een hersentrauma zal oplopen.
Kortom, als de voorspellingen van Bana Vanga uitkomen zal het nieuwe jaar vrij rampzalig verlopen. Wat dat betreft zit ze aardig op één lijn met de familie Rothschild die ook een gitzwart jaar voorspelt.
Wij kiezen ervoor om het allemaal positief te bekijken, want duidelijk is dat het aan alle kanten rommelt bij de bestaande machtsstructuren en 2019 zou zomaar eens het jaar kunnen worden, waar een groot deel van de bevolking massaal ontwaakt en er echte veranderingen zullen plaatsvinden. Want, dat er dingen moeten veranderen voor een betere toekomst van het nageslacht, zoveel is duidelijk.
What he official statement says: During the early hours of December 24th, a coronal mass ejection (CME) exploded from the far side of the sun. SOHO recorded the cloud as it billowed over the sun’s northeastern limb. Because this was a far sided event, it will have no impact on Earth.
But according to YouTube channel Mrmb333 the CME is a huge sphere, an alien craft that leaves the sun.
In the past similar spherical objects have been spotted near the sun which were clearly not coronal mass ejections.
The images were taken by NASA's satellites Lasco C2 and Lasco C3 on December 24, 2018 and processed in the first part of the next video showing the moment the UFO soars off of the sun.
It’s known as the British Roswell. It has been studied by the British government, UFO experts, military investigators, conspiracy theorists and reality TV shows and written about in dozens of books and on hundreds of magazines and websites. It’s best known as the 1980 Rendlesham Forest Incident and has been considered “unexplained” … until possibly now. An anonymous tip from an alleged insider to a British UFO investigator has led to a stunning revelation that the Rendelsham Forest Incident may have actually been an elaborate prank performed by the Special Air Service (SAS) of the British Army on US Air Force personnel stationed at two former RAF bases nearby as revenge for alleged mistreatment by the US military. Is any of this true? Will books have to be rewritten?
“They called us aliens! Right, we’ll show them what aliens really look like!”
If this gets turned into a movie, that should be the opening line … with a British accent. Dr. David Clarke, a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and recognized UFO ‘expert’ for Britain’s Ministry of Defence and the media, says that’s what British special forces soldiers said after their alleged experience with the US Air Force. Clarke reveals in a detailed article on his website that he received this info over three years ago from a person claiming to be an SAS insider who told him: “(It’s) about time that the truth is revealed.”
According to the insider, SAS soldiers secretly parachuted into RAF Woodbridge on an August 1980 night to test the US security at the site. Radar detected the paratroopers despite their black parachutes and the soldiers were apprehended, interrogated for 18 hours and allegedly beaten up. During the entire ordeal, the Americans referred to them as “unidentified aliens” – a descriptive but innocent term that the British took as an insult.
“After their release, the troopers made no complaint at their rough treatment but determined to get their own back on the USAF for the beating that they had received.”
The insider explained that that insulting “aliens” comment inspired the special forces to plan a UFO prank. He was told that the soldiers used black helium balloons and remote-controlled kites to carry lights and colored flares into the sights of the US base personnel, triggering a panicked response that the British thoroughly enjoyed. Then things started to get out of hand.
“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… The USAF was “reassured” at a very senior level and no UK investigation was undertaken – for obvious reasons!”
The informant swore all of this was true. Unfortunately for him he told it to the wrong guy. Clarke first contacted Robin Horsfall, a former SAS sniper and member of the famous Special Forces operation that stormed the Iranian Embassy in 1980 to free hostages. He said he would have heard about such a seemingly great prank through the SAS grapevine, but if he did, he wouldn’t have believed it or the August incident that allegedly triggered it.
“We did undertake planned training actions against British military establishments but never against those of the US forces. Working against US units with live ammunition without strict safety protocols could have got people killed with huge political ramifications. The idea of a revenge prank by [SAS] isn’t plausible as the rules controlling pyrotechnical devices within the regiment were very strict and any such action could have resulted in those involved being returned to unit.”
Then Clarke went to Col. Ted Conrad, the US Base Commander at the time of the incidents who ordered police from the 81st Security Squadron to conduct an informal investigation of the UFO sightings in the forest reported by his personnel. He disagreed first with the “aliens” comment.
“US bases are not on US soil, rather all of them remain on sovereign British soil…US citizens who are stationed and work there are the “aliens”.”
And then with the alleged capture and beatings.
“The SSA was guarded 24/7/365 by armed, trained security personnel who were instructed to shoot to kill, if necessary, to prevent a breach. It is unthinkable that either side would conduct such an exercise against an important facility where real weapons and ammo were present. The alleged rough treatment of British Special Forces by one US Lieutenant from the 67 ARRS is also unthinkable, but if it had been reported by complaint, the offender would have been more impacted by our disciplinary action that mounting a fake UFO landing could possibly have had.”
Those are the comments of military personnel in the know on both sides. Do they have any reason to lie or cover up the alleged prank? What does Clarke think? His PhD is in British folklore, which explains his analysis:
“So there we have it folks: another winter’s tale from the Rendlesham forest. The truth, though, remains persistently out there.”
UFO Above Clouds In Bridgeport, Connecticut On Nov 28, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Above Clouds In Bridgeport, Connecticut On Nov 28, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 28, 2018
Location of sighting: Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Source: MUFON
Here is a MUFON report that I haven't seen before. The UFO was caught over a cloud during a sunset. Sunset it one of the most common times of the day to catch a UFO. Often objects that are flying around the cloud become ignited with light as the sun sets. This makes them easy to spot for a few minutes.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
While taking my dog for a walk in the park across the street from my house in black rock, Bridgeport, Connecticut, I decided to take continuous pictures of the beautiful sunset, with my iPhone's camera. As I reviewed my photos, I saw a bright blue object darting around the sunset in a different place in each photo, all of which took place in a few seconds. The object surprised me. It is clearly a disk-shaped UFO.
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